Guild Wars 2

I think you might need to add all of them inn, not just the -nopatchui.

you usually type inn the email and password in the patcher, so if you try to bypass the patcher without any login details, it won’t know which account to use, hence why it acts strangely.

So try to add all of them next time: -email -password and -nopatchui

I’m having the same issue as well, and it’s really, really annoying.

It’s only half-way shifted, so i can sometimes hover the mouse over the box to highlight it and type what i want, but other times it wont work.

Clicking is risky as it randomly change the value of gold if i try to click the silver square, or change the silver value if i try to click the copper box.

Note that clicking to the right of the boxes doesn’t work either, i can’t find a sure way of clicking the value boxes other than randomly moving the mouse over the boxes, which can sometimes take several seconds before its highlighted and you can start typing…

Got the same problem as well.

Using firefox on Win 8.1

-With the way WvW works, you would have to merge 4 servers, find 3 separate pairs or merge 3 servers & another pair in order to close down a tier.

-The servers you would merge with would have to be picked based on overall population rather than WvW participation.

-This would make servers like Blacktide & Ring of Fire off-limit as they both sit on a “Very High” population.

So while Vabbi’s and FoW’s WvW player-base could really use a merge, finding other servers that could use a merge as well is kind of difficult, especially when you take the PvE population into account. >_<;

That being said, keeping free transfers open to Vabbi & Fissure of Woe specifically, with a promise of a rating-boost should the transfers create a black hole, seems like a good idea at this point if they want to rescue your servers from the position you’re in. :/

Unfortunately, EU T9 isn’t really a rating blackhole as much as a (lack of) population black hole.

the inbalance is big enough that whoever is green usually still manage to gain points & eventually catch up with a tier 8 server, unlike how NA T8 was/is.

Despite how it looks, it seems to me that the rating is actually accurate.

Part of the problem is indeed what happened to NA T8, that mess have probably put off a lot of EU from transferring to Vabbi/FoW as doing so in large numbers will almost certainly create another black hole in the ratings… and thus no-one transfers for the sake of a healthy ranking system. >_<;

Those of you who are still persevering in Vabbi & FoW, you’ve really earned my respect!.

Hickeroar.9734:

If there’s “no way” to have separate EU and NA reset times…then the application was engineered badly and needs to be fixed. These are separate data-centers an ocean apart from each other. Saying it’s not possible it’s just an excuse for not wanting to put forth the effort to do it.

To be honest, I’d rather they spend that effort on building the WvW experience further rather than trying to re-make the WvW server timer into something that can split the reset times… especially if it’ll take half as long as it took to fix culling or add a preview function to the trading post. >_<;

EU is much more likely to stay up for a midnight – 3pm reset night than a 2am – 3am reset night. staying up until 2am is the easy part, but we also have to play afterwards. :p
(adding the 20 min it takes to reset makes it worse as well. )

I think this change will have a huge impact on reset participation in both NA & EU servers. More people will join the EU reset, and NA will have to get used to the notion of being unable be there from the start… and discover that immediately after reset isn’t all that much more important than the rest of the week, point-wise.

From a technical standpoint, I’m guessing this might also help server stability as fewer people will try to enter at once just after the reset. :p

As far as delaying the reset to Saturday… you do realize that means Asian / Oceanic people will have their reset on a Sunday? most of the weekend will already be gone, lol.

Nonetheless, I completely agree that a Friday 3pm reset is… inconvenient… to put it mildly. But I can’t really think of any other compromise that ANET could conjure up if splitting up reset times is impossible.

In the end, this is just a compromise, not a solution or a band-aid.

To me, the US complaints seem to be more about the queues than the reset time itself.
I don’t think they would complain as much if they could enter immediately upon returning home, or after eating dinner…

This is said by someone from a EU T7 server where we never have to queue unless we really want to play on our own borderlands or EB at primetime, so please correct me if I’m wrong.

The SEA playerbase has their reset even earlier in their saturday morning now, and EU reset is still rather late at midnight. If nothing else, it’ll be interesting to see how this reset actually plays out, and when those seemingly overly crowded US servers actually starts to queue when there’s no-one left with an ideal server reset time.

