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So the authenticator is off… I appear to have the account back, but literally everything is gone… guess it’s on to phase 2… restoring items!

Thank you for the link about account restoration that actually seems very promising!

Hopefully they can sort me out

I feel sure we’ll be able to help you and am sorry that your account was compromised. Be sure you take every security precaution to protect it in the future.

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Customer Support and the Feature Pack

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There seems to be a little confusion about why if items are in one’s purchase history, they haven’t been refunded automatically. And the simple answer is that with the volume of tickets, an agent has not been able to review that account history, and a review is required to process things properly.

As you can clearly see in this thread and amongst other comments, not every item that someone may have in duplicate is refundable. Therefore, our agents need to review each and every purchase history on each and every account, make sure the item is as described and that it qualifies for a refund, and then process that refund.

This is a painstaking process, but pains must be taken so that everyone gets that to which he or she is entitled and, it goes without saying, doesn’t end up with more than is appropriate.

It’s not something that can be done automatically, like “scan my account and give me XX gems.” One example of the reason each account requires individual review is because a player could have two of an item through a Gem Store purchase, an in-game reward, a drop, a gift, a trade, and so forth.

If we refunded Player A who purchased a set of skins and Player B, to whom those skins were gifted, we’d be reacting incorrectly. Doing that on a broad scale would have negative effects on the economy. Consider: If XX,XXX gems should be refunded, but through an erred process XXX,XXX,XXX gems are given, we get gem inflation, meaning each and every gems you possess is worth less. Definitely not something that any of us want, right?

I hope these details help answer the question that, in inelegant terms, might be expressed as, “Why is it taking so #*%^# long to get me mah stuffs!?”

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You may glean more consideration by Moderators should you send your questions and/or concerns to forums@arena.net

Good luck.

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… Enameled dyes can be bought directly using gems if you go through the exchange.

As of this morning the range is:

  • Enameled Legacy Dye ~190 gems.
  • Enameled Crimson Dye ~1100 gems.

No randomness required.

But that isn’t what I was proposing in my post or what other players are necessarily asking for. Those are not set prices. They will change and fluctuate. As you’ve shown, some dyes will be cheap and some will be overly priced. Is this really the solution to RNG dye packs? Buy gems, convert to gold and buy what you want from the TP.

I’m not saying it’s a final solution, but it is the current solution.. And the consumer benefit being the direct purchase price is largely driven by the true player value of each color.

Gold seller pm's

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Discussions of gold selling, in-game abusive, hacking, exploiting, and the like are not allowed on the forums. If you feel a player is abusive in-game, please report them using the in-game ticketing system so our Customer Support team can properly investigate the issue and take any appropriate action.

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It surprises me sometimes that for all the talk of converting gold to gems nobody ever offers the other direction as a solution. Enameled dyes can be bought directly using gems if you go through the exchange.

As of this morning the range is:

  • Enameled Legacy Dye ~190 gems.
  • Enameled Crimson Dye ~1100 gems.

No randomness required.

edit: Lol – Raistlan did the thing i said nobody did, beat me to it

Guild Wars 2 Certificate Re-Issuing

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As you know, we resolved a certificate issue that prevented the Black Lion Trading Company from loading in the Mac Beta Client. This certificate was reissued by our data asset manager, CloudFront, as part of the Heartbleed bug prevention.

We will be re-issuing our certificates related to Guild Wars 2. This process would need to take place regardless of any response to bugs from our service providers. It just so happens that the Guild Wars 2 certificate re-issue and the CloudFront certificate re-issue are taking place within a relatively short span of time.

What this means for Mac Beta Clients is that availability of the Black Lion Trading Company will be impacted again. We apologize that this Guild Wars 2 certificate re-issue is coming on the heels of a previous certificate re-issue that affects your client, but this is a critical update that needs to be made.

We ask you to bear with us again while we complete this process. Thanks for your continued understanding.

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Well me and my friends have had opposite experience we love the game buts hes trying to come back into possession of his account and hes been sending multiple emails over the past 3 days with very limited replies and no visual results. what did you do to get support within 30 minutes?

Multiple tickets definitely slow our ability to help. Each ticket needs to be reviewed, assessed, and then merged into the original ticket. This takes time — this delays our ability to respond. So please ask your friend to not submit additional tickets or send additional e-mails and an agent should be able to help him soon.

