Guild Wars 2

I have had 3 keys drop from mobs in 3 years. I have received none since the “increase” in drops.

Mine is horrendous for 2 weeks or so now. Tonight it went from 57 to 5.

This is a long standing bug, some people are able to get the skill point with the help of invisibility or stealth. Ask a mesmer or theif to assist you. I have reported this too many times to count. I don’t think Anet really cares about bug fixing to be honest.

This is another of those “Bugged since Launch” 3 years and running bugged events. Anet has never fixed them, and honestly I don’t think they care to fix them.

I have crocheted entire blankets while attempting to clean my inventory via the black lion.

This is one of many events that I have on my 3 year and counting now “bugged since launch” It bugs out so often I ignore it now and never bother to participate in it. It is really too bad that Anet does not care about any of these bugged events that have been bugged for years now.

No. Not even buying Ultimate gives you a spot. I know. It is the only part of HOT I want to try and although I bought the Ultimate, I have yet to get an invite to anything.

It has been there, however the land mass near it has grown since launch.

I think they should remove AC carts for one week like they did that one week when we did wvw without crossed swords during stealth week. That would make it interesting.

There are many things I love about the new LA. I love that the neighborhoods now feel like neighborhoods, each with its own distinct character. I love that it feels more like the different cultures and races of the world influenced the city, it is no longer merely a pirate city. I love the huge references to underwater creatures in the architecture.

As the daughter of an artist (and Aunt of an artist: (digitaldk) shameless plug. I am impressed with some of the difficult textures and artwork. I love some of the new trees and the physics of them.

Also another reference to the mystery murders!

I could go on….but I will leave it at that. Great job!

Please bring back trapper’s expertise with ground targeting.

This event has been bugged since Launch. 3 years. I am beginning my list of Bugged since Launch events for the 3 year anniversary in August.

Although it is happening in various areas, Fireheart seems to be ground zero for this new and exciting feature….er bug.

This happened to me yesterday in Fields of Ruin. I was walking along and died. No damage log. What was interesting to me was that I had to zone out to reach a waypoint although there was a waypoint nearby. (that I had not discovered) When I returned the waypoint had moved to the exact spot I died. It was not in the spot where I was heading.

It was Rosko’s Campsite Waypoint.

Iron Marches.
Sentinel Whiptail
Event: Devouring the Brand.

This event has been bugged since launch. I have reported it numerous times over almost 3 years now. Please either fix this event (which destroys an entire chain in Iron Marches) or delete the event if you are unable after all this time to fix it.

Nothing. Ever. I have played since Beta Weekend 1.

Yesterday I played for 3 hours. I got a drop about every 50 kills. Usually it was junk. I got 1 green during those hours. My magic find is 176%. Most of what I got was grey “junk” to sell to the merchant for copper.

I have been on permanent diminishing returns for 3 years.

Yea, I am not going to rez ya because I can take on that zerg solo….

With the exclusion of skill points after 80, are they planning to change the currency for the books you get at the mystic forge to make superior siege?

Excuse me if this has been asked before. It is my one concern with the changes. Most of my skill points go to purchasing books for superior siege creation.

All of my characters are, to me, appropriate for who they are. Yet I get comments daily on their gear, and their look. Not one has a legendary. I do not sparkle and shimmer or drop pixels behind me as I run. I choose the colors and the skins for what seems to be appropriate for that character, combined with an admiration for good 3D art that is not dependent on effects to be beautiful.

I get a lot doing EoTM

After almost 3 years of waiting for the loot to get better, I have given up. I have been on permanent DR for the entire time I have played this game. I sometimes see the merchant, however with 50 to 100 pieces of junk to sell. Woo hoo! Does get a tad old however seeing grey…grey….grey….grey. If it were not for my “sure thing” of harvesting and gathering mats, I would be broke, and probably would have quit long ago.

About two updates ago, you broke the character creation dye selection I had on my asuran. She now has ugly dye remover color on her hair pieces, when she had “exclusive” colors. This happened once before (and was never fixed to date) on the Charr model about 2 years ago. They are probably related, and I had to use one of my total make over kits to repair it, after waiting for 2 years for it to be repaired. I do NOT want to buy and use yet another of my make over kits to repair the new bug so PLEASE FIX THIS this time. Perhaps it will fix the 2 year old bug of the Charr model.

First Beta Weekend when the servers came online and I heard the log in music for the first time.

The Beta Weekend “end” event with the giant Rabbit and rabid raccoons.

Finding various Guild Wars 1 places and how they changed over time.

This happened yesterday in Gendarran for about an hour.

Separatist spies in the ranks of the guards. Still happening on Blackgate. I have noticed it is a “copy” of the sentries at the NET on borderlands. The friendlies spawn, apparently the game believes them to be dead and respawns enemies.

This happened on Blackgate as well.

