I think another major issue is that there’s no easy way to clear our payment information from the GW2 client. As near as I can tell you can either enter fake information and save it over your real info or ticket CS to get it removed. I get that there is a trade off between convenience and security, and easily saving info but making it difficult to remove keeps that information there to grease impulse buys. But this is a game, and there’s a RMT business out there that hacks accounts. There really needs to be a delete payment information button.
There is one, right under the ‘save card’ checkbox. Maybe it’s a new feature and the button wasn’t there when you looked, idk. It removed everything except my email.
I was wondering: I can check with the team, of course, but perhaps the “free play” period was designed to allow people to get into the map, choose their location, and be ready to start a round of songs. If that was eliminated, might there be complaints about how we players are always joining in the middle of a session, which means we’d lose the ability to get maximum rewards? I’m just speculating here, but it crossed my mind.
Free Play is at the end, not at the beginning. After free play is over you get sent to a new map (or don’t if you get the error message and get stuck). Joining after the session is over is worse than joining in the middle of a session. You shouldn’t be able to join a session when it’s effectively finished already.
A simple fix (I know, probably not that simple in terms of coding) they could implement would be to stop allowing people to join an instance if it is, say, 80% – 90% or more complete in songs played. This would stop people joining in on free play time, and help them get into fresher instances where they can actually have a chance of enjoying the activity instead of fighting the sometimes endless cycle of free play/unable to join.
or get rid of free to play. People will stop leaving the instance prematurely
True. If people want to just play their own songs, an Unbreakable Choir Bell instrument is only 98 copper on the tp which is less than the cost of waypointing to Divinity’s Reach to play the activity. And it can be used anywhere, any time, and doesn’t have constantly full servers. The free play section is pretty pointless.
You put cheese in the bear trap. Eventually a rat tries to eat the cheese, and then the jaws snap shut, going straight over the tiny rat and making a loud noise. The rat is scared by the noise and runs away, but then realises nothing happened.
Eventually, the rats will be conditioned to ignore loud noises when they’re eating because it always happens and it’s fine. And then you shoot them.
I don’t think you can upgrade straight from the exotic-rarity Prototype to the Beta.
The only recipes on the wiki are to upgrade to the ascended-rarity Prototype (one recipe for offensive slot, one for defensive slot). http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prototype_Fractal_Capacitor
The ascended Prototype isn’t actually infused, it just has the offensive or defensive slot that a normal ascended item has. The Beta Fractal Capacitor is the infused version of the ascended Prototype (you get the agony infusion slot when you upgrade to Beta). I don’t think it’s possible to have a non-infused Beta, so if you did manage to upgrade straight from the exotic you probably wouldn’t miss out on anything.
The final Fractal Capacitor is just a skin upgrade (to get the glow), it’s the same stat-wise as the Beta.
Collections are never more expensive unless you buy the mats in between instead of collecting what you need. Collections give you various options:
- farm everything, making the collections neglible in price in comparison
- use some mats from your own storage and buying the rest – still works out cheaper
- buy every single required material -The same price or more than buying the pre
Collecting mats yourself doesn’t make them free. They still have value.
Looking at the worst pre to craft according to the gw2efficiency link posted above, the Lover is about 500g on the TP and uses about 1000g worth of mats to craft. Even if you’re determined to farm loads of ascended mats, if you just sell the mats until you can buy the pre you will be farming for a lot less time than if you tried to craft it. Expensive in time or expensive in money, whichever you pick that collection is more expensive.
You’ve only said buy orders in this thread, what about sell orders?
For example search for Potion of Dredge Slaying. It will automatically select the lowest available sell order (3c, there are thousands listed at that price) but the buy button is greyed out because the minimum price you’re allowed to trade it is 4c so then you have to manually select the one that matches the minimum price so that you can actually buy it which is kind of a hassle.
I never really noticed the pipe sounds until you pointed it out. The sounds that bother me the most in the airship are the NPCs voice lines. They have stock lines like most generic vendors etc, but not the ones that match what they do.
“I’ve got deals you won’t believe”. You’re right bank dude, I don’t believe you have any deals at all.
“My bread is never stale” Good for you, I’m glad you’re enjoying your sandwiches. Now can you please sell me some coal Mr. Armorsmith?
I don’t know why that annoys me but it does. I guess I should just be grateful that at least there are no golem uprisings or kids playing detective in the Airship.
