Guild Wars 2

Zachary Stiers.1879:

With Heart of Thorns the exotic equipment purchased with gold and Badges of Honor will become salvageable. Salvaging a piece of this gear returns only the upgrades that were applied and some Badges of Honor.

How about Mystic Forgeable?

Hello and well met! I am Yawg of Ready and Willing Knights [RAWK]!

Ready and Willing has been together for over 10 years of Guild Wars! We started small, but through our adventures we have grown beyond just a guild.

What do we like to do? Well there really isn’t any part of Guild Wars that we DON’T do!

We tend to have a heavier focus on Endgame Activities, but with the current influx of new players we’d be more than happy to help guide new players through the game, classes and all the fun and glory that is GW2!

Fractals of the Mists at level 5 or 50? We love the challenge! We love showing new players to FotM and guiding them!

Interested in more PvP or WvW? We regularly setup nights where we love to just dive in and destroy everything in our path! We have Teamspeak and other accommodations for a fun coordinated attack!

Open world PvE? Dungeons? That’s the lifeblood of the game and you know we love knocking out world completions and boss trains!

We are currently residing on Sorrow’s Furnace. The majority of our members are from the Pacific Northwest but we have tons of players from all over. Our biggest timezones are Central and Pacific.

Feel free to PM me here on the forum or contact any of the following members for an invite!

Yawg
Saint Shade
Mei Fai
Yuri Diotic
Zarkdev

Today is my guild’s 10 year anniversary. We’ve been fighting for Tyria since Rurik spent much time in those lands. We are Ready and Willing!

Dungeon token prices of armor is Chest (330), Leggings (300), Shoulder (210), Helm/Gloves/Shoes (180).

Sorrow’s Embrace armor merchant is offset so the current prices for Light Armor are: Helm (180), Chest (210), Gloves (330), Leggings (180), Shoulder (300), Shoes (180)

I think honestly option 2 is the best option. I have literally done hundreds of fractal runs, even achieved the 500 fractals completed in the first few months of Fractal’s release. I still regularly play hoping to get the skins I want but keep walking away beyond frustrated when I get my 10th Fractal Dagger while waiting for the Greatsword.

I honestly don’t know what to do for Precursors, but I feel that if tokens or crafting where a possible route that it should be a heavy task to complete so that we don’t kill the market value on Pres and Legendary weapons

Berk.8561:

A problem I think WvW has, in general, is that it’s simply easier to attack the weakest target (an undefended tower, the third-place server) than the strongest target that will put up the best fight. As such, there should be benefits to making the hard choices instead of the easy choices.

This line here got me thinking. What if when you are attacking an object, you got a counter for number of enemy players killed (NOT NPCs). Maybe you kill a few enemies taking a tower, get above average loot and rewards. Maybe you spend an hour taking on an enemy garrison killing hundreds of players. Perhaps the event could work like a defense event and have a timer so that even if you don’t end up getting the objective you get some points for trying to fight a huge defensive crowd

1) Guild MotD on login
2) Guild Halls
3) Guild Raids

Seriously, that MotD on login for GW1 was perfect, that’s all we really need, MotD printed in chat box on login!

Hello and well met!

Ready and Willing Knights have been around since the beginning of Tyria, Founded in 2005 for GW1 and going strong 8 years later in GW2!

We currently have about 10-20 active members a night.

We have a great group with high level experience in running Dungeons, Fractals and WvW. We do pretty much everything, even PvP. We have regular Guild Missions and WvW organized runs weekly with constant guild buffs available.

A good majority of Officers/Leadership have completed Dungeon Master titles and are always happily available to help complete dungeon tours. The same goes for Fractals of the Mists! Our high level groups have achieved Level 50, but we are always happy to help new players level up and have a fun Fractal Experience!

We offer a guild forum and Teamspeak server for in and out of game interactions.
We also have a private PvP Arena for guildies and friends of the guild to use for PvP/WvW Practice and Build Testing.

We DO NOT require 100% rep. Many of us have bank guilds or guilds with friends or even guilds with semi-specific purposes (like TTS). For that reason we do not enforce a rep requirement. We only ask that you represent RAWK during Guild Activities (like WvW or Guild Missions).

