Guild Wars 2

Vahkris.6847:

Burn Down the Dragons is from lighting the effigies that are located out in the zones. You have to dance in front of them to burn them, apparently.

Well, it would be nice if they specify this. The patch notes just say you dance in front of them to get health increase. They say nothing about them being the same ones you burn, or even if you burn them at all.

By the way…the ones for health increase are in explorable areas leading into Lion’s Arch according to the patch notes. So, what is it? World zones…or somewhere in LA? I’m just so confused by this.

First off, let me thank the staff for having me WASTE my time working on the dragon ball achievement. There go some hours of life that I’ll never get back. Those were not easy achievements, especially when you are on the AFK’ers team.

Effigy’s – Are these health increase effigy’s the ones that you burn as part of the achievement or no? The patch notes are vague at best.

I don’t mind having to work for or look for items/events etc. But the information should make some sort of sense.

Please differentiate the “effigy’s”. Are you talking about the event you watch, are you talking about the healing ones, are you talking about the ones you burn?????? Who knows? It’s clear that most of the players don’t.

Please clarify. Thank you.

Also, you can read this post. Staff has stated they are working on a fix.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dragon-Bash-Experience-achievement-bugged/page/2#post2216116

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi everyone,

We’re aware of the issue and have been working on a fix that we hope to push at the beginning of next week.

I sure hope it gets fixed, or there will be alot of upset players who have wasted their time and energy.

They were probably just afk’ing to get their 21 matches played in order to get the achievement. That’s rather messed up…but that would be my guess as to why.

I don’t think they thought the mechanics through on dragon ball.

Kodiak.3281:

I would like to personally and most cordially extend the biggest middle finger possible at whatever game designer decided:

1. You need 3 wins

2. Make it cost 50 silver.

20g down the drain and I haven’t even gotten my third win.

Agreed. 50 silver may not seem like much to some people…but to others….especially if they are just starting out, is a huge amount. It’s especially problematic if you don’t win.

Mcrocha.3891:

I find it very hard to believe you spent that much without getting 3 wins. You’re either lying, exaggerating, or you aren’t using the winnings from getting at least in the top 3.

I had to spend 4g to win my 3 races. Some people may have that much to throw away but others may not. I was fortunate that there were people betting that made suggestions on which moa’s to bet on. If they hadn’t…I’m sure I’d have spent way more than 4g for that achievement. I can’t say whether or not their claim is truthful or exaggerated, but it is conceivable that sort of streak could happen. As with any betting….the odds are ALWAYS in favor of the house.

XselectX.9026:

I have 9 completed and the achievement tracker for the shattered dragon wings shows i only have 7 done… any fix?

I have the same issue and have made another post about this problem as well as submitted an in game bug report. Hopefully it gets fixed.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dragon-Bash-Achievement-Bug/first#post2219908

Noticed there is another post about this issue which staff has addressed.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dragon-Bash-Experience-achievement-bugged/page/2#post2216116

Interesting!! We all show up for fireworks…and get nothing. I’ve been in two overflows on yak’s bend. Be nice if GW staff had something to say…and update maybe. Or do we all just stand here for hours on end and experience nothing??

Why bother having mesmer clones. Everyones pets seem to magically know which one is the real me and proceed to bleed me to death. My clones don’t know which image of another mesmer is real or which one is a clone…why do pets get to know this??

I think that is an incredibly unfair advantage to classes that have pets.

Donari.5237:

Check the Suggestion thread “An Option to Disable Right Click Targeting.” Apparently we get that option “next patch.” The issue has been that if you move your camera with the right button, it also shifts your target.

It’s a very long thread. But it worked, in the end (hopefully. Still awaiting the toggle).

I did hear about that supposedly being patched. I really hope that is the case.

Since my primary character is a mesmer, I can say that I have seen this occur. But with so many possible reasons that it could be doing that, I just assumed it was something I was doing incorrectly.

I will say, I think they need to work on the pathing of the illusionary leap skill. That illusion seems to get stopped by a 1mm pebble on the ground. Steps and hill or bumps in the terrain seem to be a problem.

