Guild Wars 2

And NOW you know what we were talking about.

It’s time to guild up and get out there to take out those nasty Mordrem. I mean, the nerve of them, making an attack on our beloved fellow Tyrians and their homes?

The event will take place from Thursday morning, 9:00 AM Pacific time through Monday morning at the same hour.

Join your guildies! Join your fellow players! Join the devs! Let’s give the Mordrem insurgents a taste of our mettle!

Pro debugging tips shadow, couldn’t have said it better myself!

None of this sounds like TP-specific issues and seems more indicative of general computer slowness/difficulty running GW2. Due to how the BLTC dialog works it’s more susceptible to computer resource starvation than other game UI, so it’ll often be the first place you notice slowdown.

Contact support if you really lost gold/items, but in general as others have said it’ll be waiting for you in the delivery box.

As a temporary workaround try going to https://account.arena.net and logging out first, then logging in again via the forums.

Archomeda.6472:

Hey there, I’m just here to let you know the authenticated APIs are not working properly since the new build came out:

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Edit: Seems to be working again

Hotfixes tend to break the APIs for a bit, we’re working on it

The instance field in the mumble link data might contain a unique id for the instance; I honestly can’t remember anymore. Failing all else, the serverAddress field contains the IP.

There aren’t technically fixed IP ranges for different maps, but the AFAIK the load balancer probably prefers to create new instances of a map on a server that already has other instances of the map loaded. That’s more-or-less a blind guess though, I haven’t really looked into how it works.

They’re for:

• /v2/pvp/games
• /v2/pvp/stats
• /v2/characters/specializations

Looking into making them public later today.

We’re aware of and investigating the return of an old issue with siege bundles disappearing while being carried. Thanks for the details provided on where and how this has been encountered. Especially your thoroughness with providing a video.

We’re aware of and investigating the return of an old issue with siege bundles disappearing while being carried. Thanks for the details provided on where and how this has been encountered.

Thank you for the reports! We’re currently investigating this issue and hope to get a fix out as soon as possible.

You said in your ticket that you purchased HoT from Gamers-Outlet.net

This isn’t actually a official retailer – You purchased a fraudulent key. Unfortunately it looks like you are going to have to work this out with Customer Support.

From this thread:

API Terms:

These API’s are wholly owned by ArenaNet, LLC (“ArenaNet”). Any use of the API’s must comply with the Website Terms of Use and Content Terms of Use, however you may use the API’s to make commercial products so long as they are otherwise compliant and do not compete with ArenaNet. ArenaNet may revoke your right to use the API’s at any time. In addition, ArenaNet may create and/or amend any terms or conditions applicable to the API’s or their use at any time and from time to time. You understand and agree that ArenaNet is in the process of developing a full license agreement for these API’s and ArenaNet will publish it when it is complete. Your continued use of the API’s constitutes acceptance of the full license agreement and any related terms or conditions when they are posted.

(EDIT: I actually have no idea what the status is of the “full license agreement”)

This issue should be fixed now, fyi.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

There are a lot of terrific videos here and it pains me to rain on the parade of praise, by asking you guys to PLEASE please please include a link from your youtube recruitment video (and this thread) to your guild’s website (and if you don’t have one, please say so).

Lots of folks are looking for new guilds in preparation for HoT — make it easy for them to learn more and connect with your recruiters.

Thanks!

Such a great idea, IWN! Thanks for sharing that.

I’d also include a link to the video in the guild recruitment thread in this very forum.

Nabrok.9023:

I’m seeing the same for most people trying to use my app. My own key works, but nobody elses is.

Once you log in your character blob will be out-dated and you’ll start getting the error.

Notified the appropriate parties, they’re on it ;__;

EDIT: Should be working again.

Legendary Dwarf Stance (Jalis) is planned to be the starting legend.

Previously, weapon-swapping, using a non-combat transform, or getting another bundle item would drop your in-hand siege blueprint bundle to the ground. Now, it will instead be returned to your inventory.*

*Exception! Guild siege golem blueprints are still lost instead of being returned to inventory or dropped on the ground. Whether by pack-up skill ‘2’ or any other means. This behavior specific to guild siege golems hasn’t changed. Feedback on this is welcome.

