Guild Wars 2

When I launched the client I got the “connection error(s) detected. retrying” message.
I tried two other online games with US servers without problems.

GW2 is blocked by Bitdefender.
Added http://assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com to whitelist and now I can connect.

I’m finding it increasingly more and more difficult to build, use and protect catapults as more and more members of the best MMO community are just running past me to tag mobs.
Apparently, according to map chat, it’s Arena Net that’s forcing them to do this, so I was wondering if you would consider forcing people to be friendly and helpful for your next event.
I’d really appreciate that.
Thank you.

They announced it several days in advance:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-mordrem-are-coming/

And then there were tweets more recently but I don’t hold with using third party social media as a primary info flow. The only reason I see tweets at all is that I keep checking for teasers for Elite specs.

Thanks. I actually remember seeing that headline on the log in screen, but thought it was just another ad for Heart of Thorns and didn’t read it.

How was this “event” announced? What is the reason for these mordrem attacks?
I logged into the game and got a message that mordrem were attacking Kessex Hills. At first I thought it was a bug because it looked like some remnant of the heydays of Scarlet, but when I got there people were standing around waiting for the next attack to start at half past the hour. Where can I find that information in game, or on the website?

I can’t find anything in the News section of the website: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/
and there’s nothing in that strange forum thread labelled News and Announcements (there’s rarely anything useful there).

For a couple of hours this morning (EU) many players (all?) were unable to log in to the game and the forum/account, which makes submitting a ticket or posting here impossible.

Cuthbertus.6438:

Got disconnected during teq an hour ago and have been receiving error code 7:0:0:986:101 ever since.

Same here. Been trying to get back in every now and then for the past two hours.

The Silverwastes is living up to its name. I haven’t been able to get there today without getting DCed and wasting my travel expense.
But it’s happening everywhere, it seems.

Carighan.6758:

Bilacus.6104:

Yeah, I don’t enjoy fractals either (nor hamster-wheel maps like Dry Top and Silverwastes). No more GW2 for me today.

So what is it?

• No WvW
• No sPvP
• No Fractals
• No Maguuma Wastes anything

What dailies would you enjoy? Mystic Forger, Exotic Crafter, Laurel and 10 minutes AFK in LA? :P

Something along the lines of
“Finish five events at your character’s level” (say lvl 10-20, 20-30, …, 70-80)
“Kill one world boss”
“Resurrect ten players”
“Kill 10 players in WvWvW”
“Use a finisher on a downed player or NPC”
“Buy or sell something on the trading post”

Just things I can do while playing the game without having to go to a specific map. I don’t mind fractals being on the list as long as there are enough options to allow me to do something else instead.
I also think it would be a good idea to include things specifically for new players to teach them about the game: dodging, using an item (plank, skull, snowball, gunk…) on a foe, swap weapons in combat, kill something underwater, etc.

LA GW.6753:

Oh, look. Double Fractals again. Once could have been dismissed as a bug. This, however, says design choice. To which I say, go kitten yourselves, ANet. Your kittenty content deserves to molder and die if this is how you think you ‘entice’ people to do it.

Yeah, I don’t enjoy fractals either (nor hamster-wheel maps like Dry Top and Silverwastes). No more GW2 for me today.

It’s like clockwork, very reliable.
At 6.00 PM I got disconnected. I was then able to play for a while, but with a lot of lag, until I logged out and now, two hours later, I still can’t log in. The problem usually goes away at 9 PM. Let’s see.

EDIT: Yes, at 9.01 I could log in again.

Got back in briefly, experienced up to three-minute lag on skills, logged out and when I got back I was in a totally different place on the map, a place I hadn’t visited in several hours. Now I can’t log in again.
Pings to arenanetworks.com timeout right after my ISP, every other address works perfectly.

Same for me. 5 PM instead of 6. That was unexpected.
A couple of hours playing another MMO then. See you later.

EDIT: After two hours I could log in again. Played for a bit, started to get extreme lag and eventually DC. Automatically logged out of this forum at the same time, as usual.
Again, no problems with other IP addresses.

I can pretty much sync my clock to this event.
At 6 PM I lose connection with the game server. I’m also logged out from this forum. Everything else is working fine; other online games and various IP addresses I try pinging.
Usually it’s a very short DC, a minute or so, but a couple of times every week, I can’t connect to GW2 for a couple of hours, starting at 18.00.
In Sweden, using Telia.
Error Code: 42:0:9001:4409:101

Today you have to do fractals for the PvE daily. That’s the first time in the history of this game I won’t be completing my daily.
I fail to see how fractals or killing the triple-headed wurm on a Wednesday evening is easier, or “more in line with what players are already doing” than killing ambients, veterans or dodging.

I got disconnected and tried the -clientport 443 shortcut. Unable to log in after that.

Demolitionist Tonn. Horrible, just horrible. Still haunts me.

Noviere.7309:

Along with Rox, Taimi is the only biconic I want to keep around.

