Guild Wars 2

Everytime I get downed and want to write something to my team, this KITTENTHEKITTENKITTY KIT screen pops up.

So you are typing something like: h e y m a n

And right when you get downed you open the: h(ero panel) y(contacts panel) m(frikin map) n(instructions chart)

And you have to close the map, and all these other panels and at the point where you’re set to continue writing its completely useless because you’ve respawned.

So right now I rage quitted GW2 because of this (again), I don’t blame anyone but myself for that. But seriously, am I the only one finding this so KITTTTTTTENING kitten kitten kitty irritating?

Screenshot as proof

It’s not the only case. The other case is when you enter into an Overflow. The “You’re in an overflow” pops up after 5-8 seconds, which causes this exact same type of frustration by causing hero panels etc. to pop up as you’re typing. If you’re fixing this one with PvP, can you also fix that one with overflow messages? Thanks Evan.

while u are at it can u fix shadow step with knockdown pls? it doesnt break stun till u finish the hole knockdown animation ty

Such an big issue we have here, thank you for fixing this in 15 minutes.

Can you please fix the following while you are at it:

Weapon Abilities
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Greatsword:
“Illusionary Wave” – Cone emanates in the direction the character body is facing, not the direction the head/camera is facing.
Staff:
“Chaos Storm” – Daze from this ability will not apply vulnerability in combination with the Dazzling trait or Stun from Confounding Suggestions..
Scepter:
“Ether Clone” (Scepter 1) is not causing confusion as the tooltip says it will.
Sword (Main Hand):
None Reported
Sword (Off-Hand):
“Counter Blade” – Daze from this ability will not apply vulnerability in combination with the Dazzling trait or Stun from Confounding Suggestions.
Torch:
“The Prestige” – Will often only grant a fraction of a second of stealth or none at all. See 00:15 here: http://youtu.be/CDAk8bGMTZ8
“Phantasmal Mage” – Does not benefit from Master of Misdirection or Illusionary Elasticity.
Focus:
“Temporal Curtain” – This was changed so that it could not stack with itself by players running back and forth through the wall. However it no longer stacks with any Swiftness Boon in duration like the boon itself suggests it should. Spell does not reflect arcing attacks or attacks from a different z-axis position.
“Phantasmal Warden” – Not running to melee range of the target between attacks.
Pistol:
“Phantasmal Duelist” – Runs up to 600 range even though it has a 1200+ range.
Trident:
“Illusions of Drowning” – Causes the target to reflect friendly ranged attacks.
“Siren’s Call” – Clones are causing confusion on hit and not boons on allies.
Spear:
None Reported
Class Abilities
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Healing:
None Reported
Utility:
“Signet of Illusions” illusions initially summon with normal health.
“Veil” is acting as an Ethereal field rather than a Light field for combos.
“Portal Exeunt” lasts only 10 second instead of the 20 reported in the tooltip.
“Null Field” is still not lasting its intended duration and most certainly is not “ripping ALL boons from foes” as indicated on tooltip. Post Patch it doesn’t even remove all conditions on the caster. It may remove 3 or so and then stops working.
“Blink” – Will often teleport you and then instantly teleport you back from where you started.
“Veil” – Only stealthing you for 2 seconds instead of the 4 listed on the tooltip.
Elite:
“Mass Invisibility” – Far too often this ability fails to make me invisible. See 1:58 here: http://youtu.be/CDAk8bGMTZ8
Downed:
None Reported
Shatter:
None Reported
Traits
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Domination:
“Cleansing Conflagration” removes conditions at the end of the channel of “The Prestige” rather than at activation.
Dueling:
“Deceptive Evasion” – Not producing a clone while morphed or while out of combat even when enemy is in range and targeted.
“Confusing Combatants” is not proccing on Phantasm death.
“Deceptive Evasion” clones target nearest enemy instead of casters target.
“Sharper Image” – Bleeding caused by this trait causes zero damage when the illusion dies.
Chaos:
“Chaotic Dampening” – There is a bug that causes the bleed duration of “Winds of Chaos” to get reduced by 20% from original 7s down to 5s.
Inspiration:
“Temporal Enchanter” is either bugged or the tooltips are incorrect for Glamours. With Temporal Enchanter active the field lasts as long as the tooltips say by default and without it they end faster then what the tooltips say by default.
Illusions:
“Masterful Reflection” does not proc off of the trait “Blurred Inscriptions”.
“Master of Misdirection” does not affect Confusion from Confusing Combatants or Illusion-inflicted Confusion, like from iMage.
“Illusionary Elasticity” does not provide an additional bounce to clone attacks that bounce … such as iMage.
General Bugs
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Clone images don’t show off-hand weapons even when you do have one equip on the character that created it.
Ethereal Combo – proccing the original version of Chaos Armor instead of the one the Mesmer class released with.
Invisibility – NOT breaking channel effects that require a target. (A bump of dirt can cause my attack to miss, but going invisible doesn’t)
Distortion – Damage and various CC will often still occur during Distortion.
Cone attacks will go off in the direction you were facing when you activated the ability rather than the direction you are facing when the ability finally fires.

