Official AT Guild Wars 2 Guild Thread

[Genx87]

I am personally on a break (I havn't played in over a month now). I "might" pop in to see if I can complete the monthly, but I doubt it if they do things like they have in the past with requiring multi-day events to complete it (like needing 5 or 10 "dailies"). I gave up once it became a grind-fest for the ever increasing item stats du jour. Each time they have added some new group of items, they have added some new group of things you need to grind in order to get them. First it was the coins that you could only get on dailies, then fractal relics, then guild missions, now mini-game, next up something else.... Seriously, use the fricking items you already had us grind, but no, you don't want to do that because then the long time players would instantly have the latest and greatest stuff, while the newer players would have to grind it out just like we did and have them take a few months to get to where we are... I am done for now.

The game's name should be "Grind Wars 2" (the exact opposite of what they wanted the game to be, but exactly what they turned it into, "grinding" was to be simply for player customization/looks, not stats like it has turned into).

I had to facepalm when it turned that way. I also lost interest in the game when realizing it. Havent played in months.

 

[aigomorla]

<---- still on haitus.




i would seriously love to play another game with you guys.
at launch when playing with all of u guys, i had a lot of fun.
we should all look for a new game and jump on it together.

Poly / Chives / Zin / Woot / Montauk

FIND A GAME WE CAN ALL AGREE AND PLAY ON!

 

[NoSoup4You]

I was playing my Necromancer - Bordello of Blood. It's from the 90's comedy/horror flick Tales from the Crypt of the same name. Maybe I'm just unable to separate the name from the movie's absurdity... Their response -

Unfortunately, the name "Bordello Of Blood" can cause some players discomfort or unease in Guild Wars 2 and therefore, its use was blocked.

I get it, they're just doing their job. I don't hate Arenanet, far from it. But I think they just cured me of my Guild Wars 2 addiction.

 

[Darkrage]

I was playing my Necromancer - Bordello of Blood. It's from the 90's comedy/horror flick Tales from the Crypt of the same name. Maybe I'm just unable to separate the name from the movie's absurdity... Their response -

Unfortunately, the name "Bordello Of Blood" can cause some players discomfort or unease in Guild Wars 2 and therefore, its use was blocked.

I get it, they're just doing their job. I don't hate Arenanet, far from it. But I think they just cured me of my Guild Wars 2 addiction.

How long you banned for? and don't quit over a name thing, someone (a player(s)) probably just didn't like you using the name "blood"..lol

 

[zinfamous]

I was playing my Necromancer - Bordello of Blood. It's from the 90's comedy/horror flick Tales from the Crypt of the same name. Maybe I'm just unable to separate the name from the movie's absurdity... Their response -

Unfortunately, the name "Bordello Of Blood" can cause some players discomfort or unease in Guild Wars 2 and therefore, its use was blocked.

I get it, they're just doing their job. I don't hate Arenanet, far from it. But I think they just cured me of my Guild Wars 2 addiction.

wow, that's really petty, this reasoning.

I recall my many GW1 name bans lasting for 3 days each, btw.

 

[NoSoup4You]

Bah, who am I kidding... the name probably isn't appropriate for a G rated game. I'll change it.

The ban said it was for three days however it only lasted about 10 minutes, I was able to login again after that but it's not letting me use that character without changing the name. Their support email said that repeated offenses would result in a three day ban.

Time to get creative!

 

[aigomorla]

they were banning people for the funkiest of names also.

Visa.. resulted in a permaban from someone i knew cuz they were worried he was gonna fish out CC when the truth was its a banking character.

Anyhow Anet relucantly unban'd him after 2 weeks of threaten to contact CC company and reverse every and all charges they did... he said roughly 300 dollars if u include the gems.

 

[IEC]

Meh, think I'm done grinding. Starting to liquidate all my in game assets

 

[zaydq]

Haven't touched the game in months. Realized they completely played on the name of GW1, but didn't deliver a quality product.

 

[zinfamous]

Meh, think I'm done grinding. Starting to liquidate all my in game assets

can I have all your stuff?

Haven't touched the game in months. Realized they completely played on the name of GW1, but didn't deliver a quality product.

are you comparing it to all of GW1, or just GW Prophecies--which was a full year before expansion and updates? hell, it was nearly a year before they added SF to Prophecies.