I’ve seen this use of “biconic” a few times on this forum and I’m wondering what it means. I hope it’s not another word for woman (two cones…).

[EDIT] I found a post on Reddit and it’s apparently supposed to be “B-iconic”

Well, let’s be honest here. It’s rubbish, innit?

It’s all about moving around a small map, repeating the same timer-controlled events over and over again to gather a new current used for getting new recipes.
Beautiful and breathtaking area? It’s a brown desert.
Great story telling? Most players use Wiki and Dulfy guides to understand what’s happening and what to do. This is my biggest gripe with this game. It relies far too much on external sources for information. How many players got the diving achievement (or created a legendary weapon) without reading some guide on the Internet? How do you know what Cactus Soup is before you buy the recipe if you didn’t first Google it?
If you just play the game and go to Dry Top, how much do you understand of what’s happening, or what has happened before?

I like the GW lore and the LS story is OK, but there are better narrative techniques than grinding and googling – and the Dry Top events really take it to the next level. It’s basically a hamster wheel.

Does the megaserver work in the US? Many of my friends have left the game and I think it’s the worst mistake in MMO history since SWG’s NGE. I can’t for the life of me understand why it’s allowed to continue.
Here’s a printout of eight screenshots that illustrate fairly well what it’s like to be a GW2 player in Europe:

ich komme ^^
sanglier lancé?
buenos dias, hay zerg?
oui
javali
bus?
sanglier
merci
where is oak?
rota is heute irgendwie geteilt
quelqu’un peut me redonner le tp pour l’ordre des soupirs?
Wo zoll denn im Zweilichtgarten eine Truhe sein?
champ krait
<Taidha Covington> will respawn in <6> min later, Teleport point <[Laughing Gull Waypoint]> this messade send by <goldsellerip.com>——8
wo rota?
salut le bus est où s’il vous plait
wer den gildenmissi typ gesehen?
somebody saw the guild mission boss?
vo ca. 8in der höhle unten
min
cua va ahora?
Krait champ + Truhe + Vista
Oh, soviel los. Habit ihr Tequatel gemacht?
vor ne halben std ungefähr
Geklappt?
yes
Cool, kitten gz
Bonsoir à tous! Nouvelle Guilde (edited)
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So it all depends on the people that are there.
And teamwork.
anyone tagging up?
alle deutschen spieler, die organisiert einen run mimachen wollen bitte ins hw2ts.de und in channel 2 gehen
cuanto queda para tequatl?
Y’a une orga allemande/autre nationalité, mais j’sais pas comment ils font le truc la…
its being commanded in spanish so if u are against it feel free to leave
dobar dan
deutsch qualität?
On va juste rire je pense ^^
venga uniros a torretas
I need two volunteers for turrets 2 & 3
t4, t5 y t6 están ocupadas
yo misimo va
t2
listen to this advice learn to speak english its good to know sometimes…
translate that for them
c’est où pour désactiver le filtre de langues?
merci
wannt kommt der?
un peu de déf aux mortiers (+pour dépop les cristaux) svp
16 min
jetzt gleich
NOW!
der tower hat ihm bereits lande-erlaubnis erteilt
si le com est afk personne bouge, c ca? ^^
nice
merci
alchimist wer will
try to ress the fallen
buenas hay zerg?
me parece q no jaja
yo tb pregunto
bei tequatl war das noch net da haben es bis jetzt nur die speiler vergeigt und da sint mehr als hier
esta Draco
beim schlund eben das selbe problem…
schein ja nicht der einizge mit nem kritischen Fehler kurz vorm down von jormag gewesen zu sein -.- das 2. mal diese woche…
2 events in folge disconnected
pour infos c’est mon alliance qui devais faire le bus
alliance ou cache plutot ^^
nein
doch
what he said
ok, wir haben einen freiwilligen, gildeninvite kommt gleich
cinglé du massacre ^^
XD
was?
herzlichen glückwunsch, du bist dabei
If you are looking for a fun guild… (edited)
In welchen Gebieten gibt es Eisen (also Level Stufen)?
La guilde Legion De… (edited)
After nearly three months with the megaserver, why do the French still speak French in map chat?
i’ve buy my game in France and I was on a french servor, so I talk French
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This update is now a month old and I’m dumbstruck.
I was certain the trait system and the megaserver were sort of mistakes. Something that would get fixed in a few days. They are, after all, as Gonefishin and others have said, some of the worst changes ever seen in a game.

But they’re still here. Nothing to indicate they will be fixed.

I just can’t believe this is real.

Yes, I had twelve in ten minutes last night and they all had “names” like if they were hacked accounts, which also seems to have increased. Many players have been telling in map chat about their or some friend’s account being hacked and their gear lost.
Another novelty since the megaserver is these players in DR who are informing about events and adding a “sponsor message”. The text seems scripted and pops up every minute.

