Guild Wars 2

so i heard that it’s possible to dodge almost without movement:

if you /sit and then dodge, your character will only move an inch backwards wile dodging.

is that considered an exploit? or is it ok to do this? (i am thinking about spots where it’s hard to ‘stay’ for a longer period of time. because of incoming damage or something might kick you off that spot.

so we still can’t get the skin of the first book if we allready did it 2012? …

best fix! thank you!! <3 <3 <3

as a casual player i love content that has high difficulty and therefore grants you high rewards. thank you a lot for your research LOD, i really hope that issue gets changed for the better.

hello!
i have the Mad Memoires Complete Edition (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires:_Complete_Edition) but didn’t get the Mad Memoires (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires)

the wiki states that the Mad Memoires “was required to create Mad Memoires: Complete Edition.” and the patchnotes say that “Items that have gone through skin progression (…) will unlock all the skins in their direct progression line”

though i think i once had both and destroyed one(??), is it a bug? :/
i really would love to have the Mad Memoires Version as well…

hello!
i have the Mad Memoires Complete Edition (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires:_Complete_Edition) but didn’t get the Mad Memoires (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memoires) :(

the wiki states that the Mad Memoires "was required to create Mad Memoires: Complete Edition." and the patchnotes say that "Items that have gone through skin progression (...) will unlock all the skins in their direct progression line"

though i think i once had both and destroyed one(??), is it a bug? :/
i really would love to have the Mad Memoires Version as well... D:

Hello!
Great thing you are doing here. I am looking for someone who can teach me some solo dungeon runs (without glitching or exploiting!) Arah for example? I am EU and do have all character classes except engi. – Therefor would love a guild invite
Thank You!

Vince Ste Marie, could we please have an update? is it worth waiting, or might a fix take some time?

to give an update:

my provider sent my trace-logs to tele2 and after they were denying that they had any problems at first, they finally took care of the issue. so our disconnects are gone. hopefully it will stay that way.

i had that problem almost since start, only now and then, sometimes twice in one evening, sometimes nothing for weeks.

tonight i had the blackscreen about 20 times. i log in, play for 10 to 30 minutes and it appears. with very low graphic settings i might ad.

i understand there are a LOT of possibilities that could cause the problem. as it sometimes appears 20 times in a row and other times not even once a week, to me it seams almost impossible to troubleshoot and is very frustrating.

the game should really detect and retrace the problem, give the user a clue what might have caused it whenever it appears. (at the very least if it is network or graphic related -.-)

I personally don’t like that Vertical Progression does limit my Horizontal Progression.
Say I have only one character and I love to play around with different builds. In gw2 this seems not really ‘possible’. Sure I could buy four or more Exotic Equipment Sets and keep them all in my Inventory, then when I want to switch my build, I go to LA and pay to reset my traits…
But you know? To me it costs a lot of effort to switch between builds. Not only do I have to keep track of my build setups i already have acquired, it is also costly, it consumes a lot of inventory space, it downgrades my characters appearance, and so on.

So in the long run, switching builds seems, well, like the game actually doesn’t want me to do it too often. It already is an annoying and costly process. Now with ascended gear, things become worse. Do I really want to get ascended gear for every one of my builds? Or do I prefer to just stick to exotics?

What I want is to ‘collect’ my ‘build parts’ and then be able to easy switch between builds i have already created. What I prefer is better Horizontal Progression.

For example: I find clerics exotic heavy boots and i right-click > ad to my collection. Then I have a ‘Edit my Build’ option in my character screen where i can choose from a dropdown which already unlocked stats i want to have on my boots. I then click ‘Save to a new Build’ and afterwards have the option to easily equip this build setup (with traits, equip and all)

And armor looks could work in a similar way! i would love guild wars to be about collecting stuff. like dyes, unlock and keep! and have easy access to it.

A new Condition.

Signet of Vampirism is a nice skill (mechanic) in general, but to me, that skill just goes against the hole gw2 condition game-design!

until now we had a certain set of conditions that could be inflicted by almost every class. i really liked that system!

but now they introduced a new condition that totally breaks with that game mechanic. only the necromancer can cause it, using one specific skill, and is it even removeable?

