Guild Wars 2

This has happened three times in the last ten minutes in Kessex Hills. Game disconnects from server and all progress lost. No problem, however, with Bloodstone Fen where I have been playing earlier on for two hours.

Looking through some of the old posts on the Forum regarding Mesmer builds I was suddenly struck by a wave of nostalgia for the way we used to put together builds before the June 2015 updates. I seem to remember there was quite a bad reaction to the new streamlining of the trait lines and the way that skills could only be unlocked at certain levels. I suppose it is in the nature of an online MMORPG that we are all swept along with the changes the developers make to the game, like them or no. If you don’t like them you don’t play the game anymore. However, I wonder how many players out there would like to be able to turn the clock back to play the game at a certain point and at what point that would be?

Does anyone actually incorporate any of the Racial Utility Skills in their builds?
It would seem they were made part of the game so that players who chose a particular race could pick a defining skill in their build. Some races have three skills, others only two (did Anet run out of ideas?) None of these skills seem worth their place on a skill bar when far more powerful and synergetic utilities can be chosen.
Would it be a good idea to replace these with some new skills available to all races or should Anet revamp these skills in some way so that they bcome a more attractive proposition when thinking about a character build?

Happened to me twice this evening at Dostoev Sky Peak. When you resume the game you are in a different place than when the game crashed. Very disconcerting when you are face to face with enemies you had just killed!

Same problem here – and really difficult to login to forum as well.

When I travel to this waypoint the visuals takes some seconds to load up: my character starts off suspended in mid-air above a snowy landscape that gradually fills itself in with buildings and other characters until the scene is complete. This doesn’t happen with any of the other waypoint screens in Hoelbrak or anywhere else.
Anyone else experience this?

Crashed twice in the last ten minutes on Dredgehaunt Cliffs using 64-bit client. Sent crash report to ANet both times.

I’m using the 64-bit client and the game has crashed to desktop twice this evening – never had that happen before.

No, it’s both the 32-bit and 64-bit game client.

Cannot log into Hoelbrak instance “A Weapon of Legend”
Screen message reads:
InstanceCreate failed. Error=1036; Product=9; Module=18; Line=624

Have downloaded 40% and now come to a shuddering halt at 0Kb/sec with 23897 files still to go. I’m wondering if I’ll get the chance to play tonight…

Download speed reminds me of my old dial-up connection…

I now see two other threads regarding similar issues: ‘Character Creation Camera works incorrectly’ and ‘Camera angle in character creation’. The first thread is 20 days old. Come on ANet – get this fixed. It’s the first thing that new players experience when they start playing so you need to get this sorted out quickly.

Posted separately about the same problem – didn’t see this thread.

When creating a new character I now notice that when you come to choosing the head features the head drops down to the very bottom of the screen so that it is the only part of the character visible. Also the background lighting effects seem to encroach on the facial features making it difficult to decide what to choose. It’s some time since I created a new character but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t always like this. If that’s the way it’s supposed to be from now on then I would have to say it’s not very satisfactory at all. In addition, the actual mechanics of turning the head from side to side only seem to operate when the hand appears on the hairline of the face and not anywhere else – again I feel sure that this was not intentional.
Has anyone else had this problem – I presume it has nothing to do with the camera settings or is that a possibility?

Hi, I would like to receive an invitation as an EU student. I have been doing AC story mode and would really appreciate some help progressing through the explorable modes as well as the more difficult dungeons.

Apologies if this sort of question has already been answered on the forum.
I have my Guild Wars 2 folder (containing Gw2.dat and Gw2.exe etc) located on my C drive which only has 18Gb of free space left. I am concerned that the expansion and subsequent updates might run out of space on this drive. However, I have another internal drive (D drive)which has over 500 Gb of free space. Will I be able to install Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns on the D drive and still play the complete game or would the expansion need to be on the same drive as the original game?

So, I just earned my 6,000 AP Achievement Chest and what a disappointment it turned out to be! After all the hard work getting from 5,000 to 6,000 I would have thought the rewards would have been better. I got some stones for the Mystic Forge, a couple of Revive Orbs, some Karma, a couple of Writs of Experience, two blueprints for stuff I’m never going to want, a Bank Access Express and some boosters. No weapons, no armor, no upgrades, no rings or amulets, no special stuff from the Gem Store, not even the makeover ticket that came with 5,000 Achievement Chest. Oh, yes, I forgot another Hall of Monuments Portal Stone (surely one is enough?). With all the fuss over the new Dailies it makes me wonder what exactly we are all doing them for?

Found the same problem – Trading Post seems to take forever to do sales. This has been going on for some weeks now.

