Guild Wars 2

So I have two main comments for this. The first I think is a bug, in that sand shades do not always spawn on the first click. I find myself having to spam F1 in order to get it to spawn, and then wait until it has actually spawned before I dare to click another skill or action, lest the sand shade doesn’t actually appear.

There are some “skill queuing” issues with other classes and skills, but this to me is the most obvious and egregious.

The second thing which I am actually really very annoyed with is the way the time of the test was announced, and then silently changed. I saw the initial announcement, saw that it was going to start at 8PM UK time and thought “Great! Perfect time for me!” I then get in the game a little over 30 minutes ago (30 minutes before the originally scheduled start) and see that it is already going. And then I get booted out at 8pm UK time (so 10 minutes ago). I check the thread and see that the time had been changed.

It is because of this type of shenanigans that people clamour for an in-game notification system, whether that’s an ingame mail or a pop-up, or some other system. But it is ridiculous to make an announcement with a fixed date and time, and then decide to change it, because you think “it will allow more EU players to join”. Perhaps think of that before you make an announcement, yeah?

Does this also affect the home instance of the Jade Fragment, or only the nodes in Lake Doric?

Edit: Home instance node still drops the jade shards.

tl;dr Uniting Noobs of Tyria [UNIT] is aimed at helping brand new players taking their first few steps in the world of Tyria. The guild is friendly and promotes a relaxed environment. We do PvE content, but as the guild grows there will be guild missions and PvP.

Guild: Uniting Noobs in Tyria [UNIT]
Preferred language: English
Activity: UK Evenings and weekends.
Leader contact: Me! Lateralis.5701.
Purpose: To help and support players brand new to the game; to enjoy content without too many pressures or expectations.

This guild was formed on the 18th of May 2016, and as such is brand new.
I formed this guild for two main reasons. The first is simply to try and enjoy the game with a group of fun and friendly people, doing content without many pressures or expections. Secondly, and the most important, was I have noted a lot of brand new players entering the game as a result of HoT and following the Spring quarterly update. In various areas of the game (notably dungeons and fractals, but also in general PvE) I noticed a number of short tempered veteran players berating the new players for their lack of experience. As a veteran player I decided I could do something to help new players, and so I have created Uniting Noobs of Tyria.

Uniting Noobs of Tyria is primarily a guild for players who are totally new to the game, but it is also for returning players after an extended break and players who have been playing for a long time. So essentially anyone! It is a friendly and welcoming guild, with people who have just a few hours of playtime up to several thousand. It is a guild that promotes knowledge sharing and promotes experimentation with different classes and builds.

The guild at the moment is small but growing. We do general open world content (including HoT), dungeons and fractals. As guild numbers grow we will do guild missions and capture our own guild hall.

If you are interested in joining the guild or want more information please feel free to message Lateralis.5701, either through a whisper or through ingame mail.

tl;dr Uniting Noobs of Tyria is aimed at helping brand new players taking their first few steps in the world of Tyria. The guild is friendly and promotes a relaxed environment. We do PvE content, but as the guild grows there will be guild missions and PvP.

This guild was formed on the 18th of May 2016, and as such is brand new.
I formed this guild for two main reasons. The first is simply to try and enjoy the game with a group of fun and friendly people, doing content without many pressures or expections. Secondly, and the most important, was I have noted a lot of brand new players entering the game as a result of HoT and following the Spring quarterly update. In various areas of the game (notably dungeons and fractals, but also in general PvE) I noticed a number of short tempered veteran players berating the new players for their lack of experience. As a veteran player I decided I could do something to help new players, and so I have created Uniting Noobs of Tyria.

Uniting Noobs of Tyria is primarily a guild for players who are totally new to the game, but it is also for returning players after an extended break and players who have been playing for a long time. So essentially anyone! It is a friendly and welcoming guild, with people who have just a few hours of playtime up to several thousand. It is a guild that promotes knowledge sharing and promotes experimentation with different classes and builds.

The guild at the moment is small but growing. We do general open world content (including HoT), dungeons and fractals. As guild numbers grow we will do guild missions and capture our own guild hall.

If you are interested in joining the guild or want more information please feel free to message Lateralis.5701, either through a whisper or through ingame mail.

I can confirm this bug is not fixed. I have just experienced something similar and had a similar problem yesterday evening BST.

In yesterday’s DC I was about to enter the Vinewrath room with the bottom lane having been in the map for more or less the whole event chain, but as we were fighting the boss the client had a total fit. I lost connection to basically everything and had just a black screen. Such was the nature of the crash I had to alt-tab out and end the process.

Just now I was in another Silverwastes map, again having gone through the whole event chain from around 30 or 40% Pact preparation. I was at the top lane, the first two champions had been slain and I was literally about ready to follow the siege carrier up to the end of the lane when BOOM totally random d/c. Simply got kicked back to the login screen. I managed to get back into the same map as I happened to be in a party with a guildie, but my dead body was about 3000 units distance away from where I was standing when the client D/C (behind a wall, down a cliff, so I wasn’t simply tossed aside by a terragriff or anything).

Despite trying to run back as fast as I could, I didn’t make it into the vinewrath room, the champ was slain and I got no credit whatsoever so missed out on the big chest and didn’t get my second mordrem extraction piece.

Since the first patch yesterday (19th May) I have had 3 random client D/Cs, two of which have been in the Silverwastes right at the end of the event chain… you know, the bit the whole map is solely geared towards. I understand that this is just a game and I shouldn’t be so frustrated, but the Silverwastes event chain is the sole purpose of that map. Take out the event chain and you have nothing, so losing out on the big prize at the end is incredibly aggravating.

Over all I would be far less upset by these sorts of disconnects if progress and contribution to events in maps was stored/remembered by the server, even if only for a short while, so that in the event of a short disconnect like the one I experienced just now I still get full credit.

But ultimately much more stringent bug testing needs to take place before patches go live. The number of utterly ridiculous bugs that have been introduced into the game over the last few months is utterly laughable. From a textureless Great Jungle Wurm, to mesmers not being able to play PvP, to widespread server crashes and random player D/Cs, the game is increasingly becoming literally unplayable, and it is shattering the confidence I and other players have in the competence of ANet.