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That’s adorable.

What a great idea, CornishRose. And that’s sure to encourage others to jump into next year’s event. Major high fives to everyone who was involved in such a fun event!

I didn’t see this until now, but wanted to say I really love it! It’s a very stylish presentation of one of my favorite characters, too.

That’s great! I hope your neighbors were suitably scared… or impressed.

So much personali… I mean asura-nality in that image!!

That’s great!

That’s really fun, and your images are great! Thanks for sharing and Happy Halloween!

Worlds have now been re-linked.

Here are the worlds for NA:
• Blackgate
• Jade Quarry
• Tarnished Coast
• Maguuma, Eredon Terrace
• Yak’s Bend, Anvil Rock
• Fort Aspenwood, Sanctum of Rall
• Sea of Sorrows, Ehmry Bay
• Stormbluff Isle, Gate of Madness
• Dragonbrand, Borlis Pass, Kaineng
• Northern Shiverpeaks, Sorrow’s Furnace
• Henge of Denravi, Ferguson’s Crossing, Isle of Janthir
• Crystal Desert, Darkhaven, Devona’s Rest

We’re still trying to figure out what the plan will be going forward. Nothing to report yet.

This did remind me to go rip through the whitelisting queue though, I’ll try to get to that more regularly from here on out.

Sorry, I didn’t get the memo that the world linking was updating. EU updated (I needed to update NA slightly before reset as well, sorry)

Pyriall.1683:

Hey CMC, why don’t you guys do something about GS if you already acknowledge that it is behind staff and main hand/wh for power builds? What’s the problem?

I don’t think staff is strictly better on power builds, but I valued the condi transfer, unblockable fear, and ranged life force generation pretty highly. I really wanted to run 5 shouts to maximize value with reaper rune and vuln on chill trait, so staff filled a lot of holes. I haven’t played much with GS but I imagine the build would be significantly different. Might try some stuff out this weekend for fun.

That’s very nicely done! Thanks for sharing.

BenjaminK.8792:

Some new stuff created during the last week ;-)

Hi Benjamin,

In preparing for Norn-vember, can you tell me how I would write the name of the female ranger in the second set of images? The URL has a gap, and I’m not sure how it would be written. It seems it may be Sjælla Sigrunsdottir. Is that right?

Thank you!

Hey, those are nice!

Worlds have now been re-linked.

Here are the worlds for EU:

• Far Shiverpeaks (EN)
• Piken Square (EN)
• Seafarer’s Rest (EN), Whiteside Ridge (EN)
• Desolation (EN), Vabbi (EN)
• Gandara (EN), Ruins of Surmia (EN)
• Aurora Glade (EN), Blacktide (EN), Fissure of Woe (EN)
• Gunnar’s Hold (EN), Ring of Fire (EN), Underworld (EN)
• Riverside (DE)
• Elona Reach (DE)
• Kodash (DE)
• Drakkar Lake (DE), Miller’s Sound (DE)
• Abaddon’s Mouth (DE), Dazgonur (DE)
• Jade Sea (FR), Fort Ranik (FR)
• Vizunah Square (FR), Arborstone (FR), Augury Rock (FR)
• Baruch Bay (SP)

Endless Soul.5178:

Well, it’s on the Gem Store for 350 gems. 4 days only!

~snagged it~

Me too. In about .3 nanoseconds. I never spent gems so quickly — or so happily — in my life.

October 2016 Episode

Guest: Steve Hwang, Game Designer – ArenaNet

Here are the featured artists from this month’s show:

• Kaedalus
• Joyce Moenen
• Eldritch Rach
• The Designs
• Shira
• Citri
• Wild Dalek Appeared
• Sefokusu
• Yubria
• Serenity
• Manya
• Red Dandellion
• Koreena Anchalis
• Dragon Food
• Silkia
• Eexa
• Suzzanne
• ach-die-anna
• Artrisy
• Marzy Marrs
• Katnaxel
• Light of Dwayna
• Ask Leo the Asura Engineer
• Ting Siu Ip
• Renaissance Girl
• Obfuscate
• Charlotte
• LyraHeart
• Dream of Trahearne
• Rebecca Whitten
• Sayael
• mistbeing
• Marschire
• Dominik & Arcus Pride

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the show, as well as those who joined us during its presentation. Special thanks to our guest Steve Hwang, who is a long-time coworker and friend.

