Guild Wars 2

Is there a way to retrieve my serial code?

I bought a boxed copy at launch so I won’t have it in my email due to not buying it digitally like how some people get their codes. (I threw out the box and along with it the code)

The main reason I ask is because I’ve forgotten my password many times and if I need to reset it, it will ask for the serial code. Now I happened to remember it this time but I forget way to often lol. So I’d rather have it written down somewhere to be safe.

I played a full match in eotm last night on DB. I really didn’t notice much lag like what people have been describing. It was pretty late at night but we did have three big zergs for a long time from each side and a few large battles.

But then this morning there was a new round with a probably full map and there were a few times where things seemed to “catch up” much moreso than the earlier match.

Never quite 10+ second skill lag but maybe 3-4 seconds at some times. I did still see some skill lag in world bosses that was worse than eotm.

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

Yo – turns out I can temp move myself into Blackgate and experience the lag level for myself! Don’t worry – I won’t actually play for points. I’m “Asuradly So”, a little Asura engi in-game hanging at Blackgate Hill, if you want to say “hi”.

Of course, now I have forums, graphs, and actual game to watch at the same time. Should be interesting! I think I need more monitors.

Best dev 2015 for use of puns.

I’d just like to add a bit on the lag thing. Now I really can’t be sure that it isn’t my connection since I’m on very limited satellite bandwidth here. But I will say that recently and only recently have I experienced lag of the type described in the wvw. But I actually experienced it in large battles like tequatl. My skills would be delayed by like 10-30 seconds. Even clicking a waypoint was delayed. Once people left and the battle was over it stopped lagging.

Again, it could be me but this is the first time I’ve seen it like this. Normally I’m fine in tequatl. Just thought I’d throw it out there in case its related.

Was just exploring and I jumped and fell into and area I couldn’t get out of. Not sure how I got in there even since there was ceilings, floors, and walls all around. Got stuck so bad that I had no way out and had to waypoint out. Someone said he saw me get stuck and then vanish and accused me of wall hacking. Said he was reporting and his guild would report too of like 200 people. Am I gonna get banned?

Hi fellow players!

I heard that many people have been banned for using salvage kits lately.

Was about to use some to salvage the loot from some chests when I remembered.

Will I get banned for salvaging these items?

Is using the engineer 5 skill to jump to platforms bannable? Just want to know before I start on the jumping puzzle thing.

I tried to do an orr event solo just out of curiosity. I tried multiple builds, multiple approaches, multiple angles. After quite a few failures, I finally found a way that I thought would work. It was tedious sure but it seemed like it might work. Take out the catapult, take out the servants, bring npcs close to res but not fully ressed, res what I can then try and take the camp. I got most of the way there, then the abomination proceeded to one shot everything in sight, the 15 npcs, me. Disheartened but determined, I tried again. Destroy the catapult, kill the servants. Oh wait they added a third servant now….he wasn’t here before. I can’t out dps them to get the catapult. Ok fine I’ll kill them first. Kill servants, destroy the cata…oh one respawned…kill servant…oh another respawned….kill the servant….Now they are just respawning right after I kill them. I find the 90-130 or whatever unlikely now. Less than 10 seconds to kill one and it just respawns right away?

I’m all for challenge but I think it should at least be possible…

I mean the abomination alone wipes ALL the npcs. But theres two. And two more veterans. And two catapults. And three servants. And a grub. And a squire. And a pirate. And two rotmouths.

So yeah that’s already hard. But instant respawn just makes it impossible. Impossible is not fun. I want to do events. But this is beyond ridiculous. What else can I do but give up on orr?

Is it really that hard to try and balance the maps? Blizzard does it all the time without too much trouble. Is it too hard to change the spawn timers from instant to not instant? Change it from 90 to 95 seconds? 130 to 140? And just see if it improves things?

If it’s an empty map now will 5% really potentially disrupt it that much? I doubt it. And yet we don’t even see any attempt to fix it.

I target an enemy. They target random things that aren’t aggroing me right now. They target random enemies. Almost never choosing the target I’m shooting at. Half the time choosing to shoot at something that is obstructed.

Am I not understanding how to control them or is it supposed to be this way?

See attached picture for a visual representation.

The only communication people are likely to get is a closed topic. I guess silence is a way of communicating something.

