From what you posted (+34 from shoulders) I only get a sum of 728 thoughness (+1000 base). Did you add the stats of both weapon sets together ? (Because it doesn’t work like that).
Also your picture shows only 1.5k something toughness, so I assume you might have been downscaled ? (Scaling also affects your actual attributes)
I’ve recently (since around HoT launch) noticed, that quite number of my stomps/Finishers in sPvP seem to miss.
I main Mesmer and so far it hasn’t happened on any other class. What happens is that even though I do not get interrupted and the move (character animation) finishes, the downed enemy target just stays alive and the actual finishing move doesn’t trigger.
I mostly use Mantra of Stability for Stability during stomps & now and then the trait ‘Seize the Moment’ for some instant Quickness. I feel like the failed finishing happens more often if I actually have Quickness on me, but i couldn’t get any reliable results from testing it on a few NPCs in the heart of mists.
Has anyone else encountered this problem (especially while playing Mesmer) ?
The own things that bugs me with the current options is the missing Char-slot in the standard version. I may be prejudiced from GW1 here, but I kind of expected an extra Char-slot with the expansion. I’m hoping that Anet will throw in the Char-Slot, at least for ‘Veteran players’ that already have an account.
Some further comments to the usual arguments:
- ‘We don’t know what we’ll get’. So what, we didn’t knew when we bought GW2 back when it came out and we didn’t knew all the details for pretty much every other game we ever bought. I’ve never been disappointed by Anet with stuff they brought into the game for free – sure there were hick-ups but they always managed in the end, just look at what the next update promises.
- ‘But the others get the base game free’. I actually don’t have anything to say here that hasn’t been said: This is basically the only option that draws in new players – and even with the gem store new players are still one of Anets two income sources. I think the problem with this is completely psychological, people that already have an account feel like they are missing out – any sort of compensation (e.g. extra Char slot, see above) would probably dampen this a lot.
I’ll repost this here, so other people can double check it and put it on the list, if it’s confirmed:
I just tried to make a build with the Mesmer trait Disruptor’s Sustainment (Inspiration XIII, +1k Healing power on interrupt), but I’m not sure if the trait works.
If I interrupt an enemy (in pvp or pve) with the trait active I do not get any buff. While this might not be a bug in itself, it’s really hard to test whether the trait works or not otherwise. It’s also almost impossible to use the trait if you can not determine if the buff is active or not.
I just tried to make a build with the Mesmer trait Disruptor’s Sustainment (Inspiration XIII, +1k Healing power on interrupt), but I’m not sure if the trait works.
If I interrupt an enemy (in pvp or pve) with the trait active I do not get any buff. While this might not be a bug in itself, it’s really hard to test whether the trait works or not otherwise. It’s also almost impossible to use the trait if you can not determine if the buff is active or not.
I made a puzzle (or riddle) for anyone who likes stuff like this to solve. I got inspired to do this by the Cisra puzzle competition (if you like difficult puzzles, definitely check them out).
The basic idea is that the puzzle just consits out of one pdf (with a title that may give a hint) and has one word or phrase as solution, anything apart from that you have to figure out on yourself (especially how to solve it). Of course it should be solvable (I hope mine is) and if you notice some regularities that seem to make sense its very likely they are intended to be found. In any case you should search for a way to somehow uncover letters or words, because the solution (always) is a word/phrase.
So yeah I hope there are some people out there that will try this. Of course you can also discuss (steps to) the solution here, but please use [spoiler]-tags in case there are people that want to do it on there own.
[The quality of the attached png-Version of the puzzle is kinda crappy, so here’s a dropbox link to the pdf-version]
People here really mix up their own expectations with what -they think- has been promised /hinted at. From the beginning of the beta or the game you had to choose a region. In that region you could do server transfers, and they said you could guest on servers to play with your friends there. Just one look at that window could tell you that the servers from other regions were never even there to go guest on them.
But it totally worked in GW1 !!!
Yeah well, GW1 was another game, with another server-infrastructure, which had to handle only instanced areas. Ups they changed that for GW2, cause we wanted an open world.
Seriously how anyone expect that something that worked with instances, that (excpet for town areas) had max. 8 (or 16 in PvP) players in it, should also work for areas ten times as big with over a 100 players in it?
And the thing with ‘just make it a double account on both regions’. So basically you want all the stuff your paying for in your (chosen!) region, all the same on another one, also with free synchronization please? It’s been said here: double the data & the the data flow is nothing you can just make ‘work somehow’.
The moment I read about a new item tier I thought ‘nah, this can’t be real. We’re talking about Guild Wars here …’ then I realized I got the link to the article from Arena Net too.
I think this is a really really bad idea. Because even if the stat increase is only a slight one, and even if the infusion slots do NOT give any special abilities/boni, the most players will want the new ascended armor. But many may not want to change their armor skin, so as long as this new armor doesn’t come with free transmutation we’re forced to buy Fine Transmutationstones. Not cool, again. The moment you start forcing people to use items you usually can only get via Gems to stay ‘on Top’ you are stomping those fundamentals that make the game great into the ground. You are gonna -kitten- a LOT of players
Then again this would really be the first time Arena Net would make a decision (or change to the game) that disappoints me. So here his hoping this all sounds much worse than it actually is …
[Also PLEASE fix the Arah event chain. I couldn’t finish my personal story yet, cause every time (or weekend) I try to get into it with my guild the kitten event chain is stuck again]
The explorer achievement does not count these things (it actually says ingame that it counts areas, so the things on the map with the white names). There list for areas for all maps on the wiki or here in the forum (in the wiki you can look which area’s dont have PoIs/vistas since these are the only ones you can actually miss)
I had the same problem (all tabs of the Gem-store weren’t loading, Gold & gem’s I had did not display at all) and this fix worked.
Now idea how it happened though: this computer has Win7-Prof and though I didn’t use it the last month it did the Windows update today and Gemstore was working during the beta.
Okay update:
So the fix worked – and somehow still works. But I had to reapply it after shutting down my Pc, no idea if its a problem on my side or a (possibly) generall issure; also I only works if I run this file before starting GW2. Just wanted to add this
This happened to my the 4th time now, I managed to get this bug with ‘Phase Retreat’ Skill, I managed to do it with ‘Deception’ (the 2nd Downed Skill on the Mesmer), and just now I managed to it by rallying (after using deception).
It’s really annoying because – unless you manage to find a place that isnt in the water in this interplanar space (most times its impossible) – you cant get out, other than using a waypoint or relogging. It also happened to me during the fight against the ‘Howling King’ (one of the endbosses in AC explorable mode).
I think the bug lies somewhere in the ‘teleport away from’ mechanic in these skills, the check wether you hit against some wall or not doesnt seem to work all the time.
