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Hey question for OP.... Do you go into a raid or fractal with no clue on what to do? Do you just use whatever gear and build? Do you think this is a good way to complete this content?Now I will assume people who do raids, and high level fractals actually do at least some research and get an idea of what to do, so they go in prepared. Why is it so hard for you to do the same thing for WvW? There are a billion guides online, is it really so hard for you to switch some things around to make it easier for yourself? Now I hate map completion, but it is required for making a legendary. I would never ask for it to be removed or to be changed because making a legendary was always supposed to be a cross gamemode process. It is also a voluntary process, legendaries are not a requirement for anything, if you choose to do it then do what is required and stop complaining.

Yes and no. There is no difference between an alliance of 1 guild and 500 players and that of many that equates to 500 players. Once an individual claims a WvW guild. They are locked into that guilds match up for that world. Blackgate as a server is much more populated than 500 people. There is no physical way to get all of BG onto 1 alliance. There is no way for BG to manipulate a greater sum than 500 per alliance. The alliance cap does not have a threshold like servers do. So then a dummy guild would be pointless unless its for the pugs of a said community. Then the pug guild would be in an alliance with the actual guilds to play together. What does this have to do with BG? I didn't say anything about BG, what is this insane obsession you all have? I was simply using your server as an example. Its in your signature.My post had nothing do with any server. It was just a hypothetical. It can be done with guilds/players from any server.

Yes and no. There is no difference between an alliance of 1 guild and 500 players and that of many that equates to 500 players. Once an individual claims a WvW guild. They are locked into that guilds match up for that world. Blackgate as a server is much more populated than 500 people. There is no physical way to get all of BG onto 1 alliance. There is no way for BG to manipulate a greater sum than 500 per alliance. The alliance cap does not have a threshold like servers do. So then a dummy guild would be pointless unless its for the pugs of a said community. Then the pug guild would be in an alliance with the actual guilds to play together. What does this have to do with BG? I didn't say anything about BG, what is this insane obsession you all have?

So let me see if I understand this part correctly…lets just assume that there are a bunch of guilds totaling hundreds of players that want to stack a new server. Hypothetically you can just create a dummy guild, get it up to 500 members, have everyone mark it as their wvw guild so they can all get on the same server, then they can go back to their regular guilds after getting onto the new server?

It would take up too much bank space to do that, I would rather pick the pieces when needed.

I agree with you. I know of many others who do not want to join a guild but enjoy running with them and these people are not low-skilled newbies at all. Now, they will mainly be used as fillers and thrown into the dailies people. How do you satisfy their expectations? Simple, pretend they don't exist and don't matter. Because instead of being able to play how and when you want, there will now be pre-reqs!GG anet!

Great Post!

How is it supposed to foster stronger communities if a few guilds can lock up a server and exclude others out? How do you think you will be able to recruit people for your guilds? Why do you think everyone wants to be ruled by some nutcase in a video game? Some guilds and players, so full of egos that don't seem to understand Militias fuel guilds. No militia=no guilds. Ah but you can pick the nutcase who leads you. This makes them your democratically elected nutcase and if you stop liking that nutcase then you can leave that nutcases alliance and democratically elect yourself a new nutcase in a new alliance of every other guild that hated the old nutcase. Why would you want to be lead by a nutcase? Why do you think players should have control over the actions of others?

How is it supposed to foster stronger communities if a few guilds can lock up a server and exclude others out? How do you think you will be able to recruit people for your guilds? Why do you think everyone wants to be ruled by some nutcase in a video game? Some guilds and players, so full of egos that don't seem to understand Militias fuel guilds. No militia=no guilds.

Matches have no meaning now. In fact once this new system is bedded down maybe they will be able to reintroduce tournaments and give matches more meaning. Oh the real fun is gonna start when they announce rewards for the winning server. You know because it worked out so well in the past.

It would be nice if we didn't have to choose an armor piece to get clovers and the other stuff.