Please remember that we can go “back in time” to select art for a show, so never hesitate to share things, even if they are “off season.” For instance, some of the art for next year’s Halloween show will be chosen from this year’s shared art. If you share here, great! Sharing on the forums means you have given us have permission to feature the art. If you’re sharing on Tumblr, please always use the hashtag #GW2 Fan Submission to ensure we can showcase your art!

Next Show: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — Noon Pacific Time

Oh hey, and you can help me out, if you would! Sometimes the human and the norn look a lot alike. So if you have posted art and haven’t specifically said it’s a norn, update the thread to say that, ok?

Honestly, I often can figure it out. Tall. Braids. Transform to animals. Serious expressions and massive weapons. I got all that. But sometimes there’s this dainty norn in Hoelbrak and I do a double-take, so better for me to ask.

setius.3498:

So your question made me curious and i asked my friend why he wanted me to do this again…and well.. look here:

forgiveme I never played gw1. (but sooon, maybe?)

Well, now I feel really, really guilty! In truth, I have a fond place in my heart for Prince Rurik… or at least I did until he reminded me for the 419th time about his childhood.

Hesacon.8735:

Cal Cohen.3527:

Funnily enough I mostly played power necro when climbing to legend last season. The build I played is pretty janky, but it was a fun change of pace and ended up being a bit better than I expected.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZ6kZTocTsbTwdTgeTsgLYQXtAwBgKN0GeWxXxuYYE-TpBFABMcEAA4BAU/+DNcIAEvMABnAAA

Depending on the amount of condi builds on the enemy team I would swap in plague signet, and if the enemy comp was super condi heavy I would swap SR for curses to get the extra plague signet proc as well.

Not trying to say power necro is top tier or anything but it was good enough to win games with and pretty fun to play.

What, no greatsword?

Warhorn and Staff are both so strong that it’s hard to run greatsword

Funnily enough I mostly played power necro when climbing to legend last season. The build I played is pretty janky, but it was a fun change of pace and ended up being a bit better than I expected.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZ6kZTocTsbTwdTgeTsgLYQXtAwBgKN0GeWxXxuYYE-TpBFABMcEAA4BAU/+DNcIAEvMABnAAA

Depending on the amount of condi builds on the enemy team I would swap in plague signet, and if the enemy comp was super condi heavy I would swap SR for curses to get the extra plague signet proc as well.

Not trying to say power necro is top tier or anything but it was good enough to win games with and pretty fun to play.

Hey all,

If you tune in the Community Showcase Live, or watch it later on YouTube — October episode here — then you know we’re going with “theme” shows for the November and December episodes:

• November is Norn-vember, and while we’ll feature other works of art, our primary focus is the Norn (and winter as a sub-theme).
• December will be, as you might expect, our Wintersday Show.

The shows, and the dates I will be pulling assets, follow:
November: The Norn-vember Show will be broadcast on Wednesday, November 30 at Noon Pacific Time. I will be selecting featured art by Tuesday, November 8.
December: The Wintersday Show will be broadcast on Wednesday, December 14, at Noon Pacific Time. I will be selecting featured art on by Thursday, December 1st.

By way of background, I need to select art early in the month so that we have time to build the show deck, line up a guest, write the script (gotta give credit to all our artists!), and record the show for airing on the dates listed above.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Otherwise, I hope to see you in Twitch chat on the above dates, or through YouTube at any time!

Update: This content has been re-enabled. Thank you for your patience.

