Guild Wars 2

So I’ve never really understood what Fractals are. I always wanted to try them, but never got around to it. I see the new daily setup often encourages completing Fractals so I thought I’d give it a chance. Lo and behold, I’m not particularly welcome in groups. I remember my first time doing dungeons. I was lost. Now I’ve done some dungeons so many times that it’s real easy and I enjoy teaching others. I’d like to have that experience with Fractals too, but my groups will often dissolve if one person says they haven’t done a particular fractal before. I’m not stupid, I’ve been playing GW2 on and off since beta, I understand how my characters play, yet because I’ve never done a fractal, people decide it’s not worth dealing with and get new groups.

There’s my venting for the day.

Another thread states that it is actually Verizon FIOS and there is nothing ANet can do till Verizon fixes it. They’ve been in contact. In the mean time, they say this works, but I have not tried yet. (https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using)

What is the local.dat file? I’m having issues with game crashes, particularly graphics driver crashes, and I see some suggestions are to delete the local.dat file. What exactly am I deleting?

The error message I get 99% of the time is the following attached.

I noticed another thread recently opened up with virtually the same problem as me, but this user was running Windows Vista 32-bit. I am running Windows 7 64-bit. I also have the latest Nvidia update. This game ran fine up until March or so. The error has come and gone, but recently it happens more and more, so now I want to really get it fixed. I know how to navigate computers very well, but I hardly know a thing about the hardware, so I don’t know what information is necessary to help, or where to find this information.

Thanks.

So I have almost 1000 badges of honor and I also have dungeon tokens. These are taking up a lot of bank slots (badges of honor are four slots already with the 250 limit). I propose a “Token Collection” section in the bank for dungeon tokens and Badges of Honor from WvW.

I also have one question. I know in GW1, the limit of collection items stored in the collection tab of the bank was 250. In a world where 250 is such a small number for purchases (when buying an armor set or WvW purchases), why can we only stack 250 of the same token when we need 1000+ for a dungeon armor set? Can we get the number for stacked items raised?

Also, just saw this:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/skypirates/Unlimited-axe-not-available

I would like to know too! I also cant find it

How does one go about clearing one’s cache?

So this got moved to WvW discussion by a moderator, but doesn’t commander have advantages outside WvW? Like in PvE taking down temples or trying to get a group together for a group event?

“Guild Wars 2 has encountered an unrecoverable graphics driver error and must terminate.”

I’ve been getting this error in Lion’s Arch a few times and the game shuts down. I’ve been encountering more and more graphics issues where the game sort of blacks out like i minimized, and reappears after a second or 2. I don’t know what’s going on.

Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Prosessor: Intel Core i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory: 8192MB RAM

DirectX 11
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

Hey, what are the advantages of spending the 100g to become a commander?

Antara.3189:

Soccerspeed.7165:

LFG

Frankly I’m surprised no one has said this yet. Yes, there’s a website, but nothing beats an in-game “looking for group” tab so there’s no minimizing.

I posted that two posts above you….

Oh hey. so it would seem. hidden in the list of things. I apologize. You said it first. Let me reword my statement.

Frankly I’m surprised there are not more people asking for this here.

LFG

Frankly I’m surprised no one has said this yet. Yes, there’s a website, but nothing beats an in-game “looking for group” tab so there’s no minimizing.

Minor question: Guild emblem background colors appear to always be gray. you acn edit three things to change colors, and the fourth, the background BEHIND the background, is always gray. interesting, but ok. I just edited my guild’s emblem and the background is now black. 100% black. Because of this, I have to have a solid background emblem (like a shield) to see the foreground emblem that is black. It looks nice, but I didn’t actually want a shield. I wanted a patterned open circle, but with the circle, the black foreground emblem is not visible in the apparent default black background. My other guilds still have a gray background. I cannot seem to find how this changed of if it’s possible to change. Anyone else notice this?

Nikaido.3457:

AC has the worst pugs. For some reason this dungeon is surrounded by the worst players you could ever find in gw2. I’ve had bad pug groups for “harder” dungeons like arah, but most of the time the groups were 10 times better than anything you’ll ever stumble upon by pugging AC.

Pugging AC takes a toll on your sanity. I can’t wait to have all the ghastly weapons I want so that I can finally say that I am done with that dungeon and never run this again.

The dungeon itself is fine, and rather easy, but the only players who are interested in running AC are for some reason almost all brain damaged. Their dodge key is broken as is their ability to read party chat.

