Guild Wars 2

Ermm next major patch? next hotfix patch? next api patch/update/release? At what possible time frame are we looking at this?

I just wish it had some footsteps, so there is at least some effect while stowed away. Other then that it is good enough as it is. I believe shield and focus are the only ones without a footsteps, makes me wonder why.

I followed the guide at dulfy and had no problems. It clearly states you need to activate 3 infantile clouds to the spiked area’s so you can backtrack later. Later on it is said to backtrack to the 4th checkpoint to get the key, from there it is pretty easy to get the key to the chest. I am pretty sure you read something wrong then.

So IMHO dulfy is not to blame, you and your friend choose to follow her guide.

Also I took 2h10 to get that achievement. It is not that hard. (only 1 jump requires dodge jump for which I had to use another keyboard..)

That is actually one of the easier jumps imho, also turn on your gamma to 1.5 or so. Hardly able to see what you were aiming to in that pitch black picture :P

I personally had more problems with one of the corner jumps a tad later.

Finished all of it as well, I enjoyed most of it, not sure what to do with my green tokens, but did got yellow gs and now going for sword

1-1: Ermm those jump rocks are way to random, my only grip with it, felt somewhat cheap with all those traps.. not a bad intro though
1-2: Ok again the jumping rock in the lava.. really? pain in the kitten . Lily pads, I hate them the most since they were randomly killing me in an instant or instantly blew up.. really annoying
1-3: Again the lily pads, really need to stop those. Shops behind the acid waterfall same thing, way to random. King Toad was madness. Was using infinite coin and every time I went to moto’s hell he completely reseted with his life. In combination with the lily pads it was a hell. In the end I used potions and just ate his damage while killing him >.>

2-1: I did this after the patch but it really is way to easy. I was expecting lava patches or something or spikes in the hilly billy caves, about half the run was same as normal mode at least.
2-2: Long and first 1/3 felt really cheap with almost nothing but spike traps. Really teaching players to stand on invisible edges should not be the way to go either. Tribulation cloud also felt really cheap with the pushing blocks. Other then that was okish but mostly just a pain in the kitten .. which you want to forget asap..
2-3: Now this is how tribulation mode should be, I enjoyed it except for the spikes on ice. They are a true pain, some sections are nearly undo-able. This zone really teaches also to make use of the blocking no cloud in different ways. The tribulation clouds at the checkpoint and the wind blowing felt really cheap and they are way to random.

Regarding bugs: in 2-2 are clearly the most bugs, as for the death spike checkpoint spawn it was annoying but not a game breaker. The not working checkpoint cloud after that also annoying, but still not a game breaker, the section was still rather easy to pass by in general. But the area felt way to dirt cheap with the huge amount of spike traps everywhere.. kitten ing me off greatly, no fun there..

Order of easy to hard for me:

2-1 (way to easy, sorry to say) -> 1-1 (due to rocks) -> 1-2 (due to lava rock and a few lily pads) -> 1-3 (due to a lot of lily pads and the nasty boss due to it) -> 2-3 (ice skating madness and again it is long) -> 2-2 (too many dirt cheap traps and too long)

Storm wizard never reseted for me and was not that hard compared to the toad king lily pad madness. The 2 final shops in 2-3 were a true death trap. The no cloud at those clouds.. blegh.. somehow I managed to do it but do not ask me how..

I am also waiting for the w2z2 trib mode fix with the checkpoint and the cloud. Planning on keeping 5+ hours available for it this weekend. Really hoping for a hotfix before that. Am not sure how hard it is to cross that final area in trib mode but knowing those 2 bugs upfront is not a pleasant thought >.>

You can store em in the bank, get more and then retrieve from the bank to get above the limit, the UI shows 999 max even when having 1 million e.g.

You can jump out of the rapids and in trib mode I use this after the rafting part to get to other side. You can use it to your advantage, I would not recommend them to instant kill, that would make it a lot harder.

I was also stuck on 32/33 but did zone 3 with the bugged cloud when I did that zone for the first time.
After running zone 1 again and not getting the last one i went on to zone 2. I made sure after each cloud not to instantly hit the checkpoint but next to it to make sure it counts before I hit the checkpoint and get jumped up. Turns out it was the checkpoint before the teleporting area in zone 2 that I was missing. Maybe this helps with other people.

