Guild Wars 2

kroven.4895:

They should make some NPCs that follow you and spam “Spare some change?”

“I need about tree-fiddy…”

There’s a high dive in the karka Hive…
:3

Terrahero.9358:

Is it working as intented that Traps can be placed while in stealth, without breaking stealth?

And what about placing a trap and then blinking/shadowstepping away, which results in you finishing the trap from a distance?

What about both of those together?
Remote stealth trap placement underneath a zerg?

What about the massive advantage Thieves have in placing traps and using them as an effective tool in WvW compared to other professions because they can place traps in an enemy zerg?

Hi again everyone,

I will say we want there to be play with the traps, but placing the traps while in stealth has very little counter to it, so we will be evaluating whether we would like to change this implementation. Thanks to everyone for you feedback and concerns.

Hugh

The Wiki is incorrect, then. She’s L10, as is the story step she’s in. (And she’s lower level in the lower level story steps.) She could only reach 11 if you take multiple players into the story step, causing it to scale up.

Hello, everyone. This is a status update on the bonfires.

As you know, after a game release, we often patch the game with high priority bug fixes (as we did yesterday).

Bringing the bonfires back was part of today’s batch of updates. We have unfortunately had to delay this hotfix, so the bonfires will not be available today as we’d previously messaged.

We’ll continue to keep you all updated on the status.

The bonfires will be returning, they are just delayed.

Thanks for your understanding.

For clarification.. you hit the button twice? or you typed in twice the number you intended? I think i’m reading the first case.

The button does disable briefly to stop double-clicks till the success message comes up next to it.

McBob.5071:

Does ArenaNet not have an address for us to forward phishing emails to? Most online games do, so they can shut down the site as soon as possible.

We do not. We do not have many options for shutting down independent sites that try this sort of shenanigans, and in some cases, they spring up again almost immediately on another host, even in another country. We do pursue misuses of our IP, and this certainly falls into that category, but it’s different than a company using our art for their game, which we have far more success pursuing.

However, you ask a valid question, so I will inquire about whether we want to have such an email address in the future. I can tell you if we did set up a mailbox, it’d be monitored but not answered, due to sheer volume.

Lister.5678:

Gaile Gray.6028:

Let me answer this as a player:

Consider PvP: Being able to zoom out farther than your opponent seems a definite advantage. If a PvP player can see the entire map, he/she certainly knows more, and can react differently, than those playing the game as intended (who cannot view the entire map through normal processes).

The advantage-giving provision of the program is a concern to me, as a player, as it seems clearly prohibited by the policy. " Our general policy is that anything that gives advantage is forbidden; anything that imbalances the game in favor of one player over another is strictly disallowed."

As I said I don’t PVP – with the exception of checking what the monthly rewards were and the xmas snow event – so I’m more than likely going to make the call that it’s a “benign” program like they officially state to do, I would not be breaking the tos with how I play the game and records would show that. Quickly off the top of my head this is the sort of scenario I could refer it to: If there are overpowered skills for a certain class after a patch, should the servers be shut down because a certain class might – emphasis on might – take advantage of it?

On the lines of what the person after you said, why an option to increase the max camera zoom-out to “big boss” distance in the world is beyond me, especially in a game that promotes you play it how you want to play it. Anyway, thank you to all those who responded to the thread.

Let’s look at a scenario: Say there are detection systems that ascertain you are using a specific third-party program that is known to give players an advantage. Do you think that we would go through your entire gameplay history to see “This person does not play PvP, so the program is not giving him/her any advantage, so therefore his using it is acceptable?” I am sure when you read that, you’ll realize that to do so would be incredibly time-consuming and an unrealistic expectation on the part of any player.

The question isn’t whether the program gave you an advantage through potentially thousands of hours of gameplay. The question is whether the program gives an advantage to users. And the answer to that, in my original scenario, is “yes.” Yes, this program allows players to see more than other players, and even in PvE, having a wider field of view allows you to predict mob movements, assess and anticipate your next battle, etc.

