Guild Wars 2

I had this earlier as well. – as in about 2 hrs ago….
I changed characters and it was still happening…

Everyone moving 200mph, no map chat, but “say” seemed to be map chat… Lasted until I closed game for about 15 minutes and relaunched and it was “fixed”

(4) “When you use a trap skill, you gain 3 seconds of super speed.”
(6) "Gain 3 seconds of stealth when using a trap skill.

Stealth timer stacks, but Super Speed timer does not stack…

Both should expire at same time, based on simple math, but they do not.

I do not get the speed boost nor the invisibility when I lay the Heal Spring Trap from my Trapper Runes, all the others seem to work fine though…

Thanks whoever did whatever, I just got the email (after trying randomly for over a day now)

I recently moved, and have tried multiple times to get the E-mail Authentication for the game but it is not sending it…

I signed in to manage account, and received the authentication email for that, but time and time again I have tried game and not received the email…

I have checked Junk and everything else, it just is not coming in…

I also find it odd that I authenticated for the web portal account management just fine but the game seems to have a separate authentication set of permissions….

Thanks,

I just verified, you are correct….

“Speargun Master” = Spear gun or Harpoon
“Harpoon Master” = Spear
“Trident Master” = Trident

Why after almost 2 years is this not fixed? how hard is it to take out 7 letters and insert 5 letters to make this “Master” make sense and be correct???

I am 496/500 for Harpoon Master and figured I would just wanted to get it off my list of “Nearly Completed”…

I tried on my ranger, with harpoon… a lot of the attacks cause bleeding, and since the “last tick” is all that is counted for the kills (great design WTF!!!)… Figured, after about 50 tries to check my other characters, remembering Thief also used harpoon….

I got on my Thief, and used only Skill 2, “Deluge” – Fire four shots at your foe. Damage and no conditions….

After about 20 kills I realized it still isn’t counting… and that this is a bug….

I did not try any other “Master killing” to see if they are broken, but I would assume others are as well…

This has been reported multiple times, it even is noted on the wiki as being bugged…

That set has only been out like 6 months or so, give them another year and they will worry about fixing them….

I know I have opened a thread on this type of situation in the past….

I play light armor class mainly and sometimes medium armor class…

Why in the wide wide world of sports are “special skins” only set to preview as heavy…

I cant imagine how many people have not bought items in the past (me include) if I didn’t have to Google all around looking for a code, to then copy and spam in chat, to preview an item….

I can confirm they have fixed “holding a bundle and spawning phantasms” for:
Defender
Disenchanter

But
I can confirm they have not fixed “holding a bundle and spawning clones / phantasms” for:
Decoy
Mirror Images
Part of it works now

They just got the potions of slaying working correctly for physical damage…

ANet cant fix everything over night…. give them another year or two and I am sure they will figure it out…

It isn’t like they have publicly stated they are going to reduce critical damage and chance and try to balance out the damage so condition damage is actually as useful as physical damage…

I mean how could they ever intend on that, and make an achievement for the Knights being killed in 6 minutes of which requires pure physical damage…

I am confused….

The team does a video presentation talking about “addressing damage” and making damage other than “critical damage / zerker” more usefull..

Then we get told “you have to do massive direct dps to the knights to kill them in 6 minutes for achievement”

Does the Right hand have no clue what the Left hand is doing?

Can they possibly get 1 thing “functional” in this game?

2 weeks to “complete” content, and its day 4 already and still more problems then I can count……

And don’t 1 person dare to reply “Its a Free to Play Game”…. It has been proven that they make more money in Gem sales then most games make that are “monthly feed”

This problem has been a problem for ages….

Karma / Fractal Relics / WvW / Gold currency is “farmed” and “earned” just as each other are…. why we cannot salvage these items is a long asked question….

It makes no sense at all…. it isn’t like karma and fractal relics just appears on our characters over time and this would be some exploit if we could do something with the items we spent “earned” currency for…

Just as Ascended Rings, they pile up, though we were “rewarded” or “purchased” them for earned currency….

How are “fractal relics” and “karma” stored in our “wallet” and not be treated just as all the other “currency” in the game?

Every day I question myself as to why I am still caring enough to post better yet play….

You know what bothers me the most….