None for me. I see some people get stacks. But…my rng is horrible, and always has been.

I was trying to help someone who got their mini map stuck in the upper left corner. Now MINE is also stuck in that corner. The issue with it seems to be that the corner drag does not change its position to the upper right of the mini map itself so you will never again see the “wire” outline to drag it back to the bottom. I am not sure if this is because of its positioning itself above the story and the other annoying “event” stars in the upper left. In any case the re-positioning of the mini map needs to be simple and not dependent on the drag corner.

I do not know if anyone has posted this video, but 2 years ago the “Plane” was a short lived bug, and this person made a video of it, I was reminded of it when I logged in last night to find myself a plane. I laughed at this video, and I laughed even more last night.

The suppressed for spamming I hate is when I am in wvw and am doing the timer in garrison for those who want to get into a battle to defend. The odd thing is, it is not that I am “spamming” with excessive messaging, I am merely saying the same thing. If I change the beginning of the sentence I do not get suppressed. For instance:

Timer garri 1:00
Garri Timer 45
Garrison Timer 30
Spam WP Garri 10 sec

If I begin the sentence with Timer each time, I am suppressed.
Try changing the beginning of your sentence.

For the record this bug is not new, but has been around for some time, although now the bug which was never fixed has now cascaded to include many other items. I have had things in my bank for months that do not stack. Experience scrolls for one. Some crafting boosters. I reported this bug when it first appeared on siege blueprints over a year ago. You had to take the stacks apart in your inventory and restack them as a work around. —-this meant taking stacks of 250 completely apart-—— til they were a stack of 1 then slowly stacking them. Sometimes you had to stack them in a specific ORDER to get them to stack properly.

I have made lists and lists and lists of things that have been bugged since launch. I go around and see the same events bugged since the beginning of the game. I have things I paid money for (the chef’s outfit) that cannot be dyed, and that have been bugged for over a year.

When you do not fix bugs, then bugs on top of bugs happen. This is just a fact.

A lot of the chosen at character creation colors are either missing (reset to “dye removal” colors) or wrong. Specifically, hair ribbon colors, and colors on Sylvari glows.

I tried to do a story instance and the person I was supposed to talk to in the instance kept showing me my inventory.

All of the above plus:

Lost the color of my hair ribbon/accouterments on my asuran (the ones you choose when you character create)

This event is one of those that has been bugged since launch. That having been said, it is now bugged in a new way. It used to bug out and all the risen would stop spawning. Now the risen still spawn but Dobbs is still bugged. So it is a new bug on an old bugged event.

I got them in my spam folder of an account that I do not use for guild wars. I forwarded one to Anet, so they knew the phishers were at it again, then deleted them.

Tonight when I tried to log in, I tried numerous times to log in with my usual password, and before it completely locked me out of the game I chose to “recover” my account, which it did successfully, ( I use a 3 stage password verification to do this, and my email for Guild Wars 2 is a unique email account) I had been out of the game for several days due to technical issues with my computer, which appear to now be resolved. (fingers crossed)

What I am wondering is what would cause this? That is, why would my password suddenly stop working? This is the first time this has happened, and as I said, I had no difficulties in recovering. Also my account did not seem compromised, Everything in game was also intact.

Just curious.

sirsquishy.8531:

ok gotta know, what laptop do you have from dell :-)
It has to be a newer model since its still under warranty, Maybe there is a hidden upgrade there you can request/work through since you had to jump through so many hoops with dell already.

I put the dxdiag up there someplace but it is an old machine, a studio 1558. I just got the extended warranty because I could, and because I became housebound (illness) and did not wish to mess with all that techy stuff you guys are so good at, the lap top was also because I am ill, and needed something that would still play guild wars. One of my local geekboys built it, we switched out some things when I ordered it, just before guild wars went into Beta, actually maybe a bit before, when the specs for being able to play were posted.

The thing with the tech support is that you always jump through hoops. Its annoying. I had actually already figured it was an overheating issue the week before and had jumped through the hoops once, (3 days and more hours than I really wanted to give up to them) then had the tech out to do some work, but when it continued, and only while playing guild wars was when I came to post on the forums. Tech support always makes you call back unless you absolutely are adamant and can back up your claims with other techs who seem more competent than they are. Which was why when they gave me the run around when the problem persisted, I was on remote view with them, brought them here and showed them the thread and said…listen this is not my first time at the rodeo bub. Then they wanted to STILL blame Guild Wars, but I knew at that point exactly what the issue was, and had my back up calvary to prove it. (you guys) The real annoying thing is when they do not go back and read the ticket and know this is an ongoing issue. Oy my head.

I know I am rough ( I come off badly in text, I really am a sweet old woman who reads, gardens and bakes cookies, tho you would never think it by forums such as these)

I played for a couple hours. The system is running perfectly and seems very cool to the touch, as it was before. Again…truly my thanks. Sometimes a girl needs a guy with a huge vorpal sword.