Glad to see I’m not alone! Once I finish P2 and get the achievement, I highly doubt I’m ever doing AC again. It’s kind of nice though hearing the other dungeons are not as bad. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE!

I do feel your pain though. Experienced players have to start somewhere. I had the same problem my first explorable. I started attacking things and everyone else started running. I was quite confused. lol. I don’t like running. Runs the risk of people dying like that.

I hope everything goes better for you.

Ok, so this isn’t beneficial really to anyone but me, but I had to go somewhere and vent. And since I love ANet’s censors turning everything into kittens, I’ll save them the trouble and just type kitten for all my curse words.

I have over 5 hours of Ascalonian Catacombs Path 2 experience. Most of that is spent on Ghost Eater. Still, I have not yet killed him. This has been an ongoing experiment of mine to beat this path, but every time I play, I get a terrible group. People quit (or worse, the dungeon starter quit). People kick so that they can invite friends of their own. People kick me because I want to do it (so I can finish the dungeon) when everyone else in the middle of Ghost Eater changes their mind. People are just kittening impatient kittens!

If mean kittens like that weren’t the only problem, unfortunately I do have to blame some of it on nice people who just have no idea how to play. Even when the strategy is all laid out, they still do the wrong things. They attack Ghost Eater in ghost form. They do not dodge out of the ice spit circles of death. They find all the easiest ways to die and ruin it for the team.

I find myself unlucky for soooo many hours of gameplay. I’ve played with 15+ people on this dungeon and I can never find a full group of 5 that knows what they’re doing! It’s so frustrating. I’ve started my own guild for people who don’t ditch others and who are respectful of others. The guilds I’m finding out there just are not helpful. I know good ones exist, but I seem unable to find them.

I think “maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the bad player losing it for the party”. But when I’m following my assignments, following the correct strategy, picking up or lifting the targeted oozes, luring ghost eater into the traps, avoiding the ice spit circles of death, and am the one NOT dying on the team, it leads me to believe I really have been this unlucky in finding groups! Bad players can get by on attacking things when they’re told, but when the smallest amount of thinking is involved, like “He’s an invulnerable ghost unless put in traps.” Or currently for the southsun dungeon going on “STAY OUT OF THE RED TRAPS!”, people suddenly have 0 brain functions. They still do not avoid the ice spit. They still attack NULL when he has a shield and run into red traps countless times. It’s really really frustrating! So many hours of my life wasted without in-game accomplishments.

Kitteny Kitten Kitten Kitteners.

I have a kitten now. Kittens are cool.
I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
I wear a bowtie. Bowties are cool.
I wear a stetson now. Stetsons are cool.

Goodnight all.

Unfortunately, no fix. I’ll figure something out. Thanks

Please make an option that does this. As I’m rotating the camera, I lose the target. Now I know why

I’m just gonna throw this out there (seven months later) that the problem occurs running Windows on bootcamp for me. I recently tried it again and same problem. The same mouse works fine when I use my dell instead of my mac. Thanks everyone 7 months ago for trying to help. I hope everyone who had the same problem got it fixed. If everyone’s problems happened because of bootcamp, well here’s a partial solution. Now the thread can close.

Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Prosessor: Intel Core i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory: 8192MB RAM

As for graphics card, I’m not sure. I know via dxdiag it gives me under display:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

Does this help? The problem is still happening today.

Here’s the thing. Everything in Orr, especially temples, is easy enough. HOWEVER, the maps are so sparsely populated that nothing gets done. Every waypoint is contested. Every temple is uncontrolled. It gets incredibly boring/annoying. I personally found Orr a pain but doable until I got to Cursed Shore. I’m trying for map completion but there are actually multiple things that cannot be done because there is a champion in the way or because brambles spam my location so I cannot commune for a skill point.

Rewards should be blocked by temples and champions. Simple map completion should be capable by oneself. In Orr, that is not possible.

The current “looking for group” method is bland, unspecific, and unused. GW1 was great and heavily relied on. I don’t see why they got rid of the method for GW2. Waiting next to a dungeon to find someone that is willing to wait with me is a pain. If there could be a Looking For Group box you could pull up and on it is a “dungeon” tab that can be seen by anyone in the game, and then local tabs for anyone in the territory and you type what specifically you are looking for. “LFG Ascalonian Catacombs” and it shows something like 3/5 for the size the party already is. “LFG Temple Lyssa”. “LFG champion dredge”. It would make communal playing so much easier.

