Guild Wars 2

Just had the same thing happen to me. This is fairly irritating.

To the last 3 posters; I’m guessing you all main a Necro……..? If not, you really should lol.

It did help when we logged entirely out of game and back in, but those who hadn’t done so weren’t even registering as Online/Representing the Guild. When I tried to speak, having fully relogged, in Guild Chat with the 2 that hadn’t, it gave me the “No One Hears You” message.

We are having the exact same issue, and Caverns is the theme we would prefer to have playing. It really suits Gilded Hollow.

Same for us, not too long ago, maybe an hour or so.

I sent Gaile a PM suggesting they use this song as the HoT Theme, as soon as I heard it on The Blacklist. Thought it would be PERFECT! Very well done Trailer, indeed!

Order of the Blue Heron [OTBH]

Home Server: Eredon Terrace (US EST)

Some Guild Events:
Dungeon/Fractal Night – Sundays 8:30 pm
PvP Night – Mondays 8:30 pm
WvW Rally – Tuesdays 8:30 pm
WvW Server Reset Rally – Fridays 9:00 pm

Hello All, and thank you for taking the time to read. We are a small, friendly group of players always looking to grow our Guild. We have been together over 6 years as a group of friends (previously Band of the Red Hand on another MMO), and just enjoy playing all aspects of the game. We came to GW2 over 2.5 years ago, and fell in love with it. We are involved in WvW, Dungeons, World Bosses, Farming, etc. In short, we enjoy doing it all. There are no experience requirements; simply come as you are. We know there is a lot to learn in GW2 (I still learn every single day) and we are all more than glad to teach. We have a TeamSpeak 3 server for our Guild (No worries, we still talk in Guild Chat lol), as well as a Guild Channel on the Eredon Terrace Unity TeamSpeak Server. In closing, if you are looking for a long term Guild and group of friends, then please let us know. If you have any questions, I can be contacted in game by my user ID, as well as one of our Officers, Marcus Antonius.1904. Also, please visit our Guild Site below for more information about us. Thanks again, and look forward to seeing you in game!

Arathorn Cirdon
Guild Leader
Order of the Blue Heron [OTBH]

http://orderoftheblueheron.guildlaunch.com/

What I could say about this change has already been summed up in this post. It sucks, REALLY sucks. Change it back please.

Still fighting : )

I don’t even care if they altered the programming of these items to give 0 materials from salvaging, I just want my very expensive Runes (Strength/Speed) from my 3 sets of gear. FYI, please know the following before commenting. I placed those Runes in the gears back when you could Transmute gears with Transmutation Stones (please see https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Crystal ), so it was non issue, because I could just “combine” those non-salvageable gears with gears I wanted to change to, and the Runes would move with them. Therefore, I wouldn’t lose on an expensive investment. FYI, I made these gear sets within my first 3 months playing (80 isn’t hard to reach on 3 toons in that time) so I was unaware that they could not be salvaged, as I didn’t read the forums a lot at the time. Was still non-issue back then, because of the then-current system mentioned above. Extractors are also not a viable solution with their price point, because I would make more gold from Gem:Gold conversion than the Runes themselves cost. I am aware that Extractors are mainly intended for expensive Infusions as well. I am absolutely fine with not getting mats from the salvage, so long as I could use a Black Lion Salvage Kit and recover my Runes. Also, just in case anyone wants to assume that they made any announcement that the runes would be stuck with no cost effective way to move them as before or remove them entirely, because of the new Transmutation System (which I really like, btw), please see the official announcement here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-wardrobe-system/

Fixed that little mistake. I am up way to early to go to my family reunion. My brain doesn’t wake up for another hour or so yet lol. Thanks for pointing that out : P

I agree, we definitely need to be able to have full sets like those. I run an Ascended Sinister set on one of my toons and would indeed like to have a complete set with Asc Backpack included.

