Guild Wars 2

I’ve just had this bug happen to me, too. I was on the troll path and did kill every enemy along the way, so that can’t be the reason for the bug. During the end fight against the one chak near the magister, Braham did not help fighting and stood too far back and once the fight was done, the game told me to talk to Braham and he had the green star over his head, but could not be interacted with.

Please, please fix this, this is extremely frustrating, especially since the bug occurs only at the very end of the instance and makes players waste a lot of their time. I’m absolutely not looking forward to retrying this if chances are high it’s just going to bug again, but I can’t continue my story without this either.

I’ve been having this problem for several days or maybe a week, too. On more than one account and on more than one computer. Several of our guildies are reporting the same problem. To the people who have posted in this thread before me, are you EU players, too? I suspect this problem might be limited to certain regions of EU.

Is there any chance the very low character limit for the text on writeable guild hall decorations could be set to something higher?

Our guild would like to make a guild birthday calendar out of them, but even if we split up the text into twelve decorations (one for each month), we get into trouble with the limit as soon as more than three people have their birthdays in the same month.

I know this is a rather specific usage of these writeables and probably not what you intended them for originally, but I’m sure other guilds had nice ideas to use writeables for as well and were deterred by the extremely low character limit, too.

This is still happening. Guild banners disappear as soon as the character who planted them leaves the map. Please fix it, it takes a lot of enjoyment and functionality out of guild banners and it is sad to see so much fewer of them shared between players. If I plant a banner, I’d like to see it used and enjoyed by others for its full duration, not only for 2 minutes.

Number 242, please, if it isn’t taken yet.
Character Name: Neala Riverflower

84 for me, please, if it’s still free. If not, any other number is fine, too.

When I bring friends into my home instance with me to let them gather the resource nodes, the cloth rack map symbol disappears for everyone whenever the first player gathers it (independently on if that first player is the instance owner or not). This is very confusing for everyone, please fix the symbol to track for each player separately if they have gathered the cloth rack yet or not. The cloth rack is the only one of my home instance nodes I’m having this problem with, all the others have their symbols remaining until they were gathered by the specific player.

Steampipe Steading (in Southsun Cove) is the only one of the four possible spawn locations for the Karka Queen that does not have a waypoint. People with slow computers and long loading screens risk missing the Karka Queen entirely if they help with a pre-event elsewhere and then have to run all the way to Steampipe Steading.

Because players do not want to risk missing the boss, a lot of them are always gathered at Steampipe Steading and just wait there idly in case the boss will spawn there while letting others complete the missing pre-events. Players should never be punished for helping with the pre-events and it would help the map-wide cooperation to have a waypoint at Steampipe Steading (and make players’ life a bit easier). So please, give us a waypoint at Steampipe Steading.

Number 39 for me, please.

Character Name: Neala Riverflower

Oh, and I’ve noticed a lot of players seem to have chosen a number that was already taken. So to help everyone a little, I’ll post a list here of numbers that are still free until Eexa has time to get the list on the front page up to date:

Numbers that are not taken yet:
10
20
43
forty-five (sorry, the forum kept changing these two numbers to “kitten”)
fifty-one
53
59
60
61
63
65
78
80
81
83
86
91
92
93
96
97
98

Hm, it seems like several people, myself included, somehow didn’t get entered into your list after choosing a number:

Number 17 – ZeroBaseZone.8321
Number 84 – Bennieboj.2607
Number 69 – Hsigo.1403
Number 77 – hix.8374
Number 36 – NoisyBoy.4218
Number 32 – Sapphirine.1023
Number 12 – Lexy.3912

I’d like the 32, please.

Please give us a bank slot for Foxfire Clusters, so that they can be deposited in the material storage part of the bank.

Also, it can be quite confusing for new players that Foxfire Clusters don’t have the marking that all other crafting materials have, showing which crafting profession uses them and at which crafting level. Right now, they don’t even look like a material used in crafting, even though they are since chefs use them to craft plant food. Please add the “Chef (400)” marking to them.

Oh, I won the carol contest? Haha, that’s good to know! Thank you (both) so much for the llama! And of course thank you for organizing the Blunderland in general!

Have the raffle winners, the art contest winners, and the winning carol been announced somewhere?

