Guild Wars 2

There actually wasn’t much dust on the card. The card was running extremely hot however. Whatever ideas are left, you may want to direct them at the OP since I’ve replaced my card.

I did check the Nvidia forums, and black screen was an issue before. Some suggest uninstalling the drivers, then doing a clean manual install – making sure not to install their physics engine or 3d viewer software. Though some say that didn’t help them either.

I now have a GTX 1060 3gb. There’s been no crashes and no over heating.

This has been happening to me also – it occurred soon after the big patch. I’ve uninstalled GemFX, I don’t use any other third party program with Guild Wars 2. I cleaned my computer components, I took out my video card and put it back in. I rolled back the driver, did a clean install of the driver – non of these things work.
I use Windows 7, and my card is a GTX 760. It was working fine, I even did a few hours of WvW after the patch dropped. It’s when I switched maps the problems started. Kernal issues.

For now I’ve decided to just go ahead and buy a new card.

I believe the look is intentional but is only obvious with some of the exclusive eye colors – particularly the pure white and neon colors. The effect isn’t obvious on normal and dark colors. Nor is this look on all of the exclusive faces.
I would be disappointed is this look wasn’t intentional. I like the mystical /super hero look personally.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Gryphon.2875:

Obfuscate.6430:

• remove Tome of Knowledge from Black Lion Chest loot table
• allow Tome of Knowledge to be a currency for useful consumables or items for people who no longer need to level characters.

/signed.

Tome of Knowledge is consumable for a spirit shard. Spirit Shards are convertable to gold, per: https://gw2efficiency.com/currencies/spirit-shards

Looks like right now, following the most expensive possible path would net you 15s per shard, which is “instant buy all materials required, instant sell the result”.

Also convoluted. A better solution would be to allow us to sell the TOK directly to a vendor for 15s.

I don’t have many thoughts on the story instances except: most of the dialogue was engaging and even made me laugh. You made my asura soft spoken but snarky and Canach is a jerk and it’s hilarious – I love him so much.

All of my praise and love go to the new map however. The rewards and challenge are great but it also has beautiful places to rest and not get attacked. I have taken a lot of screenshots there already and keep going back. You also have a vendor there. I just love it.

Thank you so much!

Concept: The Home Instance used to display trophies, weapon skins, miniatures and certain story achievements.

Why: Currently any trophy you earn from a world boss or raid can only be displayed in a Guild Hall with no indication of who earned it. You can currently have a massive collection of miniatures but only display one at a time. Certain story achievements rewarded readable books, interesting tools and animated displays that are precious memories but take up valuable bank slots. You can only display the weapons when equipped.

How: Like Hall of Monuments, items will not be displayed where the player chooses, but rather in set locations within the instance.

Legendary Weapon Display Rack

• earned through a quest
• displays only a set number which can be rotated to show weapon of player choosing

Black Lion Weapon Rack

• Gem Store exclusive
• can have up to 3
• can display the whole set once each weapon is account bound
• display can be rotated out to the one that is preferred.

World Boss and Raid Trophies

• upgradable trophies
• stage one shows basic trophies on pedastals
• upgraded stage is an achievement earned by collecting the trophies X amount of time and displays a golden statue of the boss.

Story Item Collections

• books can be displayed and their text accessed via book shelves
• items can be clicked to view a description or animation
• items displayed on tables or in museum-like glass cases

Miniatures

• a set number amount can be displayed in a penned in area
• display can be rotated out (generation 1, generation 2, avians, saurians, etc)

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It is not the Home Instance we have dreamed about, but it brings value to our memories as the home Instance was originally intended.

Mini Pets

• Mini Rabbit
• Mini Minstrel (he sometimes clears his throat or strums his instrument)
• Mini Hero Tron
• Mini Micromite Cluster of 3 or 5 (forms a V formation when at rest)

Mail Delivery

• Del-X99 delivery golemite

Instrument

• 8 Bit Melodica – a keyboard held like a guitar that plays 8-bit notes. A great Super Adventure Box companion.

Head Items

• A flower crown with 4 dye channels
• A candle crown with dyable flames.
• Glasses with opague dyable lenses; all current glasses as assets
• Inventor Sunglasses in to reading glasses with transparent lenses.

Back Items

• Back item skins based on Black Lion Weapon Skins ~ released the same way Black Lion Weapon Skins are and share the same cost. They do not count towards the completion of a Weapon Skin collection, and can be sold for gold on the Trading Post.