I’ve only started encountering this issue for the past hour or so, but it got worse once I went to Lion’s Arch and subsequent territories afterwards. The screen starts to lag and freeze. All action sounds stop occurring like the battle was over. My screen then goes black, like the game is minimizing and it’s changing resolution. After a couple seconds, it’s back up and running fine. The 7-8 seconds lost is enough for a battle to go terribly against me as my character is left helpless standing still until i’m back up. It doesn’t only happen in battles, as I said it got worse in Lion’s Arch.

I’ve been playing since Beta and have never encountered this issue until about 8:00PM-ish Eastern Time (UTC-05:00). Is this something others are having and I just have to wait for a patch? Perhaps it’s just a local thing and the next time I log on, the problem will be gone.

So as I wake up and wonder what I am going to do on Guild Wars today, I realize I must first select a character, bear with the long loading (especially if that character is in LA), and then see what the daily achievement list is. I don’t know about other people, but if the achievement requires kills in Maguuma Jungle and events in Ascalon, I’m not going to use the same character for all of it. I would get on my Asuran or Sylvarin and work towards the achievements in the respective places.

It would be really convenient if on the character selection screen next to the contact button on the top left (or wherever you feel comfortable), there is another button leading you to the daily achievements. I really hope this gets thought of and not passed over, but I know y’all must be very busy.

This button could also lead to Daily PvP, Monthly, and Monthly PvP.

Thank you for your time!

my question to you is… why?

Now I’m not asking this to be mean or anything. Personally, I think the more options a player has, the better. I like the question “why not” more than “why”. But here, what would fishing accomplish other than being a nifty emote near a river? There’s nothing to do with the fish you catch, if you do catch fish. ArenaNet would have to make a whole mini-game (not that there’s anything wrong with that) to make it worth while. This game isn’t “The Sims”. There just doesn’t seem to be any benefit to it, but if you want it as an emote just to chill when afk or when chatting with friends, then I see no harm in adding it.

Hello all,

I know my title might not make too much sense, but here’s my question, or rather an explanation and then question.

Every day, the daily achievement resets at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. This time is quite inconvenient as an evening of playing, if I were to play at night, might be from 7:00 to 10:00, give or take an hour. This means whatever I do gets reset in the middle of my playing time. What are the complications of having each account have their own 24 hour day starting at their own time? I don’t know what the technological reasons could be, but from my point of view, couldn’t each player enter his account, set their reset time (a good time for me would be 4:00 AM Eastern Time), and in the next day or two, it goes into effect for that account? This way, from the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep, I will experience the same “day” in GW2.

I cannot find a downside to this. WvW resets, as well as any global event, can still be on server time (Pacific Time I believe), but as for daily achievements that only involve the player of the account, I don’t see why a day must change in the middle of that player’s play time.

How frustrating it is to leave the starting Lvl 1-15 area with around 30+ copper harvesting sickles and 50+ copper axes and picks. I am perfectly willing to buy new tools for the upgraded resources, but seeing as how I have little use of copper tools after the initial territory, I would love to send these tools that I paid for with my in-game money to other characters of mine. This way, I don’t have to trash or sell them, nor do I have to walk aimlessly around in old territories looking for resources with which my tools can be used. So please, allow tools to be account bound, not soulbound.

I like it. Or, they could use a trade system like Guild Wars 1. Currently, the only method of trading is to TRUST the other person via mail. If I send them the item in question, I have to TRUST they will send me the item I am asking for. No mutual simultaneous trade. The TRADING Post also doesn’t have trading. Kind of odd, huh?

My old wireless mouse (Logitech, type unknown) started acting up a bit after a long and prosperous life, so I bought myself a new mouse (Logitech M305). After a little bit of happiness, the problem now back and getting worse. I don’t seem to be encountering this problem out of game, though it’s hard to tell as the only reason I use the mouse and this laptop is for Guild Wars 2 at the moment. I was curious if anyone else has encountered the same problem as me, and if they were able to fix it.

When I scroll around the screen, sometimes my mouse would not follow, as if to freeze for a bit. Also, when I right click + hold to move the camera around, it would often “freak” out < wording replaced – since we are a worldwide game, different words have different connotations in other areas of the game, as is the case with the word removed here. Thanks for the understanding! ~ Dalmarus>, the mouse arrow would come back, and the camera motion would not occur. It is getting worse and frustrating. This new mouse wasn’t the most expensive mouse out there, but it still wasn’t cheap. If it is a problem I can fix, I would love to fix it before buying a new mouse. Any ideas?

