Guild Wars 2

It’s now 27th December ’15. Still unable to find an apple vendor or any up to date information on the GW Wiki.

Celine.6857:

Kaspar.3892:

The 2nd funny thing is that Underwater, we have 2 weapons to swap between, ironic fact is that BOTH have to be spears.

I came to the Revenant forums to post a query about this exact thing.

WHY are there two weapon sets for just ONE enabled weapon??? Why can’t revenant use a trident?

Or a speargun which is what other heavy classes use, otherwise, same. I had no idea underwater utilities for glint and jalis would not work underwater till messing about on cursed shore today! Absolutely astounded that l was just reading a thread dated back to September and Anet has only made a work around? They sold the Revenant so hard pre-HOT, now it’s December and still a ‘work-in-progress’? Goodness.

Good for you, however this thread wasn’t created for your kitten, we’re talking about the general Gw players here.

This event and heart have been bugged for possibly over a year. One would think that Anet would want new players to enjoy the game, not be confused and frustrated.
I know I’ve reported both of these before on forums.
It’s certainly very frustrating to find them still not fixed even now.
1. Heart – Help Paenula train troops The pit fighting used to be quite fun yet
hasn’t worked in must be over a year. Instead one is reduced to capturing drakes which is slow and tedious especially with multiple players all trying to finish the heart.
2. Event to access POI Stonecrag Kraal event chain – no way to trigger event and no way to get POI otherwise. A simple fix would be to increase proximity similar to most POI. I managed to jump the fence on my war to get in there and was bounced back out to front gate. I’ve spent over an hour here again, having waited around before on another character….sheesh!

A response from Anet would be appreciated.

Good to see others are onto it too. Lets hope anet takes notice.

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Maybe you succeeded with small guilds because of how dead the BLs are due to the new maps? Or maybe you enjoy the PvD? Who knows……OP’s point still stands. 37 level requirement for +5 supplies is simply ridiculous when it was so affordable previously.

37 requirement and 5g everytime to activate +5 supply.
I can’t write here what I’m saying about it and wvw changes in general in RL. >;|

64 bit client completely fixed client side crashing here. However our last two raids we had serverside crashes on both occasions.

After HoT release client was crashing repeatedly everyday. Found out about 64bit client and instructions to install, don’t think I’ve had a client side crash since. Fixed memory leaks in 32bit client.

Issue – Proof of Heroics available in WvW as replacement for Badges of Honour. It would make sense to have a similar system in PvP. Not all of us want to grind ourselves braindead in Pve on dead AEST maps.
As for errm, necro build, nps, l found out l can equip elite specialisations. Must be all that Pve. :P
Thanks for comments.

Do you actually play in AEST? Or….just being a kitten smuck.

The game is called Guild Wars 2, which bears little resemblence to Guild Wars 1. In Guild Wars 1, guild halls were achievable by anyone as they should be. This idea of exclusiveness is such an outdated tired concept that encourages the worst, not the best in people.
Also, it’s not just the getting of the guild hall, it’s then all the materials needed to build it up, and then maintain the priviliges. Yesterday I found out that to +5 wvw supply costs 5g, not once, but every single time. It does not compute.

Totally agree, while loving the level design of new areas, try doing anything on Pacific Time and did l really pay close to $150 AUS to be charged more for everything. It’s insulting.
People are also balking at the rise in cost of ascended armors and as for crafting a legendary…forget it.
After playing since Beta I’ve never seen a precursor drop, yet guildies have all legendaries, have had two drop in a week and so on. Quick way to get rich.
If l wasn’t in a WvW guild for which l need the elite specialisations, I’d be renewing my request for a refund and actually still throwing the idea around since they seem to have killed Wvw too. Again, fabulous level & model design, but borderland maps are far too big and keeps are too big and complex.

Our guild has been trying to sort materials for building guild hall and had difficulty finding certain plant materials. It would be very useful to have a search function in materials storage area.

Hearing what you’re saying Boysenberry though I’m afraid it perhaps shows an huge oversight in Anet’s planning of new areas by not taking time zones into account. This means that the whole system of rewards are only geared towards US time zones that have the sufficient numbers to complete most HP’s and meta events.

