Guild Wars 2

Yep error 500 here too … SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!
…. no?
why not?

Ill throw my hat in here,

Also cannot log in … screw it im gonna go get me some lunch.
Hopefully it will be sorted when i get back

I feel you brother,
Im also one that plays for the story.
Im sure SOMEWHERE after release they mentioned they noticed the folly of having to wait so long for something to happen in game and the 9 month wait we had between the end of season 2 and the HoT release was TOO long.

guess they didnt notice hard enough.
i posted a few weeks back that i was looking forward to the release of Season 3 but each week we hear nothing i get a little more hollow inside.
Ive crafted my Meteorlogicus and started on the long slog to make it a legendary.
But other than that im lost for stuff to do in the game.
Ive dabbed my toe into sPVP i still dont like WvWvW and fractals can be frustrating at times unless i wanna run Swamp fractal three times in a row.
Ive almost maxed out my masteries and this was zero farming involved.
(well as little farming as possible)

They could at least wet our appatite .. i thought in the State of Game Adress from earlier in the year that LS:S3 wasnt far away …. come on Colin step it up.

…

Please?

Ahhh that WOULD be awesome.
Sadly i dont see any SAB coming any time soon.

Unless they release it for April Fools.
In its completely unworking state that its in.

that would be one h3ll of an april’s fools joke.
Imagine the salt these forums would have.

Checks GW2 website on his lunch break
See’s an update to the news ticker
See’s that its about Leagues
crys at his desk

The Hurt is real >_<

Oh well … maybe in another fortnight :-(

Like a ninja i wanna duck in and discover their plans … Then return home and semi-paitently wait for implementation.

Just wish Season 3 would hurry up already.
Last story content we got was HoT that was october.

they apologized for the content drought from January-October (10 months)
Now its 4-5 months since content,
We are well on the way to another content drought.

Just some hint of how far away it is would saitiate my thirst lol

Is today supposed to be news day?
I was hoping for some sort of announcement of SOMETHING coming.
Something …. anything… lol

Before i came to work i saw they at least updated the gem store on time :p

Have we had any news or hints when this is going to start up?
I finished my Pre-cursor scavanger hunt on Monday (sunday for you guys)
and now im sorta just milling about wondering what to do.

And i think i saw somewhere that LS-S3 is at least a couple of months away june or july at the earliest i think i saw.

IIRC the only reason Phlunt came to the summit was if we handed over the device.
Im sure Braham said to her we will find another way.
… Ill have to replay that episode again tonight after i finish work and refresh the mind but i came away from that episode thinking well that was a waste of time .. now what do we do?

While it is possible they could answer the Nightmare Court issue post HoT i think my Marjy issue is a little less likely.
Unless she goes all Emo on you for stealing her revenge .. but then … it was her choice to stay behind.

I think its more likely that belinda’s soul sword is going to be dropped … swept under the rug and forgotten.

Taimi had worked out how to stop it .. but then the Kitten from Rata Sum took her invention to be held in escrow till she became of age i thought which ment they were not going us use it? Which is why Taimi went bat%#^& crazy and ran away with the device.

I have one thing that’s been Irking me for a couple of weeks now.

I helped a friend play through Season 2 of the living story and HoT and it became glaringly obvious how rushed (broken record for people i know) the story in HoT’s was.
But one of the things i wanted to know is … why did we leave Marjory behind at the end during the Heart and Minds quest.

With her Sister Belinda imbued in her sword and Marjy’s vow of revenge i would half expect her to be front and centre in helping to kill mordy but both her and kasmeer had little to no involvement in the HoT storyline whatsoever.

Wouldnt it have been better if, you had the choice to bring her with you into mordies mind?
She just stayed behind.
No mention of her revenge or her sister.
Was this plotline just plain forgotten?

Also … while im at it.
Waypoints.
The First half of Season 2 we were all fretting about the waypoint system and how Mordy was attacking our way of travel.
Season 2 midpoint finishes … we have a few waypoints that are Out of Order.

Season 2 starts and again that is the last we heard of it.
the out of order waypoint in lions arch is “fixed” with the Lions Arch update and i cannot recall any other broken ones.

