Guild Wars 2

This is still broken and apparently this is the only thread about it, also not listed on known issues tracker. 2 weeks later and this is still broken. Costing a lot of materials to keep up with.

The Risen High Wizard that’s supposed to spawn on the Defend the gates of Arah event still bugs sometimes and doesn’t spawn (which blocks progress on more than one legendary weapon collection).

It’s a known issue (or was) but it was marked as “fixed” in the Known Issues Tracker on May 5th:

Events: The risen high wizard does not always spawn with the ‘Gates of Arah’ defense event
Date Solved: 2016-05-03

It last bugged on map IP 64.25.33.42:0 at 10:50 PM PST on 2016/06/08

The Iron Legion Shield that is supposed to be sold by Zalvax Brokenclaw (an Iron Legion heart NPC) in Diessa has been bugged for the past 2 or so years. Currently, if the event “Defend Rhell Crankmane while he sets up his ghost control machines” is up or has been completed, this NPC won’t sell the correct items. He instead has his inventory swapped with another nearby heart merchant (Tiga Fierceblade, a blood legion heart NPC).

The only time you can buy the correct items from this merchant is just before starting the event (when you’re given the check mark option of “Sure, where is he?” in the dialogue box to start the event). The shield is otherwise unobtainable and doesn’t appear to be sold by any other merchants in game.

Zalvax Brokenclaw with bugged items (no Iron Legion Shield):
http://imgur.com/GxgDENd
Tiga Fierceblade’s inventory:
http://imgur.com/GxgDENd
Zalvax Brokenclaw with correct inventory:
http://imgur.com/nGkFORG
Zalvax dialogue that needs to be available to buy the Iron Legion Shield: http://imgur.com/Pz9hgAT

Sorry, what? The map is called Tangled Depths for a reason. And, like someone else has mentioned, its really not hard at all to navigate. Use the wallows. There is one right at the entrance. Follow the arrows on the wallows, get to the Ley Line Confluence waypoint and you have easy access to all waypoints on the map via the 4 lanes individual wallows. If connect the dots is too hard then I’m sorry, but its not the layout of the map that needs to change.

As for the OP, yeah the meta timer needs some massive tweaking. Pre events across the entire map complete in usually 20 minutes and I believe TD has less “ticks” for the map tier than the other maps. That leaves hours of sitting around getting nothing. Either they need to quadruple the number of events or just shave off an hour from the meta setup.

Some tips for your Ley Line crystals until the timers get tweaked:
- Kill everything. Random mobs drop Nuhoch Hunting Stashes. These give you Ley Line Crystals, usually 5 each but with chance of 50+. This is my main source of Crystals.
- Memorize hidden chests, and open strongboxes daily. They also drop Crystals
- Fail the meta. It gives you 75 or more Crystals per fail. Use a meta timer (Google it) and get to the map before the meta ends to build your participation to 120-200%

And regarding meta success: if you want to finish the meta, make an effort to either join or at least get the names of members from a guild that can succeed it, as you would do with Triple Trouble. It’s fun. Learn it, don’t just jump in spamming buttons and ignoring map chat hoping to complete it. It gives a sense of accomplishment that you rarely get in this game, because there is actually a looming chance for failure. I followed and later joined a guild that regularly does it and completes it. For them I’d say it’s about a 75% success rate. We use more than half pugs/LFG. No teamspeak. Note: successes (early on at least) seemed to happen during the day before east/west coast get off work- the day time pugs seem to listen and read better. Some days we do 4 or more runs and have 3 successes. The day before raid patch was our last 2 runs but having beaten the raid they’ll start running TD again today or tomorrow probably, I’m guessing other guilds did the same, so if you want your successes then ask around or keep an eye on LfG

Seems bugged even if you didn’t have the map already completed, went to finish Southsun on one of my toons and got nothing

My friends list tells me there are a lot of exceptions :O

I don’t exclusively wvw since it’s pretty hard to sustain yourself off of spikes and spoons.. Also kind of hard to make legendaries without the map comp. But wvw is the reason I play the game, the reason I farm gold (24 lvl 80 wvw toons- to buy/craft all the seaweed, cactus fruit, toxic, furious, lemongrass, etc.. for a month is several hundred gold), and the reason to show off shiny weapons and get a target on my head during gvgs.

