Guild Wars 2

Sviel.7493:

Where is this merchant missing from? EBG? EotM? One of the borderlands?

It’s missing from Overgrowth spawn in EOTM. Frostreach and Badlands have a siege merchant at their spawn but Overgrowth does not.

Issy.8039:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2saub4/how_to_fix_your_updater_temp/

I’m on the west coast and was having d/l issues as well (for the first time, too). This info fixed things for me. Thank you so much for sharing that link!

Hmmmm…I do have that option enabled but I tested the golem finisher in EOTM tonight under similar circumstances and it displays. I switched to the skritt one right after and it didn’t display. I’ve never had an issue with my other finishers in EOTM until trying to use the skritt one.

Edit: Just tested the skritt finisher in Enternal Battleground and it works as it should there. It’s only in EOTM that I’ve noticed an issue, but not with other finishers.

Edit 2: I went into EOTM last night (April 10) and the skritt finisher worked as it normally should. Not sure what the issue was with just that one finisher in that specific map but things seem back to normal for me now.

I recently purchased the skritt-scavenger finisher but it doesn’t seem to work in EOTM. I’ll stomp people but nothing displays when I do. I tested the finisher in HOTM on the NPCs and it shows there. I haven’t had time to test it in regular WvW or in an actual PvP match though. Has anyone else had a similar issue with this finisher in EOTM or anywhere else in the game?

Instanced areas is one thing I haven’t really gotten into. Can you send me an invite for NA? Thanks!

I just now got a tome of knowledge from a pvp reward track. Where did you hear that they were removed?

I just started getting back into pvp since the Wintersday patch and noticed the skill lag as well. I thought it was my mouse, but I don’t have this issue in other parts of the game…even when fighting zergs in wvw.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Charming Rogue — I’ll pass along the feedback. We’ve seen much-loved items make a comeback in the past, maybe that same decision will give your Elsa (who’s beautiful, btw) her Olaf in the future. All the best for Wintersday!

If those 2012 Wintersday minis ever made their way to the gem store, that would be an instabuy for me!

I like the concept of the new daily system. I like logging in to have a chest waiting for me and the menu of daily items to select from (wish we could access that particular menu again as I like the layout). I only need to complete three activities to get ten AP (yay!). I like getting loot for completing other dailies as well. I also like how it encourages exploring other game modes. It got me back into PvP and I also tried fractals again. I like having the game reward players for trying new things. I already do WvW so between PvE and WvW, I can get the new daily done fairly quickly. I think the new format is promising but could use some tweaks:

1. Gathering seems too specific. Maybe this could be changed to include all gathering instead of just one type of node. I bought nodes in my home instance so I could get most of the gathering daily done as it used to exist, but now I have to run around a map looking for that one final plant/tree/ore to gather. I purchased a home portal stone for the same reason which now seems like a waste of gems since I won’t always get credit for gathering at home anymore (unless I swap it to another character along with my infinite gathering tools). It’s not a hardship, but it has decreased the value of things I’ve bought from the gem store.

2. Requiring a win in PvP on a specific profession has been a problem. I like being encouraged to try new professions, but maybe it could be changed to get a certain amount of points or something along those lines. Trying for a win causes people to rage quit in practice mode (which players new to a profession most likely are playing instead of arenas) when the other team is in the lead so the score gets more lopsided making it frustrating for players who do stick around. I realize that some players will probably leave the match as soon as they get whatever achievement they need though so I’m not sure what is the best course for this type of achievement.

3. World boss spawn rates can be an issue. I like fighting world bosses, but sometimes my schedule does not allow me to fight, say, Karka Queen because of the spawn rate. Maybe this achievement could be a bit more generic so that several different bosses could be selected from and killed for credit.

4. Needs more PvE and PvP options/variety. As a WvW regular, the WvW dailies are just as doable as before. You don’t really have to go out of your way to get them and they are not as specific as the PvE and PvP options (if they were, the equivalent would be something like capture a tower in blue borderlands). WvW dailies are good on that front. But if you mostly PvP and don’t main one of the daily professions, you now have to fight using that profession (assuming you have even have that profession). Some people don’t enjoy group instances so it’s a problem if two of the PvE dailies are fractals or dungeons. Adding more options to PvE would help as I imagine that’s the content most people play. Tweaking PvP would help as well for the regulars as well as new players as team comps are now weird with the profession requirement.