The problem is his account wasnt hacked just the old email was no longer available to verify ip adress. He actually figured out how to resolve it himself however his account is now locked :/ but hopefully it will get resolved soon

I’m sure this’ll be sorted soon. And don’t worry, we can work around the e-mail issue with adequate proof of ownership.

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Parallel custom arena/flood of "Play now" ppl

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With no “available slots” do you mean servers need to be 20/20? Who goes spectating a hotjoin match 5v5 with 10 ppl.. Or does it start another server when Anet’s custom arena’s are 10/20 full? because in theory, it’s full aswel because we can’t play..

By “available slots”, I mean that if its a 5v5 and there are less than 10 players (including spectators) in the game.

I’m not 100% sure why they’re always full.

Some times when multiple players hit "play now " at nearly the same time they will get the same arena. This happens because we don’t increment the player count until a player actually joins.

It will also happen because people are just going to the arenas that have the most players. This could be fixed by showing spectator count separately, but we don’t currently have a reliable way to do that and it’s a lower priority.

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WvW ranks not accumulating for me

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Hi Chris! First off ty for looking into this. I can say with complete confidence that I took note of my main characters rank before the update (rank 941) as I knew I wouldn’t be able to play again until after the update due to health issues.

I was curious why I had no reward chests at all awaiting me once all was tallied up. I play a lot of wvw and haven’t used my alts too much in this regard as my main was much more useful with all those points in abilities.

Thanks again for looking into this

Here’s what I’m seeing for your WXP totals (I’ll use the first letter of each character’s names, in case you don’t want their whole names displayed here):
A few days before the 4/15 update

  • I.S. — 13,374 WXP (Rank 5).
  • M.T.F. — 336,570 WXP (Rank 70)
  • P.A. — 4,544 WXP (Rank 4)
  • P. — 1,053 WXP (Rank 2)
  • V. — 4,312,864 WXP (Rank 865)

A couple of days after the 4/15 update (only changes listed)

  • V. — 4,351,360 WXP (Rank 873)

If the first sample’s values were all summed, you’d be at Rank 934 for your account. From the second sample, Rank 941. The only time you should’ve seen a Rank above 900 is after V. and M.T.F. were summed. So while I don’t know how a Rank above 900 could’ve been seen prior to 4/15 (maybe there was a brief display bug), your WXP totals look right. Assuming you gained 38,496 WXP on V. between those samples (8 Ranks).

What about people with loads of chests?

There was a bug with the 4/15 release that gave out pending bonus Rank-gain chests to some players erroneously. We didn’t intend to change the number of these pending bonus chests for anyone, since they were already account-bound and acting as we wanted. In a recent hotfix, the chests were given both soft and hard caps.

  • The pending bonus chests granted after a WvW match ends now cap at 99.
  • Existing chests are now capped at 250. Any extras beyond that cap are discarded.

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TY i got back into my acc and it only took you 30 mins to reply to me
that was really fast so ty ^^
ty tadeo and andonis

So glad we were able to help!

+1

I’ll add my voice to this as well. I’ve been a harsh critic of some aspects of this game, and most especially of certain decisions made that were a complete turnaround from the game that was marketed for years. That said, this is my 4th MMO, and I’ve never dealt with a better or more responsive customer support group than the one Anet has.

That’s great to hear. Thank you kindly!

Indeed, for most games, tickets can take up to weeks being processed. The few I’ve sent in have maybe been a week tops and the long ones were due to a heavy load of tickets (such as the recent refund requests).

They were concise and professional. Makes me want to send thank you notes to every GM that does support.

I will share your kind words with the team. Many thanks.

Gaile Gray
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My Farewell

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Hello all,

We do not mind if folks give their opinions or start discussions when they’re not happy with things. What we do mind is when other players come into the discussion and are rude & insulting to other posters. Please remember to remain respectful to each other and if you see something which violates our Forum Code of Conduct, please report it.

Cannot login - IP adress/GMail

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We’ve looked into the matter and the slow-down that was happening earlier today does indeed appear to have been resolved.

Gaile Gray
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GW2 Tickets for Review (7 days & older)

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ATTENTION

As we have pointed out numerous times over the last week, duplicate-item and replacement-item refund requests are large in number and processing them is taking longer than 72 hours. We apologize for the fact that the queues are backed up, but please be assured that all requests will be reviewed and processed as quickly as possible. (Staff is working OT to try to reduce turn-around time.)