I don’t think you should decide “Well, in my use this is ok” so much as assess “This program could be used for advantage, and I therefore will give it a wide berth.”

There is a reason why it’s called ‘Dragon Bash’ and not ‘Dragon Festival.’ All will be revealed in due course.

Wow, this is excellent feedback! The way you laid out pros/cons, analyzed problems and proposed solutions is incredibly helpful.

Thanks for sharing!

You receive exactly the amount of gems or gold the exchange quotes you. There is a difference in exchange rates between the two currencies, but no additional tax from what you’re presented with when you hit the trade button.

Timestamps for posts are displayed relative to the current time on your computer. However, the time a post was made is based on the clock on the forum servers. If your computer’s clock is behind the forum server’s clock, it will display the time as if it was in the future.

If it does bother you a ton, try resynching your computer clock with time servers in an attempt to bring your clock closer to the forum servers, or click on where it says “one minute from now” and it will switch to showing the time instead of relative time. This might still be a minute further along than your computer clock, but it’s less noticeable this way.

skullmount.1758:

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

Hickeroar.9734:

Questions:
Is there a visual component to either trap “springing?”

Will the trap spring even if:
A) the person walking over it isn’t stealthed, or
B) the person walking over it doesn’t have any supply?

Does the supply trap count those without supply in the max-20 people count? Is it just a random chance that you get affected?

If these are shaped like a “strip,” it definitely feels like they intended them to be dropped at the doors to keeps and towers.

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to clear a few things up about traps and also say thank you for your feedback and concerns.

Alright first question:
Is there a visual component to either trap “springing?”

Answer:
Yes if you go to the Trap and Tricks Outfitter the effects that are played when the traps activate are on the table! The supply trap is a tornado filled with supply and the Stealth trap is a black sucking miasma of stealth.

Second questions:
Will the trap spring even if:
A) the person walking over it isn’t stealthed, or
B) the person walking over it doesn’t have any supply?

Answer:
Yes, any “Enemy Player” can trigger the traps. This does mean that pets, clones, Npc’s, and ambient creatures CANNOT trigger the traps. This design was set so players wouldn’t put traps (especially the supply trap) on supply holds. Image if your zerg/small party didn’t have supply and went to restock at supply hold that had a few supply remove traps. As soon as the team has supply BOOM “Trapified” your supply is gone.

Third Question?
Does the supply trap count those without supply in the max-20 people count? Is it just a random chance that you get affected?

Answer:
The traps fires and randomly targets 20 affected enemies in the area.

Not really a question but hey:
If these are shaped like a “strip,” it definitely feels like they intended them to be dropped at the doors to keeps and towers.

Follow up:
We wanted the traps to a large enough area that players could use them in different strategic ways, but making them a huge circle was making the trap bit too unavoidable in tight areas of the maps.

Question for you that I don’t think I’ve seen asked yet: Do traps count toward the max siege limit of a server? Or do they have their own limit?

Traps do not count towards the siege cap limit.

Great thread! Thanks for starting this up, let’s keep it going!

Hey all, just wanted to say that this is a great conversation, and we’re keeping an eye on it. I would ask, though, that we keep it on topic. We’re very interested in what could come of this, and are really excited by the prospect of the Guild Wars 2 players banding together to produce these great tournaments and shoutcasted matches.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

The information that Martin provided after the last quarterly earnings call about this topic hasn’t changed.

Our primary focus as a company is making the core game experience as amazing as possible, through new features, content, and the exciting changes and additions to the world through our Living World releases.

I appreciate the discussion, but it basically now has come down to another “I do not like the game” “I do like the game” conversation. As Regina’s statement answers the topic, I will close this thread.

Hey Volkon,

unfortunately we do not have a way to promote events like this in game. What we have done in the past is that we promoted player run events through the forums and our social media channel, and the guild/group of people organising the event spread the word on the world they were running it on.