Overall, I like the format changes and shaking things up a bit, encouraging people to explore and try new things. I just think it needs some tweaking so that it’s not so overly specific in PvE and PvP modes.

OmaiGodman.2098:

Cyga.1246:

Belenwyn.8674:

We need also a button to skip the fights. It is very annoying to have boring fights until you can follow the next dialog.

Stupid comment. Hearing same dialog second time is waste of time, there should be button to skip dialogs.

Same could be said of repetitive battles though. If you don’t want to “waste” time playing a game, maybe you shouldn’t be playing a game.

That’s just it though, some of us want to be active and play the game, not sit back and be passive watching the same dialogue scenes over and over while working on achievements. After the initial playthrough, I don’t see the harm in being able to skip dialog scenes if one wishes to do so.

Yeah, found it last night while coin hunting. Such a cute little camp!

This has happened to me a few times now over the past week, twice was while I was in WvW which is annoying given how lengthy the queue is on Blackgate. My game client will crash with some message about not being able to connect to the server. When this happens, I also cannot access the GW2 website or wiki. The rest of my Internet connection is fine and my guildies in Teamspeak are still able to play the game just fine. I cannot reconnect to the game for about 5 minutes or so and then things seem to go back to normal again.

I would like to see some better rewards for scouts but I imagine it’s not an easy task to track reward-wise. My guild tries to do the one scout per tick thing, but we have at least two that are pretty much permascouts because it’s not always easy to get people to volunteer (and these people really like scouting, upgrading camps/towers, etc.). I try to do 2-3 tick’s worth of scouting when I first get into the map. I then set aside a percent of my bags and share them with the permascouts. It doesn’t make up for their loss of wxp, karma and all that, but at least they get some bags out of it.

Sceinna.3561:

This is a bad “fix”, if I knew I was going to be restricted from WvW I wouldn’t have transfered and paid gems to do so.

But you did know you would be restricted because the warning screen said so right before you transferred. Anet gave you a choice. You could have stayed on your present server for the duration of the tourney and then transferred afterward without any restrictions, or you could transfer during the tourney and accept the restrictions as stated on the transfer screen. You made the decision to transfer with those restrictions in place. I’m not sure why you are now upset with Anet over the choice you made.

Anet responded to feedback from last season and put these restrictions into place. If they had blocked all server transfers during the tourney, people would then be complaining about that. They gave people options instead:

1. Stay on your present server.
2. Transfer before the start of the tourney on March 28 without restrictions.
3. Transfer after the start of the tourney and be restricted from WvW for the current match and next match.

If people are unhappy with the concept of the restrictions, they should provide that feedback to Anet. If they are concerned that they may be sidelined for longer than the “current match and next match” because of the restrictions kicking in just now, they should address that as well. But I don’t understand the complaints from people who accepted the restrictions when they chose to transfer and now are complaining because they can’t play WvW for a week or two.

I love WvW and I know how disappointing it must be for people who are not able to do it right now. To be fair to Anet, the Spring Tournament restrictions were stated in the blog post well in advance of the start of the tourney. More importantly, the same restrictions were stated in a warning screen when one tried to transfer to a new server after the start of the tourney. Even if one does not frequent the blog, forums, Reddit, etc., Anet listed the restrictions directly to the player in-game before transferring. I don’t know how Anet could have been clearer on communicating these restrictions above and beyond this in-game warning screen.

So the people who transferred after the start of the tourney will not be able to do WvW for up to 2 weeks depending upon what day they transferred (current match and next match). I don’t know why the restrictions didn’t kick in last match, but those who are impacted have not lost anything. You were informed about the restrictions before you transferred so that is still the duration you will be sidelined in WvW. It just kicked in later than expected. But once that period has elapsed, you will be able to go into WvW and kick some tail again.

