Guild Wars 2

I don’t really understand why ArenaNet implemented Soulbeast.

It will be a disappointment for all the rangers that want to get rid of their pet as that is clearly not what the specialization is meant for. You have to swap in and out Soulbeast so you still need a pet.

I don’t understand what the logic is behind the pet archetypes. For example the three devourers are all in a different archetype. The carrion devourer will give you more condition damage and precision. The whiptail will give you more vitality and concentration and the lashtail will give you more power and ferocity. The only difference between these three are the way poison is used (the first two) or bleed is used instead of poison.
I guess my carrion devourer will get a rest as condition damage is useless for my build. Time to change to whiptail (for the poison) or lashtail to get the power and ferocity for my power LB build. Or simply forget about the Soulbeast.

I will do some more tests today to see if I can get the specialization to work for me.

I am guild leader of The Descendants of Gwen [Gwen], We have 200 members, 50 very active, 87 have been on-line in the last week. We allow members to be member of several guilds.

I am surprised by the hatred against the idea of OP to give guild leaders the ability to tick a box allowing or disallowing members to multi Guild? It would just be an option available to the guild leader, not something that should be mandatory.

ArenaNet did not make a lot of QoL improvements to guilds in the last five years. The improvements to guild chat were good, but beyond that little has been done. The tools available to a guild leader to administer a guild are poor. The attention ArenaNet recently has given to guilds is almost non-existent.

I welcome any discussion about guilds here on the forum. Anything that makes ArenaNet realizes guilds still exist and are in need of some care. Maybe this idea isn’t great, but the hatred I see in this topic is not justified.

I am at a loss at what ArenaNet is trying to achieve with Unidentified gear. I still got normal trash loot (some blues, some greens) so it doesn’t replace trash loot. I had a few rares in my inventory before I opened some Unidentified gear at a Hearts vendor, so rares do still drop in some way.

At the moment I do gamble somewhat with my loot. I salvage blues and some greens. A few greens I sell, the rest goes into the Mystic Forge in the hope I get a rare out of it. Rares I sell on the TP if the price is good, otherwise I salvage them with a mystic salvage kit for a chance on one or more ecto’s. So this new Unidentified gear is not going to make my life easier. I still can gamble, but now I have to go to a hearts vendor (do the heart) and pay to identify an item. If it is a green I still have to go to the MF, if it is a blue I am still going to salvage it and if it is a rare I still have to check the price on the TP.

To me Unidentified gear seems to be an inconvenience item. I don’t understand why ArenaNet thinks it is a good idea to add it to an expansion. I want QoL improvements, not something that makes it more complicated and annoying.

On a side note: I am not so sure mounts will be so great. Yes, it was fun riding on a raptor. But there is only one WP in the map. Getting to anywhere outside the city means taking a ride on your mount. If mounts mean we will loose the convenience of WP’s I don’t think they are an improvement to the game

AegisRunestone.8672:

usnedward.9023:

AegisRunestone.8672:

Gaile Gray.6029:

AegisRunestone.8672:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Gaile Gray.6029:

AegisRunestone.8672:

Um… can someone, a dev or mod, clarify the minimum space requirements? It says 50 GB. Is that for all the current content?

Right now, GW2 is about 29.4 GB for its GW2.dat file (and I have HoT). I only have about 32 GB of space left on my computer… Do I actually need 50 more GB or is the 50 GB including at least the core game?

That is an excellent question. I’ll check for you.

And the answer is, the 50 GB is for everything, not in addition to what’s already in use. Thanks for asking — it’s worth knowing in case others wonder about it.

Crap… I don’t want to uninstall 50% of my other games. Can’t afford a larger SSD yet.

Defrag! <— meant as a joke.

Since I started PC gaming in the 80s, I totally understand what you’re saying. (My first hard drive was 40 MB, and that was considered well above average!) Maybe get an inexpensive external storage device and move a few things there?? Best of luck!

My family’s first hard drive had… like 12 MB on it. We were like “how are we EVER going to fill that?” XD

And sorry, I misread. Actually, I DO have the space for PoF. Especially since I just uninstalled a game I haven’t played… at all since I got it. I have 48 GB open.