TL;DR:

• Weekly Guild Missions and WvW Events
• Constant Guild Buffs
• Teamspeak and Forum
• Private PvP Arena
• Dungeon and Fractal Tours!
• No Rep Requirement (Outside of WvW and Guild Events)

Contact (by mail or whisper)

• Yawg
• Phofia
• Saint Shade
• Llylian Hardomir
• Kraath Steelbreaker

Not even gonna bother reading most of this thread, but thought I’d jump in and leave a note for once!

So, my small team has been practicing a lot more recently and tonight the 6 of us took Devona’s Rest Keep in EBG! Well, to be fair, there were 2 defenders until the last minute and it’s not exactly a big thing, but….

We broke in, killed a few DR defenders who showed up, killed the Keep Lord and jumped in the circle just as a group of DR showed up (Probably about 4-6? Heat of the moment, couldn’t count). We managed to pull of the capture AT THE SAME TIME DR banner’d their Lord and we got to witness to Keep Lords duking it out xD

(Edit: sorry for the huge resolution…)

People complaining like the post above are the reason I stay away from these forums but when I see a lot of good positive notes from the ANet team I have to say, I am very excited!

I really hope to see some rewards revamping with Pristine Fractal relics.

FC and AR, where are you? I need more loot bags

Thank kitten I’m not crazy…. I thought I had like hit a max requests in a time period or something crazy like that xD

Haha thanks mod, that escalated quickly.

Regardless of whether or not an individual is going to spend time on legendary trinkets (I will be, why? Because…. no further reasoning.), the point of this thread was to discuss the recipes used to build the new legendary weapons and trinkets. If you’re just here to put us down for “wasting time” on legendary items, you should probably re-evaluate your definition of time wasting because you are playing a video game……

ZBeeblebrox.4928:

Gift of Fortune and Gift of Mastery should still be part of the process (if they aren’t, I personally will be frustrated enough to quit the game, as I’ve slowly been grinding them out for over 6 months).

As for the legendary trinkets… I don’t know why they would bother with this? The only point of a legendary is the skin… but trinkets don’t have skins. I’m certainly not going to go through as much effort as I have with a legendary weapon just to see a special little icon on my hero screen. I guess it would have the same “change stats anytime” property that the weapons are supposed to gain… but how often do people really change their stats? Probably cheaper just to buy a new item if you decide you want a new build…

This is really the big thing I’m worried about, I wanna know if Gift of Mastery and Gift of Fortune will be used in the new legendary weapon recipes. I’m about 1/5th of the way done on my third Gift of Fortune and ~66% done on a 3rd Gift of Mastery. I would like to continue saving towards a new weapon as I’ve pretty much gotten the only weapons from this set that I want.

As for trinkets… I’m hoping they have some cool visual effect that makes it worth pursuing. That alone will be enough for me to start work on one… or a full set. If I could change my stats, that would be even better, I have three sets of armors and trinkets for builds I like to use (Celestial (soon….), Power and condition damage sets)

zerorogue.9410:

I have an theory on this. My guess is that trinket legendaries will be the “poor man’s legendary” where you don’t get a skin but still get all the other special effects. My guess is that these legendaries will have some sort of visual effect but not as much as a full legendary. e.g. sparkling hands, leaving leaf/feather trails, glowing auras.

As such these legendaries will require less to make them.
Example
Flowerstone – Legendary accessory
Creates petals coming off of the character
Recipe: Gift of Mastery + Gift of Magic + Gift of Energy + Tortured Root

This makes the most sense to me, though I don’t know how they would fit the Mastery gift into each trinket, that’s three fully mapped characters for 6 gifts of exploration o.o just to get one set

So I’ve been reading a lot on the new legendary trinkets/gear and new weapons and had a thought, “What is the likelihood that the new legendaries will require the usual Gift of Fortune and Mastery?”

Just trying to plan for future endeavors ;-)

Thoughts?

ColinJohanson.2394:

It’s something we’re absolutely aware of and want to address in the future, one of my main characters is an engineer so I feel ya on this one. My poor quaggan backpack is visible like 2% of the time I play as I kit swap, never mind my weapon skins.

