Guild Wars 2

I’m sorry if this has been said somewhere else and trust me if I found the info I wouldn’t post this.

Anyway, with the Glider in HoT, I know you have to spend at least 1 Mastery Point to unlock the ability to use it… meaning jumping off a cliff or be in mid-air and pressing F.

My question is, will this be Maguuma exclusive ability or will I be able to do this outside of HoT maps?

No Guild bank access, Personal bank access, Trading Post interaction I honestly understand and don’t really care about that. It’s pretty easy for ANet to stop us from interacting with this aspect of the game during beta but all I care about is the ability to talk to my guild mates in guild chat while I am playing the beta. Not every guild mate in my guild has HoT so… :/

I am pretty excited for this.

My only issue is this… can we or can we not ‘rep’ our guild on our beta characters? That’s the sole reason I got turned off when they allowed us to play Revenant a few weeks back.

I also suppose our main characters won’t be allowed into the Brink either?

Hi Swipe,

I gave you an in-game mail, I’ll be in-game for the next couple of hours (most likely till midnight Malaysia time), hope to catch you on soon ^^

Feel free to message me when you are.

I’ve been an ele for, well since launch really, and had this on my mind for a long time.

Just keep in mind what I’m about to say, and disregard anything else. I don’t care for any other “blast” finishers of other utilities or skills for an ele other than what I’m about to describe below.

Weapon = staff
Trait in talk = Arcane XI Evasive Arcana

When you’ve got Evasive Arcana, attuning to Earth sets off “Shock Wave” which has a combo finisher as a blast.

So, if you cast Staff Water Skill 5 “Healing Rain” > attune to Earth > and dodge into the field… how many blasts is that?

The reason I ask is the blast field itself seems big and kinda just sits there a little longer than a normal water blast. This technically means there’s consecutive blasts occuring within milliseconds of each other to give the longer lasting animation, right?

When I did the test myself, it seems the healing gained from said blast is more than 2,000HP. Looking at the Shock Wave animation… I do see 3x ‘rings’ as the animation disappears. To me, I guess this means 3x blasts.

Tell me if I am right/wrong lol, I’d just like to know since a friend of mine had me show her ele blasts.

Thanks~!

Hi, I just sent you an in-game mail

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

No, this is a bug.

The Chest is only gained doing that massive boss, Vinewrath or whatever.

Boots you don’t get from the story as well, this is bought via NPC for 1,000 Crests and 1g.

The other 4 pieces you get from the story. I know this because I already unlocked them on my Elementalist, my main. Doing this again to get the other sets.

I’ve completed Tangled Paths on my Warrior like 3 times already and getting no Carapace chest at the end… trying to unlock the Carapace armour (heavy set).

Take a look at the screenshot. It says it’s completed, look at my inventory I only have 3 of 4 carapace boxes.

Been playing Ele since launch, and have to say everyone here that plays Ele and giving you recommendations deserve the respect in opinion regarding what you should run.

The thing about Ele is you’ve got to utilise your attunements, this means knowing what skill in what attunement does what… during a fight things can change unexpectedly and if you know how to adapt fast, you’ll be a very effective Ele.

What I run for WvW is the following;

Armour:
Full PVT with 6/6 Traveler Runes (mainly for the perma 25% but I’ll be changing this out pretty soon). This allows you to utilise your utility skills, instead of having Signet of Air taking up a slot; though you can and will survive with just two utility slots.

Trinkets:
Full Berserker (Long time player so they are Ascended, so stick with Exotics for now).

Weapons:
Staff is a must… I usually have it with Berserker stats, and the Sigils are Battle and Bloodlust.

Traits:
0 / 0 / 2 / 6 / 6
III / I X XI / V VIII XI

Utility Skills:
Glyph of Elemental Harmony (healing skill)
Mist Form
Lightning Flash (Armor of Earth if you’re gonna use Signet of Air)
Armor of Earth (or Signet of Air if you don’t use Traveler Runes)
Conjure Fiery Greatsword or Tornado

This build offer a slight boost in damage while somewhat maintaining survivability, keeping in mind you should still keep your distance during fights.

