Guild Wars 2

Just had the bug aswell:

Option that reset were all in the general option tab, graphics and keybinds are fine.

System info:

Windows 10 – 64 bit
Gw2 – 64 bit beta client

Was able to buy Guild Favor from influence multiple times in the guild initiave head quarters.

I cannot recreate this bug myself in any way, it is just something I have noticed happening sometimes on my warrior (wielding a longbow) and necromancer (while in death shroud). Mainly on wvw maps, but have noticed it sometimes doing it in spvp aswell.

This has happened to me even on a flat ground, while targeting an opponent player or npc. Beginning my autoattack in deathshroud or the longbow the bolt will shoot straight down into the ground instead of towards the target and give me the obstructed message. To fix my character shooting into the ground repeatedly I need to detarget and retarget after stopping my autoattack.

I have only noticed this on my warrior and necro so I cannot say if this is a very common bug among other classes, searching for obstructed missles yielded no results on the forum.

Toroxus.9256:

Melvin.3295:

My point is that there is a clear difference in time put into songs, people are saying making macros is hard because of timing and all sorts of other things while in the end both sources get their music from the same person, either an online sheet or a midi file wich they transcribe for ingame play. Where one had to just play the macro the other has to actually put time into the instrument. And since there is not a clear difference to see wich user is using what there is a clear disadvantage for people that actually want to learn how to play the ingame instruments.

I said it a thousand times, so I’ll ask again:

Why does the effort of Person A doing XYZ affect Person B in any way? And why should the public care?

Every anti-macro person is just connecting those two dots without any cited reason.

I’m sorry, is it really that hard for you to connect two dots where people want to be recognised for time put into the game? If everyone got a free legendary, would the people that actually spend work for their own legendary still feel proud for walking around with it?

My point is that there is a clear difference in time put into songs, people are saying making macros is hard because of timing and all sorts of other things while in the end both sources get their music from the same person, either an online sheet or a midi file wich they transcribe for ingame play. Where one had to just play the macro the other has to actually put time into the instrument. And since there is not a clear difference to see wich user is using what there is a clear disadvantage for people that actually want to learn how to play the ingame instruments.

It’s still very special to me that people are comparing composing using instrument samples to using macros ingame to play music. Since were comparing it to real music now lets give an example what macro playing in the real world would look like:

Here we have band A eating their favorite dinner on stage during a live performance while their producer bob perfected and autotuned their song back in the studio wich is now blasting through the speakers during a live concert.

Then here we have band B, they also had producer bob, but instead of letting him play their music during a live concert they took the time to learn the instruments and learn to play as a band together.

I’m pretty sure people would rather see band B over band A live, now in guildwars the public can’t see the difference between a piece being played from a macro or human since the live performance is from an avatar ingame.

Gaile Gray.6029:

It seems to me that people using a macro would have a limited playlist, right? So those who learn to play different tunes, or work in concert with other musicians, would still offer a completely different piece of music from those relying on the macro.

Perhaps I’m mistaken, but does that make sense?

Well to me it just seems trying to outrun the macromusic sharing site while eventually were going to run out of pieces that are not on there. For example the guild I play music with [Cmaj] has played pompeii in a duet for quiet some time. Guess what theres now a sheet of music on the macro site for anyone to grab to play SOLO bass and melody. You just want us to keep trying to find random songs that aren’t on there untill we eventually either run out of ideas or give up. I mean all the popular songs are going to be on there for sure.

There should atleast be some huge icon above people their heads saying they are using a macro or some kind of indication that it is just a automated script looping instead of an actual performance. I also do not see at all how the ingame music playing scene is any less gameplay then any other part of the game. Is it possible to get refunds on gemstore items, I didn’t buy 4 instruments to be outplayed by someone who can play the melody and bass at the some time wich normal people would have to make a duet for wich requires actual timing through delay.

I honestly don’t even know why I even bought the ingame instruments anymore after this statement. It’s like going to a shop, buying a guitar. Then going out in the streets and playing music through a cd player instead while holding your guitar and hoping to get praise for your work..

Gaile Gray.6029:

Melvin.3295:

I see your point about bach. I just hope new people who pick up an instrument from the gemstore don’t just think it is alright to macro any song since I’m sure it is the same thing as using a bot.

