Guild Wars 2

One thing worth checking is what effective fractal level your party is playing at, though nothing about loot rewards in fractals changed, we did change the system allowing what levels of fractal you could play with others which means you might simply be qualifying for much lower fractal levels (and thus loot).

The “level” of loot dropped for a player is the min of fractal scale and reward level. The reward level will still be displayed in the UI as a higher number than the fractal scale which might be cause for confusion, reward wise you’re still earning items based on the actual fractal scale you’re playing in. We display your personal rank because the players are awarded extra karma if there personal rank is over the current fractal scale.

You can add a second person to your list of people getting items, in my two fractal runs since the January release I’ve got an exotic and three rares. So there ya go!

TheAgedGnome.7520:

I’ve noticed recently (since Jan 28th patch?) that the world populations seem to be decreasing, at least for NA servers. There are no Full servers, and where there used to be just a few High compared to Very High, there is now sometimes about 60/40 Very High/High.

I’m not trying to say the sky is falling. I’m just curious. Is this a reflection of population changes? Has ANet upped the capacity per server?

We created more capacity a little while ago guesting went up live to allow more chances for people to move around their home worlds if they wished to do so. In game population wise, you’ll be excited to know login numbers and peak concurrency numbers have been slowly going up or staying consistent depending on the day going on 6 weeks in a row now. We’re very excited to see that =)

TooBz.3065:

ColinJohanson.2394:

There is no such thing as player or account specific random loot rolls/odds. It’s the same for everyone, only magic find can alter your chances.

Thanks for the comment. It helps diffuse the conspiracy theorists. It is correct to say that there is no account specific information that is used as a seed in the random number generator?

That’s the only way that I could see any difference in drops for accounts.

That is correct yes, there is absolutely no account or character specific data used in loot rolls what so ever, can debunk that theory. The only thing you can do to alter a specific characters chances is magic find which is a stat visible on your character from gear/food, for loot drops specifically.

That being said, we’re trying to offset some of that random chance by implementing systems like our new laurel system (and other additions down the road) to help give players more opportunities to earn specific rewards as well over time. This gives the capacity for those exciting “jackpot” moments of getting a big reward, while also helping provide a more clear long term timeline when you can earn the same reward for those who don’t hit the moment-to-moment jackpot since for those who are extremely unlucky, it can be very frustrating.

Other than adjustments to Orr rewards (as covered in the release notes) the only change made in this patch to over-all loot was allowing high level characters who are playing in lower level zones the opportunity to earn top level gear to provide greater rewards. (as also covered in the release notes)

There are no “stealth nerfs”, any changes will be covered directly in the release notes, of which there are none.

There is no such thing as player or account specific random loot rolls/odds. It’s the same for everyone, only magic find can alter your chances.

No changes were made to loot in fractals what so ever, they will be covered in release notes if changes of that nature are made.

My apologies, != is a programming term meaning not equal, in the future I should just say not equal and not use shorthand that everyone isn’t accustomed to.

Combat has always disabled map travel via waypoints.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dailies-not-working/1353925

Does logging into account.guildwars2.com work? The forums login isn’t doing anything special. Does Chrome work?

Might be worth clearing your cache & giving it another go?

The level of a particular area isn’t necessarily tied to the creature level, but we do try to keep them within +/-1 level of the area. But, being human, we make mistakes, so any spots you see with a mismatch are good to call out.

Sorry, I haven’t heard of that issue before. I’ll check with the programmers Monday. If you have time in the meantime, maybe run the game with the -image parameter to redownload it? Might be a corrupt file.

Upgrading any item will soulbind it to you. There’s a warning when you do it but you also get the generic upgrade warning, so you might have missed it.

Did you upgrade the sword with a sigil or anything similar?

zone.1073:

JonathanSharp.7094:

Correct, the lobbies themselves are not merged, they only meet up when you go to play. You can still invite people across lobbies for games as long as they’re on your server though (Na or Eu).

I’m on Stormbluff now, and people are coming in/out of paids.

Don’t you see the problem with that?

Because Heart of the Mists are not merged, it is difficult for players to find and set up teams. If the lobbies were merged between Homeworlds, people can organize together more easily.

Totally see your point, I’m just explaining how it works so that everyone understands.

We have solutions to this coming down the pipe.

