Guild Wars 2

I wish we could trade map luck. I have two ~90% complete achievements left for Foefire and I’ve managed to land the map only once in almost two weeks (and then against full condi party so RIP). I have an odd schedule so my time is often limited, and 5 min+ queues don’t help. Always Coliseum or Temple. . .

Got my freebie memory box today and had it drop 2 of the same acct bound miniature. Not complaining since it was free but it’d be a real annoyance to people who spent gems on it; to my knowledge the extra mini simply becomes useless clutter.

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Honestly if I see a chrono I want to take a stab at, I swap to rifle and try to out-kite them.

Another plus for vipers is that right now both vipers thief and ranger are pretty kitten good, so should you want to try those out you can easily swap armor between all 3 characters.

I’ve been hopping maps trying to find an instance where this hero point is working, but have found none so far. The event to kill the avatar appears but the avatar either doesn’t spawn, or he’s stuck beneath the floor or something. Fire appears around the hero point so it’s impossible to commune with it. Multiple people in the map indicated that they’ve had the same problem over the last few days, so possibly a bug tied into one of the recent updates?

Edit- Okay, so I stood around for about an hour. I think he’s spawning under the map because my necro minions were running about like they were chasing something and my shouts seemed to do a bit of damage to something right under the HP. Eventually the fire around the commune just stopped dealing damage and I was able to get the point.

I’ve found the easiest way to do patri is with just a few people to keep him from over-scaling. Something like 4 eles and a mesmer wipe his damage phase in seconds (well, before meteor nerf).

Hardest thing about the VB meta for me is always getting people to spread out to defend the kitten rally points without overstacking on them. Sorta stuck in a conundrum where people will only gather if there are tags on the map, but despite all protest from the Comm organizing the thing they’ll only follow the tag and not defend anywhere else.

Since the last patch Static Discharge doesn’t seem to target anything when used with ground target skills like grenade barrage or orbital strike (or maybe it did this before and I didn’t notice, haven’t played with it much until now) . Rather than the bolt going for the target it seems to fire from my feet directly into the ground. Only way to get it to hit with these skills is for me to stand in the target’kittenbox.

Skills that fire projectiles like battering ram or surprise shot seem to work fine.

Best time is to log into the map maybe 10 mins or less before it ends and hope there’s a group organizing a squad. Once the main squad is going and the meta map is filled you’re usually SOL until the next reset.

IMO at the very least they should behave like throwable potions and have an aoe effect.

I cheesed it with perma-stealth shadow arts thief.

Trying to play unranked just to grab some dailies, and I keep getting this “queue abandoned” notification. The confirmation window pops up and even before I can hit accept it closes and it tells me I abandoned. Thought it may have been a bad case of lag but the menu shows a fairly stead ~50 ping. A few other people in map seemed to be having similar issues.

Getting dishonor building up now, so I can’t queue again for a while.

edit- kitten , should have taken a sec to look at the other threads, seems to be a problem for a lot of people. Hopefully we get a patch soon.

Every Gerent run I’ve tried usually ends with 15 or less per lane before we get a notice that the map is full. People spend too much time trying to get into the main map, which means one map runs it successfully while all the other alt maps fail. Much salt traded between people doing the meta and roamers trying to map or nab hero points. And there’s always a good 20 people at least idle at the entrance or ogre WP. Worse than DS (if there’s enough time at least DS has a tiny chance of being salvaged with enough new tags) , anyone unfortunate enough to dc is screwed because the overflows instantly fail.

I have a lot of fun playing with it in casual PvP, running something like Mace/Axe/Staff (RIP staff charge damage)with carrion and various runes, but you get wrecked when condis get sent your way. One necro can ruin the day for you and everyone else in your party if they sent those 20 stacks of torment back to you or an ally with their cleanse on cd.

Eats stealthy kittens like thieves, engineers, or mesmers alive though. Pulsing mallyx elite can ruin their day very quickly if they don’t get the hell outta dodge.

Just did a run through Malchor’s Leap for resources and ran into some abnormally huge mob spawns. A couple spots in different parts of the map were spawning like 10-15 risen every three or four seconds. They were merging and stacking like the old bug with the jades in Ember Bay; hitting one revealed 10+ stacked under it. Another oddity was that it seemed that none of them dropped any form of loot. Could still use it to farm a boatload of exp if one needed it.

There were no events going on at the time and the meta info window said everything was concluded at the time. Dunno if the bug was a one time thing or if it’s happening in other instances.

Seems to be stuck in the 3rd one for me, I let her die then interacted with her and her model spazzed out and was clearly stuck inside the object.

Same issue on my end here (East Coast USA), 25-35kbps on the update

Not “optimal” but with luck you can net an almost full set of exotic wanderers armor (pretty much soldiers + boon duration, think a full exotic set gives you something around +20% boon duration) in a single dragon’s stand playthrough if you wanna try it out. I think it more depends on what server you’re playing but on smaller ones playing boonshare is still pretty handy in small group fights even after the signet nerfs.

I’ve had much better luck against thieves running condi. If they’re using the DD heal they’re dead the moment you torment bomb them, and with the burn trait just flashing the mallyx elite can put some serious hurt on them if they’re in range. A little harder against thieves running withdraw but the poison-on-torment trait helps there.

Torment is a condi that feels tailor-made for fighting thieves and its in no short supply to revs.

Definitely doubloons at least. They’re gemstones by another name and used in several recipes (consumables and gem transmutation for starters) like any other raw material.

Windows 10, GW2 64 bit

An odd problem I’ve had occasionally since the last update. It seems to appear completely at random, at most once every few days when I go to launch the game.

I click my game launcher shortcut but the launcher never appears.

Gw2 64.exe then appears idle on task manager always at 8.5 mb/0%cpu of data usage.

The game will not launch after this, and any attempts to close gw2 64.exe are met with an “access denied” message. Even running cmd in administrator to kill it manually will not kill it. I cannot restart or shut down the computer because it hangs at “waiting for program to close” and it’s impossible to end the program, so I’m forced to do a hard reboot.

I cannot find any posts relating to this problem so I decided to check here first just to get some input before I tried any sort of repairs or re-installation

I’ve noticed that many online retailers are still carrying the standard and Heroic Edition GW2 boxes, with several in the $10-15 range. Are these still usable with the f2p update and Heart of Thorns expansion changes, or are buyers wasting money on them?

Also related, a friend was wondering about getting the paid benefits but without the expansion content. If the aforementioned products are still viable, can they be used to upgrade a f2p account to a standard paid one sans expansion benefits?

Have a friend with the same problem. Tried every listed solution but still nothing will help. Reinstalling, adding stuff to target, changing languages, and absolutely nothing. Still stuck at 1 file that never downloads.

I myself have the game downloaded and its running fine, oddly enough, and we’re on the same ISP and on the same router.