Honestly, I’m not sure, but I’m going to ask Customer Support about it. The fact is, we have a policy against automating gameplay through the use of macros or bots. But music? I just don’t know if the rules about third-party programs extend to non-game-related situations.

Gaile Gray, did you ever find out how this is judged?

The macros are basicly used to cast skills (playing the notes) with a single button. So as far as I know from the rules I’ve read this should be a banable offense in GW2. About the .abc files, I do not agree on bringing this ingame at all, currently it actually requires an actual player skills to play song instead of everyone just going on the web to look for the file and afk play everywhere.

I see your point about bach. I just hope new people who pick up an instrument from the gemstore don’t just think it is alright to macro any song since I’m sure it is the same thing as using a bot.

Besides of having only 3 octaves and no sharps/flats the intruments are being played alot by people with macros and even have a whole site dedicated and promoting usage of macros. Besides reporting players for botting is there anything else you can do against those players? Have been in a legit music guild for a while now and own 4 instruments ingame but everytime I see people play the macroed stuff and sometimes even ask money for it I get really kittened off.

Now I think about it, this whole survey thing kind of feels like the voting we had a long time ago in LA. But instead about some smaller things. If you could make it feel the same way I’m certain players would have more interest in filling them in aswell and might attract more people to the forums to give you more feedback on those subjects aswell.

Hmm I am not too sure about how a survey would look, but coudn’t you start with a few questions about wich part of the game you like most (PvE, sPvP or WvW maybe a hybrid between two?) and give people a slightly different survey based on the first questions so you would have people with more experience and maybe more ideas for their favorite part of the game giving you feedback on those part. This would avoid giving a huge survey to everyone and give a shorter one instead. Or maybe hand different surveys out to people based on the ammount of time they spent in certain maps? Like give people who are in certain dungeons a survey for just that dungeon (same for other areas in the game).

You could even kind of implement it in the game so it looks more part of the world, have a skritt or something walk upto you and hand you the survey in this case and tell you he wants your opinion about this place of interest.

No, I think the condition mesmer will be in a too great spot with this buff. If there were torment added to its autoattack it should either be on the very last cast or when attacking from behind or something similar to that.

As far as I see its a fairly common PU build with the exception of the Restorative mantras. I would personally change Restorative mantras to Dueling and take Harmonious Mantra wich would give you 2 extra condi removals and an extra heal wich I think would outweigh the 2k heal you’d get on a 2s cast time (very likely to be interupted). I would also put a energy sigil on the Greatsword too instead of the sigil of strength. The battle runes are ok in my opinion, might just want to get fire sigils instead for a bit more raw damage?

IGN: Kishijoten
Server: Far Shiverpeaks
Role: Scholar (Maybe tester)
Play Time: EU, usually afternoon untill late evenings. (so that is CET14:00 – 23:00)
Playstyle: WvW Roaming, Spvp

I was wondering if there is any future plans of adding the spectating option to the current highest Team Arena matches, like you had in GW1. I personally learned alot by watching high rated GvG back then and would like to learn in a similar way in GW2, currently the only way is watching videos made or watching twitch streams because observing games in Hotjoin is more like watching Random Arenas and aren’t really that helpfull..

Soinetwa.5193:

the problem with hidden caves in normal gw2 are there is NO CHEST AT ALL^^

even after jumping through a jumping puzzle u will get in 42 out of 1337 times something usefull.. maybe i should add another number to 1337 but u get what i mean.. fining hidden stuff never is of any use (usually)

while bombing a secret room and getting baubles does help u ingame

Ye I think this is my biggest dissapointment currently in gw2, I don’t find any joy in walking through the world looking for easter eggs or anything like that since most things are either linked to a vista wich kind of feels forced to visit, or there is nothing at all.

All of the text in this post is my opinion and how I feel about the game currently

Content inside the super adventurebox feel more rewarding

Unlike the last living stories I have played SAB feels more rewarding and this is why I think so:

• There is a clear grinding goal for weapons, x ammount of baubles gives you a thing no other requirements wich gives people a better sense of time vs reward
• Doing harder content (tribulation mode) gives you unique skins not available to others that didn’t do it (Can’t really find any PvE examples to for this, most, if not all PvE content is either pure luck (aiming at precursors) or time gated (looking at previous living story, like the first halloween skins etc.)

