… that happened to me about 15-20 minutes ago too. I was also doing 86 snowblind, then had a really bad ping for few minutes, now i got the same error message.
No idea what is going on. Where are you from if i may ask? Maybe it’s region related.
Poland here.
Croatia. Could be something going on with European servers
The game was working perfectly fine up until about 20 minutes ago. I was in the middle of the Snowblind fractal when my ping suddenly skyrocketed to 800. I tried restarting the game, but I couldn’t even log in – I got the error message that says the client could not connect to the server. I tried restarting my PC as well, made it into the game again, but the ping was now up to 1600. Next restart it dropped me as I was logging into my character.
My browser and other online games are working normally.
This is a Collection Item from the fourth collection towards the H.O.P.E. legendary. You’re supposed to defeat the Karka Queen with the Dwarven Spell Trap item activated, just like you have to defeat 2 other bosses. I’ve done this successfully with the other two, but I have done the Karka Queen with it activated 6 times now, multiple times on different characters as well, and haven’t received Karka Queen’s Magic. I’ve read this is because you loot it from the Queen’s corpse and only a limited amount of people are able to tag her for loot – this would make sense because my computer is really bad and my loading times are awfully long, which doesn’t help when she spawns on the other half of the map. I’m still not sure of this though, and if it is the case, could the item be transferred into the daily chest she leaves behind after she is defeated?
Apparently, this doesn’t drop as often as it is supposed to. It’s on the list of fixes for legendary collections; I don’t recall if the relevant dev had time to post an ETA or not.
I did see in a dev post that they’re aware of a problem with the Ancient Karka Husk, but I don’t know if that includes this too. Would be logical that it does I suppose.
This is a Collection Item from the fourth collection towards the H.O.P.E. legendary. You’re supposed to defeat the Karka Queen with the Dwarven Spell Trap item activated, just like you have to defeat 2 other bosses. I’ve done this successfully with the other two, but I have done the Karka Queen with it activated 6 times now, multiple times on different characters as well, and haven’t received Karka Queen’s Magic. I’ve read this is because you loot it from the Queen’s corpse and only a limited amount of people are able to tag her for loot – this would make sense because my computer is really bad and my loading times are awfully long, which doesn’t help when she spawns on the other half of the map. I’m still not sure of this though, and if it is the case, could the item be transferred into the daily chest she leaves behind after she is defeated?
Just 20 minutes ago I was participating in reclaiming Tarir, and right before we were about to finish the event, during the final burn phase, I suddenly got thrown into a loading screen, one which loaded me into a different map. Needless to say I lost my map participation and this map also happened to fail the event.
One thing I’m suspecting: I was in a party with 3 other people before this happened. We were not in the same maps, we were in a party because they were trying to join my own map after I posted on the LFG tool, but when I got kicked and loaded into the other map, all 3 of them were there as well.
One more thing that probably doesn’t mean anything but I’ll still put it out there – the switch happened right at the moment the Octovine I was attacking died.
They just share a similar model, otherwise they’re completely different creatures. As already mentioned, it appears in the very first instance of the Sylvari personal story anyway.
You can’t choose which episodes you download, the game automatically downloads any new data available via patches. You do have the data connected to Episode 2, but it is unavailable to you as you have not logged in the 2 weeks the episode was active.
I put some points in defense to get Sure Footed and Last Stand, I let her first stomp proc Last Stand, immediately after I activated Balanced Stance, followed by Dolyak Signet, followed by a timed Stomp on her next CC, then I used Rampage. When you get out of rampage Balanced stance is just off cooldown, and after that she was dead very soon
I’ve had this happening for a while, but never remembered to post a thread on the forums. I don’t spend much time in Malchor’s Leap or Straits of Devastation, but in Cursed shore and inside Arah there is a pretty immersion breaking bug – “cheerful” music from Krytan and Maguuman regions often plays, and it just sounds terribly unfitting. The most common offender is the theme you can hear often in Queensdale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swwS5l_CGKM), which occurs atleast once per path while playing inside Arah. It was sort of funny the first time, but now it’s just annoying :<.
What I do in these cases is find the remaining active scouts on the map. When you talk to them (the telescope icons), they reveal the hearts in their area, and when you complete all hearts of that small portion of the map, the scout icon disappears.
Can’t a necro use a scythe? It has been a month or two since I played mine. But I remember having a staff that was something scythe.
You might have mistaken it for the scythe visual effect. All necromancers have a misty black scythe blade appear as an effect when they use their staff spells.
