Guild Wars 2

This “bug”/“exploit” has been around since the beta, and is rarely talked about. Presumably because its hard to pull off and not a lot of people are aware of it.

In a summary, there’s a bug/exploit with the “Start Timer” of a tournament round where it is possible to start moving towards the enemy base (or nodes) just as the game starts, while the enemy is still in their base doing the “count down”.

What this results in is, around when the gates for both teams formally open… you are already at one of the nodes, and have started capping it. Meaning the enemy team now has to neutralize it, all the while you keep earning points.

This happened again two days ago, and this time on 2 nodes at the same time, we got a “You have lost Graveyard”, and “You have lost Quarry” about a second after the gates opened…

Then another 4 seconds later (as we just tried to exit the base)… “Your base is under attack”.

This now forces the non exploiting team in an awkward solution, we have to fall back and defend our base in the first 5 seconds of the game, while trying to take back 2 fully captured nodes, while we still don’t have our waterfall?? All in the first five seconds of the game??

This can be done on any map… I’ve also seen our treb destroyed just as our gates open. This exploit needs to be fixed, asap.

Edited by moderator: The last part of the message was deleted as it was breaking the code of conduct for circumventing the swear filter

Any fix for this coming?

This is annoying in spvp…

Just got this e-mail:

Thank you again for contacting the Guild Wars Support Team. We are aware that there have been some bugs blocking progression in some personal story-lines, and I am excited to advise that many of these issues have been resolved with the most recent build.
In the most recent update to the game, we have resolved bugs in the following story steps: “A Fragile Peace,” “Against the Corruption,” “Bad Blood,” “Forging the Pact,” “Stand By Your Krewe,” and “Tower Down.” The difficulty has also been adjusted on many story steps, which may also help you with your story-line progression if you were previously stuck. I encourage you to try to complete these parts of your story again as it may have been resolved in the most recent or a previous build.

If you continue to experience issues with any of the story-lines mentioned as fixed in the most recent update, or story-lines not mentioned, please be sure to submit a bug report in-game so that the development team can be made aware of any persistent issues.

I’m not sure why I am getting this, as I am not on that story,. my character is STILL BUGGED and I am not getting a fix or an ETA…

I have said this many times, and I have posted a screenshot, and reported it in game, not sure why I have to KEEP REPORTING IT??

FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….
FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….
FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….
FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….
FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….
FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….
FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….
FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….

Seriously…. 20 days and still no fix??

Can I get a proper answer please??

Just got this e-mail:

Thank you again for contacting the Guild Wars Support Team. We are aware that there have been some bugs blocking progression in some personal story-lines, and I am excited to advise that many of these issues have been resolved with the most recent build.

In the most recent update to the game, we have resolved bugs in the following story steps: “A Fragile Peace,” “Against the Corruption,” “Bad Blood,” “Forging the Pact,” “Stand By Your Krewe,” and “Tower Down.” The difficulty has also been adjusted on many story steps, which may also help you with your story-line progression if you were previously stuck. I encourage you to try to complete these parts of your story again as it may have been resolved in the most recent or a previous build.

If you continue to experience issues with any of the story-lines mentioned as fixed in the most recent update, or story-lines not mentioned, please be sure to submit a bug report in-game so that the development team can be made aware of any persistent issues.

I’m not sure why I am getting this, as I am not on that story,. my character is STILL BUGGED and I am not getting a fix or an ETA…

I have said this many times, and I have posted a screenshot, and reported it in game, not sure why I have to KEEP REPORTING IT??

FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….

FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….

FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….

FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….

FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….

FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….
FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….

FROM THE TRAP (LEVEL 28) TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
IT SKIPPED THE ENTIRE “STEALING SECRETS” (30)chain……….

Seriously…. 20 days to fix a personal story??

What’s going on??

Why has my character been left behind in all these fixes?!?!?!?

I reported this in game, made a forum post, and opened a support ticket.

Yet I have been unable to play and progress my character for the last 20 days. Arenanet support keeps closing my ticket saying the support staff can’t help and to go to forums?

What’s going on??