Boss battles

With the last living story release I think Arenanet is going in the right way for good boss battles and should keep up the good work.

• Clear boss attack patterns that are avoidable
• Fun and unique boss skills (like how the king toad needed to get a few hits before going into a damageable state wich is similar to teq/evolved wurm/shadow of mordremoth)
• Making use of the fact that you can jump (For some reason I feel like that in the whole first year of guildwars this was rather underused in dungeons and pve)

Dieing feels worse inside SAB

I think this is the biggest problem in guildwars, especially with the last revamp of people no longer getting any armour costs when dieing. The minor setback of having to waypoint ingame doesn’t make dieing feel like anything at all wich I think is rather odd. While in the SAB it actually reverts you all the way back to your last checkpoint wich is usually alot of work.

I can’t really think of a way to fix this at all, but I still feel this is a problem.

Option to make the levels harder

I find it fun to play hard content myself, when the tribulation mode was released I had a bunch of fun in it, even tough I did not get to complete it all. Especially with the extra rewards bound to it it didn’t feel like it was just harder for the sake of being hard, but with an actual extra reward that is not available without doing this mode. (Besides fractals I can’t really think of anything similar, fractals even has a timegate to doing harder content due to agony resistance instead of being it restricted to actual player skill)

Secrets feel more fun to discover

There were a bunch of very fun secrets in the SAB, even in the hub itself there was a bunch of nice things to jump to. Looking for the caves you could uncover, hidden ultimate skills and things you could find with the flute, bomb and spade felt nice. There wasn’t always an achievment bound to it, sometimes you would just get a good ammount of baubles and yet I can’t find anything in comparison for PvE, there are some caves with chests that give you some dust and greenies but those just don’t feel the same for me.

I don’t think anet supports the use of macros, in the terms is said that if you use any programs that give you an advantage over other players not using it it is forbidden.

“Then I simply place the buttons in my macro software and it plays it for me. I normally do songs with a lot of chords and switching between octaves, so it’s almost impossible to play myself since switching from an octave within 10ms to play a low note of the chord is near impossible.”

Terkov, the exploit mail gives it some extra priority and mails it to the people who can actually deal with exploits.

Got to love the wonderfull Anet forums so well moderated people won’t ever see the actual problems that are in the game. Just waiting for this topic to once again dissapear and have a proper thread on reddit.. Been months now since the initial hacking sightings, yet anet still hasn’t made an official response about our server or done anything about it.

12h since bug reports yesterday
Farshiverpeaks Crimson wurm is STILL bugged, not allowing us to get to the 2nd phase at all. Even after posting a dozen of bug reports yesterday. How is it that the Americans can have a dev join their servers to fix it, while the europeans are always stuck with this stuff?

http://i.imgur.com/bFUfXTY.jpg

Getting closer now on FSP, luring does work but not worth it. http://i.imgur.com/Snp2KEb.jpg

Ye FSP is really stuck on this last phase, like we think we’re missing a mechanic or something, because a flat dps check just seems so unlikely after a first phase thats so focussed on coordination.

FSP 12:00 still no progress, all heads still hanging around 20-30% at 0:00 timer

Well I hope that pleases you I am going to sleep now so I won’t be updating this thread for the americans, more tries at 10am tommorow!

The picture should be in there right? I can’t put in pictures that I don’t have

FSP 0:00 Try http://imgur.com/TUnn6bD

Ye Farshiverpeak commanders are getting fairly tired too, been theorycrafting on effective strategies and organising the server since the patch. Its pretty hard if theres so little information about the last phase ^^. Altough we are reliably getting to the last phase each time now.

Thats a shame you’re our main competition for killing the worm

FSP Try 20:00 http://i.imgur.com/STvfuS1.jpg

FSP 18:00 Try: http://i.imgur.com/ROdgadP.jpg

FSP 16:00 try (CET) http://i.imgur.com/0z7F7et.jpg

Desolation, 25-01-2014 20:00 CET World first wurm kill.