This has been happening to me for a few days now on Chrome. I have to go into settings every day and delete GW2 cookies in order to access the forums again.

Shadey Dancer.2907:

So far my experiences this past week with guesting. Go to guest, put into overflow, wait for to be put into main, main comes up saying its free—-and put into another overflow. That happened a lot, with once exception, the main came up, clicked to join main, and it came back network error!

You can’t get into main that way when guesting, which I assume is done to give priority to players native to that server. You have to run back and forth between map portals if it’s full. If main is not hardcapped, you can get in if you are in a party with someone who is in main when you enter the map. Otherwise, hang out by one of the map entrance portals and when the message that main is available comes up, run through the exit and come back in. You may have to do this over and over to get in. Ideally, you want to try this well before the event begins before it’s hardcapped.

This would be great! Even RuneScape had an NPC who would look at your bank inventory and tell you which items you could safely get rid of. In this game, I’m never sure what I need to hang on to for future use.

I’ll admit that I was initially annoyed at seeing so many AFKers in this event. I think most of us have gotten the achievements by now so for me, it comes down to whether these people could have contributed toward saving 1,200 civilians or not. There are times when I am sure it would have made a difference and it makes me upset to see people just hanging out by the waypoint or tucked away underwater in a safe spot the entire time while I’m running around trying to save people and help at events that need more people.

Then I started thinking about all the real life things that could be going on which takes people away from the game unexpectedly. A toddler has a major meltdown, a water pipe burst, a family member has a medical emergency…things like this do occur and I would not want to unfairly punish people for dealing with these things. Of course, I am sure there are plenty of people who go into Lion’s Arch with the intent of doing nothing to get free loot, but I try not to dwell on that now.

Perhaps rewards for events like this could be changed in the future where it requires some involvement to get loot as this is definitely a “hot button” issue for all concerned.

Lord Kuru.3685:

MrsKryten.5104:

to make the two areas equal?

It’s pretty clear at this point they don’t want to do this. And you can bet the next such pass will have even more features.

It isn’t so clear to me at this point what Anet’s intentions are. They added the skill trainer to the Royal Terrace after the Captain’s Airship came out which suggests that they are attempting some parity. But then they left out the activity NPC. Is it because they haven’t had time to work one in yet to the Royal Terrace, or do they not plan on adding it at all? It’s difficult to say until someone from Anet addresses this.

Tom.8029:

I used the one-time pass. I saw a Crab Toss guy up there. I think that’s an activity.

Yes, the Captain’s Airship has the activity NPC. What OP is talking about is the Royal Terrace not having the activity NPC. OP and others are asking for the Royal Terrace and Captain’s Airship to have the same services since they are the same concept. They recently added a skill retraitor to the Royal Terrace so why not add an activity NPC in there are well to make the two areas equal?

Update: I just did a tri-wurm run tonight that did not result in a kill. However, the “Wurmicidal Maniac” achievement popped for me along with the “Wurm’s Bane” title. So for those who have successfully defeated tri-wurm prior to the new title, try another run and see if you get the new achievement as well. This may be the closest to retroactively awarding the title as Anet can get.

Zaxares.5419:

^ I agree wholeheartedly, but it seems via their silence that ANet wants the Watchwork Pick to stay as it is. The only question now is whether they will make it “fair” for other unlimited tool users by upgrading the old tools to also provide additional benefits.

I don’t want Anet to feel they cannot improve upon services either by adding extras, I just don’t know what is the best way to go about this while making people feel like they’ve been treated fairly. I think timing plays an important role here. If I bought something that is then upgraded only a month later, it’s going to stick in my craw.

That said, I gave Anet major kudos for retroactively changing the original soulbound unlimited gathering tools to account bound even though those items sold for fewer gems at the time than the newer ones. I was very pleased with that move as I did not feel it was something they had to do and it really impressed me that they cared enough about their customers to offer this upgrade for those who bought the tools early on. So it is possible for them to go back and change older gathering tools to also have a chance to mine sprockets if they were so inclined. I don’t think people were too troubled over not getting sprockets though as opposed to the precedent it was setting and what that could mean for the future. Either way, they definitely should not remove that ability from the Watchwork Picks they’ve already sold.