It isn’t just that all the new content for every patch has been broken for 2-5 days post release…
It isn’t that the Living Story content is only playable / completable for the 2 weeks after it comes out (of which the first few days its barely playable)…..
It isn’t that they have a huge amount of map space they could “create on” and expand the world (keeping the content available to new players who just started)

It is the fact that so much existing content in the game, has been broken / not functioning / full of bugs remains broken because the Developers and QA team are to busy rushing on the new broken content that is only to be around for 2 weeks.

I seem more and more dedicated players leaving the game daily because they are tired of the pointless cycle when the “existing content” never gets fixed to start with….

If they are Karma rings they are not salvageable….

It is a “feature” so people cant spend their hard earned karma on things they can convert to materials…

Makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it…

*I wanted to share this from the other forum…..

I Had to do this…. I had to…. you dont understand… but I had too….

Bob Slydell: The Player Base
Dom Portwood: Who’s that?
Bob Porter: You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
Dom Portwood: Oh, yeah.
Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can’t actually find a record of him buying any Gems.
Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he bought the game almost two years ago and hasnt purchased a single Gem; but through some kind of glitch in the loot department, he was still getting loot.
Bob Slydell: So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh: Great.
Dom Portwood: So, uh, The Player Base has been let go?
Bob Slydell: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the glitch. So they won’t be receiving loot anymore, so it’ll just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.

Had to do this…. I had to…. you dont understand… but I had too….

Bob Slydell: The Player Base
Dom Portwood: Who’s that?
Bob Porter: You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
Dom Portwood: Oh, yeah.
Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can’t actually find a record of him buying any Gems.
Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he bought the game almost two years ago and hasnt purchased a single Gem; but through some kind of glitch in the loot department, he was still getting loot.
Bob Slydell: So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh: Great.
Dom Portwood: So, uh, The Player Base has been let go?
Bob Slydell: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the glitch. So they won’t be receiving loot anymore, so it’ll just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.

Kyvia.5961:

Eventually one of the NPC’s, I think it is Kasmeer, should say “I will distract her!” or something, and the shield will drop, takes a while. Alternately, you can use any sort of Immune+Stomp on her, Mist Form works brilliantly for it if you have an Ele.

I love that you mention the “Mist Form” trick, as players do such in WvW and the like…

Now, due to the “omg exploit in the living story” maybe it will get addressed…

skepticck.9714:

Their statement is pretty clear (imo)

…will drop 5 Deluxe Gear Boxes and a chance at an Assault Knight Power Core…

and not
… a chance to drop a deluxe gear box and an assault knight power core …

Then you can say the following quote from the patch notes is not correct because “all”
the members of Scarlet’s armies do not drop a bag each time they are defeated… There is a “chance” they will drop them, but they dont write out every word of it.

“Alliance supply bags will continue to be found on the defeated troops of Scarlet’s armies.”

Just as “5 deluxe gear boxes” will be rewarded, and everyone participating has a chance at getting them.

DHBM.7652:

START ALL THE THREADS

On a note more direct to the thread. How is the second option far too anyone? There’s at least 150 people fighting the knights. That mean 6 of those people get loot for an event that takes at minimum 50 to complete. That’s a 1.2% chance to get something.
<b> 1.2 percent. Thats not even for a core. That’s for a box. </b>

Your math doesnt make sense… 1.2% would be if 500 people were perticipating….
I expect the percent to be around 5% chance….
If you look at chances of getting alot of different things, from percursors from the Mystic Forge, or Charged Lodestones from bags, 5% is a nice number.

This is an honest question that I think is just a huge misunderstanding by everyone who is participating in the events….

It isn’t like ANet to totally break something, like loot…
I mean they havent done anything like this before… Like when they tried to stop silk farming in 1 zone, they didnt cause entire other zones to stop responding mobs…

I wanted to take an oportunity to ask ANet directly if the Legendary Assault Knights are working as designed when it came to loot, and this is all a misunderstanding by the entire player base.

Below is quote from the game release notes.
“Legendary Assault Knights will drop 5 Deluxe Gear Boxes and a chance at an Assault Knight Power Core, which can be used to color the Tempered Spinal Blades back item.”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-March-4-2014/first#post3717742

Which is the correct statement:
Legendary Assault Knights will drop 5 Deluxe Gear Boxes for each player participating in the event and a chance at an Assault Knight Power Core, which can be used to color the Tempered Spinal Blades back item.
~or~
Legendary Assault Knights will drop 5 Deluxe Gear Boxes divided up between the players participating in the event and a chance at an Assault Knight Power Core, which can be used to color the Tempered Spinal Blades back item.