Fete Now This Night
(to the melody of Fear Not This Night – you probably guessed that already)

Fete now this night
Make sure you are there
Though snowflakes fall
Warmth is still in the air

Aurora Glade has a festival
Come and be Malafide’s guest
The Mad Queen has funny games
But also an epic quest

Darkness spreads throughout the land
As the dragon’s wings open silently
The chill will consume us all
Unless we combine our strength

Summon the ancient power now
Top hat, his arms a bough

The Snowman King
Magic essence laid bare
He will prevail
Over Jormag’s despair

In his eyes a fierce battle glint
His name is Daniel Frozenwind

A power so pure lies inside
In him our trust we confide

Distant sounds, a dying breath
Of a dragon in misery
Aurora Glade, raise up and dance
The Shiverpeaks are free

It’s a bit annoying that my currently equipped finisher keeps getting overwritten during festivals like Halloween and Wintersday whenever I use a consumable finisher. I’d like to be able to simply “inscribe” consumable finishers to my list of available finishers without having them equipped as current finisher afterwards.

The way the “content guide” in the options is working right now, it’s confusing for many players, which is especially noticeable now with the new dailies that require you to do events on a certain map. A lot of players don’t seem to realize that there is actually an option that shows you the closest event on your map, even if you’re out of range for that particular event.

The reason for that is probably that there isn’t actually any option named “Show Events”, but only an option to “Hide Events and Personal Story”. The other possible choices are currently “Default”, “Off” and “Disable Personal Story”. So it isn’t really surprising that many players don’t know one of these does actually highlight events.

It’s even worse for the really useful tool of highlighting the closest map completion item, which a lot of players don’t even know exists because it isn’t mentioned anywhere in those options, even though it is included there.

My suggestion would be to split this “content guide” option into 4 separate checkboxes with clear naming, to avoid any confusion and to allow us to combine more freely which content we’d like to see:

- Highlight closest event
- Highlight closest map completion discovery
- Show Personal Story
- Show Living Story

I personally would actually even prefer to have an option to show ALL events on the map I’m on, not only the closest one, but I’m not sure if the majority of other players would agree with that. And I’d really like to be able to show events and map completion items while hiding personal story and living story, which isn’t possible under the current system.

I’d maybe even include festival announcements in the “Show Living Story” option, because I’d really like to be able to hide the “A Very Merry Wintersday” and “Winter Competitive Events” announcements after having seen them a lot of times by now, to free up that space at the right edge of the screen. Either that, or give us a way to close them entirely after having read them.

72, please

Thanks a lot for organizing this event!

This is not about work, this is about being pain for some players (I’m not the only one and have heard of others with the same problem in their wrist or hand) and a game is supposed to be fun, which is certainly diminished by pain. And if resource nodes in this game were intended to be “looked for”, like you say, they wouldn’t have symbols on the minimap. The same is true for bandit chests and the pling they have on the minimap. It also can’t be good for anything to accidentally keep activating other game functions, like skill linking, just because the game with its original key binding would force you to press CTRL constantly.

Edit: Oh, and if you still want that fun of finding, like you call it, you could always deactivate the suggested option to show object names.

Yeah, for me it’s not a problem with which key to bind to it either. There isn’t -any- key I’d want to press constantly, especially not for something the game should be doing by itself. CTRL is as good/bad as any other key for me. I don’t even understand the reason for why there hasn’t been an option to show object names all along, since there is one for player names, for NPC names and for enemy names.

I actually do this sometimes, but I still think such measures shouldn’t be necessary and that it would be much preferable if anet just gave us an option to show item names.

So, uhm, I decided to take part in the art contest, the only trouble is that I can’t really draw… at all. So don’t laugh, please – or maybe do, since it’s meant to be funny, I guess. Wait, why did I decide to participate in an art contest?

Account Name: Sapphirine.1023
Character Name: Neala Riverflower

Is there any chance we can get mini wombats at some point in the future? I’d absolutely love to see those!

Michael, thank you so much for the bump for ticket 941145! It worked and I have my mini llama now!