(maybe they should have made a US T9 as well? o_o )

You could make auto-loot a WvW passive that you have to unlock with a ridiculous price of 200+ rank point thingies?

It would be a pain to unlock, though some dedicated WvW players would still feel like it would be worth it… maybe. >_>

If it’s not possible to make any sort of auto-loot feature, you could maybe have it drastically extend the loot range? or even turn it into some kind of WvW-only utility skill? “pick up x amount of loot within a radius of yyyy” give it a 1 sec cd or something, lol.

When you automatically try to apply swiftness to a wandering dolyak in Lion’s Arch…

Considering that we actually did really well during prime-time today (ticked inn at +410 at some point), I’d say we actually do have a high population, but one that rarely show interest in WvW. Today was obviously an exception :p

This is our chance to gain a higher WvW population, let’s welcome our PvE friends with open arms and give them a big welcome~

If the GW2 wiki is correct, then every tier lists aditional bonuses and not the total?

so rather than 11,12,13,14 & 15 supply, the wiki think it’ll stack up to be 11, 13, 16, 20 & 25 supply that you can carry…. While I’m only more confused now, it would be nice if someone would clarify which is correct, lol.

Make:
-Mist Form an elite skill. (with slightly longer duration)
-Tornado a utility skill. :p

Mist form seems more like an elite skill compared to tornado anyway. ^^;

Putting even more players in a WvW map is just simply not possible atm.
You’d break the server even more than it already is. :p

If T1 server queues are too much long/annoying, have you & your guild considered transferring to a lower tier? You’re going to have to pick between fighting for top ranks or easier access to WvW. ^^;

Honestly, the only thing that would be really effective in discouraging zergs are friendly fire, and that doesn’t fit with GW2 at all. :p

In NA, I’d say T1,T2 and T7 seems balanced, especially T7. That match looks amazing! o_o

In EU, T3,T5,T6 and T8 are balanced, while only one server has fallen behind on T1.

Along with NA’s T8 rating issue, I’d say glicko has generally worked better for us Europeans, lol.

Loving many of the screenshots here, especially like Defora’s & Ajjer’s screenshots among those on (this) page 11!
—-
Here’s one of my own:
A walk in the park…

Sigh… The last thing we need is actively ignoring Drakkar.

They’re far more powerful then RoF & Drag atm, and going for each-other won’t make them disappear. You’ll only end up making this match even more unbalanced in Drakkar’s favor…

For all we know, the ones in dzag who supposedly targeted the third place could be the ones who transfered to Drakkar, cause right now we seem to target dzag more than I’ve seen them target us. And I really don’t like it.

A kitten song~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo

Agreed, Drakkar has certainly been very strong so far, but that’s not a reason to start making excuses. I can assure you, there’s plenty of action elsewhere. >_>

The Germans are fighting each-other just as much, if not even more than they’re fighting us.

The reset night was fun, though i really wish we could acquire some night-capping crews. we’re quite harmless during the early morning, lol.

Now let’s aim for a comeback, and at least try to do better than Vabbi in T9. >_<;

Looking at the current rankings, I’d say RoF & Dzag are the tier 7 servers atm, with tier 8 now actually being balanced.

With RoF & Dzag being only two servers, it seems fairly likely that we’ll be fighting each-other + a tier 6 server for a while now, so we’ll have to get used to it…

On the other hand, if your routing/lagg issues in Germany is as bad as you made it sound, we’re gonna face some major difficulty whenever your network issues gets resolved. >_<;

Siegerazer was introduced to help give players a foothold in a map locked down by opposing servers. If you can fend him off along with the 10+ players who are organized enough to persistently activate the event despite loosing, then a siegerazer nerf is the last thing they need. He is supposed to frustrate the defenders, so all you’ve said is really “siegerazer is working as intended”, in my opinion.

This has been bugging me a bit as well, If they want people to actually go for these titles, they should at least remove a tier, and even that is nearly impossible to have accomplished. :/

To me, It seems like this shouldn’t be an issue to begin with.