Maybe anet will show the same kind of love to PVE and PVP. We can have a 5-way racial war in PVE with pvp turned on in all maps and towns. Killing uplevels grants double the points! Before long, all will bow down to our human female overladies. And for PVP maybe, for a week, it can be turn-based costume brawl in all new underwater maps only. It’ll be fun, I’m sure PVErs and PVPers will love it. What can possibly go wrong?

Can confirm, crashes for me and all my friends when swapping to or from simple UI.

Going to character select or leaving group, or changing the settings in any other way where you cannot see the party window doesn’t seem to crash you.

+1

GvG is the main reason 75% of my friends play this game. We do PvE, WvW and PvP when the scene is quiet, and sometimes people quit, but whenever the GvG scene revives, everyone is right back in the game under new tags. I really doubt there will be any support for it, but for what it’s worth, it’s not hard to tell the amount of passion GvGers have even just by skimming this thread. A lot of the negativity I see concerning GvG has come from people who haven’t actually tried it, or from people who spectate and don’t know what they are looking at. I’ve made almost all my friends in this game either by either fighting alongside or against them in 15s and 20s, from windmill days up to the OS and shoddy eotm GvGs that we scrape together under cannon fire, and I can say from my few years playing that this isn’t something that needs to be reward driven, or have a leaderboard. Coming back from the EU trip with USA, I met a bunch of awesome people in guilds I will probably be fighting against in the months to come, yet we had a blast playing together and the connections we made will last a long time. In one of the more recent gvgrevivalhypetrains, I got to participate in a community run GvG tournament that ended up fizzling out at the end due to a lot of the problems mentioned in this thread, and despite our prize being a few packets of salt mailed to our driver, every single one of us in TM had a blast playing

Money wise, you don’t really have to look further than server transfers and guild uniforms or names to get an idea of how much money GvGers are willing to throw at their screens. One GvG guild is usually 30-50 players, which moves servers fairly often, paying for all members transfers in gems. Name change tickets for character name suffix/prefixes, character slots for matching races, and outfits or armor pieces (rucksack, anyone?), these are all things we’ve bought in bulk, in cash, without a second thought. In the last few guilds alone, my boyfriend and I have spent a few hundred dollars easily between the two of us on these things, for the sake of GvG, and our friends/drivers have dished out way more. Capes and other cosmetics would boost it even higher, but I don’t even think those are entirely necessary.

I really hope to see some kind of support for it, but at the same time I feel like i agree with others saying its been years, they won’t add it this late in the game. I hope this thread at least brings more people into understanding what GvG actually is, and hopefully Anet realizes the amount of support we want to keep our GvGs going isn’t some phenomenal 4th game mode they have to add in, but simply something to help us organize our guilds and fights better, without clutter, and without npcs, cannons, or trolls jumping in. Every competitive player I know, whether they started with PvP, dueling, roaming or raiding, seems to end up at GvG. Even the most unlikely of my friends, who were roamers fully against what they thought was “Zerg vs Zerg”, although it took them 2 years, have now joined the GvG scene or are driving new GvG guilds of their own in lower tiers. Its sad to see what feels like the endgame, die and revive every few months, and wonder each time it dies if or when it will be back, and if your old friends will be there.

Good luck to everyone working on this!

sparc.3649:

If anything they do at the very least need to leave TOWNS/CITIES individual server sanctums, as every server needs it’s own little ‘private’ areas (besides just WvW)!

This. I left certain servers because of troll-ish communities and guilds, toxic attitudes, etc… and finally found a nice server with a great community. Now, I login right back beside the guilds and people I’ve spent my whole GW life carefully creating a nicely organized block list of. Mapchat spammed with recruitment messages that are 2 or 3 paragraphs long because guilds need to specify what world they are from, gold sellers spamming me 5 times more than usual. When we need help in a specific borderland, there’s no way to do a map-call in towns because I’m on a map with one person from my own server who I don’t even know.

