Guild Wars 2

I was actually looking at this recently — the empty string should be fixed in the next patch. There was a missing serialization for the agony enumeration value.

As for the array — it was probably just in case? The data is structured to theoretically support it if it turned out to be something we wanted to do. There’s a lot of cases like this, actually.

AFAIK, not currently. I should dig up that flag and add it to /v2/items.

Menadena, Stephane starts the YouTube uploading and rendering process literally the minute the show ends, so the answer is “as soon as is humanly possible” because he’s awesome like that. It’s just that with a long show like that there’s a lot of time where we can’t do anything but wait while YouTube does its thing for hours.

It’s usually not ready for us to put the finishing touches on it until well after our workday ends, so Stephane does that and gets it out the door from home on Saturday mornings.

Donari, that’s exactly it: People with Twitch access who won’t be able to play until tonight or this weekend for whatever reason. My personal suggestion? Do whatever is the most fun for you. Or use dual monitors if you’ve got ‘em. I know that I’m going to be running for my desktop as soon as humanly possible when I get home from work tonight.

Hi all,
Below you can find a list of changes that have been implemented since the last Stronghold Beta. We’re especially interested in feedback on the new Mist Champion and the new overtime mechanic. Check out Stronghold during this weekend’s “Revenant and Stronghold Beta” and let us know what you think!

-Hugh and the PvP team

• Supply
  • The way that players gather supply at the depot in the center of the map has changed.
  • Each supply pile only has a maximum of 2 supply in it at any given time.
  • Supply piles will replenish their stores after 15 seconds.
  • NOTE: There is a known issue where if player A finishes a channel while player B finishes channeling, it will cancel player B’s channel and not give them supply.

• Stronghold trebuchet changes
  • Trebuchets will now do increased damage to Door Breakers and Archers
  • Trebuchets shots will now remove up to 25 stacks of stability from any targets they hit prior to knocking them down.

• NPC/Champion Changes
  • Mist Champions
    • The Mist Champion system is now available in the PvP Build Menu.
    • More information on the Mist Champion system can be found in our recent blog, found here.
  • Archers
    • Archers prioritize guards
    • Archers also do increased damage to guards
    • Archers move faster
  • Guards
    • Guards prioritize Door Breakers
  • Door Breakers
    • Door Breakers prioritize doors

• “Behind Enemy Lines”
  • Enemies inside your stronghold now have a buff on them “Behind Enemy Lines”
  • Behind Enemy Lines – Dying while in the enemy stronghold will cause you to drop 2 supply even if you don’t currently have supply

• Overtime
  • If a game goes to time (0:00) and a lord is engaged, the game will not end. It will continue on until one of the following conditions has been met:
    • A lord is stomped
    • Both lords are out of combat
    • Overtime lasts longer than 6 (-6:00) minutes

Just made a server-side change that should unblock this quest for you. Please let me know if you are still blocked on this.

-Bill

Thanks for the report! We’ll get this issue logged for our Environment Artist.

We’re sorry to hear you had a bad experience. You are automatically leveled up to 80, and the level up rewards that appear are just a byproduct of this- you do not actually have to open each chest.

Opeth The Great.9251:

Should be a way to “opt in” the newsletters i guess :/

Hi Opeth,

I hope you saw Josh’s post about streaming client getting you in quicker. To answer your question, you can Opt-In here: https://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en/newsletter

Thanks!

Creativewild.6319:

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’re excited to let you know that ArenaNet will be at gamescom in Cologne, Germany, from August 5 through 9. We will be showing off Guild Wars: Heart of Thorns at the Twitch booth in Hall 9. A lot has changed since we were at the show last year. Stop on by, meet members of the Guild Wars 2 team, and get some yourself some hands-on with HoT!

I positively love gamescom, and I’m super excited to be going to this amazing show. If you’re going, too, post here so I can watch for you at the show!

Hi Gaile, hope to see you again after EGX … a question. Are we allowed to enter on the 5th? I believe we can only enter on the 5th if allowed by the exhibitor (anet ins this case) …

I am really look forward to it

Note: you may remember me as the guy with almost 8000 hours split into two accounts

That’s a question that I cannot answer, I’m sorry to say. From what I recall, entry is determined by the folks at the door or the gates — not by the exhibitors. ArenaNet doesn’t have the means to invite people into the venue in advance of the posted hours, but you’re welcome to inquire of the gamescom organizers on what their requirements would be. If you don’t get in that day, stop on by when you get a chance!