“25 Vampiric Mark(5s): Life is siphoned when struck by players.”

it strongly reminds me of WoW, where each and every skill caused a unique condition or boon.

in gw2 sadly there already are a few unique boons that work in a similar way, but now they start doing the same thing with conditions too…?

i really hope not being the only one who is deeply concerned about that, i do not like where this is going…

hm, are you sure there is a glow? i can’t find any glow on the T3 Light armor even with very light dyes…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Constant-disconnecting-2/first#post3262770

i traced my disconnects to sweden, where the connection to the gw2 servers gets severed for a few minutes quite often. tele2 there seems to have technical problems.
(other programs don’t have data loss because they use a different connection rout.)

try this:

Start > Run…

type in: cmd

press Enter

type in: tracert 64.25.47.122

press Enter

this will show you the rout your game data takes in order to reach the gw2 servers. should one of those servers be tele2, it’s quite certain you have the same problem as i have.

in any case, use the program ‘pingplotter’ to log your internet connection while playing. that’s how you can find out where your connection is being severed, then send the log with your disconnects to tech support of your internet provider, they have to ‘request’ whatever other service-provider causes your disconnects to fix the problem.

contact technical support, they will help you figure out what is causing the problem. for me it’s a routing problem, tele2 in sweden seems to have technical problems. for about three weeks now i have frequent disconnects.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Constant-disconnecting-2/first#post3262770

well, yes… so how/who to fix it?!

ok, so i managed to tracert one of the longer lasting disconnects where i couldn’t log back in for a few minutes. here is the result:
interestingly the server that i had no problem pinging during the disconnects, still seems to cause the problem? could someone please tell me whom i have to spam with angry mail in order to get that fixed? :/

C:\Users\Kugelrobbe>tracert -d -w 3 64.25.47.122

Routenverfolgung zu 64.25.47.122 über maximal 30 Abschnitte

  1     1 ms     2 ms    <1 ms  213.143.125.1
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.25.114.25
  3     1 ms     2 ms     1 ms  10.25.114.30
  4     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.25.114.13
  5     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  213.143.99.37
  6     2 ms     1 ms    10 ms  213.143.99.5
  7     2 ms    10 ms     1 ms  213.143.99.2
  8     2 ms     2 ms     3 ms  81.189.132.49
  9     2 ms     1 ms     2 ms  212.152.192.106
 10     2 ms     *        2 ms  130.244.49.117
 11     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 12     2 ms     *        4 ms  130.244.64.72
 13     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 14     *        4 ms     2 ms  130.244.64.72
 15     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 16     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 17     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 18     *        3 ms     2 ms  130.244.64.72
 19     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 20     2 ms     *        3 ms  130.244.64.72
 21     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 22     2 ms     *        *     130.244.64.72
 23     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 24     2 ms     *        *     130.244.64.72
 25     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 26     3 ms     *        4 ms  130.244.64.72
 27     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 28     *        2 ms     3 ms  130.244.64.72
 29     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 30     *        2 ms     4 ms  130.244.64.72

Ablaufverfolgung beendet.

C:\Users\Kugelrobbe>tracert 64.25.47.122

Routenverfolgung zu 64.25.47.122 über maximal 30 Abschnitte

  1     1 ms     2 ms     1 ms  213.143.125.1
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.25.114.25
  3    94 ms     1 ms     2 ms  10.25.114.30
  4     1 ms     1 ms     2 ms  10.25.114.13
  5     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  213.143.99.37
  6    11 ms     1 ms     1 ms  213.143.99.5
  7    10 ms     1 ms     1 ms  213.143.99.2
  8     2 ms     2 ms     1 ms  81.189.132.49
  9     2 ms     1 ms     2 ms  c76wintx2-tge3-2.net.uta.at [212.152.192.106]
 10     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  wen3-core-2.tengige0-1-0-3.tele2.net [130.244.49.117]
 11     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  wen3-peer-1.ae2-unit0.tele2.net [130.244.64.73]
 12     2 ms     2 ms     1 ms  peer-as3257.wen3.tele2.net [130.244.200.98]
 13    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  xe-3-1-0.fra61.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.183.138]
 14    17 ms    57 ms    17 ms  cdnetworks-gw.ip4.tinet.net [77.67.71.122]
 15    17 ms    17 ms    17 ms  206-127-157-94.plaync.com [206.127.157.94]
 16    17 ms    20 ms    20 ms  206-127-157-102.plaync.com [206.127.157.102]
 17    17 ms    17 ms    17 ms  64.25.47.122

