Guild Wars 2

Thank you all for being patient with this. Something we introduced on 3/16 broke passive mode. We believe we now have a fix for this and it is in testing. As soon as we confirm this fix has solved this issue we will push it to the live game at the first possible time.

Thanks,

Jon

jaklinmar.5871:

Dear Guild Wars 2 Team,
I want to sincerely thank you for making one of the best mmos out there. The three year mark is fast approaching and I look forward to seeing what you guys have in store for us. About a year and a half ago I brought my mother to the light side stealing her from the World of Warcraft empire. We have played mmos together since I was living in Texas at the time and it was the best way for us to communicate. We love everything about the game, and have a lot of fun running the world boss train. This past Fall we found out that my mother has cervical caner. The game has now become a great way to release stress of the doctor visits and the fear of the cancer spreading to other place. It means a lot to me to see my mom laugh at your April Fools joke, she was laughing so hard that she was crying.

So thank you guys for making such an awesome and my mom and I both look forward to the expansion!

Thank you for the touching note. Glad that you and your mother have found some joy in what we do. Wishing you all the best. Keeping my fingers crossed for your mother’s recovery.

BuddhaKeks.4857:

I preferd the name Overgrown for the Mordrem. They used it at the very beginning of LS season 2, in Gates of Maguuma. It did fit much better with the names of the other dragon minions imo. I wonder why they changed it.

We showed the enemy nameplates as “overgrown” for the duration of the first episode two-week window, and then switched them to “Mordrem” when the second episode went live once Mordremoth’s name was established in the story. This was to prevent spoiler nameplates in the open world before episode 2 hit the servers.

Ensign.2189:

Just because their algorithm predicts that you would be favored does not mean you would actually be favored – it has very, very clear flaws when handling premades vs pugs, for instance.

At least in aggregate, we have a very strong, linear prediction gradient for accuracy. Which means our match prediction is pretty kitten good, but we could always make improvements.

Roster size (i.e. premade count) accounts for 25% of a match’s prediction. I do wonder if it should be more.

On a related note, I’ll be on tomorrow’s Points of Interest and will likely mention some more information regarding the Personal Story restoration.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug in the explorable mode of Citadel of Flame that could cause Ferrah to become stuck.
• Fixed an issue with the fear condition in which the interrupt functionality would not trigger.

Evan Lesh.3295:

insanemaniac.2456:

oh hey evan… question: patch notes or whatever said you guys changed the scoring matrix a little, but ive never seen… say… an updated version of the table that was in the blog. how was it updated?

Still need to update the wiki.

Updated.

Here’s a new one.

Hello (account name here)

Your request (1388298:Change Account E-mail), Someone hpefully you!- requested change e-mail address associated with your guild Wars account

For the security of gamer , the confirmation messae is sent to you in gme. If it is not your own reuet, Visit our support site:
Http://support.guildwars2.com.6qqt3c-h42l.pw make a requestand ancel the request of changing the gaming account.if it is you in peson, please ignore it.

GM Matthias Schuter
Guild Wars

Needless to say, this is entirely bogus. I am checking with the player who submitted this and this is the way in which it was received, typos and all. Please remember that we don’t ask you to go through this process (of actively canceling a request) in relation to e-mail changes.

Jaxom.7310:

ZING!

~rolls eyes~

;)

insanemaniac.2456:

we have really hard heads…

~worried~ :-/

Oh wait, it is testing, right?

The above responses are correct, but it is worth mentioning we internally record the loss as a forfeit instead of a defeat. The leaderboards combine these numbers, but we could have UI later than distinguishes between the two.

Dondagora.9645:

So what you’re saying is… try to get in?

You can try, but I have a feeling you’re going to be beating your head against the Wall of Strongholdishness.

insanemaniac.2456:

oh hey evan… question: patch notes or whatever said you guys changed the scoring matrix a little, but ive never seen… say… an updated version of the table that was in the blog. how was it updated?

Still need to update the wiki.

This afternoon we’re undergoing some testing on Stronghold Custom Arenas. They will show in browsers but will be unavailable to players at this time.

Thank you!

Can you please check and see if this has been addressed? As aspirine suggested, I also believe that it has, but confirmation would be appreciated.