It’s not really relevant if someone got a refund more quickly than you. What matters is your refund. That matters to you and to us! We will continue to work around the clock to process your requests, and we ask for your continued patience as we do so.

The delay in processing refund requests is a known and admitted issue and this thread is intended for other purposes. Please do not post about item refund requests in this thread.

Gaile Gray
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Mobile authentication problem

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Your friend needs to update his ticket and ask to be sent to the department that handles Mobile Authentication, and ask them to assist him with removing the Authenticator.

Unless, of course, he is unable to prove he is the actual account owner. Remember, CS must be very scrupulous in ascertaining who the correct account owner is, as there are attempts to gain control of accounts by unscrupulous people quite often.

He opened a new ticket. I know that maybe it wasn’t the best idea to create multiple tickets, but hopefully it won’t be a huge problem. He is frustrated because the answer he got wasn’t even in the range “we would help you if you could do x or y” like provide account details or whatever they needed, it was pretty much “we can’t help you”. I told him to provide more information this time, hopefully the answer won’t be the same this time. About the transfer to the mobile authentication department, he said that he has already chosen that when he created the ticket both times. Thank you for the help, I’ll post more when he gets a response if there are any more issues.

If he continues to need help after 72 hours, you can post in the Tickets for Review thread above.

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How can I pull my support ticket?

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I can close the ticket if you provide the ticket number. In fact, I’d like to look at that ticket to find out why you’re getting so many auto-responses!

Thanks.

Gaile Gray
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Random error/in-game message??

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That sort of message might appear if you had a name that was censored. There’s a momentary block of the account for the first-time offender, while the name is censored. Then the account is immediately reinstated. If you happened to be online when the name was censored, you might get bumped out for a moment but find you were able to log in again pretty much right away.

Other than that, if you’re able to play and see no anomalies on your account — like a change password, missing items, being in a different map than you logged out, etc — I’d say you can ignore that one-time message. If you do see any of those things, you should contact Support, as your account may have been compromised. (I don’t think that’s the case here, but I’m just sayin’ to be thorough. )

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Cannot login - IP adress/GMail

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There is also a new glitch, outside our control, and it’s slowing our authentication e-mails.

The steps I outlined in the sticky post apply — https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Not-Getting-Our-E-mails-Hotmail-Yahoo-Gmail-Comcast/first#post3785262 — but there’s a significant issue with an Internet backbone that also is delaying receipt of e-mails.

We are updating our KB to include an article about slowed authentication e-mails, but we’re under the impression that the issue may be better now.

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Missing Brawling Costumes

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Just an FYI. Had you gone to the Wardrobe article in the Knowledge Base (where you submitted your ticket), you would have read that very information. =)

Just saying, the Knowledge Base can be very helpful; it answers many questions about the new patch, and other commonly asked questions.

It’s true! Reading the KB can be very helpful and can allay a lot of stress!

Gaile Gray
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need to change email

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I’ve already submitted a Request from the support page. Do I need to create a topic here to confirm/process the Request sent?

Not at all. An agent will take care of you as soon as possible.

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Keep having to change my password

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Why are you having to change your password? Are you unable to log in? Keep in mind that a good test of your log in credentials is if you can log in here (as we are told that both this site AND the client run off the same user database).

If you suspect your password is being changed that could be a sign of a more serious security issue (like you email has been hacked).

I agree. I’m a little concerned about this situation, and if you’re finding your password has changed without your involvement, then I suspect that someone has access to your account. Contact Support for assistance.

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Password change Failure

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The advice above is sound. I feel sure following the suggestions — even if the one that requires a ticket — will soon resolve this issue.

Gaile Gray
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Cannot login to Guild wars 2

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Problem has been solved

Glad to hear it, and thanks for updating.

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Zodiac Sword Skin *still* bugged.

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If you believe something is bugged, please post in the Bug Forum. Thank you.

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Customer Support and the Feature Pack

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Is it normal to have to wait a week+ for a refund? It’s just 2 town items that were turned into tonics and I’ve yet to get a response beyond automated one the day I sent it.

I submitted a ticket last week and have not gotten any response. I understand you guys are busy and I appreciate what you guys are doing about this situation. Just wanted to check and see if I am correctly in the queue for my request.

