Guild Wars 2

Seriously this is annoying, not sure if new contents are suppose to be fun or frustrating.

Manasa Devi.7958:

There’s a “Black Lion Weapon Specialist” in the BL post that’s just west of the Grand Piazza in LA. He’ll show you an option to trade for limited-time claim tickets, if you’re carrying one of those tickets.

cool thx so much I found the npc.

Khisanth.2948:

In the past you could just bring one to the BL weapon trader NPC and it gives you an option to trade these. The option doesn’t show up if you aren’t carrying a tick on that character.

Yeah tried that, doesn’t seem to be working, unless there is a specific BL weapon trader I need to talk to, I’ve tried all the ones in BL vault.

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post, but I would like to know if jade claim tickets can still be used to claim jade weapon skins, I was cleaning stash and found some unused tickets, now unlike Black Lion claim tickets which can be used to purchase any type of BL weapon skins, jade tickets can only be used for jade weapons, so it would be sad if I cannot redeem these claim tickets anymore.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

wow its been like a month and still no words from Anet regarding this bug, seriously bad costumer service.

There have been words from ANet: it’s a known bug and they are working on it. Presumably (but not definitively), it will be fixed when the fractal adjustment patch goes live this month.

Can you maybe point me to the post that Anet has responded regarding this bug?

wow its been like a month and still no words from Anet regarding this bug, seriously bad costumer service.

Aerinndis.2730:

ErikLeifsen.8421:

At this point, the only option for those of us who are at tens of thousands of bags opened with no result is simple. Write an actual support ticket. Make ANet spend time and money dealing with this bull. Ive lost almost 2,000g trying to get this mini and have less to show for it than before I started farming. Before halloween I was so excited for this content to come back, but now I just want to quit playing entirely. Their RNG system at its core is garbage and until it gets reworked this kind of situation will not stop. I’m a hypocrite though as I still sit here on the last day farming, buying, and opening more freakin bags just like they want.

I agree the RNG is beyond sucky but no one is forcing anyone to spend anything on bags – that is a personal decision to do that. I think everyone is frustrated with this and the event has only amplified an ongoing issue and reactions to it.

I chose to just farm through this event as did hubby. I got the cat in the first 500 bags. One endless tonic somewhere in the 2k bags and several runes which I gave the duplicates to hubby. I am somewhere in the area of 5k bags opened now…. Hubby on the other hand has gotten nada. No cat, no dog, no tonic. He also did not farm as long as I did. He earned enough corn cobs to just buy the danged cat. Between us out of all the bags we got I don’t think we got 200 wrappers either.

Do I have less than I started the event with? No. I sold what I could, salvaged what I could and even got 3 exotics out of the labyrinth. Will I get a weapon skin – probably not especially if your chances are more based with how many you turn in. Do I care? Not really. I do admit to experiencing a rising frustration level as I opened bag after bag to TP, eggs, Custard etc. ad nauseum for stuff I will either trash or try to sell on a flooded market. For folk that these things matter it has to be horrible which is not a nice way to spend an event.

This whole thing strikes me as such a Pavlov’s dog thing. Ring a bell and everyone starts salivating. You see it with telephones, lol. One rings and watch folk kill themselves to answer it. No one says you HAVE to answer that phone or buy that bag but you do feel compelled to. If this event was designed to have this reaction then I would say it was a big success for ANet.

I think u are missing the point, from wat u saying I presume u are not a mini collector, or at least not a proper mini collector that collect every single mini, so ofc u wouldnt care less if u get the mini dog or not, but for the rest of us in this thread, we have collected pretty much every mini up till now, which is why not being able to collect this particular mini is so extremely frustrating, this mini wouldnt mean a thing to u, but for us it means completing our set of collection.

Being playing this game since launch, for over a year this was the only game I played, got 14 chars on max, 6 legendary, all the cultural armor, all frac skins etc, really loved this game but at some point this game just became disappointing, yet I kept playing cuz I still enjoy collecting mini pets, I dono if I should be glad or not but I can finally let this game go, as there is no point in collecting mini pets when clearing Anet is stuffing us over like this intentionally, instead of enjoying this holiday event I’m just in fear of the next one, so yeah time to move on after 2 years.