Hi, my support ticket (544072:Town Clothes Refund) sent on 16th April, hasn’t been addressed yet, it got forwarded to the according department but since then haven’t heard a thing and it’s been 4 days.

Can I get an update on it please?

Wonder if this is happening to anyone else… I’m unable to join certain WvW maps, to name two, SoR BL and JQ BL since the new build rolled out. Haven’t tried EB but BG BL is the only one I’m able to join… frustrating since my guild is in another map.

When getting into either JQ BL or SoR BL, I get an error message after about 5 seconds… and when I try relogging in, it says Unknown Borderlands and proceeds to the same error message after 5 seconds.

Both shown in attachments below.

Daily BUMP
Still looking for SEA/OCeanic PvE guild

To make this rather simple, below is basically what I am looking for…

What I Am Looking For:

• SEA/Oceanic based timezone only (or at least primarily)
• PvE focused guild, I don’t mind a little WvW/sPvP
• Friendly, Mature, and Semi-Casual

Please do send me an IN-GAME mail, I don’t really check forums much unless it’s for information. Thanks.

That’s the trick everyone uses to get into that particular shop.

However, for anyone else who still has issues with it, the platform before you jump onto the Lily pad, if you do a run dodge jump (while running, V + SpaceBar), this also works as it lands you straight into the door and zones you in, you don’t have to worry with lag time between you and the server as you don’t ever touch the acid.

Yeah, I’ve managed to get it now… took a few goes but it finally counted for me lol

Well, after doing World 2 Zone 3 in Normal mode for the past hour, following Dulfy’s guide for hidden rooms: http://dulfy.net/2013/09/08/gw2-master-of-secrets-world-2-achievement-guide/

I haven’t managed to complete the achievement at all, and just to check I re-rolled the entire guide in Infantile mode just to make sure.

While doing it initially, in normal mode, I checked my counter after every hidden room I go into and Hidden Room 16 did not count for me.

Was wondering if anyone has this issue?

Well, I’ll tell you guys a little trick which I literally just found after failing this 100 times (literally).

The platform above the lily that is in front of the waterfall, do not jump down to it and jump into the acid waterfall like others have mentioned. Instead, do a forward jump dodge (pressing W, while running, then V+SpaceBar at the same time). This should literally make you land into the waterfall and get zoned straight into the shop.

Hope this helps!

The title is pretty much self-explanatory.

Basically what I am looking for is a large-ish guild (100 to 300 with 80% repping), preferably within the Oceanic region but I am not picky, NA-based PvE-oriented guild will do as well. I’m based in South-East Asia, but I am on a lot during the entire week.

The two aspects of the game I am looking for is:
(1) General PvE – Map complete etc (I have 3 characters with 100%, I can help others and team up)
(2) Dungeons – including fractals, I’m fairly experienced with most dungeons.

I am currently based in Sanctum of Rall, so I hope a server transfer will not be mandatory, since guesting has been implemented there is no need, right?

Either reply to this post, send me a personal message here or contact me in-game (Rynn Ames).

Thanks in advance! =D

Skribbl.7684:

Sudden thought. What happens when every Tom, Richard and Harry with a spare bit of gold gets a badge and we have loads of them on the map purely for the sake of having a map icon?

That is exactly my point… eventually everyone is going to get a Commanders title, which means sooner or later it will just mean absolutely nothing. I just think ArenaNet should just implement a system that replacing the current Commander title, instead of it being purchased, have it achieved. Even though there are Commanders out there that are GOOD at leading and know what to do in WvW, it’ll be much harder in the future to separate Commanders who are actually GOOD at WvW and those that just had money to spend. The later is what will stick out the most, and therefore have people not even listen to Commanders.

I was just thinking similar to how one obtained the God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals (GWAMM) title in Guild Wars 1. In GW1, to get GWAMM, you needed to max out 30 different titles, including all its tiers. Why not have the same for WvW? Or a similar idea…?