Correct, the lobbies themselves are not merged, they only meet up when you go to play. You can still invite people across lobbies for games as long as they’re on your server though (Na or Eu).

I’m on Stormbluff now, and people are coming in/out of paids.

Check your computer’s date/time/time zone. There’s a bug where the game will display the dailies based on your computer’s time, even if the day is incorrect. (The clock might be on PM instead of AM, or set to another time zone, etc.) Note that you might have to restart the game after setting your clock.

Going by the mob of players in the screenshots, it’s possible you didn’t do enough damage to “contribute” towards killing the creature (hence no XP, no achivement credit.) Did you receive loot off the corpse?

The lobbies are merged for game matching = when you play a match all players on the same server (NA/EU) go to the same place.

:) You repeated what I said, and you’re correct! GJ!

Yes, the lobbies are merged for game matching. Also, a lot of the lobbies I’m in seem dead now because a lot more people are playing paid tournaments. So they’re not waiting around in lobby for tournaments to start, they’re in game, so the lobby feels more empty.

And as text:

Na
Name Rank Delta Rating Delta Deviation Volatility
Jade Quarry 1 1 2225.875 75.847 191.22 0.955
Sanctum of Rall 2 2 2154.086 91.862 199.434 0.963
Sea of Sorrows 3 -2 2101.625 -67.056 191.715 0.954
Blackgate 4 -1 2060.831 -9.278 192.702 0.952
Tarnished Coast 5 0 1916.091 -2.064 194.073 0.953
Fort Aspenwood 6 2 1866.271 46.504 190.978 0.955
Kaineng 7 4 1832.414 191.751 195.837 1.006
Maguuma 8 -1 1780.629 -57.593 193.203 0.97
Dragonbrand 9 0 1763.528 9.388 191.816 0.953
Stormbluff Isle 10 -4 1752.013 -88.243 197.808 0.965
Crystal Desert 11 -1 1581.154 -150.385 194.351 0.969
Yak’s Bend 12 0 1576.246 -36.365 192.799 0.953
Ehmry Bay 13 1 1530.631 118.349 197.385 0.975
Isle of Janthir 14 -1 1371.565 -151.504 199.931 0.983
Devona’s Rest 15 0 1337.798 32.574 200.927 0.958
Borlis Pass 16 0 1281.609 -0.723 194.346 0.957
Anvil Rock 17 0 1248.691 7.364 192.191 0.955
Northern Shiverpeaks 18 0 1174.869 -6.902 193.726 0.955
Darkhaven 19 0 1132.267 23.416 194.257 0.959
Gate of Madness 20 1 1047.578 -1.154 193.041 0.957
Henge of Denravi 21 -1 1027.215 -22.085 193.425 0.957
Sorrow’s Furnace 22 0 860.396 54.268 197.579 0.962
Ferguson’s Crossing 23 0 683.022 -31.58 194.309 0.956
Eredon Terrace 24 0 646.679 -21.259 196.4 0.957

Eu
Name Rank Delta Rating Delta Deviation Volatility
Vizunah Square 1 0 2165.595 89.823 192.215 0.96
Desolation 2 2 1993.621 8.772 197.212 0.954
Elona Reach 3 -1 1963.732 -51.055 192.238 0.958
Seafarer’s Rest 4 -1 1958.745 -38.744 191.633 0.955
Kodash 5 0 1829.114 -22.173 193.229 0.953
Jade Sea 6 1 1803.698 67.394 190.613 0.961
Baruch Bay 7 -1 1803.603 13.915 195.074 0.953
Augury Rock 8 3 1703.899 122.868 191.405 0.96
Piken Square 9 0 1698.511 -8.735 190.284 0.953
Riverside 10 -2 1663.206 -58.413 190.256 0.956
Gandara 11 1 1628.346 92.121 192.34 0.957
Aurora Glade 12 1 1566.678 44.305 189.955 0.952
Gunnar’s Hold 13 7 1531.268 149.296 193.3 0.973
Far Shiverpeaks 14 3 1494.548 55.436 189.957 0.954
Miller’s Sound 15 0 1460.343 -11.533 189.92 0.951
Abaddon’s Mouth 16 -2 1451.639 -32.674 189.668 0.951
Arborstone 17 -7 1446.89 -224.935 195.669 0.989
Drakkar Lake 18 -2 1437.44 -20.683 189.648 0.951
Dzagonur 19 -1 1403.578 -34.641 189.94 0.955
Fort Ranik 20 1 1369.511 25.717 191.306 0.953
Underworld 21 1 1285.299 -50.104 203.396 0.955
Blacktide 22 -3 1252.37 -174.833 193.455 0.988
Ruins of Surmia 23 1 1149.443 64.663 209.688 0.97
Ring of Fire 24 -1 1120.685 -4.84 198.792 0.957
Whiteside Ridge 25 0 1050.863 15.434 223.502 0.963
Fissure of Woe 26 1 658.121 41.835 217.529 0.968
Vabbi 27 -1 619.858 -52.109 213.667 0.971

