Reddit thread: Bobby Stein reveals dismissed concept
For the first year+ after Shatt first made it in game, it was fondly known as the Shattnerer by most of the early Gw2 writing and content teams. I’m pretty sure Darrin had pictures up on the wall around the office similar to the sweet sweet link from Bobby. Fun memories
For additional trips down memory lane -> This was also the first ever giant boss built that made it into the game.
Though it wasn’t actually the first giant boss model ever made, that distinction rests with the leviathan (a massive crazy huge sea creature boss that only ever showed in trailers) was the first ever giant boss model. Early in development after the model was built engineering shot it down as creatures that large in water were too expensive for performance and our engine couldn’t support moving platforms (collision) in large open world maps.
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Hi Matt! The communication is much appreciated, thank you for taking the time.
It’s going to be pretty low priority, but it seems that the Mystic Chromatic Ooze that you coat yourself in for Juggernaut III stops working once the collection is complete. This is something of a disincentive to completing the collection, as I don’t want to give up my awesome Ooze buddy once I get the precursor. Any chance of allowing Ooze buddy coating post-Colossus?
Hopefully I’m not shooting myself in the foot when I say this, but I don’t think any functionality you gain during the collection should get shut off. That does encourage not completing the collection, which is not something we ever want.
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sadly, I haven’t had time to do this yet. I’m still planning on it, but was focused on the larger bugs first. I’ll certainly let everyone know when this happens.
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Ok, given the number of people who say they reported yesterday, we could have a problem with our logging. I’ll be digging into it with our data analyst on Monday to see if we can figure out what’s going on. Thanks guys!
In-game reports are monitored 24/7 by a team of GMs who review them individually. However, we acknowledge that sometimes things get missed, and the reports in this thread are spurring us to investigate the effectiveness of our approach. Here’s how things work right now:
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Edited again: today I got our analyst to help me dig into the numbers and discovered the numbers I was using last week were incorrect. I’ll be spending today digging through reports and investigating if appropriate actions are being taken.
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Many of you already know this but I haven’t seen it being mentioned yet.
The snow effect from Winter’s Presence is upside down around the Gorseval battle platform (it only happens there). It literally snows up.
I don’t know if this is working as intended, it might be related to that giant soul vortex above the platform or simply a bug. Video proof.
Thoughts?
It’s not a bug, peeps seem to like it here too and suggest trying out the fractal backpack and the bees, basically anything with particle effects.
enjoy!
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Speaking for myself, I certainly wouldn’t be offended, but I also probably wouldn’t respond. There are a few reasons for this:
I tend to play on my breaks at work, which means I go AFK often to talk to coworkers.
When I’m tagged up, I’m getting whispers constantly, so I can’t always keep up with them.
Even when not tagged, I frequently get contacted by people I don’t know for a variety of reasons.
If I’m playing at home, I usually have a specific goal in mind when I log on (lately it’s trying to finish the Triple Trouble achievements). So, if the thing you invite me to isn’t the thing I’m working on, I’ll probably politely decline.
I don’t say all this to discourage you from trying to play with GMs/Devs – far from it! I just want you to know that if you get ignored it probably has nothing to do with you and everything to do with us.
The ANet tag is actually a guild tag, so all we have to do to remove it is to rep another guild.
Whether I use my tag depends on both my distraction level and on what I’m doing in game. If I’m doing something with my non-ANet guild, I’ll rep them. If I’m just killing time in LA, I’ll sometimes rep ANet because I know players like seeing us out and about (and I don’t have to worry about accidentally standing in fire if I pause to return someone’s whisper). If I want to attract attention, I’ll rep ANet (for example, during Wintersday I’d pop on my commander & ANet tags and stand by a snowball pile to help people get their daily achievement).
Generally if I’m going on voicechat I don’t rep ANet there.
I am not a GM, but I’m not sure that people know that all staff members at ArenaNet can represent the Anet guild, therefore more people with the Anet flag are not GMs than are.
As far as invitations, I have no problem with getting them. If I’m in the middle of dying to a boss, or fall off a jumping puzzle, responses may be delayed.
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Wait, 2000 units for squad markers? This severely limits their usefulness. We should be able to put them anywhere in the map
Placing them requires line of sight to the spot as it has to intersect with the terrain, which would be very difficult if done from the map.