Ok, so we replaced:

Power Supply
Motherboard
Heatsink/Fan assembly
AC Adapter

Ran numerous tests after. Ran GW2 and McAffee at the same time throughout. All is well, tho it was slow as hades. Will see if game runs as it has for the last 2 years without issues, and save up more money for new machine.

Now…geekboys….wink if I could just invite you to dinner and get your Secret Templar Tech Knowledge on what should be on the new machine…

I owe you all a steak dinner. Thank you so very much for your patience, and your brains. Btw, I have also played RPG since 1978. Pen and paper.

I just asked him squishy and he says you are correct, the other was a refurbished. Which is why he is putting in yet another one.

In other weirdness, I had to recover my guild wars 2 account to log in which kind of freaked me out. No clue why. My characters were all ok, did not check my bank. I have a 3 stage log in, and did not get any odd emails. The email I use is a guild wars 2 only account as well.

Ok he is in the other room fixing the issue. Or we think he is. The power supply is being replaced. Also a new motherboard. We ran temp tests and the video card readings at the time of the crash were the only slightly abnormal temp readings. It took me longer to make it crash than before. I took you guy’s advice and made sure we are using my power cord this time as well on the tests. To answer someone, yes it is a Dell as well, the system is under warranty and I have in home tech service so they send a geeky with Dell stuff in hand to fix my machine.

Healix.5819:

You’re on a laptop (Dell Studio 1558)? The power supply is your power cord/adapter. The battery would normally prevent power failure, though I’m guessing you’ve had it long enough that the battery is permanently dead. When you took it to the tech, did they use their own power cord, because if so, that explains that. Also ensure that you’re not using a faulty power outlet (power dips).

Laptops, especially older ones, can easily overheat, which will cause what you’re experiencing. Run a temperature monitor as you’re using it and ensure all your fans are clear and powered. If you actually ran a stress test however, this wouldn’t be the case. Keep in mind that your room temperature will affect the results.

Also, update your drivers. 2009 vs 2011 display drivers for example.

The first thing I suspected was the CPU. I had them replace the fan and the heat sink and the motherboard last week for the same issue. I checked all drivers and believe it or not the drivers are up to date even though the date is old. I looked and looked and those are the current ones for my laptop. Keep in mind I have used this to play Guild Wars 2 for two years without issue. I also suspected the power source as you all said, and had the battery and the power supply checked, but since it is less than year old, (It has been replaced once) I thought perhaps…it is something else. My computers generally last me 5 years, so I know I am right at the outside of my cut off date for buying a new computer, so have been saving and to be honest I waited longer than usual due to the Windows 8 preload when that OS was shown to be a loser.

I appreciate your advice. I am pretty sure that it IS the Power Supply now, and he will be here in the next hour or so to do that. I have also told him I CAN reproduce the error and that I will show him the error before and after the replacement (if it still does it afterwards) so that we can test it.

My next step in my own mind. (the one I am avoiding) is…wipe the machine. Do a fresh install of windows. Perhaps windows is corrupted.

Also we cleaned the machine of debris last week thoroughly when we put the heatsink and the motherboard in.

Please guys do not think that I was insulting you in any way. My local geekboys love to be called that. They know I respect their expertise immensely, I have watched them grow and learn more than I will ever know.

abomally.2694:

Sorry, didn’t mean to come across so rude in my post.

Please let us know the results (I’m sure the new PS will fix it).

You were not rude, merely adamant. It is when I see from many sources (having argued with tech support many times over the years) and the reasoning behind such advice, that I will sit back, look it over and test…test…retest. I had to see the error occur outside of Guild Wars 2 to finally know for certain that it was the power supply as all of you suggested.

And just so you know. The tech support people at Dell ALSO wanted to lay it on Guild Wars 2. The argument was epic, since I had the proof already that this was not so, and all your myriad expert voices to “9 out of 10 geek boys agree….” to go to so that they could NOT put it onto a program, and fix a hardware issue. I fully expect the recorded argument to show up on YouTube someday: “Irate Customer on Tech support”.

sirsquishy.8531:

Nalora.7964:

And do not say I need to replace the computer geek boys. That is in the works, I just need about 6 more months of saving up cash. wink

I will however give you my mea culpa:

When McAffee ran a full scan, it did the same thing. So—-it cannot be Guild Wars 2.
It is something with running over 50 percent CPU for more than a specific amount of time. When I run -repair on GW2.exe it shuts down at 3/4 way in.

I have played GW2 on this exact computer since Beta Weekend 1 without issues. (I do, however have to play the game on low settings, which will be corrected when I purchase the new computer in around 6 months)

We are done here, you continue to insult yet admit its not the game doing it.

Grow up.