We’re currently focusing our engineering (programmers, not guys with net guns) resources that could work on solutions to issues like kits/skins on major systems that address issues higher priority and wider reaching like lag in large battles, LFG, custom arenas, spectator mode and so on but this issue is absolutely on our radar.

As always, please post your ideas of what you’d like to see solution wise, we love to see the fun ideas y’all come up with too!

First and foremost, for an Engineer, The Predator is probably the most awesomest choice for a Legendary. But two things are really preventing me from wanting it on my engineer,

Firstly, The Predator is a sniper rifle, yet my engineer will use it from the hip like a shotgun, I know it’s an aesthetic issue I have with it, but the legendary weapons are (mostly) aesthetic items to pursue.

Secondly, why did you remove our plasma grenades?! This was the biggest redeeming value to having a kit override my weapon skin!

quick update on the score

My guess is the guy running mos.millenium just tweaked it manually to get it to appear properly until ANet posted the ratings, I sent the ratings to the contact email, so hopefully it gets updated here soon and we can see the projected ratings change for this week

score update for those interested, the SF Night Crew is out and at work, just painted HoD’s BL red and led a small crew around NSP BL for a bit, taking off for now, hoping ANet posts the official rankings tomorrow so we can see where we stand for next week

one big sigh over this whole thread, thanks for reminding me why I don’t visit the official forums…

To HoD: Your borderlands is fun, [RAWK] had a blast last night.

To both NSP/HoD/ANet: Thank you! I’m having so much fun again, there’s a genuine challenge in our fights. We’ve been so used to never losing Stonemist, only fighting paper doors and walls, not really worrying about enemy siege and so on… This is GREAT. I’ve honestly not really known what I’ve been missing until now…

To SF: We gotta wake up and get some more tricks if we wanna ride this pony outta T7 :P

D W.5179:

DevonCarver.5370:

yawg.4172:

Can we see what was changed? I didn’t see anywhere anything official, but would love to know….

(Theory: Adjusted ET/FC server rank so SF didn’t lose server rank points this last week like it was slated to)

I’ll have the updated matchups and rankings posted on Monday. I, unfortunately, don’t have access to the data from home.

Honestly, I can’t thank you enough for making this change. The fight in T7 is crazy close, and this is the closest I’ve seen T8 in months. Whatever change was made, seems about right. Keep up the good work Devon, you are awesome!

Bleh Monday? Well, you know, I can’t say I can complain at all, I’m too busy fighting hordes of HoD and NSP… This is the most exciting WvW has been to me in months! I can’t thank you enough Devon (and the WvW team!)

Can we see what was changed? I didn’t see anywhere anything official, but would love to know….

(Theory: Adjusted ET/FC server rank so SF didn’t lose server rank points this last week like it was slated to)

This…. is… Awesome… Great play out there guys, I’ve not had the adrenaline pumping this hard in WvW for some time now.

Yeeees! Let’s do this HoD and NSP! Mad respect for all players involved (until proven otherwise), let’s have a fun and clean fight!

scooby treat.8420:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

scooby treat.8420:

I have been on FC from the start and I can tell you that SF right now numbers easily what Kain and DR did before there push up.

before their push up but after the mass transfers?

I find it hard to believe that current SF numbers are anything like what Kaineng had after the migration. TBH, I don’t think all 6 of the bottom servers added up together have those kind of numbers/coverage.

They have numbers I promise you, when they get there you will see. As you know last week we got a very good T2 guild and some other good guild transfers and ET got a T1 guild and some guild transfers and you know how much of a dent that made to SF? Well look at the numbers not much SF had Zergs on all maps just like Kain and DR. I’m telling you guys you are in for a suprise when they get there.

I can’t speak for all of SF, but I’m flattered you think we’re on par with Kaineng post-transfers! I, for one, will remain as humble of a commander of my people as possible and try not to let my head get all inflatey when we start kicking faces in and movin up.

