Guild Wars 2

Exact same issue. I have to wait until the current codes timer is expired before entering it in order for GW2 to accept it. I have the same time on my phone as I do my browser, so I suspect the login server time is off. In game chat appears to be on the same time as my browser and phone as they flipped minutes within less than a second of each other.

Read the whole thread and didn’t see this complaint, so maybe it’s just me.

The sound coming out of my rifles may be one of the worst sound designs I have ever heard for a rifle.

It’s like a wet pop-gun toy with a whistling firework or shooting inside of a steel drum full of water.

I think it’s supposed to sound like ricochet(?), but not every bullet should ricochet and I don’t want to sound like I’m in toypocalypse all the time.

I would really rather it go boom. Or a more silenced cough. Or anything close to a gun sound.

I know, I know, get predator. That’s not going to happen until Anet let’s me switch sigils for free on legendary weapons. Until then, legendaries just aren’t worth the cost to me. Especially on rifle, which is used almost exclusively for power specs, so no need to switch stats.

You CAN toy pop gun skin, which is redundant considering the existing sounds, or SAB skin, which may actually be slightly better.

Thanks for the development attention to WvW.

Two things;

If someone transferred today, when would they be eligible to start earning rewards when the new system goes live?

I have no idea what you are talking about with tiers of armor. Can someone explain (even take a guess) about the details of what that’s about?

Does anyone know what is going on with all the, what look to be, minion masters in bitterfrost frontier?

Are they just farming unbound magic from kills?

Most of them are running bloodlust stacks so I assume they are running power builds.

Just curious what build they are running and why.

Thanks in advance.

Exact same issue. Go through the whole login process but when I try to pick a character I get the same message as the screenshot above.

sheriffsauer.com is gone. Domain expired on 3/1/2017. No point in this sticky anymore.

Rank 7 server is full? New bandwagon?

Update: The way to avoid the bug is to stay behind Taimi as much as possible and let her attack before you do. If you kill things before she gets there she seems to lose which way she is going.

This is STILL bugged. Come on ANet. Fix your first expansion before working on the second.

There is a trend from HoT on that is really making it hard for me to play GW2.

I suffer from simulator sickness. There no first person video games I can play and very few third person games depending on the camera.

HoT added a design trend of having floating dust or spore or glowing dots in the air in just about every corner of every map. These unnecessary specks are very disorienting and make it difficult to be able to continue to play.

This design trend has continued with a vengeance in the new living story content, burning embers, ash, and glowing stuff, in Bloodstone Fen and Ember Bay and now, not just snow, but blowing fog? I lasted about ten minutes and had to lay down for a half hour.

I talked to some of my guildmates and they said that the new area was bothering them too and they don’t usually get sick from games.

To be truthful, I haven’t finished map completion, even after 3868 hours played, because I can’t handle most of the snow zones.

I realize it’s not as easy as flipping a switch, but if it is at all possible, being able to turn off “weather” effects would make it so I can play the new areas much more comfortably.

I know I’m only one person in your player base, but I love the game and would like to enjoy it fully.

I did enjoy the Aurene content. Some cute every once in a while is fine with me!

Tier 1 NA is about the worst I’ve seen in two years. Some skills don’t work at all. Combo fields aren’t working and you are lucky to even hit anything because nothing is there.

I’m having FPS issues as well since the rollback patch. Going from 130 to 0 every once in a a while. Doesn’t even seem to matter if I’m in a WvW zerg or alone, still does it randomly. Pretty frequent though, maybe around 15 seconds, but not completely regular.

Super frustrating. I’ve played this game for years with no issues. I have pretty bad simulator sickness and the complete stop and go stutter makes it unplayable for me due to nausea.

Do any of the enrichment infusions work in WvW?
I looked at the other two threads but I didn’t see an answer to this.

Any system that limits players playing with who they want to on a regular basis is a bad system. Waiting longer than a week is really too much.

Scrap the whole worlds idea and start over with something new and different. Server identity seems to already be eroded and doesn’t seem to be worth trying to preserve anyway.

