Guild Wars 2

Queue times were greatly reduced across the board, but ranked arena can always have longer queues if you climb the ladder faster than other people.

Updated the OP to include a link to the new site.

We are grateful for the good start the Wolfineer gave this project, and happy to see this worthy project being taken over and expanded by another great community member, Sheriff Sauer!

FrizzFreston.5290:

Just to bump this out of oblivion. Is there any news towards changes in scribing costs?
At least anything that can be shared if you don’t want to talk about it in detail yet.

I don’t think that there are details available yet, but I will be happy to ask the team to see if there’s anything to mention at the present time.

I made another pass through this thread and unstuck everyone that was stuck.

Hey guys, no mystery here! I’m a member of several guilds. So that was me, but I was flying another guild’s “colors” at that particular time. I want to move around and join more guilds over time. Of course, if that means leaving the ones to which I currently belong, that’s a heartwrench, but I know those fine people would understand.

I play about 3 hours every night and every weekend for a ridiculously longer amount of time. Well, unless we’re doing family stuff or I’m traveling, of course.

I enjoy repping Anet, so don’t ever hesitate to say “howdy” so I can do that same! If I don’t answer, it may be that I’ve stepped away to answer an e-mail or do other RL stuff. And frankly, if I’m on a JP, I’ve probably already died 3,194 times, and I’m probably going to ignore the message. Y’all understand that, right? ) But it’s always a pleasure to get to know our players!

One thing I probably should add: Suggestions, requests for support help, feedback, etc., need to go on the forums. I am not avoiding players when I suggest that, it’s just that the forums are the way to go about such requests, and in the case of suggestions, there are legal reasons for using the forums.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I wonder how many Achievement points that’s worth. Better check your Hero Panel, maybe there’s a title.

Finder Of The Holy Gaile.

I laughed soooo hard! JaFW — I admire your wit! <3

Edit to add: Yes, I need to get this account up to snuff on HoT and masteries, I admit it!

There might be a reason it’s like that, there might not. The icons returned by the API are the same textures used in-game; unfortunately I don’t have much insight into how art works.

This is probably a wontfix.

Thanks all! This should, in theory, by fixed now. Please let us know if you see this problem again.

Depends on which version of the Slubling you are fighting. There are 2 basic versions of the Slublings, a melee version, and a ranged. The melee ones don’t create projectiles so there’s nothing to reflect there. The ranged ones can be reflected. When the Slublings ramp up later in the phase and turn into Evolved Slublings, the projectiles can no longer be reflected.

In case we can’t get the OP link updated; I’ll confirm here that http://www.sheriffsauer.com is legit.

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48av5d/i_stopped_playing_guild_wars_2_anyone_wishes_to/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48s1pj/greetings_i_took_over_wolfineers_work/

Hello,
Thanks for the feedback everyone, we will definitely look at this. It is quite often a hard balance between what we think an area would sound like if it was real and what we “want” it to sound like. But you are right, areas that we spend a lot of time in need extra care to make sure the sounds don’t make you want to leave:). Thanks.

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

Jon Olson.8439:

Choose “On Demand” in the General Options tab under “Streaming”.

A good suggestion, thank you Jon but, what does “On Demand” actually mean?

Could you please tell us what ramifications a player will incur by changing to that setting?
i.e.

• will the game only load the map you are currently in or will it maybe load all maps you have at one time visited?
• will each new map you go to have a noticeably longer load time?
• will the other not demanded content trickle download?
• will personally never used content, like PvP, Raids and Fractals never get downloaded?

Just a bit more information will enable us to make a more personally informed decision.

The On Demand setting only downloads new information as it is needed to display the game in its current state. As such, any maps you have not already downloaded or been to will not be downloaded until such time as they are needed.

General ramifications of using it:

• There is a minimum the game must download after each patch. This is usually small, but entirely required by the game to run correctly.
• Characters/players/mobs can take a little longer to load if they have not already been downloaded. This can depend on your connection speed heavily. Characters/players will typically use a standard model until more information is available.
• Portals to maps you do not currently have will visually be different. When you approach it, the game will ask if you want to download it in the background. You can choose to continuing playing in the current map while the game downloads the necessary information. After completing it will notify you. Alternately you can wait on the loading screen. The UI of the loading screen when downloading shows the current progress of it.

