Guild Wars 2

Subject: NPCs become idle after standing in Shadow Refuge

Location: Fields of Ruin – Summit Waypoint – North of Summit Peak

Description: When Shadow Refuge is cast on two dueling NPCs, they gain the Stealth boon and stop attacking. After the boon has worn off, the NPCs remain idle.

Expected Result: NPCs continue to fight each other.

Reproduction Steps:
1. Select a Thief player character with the ability to cast Shadow Refuge.
2. Move the player character to plateau north of the Summit Peak point of interest in Fields of Ruin.
3. Cast Shadow Refuge on dueling Iron Legion Soldier and Ebon Vanguard Warrior NPCs.

Lol. so i had this for a while earlier. Got tired of it and just started clicking on the thing randomly and at the area the log in and play buttons would normally be. Lo and behold, I get into the game. So it doesn’t really keep you from playing if your really need to play now, granted that the issues isn’t fixed, either.

I’ve read this occurs to a lot of people, but haven’t seen a solution. My game randomly freezes. Sometimes there’s a crash report, and sometimes there isn’t. In all cases, the music continues to play and I have to go through Task Manager to end GW2 process just to get out. Please help. It’s making the game unbearable to play.

I’ve run mem diag, and everything seems fine. The game has been the only thing on my computer with issues. I’ve updated and rolled back drivers, and nothing seems to solve it.

here’s what part of the crash log looks like:

—> Crash <—
Exception: c0000005
Memory at address 69a4a800 could not be written
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 2392
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00C70000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 42115
When: 2014-11-28T12:03:35Z 2014-11-28T04:03:35-08:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:10:57
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: HAL
IpAddr: 192.168.1.78
Processors: 4 [AuthenticAMD:15:1:2]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 4356MB/ 8092MB 53%
Paged: 16461MB/20744MB 79%
Virtual: 2375MB/ 4095MB 57%
Load: 46%
CommitTotal: 4282MB
CommitLimit: 20744MB
CommitPeak: 6304MB
SystemCache: 3738MB
HandleCount: 28599
ProcessCount: 73
ThreadCount: 1070

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1463MB
WorkingSet: 1414MB
PeakWorkingSet: 1483MB
PageFaults: 2967294

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> Thread 0×106c <—

—> Error Logs <—
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Debug token ‘0×266fa’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
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Texture ‘0×03539b’ dimensions too small
Loading ‘0’ texture failed
Debug token ‘0×266fa’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.

—> DirectX Device Info <—
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With all the negativity, this thread was great for a laugh. I’ll be honest, Kikojak, I didn’t read the initial post because it was just a wall of text. And between all the other “Stop QQing” posts, just the visual of it turned me off to even consider whether or not you had a good point to make.

That makes sense, right? Like bite-size is good, right? Like if someone just handed me a huge block of cheese, it’d just be too daunting.

hybrid.5027:

Ruin.1927:

oxtred.7658:

Using signet of fury is a huge decrease in precision, and a dps loss. You could use healing surge right before entering combat for fights where you won’t need your heal. Don’t cast it in combat, it’s also a dps loss.

Without Signet of Fury, I’m at 52% crit (with over 70% with fury boon), so the gain in crit chance through the passive isn’t as affective, right?. Signet Mastery puts the cooldown of Signet of Fury to 24 seconds, faster than For Greater Justice. Using FGS or Signet of Rage for fury and might boons, then Signet of Fury for full adrenaline at the beginning of a fight… doesn’t that work out well with Berserker’s Power?

1. Why not use Healing Surge instead of activating Signet of Fury, and suffer no DPS loss?

2. Why are people complaining about this now? Most fights they started in pve before the adrenaline decay were at low adrenaline so this isn’t that big a change. the only difference is now people are conscious of it.

I really think its not quite as relevant as people assume it is.

The decay is so dramatic that it hardly even carries over to the mobs close by. They might as well make the change to drop your adrenaline to zero after each fight. Before the change, you were able to carry it over in most cases and adrenaline grandmaster traits made sense to have.