Reasons for making this change:

1. Play-for-free accounts otherwise had a means to skirt our restrictions on sending wealth to other accounts by buying siege, dropping it on the ground, and having other accounts collect it and sell it. Restrictions on outgoing wealth from play-for-free accounts helps make the accounts less appealing as gold seller/bot accounts, so we can’t have holes like this around.
2. That same exploit would work with Beta Weekend Event accounts. Beta characters/banks would be copied and forked from the normal data, siege blueprints could be dropped, then collected by someone else; essentially duplicating the items. This was previously blocked by temporarily kill-switching the ability to pack up siege blueprints.
3. Dropping siege on the ground when you suddenly, reflexively do something like trying to swap weapons felt very clumsy.
4. The ability to drop siege bundles on the ground was originally added before siege could be put on the trading post or mailed between players. Since better means now exist to transfer siege between players, this old functionality isn’t as important.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug in which players incorrectly received messages about guild-bank economy restrictions when they didn’t have access to the guild bank.
• WvW siege blueprints now return to your inventory anytime they would previously have been dropped on the ground, such as when swapping weapons, utilizing a noncombat transform, or acquiring another bundle.
• The Twisted Watchwork Portal Device now works correctly with free accounts.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the economy restriction dialog from displaying correctly.
• Fixed an issue that caused dodging to break the player out of daze.

It’s coming with the new guild APIs which are still in a bit of flux due to some backend changes w.r.t how guilds work. No ETA.

Farming Flats.5370:

noticed something weird yesterday …

My personal story journal entry stop at ‘’ Forming the Pact ’’

I finished my personal story a day or two after the Giant airship bug was fixed , i completed Victory or death solo with my Mesmer .. Killed Zaithan and received the rewards and all …. but no #8 ‘’ Victory or death ’’ in my journal entry

before entering Arah .. i remember the green star on cursed shore map , and ‘’ victory or death ’’ in the top right corner of my screen… looks like my journal didn’t updated.

This is a known issue with the Story Journal that’s being tracked in a different thread. Feel free to post your info here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Personal-Story-Skipped-every-mission-in-Orr/first

Thanks!

Killyox.3950:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

NapTooN.6283:

Think of the Legends as Utility Categories like with the others Professions.

Shiro is Traps, Jalis is Survival, Ventari is Shouts. if you only spent a few points into Shiro, you only get 1 or 2 Skills in the Legend. If you want the whole legend, you have to spent the points for every skill like with the other Professions.

Basically this explains it pretty well.

So basically all or nothing because you can’t have cross legend skills and the more you put in the more expensive skills are meaning you will unlock less skills than another class.

You will unlock everything besides elite spec by level 80, just like any other profession. The order you choose to unlock them is up to you. You can mix two legends early on to be able to equip two legends and use a few skills of each on each. Such as unlocking the heal and first utility skill on two legends, then switching back and forth between those two legends.

Editing for clarity:

This behavior is working as intended. This could of course change in the future, but for now this is not classified as a bug.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

This mission, like others and even generally throughout the game, bugs me with the fact that NPCs won’t help you when they really should. They’re supposed to be your comrades, but they stand there looking stupid. It would be less frustrating if you were alone. In other times, I found myself defeated on the ground with some NPC standing nearby picking his nose. “I’m right here! Res me!! I did it for you!!!”
I can only assume the NPCs are mostly jerks who revel in my anguish.

The NPCs on the airship stay in the kittenpit (EDIT for kitten censor: control room where people steer the airship) during the first phase. They’ll help you if any creatures follow you inside, but they won’t venture on to the deck. This was by design due to some pretty specific technical conditions that are unique to this particular story step.

I wanted to write a note to let you know we’re reviewing these today to make a final selection.

• Please watch your PMs to see if I’ve reached out to you for the high-resolution file.
• Please follow the instructions I’ve sent, because we’re getting down to the wire on collecting and preparing these for the show!

By the way, there are a LOT of very fine videos here, and I deeply regret that we will be unable to use some of the best. However, video creators who use copyright music take a certain amount of risk unless they’ve received direct permission from the owner of the copyright (such as the artist or the composer). And quite honestly, getting that permission is nearly impossible.