Sorry…don’t mean to hijack your post…but I just thought of that.

LOL!! It has never stacked for me….I always thought that was normal. I was kinda bummed since I notice Guard and Warrior swiftness buffs stack. I never knew it was supposed to stack.

LOL! I didn’t expect this post to take on a life of it’s own yet it seems to have done so. I have of course read the changes that are in store of WvW, and I really hope that they are beneficial in equalizing game play.

zastari.1730:

Bedazzle.5746:

lol…you’re not going to take a supply camp as a solo WvW roamer. You may take a Dolyak…but once you meet up with with the zerg or that group of 3-5…your roaming is over.

Welp now I see why Yaks Bend is in last place in our matchup. Oddly enough, my group of 5 took your West Keep just a few days ago by hiding in it after your zerg flipped it back from Kaineng.

Try harder I guess?

No one even bothers to go to WvW because it’s pointless for them to do so. Part of it can be attributed to lack of strategy but it’s impossible for that to be the entire reason. There’s a self propagating cycle going on there as well.

Lose, lose, lose = People leaving
People Leaving = Lose, lose, lose even more
Lose, lose, lose even more = Even more people leaving
Etc. Etc. Etc.

See a pattern here? I can’t speak for everyone, but I can comment about what I hear from others…their reason for lack of interest in WvW as well as my own. Even if they decide to rotate the servers or do the matching differently, once you’ve lost that interest it’s exceptionally difficult to get it back.

So, I really hope it improves.

I’ve had issues with targeting and I’ve even made a post. There are numerous posts about this issue. Since staff never seem to reply to these posts, it’s unclear whether or not they are working to correct targeting issues.

I have had countless occasions where my target drops with no action by me, causing me to have to reacquire my target. I’ve also had “Right Mouse Click” target issues. Why are left and right mouse clicks both targeting options? Not sure, but they are. Not all of us use keys to rotate our camera view.

Tab targeting option really needs adjustments. You would think that tab targeting would target the enemy “Nearest” you, but that is not the case. I can’t tell you how many times using tab targets the furthest enemy, and everything in between but NOT the enemy target nearest me.

You are not alone! Whether or not the development staff pay attention to what the community is saying…is at best unclear. This issue has been going on for months…as long as I’ve been playing GW2. It is frustrating in PvE, but it’s even more crucial that these targeting issues are fixed in respect to WvW and sPvP.

Tharjax.9068:

Bedazzle.5746:

I’m not sure why everyone suggests an expansion pack. There is tons to do now as it is. I’m very new to GW2…never played GW at all before. But I have to say….I’ve never been so bored with a game that offers so much to do. I think they really need to readjust some things.

I could list a million issues as to why I’ve only been playing for a few months but am utterly bored with this game. The chances that staff/developers read this information is at best minimal. I’m beginning to feel as if I wasted $60.00 on purchasing this game. If GW2 continues as it has, I won’t be purchasing anything else developed by ArenaNet. In essence, I’ve paid real money to not want to play a game, and that’s just silly.

Can you be specific on what your issues are? For me there seems plenty to do in the game.

The biggest issue for me is zones being empty and not being able to find groups for dungeons.

Even though I doubt this is possible, but it would be sweet if ANet could offer an option to put a bunch of people in the same zone, much like an overflow server but it does the opposite.

Instead it puts people around the same level in a zone together so it helps populates empty zones.

Empty zones is a part of it. One example; I got bored of having nothing to do. I’m not very good a jump puzzles so I decide to do Living Story. Surprise!!, Living Story is bugged for me and I cannot complete it. So that means I’ve wasted my time completing almost all of it except two achievements.

You have to spend hours and hours in Fractals in order to advance to higher levels which you cannot do without having to do dailies for a few months in order to get your AR. I finally caved, I ended up going to Fractals with a pub group…3/4th of the way through everyone decided to quit…to hard for them.

