Guild Wars 2

Ok, just sorta impromptu tested it on some poor random in the lobby (sorry, stranger!) but yeah, self-inflicted conditions do transfer to people in the pvp lobby, so that’s a big ol brainfart on my part. But that seems… obnoxious.

Ok, that makes sense for me. But I’m pretty sure I also saw them doing it to other non-necros. I could be wrong, maybe they were actually necros, but I’m pretty sure when I was clicking through the other people I saw taking damage, it was a DH and a revenant.

Was standing at the bank when I started taking condition damage from a necro. I moved away, and they followed me to continue doing damage. Eventually they left me alone, but I saw them doing the same to other players. They were swinging their scepter but my combat log shows the scepter itself was not doing damage, just stacks of bleeding. Is their ability to cause damage in the lobby a bug?

Including a screenshot showing the bleed damage with the source.

Chiming in to second the Dirtclaw Cleft invisible wall. Thankfully we were just doing this one for personal comms so success didn’t matter, but if it comes up again on a real full trek that is definitely gonna pose a problem.

Malediktus.9250:

League Veteran does not unlock until you completed League Recruit. So it makes sense that it starts from scratch like any other achievement you have to unlock first.

It didn’t start from scratch though, it already started with 1/2. So it already carried over one division crossing.

If that’s intentional, then we need the tooltip to clarify why that is.

Malediktus.9250:

CrimmsonWind.1475:

Malediktus.9250:

You need 1 league cross for the first meta achievement. After crossing 1 league division the achievement for the 2nd meta unlocks. That one requires 2 division crossings. In total you need 1+2+3+4 = 10 division crossings if you want to do all 4 metas.

I crossed into sapphire while still in the first meta. I have not crossed a division threshold yet while in the second meta.

So one division cross carried over upon unlocking the second meta. But not the other.

Counting the Legendary division, there are 6 divisions. Unless you can bounce between ruby, diamond, and legendary, the achievement requires more division crossings than are actually available. And forcing people to lose in order to cross backwards into previous divisions (if that’s even possible) seems like a bad idea. Unless repeating Legendary also counts as crossing a division, even though it’s Legendary into Legendary.

So I’m more inclined to believe that something is bugged, or something has yet to be revealed. Or it’s just really badly worded and needs to be explained by someone in Anet.

1) Legendary Division is repeatable
2) Anet said even the best player will not be able to complete all requirements for the legendary backpack in one season.

Ok. I kind of figured it couldn’t be done in one season and didn’t expect it to, but that’s not the issue. The tooltips for League Veteran should be rewritten to clarify what counts as crossing in each meta. I also know Legendary is repeatable, I said that in my response.

Although, reading the tooltip, maybe they just expect this to be done over the course of 2 seasons, if seasons reset your division rank. Which would be fine, just unclear. Regardless, I don’t expect any of this to be easy, I just think we could really benefit from some clarification.

Malediktus.9250:

You need 1 league cross for the first meta achievement. After crossing 1 league division the achievement for the 2nd meta unlocks. That one requires 2 division crossings. In total you need 1+2+3+4 = 10 division crossings if you want to do all 4 metas.

I crossed into sapphire while still in the first meta. I have not crossed a division threshold yet while in the second meta.

So one division cross carried over upon unlocking the second meta. But not the other.

Counting the Legendary division, there are 6 divisions. Unless you can bounce between ruby, diamond, and legendary, the achievement requires more division crossings than are actually available. And forcing people to lose in order to cross backwards into previous divisions (if that’s even possible) seems like a bad idea. Unless repeating Legendary also counts as crossing a division, even though it’s Legendary into Legendary.

So I’m more inclined to believe that something is bugged, or something has yet to be revealed. Or it’s just really badly worded and needs to be explained by someone in Anet.

Malediktus.9250:

You need to reach Ruby to progress it

But why? That’s what we’re asking. Because that seems incredibly misleading.

Crossing from amber to emerald = 1 division cross.

Crossing from Emerald to Sapphire should also be one, should it not?

edited to add: Emerald is specifically labeled as division 2, and sapphire as division 3 on the league tab. As far as the information has been presented to us, Emerald and Sapphire are two separate divisions and crossing from one to the other SHOULD bump up the achievement.

