Guild Wars 2

I should also add that this DR cannot be cleared by changing characters. In my case I hopped on a character that I had not played for at least a week, immediately teleported from the Frozen Maw area (without doing any events in Shiverpeaks) to Queensdale. I did about 5 events in Queensdale, all of which suffered from DR penalties. I then teleported to Ascalon and killed the harpies near Smokestead. DR still affected my events. I then ran into the flame legion shaman cave and killed braziers, which finally granted me a non-DR’ed reward fit for a level 50+ Thief.

I’ve been running Frozen Maw event in Wayfarer Foothills a lot recently and something odd has been happening. After completing my third or fourth Frozen Maw chain on a character, I will hit a DR (Diminishing Returns) “cliff” and the rewards granted from the events drop sharply. If I Teleport to another zone, such as Queensdale, to do more event farming, my first couple events will have DR applied to them. I can’t tell if my character is being slammed by a timer penalty or a by-region penalty. If it were by-region, you’d think teleporting to a completely different region would give a clean slate, but it doesn’t.

One thing I’ve noticed is that for each event I complete that has DR applied to it, I’ll have to “work off” that “debt” by doing events in another zone. If I’ve done 5 DR’ed versions of Frozen Maw events, I’ll have to do 5 events in Kryta or Ascalon before the DR will lift. Is this intended? Or is my server-hopping causing some sort of anomaly?

Repro steps:

1. Pick a character level 10+ and log in.
2. Teleport to Krennak Homestead WP in Wayfarer Foothills.
3. Complete Frozen Maw event chain when it pops.
4. After completing that chain, guest to another server and do the event again.
5. Repeat step 4 until DR penalty kicks on on events.
6. Do a few more Frozen Maw events, about 4-5 or so, while the DR is active.
7. Teleport to Ascalon or Kryta, any map.
8. Do events.
9. Observe DR affecting your events.

Race: Charr
Gender: Female
Profession: Guardian

Weapon issue: Trinity Buckler of Ghost Slaying. (Fine transmutation combination of the level 80 shield from Ascalonian Catacombs and the Trinity Buckler shield granted from story missions.)

Armor equipped in Screenshot:

Head: Explorer’s Gladiator Helm of the Pirate
Shoulders: Explorer’s Gladiator Pauldrons of the Pirate
Body: Berserker’s Pit Fighter Chest of the Pirate
Gloves: Explorer’s Gladiator Gauntlets of the Pirate
Legs: Berserker’s Pit Fighter Legs of the Pirate
Feet: Warband Boots of the Traveler

NOTE: This issue will occur with full Ascalonian dungeon armor as well. It likely happens with all armors.

Problem: “Trinity Buckler” shield skin is clipping through the left arm of the character. As far as I know this shield skin is only obtainable through story missions. When unsheathed, the shield is clipped through the upper arm of the character. Prior to January 28, this issue never occurred.

Things have vastly improved on Tarnished Coast. Cursed Shore is playable again after the Jan 28 patch.

Open-world dragon fights have deteriorated in connection stability after this patch, though, but I suspect this was due to the cap boosts and server locks.

Cursed Shore, Sparkfly Fen, Harathi Hinterlands maps on Tarnished Coast server are experiencing some major connection timeouts frequently, often in the middle of events. I live on the upper east coast of the US and have Verizon Fios. No other games even come close to these amounts of latency and connectivity issues. It’s only GW2. This all started happening a couple days ago. Half the game world is unplayable right now.

I’ve also been having this issue. I use a Logitech MX518.

Trying to drag expensive items over to the mailing bins or bank gives me the willies, because it frequently drops them out in the field without me lifting my finger from the left mouse button, which of course then prompts me to destroy the item/s. Happens frequently when I try to rearrange my bank items as well.

I spent about 30 minutes in here. What held me up in the end was a destructible metal rack of some sort over by the indestructible charr wall. It was easy to miss because it’s small and not very obvious.

I’m losing good, active guildmates over this. I’m not sure if they’ll get over it or not. I don’t have the heart to tell them what they should do. I want them to enjoy the game however they want. This incident has soured my experience with the game, and I don’t even play elementalist.

Put it on a cooldown, split it for PvP, do whatever you need to do, but bring it back, please.