Guild Wars 2

Haematic.4913:

For the sake of transparency, for those who may be confused about what this WvW Initiative is, please read and respond to the questionnaire below (as this is what every server is presenting to their community):

You can either be supportive of this initiative, or you can go stroke your kittens elsewhere. At the very least, read these questions. You don’t have to answer them here, although I know a lot of the WvW Initiative is reading this now, and may compile your answers.

• How would you describe the current condition of WvW?

• What do you believe ANET needs to do in order to make positive changes to WvW?

• Is there anything wrong with the current system? If so, what? What do you think needs to be changed the most?

• What are some of the good things, if any, currently being implemented in WvW?

• What is the biggest concern you have relating to skill balance and what are your thoughts about fixing it?

• What do you believe is most important to (insert server here) as a server? (i.e. population, coverage, community, coordination).

• Do you think (insert server here) currently has enough coverage? If not, which time zones need help? Which time zones do you think are doing ok, if any?

• Lastly, what would you say is the best thing about (insert server here’s) community?

Thank you for posting my questionnaire, Haem <3 Also, thank you to all of you who have taken the time and effort to respond to my questionnaire (: I’ll be taking notes of the responses so that we have a broader understanding of the current community’s thoughts. Thank you again for the feedback!

Here is something I posted a while back about gaining xp for masteries. I listed the boosters, how to obtain them, how long they last, and if they stack.

Itsbeckaboo.7913:

Ok, I just logged on the game to check and make sure these all stacked still, as I haven’t used them since the initial HoT release XP grind. Here is what I personally used.

• Lunar New Year Fireworks – 10% (5 mins each firework and stacks up to 2 hours, bought on TP.)
• Lucky Guild Fireworks – 5% bonus from kills (5 mins each firework and stacks up to 2 hours, bought on TP.)
• Spicy Pumpkin Cookie – 15% (bought on TP.)
• Powerful Potion of Slaying Scarlet’s Armies – 15% (bought on TP.)
• Celebration Booster or Birthday Booster – 100% (Do not stack in XP gain, but rather time duration. Celebration Boosters last an hour and are obtained via monthly log in rewards or BL Chests. Birthday Boosters last 24 hours and are obtained via character birthdays.)
• Experience Booster (New) – 50% with up to an additional 100% bonus XP from kill streaks (Obtained via the Gemstore or BL Chests for 2 hours, the laurel vendor for 30 minutes, or old WvW rank up chests for 20 mins. Stacks in time duration.)
• Experience Booster (Old) – 50% from kills (Can no longer be obtained, but does stack XP rather than duration.)
• Heroes Banner or any banner with XP – 10% from kills (Obtained via trading in guild commendations, crafting via the Scribing profession, or stumbling across banners throughout Tyria nice guilds have dropped.)
• Guild XP Gain – 10% (Obtained via the Tavern in guild halls. 10% is the max and percentage is based on Tavern upgrades to my best knowledge. Free and lasts 24 hours.)

Now, in the off chance some person still has one of these lucrative things lingering in a bank….and that’s a big IF….these stack as well. I used the last of mine getting my XP for HoT.

• Communal Boost Bonfire – 50% (No longer can be obtained, but man I miss ’em, Anet!)

And with my lengthy list coming to a conclusion, I hope this helps you! These all still stack and, again, this is personally what I used. I did not check the Wiki, so I might have missed something else that stacks. Keep in mind some boosters are given as rewards from completed personal story quests in the core game. Good luck and happy hunting.

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Best of luck.

Can confirm. I placed a heroes banner in the Royal Terrace along with a Guild Banquet. After swapping toons, my banner was gone but the banquet was still there, so definitely the same instance. The banner had only been down for about 5 minutes before disappearing. I’ve never had this problem before the Jul 26th patch.

BrotherBelial.3094:

I thought the guild boosters overweight XP boosters. And do not stack with them. Also XP boosters only give XP for kills, so they will not effect event or story step XP.