Now, under the WvW achievement tab by pressing H in-game… I see that there are 16 achievements possible. Why not have those that want Commanders title max them all out? This would obviously take time but I’m sure there are a few people who have already maxed it out. This will just give a personal achievement to those who do WvW on a regular basis, or even hardcore. Now, some may think this gives some sort of “entitlement/elitist” attitude… well, you’ll get these people regardless, so just deal with it. I don’t mind putting up with someone like that in WvW if it means getting something done, and face it, ArenaNet can’t control this with or without this implementation.

Sometimes I venture into WvW alone, I’d like to at least know what to do… like, Oh, hey there is a Commander, I’ll join him/her and the zerg he/she is in. Instead of trying to help but not really doing much (which I see a lot on WvW).

Obviously, there will still be groups and such that have friends and guilds to play with, this wont ruin that aspect of WvW.

Just going to get straight to the question, who thinks the Commander title should have been an EARNED achievement and not a BOUGHT book?

Only reason why I’m thinking this is Commander title just, to me, seems to just show off that one had money to spend. A lot of Commanders, that I’ve seen on my server as well as other servers, really do not know what the hell to do, let alone LEAD. Commanders Compendium should have been a gift of some sort to players who excel in different aspects of WvW. Such as; using siege weapons, taking out packed Dolyak’s, leading a squad (idea of this explained below) and everything else WvW has to offer.

Just an idea to throw in:
Squads should have came in two forms (1) Non-permanent Squads and (2) Permanent Squads.

(1) Non-permanent squads can be made just by going into WvW, whoever created a Non-perm Squad is designated leader. Once the leader leaves, the squad is disbanded.
(2) Permanent Squads can only be made by Commanders. This can just be used by Commanders to recruit those they like most in WvW, either within their guild or not, and always keep in touch with those that work well together.

If this gets implemented, I’m happy to get refunded my 100g because I actually regret spending that much on it. I mean, I do WvW but not as hardcore as some, hence I feel like I do not deserve the honour of running around as a Commander anymore.

Any other ideas, thoughts, criticism are all welcome. Just want to know what people really think about Commanders title.

Thanks for that information. I had a feeling you couldn’t craft more than 2 or 3 toys.

And the tonic I knew was a chance thing, but hey might as well try for something I want :P

Sorry if this has been said before but digging into forums isn’t my style.

The Miniature Toys, ones that were introduced in Txx’s Infinirarium (and the exact same ones in the gem store), are these ALL obtainable?

Soldier, Griffon, Ventari, Golem and Doll?

I only managed to craft the Soldier and Griffon, and only finding out about the possible chance for Endless Toy [name] Tonic is wanting me to get it but doing Tixx two days ina row thus far only rewarded me with crappy gifts…

My question, for those that haven’t picked it up yet, is can I obtain all 5 of the miniatures without buying them on the gemstore? I would like to get the Endless Tonic too…

Thanks for answers in advance.

Okay, I would like to actually enjoy WvW for the past couple weeks but I can’t… the same results always occur.

Fort Aspenwood vs Tarnished Coast vs Yak’s Bend

Could anyone actually give me any explanation on how the draws work? I’m sure going up against the same opoonents three times in a row IS NOT supposed to happen.

Okay, I hope this gets ArenaNets attention… it’s something that utterly pisses me off when going for groups in dungeons.

A lot of people ask to “skip” various parts of dungeons for the sake of “saving time”… why do I find this annoying? ArenaNet has made content there for you to enjoy so, how can you enjoy content when you are skipping it? To me it seems dungeons now only have the ultimate goal of obtaining the dungeon tokens, that’s it. For that reason, it’s seems that dungeons are just an obstacle of insane repetitiveness to gain the goodies; dungeon armour.

I am probably a very small minority in the community that has this view, but I certainly hope with the “revamp” of current dungeons that they add something similar to what the “Fractal of the Mists” has to offer… meaning that instead of the same mobs in the same place for P1, P2 and P3… why not have more ‘events’ like the random burrows that pop up in AC Story Mode?