• hot bar for consumables

• remove Tome of Knowledge from Black Lion Chest loot table
• allow Tome of Knowledge to be a currency for useful consumables or items for people who no longer need to level characters.

• Make Agent Spire run between Alchemic Spill Way and the Central Data Repository in Crucible of Eternity. She currently walks even though she runs everywhere else.

• lower the volume or frequency mini pets create sounds, or put the mini pet sounds on their own slider. Currently some of them are outrageously annoying. Ever try crafting beside a Ho-Ho-Tron?

• add more back item drops to the general loot table; not skins, but items with stats of varying levels and rarity.

Barring the ability to add or subtract trait lines /skills the next the next plausible solution is to change the pvp maps themselves so skill rather than build matters more.

I’ve run in to this exact same problem, though I also know it is too early in the season to really gauge my skill when we haven’t seen the full number of potential competitors. The patch came in early in the week when some players are still working, or taking advantage of some of the festival activities.

I consider myself to be a medium skill player though on good days some of my opponents tell me I am better than I think and on bad days, my own team shuns me on map chat for being the worst. So i may start in Gold but find I am actually Bronze after a day or two.

There is something extremely weird about the matches though. 2 out of 3 matches seem even where the win or loss is by 50 or less points. But the third or fourth match will be an utter landslide like one match was 500 to 30. It happens so regularly that I believe it’s a part of the system – some top tier team is being pitted against people way below their level which doesn’t reflect skill at all. The top tier players are surprise! Still bored! and the lower tier people have to struggle 3 times as hard just to resume where they were a match ago.

I agree with the sentiment solo and duo should be separate. I find people in a duo are coordinating with each other but not talking to the rest of the team. However in order to truly separate Solo and Duo, Duo teams would have to be only as large as 4, or increased to 6. Anet is not going to do that.

Finally, you may be the largest contributor of damage – but a good player needs to be more than that for the team. You need to be able to stomp and support and capture points too. Your goal should be to do as much as these things as possible in any given match.

With all that said I am finding this season to be really painful and not fun compared to last. Also the reward system is just so strange. What am I being rewarded for? Just participating? What am I working towards? Crossing the rank threshold doesn’t offer any more or less reward than I am already getting. The prestige of a higher rank is nice, but it’s passive/silent. Last year rewards were tied to your tier and helped add incentive to working hard. This year – it literally doesn’t matter.

I don’t understand that, and I wonder if…it is maybe attracting some people to play it JUST for the loot reward.

I just logged in to the game on to my elementalist norn lady to preview armors in the bank, to record the model names and take screenshots…and then I realized the OP could very well do this themselves. I found 4 full coverage tops on the top row of the light chest piece row alone.

OP go to your in game bank, and use the wardrobe function to see what is available. You actually get to preview what the pieces look like yourself. There actually are a lot of options for people who want a cool, conservative look.

Duels in PVE? I don’t think this would work – people are already angry that PVE and PVP skill balances aren’t completely separate. Adding a duel system to PVE could potentially complicate this.
I think a 1v1 system in PVP would be great though. Currently the only way to do such a thing would be through your guild hall, or in a custom arena. This is something not every one has access to currently.

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How to make Inspections work: unfriended people can only view the costume or skin name. It’s pretty harmless but benefits the game in that it can give people new goals – especially if they like an armor or weapon they see and it’s from the gem shop or a special collection reward.
Mutual friends or guildies get the addition of seeing the armor stats.
Why? – if you are mutual friends (both friended each other) or are in the same guild, chances are you have similar goals or are of similar thinking. There are different reasons to want to see armor stats – whether it be for RAIDs or you are just generally trying to help them tweak their armor set up. When you want to communicate what you’re using in the quickest way possible this seems like a good idea. I’ve seen people asking for this through the years.
However I would discourage enabling this if you’re in a squad or party. It could be abused in order to harass players.

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Charr Bike: The asset is already in the game. They can probably implement this with out too much trouble. Use the Charr bike model and have the player vanish when it activates – replaced with the enclosed bike model. Similar to how that drill item works – when you go under ground and your model gets replaced by moving dirt lol!

Hope this helps make some of your dreams more viable!

That is not an error.

YES, that would be awesome. Maybe have them be raven foot prints that are blue-ish and fade slowly. It would be amazing!