The wiki shows how we calculate odds of victory:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm#Match_Prediction

Sorry if you missed the update, and thanks to lordkrall for providing the link to the extensive and welcome information that Bobby Stein provided.

Again, that link is: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update/

I think that because that new thread is garnering the most attention, I’d like to close this one to keep the conversation focused. If there is feedback after the changes go live and are reviewed, you can post in that thread, or we can start a new feedback thread, as the situation warrants.

Thanks for understanding.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Question for Bobby Stein:

There are quite a few story steps that could use improvements due to poor scripting (read: NPC actions in story steps). Some that come to mind are Underground Scholar, The Battle of Claw Island, and The Priory Assailed.

Is there a place where any… shall we say irksome story steps that could use tweaking be reported? Such things wouldn’t really count as “bugs” as far as I know.

For example of what I refer to:

• In Underground Scholar, you zone in to see the dredge already assaulting the Priory structure, however, the objectives and dialogues give off the impression that you missed a part where you are in the structure before the dredge assaulted, and went out to fight them to return to seeing Vyacheslav for only a moment before he retreats.
• During the Battle of Claw Island, there is some dialogue/cinematic/etc. scenes that don’t line up well or show what’s happening (when the first dead ship is sunk, when Commander Talon is killed) and the part where you have to hold off the risen easily comes off as never ending, especially to those who haven’t done it before (I certainly recall feeling like I was fighting for nearly an hour when I first did it).
• For The Priory Assailed, the destruction of the laser had near no reasoning for such happening, and though I think this was fixed the priory NPCs would wipe the floor of risen, removing any sense of urgency, as there would rarely be risen for players to kill (for once, competant allies!).

So yeah, is there a place you’d like non-bug ‘feels weird playing through this’ reports for the PS, since you’re working on them already?

Another question: any update on Season 1 bring made permanent as was promised in the past? Would be nice to have that before HoT…

It’s totally fine to give us feedback regarding story instances that you feel could benefit from some tweaks, but we’re at the point in this development schedule that we’re not likely to add them to the task backlog (a.k.a. the “list of things we’re able to do”). I’d suggest posting them on the story step discussion pages on the wiki and/or assigning them a category, similar to how folks handled the lore discrepancies reports.

Regarding Season 1, we have nothing new to announce at this time. As we’ve said before, we’d still like to bring it back someday (and hopefully make some improvements where possible) but we’re actively working on other projects at the moment.

Cakemeister.5792:

I’m not sure if this was posted on March 31 or on April 1. This whole thread might be a hoax.

It’s not a hoax. These changes are definitely real and we’ll announce a specific release date sometime in the near future.

Patch is in. Let me know if there are any anomalies that we missed on this particular front. Fear interrupt fix should be coming shortly behind this one.

Jon

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a server crash.
• Fixed a client crash.
• Resolved missing textures on the plant wurm model’s attack animation.
• Fixed a bug in which the timing on a variety of skills’ animations was incorrectly changed.

Maintenance complete.

We only show actual rank for people in the top 1000. The percent on the left is your percentile within the entire leaderboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile

Maintenance will begin at 3:30pm PST and service should be restored within 10 minutes.

Some public API disruption can be expected during this downtime.

Reincarnated.1754:

It looks to me like, they have made an adjustment in the game map of Tyria, for Rata Sum area.
And have not done the same adjustment for the copy in the tile service.

That’s certainly possible, but I’m really not familiar enough with how that endpoint works. How is the current result different from the expected result?

FelipeRomero.4267:

This has been fixed on the latest update!

This is absolutely awesome. Thank you from all of us, Felipe!

Zetsumei.4975:

JonPeters.5630:

Hey all. We have found this bug and are working on a fix. Thanks for your help in identifying this problem.

Jon

Just sayin, necro fears have stopped interrupting a couple of patches ago

Should be a hotfix for this incoming as well.

Hey all. We have found this bug and are working on a fix. Thanks for your help in identifying this problem.

Jon

Bonezz.4961:

I was following a group around and was threatened to be mass reported by a guild

I love WvW and think you will too – you should stay. Don’t let the downers chase you away. There are some great suggestions above on how commanders should be using up-levels.