Not only that, but this may be a little excessive to some people, but punish those who attempt to skip, as in the outcome for skipping later down in the path may put you at a disadvantage. If not that, then at least make the dungeons so that skipping is a viable option.

I will have to say this… the CHARRS (or REALLY huge male Norns) are the biggest problem during the event.

Before I continue with my comment, I did manage to beat the Charrs and Norns by getting ahead before they did, but:

They do BLOCK the field of view, very easy to misinterpret a jump or even see a platform available to land on because of this big oaf of uselessness blocking your view.

I will admit I did complain about two Charrs, once or twice, at the time about being so huge, after a while they left, not because of me but they got frustrated at the Clocktower)… after they left, I found it so much easier to do the jumping puzzle and eventually, got it done without them there.

Now, just thinking through this, ArenaNet really cannot (and will not) cater to the minority in this situation. If a Charr/Norn is in your way, deal with it.
I eventually did, I even went back to re-do the entire clocktower and there was Charrs/Norns there, and I STILL MADE IT.

Tell me about it…

I just spent like 25s going from all the potential areas to find one and guess what, none are there…

Thanks ArenaNet, didn’t know that there was a TIME LIMIT! on this thing…

Well, the title pretty much is self-explanatory… I’d like to join one.

I’ve been trying to find a PvP oriented guild, either casual or hardcore, on Fort Aspenwood for a while now. Haven’t found one, don’t know if one currently exists or not, but I’m just looking for a PvP guild to play as a team. Hate getting into pug groups and wondering around aimlessly in WvW.

I don’t want one that has stupid rules like, “Must always be on ventrilo/teamspeak” or “must sign up on this website….” – I’ll just be popping in and out whenever I feel like wanting to do some PvP.

I’m inexperienced, but you know what? I want to learn, become better, and teach others if I can.

I’ll have to check up on that later. Hopefully I’ll find something interesting.

I’m not on Windows XP 64-bit.

I’m using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

But since you mentioned that… that is actually rather weird. However, my previous comment is something I still cannot understand.

I think the issue was my motherboard was, somehow, set to maximum performance (in the BIOS). This may have caused all the issues I was running into, so I set it to normal. Thus far, there’s really nothing wrong… I still get crashes… but not as frequent.

Okay, it’s hard to have found the issue regarding the crashing of my Guild Wars 2 client…

I’ve gone through my BIOS, and apparently it was overclocking my systems performance. I let this one set as it is… over-clocked my CPU to 4.26GHz.

Ran GW2, worked fine…

So, I went back to the BIOS, put the CPU clock speed down… and stopped the increased performance option.

Ran GW2, worked fine as well…

Can anyone explain this to me? lol

Unigine Heaven Score: 1500+ (it didn’t save the file, and I didn’t remember the score). FPS was at 61.6.

Everything was set on the highest.

Grammarye.3064:

I had the same sort of issue, where most games were fine, but GW2 is very RAM & VRAM intensive. If there is a corrupt address somewhere high in your physical address space, only really intensive applications will use enough memory to access it. Try a full benchmark application like Unigine Heaven on DX11. Run memtest. If everything runs stably through that, then that is a good indication that the problem is software-based.

In my case, once I had EVGA RMA my graphics card, I’ve not had any problems since.

As an aside, new or not, expensive or not, PCs can have faults. There are well known cases of motherboards, fresh off the production line, having problems. Same with RAM chips. These items are not perfect. There’s a reason why when presented with the list of problems you detail, most people go ‘check your RAM, check your power’ and so on – because flaky hardware is exactly what it sounds like.

It won’t hurt to run a full memtest & benchmark. It’ll give you peace of mind too, if they all pass.

I will do that now, and will update with the results.

Dart Power.9412:

SirMirex.8543:

Here are the three files:

Guild Wars 2.txt
ArenaNet.log (x2 – 1x C:\ and 1x\)

Did you repair the game with -repair option?
I see some mentions of corrupted textures in the log files.