Ran in to the same problem recently. I disabled Gem FX and was able to play again.

Asura were not my first choice when the game launched, but I was determined to try each race when I was filling up my character slots. They were so animated. They were really funny little guys, yet oddly amoral; their often comedic hijinks are woven with dark stories. While duality seems to be a theme of all the races, non other seem to encapsulate it quite so well as the Asura.
They have since out numbered the other races in my roster. I’ve never looked back. I am very thankful to the people responsible for writing and designing the Asura. They’ve provided continuing inspiration for me and I would like to share with you a little of what I’ve created as a result.

Some of these are drawings I created as gifts for friends of their characters, and others are of my own. Let me know if you’d like to see more! Thank you for taking the time to look!

~ Eli

Having the exact same problem. What does he sell anyway? I am so curious.

EvK.3968:

Had the same problem, what helped me is flusing dns cache in windows. To do that, open console (cmd.exe) and type “ipconfig /flushdns”. Right after doing this I was able to log in after about 10 hours of not being able to.

This worked for me also. Thank you!

I have the same problem – I thought buying replacement fractal weapon skins would be a work around but it didn’t work. As proof I have one of the unlocked weapon skins in my bank, but it remains locked in the collection.
It will be really sad to be locked out of the reward for finishing the collection. I hope they see to it soon.

Hello! My ticket number is #564232 – the claim was sent in Apr 22 (9 days ago).
Sorry for the hassle and thank you for your time.

lordkrall.7241:

I believe one of the main issues is that all you are doing is looking at it from a reward point of view rather than a story point of view.

But the characters are written so shallow that many people are resigned to looking at the rewards to help them decide – and I think that is pretty fair.

I do have to wonder what would interest the OP though.

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I love Zephyr Sanctum. I really enjoyed the Aspect Arena: you could shove people off the walkways to their doom with a puff of air! It was short and fun but admittedly made even more so by the really rewarding loot at the end.

Southsun Survival is sort of fun but it tends to drag on too long.

Fractal weapon skins (Fractal pistols and a rifle) are essentially my long term goal. No legendary or gem shop weapon skin appeals to me more. Fractal runs are pretty much my GW2 career now. I still have not found the skin I want and the wonder I used to feel for the art direction in the Fractal dungeons has waned. Believe me when I say this: any new dungeon in the Fractal will be refreshing (though maybe not welcome depending on the difficulty! Hehehe!)

That being said – I hope it’s the Thaumanova one. <3

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I have both the minis – Evon creeps me out with his bedroom voice comments (kind of disappointed that “mouse fart” isn’t one of the things he says haha! He’s such a jerk.) but Kiel quickly becomes annoying after awhile.

Still, I love them. I love the back piece items too that came with this update.

I wish she were an asura.

I find both candidates to be stereotypes both in archetype and race. I am kind of tired of seeing prominent white humans in lead roles and the other races are almost comedic relief.

I voted based on the Fractal reward – I want to learn more about the Thaumanova Reactor more than I want to know about Abaddon. Ideally I would have liked both but since I am forced to choose I would pick something not so human-centric to begin with.

I would also like to see more open buildings and spaces made available for roleplayers. Not only in the human capitol or the main cities of the other races, but out in the world as well. Roleplaying is the end game for some of us.

They added Rox’s horns to the charr character editor, so using that as a basis for comparison, it seems feasible to add a few extra hairstyles to the character creation options. I would totally pay for a hair styling kit to gain access to extra styles and I know some others would agree.

I also like the suggestion of having glowing /tech inspired hair decorations in some of the ’sura styles.

I think my friends and I spent a good hour throwing roses at each other and snickering for the rest of the day about Asurans being suave. It does some times make me sad that I can’t buy my friends gifts from the cash shop but those feelings aside these roses are perhaps the most amusing item yet.
Thank you Arena Net!

This is an issue with character art/animation.

Female Asura
Engineer
Pistol Skill 2.

While using skill 2, only one side of her mouth opens. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but it doesn’t look that way on my male asura engineer when he uses the skill. It’s difficult to get a screenshot. I only noticed because my friend was laughing at me. XD

Asura are my favorite race in the game.

Whether in character or out of character I get the “feels the urge to punt the asura” a lot when near a human. It doesn’t matter if I am being kind or not, they just feel the need to say it. I would only call it harassment if they continued to go on with it but as it is, they say it once and then promptly ignore me.
I do find asura hate to be common among the other races, whether for ooc reasons or ic ones. It’s kind of depressing.