A large number of achievements need groups to do it and it’s difficult to find groups for many things. You can do Slayer achievements, but how interesting can that be when you have to kill 100, 500, and 1000 of the same thing. Kill 1,000 giants to get an achievement? I call that boring.

I tried to get hydra queen to complete the Boss achievement. Turns out Hydra Queen is a small chance of spawning even after you complete the pre boss starting. So, you can attempt the pre start 22 times and never actually start the hydra Queen boss. That’s a huge waste of time and no one wants to spend that much time doing something.

WvW is a Zergfest, and I happen to be on one of the low end servers that doesn’t normally have a Zergfest going, so that is a useless endeavor. It’s not very motivating when you are continually mowed down by a zerg. So, I don’t bother going there anymore.

Spvp is great, but when you do the same thing over and over and over again, it loses it’s excitement.

At first the game was fun…but now it’s just become tideous.

I think my biggest issue is that it takes soooooo long…and soooooo much time to even feel like you’ve made progress. Things feel very stagnant with not much to keep interest. A large number of my guild members have started playing other games because they are bored with GW2 already, and many of them played GW1. This is my first time in GW and I finding it boring as well.

Tharjax.9068:

Bedazzle.5746:

I’m not sure why everyone suggests an expansion pack. There is tons to do now as it is. I’m very new to GW2…never played GW at all before. But I have to say….I’ve never been so bored with a game that offers so much to do. I think they really need to readjust some things.

I could list a million issues as to why I’ve only been playing for a few months but am utterly bored with this game. The chances that staff/developers read this information is at best minimal. I’m beginning to feel as if I wasted $60.00 on purchasing this game. If GW2 continues as it has, I won’t be purchasing anything else developed by ArenaNet. In essence, I’ve paid real money to not want to play a game, and that’s just silly.

Can you be specific on what your issues are? For me there seems plenty to do in the game.

The biggest issue for me is zones being empty and not being able to find groups for dungeons.

Even though I doubt this is possible, but it would be sweet if ANet could offer an option to put a bunch of people in the same zone, much like an overflow server but it does the opposite.

Instead it puts people around the same level in a zone together so it helps populates empty zones.

Empty zones is a part of it. One example; I got bored of having nothing to do. I’m not very good a jump puzzles so I decide to do Living Story. Surprise!!, Living Story is bugged for me and I cannot complete it. So that means I’ve wasted my time completing almost all of it except two achievements.

You have to spend hours and hours in Fractals in order to advance to higher levels which you cannot do without having to do dailies for a few months in order to get your AR. I finally caved, I ended up going to Fractals with a pub group…3/4th of the way through everyone decided to quit…to hard for them.

A large number of achievements need groups to do it and it’s difficult to find groups for many things. You can do Slayer achievements, but how interesting can that be when you have to kill 100, 500, and 1000 of the same thing. Kill 1,000 giants to get an achievement? I call that boring.

I tried to get hydra queen to complete the Boss achievement. Turns out Hydra Queen is a small chance of spawning even after you complete the pre boss starting. So, you can attempt the pre start 22 times and never actually start the hydra Queen boss. That’s a huge waste of time and no one wants to spend that much time doing something.

WvW is a Zergfest, and I happen to be on one of the low end servers that doesn’t normally have a Zergfest going, so that is a useless endeavor. It’s not very motivating when you are continually mowed down by a zerg. So, I don’t bother going there anymore.

Spvp is great, but when you do the same thing over and over and over again, it loses it’s excitement.

At first the game was fun…but now it’s just become tideous. Why would anyone want to spend.

I think my biggest issue is that it takes soooooo long…and soooooo much time to even feel like you’ve made progress. Things feel very stagnant with not much to keep interest. A large number of my guild have started playing other games because they are bored with GW2 already.

Jrunyon.3012:

I don’t understand what you want? It’s not the mechanics of WvW that promote zerging, it’s human nature. How do you propose Anet fix that?