My level 30 quest mode “The Trap” jumped to level 48, it’s been 20 days (see the link below), and it’s still not fixed….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Did-Part-of-Your-Story-Get-Skipped-or-Changed-Post-here/page/2#post29116

Even today’s update, although it fixed some other quest supposedly, but not mine…

Today’s update:
• Adjusted difficulty for the following story steps: “A Fragile Peace,” “Breaking the Bone Ship,” “Killing Fields,” “Political Homicide,” “Sabotage,” “Set to Blow,” “Stand By Your Krewe,” “The Ringmaster,” “The Stone Sheath,” “Track the Seraph,” “Unscheduled Delay,” “Unwelcome Visitors,” and “Welcome Home.”
• Fixed bugs in the following story steps: “A Fragile Peace,” “Against the Corruption,” “Bad Blood,” “Forging the Pact,” “Stand By Your Krewe,” and “Tower Down.”

PLEASE TELL ME WHAT’S GOING ON?

Merciful Intervention
Will not receive the cooldown reduction from the Meditation Mastery Trait.
Won’t display green numbers indicating the healing done.
May prioritize a minion, pet or npc instead of a player.

Tested this thouroughly…

The healing effect is a hit and miss. 9 times out of 10, if you are soloing, and there’s no ally around, it won’t teleport you, and it wont heal you. The other 1/10, it will teleport you to where you are standing (no movement), and heal you.

The other times when there is an ally nearby, if the ally is at FULL hP, same thing, it will not heal you (or ally).

if the ally is low on HP, again, probably 50-50% chance that the heal goes off, even though you are teleported.

Tested this over 100 times.

Elshagan.6342:

They already have an sPvP system for Premade vs Premade it’s this thing called free tournament. You just sign up as a team/premade and voila you play against other teams/premades. If that doesn’t suit your needs just kitten off really. :S No need for premades in the “Hot joinable”

I was told I’d be matched vs FULL teams too…

Again, that’s not fair.

If I’m playing with just ONE friend, I don’t want to be matched against a full team of 8 people, and have to deal with 6 randoms on my team…

stof.9341:

NegativeFusion.3712:

Question about both sPVP and WvW:

If im in a party with 1-2 friends (total 2-3 people), how do we queue as a team???

Do tournaments for PvP. Wait it up for WvW and play once you both get together. You should consider moving to a server with less WvW population though to reduce queue times.

Edit : let me clarify that. You can join free tournaments with any team size and the game will fill it up for you. Of course, don’t except easy wins either and the 5v5 format is very different than 8v8. But you do get to play together for sure that way as it is meant to be.

I was told to NOT do tournaments as just 2 people, because there are entire teams of 5-8 players playing in them. So if me and 1 friend were to queue in tournament, then we’d be matched against a team thats fully coordinated and it’d be a team of 8 vs my team of 2 + randoms, and we’d get steam rolled.

That was the general consensus on how tournaments work in this game. Basically, unless I have a full 8 player team, don’t bother….

This doesnt seem very well thought out, unless someone didn’t explain correctly.

Also, I can’t just wait it out in WvW. Read my OP.

He got the queue in 10 min (we both qeuued within 5sec of one another… we even did a countdown…5…4..3…2…1..QUEUE!), mine took another hour to queue…….

It felt like WvW has some limit on # of classes or the # of “level ranges” that can join @ 1 point to make it balanced? (we were both in our early 20s…) If that’s what caused my insane delay, it kind of makes sense, I mean you don’t want a bunch of level 20s queueing WvW and being matched vs a bunch of level 80s (trait advantage).

So yeah, that really was unusual, usually my WvW queues are 15 min, but that time it was almost an hour!!

Come on……
I reported this in game.
Opened a ticket.
made a forum post….
no reply???

Yep, another new bug that popped in a few days ago.

Alexandra Triplett.1280:

Edit: Thanks for the responses! There should be a fix on the way for the bug.

Alexandra Triplett.1280:

I understand Starsky, I would be frustrated too. We’re looking in to what we can do for you guys.

WHEN?

This level of responses are lacking. Please keep the affected players in the loop. It’s been over a week, and I am forced to “explore” on my guardian, rather than be guided through my natural path in new maps.