Transmuting a legendary skin with an exotic’s stats should result in an exotic weapon, why the hell did they change that & added legendary status/font color to the result!?
Does transmuting with a white weapon’s stats still make for a legendary?
Just seems like they opened a horrible can of worms…

-If they add ascended weapons in the future, should every ‘exotic stats turned legendary’ transmutes get a stat boost along with the legendaries?

-If so, why not just transmute the legendary with a white weapon? the stat boosts should apply to those as well…

Skin & stats should be kept separate, and rarity is a stat. I’d fully expect a legendary weapon’s stats merged with a white weapon’s skin to result in a legendary, not the other way around.

Letting the legendary rarity follow the skin just seem like giving people false hope to me, there will be a lot of crying going on when they update legendary stats.

Happened to me a month ago as well, though I seemed to drop into a fictional WvW match of three German servers that were in different tiers, lol.
(Never encountered anyone else in the same situation though, and the map kind of looked like my own WvW match. )

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Spawned-in-the-wrong-WvW-match-o-O/first#post1308371

Edit: Actually, I was just thinking…
Could this possibly be why queues & map limits seem to be bugged & not equal for some servers?
If it’s possible to get dumped into a different WvW server when the 2nd loading screen fails, maybe there could be some cross-server bug that fills up a queue slot for the wrong server when you enter a queue from an overflow? or something. >_<;

If you’re first placed in a random WvW server for the first loading screen and then transferred to your own WvW in the 2nd loading screen, the first WvW map would have people constantly transferring through it, possibly causing unequal numbers & queues?

Seems like a silly mistake to make though, so it’s probably wrong, lol.

The forum use a filter that automagically change any swear words into ‘kitten’.
… If they added this in-game as well, I might even put the word filter on, lol.

IComeInPeace.1768:

WvWvW reward system must incorparate a DAOC type reward system.

All 5 man groups get a 25% increase in WvWvW points. (aka realm points)

A rank 1 rated toon is worth 100 points. If the player is killed by 10 people who damaged him, they will recieve the points reative to the % of damage done.

Example: I solo and rank 1 person. I get 100 points
5 people kill the rank 1 person. I did 55% of the damage. I get 55 points
20 peopel kill the rank 1 person. I did 4% of the damage. I get 4 points

5 man partys get a 25% bonus only if under 10 people damage the target.

As you rank up your value is higher. Example: rank 5.5 = 155 points.

Thanks,

Malf

You do realize this would spell the end for support & bunker builds?
DPS is favored way too much here, there’s more to the battle system than killing things quickly.

No idea… If it wasn’t your WvW map, maybe it was ours (or Ruins of Surmia’s) with the wrong name, and friendly enemies?
o_O
(and why German servers? I’m on an English client & server myself. ^^; )

Edit: Looking closer at the map, I would guess it was indeed our own WvW match.
We (blue) did have SM when the reset happened, we also have waypoints in Garrison & Hills (right keep) of our own borderlands. The chat of the other screenshot also mentioned us not having Bay. (left keep in blue borderlands. )

So I was geared up & ready to go fighting for my server, Ring of Fire. But when I entered WvW I spawned in… Drakka Lake Borderlands!? In the middle of the map!?

Every side showed up as being friendly, though I could only see the names of the players on the blue side, Abbadon’s Mouth. (RoF is currently blue as well. )

I’m still running around in there. (cause it’s funny, lol. )
I’m making a point of trying not to interfere with anything though.
So if you see a lone Ring of Fire invader in Drakkar Lake BL, that’s almost definitely me. :p

edit: update kicked me out, lol.

Xagar.6512:

So I went over the stuff from yesterday.

…

Grasping Earth definitely doesn’t bleed. Did you have a sigil active or something?

I managed to find the cause, it was not any gear i had on.
It was the Serrated Stones trait. (+20% bleed duration)
So a trait that extends your bleed duration, for some reason also apply bleeding with grasping earth?

I guess it’s not a bugged skill, but a bugged trait…

A condition build can be rather powerful on a staff ele.
I’ve gotten to the point where i can cast eruption once, and then wait for the mob/mobs to die, and this applies to some orr mobs as well… (Rare Veggie Pizza helps a lot with this, though I wouldn’t suggest Just “waiting” with more than 1 mob on you, lol)

This will only work in PvE though, while fully geared towards condition damage.
(eruption can also wreck havoc on people on top of WvW walls, just aim quite far below them on the wall, to make it harder to spot, aiming for the roof above a gate also usually hit the people above.)

