Guild Wars 2

If you click on an empty space at the bottom of the squad UI as circled in the attached image, your game immediately crashes and gives a bugsplat window, have had multiple people test this and it happens each time without fail.

100% Tyria completion and 100% on every single HoT map, zero rewards here, even went and got all the mastery points on 2 of those maps, still nothing.

After the Sanctum Scramble adventure was updated to have higher time thresholds, my silver and gold awards auto completed due to me having a time that satisfied them already but did not award either the achievement or the mastery points, only the bronze award did that.

Maridot.9084:

You can put the Broken Caladbolg into the Mystic Forge. Which might contain a recipe to fix it.

You can also place 3 other rares with it and forge 4 rares together like normal, so that might just be that.

Just wanted to say, I just got all the mastery points visible on the map for TD and still no completion reward, so it’s not that!

I also had this issue and wrote to support, I was told this was not a bug and that I simply had something still to discover.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Are you saying you completed one of the maps and got nothing, or are you asking if people get anything?

I think most of the maps have at least 1 level 5 mastery gate that delay completion. At least that is what is holding me back on AB and VB. It will be another week or so before i’m done with them.

Completed 2 maps and got nothing, sounds like a bug from that reddit thread, thank you Healix for posting that.

Wasn’t sure if I should post this here or bug forum as I don’t know if this is intended or not, but it would appear you get nothing for completing each individual map, has anyone got anything for completing each single map?

The reason I ask is the way one of the collection items for specialisation weapons is worded: “Rewarded for map completion on a Magus Falls map with an _______.”

Tree.3916:

Casmurro.9046:

I think you are getting hit by the adds blunderbuss skill http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blunderbuss

They do that skill at the beginning of the fight and it can’t be reflected.

Casmurro is correct, the Blunderbuss skill cannot be reflected. This is the main attack of the boss.

Seamus doesn’t open with his Shrapnel Blast though, he opens with dual pistols just like the Scattershots do, and OP stated it happens when Seamus is at 100% hp, which I assume means at the very start of the fight.

I’ve had this happen to me a few times, however I doubt it’s anything to do with any reflect limit, it only happens to me when I’m stood inside the hitbox of the mob itself, so I think it’s because the projectile hits you before it hits the feedback due to you overlapping with the projectile as it’s shot?

spoj.9672:

Using the LFG for any type of group such as selling home instance access or dungeons is allowed. Using the lfg to sell items is not allowed. Because thats not finding a group.

Not sure if home instance selling is permitted, there’s a response here which seems to imply it’s not.

Thanks from me also! I was very excited to see the email and then finally get in game to try it out, was super enjoyable for a stress test, played for the full 2 hours with no real problems! The only way is up from here!

As stress tests go, I’d say this one was pretty smooth, I have a fairly high end machine but it’s nothing special and I encountered very very few situations where my FPS would drop at all on max settings, even during the Wyvern fight I still had roughly 60 FPS.

Connection wise it’s the same story, I experienced next to no lag at all, my ping stayed in the reasonable range at nearly all times (over the two hours I averaged 72 ping).

Gameplay wise it was enjoyable but that wasn’t the main focus of this test I guess.

(I was on EU server)

If the Demonic Defiance trait is equipped, Embrace the Darkness when activated gives you Resistance, that’s working as intended, however if you instantly stow weapon afterwards, you don’t lose the energy cost related to it, it cancels the animation so it’s instant, and you can stack up to 17s of Resistance with no cost.

Edit: Bug occurs on every single stance, however some can’t be cast again instantly.

Aomine.5012:

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Two things, 5 trials is hardly enough for you to be claiming “fraud” or anything similar, and if there really is a 1/25 chance for every dye, your 7.8% chance of getting zero Shadow dyes isn’t really enough to shout “scam” either, you just got unlucky, deal with it.

Was taking part in an organised tequatl, full map, no message asking us to move, and in the last dps phase the shard was closed due to the map lacking players.

I must stress the map was full, completely full, hard capped and it was cleared by the new system without a single warning given to us about closure.

I didn’t want to post this in the bug forums as the feature is most likely working as intended, we must have got moved into the shard by someone who didn’t tell us the map was closing, however I can see this as a potential problem if guilds want to organise things as the message just never popped up for us in the 45 minutes we were present on the shard.