GW2 isn't even a year old, and for a non-sub game, they've already added a decent amount of free content

 

[KidNiki1]

Well, I was thinking of coming back to play for a bit, but after reading the last few pages, I'm not so sure I want to.

 

[zinfamous]

Well, I was thinking of coming back to play for a bit, but after reading the last few pages, I'm not so sure I want to.

It all depends on what you're looking for, really. I think the game has certain faults--introduced ascended trinkets too early, imo--but the "grind" to get them is hardly a grind, tbh.

Server hopping by paying off dominant guilds in WvW has basically laid waste to certain servers, esp in certain PvE open world zones. That doesn't really effect any dungeons, though, but if you do like to spend a lot of time exploring, you will find certain areas on specific servers rather empty.

Most of the complaints in here are people bitching about tons of free shit that has been added that cost them nothing. Or, getting bored after spending all of their days and hours grinding like mad to get one shiny.

 

[KidNiki1]

Well, sounds like SBI is pretty empty now. Since you all left. /pout

I'll prolly still play a bit. Have to remember everything tho, lol. I have some lowbies I can level and exploring to do. I would like to at least see some dungeons at some point, but we will see how long my attention lasts.

 

[zinfamous]

Well, sounds like SBI is pretty empty now. Since you all left. /pout

I'll prolly still play a bit. Have to remember everything tho, lol. I have some lowbies I can level and exploring to do. I would like to at least see some dungeons at some point, but we will see how long my attention lasts.

you can always guest anywhere for free, 2x per day, on a single log-in each character.

Kaineng is mostly dead/dying as well due to issues of WvW guilds being paid to transfer, as I mentioned above. This primarily effects the high level open world areas--Orr, where you hardly see any population, thus--all of the temples are closed most of the time.

I'm not sure what it's like in open world, but SBI might still have some things going for it--dropping to lower tiers in WvW may not be such a bad thing as long as the server remains competitive in their tier. If nothing else....I suppose there is a largely stocked TPAD bank waiting to be plundered.

The remaining active members are pretty much repping in a large guild on Kaineng right now, to take advantage of guild missions

 

[smithkt]

Grinding is only necessary if you absolutely must have the Legendary/Ascended gear. I haven't bothered. The Exotics are good enough for me. I prefer to have fun. If I ever manage to get enough mats/gold due to simple organic growth, maybe I'll craft a legendary. The only real grinding I have ever done is just farming enough mats to level all the crafting skills to 400.

I spend my time mostly in PVE and still find it enjoyable. Zin is right though, some areas are dead. I'm also on Kaineng and you can often play for an hour without seeing a single other person in some places. I was pleasantly surprised yesterday when I was starting up an alt and found lots of low level people running around Queensdale participating in the various events.

 

[krnmastersgt]

I still hate the balancing of the legendary weapon effect/model design. They made 2 really amazing weapons truly worthy of being called legendary... then they make it the most overused weapon type in the game on the most prevalent class in the game WHILE making it the only repeat of a specific weapon type. I get the whole theme they were going for but each of those greatswords is like 3-4 of the other legendaries together in terms of visual appeal to me and that's just dumb :/

I have been missing the graphics and stories from GW2 as of late, mainly because I'm bored of everything else and I rarely play with my usual gaming group anymore because of work and school. How bad has the gold farming gotten in game? Am I still able to play with the market with relatively low starting cash and work my way up?

Also wish I didn't sink so much of my gems on characters I don't really want to play

 

[zinfamous]

I still hate the balancing of the legendary weapon effect/model design. They made 2 really amazing weapons truly worthy of being called legendary... then they make it the most overused weapon type in the game on the most prevalent class in the game WHILE making it the only repeat of a specific weapon type. I get the whole theme they were going for but each of those greatswords is like 3-4 of the other legendaries together in terms of visual appeal to me and that's just dumb :/

I have been missing the graphics and stories from GW2 as of late, mainly because I'm bored of everything else and I rarely play with my usual gaming group anymore because of work and school. How bad has the gold farming gotten in game? Am I still able to play with the market with relatively low starting cash and work my way up?

