Guild Wars 2

Dont think spoiler tags work in chat anymore, so… You guys realize what krait look like, right? This is an analog of something in real life.

Salvage more. You’ll get better mileage out of your inventory especially since the context menu addition to salvage kits.

This game was not developed with support for VR in mind. That makes it virtually impossible for it to even SUPPORT VR without massive rewrites of the code. I seriously doubt it’s going to ever happen. Might as well merge all of these “i can has vr pl0x” threads with the thin oily smear called “the mounts” thread.

Mez Koo.9510:

why keep adding more?

For the same reason they have more hero challenges than what we need for core specs and the 1 elite we have at the moment?

Flitters.4095:

As a newer and therefore low level player I would agree with the idea based on the fact it gives new players more incentive to play areas beyond just leveling thru.

The highest level character on your account determines the “level” of dailies you get in pve. So instead of “daily sparkfly fen events” you might get “daily kessex hills events” as a daily.

If you have all masteries done already, it’s showing up because you can now earn exp in exchange for spirit shards again.

misterman.1530:

Bellatrixa.3546:

Cristalyan.5728:

Well, I have now a +7 agony infusion and an amulet slot. I tried to put the +7 AR into the amulet but it was not possible. What are you saying about ANY SLOT?
On the other hand, in the morning I had 150 AR on my gear. After the patch I have only 143. If I want to do now the lvl 99 fractal, I will be 6 AR short. So, I have to do something (to work) to achieve the same lvl I had before the patch. They give us the +7 AR back? Is useless. I want my Fractal Relics I spent on it back.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/INFUZ-5959

You can get the relics back if it was a simple infusion so actually they did compensate us. Amulets now only accept Enrichments which are basically the old utility infusions and can be bought from the laurel vendor.

You are totally missing the point. What if you don’t do fractals? I don’t have any AR at all. None. Zip. I don’t do fractals. What I do have is 6 infusions I can’t use and 6 amulets with no infusions because I don’t want to spend 20+ laurels on “enrichment” ones. I primarily WvW. Enrichment infusions aren’t really all that useful.

If you have the mastery points to spare, it takes ONE point to be able to attune your rings . And some gold. You go from “missing” a slot to having 2 slots now empty. Just remember to extract any existing infusions first as well. All it takes once you spent that one mastery point is walking into the Fractal Observatory. That wasnt so hard, was it? (unless you already have attuned rings, then oh well, I tried)

Bruno.3812:

There’s a way to open up more than one client on a single computer.

This thread is 10 months old but maybe you can use it. If not it might give you ideas on what to search for. Multi Client.

None of those ideas I would advocate. The safest way is to have enough room on your drive for a second installation copy (or a second install on a dif drive like I do).

Steps:

• Make 2 install locations (I have one on my c: drive, the atypical spot, and one on my SSD) with separate shortcuts on your desktop
• Create a second user account for your computer, doesnt need to be anything more than basic account, but NEEDS a password
• Search for, and download the “process explorer” program (technet is where I found it), put it on your desktop or somewhere easy to find
• Open/run first GW2 client
• Run process explorer AS ADMINISTRATOR (wont work otherwise)
• At this point I am not liable or responsible for anyone kittening up their computer if they decide to go exploring rather than read the rest of the instructions word for word beyond this point.
• On the menubar, go to find->handle or dll substring (or ctrl+f)
• type in “guild” without quotes and search
• look for the entry line that says AN-Mutex-Window-Guild Wars 2 select it and close search window
• the Mutex thread should now be selected in the bottom part of the procexp window, right-click and select “close handle,” hit ok on the warning
• CLOSE PROCESS EXPLORER before you decide to explore, it wont end well
• shift-right-click the shortcut to your other gw2 installation and choose “run as another use”
• “log in” with the second user account you create in step 2
• repeat the last 8 steps for as many accounts as you want to run (each needs a separate computer user account as well)
• done

I strongly recommend setting both accounts to max performance before attempting anything. Increase settings after you see what an impact it can have to run both.

Eagleeyes Mystified.7253:

I can use another account (I even already have a second “paid” account I could use, but would need another computer) and I can have someone else do it.