Trading Post sales are being shown as ‘Success’ but the wording underneath refers to the sales as being ‘listed for sale’.

Elana (Trading Post) does not respond – asked someone else to try with same result.

Just had the same problem.

Kuldebar.1897:

Having rerolled a low level elementalist to give a fair “shake” in trying out the new changes…I can’t do it, it’s intolerable.

Leveling is duller than ever before with no noticeable incentives. It’s a pseudo-horizontal progression…a failed attempt at masking the actual vertical progression game.

Tying trait unlocks and enforcing hard level gating to tiers has hammered the nail into the little that remained of free-form play in the game.

Play it your way? Too bad ANet doesn’t understand that concept!

After returning to GW2 after 8 months, I’m out again after 5 days back.

Playing ALTs is now a joyless endeavor, the content is simply not compelling enough to warrant such a system.

Have to agree.

pdavis.8031:

Dungeons
HotW: Honor of the Waves
AC: Ascalonian Catacombs
CoF: Citadel of Flame
CoE: Crucible of Eternity
TA: Twilight Arbor
CM: Caudecus’s Manor
SE: Sorrows Embrace
Px: Dungeon path “X” (AC P3 would be Ascalonian Catacombs path 3, or the third option)
General
AoE: Area of Effect
DPS: Damage per Second
CC: Crowd Control
Zerg: A group of players in a group moving quickly from event to event, or objective. (Taken from Star Craft)
LFG: Looking for group
QQ: A term used for whining, or complaining.
L2P: Learn to play
Ping: shift-clicking gear to display to party/group

GW2 specific
JP: Jumping Puzzle
WP: Waypoint
Build: Term used to define specific gear/trait allocation for a specific play style.
PHIW: Play how I want. Used by people wishing to divert from the widely accepted way to play.
Meta: The current most effective build(s)/style of play.
Zerk(er): Beserker gear, often associated with DPS builds.
Elitist: Term used by those who disagree with the Meta.
Noob: Those who disagree with a build/style that differs from the meta.

Thats all I can think of for now. Some of these you may already know, but I thought having a more comprehensive list might be a bit more helpful.

Thank you, this was just the sort of thing I was looking for – if you can add anything else going forward I would greatly appreciate it.

Would it be possible for a glossary of the abbreviations, terms and jargon used in the forums to be ‘stickied’ somewhere? I don’t think I’m particularly dense but sometimes reading through the various posts I find myself stumped by the meaning of certain terms that everyone else obviously recognizes. I can always look some stuff up on Google but certain things are specific to GW2. An example would be ‘Holy Trinity’ that’s in the title of the one the posts below. The term ‘CDI’ is another example, QoL, HotW and so on. I always enjoy reading through the forums and finding out what people’s views are on various subjects, so for me a glossary would help my understanding of what is being said.
I found HotW on the GW2 Wiki, but not QoL. Now I know that QoL stands for Quality of Life, but what does Quality of Life mean in relation to GW2?
If such a glossary could be regularly updated by posters I’m sure it would prove helpful to those new to the forums and Guild Wars 2 as well as older players.

Black Lion Trading Post ‘Service Unavailable’ HTTP Error 503 when I hit the ‘O’ key.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Update: we have just pushed a fix for this issue live. We’re monitoring it, but please let us know if you’re continuing to experience problems or if you see anything out of the ordinary regarding this issue.

So now everyone else has disappeared. I am completely alone near the Altar Brook Crossing and there’s not a soul about. So I logged out and back in again. All now normal, except Black Lion Trading service is unavailable when I hit the O key. Then it is available when I get to the agent. Things seem very glitchy.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Hey all: The development team is currently investigating this issue and working to address it.

It would help if we had as much detail as possible regarding this bug so that we can relay that information to the team.

I was in Queensdale moving towards Shaemoor when disconnected with code 7:11:3:191:101. Logged back in to find myself back in Claypool. Started off towards Shaemoor again when disconnected. Logged back in and my character’s map completion statistic showed zero instead of 64%. Pressed ‘play’ got 2 minutes of game-time when disconnected again with the same code.

Tasty Pudding.3764:

Error code: 7:11:3:191:101

Same code for me.

Four disconnects in the last half hour. This is ridiculous. Please fix this asap.

Not only are Toxic Ooze bouncing all over the place but the bandits are trying to blow up the water pipes at the same time! Apprentice Jameson doesn’t want the Blobs of Toxin I have collected, so it looks like it’s gonna be bottled water for the residents of Shaemoor until someone sorts out the problem.

On exiting Northpasture Camp Captain Edwards gets stuck fighting an ‘invulnerable’ Harathi horseman. As the horseman never dies the group cannot proceed.