Also wish I didn't sink so much of my gems on characters I don't really want to play

prices are generally inflating, but not at an unobtainable rate imo. You can spend a few hours doing a quick standard farm and get close to 20g and start from there if you want to start playing the market.

SAB dropped some weapon skins that I was hoping to gamble on--not sure when the event will be back, so bought some of the skins hoping to capitalize in a few months. prices are only dropping as the market was far more flooded than I expected (I have a recent bought of absurdly bad luck: opened more than 100 of those chests, didn't get a single skin. Others get 2-3 in 10 chests) For now, that "investment" looks terrible. Plenty of people in the world have them, anyway, as you could essentially farm SAB and buy skins for little cost, if you don't get the gold ones that drop in chests (only these could be traded). THing is, prices of those dropped skins inflated to absurd rates near the end of the event, so I assumed they would only inflate again some time after the event was closed.

If you have 120-180g sitting around to invest in a long-term scheme, then you would want to buy a molten jetpack or mini robot that dropped form the recent dungeon that is now gone forever. Again, no luck for me as I didn't get shit, but I did buy the mini the other week. It has since gone up by 40g, dropped another 20 or so. prices are not stable at all, but will likely take several months (I would personally hold on to mine for more than a year) to be a good sell.

you can still fiddle around with the dye market since that is your thing. the flame and frost event also had unique dyes. so, you can likely do some current buying and selling, and also hold on to some of the rare offerings. Glacial ice or whatever it is called is at 30g right now. lol. one of the red tints maxes at 14-17g from what I've seen.

As for the legendaries. it is odd that 3 of them are greatswords...that is bizarre. but it is all about taste. fwiw, some people seem to like the clown gun. I have no idea why....I only like twilight as something to stand around in town and look at. It has neat effects, but I don't like it as a weapon skin, and I especially don't like it in combat. The game is already raped by particle effects and even in 5 man dungeon groups, it can be quite tough to see what is going on. adding a Twilight into the mix is just really annoying for everyone else.

More and more, I am liking Bolt for a few reasons: it is relatively cheap (precursor is only ~330g), it actually counts towards legendary achievement (another fault with the greatswords--only Eternity counts as 1 legendary...despite it being your third if you ever make it....terrible), and the shocky effects on your toon are pretty nice. The skin is relatively dreadful, I should admit.

I'm approaching 70% certainty that I will go for Bolt--still like my fractal sword too much and dual sword Mes is generally worthless, so not sure how I will balance their use, but at the very least, the legendary sword is one weapon that I know I will use more than any other.

 

[aigomorla]

thats absolutely BS that u need to combine twilight + sunrise into eternity to get legendary credit.

twilight is what burnt me out, and there saying i need another one?

I went back to the holy trinity.
As much as i like guild wars, i came to a harsh fact... without the holy trinity you got less people doing stuff they should be doing.
With a good match making and dungeon party finding system, the holy trinity does not prevent you from joining instances.

Has ascended armor come out yet?

 

[zinfamous]

thats absolutely BS that u need to combine twilight + sunrise into eternity to get legendary credit.

twilight is what burnt me out, and there saying i need another one?

I went back to the holy trinity.
As much as i like guild wars, i came to a harsh fact... without the holy trinity you got less people doing stuff they should be doing.

Has ascended armor come out yet?

nope not yet. no timeline afaik about when. hopefully it will be some time yet.

the impetus to upgrade the gear on your entire account will likely ruffle more than a few feathers.

I believe ascended weapons will be first, which will then naturally see a change in the stats on legendaries.

 

[brad310]

Ok so someone please fill me in.

I bought this game before release and played it until december...3 lvl 80s (ranger, theif, guardian), and some decent spvp, and sparingly played wvwvw.

I quit playing because the game was so broadened out, and even though there were dynamic events, it still feels like you are alone. I got the dungeon gear i wanted and that was the final straw. Nothing left to work for. All the fractals and dungeons and pvp and pve had the gaming base strewn out so sparsely it was silly.

Loved the game at first but the massive world became a senseless grind that i couldnt hardly get a dungeon group together for. I wanted WvW to be my endgame but it really just didnt do anything for me.

After the Karka event weekend, i uninstalled.

Is there any reason i should think about coming back?