Here are the updated world ratings for the matchup ending on 2/1.

I just checked this, and I think I’d need to know exactly where you saw this level gap. When I looked, the ice cavern all the way to the Sorrow’s Furnace entrance was sidekicking me to L51.

The name was reported and determined to be potentially offensive. It was changed by an agent because it was visible in the forums and might cause other forum members distress. (I understand that you might disagree, but my friend with a Down’s Syndrome child does not take lightly when someone laughingly calls another person the “r” word.)

We all need to be sensitive to the fact that players come from all around the world: different ages, cultures, beliefs, sexes, and personal situations. That’s why we disallow names that poke fun at disabled people of all kinds.

I would love ticket numbers related to the Sylvari situation, so that we can look into the matter further. I believe we are handling this differently than you were told and we do want to handle these properly! So thanks for letting me know those 12-digit incident numbers.

EDIT: I just pulled these names and one of our CS team members is going to look for your tickets:

Zeivu.3615
HeyMattyB.8732
Valefor.3246
FrostyBou.5491

But please, if anyone else is concerned about this, please contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page and if you need to follow up on your ticket, provide your 12-digit number here to expedite the review.

Thanks for your patience, and for understanding!

iczek.9628:

I logged in tonight and my email address is shown next to my toon name in the guild window. That has never happened and I don’t what my email address revealed to others. Has anyone encountered this? I did submit a ticket.

Thank you,
iczek

As you can see (I merged this thread) a few other players have reported this. In all the reported cases, the player has confirmed that only he or she can see the email address — guild members cannot see it. In the other report, I’ve asked the reporting player to ask a guild member to take a screenshot and submit it, so we can see all the details.

We are looking into the anomaly, but so far it has been assessed as something that is not a major issue of concern as far as security. (This is because if only you see it, no worries. We’re still trying to gather info from those who feel that perhaps others can see the info.)

It’s true that we may have more support pings when players need help remembering their first password. However, the good outweighs the bad, and having a password change will help secure many account that may be at risk of compromise.

So we’ll be ready, willing, and able to help those who forget their passwords, and for those who remember them, it’s a 2-minute process that really contributes to account security.

I don’t think you’re running into a lag issue (although I could be wrong). I believe that you should contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page. They will be able to assist you. For tips on what information to provide in a ticket, please read this post.

Anyone who is having trouble with this is welcome to contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page. They will be able to assist you. For tips on what information to provide in a ticket, please read this post.

If you find you still need help after three days, feel free to post in the Tickets for Review thread, which is at the top of this Account Support sub-forum.

Also, I’m told that you need to select a credit card type and click that icon.

Could you let us know if you were able to purchase the gems? (And apologies for your difficulties!)

Kraggy.4169:

Gaile Gray.6028:

There are very few “false positives” related to account terminations.

You cannot assert that as a fact, you cannot know how many there are.

By definition, a ‘false positive’ only gets recognised as such if sufficient evidence is provided by the accused in their defense which causes Anet to accept the initial guilty verdict was incorrect: same thing as real-world ‘miscarriages of justice’.

If the accused can’t provide that evidence the verdict stands, but that doesn’t mean it also isn’t a ‘false positive’, it means Anet were unimpressed with the defense.

You may like to think that ‘false positives’ are rare, you may genuinely believe it, but there are no facts on which to base such a view because you cannot know how many went undetected; it’s entirely subjective.