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Character: Neala Riverflower

Agreed, especially the part about showing the name plates of objects like buried chests in Dry Top constantly like player names. I already mentioned in another topic how much I miss that option because it causes me wrist pain to keep a key pressed to see the chests in a sandstorm.

And yeah, I’d also love a mouse view so that I don’t have to keep the mouse key pressed for jumping puzzles, especially for timed ones like the Clocktower and the Wintersday JP.

Thanks for your replies. The keybinding to a different key won’t work for me, though, because I have a small, light mouse with only few keys which I already use for other things like dodging. And basically any keyboard key I would have to keep pressed constantly would cause the same pain, even if it’s not CTRL. I know there is a fixed number of chest locations, but there were already around 100 even before Challenger Cliffs were added and the chests are very hard to spot without pressing a key to show the name plates. I really wish there was an option in the game to show object name plates constantly, just like player names. Really not sure why there isn’t.

Is it allowed to activate the “Sticky Keys” option from Windows while playing Guild Wars 2 or would that count as botting or otherwise violate the rules? I’m asking because I get bad pain in my wrist from being forced to keep CTRL pressed constantly when looking for Buried Locked Chests in Dry Top, so I really need some sort of alternative for that because I can’t keep playing like this.

941145: I was told my ticket was escalated 3 days ago, but I haven’t heard anything since then.

The point of interest “Doric’s Shrine” in Karst Plains on the map Malchor’s Leap is invisible on the map because it overlaps with “Doric’s Waypoint”. The waypoint has a higher activation range than the point of interest, so it happens repeatedly that a player gets the waypoint, but not the PoI, and is then entirely unable to see the missing PoI on their map beneath the waypoint. Please move the waypoint and the point of interest apart from each other to remove a source of frustration for players working on map completions.

I have seen it happen a lot of times now that a relatively new player spent their gold/fractal relics on two ascended rings or accessories with exactly the same name, not knowing that they cannot equip both of them if they’re marked as “unique”.

In my opinion, just that one word “unique” does not explain at all that you cannot equip two items with the same name, and so it will keep frustrating players in the future, so it would be great if you could find a way to communicate this more clearly in the game. Or just get rid of the “unique” concept altogether and let players equip two of the same rings if they wish to, since all it seems to do is create unnecessary complications and frustration.

The news article titled “Avatar of Death Finisher and More in the Gem Store!” is not showing anything but its title, the date “by Evon Gnashblade on September 16, 2014” and then some buttons to like/tweet/share for both me and my friend on a different computer, so it’s not an issue specific to my computer or browser. No pictures or text beneath that line with the buttons at all.

When changing the “en” in the URL to “de” to open the German version of that annoucement, everything on that site works fine and it shows pictures and text.

This might be the reason a lot of players are unaware about the free items in the gem store this week and should be fixed soon.

I just wanted to say thanks a lot to whoever repositioned the trees in the human and sylvari home instances! I’m really happy now that I can use my favorite home instance in the Grove again for the daily gathering.

Is this for EU or NA?

Is this for NA or EU?

The trees in the Dreamer’s Terrace (sylvari home instance) are even worse, IMHO. A wooden barrier is between them and all the other nodes, so that you can’t run to them easily. There’s only a confusing way over several floors and bridges all over the instance to get to the trees, or you dive through the water at the entrance of the instance directly to the trees, but then you can’t reach the other nodes from there. Can the trees please be relocated in the sylvari instance? Maybe to where the Belcher’s Bluff NPC is standing, that would be easily reachable from the other nodes. Either that, or remove that silly wooden barrier between the pond and the tree nodes. I have no clue why it’s there anyway. And of course I agree that the tree and the obelisk shard in the human instance shouldn’t be overlapping either.

Wow, that’s incredibly generous of you! Thanks a lot for doing this for the community!

Let’s see who’ll be super lucky.

The ascended book back item skin which is named “Koss on Koss” in the wardrobe (but looks the same for all the ascended book items) does not unlock for my ascended “Symon’s History of Ascalon”. In case that information is relevant, it is the non-infused version and has a Simple Infusion with +5 Agony Resistance in it.

Please fix this skin unlock, I’d really like to be able to use other back item skins without having to fear not getting the unlock for the book skin after putting another skin on my item with the wardrobe system.