I am not wearing healing gear. All gear is condition damage and toughness. I understand what the Elixir Gun does, but I don’t know what traits affects the numbers. Can anyone please explain?

I imagine shaving the head for gear is especially provocative for the Asuran culture, as large heads denoting intelligence is supposedly extremely sexy. This would explain the appearance of the medium T3 helmet but I don’t understand what’s going on with the rest of the set. It looks like jewelry sewn on to a vinyl teddy bear almost. I mean it doesn’t look very prominent in any aesthetically meaningful way. I would have thought it would be more sleek with glowing circuitry.

I noticed that my Super Elixir now has a greater impact heal but I don’t have any points in Tools and I hardly have any in Alchemy. My friend says it’s doing more healing because my armor has a lot of vitality on it.

Arena Net said their trait system would be easy to understand but I don’t get it at all. I don’t know what is effecting what exactly.

Can someone please explain, or direct me to something REALLY easy to understand? Talk slow, I’m a little dumb.

The lack of costume storage , the inability to wear them in to combat, and the inability to buy parts you like separately makes costumes themselves a let-down. For example I only wanted the broom but I had to buy the whole costume to get it – now the various parts are taking up space in my limited bank because it would be a waste to destroy it.

Another tip : if a name you want is taken, add a title to it.
Examples: Doctor, Teacher, Lobotomist, Philanthropist, Director, Synergeticist

You can add things after your name as well.
Examples: —- of Metrica Province, —- the Dishwasher

So your name could look like:
Geneticist Blorp, * Agent Blorp * Blorp of Unit Five

When he summoned a golem – “Perfection!”

How can anyone not love this face?

I’ll throw in my report too as I am also crashing frequently.

That’s the problem I’ve been having. I can’t do anything meaningful in the game any more because I keep getting disconnected.

I love the job Steve Staley did with the male Asura. It’s why I created a male instead of a female. He just sounds so enthusiastic!

Just jump off a point of terminal height and you’ll see. That shriek of profound mortal fear is unrivaled by any other in the game.

The coat is more of an issue than the pants in my opinion. Have you tried to preview pistols? It’s impossible!

I would suggest that the preview should show the weapon in the hand instead of in the “Off” position. The bonus would be that any animations on the weapon will also be visible.

The problem with giving the suit it’s own health pool is that Asuran necromancers could exploit it – it would be like a double death shroud.

Maybe if they changed it’s skill set from physical attacks to a myriad of support/ control style ones it could be more useful without making it particularly exploitable.

For an example, have the whirling animation initiate a group knockback, the flurry of punches could cause a daze in a cone formation in front of it, the self repair could instead initiate a temporary area shield, and the single punch could create small ball of fire that explodes on contact and damages nearby foes. This at least would give people an initiative to use it.

I have heard my Asuran male (engineer) say “This will be unpleasant for you.” in a warm, creepy voice. It always creeps me right out.
Sometimes in dungeons when he is thrown in to a downed state he says “Impossible!” and “You…beat ME?!”

Oh he does so very much enjoy those pistols!

I am having all of the issues mentioned before my post.
Server: Tarnished Coast
Net Provider: Cogeco (cable)
Location: Ontario in Canada Land.

This was not an issue before the October updates. Now the game is almost unplayable as the disconnections are steady and regular.

I can’t play more than 15 minutes at a stretch without a disconnect since the last two updates.

The game client gives me an error code “3032:1002:3:4350:101” and then the client restarts. Sometimes the client comes up as a white or black screen and requires me to alt-tab out of it so I can shut it down. Sometimes after such a disconnect it hangs up while trying to reconnect.

It is really upsetting when I’ve found an enjoyable event, get disconnected and when I finally make it back, it’s not there anymore.

Please, can you fix this?

Ah I just saw that after I made this post. However – under Face Details, it is still labeled “ears and horns” – this should be edited if they moved the horn slider.

During the Charr character creation process the slider to change the horn size is missing.
This glitch is present in both the male and female Charr character creation.

To see what I am talking about please see:
Face Details > Ears and Horns

There is a slider for ear length, ear thickness and head size however the slider for horn length is now missing.

Thank you for your time.

I’ve noticed this as well. Unfortunately this problem was also present in Guild Wars 1.