I think the statement is just misunderstood by the entire player base, and that the 2nd option is correct.

Zanshin.5379:

My guess is they want to wait until they know what’s causing the bug before talking about it. It’s like the 3rd bug in a row for just one update. They’re starting to look bad.

Did you say “starting to”? hahahahaha

Funniest thing I’ve seen on the forums lately…..

Ohhh, thanks for the laugh… hahahahaha

If they merge the threads they “acknowledge” the issue….

My favorite is a 3rd or 4th thread that was created where the moderator refers them to another thread, but none of them have commented on the other threads…
What makes that even better, is I know for a fact I saw that thread a few hours ago, and its gone now….

Plausable Deniability… hahahah, that is awsome they deleted the post that commented that other posts about this were already up….

I LOVE IT!

Go ahead, click on it (or right click and open in new tab so you can continue reading this as you view it)… it is right there in the top, next tab over from Forums….

Hmmm, big old search box… lets try searching for something…. Oh, it may have a result, if that word is in the 36 documents listed…

Ovewview | Recent…. hmmm 36 documents with 2 different views….

Game Support: Items, characters, and In-Game Systems…
Items has 4 listed…
Hero’s Band – I think should be top listed as well…
Few other random topics about Winterday Gems, and First Birthday Gift
In-Game Systems, 3 whole topics

Well lets now “Submit a request”
Oh, a Drop Down… wonder why the 2nd option is blank?
Lets see… Oh, they have a “Feedback Forum” wonder if that will help me,…
Go ahead, click it… lets see where that will take us….

Hmmm, I notice at the top it is in “Archive > Suggestion” maybe they just keep stuff here that is very important, as my Feedback is sure to be…
Look, they even have a “How This Sub-Forum Works”…. oh, good read, they say (a year ago) this is a temporary solution, till they get a permanent solution in place….
Well lets go ahead an make a new suggestion…. Lets make our first one short though (since it wont let us post anyway and dont want to waste all day)
Ohhh, 3 errors prevented saving…. all 3 basically say “Your Feedback is not Wanted”…

Back to the “Submit a request page”… You know, the one with the 2nd drop down option that is blank…. Lets continue on there…
Hmmm bug reports seem to only be submitted through “ingame /bug” method, I assume that means there are not many bugs…
Wierd, there is a [no selection] dropdown there that I have no idea what it would relate too…
Guild Wars 2 E-Mail Address (Account Log-in Name) with an asterick. Astericks were mentioned at the top, that is a required field… but I dont have one because the game wont let me install… oh wait, look, it says “If you dont know this information, just leave this field blank”… Hmm wierd it tells us one thing and indicates another different things there…

So, I will fill out this Request form telling GW2 that it wont let me setup my account…
(type type type) make sure not to click any links, because none of them open in new tabs and you will lose everything you typed….
Ok, now click Submit….
?
Request could not be created as:
Guild Wars 2 E-Mail Address (Account Log-in Name): cannot be blank…..

But… What? I dont understand…. it said… and I need support… and…. Hmmm I am sure somewhere on this page there is an email address I can send to for support… Lets Look around somemore…
Nope, after about 30 minutes looking around their “Support Page” there is no method of contacting them without havign an account name setup, Though, many of the pages that take you there do not say it is required…

Recommend Fixing… Well basically everything to do with the “Support” Tab…..

It states “5 Deluxe Gear Boxes”…..
They never said “each player will get 5” they said "Legendary Assault Knights will drop 5 Deluxe Gear Boxes….
Take those 5 and devide them among the 200 players at the event…..

Makes perfect sence if you dont think about it…

What burns me the most on it, is many of them are forcing players into Overflows, that everyone knows break more often than the local instances….

If I heard / saw any of my Guildies doing this I would kick them w/o even thinking about it, I would recommend others do the same…

The game has enough problems in it, last thing we need is to compete with players kittening up the already kittened up game…

KyreneZA.8617:

Exactly. The bolded part does not happen, or happens inconsistently. We software developers tend to call those bugs.

