Guild Wars 2

Have you tried starting the game with the -windowed command line argument?

Balthazzarr.1349:

you mean.. AFTER you buy the three items ahead of the commander’s wings of war… right?

Correct.

The catmander tag will work as well. If you have either the catmander or commander tag you can buy the commander’s wings of war.

The 4% is correct for WvW and PvP. Unfortunately the patch note missed this information. Sorry for any confusion!

There is a 1 hour period at the end of each season where already running leagues matches are allowed to finish, but no new league matches are allowed to begin. It was done this way to ensure every league match was completed before finalizing the leaderboard and giving out rewards.

Before off-season ranked was introduced, the button was disabled for this final hour. The button should be more clear and the API could probably be updated to give the duration of the lockout period. If the button doesn’t say the season is active when you click it then you won’t be playing a league match.

We’re hoping to reduce the gaps from what they were in the past. The season schedule is never set in stone though. It’ll change depending on our release schedule.

You can now earn more tickets but the amount of pips required to complete the track is the same.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a server crash.
• Fixed an issue that caused the redirector in Hoelbrak’s Great Lodge to send players to Hero’s Canton in the Black Citadel instead of Knut Whitebear’s Loft.

Ranger

• Instinctive Reaction: Fixed a bug in which the player’s pet gained slightly less healing power than expected.
• Taste for Danger: Fixed a bug in which the player’s pet gained slightly less expertise than expected.

Elementalist

• Wildfire: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to inflict lower duration burning than expected.

Thief

• Swindler’s Equilibrium: Fixed a bug that could cause this trait to go on cooldown even if it did not recharge Steal.

Crinn.7864:

what, that would put the expansion release dead smack in the middle of the season.

That surely isn’t intended. Perhaps it’s just a automated system rolling the seasons over?

It’s intended.

The next season starts on 8/22. This does mean that the new elite specs will show up mid-season. Should be interesting.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Like map not over dense with annoying mobs like HoT, don’t have to feel like I’m in constant combat or running for my life. Mounts, didn’t want but neutral for now. First mastery point I find on the start map a timed mini game – do not like. Unidentified loot mechanic no thanks as I understand it now. 100 words or fewer.

Ayrilana.1396:

Hearts felt grindy. No map meta left me without any focus on the map. Bounty events were okay but felt like any other champ event.

Well done, JT and Ayrilana. That’s the sort of feedback we’re seeking.

Now, I don’t want anyone to feel that we’ll toss out a comment that’s 102 words. The length is a suggestion more than a hard-and-fast rule. I do know that having that “view from 10,000 feet” can be very helpful, and other threads are great for getting into the nitty gritty details.

Hey there,

As we have for Living World Season 3, we’d like to gather your high-level feedback on the Path of Fire Preview in which you participated this past weekend.

Please share your overall thoughts on the Path of Fire Preview in about 100 words or fewer.

Naturally you are welcome — even encouraged — to join other threads with individual comments and input, and you can post in as great a level of detail as you desire. This thread will be helpful in gathering your overall thoughts about your preview experience and therefore we’d like to keep the comments relatively brief.

Thanks so much for sharing!

Ayrilana.1396:

Would it still occur if people let the fragments move slightly from their spawns before perma stunning?

We haven’t had a chance to fully check all the edge cases, but right now it seems like once they start moving they can be safely locked down.

The initial 10 stacks don’t matter to the achievement. Also, only fragments matter for this achievement, coalescences (the orange bar) have no impact.

I wanted to give an update. Fix still hasn’t been found, in large part because we just figured out how to reproduce it (which I’ll explain in a moment). I do want to clarify some points about how the achievement is scripted.

• When the anomaly spawns into the map it sets a flag that says “I haven’t absorbed any fragments.”
• When the fragments spawn in, they path to the anomaly, if they get to it, they apply the Leyline Accumulation Buff, unset the flag, and destroy themselves. (this is the only thing that unsets the flag)
• If the event succeeds, and that flag is still set, everyone who participated in the event gets the achievement.
  My suspicion had always been around the pathing of the fragments to the anomaly. As you may have seen in our game, sometimes when NPC can’t get where it is trying to go it just teleports there. It turns out this is sort of what is happening here (and thanks to our QA representative Brett for actually finding this).

The actual bug is: if the fragments get stunned immediately when they appear, and stay stun locked for too long, they will just teleport to the anomaly and finish up their scripting.
We’re still trying to figure out why they are doing that, or at the very least, how to prevent them from doing that. I’ll update again as soon as I have more info.

Have you tried this with the 64-bit client? (You can get it from your account page.)

