Guild Wars 2

So I am trying to do my Ad Infinitum II collection, however I ain’t getting the challenge mote collection achievement.

We do activate it at the beginning of the frac, everyone agrees to it. However finishing the fractal, I don’t get the collection.

bump would like to know too. Want my rewards t.t

Sold Out Again.4129:

Read my first post again. Especially the little bit in the quotation area. I’m not a time traveller, I just read what Anet wrote. The blog clearly states that we won’t even be getting all the new legendaries with the expansion. Which is where the “lie” bit comes in. Taking apart a post sentence by sentence is fine and dandy, but please read it first.

Yes read what Anet wrote. They clearly say, a handful legendaries will be released with HoT and others will come with updates.. Updates are part of HoT which you do not have to pay for when you bought HoT, so how is Anet lying and how is this unfinished? Also if Anet decides to bring out the other legendaries out with HoT updates that has some background story, wouldnt that be even better, with people complaining that there is no lore with legendaries.

In your post about Colin and his “new legendaries” announcement, there is no reason for him to explicitly say how the legendaries are gonna be released, he ain’t lying, we are getting new legendaries. Not sure how you do not understand that.

I think you need read things more clearly instead of telling other people to read things again before you complain.

MHCerberus.1385:

I guess a big point to my question is: Why take this game so seriously? You are playing a video game, it should be relaxing. People seem to treat this like a job, not as a fun activity.

You said it yourself. Why take it so seriously? Some people find skipping relaxing and fun. (btw you are posting on the forums to complain… so who is taking it so seriously, you).

Make your own LFG, people even make guides for the people like you:
How To Make An Anti-Meta Group: Comprehensive Guide To Playing How You Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jra3jV_ckYg
Instead of making a lfg ‘’anyone welcome – no stacking’‘, write ’’anyone welcome – no skipping’’. You said you make your lfg and that some ’’dink’’ decides to ruin it? well kick that guy then, not hard. Fed up=taking it too seriously.

Agree with robertul.

And btw. What is the point of this thread? Other than to complain about how others do things? -,-

First you never told us what weapons he was using, it makes it much easier for us to give you advice if we know which you were dealing with.

Second, fighting a good thief is to search for patterns and is like solving a puzzle. Observe his behaviors, when does he stealth? If he uses daggers, expect a backstab a few seconds later when he went into stealth, dodge after a few seconds.

Is he teleporting all over the place because your team is all spread out? Try to stick together, so he won’t be all over the place and you won’t run like headless chicken trying to slam him. Are there any mobs around where he can use cloak and dagger and keep stealth all the time when he is low? Move away from the mobs or kill the mobs.

Figure out when he uses his heal skill, if he is running the stealth heal, does he use it when his health is 50% or 25%? Try to interrupt him. Remember the cd’s. on his uti skill. Keep you camera constant moving/rotating if he goes into stealth, he can just ran past by you and walk away behind your back, keep an overview. A thief can always tele away and tele back at the location, try to remember the location, they usually go back.

If he is running basilisk venom elite, you will see him casting it plus see it under his health bar, so be prepared to be the one turn into stone. Have stun breakers ready.

Just find the pieces together, observe and you can counter thieves. What I said is are very few examples how to make t easier. However, 5 man against 1 thief, even against a very good one, I think it more your guys builds/reaction times….
Anyways, good luck and just keep practicing fighting against very good thieves, they are a pain but they are not gods.

Will the skill lags be fixed when there is a full on 3 way fight going on between the 3 servers? Especially with the new desert border lands with even more mechanics, can the servers (anet severs) even handle that? Because i am getting really tired of the 10-15 sec skill delays. It is annoying and not very pleasant.

Ozgar Heavyhammer.6701:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Professions do not have their own starting zones. A character’s starting zone is determined by the race that was selected.

Thank you for finally bringing some clarity on this subject. I am however very disappointed in this decision as it completely wrecks lore continuity, I had hoped the devs had an interesting way to introduce a new class without breaking story. It makes no sense for a Revenant to do the same story steps that all other classes did as that class didn’t exist till Rytlock came back from the mist.

Really dropped the ball on this Anet, really wish you took a page out of the Blizzard playbook here because even though GW2 claims to be a Living World WoW handles their lore and story progression better.

I am however NOT very dissapointed, as I am happy we get a new class. I don’t think Arenanet dropped the ball, and I am glad that they are not taking any page out of blizzard’s playbook. I am here to play Arenanet’s game not blizzard’s.

Please rebuild LA. I also hate to see it still being ugly and ruined. Want the hub feeling back!

