Guild Wars 2

I totally agree… I don’t want to have another trenchcoat, and for legendary armor they should find something that looks unique. The heavy armor we could see in the preview looks a lot like human t3 on first sight, but that animation is quite cool. Let’s hope medium armor gets finished next, I can’t wait to see it.

I just tried to get the Champion Risen Wraith to spawn like 20 times now. Every single time, no matter if it was early in the morning or like 10 minutes ago (1:30 am), a more or less big zerg kills Lyssa right after she’s attackable. I gathered some people who also needed the wraith, no one else on the map cared about the pre-events, we had to do all three of them by ourselves to make the Champion Risen Wraith spawn, but as soon as the Lyssa-Event pops up, everyone on the map wants to see her dead…
It’s really frustrating and if you ask them nicely to wait for 10 minutes, they’ll laugh about it and tell you to ask ArenaNet to change this… well… please change it. Make this a pre-event for Lyssa or tie the collection item to another mob… I’m getting really frustated and angry about these mindless people right now, although I know that 99% of them are not aware that they do something that really annoyes a lot of people right now.

I had like 30 exe crashes in the last 20 minutes… every time I killed something my game crashed. I deactivated “autoloot : quick interact” and the problem seems to be solved. It only happened after I finally got Pakt Commander : Advanced Logistics (autoloot) …

Pls Anet, release an expansion that we don’t need to spend time with. Give us an expansion with already unlocked elite specs, send us ingame mails with items to complete our entire legendary scavenger hunt and after we’ve “done” everything, pls listen to our complains that there’s nothing to do in this game.
Wow… It’s not even released and people already cry… It takes like one rainy Saturday afternoon to get every hero challenge in Tyria, and on release all you need to do is going for 20-40 Mastery-Challenges in Maguuma to finish your Elitespec… And I don’t think people stop playing their classes after they reached that point, so I don’t see the problem here… It’s good that elite specs will take SOME time to get, else they should not be called elite… and I guess some people should be reminded that this is still a game.

Though from what I read, Elite can be played day 1, just wont be able to have the entire line finish on day 1. Or maybe you can with the extra hero point earn in the world, some of it still in mystery and I am glad for that.

That right. If you have earned the extra 2xx Heropoints from world completion you can unlock the whole elite spec, the rest will be used to unlock skins. And even if you don’t have world completion, you can start being a Herold/Reaper/etc… but you don’t have all skills and traits right from the start.

First of all, thank you for your honest request to make sure such a mess won’t happen again… I think this event did quite some damage to the game, because it forces you to a really egoistic gameplay with no need to communicate with others.

Here are two points I think should be reconsidered in future events:

1. You removed loot, experience and karma from these events to make sure people don’t run off to another event after killing 2 mobs. Now you scale rewards with the amount of events you participated in, so after they did enough to get reward for the current event people get forced to run to the next event instead of staying at one event until it’s finished.

Possible solution: Tie rewards to the mapwide completed event count. Players have to take part in a smaller number of events and event participation is only counted when players are in the event radius when the event is finished. Players are forced to split up, do as much events as possible and they’ll have to make sure to complete these events instead of running off after they killed some mobs.

2. Remove useless rewards from the reward merchant. Who would buy an Essence of Luck for 10 Blossoms? Please…

I’d rather want to see some more armor skins that are not costumes or other gemstore stuff. I would appreciate legendary trinkets though, which give you a shiny effect on your chosen armor skin than everybody walking around with the same legendary armor skin.
And I would not know what to do with all of my ascended armors, especially since you can now swap stats on all these useless magi- / shaman- and rabid-boxes.

I still lose all achievements and titles when I create a new character. I logged into gw1, visited the hall of monuments there and after that in gw2 too. Nothing happened. Although relogging on an existing lvl 80 character rewards all achievements and titles again, as soon as I create a new character everything is gone again. So this is just a temporary fix for this bug and very annoying… btw: if you relog on a lvl 80 character standing in the Heart of the Mists, your achievements and titles are not rewarded, you have to leave HotM to get them.

ok… obviously not everything is fixed yet… I just created a new Guardian and when I logged in, I received this mail:

LOR-748 Titel-Issuing Error

Greeting,

My records indicate you are one of the recent recipients of the title “God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals”.

Congratulations!