Yay! Finally! As an SF Native (been here since launch!) I’m very excited to see this change. I’m a little sad by the fact that we need DEVine intervention to crawl out of the T8 bracket, but in all honesty, we kittening needed it. The Glicko system needs to be adjusted so that 13-week matchups like this don’t happen again.

I would honestly be a lot happier if the longterm solution was implemented instead of having to have manual adjustments to the rankings happen immediately, but then again, I would’ve preferred this change several weeks ago.

I might’ve missed it, but did the Devs say anywhere what actual changes they will be making? My assumption is they will manually inflate ET/FC’s server score so that SF climbs out of T8 on its own, which is the only way I would handle this situation…. Which is partly how I would envision a long term solution as well (Lifetime Score Floor/Ceiling).

To GoM: Welcome to what happened to SF months ago… One bad week and you get trapped in T8 h-e-double-hockey-sticks. It’s actually not so bad, just don’t let FC/ET smack you down the first week or so and we’ll push someone else down to your tier :P

To NSP/HoD: We comin’ for you >:D

To FC/ET: So long and thanks for all the loot! (I sincerely hope you guys keep building up steam like you have been the past week! <3, no hard feelings here from this commander)

To ANet: While I am upset at how long all this has taken, you continue to do good things and polish it as you go along, I look forward to seeing where this all goes and what kind of polish you lay down for the ranking system.

To the Haters: Less Q.Q moar PewPew!

I’m very excited to see a different matchup in WvW.

DevonCarver.5370:

Unfortunately, there could be many reasons that those servers are doing poorly, including that people stay away because they are doing poorly. Creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is exactly one of the reasons a change-up is needed. There were weeks of matchups where I could tell exactly that ET/FC had just given up and let us roll them over harder than usual (See Week 10 and Week 07 http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/45/#history ) and the same was happening to SF as well. There was little to no motivation to play WvW if we were not going to move anywhere. After a few weeks in T8, SF started to drop off a bit in WvW motivation and organization because we lost hope of being able to go anywhere.

So haters and whiners, cry all you want over this change, but this NEEDED to happen. ANet has probably lost a bunch of players because of the stagnation in T8, the T8 servers have lost a lot of players because of the stagnation (I know of quite a large group of friends who left SF for SoR and TC because of it). It’s completely unfair to the servers in T8 and I applaud ANet finally getting their kittens in a basket to fix this.

Seriously the most depressing thing I’ve seen in a long time. I get that glicko is supposed to do this, but c’mon ANet, 8 weeks straight.. This is too long, we’re tired and we’re bored. In PvE you punish everyone for doing the same thing over and over again by putting in DR to encourage us to go explore more of the world instead of focusing on one particular dungeon or another. Seems a little backwards to me that pushing us to have variety in one place and locking us into monotony in WvW. Please please PLEASE do something.

QuadJunky.2736:

Anet needs to enable free transfers from overpopulated servers to under populated servers.

Seems people in the upper tiers are crying over queue times while those of us in the lower tiers need more people.

First none “fix the rankings!” suggestion I’ve seen lately that I 100% completely agree with! Though I imagine it would have to work with WvW populations as opposed to overall server population to work correctly on this issue.

Nicolatte.5360:

So Sorrow’s Furnace wants HoD to basically take a couple weeks off so they can climb up to our tier more easily? That makes zero sense. If a server feels they belong in a higher tier they should fight to get there. Or else it’ll be your people who make posts like this when DH, or it’s equivalent, leaves you at +0 because of Omegas.

I agree with ARM, it isn’t GoM that is the issue or HoD, it’s DH. I think GoM and HoD are well matched. Sometimes we’re second, sometimes they are. As it stands now it seems like DH calls the shots about who gets second because they steamrolled GoM last week mid-week on, and they did it to us so brutally most recently. And let’s face it… I’m sure GoM is bored silly like we are. Being that bored doesn’t exactly make the less than obsessive WvWers want to play and there aren’t enough obsessive WvWers on HoD or GoM I’m sure to man BL/EB at most hours. I have seen 50 DH take a camp. Not run through a camp… TAKE a camp. They have so many people at peak hours that there’s more of them who just wander around dazed and confused (their newbies) or ganking people than GoM and HoD have actually defending.