Grasping Earth, the 2nd downed skill, also apply bleeding on your enemy (one for each pulse), but there’s no mention of it in the tool-tip.

Edit: Seems like it only bleeds when you have the Serrated Stones trait equipped. (supposed to only give +20% bleeding duration)

Anyone else noticed that grasping earth also apply bleeding now, one for each pulse?
It actually does quite a bit of damage with a condition build…
(there’s no mention of the bleeding in the tool-tip though, a bug? )

If the treb’s range was 10 000 meters, then that would mean some of our regular weapon skills could fire up to 1200 meters. Wouldn’t that be a blast? :p

RakaNishoo.6071:

Fire Shield

• I believe this should actually burn foes that touch you. Instead it burns foes that hit you.
• Given the above it is extremally not usefull. Giving 1s burn (328 damage) per hit leaves it somewhere near the retaliation boon. However, the shield lasts for 3s and that time is so low, that on weaker mobs in pve you are often not attacked at all during that short period of time. Or attacked once, for the burn.
• Given the above the 40s recharge on this skill is funny.
• Compared to other Auras -> Frost (7s duration, 2s chill, 40s recharge), Magnetic (5s reflect, 30s recharge) , Shocking (5s, 1s stun!, 25s recharge) it is pathetic.
• This leads me to thinking it doesn’t work as intended.

I think the weakness of the fire shield ability might have something to do with the Fire’s Embrace trait. When using any signet skill makes a fire shield around you, it has become a somewhat spammable skill with the trait on. :/

… though quite frankly, the only reason to spam this skill is if you’ve got other traits on that gives you fury/swiftness/protection along with the aura. As it is, it’s not even worth spamming this skill without the extra boons, lol.

I usually get around 40 sec of swiftness using Tyrfang’s combo with 30 points into arcana
(including the elemental attunement trait for an extra swiftness buff when you enter air attunement), around 52 sec if you add in glyph of elemental harmony as your heal.

A 40 sec of AoE swiftness is also good for escorting dynamic event NPC’s in PvE & Dolyaks in WvW. If you switch attunements often, it basically means perma-AoE-swiftness.

I also have to try DreadShinobi’s way of stacking swiftness sometime, though I don’t really have 20 points to spare for Air magic in my current condition/support build.

A minor thing, really.
When you see “+20% Frozen duration” on a rune, it actually means “+20% Chill duration.”

Tested with a Frozen Bow when I noticed it didn’t extend the time enemies spent frozen in a block of ice when I used Deep Freeze. (to my disappointment :p ), frozen duration does indeed affect the duration of the chill condition when I inflict it on my enemies.

Edit: Oh, and this applies to Sigils as well. :p

If you want to damage & slow them down while you’re in vapor form, you already got the Icy Mist trait for that… ^^;

I think the downed state skills are fine as they are, even if they’re almost useless in pvp when the enemies are already next to you.

You seem to enjoy playing with projectile finishers, and it makes for an interesting read.

Another thing you might want to try out is the wonder of combo blast finishers, like the utility skill Arcane Wave or the staff skill Eruption. With these, you can stack AoE might boons (fire field) or swiftness boons (static field) for the entire team.

Putting 30 points into Arcana & getting the grandmaster trait Evasive Arcana will help a lot with this, as your dodges will set off a blast finisher at the end of your dodges during combat.

A more complete look on the combo system can be found at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo, well worth to read up on no matter what your class or playstyle is. ^^;

As far as possible causes go, I consider the minor trait Electric Discharge a very likely suspect. Even if it’s only unlocked by putting 15 points into the Air Magic line, it is a targeted spell trait, which also got a range of 900.

I don’t know why the air trait button is still considered an attack without any trait points spent, nor why pressing the air attunement button still triggers an auto-attack when we don’t get another lightning bolt from it even with the trait unlocked, but the range and targeted nature of the trait makes me suspect the trait as a possible suspect.