So on my engineer, I went to the HoM and got Heritage Armor to see how it looked. “Ok, ok, not bad,” I said. However, I did like the eye-piece I had on him to begin with. I thought to myself all I have to do is wait. As it turns out, for all classes, the head piece turns into a generic light/medium/heavy head piece to be shared amongst all classes. Does this mean I can no longer get my eye-piece that I liked so much on my engineer (or starting head pieces on any class for that matter)?

Why are there a number of ingredients, apples for instance, account bound? I like to help my friend in any way I can in his chef aspirations, so I lend him a number of my spare food ingredients as I have no use for them. However, there are quite a few that are account bound, and I cannot understand why? If apples are only acquirable at vendors, how I spend my money/karma, and what I do with what I purchase is my business. I should be able to give my friend apples and tomatoes whenever I choose.

Hello,

So I understand y’all are receiving a lot of suggestions, and I understand if this one gets looked over/skipped because there are so many, but I really think this is a nice idea and would help my guild and other guilds a ton.

Currently, my guild has a guild stash, and we primarily use it to put crafting materials in that we are not using. For example, the chef in our guild loves our cooking ingredients, so we load of the guild stash with ingredients. However, I find it odd that we cannot stack ingredients. One member deposits mushrooms. I deposit mushrooms. The mushrooms I deposit cannot be stacked on the other member’s mushrooms, thus taking up valuable space. A simple solution to this would be to have a tab for crafting materials just as we do for our individual banks, and perhaps increase the cap in the guild bank for each material to 500 or 1000 units.

I do not see any reason why this would be frowned upon. It is yet another way for guilds to work together. As a small guild (9 members currently), we see no reason to have 4 chefs when 1 chef can level up and craft faster for all the other members of the guild if we share materials. Crafting is a lot of fun, and it would be cool to add some more cooperation within the guild.

Please think about a crafting materials tab in the guild bank. You could make it an upgrade that the guild has to spend influence on. I do not care. I just think it would be very useful. I hope this suggestion is considered. Thank you for your time. Keep up with the great work y’all are doing! Guild Wars 2 is a very entertaining game with endless things to do.

I’m just going to +1 this. I would love a tab for shards, dowels, insignias, etc.

Ok. They are continually getting longer. In GW1, we always had that bar at the bottom to see what’s happening. We knew if it was downloading files and we knew what % complete it was. Now I just have a gold ring circling over and over and over again. However, it is definitely getting longer. It’s the same computer with the same processing power week after week, and yet my loading screens are turning into 60+ seconds.

Now try getting on the game in Queensdale (load 1), travel to Divinity’s Reach (load 2), asura gate to LA (load 3), asura gate to Black Citadel (load 4), and meet friend in Plains of Ashford (load 5), and potentially exiting overflow server (load 6). Waypoint costs are motivation to use asura gates, but it’s now taking me over 3-4 minutes just because of loading screens. This was not the case weeks ago when the game came out.

It would be nice to at least know why this is happening, and it’d be great if these loading times will decrease in the future.

thank you Talusian

They are a drop in WvW, but I cannot sell them, and it doesn’t specify a vendor, nor are they crafting supplies. GW2 Wiki also says nothing on them. So what do Giant Pearls do?

Is it just me, or are loading times into new territories getting longer? My laptop has not changed since I installed Guild Wars, so it’s not like I filled my hard drive. Loading times just consistently seem to be getting longer.

I strongly support the option to see when our guild members were last online. As a leader, it’s nice to see who is inactive. As a friend, I enjoy knowing I missed my buddy by 3 minutes so then I text him asking if he’ll be back or something like that.

I strongly disagree with guild taxes. BUT, I do not disagree with the option to have them. I do not want to tax my guild members, but if there are guilds that are perfectly willing to allow taxation, then I don’t see why they should be denied the option.

This would be great. My medium armor ranger looks classy until his mask and shoulder armor shows. My mesmer looks creepy with the drama mask.

I don’t see why more options are ever a bad thing. Let the players decide what they want.

Take part in all the dynamic events. They offer quite a bit in experience. If you see an outpost under attack by centaurs, take the time to defend it and the experience for combat, and the event itself, really tallies up. It has helped me greatly for my lower level characters. I personally enjoy exploring, and exploring other species zones has helped me remain a large deal ahead of the recommended level.

Keep in mind though that the recommended level on a story quest is likely the level they will downgrade you to during the mission, so even a level 40 can struggle on a level 11 mission. If I have difficulty, I ask a friend to help and the two of us can handle it much better.

My guild recently purchased the Guild Stash with our influence. However, when I go to a Guild Bank NPC, I am told he only works with guilds and that I need to join one. I “represent” my guild, and am in fact the leader of it. Is there something I am missing?