Thanks!

I submitted my ticket for duplicate “Purchased” Flamekissed on the 19th and haven’t even gotten a reply yet beyond the immediate “Transfer” to another group of support personel

Quite honestly, yes, things are that busy! Please keep in mind that these requests will be addressed as quickly as possible. Please note that we have authorized overtime for employees to try to reduce the turn-around time. But I’m sure you’ll also understand that we won’t and shouldn’t pull people from a ticket involving a hacked account to expedite a refund.

All will be processed as quickly as possible, and we’re grateful for your patience.

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Customer Support and the Feature Pack

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Hi there,

I drop myself here just to let you know i’m receiving several automated answers like this one:

Hello,

We wanted to apologize for the delay in responding to your support ticket and to assure you that your ticket is in the queue awaiting review. We anticipate that an agent will be able to work on your support request soon, so please watch for our e-mail.

Thank you for your continued patience.

In case you wanna check, my ticket number is 544202: Gem refund (Town outfits)
BTW, it’s been more or less a week since i submited my ticket.

While you might think “Why am I getting these messages,” I’m sitting here thinking, “Thank Dwayna those messages are going out!” Why? Because we set up a auto-update system just to reassure folks that their tickets was still in the queue and would be resolved as quickly as possible. Some players are not getting such mails, so they write “I haven’t had a single response” and we really want to keep them updated, even if in a semi-robotic voice.

I know you’ve been waiting a while, and quite a few others have, as well. We are plowing through the requests and getting them resolved as quickly as possible!

Gaile Gray
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Customer Support and the Feature Pack

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*But if you purchased one set and got a second set free with the game, that’s not a refund that we’d make. *

This seems illogical. I assume you’re referring to the free skin some players received with their game purchase. – that’s not free. Whatever the source of the original skin set (and the original skin had to be the one that came with the game – you misrepresented the order of things) the player still spent gems and potentially out of pocket funds to buy the second skin because he wanted to use it again. He’s in the same spot as everyone else, he spent gems on a second version of a skin which the Wardrobe update rendered redundant.

Even if someone gifted me a skin and I liked it so much that I bought a second version for the old sPvP locker then I’m still due a refund because a major change to the game made gems I spent in the store invalid.

In fairness to the players affected by this change, you should rethink this line of thought – because it isn’t treating them fairly.

P.S. I want to add that I’ve had nothing but good experiences with Support, and I love how communicative Gaile and the others are. I received my skin refund the same day. This is just honest feedback on a comment I saw in the dev tracker.

I appreciate your kind words and understand your feedback. I do want to say, though, that the refund system is set up to detect two purchases of the item, and not a gift, a trade, a in-game acquisition (say, through a Black Lion Key, if such a thing were possible), a free distribution, or a “gift with purchase.”

So the distinction is not about what someone has in duplicate as opposed to how it was acquired. Again, if you purchased two items, you’d be eligible for a refund. I do take on board that not everyone will agree with that decision, but that is how it works.

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Customer Support and the Feature Pack

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I had a friend gift me 2 skins, i then a few months after went and bought duplicates of these two skins. You guys are refusing to refund me, in fact you want to refund my friend who gifted them to me initially, who btw no longer plays. Can someone explain that to me?

Yes, because you only purchased the one set. I’m sorry if your friend is no longer active in the game, but we cannot give you a refund for duplicates that you did not purchase.

What happens if someone has gifted you armor skins from the gem store then a few months later you buy the same skins, which person is refunded?

A person who purchases two sets of the armor skins would be eligible for a refund. The person who received one as a gift and one as a purchase is not eligible because s/he only made the one purchase.

~See my response to Dastion below for more info~

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Customer Support and the Feature Pack

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So any news on my ticket then? You know, the one I’ve been waiting on since Tuesday when we were told to make our tickets?

I just don’t understand why I am waiting this long for this. People are getting their tickets taken care of in hours to a day, while I am waiting almost a week for mine. All of the information is there, I don’t see why it is taking this long. It feels like you guys are just delaying it on purpose.

Hmmmm… I only see two tickets with this Display Name: One from January and one from last October. Did you get a confirmation e-mail saying your ticket was received? Can you please give me that ticket number?

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Gold Sellers

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Discussions of gold selling, in-game abusive, hacking, exploiting, and the like are not allowed on the forums. If you feel a player is abusive in-game, please report them using the in-game ticketing system so our Customer Support team can properly investigate the issue and take any appropriate action.