The last thing HoD should consider doing is dropping the ball and taking a WvW vacation for a couple weeks so we can sink a tier. Then all that would happen is we’d likely be the DH of tier 8 because all the fairweather WvWers would come crawling out of the woodwork. That doesn’t sound enjoyable at all. And unfortunately that may happen in time anyway.

I do admit this is boring, though. I wish once a month we just had some sort of random match-up. It’d probably involve getting steamrolled over, but it’d at least give us a chance to see new tactics and play styles and meet up with new players.

ANYONE RECOMMENDING A SERVER STOP PLAYING WVW FOR TIERS IS WRONG. This completely defeats the purpose of the game! These kind of suggestions are pure nonsense and deserve absolutely no attention from those of us trying to work toward a reasonable solution.

That said, suggestions like these pour in because they want to work within the system and it’s confines and having a server give up and drop a tier is indicative of a problem within the system. This needs to be addressed by ANet in a timely fashion to avoid severe negative repercussions. We can already see that people in FC and ET are fleeing their server for tiers with more competitive WvW action, this needs to be stopped because this just furthers the turmoil and misery on those servers and it’s doing a great amount of harm to the communities there.

I would kinda like to see two matches each week, one weekend match (server reset friday – monday at reset time) then a week match (Monday reset – Friday reset)…

roostapro.9827:

Edit: I dislike you SF, you gave me a full bag of loot and only 2 Badges of honour.

2.

You maded me a sad person

At least put an extra badge in the loot for me /cry

I’ll work on that :P I feel if you can kill me, you deserve a badge

According to the rankings as they are right now, only 2 servers are moving up and 2 servers moving down, of these, only one of these up/down movements is across tiers and this is Yak’s Bend trading with Maguuma for T5/T4, the other movement this week is Eredon Terrace waking up a bit and Ferguson’s Crossing rolling over and going back to sleep while we on Sorrow’s Furnace continue to steamroll them.

I wonder how long it will take for the other 6 tiers to complain about the stale matchup of having to fight the same servers for the second week in a row…

GoM and HoD have been fighting for 9+ weeks and for the past 6 weeks it’s been GoM/HoD/DH while the past 7 weeks it’s consistently been FC/ET/SF in T8. Though at least the T7 servers have some fight and trade places occasionally, not down here in T8 where all three servers are losing members because it’s such a stagnant and un-fun matchup for everyone involved (except those in SF who are all about winning without a challenge).

Glicko needs to be adjusted or completely replaced with some other system. Adjustments could be a ranking floor and ceiling, or any number of things. But SOMETHING needs to be done and at the VERY LEAST, ANet should step into one of the three threads we have going now on this subject and make some sort of statement or acknowledgement because at this point it’s completely about morale on these stagnant servers and even ANet stepping up and saying ANYTHING on this matter will be better than the silent treatment its received over the past two weeks.

ANet, please, tell us something is amiss and you’re looking into it, that’ll save some morale on our servers. Tell us you’ve identified an issue or anything and that you’re working towards a solution, that’ll give us a boost. Detail us a plan you’ll implement in the next week or two and morale and interest in WvW will resurge a bit.

But if you come down and say things are working as intended and things will work their way out eventually and you can literally just go ahead and sit back and watch the populations of FC/ET/SF/HoD/GoM/DH shrivel up and float elsewhere or die off completely.

The way things are right now is NOT FUN and that’s the bottom line here, this game is supposed to be fun, but WvW down at T8 is more demoralizing than fun. Our servers are suffering, please help us.

It would be incredibly nice to at least be acknowledged by ANet… a simple “Hey guys, we hear you, we’re looking at options and while we don’t have anything immediately, we will update you guys when we come to a solution” would literally make everyone on FC/ET/SF jump for joy.

What we really need immediately is acknowledgement of the problem and something to help us raise morale and WvW interest in all three servers. Right now, all three are losing players from WvW because of how stagnant the matchup has become. There are probably even people leaving the game because WvW is a large portion of what they enjoy and if they aren’t putting the game down, they’re transferring out of T8 to another server and that’s just making the problem worse.

