Guild Wars 2

Svarty.8019:

There appears to be a confusing naming error on the Ascended WvW gear.

I think this is how it should be:

• Tier 1 should be called: Triumphant Hero’s Gear
• Tier 2 should all be called: Mistforged Triumphant Hero’s Gear
• Tier 3 should be called: Sublime Mistforged Triumphant Hero’s Gear

At the moment, the list is as in the screenshot.

The text on the Sublime Chest Piece reads: “You must own the Triumphant Hero’s Raiment and be WvW rank 2000 to purchase this armor.”
I think that should read Mistforged Triumphant Hero’s Raiment – so you need Tier2 to buy Tier3.

But I’m not sure.

The names are correct. I think the confusion here stems from the names of the Triumphant Hero’s armor getting cut off in the vendor UI. I attached a pic of what it looks like before all those currencies start taking up space. You can also confirm these names by mousing over the items in the vendor window to pull up the tooltip.

The naming tiers go Triumphant->Triumphant Hero’s->Mistforged Triumphant Hero’s, and the sublime chest piece has the tendril effect on the back.

Maxajax.6350:

So, today my internet cut out for a brief moment whilst I was connecting to a PVP match. I attempted to reboot Guild Wars 2 to reconnect, but I was forced to search for my phone due to SMS authentication. When I did get back in the game, I was parked in the PVP lobby instead of being put in my match. I got to wait 5 minutes for my friend to finish losing the 4v5, and then we discovered that we couldn’t queue because we still had 11 minutes of dishonour.

The reason why I mention this on the forums is because I feel that people who run into technical difficulties for a variety of reasons are essentially treated exactly the same as people that ALT+F4 during pvp matches. I’m somewhat hoping that Anet could perhaps change that. I know I shouldn’t be queueing on bad Wifi during vacation, but I’m a PvP addict.

Missing a queue pop if you previously had 0 dishonor would only result in 3 minutes of being unable to queue for PvP. But before this happened, you had an abandoned match (you dropped from a match in progress) 1.5 hours before.

This causes the penalty to ramp up, hence the harsher penalty.

There is no reliable way to tell if someone dropped intentionally or not, so there will always be dishonor if you disconnect.

The Champion of Tyria Package is now available again in the Gem Store. Thanks for your patience.

Loop.8106:

Cal Cohen.3527:

Loop.8106:

Apparently placements doesnt count leavers. Had a fantastic 3v5 game from start to finish that still counted towards a loss.

The game still shows as a loss in the UI but your rating is unaffected.

I did get an extra loss on the placement UI and it did count towards the 10 games.

Right. The UI shows the game as a loss, but your rating was unaffected. Usually when a teammate leaves the match you see the 0 for your rating change after the game ends. During placements your rating isn’t visible yet so you don’t see the 0, but that same result happens.

Loop.8106:

Apparently placements doesnt count leavers. Had a fantastic 3v5 game from start to finish that still counted towards a loss.

The game still shows as a loss in the UI but your rating is unaffected.

Unfortunately we cannot give you all the details. It’s as simple as that. I’m not trying to be mean but there are details of the game and the studio we cannot share with players. Though… If you are really passionate about this problem we’re always looking for good people to join the team https://www.arena.net/#careers.

Ok. I take on board that there’s “art” and there’s “info” and videos can fall into either category… and sometimes both.

Here’s a new idea:

What about a thread — as we have here for screenshots — that allows people to post links to and explanations of their videos in a separate thread in each subforum: profession, WvW, PvP, etc.? That would help keep videos visible (I’d sticky the thread) and organized in a single thread, rather than getting complaints that there are too many videos rather than discussions in those sub-forums, or too many action videos in the art sub-forum.

Thoughts?

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug in Siren’s Landing in which foes in the “Kill the undead that have escaped into the camp” event would become friendly at 0 health.
• Fixed a bug in Siren’s Landing in which the lava would occasionally continue to apply burning to players after they left it.
• Fixed a server crash.

Black Lion Trading Company

Improvements:

• Improved tooltips on some items from the Living World Season 1 Memory Boxes.

I’d like to start off by saying the WvW team works hard to keep up with forums and also reddit. Your feed back and discussion is awesome and we love reading what you guys have to say. The unfortunate reality is we cannot reply to every post and so it may seem as though we aren’t reading things.