I’ve been wondering that too. I’m also in sapphire right now, but still only at 1/2.

If you look at the tab for First Collection Chests down near the bottom, the Chest of Natural Protection should be there for 10,003 karma.

I also opened it on my hunstman but the recipe for Ravenswood Branch does not appear in my list so, I just bought the box again and opened the recipe on my artificer. Annoying and I would like to see a real fix or at least an explanation, but I’m not hurting for karma so in the mean time it’s a workaround.

On occasion I like to set myself offline so I can focus on certain things without being bothered by friends/guildies, for example I just got home from work and I’m tired and I want to knock out my dailies without getting roped into other things.

The last few days, I’ve noticed that at some point during regular gameplay (in this most recent case I was in the middle of a fractal) my Offline status switches to Online, alerting everyone that I’m there. I’m not sure if this came with the most recent patch, but I don’t recall having this problem before then.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

To more thoroughly explain the most recent example: I played a little bit before I went to work, and left myself at the character select screen with the Contacts window up, which I set to Offline. When I got home, I was still set to offline. I continued to play normally, and when I opened LFG to join a dailies group, I was still set to Offline. At some point within the fractal, my status apparently changed to Online, which I was alerted to when I was whispered by a couple of people.

Just finished doing fractals with some friends, and after we all accepted the prompt to return to the fractal lobby, we all got stuck at infinite loading screens. I manually closed my game and was able to load back into LA. The remainder of my party is all shown as offline and I have no word from them yet.

This is after today’s December 1st patch.

Thanks for reading!

edit: one person was able to come back online, although he could not immediately log into the character he was using before we all got stuck. He says he was getting a network error when trying to log in on that character. After a few tries he was able to get back on with the original character. His other characters were unaffected.

EDIT: Clearing local.dat worked. I did have to fix my graphics settings though; everything defaulted to low afterwards.

I have been having this problem for a while too.

News section never loads anymore. However, I am not having any ping problems or issues playing. I can log in just fine. Using the 64bit client, though I started up the 32bit one to see if the news would load and still no dice.

I miss having a quick glimpse at the news, lol.

We did try stealth but they said the stealth was removed upon hitting the seal, at which point they’d get spiked down. So I guess we could try that again, but just emphasize spamming dodge.

Berserker stance is a good idea too, and the guardians since we have 2 of them already.

Thanks for the answers so far, I’ll pass them along.

Tried it a few times with both pugs and my core group of people and we seem to be stuck on the alternating arm seals. I was wondering what people have done to get past this part at this particular scale, with the condi mistlock making things even harder.

It seems like they can apply and reapply more condi than we can clear, and someone inevitably gets spiked down. We’ve tried zerging the whole group back and forth, splitting 2 and 2 with a runner alternating in between, and camping one side like the old method. They all seem to work until halfway when we just get a bad stroke of luck or run out of ways to sustain ourselves without letting the seals reset significantly, if not completely.

The group comp varies because some people have multiple characters with appropriate AR but we’ve had a ranger/druid, a pair of guardians/dragonhunters, and a revenant/herald.

Any help would be appreciated, whether it’s trait/skill suggestions or positions on where to stand, whatever you’ve done that’s gotten you through. Thanks in advance.

Dragon’s Stand Meta Event: Finally got into an organized instance and made it all the way to the end. Got a crash report right before the cutscene, but was able to continue playing as long as I left the crash report prompt alone (I just moved it off to the side of my screen so I could see). HOWEVER! When I went to use a closer waypoint to go tame a tiger, the game stalled at the loading screen and then officially crashed.

I tried to rejoin my party in their instance to get back in, but it just kept saying “Network error .”

Really annoying because I’ve been trying to find organized DSs and get this kitten tiger for a while, but I’m never home when they seem to be happening lol.

Dark.4956:

any word on Twilight?…Is Ulgoth still bugged?

Will ANET reply and let us know what is happening with it and if they acknowledge there is a bug?

if you look back in this thread on the first page, this was acknowledged by anet and they’re aiming to fix it soon.

Tier 1 collection for the Moot, the Karka Queen Claw hasn’t dropped for me. Did it a few times, different days. I’m under the impression that it’s like the other items, which drop automatically as long as you have the collection available. If it’s not then I guess I’ve misunderstood and I’m just waiting for RNG.