i just used your /ip command ingame, the address i got back is exactly the same that resmon.exe shows me. and iptrackeronline.com tells me it’s in Texas US …

Berelious.3290:

Actually the European Servers are located in Frankfurt, Germany, which is why most European countries are recommended to connect to those servers. They’re a lot closer and tend to have a shorter ping time. That being said, there have been issues in the past where certain European ISP’s have had issues routing GW2 data, causing frequent disconnects or preventing connection entirely.

well, iptrackeronline.com tells me that every GW2 server ip i have checked so far, is located in Austin, Texas, USA.

i will try to trace a game server ip right during a disconnect and get back to this thread as soon as i have the information.

at the moment i am on Dzagonur [DE] and resmon.exe tells me the IP addresses that GW2.exe is connected with are 206.127.159.122 (game server) and 64.25.47.121 (login server)
if i trace the game server, i get (as already listed above):

Routenverfolgung zu 206-127-159-122.plaync.com [206.127.159.122] über maximal 30 Abschnitte:
(…)
9 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms c76wintx2-tge3-2.net.uta.at [212.152.192.106]
10 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms wen3-core-2.tengige0-1-0-3.tele2.net [130.244.49.117]
11 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms wen3-peer-1.ae2-unit0.tele2.net [130.244.64.73]
12 16 ms 2 ms 2 ms peer-as3257.wen3.tele2.net [130.244.200.98]
13 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms xe-4-1-2.fra61.ip4.tinet.net [141.136.111.21]
14 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms cdnetworks-gw.ip4.tinet.net [77.67.71.122]
15 20 ms 20 ms 19 ms 206-127-157-94.plaync.com [206.127.157.94]
16 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms 206-127-157-102.plaync.com [206.127.157.102]
17 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
18 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.

i don’t know where you have your information from, but for me that clearly states that the EU servers are in fact located in Texas US and not in EU.

some facts as far is i could figure out through ‘resmon.exe’ ‘cmd ping -t’, ‘cmd tracert’ and ‘iptrackeronline.com’:

• GW2 server adresses change every few hours or so
• all GW2 servers seem to be located in Austin, Texas, USA
• GW2 related so far I could only successfully ping the login servers. whenever i try pinging the current ip adress of a GW2 game server i am on, a server in France tells me that the network i want to access is not reachable. that’s the last server on the ‘way’ before reaching plaync (cdnetworks-gw.ip4.tinet.net). all other plaync servers just give me timeouts. (“Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.”)

i traced my connection to the GW2 servers and this is the rout:

• a few adresses related to my provider in Austria, leaving through uta.at
• adresses in Sweden related to tele2.net (still 1 to 2 ms)
• next stop is France, two adresses that are related to tinet.net (up to 40 ms)
• from there adresses related to plaync.com show up last (Austin, Texas, USA) (up to 20 ms)

i kept pinging every adress on that way and checked what happend as soon as a lag spike hit.
EVERY server NOT related to GW2 keped responding smoothly. only the GW2 server i was pinging did not. for some time insted of a sucessfull ping, an error message kept showing up, that the valid time of the transfer has been surpassed. (“Die Gültigkeitsdauer wurde bei der Übertragung überschritten”)

so my conclusion: the fault has to be either at the connection between tinet.net and the GW2 server farm, or within the GW2 server farm itself.