I’ve stated in a previous thread that deleting worlds and letting players choose a new world is something we have considered in many forms. At this time we do not have a solution that we feel solves enough of the issues with population balance while also hitting enough of our requirements for a change to be made.

As I said above we love the discussions and suggestions you guys have for WvW this particular problem is tricky as you guys don’t have all the details we are working from. A lot of the ideas we’ve seen have been well thought out and detailed they fall short because you guys are working from a limited perspective and not solving the whole issue.

Last Warrior Lord.7248:

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’d like to know your thoughts about the recent PvP and WvW preview weekend that presented the new Path of Fire elite specializations.

Please share your input about the August 18-20 Preview Weekend, preferably in 100 words or fewer

Thanks!

Go to class forums please. Already feedbacks there and I don’t think they are going repeat what already said to here. Plus that this thread going to be cluttered up.

We know there is individual feedback in the profession forums, and I’m sure the devs will read it. This thread is very useful, though, because it’s asking for clear and concise feedback, and that is very helpful to us, in addition to the more detailed input that players wish to share.

We have temporarily removed the Champion of Tyria Package from the Gem Store while we address an issue with it. We will make it available again as soon as possible.

At this time, we believe that everyone who might have wanted to make a comment about this topic has done so… perhaps repeatedly. We’ll close it now.

We’d like to know your thoughts about the recent PvP and WvW preview weekend that presented the new Path of Fire elite specializations.

Please share your input about the August 18-20 Preview Weekend, preferably in 100 words or fewer

Thanks!

Guys,

The reason that this particular name is blocked is entirely different than you believe. In fact, we block names that have a space around the letter “G” because that’s the most effective way to block someone from posing as a Game Master. We learned from experience in our own and other games that some people impersonate GM’s in an attempt to scam other players. They might use GM Fred or G M Fred, or they may incorporate symbols that look like “GM” at a glance. Blocking a self-standing letter “G” allows us to better prevent that unfortunate situation.

I wanted to be sure that you knew this this thread is still active and your input is welcome. This thread pertains to the PvE Preview, our first of two events. I’m now (since the preview is over) posting a PvP/WvW Preview feedback thread.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on either or both subjects!

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a server crash.

Hey guys,

I just took a peek at my Private Message box, and yes, it’s pretty busy there, but it’s great that so many of you have indicated you’d like to attend the Guild Wars 2 Fifth Anniversary Party!

It’s not too late to request a possible spot on the VIP list, so go ahead and let me know you’d like to get on the list if you will be in Seattle on September 1st, and if you will be sure to attend if you land a spot. And say, if you haven’t had a response to a recent request yet, don’t despair! I decided to tackle that bursting PM box on Monday rather than on the weekend.

I’ll be getting back to as many of you as possible over the next day, and will be accepting requests until Monday morning, August 27th. This gives me Monday to review the last requests and get back to everyone and it gives you time to plan to attend the party! Fancy dress is not required… although I do so love cosplayers and those who sport GW2 gear!

I’m looking forward to seeing a bunch of you at the party! <3

Could you post the *—> Crash <— * section of the details?

Bug Fixes:

Necromancer

• Scourge: Fixed a permissions bug preventing necromancers from accessing their scourge profession abilities underwater.

Ranger

• Leader of the Pack: Fixed a bug with this trait’s interaction when using the skill One Wolf Pack.

We’re made note of these inconsistencies and will be standardizing all boss damage auras alongside the next raid release.

Check the raid patch-notes for details at that time.

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a server crash.

This thread has more than exceeded its reasonable shelf-life. The heat within it, and the accusatory and insulting tone adopted by many leads to the conclusion that it’s time to close it. Clearly, anyone interested in the subject has more than said his/her fill — in some cases many, many times over — and the time expended by the moderation team is excessive for dealing with a single thread.

Suffice to say, opinions on this topic vary widely, and that’s perfectly fine.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

This was one of my favorite decisions made by the actors and ANet. There was a lot of criticism of Trahearne (some well deserved, some not so much). I attributed much of it to Trahearne being such a Debbie Downer (rather than a Debi Derryberry): things never end well with him, which is exactly the opposite of what you want from a Pact Marshall (even if the dude is conflicted about his own role, he should be confident-ish in front of the troops).