“This new system for acquiring traits in the game brings back an aspect of the original Guild Wars that we really liked [my italics], which was exploring the world as a major component of character progression” (quote from Roy Cronacher, announcing the April Feature Pack).
Who exactly is the ‘we’ he refers to? Because I don’t think he can have been referring to the GW2 player-base. I have scanned the various forums and I can’t see any posts that were clamouring for this change to the perfectly good trait system we had before.
The announcement for the April Feature Pack begins by saying that “Once you reach the appropriate level, we want you to be able to dive right into the system and start playing around with it, so you’ll unlock each tier for free!” Ending sentences with exclamation points does not make them more palatable – so I get to level 60 and the master level traits for my necro are unlocked but I don’t have any trait points spare to start being able to “dive right into the system”.
The announcement continues “As part of this approach to making traits more approachable, we’ve pushed back the level at which the different trait tiers unlock for new characters in order to better pace the early game experience and to add more meaningful character progression from levels 30 to 80.” ‘Approachable’? Where are the players who were saying that the traits were not approachable? And as for the the idea that the early game experience will now be better paced – this is simply not the case as can be seen by the vast majority of negative comments above. “Meaningful character progression” is another phrase that has absolutely no meaning – running all over the place from dungeon to WvW to area completion does not give invest my character progression with meaning. It invests it with grinding and lack of enjoyment. Everything to do with character progression changes from being enjoyable to a chore.
“With this system, spending traits will be much easier for new players to understand. Right now, there is the possibility for someone who doesn’t really know the system to spend 11 trait points in one line and 14 in another and wind up with a less effective build.” Again, I would ask where were the new players scratching their heads over the old trait system? Were they such a sizeable number that the system had to be changed for their benefit? My new necro, built post-April 15, is level 60 and I don’t have any build, let alone a less effective one. I have a random accumulation of unlocked trait points that bear no relation to one another. Under the old system I was able to experiment with builds as I was progressing – I didn’t mind the cost of refunding my traits, it was nothing compared to now.
As I said before the implication that the trait changes were done for the benefit of players has not been borne out by the vast number of posts welcoming the new system or congratulating the developers on a job well done. For a game that seemed to take pride in listening to its player-base I would like some evidence of which player-base was listened to for these changes.

It’s happened again just now – loads of guys standing around waiting for nothing.

The centaur leader is not rallying his forces for a last stand anymore. The warbeasts do not appear after the counter-attack by the centaurs is foiled. The group event no longer starts.

The following waypoints seem to be permanently contested for the last couple of days:
Penitent
Shelter’s Gate
Jofast

Today when I logged in I had just brought up the Iron Marches screen when the game logged out and a message saying that a serious error had occured with the archive (if I remember correctly). I was asked if I wanted to submit a report – which I did. Then when I tried to log in a message told me that errors had occured with the archive and that if I wished I could verify the archive, I went along with this and 233,000 approx. files were verified and I then logged into the game as normal. Now when I have logged out I am again being asked to verify the archive.
Can someone tell me why this has happened twice since in the last few hours? I don’t like the idea that my game file has become corrupted in some way?

Checked my Inbox this morning and my account has be re-instated. It was terminated on November 6. I submitted a ticket the same day and received an acknowledgement from GW2 Support. The following day I received an email from them requesting further information which I provided. Another email from Support followed telling me that my case had been escalated. Then this morning came the good news.
The system does work – it just takes a little time. Having worked on an IT Helpdesk where I only had to deal with 450 users I would say three days to process my ticket is good service judging by the number of tickets on this forum alone.

Same here. I was playing all afternoon and then logged in the same eevening to find I was banned. Raised a ticket last night. Still no change this morning.

After playing all afternoon yesterday (November 6) I logged in in the evening to find my account had been permanently closed due to botting etc. I have no idea what botting is, I do not use macros and I have not logged in and left the game unattended which are other reeasons listed on the banned screen. This was very upsetting as I had five characters (highest level 48) with whom I had been playing since the beginning of September. I sincerely hope that my account is re-instated and will follow the advice given to keep logging in every so often. I have raised a ticket with support and hope that things are resolved quickly. Logged in again this morning and still blocked.

After playing all afternoon yesterday (November 6) I logged in in the evening to find my account had been permanently closed due to botting etc. I have no idea what botting is, I do not use macros and I have not logged in and left the game unattended which are other reeasons listed on the banned screen. This was very upsetting as I had five characters (highest level 48) with whom I had been playing since the beginning of September. I sincerely hope that my account is re-instated and will follow the advice given to keep logging in every so often. I have raised a ticket with support and hope that things are resolved quickly. Logged in again this morning and still blocked.