With this I can also confirm that the bugged cloud does NOT count towards the 33.

Hope it helps.

BeastEye.7980:

Glutton for Punishment Z3 bugged since last patch. T_T Note how I have all three King Toad Z-* rewards but only have two of the achievements.

You have to wait till you the timer runs out and you get teleported to the cart destroying bit. You will loot the chest before that but you have to wait out the teleport timer. The achievement will trigger once that timer is gone and you are teleported to the cart bit.

So it is fine.

Sieg.8439:

I haven’t had a chance to try this yet, but due to my whacked out sleeping schedule I’ll probably be okay with getting in at odd hours when not too many people are around.

Is it in Eternal Battlegrounds, or something?

Yeah it is. With the portal(s) to the jp being in each keep.

I guess I had pure luck.. When I did the JP last night there where like 10~15+ blacktide players around. I got to the dark bit with stealth and learned you can no longer use backpiece or sword for light source >.> (when did that change? lame..) so was forced to do the dark bit with them around. Which went well. They did not attack me (neither did I attack them.. would be so dead since I was alone). Decided to continue into arena hoping I got past most of them in the dark bit. Well some were in the arena.. Failed with jumping, got into combat mode and did not got out.. had to kill some mobs some of them triggered above to get out.. figured they would kill me they still didn’t (was like 5min in the arena already with them!!!) got out of combat mode.. one of the guardians did an aoe that hit me.. we both fell >.> and had to run to the other side to get out of combat mode (same for him I guess) and then things started to go well. I never got attacked despite being in there for 10 min with loads of them around me. And I am pretty sure they saw me as an idiot or something. After that things got easier for me, learned where the cache was, went for chest first, got hit by an aoe or something in stealth, did not leave stealth, they were celebrating at the chest with all sort of aoe and fireworks. I got the chest while avoiding red circles and went for cache. Which you can take while in stealth and not triggering the mobs. Which was easy heh. So yes it can be done but require some sort of luck.

TL;DR : got extremely lucky with 10~15 blacktide+ around me and never attacking me in the JP dark area and the arena despite eternal combat mode and crap like that while solo. So it can be done.

Did it last saturday with a group of 2 mesmers, 2 necro and 1 guard, Fight took 25 minutes but we kill it, long with every fecking spider that spawned.. don’t ask how we managed to do it.. we had at times only 1 or 2 people max on tree, and often enough all were on the spiders to get some breathing..

Got my 2 tickets from Rich Dragon Coffers, 17th chest first one and a few days later on the 5th chest for the second ticket. Opened over 300 regular coffers I think, nothing but 5 potions or so, rest was candy and fireworks.

Woljnir.7810:

Assuming four weeks in a month, doing the weekly every week of a month would then give more laurels than the monthly. To me, the monthly should give the most.

Under that same logic:

Daily = 1, 7x daily is more then 3 or 5 from the weekly, 1×30 (or 28/29/30) for a month is more then 10 from a monthly.

With that logic, the weekly x4 giving more then a monthly makes perfect sense to me.
I am ok with a weekly, on the same schedule as the commendations. Yearly.. no thanx >.>

koopatroopa.5360:

I have mentioned these before in various other threads, but yeah it’s super buggy.

The harp sound is really the only thing that’s consistant with it, and even then the volume is super low.

I can only twiddle my thumbs and wait for a hot fix.

Guess I have missed that then, meh, anyway thanx, I will still enjoy my harp though and enjoy the music notes when they do come out

So I got my Minstrel last sunday (happy happy happy). I knew the effects would be lackluster but I did noticed a couple of things that no one has mentioned so far (at least I was not able to find em)..

1) The sound when drawn and/or put into combat. It is like a very low bass sound. Not very harp like at all..
2) The music notes most of the time do not appear at all when you draw the weapon. At the same time, when it does appear, the music notes do not disappear a few seconds after drawn but stay out till the weapon becomes sheathed again.
3) Exactly as number 2 but then for the purple glow.. which is very faint..
4) Sometimes when you sheath the weapon it will display the faint purple glow and the music notes..