I imagine the video is just fine on YouTube or other such places. However, we simply cannot use a video that has someone else’s copyright art, music, or sounds. We’re sorry for this limitation, but we naturally need to follow both the spirit and the letter of the law.

Again:

If you submitted a video for consideration, please watch your PMs and be prepared to send us a high-resolution video file right away.

Many thanks for all who participated. Even if not selected, your efforts were not in vain, as many people had the pleasure of viewing your artistry here in the forums.

It’s because they look just like normal characters, except they’ve got a flag set that we’re not currently extracting from the character blobs. I’ve been meaning to fix that but keep forgetting.

Not currently possible. Maybe in the future.

This forum is for discussion of the JSON-REST API (e.g., api.guildwars2.com). I don’t know anything about how the game client works so I can’t really comment on that stuff :/

Yeah, the recipe unlocks will probably land late this month or early next month. All of the other requested features already exist

Whew, some of that stuff was pretty outdated. I pulled out most of the old content as a start.

Like I said before, if anyone reading this has an idea of some helpful information for our newer players, let me know and I’ll add it in.

T raw.4658:

Josh Davis.6015:

As a note, we’re aware of the odd interaction between elementalist downstate and Vampirism runes and are tracking a fix for an upcoming build.

What about the Overpowered interaction of stack 4 eles?

I believe 4 class stacking is against ESL rules. As for the elementalist itself, we’re looking into it.

So, I can’t go into much detail on things quite yet, but I just wanted to reassure you folks that we’re actively discussing a number of issues that are affecting balance in PvP – including, but not limited to elementalist sustain/damage. Per the usual, we’ll be talking to you folks about the changes once we’ve finalized them.

Sorry I haven’t been that active on the forums lately – we’ve been pretty busy around the office.

“Thanks, Grouch. You’re the worst!”

Edit: Also, just because this is an elementalist thread doesn’t mean we’re only looking at elementalist, and it also doesn’t mean we’re only looking at doing nerfs.

As a note, we’re aware of the odd interaction between elementalist downstate and Vampirism runes and are tracking a fix for an upcoming build.

Thanks for the reminder, Thiefz. I’ll add updating that guide to my to-do list. In the mean time I’m open to suggestions for things to elaborate on/update.

queicherius.2563:

That is good news. Right now it’s a bit strange grabbing the propper items for skins (trying to parse names as well and what not).

Hah yeah I was just looking at the wardrobe section and wondering where you were getting the skin unlock data from. Figured you might have hand-curated all the data until I read the reddit thread.

Soon.

(EDIT: actually maybe not soon. I don’t know what the release schedule looks like nor which release the change will make it into).

Hey, just a reminder for everybody in here. As this is the English language forum, all guild recruitment posts must, at least, contain an English translation of the recruitment post in addition to the native language post. These translations don’t have to be perfect (a google translation would be acceptable), but they must be present within the post. Thanks for your cooperation.

Sorry, but those shirts were never offered to the public because they were meant for players to be able to easily identify our staff at trade shows, and since we’ve changed our show shirts for Heart of Thorns, it’s very unlikely that more will be printed.

Additionally, any of the shirts that did make their way to the public were mostly signed by our staff here and given to individuals from various giveaways. At this time, we don’t have plans to make more of these shirts/make them available to the public.

Even if you don’t consider the phantasm, the chronomancer’s shield 5 skill alone has higher damage output than the shield skills of any other profession. In general shields aren’t intended to be high DPS weapons. If the utility of the skills is lacking, that’s an area that can be tuned, but we don’t have any plans to really increase the damage that much.

NapTooN.6283:

Think of the Legends as Utility Categories like with the others Professions.

Shiro is Traps, Jalis is Survival, Ventari is Shouts. if you only spent a few points into Shiro, you only get 1 or 2 Skills in the Legend. If you want the whole legend, you have to spent the points for every skill like with the other Professions.

Basically this explains it pretty well.

Just a reminder: Great guilds come in all sizes, so view the number of members as just one of many points to consider. It’s likely not going to be the primary thing you’ll want to consider when you think about reaching out to a guild or two to discuss the possibility of joining them.

I play everything, but I’ll definitely be focusing on Revenant for HoT launch.

