Guild Wars 2

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Tiscan.8345:

Also make sure that the clock of the device you’re using to generate the code is correct. You can check the clock by visiting https://www.time.gov , https://time.is or a similar site that shows the time of an atomic clock.

This is a surprisingly common cause of authenticator expiration issues. If you’re using a smartphone, it’s probably fine. If you’re using your PC, then double-check your “date & time” settings (how to get there varies a bit by OS) — make sure you use “internet time” or otherwise automatically update.

I am using the smartphone app, and as I said in the first post one of the first things I did was make sure it was synced.

The waiting part does seem to work, but really it shouldn’t matter. It is workable, but still annoying

I am having an issue at the moment that I am needing to enter the authenticator code from the google app multiple times (even the same code) due to getting the message saying it is no longer valid or expired. Yes, I have entered the right code, I have resynced and the timer hasn’t run out (most of the time 3/4 full), but the issue still pops up, even to log in to post this message.

Probably because they are different rarities. you can get blue, green, yellow and gold types, and type will stack with type but they wont stack with each other

Was thinking, there is currently 3, possibly 4, festivals: Halloween, Wintersday, Canthan New Year and Super Adventure Box (when it happens). 3 of them are clumped together from October through early February, and are very much human themed, and maybe an idea would be to have a festival during either May-June or August which was from another race, giving more time for you to polish living story releases, and giving players something different from the other festivals. The idea:

The Grand Moot

A norn festival, activities suggestions would be some localised bosses in the Shiverpeaks, a Great Hunt themed scavenger hunt with animals in the Shiverpeaks which are normal targets for norn, a drinking contest and a gauntlet similar to the Queens Gauntlet except norn themed.

Just a suggestion, but would be good to break up the human-dominated festivals

Same applies to Australia too, since Aussies can’t purchase mp3s through Amazon full stop. iam8bit only has the vinyl version, not the mp3 version.

Just something I noticed with the latest patch, I have the main menu song set to something else, but the game is completely ignoring the playlist in the documents/guild wars 2/music folder. Was this intentional or something unexpected. I don’t know how this affects the ambient music or any other, but it at least affects the character select screen (mainmenu.m3u)

Beast Sos.1457:

Lynx Raven Raide.2764:

OP, you complain about having to pay $10 for the slot, then dismiss the way that you can get it for free.

Your argument was?

Clearly you didnt read the post….

I did read the post, and re-read it again. You invalidated your own argument by dismissing the secondary option of the one thing you are complaining about. By rights, to technically enjoy all aspects of the original game you need 15 character slots, given the 3 choices per race for storyline in the first part. If you dismiss that, then you still need 8 to play every profession. If you are going to dismiss that one, you will in turn dismiss your own argument because saying you need a Rev to play HoT is like saying you need all 8 profs to play the base game…

OP, you complain about having to pay $10 for the slot, then dismiss the way that you can get it for free.

Your argument was?

Living Story events from Jan ’13 through to March ’14 (the scarlet story arc) is season one. July ’14 through to whenever the arc is finished is season two. The seasons will run by over-arching story arcs.

The best way to think of it is like a TV show, like, say, Buffy, where by you have an individual show each week (2 weeks in game) but there is an overall story arc for the season too intertwined, so when the story arc ends, that’s the end of the season, like what happened with the Battle for LA

Announcing access to the Dominion of the Winds through a NPC… who doesnt’t exist

I’ll admit I’m skipping a lot of this thread, but on the case of the dragon, we saw it in a cinematic.

Yup, that’s about it. Us, as players, not characters, saw it. By the looks, its in a pretty remote place, and so soon after the Battle For LA I doubt many would have traced the ley line cracks, and thats if the beast has risen out of the ground yet. Joking around in a bar, trying to relax, does seem like a plausible scenario after a battle, and the first time MKBRT hear about the dragon is from you, the player.

Kal Spiro.9745:

It’s not about you, and even though you killed Scarlet the LS still wasn’t about you, it was about DE2.0.

Actually, if you go to LA, your name will be on the list of heroes that helped defend and liberate LA

Wow, looks like Anet’s plan is working perfectly.

