Guild Wars 2

I got it finally by using a chrono with as much distortion as I could put on it — sword main for blurred frenzy (just blur the big circular swipe), shield for blocks, etc. Try and get a decent dps group since the longer you have to fight, the greater the chance for a mishap.

Not just from 1 to 5, as we have now, but from 5 to 20 and 20 to 100. I am swimming in these kits now.

Three man VG is about the lowest I’ve seen.

Too much of this game is now inventory management. Please, ANET, consider moving all the map key items to account counters without “physical form.” Exalted keys, Chak acid, Pact crowbars, on and on. Why do we need to use space for these things? Also the map currencies — do we really need to carry the bloodstone shards, petrified wood and the new winterberries? Make space for them somewhere. And omg tokens. The only reason to receive a collection token is if you need to do something with it like “charge” it or “infuse” it or combine it or w/e. Otherwise a simple ding with no drop would suffice. It would also clear up the problem of being uncertain if you need the token later. And (account-bound) skins. Just make them counters in the wardrobe. I know your business model is “players pay for space,” but I find my enjoyment of the game reduced by all the STUFF I now have to manage.

This new swamp brings out so much anger and hostility from marginal personalities. it’s hardly worth running for that fact alone.

Add a trait to change all guardian light fields into fire fields.

Bloom is pure hell at T4. Grossly overtuned.

Yeah I’d like to concentrate agony as much as possible on the rings, so I can swap them onto other characters as needed. It’s tempting to break down the +11 and +10’s to unlock the extra agony, but that’s not the direction I want to go. I want to begin using the new power/agony infusions which were insanely expensive before, but now seem approachable.

Got a +7 simple infusion refunded since it won’t affix to the amulet anymore. How do I get back up to 150 the cheapest way?

Rings are +7, +10, +11 (28 each), +7 in every other available slot.

Please let this year be the end of this horrible system.

I main guardian and this class has so many light field generators and pumps so many boons that people are simply not taking them in t4’s anymore. Sure I can roll out the reaper or thief or mez, but I would love to see a trait added for guards that causes all light fields to be converted to some other flavor. That alone would mitigate the problem and make the class viable again. Then if you also avoid using virtues, you could minimize the direct generation of retal.

I would like to see placement in the top 2 of points, win or lose, contribute toward advancement. Solo q’ing I cannot control the teams, but the need to streak and only to streak as the core advancement principle is madness. Make advancement based on a combination that somehow includes your personal contribution.

There should be solo queues or full 5-person team queues and nothing in between.

(and full separation of non-HoT players.)

same — used Gift of Mag and no tree was added to my home instance.

Don’t expect any salvage-o-matic refund. They are denying them.

When looking into your concern, I can completely understand the frustration of having an item that you feel is now unusable. When we add items to Guild Wars 2 such as the Shared Inventory Slot, it is for the convenience of player as we try to make the game more enjoyable. We hope having a inventory space that can allow you to share items between characters will be helpful.

Items such as the “Salvage-O-Matics” were introduced as another item to make things easier by infinitely breaking items down in your inventory. This item was added to the game a while ago. At that time, there wasn’t any knowledge of us creating a shared inventory slot, in which only buying one salvage item would have been a better choice instead of purchasing multiple. Since that is the case, we understand that some players have a salvaging item on each character.

When we determine if a refund can be provided, we look at a few factors. Mainly when the item was purchased, and the amount of benefits received from said items. Each situation is investigated individually with the decision made on a case-by-case basis. Sadly, I will not be able to refund the extra Salvage-O-Matics. My apologies for any dissatisfaction this has caused you.

Next we’ll probably see account-shared bags of all sizes ranging in price from exorbitant to astronomical…..

I would like to see a buy-back feature in the gem store so we can return the items that are clearly obsoleted by new items. Extra salvage-o-matics fall into this category. If I could return them to the gem store, even at a reasonable loss of say 20%, that would be a good idea.

If you say anything in chat you risk bringing the house down on yourself. I find the atmosphere much more hostile in recent days.

Aside from whatever else may be wrong or need improvement in sPvP with the advent of leagues, one of the biggest problems I see is the almost complete breakdown in civility. There is almost always that one person who has a lot invested in any particular match, perhaps more than other people who solo queued, and they just start slamming teammates with foul language, name-calling, abuse, whatever. Everyone presses the ranked button now because of the associated achievements, so you get an unhealthy mix of people with “a lot to lose” combined with people who care considerably less if they win or lose. Brings out the worst in many people.