You’re mistaken. If I took every single ticket in a week, it would still be a small number compared to the number of accounts. Extrapolate the data to the percentage of those tickets—submitted and/or resolved—related to false positives and the number drops even lower. If we reviewed every single account suspension and termination, it would still be a small number.

So yes, I can say this as fact.

tehnimsy.4162:

False positives are not that rare in my experience and friends. I am trying to get my main account back as we speak based on sending ecto from an alt to my main. This is the 2nd time this has happened and I know several other people who have been in the same situation.

I understand having an automated system but a system has failed when it is hurting legit players much like DRM solutions to software. It is even more aggravating as every server I have been a participant of as had things like “gw2 XXXXX seller” all over lions arch. The automated system is most certainly failing in this case and many others.

That’s very sad to hear. (And I want to point out, the situation describe here really does not refute my comments above.) I checked on possible upcoming changes. There are team members looking into the detection code to improve it, as it has been improved over time. I think we’ll see far fewer instances of this situation in the future.

Michael.4791:

There is no way to avoid mistakes – not with humans and not with programs. So I am pleased that there IS a review process in place.

And there always will be. Our hope is to keep people in the game whenever we can, not terminate accounts.

Glad this sorted out for you!

If you posted about this — and I see that you did — in the Bugs Forum, then that’s just fine. I don’t think you need to submit a new ticket on the same bug.

Thanks, the “character is sylvari” check in the covo was flipped, so ironically, sylvari couldn’t see the second option.

I will try to find out this information and update the thread, but I believe the person I need to speak with is out of the office today, so I may not be able to answer until Monday.

You can only use those items one time per account.

Deleting the characters would not impact the ability to reuse the items; it’s the account use that matters.

Note: Thank you to everyone who has submitted art bugs in the past! In order to help keep these issues organized, each month we will be creating a new thread for these so that it does not grow to an unmanageable size. Please do not resubmit bugs if you have already posted about them in a previous art thread as we will have already seen them and added them to our bug database. Thank you!

Please post them in this thread if you come across any sort of bug that fits in the following categories:

- Armor/clothing art issues (textures, placement, clipping…)
- Weapon art issues (textures, placement, effects, clipping…)
- Character model issues (textures, effects…)

General Guidelines:
-Take a screenshot of the issue
-Take a screenshot of your equipment on the Hero Panel (H)
- List your Race, Sex and Class
- Be as descriptive as possible
-Take a screenshot

—If the issue relates to clothing/armor/weapons—
- List the names of every piece of armor/clothing/weapon equipped (this includes the level requirement) when you encountered the issue
- If you can, list where you acquired the item (which NPC, what map location, which dungeon, etc…)

Note on clipping issues: While we understand the desire to have all clipping issues resolved, the way our items are designed sometimes causes some small issues that cannot be fixed easily. We’re looking for severe clipping (like your shield is impaling you or your daggers are completely hidden by your coat.) Things like hair clipping or minor clipping of weapons into armor are sometimes unavoidable.

Please attach the screenshots to your forum post rather than hosting it elsewhere.
If you have a video of the issue, please upload those to YouTube (unlisted) and link that along with your other bug information here.

For more Bugging Best Practices, see this thread.

We appreciate everyone’s help with these issues. Thank you!

Note: Thank you to everyone who has submitted art bugs in the past! In order to help keep these issues organized, each month we will be creating a new thread for these so that it does not grow to an unmanageable size. Please do not resubmit bugs if you have already posted about them in a previous art thread as we will have already seen them and added them to our bug database. Thank you!

Please post them in this thread if you come across any sort of bug that fits in the following categories:

- Stuck in the terrain or a prop
- Textural/graphical issues with the environment or world props
- Terrain or world props disappearing/flickering
- Anything else that you feel might be an art bug

General Guidelines:
- Take a screenshot with your mouse hovering over the minimap while it’s zoomed all the way in so we can see the sector name. Make sure your screenshot has a clear view of the issue too!
- If you got stuck, please describe to us what you were doing before hand, along with a screenshot (this includes listing any skill you may have used upon being pushed inside the terrain).
- If you can, open up the screenshot in a picture editor (like MS Paint) and circle or point to the issue.
- If the world or large areas of land appear to “pop” in and out or “flicker,” please be sure that you are facing the appropriate direction in your screenshot and follow the screenshot directions.