It’s kinda moot, though, I’m not getting PoF until I have a source of income, and well, if I want a 500 GB Samsung SSD (I currently have their 250 GB one)… that will require a source of income as well. :p

usnedward.9023:

Gaile Gray.6029:

AegisRunestone.8672:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Gaile Gray.6029:

AegisRunestone.8672:

Um… can someone, a dev or mod, clarify the minimum space requirements? It says 50 GB. Is that for all the current content?

Right now, GW2 is about 29.4 GB for its GW2.dat file (and I have HoT). I only have about 32 GB of space left on my computer… Do I actually need 50 more GB or is the 50 GB including at least the core game?

That is an excellent question. I’ll check for you.

And the answer is, the 50 GB is for everything, not in addition to what’s already in use. Thanks for asking — it’s worth knowing in case others wonder about it.

Crap… I don’t want to uninstall 50% of my other games. Can’t afford a larger SSD yet.

Defrag! <— meant as a joke.

Since I started PC gaming in the 80s, I totally understand what you’re saying. (My first hard drive was 40 MB, and that was considered well above average!) Maybe get an inexpensive external storage device and move a few things there?? Best of luck!

I play GW2 from a portable HDD via USB3 cable when I travel. Never an issue since thru-put. So there’s that too

But is it as fast as an SSD? (Because I do have a good External Hard Drive I could put GW2 on)

No issues but running a GTX 4GB video iCore 7 32 GB memory so no…no issues. can’t compare to SSD because I never had one. I am sure though would be a little faster.

Okay, question: if I installed GW2 onto my external hard drive, would the screenshots still go to the (User)/Documents/Guild Wars 2/Screens folder?

Yes they will.

I was able to “purchase” the expansion in the gem store (I wait with buying until the preview weekend in 10 days). I didn’t bought it but was able to get to the confirmation page in the gem store. So that is an alternative for the website that seems to work.

I still get the same error as OP posted (but in Dutch) on Firefox. Pasting http://81.21.151.214/store/gw2/en_IE/html/pbPage.pathoffire/themeID.4785548100 directly in the address bar opens the buy page. A few clicks later Firefox throws an error because the certificate is not valid for https://81.21.151.214 (only valid for buy.guildwars2.com). That last error makes sense.

So for me nothing is solved.

edit: I did restart Firefox without addons, so it should be the vanilla experience. I never had this issue with any other site. I did log on to my profile for another game that uses a redirect without a problem today (using Steam to identify on a third party game site). I think this is a specific GW2 issue.

I have the same problem with Firefox, I cannot open the buy page. The same error. I have not changed networking settings in Firefox so it should be standard. I restarted Firefox in safe mode to disable any add-on that could interfere but still can’t access the buy page. So no buying the expansion for me until this is solved.

I think it was a timing issue. TP is working for me too, got all the items I tried to buy. That is not so good news for my guild mate who tried to buy an item several times. But I am glad TP is back.

TheQuickFox.3826:

[I already sent in a ticket about this]

[Stressed]

I cancelled a buy-order on The Bifrost [Legendary Staff] and did not get my gold back while the buy-order is gone. I’m missing 2557 gold and one copper.

That sucks. There seems to be a TP problem at the moment. I could not buy anything. I hope they can find your order back

I tried to buy something after 2 guild mates asked me if the TP worked for me. Got an error message. I could collect my gold from earlier sells and I did put two new items on the TP. So it partly worked for me.

edit: Error message is that the game client is unable to access the login server. I will try
what happens if I change maps.

edit2: Changing maps still works, so probably an isolated network problem.

It looks like this loyalty pip will be a disappointment for me. I play since the pre-release on the same server. Mostly PvE but also some WvW almost every day. But based on the number of pips I got yesterday not enough to get 100 pips every week. And yesterday was a day off from work so I had more time to play WvW.

Let me say that this implementation was not what I expected from a server loyalty pip. Maybe try to communicate better next time? Oh, we are talking about ArenaNet, communication is difficult for them as we all know.

Maybe I should just stop making forum posts about poorly implemented and communicated features

Same problem for me. Please solve this, I am not going to do that stupid fight again.