Thanks to those who are supporting. If there was more communication from the devs this probably would never have become an issue.

I also ask because I WANT them to do better and succeed because I play and enjoy the game they created.

And this case should at least help them in that regard. More specifically how to NOT ban people who aren’t gold sellers. They should take this as a blessing and say whoa look we can learn something from this and improve the game. It shouldn’t be a case of hey let’s ignore it and it will probably go away because it won’t. Never has, never will.

I think you’re right in thinking that I won’t get one.

But I certainly won’t get one if I don’t ask for one.

I would actually accept an “I’m sorry you had a bad experience”. Just…ANYTHING. I don’t think asking for an apology is self entitled.

I get the basic premise of not being able to for legal reasons but in this case I think that’s a bit overreaching. If the issue has been resolved already then there isn’t really any reason or cause to sue…

Or alternatively I called attention to their methods of banning and showed that in some cases they are not working thus improving the process for everyone, reducing future incidents and thus helping said worker in the long run. Well done indeed!

Was unjustly banned for “selling gold” yesterday. They restored it today and all I asked for was an apology. Support won’t give me one for some reason and told me come post here seeking one from the devs.

Can I just get an acknowledgement that an error was made and that you’ve corrected it and that you will do your best not to let it happen again in the future? Is that too much to ask?

note to mods Support specifically told me to post here on the forums where most people will see it so I am*

Nope. Haven’t sent a single copper.

(or received – I WISH)

Just wondering since I got banned in the wave if there was one.

Either that or malicious players reported me just to be jerks and I got auto-banned since no person must look at the reports or they are incompetent.

I got unbanned but they acted as if it was an account hack and did not even apologize! Although not acknowledging is par for the course for them I suppose.

Obviously I’m not a gold seller.

All the gold sellers I see posting in game are selling like 100+ gold at a time. So if they actually banned you for sending people 1-2 gold at a time to different people then it really shows their incompetence/laziness at actually finding the gold sellers if anything.

Except the problem being that some people don’t know that performing x action will result in a ban because the part stating that it’s bannable is hidden in a basement bunker guarded by flesh eating 800 pound manbearpigs.

You can guess at what those things might be and maybe you’d be right most of the time. But if the service actually implies that you should constantly be wary of and question your actions in fear of getting banned then it’s a pretty poor service. You aren’t playing the game anymore. You are playing a different one called, “How do I not get banned today”.

Why not? Because it would actually make sense. That’s why.

In a way it is I suppose but I wanted to do it all on one server is possible. Doesn’t look like it will be in this case though.

But our server has yet to claim the point below woodhaven for weeks. Even when we control like 90% of points I’ve yet to see us hold that one in the dozens of times I’ve looked. No matter the time of day or what day of the week. Looks like I’ll just change servers temporarily to get it due to this poorly designed mechanic. :/

Bring those features back!

Replays, viewing other players playing in pvp. Reconnects.

It’s my personal opinion that my viewpoint is that alot of features that were present are oddly missing in gw2. I’m honestly puzzled as to how they could be missing from gw2 since they stated that gw2 is based on a modified gw1 engine.

Halfway into fractal 19 I get 30 minutes until we disconnect you LOL. Almost done, and it hits and the party disappears yet we are still in somehow. They dissappear…but votes to return can still occur.

Yes on the above post. If you nerf mesmers then you need to nerf thieves stealth abuse too…

On a separate more positive note I would like to say that if it weren’t for the issues I’ve listen then the maps themselves are pretty good.

However, it is a failure due to a lack of polish, quality assurance, developer response/transparency, and creating content without addressing core needs.

