Guild Wars 2

It’s been discussed before, but I can’t find anything in reddit or any other source.

Does anyone know if there are future development plans to fix the exploration “star” either on the clones or on the mesmer itself?

This is a concern for me in PvP. In WvW not so much as that’s not really balanced to begin with (since star or not will be of zero help in a zerg).

Background: After completing 100% map exploration, the player gets a gold “star” next to their name. The star is an easy identifier for the “real” mesmer in PvP as the clones do not have the same star by their name. The star is exceptionally easy to spot because it floats in the name above your head… no targetting is required.

It should be fixed. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmers-still-nerfed-for-world-completion/first#post1034601

Arena-Net said they were looking into it a few months ago. So it should be ready soon enough.

I’m hoping for some references to previous dev posts. I’m not sure any exist on this specific question.

juno.1840:

I’m hoping for some references to previous dev posts. I’m not sure any exist on this specific question.

It’s somewhere on here. I read it too. I just can’t find it right now.

Are they just going to scrap the star from PvP altogether? Makes it harder to hide, clones or no clones.

Esorono.1039:

Arena-Net said they were looking into it a few months ago. So it should be ready soon enough.

You have more faith than I do – after a few months I’m of the opinion the post-it note fell off the monitor

Ryuujin.8236:

You have more faith than I do – after a few months I’m of the opinion the post-it note fell off the monitor

LOL. I wasn’t worried about it earlier. It’s such an obvious and painfully easy thing to fix that I thought it would be fixed before my lazy mapping approach got me close to finishing. But, now I find my mesmer just a few WvW spots away from being kicked out of PvP due to the star issue.

Really, if it takes them more than a couple of hours to fix the star issue something is seriously wrong with their development team. The trick is to get them to spend that hour on it.

I’m pondering redoing the mapping on a different class and shelving mesmer until the star issue has been fixed. ><

Okuza.5210:

Really, if it takes them more than a couple of hours to fix the star issue something is seriously wrong with their development team.

Or with the code….

Ryuujin.8236:

Esorono.1039:

Arena-Net said they were looking into it a few months ago. So it should be ready soon enough.

You have more faith than I do – after a few months I’m of the opinion the post-it note fell off the monitor

Not really, any time mesmers bring the star problem up, Arena-Net said they didn’t know about it before. So I really don’t have much faith in them either.

No.

ANet is very slow to address our fixes requests, no matter how legitimate. The only recent fix was the sword’s #3. The other significant was fixing some greatsword and scepter attack issues early on.

On the other hand, they’ve made dozens of nerfing fixes, completely destroying the torch and crippling the greatsword. Inexplicably, they also nerfed phantasms, who were weaker than shatter or condition builds to begin with, into oblivion.

I’m sitting at 97% atm, so when and if they fix it it will be simple to finish it, meantime doing it again with Warrior while I wait.

Ryuujin.8236:

Esorono.1039:

Arena-Net said they were looking into it a few months ago. So it should be ready soon enough.

You have more faith than I do – after a few months I’m of the opinion the post-it note fell off the monitor

Sheesh, no kidding. Anet said they are looking into it? How does it follow that it will be fixed soon??

I think a great fix to make it behave like the WvW “Commander” graphic. That graphic is enabled only when you turn on the title (or so I’ve read).

So make the star show by the Player’s name only when the Player has the exploration title selected. Boom — problem solved.

Oh wow. Didn’t know this! Looks like I won’t be going for 100% completion on my Mesmer until that is remedied.

Yeah, I’m going for 99% and see what happens then.

Morfedel.4165:

Yeah, I’m going for 99% and see what happens then.

I have 1 skill point I didn’t get and I’m leaving it at that until I see the fix.

Wasn’t aware of the bug before I had completed map 100%, gameplay in WvW, is not that bad, but when you get downed things start to change, die almost instantly due to they can attack the real player at once, only enemies that are new (new players), will get tricked when downed

UnknownFreak.2805:

Wasn’t aware of the bug before I had completed map 100%, gameplay in WvW, is not that bad, but when you get downed things start to change, die almost instantly due to they can attack the real player at once, only enemies that are new (new players), will get tricked when downed

The star doesn’t get you finished when downed, it’s the big red arrow/triangle “finish them” symbol above the real you that is the give away. The clone doesn’t get it.

Does the star show up to enemies? I haven’t, personally, map completed yet… but was hoping to find a vid/pictures from an enemy perspective. If anyone has these/could get them, posting them on here as well as Xavi’s bug thread would be much appreciated.

Yes, enemies can see it. It’s like a giant marker next to the name of the player. It’s absurdly easy to kill a mesmer with it. You never target the wrong thing (which is rather the point of the clones).

target system should be fixed for memser, every time you make clone taget is lost or jump randomly on you again or any of your clone. tracked memser is easy to kill that why we use invis

Can anyone confirm that it is now fixed? What about out-manned buff?

Navi.7142:

It should be fixed. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmers-still-nerfed-for-world-completion/first#post1034601

Except they did the same type of response at least 4 times.

Yeah? Then we should post/ link these same 4 responses into that thread if it isn’t already fixed how they told us. -.-

Navi.7142:

Yeah? Then we should post/ link these same 4 responses into that thread if it isn’t already fixed how they told us. -.-

Managed to find one, the other two are on Guild Wars 2 Guru and I’m not going to wade through that, and I don’t remember where I saw the fourth.

Jason King.2647:

Thanks for the feedback! Clones not having the explorer stars is definitely a bug, and we’ve noted it in our database. As the rest of these ideas are more along of suggestions and feedback, however, I’ll be moving it to the Mesmer profession forum.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Mesmer-Clones-not-proper-copies/first#post476285

Oops, I missread what he said. Glad they fixed it.

Nah, the star there is to help newbies spot the mesmer. It’s working as intended! /sarcasm

This should already be fixed. If it was something similar effecting warrior, it’d already be done.

SteepledHat.1345:

Nah, the star there is to help newbies spot the mesmer. It’s working as intended! /sarcasm

This should already be fixed. If it was something similar effecting warrior, it’d already be done.

[..],it would never have been there. ^^

So anyone tried it, how is it? Is it fixed yet how he said?

Question answered… although the post from ANet didn’t exactly inspire confidence. I’ll try and verify in hot-join PvP (although I don’t see too many mesmers with the star because of the bug keeping players from finishing exploration).

I still see the star on Mesmers on my own server in WvW but haven’t noticed it yet on Mesmers on competing servers.