As for the reporting bit you’re doing nothing wrong by playing WvW. In fact, mass reporting for a false offense is an offense itself.

First, I’d recommend that if this is truly a bug, it be posted in detail in the Bug Forums.

However, having been shown it, I’ll see if the QA Team has also noted the thread and we may be able to give you an update in the next few days.

Reddit needs to take care of this. If they will contact our Customer Support Team, the teams can work together to verify that this is impersonation with an intent to harass. I don’t know the people working on the Reddit forum will take that step, but we’d work with them to help, if they reach out.

This has been fixed on the latest update!

Yeah, fov is the current field of view.

It appears something in this patch has broken a lot of the skill timing on live. We are looking into this and will get a fix to live as soon as we know what happened. Thank you for all of the detailed reports, hopefully they help us track down the source of this issue ASAP.

Thanks for your patience,

Jon

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that prevented some Personal Story steps and dynamic events from progressing.

Just FYI, Gizeii — The ping-pong room is next door to the room where my team sits, and I haven’t seen anyone in there in days and days.

~conspiracy theory quelled~

The team is aware and will fix this. I’m sorry it’s taking a bit of time to do so.

We’re testing a fix right now, once it checks out we’ll get it into a hotfix as soon as we can. Thanks! (This bug affects many story steps, so it’s a fix that should take care of all the “broken story” posts that popped up today.)

JustTrogdor.7892:

I’d be willing to bet they factored this in their data collection. It would not be hard to exclude inactive accounts as a factor. They would simply have to review transactions over time spent in game and negate all accounts that have not been active over X amount of time for their study. It would only make sense to do so when making a decision such as this.

This is correct, inactive accounts and guild banks were removed from the analysis. There are always going to be edge cases that are impacted by this, and some players will be more impacted than others. However, we feel that this is the right decision for the long term health of the game.

Hey all,

I checked with the team and correcting the bug is still in the works. I believe that the resolution has been developed and is currently in testing, but in either case — under development or in testing — this is still very much on the list of things that will be addressed as soon as possible.

And on a personal note, I can’t figure out George’s behavior. A few days ago, I swear that he started attacking more than he had been doing, where before he was pretty consistently sitting on the sidelines cleaning his paw. I felt — and sure, this isn’t likely — that I needed to hit F1 fewer times over the course of the evening to get him on the job. But that must have been my imagination, right? Or… did anyone else notice this at all?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Cleary’s data suggests that only a few thousand players transfer 500 gold or more per week via email. It also suggests that many more are involved in buying black market gold or selling off assets from stolen accounts. This change, therefore, should protect many more people than it inconveniences. We should all be happy about that aspect.

There are two issues with the solution that are not covered by Cleary’s post:

• How many people withdraw 500g or more from guild banks in a week? I suspect the fraction is much larger than stated, if only because I know lots of people that add/subtract a few 100g every few days; I know very few who have 500g at any given time.
• How about guild leaders managing lotteries, donations to guilds moving from other servers, or otherwise pooling guild assets?

I’ll go ahead and pitch in on these 2 points, as they seem to be the most prevalent in the discussion so far.

On the first point about guild bank withdraws.

Yes, this will impact players with personal Guild Banks storing gold. However, a majority of players here are talking about personal guild banks for storage of wealth. These are basically the same as storing gold in the old personal bank. While there some benefits to doing this, the account wallet was implemented to be a single storage point for an account. On a single account basis, this does not impact anyone’s ability to move your gold unless you still have a large quantity of gold sitting in your guild bank as of today.

When multiple personal accounts are taken into account, this has a much larger impact on the ability to move wealth between accounts. This is just going to be an unfortunate side effect of clamping down on large wealth movements, and if you have multiple personal accounts, there are many different ways to store and transfer wealth between your accounts.

On to the second point about lotteries/donations/pooling assets.

There are plenty of workarounds that can be done for almost all of these situations that are being brought up. None of these situations are actually prevented by implementing the gold restriction, they are simply slowed down. Gold transfer does not need to be performed by one person/account for guild matters, as almost all guilds that are doing these activities have a guild officer core they can rely on.

