Guild Wars 2

We did our guild missions this past evening. Out of five guild missions done, I got credit for only one of them, and I know many of my guildmates were in the same boat.

If you are not going to make Rush an instance, then we still need to be able to share. The maps we were on already had guilds running it, and when we started ours, it took a number of minutes to open up a new map instance for us to go to.

I’m fine if you no longer want to give out personal rewards if the guild fails at the mission, but there is no reason we should have to wait for a timer to run down before we know if we got credit or not in the case of rush or puzzle. This is causing our missions to take way more time than necessary, and people get scared to leave the map/instance in case they don’t get credit.

Rush is super buggy, often times making guild members run back and forth through the last flag many times before it allows them to turn back into their characters and get a reward.

Mostly, I have trouble understanding what parts of this are bugs and what is intended functionality. Can you please have someone respond so that we can get some of these cleared up? Guild missions are really important, especially since they give crafting materials necessary for scribing, among other things, and it used to be the one night where the whole guild wanted to be there. Now people get upset, tensions are high, and the officers and myself don’t even know what to tell them- we have no idea when this stuff is going to get fixed. Please help us out!

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Missions were difficult for us as well last night. Attached is a screenshot of the status of the guild challenge in Blazeridge, where we encountered two other guilds waiting to do the challenge. One guild finished, and the next guild started their event but immediately waypointed out, perhaps because they completed with the other guild. However, my guild could not pick up the necessary equipment (the guns) to complete the mission and get credit, so we had to do something else for the 18 minute timer. We are pretty used to our missions being a well-oiled machine, so this disruption was disappointing for us. I hope ANet can figure out a way to make this work for everyone.

I think this is all very interesting, and I see a lot of potential in this system. I am mostly concerned about guild missions- as it is, we generally run into another guild every time we do missions. Some of them we work well really well with, sometimes it doesn’t turn out well. Puzzle is the worst, because there are only a few of them, and if you arrive while another guild is running, you either have to go in and finish with the reduced timer or you have to wait it out.

With the barriers taken down, do we run the risk of running into even more guilds while trying to get our missions done? Are there any plans to address the crowdedness of missions as they are now?

I was saddened to read that Anet wants to remove these threads. I do not post on them often, but I do read them every week, and they keep me pretty entertained. While I’m ultimately not interested in bashing any devs or moderators, I would like to say that the post that was made to communicate this change did have some dialogue in it that was not a good show of customer service (most of the middle paragraphs, really).

That being said, here are some of my thoughts on why Anet shouldn’t be so hasty to pull the plug:

1) As has been said, this will bring a terrible disconnect between the people who play the content and the people who are creating it. This does not make for a good working relationship between the customer and the business.

2) In my experience (I’m on HoD) the threads have been strangely self-monitoring, for the most part. It may not seem like it, but even when things get heated or off topic, I really don’t feel that any real offense is taken for most things.

3) The match up threads function as a policing tool for WvW in game as well. I know that in the past, if one of my guild members ended up on the other side of a gate we were attacking while it was still up (when that was still a bug) they would immediately hop back out because we had no desire to be called out for even the possibility of exploiting on the forums.

4) On the subject of off topic-ness in the threads: these threads are a way for servers to socialize with each other while they are matched up together for the week. Sometimes you just want to make a joke, or make a shout out to another player on another server. As long as you aren’t posting pics of what you ate for lunch, I don’t feel it necessary to judge these posts too harshly.

I will stand fully behind Anet should they choose to eliminate specific posts that are threatening, racist, etc., but I don’t think the answer is to delete the forum. If a fight breaks out at a bar, the cops don’t burn down the whole establishment- they arrest the individuals involved. That’s just my two cents.

This may go unanswered, but I really am curious about what the Anet team felt the match-up threads should look like and what they would contain.

Necro.6432:

oh lol, let me refresh your maths TDS was the only guild on CD BL fielding 20 -25 after the patch EA came to their assigned bl, they field 15-20 Most…kinda funny how we “outnumber” you every fight with your 30-40 +the other guilds in there hope you enjoyed ur pvd at hills, I wish you werent “called” into ur bl , would of been better actually but like I said in my post you guys stayed ..on a side note atleast merchants were put 3 times, id really like to continue this but let me cut to it and GvG us on thursday PHZE?when I get back..I dont like to gvg on our fun night but we will make an exception for you , so por favour (bad spanish) back up ur words and make it a fun fight for the rest of the week for the other guys …all for good spirit.

#believeinthedesert

I think PHZE can put together a crew for Thursday- we don’t often GvG but it would be fun to see how we stand, so thanks for asking!

I’m really not sure what all the fuss has been from our groups in CD bl on reset. I guess I can only speak for my guild and say that we knew it was going to be a hard fight against you guys; we were proud of the fights that we won and had to regroup and try again when we lost. If we were a thorn in your side for at least a little while then we were doing our job.

Banzie.5248:

Can HoD take on the coveted CD like they said they’d be on par with?! Doubtful. Let see how fast their fair weathers burn

By “they” I assume you mean the other servers that didn’t think we belonged in Bronze? Not sure this was ever our argument.

All I can say is that we’re going to be doing our best this week, and though we all know we won’t be coming in first, we’ll still bring a whole lot of kitten.

Wait, could it be? Did our fairweathers and treasure hunters finally finish their metas and go home? Nah, they would never do that to us….

I have to say, it has been wonderfully refreshing to be in a matchup that’s actually even keel, rather than having either no chance or worlds that don’t even come out to play. FC seems to be making a healthy comeback- those zergs have been huge! Here’s to a fun week of matchups!

HoD is a pretty great server- we may have difficult weeks in WvW when the match-ups aren’t quite in our favor, but we have a number of solid guilds that do their best and have fun with it. If you’re looking for a server that has friendly players, works hard and has a lot of potential, we’d love to have you. Like Mergh said, we’re a pretty chill bunch.