There are definitely some issues with the trading post. But I am not on US East Coast but in The Netherlands. So I don’t think the TP errors has anything to do with US East Coast.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Aerlen — Please read the notes for our update this evening. I think you will be pleased. Thanks.

I don’t think any of the changes in the updates so far invalidates the points OP made. Maybe you (or someone else from ArenaNet) can address them?

I am still able to finish the LS3 story chapters, but I do agree with most of the points OP made. The difficulty of new story content did change a lot with HoT and I can’t say I like it too much.

I think this chapter would have been the best new content since HoT (including HoT!) was it not for Friend of the Forest (see another post why I think that). But the second part of the boss fight in the story is made artificiality hard (and rather uninteresting).

OGDeadHead.8326:

Rose Solane.1027:

I think the main problem with this fight is that it is not an interesting one.

Won’t argue against that.

Rose Solane.1027:

We think the fight is doable with 5 to 10 deaths. We are all very experienced players, some of us even complete raids (not my thing). I think we are amongst the better players in the game (top 10% I guess). I think a story instance where experienced players die 5 to 10 times is too difficult.

So you say you’re probably among the top 10% in this game, and yet you on average die 5-10 times in this encounter. I mean – really?

Yes Maybe I underestimate the level that players have.

I did the encounter once. I probably will not die as much if I did it again. But, why should I? As I said, it isn’t an interesting fight. And I don’t think that repeating a rather uninteresting fight just to learn from it is fun, or something I should do in the game.

One of the my guild mates did it as an elementalist. That made the fight easier (according to her) so I was surprised to hear that she also died a few times.

To be positive: This fight isn’t the worst boss fight in the history of GW2. I think it is amongst the better ones. I simply don’t like most boss fights much

Completely useless on my Mesmer, very good on my Guardian, not great on my Ranger. It made the already god-like downstate of the Guardian (and Ranger) even stronger. And didn’t do anything for the Mesmer that could use some help in downstate. So I have my doubts about the implementation of this skill.

I think the main problem with this fight is that it is not an interesting one. I did it earlier today. And discussed it with some guild mates. One of them finished it before any patch, another member just finished it minutes before we talked about it. We think the fight is doable with 5 to 10 deaths. We are all very experienced players, some of us even complete raids (not my thing). I think we are amongst the better players in the game (top 10% I guess). I think a story instance where experienced players die 5 to 10 times is too difficult.

None of us liked the fight. The room is too small to do anything interesting. It is basically a matter of throwing a lot of bloodstone fragments to the boss and to the mobs. And you do that for 15 minutes, die a few times and then you finish it. Was it fun? No. Will we do it again? Probably not, unless we need to help a friend or guild member.

At least it worked (I am looking at some boss fights in S2 that where bugged half of the time). I didn’t hear anyone in my guild about bugs in this fight. But I really hope ArenaNet is going to make more interesting boss fight. The boss fight in the previous episode wasn’t great either.

Last boss fight is not fun. The room is too small. Spoke with a few guild mates and we all agree that is was doable with 5 to 10 deaths, but that it wasn’t fun.

Edited after more play time:
I still don’t really like trampling centaur and there are a lot of them in Watchtower Cliffs. But they fit the map. I like the map!

Friend of the Forest event is horrible. Competing in open world PVE against other players is why I don’t play other MMO’s. I want to play with others, not against others (in PVE). I don’t understand how this event made it into the patch. It doesn’t belong in GW 2.

I still think this could have been the best episode of S3 so far. But I don’t want to see an event like Friend of the Forest ever again in GW2. Because it made me almost quit the game. So the verdict is not positive

The new node in the home instance in Hoelbrak looks like a petrified node, not really a jade crystal. Wrong model? Or place holder? Oh, and the name is ((782470)), place holder too?

The node gave me jade shards. Which (as expected) doesn’t have a place in the material storage. Where there not plans to do something about all these materials that cannot be send to the material storage? I am going to need to get another bag slot for all my characters to hold all these materials

Etienne.3049:

Spurnshadow.3678:

What? Those are all dramatically different. The only thing that you posted that’s the same is 321 and 15,10,5

BTW, guys, you can never have 210 cause that would drop the bottom server, if it’s very weak and almost never places 2nd, off the glicko chart.