I agree it’s great for low levels, random maps, etc.. Dungeons and temples like CoE, CoF , Lyssa, etc… are always open because people are around to do the events, it’s easier to take down champs that no one would do otherwise. That part is great. I don’t PVE often, so when I do, I can tolerate and ignore the spamming, obnoxious map chat that has come with this system for the hour or two that I must. But they really should have left towns alone. They’ve destroyed communities that were built up since day one, separated small groups of friends from one another, and I don’t even want to start on guild missions when my mission guild is in SF and I am on IoJ. I haven’t seen a single one of my friends since the update, we’re never on the same shard when we’re in Gendarran or DR. My guild is at a point where we really need to recruit, and being a WvW guild, this is now only possible via forums- and a surprising percentage of the GW2 community doesn’t look at or use the forums, or even read patch notes for that matter.

CornChips.5392:

Thanks DI for the GvGs. They were fun. A good learning experience to get my guild back on their game. Peace.

Forgot to post this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HmDH0snxwE&hd=1

The GvGs from DI and TFH, thanks for the fun fights

ToaLux.6478:

Well, the fights were fun! Thanks to all who joined in.
I apologize for lagging toward the end; it appears the internet decided it was done for the night.. Anyway, lots of fun duels! It’s hard being a ranger, especially with so many well-skilled, capable players around
I made a couple of new friends, which happens every time (probably the best part).

Btw, this ele, whoever you are, lay off the chili peppers, geez. How am I supposed to duel you when I’m laughing at the continuous conflagration spewing from your mouth?

Lmao, that would be Granblaze, I swear he has the most buggy ele in this game. He’s always walking around spewing stuff or stuck in dodge roll animations, etc…

Missed fight club this week, sad

I love flexing my kittens.

Here are the fights on reset night, from [DI] with love,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uicWRYH4J6U&hd=1

Some of the fights from reset with [DI],

<3

celicynd.9420:

The Lone Golem is feeling sad and is throwing a bash for all to attend at the SF Borderlands windmill right now. No fighting please! He only wants to be friends!

meow

At least there are some fun fights

([StaR] vs [DI] from a few hours ago outside garri)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AW0csfv4P4&hd=1

(reset night with [IoM])
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdKlBLBDarU&hd=1

Jeknar.6184:

We changed that by taking over their map with a 15 man zerg. We faced roughly the same amount of oppositon from ET. – Questionable: The time you wiped our borderland is the time we usually have no one around. But you must have a video of that, don’t you?

I find it amusing that you can’t even post a video of wiping GoM, instead you rely on a video that has been heavily circulated of another server doing a WvW match. – True: Yeah, no videos about that (At least from my part, but I’m not the person bragging)… I personally don’t film everything I do on WvW. But if you do, I guess you can post a video of the above questionament?

Pretty sure there was some GoM wiping going on at reset courtesy of IoM :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpkX1i_3Yes&hd=1

And we were defending etbl until around 6am EST, it was no 15-man zerg, but pics or it didn’t happen right? Considering how long 5-12 people held off their 30+ with unlimited omegas for 3+ hours… will upload that footage later. The 5 of us from [KCRO] wiping their zerg on top of lords room was pretty fun. Not much to brag about when you paint an empty borderland, especially when our ‘night crew’ consists of insomniacs, and not oceanic

Though I would like to know, did you have all those omegas waiting at spawn all day or did you just keep building 2 more every time we killed them? O_o

edit
Found their ‘15 man zerg’ with equal opposition :P
http://i.imgur.com/0EKEEDU.jpg

thhoj.9382:

Nice duels at Kaineng BL to every1 that was there!
Btw srry to that one commander mesmer in et that died at the end there. My guildie is a jerk.

Thanks for the fights guys, especially to [FGJ] :P Been awhile since I’ve had any fight clubs or GvGs, which was the entire reason KCRO moved to ET- we love the small fights

The mesmer was just invited to guild tonight at the fight club and has never been to one before, he had a lot to learn as we went, so no worries. Was a good learning experience for us, too, since although KCRO is a branch of ApeX we don’t usually do fight club/roaming/GvGs with them, and it was nice to learn their playstyles a bit more. Cheers :P

http://youtu.be/iC8fMLiVhOU

A few vids from the last 2 days~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU_nbMY6fzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfwH2RnC3Yk

torridstoic.7492:

[KCRO]: Congrats on winning the 5v2 and 7v3 (when you all had stacks hahaha). Outstanding job and you really deserve to /laugh and /sit us. Classy. Any time you want even fights, I’m here.

