Guild Wars 2

“Me too!”

Before last night, Knights were pretty hit or miss if they were going to drop loot, since then they are seemingly guaranteed to not drop anything for anyone. This includes the Power Cores.

I can’t even imagine what it takes to break something like this.

Just wanted to voice my support for this great idea. This can solve so annoyances when you play many toons (9×80s here.)

Seriously, all the Mad King gear (from drops that have been tradeable all this time) became soulbound due to the mechanic of choosing a replacement stat for magic find. Is this going to be fixed or what ?

Maybe they could make it so kits scaled to the base damage of a 2 hander of whatever the highest rarity we had equipped at the time was. So legendary shield equipped would be the same as having an ascended rifle, or something along those lines.

I don’t see why kits don’t assume the power of whatever the engi has equipped ? Is there some kind of crazy math going on that prevents this from being The Thing To Do ?

+1 , this is something a “polish” team should be able to knock out within one scrum period I’d think.

Vol.5241:

I don’t have anything to back it up, but I’m pretty sure Anet loses a ton of money utilizing the coffer/scrap method. I don’t think anyone is naive enough to waste money on the BL fortune scraps or BL dragon coffers when they have a pretty low chance to begin with (it doesn’t scale well with normal scraps/coffers).

Anet might not make as much as they could have (they don’t “lose” money), but their player base gives back much more positive feedback and generally feels better about the game as a whole.
If you don’t think anyone was “naive enough” to waste money on the scraps or coffers, exactly how do you think that low drop rate was discovered in the first place ? Not everyone flips the trading post all day or gets insanely lucky in the mystic for or from random drops like your sig suggests and has enough gold to buy gems all day long. The wording Anet gave to the latest scraps RNG was that it was replacing most of the key drops, which indicates a lot higher drop rate than what we are finding is actually the case. Are we being naive to think we understood what they were saying, and that it made sense that it would cost about 15-20 chests to get enough scraps, if the claim ticket itself didn’t drop ? No, if anything it was false advertising, and I know for a fact that they have and are losing quite a lot of faith and future business with this.
See it’s not what YOU think, or what you think others should think, it’s what the collective thinks, and I’m going on record in this thread to warn people that the drop rate is crap and discourage them from spending money on gems for it thinking that it’d only take a couple thousand gems worth max, based on what Anet said.

See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Black-Lion-Ticket-Scraps-Are-Common

Lue.6538:

It is possibly to farm keys and thus not spend anything at all, that is all.

Any idea on the cost in time it takes to get 70 keys ? It would take like 24 hours of non-stop farming at 20 minutes (which means you’ve got a lvl 80 boosting you with speed buffs and quick kills.) After this story line intro event is over, it will take 5 times as many keys, so 5 times as long. For those of us that get maybe 1 or 2 hours a day tops to play, it’s just not realistic to farm keys.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I fail to see how the length of time it takes you to spend $300 matters. You will still pay $300 for a single weapon skin, whether it is over 1 week or 6 months.

For this event, the weapon skins cost 1 claim ticket. After, it will cost 5, so if you don’t get the 1 soon, you will end up having to pay 5x as much afterwards.

The loot drops from the mobs randomly while you kill them, no reward at the end, so how well you did doesn’t factor in to the loot bags. The only factor I can tell is the tier level. The loot bags are also not like WvW bags from kills, but more like chests, so I don’t think magic find affects them.

So yeh, I assumed like many others that they keys being replaced by scraps would mean a 1:1 replacement. I used to get keys all the time, somewhere around 25% of the time. I just opened 70 BLTC and ended up with 11 scraps. I could have bought 2 or 3 skins on the TP at their inflated prices for that much just converting gems → gold. This is the last time I spend any money on gems until there is a holographic dragon mount available for me to fly around on. Anet is really too greedy with this and not providing correct information as to the expected drop rate. I’m happy to buy gems to get skins or unbreakable harvesting tools etc to support the game, but this RNG crap has turned me off entirely.

Thanks for compiling and sharing that data wildcode, very interesting.

I noticed when I leveled my guardian, I ran it to the pent/shelter DE farm area in the Cursed Shore @ lvl 70. At first it was hard to get any drops due to being way under level and barely able to hit anything, but before too long I was 74 and 75 and getting very good drops, maybe 2-3 rares per event, I’m guessing due to the significant level difference and the fact that my party was doing enough damage to get us all on the loot table. As my toon got higher level, the rares got rarer. My lvl 80 engineer in full MF gear doesn’t seem to get any better drops than my guardian with no MF gear. It almost feels like the MF on gear doesn’t work, but what you get from food and banners does, but I’ve got no data to back that up.

I had a similar issue a few days ago, I mailed my wife some items over maybe 6 mails to make room in my inventory and she immediately returned them, however I didn’t get any of them. I had 5/10 player mails in my inbox at the time and maybe 7 system mails from personal story quests, dungeon availability anouncements and such. As soon as I started deleing the system/game/non-player mails, the mails started coming in. It seems like the 10 mail limit from players is broken a bit in that it is counting the system mails as well.