However, I have some unfortunate news. Your title was the result of my golem, LOR-748, believing you earned the honor and issuing this esteemed accolade. Now, there’s no way my golem made any sort of miscalculation, which means there is only one explanation: the Eternal Alchemy itself is wrong.

To clarify, the illegal modifications I made to LOR-748’s title-issuing program had absolutely nothing to do with this title-issuing mistake.

In an effort to remedy this error -again, not mine- your title and any other unearned Hall of Monuments rewards must be revoked. This is regrettable, but the Alchemy is a living thing that, if not corrected, corrects itself – and no one wants to leave this up to the uncaring universe. This reversal will also keep the Arcane Council from incarcerating me until, as they put it, “your bones turn to dust.”

Apologies,
Scholar Aiti

To clarify… I have earned all 50 points in my Hall of Monuments in GW1 and I earned the title God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals, too.

Everything is gone if I create a new character, profession doesn’t matter. After I relog to an existing character, everything is rewarded again, but only relogging to the same newly created character doesn’t work. So there’s something wrong with the way new characters are handled… Pls fix…

I hope this helps:

All my lvl 80 characters that unlocked all their traits and stuff can’t change their builds, use heropoints or whatever. Also every of my lvl 80 chars that completed any of the lw season 2 stories has these stories LOCKED and there’s an option to buy every single episode for 200gems. Also every achievement I got (and I got them all) is locked on these chars.

Now the funny part: I happen to have an unused character slot which I used for keyfarming and I have a lvl 13 character that has not done anything except Personal Story lvl 10. When I logged in with that char, everything was normal. I could unlock traits with my few hero points and when I opened the Hero Panel I had access to the complete Living World Season 2. All achievements are unlocked and completed as they should be.

I got an invitation, too. Just read the email again and saw that the first stress test is in the evening, not in the morning… now I’m really excited xD

For those who don’t know where to look for the exceptions settings:

Open Avast userinterface, click on “Settings” and then on “Antivirus”. In the 4th window you can set exceptions to avoid gw2.exe from being detected as potential thread. I put my whole SSD-Drive E:\ to this list, because this SSD is only for games, Window7 is on a separate SSD. If you just want to exclude GW2 from being scanned, just add your GW2 folder to this list.

Just reactivated Avast! and deactivated Antivir again. Seems to work fine again. =) Thx for your help everyone.

no lags at all… but I had to reinstall the whole game =( gw2 had to be updated altough I played yesterday and had it up-to-date. But this may be caused by the setup of gw2 which deleted the gw2.dat… but now everything is fine and the game runs smooth. And no complains from Avira this far. Avast will have to take care of that. As long as they don’t do, I’ll run Avira instead.

already done this ^^ nothing found except the adware included in avira-setup.exe which I choose to not install… xD

ok.. I didn’t get an option to run it anyways, but if you experienced the same thing, that tells me everything is fine on my pc, it’s just the stupid avast… thx for replying.

I just wanted to play GW2, but my GW2.exe was missing. I assumed I must have accidently deleted it, but I normally don’t go to the game’s folder, so there was something very strange going on here… I opened Avast to see if there was any activity while I’ve been away from the PC and I found out Avast had put GW2.exe to Quarantine… Ok… So just put GW2 to the exception list and recovered the whole thing… But as soon as I start the Game, Avast kills the exe again and puts it back to Quarantine.

Does anyone else have this specific problem with Avast? I disabled Avast now and I’m running Avira instead, let’s see if this “dangerous” GW2.exe gets killed again…

Arcadio.6875:

From the WvW forum…

“Hi Guys,
Just wanted to clarify that we did indeed change our plans based on your feedback. What was said during the interviews at Gamescom was correct at the time but after listening to what you had to say we decided to make a change to the feature be in line with what you felt was a more balanced approach to the change.
Thank you very much for your feedback and we hope that you enjoy this upcoming change.
Thanks,
John”

Edit: Also from the WvW forums…

“I’m just going to squash this rumor right now. Before the strong negative feedback received after the interview at gamescom, every intention was for each color to cost 300g. Pending QA, that version was ready to ship for the feature pack.
When the flood of feedback came in, there was a flurry of emails working out the best course of action, and in the end Zach and Tyler worked the weekend to make sure this change could be made on time for 9/9.”