Hello,

This thread has run for a long while, and for the most part, it’s gone very well. However, forum members have noted, and we’ve observed, that a pattern has developed amongst some participants of repeatedly asking for items. This wouldn’t be quite so bad if folks were leaving their posts in place so that such patterns were visible. However, by editing the post, or even deleting previous posts, participants make it unclear that they have been gifted with items—sometimes many times over. And that has led others to feel compelled to point out this fact to the Forums Team and ask for help with this well-intentioned thread.

You should know that the Forums Team can see deleted posts, even if members cannot. And all of us can see that edits were made.

I note Saranii’s post above, and I commend it: They edited their post to update, to say “Yes, I received the items I requested, and thanks very much.” And that is the way to do this: To clearly and honestly state “I’d like this item” and then be upfront about receiving it. No stealth deletions, no after-the-fact changes in requests (to ask for more or different things). Just a clear, straightforward Post / Update Post / Done.

So here’s the new rule: One trip to the well. ONE! If you asked for something and received it, that’s the end of the road, and no further requests may be added to this thread now or in the future.

We’ll leave this open for a while longer, as a test. The effort within this thread is a marvelous idea, and we hope that it can continue. But at this point, the generosity of our players is being abused and that cannot continue. If that pattern does continue, we’ll have no other option but to close this thread.

• If you have participated as requesting forum member, you’re done now. No further requests will be permitted at any time.
• If you note multiple requests from the same person, please PM me so we can deal with the matter.
• If you have participated as a gift giver, thank you, and please take confidence that we’ll do our best to keep this effort going in the fairest and most meaningful way possible.

Join us at Noon Pacific for Community Showcase Live!

We are concerned about you, and hope that you will reach out to people or agencies who may be able to help you. Here is the number of the Suicide Prevention Lifeline for North America, available 24 hours a day: 1-800-273-8255. More information can be found here. If you are not in North America, we encourage you to reach out to your local authorities and they will provide you with a resource in your location. Alternately, you may find this list of assistance.

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a bug with the Ghostly Outfit in which crashes could occur.

We’re happy with the results of the new build and have not been receiving new crash reports from it. For those asking, the Ghostly Outfit has been enabled in the Gem Store again. Thanks for your understanding!

Hi all,

I’m here to add more information on this issue. We believe we have identified what caused the outfit to crash and the solution. Internal testing has been successful against this fix as well.

There is a new game build that just became available that has this change in it and we have people here ready to test it. From internal tests I’m expecting this new build to resolve the cases relating to the animation graphic setting being on low. This is the cases where the outfit was worn and the character crashed and cannot get back into the game, crashing when you see someone else wearing it, and we’ve enabled the ability to use the outfit from your inventory again.

While in the old build the above issues will still be present so I do recommend taking the new build asap if this specific issue has been affecting your gameplay today.

madison.1034:

That does not seem to fit my issue. I have graphic animations on high. My crashes started happening with everyone else so I figured it had to do with the outfit but maybe not. Never had issue like this before.

Hi Madison,

I posted this above to Deli and think it may be good for your case as well. If you’d rather submit a customer support ticket and send me that ticket number, please let me know.

1. confirm the crash you are receiving looks like this in the crash log:

Assertion: normalOffset == (unsigned)-1 || frameOffset == (unsigned)-1
File: ..\..\..\Engine\ModelFileFormat\ModelFileMerge.cpp(2440

2. attach a screenshot of your graphic settings
3. Let me know if you are on PC or Mac
4. What your player race and gender is
5. As many details about the crash as possible. Examples:
- Were you wearing the Ghostly Outfit when you crashed? If so, were you showing the helm?
- Did you preview it even if it is in your inventory and you previewed it?
- Or was someone else that you saw wearing it?
- Or are you stuck crashing on character create after equipping the outfit?

Thank you!

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Is this going to be fixed some time today, is what I would like to know. Though I suppose if it’s under investigation, I probably have as much knowledge of when it will be resolved as those who are actually doing the work.

Would appreciate a post here when things are fixed, though. I don’t intend on logging in again until it’s figured out because I’ve crashed at least 5 times now and it’s not worth the frustration.

