Guild Wars 2

Dawdler.8521:

Spirit shards drop from pretty much every loot box and tomes in reward tracks. I dont even know what to do with them, drowning in thousands upon thousands of shards. I havent even done a single raid

It’s still something to work towards though and the XP isn’t being wasted. Maybe the reward should be changed to something else? But that’s a different discussion entirely.

So I’ve noticed that once people reach the max mastery level in magumma track maps, they’re xp goes towards earning spirit shards… I do not want to do raids and I have levelled all of the other mastery tracks up but all of my XP goes to waste because I haven’t started the raid mastery track.

Would we be able to get spirit shards for levelling just like the fully levelled raiders please? I hate seeing XP go to waste.

It’s a small bug, but I have fully completed all of the achievements for Out of the Shadows but my story journal is still saying that I have achievements to complete and the achievement mastery icon is still greyed out, it’s messing with my OCD haha.

Ok, thanks for the replies guys!

So I missed out on season 1 and 2, but want to go for the legendary backpack before it is gone; if I go down a league but then go back up again, do I get the rewards for getting to that league again or do you only get the rewards once when you first reach that league?

So I missed out on season 1 and 2, but want to go for the legendary backpack before it is gone; if I go down a league but then go back up again, do I get the rewards for getting to that league again or do you only get the rewards once when you first reach that league?

So I completed the Auric basin meta and got 250,000 ish XP but I only needed 30,000 to level up my mastery…. it seems the rest of the 220,000 XP has just vanished into thin air and has not being applied to the next mastery in that track or the next one I choose to level Now I feel like I have to manage my XP and how I get it in order to maximise my XP gain instead of doing the events I want because it will waste the XP.

Anybody else feel the same way? Is there away Anet could fix this? It’s not a massive game breaking thing but it would help out a lot of people I suppose!

ZachAttack.3957:

DR is diminishing returns. Basically it means if you do something long enough you start to get less rewards for doing it. Take dungeons – first time you run a path you get a certain amount of XP and gold. Every subsequent run of that path you get less and less. It works the same way with grinding mobs- it you grind the same mobs in the same area long enough, DR will hit and hit HARD. You will start to get almost nothing in terms of drops. What this means for map bonuses is that it will start to take more and more events to get the next reward.

Ah yes, I’ve heard about diminishing returns. Thanks for the reply dude! You’ve helped me out.

ZachAttack.3957:

I’ve only really been doing this in the core tyria maps, notably mount maelstrom. Keep in mind you will receive no notification when you receive a reward- it will pop right into your inventory like a drop from a mob upon pressing “F”. Also remember that DR kicks in after just about an hour and lasts for the next like 4 hours at the least, and it starts to take 5+ events to get one reward.

What is DR? Sorry, I’m a bit of a nub :P

ZachAttack.3957:

I am assuming you are talking about the map bonuses system. The way you get these is by doing about 1.8 events/jumping puzzles/mini dungeons (assuming DR hasn’t kicked in). There is a primary reward for each zone, which is the first reward you will ever receive in the zone. After doing the 1.8 events/etc (again, assuming DR hasn’t kicked in) you will get whatever is listed as the “next reward”, and then another item is selected from the list of possible rewards and put in as the next reward (this can be the primary reward again as well). Whether the process is by random selection or not is unclear; however, upon getting a reward other than the primary reward, it will always cycle back to the primary reward and slot it back in as your next reward. After getting (I think) 10 rewards you will have 10x of the primary reward slotted in as the next reward. Keep in mind that if you do enough events, you will receive all the rewards on the list (it will usually take about 45 minutes – 1 hour to cycle through all the possible rewards).

I’m not sure if the function is bugged for VB, or if you need to have map completion to receive them, so if you have been doing events I’m not sure why you haven’t gotten any.

Thanks for the reply, yeah I have been doing tons of events in Verdant Brink! getting 100% of my map progress so I’m definitely doing more then 2 events, maybe it is bugged like you mention? I will try a different map and see if the same thing happens (Or doesn’t happen in my case :P )

So I’ve been playing on Verdant Brink alot since the release of HoT but I havent got a single map reward? Can somebody enlighten me on how they work and how I can unlock them and progress to the next rewards?

Thanks!

Remember a couple of months ago, where a bug would have your inventory randomly change size of what you had set it? Well, its back. It doesnt seem to be changing in-game like before, but when I initially log in again, its a different size as to how I had set it before. Can we see another fix please?

Just played my first PVP match since christmas, we got absolutely stuffed on courtyard, where my team didnt score a single kill! :P The match ended and I got 0 glory, and none of my dailys popped for playing a match!! Why is this? I know we lost so hard, but a reward of atleast some glory would have nulled the pain, now I just feel like it was a huge kittening waste of time.