We had a dramatic change in population listings last week around Tuesday I think. Is this only being run once a week now? I’m fairly certain that it ran more often than that in the past as you used to be able to get into high population servers in the wee hours of the morning.

So, anyone know when the population check is actually being run?

Needs a weekly option as a poll choice, which was mentioned multiple times by players in the thread about the order of the polls. Transfers should also be free. (Still limited to weekly) This allows players to play with who they want, which is the primary factor in being able to switch at all. Spies are not an argument against this. You can make a free account on all but two servers right now anyway. Come up with more cosmetic gem store ideas for the WvW player base to make up for lost transfer gem money.

• World Linking Schedule – How often should we relink worlds?
  Every week. Make transfers free so that players can move to where they want to be with who they want to be with. It sounds chaotic but more player organized choice solves a bunch of issues, like making friends on a linked server and you want to play with them, or being paired with a higher tier server and not liking their culture or play style. Keep it to once a week transfer. It would be great if we had a more detailed metric than very high or medium so that we knew if we could fit our whole guild on a server. Make gem money with siege skins or guard uniform skins when you capture etc. Bring the, hopefully successful, cosmetic monetary income model to the WvW environment.
  The argument against free transfers will likely be omg the spies! Which is ridiculous as you can make a free account on every sidekick server already.

• Desert Borderlands – Should the map be removed indefinitely?
  A rotation could be nice. I wouldn’t mind seeing them occasionally.

• Repair Hammer – Do you want to be able to spend supply to repair siege?
  No, I feel these are an unnecessary complication.

• Deployable Mortars – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Mortars?
  No, less siege is good.

• Deployable Cannons – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Cannons?
  No, less siege is good. This is coming from someone who loves cannons.

+1 I would also like to see this data.

Limit transfers to once a week and make them free. Let players figure out where and who to play with on their own. We don’t need an algorithm we need choices.

Choice allows us to move if we don’t like a matchup or pairing. Choice allows us to play with old or new friends. Choice allows us to move to a server that better represents the type of play style we enjoy be it zerg, havoc, roam etc.

Anet can figure out another way to make gem money off of WvW players.

displayname.8315:

That’s why their thinking of adding worlds with lower population caps. I for one would take the free transfer to help them balance out the link-ups.

What good is a free transfer if your sidekick server could be linked with a different host server next week? Putting you in a different alliance and possibly a different tier based solely on a population number that you can’t see or predict.

The whole system needs blown up and re-designed. Limiting player choice in any way is not the answer. The best system is going to be the one where players get to choose who they want to fight with or against EACH week.

Find another way to make gems money Anet because this way is punishing players that want to play your game and have a good time.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/hot-new-legendary-weapons/

“we will be releasing new legendary weapons in small groups at regular intervals until the full set of sixteen has been added to the game”

It is clear that you are not delivering on a product as it was promised, whether you take offense or not, the facts are there.

Raptor Jeebus made a beautiful and inspiring shadow of a cross on the top of the wall of SE outer SMC.

Now I don’t know where our in-game prayer circle will meet. This anti religious bias is really frustrating.

If anyone knows of another sign of Jeebus in the game, let me know.

Oh yeah…. Kappa

Agreed. The buff is on my bar and the “speed lines” animation are there but the actual speed increase is completely gone. Easily tested by applying swiftness which does actually give you a speed increase.

Not only do I not know what happened to this item when I clicked it, the text is misleading. It says double-click to acquire the recipe. Recipes are an item. THEY say double-click to CONSUME. I totally expected to get a recipe from the item, not have it be consumed and learned. Though I don’t know if it’s learned as I can’t find it.

Progression got stopped in story Hearts and Minds. I’m sylvari and took Caithe and Canach in with me. Fought blighted Canach and everything seemed to work as normal. Got to the end of fighting the Blighted Pale Tree and my character told Caithe to stop attacking, which she did, but when I moved to the rift the Blighted Pale Tree disappeared and therefore couldn’t be sucked into the rift to move the story forward.

This game is the most bug ridden piece of software I have ever used in my life. Should never have been released in this state. I’m really disappointed.