The location markers are visible on the map from anywhere within the map.
Thanks for the explanation. Is there any intention to rework the map markers as well? At first I thought this new iteration would be an update to this system, but their functionality seem completely apart from each other.
Yes, they are completely separate systems.
I don’t know if we intend to update the original markers or not.
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When I started with GW2 I had no idea what crafting is. I played mesmer and learned leatherworker (no idea why). Now, when I know what crafting is, I have learned tailoring a jewelry, but I still see leatherworker icon on my character select sreen, it is really irritating. Can I somehow unlearn leatherworker?
The description lists a combination of your active disciplines and ones you’ve gained experience in. Since we don’t offer a way to remove the experience gained, there is no way to unlist the discipline at this time.
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Changed some map bonus rewards to provide a more straightforward method of acquiring many types of cloth and leather crafting materials.
Does anyone have any details on this line? Because this sounds awesome.
Unfortunately, we pulled that change from this update but the patch note wasn’t removed. It just needs a bit more time for testing, and should be coming soon.
The plan is that the maps that currently give cloth and leather infrequently will instead give them as the primary reward- each time those maps currently give trophies, they’ll give cloth or leather instead.
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The lighting in the strawberry patch in Diessa is all sorts of screwed up. I know this is just a visual bug, but this is the prettiest spot in the game… and now it looks like this. http://imgur.com/ic6Wipv
This issue has been logged, we’re looking into it – thank you for the report!
The Launchpads for Shatterer display the tool tip (top left of the screen) when used (by pressing F). Almost every time.
Which is rather annoying in the middle of a fight to have a huge box with an animated arrow pop up on your screen.
I believe this is true for all of the new launch pads. If so, we’re aware of the issue and it should be fixed in an upcoming build.
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While we’re on the subject. Will there ever be a fix for unsoulbinding Mistward Armor? I have 5 pieces bound to my mesmer and 1 to my ele and it’s getting annoying losing that inventory space.
Hi there, This issue was fixed a few months back for people who have yet to obtain those items, but unfortunately to be honest with you there’s no way to “unbind” the pieces that you already have on your characters. I know this probably isn’t the answer you’d like to hear, but it’s a system limitation on our end so there’s nothing we can do. You do have the skins unlocked though, and those pieces can be salvaged using salvage kits if that helps you in any way.
Alternatively, you might have some luck with contacting Customer Support (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Support_ticket). If you email them and plainly state what happened, they may be able to help you on their end. Please note that I am not guaranteeing that they can help, and am only saying it might be a good idea if you’re dead-set on having those pieces on the other characters.
I hope this helps!
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There’s been a couple of Reddit threads discussing whether repeatedly creating a medium armor char in order to salvage the armor, delete and repeat, was an exploit. The OP made a support ticket and got a response saying it was an exploit, and posted that response.
Update from GMGus (me, saying it right now): I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that we’re not going to block anyone for this (honestly not even totally sure whether this is intended functionality or not). Blocking people for this would be really silly, one might even call it frivolous. We made the game this way, and if we don’t like how it works, we’ll change it, not block legitimate players. That said, I can think of a number of other much better (both quicker and more fun) ways to make money in Gw2 than clicking through the character select screen…
Hi Everyone, We’ve been aware of this issue for a little while but haven’t been able to track down the cause until recently. Unfortunately, we’re unable to get the fix integrated to the live game because it would have to go through some potentially risky channels to get there. At this point it’s a trade-off between the stability of the overall game and fixing this individual issue.
That being said, we’ve been working to address this issue so it shouldn’t be a problem for future festivals’ activities.
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We’re working on finding a fix to the disappearing account name/password issue.
As far as how long it takes us to reply to tickets, it really varies a lot depending on how much incoming volume we had. Last week we had our response time down to a few hours, but this week was a patch week. That means a lot more tickets, mainly from people who are having trouble logging in after being away from the game for a while.
Right now our average wait time for English tickets is just over two days, but I expect that will be going down quickly as the patch-related volume tapers off.
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It appears as though 1/6 of the branded mobs that spawn during the fight count towards the Branded Bane achievement, that single mob being Sunderers. Bombardiers, Lieutenants, Griffons, Ravagers, and Sparks seem to not count at all, as well as vets, champs, and elites, which also do not count towards the achievement.