Just come back to the game after a short break after christmas, is there a scaling issue in the game? its impossible to level up my character in iron marches due to over scaled npc’s.

So, I’ve just come back to the game after taking about a month or two off due to other games coming out, and I load into my warrior lvl75 to get him up to 80. I load into Iron Marches and all the enemies have a higher level then my current downscaled one, making it pretty much impossible to do anything! Is this a problem other people are experiencing?

Thanks in advance for the reply

I click on the join button in the LFG tool, and it doesnt put me in a party, also it blocks me from joining other parties because ive “joined too many”? I cant even join one!

Same here!! Now I see why you guys were saying 15 chars.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Yeah, Mawdrey is fully evolved.

Does it go mysterious, cultivated, mawdrey?

Has new parts of the back piece been added in any of the patches in the 2nd half of season 2? or has it not progressed yet?

it’s more for the fact that I need map completion!

Can we get a system in place to change your servers borderlands everytime a new match is started, my server (Gunnars Hold) has had the same borderlands for 7 match-ups now and its absolutely infuriating!

Mareth.8659:

MAUS HOUS.8047:

Might be DDOS attacks, it’s completely stopped for me now.

Was Europe involved in it as well?

EU servers are having this problem aswell if that’s what you mean!

What the hell is going on, its a chore to actually try and play this game Logging out and logging in constantly :/ Is this gonna be fixed soon? whats the problem? I’d love some insight!

Might be DDOS attacks, it’s completely stopped for me now.

I just want to say a HUGE thankyou, I’ve never won anything in my life and this means so much to me! The even was absolutely brilliant aswell! Hope to see you all next year for another one!

Still cannot log into my character after 1 hour of trying, could Anet clarify the problem?

This is really starting to annoy me. I’ve been disconnected 17 times in the past 1 hour and a half. Anet you really need to look into this because it’s a major problem!

Exactly the same for me also, I have been getting a similar message when trying to enter Sparkfly Fen for Tequatl aswell. Maybe it’s something to do with largely populated maps? Hope Anet fix it soon because it’s becoming quite prevalent!

Same here, very annoying as I sighed with relief when it was presumably fixed.

Is the Hexed outfit reward an unlockable skin or a tonic? I was really hoping for some skins!

…………nearly

ITS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gaile Gray.6029:

locoman.1974:

DoomKnightMax.6592:

Titus.4285:

YES! IT’S FINALLY LIVE!

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Signed yours sincerely, Oswald.

Liar. (Unless on EU. I don’t know about EU.)

I guess someone didn’t read the signature..

(HINT: King Oswald “Mad King” Thorn)…

Evil. Pure evil.

Please can you give us an ETA? I’d love to know if I can get some sleep or if I should wait!

Hope this patch hits before midnight GMT, I’ve gotta get up for college in the morning but I’ll sacrifice a few hours sleep to have a look around the new patch!

Lady Elvea.2847:

Ykfox.3825:

Lady Elvea.2847:

MAUS HOUS.8047:

Lady Elvea.2847:

lordkrall.7241:

Lady Elvea.2847:

Come to think of it… aren’t we due a weekly BLTC update from our favourite Ebeneezer Charr?

Nope, those usually comes the week when we don’t have patches and I seem to recall that all the Halloween thingies was added last Tuesday.

I could swear they were every week regardless… I also fully expect them to bring back the Halloween themed outfits again (Witch, Thorn, etc.) from previous years, which would be included in a “today” update.

I don’t know if you’ve been on the game, but those outfits have been in the gem store for a week now, as well as a new halloween costume.

I have. The raiment I don’t really consider new per se, since it’s a GW1 rehash. (Own it there, cba to buy it again.) The other ones were put back without being announced and are allll the way at the bottom of the Style section for some reason (specifically Executioner and Bloody Prince).

I.e. they’re easily overlooked, which doesn’t seem a logical way to treat stuff you’re putting back in only temporarily.

That’s really weird, for me all the Halloween costumes are at the absolute top of the style section of the gem store….

Even weirder since it doesn’t come with a sorting option so should be the same for all players. Am intrigued now.

The Raiment looks awesome in the GW2 engine tho:) Also I have an advert on the front page of the GW2 gem store showing the skins coming back with new minis! How strange that we’ve all got different experiences with the gem store at the moment :S

Lady Elvea.2847:

lordkrall.7241:

Lady Elvea.2847:

Come to think of it… aren’t we due a weekly BLTC update from our favourite Ebeneezer Charr?

Nope, those usually comes the week when we don’t have patches and I seem to recall that all the Halloween thingies was added last Tuesday.

I could swear they were every week regardless… I also fully expect them to bring back the Halloween themed outfits again (Witch, Thorn, etc.) from previous years, which would be included in a “today” update.