Can EU players buy tickets, too, or is being present at the events a requirement to win a prize?

Thank you for the present! I love m… wait, if it’s secret, am I allowed to say here what I got?

Laevvi, my asura guardian in her springtime dress
Caudecus’s Manor (story mode, beginning)

Always busy, always diligent,
Suddenly something is different.
The gate to Rata Sum is working no more,
Someone else has to take over her chore.

With nothing to do, and no talk,
She might as well go for a walk.
Stranded in a place that smells of bookah,
She drops her heavy armor and her charrzooka.

The first warm sunrays touch her skin,
Yes, now it really feels like spring.

Armor: Gladiator Chestplate, Truyere Leggings
Dyes: Hydrangea & Celestial

And if you’re wondering now why an asura has a charrzooka, well, that’s a long story involving a norn, a charr, a lot of ale and a drunk jotun.

I’m not entirely sure if this is the right forum to post this, but since there isn’t a suggestions forum any longer, this seemed like the most fitting place because this is about the website.

After clicking on the “Support” link at the top of the page, the new page that opens seems to have a somewhat counter-intuitive layout. The most prominent things on the page are the big search bar and the big headline about Phishing and the page encourages the user to scroll down further to look at the different support types like “Account Support” and “Game Support”.

During all that, the small link to “Submit a request” in the upper right corner somewhat gets lost, especially after scrolling down far enough for that menu at the top of the page to vanish entirely. I would suggest to create an additional much more prominent link or button at the bottom of the page to avoid user confusion.

Also, a direct link to the forum topic “Tickets for Review (3 days and older)” (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Tickets-for-Review-3-days-and-older-merged) with a remark to give support 3 days to reply before posting there might save Gaile Gray and others some time by keeping players from posting in other parts of the forums about not having received a reply from support yet.

Another remark that players should not create a new ticket for the same issue since that would just slow down support, but instead just update their old ticket (and how to do that) might be helpful as well and avoid another source of problems.

Neala Riverflower
Sylvari Mesmer

Head:
Storm Eye
not dyeable

Shoulders:
/

Chest:
Orchid Coat (Sylvari cultural tier 2)
dyes: Pastel Peach/Vincent/Vincent

Gloves:
Fire God’s Light Vambraces (Hall of Monuments skin)
dyes: Pastel Peach/Pastel Peach/Pastel Peach

Leggings:
Orchid Leggings (Sylvari cultural tier 2)
dyes: Vincent/Pastel Peach/Vincent

Boots:
Snapdragon Boots (Sylvari cultural tier 1)
dyes: Pastel Peach/Pastel Peach/Pastel Peach

Weapons:
Fiery Dragon Sword (sword) (Hall of Monuments skin)
The Anomaly (focus)
Vision of the Mists (greatsword)

I have always found the tier 2 chest and leg pieces to be the most beautiful and elegant of the sylvari cultural light armor skins, but I combined it with the tier 1 boots because I found the leaf tendrils around the legs to be prettier than the tier 2 boot skin. Shoulder skins are always invisible with the Orchid chest armor, so I didn’t list those.

The gloves I liked most with that combination is the Hall of Monuments skin “Fire God’s Light Vambraces”, but only because the chest armor makes most of the gloves invisible, so that only three gems floating above each hand are visible. Because of its purplish lightning aura, I liked the Storm Eye most as head gear.

This event was awesome fun, thanks a lot for it!

Somehow this post from last page didn’t get added to the list:

abandoned.5073:

128 for me, Syr Falis

Happy Wintersday!

185 – Neala Riverflower

Thanks for organizing this.

I’m one of the players who were unable to complete the Fractured achievements as well, because my father was visiting from another country in exactly the time that this Living Story chapter happened. I’m sad that I was unable to complete the missing parts of it and I’d be very thankful if you could make those achievements available again for some more time. It’s Christmas soon, so you could spread some happiness to many players by giving us a chance to still complete our achievements. Please? I have cookies for the programmers who make them available again!

And a small addition to Gaile’s small addition: This also includes the contents of the guild bank. Whatever you might have placed into your guild bank on your old server will remain on your old server, so make sure things you want to keep are in your personal bank, not the guild bank.

Lordryux, has the patch fixed your problems with logging in?