Labjax.2465:

mtpelion.4562:

Random is the single most fair way to do anything.

Not quite. Random is the single most unbiased way to do anything. The fairness of it in any given context is highly debatable.

In fact, it can be argued that to have a truly unbiased system, you have to set aside fairness entirely. Mainly because fairness is such a subjective value and is therefore subject to personal bias.

I mean, one might be inclined to say, concerning a random-based system, “Everyone has a fair chance.” But then, chance itself is arguably unfair. And I think most people would agree that chance results in markedly disparate results, from individual to individual, unless you are taking from a very very very very long maintained sample.

not to mention that I heard from a few coder friends that true randomness is super hard to code, and those of them who play this game for over years do not believe gw2 hav a decent rng system, its pretty bugged to say the least.

I have a dedicated dungeon group for over a year, we use to do every dungeon every path except Hotw, one of us get a precursor drop almost every month, at one point he got 2 shield precursor within 2 weeks, myself have only gotten 2 precursor drops ever which happened within 2 month of each other, other members never got a precursor drop ever.

One might say this is not big enough a sample, but we played together in every dungeon over a year, clocking thousands of hours, yet the result is so different, and from guildmates and their friends stories, it seems in this game those who get lucky always get lucky, those who doesnt almost never do ever, that seem like a badly coded rng right there.

Ofc I cant prove anything, and I have never looked at anets code, but this is how it feels like after playing this game over 2 years and having in total over 5000 hours.

mtpelion.4562:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

mtpelion.4562:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

Seriously? u the one who brought in the real life collectors of coins and stamps in the first place, now that I prove u wrong with those suddenly they are not relevant? then why u mention them and draw comparison to them in the first place.

My issue with anet is not the same as the issue I have with u, sure Im not happy with anet’s drop rate, and I’ve made that clear already, the issue with u is that u pretend to know more about real life collectors yet u knows nothing about them, and those questions of mine are not irrelevant, they are there to prove that u knows nothing about real life collection.

I’m not sure why you are having such a difficult time understanding the difference between scarcity and acquisition.

Your irrelevant question was about acquisition. My point was about scarcity.

Since Acquisition IS NOT EQUAL to Scarcity, your question was not on topic and thus deserved no response.

Your issue with me stems from your conflation of two issues.

go read ur original post, u said ppl who expect to buy the mini instead of working for it are not real collectors, so I point out to u that even in real life most collectors buy their collection, and acquiring the money or in game gold to buy such item is the same as working for it, which brings back to my original point, u knows nothing about collection.

Now u jus simply trying to change ur topic becuz ur original point does not stick, as more than one person here pointed out to u, any real life collection can be traded, that is the main issue everyone here is having, which is valid in the eyes of any collector in game or real life, so ur initial comment about ppl aint real collectors becuz they want to buy this mini is totally wrong, stop changing the topic when u cant argue ur original point anymore.

My original statement was that real collectors are aware that there are some items that are very, very rare and thus time consuming to acquire.

Take, for example, the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel.
Only 5 were minted.
Five.

You cannot trade for one, as they are all a part of a complete collection that will most likely never be broken up.

They are still collectible though, as proven by the fact that they are part of collections.

They have scarcity (only 5) but no acquisition method.

You will never have one.
Ever.

True collectors will assemble the parts of the coin collection that they can, and know that they will never have this missing piece.

It does not reduce their enjoyment of collection Liberty Head Nickels though, because they are collectors who understand scarcity.

its hardly a fair comparison once again, first of all a true collector would go in to the coin collection business knowing that this one is near impossible to get, and almost no one expect to collect every single coin in the world.

however in this game, when any of us started mini collection, we do not know that one day there is gona be a mini this hard to get, and it was pretty possible to collect all the minis up til now, so ppl rage becuz this one mini is ruining their entire collection so far, there is a huge difference between collecting coins and minis as Ive pointed out eariler, its not so much of an issue when u missing many coins, but missing one mini becuz of a stupid system is stupid, and calling it stupid doesnt make anyone less of a collector.