Seriously, people have an attachment to LA as the icon from GW1, with GW2 players also using it as the hub city, so what better target than LA to get the players to have an emotional response, and it has worked. It will be interesting to see what they do in regards to repairing that area, along with the rest of the city, but they knew where to hit.

As for all this BS about retconning and such, where? I haven’t seen much in the way of retcons, and as far as stuff left off in the past, who knows where it will pop up. There are small tidbits everywhere from in game (been to the Vizier’s Tower? ) and external literature (hmmm, so the Mursaat, Seers, Forgotten and Dwarves took on the dragons last time around…), plus as stated, they are sitting on a craptonne of stuff, not to mention quite a bit of Tyria hasn’t been seen yet, let alone Cantha nor Elona. There is a lot of potential for surprises

It couldn’t be Scarlet because E was involved with Marjory way before these current events.

There is one thing that has got me thinking, though. Two words: Death Note. Mayhaps E is a character not unlike L from the Death Note series

At one point I was thinking of a certain someone, until I gave myself a Gibbs’ slap when I remembered its Anise, not Enise

I am actually loving this stuff. There have been bits I have missed and others I have skipped over, but it makes me feel the world is actually changing, rather than being static. Yes, sometimes I feel “oh kitten, I missed this or that” but I also know when I do get in, there will be something interesting and active, rather than going from a zone into a new expansion area set later, doing stuff, then going back to that first zone to see nothing has changed and they are still stuck in the proverbial 1070 AE

The end game starts at level 2. Whilst there may be level restrictions on survivability in areas and dungeons and higher stats on gear, pretty much there is a lot to do. Just wandering around the map, you can find areas you may have bypassed before (there is a special garden in The Grove that I didn’t know about until I did a guild trek) and dynamic events that only spawn at certain times.

48% of players? That is very misleading. Last I checked there were only something like a bit over 3 million copies of GW2 sold (We have to use that since there is no figure for the active player base) yet at the last exit poll on Saturday they stated over 9 million votes had been cast. That is quite a discrepancy and there, and there is nothing to indicate the way individual players voted (if they voted at all, which in some cases they didn’t).

Sidenote: Yes, I did vote Kiel (storyline reasons. Anet should have given a better and more relevant opponent), but I also wanted the Abaddon fractal, so where exactly do I fall?

Rapti Bloodspill.5302:

Gnashblade had so much better potential as a character.

I want to pick this one for a bit. How do you know he really had more potential? Except 2 cut scenes he hasn’t exactly done that much. On the other hand, Kiel has been through most of the living story stuff, so makes more sense to win and continue with the storyline

Agree with most, save for 2 and 7.
2: The colours show the rankings, so therefore they serve a purpose
7: PvE mobs are just part and parcel of WvW. There are plenty of areas without them, you just have to remember to factor them in when you are in the areas that do

Sorry to play devils advocate here, but it does state on the page on the site medium population servers.

That being said, I do agree it has been a bit kitten poor. If they had included High population, it may have been better since the lowest 3 have been sitting on that for a while. I am part of a guild who is trying to get across for WvW reasons (we are sick of the Zerg v Zerg in the higher tiers) and it is a bit disappointing this situation makes it disappointing

We are still looking for members to join. NZ based but recruiting from across all zones.

Friendly, laid-back, casual guild just looking to have fun!

yeah, it comes through the mail and gets counted as mail, unlike the NPC mail. I have had the same problem and submitted a report through the website support

nofo.8469:

Lynx Raven Raide.2764:

Awesome.6120:

I’ve been told that you can start a new character, throw their starter item in the bank and then use it to transmute on another character. Haven’t tried it personally but it may be worth a shot if you deleted something.

you can’t. the items are soulbound, not account bound

Yes you can.

edit: Put a grey or blue item x in bank. Make new char with a starting item of same type at item x, transmute the item you start with and item x then put in bank.

It will say soulbound but can still be transferred between characters.

Okay, I stand corrected. But still you have the problem of needing a spare character slot, and if you dont you need 800 gems, which is a bit of a price just for a pair of shoulders (or mask, or goggles etc). If there was an option to buy the items it would be better

Awesome.6120:

I’ve been told that you can start a new character, throw their starter item in the bank and then use it to transmute on another character. Haven’t tried it personally but it may be worth a shot if you deleted something.

you can’t. the items are soulbound, not account bound

But that would require the transmutation stone to be used, and would be useless if the item is sold/salvaged beforehand

I accidentally sold (or salvaged, not sure) my Conqueror’s Mantle on my guardian, and noticed that there are no skins like that one available in the rest of the game. This situation also applies to the other Guardian personal starter items and a number of other professions as well. My suggestion here is to either make buyable versions in-game, or make other items with the same skins so we can get them again.