As for healing surge, yah, I’ve heard that a lot. lol maybe the healing signet just feels like a security blanket.

oxtred.7658:

Using signet of fury is a huge decrease in precision, and a dps loss. You could use healing surge right before entering combat for fights where you won’t need your heal. Don’t cast it in combat, it’s also a dps loss.

Without Signet of Fury, I’m at 52% crit (with over 70% with fury boon), so the gain in crit chance through the passive isn’t as affective, right?. Signet Mastery puts the cooldown of Signet of Fury to 24 seconds, faster than For Greater Justice. Using FGS or Signet of Rage for fury and might boons, then Signet of Fury for full adrenaline at the beginning of a fight… doesn’t that work out well with Berserker’s Power?

Are people still using this with the new drop in Adrenaline (considering that Adrenaline doesn’t really carry over to the next fight due to the rapid loss after combat). It’s a 15% damage increase with a full three bars of Adrenaline.

I’m trying to see if it’s viable to use Signet of Fury along with Signet Mastery (drops the cooldown on the signet to 24s) to be able to have full Adrenaline at the beginning of PvE fights.

Any thoughts?

Elbegast.6970:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Elbegast.6970:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Elbegast.6970:

Torvic.8256:

It’s this year’s April Fail’s joke for GW2.

I’ve never understood why you’re always carrying such a bitter, negative attitude with you, man. It’s worrisome.

I’m rather jovial in person.

Good one, Squidward.

But I am jovial. See the smile on my face….

http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,23689/

lol. made me actually laugh. touché

I saw that the first GW game had descriptions of locations on the game map. Any chance this could make a comeback? I know we have a wiki, but just thought it be nice to get a little info in the game when we come across a point of interest.

[Location]
Global

[Summery]
Warrior – Greatsword skill – Hundred Blades skill will 1/10 times fail to activate and reset the skill timer. When the bug occurs, the animation for the skill will begin, but no damage will be done to the target and the animation/skill will reset after 3 swings.

[Expected Result]
Hundred Blades skill will activate when used, and skill timer will only reset after used or interrupted.

This has probably been brought up before, and I know the timelines for Living Story and Personal Story has been stated. But with the healthy amount of suspension of disbelief we should all be carrying in the game, thinking of the personal story as the player character’s memory just makes things feel right for me.

I can go about with exploring and completing quests without feeling like I was a jerk who just left Logan hanging there, waiting for me to do what I was suppose to do (continuing my personal story). It makes so much more sense that when I go to a familiar place (that has a green star that indicates a personal story point) I’d remember a little of what I did there in the past.

I feel like this is the great balance between Living World and Personal Story. Maybe if they changed the atmosphere a little in the Personal Story instances to distinguish it as a memory. It would make sense if places like Lion’s Arch were destroyed. We’d be able to go to it’s location and our character (regardless of when we made them) can play out their story in the Lion’s Arch that still existed in memory.

This is how it’s suppose to be, right?

They’re also more powerful now than they ever were. They’re part of an army that has far greater capability than they ever had as their own individual factions. They can’t ignore that fact.

And if Scarlet is really that bat kitten crazy, would you be the one to raise your hand and say, “I don’t think I want to play anymore.”

Charak.9761:

Yeah the rewards for marinette is underwhelming, will pass on doing it when the AP charts are filled. Which will suck for anyone coming in for next week.

aren’t you able to open the chests in Scarlet’s room multiple times as long as you have the cypher for the chest? I was able to open like 10 chests when i got in the room.

MeanCoffeeBean.2073:

Who is the intended audience?

It certainly is not the players that did the living story every step of the way to see the Scarlet story. I know because this LS content is locked behind the requirement of getting 100+ people to beat a fight that is won or lost on the backs of tiny groups.

You don’t have to win the fight to get access to the LS content. For the most part, you continue on win or lose, or if you want access to Scarlet’s hideout, you gather the the needed materials.

It’s become a community event. If you’re a casual player, faceroll during the enemy rush. To the people who don’t like the zerg aspect, hopefully they do their part during the smaller group champion fights.