Orodromeus.1265:

Woohoo! Great news! The tournament last year was very fun as well!

My girlfriend and I will be there as always! Looking forward to seeing the ArenaNet team again and possibly meeting Gail Gray the legend in person

Also very curious as to what content of HoT will be showed!

You bring back such a wonderful memory, and probably one of the reasons I’m so fond of gamecom. Our first tournament was at gamescom in 2006. I will never forget how European Guild Wars players filled our space. And the space behind it. And the space behind the space behind our space. And how they cheered, and roared, and supported the tournament players. It was glorious!

Here’s to a repeat of that magical moment in 2015, in Cologne! <3

Devata.6589:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I positively love gamescom, and I’m super excited to be going to this amazing show. If you’re going, too, post here so I can watch for you at the show!

How are you going to do that? You know, irl we don’t have a name-tag above our head.

Also plans for selling any goodies.. you know.. like a Ultra Super Special Edition of HoT? Only sold at these meetings.

Anyway, I see you there.. as you likely do have a name-tag.

Wha… you mean I can’t mouse over you IRL and see your name? Dang, all my good plans must be rethought! I hope to see you and somehow magically know, "Oh, that’s Devata from the forums!

VodCom.6924:

I’ll be going to the show on behalf of a French community guild (Le Bus Magïque [LBM]).
Looking forward to see you there.

hoewhoew.4619:

I’ll be going on Thursday, with my brother. Can’t wait to see you all there!

aRestless.6213:

I’ll be there the whole week! Looking forward to meeting you guys!

Lisska.9106:

I’ll be there on 5th! See you soon

BuddhaKeks.4857:

Me too. See you then! ; )

Orpheal.8263:

As someone living in Cologne, I’ll be there naturally, this year I have ordered quickly enough my tickets.

That’s great! I really look forward to meeting you!

Yes, Linfang, thank you for posting this! We’ll have a forum post about the expanded and updated FAQ tomorrow (because we want to present in all languages) but it’s nice you caught this.

Opeth The Great.9251:

Should be a way to “opt in” the newsletters i guess :/

Dont have fast enough internet to download the whole thing in a few hours, so I guess im stuck to watching streams then.

But thanks anyway Josh Davis

It uses the new streaming client, so you don’t actually need the full download. Only about 5-6 gigs, I believe.

Opeth The Great.9251:

I was invited through Shin’s stream but i havent gotten any notifications :S
How do i get in`? !help

If you opt out of our newsletter you probably didn’t get an email. Try logging into your account management page and seeing if the client is available for download there.

We’re on! Go ahead and start logging into the client.

Thanks for waiting!

Hi,

To answer Nevaahe’s questions: The test is not public. See this blog post for information.

The forum is a public forum and forum members are welcome to post here, whether they are members of the test or not.

I’ll have an update of some sort in about 20-30 minutes. Stay tuned!

Hi all,

As we were running through our final checks before today’s Desert Borderlands Stress Test we ran into a technical issue that is currently preventing us from starting on time. We are currently working on a fix for this issue, and I will update this thread with more information once it is available.

Thank you for your patience,
Josh

Basandra Skye.4031:

IIRC, the crash prompt the game gives sends it to Windows. If it does send it to Anet, the odds of getting a reply are as miniscule as getting a reply as a to an ingame bug report.

They are sent to us.

Your existing client should work.

If you find that it isn’t, you can also try switching out the gw2.exe file that is contained in the Guild Wars 2.app content tree for the one provided in the link from the invite.

Please post the crash text. You can find it via the “Show Details” button in the dialog you posted a picture of.

Please post the crash text.

LavasoftTcpService.dll is associated with Ad-Aware. It appears that their software is trying to manipulate the connection(s) the game client establishes. You may need to disable or uninstall the application to restore game service.

I’m going to sticky this thread because it’s super helpful to our players. Thanks to everyone involved for helping out!

I’m going to unsticky this thread and sticky the new thread on the same topic.

I posted over in the Heart of Thorns sub-forum to let everyone know we’ll be participating at gamescom this August. Click here] for more info. And by all means, let us know if we can look forward to seeing you at the show!