Client crashes every few hours. GTX 770 Driver 358.50 (latest), i7-4770K, 8GB RAM, Windows 10 Pro. Crash report has been different every time. Usually some kind of projectile effect mentioned. The last time I wasn’t anywhere near a fight so I’m not sure what projectile means. It’s getting VERY frustrating as it has happened almost every time I’ve been getting close to a new waypoint in the new content and then have to backtrack. I can’t believe I paid money for this kitten.

Sending a crash report every time. Does Anet even look at these things?

Sol.6213:

I’m likely an outlier due to my connection and I’ve been experiencing things this last weekend that I’ve never seen before.

I have google fiber, I get about 940 Mpbs down and 960 up. My average ping in GW2 normally, and this last weekend, is in the 40’s, usually hovering around 46.

This weekend I had a few instances of what felt like missing frames for about a quarter of a second or less in bursts of about 3 or 4 in Lion’s Arch.

I also had instances of complete game lock-ups (lag) in WvW, Tier 2 on EB with no zergs that I could see though they could have been somewhat nearby. These lock-ups basically turned my game into a screen shot, no sound, no cursor movement, no keyboard response. One was around 11 or 12 seconds, one was almost exactly 17 seconds. When the game became responsive, the other person in my party had moved quite a bit ahead of me.

Teamspeak was completely unaffected, as I immediately was communicating with my party when this was happening. My voice quality there was fine. Possibly indicating a problem just with GW2.

Again, I’ve never experienced anything like this previously. I’ve experienced skill lag but not full client freezes.

Quoting my own post to update.

Last night in Tier 2 WvW on EB at about 8:30 central, with no zergs in sight (and very few commanders on map) I had 6 to 7 second skill lag ONLY on shatter skills for mesmer. Strangest thing I’ve ever experienced in GW2. Rest of the skills seemed fine.

I’ve experienced skill lag before but it’s usually all of my skills. Not selective like this.
Ping was fine, around 42, which leads me to think it’s some kind of client server issue.

I’m likely an outlier due to my connection and I’ve been experiencing things this last weekend that I’ve never seen before.

I have google fiber, I get about 940 Mpbs down and 960 up. My average ping in GW2 normally, and this last weekend, is in the 40’s, usually hovering around 46.

This weekend I had a few instances of what felt like missing frames for about a quarter of a second or less in bursts of about 3 or 4 in Lion’s Arch.

I also had instances of complete game lock-ups (lag) in WvW, Tier 2 on EB with no zergs that I could see though they could have been somewhat nearby. These lock-ups basically turned my game into a screen shot, no sound, no cursor movement, no keyboard response. One was around 11 or 12 seconds, one was almost exactly 17 seconds. When the game became responsive, the other person in my party had moved quite a bit ahead of me.

Teamspeak was completely unaffected, as I immediately was communicating with my party when this was happening. My voice quality there was fine. Possibly indicating a problem just with GW2.

Again, I’ve never experienced anything like this previously. I’ve experienced skill lag but not full client freezes.

Zalladi.4652:

Interview

After the announcement of HoT, many players were concerned that the old game content would be left in the dust. Unfortunately, that is partially true. But Johanson wanted to reassure players that even though there is a lot of focus on the new HoTness, events like Halloween will still continue and patches will still come to the old game. Johanson believes that there will be plenty to do in the old game for free players. – Source

“Halloween will still continue” doesn’t give a date folks. Continue in 2016 is a possibility.

I’m happy it’s not the previous noise, but what is this sound now? It’s still not a horn, not even close.

A new account could easily make a character a day and play them up through level 10. So you are going to short these players keys?

Wouldn’t it be better to flag accounts for a maximum of 66 (current max number of character slots) keys from the level 10 story?

Discounting deletions this seems like a less confusing solution as most people won’t hit the limit and could be warned when they do.

Found this! (I must not have been playing that month last year.)

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/act-now-weekend-sales/

Anyone else excited for talk like a pirate day? (Sat. Sept 19th 2015)

I’m hoping for some gem store sales and many people talking like a pirate.

Pretty much agree with the OP. I think that if they ran upright and didn’t have such weird hyena necks that more people would like them.

I doubt those minor changes would make the people that love them already love them less.