What I wanted to ask is why is there absolutely no system in place where if a map fills up again due to taxis it can prevent the closure?

Ok so this just happened to the LA instance I was in, and Seka explained in map chat about this thread, so I thought I’d post what occured in this particular map while she was in it/after she left.

While she was in it, skills were delayed, interactions with npcs were delayed, using a waypoint was NOT delayed at all, dodge rolls were also instant, movement of other players was bouncing backwards and forwards. Minis were hidden.

Then when she left, skills went mad, they were casting almost instantly, animations were completing before the casting bar reached half way and just cancelling the rest of the bar, crafting apparently also went a little loopy according to other players in map chat, however all players remained bouncing backwards and forwards whilst moving. Minis were usable.

Raziel.4216:

No, dude first paragraph:
those who are socially privileged are rarely explicitly self-conscious of the nature of their privilege or willing to examine their privilege because they see their state as natural and normal. This lack of self-consciousness and examination of privilege shifts the locus of inequality analysis to attributes and behaviors of those who are defined as disadvantaged in some way.

That is not “The priviledged group can be underrepresented.”, I didn’t actually see that. I also don’t really see the relevancy to it in relation to what I said initially.

Raziel.4216:

The case-by-case basis is too idealistic, that’s why feminists aim for the industry.
You can have 50 games catter to the typical white male gamer, but have an equal (or somewhat equal) ammount that catters to the other races and genders.

It’s definitely not too idealistic, and feminists aim at both the industry due to that generally being more noticeable, and a case by case basis as well.

Raziel.4216:

Bold part pretty much tells me that case-by-case is imposible

How so? You can evaluate case by case and do you best to represent equality in all situations, then look at the bigger picture in combination with that, how is that impossible?

Raziel.4216:

Your answer tells me that you didnt read it.

My answer was a direct response to what you wrote in your thread, not the things you’ve linked.

Raziel.4216:

Sure no research article is perfect, but the point you made doesnt refute it’s findings, which dont support your position.

I’m still confused as to how those findings don’t support an objective equality for both men and women, not just one sided, as that’s my position, as I’ve implied previously in the thread, my position is equality for both parties, not one way or the other, in a case by case basis in combination with the bigger picture.

I don’t want men to be more priveleged, nor women, I would like both equally represented, and as I’ve said multiple times, the people arguing they want more male characters are just as valid.

And with that I am done debating with you, thank you for raising the points you raised and generally being respectful of what I was saying, I’ve learned a lot about your point of view, and I would hope you have mine, however I am currently in need of sleep, so I will be unable to respond to you anymore, thank you.

Raziel.4216:

The priviledged group can be underrepresented.
And noone is saying we need 4 out of 5 games to catter to females.

And you don’t understand the concept of privelege either or why it was brought up initially, privelege is the idea that if you are priveleged, you use that to combat inequality.

Raziel.4216:

No it doesnt exist in a case by case basis, it exists on the industry. You’re saying you cant catter to a specific group, well you have to, you cant represent every single human minority in every videogame.
For example: Mass effect was considered a very inclusive franchise because the protagonist could be white, black, in-between mixes, male or female and you could have straight or homosexual relationships, but you couldnt have a transgender sheppard, so it’s discriminating agaisnt’em?

It exists in both a case by case basis and an industry basis, neither should be ignored, just as equality on a world scale should be evaluated case by case along with global scale otherwise you just have a bunch of inequalities adding up to one very strange definition of equality.

And they aren’t equally represented in that game no, and it would be their right to fight for equal representation in said game, I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.

Obviously you can’t represent every minority as much as each other all the time, due to for example human error, you simply forgot one, not due to discrimination specifically, we’re not discussing that though, we’re discussing equal gender representation in GW2.

Raziel.4216:

Read the concept of social priviledge, the priviledged group can be underrepresented to give the spotlight to those who lack priviledge.

That still is by definition not equality.

Raziel.4216:

Right, research that doesnt support your position is obviously flawed by causes that you can make up on the spot.
Well if I followed that logic every research would be flawed.

There is very rarely research with zero flaws in it, to think otherwise is to be honest ridiculous, and to claim that I only call it flawed because it “disagrees” with me is equally so, I said it was flawed and listed possible reasons as to why those disparities occur outside of what they claim, I’m arguing with the claim in the article because I am allowed to.