Getting back on track to OP’s post, I’m hoping that in the future Anet does think about moves like this and how their customers will react to it. If the Royal Terrace pass was promoted as being “the ultimate in convenience” in January, then it should have the same features as the new Captain’s Airship in February. And Anet should definitely feel free to keep adding extra features to both. I’m thinking that they will make both areas the same but are just working things during this new content.

It happened on Ehmry Bay main last night as well.

Lord Kuru.3685:

MrsKryten.5104:

I also have a permanent Royal Terrace pass. It cost the same amount of gems so the services offered there should maintain parity with the services available on the Captain’s Airship.

Yes. I had a permanent molten pick. It cost the same amount of gems as the sprocket-giving pick do Anet upgraded it to give the same bonuses…

…oh wait.

Not to derail too much from OP’s thread but I philosophically disagree with Anet adding that extra feature to the Watchwork Mining Pick. Bad call on their end as far as I’m concerned. The unlimited use gathering tools should only differ in terms of animation effects, not ability to mine extra goodies over other unlimited gathering tools. Same thing with the Royal Terrace vs. Captain’s Airship. I think they should offer the same services, but you are correct that there is now a precedent for Anet not being consistent with features on similar items in the gem store. Only time will tell if this practice nets them more profit, but I don’t think it sits well with most customers.

I also have a permanent Royal Terrace pass. It cost the same amount of gems so the services offered there should maintain parity with the services available on the Captain’s Airship.

On a side note, thank you, Anet, for adding a skill trainer to the Royal Terrace.

bradldz.3728:

The new achievement requires an actual kill as far as I’m aware, which is fair. This gets you a new title, the Jungle wurm slayer is not taken away. So i dont see the problem here at all.

The problem is for those of us who have already successfully participated in the Wurm event which resulted in all three Wurms being killed. Those people should have the “Wurm’s Bane” title issued retroactively instead of having to do it all over again. As it stands right now, we have to participate in a successful tri-wurm kill twice as opposed to others who only need to do it once to get the Wurm’s Bane title. It just feels like a slap in the face to the people who already have successfully completed this event as we have to do it all over again to get something we’ve already earned. It’s not exactly a walk in the park to successfully complete this event either.

It’s certainly not the end of the world, but it does sting a bit that I’m not able to wear a title I’ve legitimately earned and spent a lot of time doing so.

Ranger Hussy.9523:

and a pain to get back to where you were

But there is an exit button now in the WvW menu which takes you back to where you were located when you entered WvW. Easy peasy (unless your BL is full).

Malediktus.9250:

If you can do it once you can do it again.

True, but with all the new Living Story content I don’t really want to quest over to another server 90 minutes before the event starts three times a night for a week again to get something I’ve already earned. I already killed it on Blackgate and should get the title that goes with it without having to kill it again.

1. Ranger

I don’t have a strong opinion on the other professions as I mostly play my Guardian now and don’t have any complaints there. Ranger needs a whole lot of TLC though that goes far beyond the pet AI. We offer little team support in PVE unless we go melee, select from the 3 or so pets that buff allies, and/or run a build that uses Spotter and Frost Spirit. It’s not just the profession that needs retooling, but the concept of ranged fighting and whether that can be made to enhance a team instead of being viewed as a liability.

Ronah.2869:

they were there for the achievements not to beat the wurms. and guesting is an excuse from AN to make elitist content without getting the slap

I have to respectfully disagree with your first comment. I wanted that boss dead! I tried defeating the wurm event on Ehmry Bay but realized after several days that our server was not yet ready to defeat the three wurms. My guildies from Ehmry Bay had already been guesting to BG for this event because they were serious about developing a strat to kill all three wurms and BG had the dedicated population needed to make this happen.