The past several days every time I login to Dragon Stand it’s empty on AEST time zone. By empty, today there were 5 people total spread amongst the starting areas.
Guildies have said l must be on the wrong map instance though how can l get to another? Our guild is wvw based not pve.

HoT meta events/champs need to be scaled for non US timezone players. At the moment we are often unable to complete these events.

Simple reply to this thread – GW1 Guild Halls…….of course those that didn’t play GW1 won’t know what I’m talking about, but devs should. Let’s keep some integrity here.

This is simply unbelievable.
while initially excited by release, now finding the HOT grind in pve so completely boring with 10 lvl 80 with 100% map completion that I haven’t been able to face it for days.
Today thought, oh, I have that new second necro I made, l can keep her for pvp instead of having to contantly change builds between pvp and wvw (where I am mostly) and craft a second set of same stat gear (Don’t want to have to swap gear constantly). So it’s been awhile since l pvp’d on a new char and firstly my new necro is all in underlevel gear and stats seem not bumped up to 80, at least in pvp lobby? What’s with that?
Secondly, no ability to earn HP? OMFG seriously? What an oversight Anet!! O.O
Way I’m feeling atm is l just wasted $150 AUS…
Btw, while useful for levelling revernant, tomes of knowledge for me are one of the most useless annoying items in game. It takes 2 days to get a char to 80 normal way and I’m no pro!

With release of HoT and too many 80’s to get hero points I completely forgot about Mad King Says till 4am yesterday morning when l managed to stay awake long enough for one round. Sadly it only gave 2 keys, not the 3 necessary to open chest. Is there any way to get another key since it had finished the following day?
Perhaps not the best planning to release HoT and have Halloween at the same time?

Opps, yes found it, thanks Xcrusher!

1. The pre-purchase green skin I assumed to be account bound.Nowhere on shop page did l read otherwise. As such l just double clicked it on a char.
2. How does one equip glider skins, there doesn’t seem to be a slot for them. Or, as l hate to think, they are soulbound items! -.-
3. Are crystal Arbiter skins also only soulbound to one char?

Anet, please look into changing this system if my worst fears are correct.
Otherwise l can see a massive money sink with HOT as the default skin is the ugliest model l’ve yet seen.

Flying mechaniics? Did Anet forget to add them or am l just spoilt after playing Aion for two years waiting for Gw2 release.

Hey, just discovered today, now 2015. 6 chars 100% map completion, only 4 GOE. Ticket submitted.

So I logged into Gw1 in the last couple of weeks and managed to collect at least 3 everlasting tonics, and some great minis that I’d really, really wanted for ages. I was so happy!
Then l logged back into Gw2, and I had a 2nd year birthday presents on 2 characters. On one l got about at least the 6th Queen Jenna (tbh, l think it’s more), which I promptly destroyed (it’s useless), and then opened other character’s present to get a birthday booster (great!), an experience scroll (I already have enough books and scrolls to get revenent to 80 on top of the ones l’ve already used), and an experience scroll.
Well, the birthday boosters are appreciated, but sheesh, l really, really miss my Gw1 minis and wish Gw2 would include minis in birthday rewards….That is all.
(Back to Gw1 to stand around with my lil cute white bunny rabbit, my kunnavang etc etc..sigh)

Thank you Iculpatus, that does function as a ‘work-around’. However the ‘Account Bound on Acquire’ items are the existing items in inventory that have previously been stacked.
This is a new bug since 20th March update, and still stands.

You know, my initial reaction is yes, they are too long and horridly boring, however, in Gw1, l didn’t mind spending 4-5 hours in Domain of Anguish doing all areas. It was fun, challenging and exciting, yet l completely HATE fractals and barely EVER do them. I think l’ve done one in the past 6mths. I’ll do multiple paths in multiple dungeons, yet not Fractals.
I hear Anet is making changes to them, one can only hope. The backpack and weapon skins are some of the best in the game.

That, or lower the ridiculous price of extractors!!

I totally upvote this thread. Wvw armour and weapons SHOULD be salvageable, or at very least, runes and sigils.

Yes they are, but it seems a very rare drop.