Now i love Guild Wars 2 .. i really do,
In fact (despite the grind) im loving crafting Meteorlogicus and have plans to follow it up with another Legendary journey as soon as im done. I have recently discovered the joy of sPvP despite playing this game since Beta weekend 1 and have a level 80 of every class (minus Ranger and Engineer)

But PUHLEASE A-Net … pay more attention to the threads you weave into your stories.
I think if you were up front and said to people “Hey we really wanna bring you the best story possible, So we need to leave it in the boiling pot just a little bit longer” people would understand … now i will stop my rambling there to see how many people agree/disagree/SABORRIOT.

So in all im looking forward to Season 3 just hope we get more ties to the plots you have already established in game

Happening to me in Lions Arch right now,
Guild is Ultra Lux [LUX] and im on the Sea of Sorrows Server.
Guild interface works fine and i just ported into the guild hall without issue as well.

Happy to see the Shatterer getting a much needed update to put him on par with Tequila.
excited about the new raid even though im yet to finish the first one … my guild is only up to gorsavil. (spelling?)

A Bit disheartened that the living story is still awhile away though.
Im itching to continue the story (since HoT’s story was so short)

But new content is new content and ill be happy to devour it ;-)
Keep up the good work guys.

Yup same problem with me, Go into Cursed Shore and ask the map and they tell me its bugged.
Sent a bug report but I doubt I will see tangible results any time soon

official response on reddit … of course it is

Wolf of the Steppes.6280:

Reinate.7594:

Sintron.6218:

This is garbage.. been over a hour now. We should all be compensated for our time lost..

its a free to play game … estimate how long its going to take .. and go outside nothing is forcing you to stare at the downloader till its done.

Hmm free to play you say? I do believe I payed initially for the game and again for HoT oh and I have bought gem cards. That being said I can do other things while I wait for the download to complete but I would have liked to have been informed that I was BUYING a BETA game when I purchased the expansion. The 32bit client isn’t an option for me. I can’t run it without a crash every 5 minutes so I do hope they fix this soon.

Im the same the 32 bit client crash’s like a B%$# for me, and i paid for this and HoT but im not paying a monthly fee is what i mean … so while i may not get my “moneys worth” today i have the rest of the life of the game to play.
Not paying $18 a month or whatever the subs fee is these days so i dont feel like i should log in every second of every day ot make sure i got my moneys worth

edit
spose BUY to play would have been a more appropriate term

Sintron.6218:

This is garbage.. been over a hour now. We should all be compensated for our time lost..

its a free to play game … estimate how long its going to take .. and go outside nothing is forcing you to stare at the downloader till its done.

Yup … downloading at 0kb/s here too … oh well guess ill kick my feet up on my desk and watch youtube videos about american burgers

Well no crash tonight.
I was waiting for it at the end of Dragons Stand but nothing.
See how it goes over the next couple of nights i guess

OK,

Spent 2 hours doing a memtest,

/sfc Checknow to check windows file integrity

Re-installed the Latest ATI/AMD drivers.

and tried the -repair command for GW2.

lets see how this goes

Right,
Cheers for your help Turamarth.

Ill do a clean re-install the drivers and see if that helps matters before i submit a ticket to support.
Also looking at Dr Google it could be a memory issue as well so ill run some tests on the 16gb of ram i have.

The computer is still under warrenty so if i can fault it i can get a replacement but i only have a short amount of time left on said warranty.

Unsure,
Im at work at the moment … but if thats the cause of the crash that would be an ATI driver issue?
I was looking through the rest of the crash logs and they all seem to appear between 1 hour 10-20 minute mark.

Ill have a closer look at them when i get home but thats 9 hours away -_-

oh ….
in that case then

Crashlog

http://pastebin.com/kGrcdr7u

Crash Report
http://pastebin.com/TP7SBTSQ

DxDiag
http://pastebin.com/GsvFu8iM

Im using the 64 bit client but im still finding myself crashing in Dragons Stand towards the end of the fight.

Is this a known issue?
Using the search function i came up with nothing.