Parallel custom arena/flood of "Play now" ppl

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If HotJoin Arenas basicly are Custom Arenas, doesn’t this mean, the only thing you had to create, when you introduced Custom Arenas was a more player-friendly Interface for creating your Custom Arena?
If that’s true, it took you pretty long to do so.

No, the old “Play Now” functionality was replaced with new code that uses custom arenas.

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Parallel custom arena/flood of "Play now" ppl

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Yes this happened 2 days ago, so it was after the feature patch but in between hotfixes.

That sounds normal, your friends were in one instance that belongs to the old build, and you were put in a new instance for the new build. There is no way around that as builds may not be compatible with each other.

The only alternative would be to not create a new instance until the old one is closed. This would still mean people in the new build wouldn’t be able to play in the old one.

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Justin, there is the “issue” of our custom arenas having two instances sometimes, and it seems like a bug. Such as I’ve been skirmishing with my guild at times in my own arena and I’ve left to switch characters. When I come back in I’m on a totally different map then my guildies, such as when this happened a few days ago they were playing on Forest of Nifhel and I loaded into Battle of Khylo. The room was not full, and even when I left the room and attempted to “Join friend in PvP” it sent me right back to Khylo rather than Forest where everyone else was playing.

Did this happen after a build?

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Parallel custom arena/flood of "Play now" ppl

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It tries to use player run custom arenas by design. The hot-join arenas are just custom arenas that we run, and are not treated any differently.

If we can’t find a custom arena with available slots, we will spin up another one and start placing players there as well.

If you want to keep people out of your arena, password protect it. If you want to exclude it from play now, then disable progression. If you want progression, you have to accept other players coming in.

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can't play the game due to gold seller spam

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WAAAAAAAAAY More Gold Spammers Post Patch

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A Guide to sPvP (1. Teamcomps and roles)

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I appreciate the community coming together to help the community. Thanks OP for taking the time to write this up and the rest of the community to help grow this thread. If we help each other we can not only make each other better, make games less toxic, and grow the community at the same time.

+1 on threads like this.

Personal story bug

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When you picked the OOW by accident, it set that as your membership, but when you alt-F4d to redo the story step, and chose the Vigil, it ALSO set that as your chosen Order. This can cause weirdness in any case where it’s spawning Order NPCs or choosing which storyline to do next.

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Save our spawns!<3 GW2community

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Hello all,

As the thread has gone mostly to thread bumping, we will close it. We do not allow posts of nothing but “+1” or “bump to the top”. We understand the desire to keep a thread’s discussion alive, but we prefer that you do so with a post that adds constructive discussion to the thread.

The lack of..

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Hello folks,

We do not mind if you debate each other on this thread. Please remain respectful towards each other, without name-calling and personal attacks. If it continues, we will remove the thread.

Name Infraction and Naming Policy Questions

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If you have a question about in-game character name changes, you should contact Support. You can do so here: http://en.support.guildwars2.com/

WvW ranks not accumulating for me

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I’m investigating this issue. Nothing final to report yet, but I wanted you to know that it’s being looked into.

One suspicion I have as to what happened has to do with how the account-bound WXP feature was released in phases. For some time prior to the 4/15 update, we had the WXP of characters which loaded into maps added to the account total. But your character’s WXP was still being displayed and used for game logic as before. This let us check on the correctness of things before completely using account-bound WXP.

So, one thing I think might have happened: If you took note of your Rank after the 4/15 update, that account Rank would have already included the WXP from other characters that you played with while we were in the prior phase of testing account-bound WXP. Then after using one of those other characters, your account Rank wouldn’t have changed, since that character would have already been added to the account total.

Game Update Notes - April 15, 2014

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General

  • The Champion Breeder that Detha lures in has lost her champion bag, and it will be returned to her once found.
  • Separatist Captain DeLana and Separatist Sergeant have lost their rewards while they go through inventory management training.

[Merged topics] Achievement bug: no chests, dailies stuck

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This bug affecting time-gated features has been addressed as of today’s hotfix. If you are being affected by it, you will need to log in to this build before the next reset of that time-gated feature. At the next reset for that time-gated feature it will reset properly.

Connection Error(s) Detected. Retrying...