The term “geek boys” is not an insult. It is a term of endearment to me. I only use it with boys who cut their teeth on computers. I ran a BBS in the 80’s and 90’s and the kids that were on BBS are the “men” (tho still boys to me) who I go to most for tech advice. I am 58 years old. An old woman with a cane and many grey hairs.

I told you it was a mea culpa, admitted my mistake, and asked for any further advice. This is what adults do. Admit mistakes. Who exactly needs to grow up here?

I also am very well aware, having been “into” computer as long as I have that the business model for tech advice is to continually wear the user down by pointing the finger at their computer, and not at anything else. No one in tech will ever admit to an error in their own work. It is always user error. It is always the guy on the other end of the phone’s fault and it is like pulling teeth to get anything done. I could not create the error with anything but Guild Wars, (and although you say a program will not shut down one’s computer, how could this be so, when in the next breath you say it might be malware or a virus?)

So, I waited….til something ELSE caused the issue. It was not until McAffee shut down in the same way 3/4 of the way into a full scan that I could then spend the HOURS (yes hours) of my life on the telephone with tech support demanding the power supply be replaced.

That being said, the “Geek Boy” from Dell (he is around 30 years old, I believe but could still be my son) just called and will be here around 3 pm CST. You have around 4 hours to kibbutz here if you want him to do specific things to test or remedy the issue once the power supply is replaced. Get crackin’.

And do not say I need to replace the computer geek boys. That is in the works, I just need about 6 more months of saving up cash. wink

I will however give you my mea culpa:

When McAffee ran a full scan, it did the same thing. So—-it cannot be Guild Wars 2.
It is something with running over 50 percent CPU for more than a specific amount of time. When I run -repair on GW2.exe it shuts down at 3/4 way in.

I have played GW2 on this exact computer since Beta Weekend 1 without issues. (I do, however have to play the game on low settings, which will be corrected when I purchase the new computer in around 6 months)

Healix.5819:

Nalora.7964:

The problem is now solved. I uninstalled Guild Wars 2. Computer working perfectly.

My computer was working perfectly, OC’d to 5.2 GHz. Then I did a stability test by running Prime95 for 8 hours. It crashed ~7 hours in.

Just because someone else did it for you doesn’t mean you’ll have the same results. The problem could for example be caused by your local area, such as your power source or room temperature.

If you want to provide more technical information: WinKey+R > dxdiag > save and post it as an attachment.

Nalora.7964:

If you Google the issue you will see it has cropped up many times for many people. I would like to point out that the common denominator here is not US but THEM.

Driver issues/outdated drivers, Windows Update required, overheating and hardware failure/conflicts. A program by itself cannot make your computer halt. It will either bluescreen or enter the shutdown process.

Dell Tech is coming out to house today to replace the power supply. Will then try to recreate the issue after that is fixed. (I can do it easily now by merely running -repair on gw2)

The heat sink and the motherboard were replaced last week. Anything else I should tell the guy when he gets here to test? He arrives with the part around noon today. It is now 10 am.

Update, taking all the geeks here advice and replacing the power supply today.

I reinstalled Guild Wars as it is the only thing that causes the issue 100 percent of the time, so I can show the tech guy the issue. (Thank goodness for extended warranties, I showed this conversation to him and said, ok…the consensus here is I should replace the power supply…lets get on that, ok?)

Then if it is still happening, I am going to reformat (oy how I dread this.) and see if perhaps Windows is corrupted by doing a fresh install from disc.

wish me luck.

The fan is new. The power supply is new. The CPU is working fine. The computer is cool and running fine. Every other piece of software runs fine.

The problem is now solved. I uninstalled Guild Wars 2. Computer working perfectly.

We ran many many overclocking tests, and stress tests on the CPU. The ball is in Guild Wars 2’s court. Nothing on my computer is doing this. It is ONLY with Guild Wars 2. If I do not play Guild Wars 2, everything is fine. I cannot even get through a repair archive without it shutting down. If you Google the issue you will see it has cropped up many times for many people. I would like to point out that the common denominator here is not US but THEM.

I have checked my disk, I have run a defrag, I have replaced hardware, I have done extensive tests.

The only resolution on my side is to remove Guild Wars 2 from my system and to discontinue playing. I wish this were not so, because I genuinely love the game, but the program has some fault that is causing this, and is useless to me now since it will not even open without this fault occurring.

I do appreciate the responses. I hope Anet resolves it in future. But given that the issue has cropped up many times for many people in two years, without a definitive solution, I am not hopeful.

This is not the fault of my computer. This is the fault of something in Guild Wars 2. I had my system thoroughly checked last week by a technician (it is still under warranty) after the issue began, and although I did not need to, I replaced the motherboard and the heatsink. We also cleaned out any debris, then ran full diagnostics. This only occurs with Guild Wars 2.