Guild Wars 2

OK so it appears to have succesfully transferred me back to my home server, it just never gave an indication and I had to force quit out. I came back after a trip to the store to try again and found myself in my server of choice. So it worked, but not like it used to. Still, thanks for the quick fix…

It is still not working for me.

trying to transfer to Sorrows Furnace server, if that helps.

Tech support would imply that this is not a server issue but rather a client issue. I can assure you that it is not.

Thank you for bringing this to the attention of the server team.

you are not alone
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Are-Server-Transfers-down/first#post348165

GaileGray.9587:

You do know there is a limit of one transfer per 24 hours, right?

this is an issue that occurs after pressing the Transfer button. that button doesnt exist if you are within the 24 hour wait time. My last transfer was three days ago, to finish my world completion, and now I am trying to rejoin the server I started on.

I dont think there is a limit.
And I am also having the same problem trying to transfer servers.

If you have spent the 100g to buy the book, you become a commander.

This gives you a blue icon on the map, which can be seen by all. Useful when you are trying to get people to your location. You can also create Squads of up to 30 people, by using the Squad invite, which is on the same tab as the party invite button.

Squad commanders can use the map to place waypoints (Although these are not the ones you teleport to) and specific commands, e.g. to designate a regroup location or the area to begin an attack.

blink.4239:

Does the render error also affect those who are portaled?

No, and that is the problem. The invisible man comes in, pops a portal from stealth and a horde appears, but you cant see them or target them, and by the time you can see them you’re probably dead. The worst is when it is exploited for this very effect…

I would support some kind of timer, or if the portal disappeared when the memer was downed.

in any event it needs to get fixed.

I dont think having the scoreboard creates the problems mentioned in the OP. For those that get disheartened by the score…stop looking. There, you no longer have a scoreboard. It’s not like it is in your face all the time…

I think all the map completion stuff needs to get out of WvW. People are queueing up to get in while people inside the maps are just climbing vistas and running between POI’s. If you are in the map you should be fighting for your server and nothing else.

When I ran the Obsidian Sanctum I was in the chandelier room with a couple folks from both of the other servers. we didnt grief eachother, since we all just wanted to get it done and move on. Some days it is different. I do agree that while attacking in the puzzle is OK, siege weapons are not cool.

There are a million rangers in WvW. I understand they are a great pvp class…but I get so tired of killing bears…

Since I doubt they will rebuild the maps, and since the height advantage of the northern garrison gives one server a distinct advantage in attacking the Castle, the best solution would be just to decrease Treb distance by 2-5%. It wouldnt change the way we use trebs in 99% of the other cases, but it would fix that one problem.

And we know that there are ways of counter attacking the trebs wihtout knocking down the walls and getting in the keep, but they take a good deal of effort, and it is unquestionable that there is an advantage to those treb positions.

As for the Latin guilds, yeah there are often folks off doing their own thing. We have a lot of latin folks on our Server, and that is Bueno. They are a good bunch of players, and they do their best to keep track of what is happening. That is why it is best to use POI’s or Waypoints that can be map linked when we need troops somewhere fast, that way in any language people can click and see where they need to go.

I know what they are, and more importantly I know how they are being used. And I am not asking for a huge nerf, just a tiny range decrease to correct some of the unfair and currently un-competitive uses of the trebuchet in WvW. When one server has an advantage that the other two servers do not have, then it should be adressed, this would be the simplest way. And even a 2% decrease would do it.

what would be nice is custom chat channels, like many games have. You could create a server wide channel to keep track of meta events, or a dungeons channel where all thoe LFG’s can spam away or a puzzles channel… so many possibilities.

Ele’s are fine, we have four powersets to swap between. I dont think weapon swapping is necessary.

This is a simple fix, just decrease the range of Trebs by 5%. Trebs have too much range, they are being set up deep inside keeps and launching at another keeps walls. It is particularly bad on the Eternal Battlegrounds map, where the northern server has the ultimate high ground and can hit the walls of Stonemist Castle from behind two layers of protective walls. It would also help fix the problem of camping the spawn points with Trebs.

