Guild Wars 2

I got the same email on my beta character too, and I think my heart missed a beat or two – I actually do have the title on my account (and should have). Few checks later, it seems that the beta character has no access to the title (and was sent that mail), but the actual characters in the account do still have the title as they should. So, beta character related it seems.

Desolation Iron Marches map was a lag-fest just now. Constant rubberbanding, skills taking 1-10 seconds to activate, NPCs and other players seemed to be teleporting around. No lag on other maps so far (Frostsound, Caledon, LA, Gendarran), seemed to be specific to that one map.

Checked my network connection too, pings to various places are normal, download/upload speeds normal, nobody else using the connection currently.

Server side issues?

I’ve ran into the same problem as well, I’ve bound “Closest Target” to C as well (former GW1 player here as well), and when I really do want to target the closest mob to me that isn’t a champion, pressing C does exactly what pressing tab does – targets the closest champion. Which can be behind a horde of regular mobs.

So yep – Target Closest is currently not working as the description says, I’m really hoping for a fix for this.

When using an adrenaline skill on a warrior (doesn’t matter if it’s full adren or partial adren, doesn’t seem to matter which skill it is either), and when the hit lands successfully, the cooldown for the burst skill starts as it should. However, the adrenaline bar does not empty itself, not until the next skill is used.

So, if you don’t use a skill after using burst skill, your adrenaline bar will stay as it was before executing the burst skill. If you wait long enough for the burst skill cooldown to finish, you can actually use a burst skill again and land that, too, successfully.

Someone draw up a bingo grid, we could play GW2 Phishing Email Bingo at this rate…

I’ve got just about all of those mentioned above in my Junk Mail. You know for certain they’re phishing emails if you change the email address GW2 is associated with to something you’ve never used anywhere. As long as the emails don’t hit the new address, you know for certain they’re fake.

Load times are definitely a lot faster, especially in Lion’s Arch – my load times dropped to a fraction of what they used to be. It eliminates a lot of the unnecessary waiting, but has zero impact on fps or ping.

Just echoing in here, having the same issue with Crossfire when in Windowed mode or Windowed Fullscreen mode. I swear CF worked before in those two as well. Now I only get both GPUs utilized in Fullscreen mode.

I remember having the same bug a long time ago, I remember the devs even posting something about it. I can’t remember what caused it though, but either way, restarting the game always fixed it for me.

I can’t go through the solution step by step (haven’t had a laptop for ages), but it sounds like your computer thinks the function key (Fn) is pressed down. If you manage to convince your computer otherwise you should be good to go – check that key isn’t physically stuck down, possible options regarding whether Fn key is a on-off button like caps lock, etc…

Where did you place the client?

I’ve seen a number of people with the same issue, and it turned out that their client was in a temp folder that emptied itself regularly, basically getting rid of all the game files (hence needing re-downloading).

If yours is in a temp folder, copy+paste it out of there.

I’ve had a few of these coming in today and yesterday. I think they were still trying to get these right day before yesterday, as I got one titled for Diablo 3, but contents dealing with GW2 (see attachment).

Our guild was looking forward to these events. We really did. However, as we are a small, fully PvE based guild and have not invested anything in Art of War tree, the cost to get even the first guild mission going is getting close to being prohibitive (just think of all the karma and magic find buffs we could get with that amount of influence). Why put PvE only content into PvP branch of the guild upgrade tree? Seriously, why? We haven’t got 36500 influence to spare to unlock an upgrade branch we’d otherwise have zero use for. No guild missions for us it seems, at least for the next number of months. Honestly, I’m very disappointed. I just can’t understand the reasoning behind this choice.

Eosin, I’ve been through similar situations a fair few times – well, not regarding gaming, but helping a person with minimal knowledge of computers over phone. The solution I quickly started using was a remote control program (Ammyy Admin as an example) to take control over the other person’s computer and just ask them to relax and watch. Of course I made sure they understood to never accept incoming requests unless I was specifically telling them to do so over the phone.

Of course not everything can be done via remote control, but it has certainly made things a lot easier for me in similar situations, and it might be something that could help you (and your father) as well.

Wasn’t there a recommendation to NOT install it in Program Files? I recall it having something to do with file/folder ownership by Windows/security settings related to such ownership/something along those lines. Try making a folder in C root and installing it there?