If space is an issue, just craft them into Bricks, Stars, and Ingots. You get rid of 100 at a time that way, and they can always be demoted in the Mystic Forge to be consumed by Mawdrey II, Princess and Star of Gratitude. You can buy the Obsidian Shards in bulk at the Balthazar Temple Karma Vendor, or just do Silverwastes Chest Farm and you will get tons. For example, the MF recipe for demotion of Asc Mats is as follows:

1 Bloodstone Brick + 1 Bloodstone Dust + 1 Essence of Luck + 1 Mystic Coin = 100x Bloodstone Dust

I could list my many reasons for this answer, but just No. I don;t want this game to be like other games. If I did, I would just play those games instead. If they ever implemented something like that, I would be done.

Anet has stated multiple times in threads such as these that they will never release Character Names nor Guild Names, due to the fact that it goes against what they are trying to do as an MMO. They feel that a player should be able to come and go as they choose, and be able to pick right back up where they left off.

CureForLiving.5360:

Nike.2631:

And I think you’re wrong. We’ve already seen exactly how furious existing players get when new player’s get something and they don’t. You think telling the playerbase “New players will get access to all styles for free and old players can lump it” won’t be another meltdown?

Yeah it would be safer to add all new hairstyles for everyone than to make presently exclusive hairstyles non-exclusive.

Yeah, because I, for one, am sick of reading collective kitten-hurt posts lol.

Yep, we have our hands in all aspects of the game. We specifically have the following Guild Rally Nights; Dungeon/Fractal, PvP, WvW, and ET WvW Server Reset Rally. We all just enjoy playing together while teaching and learning. We have been described as a “pretty chill group” lol, and I suppose we are at that. We play to have fun, but we enjoy being good and being able to do the things that we pull off with our members. We just celebrated our 6 year anniversary as a Guild in June (yes, we came over from a different MMO over 2 years ago) and we are looking forward to many more years together. As I always say, our Guild has been together longer than most marriages last lol (My wife and I both game together in GW2. Friendly advice; if you are a gamer, marry a gamer lol). Feel free to contact myself or Marcus Antonius.1904 in game, or shoot me a message here on the Forums. Hope to see you in game!

I’m sorry, but no, I never want any hard trinity put in place. I like the fact that I can insta fill a dungeon party, not having to wait around for a certain specialty class that I have to have, even to the extent of “hiring” one for coin just to get going. I had enough of this in other games, and the lack of this system in GW2 was a huge selling point for both myself and my Guild to come over. If you want to play in a group such as this, take the time to start a Guild based around these builds and you can play dungeons the way you all want until you’re hearts content in Clerics gear or whatever else you want to wear. Just for the record, our Guild couldn’t care less about what gear you are wearing when we fill from LFG, our ad is always “ACP3 All Welcome, No Aholes”. I just don’t want to be forced to change that to “ACP3 LF2M, Healer/Tank ONLY, Will Pay”.

I agree with a lot of the things being said here. My Guild and I will still play HoT hardcore when it releases, but we have lost that feeling of “hype” for the release. I understand they are tweaking things, and don’t want to release info that they may have to change or go back on. However, we have only heard some of the Specs, nothing on group content, etc and this has been dragged out across months. Just like in poker, slow-rolling isn’t a good thing, especially when it’s being done to a player base that is starved for content. For some time, I was checking the site religiously every day (even from work) to see if there were any announcements, but 90% of the time, only gem store updates. As a result, I have lost interest; I don’t really feel “excited” like I did before. Don’t mistake me, I will still be playing as much as I have been, and so will my Guild. This is just customer feedback so that they might take these things into account for future expansions.

From Colin Johanson:
Lord.4270:
Hi,
We are a guild of 3 guys . We love WWW.
With Guild halls , we will have to do guild missions.
So why we have to do puzzle jump and things like this , when in this game we just love killing people on the battlefield !
Why can t we play as we want .. ??