Trebs should be portable siege artillery, used in the field and defended to be useful. This castle to castle application takes away from the game.

This has been a good matchup, but Anet screwed up by not rotating the colors on this second go around.

They also need to slightly lessen the range on trebs. Being able to plant trebs deep inside the northern keep and have them hit the walls of the castle is a distinct advantage. Nobody else has the high ground to do this. And DH has had this advantage for a second week in a row, and they make full use of it. Trebs are meant to be portable siege weapons, not castle to castle assault tools.

Also like to thank SoR for wasting all that gold with the 10 golem zerg that hit us today, which we barely fought off. Good stuff.

This is a great matchup. Sorrows Furnace has learned a lot having comparable foes to fight, as I imagine the other servers have as well.

CC Eva.6742:

Hi everyone.

We understand your concerns and how annoying this bug is for your gaming experience. The team is fully aware of this issue and working on a solution so we would like to ask you for a little bit more of patience. It is indeed important to get it fixed so it will not be forgotten.

Hopefully this is the case with ALLthe bugged SP’s in the game, the list is pretty long…

Of all of the things that Anet is doing a great job with…the plethora of Bugged SP’s is not one of them. I like the idea of having a commune point always present, might be a good workaround to whatever is causing this repetitive problem.

I would settle for just an estimate on when they will ever get fixed. I’m tired of wasting 20 mins every day moving thru each zone to find the same SP’s still bugged so I cant complete maps.

that is kitten fantastic.

don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
thanks for freeing up server space for someone else.
sorry it didnt work out for you. try getting a cat.

I am not against the implementation of a procedure that decreases supply and raises prices. I suppose I was a bit heavy handed in my OP about how the change in materials prices would affect the lowere levels. I can see it has a reciprocal effect in allowing them to make some extra coin.

My greatest irritation comes only from the development team choosing an approach to correction that was not uniformly fair to the gaming population. I am not adverse to specualtion, I understand the early bird gets the worm and all that.

But the foks at Anet have a responsibility to fairness across all levels. There was no crisies here, another day of consideration and they may have been able to make a correction without having it be so deliberatley (or unintentionally) skewed.

What truly needs to happen is a correction to the drop rates that caused the glut in the first place. All in all this was one knee jerk reaction to another misstep with the cooking patch. But I am confident that the team at Anet will get it all sorted out. They are doing a fantastic job so far, present guffaws not included, and in the future I hope they will consider their actions a bit more carefully.

I agree, the RL time limit is absurd. A limit of 25 uses would have made more sense.
Definitely not worth the purchase price.

you cannot sell partially used gathering equipment, they are also soulbound.
so use them, and when you move into a level where they are less functional, either destroy them or put them in your bank and pull them out when you need to go back and farm the lower level mats.

I made no such complaint about speculators, and I am generally very happy about the market.

I disagree with how John Smith, the Anet economist, implemented a plan today to dump the excess quantities of certain goods by giving away a new recipie on the Mystic Forge that was skewed toward higher level players, and those players that were fortunate enough to get on right when it went into effect.

I believe he should have made no correction, or if tampering with the free market was really necessary, then it should have been more fair to the entire popultation.

I realize that the new higher price gives lowbies a chance at making money, thats OK. It still just irks me that they made this correction and basically handed all the first-come-first-served high level characters a quick fix of cash, just so they could clear out some excess inventory. They could have just used a form of quantitative easing and bought up excess inventories.

Not to mention that the effort also only rewarded those who were able to get there first. For those who came on too late, the ‘surplus’ of materials was already gone.

A more equitable approach would have been to give every player in the game a single use soulbound Mystic Token that was used in the recipie, and let every player have an opportunity to get one Mystic chest…

oh well, Anet, live and learn. I still think you are doing a great job, just not in this particular instance.

So what they did was take a surplus of bottom tier crafting materials, which could have helped all the new low level players get their early crafting tiers done, and they gave recipies that only players level 68 or above had a chance at using cost effectively.

They passed the surplus goods to these higher level toons, who then profited off them, and that drove the price of all the bottom tier crafting materials to ten times their previous level.

HOW did this help the game?