No. They all stack. Here’s a screen to show they do. I said I had just checked, so I wouldn’t post something with false intentions. As for the XP boosters…the old XP boosters are 50% from kills only. The new ones are base 50% XP plus an added of up to 100% bonus XP from kill streaks. So you can obtain a max of 150% XP boost from the new boosters. Both boosters, old and new, stack as you can see in the photo. The guild booster doesn’t outweigh and never has as far as I know. I used to use the WvW guild booster along with birthday boosters and XP boosters to help rank up faster and they all stack. XP banners do not stack with other XP banners. So the heroes banner will not stack with an XP banner. It just replaces it.

I will edit to add the 50% from kills only to the old XP booster to clarify though.

Ok, I just logged on the game to check and make sure these all stacked still, as I haven’t used them since the initial HoT release XP grind. Here is what I personally used.

• Lunar New Year Fireworks – 10% (5 mins each firework and stacks up to 2 hours, bought on TP.)
• Lucky Guild Fireworks – 5% bonus from kills (5 mins each firework and stacks up to 2 hours, bought on TP.)
• Spicy Pumpkin Cookie – 15% (bought on TP.)
• Powerful Potion of Slaying Scarlet’s Armies – 15% (bought on TP.)
• Celebration Booster or Birthday Booster – 100% (Do not stack in XP gain, but rather time duration. Celebration Boosters last an hour and are obtained via monthly log in rewards or BL Chests. Birthday Boosters last 24 hours and are obtained via character birthdays.)
• Experience Booster (New) – 50% with up to an additional 100% bonus XP from kill streaks (Obtained via the Gemstore or BL Chests for 2 hours, the laurel vendor for 30 minutes, or old WvW rank up chests for 20 mins. Stacks in time duration.)
• Experience Booster (Old) – 50% from kills (Can no longer be obtained, but does stack XP rather than duration.)
• Heroes Banner or any banner with XP – 10% from kills (Obtained via trading in guild commendations, crafting via the Scribing profession, or stumbling across banners throughout Tyria nice guilds have dropped.)
• Guild XP Gain – 10% (Obtained via the Tavern in guild halls. 10% is the max and percentage is based on Tavern upgrades to my best knowledge. Free and lasts 24 hours.)

Now, in the off chance some person still has one of these lucrative things lingering in a bank….and that’s a big IF….these stack as well. I used the last of mine getting my XP for HoT.

• Communal Boost Bonfire – 50% (No longer can be obtained, but man I miss ’em, Anet!)

And with my lengthy list coming to a conclusion, I hope this helps you! These all still stack and, again, this is personally what I used. I did not check the Wiki, so I might have missed something else that stacks. Keep in mind some boosters are given as rewards from completed personal story quests in the core game. Good luck and happy hunting.

Another thing to keep in mind when you vendor an item is that you can buy the item back for a short period of time. It’s the bottom tab (below the tab to sell your items) and it looks like a circular arrow. Kinda like an undo button. You only have the option to buy back items for a short time, and I don’t know exactly how long, but in case a mistake happens.

As Inculpatus cedo said, it’s best to open a ticket with support in this case though. Hope everything is well and speedy for you.

Same here, on both of my computers. I thought it was initially a network error, as I live in an apartment building, but guess not.

Sir Mad.1092:

Paulytnz.7619:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

The ones that have the ability to return, moves you from PvE to outside PvE (WvW, PvP, instances). They return you to your previous PvE spot once you’ve gone outside PvE and you go back. If you move from PvE to another spot on the PvE map, it doesn’t have the ability to remember your previous PvE location and waypoint you back.

You can also add the Guild Hall to this list. You can “Leave Hall” via the guild menu to return back to your previous location.

So if you have a repair anvil and the scribing station unlocked that’s easy repairs, banking and a basic merchant.

You can also add Home Portal Stones to the list.

That being said, I don’t understand the need for Airship Passes: there’s everything you need in you home Borderland, except the Mystic Forge, it’s free, and you do return to your previous location when you leave the map.