AikijinX.6258:

Karl McLain.5604:

Once Pulmonary is on your target, it will ignore blind, evade, block, even range. The ways to really not take the hit will be through invulnerability, damage inversion (ala Defiant Stance), or damage reduction (protection, Endure Pain).
You could technically land a Pulmonary and if you’re quick enough, activate Basilisk Venom for an unblockable/evadeable stun when it pops… Or use your dodge with Evasive Empowerment to increase the damage.

So headshot will be pretty overpowered with this trait huh?

As always, things are open to change. If this playstyle is too strong, we’ll have to adjust it. There’s a possibility that it shouldn’t stack intensity, or maybe its damage is too high, or a variety of other ways that it could be adjusted. We want it to have strong play and also feel rewarding, while not being the ‘only’ thing that you seek to do in order to deal damage. We’re looking forward to seeing how it works for you during the beta weekend.

This is now in the release pipeline somewhere. Transmutations will have a details.skins array which contains a list of skin ids that the consumable unlocks (since some consumables unlock multiple skins — like the Wintersday Earmuffs).

Once Pulmonary is on your target, it will ignore blind, evade, block, even range. The ways to really not take the hit will be through invulnerability, damage inversion (ala Defiant Stance), or damage reduction (protection, Endure Pain).
You could technically land a Pulmonary and if you’re quick enough, activate Basilisk Venom for an unblockable/evadeable stun when it pops… Or use your dodge with Evasive Empowerment to increase the damage.

Tracking issue on github.

Maybe, not sure if those are currently tracked anywhere. Will have to look into what events the game servers are currently generating and see if I can keep track of their counts per matchup.

Trying to answer questions within this thread (when possible)… Per the question thread – Yes, it does stack. If you have Impacting Disruption equipped and interrupt a foe with Palm Strike, you’ll apply two strikes of Pulmonary Impact to the target.

Pulmonary Impact currently does stack in intensity. If your palm strike interrupts, you get a double-activation of Pulmonary.

We have a new initiative to encourage guilds to expand their recruitment to include new players and others seeking a great group experience. There’s… something coming (which you’ll learn about tomorrow) that makes “guilding up” a particularly great idea right now. Find our post in the “Looking for” sub-forum here to join the recruitment drive!

New Players: There are a lot of benefits in belonging to a guild, including getting help with events and even getting help through modest guild-related leveling boosts. Check out that thread to find the right guild for you!

P.S. Please keep in mind that the size of a guild should be only part of your consideration about which guild you choose to join. Whether 5 members, or 500, you should find the guild that is exactly right for you!

As you are aware, we have a lot of new players joining Guild Wars 2 these days. But you may not know is that in addition to preparing our presentation about raids and our Play for Free initiative, and even while working towards the October 23rd release date of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, the dev team also has been working on a game event!

We’ll have more information for you about the event later this week. For now, let’s just say that there’s never been a better time to be in a guild!

Guilds leaders: Let’s use this thread as an official “guild recruitment thread” and we’ll link it from an upcoming blog post. The thread is intended for you to give some basic info on your guild, such as:

• Your guild name and tag
• Your guild’s preferred gameplay choices: Are you PvE or PvP all the way? Do you have a focus on WvW? Are most of you fractal focused? Or are you a “do it all” sort of guild?” Describe that in your post.
• Your home world and, if you wish, your guild’s preferred language
• Times you are particularly active, such as guild events, meetings, new character runs, PvP practices, etc.
• Guild leader in-game contact info or a link to your guild’s website or forums
• Other info you’d like to include

Players: Check out this thread to find the right guild for you. There are many benefits to being in a guild, and you can choose your level of activity based on each guild’s areas of focus.

We strongly believe that guilds play an essential role in Guild Wars 2. They’ve done so since the day we launched the game. As we prepare for major releases like Heart of Thorns and for the upcoming game event, please take advantage of this chance to let players get to know your guild! And players, join up and gain the many benefits of being in a guild!

(Note: It’s perfectly acceptable to continue to post individual threads about your guild in this forum. We’re asking guild leaders to make a recruitment post in this thread so we can link it from the blog post.)

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/93290408-Problems-Downloading-or-Patching

I would suggest reading this
Just adding -assetsrv does not do anything.