Guild Wars 2

What would you tell a computer illiterate Guild Wars 2 is about?

As someone suggested ingame, i’ve decided to use the lvl 60 backpack to get the stats i want. As far as i know this is the only workaround to an unjustifiable overlook. Actually no, you don’t code the correct stats for a lower tier backpack then code the wrong ones or the upper one, you use the same ones. They MEANT it to be like this.

Why? because Anet…

Connection error detected, Retrying

Anet fails again, and i didn’t even see patch yet.

If you have trouble in zergs you could A: use the “default ennemy model” at the bottom of the game options, or B: set model quality to lowest. Everyone will look like the default class/race combo, it will model the weapons and the backs, that’s about it. It frees a LOT of different textures as every texture of the zerg has to be loaded before it can swap around which one it’s showing.

Other than that i would say play with your gfx settings. I’ve found textures are the heaviest setting on there along with model quality.

It had an error message. I’m thinking the Anet server was not available at the time. Try again later?

From what i read the code needed to be scratched and you’re missing a digit.

Did you scratch all of it?

My first move would be to blame a wifi connection. Anyone using a microwave around can positively kill your signal as can other things.

I would guess setting textures and environment to low would make it load faster.

Other than that play with the graphic settings and use your head for a tailored solution.

I think there’s an android app for securing an account. There would prolly be an iTunes store app too.

It is bad practice to give your cd-key over email for ANY reason. If they have that, you might be better off buying another account and transfer what can be, for peace of mind.

Just from what you said (i have no clue), i would say you are using a wifi connection and your neighbor is using a microwave at very bad times. Network hangs can cause fps hickups as they use udp bullkitten.

Ither than that you could run “resmon” and check what could be using ressources in the background.

Run Malware checks just for the hell of it. If you don’t regularly you should. And since you seem to have issues i would do it in safe mode.

Hope this helps.

I learned today login reward chests are awarded to the loged on char, not the account. You deleted the chest with the ranger.

It would read at the bottom “not from staff”

Anet likes to use udp protocols. It means your data comes in scrambled, some routers filter that. You may want to double check your Advanced router’s firewall options. Google them if you don’t know what it does.

Yes, the lvl 78 exotic weaponsmith back.

Edit: Sorry for the slow response, i waited a while then went back to gaming.

I’m making a valkyrie set to try. Made a weaponsmith backpack but i can’t pick valkyrie. Any reason why?

“Anet does not support linux”…
Yes thank you, you’ve been very helpful, go have a cookie in the corner now.

Now, I’ve managed to make GW2 run on linux doing a lot of research and testing. One thing bothers me still though, I can’t mouse look 360 degree. Capping mouse speed it will do a lil over 180 but then it hits a wall untill i mouse up then back down.

I’m wondering if anyone else is running a linux client and managed to fix this one?

Reading the mac error topics it’s a lot like the linux bugs…
-“Launcher launching problems” were solved by launching the game in a virtual desktop.
-Patcher had known issues with crashing ever 10k files or so. No fix, just crash and resume.

Not asking for help on those, just stating some errors are very alike.

I would so very much like opengl for the pc client but eh…. Anet.

/rambling

For the mouse thing, anyone?

I realise the escort dailies scale with participant numbers, but they don’t scale high enough. By the time it’s called out and people get there, it’s either finished or the spawned mobs dry like water on summer pavement. I mean champions or something…

This is not about pvp this is about a possible hack.

I want to know if there is a possible explenation to this. A guy crit me about 10 times in a row. I looked for such hacks (not to hack) but i didn’t find it. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist…

I actually looked everywhere. And i mean i found out there was pvp, not WvW (i thought it was the same). I never really payed any attention to the top menu and there was no key bound for it.

Point being there is no way to get the mentionned panels after logon. (Daily layout with the categories and the monthly activity panel). Working as intended?

I actually saw the update comming from the login article. On it there were a few interfaces for the new dailies but i don’t see them ingame. When/Will we, get those panels?

Also when will the logon tracker be functionnal for laurels?

Yoroiookami.3485:

Umm…I’m not sure what do you mean by your first question. And yes, I would love some housing. (Especially if we can use sylvaris as our plants).