ColinJohanson:
HoT will include a solution for this for both guilds that are WvW, and PvP oriented that want to build and expand their Guild Halls and need the favor generated by guild missions. Same goes for guilds that have a mix of players interested in all three. More info down the road a bit on how this will work once we’ve got it a little more solid on our end.
Edited to add: Everyone will have to do the actual mission to capture the guild hall once per hall though no matter what. If your group online is too small, you’ll need to invite friends (or pay/beg/sing-songs-to-woo peeps in Lion’s Arch!) to come with you and help you claim the guild hall to own one. Or you could always grow your guild

From Colin Johanson:

Lord.4270:
Hi,
We are a guild of 3 guys . We love WWW.
With Guild halls , we will have to do guild missions.
So why we have to do puzzle jump and things like this , when in this game we just love killing people on the battlefield !
Why can t we play as we want .. ??

ColinJohanson:
HoT will include a solution for this for both guilds that are WvW, and PvP oriented that want to build and expand their Guild Halls and need the favor generated by guild missions. Same goes for guilds that have a mix of players interested in all three. More info down the road a bit on how this will work once we’ve got it a little more solid on our end.
Edited to add: Everyone will have to do the actual mission to capture the guild hall once per hall though no matter what. If your group online is too small, you’ll need to invite friends (or pay/beg/sing-songs-to-woo peeps in Lion’s Arch!) to come with you and help you claim the guild hall to own one. Or you could always grow your guild

Thank You, Colin, for the response. Good to know Small Guilds will be able to upgrade as well, and there is even a Forum post for Small Guilds to leave info on for banding together to help each other do the initial Capture Event. So we will now be able to capture it, and have alt methods of getting that Favor we need to do upgrades. Thanks for thinking of all Guilds, and for the timely response! : )

ImTasty.2163:

I would like to know what is considered to be a small guild from what Anet said. By small does that mean a guild of 5 people can do it or small as in a guild of 20 people can do it.

This would be nice to know indeed.

I think it would be awesome if we could get some form of response from Link Hughes on this. Just for some clarification.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Guild_Wars
It was named so because of the lore, not PvP or GvG. There is another side of the coin, in that PvE and WvW players feel left in the cold because Anet seems to focus on being an E-Sport with competitive PvP. I honestly don’t subscribe to any of these feelings, personally, but only give them an example to show that every person that only plays one main aspect of the game has an angle and opinion. For those of us that play a good mix, we don’t notice such nuances as you folks do. You’re point isn’t entirely wrong, nor is mine, but they aren’t entirely right either. It’s just a matter of perspective. Anet will never get it right for every single person. I’ve read complaints that PvP gets no love, PvE gets no love, and WvW gets no love. All the while the posters seem to feel that the other 2 game modes are getting some love lol.

Bump
/lessthan15chars

So, if they gave the people that bought the game after release all the same stuff that people who pre-ordered received, why then would people pre-order? FYI: All games do this, or do you not have a Gamestop where you live? Even if you do not have a Gamestop, have you seen a commercial for any major game advertised that didn’t have pre-order only items attached? Dragon Age, God of War, Halo, Mass Effect, Call of Duty, etc, etc, etc. All games do this to entice players to “buy now”. Anet is not a pioneer in this regard, even among MMO’s. (please see SW:ToR, WoW, Rift, etc).

I ordered the Deluxe Edition day 1 because of the Gem discount (1st ever from Anet by the way). I am going to get another 3k hrs, if not more, out of HoT the same way I have the base game. I was happy with my purchase then, I am happy with it now. The 2nd Character Slot is just a reason for me to be more happy. I have 9x 80’s, and plan on at least building a Druid and Chronomancer, and probably more after they tell us the rest of the Specs. I swear, some people will kitten over anything….

Child: “I DEMAND Ice cream before bed! Gimme it or you don’t love me!”

Parent: sighs “Very well, here’s some ice cream, dear. Is that better?” smiles

Child: “NO! Sissy got ice cream too! It’s not fair!”

