Guild Wars 2

I’d like a bookcase for the home instance. We collect so many books with all the lore throughout the living world, achievements etc., but most people end up trashing them and never seeing them again simply because they have no practical application and take up too much precious space.

It might also be a good idea to have a place where unique items from quests would be displayed so you could show off all your trophies.

Having to bind them is not a problem, I had all of mine in storage anyway so it was just a matter of binding them and had pretty much the full collection anyway. The issue I have with this one is:
1. The rate of getting black lion chest is ridiculously low
2. The rate of getting pet eggs from a black lion chest is ridiculously low (might have gotten 1 in my 3 years here)
3. The chance of getting this specific pet out of the egg is ridiculously low

Do the math, the chance of you getting the pet yourself doesn’t exist, the chance of anybody on the server getting one is tiny. The collection is open to everybody, but really can’t be done. Also the argument of secretly holding onto a mountain of these to sell “later” is ridiculous due to their general availability as pointed out above.

I am a completionist, I like to get everything, but this one is just unrealistic.

Thanks I guess. The thing is back in the day the mini was far cheaper so getting the collection was realistic. Last I checked they were around 270g, now they are 570g and as mentioned above there are only 4 on sale for all the worlds combined. Would be better if the set consisted of something you could realistically get yourself. I didn’t even know you could just pass minis around in the past (and judging by the fact that you “had to get it from a friend” suggests it was hardly obtainable even back then, let alone now).

Danikat.8537:

The Mini Jackalope has always been part of the collection. It’s a Set 1 mini pet just like the others and obtained in exactly the same ways. Which currently means the Toy Miniature Eggs found in black lion chests.

I’m not sure why it’s so much more expensive than the other exotic Set 1 minis. The price has jumped up in the last month or so, but I can’t think of any reason why, other than general inflation. I suppose it could be someone speculating – buying lots to push the price up and then relisting them at the higher price.

The original collection only contains description now so I am not sure what it contained, however if it contained the same mini in the past, can you explain to me why the updated collection is not done and I don’t have the mini even though the original is at 54/54? Either they changed the mini or they bugged out my collection and I lost the mini.

I used to have this collection done (54/54), then it got archived and replaced with a different alternative Set I. Personally I strongly disagree with having a discontinued item mall mini as part of the collection. Virtually all the minis are within a reasonable price range (vast majority up to 5 gold each)…and then there is Mini Jack-a-lop priced at 570 gold and the entire economy of Guild Wars 2 has a grand total of 4 units on sale for the 10s of thousands of players around. I’ve been stuck on 53/54 for forever now thanks to this newly shoved in replacement. Can we switch this mini with something more realistic like it used to be so that the collection is doable? Thanks.

Nero.8047:

There are plenty of threads with this topic already.
I suggest reading these for a bit.
I believe as far as we know right now:
A-net does not have the resources/tools to adds a LFG Raid section.
This is because the LFG tool may look simple but it’s balanced around teams of 5.
addings raids, which are 10 man, would be hard to implement.

Completely irrelevant. Last I checked the Living world section is 5 man too and it is flooded with raid anyway. All a new section would do is move that garbage to a relevant section.

By the way saying Anet does not have the tools is total BS too considering they built the game, including the whole LFG functionality.

It’s the completely wrong subforum. Put it in HOT.

Yes, because the Living world LFG section is completely unrelated to Living world, makes sense, the fact that the name is 100% identical just confirms how unrelated it is.

Would it be possible to add a Raid section to the LFG interface? These days the “Open World Content” section is flooded with single individuals looking for Raid. Raids are not Open World content and it makes it hard to find a party for anything else (such as taxis for meta events) when you have to keep scrolling past all the raiders.

Thanks

Just tried this with my girlfriend and few other people. We ran the instance 3 times, each time clearing everything and making sure nothing bugged. She got it, the 4 of us couldn’t get it no matter what. She also said she got it before we even cleared the last little mobs, suggesting only the veterans matter? Not really sure, didn’t make any sense.

Molten Furnace fractal – Advanced Logistics (autoloot) mastery loots the final boss chest that spawns behind the gate even before the final boss fight starts. Not a major bug, just thought I would mention it.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Maybe it’s what this guy is suggesting. That the maps in there aren’t closing even if no one is in that map.