Same here on 2 desktops and a laptop. I am getting full speed for everything else.

I disabled my authenticator but am still getting the same disconnect in Wine, fwiw.

This has been happening to me as well since 10/22 patch, both on Windows 7 and on Arch Linux via Wine 1.5.15 . The error code I’m seeing in Wine is 42:0:9001:3968:101 . I do have an authenticator so I’ll be disabling that and see if it helps.

I got these without opening the door, I just jumped up into the middle of the door (like some folks do going through portals for no good reason), it got it close enough to trigger. I cleared the map and never saw one of the keys.

This doesn’t bother me that much, but I can +1 confirm this as well on my mesmer.

So I sent the following to the exploits department of support, I got a reply from a GM telling me to post it in the “suggestions” forum. Holy Kitteh Kittehs are you Kittehing me ?
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I’m just making sure that you guys and gals are aware of the rampant botting and hacking going on in this game. There are public hacks for things like teleporting
+ exploration / gathering lists of coords to teleport to instantly + fly hacks, gravity hacks, speed hacks, no clip hacks, camera FoV and zoom hacks (which should be part of the game imho) plus regular bots that grind, some of them using a mix of bots + teleport hacks. I see this daily in every zone, multiple times over. This is not just some auto-attacking afk script thig, these are reading/writing to Gw2.exe memory and owning it. It’s extremely frustrating to have to compete with people using these sorts of things.

( link to popular public forum where these hacks and bots are freely available for download was here. )

This sort of stuff we still see in WoW; please show those kitten at Blizzard how it’s done properly. Warden-esque memory scanning does not deter this sort of thing anymore, the hackers just wrap around the scan function to effectively null it.

Server side speed detection should be possible based on x/y/z + speed. At the very least you should be able to limit it to moving no faster than swiftness boon when going side to side, falling speed of gravity when going down and jumping speed when going up, and teleporting should be impossible if the user did not just use a portal and moved more than NNN distance within a second.

Please do whatever you can to stop these guys, it’s a huge issue and only gaining in popularity. It’s game killing to see someone get crippled in WvWvW and then hobble away (still crippled) at 5x normal run speed, or see people just high jumping over castle walls because they altered gravity. Or to be fighting mobs to get to gethering nodes only to see some kitteh-clown teleporting straight to the node and moving on to the next quickly and freely.
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The replies I’ve seen so far are not nearly as “aware and on top of” the situation as I’d like them to be for me to feel good that they are seriously working on some fixes for this. The sad part is the number of replies that are like “oh, really, well posts some video over here and someone will take a look at it.” Sorry ANet, you need to get your rearends in the game and just look around a bit. It is happening in every zone I go in every day at any time. Without coming down on this hard and swiftly, you will be sending the word out (well, this is already out) that GW2 has no botting protection and is wide open for exploiting and profiting on. The more you can do server side the better, as the game client itself has already been completely owned.

I had been holding off on doing this quest for a while, waiting on the devs to fix the junk loot. I am quite disappointed to see the rewards are still junk. lvl 78+ greens are not worth my time. I may finikittenomeday to help a guildie out, but you’ve totally shattered my impression of this game with these sorts of things.

I’d love to be in on the team meetings where this is discussed and anytime I hear something decided like this I could whack the person with a Nerf bat labeled “NOPE”. This was supposed to be the fix for disappointing, lackluster rewards. The fix was slightly better, yet fewer and still disappointing, lackluster rewards ?
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There seems to be a severe disconnect between what the population wants and what you are interpretting and I’m not sure why.

The idea to offer a single unique exotic choice is obviously (read “OBVIOUSLY”) the way to go here. GW1 had it right, finish the story campaign, get something cool, be happy. None of this is happening now.

This happened to my wife, she was disconnected (I kept playing merrily) and about 30-45 minutes later she was able to log back in (login server outage.) When she logged back in she found that a lot of progress had been lost. As parents of a little one we don’t get much free play time, so the time we do get is precious. Losing any of that to a database crash or whatever is really disheartening. The scariest part is that if this can happen once and wipe out an hour of gameplay for many people, it can probably happen for a longer expanse of time. If there is no recovery available and the time is days, weeks, months….

This is a widely reported issue, and one with which I can sympathize with as being extremely annoying. It’s the only kit that acts this way and should be easy to fix.

Verified here as well, killed the Great Destroyer Troll, chest opened, could not interact with it, boss spawned about 20 seconds later. Logged off, came back about 30 mins later, another group started it up while I was afk, I came back and helped for the last 80% and could not interact with the chest but when I hit [F] it appeared to loot it, very odd.

I’ve gotten stuff out of it a couple of times. I have this issue with the chest in one of the jumping challenges close to the Shatterer (something’s Folley IIRC) so it may be some kind of bug related to reward chests already being open. I’ve seen others complain about your specific issue however on my youtube video for this.