While we don’t recommend using it long term… the command line arguments -email, -password and -nopatchui can be used to bypass the launcher.

We tracked down an error happening on a couple servers last night and we believe it’s responsible for demo character progress being wiped. Those servers have been taken down so we don’t believe the wipe will happen again and there is no risk to non-demo characters.

If your character is unable to progress you may have to create a new demo character to play through the story again, though both demo characters should have access to the raptor for the weekend once it is unlocked for either.

Yes, the inconsistency.

I’ve got a task to look in to what is going on with this. Haven’t dug in to it yet so I’m not sure if it is a problem on player skills side or Arkk’s side.

So Avengers CAN still stomp the wrong person, its just way less likely. Thanks to some new tech I could potentially rebuild them… again… so that they DEFINITELY can’t stomp the wrong person.

Low on my priority list but yeah just saying.

bluri.2653:

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

The tech needs some adjusting to work, but it’s something we’re working on.

Will you make it for all or just ASP?

Just ASP. The way the spectate stuff works currently doesn’t make it feasible to open it up to everyone. It would be nice if we were able to change this someday, but it would be quite a ways down the road.

Bug Fix:

• Fixed server and client crashes.

Donari.5237:

I’m someone that gets motion sickness incredibly easily from screen motion. And the raptor was no problem for me. I use the settings below. They keep me well zoomed out with a wide field of view. I also happen to have my Motion Blur (bottom of the Graphics Settings tab) fairly low, near the start of the first bit of thick white line.

Try those settings, those who are getting queasy. It means characters are tiny so you may miss out on clothing and face details on others nearby, but it’s so nice not to puke!

Thank you for sharing your ideas, Donari! When we can demonstrate “Try this” with a visual, it’s bound to help others.

The team is continuing to look into this, so please do share your reports on this situation. Thanks for helping us.

The tech needs some adjusting to work, but it’s something we’re working on.

Hello,

I merged this thread to make it stand out a little better and to focus attention on this situation so that if others also are experiencing such issues, they can join in.

I’m sorry that you’re having this issue. I wonder, have you tried lowering your Visual Blur setting? That is a specific recommendation from the team, and they feel it may help with this problem.

We’d love to hear from you if this adjustment is effective. Team members who have worked/are working on the mounts will be tracking this feedback!

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Lowen.7109:

BTW, people can glide from EBG red keep all the way into an enemy held OW.

If you get a video/picture of it and send it to me that would be helpful

To do this, I suggest you host the picture or video on a hosting site—in a private setting, please—and then send a link to us via e-mail. Doing that would be very helpful. Please then send a link to the images of video to Community@Arena.Net.

Thank you.

Four questions for our fan artists:

1. Do you create Guild Wars 2 fan art?
2. Have you posted art on this forum?
3. Are you attending PAX West this year in Seattle, September 1 – 4, 2017?
4. Would you like to attend our Guild Wars 2 Fifth Anniversary Party? (Details here and no, you do not need to have a PAX pass to attend the party.)

If your answer to each of these questions is an enthusiastic “Yes!” please respond to this thread and send me a private message here on the forums. Title your PM “Community Creations Party Invitation” and provide me your first and last name and, if you wish to bring a guest, their first and last name too.

Please let me hear from you by Monday, August 21, but honestly, the sooner, the better! I will confirm by PM that you have been added to the VIP List, and we will see you on September 1st!

The total number of pips per week did not change.

The Elonian faces do appear slightly lighter in the cheeks/forehead than our original faces when they have darker skin tones, and there may be something of a variance between the face and body of a specific character. This was intended because it helps call out/highlight the features of the face.

Bug Fix:

• Fixed a server crash.

To join the Path of Fire Preview, log in and create a new demo character!

If you currently are in the game, please log out to get to the character select screen, at which time you can make your preview character.

To join the Path of Fire Preview, log out and create a new demo character!

To join the Path of Fire Preview, log in (or log out if you currently are in the game) and create a new demo character!

Known Issues:

• Attempting to borrow a raptor while using the Fire Extinguisher bundle skill may cause the raptor to despawn before the player is recognized as riding a mount.
• Some crafting recipes are replaced with temporary, nonfunctional items at this time.
• Some crafting materials may not have all of their details visible at this time.
• The Lily of the Elon Pass cannot be used in the demo. This will be functional after the expansion officially launches.

Good luck everyone! May Baltaz…Grenth spare you all.

Elcoyote solitaire.9052:

Is the HP and toughness of pets in WvW actually a bug or it’s the new mechanic? My fernhound died from the veteran harpy, which is quite a joke. If it’s how it is from now, then you just killed the core ranger and you assume we will all buy the new expansion. No matter what is the plans for the new expac, rangers didn’t deserve such a nerf bat in the nuts.