Please post a screenshot so we’re on the same page. Thanks!

Check again. :-)

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Bug Fixes:

• Spirit Vale
  • Fixed a bug that prevented new boss kills from unlocking the vendor’s associated boss rewards.
  • The raid vendor now properly sells Chests of Medium Coats.
• Salvation Pass
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Sacrifice skill to occasionally target dead or downed players.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Slothasor to reset randomly without warning.
  • Revival checkpoints are now properly set to the ruins if players enter the raid after completing the “Cull the bandits in the ruins” event.
  • Fixed a bug in Slothasor’s Den that allowed players to stand on rubble from the cave-in and attack Slothasor.

Choose “On Demand” in the General Options tab under “Streaming”.

Thanks for the logs and confirmations. One more question for you: Is this still happening after today’s build?

Arlee.7038:

So I was in Spirit Vale and I was about to buy one of the Talismans from the vendor which you have to kill Vale Guardian to unlock. But then our raid leader said for people to logout and get the update so I did that. Now the Talismans are locked and I can’t buy them :/

The Talismans are rewards from Sabetha, and they should require killing her to purchase. In fixing the bug where killing bosses wasn’t unlocking the boss rewards, that restriction was corrected, though the text won’t accurately reflect it until the next non-hotfix build.

I’ve freed everyone in this thread. Please post if you are still stuck.

Thanks!

Hey guys!

I just wanted to let you know that we are receiving your reports and are investigating this issue!

@Zhaory, sam and Olli, I’ve unstuck you.

Thanks,
Ray

Bug Fixes:

• Spirit Vale
  • Fixed a bug that prevented new boss kills from unlocking the vendor’s associated boss rewards.
  • The raid vendor now properly sells Chests of Medium Coats.
• Salvation Pass
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Sacrifice skill to occasionally target dead or downed players.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Slothasor to reset randomly without warning.
  • Revival checkpoints are now properly set to the ruins if players enter the raid after completing the “Cull the bandits in the ruins” event.
  • Fixed a bug in Slothasor’s Den that allowed players to stand on rubble from the cave-in and attack Slothasor.

Hi,

We have a very productive thread going on right now that is gathering feedback from WvW players. Let’s keep the conversation focused and productive by gathering feedback in that thread.

Rising Dusk.2408:

I’m not sure where this was posted on Reddit, but anyone can claim something is written by an ANet employee. Always make sure to check for the ANet flair on Reddit or a reference to one such post on an official ANet communication channel before buying into anything that people claim is said by ANet.

Very sage advice, RD. Thanks!

We probably can’t find every post that’s made on the forums in order to validate “Yes, we said that” or “Nope, that’s bogus.” So it’s good for forum members — here or elsewhere — to be a little skeptical about “Anet statements” until they can actually see it on our official website or forum or get a link to a genuine (and proven/flagged) post by an ArenaNet Team member.

This is not our statement. Absolute and completely not from us.

Thanks for your comment Rose. From what we know about the bug it looks like it affected very few players. And I’m glad we were able to fix it early in the season.

I fixed this issue yesterday with a server side patch not associated with any specific game update.

Enko.6123:

I didn’t even realize the Bandit Trio was the second boss for the first few attempts. Thought it was a pre-event. The achievement for that boss seems like it will be a bit more difficult. It was a nice change of pace with something different than just going after the boss. It did seem a little out of place though.

We ran into an issue where the achievement was impossible under the current balance of the encounter, so we reduced the difficulty and balanced around that instead. I would definitely recommend giving that a go.

Andy’s already working on a fix for this.

@morrolan, unfortunately not. I’m sorry about that.

The bug was essentially some matches were incorrectly cancelled (for reasons too lengthy to explain here) and so there isn’t really a record of them that we could pull that data from.

Yes, just to add to this – we were able to get a good repro of this issue and deployed a fix today at 4 pm PST. Please let us know if you continue to experience the problem.

I’d like to thank the community for the various screen shots, etc. that showed this problem. That was very helpful in finding the bug.