PLEASE ANet FIX THIS SOON! CURRENTLY PLYING GW2 FOR US IS ALMOST UNBEARABLE.

So I remember people complaining on TS that they had very frequent GW2 disconnects, and that it had been a problem only occurring with certain providers. They didn’t disconnect from TS, only from GW2. (I remember them saying something about kittenty routing from EU to US and back...)

Since about a week, we seem to have that same problem now. :/
We play GW2 sitting next to each other and everything works fine, then suddenly a lag spike hits us that causes a simultaneous disconnect almost every time. After that it sometimes takes up to 10 minutes until we manage to log in again. Meanwhile TS and Skype have no problem at all, there is not even a little bit of lag on VoiceChat.
It doesn’t matter ’where’ we are ingame when the lag spike hits us. I could be PvE guesting on an other server, while my friend is in WvW, still both of us get disconnected. Also if only one of us is ingame and the other one is playing something else or watching a video live-feed or something, the lag spike only occurs to the one playing GW2.
We didn’t have disconnect problems in the past and haven’t changed our internet setup. Since about a week now we have that kind of disconnect very frequently, about every half an hour.

We updated the firmware of our router, but that didn’t help. The support of our internet provider (teletronic austria) told us that they don’t have any technical problems at the moment.

Could anyone that has experienced similar problems in the past let us know if you managed to find out what had caused it? What was your solution on fixing it? We really would appreciate your answer! :)

i have a question: would it be possible to let us choose the armor glow color independently from the dye colors? and if not, could the armor glow be changed to use the character glow color? and if not, could the character glow be changed to use the armor glow color? an if not, could we get a free total makeover kit to change our characters glow color? and if not, could we get an option to deactivate the armor glow? … pretty please?

let me ad here that i do like the changes… i just wish i wouldn’t have had spent two makeover kits and gold on… well… nothing… cause tweaking the appearance of my character, i have to start over now… :/ Kristen, i think a lot of us do really appreciate your work! (i for one prefer the new variant, saturation and glow <3! ) it’s just that it broke our character setup… and looks ARE costly… hope you can understand our disappointment in that matter.

i spent two total makeover kits and quite some gold a few weeks ago in order to tweak and match my characters armor colors, hair color, glow color and weapon. it was exactly the way i wanted it to be and i loved it. now its all turned up side down. … ;( i spent two total makeover kits for nothing… this is not fair… :/ now if i want the glow of my armor to fit the glow of my character i have to dye my armor in an ugly greenish dark-yellow (honey) … and i can’t even change my characters glow anymore… i want my makeover kits back D;

I was doing some basic math from what raw data i found here and on reddit. Sadly there is not much to go on, since most data was collected with Mystic/Master Kit only. So based on that I did a lot of speculation and came up with … not so much. :/ My guess now would be: 1.6 + 0.01 * Kits rarer materials % Chance = Dust per Salvage.
Mind you this is not more than speculation based on that little i had to go on. It very likely also could be something like: 1.5 + 0.015 * Kits rarer materials % Chance = Dust per Salvage. In any case the Master’s Salvage Kit would still be the best way to go.

Arc DLad.2194:

Q:how does Treaherne change a light bulb?
A:Commander can i have a word

ahahaha! <3 <3 <3

today we repeatedly have terrible problems with lag during the tequatl fight. (european overflow) is this something others are experiencing as well? what could we do to prevent that? many of our players report that they can’t participate in the fight for up to 1 minute.
maybe it’s because we have 150 guild members in the zone? what is the recommended number of players to do the fight?

I love the Dev Tracker and the possibility to use it as an RSS-Feed, but is there a way to filter out certain sub-Forums? (Account Support for example)? If not, could we have that? pretty please?

I want that! … … seriously, great suggestion!

Zaxares.5419:

So in general we can expect a return of about 2 Dust per Ecto, and that we should use Master/Mystic kits if available. Thanks for the research, everyone.

what? no. i used the cheapest kits and still got a 1.5 ratio out of it. so the more expensive kits are not worth using.

i love the latest changes for T6 dust, thank you ANet!