In fact, I had someone from TC whisper me yesterday after posting in another thread try and recruit me to TC. I politely declined and found out from two other SF players who were on the thread that they were also approached by the same individual. Not that I particularly care, but this is kinda low and recruitment like this leaves a sour taste in my mouth (at least for this particular individual, I <3 TC and one individual does not make a whole server).

Anyway, at this point the biggest issue is player morale and interest. It’s fastly fading on both sides of the beatdown and it’s starting to worry me a bit…

SF player here, you guys in ET are sure changing around this weekend! I applaud and cheer on your efforts while simultaneously still wiping the floors of your keeps of all that icky ET blood….

Here’s hoping your war efforts garner more interest in WvW for your server, I know it’s even an issue for us on SF because it’s boring to go beat down on the people who’ve been beaten and broken for the past month and half straight. SF needs a more challenging fight and a good reminder that we’re all about superior numbers in this fight and not tactics, something we desperately need to change.

Linkisdead.9647:

I’ve only had the game a short time, only lvl 55 on SF but since we’re kind of talking about getting better as a server let me just post my thoughts after playing WvW for about 3 days(haven’t played pve since):

Communication: Stepping into our BL for the first time was a little overwhelming. No one was talking at all, I had no idea where to go or what do do. I had to google a bunch of WvW guides to get the basics down. I’ve seen other servers talk about using a server based TS so everyone could communicate. Does SF have this as well?

Another thing I’ve seen is a lot of players will see an enemy group or get rolled by one, but don’t call out any troop numbers or location.

Tactics: We don’t seem to employ specific strategies, mostly I see us just build one or two siege and zerg the gate until it pops or we get pushed out. Now I’m assuming a lot of that has to do with the fact that A) I haven’t played with a Guild yet and it works almost everytime due to overwhelming numbers and I don’t mean to troll or anyting but a lot of the defenders have been pushovers.

I’d love to group up with some more experienced SF on teamspeak so I could learn a bit more. I’ve had equal fun rolling with the zerg as well as roaming/taking SCs. I don’t require a guild inviteor anything, but it would be fun to be a part of some more organized teams.

All in all its hard for me to complain since I haven’t really had experience with a guild and I’ve only played it a few days. Hit me up in game or a PM if you wouldn’t mind me running with you.

SF does have a mumble server and I routinely offer up my Teamspeak/Vent/Mumble server for events (I seriously got kitten off and tired of people going “X VoIP is good, but I only use Y so… sorry”). I have tried and tried and tried over and over again to encourage people on our server to use VC but it doesn’t work, I’ve managed to get 2-3 people on the SF mumble before but that’s about it, nothing that could help our server-wide coordination whatsoever. I’ve been laughed at and talked down to because no one wants to take 5 minutes to install a client and hop on a server to effectively communicate and this more than anything has killed my efforts in trying to help coordinate our server, when I’m trying to be helpful and post suggestions to get people together just to have people throw it in my face and spit on it…. It’s frustrating and is hard to not take personally. A few weeks ago I tried to organize a server-wide meet up on mumble and that flopped horribly, only 3-4 people showed up.

I would LOVE to have a VoIP server that everyone in SF logs into for WvW and coordinates, even if it’s a group of people that use it routinely for coordinating will help gather people and further generate interest/awareness to it’s existence. Ideally a person with no experience or friends in WvW would be able to get the VoIP info, connect and be able to listen in on what to do, what’s going on when and where, etc. But as it stands now, we barely have that in /map/team/say, so I don’t see how having everyone on a VoIP server is going to help if this continues.

Darek.1836:

No offense but if you weren’t as casual you’d know that we had been doing that the past month, we’re just very tired of it at this point.

What rolling over and dying? Because that’s been apparent even to the members of my guild who don’t WvW at all. I’m not trying to bash on you guys whatsoever and I can very much sympathize with you, I’m tired of having the same fight, I’m tired of barely seeing any enemy invaders except in “huge” zegballs. Huge being relative because let’s face it, our tier has nothing huge except everyone’s imaginary genitalia. Other WvW tiers, 20-30 people is small to medium sized zerg.