Ive tried lowering my grahpics settings as low as i can go but still finding it crashing every now and again.
Its does not happen EVERY time im in DS but enough to frustrate me especially when you forget to join a team or squad and you cannot get back into the same instance.

I will also miss out on claiming the guild hall with my guild :’(
And i know i will have a great trip … its Disneyworld life long dream this trip is.
an hour to go till i head to the airport

Gryffenne.8639:

ScribeTheMad.7614:

No thanks, WoW is that way ->

WoW is so not grindy. At least they have quests.

NeverRest NeverQuest EverCrack EverQuest was the king of grind.

Never played Everquest.
Aion was one grindy MMO though … hey welcome to level 25 … did you know your next set of quests are at level 30?
Kill mobs here for a couple of days … have fun!

Before you start no im not leaving and no you totally cannot have my stuff :-P
Im from New Zealand and im taking my first overseas holiday in 5 years.
The dates and everything were booked since back in Feburary.

Sadly it co-incided with the Heart of thorns release.
The day it releases ill be at the animal kingdom and spending the night at Halloween Horror nights in Orlando.

Just wishing the Dev team at Anet and all the players a happy smooth rollout of Heart of thorns.
And i will see you all online on the 30’th

i was hoping for something akin to Pitch black … all those Mordrem rampaging around in the dark and the only thing that offers protecting is the campfire lights.
fending off increasingly difficult waves as the darkness closes in and our light starts to falter.

Ive had a shelved necro since I got him to 80.
Ill be dusting that sucker off (as soon as I have played through the expansion as a Sylvari) and I think Necro will become my main.
But then … I will miss my guardian … oh the pain of trying to pick a favorite child >_<

Specializations
•Were they fun?
Of all the ones I played Necro was by far the most fun

•Did they Change how you play your profession in a meaningful way?
Not overly, loved the dragonhunters longbow however, Necro while a powerhouse still felt like the necro … Beserker I felt rather dull, also enjoyed the daredevil despite the animations

•How were the improvements to the previous Specializations? (Dragon Hunter, Tempest, Chronomancer, Reaper)
Didn’t get to play enough during BWE1 to make any reliable judgement.

•Feedback on new specializations, as well as any changes to the old
Beserker just felt like a mess

Creatures
•How is the difficulty of the new hostile mobs, and are they fun and exciting?
The little I played of BWE1 I thought the mobs were harder then they were in BWE2
It might just be me or are we backwards loading in terms of mob difficulty?

World
•With the Opening of two new outposts, we are adding in a bunch of new events. Are they fun? I LOVE THE QUAGGAN COMMANDER!!!! <3

•Do the new events bring you more into the world?
Not overly … go here … kill mordys minions … go collect X

•Are the new events challenging, meaningful, and interesting?
As above

Mastery System
•How is the progression?
I think it runs at a good pace .. I managed to open up at least the first 2 masterys on most of the tracks.

•How is it using the mastery abilities in the current area?
Feels good … wish I could glide everywhere.

•Is the mastery system providing a meaningful area of progression?
I think it does … just be sure to add in more as time goes on for people to work towards.

•Do you care about experience and mastery points?
Yes

•Does it provide a good framework to add more masteries in the future?
Yes

•Do you want to learn as many masteries over time to overcome challenges later in the future?
I like to think the masteries we can eventually have are limitless.

Stronghold PvP
•Feedback on the new UI
I don’t PVP

•Feedback on Stronghold itself
As above

Bugs
•Report and notify any and all bugs using in game system as well as boards. Take screenshots and describe as best as you can

During the last phase of my testing I decided to get all the mastery points and found the one west of bongo’s Bungalow to not notify on the map that I had obtained the point so I flew back to double check that I had indeed gotten that point and its just sitting there greyed out stating that a mastery point was available. (I did Bug report it with a screenie)

Also it irked me that we had a POI next to where we initially spawned in that (as far as I know) was impossible to get.

And under the tree (no spoilers here) was the only updraft I found in the whole area … where there more?

What not to worry about
•Map reward system
Ok I wont.