Ray has pushed a fix that should get rid of this problem.

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

~snip~

To me, this kind of atmosphere is what this game has been about, all the way back to GW1.

I so agree with you!

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that prevented chat bubbles from displaying in-world.
• Fixed server crashes.

03/08/16 *
*Late Notes:
Balance, Bug Fixing, Polish

• Spirit Vale
  • General
    • Secondary boss achievements can now be rewarded the first time players defeat a boss instead of requiring players to defeat the boss a second time.

• Structured PvP
  • Removed both Meditation on Ferocity channels from the Temple of the Silent Storm PvP map to improve pacing and overall map flow.
  • Fixed an issue in which creating mesmer clones while wearing the PvP legendary backpack the Ascension would play the level-up effect.
  • Added attribute bonus options to the PvP Legendary Backpack the Ascension:
    • Vigilant
    • Commander’s
    • Marauder
    • Crusader’s
    • Minstrel’s
    • Wanderer’s
    • Trailblazer’s
    • Viper’s
  • Changed the target display to hide unimportant effects when viewing other players.
  • Removed reward icons when in Spectator Mode.
  • Disabled the Mist Champions tab of the PvP Build panel while in Spectator Mode, as it did not correctly display information for the followed player.
  • Players will no longer have blue and brown highlights in PvP if they are in your party or guild.

• World vs. World
  • Disabled the Desert Borderlands “Into the Oasis” meta-event due to the performance impact it was having on the rest of the map.
    • The associated guild missions for this event have also been disabled. If your guild rolled an easy, medium, or hard oasis mission this week, it will be rerolled.
  • Fixed a bug in which the range of Guild Shield Generator skills was shorter than intended.

• Rewards
  • Added infused versions of the Lightbringer’s Pack, Magister’s Pack, and Warmaster’s Pack back items.

• Contacts and LFG
  • All players in a party now advertise the party in the Looking for Group tab.
  • Descriptions and language flags will now properly post on the initial advertisement.

• BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
  • The March Every Day Sale continues with the permanent Captain’s Airship Pass, available in the Services category of the Gem Store today only for 800 gems, a savings of 20%.

So far it seems like all of you are running on a laptop with Windows 10, and your laptop has both an Intel and an nVidia graphics card. Is there anyone this is not true for?

We’re tracking this down. Updates soon™!

For everyone that’s encountering this, please post your dxdiag (as attachments.)

Thanks for the report, investigating.

Liewec.2896:

1. remove skyhammer from unranked.
2. buff lords in foefire to compensate for years of power creep.
3. Remove skyhammer from unranked.
4. reintroduce the 8v8 we had early on in the game.
5. REMOVE SKYHAMMER FROM UNRANKED.

Liewec — you lost 2 of your 5 top suggestions with the redundancy. I’d suggest you have more to share and could use the 5 to better avail, but hey, whatever floats your boat!

This should be fixed, thanks for letting us know & sorry for the trouble!

Excellent initiative, Cyanon! I will be tracking this thread, too!

(Just to be clear, “Top ##” posts aren’t the be-all and end-all of commentary about any form of gameplay. Noted and acknowledged. But they do make up part of a conversation, and they can be helpful, overall.)

Thanks to those who have been contributing!

We’re watching.

Thanks for the reports (and the helpful video!). We’re investigating.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Gaile Gray.6029:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Qugi.2653:

Maybe dumb question but why not here on official forum? I am sure you wait for that question.

The formatting on reddit makes an AMA work better in that system. No preference, just a matter of functionality for this sort of short-term project.

Is there any way it can be transcribed to a forum post when it’s done (even locked, I’m fine with)? It’s just that I’m not a Reddit user, and I also like the layout of these forums much more than Reddit.

~EW

I could try to do that, sure, but it wouldn’t be able to happen today. I like the idea, or maybe a “highlight reel.”

You rock, Gaile! Thank you.

~EW

So sorry that I didn’t share this earlier, but there is an excellent player-prepared synopsis here.

By my reading, the bank sorts minis alphabetically. The hero panel sorts against {locked, order, name} in that order, i.e. two minis with the same order value will be sorted by name.