You get a letter in your mailbox. I believe that’s it. Some correct me on this, please.

This.

I logged in and received mail about the dungeon. That was it. I was kinda hoping there’d be a NPC or two talking a little bit more about what was going on. Maybe even one outside of the instance.

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY! Thanks, TC! It was a pretty exciting fight. We actually killed him at the time we predicted last night. Great job, everyone.

This whole thing starts feeling a little childish. I understand that people want to be efficient, but all this reminds me of is trying to teach little kids (i’m thinking my niece and nephew) how to share.

Consider the size of the community and that there’s only 6 arenas.

I’m guilty of farming the place myself, but move on quietly when things become too busy for my taste.

I think farmers are the ones becoming hindrance to other players, occupying an arena for hours and becoming hostile to players who just want to play the game.

Bovinity.8610:

Yet another example of ArenaNet’s exploit early and exploit often philosophy.

This is actually a really valid complaint. Thus far, it has been a very common, recurring theme with ANet that content gets released with – apparently – little to no testing, and then fixed afterwards.

I gotta agree to this. It’s not like these methods were hard to find. Some simple QA and there wouldn’t have been an issue to begin with.

first world problems. lol. so much QQ over these things. I have to admit that I did laugh a little over the lack of information on the patch notes, but it’s crazy how so many people seem outraged (and there are… easy to find them when you look around the forums and reddit).

When it comes down to it, it’s a game with rules that they set. Regardless of how they want to change these rules, it’s always a choice for us to play (and or find ways around).

Take a deep breath. Log off for a few and relax. Go find something else to do. Find something to enjoy (in game or out)

Updated my warrior : )

Please consider adding traits or skills that would become available exclusively to particular orders. The tree different Orders seem to have their own particular characteristics and different methods of doing things. Aside from the cosmetic armor sets, a few extra benefits to joining an Order would be great.

Disabling them in SPvP and WvW would keep things balanced.

Just a thought that having some kind of stealth skill for being in the Order of Whispers would be interesting. Maybe boon to power or something for Vigil members.

Thanks for the consideration

Oh crap. I was so busy thinking about finishing the achievement for the gloves that I didn’t realize we were suppose to get a chest! Was that somewhere at the end with the elevator? We were logged off for the server reset just after we got on there.

Just gotta say that I’m in awe with the great attitude these servers have. Extremely fun battles. You all have even been civil in the jumping puzzle. Thank you for that.

Had a blast trying to get at one crazy Thief. Even pushing (fearing) you off a cliff didn’t help me. Cheers to you, Monxey. You’re one kitten Kaineng.

IBTL.

crap… that’s all i wanted to put, but didn’t know you had to have at message body of at least 15. : (

Urrid.4593:

Anthrage.2519:

Great fights tonight in TC BL. Here’s some footage of one of the battles for Longview Tower between TC & BG, at about 5:21 PM EST. Great fun!

Your PC must heat your house…

I want a PC that godly! Gimmie!

Its okay Terra -pats 4 year old budget pc- I still love you.

lol. made me laugh.

I’m a little sad at how outnumbered we (TC) are at the late night hours. Had a lot of fun a few months back with BG before they moved up tier and before we caught up. Now it feels like we can’t put up the kind of fight we use to be proud of. Maybe i’m just not seeing how things are during the day.

Heheh. I was kinda bummed that the jumping puzzle short cuts were fixed, but it just encouraged me to find a new short cut (which I did heheh). I guess it’s the explorer in me. Regardless where priorities are placed, consider that working on games (creating patches, content, etc.) can’t be that super easy. Be patient or just accept that it’s there. If it’s game breaking, they’ll fix it. Believe me, I’ve been part of teams that have submitted QA bugs for horrible issues, but were passed up because they weren’t blocking progression (granted that deadlines had to be met). No game is bug free… Not any that I can think of at least.