John Smith should know, if he really is an economist, that overt manipulation of the Market is always more disruptive then waiting for a natural correction.

so what they did was take a surplus of bottom tier crafting materials, which could have helped all the new low level players get their early crafting tiers done, and they gave recipies that only players level 68 or above had a chance at using cost effectively.

They passed the surplus goods to these higher level toons who then profited off them and that drove the price of all the bottom tier crafting materials to ten times their previous level. HOW did this help the game?

and for the record the prize you get in the ‘Mystic Box’ is basically junk.

I believe the elementalist skill Arcane Power is also bugged, it is supposed to give the next five attacks as criticals, but that never happens. I get usually three attacks and the next two non-crits. May be working for five seconds, rather than five attacks.

Maybe I am missing the way it works, but if I am reading correctly it costs me 1 gold to buy a piece of guild armor, which changes the look of a single piece of my armor to the guild emblem look. Which by the way i can not preview.

It’s like a really expensive transmutation stone to a single, unseen but guild adorned piece of armor.

So what is the point? And is this for the set of armor, or would I need to spend 6 gold to get a full set of armor, again which I cant preview. Cant imagine how an emblem would be needed on a pair of gloves, or even visible…

I love my guild but I cant see this as being anything anyone would ever use.

the backpacks, however, are useful, but also grossly overpriced.

Elementalists are only squishy if you arent using all their powers.
You also cant just sit back and press 2 and expect to survive.
You need to use your armors, shields, and dodge dodge dodge. Stay at a distance, or spec yourself for speed so they cant hit you.
Invest some points into Earth traits for some toughness, and equip yourself with armor and weapons that add vitality. Just remember that every fight is just a DPS race, so keep your gear current and your damage output high and you will be fine.
Personally I like the Valkyrie builds, with power/vitality/crit dam%.

I ran with Scepter/Dagger for nearly 75 levels, then at 75+ I switched to Staff.
I am built for Power/Vitality and Crits.

I think all the Elementalist combos are great and add to the variety of ways an Ele can be played. I just prefer doing my damage, and lots of it, from afar.

Choose your Skills wisely. Read the descriptions and plan what you will be using, and then hang on to those extra skill points, you can never have too many. There is a vendor in Lions Arch that sells components for legendary weapons for 200 SP’s. So dont waste them early on skills you wont use.

Also dont forget to use foods, you can get easy bonuses and experience by just having a handful of delicious treats in your bag. Most are available cheaply on the TP, and especially at low levels, an extra +10 exp per kill will help you level up faster.

While I am not surprised that this last quest is not soloable, I am disheartened by the way that you are faced with this reality.

At the very least there should be a short mission where you go in and meet with the major story players, perhaps with a shot of Zhaitan in the distance, menacing and waiting. With a clear sequence of dialogue that provides a measure of closure to the personal part of the storyline while making the case for the neccesity of a team to complete it.

Then at least the shock of marching all the way to the map point to find that you can’t do anything would be less disappointing.

Completely and utterly dissapointing loot.

Similar to the crap you get for map completion or the random junk from killing a world boss. And this for the biggest baddest kill in the game, with enourmous efort just to get there…

There seems to be a pervasive theme of never letting us have nice things. Did I accidentally leave my Exotic weapon on the lawn?? Or the folks who write the loot scripts at Anet have a seriously underdeveloped sense of awe.

The difficulty here is where the Race specific and then global storylines merge. Not to spoil it but at some point all our stories become the same. The smoothness of the transition may have some rough edges.

Sure it would have been nice to keep it more personal and race oriented all the way to the end, but that just isn’t logistically possible…or is it?

I think it seems a bit more disconnected coming from the Sylvari line, because there is more of a connection to Caith and Traherne and others at the beginning. And then that familiarity dissapears.

I found it odd that Caithe virtually disappeared from my storyline until the end…

This is not a single player game. You can play 99.9% of this game without ever teaming with another player. Facing the biggest baddest dragon of the game solo doesnt make sense. I agree that it is a bit of a shock to find yourself in need of a team when you reach that final mission, but I dont think it is entirely without merit.

I am anxiously awaiting my guildmates getting to this point so that we can team together and get it done.