I do not get the buff and harvest. I am simply trying to get the buff on all my characters BEFORE I harvest. I can not do that, regardless of what I try.

That is the reason I am posting here. I do not think that is actually fair. I made the banner, I should be able to use it for all of my characters. But, at least so far, can not.

Thanks for the replies so far.

EE

It is fair. The problem is you arent making it back on the map. Frankly that’s not a problem for anet. That would involve screwing around with their instancing software. You have 3 alternatives in place to be used: use a dead map, such as lornar’s pass, have someone loiter as an anchor, use a second account.

Mind you, you DONT need a second computer to run a second account. Just some technical know-how and a program that lets you muck about in process threads.

You probably wont get a refund. My guess is you bought the sonic tunneling tool (or w/e it’s called) for the exploitable ability to use it to hide behind rocks because it lowers the player nameplate. Then anet fixed that.

Fellfoot.8156:

A guild mate and I were standing in LA right after the update today. There was an Anet tag standing there motionless near the Mystic Forge. My guild mate was asking it questions in say chat. I tried to explain to my guild mate that it was just a “placeholder”, you know, a Dev Bot there to record what people are map chatting about the latest update. As I was trying to explain this to my guild mate… it MOVED! and it SPOKE!

I have to admit that I was more than a little surprised. It interacted my guild mate a few moments, gave a sort of scripted response to a question that was asked, then I had to leave and go pick up my kids from school.

This leaves me with only two conclusions:
1) my belief that those Anet tags are only recording bots has been myth busted, they are actual people!
2) Anet has some really awesome interactive bots

…either way… my mind is blown, gg Anet gg….

The Anet tag isnt a marker of a bot. It’s the tag of the actual Arenanet GW2 guild. You know, the one that employees are encouraged to join if they happen to play the game on their, I believe, personal accounts.

The first part, in the limited time I have atm, simply seems to be about the method of acquisition of a game key, whether by purchase or giveaway.

As for the second, that pertains to enforcement of their ToU/ToS regarding violations. Likely specifically those regarding anything client-side. Additionally, the extent of monitoring would likely simply be the game files and memory locations the game is residing in, as well as network traffic, and any programs running concurrently that happen to sniff at those things (such as CE) to find if something is encroaching where it should not. Beyond personal observations that seem reasonable, short of a legitimate lawsuit subpoena, Anet’s not likely going to give you a verbatim explanation of what limits there are to the monitoring. Why monitor in the first place if you’ve told those you’re monitoring FOR exactly how to avoid said monitoring?

And FINALLY, you’ll notice in the last section you quoted, the ToS is a blanket ToS for all of Anet’s stuff, NOT specifically GW2. This means that Anet’s likely got other projects in the works, and needed to update the ToS to provide themselves legal coverage over what they need to do to operate those projects.

Tobias.8632:

This is getting to a point where it is extremely unreasonable for new players to be able to earn bag or bank expansions, or for players in general to be able to play to earn any of the gemstore items.

Unreasonable request for one simple reason, that quite a few people can agree with: extra space will just get filled with more junk you dont get rid of. For another simple reason as well, the prices are dictated in IRL CASH. Not some digital currency that has very few inflation/deflation controls who’s related value to the IRL-tied currency has continuously had a net-decrease.

[quote=5343257;xuse.6817:
As I said, he only uses 3-6 letter unaccented names.
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How is that Anet’s problem, other players’ problem, or something Anet should change a longstanding policy that YOU have an issue with, just so you can continue with your self-imposed personal naming requirements?

As basically everyone else has said, Anet’s not revoking names for any reason, short of names breaking the ToS in the first place, so unless a player willingly deletes a character, you’re SoL.

Godzilla.7629:

Im currently making a legend with a friend and it will be complete within a few days. So when it is eventually sold the gold will be split and i was wondering if sending the large sums would get me a ban. But it looks like that it wont which is good so I’ll go ahead and not worry

It does help to at least write WHY you’re sending the gold as well, like “here’s your split from the sale” or something.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

When the game came out 400 gems per bag slot was no big deal. Gems are inflated now and it still costs 1200 gems to upgrade one character to max bag slots.

For a player just starting out that’s somewhere between 180g-200g just to max out bag slots on one character. A little ridiculous for someone just starting out.

