Guild Wars 2

Hi guys. I originally posted this on reddit but I thought I’d post here as well. I thought I’d compile a list of known issues and changes coming in future patches, as well as other interesting posts by devs with no ETA. Note these are subject to change

9/24 Midnight

• Start of rebalancing dungeon difficulty/rewards; diminishing returns on dungeons are also bugged slapping people with d.r. too early
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Updates/page/17#post194435

• Final Story Quest Loot Bags will now give at the very minimum Lv78 Greens.
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/End-Story-Loot-spoilers/228973

• “Bad Blood” Fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Dear-Designers/first#post227388

• “Against the Corruption” Fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Against-the-Corruption-bugged/first#post229337

• “Breaking the Bone Ship” Rebalancing
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Personal-Story-Difficulty-Unacceptable/page/3#post207034

• “Forging the Pact” Fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Forging-the-pact-Mission-not-finished/first#post177940

• “The Ringmaster” Rebalancing
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/The-Ringmaster/first#post175167

• “Track the Seraph” Rebalancing
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Track-the-Seraph-Order-of-Whispers-Too-Hard/first#post158445

• “Set to Blow” Rebalancing
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Set-to-blow-Order-of-Whispers-too-hard/first#post140221

• The newly introduced Mystic Chest recipe will be deactivated
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Mystic-Chest-Recipe-Deactivation/first#post209276

• Citadel of Flame Explorable Path 3 Fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/CoF-Rhiannon-path-3-Bug/first#post193999

• Fort Trinity POI Fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Fort-Trinity-POI/first#post120158

• PvP Wolf Finisher implementation in ‘next build’; The next one is almost done as well
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Wolf-finisher-Glory-Rank-30-bug/first#post202745

9/27 Midnight

• “Breaking Blade” rebalancing
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Human-Street-Rat-Personal-Story-Breaking-Blade-Death-death-more-death/first#post109112

10/1 Midnight

• “Tower Down/Clear the Beach” Fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Tower-Down-BUG/first#post226969

• “The Stone Sheath” Fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/BUG-The-Stone-Sheath/first#post209610

• “The Battle for Fort Trinity” Fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/BUG-The-Battle-of-Fort-Trinity/page/2#post207355

• “Mired Deep” Rebalancing
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Personal-Story-Difficulty-Unacceptable/page/3#post194837

• “The Queen’s Justice” Rebalancing
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/MISSION-The-Queen-s-Justice/first#post192899

• “Defending the Keep” Rebalancing
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Personal-Story-Difficulty-Unacceptable/page/2#post179935

Upcoming Changes/Known Issues

PvE: Dungeons, Personal Story, and Etc

• They are analyzing the current personal story, and plan to improve voice acting and story telling for the future
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Why-Charr-Have-the-Best-Story-1-30-Spoilers/225615

• The home instance is something they look to improve over time
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Home-Instance-Future-Plans/first

• Fury and Retaliation Boon icons look to similar, may be changed
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Fury-and-Retaliation-Boon-icon-looks-too-similar/first#post219166

• Improving viability of condition damage builds are being looked into
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/No-love-for-condition-builds/first#post218944

• Dungeon Tokens will drop more during explorable modes as well as becoming account bound
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Tokens-Account-Bound-please/first#post218911

• Dungeon Rewards are not up to par, and are going to be worked on
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeons-and-Dungeon-Reward-System-Overhaul-Needed/first#post193458

• Dungeon Diminishing Returns bugged
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Updates/page/16#post190414

• Dev on Dungeon Graveyard Zerging and boss mechanics; looking to improve boss fights
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Do-NOT-nerf-please/first#post127216

• There are currently no plans to implement a Dungeon Finder
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Finder-Sorely-Needed/first#post203347

• NPC Chatter Frequency Bar / Mute have been talked about
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/I-can-outrun-a-centaur/first#post217736

• Guild Cap at 4 for now; looking into ways to allow guilds to transfer without losing upgrades
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-on-guild-related-topics/first#post208596

• Guild Halls… one day
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Will-there-be-guild-halls-islands-in-future/first#post79493

• The Great Butter reduction
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Can-you-tone-down-the-butter-and-chocolate/first#post196223

PvP: Wuvwuv, sPvP, and Class Balancing

• EU Server Queue Graphs
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Queue-size-data-from-9-14-to-9-18-EU/first#post200083

• NA Server Queue Graphs
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Queue-size-data-from-9-14-to-9-18-NA/first#post200124

• PvP Ladders/Ranking/Custom Tournaments/Spectator Mode are planned; new blog on sPvP and E-sports soon
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Ladder-ranking-custom-tournaments/page/2

• Invisible Players/Player Culling
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/first#post183838

• sPvP Autobalancing readjustments in work
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Auto-Balancing-An-Oversight/first#post93182

Bugs

• Numerous targeting bugs are being worked on
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Give-us-a-TARGET-LOCK-feature/first#post223306

