Guild Wars 2

Seeing how anet has nerfed the dungeon rewards to oblivion and fractals aren’t even half as rewarding, how am I supposed to make gold nowadays? I usually only have like 10 gold in my wallet, barely any dungeon tokens left and I just don’t know what to do anymore since running dungeons has no sense anymore. Is chestfarming Silverwastes (which sin’t that rewarding either) the only way to go?

So, thanks to my friends who helped me gather a ridiculous amount of crafting materials needed to get Scribe to level 75, I finally got to see the tier 2 recepies. What I discovered however, is that one of the very basic components that is needed for T2 crafting is impossible to acquire: Namely, the recepie for Resonating Fragment is missing from the list, nor can it be discovered. The description states that it can be crafted by Scribes from Resonating Slviers, but there is simply no way to do so.

Healix.5819:

If you’re copy/pasting what the support page says, you’ll need to put -diag (your second example) instead of –diag (your first example).

Instead of using a shortcut, you can also simply enter the path directly into a folder’s address bar. For example, if Gw2.exe is located under C:\Games\Guild Wars2\, enter C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe -diag

If you do not know where it is, simply right click the shortcut and select open file location (or properties, then open file location under the shortcut tab)

That fixed it, many thanks!

Nate Anabe.6091:

Did you put a space after the last quote mark.
ex: Gw2.exe" -diag and not Gw2.exe"-diag

Yes I did.

I was trying to to fix my enormous ping today so I took a look at the Connectivity guide ( https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/27698133-Connectivity ) for Windows 7 and I discovered that no matter which method I try I can’t start the gw2 diagnostic.
I created a shortcut, named it “Guild Wars 2 Diagnostic” (without the quotation marks), changed the Target so that it ends with ‘Gw2.exe" –diag’ and when I double clicked it the game itself still launched.
I also tried going through the Start menu (as explained in https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments ), but whenever I entered ‘gw2.exe -diag’ it would just search for every file with “gw2” in its name.
I really want to run the dignostic, are there any other methods to do it?

I thought Anet reworked some of the missions, or at least made them less buggy, but I’m still stuck at Froging the Pact because of the same old glitch where you’re supposed to find survivors. Any ideas how to fix this?

What’s happening with the racial skills?

From what Roy said in the stream’s chat, I know that racial skills will stay in game, but I was wondering what exactly will be happening to them once the skill unlocking changes (which will work like reward tracks) hit.

So what exactly were they doing in Silverwastes (other than put giant, magical door there)? Will we be seeing more of them in HoT? Will things like the krait orb from Fort Trinity also make return?

Out of curiosity, wasn’t it said earlier that Rangers will be getting Staff for their Druid specialization, that will be also focused around healing and support? What will happen to this since Revenant is getting the Ventari legend? Will there be any reason to not pick one over another?

I was just wondering this, will Charr, Asura and other races get their forums back? I don’t think it’s fair that every race got their forums taken away solely byecause Sylvari had problems with people disliking them.

So keep things short, I’ve been waiting over 3 hours next to Halla Corpseflayer on a rather lively flow, and “Enrage Risen and lure them to fight Halla Corpseflayer” hasn’t started even once. The reason I and many others are waiting for it is the Brewmaster collection, which can’t be completed without an item that she sells after the event is finished.
Is the interval between events 24 hours long, or is it actually bugged and cant’ start at all?

I’d really like to hear some feedback from Anet relating this bug, I’m not even sure if they read most of the threads here. At least they could temoprarly remove the item from treasure hunter and add it back once they fix the event.

Sir Evos.5836:

Same here. Doing the treasure hunter achievement and been waiting for over a week for a non bugged broken spit event.

I wonder if it’s even possible to find a non-bugged replicator event since the patch.

After you defeat all the undead in Fort Trinity and the cutscene ends, the dialogue between my character and Trahearne had no sound. The subtitles appeared and the dialogue proceeded normally, except none of the characters’ voices could be heard.

So during the evacuation (last mission of the quaggan mission chain) after the first wave of icebrood arrives, the evacuation bar doens’t progress and the mission can’t complete. I’ve tried looking around the area for some trapped icebrood but I can’t find any.