You may be a “software developer” but you are no where near the level of the highly skilled developers and testers that ANet has employed…..

ANet calls such things “features”….

I am waitingon the “word checker” that replaces dirty words with kitten to start replacing “bug” with “feature”….

Not sure if I am just paying more attention to Sword 3 (Illusionary Leap) failing lately or if something has changed….

When skill works, cast time is quick 3/4 second like it states…
When skil fails, cast time is almost 2 seconds….

I believe they attempted to “fix” this but made it worse…

Also, I was carrying the hammer in cliffside fractal yesterday, and Illusionary Defender actually spawned while holding a bundle… I tried the other utility phantasms but they all failed…

Perfect examples on “we will fix it when we want to”…

Slaying potions…. it took them FOREVER to fix it…. they introduced the new potion of scarlets little buddies slaying, it was broken just as every other slaying potion was broken for ever…. then “omg new living content has a bug, well lets fix it and all the others at the same time”

Mesmer Clones pixelized armor….. no one cared forever… then “omg a gem store item is pixelized and ppl wont buy it cause of this” wam, fixed for all armors…

It is kitten that they dont fix things for such a long time, until it is “new” and broken…

Its all about stake holders I swear…. “Look we fixed this thing that just started happening”….. “We are all over problems”…. do you think any of the stake holders look at the forums? (God knows if they did I am sure the search function would have been fixed ages go) If they did I am sure alot more would be addressed quicker….

We cannot let this issue die…

I think that posts should be able to be voted for to make sticky…

Or maybe put the +1s to good use, and have the top 3 posts based on +1s are displayed at the top of the forum with the red posts….

Oh wait, what am I thinking, they cant even get the search function to work….

bumping again…… Anet Please fix this simple problem….

It cant be that hard to fix it so that it makes some sence to players…

Not sure how often you guys reboot…. I had a simular issue that came out of nowhere a few weeks ago…. I tried -repair and -prefreset and nothing worked, I even did a full download and reinstall of game and no change….

I rebooted my computer and suddenly the character was available again….

I too couldnt answer why the problem started suddenly and why a reboot fixed it, but its worth a try if you havent lately…

Why cant it just have a 2 part skill…

First part acts like the iWarden, where it spawns a clone next to your target.
Second part you swap places with your clone?

Seems pretty easy to me… I know iWarden has had issues in past, sometimes it wont engage combat, but it atleast has always spawned next to the target….

I too have gotten stuck inside this “wall” a few times, your best bet is to let him kill you with the falling ice or such, and re spawn after fight…

This is a rarely triggered bug, though a bug no question, I reported in game and here on forums a few times probably 3-6 months ago, I was in hopes they had fixed it since I haven’t gotten sent into it lately hahahahaha…

I believe the Phantasmal Disenchanter is not counting correctly for “daily condition remover”

It is not counting per condition removed even though he is removing conditions…

I don’t remember this back piece being this far away from my character prior to the “latest patch” …..

Not a skill, but thought this may be a good place tom mention it, and bump this thread…

Ashley Segovia.8276:

Hey guys,

If you’re getting this error double-check to check and see if you have any security software or firewalls enabled to see if they might be blocking the client.

HAHAHA I love it…

Hey ANet can you check your Firewalls and make sure you didnt accidently impliment a blacklist that was to extensive?

I cant imagine 1000+ users (guessing on the number of posts with this same problem) all suddenly adjusted their firewall settings to block GW2

bumping as praying they can address this with one of the pushes they are doing fixing everything else broken with this latest patch

They obviously just fixed the LFG tool crashing lot of players… sad they couldnt have adjusted this while fixing that….

First question everyone will ask is,

What are your system specifications?

Not the way the it came was “discovered” and then “fixed”….

This is a cover your but to your stake holders and bosses……
“We fixed ‘an’ issue, but we will claim it is all based on our ‘great troubleshooting and quick reaction’”

Their stake holders, at the most, will review the “patch notes” and “release summaries”…

So they take a problem that has been around for over a year and a half… they “reintroduce it” as in, they let it happen to a new item in the new patch, then they report
“We FIXED the problem that just happened”….
They ghost patch the other problems that are identical to it that have been around forever…..

This makes them look like super stars to their stake holders.
This fixes a problem that players have yelled a year and a half.