Raziel.4216:

The group that’s already over-represented by the gaming industry (4.2 out of 5 by those numbers) can be underrepresented in order to give the spotlight to the ones already underrepresented by most of the industry

That’s not equality, that’s just another inequality.

Raziel.4216:

You did, saying that most of the industry catters to males so it’s ok for a game to catter to the minority is not telling’em to go buy another game

Apologies, I took it as you telling them to “look elsewhere”.

Raziel.4216:

Having some games catter to’em does not create an inverse inequality, if we had 4 out of 5 games do it your point would stannd.

The inverse inequality exists in a case by case basis, if we had 1/2 games with male discrimination and 1/2 games with female discrimination and none with actual equality being pushed, that’s still not really equality is it?

Raziel.4216:

Really? You’re saying that the priviledged group, the target for the majority of the entertainment industry can argue for equal representation in one of the few exeptions that doesnt catter to’em?
That’s really screwed up, let me give you some examples with other minorities:
Let’s say 4 out of 5 games have white protagonists, one game decides to make most of it’s protagonists black, the people arguing for more white leads would be just as valid as the others fighting for more black leads in other franchises.
Let’s say 4 out of 5 games have straight protagonists, one game decides to make most of it’s protagonists gay, the people arguing for more straight leads would be just as valid as the others fighting for more gay leads in other franchises.

That’s just ridiculous.

That’s exactly what I’m saying, it’s not messed up, that is what equality is, one group is not more important than the other groups in terms of their rights to pursue what they consider to be inequality.

Raziel.4216:

We could argue other factors, but I stick to research.

Good for you, and I am arguing your research has flaws.

Raziel.4216:

Jack.5012:

Raziel.4216:

How many times did you call for equality? I bet none.
But when a game has a strong female cast it’s imbalanced, LOL.

This is unfortunately a poor argument in this case because it’s firstly an assumption that you cannot prove correct for everyone, and also applies both ways, you fight for causes that effect you because you notice them easier, there is equally not really many women fighting for equality in GW2 because it’s in their favour.

I’m a guy “fighting” for equal representation of the other group, so no, it doesnt apply both ways

Jack.5012:

Raziel.4216:

Why cant women we have a game with a strong female lead instead of a male one? Ah that’s right, because the industry catters to us and when they dont it’s wrong, it’s not normal, we demand balance!

This is again isn’t a good argument, it’s not a constructive argument, you’re saying something that could be argued both ways, inequality is inequality and is damaging to the fight for equality regardless of who is on top.

I removed the rest of your post from my quote because in a post I made above I think I’ve pretty much responded to it in bolded text, so instead of re-writing it, I will politely ask that you read it.

Mmm let’s see, from the research article posted above
The 60 video games yielded a total of 489 separate characters with an identifiable sex for coding. Chi-square analyses indicated that female characters (n?=?70) were underrepresented in comparison to their male counterparts (n?=?419)
That’s 85,6% male leads and 14,4% female leads.

Inequality is bad when it’s the standard, I dont want every game out there to have a balanced cast, I want the overall game industry to have an equal amount of male and female casts, so no, you didnt refute it.

I would guess you didn’t bother reading the post I asked you to view over as you haven’t shown a sign of responding to it, and not only did you entirely miss both points I was making, you’ve said something which baffles me somewhat, Inequality is bad when it’s the standard but yet go on to argue that inequality is ok so long as it’s towards the male populace until some equilibrium is achieved where everyone has as many inequalities against them as everyone else therefore still encouraging inequality to be the standard, I really cannot understand how that is possibly equality or pushing for equality.

Especially when you’re currently telling people to leave this game if they want more male characters, go and buy a male dominated one, that is not a solution, a solution would be if you and everyone else against skewed representation just simply stopped buying those games until publishers realised it isn’t what people want, or proactively debating the subject on their forum.

In addition that study you’ve been quoting over and over is from 2003 if I read correctly, we’ve moved on since then in a more proactive manner.

As for the response to my first quote, yes it does apply both ways, that is a poor argument and you should not use it, women are equally not up in arms when men are being discriminated against as men are when women are being discriminated against.

I would like as many games/media/films to have equal representation as possible because that is equality, having it skewed one way or the other are both as bad as each other.