Shanaeri Rynale.6897:

•You’re eligible to guest on only 2 different worlds at a time. Each time you guest on a world, that world becomes one of your eligible guest worlds for the next 24 hours. After 24 hours, you may choose to guest on a different world. You may log in to any world you are eligible to guest on as many times as you wish with no restriction.

Again. I’m failing to see how any of this is good for the community.

I can give you at least one good reason for this right off the bat (I was actually trying to think of how they’d handle the problem) – just think of how much orichalcum and ancient wood you could gather on a single character if you could jump through every single server in your region in one day. And what’d happen if everyone, or even a good portion, started doing this daily. At least I don’t believe the devs have managed to remove ori/etc. nodes from appearing to you on overflow maps/maps you guest to if you have already gathered them once on another map.

I would say this is a fair balance where you can play with friends in two different servers during one day, while still trying to minimize the impacts on game economy.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

lol look at all the double posts. You guys need to double check when you’re getting the error when you post and remove the duplicates

Like previously said, it wasn’t as easy as you might expect. Took me over ten minutes to be able to edit my previous post alone. It’d load and load the editing part, until it’d happily present me with a dialogue box of “There was an error!”.

That said, I’m having zero issues at the moment. It’s 7:15 am here, and it was the same yesterday morning – zero issues in the morning before I head off for work. Evening was bad though, very little chances of being able to open any pages. So, I’m guessing network traffic has a strong part to play in this.

Well, at least now it seems to be fixed for me. -crosses fingers- No errors so far, and dev tracker is working smooth. I’ll see for sure when it’s peak hour again, I guess.

Edit: It’s back.

I’ve been getting Server Error 502 (“Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy server.”) over the past few days, at times the forums seem to work, and at times it tries to load the page for a while, then ends up with the error message. Refreshing the page enough times usually gets it working at some point.

I’m not sure if this is happening because of my connection, or if there are issues with the servers, as I’ve not seen anyone else post about this issue yet at least. I’ve had no other indications of internet connection problems, and my ISP is very reliable. If there’s anything I can do to sort this issue though, please let me know.

Edit: Dev tracker seems to be doing this the most.

Agreed, please bring armor previews back. Having clipping issues on a preview window is at most a minor annoyance, lack of preview-ability on all (or nearly all) items is being a pain in the… I’d rather see what those armor/weapon pieces look like on MY character, than have to go to an external site which has screencapped images of them on a generic norn female / human female / asura.

Female sylvari getting confusion on them – just the way they say it. “Oh…. what’s happening?” =)

I used 5 signets with dual axes until lvl60 or so, after which I realized I could really use the active effects of signets more often, and other skills which could actually save me if I got into a tight spot… Now I’m running stability (cooldown is a fair bit less than on signet version, extra toughness from signet isn’t worth it anymore imo), For Great Justice to compensate for dropping the might signet (pays itself back very fast when there are others around as well), third utility skill changes based on situation. Usually Fear Me, Stomp, or zero damage. I also switched out the signet heal, as I felt that if I activated the signet for a rather meager immediate heal, I’d lose the health regeneration, and ended up shooting myself in the foot, so to say.

5 signets build worked great for me in the low levels though, some serious damage with near 100% crit rates. Didn’t cut it for me at high levels though, as I felt I was underperforming. I’m not sure if greatsword adds to the build in any way, I’ve never felt comfortable with that weapon (rooted in place & forced movement), but that’s a whole another issue…

I have to say I’m not getting any of these issues when playing a ranger or a rifle warrior… Ranger is perfectly playable for me, last tried a few hours ago today. Can’t recall getting any obstructed -messages unless the mob really was obstructed.

What do I have issues with is hitting structures with melee weapons – attacks will almost always miss unless I attempt to run and hit at the same time. Also, getting a lot of mobs randomly turning invulnerable when fighting in melee underwater.

When using the command to sync dance (/dance *), we had six characters dancing perfectly in sync (Desolation, Kessex Hills, if that location info makes any difference). After five minutes or so, I could see my own character slowly getting out of sync, and after 10-ish minutes she was behind by half a second or so. Apparently how others were seeing it, I was perfectly in sync to others though, however their characters weren’t.

I know this is a very minor issue, so before anyone jumps on me for posting “such a meaningless bug that the bug report should be thrown in the graveyard” – no, I don’t expect this to end up high up on the priority list. But it’s a bug as the feature isn’t working 100% correctly, and here’s the bug report for it.