 

[zinfamous]

Ok so someone please fill me in.

I bought this game before release and played it until december...3 lvl 80s (ranger, theif, guardian), and some decent spvp, and sparingly played wvwvw.

I quit playing because the game was so broadened out, and even though there were dynamic events, it still feels like you are alone. I got the dungeon gear i wanted and that was the final straw. Nothing left to work for. All the fractals and dungeons and pvp and pve had the gaming base strewn out so sparsely it was silly.

Loved the game at first but the massive world became a senseless grind that i couldnt hardly get a dungeon group together for. I wanted WvW to be my endgame but it really just didnt do anything for me.

After the Karka event weekend, i uninstalled.

Is there any reason i should think about coming back?

What you can experience within WvW can differ within server, and between servers. Personally, I don't play it much because in the end, server success will always boil down to the largest zerg wins.

however, with a good guild populated with good commanders that really know their shit, WvW can be quite different. Roaming is far more fun than just joining a zerg and storming castles. Good commanders can take a group of about 5 and take on zergs many times their size. That is where WvW shines, but in my experience, that is not the predominant play experience in WvW. it just takes time finding the right group to play with. The other problem, as mentioned, is that top guilds will simply get paid to move to another server. The rich get richer, basically. Kaineng was moving up fast on the boards until hitting tier 2 and finally getting some competition. Then, WM and RISE and others fled to TC. oh well.

as far as dungeons go....groups aren't that hard to find, you just have to use gw2lfg.com. I don't think this is the perfect solution (in-game would be best), but it works well enough. Problem is, most people will just run CoF path 1 over and over b/c it is a gold farm. You can certainly find people to run all dungeons, but it isn't as instant as CoF groups. And this ends up creating a population of players that only knows how to run CoF a certain way.
Last time ANet tried to re-balance dungeons, it didn't work out so well. I don't have much faith in a CoF "fix" making the dungeon play more diverse.

So, you can find these groups, but it takes time and patience to find groups of people that you want to run with and are willing to change things up.

I think about how ToR made daily FP runs and sometimes I think that would help GW--you create a daily reward for running 2 or 3 dungeon paths. group finder puts your group together randomly, and the dungeon path is assigned, randomly, from the pool of paths. This would certainly help the population to diversify and improve their skills, and make the experience better for those that like dungeons....but that would be instantly problematic with GW2:

--Yes, you can run a group with just about any combo of classes, but a team of rangers or elementalists, for example, is going to be at a clear disadvantage compared to a team mostly of warriors or guardians, a mes or a nec/ele, etc.... (ToR put the group together based on trinity slots: tank, healer, 2x dps)

--some dungeon paths are either completely brutal, or far too long to make this a daily event. Cof 1/2 quick and easy; CoF 3, too long and major pain in the ass for little comparable reward. In a way, I think the balance is nice--those that like long arduous dungeon paths have something to do, those that want something quick have that as well. You could tier the dungeon pathing lottery, i guess. No one really wants to stumble upon an Arah 4 (can be 3 or more hours) when just trying to finish a daily...

 

[aigomorla]

Is there any reason i should think about coming back?

8 bit polygon weapons?

the wings of dwyana?

its still the game of fashion wars... more so then guild wars.

 

[zinfamous]

8 bit polygon weapons?

the wings of dwyana?

its still the game of fashion wars... more so then guild wars.

I have some for sale! 30g each!

 

[brad310]

8 bit polygon weapons?

the wings of dwyana?

its still the game of fashion wars... more so then guild wars.

that was another issue i had with the game. I spend my money on endgame equipment for a char and poof - its gone forever. Untransferrable. With the exception of visuals, GW1 was better in every way. I played that game for over 3 years and enjoyed it all...my reason for leaving it was external. I played GW2 for a little over 3 months.

 

[zinfamous]

that was another issue i had with the game. I spend my money on endgame equipment for a char and poof - its gone forever. Untransferrable. With the exception of visuals, GW1 was better in every way. I played that game for over 3 years and enjoyed it all...my reason for leaving it was external. I played GW2 for a little over 3 months.

what do you mean untransferrable? You can move weapons from character to character if you want with transmutation. (of course...gems are eventually required)

a new skin coming out that you may want is always going to be a part of MMOs.