If it leads to the same outcome (that is, which position the servers end) I can’t see any relevant difference. Looking at it that way I’ve only mentioned 2 different ones, 2,1,0 (and variations) and 1,0,0 (and variations), you can multiply those by whatever you want and add whatever you want and the outcome will remain the same.

I’m sure they can find some way to modify the scores for the glicko thing only (as I’ve suggested twice in the bit you quoted).

I don’t see a problem with using scores for the outcome of a match and for determining the relative rating of servers (Glicko). So I don’t get why you want a 2,1,0 score instead of 3,2,1, or 5,4,3.

I had hoped that the post from McKenna Berdrow would have clarified to everyone why ArenaNet wanted to try yet another score system. Unfortunately it didn’t seem to do that for some.

McKenna Berdrow: Thanks for your post Will you think about a post (blog?) about the influence of the different score systems? Not now, but in a few months, when you have data from at least three different score systems? It would be nice to see some data besides the anecdotal reports on the forum. Both are important.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I want to say how much I appreciate all this info. I’m going to leave this up over the weekend, then make up an attractive pie chart with sound effects and glitter and … Ok, ok, I’m probably not going to make a pie chart. But I am going to put together a set of stats. Sure, we’re just one player each, and yes, this is anecdotal. But I think it’s worthwhile information, and it seems to me our QA Team will be able to give this activity a good look.

Thanks again!

Thank you. Although I would love to see the attractive pie chart with sound effects and glitter

This quote sums up my feeling about this daily :

So, to sum it up, currently it’s in state of “too annoying to attempt”.

For a more in depth analysis just look at the the post from Illconceived Was Na (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Skritt-Hit-wintersday-daily/page/2#post6455738) I share his (her?) feelings.

My two cents about how to improve: I think this daily should be doable in the Wintersday area, without having to go into Tixx’s Infinirarium or to a completely different map. So you could add skritt that cannot be kicked to the escort event and/or lower the requirement to 3 skritt being hit. Preferably both.

The new map looks great on first sight. The first story instance is great (as long as you don’t have one of the many bugs I have seen here). But unfortunately after playing for 6 a 7 hours I am not so happy. Reasons for that:

1. The last two story instances are bad. I couldn’t finish the second to last instance on my Ranger because I killed all the larva before the boss died. No other larva spawned so I had to abandon the instance. No idea if that was a bug. But the whole idea behind the fight didn’t really work for me. A common problem with many boss fights lately.
2. The last story instance was boring. Far too many elite mobs, not enough story. Rox part in the story is non-existent. I think she should be there, but not in the way it is currently implemented. The boss-fight is really boring. Maybe the idea looked great on paper, but in reality the fight isn’t fun.
3. I think the map looks great. I don’t really like frozen maps, but this one is beautiful. But some mechanics are annoying. Dragon’s Teeth Hot Springs in particular is an absolute disaster. The main event there will always fail and that means that half of the time you can’t see a bloody thing.

Like so many LW episodes (the first) part of it is great, but the whole is disappointing. The same was the problem with HoT. It seems ArenaNet can’t make enough good content to fill a LW episode or an expansion.

The only reason why I still play GW2 is because the base game is so good. And gets improved even after 4 years. HoT and the last 2 LW seasons are not a reason to play GW 2. I gave up hope that the situation will improve. I would love to see ArenaNet go back to what they originally made: A very good, relaxing MMO. And not a game with very difficult (story-) encounters. That is not what I am looking for. As a result I don’t spend any RL money on the game. If ArenaNet want to see any money from me they have to change their strategy. Until then I will play basically for free. And when the next expansion comes out I will probably quit the game. Because I am not going to buy it based on the current development.

This may seem really negative. But I had a lot of fun earlier today. I can probably get another 10 hours or so out of the new episode. But I think that ArenaNet could (and should) have made more of this episode.

What is this talking about doing part of the story again on other characters? Did you guys try it before making a post?

I got my main character in the new map doing the story. I then used the Drakkar Waypoint in Frostgorge Sound on another character and used the portal to get into the new map. Simple, no scroll necessary or doing the story again. As said above, mastery is totally optional.