Is it really meant to work like this or is it bugged?
Thanks for the report. We’re looking in to why this is happening. In the meantime, enjoy your merry slaughter of Sunderers (and whatever else happens to get in your way).
Looking at the other posts and doing some more testing, it does appear to function off last hits, which is incredibly annoying considering the sheer amount of people attending these events, not sure if this is intentional or not.
I suppose it was easier for me to down Sunderers than any other mob due to their low health, but the achievement just appears to be really inconsistent honestly.
Ah, interesting. I’ll pass this info along to the devs working on it. Thanks!
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You are a hero for doing this. Heck, you should probably get paid for being a communication specialist as this thread is bringing more post with developer words than the devs themselves have ever posted in the forums since their existence.
I would suggest this topic also brings the “livestream notes” that Dulfy usually posts on Reddit, I would count that as an “official” dev comment since it is basically a summary of what went on on the periodical streams that ANET does.
You are a hero for doing this. Heck, you should probably get paid for being a communication specialist as this thread is bringing more post with developer words than the devs themselves have ever posted in the forums since their existence.
I would suggest this topic also brings the “livestream notes” that Dulfy usually posts on Reddit, I would count that as an “official” dev comment since it is basically a summary of what went on on the periodical streams that ANET does.
On a (barely) related note, is there any news about allowing us to use the precursor quest items like the Mystic Chromatic Ooze after finishing the collection? Right now nothing happens when you double-click them, but somebody (/u/anet_mattp maybe?) told us a while ago that you would look into it.
I think these consumables are a nice and harmless way to remember what we’ve been through
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I still intend to get that working. Unfortunately, as it’s a fairly minor thing it keeps getting prioritized below more important stuff to get done.
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moves this from the ‘when there’s time’ pile to the ‘should be in the next release if I didn’t mess something up’ pile.
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This bug was not entirely fixed; the developers have identified the issue and we are currently testing the results. We’re expecting to have the fix out in an upcoming release. Thanks for your patience!
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So it looks like the league finally switched from “ending” to “ended” with the reset today, and I got a popup chest with my Copper Guild Challenger Reward in it. After accepting it though, nothing showed up in my inventory? Has anyone else had this issue? I’m a bit confused.
We’ve identified the cause of this issue, and expect to have the fix out in an upcoming release. All missing rewards will be replaced.
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If you can’t see anything wrong, take a good look at which one of silver or gold are completed. That’s right, this is one of the 5 mastery/achievement points that I can never get (drone race and bugs in branches both completely bugged). No matter how many times I repeat and open the daily chests the achievements don’t ding.
Sorry to thread-necro this but I’ve looked into this and identified the problem. Working on a fix for a build in the near future.
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Hey guys! So, I have been talking to the GMs about the fact that the howler doesn’t howl on tempests, however they just got back to me staying not enough people have commented on this for it to be an ‘issue’ (code for, we won’t fix it unless enough people complain) So I am seeking help from the gw2 community and anyone who owns a howler to test it on an ele! Comment below if you do or do not hear a howl and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this!
P.S The issue is only on tempests Ranger, war, and necro all seem to be fine Thank you! Xo
This was actually a bigger bug that caused all unique warhorn sounds to fail on Tempest, but the fix is already in and slated to go out soon.
There’s one thing that is often misunderstood, it’s that we’ll only get one update per quarter.
The quarterly updates are balance patches, there will be other CONTENT updates before the next balance patch, for instance the next League season, or the next raid wing (already announced to come before the next quarterly update).
Correct! Not only approx every 12 weeks will we do a big seasonal update. You’ll also see updates between seasonal updates.
Content like raids, pvp leagues, living world, festivals, and WvW tournaments are all things you’d find happening between seasonal updates as the year progresses. (this “winter” season we’ve got a festival, raid, and pvp league kick off planned before spring.)
Things like new fractals, new legendaries, WvW updates, new PvP maps, quality of life updates, etc. are all the type of stuff that’d come with our seasonal updates.
Hope that helps a bit!