Just make sure you don’t stay too long there not to mess with the outnumbered buff (one player won’t change anything, but if many do that…).

There actually is a mystic forge in the home keep of your BL. (:

Fixed for me! Thank you to the Devs and support! (:

eleutheria.5396:

I’m attempting to complete Astralaria, and mostly I like the journey – the thing I hate is the inclusion of events that have to fail. Tier 4 collection requires Arah be lost so you can do the event chain to retake it. Problem? Now Arah defense is a farming spot. Last several times I’ve looked there’s a tag farming it for hours.

Anet really should know better than to pull this again. Yes, AGAIN. They did this with the scavenger hunt for traits and it backfired so badly they had to redo a lot of the methods to acquire them. But so far, no fix for precursors. I just have to hope I luck into a non-farming map, which …. is pure luck, what with megaservers dumping everyone into the same map.

Dear Anet: LUCK IS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT.

I would just like to say that they changed the need for Arah to fail in the January 12th patch. “Astralaria IV—Magnification Lens: This collectible can be earned from the “Ensure that the Pact holds the Gates of Arah” event at the Narthex.” Hope this helps and sorry you didn’t see the update sooner ): idk why they have yet to update the in-game description.

Oh how I wish having a ping of 0 will ever be as good as it sounds! (‘: I occasionally get this as well and just restart the client, which seems to fix it. No idea why it happens, but you aren’t alone nor are you crazy…in fact, several of my guildies have reported this as well. I can usually tell when it’s going to say in game ping is 0 by the way it lags. I find it different from a 400+ ping spike, etc. If I continue to let the game run, it either kicks me to character select or crashes my game.

Haven’t been able to figure out what triggers it, seems random for the most part. Sometimes I get it in WvW, a meta event, or just standing afk for 20 minutes.

Takina.1739:

Of course there is no way to know for certain, but I dont know if any ANET dev would have even responded if I hadnt PMed them since no one has come back and given any kind of update…

I cant say to know how common this is, Ive never been one to follow the forums much. Only here now because this bug directly impacts me.
Is this at all common? To get a bug like this that impacts the game so drastically for people and to have so little response and no fix going on a week into it?

Yes, there have been issues where players were not able to get past the character select screen (when a certain ip of Diessa Plateau was broken), also another instance where they couldn’t even get the client to patch/work (primarily affected Oceanic players), and many more that lasted for days/weeks. Those are just the most recent.

That being said, the Devs are working on it, it’s just a confusing bug. For a while when I was talking to Support, it was like trying to explain that the sky is green during the day. They didn’t understand what jibberish I was speaking. After 26 emails and a bunch of reports and documents from my computer, they informed me that my information would be passed on to the Devs to help resolve the issue and they could no longer troubleshoot on my side.

Unfortunately, and it’s horrible, we have a waiting game now. If only this had happened before Season 2. )’: Just remember, they are working on it. An update would be nice though, even if they have made little to no progress.

(edit: spelling is difficult sometimes at 4am)

While I find more and more maps becoming infuriating on my thief because of this, there was a dev post a few months back explaining why things are in the current state. Not saying I’m happy with it or even agreeing, but I think it might clear up some confusion or questions since they came out and said “working as intended” (lol) with the exception of a few bugs. Hope this helps!

You don’t need Arah assault anymore (: you can get the lens (and the other items) with defense now, as mentioned in the patch notes from the 12th of January. Don’t ask me why they didn’t bother updating the collection information. Arah is anywhere from an hour to an hour and twenty minutes from defense to defense. Assault to defense is two hours. Also, the Risen High Wizard only has a 50/50 chance of spawning on defense, for those that need to kill him for a collection as well.

Buggy in which way? There is another bug right now that causes the game to seem like it’s lagging or has a high ping (when it doesn’t). It’s as if the game is stuttering. Check here because that could possibly be playing a part on what you are experiencing.

Awwww ): I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help. At least you should have less crashes, if you had any, while on the 64-bit client.

I recommend downloading that, there are instructions in this thread to help you. Personally, I noticed a 10-15 frame rate improvement on my laptop. Hope this helps!