Glad to hear Anet has finally removed WvW from map completion, however, there’s still the need to rework the map completition UI. For those who already had map completion, before new way points and POI were added to game it is, simply, a mess, since all characters that had completition now do not show 100%.
It’s basically broken and has never been repaired.

4th dc in less than 4 hours. The past few days everyone is experiencing the super lag. What is going on with Gw servers????
I don’t usually lag at all, have a direct Cat5 connection, no shared connection yet the past few days, and play wvw with low graphics settings yet today in particular, game is near unplayable.
It’s not just me, everyone in wvw has been commplaining, dc’ing etc.
The fourth time l dc’d client wouldn’t load, then website took 5min to load. Surely they’re not in the same servers?
Please advise!

This heart in Plains of Ashford has never worked the way it’s supposed to yet have managed it on at least 8 characters before as one could at least go in the pit to finish. Broken, but doable.
Now it’s completely broken? No way to activate the pit, no ‘soldiers’ to fight, the rifle does not ‘stun’, creatures reset before the pit and just killing drakes/minotaurs does not advance the heart either.
I really wish anet would fix issues such as these, instead of rushing to create new content while basic quests lie broken.
I’ve run around here and wasted half an hour trying to find a workable solution. Plains of Ashford will remain uncompleted for now it seems unless someone has found a solution to the conundrum.

Glad to see someone likes the glowing effect. I find it particularly annoying and wish there was an option to turn it off.
It’s such a shame that making all these changes does require much work on Anet’s part yet there are SO many more important UI changes just to bring Gw2 UI up to Gw1 functionality such as a return of the fully customisable UI of Gw1 with the ability to separate tabs such as chat tab and combat log in particular. For Wvw this is highly annoying as is the loss of the 4 panel weapon swap module. Once upon a time a long long time ago, one could resize EVERY element of the UI. ;(

I’m glad to see this thread as l was about to start one myself to express my disgust at Anet.
After receiving 7+ Queen Jennah for 1st yr birthday presents, I’ve just lost it at receiving another for 2nd birthday.
I agree with Dante, in Gw1 birthday presents were something to look forward to as a reward for years of playing. New minis, some useless, but at least they were tradeable, and sometimes a rare if you were lucky. Instead the Queen Jennah mini’s are untradeable and completely useless.
It’s beyond me to understand how the current system evolved in Gw2. Really. It’s a 3d model, it cost them nothing to reward players for their loyalty to the game. It was a gesture of appreciation and goodwill. Something that seems to have escaped the developers of Gw2. The current system is like a slap in the face, insulting and disgraceful.

Agree, there’s a few nice weapon skins in Gw2, yet on the whole I’ve been very disappointed with armor/weapon skins after playing Aion for a year between Gw1 & Gw2. Gw1. Even Tormented weapons were much better than the new version imo. Shame that the skins in Gw1 HOM were not transferable to Gw2.

Hanging out in Guild Halls with buds. GVG, TA, HA. Ability to 1×1 Pvp in Guild Hall to test builds with friends.
No legendary, ascended gear grinds. Skins that were just cosmetic were enough to keep people grinding for them. Players thus felt they were ‘rewarded enough for their game play time’.
Dunkoro, Zedd, Vekk, my heroes! Dances, emotes, 4×4 weapon swap skill bar, customisable UI, dual professions and customisable skill bars, not just utilities. Ability to save builds! OMG Sigh……..

Repeatedly losing cursor in wvw large scale battles or pve large scale events.

During my prime OC and SEA timezones, JQ and SOR way outnumber BG’s coverage. Last night was a perfect example with SOR & JQ running 60-80+ zergs 2v1 BG over garrison. There were some awesome fights though and surprised we held it from both of you for as long as our maybe 30-40 did. Oh, and gotta love the lag!
Thumbs up though for continued determination and effort! It must be frustrating losing constantly, l know as l transferred from Kaineng some months ago. I think it’s awesome you keep up moral and there are still plenty of good fights to be had during OC & SEA timezones.
The 2v1 last night certainly highlighted the issues with the lack of server rotations so l hope Anet takes notice of this thread. Something needs to change more than a new map.

Oh, that is SO easy!
Really, all points just relate to the broken promises of Anet to remain faithful to our beloved Guild Wars. The best MMO EVER!!!