Parent: smiles “Here, let me give you extra ice cream because you’re my special child.”

Child: “No, No, NO! I don’t want ice cream anymore, I want BROWNIES! Brownies or you don’t love me anymore!”

I would be rather interested to know how long a couple of the above posters’ Large Guilds have been together. Ours has been together across 2 games over 6 years. I would say we epitomize the term “Guild” pretty well. If they didn’t want Small Guilds, there would be a limit to how many people it takes to form a Guild. Seeing as there was/is not, then yes, I do think that a small Guild deserves a Hall as well. We could recruit 200-300 if we chose to do so by mass recruiting, but then we might get saddled with elitist, entitled individuals who have kitten opinions (please see above), and we do not want that. Size does not make a Guild. Anyone can get lots of people together. That doesn’t mean they have staying power, community or common purpose. Bear in mind, I have met some very functional, close knit medium-large sized Guilds, but it usually takes a LOT to keep them running right, and none of us in our Guild need a second job as we are parents, husbands, wives etc with full schedules. By the way, we are the crowd that Guild Wars 2 is catered towards (please see GW2 Manifesto) in case the elitists hadn’t noticed lol.

You can have more than one Guild Leader. This would work for those Guilds that not everyone purchases HoT, including the Guild Leader. Anet has stated that they do not remove a Guild Leader or put old Guild Names back into selection because of their credo that a player should be able to leave and come back as they wish. That is from a direct response I received from them on a question I had. Is this ethical on the Guild Leader’s part? Probably not, if they were not forthcoming about a definitive return date or how to contact them in real life in their absence for situations that may arise (i.e this, Guild Hall Claiming). However, there is nothing stopping that Guild from starting their own as well. I understand the Influence loss and starting over, I’m just giving you the viable options and answers that Anet, from personal experience, will most likely provide you as well.

Rivindor.7258:

If your guild is not strong enough in numbers to maintain their territory, then it makes sense for them to be wanderers. You can join a populated guild if you want a guild hall.

Maintain? Once you clear it, you’re done, it’s yours (watch the livestreams and other interviews). It’s not about taking it or keeping it for us. It’s about building it up with Favor, which at the moment is only granted through Guild Missions. My small Guild of 7-9 people can roll WvW Keeps, Fractals, Dungeons, PvP, etc. because we have around 4-5 on during our peak times, and we happen to be good, solid, long-time gamers. But Guild Missions, in their current form, are difficult for us to do with our numbers (Our Guild is nearly fully upgraded despite this fact, and not through Gold). To be frankly honest, we wouldn’t want to deal with the crap that comes from being in a large Guild with their various personality conflicts; we like our group of friends just fine. But, as I’ve stated elsewhere, Destiny’s Edge (Anet’s “Meta” example for a Guild) was, by recent lore, the greatest Guild in Tyria, and they were 5-6 at their peak. The new focus of Living Story is Tyrian Guilds replacing the Pact to protect the world. So my Guild and I can go fight Mordremoth and his minions for hours on end, we can fight and die in WvW for our Server (Go ET!), and we can climb the leaderboards of PvP with our Guild PvP Team, but because we can’t clear some random PvE Guild Mission that has nothing to do with any major content in the game we can’t upgrade a Guild Hall? Ok lol. Smaller Guilds should be afforded ways to earn Favor as well, and I am not saying that they can’t, because we just don’t know all the details yet.

TL;DR Which is why, due to the various posts on this matter, it would be nice for some clarification of what Anet meant by “Small Guilds”, potential scaling and minimum numbers required for capturing Guild Halls, more details on Favor and exactly how it is earned (as well as any alternate methods to Guild Missions) and how much it will take, or if they will be reworking Guild Missions to be more inclusive to small Guilds.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Isn’t it possible that they’ll revamp guild missions so that small guilds can do them, too?