One step forward, two steps back. Lost 2 pips after losing a match solo queuing, presumably because there were more players in a lower division. Do you seriously think players are going to feel anything other than extreme frustration doing this? If I lose, fine, take a pip, that’s bad enough, but taking 2 pips? Are you serious?

One of the most frustrating things in sPvP is getting into 4v5 situations (or worse) because someone d/c’d or raged for some reason. My suggestion for this is to do the following:

• Halt the match and wait a reasonable amount of time for the d/c to return, say, not more than 30-45 seconds. All active timers in the match, cap, decap, etc. are suspended and players cannot do anything during this period.

• If the player does not return, the match stays halted and all players on the heavy side are presented with a popup asking if each is willing to leave the match. If one or more persons answers yes, then one of those players is selected randomly and is booted from the match. If no one answers yes, one player is selected randomly. For the booted player, it would be as if the match never occurred. Nothing gained or lost.

• Match resumes with both sides short-handed but even.

Imagine the frustration when people reach the last pip of a division and then start a losing streak. Also losing 2 pips in one game for any reason is just awful.

Does the 64-bit client update automatically as they change it? I’m assuming it does and that I do not have to periodically download “the latest version.”

I wish they would allow each profession that can craft ascended material to be able to do so once per day. For example, a Lump of Mithrillium can be crafted by 4 professions at level 450. It would be great if each of those 4 professions were allowed to craft once per day, instead of once per account. That would both encourage and reward those who level their professions while bringing more ascended components to market, where they are desperately needed.

Set up a day weapon, e.g. force/air, and a night weapon, e.g. force/night. If you’re not 100% sure if it’s day or night, you can temporarily equip any weapon from the AC dungeon. If it glows blue, it’s night.

So many of them do not say that.

Some if these trophies are “physical” in that take inventory space, e.g. Lotus Flower, while some of them just “ding the collection” when obtained and no item is actually delivered. Do I need to save these physical trophies for some future purpose or can I just sell them? I am not referring to the ones where you need to get, for example 5 different Jotun fragments and then combine them — I am talking about the ones where is there no apparent use for the item after you ding the collection entry.

Was in spvp with 498 points, 2 points from the win when I d/c’d. Cannot reconnect. Getting the char select screen, then the network error popup when I select a char.

Will treat bags opened after the festival ends still yield the festival rewards? I forget if they turn off the festival drops from treat bags or not.

It seems like an oversight to me that there is no alternate mastery progression in WvW that uses rank points instead of xp. You have people choosing either to progress their masteries or play WvW. They should be able to do both.

I suppose I could also sink the empyreal fragments into the vision crystal components for ascended gear.

I’m just swimming in empyrean fragments. The Star of Gratitude should be available year round, like the other two.

My concern is that ascended armorsmithing/leatherworking/tailoring remain relevant in the game. Getting 500 in these crafts and crafting the ascended pieces is very expensive. If complete, ready to wear legendary armor pieces simply start dropping from the game, I won’t be happy about it. I would rather see the acquisition of legendary armor somehow tied both to the new high-end content and ascended crafting. By this I mean to get a legendary armor piece, you should have to start with the account-based ascended piece and some new legendary inputs and then craft it using 500 in the profession. The stat switching has limited practical use given the likelihood of needing to switch out runes. The primary use case as I see it would be the transition to and from WvW and PvE.

On the beta maps, every once in while my screen blacks out for a few seconds.

Gaile,

One thing you could do is introduce the notion of a gem “reserve” which would be uncleared gems that you purchase. These would be available immediately for reserving items in the store. The items themselves would not be delivered until the fraud service clears the gem purchase and the reserve gems become fungible gems. This gives people the immediacy that they demand. I would be bothered far less having to wait 3 days for my purchases to clear fraud and be delivered than I am bothered by not having immediate access to the buying power itself.

Another possibility might be for the legendary armor pieces and weapons to “remember” what sigils and runes have been affixed in the past and to allow swapping to any previously affixed upgrade. That forces you to buy the rune/sigil at least once per piece and limits the range of swappable options to those you have actually used on the piece in the past.

I heard back from Support yesterday. They told me that they could in fact refund my HoT Ultimate purchase if I did not receive my gems by the end of the sale. They did not answer my question as to whether or not they could offer me the sale items past the sale end time. Seems like a refund is the best one can hope for. There is still a little bit of time for the gems to arrive, so I will wait and make a decision.

Is the 72 hour delivery delay only for HoT Ultimate purchases, or is it for any purchase of gems?