Hi,

I didn’t talk to Irenio about WvW specifically, and I’ve not noticed this phenomenon myself, but I appreciate your insights.

Have other Rangers noticed this situation, as well? I’d like to see if there’s anything to be learned, as the more I know about general feedback, the better I will be able to express the question or concern.

Jayne.9251:

Cal Cohen.3527:

Pifil.5193:

I wish they gave us a WvW ability reset before adding Gliding. I foolishly spent all my points just before the patch (yeah, I know I can get more as I rank up but I want it nooooooooooooooowww /stamps foot).

Ok you are officially the hero of WvW.

Pifil.5193:

I wish they gave us a WvW ability reset before adding Gliding. I foolishly spent all my points just before the patch (yeah, I know I can get more as I rank up but I want it nooooooooooooooowww /stamps foot).

Bug Fixes:

• Reverted League badges to previous art.
• Fixed the -autologin command line argument.
• Improved server performance in Siren’s Landing.
• Fixed an issue in which the Magic Carpet Glider did not appear on asura.
• Fixed an issue in which the items in the Dark Harvest collection would not progress the achievement and would cause client crashes.
• Fixed an issue in which reward tracks for Expansion 2 were showing up improperly for WvW and PvP.
• Several map adjustments have been made to Eternal Battlegrounds and the Alpine Borderlands to solve gliding bugs.
• Adjusted the no-gameplay area around the Alpine Borderlands jumping puzzle.
• Fixed a server crash.

Ranger

• Fixed an issue in which pets were delayed from performing actions upon swap or world entry.
• Fixed a bug that was unintentionally stowing ranger pets.

Mesmer

• Medic’s Feedback: Fixed a bug that caused this trait to fail to create a Feedback bubble.

Thief

• Bountiful Theft: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from stealing stability.

Guardian

• Spirit Weapons: Fixed a bug that could cause spirit weapons to go on cooldown after not being used for a sufficient amount of time.

Another way to check what territory you are in is by looking at the objective icon at the top of the screen next to the score UI. It will always show the objective of the territory you are in. It’s a quick way to check territory color.

treizebee.2091:

Awesome!
Reiterating the need to look into the actual healing coming from the new minor trait ‘Rugged Growth’. It still heals for far less then what is on the tooltip.
Would be cool to fully benefit from a new minor trait that has replaced the beloved Bark Skin.

I am not aware of this one and cannot say what’s up, whether it’s a problem with the skill stats or with the description. Thanks for bringing it up.

jcbroe.4329:

@Gaile;

Any word on staff 3? Or quickness not interacting with pets?

You may have missed my comment: I just merged a few more threads, and wanted to update you on the bug with Skill No. 3. That, too, has been addressed and you should see that fix rolling out very soon!

The end of season rewards are normally handed out through bouncy chest. Do you have a lot of chests you haven’t opened?

Merged about half a dozen threads, and I’m hoping that this thread will give you all the info you need on two significant bugs for the Ranger.

If I missed anything, please note it in this thread, but rest assured that the devs are reading this forum, and are actively working on any issues that you point out.

Thanks for letting us know about the situations!

I just merged a few more threads, and wanted to update you on the bug with Skill No. 3. That, too, has been addressed and you should see that fix rolling out very soon!

Holland.9351:

Irenio best dev!

He is a totally awesome developer and a super-nice person, too!

Actually, Irenio just said I could remove “perhaps” from “perhaps before the end of the week.” So celebrate with me and look forward to the return of our fully-alert and ultra-responsive pet friends!

Hey guys,

I met up with Irenio, who was heading into my area of the building to talk to me about this very bug. As it turns out, it’s quite a complicated issue and that’s why it took a while to address. But… it has been addressed, yaaay! The fix for this issue should be going out very soon, perhaps before the end of the week.

Naturally, for something this complicated, there are a lot of “layers to the onion” in getting it resolved, but it is very much in the devs’ minds, and help is on the way for our beloved, but lazy-seeming, pets!

The idea behind the new icons was that we weren’t pleased with the readability of the old ones. As others have noted, you had to already know what the rank art looked like to know whether someone had achieved a higher or lower rank.

That being said, considering the feedback, we’ll revert them.

BloodriverTim.2031:

Wonderful! That was great turnaround, thanks!

You’re welcome. Normally wouldn’t have been able to get something like that in so fast, but we just happened to have a hotfix already in the works.

Glad I was able to help!