ShadowMageAlpha.7580:

I was in a Winter Wonderland jumping puzzle “match” and the timer hit zero. But peculiarly it did not kick me out. Instead it said something along the lines of not being able to move me into the same map as the person in my party.

Generally there’s a bit of a delay after the timer hits zero that it’ll kick you out, but I was in there for 5-10 minutes after the timer hit zero. It got to the point where I was literally the only person left in the match.

This may be why it’s so hard to get into matches for the jumping puzzle. I’d imagine a great deal of the servers aren’t closing properly and aren’t repopulated.

http://i.imgur.com/8Z8GeEd.jpg

Same applies for the Choir one. The game “finishes” with like 3 minutes left and it happily lets people enter a finished game for no reason, so like a moron you just keep going in and out for who knows how long before getting into a non finished game.

Mistress Elemental.3750:

I am getting completely angry. I cant get in the thing at all so far. I have been trying for 10 minutes. I either get a full message, or i start to load in and get booted back to DR.. About to throw my mouse.

Managed to get in for the first time today, loaded into an instance with 1 minute left. Anet has become the typical garbage mmo host who is in it purely for the money (happens to every mmo eventually).
“Let’s open the game and get rich on microtransactions. Oh wait, we have a massive inflow of people that we can’t handle. Oh, let’s just instance everything and keep shoving them in the same instances. Let’s not get more servers and better bandwidth to accommodate all these new people, who cares if the game becomes unplayable due to lagg or ping spikes. Let’s keep the cost down and make monyemoneymoney”. >.> Everything worked wonderfully until the game became f2p. Since then all the lagg kicked in and every next release is more bugged than the one before, breaking things that worked just fine.
I have never complained in the past, but this is just getting out of hand.

Sooo where to start. About 75% of the time I try to enter this place, I get ported into a finished instance just to be shown the high score and kicked out again. Sometimes it doesn’t even do this, just shows double loading screen and kicks me out (pretty much like jump puzzle, as seen in the other thread nobody can enter that at the moment).

2nd point: the dialogues when talking to NPCs. If a new person attempts to talk, it kicks everyone else out of the conversation. Last year it was first come first serve, this year it doesn’t matter when you come, but how kittenty your luck is. I keep getting kicked out of the conversation on loop until the place is filled up and I have to get out and try find a new instance. This happens to the donating NPC as well.

How hard is it to recycle an event that worked so well last year? Pretty much everything is recycled anyway, but this year it is also broken as hell. The list of bugs since this patch is unbelievable, not to mention the forever resetting interfaces and lagg/ping spikes that never occurred before the HoT release.

Pretty sick of this event. Every other event in the game scales except for this one. You would really need a freaking private map to get it. It is over in roughly 30 seconds.

I finished the collection for tier 1 Bifrost and got the “essence of ancient mysticism” item out of it. The NPC claims that he will sell back essential components for a bit of karma and as I intend to unlock all the collections I trashed the item (don’t want to keep 23 items per tier until I actually need to craft the weapon). The issue is that the NPC doesn’t offer to sell it back, even after relog, which pretty much goes against what the description says. Is this going to be fixed?

Few things I would try:
1. Try waiting and see if it loads eventually
2. Try changing screen mode between fullscreen, windowed and borderless. The behavior differs for various programs based on the hardware/software configuration. For some games it impacts fps, for others the way loading is handled.
3. Try setting gw2 to different OS compatibility mode. You might want to say what your current OS is as well. Are you running Windows 10? What edition? What OS did you upgrade from?
The more details you provide, the easier it is to determine the cause.

Is there any specific reason why the updater that used to download at 2mb/sec suddenly fails to connect or downloads at 1-2kb/sec? I am not the only one getting this.

Andraus.3874:

It’s to inhibit RMTs. But it’s a pain. Not a bug tho.

Sorry to say I completely fail to see how limiting broker limits real money trading. Broker is not a 1:1 trade tool. You can’t buy someone else’s expensive items as it first buys by lowest price. If you post something super cheap, there is a really high chance someone else will buy it first instead of your intended target. Also, as you can see it would still allow multiple trades before showing the error (it doesn’t pop up by quantity bought/sold but by number of individual unique items sold in succession). Makes no sense whatsoever.

