Guild Wars 2

A few development updates for you guys since there are some things I can clarify here.

While Forsaken Thicket was 3 wings that encompassed a complete story line, that does not mean all raids will be 3 wings. We’ll do that where it makes sense, and sometimes it will make sense to release a stand alone raid with 1 wing if we think we have an interesting story to tell there that doesn’t need to be stretched out over multiple releases.

The display for PotM bonuses in the WvW dialog’s second tab is incorrectly showing what bonus would be present with the War Score from only the current Skirmish.

The tooltip on the WvW button in the quicklaunch bar along the upper-left of your screen still shows the real PotM bonus you’re currently receiving behind the scenes.

Hey folks,

Can you also please let us know your ISP? It could be very useful info to have that info, and if you post it here, the team will note that detail, since they’re actively investigating, as you can see above.

Thanks much, and thanks for your patience as we investigate.

Hi guys,

We are investigating this issue. Can you help us by sending us the client logs? Here’s how to do it:

1. Run the Gw2 executable with the “-log” argument. The easiest way is to open a command prompt, go to your install directory, and then execute “gw2.exe -log”
2. A few seconds after you receive the connection error message, close the client.
3. Post your client log here. You can find the log at "C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.log

Please also let me know:
1. When does the error occur? Is it right after you start the app, before you get to the login screen?
2. Where are you located.

We will keep you posted with our progress as well.

Thank you!

Skirmish scoring will go into effect in about 15 minutes (near 18:00Z), with the EU reset.

NA players: while you’ll immediately see the new skirmish data in the WvW dialog, this week’s match will still have its end result scored in the old War Score-only style, ignoring Victory Points from skirmishes.

Sites that use our API for WvW will still display the “vanilla” War Score that accumulates over the week.

Heya,

Yeah, so apparently when I said weeks and months I must have meant years…sheesh!!

Something about rolling off of one expansion and right onto another has a way of making one shift one’s priorities. Nevertheless, I promised to get you the Orrian syllabary in its entirety and so I’m attaching it here. We’d talked about issuing a blog post or something similar to explain the alphabet’s origins, etc. but truthfully I think I’ve made you guys wait long enough. My sincerest apologies for letting this linger long enough as it is.

I also haven’t forgotten the awesome work of our intrepid scholars. I’m making sure that they will be getting some in-game recognition soon [sup]tm[/sup].

EDIT: Huh – I don’t know why the superscript markup’s not working, but you get the idea. ;-P

There have been a lot of individual threads created about The Revenge of the Capricorn Structured PvP Map. It’s most conducive to gathering measured feedback to merge those threads to have a single, meaningful discussion on the topic.

Please excuse any overlap on comments, but in the end, merging is the best path so that the developers can get a true overview of community input.

Thanks.

this is your issue.

Daishi.6027:

Why not just letting quickness speed up stomp again? But continue to not allow quickness to revive faster.

This makes downing a target more meaningful, and opens up viability and utility of builds that can reliably gain quickness, without it being to broken in the revival department?

If we add quickness back in for stomps we’d likely allow slow to reduce stomp speed for consistency’s sake…and slowed stomping doesn’t feel great.

So, we’ll likely change things in phases so we don’t over-correct. Here’s what we’re thinking for a phase 1:

• Reduce downstate invuln duration to around .1s. This means you still get the full condi cleanse, but you can keep cleaving.
• Cap rally distance.

Thoughts?

Edit for clarity: these would be PvP-only changes. Also, not including any skill proposals at this point.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug in which stunned players could appear to continue moving.

A message from the PvP Team:
As you may have noticed, at the present time there is no achievement for crossing into Legendary Division during the current season, Season 4. Unfortunately, we were not able to add the achievement before Season 4 began due to some system limitations. However, there is a title planned for Season 4 and everyone who crosses into Legendary Division will be receiving it.

After the season has ended, if you have crossed into Legendary Division you will receive an in-game mail with an item called “Indomitable Legend.” When you take the item out of the in-game mail it automatically will unlock the Indomitable Legend title for you.

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to jump in here and give a quick summary list of some of the feedback in this thread.

• Have treb take damage from condi’s and crits
• Rotation speed increase
• Remove Treb completely
• Faster fire rate
• Different treb amno that supports allies on points
• Teleport skill drop the siege bundle

Remember that this thread is a discussion between myself and you the community. I can’t promise any of the suggestions will be implemented or when. However, I am reading the thread and taking the feedback very seriously and passing it along to the PvP Team.

Now some additional questions:

• If you could add one ammo type to the treb (poison shot, healy shot, etc.) what would it be?
• How long (in seconds) do you think it should take the treb to turn from Home to Far?
• How long (in seconds) do you think a damage dealer (either physical or condi) should take to kill a treb?

Thank you all for participating in the discussion and keeping is constructive.

Hey Freee,

That’s super cool of you to offer a giveaway, and thanks for being such a generous person!

I agree with some of the other posts. My first thought also was that people may have developed some level of skepticism — even call it “healthy skepticism” about giveaways, both those offered in the game and in real life, too! (Did I tell you about that poor person, a member of the royalty of XXX country, who offered me £45,000,000 if I would help them get the estate of their assassinated relative settled?)