These Ehmry Bay guesters spent long hours over the past week working with others to develop tactics and refine builds that eventually lead us to defeating the boss. One of them was even commanding during our winning run. Another two had been commanding regularly throughout the week. To say that these dedicated individuals from EBay were only there for achievements is flat out wrong and it is unfair to paint all of us guesters with such a broad brush. Let’s keep this thread about celebrating the victory though and post any issues with Anet in a more appropriate place.

Congrats to everyone who helped defeat the boss, whether you were there with me at the actual event or had contributed toward the win over the past week. It was an amazing moment and I met a lot of great people from BG and other servers. You guys are all awesome!

#TeamAmber

I dedicate this win to my home server Ehmry Bay!

That was so awesome! #TeamAmberForever!

mighty meak.6387:

w t f skyham

My thoughts exactly.

Vaught.5198:

meikodesign.6471:

It’s the same with Frost spirit’s cold snap. I tried to increase the chill duration but it seems to be always 5s.

well… thats not cool. :/

I see what you did there.

Coarr.3286:

today ill try something new. the patch did bring our beloved Re-Port331 condition build a pretty interesting new facette. with even stronger group support ability. i call it the “1330BF”

here is the theory craft:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMQQRBMhd+1JRFVW2FkiFoWGQaPyEzDTYFME3D/rTCxDW95B-jUCBodDimqIQEIhOvrIasFhDRr6Ks6ZER1qGYeFYCBsYNA-w

Thanks for sharing this. I am interested in seeing any new builds around the 331 model given the recent changes to the Ranger. I’ve been running the 331R build but using sword/torch, axe/dagger instead of sword/dagger, axe/torch.

The sword/torch seems to kick some major tail, but then it leaves the dagger feeling a little meh to me so the last few days I’ve been trying axe/axe instead. I like the ability to pull and whirling defense. I’m losing condition damage by dropping the dagger, but I am able to kill a group more quickly with whirling defense. I used to use axe/warhorn with my old trapper setup though and now that it is a blast finisher, I am tempted to try this again.

NargofWoV.4267:

This build only good in Settlers or can you get by in Apothecary armor? Settler’s isn’t going to happen for me on my world.

I wanted to grab Settler’s items as well since I had a ton of Karka shells and the weapons were cheaper than Apothecary, but the event was not going to happen on my server either. I used GW2stuff to help determine which servers had done the event most recently and had success guesting onto Fort Aspenwood to get all my gear as they seem to do this event nightly. You might look into guesting if the cost works out better for you to get Settler’s items. Good luck!

I finally got my Settler’s gear (had to guest onto Fort Aspenwood as they seem to do the Karka Queen event nightly). Hyjaxxx, I have a newbie question for you regarding the apothecary amulet. How do I make the exotic one ascended, or do you buy the one listed in your build somewhere?

Did a couple hours of raiding last night with this build and it was a lot of fun. Looking forward to testing the full setup next time.

hyjaxxx.1584:

well, this sounds like a challenge to me! so here we go! The Hyjaxx “old people special”

switch your Runes to Dwayna , change your shout trait to something else you like. Get rid of guard and use the run speed signet.

There you go. your regen will hit instantly. you dont have to worry about swiftness. so you will just miss the ability to use pet4 stuff and them getting protection.

Try that my man!

Jaxx….The Old people problem solver!

LOL! I was finding spamming guard while running around a little awkward at first but I’m used to throwing traps so it wasn’t such a big transition for me. The problem with the above tweak is that you lose granting swiftness and regen to the party, which is a major feature of this build. I used to use warhorn for party support but I think your build is much more useful.

I’m still using my rampager’s gear (waiting for Karka Queen to open and too cheap to buy apothecary) but have already seen a difference in WvW. I didn’t instantly drop with my previous build, but I perform much better now when flipping supply camps and random encounters with small groups. The constant swiftness is very useful even if I do have to press a mouse button every 10 seconds. Things seems fine in PvE as well but I’m still using rampager’s so I’m anxious to see how things work with the proper setup.

I’m looking forward to fully using this build once I get the proper gear and see how the damage compares to my old setup. That said, I do miss my short bow. I feel awkward with the sword but getting used to it.