As others have suggested, creating a forum post about the event is also a good way to get eyeballs on it.

As suggested, the best way to share your feedback it through contacting Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page. You are more than welcome to provide feedback via this means.

FangedTerror.3852:

Delete all characters move to any server you like that isn’t full for free. Problem solved. Even put nice items and money you want into your bank for an added bonus of keeping them.

Perhaps reading the other 400 posts of he same thing here might have got you playing even faster!

Terse, but true.

I read a thread yesterday where someone tried multiple times and suddenly everything worked. If you continue to have difficulties, go ahead and contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page so that they can assist you.

For tips on what information to provide in a ticket — mostly intended for security reasons to establish that you own the account — please read this post and provide as much as possible to expedite the ticket.

Lia.8910:

Funny, but restarting my computer worked

Well, that was easy.

Glad all is well.

Raxus Prime.4218:

My friend just purchased the game but used the wrong email

one he no longer has the password too.

since he cant get into his email and get the serial code he cant play

what can he do?

we submitted a ticket yesterday but no go

Can you give me the 12-digit ticket number? I feel sure we can help with this.

We won’t take money without giving you gems — that would be rude! If you can please contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page, they will be able to assist you.

Alternately, I saw a comment in another thread that I will include, although the circumstances sound different:

to anyone having the same problem as OP (I.e. confirm is greyed out even after putting in all your information), I finally got it to work by hitting the back button, changing the quantity, then changing it back to what you desired and the confirm button lit up. Hope this helps anyone searching around with the problem.

For tips on what information to provide in a ticket, please read this post and provide as much as possible to expedite the ticket.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

There are many fun and friendly servers, besides those that are Full at the moment. You could always try one, and if it wasn’t to your liking, wait there for TC to change status, or just delete again, and move to another. You can guest to try servers out, as well. =)

These are valid points.

It is correct that we will not unlink a terminated account to enable someone to relink to a new account. This policy is designed to reduce cheating and account theft.

I’m sorry, but I cannot assist here.

Let me answer this as a player:

Consider PvP: Being able to zoom out farther than your opponent seems a definite advantage. If a PvP player can see the entire map, he/she certainly knows more, and can react differently, than those playing the game as intended (who cannot view the entire map through normal processes).

The advantage-giving provision of the program is a concern to me, as a player, as it seems clearly prohibited by the policy. " Our general policy is that anything that gives advantage is forbidden; anything that imbalances the game in favor of one player over another is strictly disallowed."

Scelerite tickets are In the supply crates. Not in the black lion chest.

We are reading the forums constantly. And we are working to both bring new content to the store and improve the usability of existing content. This forum is absolutely the place to leave your feedback so thank you for that.

Hickeroar.9734:

Questions:
Is there a visual component to either trap “springing?”

Will the trap spring even if:
A) the person walking over it isn’t stealthed, or
B) the person walking over it doesn’t have any supply?

Does the supply trap count those without supply in the max-20 people count? Is it just a random chance that you get affected?

If these are shaped like a “strip,” it definitely feels like they intended them to be dropped at the doors to keeps and towers.

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to clear a few things up about traps and also say thank you for your feedback and concerns.

Alright first question:
Is there a visual component to either trap “springing?”

Answer:
Yes. If you go to the Trap and Tricks Outfitter the effects that are played when the traps activate are on the table! The supply trap is a tornado filled with supply and the stealth trap is a black stealth-sucking miasma.

Second questions:
Will the trap spring even if:
A) the person walking over it isn’t stealthed, or
B) the person walking over it doesn’t have any supply?

Answer:
Yes, any “Enemy Player” can trigger the traps. This means that pets, clones, Npc’s, and ambient creatures CANNOT trigger the traps. This design was set so players wouldn’t put traps (especially the supply trap) on supply holds. Image if your zerg/small party didn’t have supply and went to restock at supply hold that had a few supply remove traps. As soon as the team has supply BOOM “Trapified” your supply is gone.