Usually I have 3 chat tabs open which are named “Main” (/say, /map, /team, NPCs and emote), “Party” (/party, /whisper and emotes) and “Guild” (just /guild ). My problem is that, except for “Main”, none of the tabs flash or even turn red when a new message arrives. I have tried turning on and off that option multiple times but it doesn’t help at all.
The bug has been occuring since the patch that had broken guild chat and you had to set your status to invisible and back to type in it.

Considering how there seems to be no one who would be satisfied with the name, I’m surprised Anet hasn’t bothered changing the kitten thing.

I was wondering, consider how you have to unlock each type of skills through what seems like a reward track – will racial skills be removed?

So, I tried restarting this mission 4 times already and the issue is always the same: After I broke the pen gate, I killed all the hostile Svanir, but there is always one or two that stay friendly no matter what happens. Considering I can’t kill them, I also can’t complete the objective “Kill the Sons of Svanir.”. What should I do?

As we can see on the map (at least until we discover Dry Top and Silverwastes), in the place where these areas are there’s something that looks like a mountain range that ends with a circle/spiral, but there is nothing of that sort in either Dry Top or Silverwastes . What was originally planned in that area?

I have to ask, will I be able to prepurchase the expansion using Paypal?

Ever since the patch that originally broke the guild chat (you had to change you status to see it), the “Flash on unread messages” option has been broken for me. No matter how many times I uncheck and check it, the tab won’t flash red and stay white no matter how many new messages are there. Is there any way to fix this?

I’m stuck at the “Search area for survivors” part. Even though I killed all the enemies and both Trahearne and Crusader Afanen (and obviously my character) are in the marked area, the mission does not progress. I tried redoing the mission, but the same bug has occured.

Just a side question, since our character “already knew” the name of Mordremoth, do we also knwo then ame of the Deep Sea Dragon? How is it called?

Could anyone tell me the name of music that plays throughout that mission (where you walk through the vision of Orr made by the Pale Tree)? It also plays in Crucible of Eternity Explorable mode, and yet I can’t find it anywhere in the OST.

Well, perhaps it’s not a bug but it really bothers me that feet on the smallest body type are just as big as on the bulkiest one. Shouldn’t they scale (that is, be properly smaller) with the rest of the body? Right now they make all boots look a bit like clown shoes. I’m looking forward to see that changed, though as odd as it is, maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be in Anet’s eyes.

Eh, the only problem I have with LS is that every single (more manly) male seems to be voiced by Braham. I do miss the old voice actors, but I suppose it’s not possible/would be more expensive to bring them back so I’m just going to have to sit through slightly different tones of Rox’s and Braham’s voices.

Jaken.6801:

Acording to Angel it makes sense: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/Interesting-things-in-Scarlet-s-Room-Spoilers/4193104

Since it was not the future, but a possible one, Scarlet could still have created them now.

Yeah, a bit wonky and feels like a retcon (even more, after we speculated this topic so much as we realized that Scarlet was using the watchworks, which work similiar to the steam creatures… ), but it makes sense to a certain agree and keeps the whole thing “simple”

On the other hand it something else we put in Scarlets greedy genius hands, but who counts at this point anyway?

I guess you’re right. I was just a little more annoyed than usual because it was my favourite personal story chain and I’d prefer if Scarlet stayed away from it (especially after her death).

RedStar.4218:

Scarlet. And our evil self lied. That’s going to be one of the explanations you’re going to get (if not the only one).

Eh, expected as much. I mean, before Scarlet nobody even thought about him/her lying because it made sense, but nope, our very genius villain (and I won’t be surprised if Taimi goes all “She did nothing wrong”) was more important.

What annoys the most is that they remind me of kittens. Just take this dialogue for example, or how they think that their way of thinking aka “balance” is far too complicated for other races to understand (except for Sylvari which seem to be special in every way possible).