Detharos.3157:

6) As a final add-on: TROLL POLICY. Simply put, don’t feed the trolls. There are gonna be people who bash commanders, players, guilds, servers, thread creators for the simple purpose of seeking to incite strife, frustration and anger for their own personal entertainment. At times they may even go so far as to construct huge comprehensive multi-paragraph posts backing a mentality or way of thinking that they may not even subscribe to personally, simply to incite a hasty negative/inflammatory response from their target/victim. Excessive socratic questioning and ad hominem use can sometimes hint to such people’s true intentions. Best thing you can do is, ignore them or taking it even further, be humble. When someone is constantly spamming “Wow, you’re terrible.” on map chat or whatever, a response like “You’re right, I definitely have a lot of room for improvement” can often times diffuse things before they spark. And keep in mind, 90% of trolls be they forum trolls, in-game server community trolls, or what have you lack the long-term dedication to haunt a community for more than a couple of days consecutively when nobody takes their bait. A few back to back days of nobody getting upset from their comments will often cause trolls to opt out and self-destruct.

Detharos, I have to agree with you on every point you made and ESPECIALLY this and the good sportmanship one. We need to iron out the in-fighting before we can move forward and the in-fighting really hurts everyone playing.

I’m going to make a somewhat different post than most of what I’ve seen on here. As a casual WvW Player on SF, I have to say “Way to go Eredon Terrace! Stomp that Ferg Zerg!”. It’s honestly very refreshing to see you guys fighting back more the past week or so and this weekend was a great fight! I enjoyed the challenge and it started feeling more like you guys woke up and FC went back to rolling over and dying. But like I said, “casual wvw player”, I’m not nearly as hardcore as some others on here.

Last night on FC BL you guys steamrolled our attack on the western keep by rolling over the camp behind our offensive and then destroying our assault. This highlights two things. Firstly, Sorrow’s Furnace players need to pay attention to chat and coordinate and respond to immediate threats….. Secondly, ET is gettin tactical! :P

As much as I’d love to move out of T8 and go have some fresh blood to spill, I’m very content with ET and FC stepping up a bit and giving our mindless zerg a thrashing. Just because we outnumber you, doesn’t mean you can’t still do a bit of tricky maneuvering and put us in our place.

SF’s ego is about as inflated as it’s score against FC and ET and we could all benefit from a more challenging fight.

Takerukun.8924:

If more people take a chance like you and provide their civil input in this thread, it can do nothing but improve things for everyone involved. Even if they disagree with the main point behind the thread, civil debate is healthy for all parties involved.

100% agree, a healthy and civil debate about any issue will usually provide the best optimal outcome. It saddens me to see people complain and whine about stuff beyond their control and then resort to in-fighting…. sigh

Anyway, I’ll see you on the battlefield, you’ll know it’s me cuz I’m a tricky necro with an incinerator stabby thingy and big red/black blossomy armor >:D

Hey guys, SF member here, just pokin my head in…

Firstly I’d like to thank Takerukun.8924 for keeping a level head and calmly explaining several points that clarified a lot to me and is sincerely appreciated by a lot of us.

Secondly, the amount of bickering in this thread makes me sad. This highlights a lot of the reasons why I ignore the official forums and choose to lurk the “Not quite dead yet” SF forum and my sparsely populated alliance forum.

There’s also an unusual amount of whining on here (see: every major update since before release), but I suppose it’s only unusual to me because I rarely have complaints about the direction ANet has gone.

That said, I don’t normally feel the need to speak out on issues and contribute to matters that annoy me (like soulbound everything?! Why?!!), but this is a matter that is genuinely causing issues and affecting the game’s health and I feel that I need to speak up and hope that my voice is heard from our overlords.

The following has likely been said over and over in this thread and I admittedly didn’t read every post, so I apologize for the redundancy.

SF is fighting a winning battle with ET/FC, but unjustly losing the battle in rankings. We are being penalized for not winning enough which is as unfair to the players of Sorrow’s Furnace as it is to Eredon Terrace and Ferguson’s Crossing. It’s mostly unfair to ET/FC in that there are likely players over there that need world completion but can’t because we’re steam rolling them all week and will next week and the next and possibly the next if things continue to stay the same.