There will always be cases where multiple of thousands of gold need to be moved, just plan ahead for those events. That being said, donations of gold are probably no longer the best means of transfering wealth between guild members if you are trying to move large quantities of wealth.

Puppet.8139:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Only people who disconnect get desertions. Their teammates will get get a win or a forfeit.

Update: 4/5 players on the winning team had desertions.

If you are partied with the deserting player, you too get a desertion. That is why he is asking. He was not the one that disconnected, but his friend in his party did. Must have been in a party of 4 if they all received desertion status. Their 5th solo Q’er was unaffected because he was not in party.

This is true. It was a 4/1 split and all 4 party members got a desertion. I will have to loop in other people as this was not something I was involved in!

I’m bugging the programmers to see if today’s update changed something that’s broken “defeat X foes” objectives, since there appear to be multiple broken story steps today that haven’t been changed in ages.

Only people who disconnect get desertions. Their teammates will get get a win or a forfeit.

Update: 4/5 players on the winning team had desertions.

Crixus.3096:

The 29/3/15 1:48 CET Update EUleaderboard

Like I said, I actually noticed this just because I only did that 1 match

I found the match. Looks like you had an 80% change of winning (the highest odds bracket) and you deserted (by disconnecting) so the game was considered a loss for you resulting in -3 points.

Mea.5491:

“Please note that the core gameplay and structure of this story instance has not been changed—the difficulty has been adjusted to allow for solo play and will therefore be more accessible for players.”

^ Does that mean I can solo the dungeon now but I cannot open that first gate alone? Or did they change the gate? (Right now it needs 2 people to step on the plates to open it).

The entire instance, including this part, will be soloable. You will only have to step on one plate to open the gate.

Were either of you grouped with other players, or were you running the instance solo? My first guess would be it’s not scaling correctly. (The objective wants you to kill X+scale soldiers, but it’s only spawning X soldiers.)

If you only gain a point for winning and lose a point for losing, everyone will be sorted by their win percentage. This means anyone with <50% win rate would never advance. (Unless I misunderstood you)

This is one reason we have the odds-of-winning based point matrix to ensure even matches help you climb, and you don’t fall for uneven matches.

NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT

• Moved the Player vs. Player guide up into Level 3 Rewards.

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General

• Fixed a bug that delayed damage from falling.
• Fixed an issue that caused the camera position to snap when it was used with a horizontal or vertical offset.
• Fixed an issue that decreased the size of the loading-screen art.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the field of view from resetting to the specified value when loading a map.
• Fixed bug in which text appeared green in chat bubbles created by player chat.
• Fixed a bug that could result in characters permanently keeping stealth on death.

Items

• Rings of the Sun-God sold by Qoetl in Sparkfly Fen are now rings.
• Plant Dog Transformations now correctly change characters into plant dogs.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the first tier of spear, harpoon gun, and trident recipes from being discoverable.
• Runes of the Adventurer now use the correct icon in PvP.

Profession Skills
Guardian

• Flashing Blade: This ability is no longer able to be used in midair.
• Elite Focus: Updated the facts of this trait to indicate the correct stability duration and interval of application.

Necromancer

• Vampiric Rituals: This trait no longer triggers on siege doors.
• Foot in the Grave: This trait will now allow the necromancer to break stuns when entering death shroud.

Structured Player vs. Player

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Silverwastes Reward Track from being set as the active reward track.
• Fixed a bug in which using /join on a player queued for PvP with a party would remove the party from the queue.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions

• The Aviator Quaggan Mail Carrier is now available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
• The Mad Scientist’s Harvesting Tool is now available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 1000 gems.

Improvements
Black Lion Chests have received the following updates:

• The drop rate of Black Lion Claim Ticket Scraps has been increased.
• The drop rate of Teleport to Friend items has been increased.
• Toxic Dye Kits, Deathly Dye Kits, Metallurgic Dye Kits, and Taimi’s Dye Kits have been removed.
• The Mini Super Monkey, Mini Super Spider, Mini Super Bee Dog, Mini Super Yeti, Mini Super Raccoon, and Mini Super Banana have been added as rare drops.
• Glint’s Winter Dye Kits, Shadow Dye Kits and Crimson Lion Dye Kits have been added as rare drops.