Thank you, hyjaxxx, for sharing all this great info! I’m still fairly new to GW2 and have been running a condition/trap build using shortbow and axe/warhorn (20/30/20/0/0). I’m not unhappy with it but I am interested in trying out something new as I’m getting more into WvW and want to see a different side of being a Ranger.

If it’s not too much trouble, can you update the link in your OP to reflect the most recent build (including the roaming one), gear, runes, pets and traits? The link still lists settler’s gear but I think you mentioned a few pages back that you swapped those out for apothecary instead. Since I need to retrait and acquire all new gear, I want to make sure I’m matching what you are now using based upon your recent tests. Thanks!

Rajani Isa.6294:

MrsKryten.5104:

I have the same issue as romainette. My saved credit card is grayed out and cannot be selected as a payment option. Paypal doesn’t seem to work either. I really want to get that new axe, too. I also submitted a trouble ticket. Hope it gets resolved soon!

Have you tried deleting the saved card and re-entering it?

I was having difficulty doing that, but it worked for me a few hours ago. Maybe the others can try deleting the card on the website again and see if it goes through this time.

I have the same issue as romainette. My saved credit card is grayed out and cannot be selected as a payment option. Paypal doesn’t seem to work either. I really want to get that new axe, too. I also submitted a trouble ticket. Hope it gets resolved soon!

Yeah, this is beyond challenging right now and and not my idea of fun. My guild attempted this last night and failed. In order to get the ones who did make it to the end, we had to spend the beginning of our rush time completing the (unfun) “Help Advisor Zakk repair his golem and reclaim his training area” event. At least the reef drake broodmother was not up or we would have had to clear that as well.

Right at the beginning of the rush area, the screen glitches out where it keeps flickering back and forth between being underwater and above the surface. That caused some failure because the hatchlings spawn right there but you can’t see them at first because of the video glitching.

A few members of my guild were able to reach the end. A pack I was with made it through the wurm area, through the crab hole, over the bridge only to have the Steampipe Steading karka invasion start where we all got slaughtered. A few of us then tried to clear that event so that others could make it, but it is very difficult with only a few people. We did what we could but still failed in the end. If we were some mega-sized guild, then this would probably be doable but we’re not and all the Southsun events that can pop now within the rush period makes this a real pain in the kitten for normal-sized guilds.

Anet, please take a look at this rush, fix the glitches and analyze how feasible it is to complete given the new Southsun content.

I was in the middle of crab toss and got some message about my free account not having access to that content and got booted. Tried relogging and got a message about not being able to authenticate my account, but now it’s saying it is the login server.

I was only was impacted one of the nights and lost three rares so it’s not a major deal, but I’m curious why the servers roll back 20 minutes or so after players get disconnected. I haven’t encountered this in other MMOs so it was quite a surprise to log back into a completely different zone with missing rares, XP and karma.

I had a problem getting the Master of Baubles achievement as well. There are some tips in this thread that may be of help: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Master-of-baubles-bug.

I finally got the achievement tonight and now have a shiny new title! I had kept a checklist of baubles in the past and didn’t come across any new ones tonight. The only things that were different were:
1. I stowed all my baubles in the bank so I had zero on me when I entered zone 3.
2. I went back and purchased the one-time purple bauble in the extra secret shop (this was last night though, not tonight).

I don’t think #2 would have made a difference, but is it possible that once you hit your max baubles they stop counting toward the achievement? I was very thorough with my check list the last time I attempted this run so I’m thinking there must have been some other condition that was blocking the achievement from registering.

I can’t recall which title right now but I did play a game once that caused me to experience motion sickness in a bad way. I finally took Dramamine before playing and that helped. Eventually, I didn’t have to take it anymore so I don’t know if my brain got used to the game or what.

Taking medicine may not be appropriate for some (and may seem a bit extreme just to play a game) so you could try a more natural approach by taking ginger or peppermint instead and see if that helps with the nausea.

I got the achievement without the slingshot. I had collected in order: candle, whip, heart, bombs, moto’s breath, shovel and then bought the purse which gave me the achievement. I bought the slingshot after that.