I’ve read a few more posts in defence of megaservers and it seems that people from low population servers are more positive. Bear in mind, however, that not all megaserver instances are equal. If the same things happened on all of them and it was just a matter of getting a spot on the team, then it wouldn’t be as bad.

Last night I was in a French-speaking zerg in Orr with a cmd issuing orders in German. I left the map and entered again, only to find that the places we had targeted suddenly were uncontested. I was in another instance/shard/megaserver.
Just now I was in a large mainly English-speaking group working their way up the Promenade of the Gods when my client crashed. After logging in I was in French territory and all the waypoints hade been liberated.

I spend most of my time nowadays, after my dailies are finished, fighting thisTower of Babel Syndrome and when I find a map where people speak my language I just wait until a boss or an event pops up. Juggling the shards to find one with active events isn’t worth it, because I risk ending up in a disorganised chaos instead. It’s slower than ever before, I gain less and I very rarely run into someone I know.

Again, the megaserver removed some of the best parts of this game and the fact that there are more people in low level areas really isn’t worth that much. In fact, my newest character gets less major things done now because they finish so quickly he often can’t get there in time. I also think new players learn less about tactics and skills when most things are done with a large group unleashing everything they’ve got on the mobs.

People have also been asking for a possibility to choose shards – to have them numbered, or something. Wouldn’t that just mean that huge zerg guilds would teleport in to clear bosses and port out again, thereby forcing the “natives” to wait for the event to pop up again?

I am surprised to see that there are actually people who like these changes. I just can’t see any advantages. I used to play a couple of hours each evening. Now I finish my dailies and log off. Some of my friends quit playing and one of them even deleted all her characters because she was so disappointed.
We’re more into immersion and exploring than speed runs and zerging to get loot. Maybe that’s the difference? If you want to level quickly and run around with a huge posse, tagging mobs for XP and loot, maybe these changes were for the better?

For me, this game was all about server communities – you even have WvWvW – and now we can’t even tell which server we’re on. You’re standing in a town talking to someone, switch to another character to show them something, and you end up in a parallel universe where people don’t speak your language.
World events have been chaotic, to say the least. The Tequatl and Triple Threat events I’ve been to have been disorganised and failed at every stage of the fight.

Traits: Low-level characters have to do dungeons and complete high-level maps to get what used to be a lvl 15 trait. It’s like Anet’s doing things backwards. Other games had this when they started, forcing players to do certain raids and dungeons before they could advance, but they eventually realised not all players are like that.
I want to level up the way I want and go to the maps I choose, not be forced to do things in a particular order. GW2 used to be quite good in that respect.

Maps: This morning map chat in Wayfarer was French; Queensdale was French and Spanish; Rata Sum was German; and DR German and English with a gold seller standing in front of the bank.

Outfits: Gone, destroyed, stolen by the company who sold them.

For me and my friends, the April 15 patch has been the NGE of GW2.

Hadassah.3049:

I would like to say that I have a lot of disdain for the new mega-server. The game feels way too crowded now and the level of harassment is higher. I am not enjoying the changes that have been made with the leveling system as well. Leveling a character now is not really an option to me anymore. With the ridiculous requirements to get traits. What truly new player has enough gold to buy all the traits if they can’t unlock Frostgorge Sound at level 30. Either way it’s mostly the Mega Server that is driving me up the wall.

What he said.
I just started my 22nd character and I don’t want to be told which maps to do and in what order just to unlock my traits. I have two slots open, but no traits to use.
In Queensdale and Kessex Hills map chat was chaotic with six or more languages and several “trains” running all over the place. Last night I went to Tequatl and it was no better than Queensdale.
I can’t see anything positive coming out of this. I chose my home server and that’s where I want to be.

Roll back to April 14th and start over again.

I’m a language teacher and do pretty well in four different languages, but this Babylon update only causes confusion and friction between players. We chose a home server for a reason and have spent two years there.
Please rethink this.

Surely this was an oversight. No gaming company would sell costumes as vanity items and then force the players to use them as skins on their hard-earned combat armour. They’ll have to refund thousands of gems unless they patch this ASAP.

By the way, don’t forget to put the keybind for town clothes back in that patch.

I love the new Vigil’s so far.
It’s a functional hub with everything within walking distance and – more importantly – the boys on the stairs outside of the bank in L.A; the ones who used to talk about genitals, Chuck Norris and legendary weapons in map chat, aren’t there.

Just stick my daily rewards in the mail and I’ll go play another game while you’re working on a fix. Thank you.

After half an hour of failed tries I managed to log in, but when I tried to port from Lion’s Arch to a waypoint in the Black Citadel, I got the server error message.
I managed to use the asura portals to ge there instead, but it took a couple of minutes.

The fireworks achievement completed for me on the first day of the event, several days before the actual fireworks show was supposed to happen.
I never saw the show, as far as I’m aware, and noone else in my guild managed to finish it though we spent a lot of time in Lion’s Arch looking for it.

Broken on Gandara. Double clicking doesn’t help.