Thats going to ruin wvw for a lot of people, this essentially makes it meaningless as there is no reason to play for your server. No reason to defend, upgrade, scout, or do anything. It will basically turn into an eotm style ktrain. I guess they want everyone to do nothing but trade towers for karma.Prepare for the greatest exploitation of this game (and game format) to date.The T1 guilds are just going to ally with themselves or create 1-5 mega guilds so that they can stack on the same world.Pretty much all the militia folks, regardless of skill and play time, will end up in no man's land. I should not have to join a mega (forced 100% rep) wvw guild to play...but it's gonna happen. Guess us militia folks will play in the basement tier and ktrain too.How long do you think it will be before the so called 'fights guild and players' start complaining that wvw is boring and nothing but pvd...?

Thats going to ruin wvw for a lot of people, this essentially makes it meaningless as there is no reason to play for your server. No reason to defend, upgrade, scout, or do anything. It will basically turn into an eotm style ktrain.

If you don't want to be randomly assigned to a world then Join a guild and don't be a BG random. I am in a guild. When did joining a guild become a requirement for playing in wvw with other people? Then why are you concerned? If you read through the post, joining a guild is not required for playing WvW with other people. If you want control over who you are playing with then you should join the same guild.Did it occur to you that there are people who do not want to be randomly assigned, because it is a punishment for not being in a guild? And what about those that are not in guilds that they like to run with?

If you don't want to be randomly assigned to a world then Join a guild and don't be a BG random. I am in a guild. When did joining a guild become a requirement for playing in wvw with other people? Why should any guild, or group of guilds determine who is going to be able to play on their server?

Wow anet... just wow... You just greenlighted this terrible Battlegroups concept. I am beyond disappointed and shocked. You just made WvW completely meaningless. I wonder how long it will take until everyone is running around in an EoTM style ktrain. I no longer as a player can control what server I get to play and stay on, who I get to play with, when I get to play, how long I can play. I am now going to be "evaluated" to see if I am worthy enough? This is not even WvW anymore, this is randoms vs randoms. How will people communicate when everyone is like this? Is every group supposed to be in a different comm? This will lead to a total break down in communication, coordination and teamwork of any kind. I cant believe you are doing this anet, I am just shocked...

I hope its not intentional. I farmed a bunch of these before finding out they were not salvageable lol.

Please make the armor from Desert Armor box salvageable so we can get back runes, thanks.

I've been requesting this since day 1.(Among other types: WvW guild, instanced content guild, friends, hang-out guild, teaching|training guild, and a slot to have for special situations.) Others have questioned as to why anyone would need more than one guild. My guess is it comes down to resources: guilds require ANet to maintain a different type of data architecture than they use for most of the game. It probably isn't as robust in design and it probably isn't as easily scaled up or down as we think. Or in short: it's probably a lot costlier to add guild slots than it sounds. It would be extremely helpful especially for WvW players. Many of us have personal storage guilds since before HoT. In wvw many of us might want to be with guilds that play in different timezones, or that have different play styles zerg/havok/roam etc. Not to mention pve/pvp.

Can we get an increase in the amount of guilds that a player can be a part of? Guilds are a useful tool for organizing players, and there are many different types of content that this could be used for across game modes, also personal guilds. It would be very helpful to have an increase.

HOD spelled backwards is DOH! This alone is reason enough to join!

I think I found a potential cause to the freezing problem. I think there is an incompatibility issue with Vertical Sync and Refresh Rate. Last night I noticed that I had Vertical Sync turned off, my refresh rate is set at 60hz in game. When I tried to turn on Vertical Sync, it would cause the same total computer freeze up that I would experience during those loading screens. In my Graphics Control Panel (Radeon), I had the option 'Wait for Vertical Refresh' set to 'Enhanced Sync'. I changed this to 'Off, unless Application Specifies. Then I was able to safely turn on Vertical Sync in game. Everything seems to be running smoother and faster now. Refresh rate in game is unchanged. I cant say for sure if this was the problem. I would recommend anyone who has the freezing problem, to look at these settings in game and their graphics control panel. Also look at anything else that might cause compatibility issues.

4 freezes tonight, all pof maps...

Hmmmm... If this is true, I must not have noticed because I was very distracted by all the fun. This needs to change... need more tickets. Nah, people will burn themselves out farming shinies, then leave. The timegating keeps people playing.

I keep getting a total computer freezeup when trying to load Desert Highlands map.