TY Anet for listening to your player communities at least sometimes ;-)

Dear Anet… I’m quite a fan of Guildwars2, but I’m really confused what’s going on here…

You asked our communities about desired changes to wvw, we told you we wanted different colored commander tags, so we could coordinate our gameplay and now this is what we are expected to get? 300g for an accountbound commander tag is high, but since it’s accountbound I can understand this high price. But each color has to be bought separatly? For 300g? That’s ridiculous… Our commanders spend most of their money to create superior siegeweaponry and now they have to pay that much for a simple feature we asked for nearly 2 years now? I’m speechless…

I know you might say “That’s a good goldsink…” and I know there’s too much gold ingame. But most of this gold is aquired in PvE, so please don’t take your gold from WvW-players…

Instead, you could make those colors available to high ranked wvw players or make them affordable with Badges of Honor, so that WvW-players can buy it, too…

Just to make sure… I’m not a wvw-only-player, I play pve most of the time, but it’s just unfair to those who wanted this feature that much… it’s like a slap into the face of all decent wvw-commanders. =(

ok, didn’t noticed those on the left side… but it isn’t usual that AC waypoints gets contested, so why is this happening on megaservers? I know that certain wps like Arah WP always have been contested when you where on an overflow server, but why AC WP? So you have to port twice, pay twice and you have one more annoying loading screen… I just want to know why this would make any sense…

I just got this new “feature”…

We were at CoF, finished our two runs and wanted to go to Ascalonian Catacombs afterwards, but every single waypoint on Plains of Ashford was contested… I don’t think that works as it is intented, so pls take a look at this ^^

Maybe this happened because we have been put onto a megaserver when exiting CoF, rather then our homeserver….

I don’t mind reading French or Spanish in chat. I don’t understand it, but that’s not the real problem… I’m German, I play on a German server, but my client is set to English (because the german translation is often wrong or confusing). If a player from another German server (that has his language set to German) writes something in mapchat, I can’t read it – because our server is not the same, our client language is not the same and they most likely are not in our guild or on my friendlist as well…

I would like to turn off Spanish and French and Russians in mapchat, but that forces me to turn off those other players too… Maybe we could have a list of available languages and turn them on/off separately?

Could look like that:
_________________________________________________
| Only show chat from players using following client languages:
|
| [x] English
| [x] German
| [ ] French
| [ ] Spanish
| [ ] Bork Bork Bork
| [ … ]
|_________________________________________________

I think this could be a satisfying option for all of us…

I’m totally with the TO on this….

Transmuted items should have the name of the transmuted skin, not the item they are transmuted on.

To make clear that an item is NOT original, you could consider changing the description of that transmuted item, e.g. if you have Incinerator’s skin on Zojja’s Razor it should perhaps look like that:
__________________________________
|
| Incinerator
|
| Weapon Strength: 970 – 1,030 (Fire)
| +94 Power
| +67 Precision
| +67 Ferocity
|
| [Sigil]
|
| [Infusion]
|
| Transmuted on: <——————— !!!!!
| Zojja’s Razor <————————— !!!!!
|
| Ascended
| Dagger
|_________________________________

In this case you could still identify this item as a transmuted Zojja’s Razor and see the correct itemname (according to it’s skin).

my main character – Mya Nighthunter

I don’t think that support will do anything, but you can try… I for myself would equip that earring on another character, wait 2 weeks for the next 12 guild commendations and buy the right one… I think that will surely be faster and 5 gold is not worth all that…

I got nearly the same problem. I can’t login to chars stationed in Gendarran Fields. All other chars can be accessed without a problem. I think TO has the same problem as chars stationed in LA will be moved to GF after the video… IDK what you did with Gendarran Fields, but pls fix it… I have 13 lvl 80 chars, 10 of them in Gendarran Fields and the only ones left are Ranger, Mesmer and Engineer… Pls do something xD

Still bugged…

Got all 3 Assault Knights in about 4 minutes… still no achievement =( fourth time now… 3 patches later… PLS FIX IT!

didn’t get it either… =( pls fix this!

I don’t think 3 gold and 7 gc are worth causing such an action, even if GW2 support would do things like that. As Astral Projections wrote, you should be more careful next time.

I like the idea of that “buy back feature”, but I doubt we’ll see it in the near future.

If I open my achievements and look for “The Big Boom in the Big City” the text says: “The Ship’s Council presents a stunning fireworks display as part of the INAUGURAL Dragon Bash celebrations.”