We’re excited to let you know that ArenaNet will be at gamescom in Cologne, Germany, from August 5 through 9. We will be showing off Guild Wars: Heart of Thorns at the Twitch booth in Hall 9. A lot has changed since we were at the show last year. Stop on by, meet members of the Guild Wars 2 team, and get some yourself some hands-on with HoT!

I positively love gamescom, and I’m super excited to be going to this amazing show. If you’re going, too, post here so I can watch for you at the show!

Hi, everybody!

Thank you in advance for your participation in this exciting WvW event.

As a reminder, the client is available to download now, but you will not have access to login until July 9th at 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7).

Welcome to the Jungle Desert!!!

Bug Fixes:

• Adjusted formulas for attribute-granting traits so that they grant more appropriate values when upscaling and downscaling.

rodadams.5963:

Over time, from listening to various comments that Lawton and other devs have made, I believe I have a rough understanding of the general types of servers that ANet employs to run the game. (Of course, I might be wrong, but what I’m going to say should apply in broad strokes).

You’re not far off the mark, though there’s an order of magnitude more servers than the ones you’ve listed.

In any case, the API servers are never going to connect to the map instance servers.

That said, I looked into how the party members blips are updated when they’re on a different map instance — the map instance servers push rough position data (and some other stuff) to the online status tracking server every 30 seconds or so. So the feature isn’t as infeasible as initially ascribed.

We’re investigating the Greatest Fear rewards. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

The error indicates that hmipcore.dll caused the issue. This appears to be a third-party program you have installed that is interfering with the launcher. You may need to uninstall it. The program might be called Hide My IP or My Privacy Tools SecureNet Service.

PeterFries.1057:

I poked Magnus’ eye out again. I hope you’re all happy about this, because he sure isn’t.

You should have knocked out a couple of teeth while you were at it.

Hi there,

Welcome to the WvW Desert Borderlands Stress Test forums.

We look forward to reading your thoughts on the test!

Yes, the item has been reintroduced to the Gem Store. I will pass along your input regarding the corrected outfit.

I poked Magnus’ eye out again. I hope you’re all happy about this, because he sure isn’t.

You should be able to queue now Calazor.

Thanks,
Ray

You should be fixed now Jartaves.

You should be fixed now.

This should be fixed now. Sorry about that!

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bugs in preparation for the Guild Wars 2 Revenant and Stronghold Test Weekend.
• Removed items from the wardrobe view that are not attainable by players.

A fix for this will be going out through the hotfix process. No ETA yet.

Wwefan.4982:

Question for sir Colin will the PvE maps be the expansion maps or the orgional tyrian maps.

I’m not Colin… but… there wont’ be expansion maps in this test, you will be able to venture out in the existing maps anywhere you can currently go with your characters. =)

skowcia.8257:

And thats what i been waiting for! Hopefully the gear is full ascended

It’ll be exotic gear that allows you to select the stats you want to use. You will be given multiple sets so you can try out a few different builds. Also, you will also have an assortment of runes, sigils, food, and utility buffs to customize with as well.

OutOfMyMind.9613:

I am just wondering if the revenants made will be instant level 80s or will we have to level them up. I can see a point in letting them level to test any problems with that, but that will make WvW or any high end PvE content unplayable unless we use consumables to level them. I’d rather not do that as I am saving the consumables for when HoT goes live.

They are instant level 80, fully geared, with an inventory full of other gear options you can swap in and play with.

Phoenix.6917:

I just started a new toon and darned if when she got to L40 PS and headed to LA that it was the old LA that Destiny’s Edge is currently arguing in. I’m not a designer/programmer. But how hard would that have been to add into your big LA roll out.

All Personal Story steps that take place in LA should reflect the old version of the city once you enter the story instance. Is that not happening?

Crell.6401:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-revenant-and-stronghold-test-weekend/

Since this will be a test in the live-game world including WvW/PvP..

Will we be gaining currency and things for our live account? or will these still be ENTIRELY walled off characters?

You’ll have a beta character slot you can use to create a Revenant. When playing with a beta character: all progress, items, etc. you get will not be saved once the event is completed.

You can however use your existing characters to play Stronghold, and will continue to earn rewards/progress that is permanent on your account.

-CJ

We had a brief (about 45 minute) issue with the billing company, but that should be resolved now and all those who completed a transaction will have received their gems.

It appears your issue is different, so if you still experience difficulties, please go ahead and submit a ticket to CS so they can help you.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a server crash

We won’t have anything ready for the first release — can look into providing API access for future tests though.