My other issues have been acknowledged and are being worked on already, but this one just happened. It can prevent progress and force you to start this step over.

Hearts and Minds spoiler:

Ok well this daily reset properly, but I’ve basically missed out on a day’s worth of daily achievements and login rewards. I’m not upset really, but I am really really wondering what on earth happened yesterday to prevent my dailies from resetting. I also hope I’m not coming across as too snotty, I’m just trying to give accurate info and understanding.

As of 7:43pm eastern time (reset in 17 minutes) I still have not received my daily login reward, nor have my daily achievements properly reset. Currently waiting to see what happens come 8pm.

Xicor.9254:

We are both EU since we could join the party but we couldn’t join the same instance.

In the past, EU and NA players could still join each other’s party despite not being able to play with each other. I don’t know if this was ever changed, but are you SURE you’re both EU? Being able to join each other’s parties isn’t definitive.

I tried the same spot with my own asura for 30 seconds and I’m not have any problems jumping there. Have you checked to see if whatever key you have bound to jump isn’t sticky or doesn’t have something stuck under it that’s preventing you from pressing it down?

When you logged out, where you standing on or near anything? If you logged out standing on or in some terrain that changes, when you log in it can put you somewhere nearby so that you don’t log in stuck in a wall that wasn’t there when you logged out, for example.

Haha no problem. I was just really confused on how you came up with that.

Uh, no, I definitely posted about this about 2 and a half hours after the daily reset. Daily reset time at my local time is 8pm eastern. Post time is 10:41pm eastern. I also keep my in-game time set to server time.

My computer clock is fine, lol.

At the moment, the best thing to do is party up with people, especially if you know you’re prone to disconnects or crashes. If you were previously in a capped map, the game will put you into a more empty instance when you come back like it normally will. if you’re in a party you’ll at least be able to hitch a ride back to your previous instance.

Check the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bone_Pick

it says: “Soulbound versions of this item can be exchanged for account bound versions at a Black Lion Weapons Specialist, but the tool must first be unequipped and in your inventory.”

Gem store tools became accountbound a while after they were introduced, with future accountbound tools being slightly more expensive than the old soulbound tools.

I tried to restart the client a few times (waiting 30 seconds, then 10 minutes, then 20 minutes). I also tried unchecking all my Watched achievements and relogging. The login reward still hasn’t popped, and my daily achievements still haven’t reset, 2 and a half hours after reset.

My dailies are still listed as 3/3 from the previous reset, and Daily Completionist and Daily PvP Reward Earner are highlighted as though they’ve been completed while all the new dailies are listed underneath. I’m attaching a picture of my dailies list to show what I’m talking about since it might not be clear.

I’m not really sure what to do. I’m kinda bummed that I might fall behind on my login rewards, and I’m afraid to do my dailies if it thinks I’ve already gotten Daily Completionist.

edit: updating as of 2:23am eastern time (now a bit over 6 hours past reset), just to say it still hasn’t reset my dailies or given me my login reward. I submitted a ticket and I’m going to bed, hoping it’ll magically fix itself by the time I wake up (or whoever looks at my ticket will have fixed it).

edit 2: 10:24am, still didn’t reset. If it matters, I checked it on my tablet too and it still didn’t make a difference. Someone also replied to my ticket, but said that since I’ve posted it in the forums, I just gotta wait for someone to see this.

did you make sure it didn’t get placed in an empty slot in an Invisible bag/one of the other specialty bags? sometimes I do that and I think I’m missing an item when I was just looking in the wrong spot.

The only issue I’ve encountered that seems similar to this is that suddenly, the only sound I hear is the environmental background sound (ie on the grawl fractal, the sound of lava bubbling and crackling), with all other sounds mute. It also causes my game to start stuttering although when I check everything in my task manager, there does not seem to be any more usage than normal.

I can usually play like this for a while, but eventually either the game crashes and provides a crash report prompt, or if it lasts long enough for me to Exit to Desktop, at that point the game stops responding and I need to end it manually.

Is that similar to what you’re encountering?

For me personally, the only things I would like to see taken into consideration for this event going forward are:

1) at least a small amount of XP upon completion of each event for the benefit of newer players, since this seems to be primarily for them anyway. If they’re taking the time to go through these areas and events, they might as well advance their characters a bit while they’re at it.