Inimicus.7162:

Did I miss where it said these beta characters would be in the Live world with people who are not also part of the beta?

While the idea is exciting, and might spur more prepurchase sales, it would make far more logistical sense to have a segregated beta ‘server’ environment.

If someone from Anet has said the Revenants would be in Live with non-beta players, I’d like a link.

What about those players who don’t want to have their HoT experience spoiled in any way? Are they going to be playing with Revenants in PvE, PvP and WvW?

I personally have an objection to testing content for a company for free. Even if I don’t play a Revenant, it sounds like I could be killing with, killing, or being killed by one all weekend.

I realize I’m in the minority, but I just don’t find (probably) buggy content added to my mmo experience fun or interesting.

Finish your content, polish it up, present it in an interesting way with some story/lore, and I’ll buy it. Don’t force feed it to me unfinished. I’m starting to miss the days of physical only distribution.

Agree with the OP. My 80 in unique+ gear doesn’t kill as fast in level 40 content as a 40.
I find it difficult to believe this is a design intention.

Also, thank you for this;
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/gw2-i-think-downscaling-is-borked/

Totally illustrates why it feels off during play.

Please fix this. All of the kitten ways to make players do less dps is not fun gameplay.

Not all of us feel that low level content should be challenging. We’ve done that stuff hundreds of times. Making it harder now does not make it more fun.

I expect it to be a struggle to level up with blue and green gear. I do not expect a struggle when downscaled with full ascended. My characters used to feel like heroic demigods. Now they feel less powerful than the characters at the level of the zone.

Edit: Devs? Try Teq before responding..

Buyer beware. There is evidence it reduces the amount of ore you get in exchange for the watchwork sprocket drops.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1wfp5r/watchwork_pick_looking_for_data/

It’s likely lag. I have two friends who’s internet is not reliable. I see this happening to them all the time, as I can’t rez them.

Also, lag can be deliberately caused. A quick internet search can tell you how and why.

Anet can you please apply all of the camera fixes in game to the follow cam?

I don’t do it often in PvP, but when watching tournaments the camera is much too close and possibly even too far overhead.

It’s so different from the game camera that it makes me ill to watch your tournaments. I’m probably not alone in this.

T1 NA. Small fights you can move normally and activate skills.

Large scale fights, somewhere in the range of 100 opponents, skill lag gets to the point where many skills won’t ever activate.

Movement seems to be relatively unaffected.

I experienced the exact same issue and fix. I have not figured out exactly what causes the field of view to change in the first place.

From an initial look, this doesn’t seem good for condition builds.

Conditions are already significantly weaker in PvE due to the way they stack and are replaced (first in, first out).

If the current Berserker meta is any indicator of effectiveness, conditions classes and builds are already behind the curve. Anet has to know this, I see them playing.

Another boon that can be applied to prevent conditions even more? Probably not a good design decision IF the design goals include promoting a variety of play styles.

I guess we will see, but I’m having a hard time spinning this as a positive.

I would suspect that you would have to start a new account as neither of the purchases on the gw2 site are listed as upgrades.

What IS listed as an upgrade is the Digital Deluxe Upgrade in the gem store. (2000 gems right now)

If ArenaNet was being kind they would put the Digital Deluxe Upgrade in the gem store on sale at 400 gems ($5), which is the difference between the two editions.

I don’t expect them to do this though as I don’t believe they have done this when the game has gone on sale in the past.

It’s too bad though, I would be willing to bet they would get some gem purchases from it.

2.5 please, assuming the “tokens” don’t end up in my inventory bags.

This bug still exists.

I haven’t been able to get to it for about a week? There is no contact info on the landing page.

Was a good site.

Sol.6213:

I have a friend who started playing three weeks ago. I’m sure she has less than 100 hours in the game. She has had FOUR precursor drops. It’s unbelievable, but I swear it’s true. Hard to believe that’s random.

Update. She now has SIX precursor drops in less than four weeks playing.

I have a friend who started playing three weeks ago. I’m sure she has less than 100 hours in the game. She has had FOUR precursor drops. It’s unbelievable, but I swear it’s true. Hard to believe that’s random.