And do not overlook the fact that no matter how rare those 5 coins are, they are allowed to be traded, whether the owner want to trade is a different story entirely, where as this mini is not allowed to be traded, I can totally except the fact that when it can b traded there are ppl who is not willing to trade, but not even giving the option to trade is just stupid, and therefore once again ur comparison isnt valid.

mtpelion.4562:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

Seriously? u the one who brought in the real life collectors of coins and stamps in the first place, now that I prove u wrong with those suddenly they are not relevant? then why u mention them and draw comparison to them in the first place.

My issue with anet is not the same as the issue I have with u, sure Im not happy with anet’s drop rate, and I’ve made that clear already, the issue with u is that u pretend to know more about real life collectors yet u knows nothing about them, and those questions of mine are not irrelevant, they are there to prove that u knows nothing about real life collection.

I’m not sure why you are having such a difficult time understanding the difference between scarcity and acquisition.

Your irrelevant question was about acquisition. My point was about scarcity.

Since Acquisition IS NOT EQUAL to Scarcity, your question was not on topic and thus deserved no response.

Your issue with me stems from your conflation of two issues.

go read ur original post, u said ppl who expect to buy the mini instead of working for it are not real collectors, so I point out to u that even in real life most collectors buy their collection, and acquiring the money or in game gold to buy such item is the same as working for it, which brings back to my original point, u knows nothing about collection.

Now u jus simply trying to change ur topic becuz ur original point does not stick, as more than one person here pointed out to u, any real life collection can be traded, that is the main issue everyone here is having, which is valid in the eyes of any collector in game or real life, so ur initial comment about ppl aint real collectors becuz they want to buy this mini is totally wrong, stop changing the topic when u cant argue ur original point anymore.

mtpelion.4562:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

mtpelion.4562:

You have from now until the end of the game to get this mini as the bags are available all the time.

That is why the rate is so low, it is intended to give the bags value all the time.

You are mad because you haven’t gotten a rare item in a week, when the design intent is that you can get the rare item any time in the next several years.

u hav since launch till the end of the game to get a percursor from the MF, go ask how many ppl hav gotten it that way, and ask how many more gotten it via TP, go ask if Anet made precursor acc bound how many players will rage. ur logic clearly does not work and is not agreed by others yet u insist on it.

btw u still dodging my question on real life collector buying collection instead of farming it, don forget to find examples of ppl not buying collection from sellers in real life, coins, antiques etc.

My “logic” is a restatement of the OFFICIAL answer that you’ve already received in this thread. The drop rate is INTENDED to be low because you have a LONG TIME in which to attempt to get it.

Your “question” is not being dodged. It is being ignored as it is irrelevant. Items are collectible if they are rare. The way you get them is not relevant.

Seriously? u the one who brought in the real life collectors of coins and stamps in the first place, now that I prove u wrong with those suddenly they are not relevant? then why u mention them and draw comparison to them in the first place.

My issue with anet is not the same as the issue I have with u, sure Im not happy with anet’s drop rate, and I’ve made that clear already, the issue with u is that u pretend to know more about real life collectors yet u knows nothing about them, and those questions of mine are not irrelevant, they are there to prove that u knows nothing about real life collection.

mtpelion.4562:

You have from now until the end of the game to get this mini as the bags are available all the time.

That is why the rate is so low, it is intended to give the bags value all the time.

You are mad because you haven’t gotten a rare item in a week, when the design intent is that you can get the rare item any time in the next several years.

u hav since launch till the end of the game to get a percursor from the MF, go ask how many ppl hav gotten it that way, and ask how many more gotten it via TP, go ask if Anet made precursor acc bound how many players will rage. ur logic clearly does not work and is not agreed by others yet u insist on it.

btw u still dodging my question on real life collector buying collection instead of farming it, don forget to find examples of ppl not buying collection from sellers in real life, coins, antiques etc.

mtpelion.4562:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

The only mockery here is urself, as its clear that u dono the first thing abt collector or collecting, one word “trade” sums up the most important essence of collecting.

u wana make comparisons to real life, then tell me which rare stamp do u go farm it up urself? which rare coin do u go dig up urself? wat u saying is a pure joke and not a funny one at that.