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I destroyed the collection item “Ancient Svanir Relic” for nevermore IV. I later realized i need to take the item to a location. Grandmaster Hobbs does not sell it back though? Is there anyway I can get the item back? Am I unable to complete the collection now due to my screw up.
this was, in fact, not on Hobbs’ vendor. Good news though, in the next release Hobbs will sell this (and the other “Lay To Rest” items) if you accidentally delete them.
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(Snip) The event requires is defeating Champion Frainn, who can be found in Timberline Falls. Now here’s where the problem lies, the event that leads up to him is currently bugged midway through.
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Hey there, we’re aware of the issue and are investigating. Sorry for your troubles!
General Message: As always, please continue to report bugs via the official forums. We try to respond to reddit threads when able, but we have a much bigger presence in our own forums so things are more easily noticed and turn around a lot faster there.
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I was trying to access a Dragon’s Stand map with a character that hasn’t got the waypoints yet to join a guild member, as little time was left and my gear was all on that character.
First a monster spawned on top of me, out of sight, preventing me from teleporting. Next the map was full. Quite a few were used up, and this shouldn’t have ever been possible.
When your inventory is too full to open a bag or map/daily reward it doesn’t destroy the items when you click it. When you activate a self style hair/total makeover kit and don’t end up changing your appearance with it, they’re not destroyed. When you fail to salvage with a Black Lion Salvage Kit a charge isn’t used.
So why are these teleports getting used up when they physically cannot be used?
I only used more than one because I was operating under the assumption that it would not be used if it could not actually be used, like with all other black lion items.
I want the Teleport to Friends refunded, they were destroyed for nothing and there is no warning of any kind. It doesn’t fit in with how any other similar items work. They’re a very limited resource I got from black lion chests. That they’d be wasted because of a bug like this is completely unreasonable.
If I don’t get at refunded I would at least like them to add how it ACTUALLY works to the tooltip, or 1) block use during combat 2) stop them being consumed if the targeted map is full. So at least nobody else misses out. I can’t be the only one.
I’m actually afraid to use my remaining two in case they disappear for nothing like the others.
Generally for refunds it’s best to submit a ticket, but I went ahead and took care of this for you. Your replacement teleports should be in your mailbox.
Regarding the bug itself, I’ve reached out to some devs to figure out what the status on it is. Everyone’s gone home for the evening at this point, but I’ll update this thread when I have more info.
In the meantime, if anyone else has had this happen, please do contact us and we’ll hook you up with replacements.
Feel free to use WTFast and Pingzapper, however use of any proxy service comes at a risk. Be sure you secure your account with 2 factor auth before using any service that routs your connection (honestly it’s a good idea to do it anyway). We’ve worked with WTFast in the past to help eliminate issues, however the use of any proxy service is probably only to be used in cases of absolute necessity.
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So after I fell in love with this invisible equipment box on my main, I figured I’d craft them for all of my alts as well, only to later realise they are soulbound.
Is it just me or does this just seem like a huge oversight from ArenaNet? As it just doesnt make sense to get 400 Crafting on every single alt to make it.
Thanks for the report, we’ve got it in our system and are investigating!
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I think this would be something that would be nice to have in either unranked or ranked. Seriously, why is this not a thing? So for those unaware in sPVP when you have this enabled everyone is a human with a fairly distinct, easy to click model.
For clarity’s sake: Standard Enemy Models for people who aren’t aware. Permalink to dev response – which is unfortunately word-for-word right out of a post from Hugh nearly 2 years ago when ranked and unranked existed side-by-side and the feature was first unveiled.
It sounds as if ArenaNet has little to no intention of combating this issue which may not be surprising but is a bit disappointing. I agree that the lack of standard enemy models in unranked isn’t quite as annoying as some players make it out to be, but I still think its addition would be a net-positive for the integrity of unranked during the off-season.
As this functionality is intended for high-end, skilled players at the top tier of PvP, this option will work only in Custom Arenas that allow Tournament Commands (while Ranked queues are disabled during an off-season).
Also, Revenant standard models will be included in an upcoming release.
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The rift part on the third hit of the auto chain, precision strike, and unrelenting assault ignore the strength of your current weapon. You will do the same damage with these skills when you’re holding a white sword compared to holding an ascended if your power is the same.
Some quick testing is telling me that these skills are using the default “unequipped” strength of 690, causing them to do 69% of the tooltip-suggested damage in PvE, and 75% in PvP.