This is what I am hoping for

Ascended gear is supposed to take time, just like a Legendary is supposed to take time. I like the fact that there are benefits to crafting it or having it as a good drop; it at least means something. Doing what you suggest with purchasable stats skirts the “Pay To Win” line a little to close for my taste. I’ve seen and done that, and no thanks. I’m glad certain things take time to get.

Kendra Nightwind.8734:

Actually there was an answer to these and other questions during one of the live streams. The reply was that we who are in small guilds need to rethink what a guild is.

Well, Destiny’s Edge, the main Guild present in the Guild wars universe, my Personal Story, and Living World content, is comprised of 5 people now, and was 6 before Snaff died. Same with Destiny’s Edge 2.0, and they are omnipresent in all of the Living Story releases. I can tell you now, having played with my Guild across all aspects of the game, my small Guild is WAY better than those 2 Guilds at clearing things, and they are supposed to be the creme de la creme lol.

In all seriousness, though, I do not believe my Guild, nor myself, should have to rethink what a “Guild” is. We have been together for over 6 years across 2 games. That’s longer than most marriages last. We have always remained a small group, because we feel that it is easier to play with like-minded people, and without painting with too broad of strokes here, the more people you have, the more personality conflicts you have (see: real world interactions between people at work, Walmart, the mall, restaurants and other social functions.)

We do not recruit all that often, and even then we only recruit a very few people. We are truly the friendliest people you will ever meet, so please don’t confuse being selective with being elitist. I just think that we need some clarification on some details in this matter. I was able to make my Guild with Myself and 2 other people when we first started coming over to GW2. I think that if they wanted to build content that was going to need a certain amount of players to be in a Guild to complete, they should have put a min requirement on the players needed to create a Guild. They said I should be able to “play as I want”, and I don’t want to have to have a large Guild to have and upgrade a Guild Hall, because I didn’t have to have a large number of people to make it or progress it at least somewhat in its current form.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/
I quote Colin: “To make playing in our open world worthwhile, we’ll make it rewarding enough for players to spend their time there across all levels. It’s extremely important that we stay true to our philosophy that you should be able to play Guild Wars 2 the way you want to play the game in order to reach the most powerful rewards.”

There is a new “Permission” that can be set, like current ones, that allows a player to assign decorations. But this would have to be given by the Guild Leader. This would be more likely to happen in a smaller Guild, I believe, as in a large Guild, you wouldn’t want every person just throwing stuff around. Your intentions would probably be 100% good, but for every 1 of you, there are 50 trolls that would shape a vine wall into a viney, phallus-shaped object lol.

We actually all pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition, but I hadn’t considered that point.

Brimstar.9036:

They said its for small guilds as well. The compared 15 people to 100 people, still being able to do the same thing. Please read blog posts!

Yes, but are they working under the assumption that Guilds of 15 can actually complete Guild Missions? I know we can barely complete the Bounty Training with our regular 7, much less full Bounties.

This makes me wonder what ANet meant by “Small Guilds”. I think it gave hope to all of us truly small, close-knit, family-type Guilds when they spoke of this in this manner, but for all we know they could have been referencing “Small” as a Guild of 50 people compared to 500. Some clarification on this by a Dev would be most welcome, because my Guild and I have been very excited about the hype of “Small Guilds” being able to upgrade their halls, etc.

Yes, but as is, small Guilds of 15 or less are not currently able to do current Guild Missions (i.e. track down more than even 1 Bounty, etc), and those Guild Missions are the way you earn Favor to upgrade your hall. It’s all fine and well to timegate the process so that small and large Guilds can both progress at the same time in upgrading their Hall, but if the smaller Guild can’t complete the Missions (and there has been no talk of the Missions themselves changing in their objectives so far) to earn the Favor needed to do the upgrades, then you can’t really progress at all, can you?