I am in the game every night, and I see quite a few offers. Sometimes it’s clearly a joke and sometimes it’s really not too clear if something is legitimate or not. Also, I have a few agendas, so as Djinn said, whether I get diverted to participate is pretty subjective. Although I have to say that 90G would be pretty darn likely to catch my eye.

I hope you’ll continue to do fun things like this, and I do mean fun for us players and fun for you, too!

Hey guys,

Every time one of these threads arises, I get a little concerned that the team is going to miss some great ideas. We have a sticky thread for suggestion on in-game items, and I’d really like to encourage those of you with ideas, suggestions, and input on potential items to head over there a post!

Now, if there’s something that has been offered before that you’d like to see again, well, we’re all ears. ~nudge~ For those ideas, please post here.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-vs-world-skirmishes-arrive-on-september-9/

The initial post in this thread has some pretty unpleasant undertones. Our races are these: Human, Norn, Asura, Charr, and Sylvari. Whether they have, or an individual sees, certain similarities to races in the real world is irrelevant. They are what they are, and we are proud of the cultures they represent and the rich history they bring to Tyria.

Whether a representative is a major component of a story arc, or plays a secondary role, tokenism just really isn’t part of our story.

I am closing this thread. If someone fails to understand why, you’re welcome to contact us but somehow, I don’t think anyone will fail to see why the closure took place.

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to ask the community what your thoughts are on the secondary mechanic of Khylo: The Trebuchet.

The treb gives your team map wide big area damage and crowd control, at the expense of a single player controlling it. Each team gets their own treb near their base and is useable the entire duration of the match unless it is destroyed. If the treb is destroyed a player needs to run a repair kit from a designated area to the treb to repair it back to full health.

What do you like about it?
What do you think needs improving?
If needed, what would you change?
If needed, what would you add?
If needed, what would you remove?

This is something we’ve been monitoring for a while. We’re looking at a couple of different options here, but we do need to be careful making changes to something that is so integral to PvP gameplay (and as a note, we’d be making changes to PvP only).

Below are some suggestions I’ve seen on this forum over the past few months. We wouldn’t do all of them of course, but I figured I’d throw them out and see how you folks feel about them.

• Implement 1-to-1 rally policy, similar to WvW. This means that only 1 player would rally per enemy killed, rather than up to 5. Would likely be the downed ally closest to the enemy player.
• Cap the range at which someone can rally.
• Bring back PvE-downstate policy
• Shorten revive/downed “invuln” buff.
• Reduce healing per tick when rezzing.
• Further reduce downstate HP
• Adjust outlier revive skills (Function Gyro)

This question posed by this topic has been asked and answered by an official source. This option is not planned, and is actually not possible within the contexts of our game lore. And that decision is clearly accepted, even approved, within this thread.

I’m whitelisting things when I remember. Ping me in gitter if it’s been a day or so and I haven’t gotten to it.

Sirius.4510:

I can’t really see Logan holding his own in a rap battle against Rytlock. You need someone who can bring it… someone with attitude… hmm…

Palawa Joko vs Mad King Thorn maybe?

Now you’re talkin’!

This thread seems to drop off the front page from time to time, after which a lot of suggestions some in in individual threads. I’m going to be linking to this thread in our internal newsletter today, so I’ll merge in a few suggestions and encourage everyone to use this thread for suggestions for Gem Store items in the future — it is actively read by the team!

Thanks for letting us know. I can’t say when it will be fixed, but we know about it.

This is very nice, and I’m sure many players will benefit from the time and effort you’ve put into building such a comprehensive guide. Well done, Lulleh! I’m going to sticky this so more will see it.

Swagger.1459:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Gad, I had no idea they’re stream it, or record it. All my planned bad puns and slightly warped jokes fly out the window. This is srs business now!

I saw the title and misread it as “arenanet rap”… Thought you and the crew were going to throw down some phat beats and lyrics for us. Maybe next year?

I think I may lack the skillz.

Gad, I had no idea they’re stream it, or record it. All my planned bad puns and slightly warped jokes fly out the window. This is srs business now!

Donari.5237:

Though I have never had a child, this still intrigues me. I’m guessing it won’t be on video though.

Speaking of, I should check out the PAX schedule to see what will be streamed. Thanks for jogging my awareness on that

That’s a good question. I have no idea if they record all panels. If I find out later, I’ll let you know!

trub.1657:

My son is a geek- born of a total nerd—our lives are full

Sounds like very fine lineage to me!

On behalf of ArenaNet, I’m going to be participating in a panel at PAX West.

Here is information on the PAX West Panel: http://west.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/geek-parents-the-joys-and-challenges-of-geeks-raising-geeks

Panel Name: Geek Parents: The Joys and Challenges of Geeks Raising Geeks
Date: Monday, September 5, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Wyvern Room (Westin Hotel)
ArenaNet Participant: Gaile Gray

I hope to see some Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 players at the panel!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Utility-Effects-missing-from-trade-post/first#post6311335

Sorry about the delay on the tiles. The process for updating them is complicated and Lawton’s the only one w/ his machine correctly configured to update them atm.