I missed an entire zone trying to level while my quest says 48, which put me in a level 40 zone at 30

As others have said, we don’t want the quest fixed, we want the BUG fixed.

It shouldn’t be hard to track down the affected quests (THE TRAP) in my case for instance, which put us on the next quest (SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY) in my case. And just wipe the next quest off of our log, if this means we get a second reward for THE TRAP, then so be it. But I don’t want to miss 28 levels of story mode (as per my main message, I was 21 when I finished THE TRAP…)

EDIT:

Also, I have purposely refrained from doing ANY OTHER PERSONAL STORY QUESTS on my character because of this to not make the issue any more weird to fix… After all, if I grinded to level 48 and did the quest, and then got a roll back, one would imagine I’d be rewarded twice for the quests going 48 and onwards, depending on how many I did. So that’s not an issue on my character.

Vayra.3290:

Dahkeus.8243:

It’s a shame they can’t take a page from many other games that simply use queue logic to put pre-grouped teams against other pre-grouped teams. This would keep games fair for players queuing by themselves as well as those who join with friends.

This doesn’t work here because you choose which server you join yourself, the game doesn’t create the matches one at a time with full matchmaking like most other games do.

The best solution I can give you is to just play together and keep an eye out for the chance to swap teams when you end up on opposing sides.

This doesn’t work.

I tried this, it works for a match, and then next match is shuffles us around.

For a game that was advertised for casuals, this is ridiculous, to not be able to play on the same team with ease.

Question about both sPVP and WvW:

If im in a party with 1-2 friends (total 2-3 people), how do we queue as a team???

Yesterday friend wanted to WvW so we both queued for crystal desert at same time… he got queue in 10min, and I was allowed in 1.5 hour later…. Totally dumb. No queue as party option?? So we both enter the BG at same time?

Then we went to heart of mists, and again, found no “Join as party” option, so we both picked same server to join, and he ended up on diff team, and it shuffled every match, since the teams were maxed, it was hard to switch to his team, and vice versa….

What am I missing? This seems pretty poor design.

Question about both sPVP and WvW:

If im in a party with 1-2 friends (total 2-3 people), how do we queue as a team???

Yesterday friend wanted to WvW so we both queued for crystal desert at same time… he got queue in 10min, and I was allowed in 1.5 hour later…. Totally dumb. No queue as party option?? So we both enter the BG at same time?

Then we went to heart of mists, and again, found no “Join as party” option, so we both picked same server to join, and he ended up on diff team, and it shuffled every match, since the teams were maxed, it was hard to switch to his team, and vice versa….

What am I missing? This seems pretty poor design.

ANY ETA GUYS??

People want to play the game they paid for.

This isn’t beta……

Server: Crystal Desert
MY Character Name: Fusionist
MY Character level: 21

Friend’s character name: Sky Cannon
Friend’s Character level: 24
Friend’s character DOES NOT HAVE PROBLEM!

Was playing with Friend (we have the same story picked).
Level 30 Story before skip: THE TRAP
We beat the trap…

We both got Stealing Secrets, the cutscene said to go to Lion’s arch. So we both did.

We were walking around Lion’s arch… and I looked up at my screen, and saw I was on level 48 quest. SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY. I asked him what he was on, still stealing secrets.

Like I said, I am only level 21… friend is 24.
I missed 28 levels of quests??

Please get this fixed now so I can actually play thekittengame!

Here’s proof attached.
You can see my level.
You can see story I’m on.
You can see story I just did…

[IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/jtxf2u.jpg[/IMG]

I came to this game with about 2 RL friends who are on multiple characters.

I set their “nicknames”, yet I find their nick names always disappear and keep resetting?

To top that off, I have several people on my friends list that I met through the game, that just have their names set to […] […] either when online or offline, their account name/# (userid.####) also doesn’t show.

I don’t know what’s going on, but this has been there since day 1, when can we expect a fix? it’s not even listed in known issues!!!!

Attached screenshot… as you can see, like half my friends list is messed…. Seriously DOUBLEU-TEE-EFF!?!!?!!!!