Guild Wars 2

Thanks for that Lawton

Thanks for the responses Lawton,

Is it possible to show total as well as whats currently in storage? I don’t really need a count
of whats on the field if I can calculate that from what’s in storage vs total we own.

Hi,

I was wondering if there was an endpoint for these areas of the guild menu? I can see one for the Guild Stash/Treasury etc which is nice, but I would like to see access to these other areas too, mostly so that I can track how many decorations we own/have placed.

Personally I would love to see that daily chest reward deco, because I have built a really large puzzle as well that I would like to reward my guildies for completing.

I would really love it if the next set of SAB decos included the SAB Boomboxes of all 4 types that we can place in our hall similar to the Uzolan’s Orchestra to override the BGM in a localised area.

I know a lot of my guild isn’t into SAB as much as I am but I have an entire section of the JP i built designed with sab decos and it would be awesome to also have SAB music playing in that area.

Ideally, like the handheld versions, these decos would need to be able to turn them on and off as well as changing the music playing. Even more ideally, they would sync with each other.

Thoughts for costs and recipes:

For an expensive recipe, they could each require the respective boombox which at 35 bauble bubbles each, and being account bound, would make these expensive and difficult for scribes to use if they don’t do SAB.

Alternatively I thought that it may be possible to use the tribulation tokens with a new token, bought with either gold or a bauble bubble that we can toss into the Mystic Forge for a non account bound version that we can give to our scribes. This would also allow runners of SAB to still make money from their efforts if we could sell these on the Trading Post.

Would be happy to hear others suggestions and thoughts, and hopefully we can get something like this in the next set of decos?

Out of curiosity, do you have any proof that they screwed up their engine and cannot do SAB because of it?

Hi,

While I really like First Person mode, and like the fact that it puts the camera where your character’s eyes would be. However, this effect unfortunately does not cater for emotes.

If I have something in my line of sight and decide to sit down so that its not blocking my view, its a little annoying for the camera to stay up where my head was when I was standing.

Its a minor annoyance and I don’t expect that anything will be done about it, but maybe some others have the same issue and would like it fixed as well?

Actually being in a party and not having the powerglove causes problems in zone 2. If you use the shortcut eagle without it, then you cannot get it on that run, and when you get to the end, everyone has to use the skill together to open the final bridge.

I think the problem a lot of people are having is that they are using two fingers.

You don’t need to, I just use my thumb, base on the space bar, tip on the V. As I go to press the V, the spacebar gets pushed as well, and so I dodge jump. It really isn’t all that hard.

I finally managed to get in, i think i did it from skipping the lilypad entirely.

I then went on to finish the zone and as a result world 1 trib mode, yay. Except I missed the Moto’s Breath shop My latency issues just make lilypad jumping so unpredictable and difficult and I have no idea why I have such issues in here.

The issues only become apparent in jumping puzzles or, like most people, zergs, but in here it just seems so much worse. It doesn’t help that there are so many instant death traps to cause you trouble.

I just gave up on completing world 2-1 in trib because I had enough lag issues with normal mode, let alone with death traps.

but the secret rooms dont need to be done in one run, so get every achieve done except for world 2-2 and 2-3 baubles and you will get the meta

Hi all,

I have had a problem with entering hidden areas ever since the April release.

It nearly always takes two tries to enter the hidden zone, be it a shop, a cave, or whatever. What this means is that i enter the doorway, the cutscene starts, then im back outside, i walk in again, cutscene starts, this time i’m in the hidden room.

Usually, this isn’t a problem, however, I am now doing tribulation mode, World 1, Zone 3, and trying to get the first shop.

If i went straight into the room it would be easy and i would be on my way to finishing it, but because I get ported back out after the entry cutscene, I die in the water, with no chance to try to get in again.

Anyone know whats going on here and how i can solve/get around this problem?

Well huzzah, with the change to 2.3.3, it is pulling in data just fine. Now just to work out all the other bugs and issues that will undoubtedly occur. But that is for me to figure out on my own thanks all

Well, after re-enabling file based cert files it has, instead of catching errors and running ahead, is crashing.

I am using the original version of jGW2API as my base for api calls, with the only major difference being the following lines in the StartComSSLSocketFactory.java:

private static Context thisContext = MenuActivity.context;

private StartComSSLSocketFactory()
throws CertificateException, NoSuchAlgorithmException,
KeyStoreException, IOException, KeyManagementException {
super(readTxt()/StartComSSLSocketFactory.StartComRootCertificate/, “StartCom”, “X.509”, “X509”);
this.sslSocketFactory = this.sslCon.getSocketFactory();
}

private static InputStream readTxt() throws IOException{
//AssetManager res = thisContext.getAssets();
InputStream in = thisContext.getAssets().open(“ca.pem”);
return in;
}

and the problem seems to be that it cannot see the ca.pem file, despite it being in the assets folder. Until I figure out why its not finding that file, I won’t be able to see if it was my running on 2.2 that was affecting it.