Edit: Thanks for agreeing to my invitation and showing sportsmanship. You guys are alright.

Yeah, sorry about excessive emoting, it gets a bit frustrating babysitting towers this late and you guys kept coming for our poor yaks :P you have a solid group though, nice fights, especially the mesmer. We have more work to do for ours in smaller fights, mostly me for necro since I’ve only been playing it for a few days now, but always nice to take a break from WvW for a bit of fight club

see you guys on the battlefield :P

Jeknar.6184:

Pulled an all-night today… I’m totally busted. Gonna sleep like a log!

That’s unfortunate that my little tower (Mendon) keep getting zerged and i can’t finish upgrading it… Oh well, I guess I’ll have to choose another place… Maybe a cozy keep in other servers borderlands, hmmmm?

My tower finally died too at 4:30am, time to crash. ET really needs more oceanic My roaming guild just moved to ET from Yak’s, and I thought we had a hard time running borderland night shifts before… haha… ha… /wrist

Asami.3572:

Thanks for the dance party ET! You guys are great <3

Haha I see my sylvari! Dance Wars 2
This is an awkward matchup for me this week… luckily when leagues start I don’t think ET and YB will be matched for a long time, if ever

Just like to give a big thanks to ET and SF, after last match-up I was beginning to think no one remembered what duelling was. So nice to see the windmill again. Great fights roaming, obviously the last matchup made me rusty with all the unbalanced fights and opponents running away. You guys have some great roamers, and I got my kitten handed to me more than once last night. Love the 1v1s, 2v2s, 3v3s, etc… Keep it up!

So, thanks for actually fighting. This is going to be a fun week

GR Profilimous GR.5327:

Fluer Blanc what dyes are u using for your Medium Armor set?

Celestial for the armour and Winter Frost for the glow :P

Going to miss the last day of this match and part of the next one
Thanks to the [One][POV] and [LOOT] commanders, had a lot of fun this week despite the uneven numbers. Was the first thing I came back to after 4-5 months break from WvW and I thought it would suck but it really hasn’t :P

Props to [BÆST] and [DDLG] we faced in a lot of the drawn out fights. Got run over more than a few times on unexpected pushes and banished off a mountain by someone while simultaneously having a cow finisher dropped on my face. Also, thanks to [Hero], during roaming you were one of the few guilds who didn’t run from fights- hardly ever ducked into portals or ran. Good times

Leaving these here;
Misc clips including the dance-off at garrison:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yj4_E3JtBY&hd=1
Summary of my group’s roaming experience this week…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_5Vdm7A1jc&hd=1
The battle for Helm’s Deep (Gandalf didn’t save us T_T): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRP_zzcsVgw&hd=1

Good luck in next week’s match-up everyone, and thanks for all the [LOOT] :P

Needed to have one of each armor class since I love playing with the Sylvari armour colours/glow :P

1&2: My warrior Ronové in a mix of T1/T3 (T3 helm, gloves, boots/T2 leggings/T1 chest, shoulder)

3&4: My ranger Viné in full T3, a chill build ranger, and my friend/WvW partner on his condition/burn ranger. Fire and ice

5: My necro Dead Walrus in T3 and T2, . Wish the cultural light armours had some glow, for like 120g it deserves some

A few vids from yesterday and the day before. YB queue was too long yesterday so spent most of my time on a crummy up-level, too scared to switch to a real character in case I couldn’t get back in

(mostly) roaming… very hard to find fair fights or duels. Most fights we ran into were 8v3, 6v2, 4v1, etc. But much more fun than last weeks karma trains :S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDLWy1wcyI&hd=1

Running with the zerg yesterday, including the fun rooftop battle at garri and the mass suicide before bedtime at hills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq6epiIWi2o&hd=1

Invite please, if there’s still room