Any other art issues:
- Be as descriptive as possible
- Take a screenshot

Please attach the screenshots to your forum post rather than hosting it elsewhere.
If you have a video of the issue, please upload those to YouTube (unlisted) and link that along with your other bug information here.

For more Bugging Best Practices, see this thread.

We appreciate everyone’s help with these issues. Thank you!

Without knowing your gear/etc. it’s hard for me to comment. I just ran this story step as a L8 warrior, and he definitely did not 1-shot me. I used dual axes, and just ran at him and chopped away and killed him.

I have good news and bad news.

Good news: I think I found the issue, somehow there were 2 copies of the door, which could get out of synch. (So one door thought it was closed, blocking entrance, even though the visible door was open.)

Bad news: I don’t expect the fix to go live until the next major content update, at the end of the month.

How recently have you seen this? With the 1-28 update, I fixed a bug where pirates that were knocked out during a fight wouldn’t respond to water, though they looked identical to drunk pirates.

I should correct then and say, that forced redistribution doesn’t change the disparities of wealth in the society, simply changes those holding the wealth. To be fair though, in almost every occasion it goes rogue in a few years and those people end up poor or dead anyway.

A dozen players with 10k gold wouldn’t even scrape one of those markets.

marnick.4305:

John Smith.4610:

It is just a spread forced by us, but you can look at it as a fee too.

Is there a reason gem>gold is over an exchange instead of through buy and sell offers? I wonder what the formula behind this is, in GW1 the traders were known to have ridiculous prices because the formula made no sense.

Yes, many, many good reasons.
I don’t currently have the time to go into the reasons as it’s a vast discussion. I think it may have been discussed some time ago on these forums, I don’t particularly remember.

Noerknhar.3826:

Dear John,

while I appreciate that you jumped in our discussion, I am a bit disappointed that your only comment was about the definition of inflation. If you had a look at the completed transactions for t5/t6 materials, ectos, bufffood and ingredients in the most common/most used bufffoods, you’d noticed that those prices went up by a lot in the last 4-8 weeks. I think ‘inflation’ kind of is the right word to describe such a situation.

Even if not, I don’t want to discuss the definition of a word. I want to discuss the main point of my first post in this thread: (casual) players don’t really earn money as prices go up and up. They will NEVER get a legendary as the precursor is the blocking factor.
Those two points are what i wanted to discuss.

Ah and by the way: I think that orders are a good indicator for inflation and that there actually is no need to view the completed transactions as orders are always “close around” completed transaction prices. gw2spidy’s data is the best available and it’s not bad.

The points in the first and third paragraph have been brought up and answered in other threads…several times. I’ve made my points on both inflation and GW2spidy and measuring value. I’ve not only specifically told you how you are incorrect, I’ve provided data for it.

Not sure what’s going on with the title here I only ever changed it once, to what I said before. I’m guessing Firegoth is having a giggle, but no matter!

I think whether or not legendaries represent an achievement is an interesting topic, but I don’t think buying some of the parts really changes it. If we want to have a discussion about that, it should be in a new thread.

On the topic of forced redistribution of wealth, I was hoping someone would point out that it doesn’t work. France, China and a myriad of other places have revolted due to income/wealth inequality, but this doesn’t really redistribute wealth.

Make sure your mailbox has room. There’s a limit on how many messages it can hold, and new mail will be queued up until you delete messages to make room. Note that the X/10 display is not accurate, since some NPC mail will count towards filling your mailbox, but doesn’t correctly increment the counter.

Thanks, there’s a bug where the drunks will fall into a very very deep sleep and ignore being splashed by water after they’ve been woken up once. A fix will be in the NEXT major content update.

Minos.5168:

Though, I guess that does promote transmutation stone sales in the gem store.

Map Complete is where I get mine. I’ve never bought a single transmutation stone from the store and I have a stack of about 50 fine, and around 200 regular.

Check your computer’s date/time/time zone. There’s a bug where the game will display the dailies based on your computer’s time, even if the day is incorrect. (The clock might be on PM instead of AM, or set to another time zone, etc.) For example, today’s dailies are:
Kill Variety
Daily Healer
Daily Crafter
Daily Gatherer
Daily Events

If your list is different, check your computer time. Note that you might have to restart the game after setting your clock.