2) a decrease to the stack requirements for maximum personal bloom rewards. As it is, the 20-stack requirement encourages a lot of tag-and-run, which kinda penalizes the people staying to actually complete events.

I feel like this has been a common problem in the past, where event structures do not actually encourage participation as intended (like tag-and-run for this event; farming aetherblade champs during Scarlet’s invasion is another example that comes to mind, which depending on your server at the time frequently led to the meta event actually failing while everyone was too busy farming.)

Personally I don’t mind the lack of direct drops from the mordrem, because it does prevent the similar issue of farming champs to the detriment of the meta event like my previous example. However, if you’re going to avoid direct drops, you have to of course make sure the blooms are awarded properly, and that enough of them are rewarded.

edit: also, a possible alternative to increasing the number of blooms rewarded, would be to make this a recurring weekend event for at least a few weeks, giving people more time to get the rewards they want.

my 2 cents, anyway

Figured it out. Drive letters were messed up after cloning a drive for some reason. Default documents directory location was set to a drive that didn’t even exist. Pointed the default back to the right place and now I can take screenshots.

Sariel V.7024:

You moved the game, but you didn’t actually reassign the image folder. Look at its old location.

I already tried that. When I moved the game, the Screens folder came with it and it was saving images in the new location, until I updated my OS.

To give a quick history: I moved my entire game from my primary drive to a secondary drive maybe a month ago. Everything (including the screenshot function) was working perfectly fine. I upgraded to Windows 10 this past week, and now my screenshot folder seems to constantly believe it is full.

I went to take a screenshot, and saw the “Your screenshot folder is full” message. I checked my screenshot folder and it only had ~300 screenshots. I know the cap is 999. I put them in a different folder, emptying the official Screens folder, and tried to take one again. It still said “Your screenshot folder is full.” I have also tried to rename and delete the folder, hoping it would be forced to recreate it. In both cases it continues to say “your screenshot folder is full.”

I know it’s not a super-critical bug but it’s kinda weird.

Moi, they do want to fix it, and they will eventually. Yeah, it’s certainly a bit frustrating, but it will happen.

You can still work on getting HoM points in gw1 though. You just won’t be able to collect your rewards in gw2 immediately.

Noticed that over the last couple of weeks, the “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered” 3 times. It stands out to me because I have never had this problem until now. It’s personally not a huge deal to me because I just have to restart the game, which stops responding and needs to be forcibly closed. After that it’s all good again, but it does seem like it could be a small problem. Haven’t experienced this on any other game, but I suppose that could be a matter me playing gw2 90% of the time.

Drivers are all up to date and everything. Windows 7, AMD Radeon HD 7900.

Tried google searching the forums for similar issues but the only results for this issue it turned up were at least a year old and sounded much more severe than what I’m experiencing. Just thought it would be worth mentioning just in case it turns out to be more widespread.

Where did you find the piece you were missing? Maybe I’m missing the same thing.

edit: never mind, haha, turns out there was one lone tree right in front of my face the whole time.

Not likely, I can’t pay bills and buy food with guild wars gold :/

I just finished this this morning and haven’t put it on my blog yet. It’s really weird, I didn’t really like asura at first, but they’re a lot of fun to draw.

So, I draw stuff, and sometimes that stuff is Guild Wars stuff. The attached picture is of my asuran mesmer.

I have a bunch of stuff on my art blog: http://crimm-art.tumblr.com/

I’m also doing a winter sale during December and January for sketches and portraits. the link for that is: http://crimm-art.tumblr.com/post/105104885002

anyway, that’s it, thanks for looking

Works for me now, thank you!

Adding my name to the list of people suffering from this.

Upon release for this Living Story I was able to complete it for the first time without issue.

When I tried to access the Story Journal tab to replay for the achievements, it has crashed every single time. The game becomes unresponsive and eventually fails. I can press H and look at every other tab except the Story Journal tab.

Personal Story step-wise, I am sitting on Victory or Death.

cheers, thanks for taking interest, and thanks in advance for working on it.