Evan Lesh.3295:

That is pretty annoying. It’s caused by the death breakdown dialog popping up. Usually you want dialogs to clear key focus. For instance, pressing the hero dialog button. This is a special case (maybe the only case) where a titled dialog pops up without player input. I’m fixing it now.

Thank you! This is (was?) a constant pain in the neck.

while we’re at reporting serious pvp issues which are currently breaking this game can you please adjust the mail spam filter so i can send more than 2 sets of carrots at a time (after sending 2 mails of 5 carrots each i cannot send mails anymore)

Lol Thanks for the quick fix/reply

This was about my second thread about this matter. Glad its being looked at.

@Pharexys: LOL

I’ve had this problem since launch.

I remember having it in GW1.

No good deed goes unpunished. :P

Menzies The Heretic.3415:

KITTENTHEKITTENKITTY KIT

This is exactly what I feel about all these pop-ups!

Thanks for taking care of it, Evan.

you can mitigate this damage by remapping all of the keys to some not text things like ctrl-* or f5+

but yes the chat interface is very poor. In any multiplayer setup where a person can not talk and play at the same time… there is a problem in design.

one of the things i want to see is a voice to text option that would allow me to communicate while playing the game in PUG setups.

the advantage given to voice chatters is huge and even then people wont use built in voice chat much.
i understand the logic in not incorporating it but a voice to text option would get more use IMHO.

GW2 was originally supposed to have integration with Xfire. It was there in the early BWE, but they took it out due to a few problems (probably both with Xfire and the API integration).

Yup this happened to me whenever I’m down or if I’m typing a GG message as the final score comes up. Next thing I know im closing like 10 different UI windows.

voice to text is built into windows. it just doesnt work as is. It does seem to recognize the chat box as text input window.
so it works… you just has to say each letter and just like typing it locks out the game.
I hate that effect.
chat should not lock out the controls.

+1 for thread title, +1 for bug fix

/confetti for all

Awesome! It will be great to not have to worry about this any more.

In other news, seeing people actually write out “kitten” instead of cursing is absolutely hilarious.

Also in GW2 a dialog can overlap with another dialog with darker background, if you manage to increase dialogs the screen has multiple dialogs at same time and the background gets black.

Try to go any WvW map while the WvW matchs just ended and gives you error in a dialog, Be close to any WvW portal and spam F (default). The dialogs will countinue to overlap infinitely

Evan Lesh.3295:

Rising Dusk.2408:

It’s not the only case. The other case is when you enter into an Overflow. The “You’re in an overflow” pops up after 5-8 seconds, which causes this exact same type of frustration by causing hero panels etc. to pop up as you’re typing. If you’re fixing this one with PvP, can you also fix that one with overflow messages? Thanks Evan.

Yup

You are awesome! \o/

All these popups and dialog choice pickup panels should be like the Fractal’s:
- Not too big.
- Do not affect key input or stop you from freely moving.
- Movable on the screen so you can put them out of the way if you are busy with something else, like fighting enemies.
- Do not close the chat when they appear while you write.

This includes, but it’s not limited to:
- Warning messages like those you get when you try to join a full party or you are informed about an overflow.
- The queue panel you see to leave an overflow or join a WvW map.
- The dialog you see to pick one of the dungeon path choices.
- Being downed.
- The popup panel you get when defeated in PvP.

Evan Lesh.3295:

That is pretty annoying. It’s caused by the death breakdown dialog popping up. Usually you want dialogs to clear key focus. For instance, pressing the hero dialog button. This is a special case (maybe the only case) where a titled dialog pops up without player input. I’m fixing it now.

Lol there are so many more meaningful threads that players would like to hear about and you guys respond to this one.. Hell I just wrote one a few days ago logging a few of the things that people dont like and are limiting the games potentia. You guys buff mesmers and thiefs last patch when no one asked for any of that when there were more pressing buffs to other classes and changes that could of happened. Who ever is calling the shots over there should think about whats important or they will cost this game more…