There’s a few other traits that targets specific conjured weapons rather than conjure weapons in general, like soothing wave granting 6 seconds of regeneration with frozen bow.

I’m actually quite fond of frozen bow, the 4th & 5th skills can be quite useful. (though i would recommend using it in small bursts only.)

Considering he somehow managed to get the highest individual score out of them all…
Don’t look at individual scores, they don’t really reflect on the player’s skill at all. ^^;

(the ‘beat it’ remix was kind of nice though)

I would say that the night-time servers would eventually be mis-matched during the day, where their night-time activities would just get them a stronger foe… except one of them is the top EU server, lol.

Night-time activities is just part of the server’s overall strength, don’t really see the unfairness of it.

If anything, it would be interesting to have global match-ups, where EU servers would meet NA servers at random.

If you really can’t stand it, all you have to do is wait for Aussies to get bored of winning all the time, when they’ll either quit playing or spread out among the servers for some proper battles, lol.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vigil_armor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Durmand_Priory_armor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Order_of_Whispers_armor

Joining an order in itself doesn’t give you any stats as far as I know. The only differences stats-wise are if you buy the exclusive armor set of your order… and I don’t think they’re any better than other sets you can buy elsewhere, so what stats they give aren’t really that important is it?

Almost 9 gold for a “rare” armor set seems too expensive for what you get anyway. There’s far better deals on the trading post.

They’ve already posted that they’re working on this feature, about 8 days ago.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Add-the-preview-function-to-the-trading-post/first#post55812

Currently, when you press the right mouse button, the pointer will disappear & you can move the camera with the mouse. When you strafe around a target, you’re going to move the camera a lot to keep your target in front of you.

Now, if you got fast-casting on, and want to put down a ground-targeted spell while strafing, you run into a bit of a problem… where did I put the now invisible mouse pointer again? How am I supposed to aim like this?

So the suggestion here is rather simple: keep the pointer visible, or make an option that will leave it visible when the right mouse button is pressed, and let us aim by rotating the camera please.

Thank you
-Jikap

Clicking the air attunement button with the mouse works as well…

If it wasn’t for the first auto-attack being from the previous attunement, I’d say the game simply treated the air attunement button as some sort of attack skill. with 900 range & a switch to air attunement, but no attack animation, casting time or damage of any sort. Which would then trigger the auto-attack afterwards…

This would be further confirmed with the fact that using any attack skill, whether it’s in range or not, will trigger the auto-attack, or make the auto-attack border thing flash if the auto-attack is out of range.

But having the first auto-attack be from the previous attunement kind of suggests that the auto-attack triggers before the switch somehow, thus it doesn’t quite fit. >_<;

The Air attunement button behaves very strangely.

-When you switch to air attunement, you will immediately start auto-attacking.
-The first auto-attack will be from the previous attunement, the second from the air attunement.
-This will also happen if you click the air attunement icon while you’re already in the air attunement.
-It will only start the auto-attack if it can acquire a target through auto-targeting, or if you already have a target.
-It will not send an attack into thin air if it fails to acquire a target, or if you’re out of range…
-…But the auto-attack border will start flashing, and you’ll start auto-attacking once you move into the auto-attack’s range.
-All of this happens even with 0 trait points spent.
-The Air attunement icon got a “range” of 900, if you’re further away from your target, a red bar will show up below the air attunement icon. (even with 0 trait points)

A more in-depth thread about this issue can be found at: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Elementalist-Swapping-into-Air-attunement-causes-character-to-auto-attack-nearest-mob/first#post100942

There is also a red bar that show up below the air attunement icon when you’re out of range. The “range” seem to be at 900.

I’ve noticed a little something you seem to have missed though.

It’s not only switching into air attunement that triggers the auto-attack, the air attunement button itself triggers it even if you’re already in the air attunement.

Air attunement -> Air attunement will also trigger an auto-attack.

I think the reason why the first attack is from the previous attument is simply because the auto-attack is triggered even before the attunement switch…

Though interestingly, the F3 button doesn’t trigger an auto-attack on a newly created elementalist that don’t have the air attument unlocked yet…