Third Question?
Does the supply trap count those without supply in the max-20 people count? Is it just a random chance that you get affected?

Answer:
The trap fires and randomly targets 20 affected enemies in the area.

Not really a question but hey:
If these are shaped like a “strip,” it definitely feels like they intended them to be dropped at the doors to keeps and towers.

Follow up:
We wanted the traps to have a large enough area that players could use them in different strategic ways, but making them a huge circle was making the trap bit too unavoidable in tight areas of the maps.

There is more information in this post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Flame-and-Frost-A-Rallying-Flame-Bonfire-Merged/2028136

Thanks.

Are you somehow pulling Vyacheslav from his end of the bridge or blitzing him as quickly as possible? There’s a tripwire on his end of the bridge that will complete that step when you enter it, unless you’ve somehow killed him already.

In the next build we’ll be implementing exits that allow you to turn around and leave through the portals behind you. Hopefully that will help.

All I’m saying is, remember this conversation in a few weeks. And that’s all I can say right now.

Niim.9260:

DevonCarver.5370:

That was incorrectly included in the notes. It won’t be in until the next build actually.

With the missing ascended gear promised in November?

Wouldn’t you like to know?

Hi Nuage,

As you can imagine I can’t allow this thread to continue as is, mainly due to the nature of some this thread is far to big a potential flame/troll fest.

As you can see from responses here there are folk out there that are in the same boat or have been in the past, in some cases the problems are different but the outcome is the same. We all play games for many different reasons but for most it is to escape, to hide from RL, to make new friends and have new exciting experiences.

You mention that you are sorry for blogging here but it may just be the escape/relief you need, while I can’t condone the use of these forums to blog per se I can suggest the use of Wordpress as it is free for a hosted blog and you can then link to it from the Linksville section of this forum.

Also feel free to PM me if things get worse, but for now “chin up”

That was an oversight that will be corrected in the next build. Thanks for pointing it out!

That was incorrectly included in the notes. It won’t be in until the next build actually.

I posted this in another thread, but I’ll copy and paste here. Content like recurring holiday festivals are absolutely part of the long term living world strategy, though the story and some of the content may change each year a bit to provide variety. So the answer is really yes to both, it is living world content, and it could come back again in the future with new rewards.

What is the upcoming celebration and how does it play into everything? You’ll just have to wait and see, we have more Southsun coming first!

Can find the more detailed post on page 1 here →

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Official-explanation-for-temporary-content/first

We’ll look into it, minis should always be able to go into your collectibles storage.

Thanks for the heads up!

You’re right, luck is a big part of this. It’s just meant to be a fun achievement though, in a game that’s only been around for a few hours.

Perhaps if it’s truly an issue we’ll change it to something else.

Please read the thread that Geotherma linked above. Thanks.

The big ones only target crab carriers as well. Here’s how to get Crabtacular:

1. Grab crab.
2. Run from other players.
3. Run towards big karka.
4. Dodge big karka roll.
5. Watch karka roll over everyone who was chasing you.
6. Laugh.

It is the middle of the night in Europe, people are sleeping, and it is not “peak time” there. Guild Wars 2 is a global game. There will always be someone inconvenienced due to time zones.

It’s still office hours at ArenaNet, so we decided to push a game update for bug fixes we were able to push live.

Thanks for your understanding.

What the wiki states is true, and makes it easy for new players, such as yourself, to resettle on a new home world. Do be aware, too, that your friends can move to your world, instead. Since they’ve been playing for a while, they’ll have more wealth than you, so it won’t be a major hit on their pocketbook.

And yes, guesting is a good option, as well!

I changed the subject. This is not about being banned, after all.

Can’t you hit “Forgot your password?” on the log-in screen?

Jayne.9251:

Not a single built oil over a gate can be used. You cannot interact with any of them at all.

I have two accounts and witnessed this on both servers since the patch.

Please fix this!

Thank you for letting us know, we are looking at the oil pot to see what might be causing this issue. Sorry for the inconvenience everyone!