Same with our Guild. We are 10 people at most, and although videos have stated that Small and Large Guilds will be able to progress, I have read nothing so far to indicate that. I know there are more posts, for Guild Missions, to come, so I am hoping for clarification there. We have never been able to do Guild Missions in their current state, because we do not have the numbers to make them a viable option. We clear Fractals with relative ease, roam WvW capping Keeps/Towers/etc, and have good success in PvP and PvE, but we can do those things easily with our size. Guild Missions, should they stay the same, we can not, and therefore we would not be able to earn “Favor” and build our hall. Some more details in the forthcoming blog posts would be great for easing the concern of smaller Guilds such as ours.

Also, I don’t know why it wont let me spell “Mortar” “During” above in the last sentence, but oh well…lol

My wife hates Dry Top, for the same reason she hates jumping puzzles. Me, I enjoy both. Silverwastes, the map created after Dry Top, is a pretty friendly map, all in all, to what you are looking for. Most of the boss/event mechanics won’t require a lot of finesse, and there are plenty of people there as well to back you up. I might would stay on Red Keep or Amber Sandfall Events/Boss Breach though, and maybe man an Arrow Cart or Mokittenuring the Vinewraith parts.

shadow.6174:

Beezlebub.1538:

THIS IS A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF AN MMORPG. If you can’t get this right and don’t care to fix it, don’t make an MMORPG. Seriously, this is sooooo baddddd, GET IT RIGHT A-NET OR PASS IT TO SOMEONE THAT DOES CARE /endrant.

taps his ears Unneeded yelling, also they wouldn’t break their own game on purpose. Chill off, there is a life out of game :P

You necro’d a post that was over a year old to post that comment. Can we meet somewhere in game so you can train my Necro in this superior ability? : P

Let’s not forget the Guild Building/Influence seems to be broken as well. But, hey, we got a new Stability Mechanic and FPV/Height-based camera change…… yay…….

Yeah, this is quite annoying. Also annoying is having to go “Invisible” then “Active” on each character to type in Guild Chat, having Guild Chat disappear every time I change maps or do a vista or have any cut-scene at all (I’m a Guild Leader and it makes missing questions a pain by having to ask people to repeat themselves while actively playing. However, all these listed things aside, the schizo Voice issue is by far the biggest issue driving me nuts. My character never has this much chatter during normal times, but if I’m just standing still he spouts off crap incessantly in random voices. If this isn’t rolled back or fixed by a patch soon, I’m going to be logging out until it is. I know it seems small, but it grates on my nerves for whatever reason, and I’m not a person who is normally bothered by things like glitches or lets things annoy me.

Shameless Bump for ET is Shameless : P

On ET, everyone matters. Best community I have ever had the pleasure of being a part of. 2 years now, and would never want to be anywhere else!

As far as sorting by sets goes, you can use the Search feature in the Wardrobe to some effect. For instance, when I want to see all the Ascalonian Weapon skins that I have in my collection, I go to the weapons section and type “Ascalonian”. As for the other suggestions, that would be nice.

I don’t see Condi players (I am one myself) having much issue with this. We can remove that boon, like any other, and the boon could even be stolen by my Mesmer, which is a pretty cool dynamic in and of itself. I like anything that will give more depth to an encounter. Rangers were facerolling me for about 2 days after the Sept feature patch (everyone shouting “Ranger is so OP now!”, until I adapted my play-style to suit the new mechanics/builds.

“Broken” doesn’t even begin to describe this idea. If this were to ever become a thing, I’m pretty sure you would have a mass exodus from WvW. It’s hard enough to take something (i.e. Garrison or EB Keep) near an enemy spawn point if it’s even numbers and they keep running back. This insta-port idea would make it impossible, and if things become impossible, people stop doing them. Reason being, at the end of the day, people play games for fun, and when something stops being fun anymore, you stop doing it. My suggestion is to learn shortcuts to where you are going, pack on speed buffs/runes/traits etc., and figure out a back way in. Even at a tower with one entrance you can get back in the greater majority of the time even when an attacking force is present; pop stability, stealth, dodge roll, cond removal, weapon mechanics, so on and so forth, to get inside.