How do u know Im not farming for it? are u so blinded to see that there are ppl who opened 130k bags here and got nothing, some ppl I know opened even more, the poor rng code of this game dictate that some of us may never get it.

Last time I checked collectors no matter in game or real life actually have a real life, collecting is a hobby not a full time job, maybe its different for u who live in ur parents basement, some of us actually have jobs and family and cant farm this 24/7, but this does not mean we cant collect, most collectors in real life hav a decent job funding their collection, clearly its a concept that u fail to understand.

Once again, you are proving that you aren’t interested in collecting, but in possessing.
You don’t want to put in the effort necessary because you aren’t a collector.

You feel entitled to have the mini without doing the things ArenaNet intends for you to do.

Yes, collecting is a hobby. It is pretty clear that it isn’t YOUR hobby.

Seriously I start to doubt if u understand anything I’ve said at all, why don u giv some examples of real life collection which isnt about trading? since u so enjoy drawing the comparison between this and real life collection in ur first post, why beating around the bush now? come and prove me wrong with solid arguments. Like which coin collector doesnt buy from a shop or outlet, which antique collector go dig up his own antique instead of going to shop and auction, which stamp collector go and find rare stamps on letters instead of going to a shop or other collectors who were selling.

In case it hasnt came to ur mind, even if this mini can be traded, the price will still be insane, and where would I get that kind of gold to buy it? from playing this game, and how is that not effort? you think making 1k gold in game is easy? how is that even different from ur definition of spending effort? well there is one major difference, the amount of effort Im spending will certainly translate into that mini, instead of the current situation where some of us may never get it no matter how many bags we open.

This is exactly the same argument about getting precursor from MF or buying it on TP, some pple spent 10x the price in MF and never get a precursor due to failed rng coding.

mtpelion.4562:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

mtpelion.4562:

Lhos.1643:

I like how people are losing their minds over a bunch of pixels.

I like how all of these self-proclaimed “collectors” aren’t familiar with how collectibles work.

Anyone who every collected baseball cards, coins, stamps, etc. knows that there will always be some ultra rare item that you’ve got to expend a lot of time/money to get.

That’s what makes it collectible!

I like the way you try to mock collectors and pretend you know about collection more than them yet you knows nothing at all.

The most important quality of collecting cards, coins, stamps etc is that everything can be traded, in fact most of the cards are known as trading cards for that reason, I know cause I was a hardcore MTG collector for a very long time, spent a fortune on it.

Problem with this mini is that you cant trade, back in MTG the real collectors don by tons of boosters and hoping they get the rare card via luck, they go to someone who was lucky enough to have the card and buy it with face value.

You’re making a mockery of yourselves with this thread. You’ve got plenty of time to work on getting this item as the bags are available FOREVER with the Maize Balm.

You just aren’t willing to put in the work to obtain the item, which is why you are NOT a collector. You just want an EZ mode (cash) option added so you can skip the work.

No true collector lets momentary disappointment stop them from achieving their goal. Stop whining and start farming.

The only mockery here is urself, as its clear that u dono the first thing abt collector or collecting, one word “trade” sums up the most important essence of collecting.

u wana make comparisons to real life, then tell me which rare stamp do u go farm it up urself? which rare coin do u go dig up urself? wat u saying is a pure joke and not a funny one at that.

How do u know Im not farming for it? are u so blinded to see that there are ppl who opened 130k bags here and got nothing, some ppl I know opened even more, the poor rng code of this game dictate that some of us may never get it.

Last time I checked collectors no matter in game or real life actually have a real life, collecting is a hobby not a full time job, maybe its different for u who live in ur parents basement, some of us actually have jobs and family and cant farm this 24/7, but this does not mean we cant collect, most collectors in real life hav a decent job funding their collection, clearly its a concept that u fail to understand.

And by that I don mean I spend real life money on buying ToT, I farm those and spend in game gold to buy extra, but in case u hasnt realized living in ths world cost money too, and ppl actually have to get a job to pay for those kind of things, and no one said ppl who hav a job and a family cant be collectors, especially not when anet preached about playing this game however we want and still get rewarded, wat a load of lies.

mtpelion.4562:

Lhos.1643:

I like how people are losing their minds over a bunch of pixels.