This has been fixed.

Hello,

I just noted that there were four separate threads on this topic, so I merged them. This may make the conversation somewhat disjointed, but it’s great to keep things together so that the team can track this issue.

King.8236:

I want to submit a data request under the EU Data Protection Act to the privacy@arena.net email as indicated by https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/arenanet-privacy-policy/#11.

But I get the error:

Your message to privacy@arena.net couldn’t be delivered. privacy wasn’t found at arena.net.

How do I contact ArenaNet for privacy policy questions if their contact does not work? Has anyone run into this issue before?

Thanks for posting to ask this question. I am routing this internally to get an answer. For years I was the person to whom such inbound mails were routed, so I could figure out which team member would handle the inquiry. But if the address is not working, we’ll want to get that fixed, whether the mails come to me or someone else.

In the meantime, I agree with Ic that you could submit a ticket to Customer Support for an answer to your question.

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a server crash

Thank you for the report! We actually already have a bug in on this issue, and are planning to fix it in the next release.

This is being tracked. Thanks for the report!

Bug Fix:

• Fixed an autogrowth behavior issue with guild maps that prevented having more than 5 players in a guild hall at a time.

All tickets have been promised and we do not have any more to distribute.

Thanks to everyone who asked for an invitation. We really wish we could have included all of you! However, the request period closed on August 19th, the guest list is full, and we are not able to fulfill any further requests.

To repeat the request in the system message, for those who stay logged in to the forums: Forum members whose requests for tickets resulted in a spot on the guest list will have received a response PM from me around August 19-22.

If you got a PM from me saying we were setting aside tickets for you, could you kindly respond to the PM to confirm that you received the message and that you plan to attend the party? There were a lot of requests, and if someone lets us know they will be unable to attend we may be able to include someone else.

Thanks.

Please open a CS ticket, all the PM’s were doing was the same process but delayed as I had to then send the names over. Opening a CS ticket will make the process much smoother and faster.

Thanks! I’ve reproduced this locally so it will go to the Engineer who fixes such things.

Hello everyone,

I know a lot of EU players are asking why Far Shiverpeaks is linked with Whiteside Ridge and Fissure of Woe so I figured I would clear up why this link was made.

Our goal with World Linking is good matches. This doesn’t necessarily mean that worlds in tier 4 are intended to be competitive with worlds in tier 1, but ideally every world in tier 4 should be competitive with the other worlds in tier 4 and likewise every world in tier 1 should be competitive with the other worlds in tier 1. It would be nice if worlds in tier 4 were competitive with tier 1, but it’s not realistic since the distribution of players across worlds is not consistent. The issue is compounded in EU, due to the fact that we are avoiding linking worlds with different languages. For example, there is only one Spanish world, so they’ll never be linked and thus might never be competitive in tier 1 worlds. Similarly making each set of German worlds have equivalent populations has proved equally impossible because if we were to link them they would have a much higher population than other worlds, making match-ups against them not competitive.

Far Shiverpeaks was linked with two worlds because we needed a third world that would have similar population to the French worlds, specifically Jade Sea and Vizunah Square so that the matchup could be competitive. Far Shiverpeaks, Whiteside, Ridge, and Fissure of Woe linked together gave us the best population to create competitive match-ups for that tier.

It is also important to keep in mind that this is the very first week of match-ups and it will take time before glicko adjusts worlds into their correct tiers.

Please enter a support ticket, that is the fastest way for you to contact someone who can assist.

Hey everyone!

It is indeed not functioning as it should. I cannot give an ETA on a fix but it is being worked on. Thank you for the reports and your patience while this is being dealt with!

If you have billing issues please submit a CS ticket. The wonderful people who are in our CS department can look into your account and see what is going on. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do from the forums.

Here are the worlds for NA:

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

Thank you so very much for such warm and wonderful comments.

Have you seen the 4th Anniversary Video? I love what our team has to say!

Worlds have now been re-linked.

We have reset glicko volatility and deviation for all worlds to the same value, but have left their rating unchanged (this includes worlds that were previously guest worlds but are now host worlds). Just to reiterate, resetting glicko volatility and deviation will result in greater rating shifts in the first few matches. This will give worlds the opportunity to move into their ideal matchup tier much faster.

Here are the worlds for EU:
• Desolation (EN)
• Far Shiverpeaks & Whiteside Ridge & Fissure of Woe (EN)
• Gandara & Underworld (EN)
• Jade Sea & Arborstone (FR)
• Piken Square & Blacktide (EN)
• Kodash (DE)
• Drakkar Lake & Miller Sound (DE)
• Riverside (DE)
• Seafarer’s Rest & Ruins of Surmia (EN)
• Baruch Bay (ES)
• Vizunah Square & Augury Rock & Fort Ranik (FR)
• Elona Reach (DE)
• Aurora Glade & Ring of fire (EN)
• Abaddon’s Mouth & Dzagonur (DE)
• Gunnar’s Hold & Vabbi (EN)

Rest assured that we have no desire to trivialize the Bloomhunger fight.