I disagree. I do think human nature plays a part, but what will have more success:

A. A group of 5 tries to infiltrate a keep
B. A zerg of 75 tries to infiltrate a keep

The answer is obvious, so that does mean mechanics play a large part. Those mechanics force a zerg strategy. You cannot take an entire castle with 5 players.

floredon.6817:

There is a thing called solo WvW roaming. Google it.

lol…you’re not going to take a supply camp as a solo WvW roamer. You may take a Dolyak…but once you meet up with with the zerg or that group of 3-5…your roaming is over.

Farzo.8410:

Our guild, with a group of 5, built a siege and attacked a tower, we took the tower and held it against incoming zergs.

We also captured all the camps, and had really fun.

Yes…you held it against incoming zergs. You were fortunate that a zerg didn’t interrupt your attempt. That’s not typcially what I see though. I have done the same thing with guildies but it’s a rarity. Most times the zerg makes it to your position before the group can overtake the point. Camps are easy to take with a group of 5….I’ve done it many times.

I’m not sure why everyone suggests an expansion pack. There is tons to do now as it is. I’m very new to GW2…never played GW at all before. But I have to say….I’ve never been so bored with a game that offers so much to do. I think they really need to readjust some things.

I could list a million issues as to why I’ve only been playing for a few months but am utterly bored with this game. The chances that staff/developers read this information is at best minimal. I’m beginning to feel as if I wasted $60.00 on purchasing this game. If GW2 continues as it has, I won’t be purchasing anything else developed by ArenaNet. In essence, I’ve paid real money to not want to play a game, and that’s just silly.

I’ve played lots of MMO’s but the set up of WvW in GW2 has got to be the worst I’ve ever seen. I hope the so called changes for the better really do work for WvW because currently, you get nowhere unless you Zerg….it’s a Zergfest! The way it’s set up, you CANNOT make any progress with the exception of supply camps unless you have a zerg. Less than two minutes later…the zerg has retaken the supply camp you just took.

I’m curious why the game makers refer to it as WvW when in actuality it should be called ZvZ (Zerg vs. Zerg). Parties are limited to 5. How many commander tags need to be on a map? What’s the point of them? Your group of 5 can’t do anything useful. If you attempt to do something useful like take a tower or a keep, you’re team is destroyed by an opposing Zerg. People will only fail so often before they just give up. There is no point in trying to fight an obviously losing battle. This isn’t real life where I have to fight to my last breath, it’s a game…and I fight until it becomes a waste of time to do so. I have seen PvP/WvW die so often due to effects like this and they are one of the most enjoyable portions of a game.

If developers want to know why there are not as many people as they had hoped in WvW, they only need to look at their own design. So, if you’re wondering why people don’t go into WvW, it may be time to rethink that design. Not by pitting a server with 50k WvW’ers against a server with 10k WvW’ers. Tactics and strategies only work if you have the people to implement them. If you don’t have those people, you don’t bother in participating. Nothing compels me to be in WvW other than boredom at the moment.

I’ve only been a member of Malum Factum for a couple of months but I have to say that it has so far been an exceptionally enjoyable guild. Great group of people. Stop by our guild site and apply for membership today. We do a variety of in game guild events. Guild Rushes, Guild Bounties, Guild Missions, Dungeons, Jumping Puzzles, sPVP, WvW and more! We have a great forum, as well as a facebook page and a mumble server for voice chat.

http://www.malumfactum.com

This downed skill (deception) needs to be looked in to. I have had NUMEROUS occurances where it does not work at all. It’s availability is extremely intermittent. I don’t know what other classes have this skill available for a downed player but my class is a Mesmer.

I have recently began doing sPVP. I thought maybe it was something I was doing in WvW, but the more I played sPVP I realized it’s a game issue.

Issue:
After targeting an enemy and using a skill, if you use the right mouse button to rotate camera, you automatically un-target the enemy. This is EXTRAORDINARILY annoying when you cannot remain targeted on the enemy. You have to re-target them and try to skill. Usually, by the time you have them targeted again and are about to use a skill…..you’re dead.

After talking to a number of people it appears as if what I’m experiencing is not an isolated incident. I suggest this be addressed, as this is a serious issue for gameplay in general.