-Some of the bonus achievements are bugged.
-One player leaves and boots everyone to LA.
-No reconnect feature despite having one in gw1, so it should be trivial.
-The infamous hammer bug.
-Wildly varying difficulty.
-Too many random elements(or are they? i.e. I’ve seen the trees pop up in swamp no matter what you did and other times they don’t despite not changing anything)
-Krait in the ceiling -_-
-Boss battles that are absurdly easy but annoyingly long.
-No lfg tool.
-No clear and consistent response from devs. The occasional our bad, we might do something eventually but I can’t tell you what or when hidden deep in a random thread that gets locked right after by a moderator and drops off the front page.
-Ignoring huge bugs that have existed since launch and focusing on new content which simply creates more bugs and compounds the problem.
-Why does my death camera still move constantly.
-No view teammate feature if you’re dead.
-Falling off the map and not being able to be revived.
-Getting stuck in combat for no reason.
-Inability to voice concerns half the time on the forums due to overly restrictive moderation policies.
-Overactive message suppression in game(typing the same message once every half hour is NOT spamming).
-Difficult to get cross-server groups going unless someone is lucky enough to be in an overflow
-Jumping over traps in swamp still makes you hit them sometimes.
-Probably more stuff that I’ve forgotten because it’s 5am here.
-WvW is still not balanced in that one server usually dominates(at least it seems my server always loses by a huge margin, can’t speak for other tiers) which makes it easier for 1/3 and harder for 2/3 which seems like a bad way to run things…make the most amount of people angry?

*I play fotm and will probably continue despite the myriad of problems, though it is extremely frustrating at times. I never thought I’d get past level 2 for a long time due to bugs and getting booted to la constantly. If things don’t improve somewhat soon then I’d likely leave as would many other players.

It was still doing it to me even after changing it every time yesterday. -_-

Really? Twenty five minutes later? That’s excessive is it?

After posting a message maybe every 10 minutes about three times.

Unfortunately this topic will likely get deleted as you used their name in the topic title. I suggest KitteNet!

Sarcasm noted.

However, it’s important to point out that there is a revenue model in the game(purchase, gems). If KitteNet wishes their revenue to continue then players should be able to expect that their game play will be uninterrupted barring a freak occurrence.

It would be like Voldemort!

The company that shall not be named!

But to be clear, I did 20 fractals not 20 runs. But still….missing out like twice is way too much. Once I could understand, things happen…but this many times!?

Please give me credit for the 15 level 2 FotM(now 20+) dungeons that I’ve completed but got booted to LA right at the very end of the last dungeon for that set.

Sincerely,

Me.

Hopefully this new title pleases the moderator overlords.

Err I meant SOLO.

Why? I’m Asura and I can’t see my character among the 20 people jumping around.

I could even live without it but at least give some longer cooldowns so you can’t infinitely chain it!

Maybe if us engineers could spam turrets as often as thieves can go invis…

I could get on board with a “take damage and you get revealed” type mechanic. Or even just that flicker.

Still curious how a detect invisible skill might change things though. Hopefully the devs read and at least test it out to see if it makes any kind of sense as far as balance goes(for all classes).

Well whatever he used he ended up about 1500 range away by the time he reappeared.

AOE and CC? Well I have two aoe skills that have a long enough cooldown that it isnt going to deal that much damage. I could use supply drop but that’s a two second stun every 2 minutes and makes me immobile for it to be of any further use. My CC isn’t really going to work very well without being able to target him.

First of all my main is an engineer. I can certainly keep someone away from me if I want to. I have the ability to escape fairly well with nets, cripples, knockdowns, rocket boots, rifle jumps, dodges, glue shot, supply drop, etc.

The problem I have is that all of my escapes require….actual skill. Along with the fact that I’d have to already have all those skills equipped which would use my entire bar. I have to ground target some, in some cases change my direction to rocket away, break the stun, double net because they will probably at least dodge the first one, and make sure I dodge as well.

Play thief. Click invis. Laugh.

We had two people trying to chase down a thief in WvW yesterday. If we got him low he’d invis and run away. If we got close again he’d just teleport three times. By the time we could catch up and get him low he’d start it all over again.

Now I’m not saying he shouldn’t have an escape. But the fact that it’s so one-click easy kind of bugs me.

I’m also not sure exactly what the solution is, whether it’s changing the cooldowns, adding a cast time long enough that it could be interrupted, or not allowing it to be cast in combat. But I feel like maybe a possible solution might be to add some method of stealth detection.

Now of course we don’t want to completely ruin one of their skills by introducing this but there would obviously be limits on the detection. Range, cooldown, casting time, etc.

Not to mention the fact that I find I have a hard time killing people as an engineer but maybe I just haven’t found the right build yet(not that I can experiment much without spending loads of gold!)

Thoughts?

Dear devs,

Please turn off or at the very least provide an option to disable the auto-camera rotation when you are dead. It becomes kind of annoying when you are trying to watch a WvW battle going on and have to keep moving the mouse every 2 seconds.

Sincerely,

Me.