Would be nice if the 3 additional bag slots were given free or the price was cut by a minimum of 50% to a more reasonable 200 gems per slot making it cost 600 gems total for full upgrade.

TLDR “I hate the gold cost of a convenience item, but willingly demand a cheap cash item be made cheaper or free because it’s ingame currency cost is too expensive now, all the while fully ignoring the implication that the cost is going to be ‘too expensive’ in the future at some point in which case I’ll simply repeat this entire venture over again.”

Gold cost of CASH shop items is irrelevant. Their cost is determined by the CASH price. Fork out the cash, or save up the gold.

kokiman.2364:

Did you even read what I wrote? They just use plain urls nothing special and that happend for months now.

I did, and you’re not thinking it through at all. I really cant explain it any simpler than what I have, and that’s coming from playing several games where they tried the exact same miserable failure of a system.

Harny.6012:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Harny.6012:

Do you need help buying it at a particular store? (because of price maybe?)
PM me if yes and if you have a paypal account.

Yeah, that doesn’t open up anyone to being scammed.

If they have a PayPal account they can buy directly from the GW2 website.

Im actually nice enough to send a code first
But you wouldn’t know untill you would ask

Still an illegitimate transaction.

MrDaaark.2604:

There is a sale on today on Amazon UK. For 40$ CDN I can have it shipped on a CD from the UK. But it will cost just under 70$ CDN for a digital key from the US. No mention of it on Amazon Canada or any Canadian retailer.

(and still no revenant slot… )

The first is a blatant scam. HoT does not have, or will ever have, as currently stated by Anet, physical media purchase options. It’s purely digital.

kokiman.2364:

Basandra Skye.4031:

kokiman.2364:

I shouldn’t have to add any more text to it but why are you not blacklisting certain URLs?

Because they’d have to blacklist every single combination of letters and symbols that can represent the url.

Why letters and symbols? The last ingame ads I saw had plain urls, no special characters, no spaces.

Think it through. Simply blocking “www.this.url.com” wont be the end of it. For starters , they’ll begin using vvvvvv, wwvv, wvvvv, etc. Then you gotta filter that. And so on and so on and so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so onand so on until you might as well ban people for chatting period.

edit: and if you’re dumb enough to type in said URL into your ‘net browser, all the while knowing full well you’re breaking the ToS… well… you deserve it.

Bunk theory. If you have the Dreamer’s outfit, the “spikes” might look like they’re made of metal and such, but you’ll quickly realize they have the stiffness of a cooked noodle.

kokiman.2364:

I shouldn’t have to add any more text to it but why are you not blacklisting certain URLs?

Because they’d have to blacklist every single combination of letters and symbols that can represent the url.

Miku.6297:

Just out of curiosity, the main or initial point of concern was about the ascended stats locked behind cheevos not being sold by the vendor for the same price as older stat layouts… But don’t the cheevos that unlock the sinister jewelry also give you that piece of jewelry?

I think the major gripes would be “Why should I be forced to do achievement collections to get an ascended stat prefix when basically all others are freely sold without restriction.” As for the testing armor “issue,” I call BS with the fact that (short of logging in to see 100%), the only thing you truly need to put the effort forward to obtain is the insignia/inscription recipes. That’s even more true NOW. Testing new stats? Get the exotic insignias and transform your armor stats. Or hop into HotM and smack things around like I did.

Skyline Crash.6254:

WTF ANET? I earned those legit by playing guild wars 1. Look up The Elite Berserker. And look up my email address in the gw1 database. I had all the games and this is what happens? I had 30 points exact. And my brother and I have been playing that account ever since factions. Fix this now please.

Fix it yourself by doing some or all of the following;

• Unlink your gw1/2 accounts and re-link them
• log into gw1, then log into gw2
• peruse the forums next time to see that other players have found solutions to this
• dont have a fit the next time something like this happens when it already comes with a 2 minute fix you do yourself

edit: here’s another solution for you too: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/HoM-titles-revoked/first#post5337123

PS: you know account sharing IS prohibited right?

Evans.6347:

However, I find Verata trinkets to be the most accessible trinkets in the game at this point.