I have the same big update and it’s downloading really slowly (my internet is not that slow).
It says it’s playable and it does seem to be playable so… I guess it can just download whatever in the background. It’s lucky I don’t have monthly download limits any more.
There are statues that don’t have the temple on the same map? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one.
Well, yes. Straits of Devastation has a Lyssa Statue in the northwest, guarding a Hero Challenge, two Melandru Statues (in the water to guard another HC, next to the Elder Wood farm spot). Malchor’s Leap has a Melandru Statue next to Dwayna’s Cathedral at a HC, a Grenth Statue at a HC in the southwest, another one at the Cathedral of Light entrance near the Ossuary. Cursed Shore has a Balthazar Statue in the north at a HC, one in the middle on the way to Anchorage, two Lyssa Statues at the labyrinth, another one in the royal tomb, a Dwayna Statue at Gavbeorn’s Landing, not to mention the display of all gods at the Promenade of the Gods.
Huh. I’ve map-completed Orr 5 times (after megaservers), guess I’ve just been really lucky never running into one of those being contested.
Edit: Went into Cursed Shore, all the statues and temples were contested. The temple of Grenth was captured, and this screenshot happened. It looks like it does mostly control the closest statues like RoseofGilead said? Though the Promenade of the Gods is kinda weird. It’s definitely not controlling Grenth statues like the tooltip says, anyway.
That’s the temple of Grenth. The statue of Melandru will be uncontested once the temple of Melandru is uncontested. It’s to the north, in the Cathedral of Verdance area.
Ever since megaservers the statues tied to the temples are odd, at best. I have no idea how it’s actually determined when a statue is or isn’t contested, since it cannot get the info from a map with the corresponding temple on the same server (when the temple isn’t on the very same map as the statue).
I just know that that particular statue will, at some point, be uncontested, you can only keep trying to check it.
There are statues that don’t have the temple on the same map? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one.
There is overflow. You can’t control where it goes though.
I’ve never trained fractal attunement, that progress is all overflow from when pact commander has been full. And that little bit of progress on itzel lore 5 is overflow from the previous tier of exalted lore.
There was no warning. It’s just poor design anyway.
There definitely is a warning, I just tried it. It clearly says that it will make the item soulbound. You probably just clicked yes without reading it.
The whirlpools spawn at the same place that regular fingers do when Teq is phasing. Instead of having one finger spawning at usual, you get 2 fingers sprouting and then twisting before disappearing. The whirlpool apears during that twisting.
How hard is to understand that this never happens. Either because the map is full and the players deal so much damage Teq skip this part of the mechanic or there are not enough people and the boss hp dont drop enough…
I understand that normally if the fight gets to the final three phases they’re burned through before he finishes being stunned so he doesn’t do whirlpools in those.
But there’s one set of whirlpools when his health gets to 75%, just before he flies off and starts the first battery defence. It doesn’t matter how much dps is being done, that still happens.
I, meanwhile, had figured that ease of access and the joy of gliding would draw more guilds to the windswept heights of the Lost Precipice.
Precipice would be a lot better if the updrafts were just permanent like they are in the guild hall capture mission. The joy of gliding… and then having to stop and go all the way down to the floor to find the button to push to get a few seconds of updraft… It’s really not that fun to get around.
I completed it on a couple of toons last week and the week before, and did not need to use any regen items at all. And I was sloppy, not necessarily being spot on with my timing. I got through it with no problem each time.
I went back this weekend and completed it on a few alts, and was not able to do so without using regen items.
Something had obviously changed. I suspect they hotfixed it sometime toward the end of last week, to make it more challenging. Now, however, they are seeing people using regen items to complete it, so they have to fix that.
This is pure conjecture on my part, but if I were a betting man…
Timing? I just put skill 6 on autocast :P
I really hope they haven’t made adrenal mushrooms required though. I’m still trying to get poison lore for that hero point in Tangled Depths and that’s only tier 4. Adrenal mushrooms is right at the end of mastery progression and shouldn’t be required for a hero point near the entrance of the second map.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of the player base actually have legendaries though. Unfortunately, I doubt Anet will make that information public.
GW2Effeciency has some interesting stats available about accounts that have signed up there. They have an overall number of about 40% of accounts having at least one legendary. That’s likely a bit high, I doubt many newbies make their first character and then immediately sign up for GW2Effeciency so the sample is kind of biased. But it’s better than nothing.