The obvious solution to this, is to redo my project using sdk 2.3+ as the minimum, but I would rather not do that if avoidable

EDIT:
Well somehow I just managed to screw up and lose all my work, so I am gonna start again on gingerbread sdk, hopefully I wont run into these problems again

Cliff Spradlin.3512:

Rurik Telmonkin.3648:

Hmm interesting, it seems is was failing on the first call, it just wasnt notifying me because the second call overwrote it. So for some reason, all my calls to the api are failing with an IOException in my android app, with a warning of an SSL Exception saying No Trusted Server Certificate, and a CertificateException stating that TrustAnchor for CertPath not found.

Whats strange is that these work perfectly on the pc version of the app and I just dont know what could be going wrong.

Can you post the code relevant to setting up SSL and connecting to the API?

Also, what happens when you visit an API url on your mobile browser? Is there a certificate error?

It works fine on my mobile browser, I assume because of what Healix said below, that my app is running on 2.2 which doesn’t support geotrust naturally, but I can get around that easy enough.

Thank you Healix, that would be the problem, I have minimum sdk set to 2.2.

I will try out that cert later and hopefully it will work.

Hmm interesting, it seems is was failing on the first call, it just wasnt notifying me because the second call overwrote it. So for some reason, all my calls to the api are failing with an IOException in my android app, with a warning of an SSL Exception saying No Trusted Server Certificate, and a CertificateException stating that TrustAnchor for CertPath not found.

Whats strange is that these work perfectly on the pc version of the app and I just dont know what could be going wrong.

Yes, the new certificate fixed the pc version issues certainly. However my android version is still giving me warnings about not having a secure ssl cert, as well as an IOException when grabbing world names. I suspect that the latter is the null world causing issues.

EDIT
hmm, it seems to definitely be a server issue that I cannot change or fix on my end, as the IO exception is being caused by this.httpsConnection.getInputStream().

I know its not an issue on my end as I use the same thing for two different calls and only one is failing, that being the one grabbing world names.

Cliff Spradlin.3512:

Rurik Telmonkin.3648:

Can someone inform those of us less intelligible about SSL certs how to get the new certificate that we need for this? Java users especially will be having lots of trouble now due to Java not automatically including startcom’s certificates.

Hi,

I wasn’t very clear about this earlier. The new certificate has a different root (GeoTrust) which is included by default in Java’s certificate store. With the new certificate, you should be able to remove all the weird manual cert stuff you’re doing in java, because a normal connection to the API should just work.

Thanks Cliff, will give it a go later today.

Can someone inform those of us less intelligible about SSL certs how to get the new certificate that we need for this? Java users especially will be having lots of trouble now due to Java not automatically including startcom’s certificates.

No its definitely not on my end, as my precompiled (weeks ago) program wont work either. Something is definitely going wrong with the server, and it is probably the Worlds List bug.

Or it could be the new certificate they are running, interesting. (probably it, as the old hard coded certificate in my pc program would no longer be correct)

Hmm so I dont know whats happened, but since fixing this issue, my pc application version no longer works, with a:

PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target error.

while my android app is once again having problems, but this time an IO exception with logcat giving a warning that there is an SSLException, stating Not Trusted Server Certificate… android frustrates me

Never mind, google did the trick. Thanks for the help. Now I will just need to work on speeding it up somehow.

Strange, I was under the assumption that with it being a https: connection, it would require a certificate, also I am pretty sure it gave me troubles when i tried to connect without a certificate.

But I will give it a try and see what happens.

As a side not, where in the manifest should I put the INTERNET tag?

Hey all,

So here is my problem. I wrote a program using the api, as a desktop application, and it all worked fine, no problems.

I decided to expand it and turn it into an android application as well. The program still works as a desktop application but when I try to run it as an android application, it has problems with the certificate.

I have tried using both jGW2API’s hard coded certificate, and the attached ca.cer file for my certificate, but both times the logcat tells me that there is not enough data in the certificate(input stream to be specific).

Anyone know why this is happening/how I can solve it?

Rurik

subnote: Cannot attach .cer file, changed it into .txt file via editing the extension. I hope this doesnst cause any issues.

I was redesigning a program I am writing and had trouble with matches.json and getting a match ID, so I thought I would check the matches.json page through the forumn here, and it appears to be empty, as if there are no matches happening.

Does anyone know whats happening here?

So starting this morning, around the time of the wvw reset, I have been getting a 500 error in my java program when attempting to access the objective_names api with the following call:

https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/wvw/objective_names.json?lang=en

It seems to be pretty random when it happens though.