I have the Bloodstone Crystal Node and the Petrified Wood Node was available for me at the vendor this morning. I bought it and it was in my home instance in Hoelbrak. In below picture you can see where it is and that I just got Blood Rubies from the Bloodstone Crystal Node. So it worked fine for me.

Talking about a biased view

Looking at the raw figures I see that GW 2 had higher earning in the first 15 quarters than GW 1 ever had in any quarter. Only the last two quarters GW 2 made less than the highest two GW 1 quarters. So I see a much more successful game than GW 1 has ever been looking at quarterly earnings.

The graphs GW1 & GW2 earning percentages based on initial sale and GW1 & GW2 earning percentages based on average initial sale are there to create confusion. It suggests that GW 2 did worse than GW 1 but that is not true. Because GW 2 had such a successful initial sale almost all the other quarters had better earnings then GW 1 ever had. In the end the total earnings are what matters not percentages of initial sales.

Again biased views: I see a much more successful game then GW 1 has ever been.

This question gave me another incentive to look at all the items I have in my bank, thanks

I only found a few items that can be (easily) put into the material storage:
Blade Shard (obvious)
Vision Crystal
Lesser Vision Crystal
Gift Of Exploration
Gift of Maguuma (and the 4 gifts for the individual maps)
Mystic Forge Stone

Not included are the mystic forge materials Miyani sells. They can all be used directly in the mystic forge (with one exception) so no need to store these anywhere. It would be nice if Miyani could buy back these items if you bought the wrong item.

Not included are doubloons. I would really like to seem them in the material storage as they are mostly used as a material. But they can be used an upgrade component. It would be much better if they would become purely crafting materials, but in the current state I am not sure they belong in the storage.

Some items I have in my bank that I would rather not have there but are not suitable candidates for the material storage:
Festival Token – currency – Can I still use these?
Aetherkey Piece – key part – key ring
Blood Ruby – currency / salvage item
Petrified Wood – currency / salvage item

I am not a big fan of the way Blood Ruby and Petrified Wood are implemented in the game. I don’t currently need them for ascended trinkets and back packs. As a veteran player I had enough other sources for these items. But I would like to store them for future use (new characters). So I don’t want to salvage them. It would have been better if they where purely a currency with the option to buy Unbound Magic with them.

Stackable BL Salvage Kits are discussed above, please look into it

Dragonite Ore, Bloodstone Dust and Empyreal Fragments are already in the material storage but you need so much of it that it would be nice if you could store more of it. Room for 250 (standard) isn’t really a lot of space for these items. I have no idea if it is possible to make more room specifically for these items. I know I can feed them to certain items, but I want to save a lot of them for future use.

I really hope Gaile’s response on the data minded part and not looking into bug reports is the official stance from ArenaNet. I don’t know the particular bug report so I don’t know if it was just one report that wasn’t seen in a long list of bug reports. Or that is was ignored because it was of a data mined item.

Releasing an item that crashes the game, when you have a bug report telling you that, is unforgivable, if you have seen the bug report. I don’t care about communication about a bug for not released content, just solve it before you release it or do not release it at all. But don’t bullkitten us with: We do not look at bug reports if it is about a data mined item because it is not productive. Having to disable a gem store item is productive? Crashing the game for many players is productive?

Disclaimer: I assume ArenaNet was not aware of this bug and didn’t see the bug report.

Same problem for my characters.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

That walk through doesn’t say anything about needing to change into an anomaly. I used the 9-7 and the 7-9 combination and nothing changed for me.

That aside, I’m not sure why the OP is so upset. There are 3 possibilities:

• It’s a bug; you’re not supposed to turn into an anomaly at all.
• It’s a bug; anomalies aren’t supposed to be ‘hostile’ to other players or they are supposed to be invulnerable to other players skills.
• It’s not a bug and there’s some meaning we haven’t divined yet, that requires us being vulnerable to our allies, e.g. maybe we shouldn’t have been killing all these anomalies we see.

Which ever it is, we can play the game just fine without knowing the answer now or until the next patch. The current achievements can be completed and it doesn’t affect anything else in the game.