They require you to complete the Mastery achievements to unlock them at the merchant IIRC. So…. they’re hardly the most accessible.

Looks like this is a confirmed troll thread. We all know what Anet does to those so… /thread

GuzziHero.5104:

I have contacted support. I also expect any daily rewards that I lose through this to be refunded to me. I did what I was told to do, and it obviously worked since I was able to play until i restarted my PC.

I consider it malware and will be removing its waste from my PC asap.

You shouldnt expect anything. If anything, take up your issue over loss rewards with the maker of your AVS, as THAT is going to be the culprit behind something not working correctly. Especially since you said it flagged WinAuth, but didnt bother looking into that.

Pimsley.3681:

Thaddeus.4891:

The worst is that OP wasn’t even unlucky with all that, he just made a super bad investment from the start. Buying Dreamthisle a couple of month ago was a terrible idea. Those skin were at their highest prices already. He just had to see the difference between sell and buy order. People were ready to pay like 500-600 gold, but the sell order were at between 1k and 3k. Usually, buy order follow the sell order. When there is such a big difference between them, it’s because most people aren’t ready to pay that amount of gold the seller are asking. Which mean, that even if Anet did put the skin back into the game, OP probably would had a very hard time selling his skin.

Add the fact that we know that Anet was about to put most BLTC skin in the game until the 3rd anniversary and you just have a terrible investment.

Spot on.

The actual “value” of a skin is how close the buy and sell amounts are. Heck anyone with gold could list a skin at any amount but you get an estimate of its worth by how much people are willing to buy it for.

Perfect examples of these are ghastly grinning shield, chainsaw gs, aetherized hammer, super pistol…

Not entirely true. Even if something has a 3k gold difference between buy and sell listings, there WILL be players who will legitimately sell to a low buy offer instead of waiting for a sell listing to be fulfilled, just like players that WILL spend the 3k+ gold on a sell order instead of waiting for a buy order to be fulfilled.

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

But QQers cried, and Anet listened… I’m surprised that Triple Trouble even still exists to be completely honest…

Ironically, you have a subsection of QQers to thank for having fights like teq and TT around.

Aurlie Priest Of Ra.5014:

i was just awarded my 23,500 chest last night. its gone from my list of chests that are coming up.

You can regain those AP by fulfilling the requirements for GWAMM again (I think). As for your chest, OBVIOUSLY it’s not in the list of what you’re going to get. You already got it. Gaile’s stated that if you got an achievement chest due to the bugged points from the HoM issue, you wouldnt lose anything from the chest, despite AP being removed. Conversely, it means you wont get the achievement chest a second time.

stof.9341:

Salvaging rares doesn’t give luck so the action of salvaging those for players shouldn’t be linked to them reaching MF cap.

Do you even know how salvaging works? You often get essences whenever you salvage equipment, period.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Patch coming today makes me nervous. dat 95% is tricking me. I Think I will get the last 5 tries this noon, before patchs comes out. Hopefully, I get some ectos back every try and don’t need to sink all my last bits of golds/mats.

Unless they’ve got a blog post or some other announcement giving information to such effect, why do people keep thinking there’s going to be a patch every Tuesday? Well, some people.

Xillllix.3485:

stof.9341:

It also created a lot of new build that needed three Grandmaster traits to work before.

The new system is fine for now. No need to change it.

We could keep 18 points to spend, but have the 5 lines back to spend it on. Best of both worlds: you can max 3 lines, or scatter them.

Less necessary now since they also shuffled traits around and merged some. That’s the other benefit people are forgetting about regarding traits.

TerminalMontage.5693:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Previous responses from ANet staff

1) I am afraid that the team does contemplate different possibilities and new features for the future but this one is not among those. Source
2) There are a lot of far-reaching consequences of allowing one character to play through every race’s personal story or equip any cultural armor/weapons. For now, we feel that it would take away from the experience of Guild Wars 2 for the majority of players. Source
3) Thanks for asking. To change the race in the Gem store will not be an option in Guild Wars 2. Source

Oh doody, they could just unequip the stuff that is racial when you change! And this game is so casual friendly and convenient I don’t see why not. But ehhh, thank you for giving me such a nice response with sources.