The fight between SF/ET/FC actually started out pretty awesome! see the score

Thursday night we were winning by a slim margin, by Reset Friday, FC had taken it back and came out victorious! That was the most fun I’ve had in WvW and honestly was my first or second serious adventure into WvW. even the second week in T8 was a good fight!

But every fight since then has been complete domination. On all sides of the fight, I think we’re just tired of the monotony. I feel bad blocking FC and ET players from getting World Completion (on some level) like this for the past three weeks. It has got to be demoralizing to see your server crushed like this continually. As a result, I suspect that ET and FC has had a huge cutback in active WvWers because of this and it doesn’t help their position whatsoever. Same for us, we dominate the crap out of FC/ET so much I barely think about logging into WvW because why bother? We’re winning by a huge margin.

But it’s so incredibly frustrating that instead of being rewarded for the win each week, we’re punished by not winning by enough of a margin to move up.

It’s gotten to the point where we should just find the three servers with least interest in WvW, stick them in T8 and then let them work out how to rotate around the map so everyone gets map completion, line up and get killed by other teams for badges and can continue on with PvE-ing… (obviously not a legitimate idea…. also, it is a long ways from being “the point where….”…. I don’t think anyone wants to participate in a carebear WvW league)

TL;DR: The current T8 matchup is unfair to ET/FC for fighting us over and over and over again, but this could also be a fault of those servers in just “rolling over and dying” (I’m not saying that’s what’s happening, I don’t honestly know, it just honestly feels like that’s what happened). It’s duly unfair to punish SF for not winning by a large enough margin to make the jump to T7. And it’s also pretty lame and discouraging to play WvW when we’re leading like this.

Final appeal: Please ANet, we would truly like to hear things from your side. Is the current T8 matchup truly what’s supposed to happen? I don’t think anyone here is very happy with how this matchup has turned out and we would at least like to hear from you.

As a redditor, I feel compelled to say “THIS!!”

As an avid player and fan of the Guild Wars games, I feel the need to express a little more eloquently.

Dear ArenaNet,

THIS!!!

Yours Truly,
Yawg

Using the QR Code, I received a “Secret Saved” message but no account showed up. I proceeded to entering the account in manually and when it updated, my previous accounts were now linked to the same Secret for GW2.

After removing all accounts from Authenticator, I scanned the QR Code for GW2 FIRST which worked perfectly. I then proceeded to using the QR Code for my Google Account and I now have both accounts working perfectly without one overwriting the other.

So here I am, humble security analyst and gamer, getting super excited over ArenaNet’s decision to use Google Authenticator for 2-Factor Authentication with my favorite addiction. However, I have immediately encountered a bug that will keep me from utilizing this.

I use Authenticator for my usual Google Account as well as for SSH Access to a personal server I run. I am using a Motorola Droid 4 with Android 4.0.4 (Latest Official OTA Update from Verizon) and have ensured I am using the correct Authenticator App.

I initially followed the setup documentation that Mike Lewis posted here

I was unable to get the QR code to scan properly so I proceeded with the manual input. I am now able to use the 2-Factor Authentication to login to my GW2 account and this part works consistently.

However, it would appear that the GW2 account “took over” my authenticator app and is displaying the same authentication code for each of my accounts and I am unable to login to my server or google account, luckily the latter login is cached in my browser.

I took a screenshot after I removed my personal server and blocked out my email address:
http://i.imgur.com/cEHpk.png

After removing GW2 from my app, I was still unable to login to my google accounts and had to reset my 2-Factor Auth for Google.

Dear ArenaNet:

I’m the 1%, one of the few who are fortunate enough to play on 3 monitors in a 5040×1050 resolution making my FoV incredibly huge. My guildmates, roommate and girlfriend all suffer from not seeing an enemy or the entrance to a cave or other various things that comes with the reduced FoV they are allowed to work with. The experience is truly different with even a slightly higher FoV and the difference is much more enjoyable.

Please consider adding an FoV slider!

Thank You!