Waaaay back before name change contracts and makeover kits, I had a character. I got the first version of the Halloween event Mad Memories book on her, but not long after that, I decided that I wanted to change her name for lore reasons, so I stuck the Mad Memories backpiece in the bank, and deleted her so that I could remake her with a new name.

I kinda forgot about it until now when I was cleaning up my bank, and I saw the book. I know there’s a trick to unbinding items to use on your other characters, I’ve done it with my ranger main to give her the Anonymity hood, but back items are kind of an oddity and I don’t see a way to get that trick to work. Plus the Mad Memories book is Unique, so it doesn’t seem to let me transmute it in the first place.

So I guess the ultimate question is, did I kinda screw myself out of using the Mad Memories book now, since its original soulbind-ee has been deleted? Or is there a way around?

I’d be all for this. Yeah sure, there are the safe boxes, but I like the idea of a mini-pet slot, possibly with an option to have it displayed automatically, via a check-box or something. That option would be better suited to a dedicated mini slot rather than the safe box. Even if that option doesn’t come around, having that dedicated mini spot would be a quick way to deploy it as you’d get used to the location.

I have all these minis that I’d like running around with, but as it is they just sit in my bank collecting dust because I Deposit All Collectibles constantly.

So yeah, I’d like to hear a “we’re working on it” or “not gonna happen” as well.

This just started happening to me today as well, but only sometimes.

First someone invited themselves to my party, but there was no name. I accepted it, but there was no portrait. We could still communicate via party chat, though. Then the party seemed to disband itself.

A few minutes later I got invited to a party and everything was working fine.

I’d be on board with this. I tried to make a thread about coming up with a solution to the guesting/region restriction disappointment but, nobody said anything -.-

I hadn’t thought about this though, having a home world in multiple regions would be pretty neat. I’d even totally be on board with paying to buy that option, if that’s how they have to do it. Since I gather it would cost some resources to have to move the data around like that.

From the Guesting Announcement:

“Because (different from a world transfer) we are not moving your character between data centers, you may only guest on worlds in the same region as your home world. Players on North American home worlds cannot guest on European worlds or vice versa.”

Aaaaaand there goes every reason I had to actually use guesting.

My personal entire reason for really wanting guesting was so that I, as a US player already established on a NA world with friends in that world, could play with my friend in the UK, who has to play on an EU world otherwise she lags like hell. So this… kinda puts a damper on all that.

Is there a solution to this somehow? A system that both players and devs can agree on that would allow guesting in other regions?

I understand that it requires resources to move a player around, especially to an entire different region. So while I’m really disappointed, I’m not going to throw a fit.

Maybe we could purchase some kind of guest pass that would allow for guesting in a different region for an extended period of time? Or a (cheap?) temporary transfer that only lasts for a month or something. It’s almost like a subscription, I know, but it was the only idea I could think of. I’m not too keen on the transfer idea because it would lock you into one world for that period of time, which would keep you from being able to play in your original world during that time.

The only other thing I can think of is buying a second copy of the game and making a second account but, I’d really prefer to have all my characters tied to one account.

I know it’s probably not a wide-spread concern to be able to guest on regions other than your own, but still, I thought I’d throw it out there. If anyone else has any ideas, please share them. Maybe we can come up with an easy solution that could actually work.

(and please keep it civil, I know this issue isn’t actually an issue for everyone, but for those who are also in the same boat, it would be good to hear some ideas)

edit: just to elaborate, the reason I’d like to revisit this is because I’d like the ability to easily switch back and forth between regions. IE, if I’m playing with my EU friend for a while, but she has to go, it would be nice to be able to easily switch back to my NA world to help out my friends there. Transferring every 7 days just to be able to do something like that would be kinda nuts.

Meia.6907:

Will the guesting work with any region of the world? (guest in EU someone in NA and the opposite)

This is what I need to know. I’ve been dying for Guesting since they first mentioned it and I thought it was a great idea. It was a perfect solution for my friend and I, but I’m getting nervous that we won’t be able to play together via guesting because I’m on an NA server and she’s on an EU server.

I don’t want to have to transfer over to her EU world, because I have other friends on mine, but she can’t transfer to my NA world because she lags like hell (not ANet’s fault, she has pretty terrible internet connection).

I’m psyched for the rewards though, if it means I can have some control over what I actually earn (as opposed to getting gear I can’t even use XD).