1. Remove legendaries
2. Remove gear grinds & progression
3. Bring back HA/TA/GVG PvP
4. Give us back our Guild Halls!
5. Kill Scarlett forever!
6. DO NOT introduce legendaries in to sPVP, the only place safe from gear/weapon grinds!!!!
7. Customisable UI – ’ Dont you hate those annoying pop up screens right in middle of screen in a fight when you’re just about to die. Wouldn’t you just like to be able to move it slightly off direct centre of screen!)

So, that’s a start, yet impossible l suppose since more and more the game is going the sad Korean gear grind path.
I guess Anet had to weigh up their loyalty to their original Gw1 player base or their greed for the dollar by appeasing players with the korean grind mmo mentality…and welcome the gold seller spam!

Just been in there tonight. It’s dead. I’m OC timezone in WvW guild. After trying to solo run through on 4 different classes and getting completely enraged by it, a couple of days ago l logged in NA timezone, had a last ditch attempt and was fortunate to group up with a few other pugs and make our way through. With a group it’s fun, solo wasn’t fun… Got the mini krait, it was enough.

Leagues Season is a joke when players cant heal, cant do more than mash skill one in large battles.
On TS, with 50+ people all having the same issues. Welcome to broken WvW.

People still do this? O.o
And insane lag in Wvw since leagues, it’s a total joke when you’re fighting a massive zerg, can’t heal, can’t do anything except mash skill 1.

Error: Authorisation denied on accessing trading post after Wvw. Exit game, restart, fine. Still a bug.

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SOR/JQ camping BG Ogrewatch yesterday. So many hours of the same. Weren’t you getting as bored of this as we were?

EnRohbi.2187:

I believe the reason Anet cited for character bound Commander tags (And has been brought up in this thread already), is that they want servers to recognize the good commanders and not have people come in with new names all the time

Just a point and not probably relevant, but those of us who PvP’d in Gw1 did mostly use a naming convention that allowed recognition of different characters. I did the same here on all but one char.
More to the point, l just foolishly wasted 100g on a Tag bought in a rush during a Guild Mission on my main char, not my wvw char, after putting it off for ages, not reading the ‘fine print’, ‘account bound, soulbound on use’. >:|
Apparently Anet does not have the tools developed to transfer the tag to my other character, or is simply can’t be bothered.

Ryan Alyea.5418:

Issues where the search engine would randomly return 0 results instead of real results have been fixed.

Lol, 3 months later, it simply DOES NOT WORK.

as in title, not working in Firefox.24

Killed him on BG a few nights back during AEST. Was on BG TS, alot of people there, some from other servers and actually made it fun.
Last night AEST on my server, Kaineng, 6 peeps running round lost….it’s kinda a joke for us Oceanic players. Why does Anet not consider the numbers issue for internationals.

I thought the merchants were going to remain and arena kept open. I was just in there a day or two before the patch but wanted to further research recipes for sigils and runes. Please bring merchants back or make recipes available at crafting merchants.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• Every map will be invaded at least once per day, probably twice. In some cases, three times.
• If you play at the same time every day, you will see all 13 maps by the end of the Clockwork Chaos release.

Simply, no. This information is incorrect.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scarlet%27s_Minions_Invade!/history#3_September_2013
There are at least 3 days where Fireheart Rise did not occur.
According to the above link, the event did occur in FR yesterday when l was on though must have been in dungeons. Nope, l’m not following the event around mindlessly 24/7 for however many weeks it runs just to still fail it. I don’t really care anymore.
Anthony’s last comment presumes that the server ‘wins’ the event for ‘Invasion Canceler’. Most times on AEST, it fails. Wins are rare.

This thread was never intended to be a ‘personal diary’ or provoke a discussion on my own problems with JP’s. Thanks to those who offered help, it’s very sweet, however not necessary, l have improved and can actually face doing fotm now. Perhaps the initial post wording could have better reflected that.

The intent of the thread was to indicate once again to Anet that there is a percentage of the player base who have serious issues with JP’s and and seems to me that good game design would not want to disadvantage those players.

Simple, said and done. I’ll leave thread to the trolls