Sirendor.1394:

Lord Trejgon.2809:

Eye of the North – the only GW expansion we have ever seen:
no new classes
no new playable races
phew new maps but nothing close to the size of continent
maps had terrible textures
a little new skills
some new armor sets

Only expansion? What GW have you been playing? Factions and Nightfall were expansions bro.

Factions and Nightfall were stand-alone campaigns Brah. EoTN was a true xpac. check the wiki brah.

Exroyal.9053:

Jesus christ, it’s like everyone who whines here knows every aspect of what HoT is. Like i know there will be whiners, there always are and there always will be, but at least wait until you’ve tried it and then make a judgment call.

Totally AGREE!!! Just seeing these complaint threads makes me think like they already played the Beta of the xpac =.=.

I and many out there like the things announced and don;t feel entitled.

a big fat YES! I hope there will be a special edition too

definitely gonna use my tomes on the day it hits! lol.

JLHiggs.6258:

The following has me very concerned (although I am otherwise hyped for this expansion). I don’t like the singular here:

From an environment standpoint, this is the largest amount of vertical space we have ever built in the game. Our map spans huge distances up in the air. We are actually able to climb to the very top of the jungle and look down on everyone below. We’re adding hang gliding, so you won’t have to fall to your death every time. We’re adding a lot of abilities that will take advantage of the amount of 3D space that we’ll make use of as part of these adventures in the jungle.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/87848/guild-wars-2-director-discusses-heart-of-thorns-revenants-guild-halls-and-more

Are you this obsessed with the expansion? It is a transcript of a phone interview. They either forgot a ’’s’’ , it is really one map or something else. Frickin wait for the details in the upcoming months. =.=

I usually just read complaints on this forum not logged in and thinking to myself ‘’these complainers got nothing better to do’’.

But this thread is just… big facepalm. =.=

Let’s also talk about the word Revenant.

Definition: ‘’one that returns after death or a long absence’’ (merriamwebster)

Hype!! Can’t wait for Revenant. It seems to be using sword too, I love my sword <3.

What is line casting? And what does that pot of hylek poison do?

Cerbeius.7129:

Then I shall you give this one link: ArenaNet’s Soundcloud page

In a few weeks, we’ll get that magnificent track

An update!! We got it so fast

https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/the-golden-cave

Official name of the track: The Golden Cave

Leif Chappelle you are amazing!

I can’t wait for it to be up on their soundcloud! I was super happy when the scarlet last boss fight got uploaded!

It would be amazing to have official scores of the LS soundtracks :O. The pale tree vision is super intense.

Hi all! First of all I loved the season finale, things that I didn’t expect happened, the amazing new cutscenes, new story and the of course new things to do in Silver Waste.

However, can I give attention to the music? Omg. I always loved the LS music, but this one just hit me.

When I entered the Mystery Cave chapter, seeing the golden building/shine from far away and the music started, I was blown away! I don’t know why it was so magical to me, but I can sit there all day and listen to it while staying at all the nice effect in the cave. After the dark past cutscene, I appreciated the soundtrack even more, so soothing and then suddenly something dark happens, amazing job!

anyways, I recorded the music, edited some clips into it to make it nicer to watch (so yah i did spend day there lol Watch in HD)! Music is the main part though (contains spoilers):

http://youtu.be/lXIGsaiOHlw

(Spoiler free one: http://youtu.be/IOj_vq_lQcI )

Thanks Arenanet for making awesome music for the LS, hope it will be on soundcloud soon !!

Ps. If this is old music, then i totally feel like a noobie, but oh well!

Wow. It shines so, so much brighter now!! :O I crafted my moot one week ago.
I love the new updates, please don’t revert it !! Now it really looks like a disco ball.

Agree!!! Even though Wintersday is held in DR, I truly expected that there would be at least SOME SNOW and decorations in LA. I logged in the heart of the mist welcomed by the wonderful decorations, went in the portal to LA, literally nothing has been placed there….

As far as DR goes, also dissapointed that only the crown pav has been decorated, love it though, but still they could have done it a bit more…. not complaining just dissapointed as Wintersday is my favorite gw 2 holiday/event.

Etien.4601:

Great, a 300 and 600 gem items and nothing for 400 or 800. Awesome. Also where is the vinyl from the gramophone. This ain’t a gramophone just a box and a speaker. It could go very nice with my Moot and Minstrel.
Again poor execute.
Not going to buy.

This.

Just crashed during Tequatl fight, half way done. Got the “lockedRect.pbits” error code, quickly restarted client, wrong server, the map I was on was full… No rewards at the end. Was also in queue for wvw, from 80 to around 40 queue..
Again I don’t think there is anything wrong with the specs I have.