Let me know if I’m totally wrong and I’ll dig around some more.

Players have to be disconnected for two minutes before they get dishonor and the other players on the team get a forfeit instead of a defeat.

Thanks. I mean that: Thanks. The variety of and the thought behind the suggestions — whether details are expressed in this thread or stated as a synopsis of other shared comments or written elsewhere in the forums — really will help the team.

KalasDelRio — As you could tell from Mike O’Brien’s comments in the AMA last week — synopsis here — there will be more communication and more meaningful communication. Yes, I believe there will be discussions with forum members as changes are being contemplated, although of course that will come from someone actively involved with the development of WvW.

Sviel — I would recommend hope. Yes, I’m naturally an optimist, but I believe there is true cause for hope, too.

iZakari — Agree, except “constant” and “continuously” may be difficult. If someone is talking about the game, they can’t be developing the game, and we all agree development is key. I’m thinking “frequent” or “regular” have a nice ring to them. Agree?

Baldrick — current information gathering enhances what the devs already have gleaned from their own gameplay, observation, tester input, and forum commentary. It’s not a new initiative. Devs are assigned to WvW, you can be assured of that. (Just as you can be assured that no one has ever spoken for me but me. I’m the same person who joined ArenaNet in 2000, and I’m the only one who uses this name. Whatcha think, I’m a made-up identity, a la Betty Crocker? )

Loosmater — Thanks for the faith. I will try to live up to that. I won’t be the person making the changes — and the devs of course are the important element of all this — but I will endeavour to help with the comms side of things!

xXBAKESXx.6731:

Yo,

Since that update yesterday my client is trying to download over 30k files, i left it downlaoding today as I have slow internet and I’ve downloaded 1.6gb and still 28k files to go, this is the patch size? or something gone wrong?

It seems odd that it would take so long, but of course I don’t know the details of your ISP and download speeds.

You could simply close the client and re-open it. There would be no risk in doing that, because the system is designed to intuitively “know” which files you have and which you need. This means you won’t start all over again. Restarting could help and wouldn’t hurt, is my thought here.

Khisanth.2948:

Deedrick.4372:

Even if you don’t have hot, your still downloading the same things.

Change your streaming settings to “On Demand” …

Good suggestion here that could help.

Thank you for the continued reports, Paladin and Blaeys!

Thank you guys for the questions and continued concerns about the WvW missions and the Oasis event. I apologize to you all that these changes didn’t make it into the notes so you all might have prepared yourselves a bit. I’ve gathered a little more information for you that hopefully will explain a little more about the decisions.

It has been explained to me that up till today that players in WvW encountered consistently poor performance issues when the Oasis event would run on the maps. Our server team tried several potential solutions in an attempt to stabilize this, as did the WvW team with content adjustments – but neither side was able to stabilize performance with the things they implemented. We have been attempting adjustments every few weeks, and with each attempt the performance was not improved.

Rather than making many players suffer longer under the performance issues while we continue to look for a fix that works, the decision was made as a team to disable the event. And as the guild mission was tied to this event and had been experiencing issues, we took it out of the rotations till both our teams (WvW and Guilds) can see to it being fixed. I cannot offer an eta for a fix at this time.

From the Guilds team, we currently have no plans to pull additional WvW missions. And we’re still actively investigating issues and looking into potential (and stable) fixes for all our mission (and reward) issues. Thank you again everyone and may the rest of your day and week be filled with relaxation and/or the slaughtering of your enemies.

RlyOsim — You’re right, of course. But, too, collective desires can change over time, can shift, can be better defined or reprioritized. I think it’s helpful — and thanks for participating — to get a view in the here-and-now.

Peazomanco — I see what you did there.

Loosmaster.8263:

The key to what you do is you forward the information or flag the threads and you let us know you did it.

I did it.

Thanks. We’re investigating.

We are indeed working on this issue (it’ll be added to the Known Issue Tracker shortly. Unfortunately it’s proven a very difficult one to solve. We’ll keep you posted on the progress, though.

Edited to add: please do post the video, Shylock! Especially if you managed to grab the game history at the end.