Have you tried the workaround above that Gaile posted? I’m interested in knowing if it helps your case. I imagine you are getting in game (past character select) before crashing?

Yes; we will continue to communicate as much as we can about this issue!

To folks who are arguing for a fix one week in advance of the release of the outfit. Let’s be clear: You didn’t have “early access.” You used data-mined information to try to gain access to, or look at, an unreleased item. We’re not going to try to chase down issue reports related to data-mined or leaked information. Doing so is not productive, and is counter to our policies about such content. Content that is data-mined is subject to change, subject even to removal. Those who view it or try to build a case for its future usefulness — such as seeing stats and expecting that they absolutely will not change — do so at their own risk.

Deli.1302:

I’m still crashing even when set to “medium” or “high”

Hi Deli,

I’m sorry to hear you are still experiencing crashes after the change. To aid in the investigation, would you be willing to provide the below information? If you are more comfortable replying in a customer support ticket, please let me know what that ticket id is.

1. confirm the crash you are receiving looks like this in the crash log:
Assertion: normalOffset == (unsigned)-1 || frameOffset == (unsigned)-1
File: ..\..\..\Engine\ModelFileFormat\ModelFileMerge.cpp(2440
2. attach a screenshot of your graphic settings
3. Let me know if you are on PC or Mac
4. What your player race and gender is
5. As many details about the crash as possible. Examples:
- Were you wearing the Ghostly Outfit when you crashed? If so, were you showing the helm?
- Did you preview it even if it is in your inventory and you previewed it?
- Or was someone else that you saw wearing it?
- Or are you stuck crashing on character create after equipping the outfit?

Thank you!
Sarah

The crashes are being caused by the Ghostly Outfit and we are aware of the issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ghostly-Outfit-Issue/first#post6378552

Felahr.9830:

SarahWitter.2317:

Felahr.9830:

SarahWitter.2317:

Felahr.9830:

I never had any crashing issues, BUT my outfit is still visible. if it was supposed to be disabled its not working. i hope im not causing crashes for other people :/

What player race are you?

Charr

Thank you. Are you showing your helm or having it hidden?

Showing, of course! Its the best part of the entire outfit

Unfortunately, our internal tests are showing that it is most likely tied to the helm. So it is possible that you may be crashing other people’s clients that see you while they have low animation settings. None of this is official yet since we’re still investigating but since you asked…

I’ll share your feedback on the helm with its creators

(I have the outfit too!)

Felahr.9830:

SarahWitter.2317:

Felahr.9830:

I never had any crashing issues, BUT my outfit is still visible. if it was supposed to be disabled its not working. i hope im not causing crashes for other people :/

What player race are you?

Charr

Thank you. Are you showing your helm or having it hidden?

Swagger.1459:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Clearly opinions vary! In the game, I got resounding approval for Cecil, particularly since it eliminated the confusion with another beastie. I’m personally not a fan of using the name of someone I know, like Colin, or Steve. However your mileage may vary, and that’s ok.

The fact of the matter is, if I see someone 2 feet taller than me approaching with a roaring chainsaw, I’m likely to call him “Sir.” Or her “Ma’am.”

Sir Cecil, The Labyrinthine Horror maybe?

Could be. Given it’s all just for fun, and the name won’t change officially, I think anything is fair game.

Felahr.9830:

I never had any crashing issues, BUT my outfit is still visible. if it was supposed to be disabled its not working. i hope im not causing crashes for other people :/

What player race are you?

The maintenance is complete.

madison.1034:

I’m not wearing the ghostly outfit and just started crashing today. Is this affecting players not even wearing the outfit. I get the crash report screen and the entire game freezes.

Yes, from what we know, if your graphic animation setting is on ‘low’ and a player in the outfit showing the helm renders on your client screen, or you preview the outfit, then your client can crash too. Gaile has a workaround post above that you can try.

Sesbog.8705:

Gaile Gray.6029:

We have temporarily disabled the ability to purchase or use the Ghostly Outfit. We will re-enable the outfit as soon as possible.