Yes, I did that too… I went as far as doing it twice, and re-installing the client fresh as well. Same issue, no matter what I do.

Drintar.1246:

You have an issue with your PC. Just because it cost a lot doesn’t mean it can’t have problems Frankly my first line of thought is an overheating issue that is then causing the system to become unstable. Make sure the cpu heatsink/fan is free of dust, make sure the rest of the system mobo,video card, ram etc is as dust free as possible. If possible ramp up the fan speed on the video card using a software package like EVGA Precision or Riva tuner etc.

I highly doubt this is an issue with my PC… all my other games are perfectly fine, only Guild Wars 2 has the issue… so, if it isn’t my hardware, it’s either something wrong with the client and/or ArenaNets issue.

I also forgot to mention, this rig was build no more than a month ago. Dust in my house doesn’t build up that quick :P

Here are the three files:

Guild Wars 2.txt
ArenaNet.log (x2 – 1x C:\ and 1x D:\)

That to me… doesn’t answer anything.

Explorer.exe has ALWAYS crashed because I am playing Guild Wars 2. It always happend DURING play time.

I understand what you are saying, I’m an IT geek myself, but there has to be something with my Guild Wars 2 client… if not, then it’s my hardware. But even that doesn’t make sense since my rig costed me $2,000…

And regarding BSoD… that was in the middle of Guild Wars 2 game play as well, the client crashes… I try to send the error report, it usually doesn’t allow me because the entire client messed up and I have to end task via Task Manager. Before I could do that, BSoD occurred, and would reset my computer constantly, happened 5 times before I decided to re-install Windows 7.

Forgot to list my rig specifications… here they are:

ASUS Sabertooth Z77
Intel Core i5-3570k @ 3.40GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600MHz
Galaxy GTX 660Ti OC – 2GB GDDR5
120GB SSD (boot)
1000GB HDD (storage)

Okay, this is a very specific and technical issue I have been getting ever since head start.

Head start posed a serious problem for me, first two days I could not play properly because the client constantly crashed after 5 minutes of it launching. After patches and updates rolled out, it seemed to become more distant from crash to crash.

However, the past 5-6 days of maintenance/new builds, the client would crash every few minutes upon launching the client… then the more I deliberately try to play, each crash became much more less frequent from one another. The issue now is the client is crashing again, just like in the head start but with NO end to it… this stage has happened ever since the new maintenance ArenaNet has done recently.

Unfortunately, my persistence in trying to play Guild Wars 2 has caused my entire computer to literally, slowly malfunction. From my audio drivers halting, explorer.exe needed constant restarts, GW2 client freezes the entire computer to the dreaded BSoD. Just 5 hours ago, the last thing I did on my computer was play Guild Wars 2… and as a result BSoD, which subsequently forced me to reformat my entire computer. Upon doing so, the computer itself is now fixed; as expected from a complete re-install. The issue with Guild Wars 2 client constantly crashing is still there, and this was from a completely new and fresh install straight from guildwars2.com

I’ve tried EVERYTHING I could do to try and stop this issue from happening. From running different compatibility modes, changing the DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (alternate), to running it in admin mode, putting the entire GW2 folder somewhere else. NOTHING is making I do is making any difference.

To add to what I said in paragraph four… usually the Guild Wars 2 client would allow me to send a crash report to ArenaNet, this would be the case to less than 5% of all my crashes. The client crashes/freezes to the point where clicking the “Send to ArenaNet” button cannot be clicked, the window whites out and Windows pops up with an error message regarding that the client has stopped working. Therefore, I am unable to send the error report nearly every single time.

If an ArenaNet developer sees this, please refer to all the documents I replied to in my support ticket [Incident: 120906-006065]? – it has TWO ArenaNet.log (at the time, I had TWO Guild Wars 2 clients in C:\ and D:\ on my computer), it also has the GameAdvisor “Guild Wars 2 Test.txt” file as well.