So the writing doesn’t seem to care too much about lore consistency (or perhaps they thought that Scarlet as such a brilliant character is more important than the Asura personal story mission chain), and they stated thta it was Scarlet who invented the Steam creatures. Meanwhile in the Asura PS story with the Infinity Ball (which is still available to this day), the evil version of playable character says that it was him/her who invented them in the first place and used them to conquer Tyria. At first I was okay with that, because I thought that Infinity Ball shows parallel universe, until I remembered about a tiny, very important detail: It’s not a different universe, it’s a possible future of the current one (aka the one where scarlet and our character lives). So where do Steam creatures come from?

Here’s a picture of the fountain

So recently I finally checked out the are where the right path leads when you chose to go up. I discovered an area called Weta Alcove that had a small plant-like fountain in it. I was wondering, was it planned to be part of one of the paths? What was the purpsoe of the place?

I’m pretty sure the note said literally “They do not consume” but I guess I’ll have to look for a screenshot first then

I must admit due to a misunderstanding I was needlesly angry at the writers, so this time I’ll just ask here to get this explained:

In Asura storyline (in missions Test Subject/Field Test to be precise), Gorr proves that his theory (which says that dragons consume magic) is right. Then, in the Pact storyline in What the Eye Beholds Scholar Vivian behaves like if that didn’t happen and the dialogue goes:

Professor Gorr: (gasp) Did you see that? Zhaitan’s agent just consumed a powerful magical artifact!
Scholar Vivian: I saw it, Professor. Your theory is now a confirmed fact. But what was that creature?

But in the notes I saw in Scarlet’s room it said somethign among the lines that dragons don’t consume magic but store it and I don’t really understand that. Does that mean Gorr’s theory wasn’t right after all?

I need help, which beard would fit “Norn sage” the best?

Sylvari would be quite good (seeing how a lot of Nightmare Courtiers are mesmers), Asura also have quite a lot of potential (outsmarting everyone + they research a lot of magic, especially chaos magic), and lastly humans, who have a godess that gave them chaos magic in the first place

Actually I have a question about historical dungeon. Before Twilight arbor got changed to have the aetherpath (because appareantly only Arah is allowed to have 4 paths), Fyonna’s Path was forward/up. But where did up/up lead? Who was the final boss of that path?

Scrribble.7496:

Yep! The attachment should be 1440 × 900, unless the forum shrinks them.

Isn’t that the Story Mode loading screen though? Or did explorable and stor yshare the same one at the time?

Not much about the gameplay, but does anyone have the old explorable path loading screen saved? The one that was before Caithe and Lionguard

I absolutely loved it the first time I heard it, but I couldn’t find it anywhere in the official soundtrack. Would anyone be willing to help me find it?

The cutscene I’m talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgANe5mWubE

If you do a personal story mission that ends with a choice to make (missions branching out) and the instance owner picks option 1, will other party members also get the option to choose?
If not, what happens if there are multi-race parties and the instance owner picks a lesser race to befriend that isn’t available to others?

Hello, I’m wondering where I could find the original, unchanged “battle” playlist (the one used for custom soundtracks, in order to change it you put files in My documents -> Guild Wars 2 -> Music). Could any of you help?

Hello, I’d like to ask if any of you could tell me the title of song that plays in Asura Personal Story mission “A Bold New Theory”, when the announcer says that Professor Gorr is dead. You can also hear it in many other moments (not just Asura missions), but this is the only one that comes to my mind. I tried looking through OST from other Guild Wars games yet I can’t find it anywhere.

Does it still work? Some of my guildmates say it doesn’t and I can’t afford 1800 gems to do it the normal way.

So I finally got to CoF, and fortunatly unlike in Sorrow’s Embrace, I saw lots of players. After asking few of them I realised all of them are looking for explorable mode parties, and I’m the only one looking for story mode party. What happened? Did I miss the moment when everyone was doing story mode and now I’m just behind the times?

It seems like this dungeon has disappeared from almost every player’s memory, and noone except these few (un)lucky people visits it. Ohh… What a beautiful day. And here I am trapped in a prison of loneliness, waiting for any players to come. So, if anyone of you who lives inside of “Ring of Fire” and would like to help me with story mode for this dunegon feel free to join me

Hello ladies and gentlemen. I would like to ask if anyone of you knows how to extract gw2 soundfiles? I would really appreciate if any of you could give me extracted soundfile of Plaguebringer’ roar (the one that applies fear)