PS I doubt it’s the the third; ANet has long resisted allowing any part of the PvE landscape to have any PvP aspects (with the exception of leaderboards for adventures and achievement points).

I am a little bit confused about your reaction. This is posted by OP in the bug forum. As you said this is probably a bug so it belongs here. If it isn’t a bug this is the worst event ArenaNet ever implemented. Even if you don’t have to change into an anomaly it can happen and in that case you get killed. Hey, I killed a player last night by accident because I realised to late that it wasn’t a mob. This has to be changed rather sooner than later.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Due to a bug that affected spawn rate, we have temporarily disabled a few of the creatures in the Mursaat Fortress.

Players will still be able to complete events in this area.

We are investigating the issue and we will re-activate the creatures as soon as we have a fix.

Thanks for your patience and understanding while we work to correct this issue.

“Players will still be able to complete events in this area.” Yeah, it only takes an hour to do the heart, but yes, you can complete it. So technically you are correct. But asking for my patience and understanding is a little too much. Sorry. Fix your kitten yesterday please.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

snip

Thank you that you gave an explanation. But:

So will FSP be matched against the frenchies for 2 months constantly or what is the point in that consideration you guys did at Anet?

And as others already mentioned: Linking (several) servers is not needed to fight the French servers. FSP did fine last week with Vabbi. And my own server (Piken Square) can fight those French servers without being linked to other servers. I think other EU servers are also capable of fighting the French without being linked together.

So as I do like it that you gave us some information I don’t like the reasoning behind the link. I would rather see you link EU servers in a way that we have 6 or 9 server pairings that can fight each other. That could create an unpleasant situation for German servers but creating one giant English speaking server pairing to fight of the French is not a solution. That doesn’t benefit the German servers (and our Spanish speaking server), it doesn’t benefit FSP and their linked servers, it doesn’t benefit the French servers and it doesn’t benefit the other English speaking servers.

Reading back what I wrote above I see I am talking a lot about “fighting of the French”. That can give the opinion that I hate the French (servers). I don’t. It is something I want to avoid. But your argument does the opposite in my opinion. So a very bad decision if you ask me.

Whatever the reason is that Seis doesn’t move, this is not the way ArenaNet should make a current event. I am not playing GW2 to wait forever on an NPC. That is no fun. And no, I am not sitting in the map for hours. I log on to the character in Snowden Drift every few hours to check if Seis is there. But that is no fun.

So if this is a bug, just tell us. If this is intended, never do this again please.

Can somebody from ArenaNet please explains what the logic is behind the server pairings? And put that explanation in every new world linking post? So we don’t have to ask the same questions every time!

Looking at the new pairings for EU I am baffled. For certain it has nothing to do with how well a server performed in the previous period. Because linking FSP with 2 other servers seems ridiculous. And why pair PS (my server) with another server? Yes, PS got outblobbed in the last matchup. But I don’t think linking PS with another server would help. This linking will only results in PS and Blacktide having a huge numbers advantage over many other servers (the three non-linked DE servers for example).

KWman.3012:

I know there is some place to see how much daily/monthly points I have, I just can’t remember where.

Hover over the points you earned and it will show the breakdown.

The last few weeks, sometimes my characters stay in combat even though nothing is attacking them. This prevents the use of a WP, it slows down travelling and has many other unpleasant consequences. My normal solution is to swap weapons adn that solves it. But that isn’t possible on an Engineer. Tonight I was doing the Tribulation Cave JP and couldn’t get out of combat for the first jumps. These jumps are not possible when you are in combat. Attacking a random enemy didn’t work. Relogging was the only solution.

When nothing is attacking me I should not be in combat. For some reason with one of the last patches this changed.

Joe Farmer.2063:

Best guess this is a workaround, no automatic login,
no crash.
Very likely just some missing German strings for some new items … they could just ask some of us German players for translation
We will not put in anything naughty, promise!

If this is a workaround for the crash of the TP if you use the German language it is not a very good one. As this is a web-page, why not replace it with an explanation? Like: Due to an issue with German translations we had to take down this functionality. It will be restored soon.

Edit: And the page works again for me.