I like how all of these self-proclaimed “collectors” aren’t familiar with how collectibles work.

Anyone who every collected baseball cards, coins, stamps, etc. knows that there will always be some ultra rare item that you’ve got to expend a lot of time/money to get.

That’s what makes it collectible!

I like the way you try to mock collectors and pretend you know about collection more than them yet you knows nothing at all.

The most important quality of collecting cards, coins, stamps etc is that everything can be traded, in fact most of the cards are known as trading cards for that reason, I know cause I was a hardcore MTG collector for a very long time, spent a fortune on it.

Problem with this mini is that you cant trade, back in MTG the real collectors don by tons of boosters and hoping they get the rare card via luck, they go to someone who was lucky enough to have the card and buy it with face value.

I’ve started playing this game since launch, use to buy gem with real money almost on a monthly bases just to show my support to the company.

After 2 years of playing I must say Im getting very disappointed and running out of things to get, collecting minis were the last bit of fun left in this game for me, and yet Anet continue to stuff over the mini collectors.

The mini llama that force ppl to play tournament was bad enough, then blood prince which costed 20 cob last year only cost 6 now, a bigkittento whoever gotten it last year.

Then now this impossible to get mini that is not tradable, I think after 2 years Im pretty much done with this game, Anet really knows how to take fun away from its players.

having terrible lags since beginning of the week, and only me, my friends from other countries hav it too, so don think its my internet, this is very very frustrating, anet plz fix ur stuff

having terrible lags since beginning of the week, and only me, my friends from other countries hav it too, so don think its my internet, this is very very frustrating, anet plz fix ur stuff

having terrible unplayable lag since beginning of the week, this is really annoying

Jus got kicked out of dungeon again becuz some idiot clicked merge, seriously when is this gona b resolved???

jus wondering if any dev acutally read the forum at all

stil waiting for some kind of response

i understand that this lfg function is a work in progress, but at least some official response saying we looking into it wil b nice, and seriously to not set a limit to how many ppl can merge into one party is jus stupid, it shows how little anet care abt their own coding.

Lord Kuru.3685:

back to gw2lfg, I guess.

yeah if enough ppl is using lfg.com I would go back to that

Stil waiting for some official reply

Me and 2 friends was gona do hotw, one of us entered first while we waiting for pug, so we all entered. Again someone pressed merge party, we all got kicked out of that instance, (luckily no harm done this time), I joined some random party with 4 ppl I never met before, and my 2 friends are in a party with 2 pug as well, this bug is really really kitten stupid.

Im pretty sure this is not a new bug, why is it stil not fixed?

We were doing Arah, jus killed GL, someone has to leave, so we pugged 1more, then some idiot already in another instance clicked merge party and we all got kicked out of ours. Over 20 min of my life wasted becuz of stupid bug.

Why can ppl merge with my party without even asking me? Where is my right to refuse? Why can a party of 4 merge with a party of 3 and hav memebers randomly assigned to each party?

Plz fix this bug asap, its really really kitten ing me off.

Starscream.6498:

Zupp.6125:

Starscream.6498:

Are you sure it worked, like ever? I’m pretty sure it’s intended that blocks and reflects don’t stop the deadeye shot

As far as I remember, it used to block. But I could be wrong, hence I want to find out if it was intended. Also Aegis pretty much blocks everything in the game which makes me wonder why the exception?

I believe it was their intended “thing”. Overcharged windup shot that cannot be blocked by anything but terrain and dodging.

As of now, war shield block deadeye among many other skills.

ilr.9675:

Nothing blocks Deadeyes…. Not even reflect shields. They’ve always been this way.
Only thing you can do is try to dodge early, get out of line of sight, or Blind them.