Before others chime in with the buy back feature, this doesn’t work if you have logged off or changed characters, and definitely doesn’t work if the item is accidentally salvaged

On the PvE farmers, this one is actually quite easy. They tend to be farming the krait, so a simple jaunt by the GMs into that area would easily eliminate the 50 or so bots that pop up in each one

That commanders thing is a non-issue. Everyone knows that they bought it instead of earning it, so it is easy to ignore them when they throw out orders

Elthurien.8356:

You guys do know that “Buying” a commander book is essentially about $500 US Dollars. snip

Or the use of a bot program….

Neandramathal.9536:

Lynx Raven Raide.2764:

This isnt just happening there, it is also happening on NA servers where people will transfer across to enemy servers, then camp out, taking spots from others and giving their “home” server an advantage.

Unfortunately this will only stop once Anet believes the servers are balanced (which I doubt will happen anytime soon) and they put the paid transfers in place.

It’s not that they are transferring to assist their home server, they are moving to stay as the permanent steamroll.

The bottom tier is Fissure of Woe, Ruins of Surmia + another. It was initially Dzagonur, they steamrolled the 2 low pop servers and got bumped up a tier. Drakkar Lake became their replacment as the 3rd server, and several guilds from Dzagonur moved back down to Drakkar so they could remain in the low tier. Steamroll occurs, Drakkar goes up and Dzag comes back down, the guilds move again.

Server transfers to permanently remain dominant in the lower tier against the smaller servers.

I was just pointing out another abuse of the feature. But yeah, the situation wont be resolved until Anet put the price back on transfers

Personally, I hope Anet spring it on us when they do, not giving us warning. That way the idiots who abuse the feature like the German boosters and spot campers will be stuck on those servers, having to pay to go back

@Kiviar: funny thing, I saw idiots on Fergys doing the same thing. 3 camps, 2 towers, then they went over to AR borderlands, leaving what we gained wide open.

I guess the thing is that it really isnt a game thing, more of a mob mentality. Unfortunately it isn’t that advantageous from a server point of view..

This isnt just happening there, it is also happening on NA servers where people will transfer across to enemy servers, then camp out, taking spots from others and giving their “home” server an advantage.

Unfortunately this will only stop once Anet believes the servers are balanced (which I doubt will happen anytime soon) and they put the paid transfers in place.

Fergy’s quitters mainly come from the lack of coordination. Tonight was a good example where we had a decent amount on our borderlands, only to have it lost while idiots were throwing themselves at Dreaming Bay while our supply lines were being cut off, causing us to lose the Garrison and Ethron Hills as well…

Personally, I believe it should just be removed. All it seems to serve at the moment as kitten for those who have the gold, not the ones who earn and deserve it. Saw a situation the other night where someone with this tag was ‘leading’ a group of people who took back a couple of supply camps and towers on our map… then promptly moved onto another, leaving what we had gained to be easily retaken by the opposition. It just seems like an icon on the map for people to follow, but not necessarily for the benefit of the side

It would probably vary depend on who is dominant in the borderlands, but yeah, it is happening across many of them.

Oh I wish Anet had brought the Dhuum animation over to GW2…

Thanks for posting that picture Aiden. I think this would be happening in all borderlands, but I know it was definitely bad in Fergs both last round and earlier when I got on

This is becoming a bit of an issue. There have been instances where a player is either downed or in an unfavourable position and they have logged out, denying kills and loot, then logging straight back in again.

I know some are doing this to save on armour costs, but I see 2 sides to this. Firstly players aren’t getting the rewards from putting the effort in to get kills, and putting themselves in the same situation (mostly being honourable enough to take the hits and pay out repair costs). The other side is that it isn’t that hard to make money in the game. There are npcs and gathering spots which can provide income to offset repair costs, so really if you are just standing around, looking for fights there is no real excuse

The dark side to this is that people are using this to troll, deliberately going after the same people and doing it over and over.