Lol. Some of the attitudes coming from folks on these forums are crazy. The feelings of entitlement, I mean. “I paid for dinner. I better get sex tonight!” Lol. Ok, that might be pushing it a little, but seriously, sometime the writing on these forums make out the developers of this game seem so tyrannical. Like there’s some kind of cash grab.

I paid $60 to play the game. Exploring the beautiful world, building my character, participating in some exciting battles in WvWvW. I’d say I got my money’s worth for maybe that month or two by itself. Am I the only one that ANet not charge a monthly fee, because I haven’t been paying anything since my initial purchase.

Oh. The topic. Orr looks great. Exited about what the new FREE content is going to look like.

Logging in after the Fire and Frost patch, I found myself fighting off huge Abominations and mobs of risen. The animation changes and model scaling were such a pleasant surprise that, for some reason, just felt like the game was new again. It was exciting, and very much appreciated. It made me want to explore all over again to see if anything else had changed (even if there was nothin but to activate a few new waypoints). New visuals that came with some of the legendary weapons were also a surprise to me.

I probably missed patch notes that mentioned these changes, but finding them in game without the expectation was refreshing. I feel like so many players feel entitled to so much from this game and the developers that it may feel like the community (at least the ones in the forums) are ungrateful. Guild wars 2 is a great game that’s only getting better through the efforts of its developers. Just wanted to say my thanks. Please keep up the great work.

Here’s my warrior. Volcanus and all.

To the insane ele from Valhagr (CD)… what the hell are you?! I watched as an entire squad try to take you down. GG.

You sir, have me in awe.

Oh. exciting late night/early morning. Crystal Desert hammering away at Stonemist for hours.

Yah. The bots are a pain and can really hurt the game (destroy the economy). Bugs are still just as damaging. QA Testers don’t fix bugs, they just find them and write them up. Literally what we (the players) are asked to do. It’s the developers that get the bug report, make the fix, then send it back to QA to confirm the fix.

I’m frustrated because I use to work as a tester. I’d be embarrassed if i was on a project that was released and a ton of bugs were found. It would reflect badly on me and my team.

It sucks to want to enjoy a game so much, and then run into issues that i feel someone else (who’s getting paid) should have found, written up, and gotten fixed. Instead, we do it for free on our gaming time.

… Somtimes… it feels like they should be paying us for doing QA’s job. We find bugs, we write them. we find bots, we report them (granted the bots part isn’t QA’s responsibility).

I don’t want to be “that guy,” but seriously. I know there’s no subscription fees, but we (the players) aren’t the QA guys for this game. We’re not getting paid to write the bugs.

Sorry, but it becomes frustrating we new bugs seem to be introduced when there’s already a ton of issues still at hand. And I do know that when trying to fix some bugs, it’s unavoidable that sometimes other bugs are created. But that’s usually where a QA staff comes in and helps devs make sure things aren’t broken when sent out to the public.

Jumping puzzle in WvWvW. Was find a few days ago. Then for the past 4 days or so, the vault door wouldn’t open.

Today I lost items using the Mystic Forge (lost a lot because i was so frustrated i just kept throwing things in there to try to figure out what was going on!).

Sorry for the rant. I guess i’m just worried that without a subscription, there’s no more accountability.

I guess i’m looking for reassurance that there’s a reason for devs to really get behind a F2P model.

Same. i didn’t at first notice because i was using a lot of mastercrafted items. I lost about 12 green items trying to figure out what was going on. is it just a loss that we take, or do we open a ticket in-game somewhere?

I’m starting to get the feeling that this is one of those defining issues between subscription fees and the whole “we already have your money” deal. Like the only real threat any of the players can make is, “I’m going to stop playing your game… that I’ve already paid for.”

I’m tired of the bots. It makes me feel like there’s less people playing the game (because it almost makes you suspicious of everyone). The economy feels like it’s been grounded to kitten (sure, materials are cheap now, but it also because 5x harder to make money if you don’t have a botting workforce farming for you)

I liked the game at one point. I guess I still do. But the bot issue and how it feel like there’s little being done has given me second thoughts NCsoft/Anet. I’d really have to give some thought about purchasing a new game or an expansion in the future.