Dunno ;x I can only comment on my situation. My best friend who has been playing with me lost his account to hackers. He uses the same email/password for the majority of things, including his GW1 account. I on the other hand, do not, and have my games neatly organized in their own emails with their own passwords. I don't do this for security at all, I'm just THAT anal about keeping things organized. I'm a little OCD about being able to find exactly what I need, when I need it, and that keeps emails from the game and the company of the game going to specific places.

Anyway, I got no email/password reset reminders and my account has been perfectly fine. I have been hacked once, however, and that one  time is why I wouldn't completely rule out everyone else's issues just because I haven't experienced them myself. It was with Nexon's games, when their servers were hacked and they took months to admit it. By then I logged into games I hadn't played in a while (but had meant to go back to, when updated, i.e., Vindictus when they finally got Kai) only to find all my stuff was gone. Sometimes, no matter what efforts you or the company makes, shit happens. The most you can do is hope they make good on getting your stuff back to you. My friend got his GW2 account back in 2 days. Still waiting for Nexon to respond to me 8 months later.

Warned everyone of this, those dungeons are no joke. They're a little too hard, IMO, but I don't mind it since the stuff in it isn't necessary to compete. At this point I only go in if my guild wants to go and they need an extra hand, otherwise I ignore the dungeons past story mode. Even with coordinate and a well-geared team, you're going to die a lot. I promise you, you'll never see a "No deaths!" run on explorable mode without massive amounts of exploiting. At level 67 in AC explorable, the scavenger dudes still instantly kill me if they knock me down, and even down-scaled I have almost 5k hp and over 1500 armor (Mesmer). 

What makes the dungeons hard aren't the enemies, that's the easy part. Just pull, and you'll be fine. What makes them hard are the circumstances of the enemies' existence; i.e., having to protect something else from dying to them, having to fight off a swarm, time limits, infintie spawn (scavenger mounds), traps, jump puzzles, and bosses with specific mechanics (I pretty much go into AC expecting people to die plenty at the first Thief ghost boss in the middle that pulls then spins, takes a while for most people to figure out when to evade) that require precision timing rather than tanking/healing, like most are used to. It's very dungeons and dragons-ish. But it's not my thing, I don't enjoy that level of frustration from constant wipes, at least not for the price of the gear. I can't imagine running AC 20+ times to get the full set of stuff, considering I've only ever gotten 30-40 tears per run and the cheapest Epic I saw was like 150. No thanks ;x 

All settings maxed with a mid-range computer and graphics card but with PP turned off, running at 1900 res. 50-60, dropping to 40 during large boss events and pvp.

I hate to be one of those guys that says "Get a better computer" but....yeah.

Yeah, I don't care about WvWvW but I see people complaining a lot. My only issue is the trading post being down. It was up for like 5 minutes yesterday then it got hammered by people and promptly crumbled apart again. I think they vastly underestimated the popularity of their game, it was evident when they had to raise the population cap on servers just in head-start because all of them were full and only more obvious with the trading post. 

Otherwise, game's been the shining example of what an MMO should be.

Originally posted by Destai

Then what is it? Sex is inherently a reproductive act - whether it's done for pleasure or not. All of the urges that drive it are based in reproduction. Our mammalian brain allows us to attach many other things to it, though.

Just my two cents.

Bit under a rock there dude, behavioral and psychological science have refuted that argument effectively for quite some time now. Sex is not a reproductive act, it's a biological one. It's not all about procreation *points to the rainbow* exhibit A. This is also not restricted to humans as apes, dolphins and other mammals are known to have sex just for the hell of it. Hell, chimpanzees have been shown to create sex toys out of their environment just for their pleasure. Of course humans are just another kind of animal but, that part goes without saying.

Originally posted by Parasitenoir

Hey guys - (just to start so no flaming occurs) i will be playing gw2 so I am not a hater.  I just have a more general question.

 

Why is it that people do not like true open world pvp, where you can gank anyone while they are questing etc.  I enjoyed it in wow while it existed (vanilla-slightly BC), Rift was good, and currently gaming in Tera.

Is it the annoyance of being ganked and not being able to defend yourself.  Does it provide to much of a challenge.  Or is our generation just lazy and prefer to sit in a town and just que for stuff.

 

I personally like the OWPVP and being able to mess with someones day while there gathering, questing whatever there doing .

 

what are peoples thoughts on this?

I like when people answer their own questions. Saves so much time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfA_o-hjmno&feature=youtu.be

Lots of ways to build a Mesmer, but while I prefer condition damage, that's more a personal preference. People seem to underestimate the spike damage potential of a Mesmer, though. The above video is someone duking it out in a tourney as  Mesmer, bursting for 4-6k + ticks of 500+ from clones, all while taking very little damage himself.

Sad when something this important only has 2 pages of responses within hours of creation, yet make a thread about how the cash shop will destroy an economy and you'll have 20 pages of bandwagoners in minutes.

Hopefully this either gets a sticky, or gets added to one.

Originally posted by SharpKris

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I lol'd.. to each their own I suppose.. I'm looking forward to it..

 

Edit: Kinda reminds me of another game I am looking forward to called Dark Souls.. Supposed to be a very challenging game as well and coming to the PC soon..

its suposed to be really good and even better if you play online as players can come into your game and help you (or have fun helping your enemies)

They're good games, and brutal, but there's no Perma-death. That's why I liked it. You had to go back and retrieve your souls and suffered major death sickness after dying (which will happen a lot until you get to the higher levels) but you rarely if ever lose anything permanently. Wizardry works a bit diff, and I'm curious about whether it can succeed in the west or not. Should be an interesting little experiment.