Guild Wars 2

Potions…and food. Ah yes, Thank you!
I have been playing GW1 for 3 months and I came back for Halloween and I for got how to play the game. The first thing I do was go into the Mad Kings realm and the first enemy I run into is the skeleton with the chainsaw! He got me down to 10% and then I ran off the cliff.

According to the GW2 Combat System, there are two damage types:
Direct Damage = Burst Damage
Condition Damage = Poison, Bleeding, Burns, Torment, Confusion etc.

Are Skeletons effected by all of these?

Well. I guess that must be what I was overlooking. I guess I was away playing GW1 for too long. What about Immunities?

I did a google search on this and all I could find were references to GW1. But with regards to GW2, all I could find was speculation.
So do we know if Skeletons take double damage from Holy attacks? Do we know if blunt damage is more effective than piercing or slashing damage? What about elemental damage? Is Lightning better than Fire against skeletons? Are skeletons immune to bleeding? Would make sense, right?
These questions relate to Halloween and the Mad Kings realm.
What am I overlooking?

There’s no longer a Guild Wars 1 Support forum, from what I understand, so I wasn’t sure where to post this. But since this is the Event sub-forum, I figured this is the closest thing.

Q: How does a non cantha character get to the Dragon Festival as it is held in the Shing Jea Boardwalk, which only Cantha players have access to.

TiA, Speedy

SpeedyG.7340:

I don’t see the “Can’t start the game in Full screen” issue on the list? Or did you call it something else?
There are a sill some people who can’t start the game in Full Screen mode. It hangs after you select “Play”. We have the play the game in Windowed mode, ever since the 3-16-2015 patch. Although it is more common to XP users, it is not exclusive to XP. There are W7 users the same issue. One on the original threads was: Game doesn’t work in fullscreen mode

Nevermind.
Tested Full screen today after the 3-31 patch and it worked!
Thanks to the Devs for fixing this issue.

Tested Full screen today after the 3-31 patch and it worked!
Thanks to the Devs for fixing this issue.

Tested Full screen today and it worked! Thank you Daggos for letting me know!
I’m also giving thanks to the Devs for fixing this issue.

Awesome! I will test tomorrow. Thx!

Daggos Skelito.2910:

Little bit confused here! The 3/31 patched fixed full screen for me. First thing i did was select my native resolution and it worked just fine. Other then my arms being straight out, back to normal.

Well this is the first I’ve heard of it. Again, It has not been acknowledged by the Devs in any thread in this forum that I know of.

Thanks for pointing this out. I will have to test.
You said “First thing i did was select my native resolution”.
Is this after you reached the character selection menu?

I don’t see the “Can’t start the game in Full screen” issue on the list? Or did you call it something else?
There are a sill some people who can’t start the game in Full Screen mode. It hangs after you select “Play”. We have the play the game in Windowed mode, ever since the 3-16-2015 patch. Although it is more common to XP users, it is not exclusive to XP. There are W7 users the same issue. One on the original threads was: Game doesn’t work in fullscreen mode

They have acknowledged it to people that have submited a ticket, but they have not acknowledged it publicly in any thread in this forum that I know of. I have searched extensively using the Google method described in one of the pinned posts.
They say they are working on a fix. No ETA.

I posted this in another thread, but someone suggested I post this in the bugs forum.

On 3-16-16, The GW2 client downloaded new files and then AutoPlay kicked in and I now see the GW2 Title bar (Blue) flickering and my mouse changed to an arrow. According to taskmgr, GW2 is running but I still see the desktop in the background. Unfortunately, I can’t end GW2 from taskmgr because all keyboard input is being handled by GW2. The only option is to reboot! Which means I have to run chkdsk on the system partition. It worked just fine before the patch and my configuration didn’t change.
After searching the forum for issues, I came across a thread that suggested to creat a shortcut to start GW2 in Windowed mode. The game launches fine in Windowed mode. This eliminates the possibility of the data file being corrupted.
I disabled AVG and tried again and it still hangs.

Running WXPSP3 with an AMD HD7750 Radeon.
DirectX info:
VendorId = 0×1002
DeviceId = 0×683f
Version = 6.14.0010.7279
Description = AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Compat = 0×00000000
VidMem = 2048 MB

I noticed in the support faqs that ANet recommends that AMD users use video driver version 12.3. I’m assuming they mean Catalyst 12.3 drivers. I’m running 13.9.
Is anyone with this issue running 12.3? If so then it is not dependent on driver version.