Ltomato.8649:

Additionally, the “Master of Arah” achievement is being updated to only require completion of story mode paths.

Is that supposed to be “explorable mode paths” instead of “story mode paths”?

You’re correct. I made the adjustment.

The Personal Story steps, once restored, will flow as listed below.

C6 Step 5—A Light in the Darkness
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_Light_in_the_Darkness
• Choose Greatest Fear at end

C6 Step 6—The Priory Assailed (Priory) http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Priory_Assailed

C6 Step 6—Critical Blowback (Order of Whispers) http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Critical_Blowback

C6 Step 6—Under Siege (Vigil)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Under_Siege

C6 Step 7—Retribution
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Retribution

C7 Step 1—Forging the Pact
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Forging_the_Pact

MY GREATEST FEAR—INNOCENT
C7 Step 2 Innocent—Tower Down
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tower_Down

C7 Step 3A Innocent—Munition Acquisition http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Munition_Acquisition

C7 Step 3B Innocent—To the Core
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/To_The_Core

C7 Step 4 Innocent—Breaking the Bone Ship http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Breaking_the_Bone_Ship

MY GREATEST FEAR—FAILURE
C7 Step 2 Failure—Shell Shock
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shell_Shock

C7 Step 3A Failure—Volcanic Extraction http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Volcanic_Extraction

C7 Step 3B Failure—Fixing the Blame
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fixing_the_blame

C7 Step 4 Failure—Marshaling the Truth http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Marshaling_the_Truth

MY GREATEST FEAR—SUFFER
C7 Step 2 Suffer—Striking Off the Chains http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Striking_Off_the_Chains

C7 Step 3 Suffer—Wet Work
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wet_Work

C7 Step 4A Suffer—Willing Captives
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Willing_Captives

C7 Step 4B Suffer—Intercepting the Orb http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Intercepting_the_Orb

C7 Step 5—The Battle of Fort Trinity
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Battle_of_Fort_Trinity

MY GREATEST FEAR—INNOCENT (CONCLUSION)
C7 Step 6 Innocent—A Sad Duty
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_Sad_Duty

MY GREATEST FEAR—FAILURE (CONCLUSION)
C7 Step 6 Failure—Delivering Justice
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Delivering_Justice

MY GREATEST FEAR—SUFFER (CONCLUSION)
C7 Step 6 Suffer—Liberating Apatia
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Liberating_Apatia

Chapter 8 will be restored to its original order.

C8 Step 1—Temple of the Forgotten God
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Temple_of_the_forgotten_god

C8 Step 2A—Through the Looking Glass
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass

C8 Step 2B—Close the Eye
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Close_the_Eye

C8 Step 3—What the Eye Beholds
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/What_the_Eye_Beholds

C8 Step 4A—Estate of Decay
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Estate_of_Decay

C8 Step 4B—Starving the Beast
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Starving_the_Beast

C8 Step 5A—Ossuary of Unquiet Dead
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ossuary_of_Unquiet_Dead

C8 Step 5B—A Grisly Shipment
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_Grisly_Shipment

C8 Step 6—Further into Orr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Further_into_Orr

C8 Step 7 Navy—Stealing Light
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stealing_Light

C8 Step 7 Air—Hunters and Prey
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hunters_and_Prey

C8 Step 7 Army Marching Orders
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Marching_Orders

C8 Step 8 Navy—Conscript the Dead Ships http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Conscript_the_Dead_Ships

8 Step 8 Air—Air Drop
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Air_Drop

C8 Step 8 Army—Armor Guard
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Armor_Guard

C8 Step 9 Navy—Ships of the Line
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ships_of_the_Line

C8 Step 9 Air—Blast from the Past
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blast_from_the_Past

C8 Step 9 Army—The Steel Tide
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Steel_Tide

C8 Step 10—Against the Corruption
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Against_the_corruption

C8 Step 11A—Cathedral of Silence
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cathedral_of_Silence

C8 Step 11B—Romke’s Final Voyage
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Romke%27s_Final_Voyage

C8 Step 12—Source of Orr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Source_of_Orr

C8 Step 13—Victory or Death
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Victory_or_death