Guild Wars 2: The One Thread

[Deleted]

alright so me and a group of underdogs managed to get a DS map from scratch to the final boss fight against mordremoth. And at the very very last second we were all kicked out and sent to a different map because way back in the beginning we got a message saying our map had a low pop and asked us if we wanted to leave.

All that time, all that effort, for nothing

pls anet

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I have to give props though, Gw2 is one of the very few, if not the only MMO that manages to get an entire map of hundreds (?) of people to work together towards one goal. People are discussing tactics and encouraging each other all around. I've never experienced that in any MMO. That might be why the community is considered as 'the nicest online community'.

[Rivellana]

Ugh, yeah. I'm sorry, that sucks for sure. It's a bug, and I've heard of it. When the map first starts filling up the bug makes the low population volunteer thing pop up. The only thing you can do is make sure you're in a party, relog when you have that message, and hope you can ferry back to your map. Relogging will make the volunteer message go away, and you won't be kicked off.

[zito]

god damn it I actually had a map going for it but Anet and their updates ruined it

[Rudol Von Stroheim]

Honestly I'm already starting to get a bit bored. .-.; Finding it hard to get myself to play between work.

Truth be told, I'm getting a little wore out on more traditional MMOs and even GW2 doesn't distance itself THAT much from them. Kind of tired of my experiences being limited to exactly what the game wants them to be, rather than being able to build my own. It frustrates me that it isn't so much a, "Let's see what kind of trouble we can get into today!" versus a, "Let's try to complete this zone before the day is out."

Maybe I'm just pissy and tired. Probably that. Going to bed.

[zed zebes]

It's been tough for me to find any activity in a map other than Verdant Brink. I had some luck in SCAR section of Tangled Depths tonight. I think the Adventures there attract people. I've never seen anything close to an organized meta attempt there. I am not even sure if/what the end meta line is there.

I got one good Dragon's Stand map and have found it empty otherwise. People hang in Verdant Brink and then hop to AB when the Tarir meta shows up.

My goal is to find where to get the Ley Guard's Shield. Going for 600g on the TP right now.

[Hattai]

Started up the game after a LONG hiatus, first time seeing Lion's Arch since it was a mostly smoking ruin. Wasn't prepared for how pretty it was.

[thewallofsleep]

So I went to guildwars2guru yesterday hoping to find a bigger forum discussing gw2 while avoiding the official forums (rather than just the one subforum here). Good lord is that place dead! I figured that the site would be reenergized now that HoT is out, but nope. Some of the threads on the top of the pile are weeks old. Granted, that community was pretty toxic, so it's not exactly a big loss, but it still surprises me how such a big fan site forum can be more or less dead in the water.

[Fencers]

So I went to guildwars2guru yesterday hoping to find a bigger forum discussing gw2 while avoiding the official forums (rather than just the one subforum here). Good lord is that place dead! I figured that the site would be reenergized now that HoT is out, but nope. Some of the threads on the top of the pile are weeks old. Granted, that community was pretty toxic, so it's not exactly a big loss, but it still surprises me how such a big fan site forum can be more or less dead in the water.

Official forums serve to centralize player communities. It relatively rare for a game to have so large and/or active a population that it can sustain many 3rd party websites.

Guild Wars Guru came to prominence when official forums didn't exist for Guild Wars 2.

[Rudol Von Stroheim]

Started up the game after a LONG hiatus, first time seeing Lion's Arch since it was a mostly smoking ruin. Wasn't prepared for how pretty it was.

Oh yeah, same here. It got beautified.

[Kelimbror]

Halloween is slipping away and I haven't even done the clocktower yet. QQ. Where is the time going?

[Valeron]

So I went to guildwars2guru yesterday hoping to find a bigger forum discussing gw2 while avoiding the official forums (rather than just the one subforum here). Good lord is that place dead! I figured that the site would be reenergized now that HoT is out, but nope. Some of the threads on the top of the pile are weeks old. Granted, that community was pretty toxic, so it's not exactly a big loss, but it still surprises me how such a big fan site forum can be more or less dead in the water.

GW2Guru died when the official forums came out

your best bet outside of the official forums for community is reddit

[Rudol Von Stroheim]

Halloween is slipping away and I haven't even done the clocktower yet. QQ. Where is the time going?

Considering the grind it takes to get enough candy corn to matter, not much point in doing this stuff so late. ;-; I'm namely doing laby for the luck increases(I'm at like 50% now) and for next year.

...Assuming this stuff will be good next year.

[zito]

this will be the 3rd time i've skipped halloween. I wish it didn't happen at the same time as the expansion.

[Valeron]

they should have delayed the expansion until after the holiday IMO

[zito]

they should have delayed the expansion until after the holiday IMO

Or have halloween a week early

[Kelimbror]

Yeah I would have preferred it just being early. At this point, they should probably extend it two weeks for us. Doing them together was an awful decision.

[Gray_Matter]

I have only been doing Halloween. Not touched the new stuff yet. Don't have a lot of time so that is suiting me.

On the Halloween topic, you can get 20 slot bags for a cheaper price than normal through the event. Either farm some candy or buy the candies on the TP. Swap 3000 candies for 3 candy corn cobs and then buy the Halloween Pail or whatever it's called. The bags are account bound and work out to be 9g in price each at the present bid price for candies. The cheapest 20 slot bags on the TP are 12.5g each.

[Kelimbror]

Swap 3000 candies for 3 candy corn cobs and then buy the Halloween Pail or whatever it's called. The bags are account bound and work out to be 9g in price each at the present bid price for candies. The cheapest 20 slot bags on the TP are 12.5g each.

Thanks for the tip. Been putting off larger bags for far too long and I have a lot of candy corn from previous years. I certainly don't play enough to get any worthwhile rewards, which is sad, but oh well right?

[Huehuecoyotl]

I have only been doing Halloween. Not touched the new stuff yet. Don't have a lot of time so that is suiting me.

On the Halloween topic, you can get 20 slot bags for a cheaper price than normal through the event. Either farm some candy or buy the candies on the TP. Swap 3000 candies for 3 candy corn cobs and then buy the Halloween Pail or whatever it's called. The bags are account bound and work out to be 9g in price each at the present bid price for candies. The cheapest 20 slot bags on the TP are 12.5g each.

I upgraded all my bags this way, but the price has gone WAY up this year, because Anet seem to have nerfed the rate that you can collect them. When I did it, the bags were costing around 5g each, and were still costing around this much up to a couple of months ago.

[nevermore]

The violin/cello music during the main event in Tarir is absolutely gorgeous btw.