One last thing I want to mention.
The as best as I can describe it “strobing” sun rays were annoying as all Kitten.
And I found it obstructing my view at times while I sat on a vine and watched people take down the Wyvern.
It looked more like phasing in clouds and I’m sure gave me a headache at one point.

Other then that … it looks like its shaping up to be an amazing expansion pack.
Shame ill be spending that day at Animal Kingdom and the night at Halloween horror nights in Orlando … but I can wait till the end of the week.
Feverishly … but I can wait.

Really?
when I saw the trailer WAY back in January I would have expected it in a couple of months.

not 10 months later.

Especially with pretty much Zero content being added to the game in the mean time.
I thought it was pretty far along from what we saw and short of balancing the new specialisations I thought we are golden(city)…. yes terrible pun.

I don’t think they have rushed this at all … I think they have taken their sweet time with it.

So I just had some questions that never really got explained to me during beta weekend or through the forums here (that I have noticed anywho)

So do specialisations open up for your character @ 80 or am I rushing a thief for nothing?
Also are we going to have lore reasons why these specialisations have appeared?

Will I have to do anything to unlock them or is it a case of 80 BOOM you can now rock a new weapon and run a new trait line.
(I would prefer to do something to unlock it)

Ta to those who answer …

Oh and while I think about it.
I’m From Kiwi land (NZ) and ill be on holiday in America (Orlando) when HoT releases.
CURSE YOU ANET!!!! <3

Yay a release date …. wait a second … kitten ill be in America when it releases NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Gaile Gray.6029:

That definitely is early for you, Reinate. A recording of the presentation will be available in the archive of the channel on which is it presented, so it sounds as if you could catch it later.

Cheers for that Gaile,
I will see what happens but 5:30 on a sunday morning is a criminal time to get up.
Unless they announce Heart of thorns is released NOW (which I seriously doubt) I’m happy to get up say 9am and watch a replay of the stream.

Although I do remember getting up early on the sunday to watch the other pax stream for the Heart of thorns annoucement…. so stranger things have happened.

Morning Gail,
I’m from Nz and just looked up the world clock conversion …. 5:30 on a sunday morning for me … seriously?

I don’t think the body will let me awaken at that time of the morning.
While I will try will you guys be posting the presentation to youtube as soon as its done?

I get the exact same crash as well … never used to happen until a couple of weeks ago.
wish they would fix this … its becoming rather irritating.

Agreed, And also Direct X 11 support so we get higher frame rates please … many thanks

yeah your crash reports look alot like mine lahsihl.
Didnt happen before the last patch.
Im thinking someone broke somfin

just had another crash …. same looking crash report … this time during the Shatterer … again i finished the event and then clicked send report to Arenanet after i got my loot.

Ive been getting crashes as well for the last few days.
Mostly while doing events or JUST after … once in a personal story mission too.

heres the crash report

—> Crash <—
Exception: c0000005
Memory at address 634ce95f could not be written
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 532
Cmdline: -assetsrv 151.249.89.209:80
BaseAddr: 01190000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 51431
When: 2015-08-01T03:20:01Z 2015-08-01T15:20:01+12:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:49:01
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: APOCOLYPSE
IpAddr: 192.168.20.100
Processors: 8 [AuthenticAMD:15:2:0]
OSVersion: Windows 6.2 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 8894MB/16282MB 54%
Paged: 10774MB/19226MB 56%
Virtual: 1226MB/ 4095MB 29%
Load: 45%
CommitTotal: 8451MB
CommitLimit: 19226MB
CommitPeak: 8959MB
SystemCache: 9670MB
HandleCount: 65970
ProcessCount: 104
ThreadCount: 1686

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 2533MB
WorkingSet: 2472MB
PeakWorkingSet: 2475MB
PageFaults: 8450838

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 10.0.10240.16384 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> Error Logs <—
ind projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Model ‘0×082243’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘root’ not found on model ‘0×00d35f’
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Map load hang on STATE_MODELS_STREAM detected: MapId: 34, Position: (-15759.900391, 38290.199219, -40.185600), Completion: 0.000000
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082243’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Model ‘0×082243’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×00d804’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘root’ not found on model ‘0×00d35f’
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082243’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082243’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.