My class is a Mesmer. I don’t know if it’s just restricted to that class or not but the other people that I have spoken to that have the same problem are Mesmers as well.

EDIT: I’ve noticed numerous posts about this. Does anyone on the staff ever read any of these posts or do they go largely unnoticed by them and we’re all just talking to ourselves?

If staff do read this…do you EVER plan on fixing this? Because it’s a real issue!

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

At the time of your post (8 pm PST), those were yesterday’s achievements.

Check your system clock and make sure it is in synch with the current time; it appears to be 12 or 24 hrs off. The display of daily achievements is affected by the time your computer thinks it is, but the actual achievements you need to complete are determined by the time on the servers.

The in-game bug reports work, but as noted when you submit them, you shouldn’t expect a personal response. They are meant to make it easier to report bugs that affect many people, not to address one person’s concerns. If you do have something that requires individual attention, I recommend you contact support first and then decide whether to also post here on the forums or via the in-game tool.

Good luck.

My time on my computer is accurate, as is the date. The time of my post is 8pm PST because that’s when I finished the 7th item on my daily list and got nothing. I have done nothing differently than I have in the last month that I’ve been doing dailys. That being said, it’s unlikely that I’m doing something that has varied from the last 30 days. I get on at 4pm PST every day as I have for the last month…and do my dailys. This problem had not occured previously until they added the selectable list.

As for the in game bug report option, it didn’t work for me at all. In order for a submit button to be clickable…it needs to light up. I added stuff, removed stuff, clicked options, unclicked options, put categories and subcategories etc. I clicked and filled in everything on that form that can be filled in, and never once did the submit button light up or become clickable. I never expected a “personal response”. I just wanted it to work so that the issue I was having could be looked into.

As for the comment about “one persons concerns”…..how am I to know that this has not happend to others? Because I am one person and I have a concern, I’m not allowed to make a post or a possible bug submission? My steps to resolution may differ, but that doesn’t mean they are wrong. I would prefer to make contact with technical support options before moving on to customer support options.

But I thank you for the input. Maybe it was a one time issue….maybe it will reoccur, I’m just making others aware that this issue has in fact occured.

Qnopsik El Qox.1269:

4) There was a bug with scoring two dailes at a time and jumping from 4/5 to 6/5, it wouldn’t give a reward, don’t know if it was fixed already.

That could very well be what the issue was. I did complete two daily achievements under an event selection, and area mob killer selection.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

At the time of your post (8 pm PST), those were yesterday’s achievements.

Check your system clock and make sure it is in synch with the current time; it appears to be 12 or 24 hrs off. The display of daily achievements is affected by the time your computer thinks it is, but the actual achievements you need to complete are determined by the time on the servers.

The in-game bug reports work, but as noted when you submit them, you shouldn’t expect a personal response. They are meant to make it easier to report bugs that affect many people, not to address one person’s concerns. If you do have something that requires individual attention, I recommend you contact support first and then decide whether to also post here on the forums or via the in-game tool.

Good luck.

Today I selected the dailys from the list….5 of them. I completed all the selected daily achievements, and my reward was nothing. So, I selected another achievement from the list, completed that one….got nothing for reward. Tried it one more time, hoping it was me…completed the task. Reward was nothing. So, all together I completed 7 achievements on the dailys and got nothing but wasted time apparently. My dailys reset at 4pm my time and I didn’t start them until after that time.

After all that work, it’s upsetting to say the least. I also tried to submit a bug report via the support option in game, but for some reason could not get the submit button to become clickable even though I completed each section according to instruction. I’m attaching a screenshot of my daily window. Unfortunately my completion bars only show 6 achievements in the window but if you look at the total achievements at the top of that window, it does in fact state 7.

I have paid money to purchase this game, and have also spent money to purchase game items from the in game mall. If this continues to waste my time….I’ll spend no more money here. I hope this issue gets corrected, because I just wasted hours on that list for absolutely nothing. Thank you for reviewing this matter.

PS. Could you please review and verify that the in game bug reports actually work. Because This is the second time I’m having to type this information.

Thanks again.