By chance, are you using the 64-bit client? Also, the HoT maps take up a considerable amount of your GPU, which could be why. I know that Verdant Brink, especially near the Itzel Way Point, is hard for both my laptop and my desktop. It is much more noticeable on my laptop, as it has significantly less dedicated memory.

Ooook. While I also do think this bug should have gotten an aknowledgment sooner, going after a dev, especially Gaile who is the mediator between us and the Devs, is never a good idea. Bad things will happen, don’t say I didn’t warn you lol. Since we have a response, I figure it would be useful for people to post DxDiag’s so the Devs can start linking 2 and 2 together.

For those that don’t know how, open the Start, type in dxdiag, click on the program and the click to button to save everything to a file on your computer, and simply attach in this thread. I do believe it includes your IP, so if you aren’t comfortable with that being posted here, just simply cover that bit up/omit.

The DxDiag will help narrow down any correlations between all of us, such as regional problems, hardware, software, etc. They already have mine via a support ticket the other day, but will post it when I’m not on my phone.

I have noticed that tabbing out will often cause not just a client crash, but needing to restart my entire system. As of late, sometimes Window’s is able to recover my display driver and things go back to normal. It is definately annoying and my heart kinda skips a beat each time I tab out, but this problem has been with me for a while now.

As stated above, the stuttering makes the game cause headaches and WvW, PvP, and even PvE are a nightmare. The Devs just awknowledged the issues in this thread.

I’ve seen threads about solutions for black screens when playing, but not tabbing out. So if anyone found something as a work around, I’d love to know! Personally, I know that I am 90% sure to crash if I try to tab out shortly after way pointing to the Gilded Hollow, for whatever reason.

I have a guild where we use the guild Message of the Day as a makeshift message board. Between that and the guild chat, we have a working system. You just have to give permissions to your guildies so that they can edit the Message of the Day. For instance, we will post about missions, known bugs, raids, where to find timers for events, crafting and harvesting websites, etc. As for missions and raids, each person that wants to join can simply leave their name next to the raid date and time. First come first serve basis. I find this to be nice because each time the MotD is updated, it’s broadcasted in the guild chat. This helps so that when a new bug or problem is discovered, word gets out quickly to those who are online and those who just log in. It’s also nice because you can check a guild’s MotD even when you aren’t repping them.

Those that haven’t found the most active thread involving this bug can find it here. I’m sure it will all be merged, but until then, hope this helps!

I know exactly what you are talking about and multiple threads are already open. It seems to have started or gotten worse for most players on the 2.23.16 patch. You can find the most active thread here

I had posted in a different thread yesterday about this problem on the account and technical support thread. I opened a ticket the day of patch, but well I’m still here, so I think you can draw your own conclusions on the progress Support and I are making lol. Something I discovered was that my toons that had swiftness or were in cities stuttered the most. My slow poke guard hardly stutters unless gliding or swiftness are applied, whereas my thief and ele probably have it the worst. Not sure if you all noticed the same? I also run the 64-bit client and swapped to the 32-bit to see if things changed. I didn’t have any luck, but maybe one of you will.

Cheers!

Yeah, I noticed the same issue. It seems that some maps run smoother than others and that I can go a few seconds before it seems to stutter. I made sure it wasn’t high disk/ram usage or another app on my computer interfering. I ultimately put in a ticket with support to see if it is on their end or some freak interaction with my computer. The game runs fine on my fiancé’s computer, just not mine. We also have completely different setups/builds.

Edit: Still stuttering/sluggish post hotfix at ~7:15pm EST.

This may seem silly, but by any chance are you playing with ‘invisible’ mode on? If so, you cannot see guild chat nor can you type in guild chat so long as you stay in that mode. If you are set to either ‘away’ or ‘online’, I recommend changing your status to ‘invisible’ and then back to ‘online’ or ‘away’. You can also try standing down and then repping the guild again (although since HoT this shouldn’t matter as you can cross message in guild chats you are not currently repping). When all else fails, you can always file either an in game bug report or open a ticket via the support link at the top of the forum screen. Best of luck!