Fullscreen fix? No. Devs are too busy making April fools jokes instead.
Now we see where their priorities lie.

For those of us who have to play the game in Windowed mode, this is not funny. It’s an insult. But we are the minority.
I’m very disappointed and now I’m becoming more impatient.

-Server: Northern Shiverpeaks
-Map/location: Malchor’s Leap > Blighted Arch
-Character info(level, race, profession): L80 Norn? Warrior (Actually this character is in my other account. But they are in the same private guild [MEKA].
-How to reproduce issue: Attack the Risen Spider Lord (w/o using God mode)
+ A screenshot or video link: Not capable of making a 11s clip.

The Champion casts Locust swarms that don’t die after 10 secs. Therefore he is able to have 2 x Swarms up continuously. Maybe 3 x Commanders could shut him down.

The Wiki says you need to make sure you rush past the spider hatchlings and if Boss gets permanently buffed, you need to start the mission over (no known way to get around that particular bug).
Can this be fixed or is it by design?

Xaros.1584:

Ok i got answer from support:
“This does appear to be affecting Windows XP users primarily, and while it may be affecting some Windows Vista, 7, or 8 players, this could be for an entirely different reason. We are currently investigating this issue although I do not have an ETA for a fix. At this time I can only advise playing in Windowed mode until we have more information to provide.”
Okey so, wait?

I’m glad to see you got a response.
I wish someone from Anet would either state that they will notify this thread when it is fixed or tell us if there is another thread we should be following. Because, otherwise it seems like they either, don’t know this thread exists or don’t want to publicly acknowledge the problem.
Maybe one of the moderators could advise? Thanks.

I posted this in another thread, but that thread has died. Posting here for visibility. Also adding updated information.
The GW2 client downloaded the files on [3-16-15] and then AutoPlay kicked in and I see the GW2 Title bar (Blue) flickering and my mouse changes to an arrow. According to taskmgr, GW2 is running but I still see the desktop in the background. Unfortunately, I can’t end GW2 from taskmgr because all keyboard input is being handled by GW2. The only option is to reboot! Which means I have to run chkdsk on the system partition. It worked just fine before the patch and my configuration didn’t change.
After searching the forum for issues, I came across a thread that suggested to creat a shortcut to start GW2 in Windowed mode. The game launches fine in Windowed mode. This eliminates the possibility of the data file being corrupted.
I disabled AVG and tried again and it still hangs.

Running WXPSP3 with an AMD HD7750 Radeon.
DirectX info:
VendorId = 0×1002
DeviceId = 0×683f
Version = 6.14.0010.7279
Description = AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Compat = 0×00000000
VidMem = 2048 MB

I noticed in the support faqs that ANet recommends that AMD users use video driver version 12.3. I’m assuming they mean Catalyst 12.3 drivers. I’m running 13.9.
Is anyone with this issue running 12.3? If so then it is not dependent on driver version.

I wonder if Anet is aware of the issue?

Odalitse.2905:

SpeedyG.7340:

Thanks to the help of this thread, I’m able to run Windowed mode using the “-Windowed” switch. How do you specify Windowed Fullscreen?

To change to windowed fullscreen press Esc, options, Graphs Options, change resolutions and choose Windowed Fullscreen.

-Windowed works for me too

Thanks!

Thanks to the help of this thread, I’m able to run Windowed mode using the “-Windowed” switch. How do you specify Windowed Fullscreen?

I have the same issue after downloading the patch [3-16-15]. Worked just fine last night. My configuration didn’t change. Running WXPSP3 with an AMD HD7750 Radeon.

The GW2 client downloaded the files and then AutoPlay kicked in and I see the GW2 Title bar (Blue) flickering and my mouse changes to an arrow. According to taskmgr, GW2 is running but I still see the desktop in the background.
Unfortunately, I can’t end GW2 from taskmgr because all KB input is being handled by GW2. The only option is to reboot! Which means I have to run chkdsk on the system partition.

Did anyone test this release?

Thanks. Fortunately, after a reset my Home world controlled the area nearest the Orgath Uplands.

If the area where the event occurs (Orgath Uplands) is not held by my Home world (Northern Shiverpeaks), then I would be fighting other players as well. No?
Any advice?