You are making out as if the men in this thread are doing something wrong for asking for equal representation, something that men often do to women when they do the same, two wrongs do not make it right if anything they just push us further away from what right is.

If you think I am somehow for the inequal representation of women, you are very much wrong, I am someone who will happily argue over that subject until equality is observed, however you cannot use some of the arguments you are using, specifically the ones I quoted before and expect to be taken seriously by men or women who disagree with you.

Raziel.4216:

How many times did you call for equality? I bet none.
But when a game has a strong female cast it’s imbalanced, LOL.

This is unfortunately a poor argument in this case because it’s firstly an assumption that you cannot prove correct for everyone, and also applies both ways, you fight for causes that effect you because you notice them easier, there is equally not really many women fighting for equality in GW2 because it’s in their favour.

Raziel.4216:

Why cant women we have a game with a strong female lead instead of a male one? Ah that’s right, because the industry catters to us and when they dont it’s wrong, it’s not normal, we demand balance!

This is again isn’t a good argument, it’s not a constructive argument, you’re saying something that could be argued both ways, inequality is inequality and is damaging to the fight for equality regardless of who is on top.

Also what’s wrong with having both a strong male and strong female lead exactly? Neither would be diminished by the other existing if written well enough.

I removed the rest of your post from my quote because in a post I made above I think I’ve pretty much responded to it in bolded text, so instead of re-writing it, I will politely ask that you read it.

Laurelinde.4395:

For my initial question, you missed my point..

Apologies, I chose to not respond specifically to it, I agree that both are important, I was just pointing out that I think OP is discussing the GW franchise where ArenaNet are in charge and not gaming as a whole. I will go into this below.

This leads to my second point..

I agree that in the bigger picture women along with other groups are not equally represented in gaming, media, films, etc and yes that is wrong, however, I would argue that having inequal representation in GW2 does not help the bigger picture much at all and that having a fairly equal representation would, when fighting for equality, you do not want to go close to isolating half of the population, it is apparent not all men take issue with the uneven split, personally I do not, however I do understand the arguments of those who do and I would propose that having equal representation in GW2 and showing that people still play, enjoy and fund it would do more for equality in gaming than just using it as a tool to balance out the imbalances elsewhere by having the opposite uneven split.

Basically, if overall representation of people was pretty neutral..

I agree with this, if men decide things are uneven they probably will have an easier time pushing for it than women do and clearly that’s a problem, however so long as they only push for equal representation and not a male centred domination they’re not abusing that ability.

Now, it’s not a zero-sum game..

I agree male characters easily dominate gaming as a whole, but that’s arguably also still a representation of the old demographic, that we haven’t fully moved away from yet along with inequality, I would also say that having a bunch of female dominated games to balance out the male dominated ones is not really the best way to push for equality, fighting inequality with another inequality isn’t the best way to do it as not everyone looks at the bigger picture and thinks “Oh overall it’s balanced that’s ok”, they look at their own personal bubble, their community.

I would also propose that fighting one inequality with a series of reverse inequalities does not further equality as a whole it just pushes us further away from that being a possibility

Re: hypocrisy..

Now, I agree there is opposition to diversifying characters, however 3 of the examples you gave are opposition to change as a whole, not specific groups, people probably don’t want a black spiderman because he hasn’t been one and hasn’t been written as one, not just because he’s black, people didn’t want Anders to be gay because in the game they played, he wasn’t and they didn’t want the change, not just because he’s gay, and regarding the female elf in the hobbit, she as far as I can remember was not female in the book but that was a long time ago so I could be wrong, those three are examples, for the majority, of opposition of change, now of course some people will oppose them due to what they are, but I don’t think that’s the majority.

I can’t say much in response about the Marjory situation because I don’t actually understand the issue with her being a woman.

In the gaming world..

Yes in the gaming world and film there is a lot of resistance to create female leads because, they’re worried they won’t sell, but they’re also equally as resistant to new franchises, they are businesses and not equality activists unfortunately, they take risks they’re willing to take and I find it hard to knock them for that, the diversity comes from the people who are willing to take that risk and pushing for equality, pushing for how they want the world to be, not a reverse inequality, and it comes from people like you and myself refusing to purchase stereotypical games where, for example, the hero is a man who saves his damsel in distress and showing that we’re not interested in it anymore, it does not come from an inequality in the opposite direction.