Equipment is the LEAST of the problems. First and foremost, if it’s not in any of those 3 sources, Anet has stated that profession and race are both hardcoded values to your character. That means Anet has 2 options, spend weeks/months chasing code to make sure values arent changed where they shouldnt be, still get something buggy, or to basically delete your character, recreate it of what your choices are, and auto-level it to 80. Both basically would run the risk of exploding your character due to some previously unseen bug.

Part of the problem is that people took the manifesto, and other comments, out of context and read them as, and I’m going to paraphrase this, “the word of god from the mouth of god.” A very good example is just how much people improperly assumed things regarding a precursor “scavenger hunt” and basically would riot every time a patch came out with no info.

So, to summarize, the OP’s TL:DR is “I want trinity”? Did I get that right?

DeWolfe.2174:

So when is a condi nerf coming? Seriously, was just hit with 2.5k confusion ticks from a one Mesmer skill. 4.6k Burns from one Engi skill. One skill did 18k worth of condition damage by the time it wore off. Give me flipping break dev’s, how is that supposed to be “fun” to play against? It’s been several weeks now and no balancing fixes for this.

Dev’s how about you come into WvW and play instead of ignoring the game modes balancing?

This is a “git gud” thread waiting to happen. It’s really all it is. Afterall, you’ll complain about 18k over time, but not about some skills doing that damage all at once?

The fact that there’s been no balancing patches is a pretty close admission to Anet that they LIKE where it’s at right now. Or still need to gather more information. Oh, and bring condi clears.

Danikat.8537:

Using a tome of knowledge on a level 80 character will grant you a spirit shard. Levelling up from XP collected out in the world will not.

I can see why this is annoying for people who used a lot of skill points in the mystic forge, but I suspect the reason there’s not been much talk about it is those people are the minority and most players had more skill points and now have more spirit shards than they could ever imagine needing and already considered levelling up after level 80 to be useless.

Shards are now open-world drops, as well as obtaining 3 or so from completing the daily.

McNinja.5417:

Surbrus.6942:

Say NO to removing content.

New content should be added. Old content should not be removed.

Yeah god forbid the game changes to follow the story.

You do realize, lore-wise, Tequatl has risen into Zhaitan’s role after “he” fell. That’s why Teq still comes around every day, and that there’s still risen in Orr.

Also, did no one realize that this thread was necroed from about 4 weeks ago?

VaLee.5102:

It’s been reported for over an year now, Anet just doesn’t care, like dozens other issues.

But please buy more gems!

Many people thought they didnt care about conditions either. Then they got a massive buff after they figured out how to not make servers nuke themselves. It simply took a few years for the solution to happen.

Jack.1469:

Basandra Skye.4031:

Jayjaydee.3827:

So… i just realized i salvaged dawn…. I thought I was salvaging khrysaor for the air sigil. No, it was dawn. Same skin I guess. I had no idea.

You guys HAVE to make precursors not salvageable. There are low level WHITES you can’t salvage for crying out loud. Or make it so you have to type the name in like some other items.

I’ve read a number of similar threads on this in the past. I never thought it could really happen, but it turns out it was surprisingly easy to do. I didnt even really realize it until this morning.

anyway, the pain is real. PLEASE make the change.

It’s “easy” to do because you blithely ignored the “ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SALVAGE <INSERTITEMNAMEHERE>?” prompt. Frankly that’s your own fault and Support is going to, justifiably, say the same thing and not help you.

They dont need to change anything either, as that prompt SHOULD be enough of a warning for people.

It’s easy to be self-righteous and to claim to know what exactly support will do.

Too bad you’re wrong.

Exceptions do not make the rule. Nice try though.

Jayjaydee.3827:

So… i just realized i salvaged dawn…. I thought I was salvaging khrysaor for the air sigil. No, it was dawn. Same skin I guess. I had no idea.

You guys HAVE to make precursors not salvageable. There are low level WHITES you can’t salvage for crying out loud. Or make it so you have to type the name in like some other items.

I’ve read a number of similar threads on this in the past. I never thought it could really happen, but it turns out it was surprisingly easy to do. I didnt even really realize it until this morning.

anyway, the pain is real. PLEASE make the change.