Jon Olson.8439:

Rose Solane.1027:

I think ArenaNet is aware of an issue with the 64 bit client for some players. In the WvW section there is a thread about crashes since the last patch. There a dev asked for crash reports. Some of them are WvW related, but the dev said that others where game wide and that ArenaNet was looking into those crashes.

FYI, the crashes discussed in that thread are, thus far, game-wide, not WvW specific.

As for OP’s issue, without some more details it’s hard to say what might be going on. I would suspect some of the same issues from the aforementioned WvW thread.

I assumed at least some of the crashes were related to WvW as the thread is still in the WvW subforum. Here is a link to that thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Crashing/first#post6275449

My latest crash was yesterday:
—> Crash <—
Assertion: (m_sphereRadius + TOLERANCE >= m_boxExtent.x) || (m_sphereRadius + TOLERANCE >= m_boxExtent.y) || (m_sphereRadius + TOLERANCE >= m_boxExtent.z)
File: ..\..\..\Engine\Gr\GrBound.cpp(94)
App: Gw2-64.exe
When: 2016-08-04T17:15:20Z 2016-08-04T19:15:20+02:00

The crash before from three days ago:
—> Crash <—
Assertion: MathIsUnitVector(forward, 0.01f)
File: ..\..\..\Game\AgentView\AvUtil.cpp(286)
App: Gw2-64.exe
When: 2016-08-02T19:12:36Z 2016-08-02T21:12:36+02:00

As far as I understand from the other thread both crashes are known by ArenaNet and are looked into. Hopefully they can find a solution before the weekend. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes a proper patch (not a hotfix) to solve these.

I think ArenaNet is aware of an issue with the 64 bit client for some players. In the WvW section there is a thread about crashes since the last patch. There a dev asked for crash reports. Some of them are WvW related, but the dev said that others where game wide and that ArenaNet was looking into those crashes.

DoctorDing.5890:

I wasn’t suggesting blocking all URLs, just the specific one(s) they use.
Make the bad guys work to get past the filter and keep updating the filter to block their latest attempt.
Each time they tweak their “advert” to get past the filter it becomes less readable.
You can never stop it all but you can damage their sales.

At the moment it feels like anet are happy to leave their front door unlocked and their windows wide open.

So it may look. But a few points to consider. First of all, has ArenaNet the technology to filter one specific URL? If not they have to assign resources to make something. Don’t know if I want them to put resources into developing this technology.
Secondly, to me it seems the gold spammer links in chat are ignoring existing filters. I don’t think I can make a chat message like the one I get every few weeks. So adding an URL filter would probably not do anything against this kind of gold seller spam.
Lastly, reporting and blocking costs a few seconds. And for most players the amount of gold seller spam is not high lately. I got one earlier this week. The last one before that has been at least a month ago. So, I think ArenaNet is actively doing something against these gold spammers.

Dara Potocska.8196:

As a followup to the hotfix being officially out – the hotfix today will have addressed:

• Guild Bounty targets
• WvW Dolyaks
• Wargs in Raid Wing 3
• Creatures from the recently added events in the open world

Further investigative work will still be going on for:

• Raid Wing 3 – Bosses are being invulnerable when they should not.
• PvP – Player vs Player is seeing desyncing where players are not where they seem to be.
• Open World – The icons indicating have been downed do not always appear where the downed player is – or remain on the player after they have been revived.

If folks encounter issues they suspect are caused by the desync issues we’re working on investigating, please let us know. Thank you all again!

I am happy to see that my assumption was right and a hotfix came live on Monday (Seattle time). I will test later today of all the issues I had are solved and if not I will report them here. Thanks

I am really disappointed that in a patch that focused on quality this bug occurred. You guys did a great job on the story, the quality of the new content in this patch is really good. But I can’t understand that a bug like this is in the patch. It influences so many aspects of the game. I assume solving it has the highest priority and a solution will be live very soon (in today).

I sincerely hope the account bound item is not the only way to get alts into Bloodstone Fen besides playing the first story steps. That seems to me an anti alt attitude. Specifically as they are having a special sale of an Account slot expansion for 6 days. That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

I hope it isn’t for lore reasons (what they said about the lack of a vendor in this map is). The moment “Lore” conflicts with game play it becomes a problem.

Nuno.9735:

Stop your wining. Change is good, even this one.