Topic of this bug was created a week ago, and only now you have seen it?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Ghostly-Outfit-crash/first#post6378654

The item became available this morning. How would we have responded a week in the past?

Edit to add: If you’re referring to a comment about data-mined content, we do not engage in conversation on the topic of data-mined content any more than we engage in conversations about alleged leaks.

Clearly opinions vary! In the game, I got resounding approval for Cecil, particularly since it eliminated the confusion with another beastie. I’m personally not a fan of using the name of someone I know, like Colin, or Steve. However your mileage may vary, and that’s ok.

The fact of the matter is, if I see someone 2 feet taller than me approaching with a roaring chainsaw, I’m likely to call him “Sir.” Or her “Ma’am.”

There is a possible work-around for this issue that may work for you, too. We can’t make any guarantees, but this has been effective for other players.

If you have your animations setting on “Low,” consider bumping it to medium or high. We have found that this eliminates the crash issues connected to preview the new outfit or to seeing others wearing it.

To change your animation setting, do the following:

1. Click the gear in the upper left-hand corner of your game screen
2. Click Options.
3. Choose the mountain image (2nd from the top), which leads to your graphics settings.
4. Under “Advanced Settings” find “Animation” (the second item in that section).
5. Choose “Medium” or “High.”
6. Exit the Options window and the animations settings will be saved to the new one you designated.

Feel free to share in this thread if this work-around was effective for you.

In the meantime, the team is working on resolving this in the best manner possible.

Dinosaurs.8674:

Rising Dusk.2408:

LinseyMurdock.4165:

It would be extremely hard, if not impossible to make those things stack.

Unrelated to the primary thrust of this topic, but couldn’t you add a Mystic Forge recipe to combine 4 25-use BL kits into 1 100-use BL kit, and then 2 100-use BL kits with 2 25-use BL kits to get a 250-use BL kit? That would be pretty legendary if so, because I currently have ~30 BL kits and they’re way too valuable to just waste.

yeah if i could replace my 25-use kits with 10x less 250-use kits that would be pretty swell

I’m happy to poke the Commerce Team about adding some kind of conversion to allow folks to condense multiple 25 use BL salvage kits into one larger kit. I only promise to poke, I can’t promise they will do it

We have temporarily disabled the ability to purchase or use the Ghostly Outfit. We will re-enable the outfit as soon as possible.

Artaz.3819:

Can you all just do some data analytics and view what’s in player’s bank slots / guild banks and then remove the already in storage inventory / any weapons/armor/chests?

Example, if Tattered Bat Wings shows up in 20% of bank storage (and it’s used in a recipe), wouldn’t that be a solid flag?

I am not coming to the community for suggestions because I don’t know how to build a proper list myself. I am doing it because I thought it would be a great opportunity for community engagement and a win all around. You folks get to be heard and included in this project that is very much a Quality of Life issue and I get to follow through to make it happen, which gives me warm fuzzies.

I played my little heart out this weekend, even took a day of PTO to get in more Labyrinth time. And given the confusion with the undersea creature, I’m hoping we can all agree to call the Labyrinthine Horror by the name of… ~drum roll~ … Cecil. It… just seems fitting, and players seemed to agree.

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

I agree about blade shards, chak eggs, mysitic forge stones, etc. I also suggest resonating slivers.

I undertsand why you don’t want to put crafted things in. Would it be hard to at least make more things stackable in the bank, like the various salvage kits, harvesting tools, etc.?

Every month I end up getting quite a few BL salvage kits. It’s great to get them for free, but it would be even better if they stacked.

It would be extremely hard, if not impossible to make those things stack.

Dark Effectz.8205:

Hey, just a quick thought and a little bit off topic, what about all the level 80 food and potion buffs. Might be easy to just add them to the material deposit so it’s easy to make alot of them just to deposit for other characters to use.

Definitely not. There are way too many of them and I don’t think Material Storage is an appropriate place to store that stuff.