This error keeps popping up whenever I try to sell out loot. Even on a lowbie character I am unable to sell 2-3 rows of inventory without getting this. After it pops up the first time, I have to take long pauses between every single item or it comes back again. In a game that floods you with loot (not even mentioning loot bags, did not even get to those yet) this barrier is ridiculous. If not remove the limit entirely, could you at least raise it to an amount higher than 1/3 of a low level character’s inventory?

I WAS planning to say I am glad my ping was fine in the 30-60 range for several days now, but after getting ingame after today’s update and seeing how my ping is spiking at 350-650 I just want to say screw you anet. The usual corporation of this century: get paid up front, then provide kitten service since you already got paid. I can see you have no wish or incentive to pay for decent servers now that you got money out of everyone. I’ve not had ping issues once in the several years I played this game, same with disconnects. My girlfriend disconnects a few times every day now and my ping spikes like crazy. We aren’t even in the same country (most of the people in this thread aren’t). The updater in the launcher fails to connect or has garbage speed quite often too.

joeytan.3865:

So I opened a support ticket on this issue and a gm got back to me, asking me to download something called game advisory and attach the text file it generates, in my rely to him. On top of that I attached a trace route and ping test to the three gw2 ips I got from my resource manager.
After a few hours a gm, Beast T got back to me saying that, most likely my avg was causing it. However it is unlikely that as the latency always starts on fridays and weekends from 12pm gmt onwards and the rest of the time its fine. In any case I deleted my avg(one that I paid for by the way not the free one) just to wait and see what happens.
Also I linked him this thread in case he was unaware of it.
For his and our benefit I would like to ask you guys, how many ppl here are having this ping issue and also running avg.

Using Avast and as everyone else was saying, our internet works fine with everything else. All websites, all games, except GW2. It is the most common approach everyone uses to just turn it around and say “the problem is on your end”. Refusing to accept the reality is not a solution. The problem is on theirs. Besides, most of us had the same antivirus for years and this problem started for all of us near exact same time.

Would like this issue addressed:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/VERY-Abnormal-Ping-Issues

There is not 1 comment from the staff regarding the situation. Most other bugs are restricted to one part of the game. This makes the game not playable at all.

This started for me on Monday and it has been unplayable since. I am on Whiteside Ridge, usually have 45-80 ish ping stable. Now it spikes up to the 350-700 range. Even when the ping is not showing excessively high, I get ridiculous skill delays, see players teleporting around and rubberbanding, see mobs freezing and unfreezing during fights. I literally cannot play anymore. So much for buying the expansion on top of buying the game. Anet won’t even address the issue.

I tried it today, ran the thing 4 freaking times and it did not pop. I am in party with my girlfriend, she got it the first run. I thought the problem was that she triggered the next phase of the quest before I got to jump to the boss platform so we did it again several times. I did not get hit once by anything and nothing works. The last run was post update and still nothing. Wonder who does your beta testing, virtually every story mission had bugs.

Could you please add a button for deleting the message of the day history? Want to open our guild to the public and girlfriend is going nuts over private topics there. Thanks.

Also, could you create a forum subsection for guild suggestions? The only ones around are related to recruitment/guild missions and this doesn’t really fit anywhere. Thanks.

Come on guys, according to the posts here, it has been broken for a year? It is still broken on the megaserver (Whiteside Ridge home server). Shouldn’t take that long to fix 1 quest. The merchant item is kind of important.

Would be nice if someone bothered to update skill descriptions. It really bothers me how many descriptions are totally wrong or missing. For example

1. Already mentioned glyph of renewal doesn’t actually revive, that is an expensive 6 skill point mistake
2. Sigil of corruption/Sigil of bloodlust add 2 per kill, not 5 per kill
3. Signet of earth/fire totally missing descriptions for stat boosts
4. Condition damage affecting different dots by different ratio with no explanation as to how much for each.
5. Glyph of lesser elements has no reference to damage or anything about it. Expected something like my actual elemental storms, not something that tickles

You should only have to open the wiki on special occasions, not every other time you mouse over something.