That is silly. In general this change is good, but for some players this change has negative consequences. And those people could complain here.

Simplifying how infusions work and how to get AR is a great change. Everyone who has ever tried to explain infusions to someone else will be happy with the change. But players who used infusions not for AR but for other things have a good reason not to be so happy. And if you have your gear complete with AR the +5 infusion you get back in your mail from the amulet is useless.

“because we sacrificed so much to be able to ship that frequently” is the part that isn’t clear to me. What does Mo means with that? But reading all the other comments I realize that there is a lot more in MO’s post that can be interpreted in many ways.

I think it is good that we have a post from Mo today. It is patch day (at least here in Europe) and the end of the PvP season. So it could have been the day for the big seasonal patch. That is not so likely and this post is for that reason a good thing. Big patch is coming, exact date not yet known, but soon. And yes, that is not really news, but a post from Mo today that the patch will come soon is good.

The launcher crash is solved for me. But GW2 is really unstable the last few days. I get at least 2 or 3 crashes every day. That is the most unstable GW2 has been since the famous Karka invasion of LA.
The strange thing is that with the last crash (just a few minutes ago) I waited with sending the error log until I finished the Legendary Ley-Line Anomaly event in Iron Marches. I got the error message during the event but just tabbed back to the game. After the event was finished I send the error log and then my game really crashed.

I send the error report every time I got one so you should have a few from me. Curious to hear what the problem is. I don’t think it is related to anything on my PC specifically.

I have the same question as OP. I get into a match after a very short queue time. Waiting time was so short I almost missed the match as I was getting coffee. That takes less than a minute. After the match (that we lost) I saw that I was the only one in Amber, the rest was in Emerald and two were in Sapphire. I am 3 pips away from Emerald, so someone in Sapphire is at least 23 pips in front of me. That surprised me. I did not queued with someone else, so that can’t be a factor.

I thought the reason could be that I played on another character than I usually do PvP with and that I had a better win-rate on this character. But that wasn’t the case. I have a 31% win-rate on this char and a 50% win-rate on my normal PvP characters. So if character is a factor I should have had an easier match, not one with Sapphire players!

I wonder, did some of you followed the advice from Illconceived Was Na.9781? Contact support to troubleshoot? Because that is often the best way to solve these kinds of problems. No laptop or PC is the same so finding one solution for these kinds of problems that works for everyone will be nearly impossible. And I am not sure that a dev can solve your problems. Someone from support on the other hand maybe can.

Has OP a problem with remembering who all those NPC’s are or doesn’t he/she like the NPC’s? In the first case talk with Ella Mackay in LA or read the links in Fay’s post above.

In the second case, a lot of players seem to dislike most NPC’s. I don’t really share that opinion. I do think that ArenaNet does a good job with using “old” NPC’s in HoT. Just walk around in the new maps and you encounter so many NPC’s you encountered before in Personal Story and the Living World seasons.

If OP is complaining about the story in HoT, well ….. I can only agree. The story isn’t great. But I am not sure the NPC’s are the problem.

Let me then add my loud cry: I think it is silly to hide these achievements. If missing some achievements is such a big issue for players that ArenaNet sees the need to hide them beforehand then I think they should have a good look at the game. And with them I mean both those players and the devs. GW2 is a game that constantly changes, it is one of the strongest points of the game. And some of those changes come with temporary achievements.

I don’t think it should ever be necessary to look on a 3rd party site like Dulfy to know what the current content in the game is. But “It must be difficult to determine the best course.” is definitely true

I fail to see why this change would help WvW at all. Only if a lot a lot of players only go to WvW for the crafting stations the numbers to determine WvW population will not change at all by this. And I seriously doubt that they will change. As many people said before there were never more than 3 or 4 players at the same moment at the crafting stations in the BL in my world.

Maybe ArenaNet thinks this will make players complaining about WvW population caps happier. But those players will be disappointed.

Adding a bank to the BL starter areas will not change the inconvenience for WvW players that need a crafting station to craft something. Like a potion. If there weren’t crafting stations in BL before ArenaNet would have added these as a QoL improvement by now and everyone would have applauded them for it. Very strange change.