Even at ‘actual level’ loot does not seem to scale at the same price as costs.

I am sure this is an attempt by Anet to make sure that the game is not overrun with gold, and in the beginning it is probably best to err on the safer ‘poor’ side of loot drops.

But I would like to see future tweaking to the loot system so that as we progress in levels, we see a proportional increase in loot prices that is greated than what we get now.

And yes I agree that there is room to improve the actual vs. adjusted rewards.

I love this game, and I think Anet is doing a terrific job.

I have one complaint. Map completion rewards.

This is one area where you put in a lot of time and effort to get the reward, and the randomness (or coy vindictiveness) of the reward can be very very frustrating.

Case in point, on my Elementalist I have completed roughly half the maps in the game, and on 90% of the reward drops, I recieved weapons and armor completely unusable by my class. Or I recieve a materials drop contrary to my chosen crafting discipline.

I understand that I can just sell it for coin, or pass it off to an alt. It is just a disheartening thump to my morale that after working hard to get a map done, I dont have the option to choose a piece of loot I can use.

It would not be a hard thing to adjust, we already get these choices with story mission rewards. I am just saying that for something that requires so much time and effort, something more than a purely random drop could be devised.

I agree that the travel costs are too high, and particularly because the loot drop prices do not scale appropriately with level increases.

I would be fine with the increased costs, and I use WP’s a lot, if I knew that I could spend some time killing and looting to get a fair value in loot.

As it is now, I spend the days moving all around Tyria, for events, for my guildmates, working on map completion, farming for mats…and I basically break even or lose money each day. I then have to spend a few hours standing at the TP and working it the best I can to get a couple gold to make me feel better.

I dont play this game for the TP. So it would be nice to be able to play the game with my friends and still make a small profit.

Scale of loot is the solution, but I wouldnt cry over a slight decrease in travel prices either.

I feel like the frequencies are about right, anything longer and it would restrict some players from ever being able to do the events. Not everyone can play the game 8 hours a day or at certain times.

That being said, I do agree that a greater randomness should be inserted into the recurrence of these events. Jornang’s fang, or Shaterrer (to name just a couple) show up on a pretty predictable schedule, so shaking up that predictability would be nice.

perhaps not at the lower crafting tiers. But once you hit 350 and above, a couple of the Rare recipies will gain you good exp and provide an item that pays for itself. The exotic recipies are a must have.

Once a majority of the population gets their too-lazy-to-mine-for-it behinds out of the first crafting tiers, copper prices will come down.

While I agree that the availability of gold in the MArkets will assuredly increase, and so diligent market traders will be able to acquire more gold. For the casual players, these rune prices are unfairly high. They should scale back by 30-50% and then they would be reasonable. This may be an effort by Anet to get people to buy Gems and open bag slots, but that doesnt seem lkely, and in any case the cost of an extra 8 slot bag slot is cheaper than buying the runes. So it still makes the rune prices too high.

there seems to be an influx of Butter all over the place. I love butter, I wish it were bacon, but this is clearly an adjustment in drops that will need further tweaking by the crack staff at Anet.

At lvl 80, every time you fill your experience bar you get a skill point. Since reaching 80 I have avquired at least another 10 SP’s just by continuing to play and filling that bar over and over. The WvW zones are also a fresh batch of easy SP’s every day.

I’m not sure that too many are aware of the SP vendor, and if they were they might not have spent SP’s on skills they never use. SO choose wisely and save those SP’s…

I think most people arent even paying attention…they go to list an item, and see the current lowest sellers, and because they want to sell it now they undercut that price. This continues over and over until the price hits bottom. Too much junk is for sale on the market to begin with, and most of it at a pointless price that nets no real profit over vendor for the seller. But it is carelessness and laziness that cause it. And nothing will ever change that. Hopefully over time these people get tired of never selling anything and always losing money in fees, and the market corrects. But I think we are still a few months away from that.

While the in game chat workaround is useful, it would indeed be nice to just be able to right click and preview an item from the TP. no need to clutter up chat for previews.

My Elementalist and namesake… Nuprin Feelgood lvl 80