There was nothing in the patch notes about it, surprisingly. Considering the volume of negative feedback from it, I imagine they’ll be working on it before too long.

I can’t believe this wasn’t fixed in the patch last night. Either it is a very hard to fix problem (somehow) or it is not being communicated back up the chain to how important it is to people. This isn’t really a WoW gear-grind type game but people still love their pretty-shinies. As the great Big Worm once said, “effin with my money, is like effin with my emotions”. Let there be phat lewtz! (I’m out of ideas for capturing the attention of forum mods, so, please, sticky a reply to this issue and make people happy.

My male asura does this as well, even with very short jumps (2x height of character), usually into water. I haven’t noticed it on any of my taller toons. It catches me off guard sometimes. I do notice the delay as well, especially obvious at the diving board in L.A.

shows 7/8 vistas on your screenshot

I see this with the latest Nvidia drivers (beta 306.xx) , reverting to 304.xx fixed it for me.

Just to chime in, I’ve noticed in the last 3 days or so, never before that, so it does seem to be related to a recent patch. Some lines that work for me later do not work for my wife in the exact same story quest, so there is some issue of RNG present.

I had this exact same problem with those drivers, quite often a mountain terrain texture would go like 50% tranparent so I’d see it and what was behind it depending on my camera angle. It wasn’t always obvious but it happened enough and was discombobulating enough that I downgraded back to the previous 304 beta drivers.

It’s the same on all servers; the sprectral weapons events are still running even with the weapon dead, no respawn or reset happening. It’s been reported here in many many threads already, I can only assume the devs are working on it. It is the last things needed for many to get 100% world map completion.

As kaesebrezen mentioned, Asura with pistols is a trainwreck of armor/weapon clipping. The first issue is that the pistols scale down so much for the Asura that it’s really hard to appreciate any nice skin on them, compared to something like a greatsword on a Norn
Every single pistol I’ve equipped, both main and offhand has had clipping issues with every coat I’ve put on, but my current set up totally hides the pistol on the left hip, the right is about 50% hidden when not drawn. You can see (or not, as the case may be) my coat covering the pistol on my hip. I haven’t gotten my conceal/carry permit yet so please fix when you can If you can make the weapons not scale down so much in the first place that’d be great, so we could appreciate them a little more.

Missing on Yak’s Bend as well.

Same on Yak’s Bend for days now.. Can’t seem to get on right after server restart or on an overflow, so I am making the trip down there several times a day just to see. A waypoint down there would’ve been sweet. The spectral weapon in the maze to the north of it is also the same way.

I’ll add to the list: Winterknell Isle in the Cursed Shore has the sword challenge bugged (yak’s bend), I see a sword on the ground and skill icon way up in the air, but nothing to interact with.

I’m also waiting to finish my personal story for this to be addressed. Has anyone actually gotten decent/fitting rewards from their bags or is it junk for everyone ?

Also on Yak’s, gate is always closed for me as well. People in the area said that there was an escort event that was bugged that prevented the gates from opening, and the NPCs for that event were just hanging out on the path up there, usually dead from quick respawning mobs, but even clearing the mobs and reviving the NPCs doesn’t help, they just stand there.

+1
I understand the need for gold sinks in a game, but the waypoint charge is far too high. I’d rather spend a minute or two on a flying mount to get exactly where I need to go rather than pay such a high price and then still have to run to my destination. I’m having to waste time resorting to tricks like going to The Mists and taking the portal to Lion’s Arch, then a portal from there to a main city close to where I want to go to. Waypointing in GW1 was free and was great, in GW2 it is a straight fun-killer, I dread it.

Good to know, I was going to try this + medkit on my engineer to see how close to 100% swiftness uptime I could get for a runner

One would think something like this would have been caught in QA if it was unintended. I can not believe it is truly intended however, the end reward (in exotic bags) for the most epic quest line in the game spanning the entire life of the character. I’ll hold off on my final few quests for my ‘main’ until this gets some official word.

I’m not positive, but I imagine it was changed to prevent people from using it as an infinite resource for the mystic forge, creating and deleting accounts after using it ot get new ones over and over.

I see this in the ‘game messages’ data in the chat window when I have that box selected. There were also a couple of items on the trading post labeled as such recently.

Also, blacklisting or flagging the word “pvpbank” in any section of the game might be helpful. I get a lot of in-game mail from hacked accounts for these clowns.

I have the same issue, upgrades that when dragging highlight the back piece blue like it should work, never do.

Agreed, this is the only kit that you have to weapon swap out of, rather than just hitting the 6 button again, very annoying.

+1 , I see this every time my wife does any gathering, it’s always with a mining pick. Overkill, babe!

To add to this, the page that shows your current items up for sale does not scroll and is not paginated, so you can’t remove/cancel older items you’ve put up without removing/canceling everything since then to get it on the screen.