I don’t think it’s a bug. If the Ship’s Council presents a fireworks display to start the Dragon Bash celebrations, nothing is wrong here. I logged on, went to the Lion’s Court and got the achievement for watching the Council’s initial firework…

And don’t panic… Even if this firework was not intented to start yet, arenanet won’t ban you for a mistake THEY made. Don’t delete the items you received, because you maybe won’t get them a second time after the “real” fireworks start. You’ll do a favor to the customer service, because restoring these items is more work than letting players wear a unique helmet some days earlier.

Same here. I got those 3 Minis for free, but I wanted to keep them. So I bought another set of minis and now I can’t build the mini holographic colossus … pls fix this.

I don’t think that’s a bug. In this fractal you don’t wear your own armor and your backpiece isn’t visible in general, the quivers and fractal backpieces aren’t visible either.

This dungeon is by far the most awesome content I’ve ever seen in GW2… the final bossfight is finally something challenging and I really don’t understand why people complain about it…
Accept that this is an MMO, no singleplayer RPG.

@ Dakan & Rubina: Of course, if you have a baby, you’ll not have too much time for playing an mmo. But there are plenty of people out there who are considerate of that special situation. I don’t have a problem if a guildmate has to go afk for 20 minutes while we are in fractals of the mist. I don’t have a problem redoing a dungeon a second, third or fourth time, because somebody had to leave or could otherwise not participate. If your guildmates don’t care for your situation, you maybe are in the wrong guild…

the most annoying thing is the gold-hoarder title… it has been reset from 2.000.000 to 1.999.999, so if you want to complete it again, and you spent your 200 gold by now, you’ll have to collect all the money again…

kKagari.6804:

Does cross server joining work for FotM? It doesn’t even work if you’re not in the same overflow!

Yes, it works. You just have to be on the same overflow. If you aren’t, you have to join them before you enter.
I hope this gets fixed soon… it’s totally annoying if someone in your party gets disconnected or some random player leaves the group and you can’t (re)invite anyone. I wonder why this doesn’t work as it does in all the other dungeons. Maybe because of the difficulty levels?

Tallis.5607:

- If you make another group and restart, you can set it to the rank you want, but the rank can never be higher than the highest rank in the group.
So if you have a group of players that have rank 3, 3, 3, 2 and 4, you can set the rank at either 1 or 2 (but not to rank 3 or 4, because one player has only rank 2).

Shouldn’t that be “you can set it to the rank you want, but the rank can never be higher than the LOWEST rank in the group.” ? At least that’s what you explain in the second sentence… Or did I miss something?

Thanks for this overview, I didn’t have time to watch the start of this event and I’m quite confused with it right now xD

There’s a simple solution… Put a NPC in the game, that explains what has happened. The players that are too late for the original “event”, can easily watch the video and then participate.

Or just start the video when a player logs into LA for the first time…

Tonight’s update solved the problem for me… =)

I wanted to buy an additional Character Slot via Gemstore today. Purchasing Gems was no problem, but buying something in Gemstore is impossible right now… at least for me and many other people. The Shop opens, but I only see the main page with the Halloween-Advertisement, which should be gone now I suppose. I can switch to “Upgrades” (or anything else, e.g. “Style”), but the advertisement doesn’t disappear and only the name on the upper left side is changing to “Upgrades”, “Style”, etc…
Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to fix this? It appears to me like an update failure, since some people can shop in the Gemstore without any issues.

I just checked the vendors in Lion’s Arch, but they don’t have the rune… or am I just too blind? I suppose you speak of the vendors located in Fort Mariner, who sell armor and weapons in exchange for dungeon tokens, do you? The only runes they offer are “Minor/Major/Superior Rune of the Monk”, “… of the Noble”, “… of the Nightmare”, “… of the Forge”, “… of the Baelfire”, “… of the Sanctuary” , “… of the Golemancer” and “… of Orrian”. No Rune of Scavenging… =(

But nonetheless, 3 Major Runes of the Pirate and 3 Major Runes of the Traveler give you 40% MF, instead of 35% … I don’t know how high the “increased Gold from Monsters”-Bonus is and if it is worth the 4 Gold this Rune actually costs…

I just tried this one alone and failed. After reading the tips here I grouped up with some other guy (warrior) who also had problems before. We stood behind the pillars, killed all the summoned weapons and finally killed the mouth of zhaitan in about 1-2 minutes…