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Hey all,

After looking through the Game Advisor reports attached to this thread and looking at support tickets that have been coming into us, a lot of players appear to have port 6112 blocked which you can see under “Checking server connectivity”:

================ = Checking server connectivity ================

auth1.101.arenanetworks.com
156.154.176.241:6112 – connect failed
156.154.175.241:6112 – connect failed

auth2.101.arenanetworks.com
156.154.176.241:80 – connect succeeded
156.154.175.241:80 – connect succeeded
156.154.176.241:6112 – connect failed
156.154.175.241:6112 – connect failed

auth1.101.arenanetworks.com
156.154.176.241:80 – connect succeeded
156.154.175.241:80 – connect succeeded

File1.ArenaNetworks.com
156.154.176.241:6112 – connect failed
156.154.175.241:6112 – connect failed
156.154.176.241:80 – connect succeeded
156.154.175.241:80 – connect succeeded

Diag.ArenaNetworks.com
156.154.176.241:6112 – connect failed
156.154.175.241:6112 – connect failed
156.154.176.241:80 – connect succeeded
156.154.175.241:80 – connect succeeded

origincdn.101.arenanetworks.com
156.154.176.241:80 – connect succeeded
156.154.175.241:80 – connect succeeded

Guild Wars 2 requires TCP ports 80, 443, 6112 and port 6600 be fully unrestricted and accessible, both inbound and outbound. If you are connecting to Guild Wars 2 while on a campus, military, or business network, please check with your network’s administrator to verify that these ports are fully opened and unrestricted. If you are on a home Local Area Network (LAN), you will want to make sure that your network’s hardware is configured properly.

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Kopper, I think part of the situation here is that you’re confusing two acquired sets with two purchased sets. If you purchased two sets, we’d issue a refund for the second purchased set. But if you purchased one set and got a second set free with the game, that’s not a refund that we’d make.

I’m sorry if I’m misunderstanding, and an agent will continue to review your ticket to see what we can do for you. (In fact, he’s doing so right now.) But I noticed that you mentioned the two sets and I wanted to make sure you were clear on the difference between two purchases (where one would be refunded as a duplicate) and two acquisitions (where we would not issue a refund).

Don’t worry about having multiple agents work on a ticket. Each is reviewing notes left by the previous agent, and I don’t see any failure in the process here.

Gaile Gray
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Game Update Notes - April 15, 2014

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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the Black Lion Trader [Armorsmith]. This NPC will once again exchange older town clothes for outfits and tonics.
  • Fixed a bug in which time-gated features were not properly resetting.
    • This bug affecting time-gated features has been addressed as of today’s hotfix. If you are being affected by it, you will need to log in to this build before the next reset of that time-gated feature. At the next reset for that time-gated feature it will reset properly.
  • Fixed an issue that caused daily achievement rewards to be granted erroneously.
  • Fixed a bug in which leveling up during PvP would heal the player.
  • The Fires of Balthazar Skin has been changed to be account bound on acquire.
  • To alleviate concerns about team coordination, the foreign language filter no longer applies in the Edge of the Mists. The filter is always disabled while in any WvW map.
  • WvW rank-up bonus chests are now limited per account:
    • No new bonus chests will be awarded beyond a maximum of 99.
    • Existing bonus chests will be capped at 250. Any beyond this will be discarded.

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Storyline popup won't go away

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Hey all,

This may be a bug but we’re still looking into it. For those of you experiencing this issue could you please submit a support ticket?

Customer Support and the Feature Pack

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There are separate rules for what is appropriate on the forums and in-game. When you are talking about a discussion with a staff member when a CS person is assisting, you shouldn’t be using their name of people you’ve talked to via Support. It tends to lead to insults and pile ups on our staff, which is why we do not allow it on the forums. It is why the Moderation Team asks you to continue talking to support privately for your privacy and our employees.

We have separate policies and processes for what happens on the forums, and it is a separate team from CS. This is why we ask you to email forums@arena.net if you have any questions about policies or actions on your accounts.

And on this note, let’s get this back on topic, so we do not have to remove everyone’s posts who has veered off topic to Michael & Team’s posts.

Kessex Hills map completion, no reward?

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Have you previously completed Kessex Hills? New POIs were added during the living world stories, so it was possible to have the POI count display missing POIs, and hitting 100% on the map won’t reward you a second time.