The effects seem really broken and random to me. Besides the fact they clearly need an upgrade (which was and is already known by the players) they are just odd to me..

So I was wondering if anyone else noticed this. I am now going to wait for the graphics and/or effects update while enjoying my lovely harp. I still find this one of the better looking focus skins. Only one I think (imho) is better is the anomaly but went for this one instead ^^

(ps, other legendaries did got their upgrades, so I am assuming the same will happen to The Minstrel as well, only question is when.. I wish Anet could give an answer to that..)

pretty much says ‘The Maw is quiet’, all the time. Hasn’t spawned in a very long while.. A lot of people think it is bugged.

The only problem I have with the fractals is the Arms of the Collosses. And here is why:

If you wipe on the arms you can forget trying to do it again, you are stuck in a situation you cannot fix. There are then at both sides to many enemies that heal the seal way to fast, making it near impossible to finish. Especially the higher you get and the longer it takes to kill the mobs..

Possible solutions:
a) Make it so the mobs do not repair the seal (making it really easy, to easy prolly)
b) Make it so the situation goes back to how it was as if you were not there, only 2 regular mobs on each side (I prefer this one)

The rest are fun in my opinion. Giant or Collossus or Cliffside as it is called is the only one I will go back to start if it is the first one to come up..

I am truly getting sick of group abandoning at the arms and falling apart cause of being stuck in the situation they cannot fix. The rest is doable and fine in that regard.

Whenever I am fighting there is a chance a Mark I Golem spawns. The bug lies in the fact that I have nothing on me that could summon the golem at all.

I suspect this happens due to my armor. I got full CoE dungeon armor and replaced all of the Golemancer runes with Ruby Orb. I started doing this well before I had the full set. I think that in secret the bonus from the runes did not got removed. I tested to see if the bonus from 1~5 piece of the rune still applied. The Crit Dmg% increase and Precision stat bonus. This does not seem to be the case. Only the 6th piece bonus still applies.

I have attached 3 screenshots which shows the golem. Shows my armor and the ruby orb on it. Since it is the 6piece bonus all of my armor should have the rune which the screenshot shows I do not have. Yet there is the golem. Also remove the armor and equip it again does nothing. One of the screenshots shows the golem with me in a story mode mission. The other 2 are from fotm but if it was from another player the color of its name would be green and not blue..

For me there is no turnoff switch for this and not much I can do about it, can’t be abused either since its spawn is quite random and very low..

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On a side note. The golem attack is awesome, whirlwind knockback attack that when the mob is against the wall can hit for a total of 4k roughly. However it does die really fast and doesn’t spawn much at all. Makes the cooldown look really useless when it spawns at most 1 time every few hours.

So in other words ‘sorry you are kittened and won’t get items back’ is what I get from this atm >.>

Other then trying to prevent it happening again no word about getting lost items/progression back at all..

Well finished fotm lvl 10, got rewards, when moving back to LA, dc and lost all rewards.. compensation would be nice.. I don’t even know whether doing lvl 10 again will give the daily chest again..

Ok went to an alt that I know is not in LA and that went fine.. so it is just LA.. , whatever you do.. do not go to LA

From one problem to another.. when you think it is over the next one appears >.>

Just finished patching, 689 MB exactly in total!

at 46% it jumped from 260 mb to 330 mb at 46% heh

Remember that the percentage completed is based on the amount of files you have downloaded compared to the amount you have to download. The progress will reset when you restart launcher. The file size cannot be determined by percentage. It is only an indication.
Also some files are huge.. no doubt the graphics from the fractals heh

constant connection errors.. BLEGH not even getting to the patching..

Yup it is up again, some changed the carrot in front of the hamster I guess

EDIT; and down again for patch.. well not the server but back to the launcher.. BLEGH

AshleySegovia.3948:

Hey guys – can you please tell me what error messages you’re receiving?

Just to repeat other people:

Build 16048
Error Code: 42:6:3:2060

Error message about firewall etc which I am 100% sure of is not at fault here. Either way I just came home and wanted to login to finish daily quickly (only a few kill variety left..)