—> DirectX Device Info <—
VendorId = 0×1002
DeviceId = 0×6798
Version = 8.17.0010.1404
Description = AMD Radeon R9 200 / HD 7900 Series
Compat = 0×00000000
VidMem = 4095 MB

Ok you dont have to wait anymore … i have put my pre-order in finally … switch HoT to live now please

Sorry everyone for making you wait, Been saving up for a trip to Orlando (im from New Zealand) so its taken awhile since the announcement to squirrel away that little bit more extra money.

awesome man, Thank you

Well what is different from the Pax version … what the Day/night cycle is like.
Do we get access to our elite specs.
are there more/better challenges then the flamethrower weed eating.
anything and everything really.

While i did get a portal, the beta is due to start in 10 minutes.
I have to go to work shortly cries
So ill be checking here through-out the day to find out what im missing out on so i can cry at work.

So if people can list what we have access to here that would be awesome.

Many thanks in advance guys

There are things in this game that saddens me that didnt carry across from GW1.
Getting elite skills from bosses for example.

I love GW2 mind you and got more then my moneys worth from this game.
Am i saddened about the lack of S.A.B?
Sure, i only got to play the original release so i have never seen World 2.
i would love to have it back as a swap around full time activity but the angry joe interview pretty much left me with the thought that it would not appear any time soon.
When i saw the pets listed in the Black lion chests my hopes got up.
But it was just an Arenanet Troll.

BAD BAD ARENANET
Go sit in the corner and think about what you have done!

Vayne.8563:

The real thing is, for every one of the 30 people who regularly complain on this forum (and I’m pretty sure it’s not 30 but I’m too lazy to count), there are still people playing the game and enjoying it and not complaining. And obviously spending money in the gem store.

This is what drove me to write what i wrote.
The general forums are pretty toxic and im a lurker for the most part.
I love the game and while sure there are things that could be greatly improved i still think its one of the best MMO’s on the market.

Okay first and foremost sorry about the forthcoming wall of text.
And my poor formatting.

I do hope the devs read this.
My original impression of GW2, This game is fantastic … i was dissapointed in the “cut scenes” and the pen-ultimate fight against Zhaitan.
Then came being level 80.

I was one of the very few lucky people to get a pre-cursor from the Kharka event and that held me through from originally getting that to around april as i grinded out all the mats and got map completion and got my crafting up to 400.

After that i was a bit lost with what to do so ran dungeons and the event train in Orr (till that was crushed and i have not returned to Orr since)
as the living story was kicking off i found it hard to follow the story and found myself going to dulfy just to find out what i had to do.
I found myself stopping playing around the the South sun updates and i would poke my nose in occasionally and see whats up.

i started playing again properly around the Origins of madness and still found myself heading to dulfy.

Now that Season 2 has started im grateful that its 90% instance based and is more like a story that i can follow and im sure many others are also grateful.
There is still grinding a plenty for the three people that like to do that but at least now i have a clue at whats going on and i actually feel like part of the story.
The only thing that worry’s me is the length of the seasons.
Are we already at the halfway point for season 2?
if we are so that means we have 2 more months of living story this year?
I dont like the sound of that.

Now with the release of the game in Japan and the sudden hush of the Dev’s due to people QQ’ing at broken promises the one thing i do miss is the “state of game” messages we used to get.

Im sure the good folk at Arenanet are working away and are super busy (god help you if your not) but just some sort of the things we have to look forward to would be greatly appreciated.

I love this game and i know there are many others that feel the same and i look forward to the content you bring us in the future.

Personally im looking forward to more story dungeons, Fractals (to a point)
Coming face to face with Mordy.
More pre-cursors.
The Fabled Pre-cursor Scavenger hunt.
The Eventual Opening of the Crystal Desert.
and the general creation of hell in a hand basket ive come to expect from this game and its constant destruction of Lions Arch.

Much love Arena Net … you still have a fan here.

TL:DR: Despite some foibles Guild wars 2 is still an amazing game.

yeah i came across this too, went and done TA in that view too lol