So here’s an idea of how I would change that trailer- keep the LA part at the start but replace the Aetherblade pirate ships with the sound of one then fade out. Fade back in to screams and to the odd bit of burning rubble, fade out to the title. This tells the watcher roughly whats going to happen but doesnt throw images of a burning Lions Arch at us.
I honestly don’t see how that would change anything. If you make the simplest connection you would again conclude that Lion’s Arch is going to get destroyed.
2-A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment. I believe that’s also what I meant to say
I believe that you are wrong. It’s not a glitch, it’s simply how that part works. The console requires activation 5 times. Doing it one time after another and making stuff unnecessarily hard or doing it once, then having 4 people do it at the same time making it simple is the same.
As for the actual topic, nothing wrong with stacking imo. You DPS stuff much faster because you’re cleaving, rezes are easier and so on, it’s simply pure efficiency. I mean, I myself wouldn’t find dragging a fight for x minutes longer “fun”.
Hold the line audio is bugged for human male and female. I think it might be bugged for all races. One question though……is guardian shouts not being heard by other players a bug too? Or is it intentional?
Don’t hear it on my Charr either, I think it’s same for all races. I am wondering about the second question you presented as well, though.
Tequatl hasn’t just evolved… It’s on the march.
Return to Sparkfly Den and Guildwars 2’s most challenging encounter in this permanent Living World release. The threat posed by “The Sunless One” has spread like a black tide… See the next evolution of GuildWars 2’s Dynamic Event system with new tougher challenges and “Second Chance” events that give you surprising ways to hold your ground when all seems lost.
VIBRANCE / DECAY
Battle for dominance across the zone as Tequatl presses toward Lion’s Arch. You control the very landscape in the battle between Vibrance and Decay as Tequatl seeks to leech the lifeforce of the land to power its continuing evolution.
When Vibrance reigns, this zone is more rewarding than ever before. Gold find and magic find are each increased by 20%. All champions have a chance of dropping sun-bead themed weapon skins. All events across the entire the zone offer 1-5 sun-beads in addition to their current rewards. New vendors will trade sun-beads for hylek, risen, and tequatl themed rewards. Mini-pets new and old, tonics, consumables to summon hylek warriors of all types and colors to your side, and even a special Hylek decorative item to add to your personal home area can be acquired to commemorate the service of those who fought long and hard for the Children of the Sun.
When Decay reigns the land is transformed. Face a new, darker Sparkfly Den where hope is on the verge of being crushed and heroes must rise or all is lost. Experience points and harvesting critical chance are each increased by 20% as you dare to confront evil made manifest. Rich harvest nodes become more common as Tequatl’s power strips the land back to its bare bones, but they are often guarded by savage creatures guided by the Dragon Lieutenant’s growing awareness. A new zone-wide meta-event tracks your every effort to push back this terror. But beware, if allowed to fester for a full day, Tequatl’s influence WILL BE FELT even closer to the gates of Lion’s Arch…
MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
The Tequatl encounter becomes more important than ever! Reworked to scale faithfully for groups of 15 to 100, more players mean more complex challenges as the fight progresses and better chances for the rarest rewards. A new pre-event allows you to gather your forces before the timed event begins. Even small groups now have a slim chance to acquire some of Tequatl’s greatest treasures while driving off the beast. Bring your friends, your allies, your entire Guild to increase your odds! But know that the price of failure has never been higher…
Failing the Tequatl event unleashes the Tides of Decay! This mega-event requires players to complete a total of 75 Risen-based events to repel Tequatl’s minions and free the land, restoring the zone to Vibrance. Five new major [group] events can be found as Tequatl enacts powerful rituals to seize the land’s essence for its own. These special events are extremely challenging, often involving the direct intervention of Zaitan’s Champion or a powerful Risen Servant, but completing one counts as 15 normal events towards pushing back the Tides of Decay. Show your mastery with a special permanent achievement by completing all five of these new challenges, unlocking the “Tequatl’s Bane” title. Or amass 250 smaller victories while Decay holds sway to gain the “Stalwart of the Hylek” title. Show your determination as a solo hero, taking the fight to Tequatl one challenge at a time, or team up to tackle the lynchpins in Evil’s plan to plunge Sparkfly Den into darkness!
((Coming Soon to a game I really want to play!))
This is incredibly awesome, but, imo, this is what Orr should be. With Zhaitan instead of Tequatl. I think it always should have been on this grand scale, having impactful effects (both positive and negative) based on what failed and what succeeded. These effects are in Orr to some degree, but in very weak forms. If I walk over a patch of land that has a firestorm or brambles applying bleed and cripple, I’ll find it a minor annoyance, not a sign of Zhaitan’s power that was multiplied by seizing some of the temples.
why even bother making the character if ur only gonna level it through dungeon exploit at the end.