Anyone else experiencing difficulties today?

Bump because we need these features in our guilds

No there is no achievement tied to it. It seems to be random where you fall, and where you get teleported, and whether or not you lose your progress. What you do lose if you die is your attunement and so you have to go get that again if you havnt made it to the next area.

I have been lucky and never had it happen to me, but multiple party members have had it happen to them every jump while I was fine, very annoying.

Also in aus, I know the lag happens, I seem to be going fine, but suddenly im on the ground dead, because while I think I made it to the platform, the game thinks I missed and fell to my doom. Particularly prevalent in the unidentified fractal.

true, then it is still a bug that it says soulbound on use, and asks again when you equip if you want to soulbind it

I got this ring, Cleric’s Ring, in TA earlier today, and a friend sent me the knight jewel to put in it, to try and get its value up.

As you can see in the picture attached, it is supposedly soulbound on use, and I have not used it, and yet it cannot be sent, sold or placed in the guild chest, acting as if it is soulbound.

Is this a bug, or how things are meant to be?

EDIT: Image didnt show tooltips, but suffice to say it says soulbound on use

This is a little old now, but it really is an awesome bug, you can get so far. You can actually get into two shark tanks that my friend and I have so far found tonight, as well as getting trapped behind multiple different walls and getting into the lab itself.

But getting into the lab it glitched out for us, we were in the room with all the golem assistants and the boss wouldnt trigger and the gate was closed behind us

Unknown just means they have not been on since the last update, usually.

Hi,

So I know myself and my guild leader both want this, but we have come from Guild Wars 1. We are used to knowing when a person was last online.

We would really like to have this visible in both the guild window and friends list again, as well as last represented for the guild menu so that we can keep track of people who are not helping out in the guild.

I hope this is possible,

Rurik

I can confirm that it is bugged, I was there again just last night, and it said that it was a rich vein, but it only let me hit it three times instead of 10.

iirc, at least in beta, downed caused it to reset too, of cause so did changing maps so….

Do you remember where in the puzzle the rich node was? because I found this normal node right before the dark room.

Hey guys,

So I have confirmed for myself that the rich ori vein in Southsun Cove has been changed to a normal one, though the champion karka still protects it, which is a bit of an out of proportion challenge for the reward.

But can anyone confirm that the rich ori vein in EB has been changed as well? I was completing the jumping puzzle yesterday and only found a regular vein and I dont remember if this was always there or if it used to be the rich one.

Thanks,

Rurik

emiko, no :P Fyre, yeah I know about that, but making it a favourite does not actually remember where you placed it or anything and Munrock, sounds good to me

Heya all,

I was thinking the other day, I for one, and I am sure lots of other people, like to change their armor colors for holidays and because of this we lose what we had on our armor previously.

Most of the time this isn’t a big deal, but sometimes we have 3 or 4 dyes in specific spots to make the effect we want.

Could we have an option to save our dye jobs similar to how we saved builds in the original game?

I don’t remember off the top of my head if, like in gw1, new armor uses the same coloring as the previous armor you had equipped, but even if it doesn’t, I think a lot of players would appreciate this feature.

Rurik

You forgot Primordius. Also, Logan isnt a descendant of King Doric, though there are two people alive you are. One is in ebonhawke, but I forget who the other is.

on the note of the empire of the dragon, I always just thought that it was probably established in the Year of the Dragon. And with this idea, we could have had the Empire of the Rabbit, which would have been pretty funny, imo.

Hi all,

I don’t know if you consider this a bug, but I do.

If you go to the buy section of the trading post, you can type in the search box to narrow down the list of items right?

Well, now try to take a message in chat, then try to type in the search box again. For me at least, I cant, it thinks i’m putting in commands rather then typing, so when I press space, I jump, etc.

Its only a slight annoyance as its fixed by changing tabs, but still, hope you notice this and look into it.

On a side note, this is probably lag on my end more then anything, but I’ve noticed that when pressing enter to start a chat message, or when coming back from the map, it doesn’t recognise my first key press, so I either end up opening tons of windows I dont want, or “will you please be quiet” turns into “ill you please be quiet”.

As I said, this is probably an issue on my end and not a bug, but I would appreciate hearing from someone on what this would be from.

Regards,

Rurik

fair enough then, also content, not contempt

I did rata sum! It was awesome, but disappointingly easy with half fall damage. Same with getting into salma district. My personal favourite spot is on top of owl shrine in snowden drifts. Its easy to get to really, but I have never seen anyone up there and its just a cool little place

Konig Des Todes.2086:

WarriorOfAsgard.3705:

Priestess Rhie mentions it if you talk to her during the Speaker of the Dead quest.

Wrong – during that personal story step, she just says he’s the son of Dwayna.