A couple of suggestions would be that if a player is in combat they still incur the penalties and opposing players get the kill rewards, or include a deserter debuff like in Guild Wars 1, denying them access to WvW for a certain period of time. Either way, this issue needs to be addressed.

There is an issue with bot farming in the borderlands. They clump up in the lakes and farm krait for scales, both affecting the economy and taking up places from those who genuinely want to do WvW. Some will reply “Just report them” but the problem is twofold in that there are usually over a dozen of them and they are usually clumped up, meaning it is time consuming to report all of them.

A suggestion is maybe have a GM periodically pop into WvW and check these lakes. The botters dont move and easily seen on the map, so it wouldn’t be hard to do

@Ctarl: I would check your internet settings and your computer there for the “pop-in” cause it either seems like lag or your settings that are causing that if you get it in both WvW and in normal PvE

But on your other point, it is easy to make money in this game, even in WvW. If you are just standing around, waiting for a fight, I would suggest sPvP. Otherwise, there is gathering you can do, AI enemies you can kill easily for loot, items can be salvaged and the materials sold on the trading post, or if you are that way inclined you could buy gems and convert to gold. The first half of my opening post is proof of it (bot farmers in the WvW lakes getting scales off the krait). If you can’t be bothered doing any of that, then really it is your own fault for not having enough money. It shouldn’t be used as an excuse to reap the rewards of defeating enemy players whilst logging out and denying them the same

mage.3570:

(2) By logging out, it is possible to prevent armor from being damaged and hence this saves some coin. Player’s wouldn’t have logged out if the repair costs were eliminated or toned down significantly. On the other hand, if ANET fixes it by making sure you still get armor damage even if you logged out just before death occurs, and the winner getting his loot – the incentive to log-out wouldn’t exist.

I do believe there is also a trolling issue with this as well, as I have seen instances where the same person will go up to the same group and do it over and over. I do agree though that the armour damage and loot drop after logging would be a disincentive, but I do agree with Karew in that there should be a delay, or as I proposed a deserter debuff like in Guild Wars 2 (it stopped players who logged/quit out in the middle of matches heading south from going into PvP for a certain amount of time), as being denied access would be just as much a disincentive.

please Anet, don’t change WvW because of “nightcapping”. To me, it is working as intended, in that it is supposed to be continuous 24/7. Just because some people sleep, doesn’t mean everyone sleeps, and it adds to the intrigue of it.

If you are zerging maybe you should rethink your strategy rather than blame the lack of trinity…

ilJumperMT.4871:

Rhoame.6917:

Well, you can always dismiss your pet and run without one? To each his/her own. I personally loved playing my ranger with his pet, but you can run one without a pet if it really ruins the profession for you.

Well Pets are 40% of Ranger DPS. My problem is how unresponsive and dumb pets are.

Ranger Pet in a nutshell:

Aggro while Gathering
Using F2 when you don’t want to

Worst Offense: Aggroing mobs while in dungeons causing wipes

that’s odd, I have found the opposite.

Aggro while Gathering: my pet has only aggroed in that situation when an enemy actually comes up and attacks. I have safely gathered while my pet is out without it aggroing, and if anything it is helpful cause it can defend you while you are vulnerable.

F2: I honestly haven’t noticed and don’t really care. I don’t manually do it anyway

Aggroing mobs: okay, I admit I haven’t done it in dungeons, but I have in some of the claustrophobic caverns and have found they only aggro when either the enemy aggros or I auto-attack a bit too much and it hits another target.

On the mesmer thing, I wasn’t big on them in GW1, so played it to not spoil during the BWEs… and fell in love with it here, it is so much fun. I guess some professions don’t suit some people.

Don’t know if this is in the works and you are waiting for the dust to settle, but it would be good to introduce trial accounts. I have a friend who I would like to try the game without being forced to buy, because I feel he may like the game, but he also may not. If this is in the works, any idea when it is coming?

knuckles
2 handed axe
scythes
recurve bow

SunRain.8972:

Darius.4718:

Arathi Hinterlands…
Yerp

i didn’t get it..

Combination of Arathi Highlands and The Hinterlands from WoW. the actual GW2 zone is Harathi Hinterlands