Because you’ve already leveled other characters through the normal way and it started to get a little tedious, especially considering certain level ranges have very few zones available?
I made a thread about this not so long ago as well. I heard the Risen mobs use it, the ones that have a warhorn. Risen Devastators, were they? Or Subjugators? Not sure.
Having specific guilds in order to do open world content show how bad the design of the encounter is.
While I applaud you guys for this as well, I can’t help but agreeing with this statement. One should NOT have to form two 500 person guilds to be able to beat an open world boss. Are we also to have a Jormag guild and a Shatterer guild, when those are revamped? Ludicrous.
If they want content requiring that level of coordination, it should be restricted to raid-style instances.
Again, not to diminish what you guys have done – it really is cool – but it should never have been necessary in the first place. I’m all for hard content, but difficulty imposed by the overflow system requiring this kind of “guild made just to kill a boss” guild is silly.
Imo that’s like saying “oh these guys made a guild for dungeons, that’s just silly”. I mean, it’s a lot like doing dungeons with pugs and with an organized group. Always gonna go quicker with those you know and those you can coordinate with. As for Jormag/Shaterrer, I don’t see why can’t the current guilds simply be active on all 3 of the bosses.
After all, it ISN’T really necessary, but you do happen to have to fall into a server/overflow with people that can listen.
I was leveling my Weaponsmith profession, and as I did so, I noticed that the Celestial Orichalcum Inscription I made does not show up on the discovery window. As I looked at it again in my inventory, I noticed that it does not indicate any usability in professions. For example, a Carrion Oric. Inscription would say “Weaponsmith (400), Artificer (400), Huntsman (400)” or something along those lines, but the Celestial one contains no such indication.
My guess is since it doesn’t appear to be linked to any professions on the tooltip, it does not appear in any discovery windows?
Loved the artwork too when I saw it, and I still do, it’s amazing as is all the other art for GW, but the fact that Teq doesn’t really look like that bugs me a bit. Felt the same for stuff like the Kessex Hills/Fields of Ruin artworks and stuff.
I like Liadri for the same reason Excalibur does, other than that, since this patch, I love the Enraged Twisted Nightmare, even though I don’t have it myself :x
If not and you finished playhouse do you remember what Faren said when you saved him and clicked him for his dialogue?
My character said “don’t ever change friend” and that lead me to believe a lot more NPC’s can discern personal story progression (my Mesmer is noble and met Faren way back in the past)
I went completely “OH kitten ” when I came to the “and her krewemate Teyo” part.
But all in all, this was a very, very interesting read. I liked her character, but this just increments it. This really should be put in the game, in some way.
Are you sure it worked, like ever? I’m pretty sure it’s intended that blocks and reflects don’t stop the deadeye shot
As far as I remember, it used to block. But I could be wrong, hence I want to find out if it was intended. Also Aegis pretty much blocks everything in the game which makes me wonder why the exception?
I believe it was their intended “thing”. Overcharged windup shot that cannot be blocked by anything but terrain and dodging.
Kudu was a terrible cliche villain in my opinion. He even says “Tah!” as he twirls his mustache and vanishes.
But Guild Wars does tend to have a record of badly written villains. Both the Lich and Shiro were incredibly shallow back in GW1, until Nightfall pasted some extra backstory to them. Varesh was also incredibly cliche, with unclear motives, but at least she looked cool.
I’d say the only villains that I really like are Mad King Thorn and Palawa Joko. Especially the Halloween game where the two of them met, was incredibly entertaining.
Kudu’s voice acting was a tiny bit lacking (was helping some people with SE story earlier), and altho he may be classical, i found him sort of compelling. Each to his own, i guess.
What I forgot to mention and saw it in your post, yes, the Mad King was nice. I do sincerely hope they bring him back this year too.
There’s a lot of talk going around about Trahearne and some other characters which weren’t very likable, but I couldn’t seem to find a thread about favourite ones, besides the one discussing the death of some likeable ones.
Not to repeat what everyone else has, Tybalt and Sieran are indeed nice yes. Though another character whose mission I liked a lot (and her herself) is the Knight of Embers. Even though hostile, her character caught my attention. Besides her, I also found Kudu to be “entertaining”, to say the least
If I may add another thing, I’ve had this multiple times as a Mesmer in dungeons. When our Thief used Shadow Refuge on the entire party, as it expired, I used Mass Invisibility (note, not after Shadow Refuge ended, right before it did). When the stealth effect of Refuge ended, the visual effect was gone, but the icon was still there and the mobs ignored us as they should have.
