Guild Wars 2

In WVW I have +5 supply via my WVW rank points. If the keep is claimed by a guild with +5 supply in their aura then I should get +10, and carry a total of +20 supply. (Though I admit I much prefer the idea of carrying 40 as happened several days ago.) But there is an improvement called Presence of the Keep that should cause objective auras to have double effectiveness. Instead of gaining +5 from the keep being claimed, I should gain +10, for a total of 25 supply. (I think 50 would be a better amount.)

The problem is, the doubling of the aura often doesn’t work. I only get 20 supply. The culprit appears to be the WAYPOINT. Obviously, dragons have corrupted it. If I use a Waypoint to enter a keep with +5 and Presence of the Keep, I can only gain +5 over my base 15. If that happens, all I have to do is run out of the keep until the aura drops, then turn around and run (not waypoint) back in, at which time I will receive +10 for 25 total.

Given the recent changing nature of the staffing at Arena Net, I’m uncertain who is responsible for this problem. If the dragons are in charge, and this change is intentional, I would like to say right here and now that I for one am proud to welcome our new dragon overlords, and I will gladly betray my fellow players to assist you in your plans in exchange for being personally allowed to pick up 50 supply instead of 15, 20, or 25 supply (contact me in game to arrange my formal betrayal). If the humans are still in charge at Arena Net, please do not read the previous sentence, and instead fix waypoints and presence of the keep to allow me collect my paltry 25 supply.

Alas, neither a fix nor an offer for 50 supply from a friendly dragon has arrived for this Tuesday patch. Dire news indeed.

I suspect that means I was wrong. It’s the Asura in charge now. We are all doomed, and we won’t reliably have 25 supply either.

This Tuesday patch?

I believe ‘Tuesday’ patches are every other week. I had nothing to download today.

Good luck.

Talking about this problem in map chat tells me that the problem isn’t universal. Some people get +10 supply even if they waypoint into the keep. Just not me. Apparently I’m not good enough to get +10 supply.

Some people, based on our group repeatedly wiping in the south end of the desert borderlands can sometimes get +10 from the air keep when they waypoint back, and sometimes can’t. Except me. I never get the +10 no matter how many times I waypoint back in. I have to run out until the aura fades, then run back into the aura. And unlike the red keep in EB, the air keep has a HUGE AURA that takes a long time to run out of.

What did I do to deserve this, ANET?

Have you considered a -repair of the client, in case of corrupted file(s).

Clearing the GW2 cache?

Good luck.

This is an ongoing bug, it happens randomly because presence of the keep for whatever reason is not getting applied properly. This has nothing to do with waypoints, it is a random bug with individual keeps, you can try porting to another keep with the buff and see if it works. This usually happens to me when I am supplying my toons before a reset, garrison is bugged, but bay or hills works.

It isn’t random for me at all. 100% of the time that I waypoint into a keep, I cannot pick up +10. 100% of the time that I walk into the aura of a keep I can pick up +10. It is perfectly predictable and easily understood.

I’ve tried explaining in my two posts here the two bugs that cause this. Tl;dr is that you need a specific guild aura buff already applied on you before you can get presence. Ideally waypointing from the same keep to the same keep at a distance far enough to trigger a load screen, or from another objective with the same level (should work across maps even), or figure out which side to run into an objective from (if any).

Interesting posts. I have no idea how to even detect secret buffs. All I can tell is what variables change.

And right now, I’m distracted by the fact that EVERYONE IN MY SQUAD IS CARRYING FORTY SUPPLY BUT ME. Why don’t I get 40 supply?