It’s “easy” to do because you blithely ignored the “ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SALVAGE <INSERTITEMNAMEHERE>?” prompt. Frankly that’s your own fault and Support is going to, justifiably, say the same thing and not help you.

They dont need to change anything either, as that prompt SHOULD be enough of a warning for people.

Thevoidiscold.4910:

I had a pretty solid build and was happy with it. Now that it has changed my build is pretty much messed up. So I was just wondering if it is going to stay the way it is now or if there is a possibility that it will be changed again and if so how far into the future. I want to start working on a new build with the way things are but it would really suck if I do and then it is changed again and I have to make another build again. Don’t want to spend all this gold and time obtaining new stats for my armor and weapons and new accessories for nothing. Thinking maybe condition guardian, not sure though.

If it does change, it’s not going to be a a substantial overhaul like this last time. After all, THIS change was laying the groundwork for elite specs and HoT. In other words, to stay.

Not to mention that, unfortunately, kitten changes. It really is simply a matter of adapt or move on. Besides, how is being forced to remake a build due to trait optimizations any different to needing to make a new build because you got bored with the old one?

Steinpilz.5078:

I would like to have a recipe to change the stats of Mawdrey.
Getting Mawdrey is a long process and I do not want to do it a second time, but I think to go from zerker to hybrid with my thief so I need different stats.
Therefore a recipe for Mawdrey II would be very useful.

If you’re going hybrid, it just means you can keep mawdrey with zerker stats so you can switch out something else more easily. Additionally, EVEN IF Anet was going to add in more Forge recipes like they did for armor and weapons for trinkets, it may take a month or longer for it to happen, as weapons and armor are, in a simplified manner, very easy to get done. Trinkets, however, are not. Do they stay infused? Do they stay the same infusion type? Is it all random? What if it’s an ascended backpiece with a limited stat selection? Do you get an entirely different backpiece out of it if you’re converting to stats it didnt originally have?

EU Guy.1803:

Anet recently put up a job opening for a lead graphics programmer. It says “Multi-platform experience with interface design against several different platform APIs is a must.”
We might see gw2 on different platforms in the future.

Link: https://www.appone.com/maininforeq.asp?Ad=389217&R_ID=1077798&Refer=https://www.arena.net/&B_ID=44

Bad link resolution btw. Only works with a direct link from the ArenaNet homepage. Also, there is at BEST a tenuous link between them having an opening for a lead programming position and GW2 being on another platform, such as consoles, which Anet’s pretty much stated is NOT going to happen, regardless of people taking CJ saying “nothing’s off the table” vastly out of context.

At worst it means whoever is CURRENTLY in that position is looking to step down, retire, etc. At best? Anet’s got another game in the works.

edit: emulation isnt the only reason macs are treated as a laughingstock for gaming.

Palindrome.8904:

Your game stretches across three screens with that mode on?

It sounds like this is a direct result of your nVidia Surround settings, as without it, GW stays comfortably on one monitor. Have you tried turning off the nVidia setting?

Palindrome has a point. I run 2 monitors myself, and windowless never spans both monitors.

Guild Halls. Bam.

BrooksP.4318:

Yes please, I refuse to go to Dry Top, so these are clogging my bank.

You’d likely have to go TO dry top to get said unlock. So…. in your case, you might as well trash the keys

Behellagh.1468:

So you’re encouraging a moratorium on ANet’s current primary source of income because you hold a grudge that GW2 isn’t exactly like GW in terms of rapid, large expansions.

Technically, Factions and Nightfall ARE NOT expansions. EoTN was the only true expansion for GW1. The other two were fully independent standalone games. That just happened to be linkable to all the others.

Lelling.6795:

In general (not directed at you, Jimson), I don’t really see a valid argument in this thread against ArenaNet conveying even more of their thought process through to the players, especially those who can’t find their way around Twitch.

You can find it in basically every kitten thread on the forums, especially those over precursor crafting. Why bother communicating when the seemingly vast majority of out-of-game feedback is just endless kittening about things? Players are gonna kitten whether or not you communicate what you want to do, so… why put forth any effort talking to someone who’s just going to kitten at you regardless?