I still say that this “Attack on Lions Arch” was just them pushing players into their home districts and forcing the population to spread out around the servers so that new players who happen to not know about “Lions Arch Hangout” see alot more active players playing the game then they were.

Sure wish I had a Guild Hall where my guild could all hang out and do our crafting and such… but what am i thinking, its not like we have any actual “Guild Wars” in Guild Wars 2, that was so Guild Wars 1… There is no “Guild Competition” in GW2… hard enough to get into the same instance with your own party members during events…. Imagine if you were wanting to coordinate a “Guild Raid” into any of these 2 weeks long events, noone needs coordination or to play with people they know, better yet people on their own servers…

Instead we have a leader board for fractals that was based on how fast you could get to max level… not that it will ever change until the level cap is rased….

Maybe this will get it fixed…

“And I was just about to purchase a set for each of my 8 mesmers from the gem store… guess I will hold off on spending that 6400 gems until it gets addressed”

I recommend all other mesmers do the same!!! We will never get our problems addressed unless we force them to be addressed…

This prolblem started ages ago and has yet to be actually addressed

Maybe this will get it fixed…

“And I was just about to purchase a set for each of my 8 mesmers from the gem store… guess I will hold off on spending that 6400 gems until it gets addressed”

I recommend all other mesmers do the same!!! We will never get our problems addressed unless we force them to be addressed…

This prolblem started ages ago and has yet to be actually addressed

sirsquishy.8531:

Max Gladius.6930:

Another solution or 2….:
1. Moving your page file to another hard drive entirely, not partition but entire different hard drive – this will help if you have problems with your hard drive, or possibly to much / fast access to the same location as eveything else.
1. Also you can make your page file only 512meg, so that only windows system itself uses the page file and your game will run in live memory….

They are both marked as 1. because each is an independant solution that could be used together…
Making your virtual memory greater invites Windows to dump all it wants into said file, which can make your computer slower…

Moving your page file to a different physical disk is a solution, however dropping the page file down to say, 512MB, is not a solution.

Windows will dump anything it wants to page, no matter how big or small, the smaller it is the more it has to flush that data out.

So leave the page file alone in regards to size, changing it or disabling it is NOT good. However, you CAN move it to a different disk (I run mine on a 64G USB3.0 Flash Drive)

You put your page file on a USB Thumb Drive, and you are saying that is better??
Flash Technology only can handle so many read and writes before it starts having issues, you are sure to burn out a USB drive doing so, making your page file corrupt, causeing more problems…

There are many writeups discussing not even putting page files on SSD drives because they are built on Flash Technology…

No page file is safer than USB page file storage…

Another solution or 2….:
1. Moving your page file to another hard drive entirely, not partition but entire different hard drive – this will help if you have problems with your hard drive, or possibly to much / fast access to the same location as eveything else.
1. Also you can make your page file only 512meg, so that only windows system itself uses the page file and your game will run in live memory….

They are both marked as 1. because each is an independant solution that could be used together…
Making your virtual memory greater invites Windows to dump all it wants into said file, which can make your computer slower…

Wow… that is 5 minutes between OP and Red Post…. Must be because it is a Gem Store Item…..

If I put Firekissed armor on my Mesmer will the problems with that class get addressed any quicker?

Oh, by the way, Also check your other audio settings in the game, I think the instruments are grouped with ambient audio (not sitting in front of game) and if you have adjusted that, i would recommend stand around someone playing and change the different audio sliders if the “surround setting” doesnt fix it.

I think they should impliment a respawn timer, as in PVP where it counts down, but instead make it force you to repawn in WvW….

30 seconds is a nice number, cause face it, if you are not revived after 30 seconds you problably wont be revived at all…

Or if it doesnt force you to respawn, it could give you a black screen after like 10 seconds, where you can lay there all you want, you are not seeing anything that is going on…

This happens more than just in the Citadel’s this happens inside of Keeps, at the corner spawns for BLs that are not your own, and many other places… Let the alive players do the scouting….

Leetsura.3507:

This sounds like when I had to have VLC open in the background to make the sound in Saints row the third work properly.

I have heard multiple people comment on having Windows Media Player open in the background for multiple games to perform better, especially during cut scenes and other animations….

http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/12/19/media-player-boosts-wow-performance/

It all makes perfect sense if you dont think about it…