It’s not an exploit, it’s just a really tedious farm. You don’t get any loot and you don’t even get that much xp unless you’re stacking every booster there is, but there are constant spawns so you can just sit there for hours grinding and grinding…
Anet has definitely known about it for long enough that they could have shut it down by now if they wanted to.
Has the price of coral gone up? thinks about all those times swimming right past coral nodes because they were worthless
From what I hear you don’t need the coral, you need an account-bound thingy that you sometimes get from harvesting the coral nodes with the collection active. The price of coral has gone down a little from the people harvesting so many nodes for The Legend and then dumping all the coral they don’t want on the tp.
I must have missed this thread when it was first posted. Sorry guys…thanks for bumping it. As demonbreak said, for Peer Review, the first page of the journal is at the bottom of the stairs where Rytlock waits for you (and it doesn’t become interactive until you have talked to your team about proceeding). For the smiths, you do have to find and revive Beigarth first. It’s possible that this is indeed broken…I’ll make a note to look into it first thing on Monday when I’m back in the office.
Yep, the page is there. I can’t interact with it though.
The guy in the cave you’re supposed to revive doesn’t seem to be there.
Edit:
Ori. Sickles only have 50 charges instead of 100, so you’ll be making 1g8s per ori. sickle you don’t buy because you have the watchwork one, instead of 1g4s. Most of your profit is still coming from sprockets, of course, not money saved on sickles.
The Watchwork Mining Pick mines sprockets. That’s the only infinite tool with an additional function. You can’t get sprockets from plants.
Landsharks are everywhere in Guild Wars 2. Nowhere is safe.
It’s true. I thought I was just fighting normal sharks and I would be safe after leaving the water but they just wriggled up that ramp. There is no escape from the landsharks, and they can strike anywhere at any time.
I think there is something wrong ingame not api related
on my f2p account I get this odd /age output
I have only one char on that accout
That’s different though; the account time accrues when you’re on the character select screen, so that should be higher than the sum of all characters.
But in the screenshot he posted, it’s LOWER. His account time is 32 hours and he’s played that one character for 33 hours. That doesn’t make any sense.
If you want a lore reason, it’s simple, you have to be able to project your shadow to the target location, without crossing gaps or climbing anything. If your shadow can’t reach in an unbroken line, you can’t follow it.
I don’t think they want a lore reason.
It’s like in the living story when Kasmeer reaches a big gap and just makes a portal across it. In lore, portals can do that. If we could just ground-target portals wherever we liked in game, that would be crazy. Look at the unscalable walls of a WvW fort and just make a portal to the top…
So we have this limited version of portal that we can only place under our feet, but that’s just game mechanics.
I don’t remember any particular instance of NPCs shadowstepping or blinking somewhere where we can’t, they don’t seem to use those skills much. But I think what was meant by “this validation is only there to prevent exploits and has no other lore reasoning or whatnot” is that shadowsteps don’t have weird inconsistent path checks in lore. Lore shortbow thieves simply appear wherever their magic shadow arrow lands.
Tried out the site, doesn’t even report correct character stats, pretty useless for a gear checker. The economic stuff is useful though.
If you have gear with selectable stats, it can’t tell what stats you’ve chosen. That’s just a failing of the API. So, for example, it counts my Mawdry as not having stats and displays slightly lower than my actual total on the character that’s wearing it.
Doesn’t seem like that big a deal, but then I don’t join gearcheck groups so I don’t really know. Maybe a character wearing almost full zerker could sneak a cleric mawdry into the group and then the dungeon would just fail instantly.
I got a mail containing the 55 blooms that I did not receive on the first day (two maps: 10+20 daily, + 5+20 daily, then I gave up playing for no reward).
My question is: Will we also be sent the vine-covered crates that we were supposed to get alongside the 20 blooms for the first daily completion of each map? They’re not as important as the blooms but they would be nice to have. It seems weird that you only gave out one part of the missing rewards.
I wonder, if we create a new character, will we get access to our most updated version of the bank/ wardrobe?
Nope, new character doesn’t make any difference.
I created a Revenant in the last beta, didn’t really like it, and deleted it. Today I created a beta guardian. I don’t have anything that I got on my main account since the last beta, and I still have the revenant blindfold and mistward armor skins unlocked and can use them on my guard.
Um..can’t you just tell the friend/send them a link to the free download/etc.?