For this specific “run” on the Path, I actually gave up on trying to use my guardian b/c he always got ALL of their aggro for some reason. I use my Ranger for the path instead because it has 2 really long distance Double-Lunges to get through those hallways before their shots can be fired (since trying to convince your team to just blind & kill the kitten things is almost impossible when they’ve got it in their heads that running is ALWAYS THE BEST SOLUTION AND YOU’RE A PVT SCRUB IF YOU DISAGREE). If that fails, throw a Bear at them like Chubbs & Brasil

This is not true, many things in fact can stop deadeye, aegis being one of them, at least used to be. War shield block is another, sword offhand block too, enduring pain as well, mes distortion too and so forth.

And there are many things that wall of reflect does not work for, so thats not really a good example to began with.

Also I run with my knight/zerker guard in arah p2 with little to no prob, always used aegis before until recently.

This is freaken stupid, its like Lost Shore all over again, I’d thought anet fixed their servers by now, but instead they blaming us?

I’m from South Africa using Mweb, and I started lagging like crazy this evening, totally unplayable now and I hav guild mission in 30 min.

Atm I can download movies at 400kb, jus logged into D3 and it runs prefectly, only GW2 is giving problem, very kitten ed.

rodadams.5963:

However, I never understood the point of spending 10-15 minutes waiting for the “perfect” group, which can complete it in 3-5 minutes less than your typical group.

I wait for a perfect group when I want to run it for an hour or more, at which point every min u save per run end up being extra runs per hour.

…are u serious? I did it with war without stability and got light foot achievement, u really don need a guard or stability, jus move around and dodge when u need to.

ok server is back up, can do daily, but lost my fractal progress, more then one hour down the drain.

Was kicked out jus as I was making my way to jade maw in fractal 38, now I cant get chest or daily and hav effectively wasted almost a hour for nothing, also hasnt had time to do my daily, really hope the server is back up before server clock reset.

Malvagite.3254:

its a bug, not intended and will be fixed. you can search the dev quotes section for confirmation.

Thx for the info

I made a thread yesterday asking abt wat happen when u transmute legendary weapon, now that I got the answer I would like to hear from Anet if this is wat they intended for the game.

Bascially all legendary weapons come with power vit and toughness, and u cannot transmute it into any other stat unless u willing to loose its legendary statues, so I spent 2 month on aquiring a really nice looking weapon, only to discover that it doesnt fit my build and there is no way to fix that atm, all I want to know from Anet is if they on purposely want it to be this way, or they gona fix it in a furture patch, thanks.

Danikat.8537:

Transmutation stones don’t change the stats of a weapon, they change the skin.

In other words you’re not putting the stats of an exotic weapon onto the legendary, you’re making an exotic one look like a legendary, but it is still an exotic weapon.

Thx for the explaination and it makes sense, but I would like to know if this is functioning as intended, in otherword does Anet intend all legendaries to only hav 1 type of stat and is also unable to change stat through transmutation?

Ok this is not game breaking like many other bugs, but it would b nice if its fixed, bascially after I aquired legendary and equiped it, the medal that I suppose to unlock on account medal section is stil blanked out, making a legendary was easy so I would like to see that medal even though it doesnt affect my gameplay at all.

Giganticus is really not that hard if u put in the efford to learn his moves, sure he might b harder than all other dungeon bosses, but its quite doable. if u really hav trouble finding a group, trying posting on the forum to look for group or other sites that offer this kind of service, ppl from different servers can actually join the same dungeon, u can even ask me to join u if I hav time, I finished the set long time ago but do Arah for fun almost everyday.

Thx for the info, that is wat I kind of expect too, but the question then is that wil this be fixed or is it working as intended?

The thing is its kind of limiting that all legendaries offer power, vit and toughness, we should b given the option to transmute it with desired stat like other items.

I hav recently aquired a Legendary, only to realise the stat it provide is not wat I would perfer, the normal solution to this problem is to use transmutation stone, however after asking around, someone told me that once u transmute legendary with an exotic weapon stat, the legendary weapon would become exotic instead, losing its purple colour.

After working so long for it, I obviously don want it to lose its legendary statues, even though I don feel purple is a really cool colour for it. Further more I remember Anet mentioned something abt introducing ascend weapon in the future, and that legendary weapons wil get an auto upgrade into ascend stat, now if I transmuted my legendary, wil I stil b getting that free upgrade?