I don’t know if you’ve been on the game, but those outfits have been in the gem store for a week now, as well as a new halloween costume.

Mad queen Malafide, did you do a list from 200-300? I cannot seem to find it on this thread. Also, what happens if the map fills up? Will we still make the raffle if we cant get in?

I’ll have 211 please! My character name is: Sythurani

This has been going for atleast 7 months now! Are we gonna get a fix Anet? XD

shadow.6174:

There’s already a long thread about this issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Inventory-Window-changing-size-alone

Thanks!

So I’ve been suffering this problem alot recently and usually occurs when logging in and first opening my inventory. My inventory is 6 rows down and 9 columns across. From what I can remember it takes one of the columns off everytime I log in and sometimes quite rarely when I just open my inventory making me resize it so it’s back to normal.

Galen Grey.4709:

because episodes this year are 4x-5x as long as last year.

Each living story update last year consisted of a single 30 min or so story instance. this year there are 4 – 5 such instance every single release.

Hmm, I can see what you mean but when you compare the total amount of content, such as super adventure box which was MASSIVE and the twisted marionette AND the jungle wurm, each with their own story instances aswell, it just seems like half the effort. I agree that the story instances are much longer then they used to be but they’re drawn out with lots of combat and that doesnt take long to program since it’s already in the game.

So, Last year we had 20 living story updates out of the 26 bi-weekly time slots, which is brilliant for getting content pretty much guaranteed every two weeks! This year however, we have had 7 updates and we already know that we wont be getting any until november, not to mention the overall content has fallen dramatically with this years updates aswell. All I would like to know is why? Why have they halved the amount of content by masking it behind “breaks”? Are they working on an expansion? What would the reasoning behind this decision be? It’s extremely aggravating and has pushed me away from the game in the past few weeks.

Exactly the same here! It’s not just while in combat either, when I exited a cave in Fireheart Rise they all died after I went past the entrance, and they also died when I went up a hill in Fireheart Rise aswell. Maybe it has something to do with trasitioning from high/low ground such as caves and hills, either way it’s very annoying and only been present since the recent feature patch.

When the sale started 10 days ago, they re-added marjorys, belindas, rox’s etc weapons back into the gem store which I personally really liked! Their was no “available for 6 days” or any kind of timer, since these weapons cost about £5 each if you buy the gems from the store which is an insanely high price for an axe skin or anything like that, I’d buy them with gold not real money but we all know how over inflated the prices are. I was hoping that Anet was going to start adding permanent skins to the gem store after adding the wardrobe so people could gradually buy and collect these skins, but it seems they are timing them again, making it near anough impossible to get all of them unless you spend a TON of either gold or real money! GW2 is an EXTREMELY expensive game, if things where cheaper, I’d definitely buy more of them! Say, 275-300 gems MAX for a weapon skin I would class as a decent amount, thats still £3 for a tiny dagger skin but not too cheap so people just buy them with gold not real cash.

Whats your guys thoughts on this? I don’t usually post or even come on the forums but this really tickled a nerve.

Yes it’s a new vendor. Guild Wars 2’s 2nd birthday is at the end of the month, so I’m guessing it has something to do with that, I hope some kind of birthday celebration event and stuff happens!

Forums and wiki take AGES to load, don’t know what the problem is but all other websites are fine. It took me ages to be able to post this comment.

In the past 2 weeks I’ve just started doing tequatl daily, and every single time I’ve completed it! I don’t know what triple trouble is like since I’m going to move onto that after I’ve got all the achievements for teq but I always arrive at the area 20-30 minutes before the event is meant to start. Also use the LFG tool to find servers with large groups and commanders. I think the main rule is to turn up early though.

Ulion.5476:

It has been talked about before. A-net can not do anything about it.

I really hope this is not the case, did the devs say they DEFINATELY can’t do anything about it or is it just speculation due to the amount of time they have taken to fix this? I really hope they can fix it because I’m a big achievement hunter and their is no way in hell I will go for any of those, your right that the 250k kill tally is the only achievable one.

Hi there all, I am just here to ask if arenanet would severely tone down the achievement requirements for the WvW achievements, I mean 1 MILLION dolyak caravan kills and 25,000 stonemist castle captures?!?! you would need to kill over 200 dolyaks a day for 15 years to get that achievement, and I capture stonemist castle at most 8 times a week and thats a MASSIVE stretch, it’s usually only once or twice, these goals are just totally obsurd, the achievements for edge of the mist seem to be more in line with obtainable but still a challenge. I know these achievements are meant to span the whole lifetime of this game but come on! Nobody is going to kill 200 dolyaks a day, 365 days a year and still capture stonemist castle 50 times a week all in conjunction with each other! Not to mention they’re woth 50 achievement points each which if they we’re going to keep the milestones is just plain stupid. What do you guys think? and Anet??

Cheers.