I meant to ask if you were willing to buy gems with real money or not. I know i bought some character slots and a bank expansion tab but i also know some people can’t or won’t pay real money for a game after the initial purchase.

I don’t know what the state of the discussion is on that topic but i was wondering about housing. I figured a portion of the player base could be interested in that feature if it was developed and it could be something to develop on the gem store.

Which brings me to these two questions:
-Would you consider paying real money on the gem store?
-Would you be interested in a housing feature?

Was there ever any discussion about creating exotic or ascended cooking recipes?

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

No, there’s really not. There’s just not that many Exotics of value against the list . . . complete list . . . of ones which are “worthless” on the market.

How DARE you make sense on the internets?

Apparently, universal isn’t universal enough when it comes to backpacks. I looked through the wiki because SOMEONE didn’t bother to label what upgrades the backpacks took. I figured nothing was specific to it so i would have to use an universal one. Apparently i can’t use a crest of the soldier in the stupid backpack but i could pick it as a mod. It wasn’t -universal- enough for the heavy thinkers. God knows they will never go back on a decision or admit they’re wrong though. Fixing stuff is against their principles or something.

So yeah… Everyone, you have to use an unrefined gemstone in the backpacks. Cuz

“You probably don’t understand” how putting 4 exotics would give you… AN EXOTIC!

Exotics have different values on the market and there are a LOT of variants out there. I figured if it did not discriminate against the value of the input, there would be a fair chance to get something more expensive.

Now i did not realize i wouldn’t make a profit even if, but i did find out there’s a bit of extra code preventing you to make profit many times on a row.

“We aim for the widest possible number of machines”…

Glorious, full proof…

Except your “wide array” of machines excludes anything not running windows. Mac runs OpenGl. Linux runs OpenGl.

Care to redefine your concept of the widest array possible? I don’t understand it.

No. Simply because the forge has to go by some rules. It is my understanding you put in 4 of something, you get something of the same kind. That’s the concept.

For the forge to actually discriminate against what is trendy or valuable, someone paid for that code to be written, it sure as hell didn’t write itself.

To make a gold sink is one thing, but to label it as a lottery is another.

I had a simple idea, buy some junk exotics, toss them in the forge, get a normal one. That was before i did the math and realized even then i would not make a profit. What happened next is interesting. Out of my 4-5 tries ONE of the items was selling on sell order above 1 gold.

Now i don’t know about you but i did some statistics in college and unless you are meant to only get junk exotics from that, the dices are fixed. An algorithm based on the marked value of the output or something.

Harny.6012:

Hell doesnt exist.

Hell isn’t real… But it exists, otherwise you would not know about it.

Anyway i get the whole idea that pvp is pvp and stuff like that, i hear that. However those fragments have to come from somewhere. Dungeons are just harder than to follow a train and fight with another colliding zerg once in a while. Then there’s the community: the bad players and the elitists. Also i used 2k fragments for my set. That would be a lot of world chests.

I was running Edge Of The Mist for fragments to complete my armors (which i did, yay), and i came across something new to me. We got farmed. It became obvious anywhere the train went, there would be a zerg there waiting for us. People explained it thinking there was a spy doing this to annoy people.

While this is bad karma and you’ll go to hell for it, not much can be done about it. I’m just wondering, does he get anything out of this? Besides annoyed peoples? And is it common?

I did some research about directX11 and all i found was a statement dating around the end of beta mentionning: “Anet aims for the widest array of machines therefore they won’t be adapting for DX11”.

I would like to point out windows runs DX and opengl as well. Also my researchs tell me mac is opengl only and i would like to point out linux is opengl only and suffers a lot in performance from the dx9 adaptation.

Sure, suggestion = no is most cases… Doesn’t make them right.

Alright, i’ll go do the dishes and see what else i can come up with them…

I have a level 80 and a number of alts on the backburner i don’t feel like leveling. I probably should be doing WvW for fragments but it doesn’t seem fun. I’m just bad at dungeons. I do the world bosses daily but it’s getting to be a bit redundant and i’m crafting for profit daily.

Is it just time for me to move on? I don’t have a year here yet…

Turns out you can’t just drop a profession, you have to replace it. There are 8 classes so we need 16 professions. Get working Anet.

It was a rethorical question. At this point i think Anet is ran by a mad skritt…

Thanks.