Some games have systems that reward you for recruiting new players. If somebody clicks on your personal link and signs up then your account gets some sort of bonus (and sometimes the new account as well). I think that’s what he’s asking about.
I’ve not heard of anything like that for GW2.
I would like to be able to skip that stuff in general, e.g. when taking a new level 80 through Tangled Paths for the black lion key. I can understand there not being a way to skip the long annoying dialogue sequences because they’re not interactive at all, but the personal story had skippable cutscenes so why does the living story not?
I know when replaying some of the episodes for achievements, there was a mote that let you restart the boss to try the achievements again without having to restart the whole instance. I don’t know if the world summit has that but it could be a decent compromise if Anet doesn’t want to make living story stuff skippable for some reason.
It’s one outfit, which looks like the traditional wedding attire of whatever race/gender you are.
If they tried to sell the suit and dress separately so you could use either of them on either gender people would probably complain about being ripped off.
I had that before with a different story step. From what I heard the arrows are trying to take a shortcut through an area that’s part of an event and not actually reachable most of the year. Just ignore the arrows and go to the green star.
If you’re at the “meet Trehearne in the Grove” objective then go to the Grove.
If you’re at “Rendezvous with the others near the Ogotl grounds” then go to Brisban Wildlands. If you haven’t found that map yet you can get there through the north-west corner of Caledon Forest.
Same issue here and here is a screenshot showcasing exactly where.
Had this exact issue today. He’s just standing on the chair with low health.
-I have completed this instance on another character, and got all the achievements for it too. But I only have it currently active on this character.
-Solo.
-Ep 8 got automatically activated after completing the personal story but I switched back and did everything in the proper order.
The following steps were restored to their original position in chapter 8.
Against the Corruption
Cathedral of Silence
Romke’s Final Voyage
Source of Orr
Did you experience the issue in one of the story steps listed above?
Against the Corruption and Cathedral of Silence were definitely level 70 for me, I took screenshots and stuff. Don’t remember what level Source of Orr was.
A black lion chest dropped. I opened it with the key from the first set of personal story missions.
I got a rare thingy! Selling that was the first time I had over 1 gold. I felt very rich :p
I’m much more ticked about losing up to 30% boon/condi duration, which weren’t rolled into the trait lines, as was suggested.
Yeah I am annoyed that my boon duration is gone with basically no way to get it back (Givers armor only gives 1% and you’re stuck with healing power and toughness as the other stats).
we gained +74 precision with the base attribute changes, however they kept the base critical chance at 4% (meaning they gave us 74 pts and it didn’t do anything at all)
I knew about the downlevelling but didn’t know that. I can’t be too annoyed about something I didn’t even notice but it does seem pretty bad to pretend like we’re getting extra base critical chance to offset the loss from traits and then not actually give it to us.
Is there anything wrong with the personal story?
i just got the game yesterday and just started playing earlier with a human engineer but after finishing “Defending Shaemoor” theres no more quest for me.
From what I can see in your screenshot, it looks like you need to hit level 10 before you can access the next story “block.”
From the wiki:
“Each character’s personal story is divided into eight chapters, with each chapter unlocking every 10 levels.”
To be fair, on his screenshot it does say (in orange text to stand out) “This episode will become playable at level 10”.
I’m not sure how that could be clearer. Maybe it should be bigger?
That’s been there since the beginning. Sadly, when the mentor figure talks to Trahearne, they use the same cinematic for all races, including sylvari. Sylvari gets a separate cinematic before that, which is neat, but really they could have recorded 1-2 additional lines per order…
I don’t think they need to record any additional lines. Sylvari do already have a separate cinematic before that so just cutting the introduction lines off the end of the second one for them would be fine.
Or maybe Trehearne is supposed to be introduced twice because he’s Jesus (see pic).
Also Ghost King dude just granted me the title “Champion of Orr” and I thought “that sounds cool” and went to equip it but I couldn’t. Then I googled it and found out it’s not actually a title. Why on earth not? What’s the point of writing a cutscene where you’re given a title if you’re not actually given a title?
Edit: Another bug. The first objective in “Victory or Death” is to meet up with Caithe. After that the objective updated to go collect power cores and stuff. But Caithe never lost her objective marker. She had the green star over her head (and marking her on the map) for the entire instance, even after Zhaitan was defeated and it was telling me to leave the instance and go to Fort Trinity.