TLDR..

TLDR: The OP is as far as I can tell, discussing the GW franchise not the bigger picture as a whole which could be a reason why they are a bit confused by your responses, pushback for equal representation by the dominant group is easier than the disadvantaged groups I agree, but inequality is inequality regardless of who is on top.

I hope I’ve managed to get my point across, I agree with you for the most part, I do however take issue with the fact that male over female inequality in places makes female over male inequality the way to go in the other places, I really think that pushing for equality by showing equality is profitable and enjoyable is the way forwards, thank you for taking the time to respond to my post in a constructive manner.

I had to cut your sentences short so that I could actually fit my responses in, I am responding to each paragraph as a whole however.

Laurelinde.4395:

Why is lack of male representation something for Arenanet to address, but lack of female representation in games just a joke, just uptight emotional ‘lady gamers’ (we’re just gamers, by the way) having a problem?

Because this is their game, so yes it is something for them to address if players take issue with it, regardless of if it was a male or female focused issue.

Fundamentally, why do you ‘need more men’? Does having more women in the story somehow diminish it? And if so, could the problem lie…well, not with Arenanet or ‘lady gamers’? Is equality only something worth fighting for when you feel that you, personally, are somehow getting the short end of the stick? And then it’s not so much fighting for equality, as fighting for the biggest piece of the pie, when the rest of the world is already stuck sharing the crumbs.

I’m slightly confused with this argument, as the exact reverse could be argued as to why having more women than men and not equal numbers is important to you specifically.

There is so much hypocrisy in these kinds of threads, because I sincerely doubt that the vast majority of the ‘need more male representation’ crowd have been equally vocal in clamoring for equal representation of women, people of color, disabled people, etc. in other games, books, films or media. Go post some support, sign some petitions, donate to minority-oriented crowdsourcing for equal representation of women/PoC/LGBTQ on other media of interest and then get back to me about how important equality is to you. I’ll be waiting here, not holding my breath.

This is ultimately the comment that made me log in to respond to you, fighting for one cause because it affects you and not other causes because they don’t affect you does not make you a hypocrite or in any way wrong for doing so, I would argue hypocrisy would be if you fought for one cause and vehemently opposed similar causes, something I would argue you are doing in this thread by making it seem as though these men are somehow doing something wrong in not liking the skewed representation when you personally do not seem to like it when it occurs the other way around.

Just because you don’t fight actively for other causes regarding equality does not make your comments less valid or invalid and, all of these forms of inequality you listed clearly should not occur and it is a shame they do.

However, for example, just because a male over female inequality occurs and has occured for some time, does not make it right for the complete opposite to happen, that would still not be equality.

In Smooth Penguin’s defense they’ve gone back on this post which one could have possibly assumed they wouldn’t do.

ColinJohanson.2394:

As for the jet pack, those specific rewards are intended as limited rewards you can only earn during that time, thus making them valuable. It wouldn’t be fair to the people who did earn jet packs for us to bring them back, and suddenly undercut their value entirely.

I wouldn’t get your hopes up over the jetpack and other limited time random drops unless they’ve gone back on this post.

ColinJohanson.2394:

As for the jet pack, those specific rewards are intended as limited rewards you can only earn during that time, thus making them valuable. It wouldn’t be fair to the people who did earn jet packs for us to bring them back, and suddenly undercut their value entirely.

Charak.9761:

Its funny that people like to think that gold from dungeons and champ farm is where all the money is

meanwhile, people with warriors soloing arah paths and selling slots making 20g/hr

Golden Monkey.6137:

Champ trains for money? You can make much more money with less effort without leaving Lions Arch.
The gem store works alright, I would just like to see more quality items.

I have a feeling they’re talking about money entering the economy as opposed to just changing hands like in the examples you both give.

Was a lot of fun with you guys! Hope to do it again, agree completely about nothing giving you such a feeling am still buzzing from that encounter, don’t think I’ll be sleeping tonight haha.

Our teamspeak erupted when his hp hit 0, have never heard people so happy over GW2.

- Jackary

Nhalx.9735:

Can you confirm having 3/3 of the gluton for punishment?

I got the skin and didnt recieve it

Yes, I got the skin, and that achievement.

Also as a side note, the tokens to make the weapons are only rewarded once a day.