Removing the hint system though? What possible benefit could there be to it?

I can’t find the ingame help, did this sorry lot remove it? What are they thinking? Like uh, help is confusing for new players so let’s remove it? Asian shareholder nonsense?

ANYWAY, how do i quit a profession if at all possible. I have 2 tailors and i would like to drop tailoring on the lowest if possible.

I read someplace that pieces of the personal story were removed in September’s patch, that much seems confirmed.

I was wondering if there was any plans to reintroduce them as a bug fix? Or is that a false rumor/hope?

I think i understand the intention. They wanted to fix the trait system and make the game all better. However doing so they rushed the players.

A good trait system is nice to have if you don’t have one. If you have one minor changes or new traits can be interesting. But it’s not what it’s about…

It’s really about the week old account with his level 5 ranger who crafted his first bow with mats he gathered. This player will be playing for a while still. The 2 year veteran with all classes to 80 is burnt out and logs in just to hang with his guild crowd. He might be quitting you anytime for the next minecraft. Any hopefully you’ll replace him with 2 week old accounts because he’ll tell people there about the fun he had in Guild Wars 2.

I see, one of those case where it was not broken and they fixed it anyway?

Well they’re sortof like passive skills from what i understand. Was there anything actually broken with the old trait system?

Was it too complex? Was it abused?

What was the apparent problem with it?

You will excuse me for saying so but there is, or was, an employe of anet in my alliance. I heard, not from him but from a guildie, that the developers had a problem.

This hypotetical problem would be that they’re told how to develop the game, against their best judgement sometimes.

I do not have detailed information as i was not part of the conversation but i can’t just put this aside. If there is someone else calling the shots, i feel the devs should go in damage control mode. Traits changes, NPE changes… Those were very sudden, no brutal moves for the players. That is why they rejected them.

I would like to suggest that in the case where my suspicions were right, and the devs have to answer to a higher up, they request that the question is debated by their team.

What i mean is this: Boss X says to Dev Y, remove key farming by scrapping the personnal story until level 10. Dev Y then goes: why? Boss X goes just do it. Dev Y goes: no. Boss X goes: what?! Dev X goes: you will tell me what the problem is and we will fix it how we see fit, IF we see fit. Boss X dies of a heart attack. Boss XY goes: ok.

This is all just a theory.

I was checking out the dev thread on traits. I read the begining of it seeing how people were not ready for a sudden system change and demanded a rollback.

Why was there a change in the first place?

I’ll reply to your title: Is the game worth getting into now?

I enjoy it. I have a level 80 with maxed weaponsmithing and leatherworking. Currently working on another character, trying to develop what the game has to offer to the maximum.

That was me, now for you…

Do you have a history of dropping games a lot? If so why did you drop the other ones? Too hard? Too long to max level? Not enough endgame content? Any of those would put you in a class where you would go for the “best build”, doing the “best things”, just like everyone else. If that is the case, which it may or may not be, you wouold find that there is very little content that you will find relevant and you would burn through that very quickly.

That however would be true for any game. Play the game a little, try to develop your own way of playing it.

I get the impression you would be interested to know the cookie cutter build? Isn’t that ele or warrior? You see a lot of those on the guild rooster.

I’m getting used to this NPE, but it’s very different. The angry mobs here will probably only rage at the slight change anyway so that doesn’t hold much value to me.

My guild is going through a heavy rotation. Key players quit and it created a domino effect. I’m told we could still fill over 2 guilds with our remaining active players. AARM is an alliance of 3 guilds.

I wrote about this because i feel it applies to the game too. The rotation part. You are going to lose players that can’t be avoided. It’s not about the ones you lose, it’s about the ones you get to replace them. You have to interest those players and keep them hooked for the longest time possible. They are going to quit eventually too but the longer they stay, the better your success.

I hear there is a patch for halloween, what are you planning for the game?

Just one thing i thought of: This isn’t about the crafting of an ascended equipment. It’s about the value of crafting said equipment to begin with. Doing so should be a possible way to spend endgame and this thread is about the rewards. Not about the damask prices.

I think, to protest, i won’t be using my ascended weapon anymore. I’ll keep it in case it gets patched, same with my ongoing damasks and elonian leathers, but i’ll keep it at that.