I am still waiting for an acceptable answer here… John, are you monitoring what is happening to Crystalline Dust? It’s double the Ecto price right now. Is that really how ANet wants it to be? Please let us know that it’s not ANets intention for T6 Dust to skyrocket in that way!

We have the same problems as stated above, yesterday as well as today. Has there been any official statement on this issue? Any suggestions what might trigger that bugs so we can avoid them? Could they occur more frequently at prime time? Or might the size of the guild be an issue? So far I only had that problems with a very large guild while doing the missions at prime time… What where your experiences?

DevonCarver.5370:

The titles display for your selected target and your party members. Otherwise they are not displayed in WvW. We felt it would be a cleaner experience that way. In terms of a checkbox, we’ll look into that. It was much simpler to remove them than to provide more detailed options and we felt it was worth it to do so.

thank you!!! <3
one thing that bothers me in WvW is that most of the time in a zerg I can’t tell the difference between downed and dead opponents. an option to not display names of already dead opponents really would be a huge improvement for me.

how dare you to try and quaggan-guilt-trip me. ANet already does that quite well within the game and i hate them for it!

anyway, this topic is still up to date. nothing has changed, dust keeps being crazy expensive and the question if ANet is going to do something about it persists.

hm… the only explanation i have that seems plausible to me is that through SAB upgrading was much more affordable… after all the price now might be rising again.

Zinwrath.2049:

This is good news. +1

hm. i disagree… for me it’s a reason to further avoid sPvP.
introducing new skills and discarding others for sPvP would be much better for me. like this i just get totally confused about how which skill works depending on where i am.

so since the last patch the price of dust (T5 and T6) isn’t rising anymore, also the supply is increasing. i didn’t find anything in the patch notes that could have caused that, so what happened? how did the latest patch trigger that change?

I totally agree with you in one point: it IS one of the best weapons we got. but at the same time it seams not useable, simply bugged to me. i would love to use it, so if it actually is useable in its current form, please tell me how you do it?

Since launch I’m waiting for it to be fixed. And every month I read the patch notes and think to myself: ‘wtf? they fixed this and that unimportant issue, but still didn’t bother fixing the almost unusable ranger sword? – WHY ANet, WHY?!’
So is this a bug or a feature after all…???
I would really love using the sword on my ranger, but like this it just seams impossible to me…

Btw: If I’m not mistaken, in the beta state of the game that issue wasn’t there jet. So they introduced it shortly before the launch? … why?… just… why?!

I said it peaked, not that it is at this price right now.
Look it up if you don’t believe me:
http://www.guildwarstrade.com/item/24277
Sell Listing at 09:22 am GMT: 71.25 s

It’s probably peaking repeatedly because there just isn’t enough Supply. At that time there only were 44 left.
Lucky guys who had listed their dust for 60 to 70s at that time, they made quite a good deal by selling it.

it peaked again, over 70s not too long ago… there just isn’t any supply left…

on a human too? so it might be armor-type related?

what’s happening? someone just bought sort of all the Crystalline Dust?

I have the same problem Fingledobe, and keep thinking: should my account ever get hacked, I really will be screwed… :/ Please let me know if/how support could help you!

this are some good points, thank you!!
do you have any experiences with events that get stuck at a certain point most of the time (like 99% likeliness…)?
for example I would love to do this one event, but it always gets stuck. :/ one of the NPCs involved at the beginning of the escort just won’t start moving. and i’m thinking: maybe I could do -something- to prevent that from happening…

yes, but what makes them stuck in the first place?
maybe there is something i can try doing if an event get’s stuck 99% of the time?

no one? really? :/

I wonder why ecto prices actually didn’t skyrocket.
Compared to the pepper-patch (26.02.), where you could buy for 7c and sell for 90c half an hour later, the ecto market now stayed awfully calm.
http://www.guildwarstrade.com/item/12236
Even when wings of dwayna was found recently, there was a much more intense market reaction.
http://www.guildwarstrade.com/item/24571
So why didn’t ecto prices go up to 60-90s now, but already stopped climbing at 33s?