I’ve been waiting for Silver-O-Matic to come back and boom there it is. 22 hours left on the sale, still no gems from HoT purchase. I may have to buy a few gems with gold as a last resort.

I would also like to see ascended gear, and the time and expense of grinding professions to 500, remain relevant in the face of this new legendary gear. In fact, having these new legendary armor pieces require account-bound crafting at level 500 to finalize the armor piece would be a good idea. It’s already the case that ascended weapon and armor pieces drop from the world (fractals, spvp, wvw). I do like the ideas about being able to swap sigils and runes effortlessly on legendary items. Such a feature might be made available through some very expensive achievement or crafting effort, like some device that enables sigil/run swap, crafted with level 500 pieces from each and every crafting professions, e.g. requires 8 crafting professions at level 500.

There’s has been a lot of excitement this weekend about HoT. Customers like myself have also been watching the sale item list expand in the current gem store sale ending Aug 31. I just purchased HoT Ultimate to buy a few things in this sale and now I learn I will not receive the gems until after the sale is over.

Please extend the sale. Or give me my gems before it ends.

They created this big item sale, adding things to it each day and stating that the items will be available until Aug 31. I deliberately waited, just see whether I wanted any of them, all the time thinking I could use the “discounted” gems from the HoT Ultimate purchase. Then the big announcement about HoT is the kicker to get people to pull the trigger on their purchases.

From a marketing perspective, they did everything right — building excitement and getting people to make a purchase. Then the the honest customers like myself who acted in good faith get shafted and told that they cannot have the very thing that triggered their purchase in the first place.

Good job Anet. Way to go.

I am asking Support about a HoT refund in the event they do not honor the current sale should it end before I receive my gems.

Sir Arthur.8905:

If I had known I would not have gotten them immediately, I would not have bought the ultimate edition.

I just bought HoT Ultimate and wanted to use the gems for the sale ending in 2 days. So now I read that they will give me the gems 1 day after the sale ends. Great.

I finished the last chapter of LS2 “Point of No Return” and replayed it for achievements. After getting all achievements, the episode never closes out to show the gold star, like the previous LS2 episodes. I am stuck toggling back and forth between “Continue This Episode” and “Quit This Episode.” Is there no way to close it out?

Thanks much for prioritizing this problem. I see two Anet responses since my post yesterday so that tells me you’re definitely involved and working in it.

I created a new character and immediately lost 550 AP along with receiving a rather offensive in-game email that my GWAMM title was issued by mistake. I visited HoM in GW1, then relogged onto GW2 main and got the 550 AP and the AP and title were restored. Screenshots below.

This problem must be corrected because honest recipients of hard-earned GWAMM title are being falsely accused of receiving it incorrectly. There are bugs and then there are bugs. Telling people who spent years acquiring GWAMM that their title was incorrectly issued and thus stripped is egregious.

That said, if the only way to handle the bug is to strip everyone of the GW1 AP and titles and requiring them to do something like visit their HoM, etc— ok — but, again, notifying people that you received the title in error is poor communication and makes loyal, old-time customers like myself rather upset.

Why didn’t you simply send out an email “We need you to confirm your title by visting your HoM .. or use language like may have been issued by mistake etc.”

False accusations are taken seriously by customers and are bad business.

I’m not creating a new character, e.g. for a key run, until I get confirmation that this bug is fixed. It took me forever to earn GWAMM and that associated AP. Not throwing it away.

On thing that concerns me is that, along with this hero training notification bug, some people are claiming they now have only 213 hero points whereas before the patch they had upwards of 500 or more. I honestly do not know how many I had (it was a lot), but glancing at my hero point counter — I now have exactly 213. I honestly don’t know if I lost points. Here is one similar post:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Please-Post-7-28-Bug-Reports-HERE-merged/5329966

Does anyone know if they lost hero points in addition to the display notification bug?

I am seeing a hero point notification on my 80 guardian, every time I zone. I have all traits and skills unlocked, yet I keep getting this notification. Minor, compared to what I am reading on this thread, but it should be corrected at some point.

If you’re a casual player who does both PvE and WvW content, you’re gonna want to get two independent gear sets for these very different play styles. For dungeons and most general PvE content, it’s hard to go wrong with full Berzerkers, but you almost certainly will not use zerk for WvW, unless you’re a solo power roamer. For WvW, the most common gear has probably been Soldiers, with other gear like Knight’s sometimes seen. Now, with the current changes to burning, some people are experimenting with condi gear like Carrion, Dire, Sinister. Not sure about celestial anymore. I think the consensus is that it took a very heavy nerf with the ferocity patch a while back.