Gaile Gray.6029:

I have The Dreamer. And I hear the sounds and, in fact, have had a few people ask me “What IS that sound” or “Can you disable that whinnying?”

I agree with Lauren, and I’ve been tracking this for a while: When I’m in a busy area, especially a boss fight zone, I seldom hear the bow. But when I’m out in the wild, I generally do hear it. I leave the analysis of bug/not a bug to those more expert than me, but in my personal case, I’ve attributed the loss of sound to the busy-ness of my area and nothing more.

I’ll try to pay more attention and take notes in the future, in case I see the sound dropping out when it’s not a highly-populated area.

The problem isn’t that I can’t hear it during boss battles or that other people can’t hear it. Trust me, they can and ever since that patch changed the sound, people complain daily. The problem isn’t even that I can’t hear it at all, it’s that it is very buggy and inconsistent. On the same computer that I cannot hear my bow, I can hear it on my alt account that does not have the bow. That goes to show it is not a computer, driver, OOM issue. Also, speakers and headsets do not change whether I can hear the Dreamer or not. I have tried about 5 different headsets, the built in speakers, and 2 aux speakers.

As for the people on this thread complaining about the sound, this is a thread to try and fix it for the owners that cannot hear it consistently, or at all…not about how tortured the whinnying sounds are now. You guys can’t seem to stop hearing it and we can’t seem to continuously hear it >.< As frustrating as it is to hear one on auto, it’s 10x more frustrating for us because we spent a lot of time, money, and effort on a legendary that has a buggy sound. Regarding the Howler folks, I’m sorry. I:

Something to make mention of, I noticed the sound stopped working for me after a specific patch (I cannot remember the date as I was in and out of the hospital, but I know it was floating around on another thread here).

Not sure if this was already mentioned, but I didn’t see anything. So today I was in one of my guild halls (Gilded Hollow) and noticed that the main emblem banners leading up to the crystal were flipped. I checked all the other banners (tavern, going down the stairs from the crystal) and they were all fine. I filed a bug report in game, but I know they are quite busy. Just found it amusing and worth mentioning. Also, not sure if this is the case for other guilds with Gilded Hollow, as my other halls are LP. I relogged and still flipped, also attaching ss.

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

This has been not working really for a long time. In many cases, the audio drivers are up to date for people. And why would dreamer and maybe one or 2 other legendaries be the ones that somehow aren’t working? I don’t have it, but I know someone that does, and we’ll test it and see, but I know the sound was noticed to have been gone a year ago.

If there are a lot of people and sounds also happening in your area some sounds do drop out.

Hopefully this thread hasn’t been lost to the Mordrem and what I have to say will benefit someone in the community. Ok, so I have been having this issue for many months and also reported it in game about 3-4 months ago. I understand sounds can drop out, overcharged air for tempest is a prime example; however, this is not the case with the Dreamer. I have noticed that most of the time it sounds exactly like a normal bow, just a lot better animation effects. (: I also noticed that it almost always works in fractals, especially Uncategorized and oddly enough it also most often works when backed against a wall or object that has collision. The moment I am no longer within a few footsteps on the wall, I lose the sound again. Occasionally I will get sound in the middle of nowhere, like running to Blue in Silverwastes or to Plinx in Cursed Shore.

On a side note, this seems to be true for guildies that have the Dreamer as well, but everyone who doesn’t have a Dreamer is able to hear us just fine. This rings true for ranger and thief. I updated all my drivers and even tried logging on from another computer, but still couldn’t hear it. It is extremely frustrating because I can hear the Dreamer on my alt account that does not have the bow. So while I believe drivers may play a very important role for some users, I think there is a lot more going on. I: Nonetheless, I still love the bow.

One more quick note I should make is that I have Quip and can hear it consistently, only having it fade in large zergs which is to be expected. Hope this helps, attaching dxdiag. <3