• Wonky Camera is due to bugs; being worked on
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Camera-Smoothing/first#post223368

• Mystic Focus recipe fix
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Mystic-Artifact-focus-recipe-not-working/first#post196267

• “Machine in Action” Under Investigation
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/The-Machine-in-Action-bug-lvl-19-personal-story/first#post194250

• Congrats Necromancers on reaching 100 bugs
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Necromancer-bugs-compilation-NB90-NT10-NP4

Security and Accounts

• Google Mobile Authenticator should roll out within the next few weeks
  https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/mike-obrien-on-account-security/

• CE/DD Item individual redistribution
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Collector-s-Ed-DDE-Item-Questions-merged/page/6#post207418

• Mark Katzbach on gamepad bindings, etc
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/GuildWars-2-XBox-360-gamepad-script/207414

• Account restoration to be available in future; however, will only be able to rollback the entire account
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Account-Roll-backs-Replacement-Questions-merged/first#post161231

Others

• Bacon is delicious
  https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Everytime-I-hear-BLT/first#post117828

• Welcome Mac Users; also I can now play GW2 on my Macbook Air in class. Arenanet you owe me a job in the future if I fail all my classes
  https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-for-mac-beta/

Thanks!

It would be nice if the devs actually compiled a list like this for us in advance, but I’ll take what I can get. I love patch notes.

You’re quite welcome Treize!

I’ll do my best to update this over time as I do check the Dev Tracker regularly.

Nice list. Do you have a link for the reddit post?

nexxe.7081:

Nice list. Do you have a link for the reddit post?

Here’s the Reddit post.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10ddhp/924_and_101_patch_compilation_and_other/

Also looks like the servers just went kerplop.

thank you it is good to know anet are fixing bugs

but BOTTING? nothing about botting? when there are trillions of bots in every zone

I’m sure they’re monitoring botting closely.

If they ban the bots ASAP, the bots will immediately know which program was detected by ANet. Also, if they ban right away they’ll lose the ability to track their connections. If they ban in waves, they’ll hit bots at once and it’ll be hard to figure out which botting programs were detectable.

ANet created public banning in GW1 so I’m sure they will not be tolerant of this stuff in GW2. (Dhuum was awesome)

Of course, there are also negatives to banning in waves as it allows to bots to benefit/cause more bad stuff to the game economy. But if they are investigating, they’re probably trying to track connections with gold sellers to bots and buyers, etc.

Hopefully they’ll address this soon, perhaps even Monday we’ll see something done.

Reading this confirms that this game was indeed pushed out way to early. Another 6 months of beta testing and implementation and this list would be far shorter if here at all

so many bugs with necromancers and yet not 1 fix in sight yet…

No word on elementalists =(

Necromancers’ complaints are laughable compared to the state Elementalists are in at the moment. And unlike necros we get consistently ignored by the devs.

A whole line of Mesmer traits don’t even work. No word on this either…

For those wondering why there isn’t a patch right now as of 12:26 9/24 PST, ANet labels the date on the day they work on the patch for deployment so the 9/24 patch won’t be released until 9/25 00:00 PST. I’m not sure why they label it like this, but I’m following their labeling for consistency.

I have annotated the specific times the patch should be deployed on the Reddit thread.

Editing is not working for me for some reason so any further updates to this thread will be posted on the reddit thread

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10ddhp/924_and_101_patch_compilation_and_other/

But here are some of the stuff I have added:

NEW * Hacker situation IS being addressed, though they are looking for the best solution. The best we can do to help them right now is to report them https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Hackers-need-to-be-dealt-with/first#post232115

NEW * Post on how Personal Story was written, Arenanet wants our feedback https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Why-Charr-Have-the-Best-Story-1-30-Spoilers/first#post229755

NEW * Zhaitan Fight bugged, being looked into https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Spoilers-The-Zhaitan-fight-was-extremely-anti-climatic/first#post231934

Guess we won’t be seeing money that has disappeared on the TP, then…

And still nothing about fixing all the broken skill challenges.

Thank you for posting this outside of Reddit.

Excellent work, give this guy a PR job

Nothing on disconnect issues? WvW queue bugs? Botters in WvW messing with queues even more? Grace period for disconnects from WvW?

So pretty much nothing screwing with my enjoyment of the game is getting fixed.

Great.

Under Security and Accounts, I don’t see any mention of being able to change our display name on our accounts. Is it actually being worked on, or are those support responses I get telling me it is inaccurate?

Very nice list thee.
Great work.
I wish they would sticky this one, so it dont disappear in all the other “chatter” on the general forums here

i don’t know why they keep pushing pve fixes not really gives …. about it , fix the pvp already , start class balancing add skirmish for top teams so we can pratice together

thanks

Can’t wait for this patch and future ones. I want to see how well ANet can perform with corrections of this magnitude. I hope they do well.

Can’t play tPvP since the first week after launch and no word about that major bug ? Jezz, I want to play the game that I payed for is that too much to ask ?

Awesome compilation