The son of a mortal sculptor comes from one of the last personal story steps, Cathedral of Silence, where you chose between beseeching Grenth or looking for Romke’s ghost.

Dreamwalker.3617:

At the time, only some races were able to use magic; the mursaat, seers, jotun, forgotten, etc. were probably ruling the world before the dragons re-awoke. So Abbadon looks at the magic and thinks, “hey, why can’t everybody have that?”

The biggest flaw in this is that the mursaat were not on the world, the seers were (mostly) destroyed, and magic was sealed in the Bloodstone by the time the Six Gods arrived.

Narcemus.1348:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

• The previously mentioned Orrian History Scrolls’ bit on Lyssa states that the two sisters lived among humans in Wren, working apart from the other gods in order to sooth humanity’s sadness and forget the past. This indicates to me that humanity – perhaps the gods, were refugees.

I want to write this stating that this isn’t meant to discard your theory, but merely to try and understand it better. Now we know that humanity was in Tyria hundreds of years before appearing in Tyria (Orr specifically). The only reason I write this is because if Lyssa was helping the people of Wren overcome their sadness this would have been many generations after they came out of the mists and into the land south of Cantha. All in all, I’m relatively still confused as to the story of the human beginnings.

I should make a correction to my old post, as since writing that I’ve realized that the Orrian History Scrolls are saying that Lyssa’s bringing the gods happiness and helping them forget the past. Or at least that’s a possible interpretation. “Them” is used, so it’s a bit ambiguous. The Orrian History Scrolls also bring up Wren after bringing up the forgetting the past. The full Lyssa excerpt, typo and all:

The two who are one, Issa and Lys, brought with her the hope and beauty of humanity. While the other gods focused on building Arah and beginning a new future, Lyssa gave them joy and helped them forget the past. For a while she lived, veiled and hidden, in the village of Wren. When the building of Arah was completed Lyssa was commanded to join the other gods, though her tears fell like rain among the western road.

[note: names are wrong in here, it’s Lyss and Ilya]

As to the story of human beginnings… that’s all fairly unclear still, but as it stands it seems the Six Gods arrived on the world at Arah, which seems to hold forgotten ruins even now so likely did then (as the ruins in question were where Glint was “purified” of Kralkatorrik’s corruption which happened during the ED’s last rise), and brought humanity to a location south of Cantha – from there, humanity slowly moved northward as the Six Gods built Arah, and gathered magical artifacts of the ancient races (completely oblivious to the fact Zhaitan rested beneath them, it seems).

No offence to your ideas and opinions, they are still good and possible, and I usually agree with you, but here I don’t.

The problem I see with your idea is that for your idea to work, all the things written by humans about the gods has to be correct. And the idea that drkn seems to be suggesting, and that I want to agree with, is that this is not the case.

The whole idea of the gods manipulating humans, of being humans originally, is that they put out stories and tales that they did this and that, that they brought humanity to tyria, that they reshaped the world. But thats all it is, tales, to make the humans believe in them.

Which is the sole reason a plot point like this could work out.

I am not saying that your theory is wrong, but there is a basis to why it could be wrong.

Of course thats ignoring the existence of Balthazar’s half brother Menzies and Dhuum. Dhuum could perhaps be handwaved as being the owner of the UW before Grenth discovered his way into the realm, but for Menzies to be Balthazar’s half brother and have power to potentially rival him, it would suggest that the gods had parents, who were gods themselves. Of course again, we havn’t actually seen Menzies, so this could be another made up story.

If you watch the wooden potatos video linked, he points out the gated door that is seen in lots of areas where there is possible expansion content awaiting its chance to be played.

I would think the people go through this guarded door, find a teleport to the castle (possibly one way, possibly not but they come back as elementals, if that theory is true), and so they see them go through that door and know that they are being invited to the castle, but never see them come back through the door.

The great collapse was possible, through broken textures, in the beta weekend 2, and its filled with invisible water about halfway down that goes insanely deep. Those bugs have since been fixed and as far as I know there is no way in.

Odd View Sarvong.1098:

Curuniel.4830:

ArenaNet apparently have a ‘Guild Wars 2 Bible’ which has everything about the world, the history, all the secrets and plans for the future in it (the novel writers and people like that get to use it as a resource). Since they’re not likely to let us get our hands on that though…

Why the hell not? That sounds awesome!

Because it contains their potential plans for the future and they do not want people having it in case these plans do not pan out.

Curuniel.4830:

It takes as much effort to write like that as it does to read it, Rurik – you can tell it’s not just laziness because all the abbreviated words have apostrophes in the right places! So unfortunately I think it’s safe to say that Jack’s distinctive forum posts are a stylistic choice you’d have to talk her out of :P

well… I am pretty stubborn…. Challenge accepted! or not… too lazy