Well. I recently got a new iMac (2-3 weeks ago)

27-inch iMac
NVIDIAGeForceGTX780M 4GB GDDR5
3.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
1TB Fusion Drive
OSX: 10.9.5

and based on the iMac performance thread, I was excited to try GW2 on it. First few weeks worked awesome. However now I am experiencing crashing all the time in WvW, where characters get rainbow colours and black boxes everywhere, tried to make a screenshot but it crashed after I press the button.

Kinda thinking that Gw2 is messing up my graphics card… That sorta sucks big time when it messes up such an expensive machine.

Illuminati.2431:

On the second page of the General Discussion forum is someone who had this problem too, but fixed it:) Hope that helps

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/SweetFX-How-to-make-it-work/first#post4380641

Thank you , it worked!!! sorry for not looking further xD. This thread can be closed!

Hi, I am not sure if I am the only one, but I also asked in map chat about it and some people also noticed it. Just patched GW2 and logged in, sweetFX dissapeared it seems.

Does anyone have this problem too? Plus how to fix it? TY!

(If you play with sweetFX, you totally can’t live without it anymore o.o).

Crystal Reid.2481:

This is currently being investigated.

Helloo? Is Anet fixing this or what?? Just happened again, level 40 frac. All these dungeon bugs is kitten annoying and blocks progress. I am not sure why all these things are not quickly dealt with. Plus this bug has been been around for ages.

Supercluster.7159:

I’m using the mac beta.

That is great! no need for bootcamp then! How well does the iMac deal with the heat (fan) though when playing? Because it still uses a nvidia xxxM card (laptop card) and I am playing on a laptop which heats and causes my fan to run constantly (which i guess is normal for laptops). No techy here at all, if someone can clarify if that has anything to do with the heat, please do! xD

Supercluster.7159:

I can see the smile on your face Ahriman. Mine arrived yesterday and I’ve been playing/testing and I have the same numbers. I get an average FPS in the 70’s doing PvE. It will drop into the high 40’s for a few seconds during a fight but it comes back fast. I did not expect the FPS to be this high and SMOOTH, although I would assume this hardware in native Windows to be better.

The thing that I’am most impressed with is how the colors and sharpness are so rich. I didn’t expect that. The sand storm in Dry Top looks fantastic.

I will show some screen shots in a few days. Sadly I have too much going on right now to play. I just want anybody out there who is questioning if a Mac can play this game at the highest settings, the answer is a definate yes.

My specs:

27-inch iMac
3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2X4GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5

Thinking about getting an iMac too. However, are you guys using the mac beta client or bootcamp?

Does this also mean when you transfer to another server you won’t lose any upgrades that was unlocked for your guild? As for now, when you transfer you start you lose all your upgrades.

This would be amazing!

Behellagh.1468:

The initial load up when you first zone in seems to try and load in all the assets first before kicking off the renderer. Once you are in the game, way pointing or gating doesn’t wait for all the assets to load into memory. That’s why I’ve seen sound delays, objects popping into existence such as walls and floors, player characters first appear as the generic models, lighting effects not starting up, etc. ".

Omg this is exactly what I am experiencing too, didn’t think anyone except me had this. Though, is this a good or bad thing? (Not too tech savy)

Past few weeks my initial loading times are quite long, I definitely noticed a difference from few months ago. Don’t think it is my computer either because I didn’t have this issue before.

I had a great great time doing the achievement together with a guild mate!! Even though it was frustrating it was hilarious.

First of course seeing people fall and die is quite entertaining. Second, when me and my guildie got to the goggles at last, we were pumped and pumped to jump and get the achievement. Of course as pumped as we were, we didn’t scout the area before and expected to jump in water like the usual goggle dives. It was misty too so. we put on the goggles and jumped, weeeee!!! BAM. Dead. Omg I laughed loud IRL. We died on the edge where people usually fall. It was hilarious because we were so sure of ourselves, hilarious, my eyes teared from laughing.

Then after many attempts to go up again, we tried it again this time scouted the area, pinged the water. Goggles on, ready! And jump. BAM! Landed on the bamboo stick. Hilarous. We didnt expect that to happen either.

So after taking a break from the goggles, we did some events went back up and got it on our 3rd try (long time to get up there). That was awesome! So all in all, I thought I was a blast, especially doing it with someone from your guild or friends whatever.

Vague Memory.2817:

So what’s the definition of evade?

From what I have read evade seems the same as invulnerability, it prevents you being from being hit from an attack.

From the last patch notes:

Distortion:

Fixed a bug that caused this buff to grant evasion instead of invulnerability.
Updated the description of this buff to indicate invulnerability.