We’re doing really well on Farshiverpeaks this far, hows all the other servers doing? Ill include a screenshot from our last tries here in CET:

Farshiverpeaks:

25-01-2014
12:00 – No progress, all heads still hanging around 20-30% at 0:00 timer.
16:00 http://i.imgur.com/Snp2KEb.jpg
24-01-2014
14:00 http://i.imgur.com/8vZfML5.jpg
16:00 http://i.imgur.com/0z7F7et.jpg
18:00 http://i.imgur.com/ROdgadP.jpg
20:00 http://i.imgur.com/STvfuS1.jpg
0:00 http://imgur.com/TUnn6bD

Desolation:
25-01-2014
20:00 – Deso kill

24-01-2014
14:00 http://imgur.com/cWPvinN
18:00 http://i.imgur.com/axKi6Uc.jpg
22:00 http://i.imgur.com/wzYf2LJ.jpg

Blacktide:

25-01-2014
12:00 – Amber: 17% | HP Crimson: 50% HP | Cobalt 4% HP | 23.66% HP on average.

24-01-2014
16:00 https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/132327/gw589.jpg

Don’t forget to dig under the life for the 50 baubles, I’ll also add some screenshots from me and wicked up there for people that are interested, but there doesn’t seem to be too much up in the maze itself as was said earlier. It just really bugged us all of that tricky jumping would just reward into a 50 baubles + 1 life as total reward :s

http://i.imgur.com/fwby0Ly.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8ChN7Sb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XyS8Nmq.jpg

Had some nice fights with people from Yak, also got invited by one of you guys for a nice chat Looking forward to more fights, best regards from Bubblegum Dragons [GUM]

If people are wondering how we opened the temple, took us 3 guardians from the guild equipped with healing tome coordinated on TS to do this on farshiverpeaks, rest filled with random people that were around coming to about 10-15 people total at the temple. Healing with staff on the first single veteran spider spawn, and using healing tome on a chain when the 3 veteran spiders spawned, after our healing tomes we interupted the spiders as much as possible with hammer/sanctuary.

Somehow I think thats someone trolling on their side rather then them being bored, woudn’t they hit the siege limit in sm very fast with all those rams?

What no Cantha in gw2? I found it the most beautiful expansion in the guild wars series, the music, the theme and the story, why would you do this to us… Not to mention there is already alot of things from Cantha in Gw2 this would make no sense at all..

Just held Dawns in AM for about 3 hours, was fun fighting against you [FAME]

Ye, a bunch of people noticed it and I heard it from them, sadly enough we cannot stop people from taking his portal as he was spamming the chat that he was in. I did not get the chance myself to report him as I was in a another borderland at the time, but I hope some people on our server have his name and reported the guy.

Had some fun on the Drakkar lake border with Creon leading us earlier, we kind of went overboard with golems tough :s

EB is now our new FS borderland, also totally double teaming on you GH! We aren’t capping AM stuff, just photoshopping it all onto your maps.

Edit: Forgot the photoshop a few flags and a camp, all fixed now

I think it should be pretty clear that we go after GH in FS prime time as that is your weakest time, so easy points.

I wish everyone on UW the best for your matchup next week, UW is a great server, I will miss fighting against you guys. You better rally up some extra people, because you have great guilds running around there, all you are lacking is some manpower.

I hope fighting your server in the future again and hope we can fight on even terms and then we can really see who manages to take the upper hand (I think if we had equal numbers we as FSP would have quiet some trouble).

Anyways, all of you randoms on the UW server that are not going into WvW because you are on the losing hand, I expect you to help out your commanders next week! It might seem like dark times now, but if you all would join in wvw for atleast 1 day a week you would definitely be at the top of your next matchup. would be a shame if we are unable to see eachother again in the future.

Live long and prosper, and good luck!

Kishijoten, Officer of Bubblegum Dragons [GUM]

Ye had a really nice time on the french borderland with TG, Blos, GoT, GUM and all the other guilds that participated today (13-1), Very nice fights, french had a huge resistance at garrison! Keep it up everyone.

Also, forgot to add this to my message, Anet should do something about this kind of hopping, not only does it ruin the targets server community, but it also totally defeats the purpose of the whole WvW ranking system as it’ll just end up totally screwing two other servers as they will enjoy a week of totally being outnumbered and fighting a server they should not normally meet in their tier.