Matthew Brenher agreed to re-record a lot of his bits, as well as do the voices for some of the color dialogue in Silverwastes and the Rebuilt LA. He went from being one of the most disappointing actors in the game (for me) to one of the best. (Example: hang out by LA’s mystic forge and listen for an Asura remarking on the amount of weapons that Zommy is collecting.)

Big thanks to ANet and Brenher for making this happen.

In my opinion, our biggest failings with Trahearne at launch were that his dialog was inconsistent and that we gave him bad direction in the VO booth (my fault, not the VO director’s). Matthew Brenher is a fine actor who has range. His initial deliveries, coupled with some lackluster “first draft” lines, came off as flat. I’m glad we were able to go back and fix some of those things. I’m also happy that we wrote better dialog for him in Season 2 that made him more relatable, friendly.

Thanks for the kind words. Means a lot.

Bug Fixes:

• Enabled access to Captain Ellen Kiel’s office so players can complete tasks required by the Dreamer and Quip legendary collections.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Sword of Justice damage from scaling with the guardian’s attributes.
• Fixed a client crash.

Guardian

• Signets: Fixed a bug in which Perfect Inscriptions allowed the stacking of multiple passive effects.
• Sword of Justice: Increased the base damage of this skill by 80%.

We are aware and are working on a fix.

RAWR.4273:

EDIT – a kind soul has gifted me my request! Thank you so much! <3 Time to pay it forward.
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Hello everyone! Thank you to all the players that are going around helping others out! It really is satisfying to see that there are other players out there that are more than about themselves!

The only thing I’ve really wanted is the Miniature Raven. It’s so cute and amazing, I missed my chance to buy the Mini Avian 3 Pack when it was available, so now I’m hoping to get Black Lion Keys in order to get the 2 Black Lion Miniature Claim Tickets needed to exchange for the Miniature Raven.

If anyone out there can help me with some Black Lion Keys, I’d really appreciate it and would be forever be indebted to you!

And this is how everyone should update their thread, to note that the item was received and to express thanks.

Well done, RAWR!

nottsgman.8206:

Daniel.5428, I think you need to re-read the first post, especially the part I quoted below, as this is your third request in this thread. please be more respectful of the kindness of others.

Administrator Note: In the giving spirit of this thread, we are limiting requests to one request per player. This will allow more players to benefit from the generosity inspired by this initiative. Please do not make more than one post over the lifetime of the thread. In addition, please do not edit or delete your post to submit an additional request. Thank you for your cooperation.

Thank you for noting the multiple requests, nottsgman. They have been removed.

Guys — I’m seeing a lot of requests, but many of them are incomplete.

I have reformatted the post to make this super clear. I need this information from you in order to be eligible for the VIP list:

Individual Requests

• Your first and last name
• The first and last name of a guest. Please let me know if you are not bringing a guest.
• Your contact e-mail address for verification.

Guild Requests

• The guild name
• The first and last names of guild members who would like to be a guest at our party.
• Your contact e-mail address for verification

If you submitted a request and did NOT send the above information, please find your PM in your sent folder and re-send it with all the details that I need.

Thank you!

Okay. We think we have a bead on what is happening with the keyboard, though it’d be good to get some confirmation from some of you.

Open Terminal, and run the game via command line. If installed in the default location, this would look like:

open /Applications/Guild\ Wars\ 2\ 64-bit.app/Contents/MacOS/GuildWars2

This will open a second Terminal window that will fill with text as the game runs. Play the game as per normal until you encounter the bug. Quit the game. Once the game is shut down the Terminal window should have a final line saying “[Process completed]”. If you could save the entire log from this window and post it that would help us confirm our suspicion and get us one step closer to resolving this frustrating bug!

Saving the log:

1. ?A (Edit > Select All) will select the contents of the window
2. ???C (Edit > Copy Special > Copy Plain Text) will copy the now selected contents
3. Open TextEdit or your favorite text editor
4. ?V (Edit > Paste)
5. Save the file
6. Reply to this thread with the file as an attachment

Thank you!

Hannelore.8153:

Yes, they redid it. For the most part, its better, he especially gives alot more credit to the player during the personal story than he did before.