I’m presuming there is a difference, maybe evade only prevents some attacks, but invulnerability prevents all?

Either way, as I mentioned above distortion descriptions (for Mesmers) have always mentioned evade, even after this patch, despite it saying in the bug fix that this has changed. Still confused about this.

Evade is dodging.

E.g., In WvW a Guardian puts up a Line of Warding, and you try to dodge (without stability,) over it you will be knocked down and can’t move over the LoW. However, with invulnerability (F4 on the move) you can just walk over it without being knocked over. Same with Static Fields from Elementalists.

So if our F4 distortion would have stayed ’’Evade’’ (fixed, thank you!) we could not walk over the Line of Warding from the Guardian anymore when we use our F4.

Dondarrion.2748:

Has anyone infused their Light of Dwayna yet?

With FotFW update that hit on Tuesday, LoD and Shadow of Grenth became possible to acquire as infused versions… just wondering what mats they require.

Omw to crafting Light of Dwayna myself, but kitten , it’s so expensive in terms of cloth materials… 600 linen scraps, 4500 silk scraps!! Wow!

It might follow the general recipe of infused backpieces:

‘’1 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence
1 Gift of Ascension
250 Glob of Ectoplasm
X ascended backpiece (uninfused)’’

I own Light of Dwayna (got it few weeks after the wintersday patch hit, everything was so cheap back then =.=), quite happy that this patch made it infusable However thinking about it, I don’t think it is worth to infuse it anymore lol.

I read the patch notes Mesmer bug fixes. Tooltip changes….. O ehm gee. Disappointed.

Can’t play the new stuff until tomorrow. I was really really really excited about this patch because I missed it last year and I read everyone’s post on how great it was last year.

But this thread truly made me disappointed, no loot from mobs?? I want that farm place from last year you guys talked about T.T. I was so excited…..

Lishtenbird.2814:

Had it yesterday, got killed. Nope, I didn’t have time to type any emotes.

I totally feel for you. It really sucks especially if you are are on your way winning against someone on a point and then get stuck and get beaten just because you can’t move. It sucks.

Shadowkiller.6725:

the devs are aware of it. it’s not only happening to mesmers but other profession as well. last i heard devs trying to pinpoint what’s causing the bug. in the meantime you can blurr frenzy to unstuck or do a quick emote like /no…yes emotes will unstuck you

In TPVP you can’t swap weapons during match (I don’t use sword) nor do I have time to type a emote while trying to use all my skills to survive while being stuck.

It needs fixing ASAP, there is just no excuse for it and indeed they are aware of it, for a while now.

After using phase retreat mesmers get stuck on the place where they have been teleported too.

I have been getting stuck quite often now (in the past too) in TPVP meaning I can’t do anything except stand there shoot bolts and be meat to my enemies. It is sort of a big deal while you are defending or capping a point and suddenly can’t move after using phase retreat, almost like a free kill.

Swapping weapons doesn’t work, just stuck, can’t move.

This is NOT working as intended.

Because LOTS of these are still bugged. BUMP. First Page.

Yup. It has a 10 sec ICD. Look at the right upper corner of the trait when you hoover over it.

Dissapointed. That is all too say after they said there will be no ICD.

Race : Human
Sex: Male
Light armor class
Mesmer

Lights of Dwayna graphic problems

Whenever I am in stealth suddenly my Lights of Dwayna backpiece gives of BLOCKS as trail. It looks ridiculous. It just appeared out of no where, so if you ‘’fixed’ something please revert it back, as there was no problem before.

Still bugged. Can a dev just say they are fixing it?

Still bugged. I thought it was fixed but no, I stared at it yet again and died before it did ANY damage.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Endo Kazuki.2086:

I think it is fixed guys !!!!

Nifty. Tests to do:

• Does it work in the dredge fractal?
• Does it work in the final right of volcanic fractal?
• Will it still simply wander off if placed on the tree boss of the TA paths?

Maybe I cheered to early. Used warden on different mobs that run and stand stationary. It seems when the mobs stand stationary, warden attacks are quite trustworthy, but when the mob run and warden has to follow, it sometimes still had the 0 damage out put. Sigh

I think it is fixed guys !!!!

downloading the patch. In the notes there is one ‘fix’, ONE, chaos storm. I will be furious if warden is not fixed. They got time to fix chaos storm but not warden? My god.

Really no reaction from the developers?

Sympathize with you all. Check my thread too, it is happning at the moment on our server BT. How can this even be acceptable.

100% agree. It is like no one in Anet plays a mesmer (well known fact), why don’t they find these things annoying ? It baffles me.