Edit: Video proof. Notice how the auto is affected when I swap the swords, but the 2 isn’t.
Hey all, we’re aware of the issue and are looking into it. Thank you for all the reports!
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So, turns out the reason this hasn’t been addressed yet is that there are some serious technical limitations. All off the potential solutions we’ve found so far would be exploitable, so we haven’t been able to implement them. The conversation is ongoing, though, so I’ll keep you posted on what ends up happening (even if it’s just a text change to let people know the item might fail).
Will ANet be refunding all of the people who contact support, or will there be some sort of time limit?
There’s no hard and fast time limit, but we need to be able to verify the loss. If you can give us the exact date and time, it doesn’t matter if it’s a day later or 6 months, we can do the refund. Of course, most people aren’t going to remember if they wait too long, so putting in a ticket as soon as it happens is the best plan.
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RMurch is right that shout warrior is good for support. Zerker gear is good but personally I like to mix in a bit of knights and marauders so I have a bit more sustain. If you like to roam, a GS/hammer build is always fun. GS gives you mobility and high damage off of your hammer stuns. And you can always CC any stragglers while your zerg takes them out. Haven’t tried it much with the new meta but i’m sure it does fine.
I usually run this build but with bulls charge instead of beserker stance, though it’s probably not the best build. Just do what feels fun :P
So, I would like to let you all know that we’ve been looking a lot at Dune Soarer. With the first reports I thought it may have been bugged, or on a big variable spawn time, but it wasn’t, it was just a very long respawn (cough 6 hours cough). I can’t just change the respawn time on it as it is tied to a lot of other content that I would uncomfortable risking breaking. What we are doing, is using this as an example for “best practices” for future tie-ins, and won’t be using it, or events like it for legendary collectibles in the future. Additionally, we’ve been working on figuring out some alternate sources for this particular collectible. The issue with that is that the theme of the item is very specifically tied to the Dune Soarer, so it may require a re-write of the item.
Apologies for the quick “everything’s fine” response. I just got excited that it wasn’t a bugged event when I looked into it.
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Edit: While I’m here…a report in-game is good, a report in-game AND an email to exploits@arena.net is even better!
Just remember some key things that really help with an investigation:
What Time and Date was it? Easiest way to do this is to play with Server time on your minimap and take a screenshot when you make a report (don’t forget to send us that screenshot too!)
Right click – Report Player for Botting – We can find your report(s) and investigate them later if the first one doesn’t get the job done
Your Character or Display Name – Just because you are emailing us doesn’t mean that we can automatically match your account (especially if you email us from an address that doesn’t have a Guild Wars account on it)
Be Descriptive! – Names of locations, what you saw, what was happening (even if you didn’t see it), what borderlands? What matchup? More information the better!
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With that option, is there any side effect that may or may not occur? Seems like a simple process, but there seems to be some thing that will either bug or break.
Just to clarify:
If you are in a pre-made group with a party member who abandons the match, and your group loses the match, then everyone in your pre-made group will lose a pip. That one person who abandons will not save your other pre-made teammates from losing a pip.
If you are not in a pre-made group, and one of your random team members abandons, then you will not lose a pip.
This is the exact same way that things functioned in Season 1. Nothing is changing here for Season 2.
What if, on the map before the match starts, everyone leaves the party (which would still make them stay in the team obviously)? In that case will everyone count as soloque, or still as a premade because they were together when they got the qpop?
I could see this becoming a tactic – people disbanding and reforming after each match, taking turns when it comes to logging off.
If you queue up for a match as part of a party, and you or a teammate leave that party at any time during a match, you do not suddenly become a solo player. As such, leaving your party in the hopes of abandoning the match as a solo player to prevent your teammates from losing a pip is not possible.
Just wanted to quickly pop in over lunch break and pass along while there are things we love about the HoT open world map experience; there are also things we felt either weren’t successful, or didn’t align with the over-all vision for Gw2.
We said this a week or two ago, but it’s always good to reinforce that cleaning up those areas is one of the major focuses for our spring seasonal update in April. Many of the things folks call out in this thread as areas we can improve are the kind of things we’re hoping to resolve. We’ll discuss more once we’re got a better idea of what will make it in, but I just wanted to quickly point out we’re also aware and working towards some resolutions.
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