However, i don’t like they added his monologue over the Claw Island cutscene. That was originally a very emotional cutscene with just the sombre background music and now it plays trumpets while Trehearne talks about victory. :/

That monologue was actually written and recorded for the game’s launch in 2012. However, a bug with the cinematic playback system was preventing the audio from being heard—for years! Our audio programmer back in 2015 fixed the bug, which finally allowed the cinematic to be played as originally intended. By then, a lot of people were used to it being silent.

Ashantara.8731:

I am just playing “A Light in the Darkness”, and Trahearne’s motivational speech to the troops (during the glimpse into the future) all of a sudden sounds, well, motivational, convincing and strong!

The last time I heard it, it sounded like he had taken some sleeping pills.

Have parts of his dialogue across the game been re-recorded? If so, finally and kudos!

Konig is correct. We re-recorded and, in some cases, rewrote Trahearne’s dialog in the Personal Story. We also added some updated art assets, sound effects, and fixed some bugs. What you’re hearing was released back in mid-2015 as part of the Personal Story Restoration project.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update/first

Keep those requests coming, folks!

I will respond as quickly as I am able, so keep your eyes on your Private Message folder.

yay! Glad it worked out. Thanks to everyone for helping us sort this issue out.

This should be fixed with the most recent patch. Please let us know if you have any more problems, and thank you very much for your patience!

Hey guys,

Just a couple of housekeeping notes:

• Please do not submit more than one request. Submit for yourself and a +1, but don’t have your +1 submit for themselves and you! That more than doubles my work, and it does not increase your chances of getting on the VIP list. In fact, if you do that, your request may be ~ahem~ accidentally deleted… which would be unfortunate, but these technical issues do occasionally arise.
• Please be sure to include a contact e-mail address, for verification purposes. If we have two people signing in as Marcus Leonardo Graciamos de Choya, we want to have a fallback plan for identification.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a client crash occurring in the Bitter Harvest story instance.
• Removed Path of Fire drops from non-Path of Fire content.
• Adjusted Ogre Watch territory.
• Fixed a bug in which anomaly fragments could be absorbed by the Legendary Anomaly at long range if they were stunned immediately after spawning.
• Performed server maintenance. (PvP Demo)

Guardian

• Sword of Justice: Fixed a bug that could cause this skill to strike fewer times than expected if the guardian was attacking at the same time.
• Hammer of Wisdom: Fixed a bug that prevented Hammer of Wisdom damage from scaling with the guardian’s attributes.
• Shield of the Avenger: Fixed a bug that prevented Shield of the Avenger damage from scaling with the guardian’s attributes.

Ranger

• Pets: Fixed a bug that caused a delay in readiness upon pet swap or world entry.
• Entangle: Fixed a bug that listed damage from this skill as Jacaranda’s Embrace.
• Ancient Seeds: Fixed a bug that listed damage from this trait as Jacaranda’s Embrace.

Thanks for reporting this! I’ll look into it.

Here’s an experiment for those of you hitting the keyboard bug: turn off autocorrect.

For newer versions of macOS this is in the Text tab of Keyboard Preferences.
For older versions of macOS this is in the Text tab of Language & Text Preferences.

New theory to test: turn off autocorrect

For newer versions of macOS this is in the Text tab of Keyboard Preferences.
For older versions of macOS this is in the Text tab of Language & Text Preferences.

Hello, German Loc team speaking here. Thank you for all your feedback on the translation for “scourge”. This is how we came up with the names for the specializations: Once the names were final in English, we put up a vote on our alpha forum and accepted suggestions. We checked if the finalists were already used in another context in the game and if they had a male and female version due to titles. This was one of the reasons, we did not decide for “Geißel”.

If you find other things in German you want to tell us about, please check out the forum Übersetzung / Lokalisierung.

Xstein.2187:

Submitted a guild request for the Pax party.
Names and contact information is included in the pm.
Thanks for the opportunity!

To Elona we must go
Into deserts where fires flow
Just beware the dead of Joko
But no worries, for we have Mo.

Excellent work right there.

Orion Templar.4589:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey guys,

I just heard from Irenio, and he mentioned that there is a second fix going in that should eliminate a few lingering issues with the Pet Swap delay. The situation was only partially addressed the first time around but the whole issue should be fully resolved with this second pass.

Naturally if you continue to have issues, we want to hear it, and we’ll keep an eye on this thread in case you need to report something. However, I believe this will render this bug “done and dusted.”

Excellent – thank you for that update! Definitely looking forward to having a responsive pet immediately after swap once again.