Great, now not only I crash abt once every 5-8 map loading, I also cant get email authentication for some reason, my email is working jus fine, so it seems Anet server is not sending it out for some reason, I manage to get it after like 4 or 5 tries, but only get one email, all the ones before it are mysteriously gone.

So not only I get kicked out of game, I also hav trouble logging back in now, this is getting really fun, maybe next patch I wil jus hit the uninstall button for even more fun.

Thx Ayperi for ur feedback, at least now I know Im not alone in this issue. Im seriously a bit fed up with Anet, after that second last big patch I started to lag badly during peak hours, then after this new patch I started crashing, I mean does something else breaks everytime Anet releases a big patch? the game is becoming more and more unplayable atm.

My game was running fine before the last big patch few days ago, ever since I got that patch, my game started to crash at map loading screen on a frequent bases.

Did the new patch increased the requirement for system memory, cuz after the game updated, when I alt-tap out, everything else seem to react slower than usual, indicating that there is not enough memory, which has never happened before this patch.

My game was running fine before the last big patch few days ago, ever since I got that patch, my game started to crash at map loading screen on a frequent bases.

Did the new patch increased the requirement for system memory, cuz after the game updated, when I alt-tap out, everything else seem to react slower than usual, indicating that there is not enough memory, which has never happened before this patch.

Another night when I get back and finally able to play some GW2, the lag make it impossible to play, sad to say but this is really pissing me off, such a great game but the company running it did such a poor job at keeping it working.

Ender.3508:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

Ender.3508:

300 for the pants alone and you’re talking 100+ runs for one piece of armor. Might as well do the whole dungeon as it’s not that hard with a half decent group. I ran path 2 and 3 on my mesmer in lvl 80 greens and wiped once. If someone is really willing to grind that much then thats more of an accomplishment than actually completing arah, good for them.

I never said the dungeon was hard, but u must understand the definition of “hard” is relative to the ppl using it, so wat u find not hard might not apply to everyone else. If u ever paid attention to map chat at Cursed Shore, u would find that there are much more ppl lfg for arah farming then actually dungeon, this can only tell u one thing, that alot of ppl cant complete the dungeon.

And I really cant agree with u that grinding alot suppose to equal to some kind of accomplishment, at least that cant b true for dungeons, otherwise Anet wouldnt need to spend time designing all kind of different dungeon plays and jus make it all like event farming. There are things in this game that was meant for mindless grinding such as legendaries, but there suppose to b things that mindless grinding cant get u.

Nah man, what I’m saying is that for such a little reward (100 runs x 5-10min/per) = ~9-18hrs of farming arah nonstop. Boring, grindy, useless, but if someone has the patience for that….good for them. Doesn’t harm me any.

Sure this might not harm u directly, but then again bots didnt harm most of the players either, in fact they helped to keep things more affordable, but that doesnt make it ok.

There is little difference between a gaming community and a real one, while certain actions does not affect the live of others, as a member of the community its each and everyone’s responsiblity to make sure that its funcitoning as intended, I believe its called the duty of citizen in some countries.

Cactus.2710:

LOTS of unhappy customers here and not a single response from ArenaNet ….

Ive always hoped Anet to become the next Blizzard, in the sense that they make great games that last forever, however it seems that instead they hav adopted Blizzard’s way in handling customer’s complain, this lag remind me of D3 server issue, which was only solved when the entire Korean player base sued and demanded refund.

havoc.8569:

I’m talking about the shard farm that you even mentioned. You said the average joe cant get Arah armor, but you’re wrong. People have been doing easy shard runs since the beginning to get a full armor sets. Arah armor doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means.

And do u know how long that shard farming lasted? How many ppl got a ful Arah set from that kind of farming? Funny I never see alot of ppl wearing Arah set, and out of those who does Ive never known one that sucked at any dungeon, so even though I agree some ppl must hav gotten Arah armor from early farming, I don think there is alot of them at all, unlike what is happening now and gona happen in the near future.

Beside, jus becuz something happened before doesnt mean its acceptable to happen again, the fact Anet patched shard farming should indicate its not intended, and thus this thread serves as a message to warn Anet that its happening again.