Yep, yep. They’ve been slacking off far too long.

IndigoSundown.5419:

The point is to mimic real life. Owning a cat can be very expensive.

This is true. You give them tuna-flavored kibbles, and they soon want kitty tuna in a can. From kitty tuna, they move to real-people tuna, and soon you’re purchasing hand-made sushi from the most expensive restaurant in Bellevue.

(The above was intended to bring a smile to knowing cat owners, not to reduce the serious nature of the concerns expressed in this thread.)

More on topic: As a player, I know there are a few cats I won’t have, but I don’t mind — there are plenty that I can acquire, and I love the way they enliven my home instance!

Hey guys,

I just heard from Irenio, and he mentioned that there is a second fix going in that should eliminate a few lingering issues with the Pet Swap delay. The situation was only partially addressed the first time around but the whole issue should be fully resolved with this second pass.

Naturally if you continue to have issues, we want to hear it, and we’ll keep an eye on this thread in case you need to report something. However, I believe this will render this bug “done and dusted.”

Hey there, Forum Folk!

ArenaNet has two upcoming events:

• A panel at PAX West called “Go Behind the Sound of Video Games with ArenaNet”
• The official Guild Wars 2 Fifth Anniversary Party

You can get details about both of these events in this blog post.

Forum members: How would you like to be added to the VIP List for our party?

If you will be in Seattle on September 1st and would like to attend the party, post below and send me a Private Message. Send me:

• Your first and last name
• The first and last name of a guest — if you are not bringing a guest, please tell me that
• Your contact e-mail address for verification.

If you’re writing for tickets on behalf of a guild, please PM with:

• The guild name
• The first and last names of guild members who would like to be a guest at our party.
• Your contact e-mail address for verification.

I will respond with a Private Message on the forums. I will not e-mail a response.

Important Notes:

• Please request a VIP guest list spot only if you are able to and plan to attend the party. Sure, it’s fun to “win” things, but if you take a spot and then don’t attend, another fan is not able to get in and that makes us a sad choya.
• You do not need a PAX pass to attend the GW2 Fifth Anniversary party. (A PAX Pass is required to attend the afternoon sound panel.)
• A minor may attend if they are accompanied by an adult.
• All confirmations will be sent via PM — I will not be e-mailing a confirmation. I plan to respond via PM to confirm all VIPs on or before August 28th.
• Guests will be randomly selected from those who request a VIP spot. Of course, if you happen to write a fervent love letter to Guild Wars 2, pen a haiku about your devotion to the game, or in some way share your love of all things Guild Wars and ArenaNet, we sure won’t mind! (Note: This is not required, it’s just for fun. )

Q: Can Non-VIPs Attend the Party?

A: If you don’t make the VIP list, don’t worry, you still may be able to get into the party! Stop on by and we’ll see if we can get you in, too!

Guild Wars 2 Fifth Anniversary Party

Hard Rock Cafe
116 Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98101

Friday, September 1, 2017
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Codes.6870:

Will we ever get to see Koss again?

He’s one of my favorite heroes in GW1 Nightfall and I am hoping there’s something epic in stored for him in this upcoming expansion.

I know 250 years have already passed, but anything is possible right?

Anything is possible. :-)

The tournament has been reset. That should free you. Let us know if not!

Sorry for the inconvenience!

We’re investigating now.

I just updated the title to make it clear we’re offering a VIP invitation to our 5th Anniversary Party to fan artists.

Menadena.7482:

Sorry, I could not find the mega thread, is it still here?

it’s here

Menadena.7482:

Anyway, I was in my guild hall doing gathering and suddenly my arrows were working but other keys were not working. I had to use my mouse to quit the client and come back. I checked and it did not switch to another keyboard.

Unfortunately this is really something that should be addressed before the 64 bit is the only option for mac people. It is not like this is a graphics bug as you can not predict when it will happen.

As I’ve stated a few times now, it’s been incredibly difficult to reproduce in-house.

I have a couple theories about it that I’d love for you to try if/when it happens again:

The first theory is to press each of the modifier keys, one at a time. Possibly testing if the keys work again after each. Left and right versions of the keys matter here too. The specific keys to try are Shift, Alt/Option, Command and Function.

The second theory is to Cmd-Tab/task-switch to another app and back. Finder works for this.

Thanks