Guild Wars 2

Been having the same issue, some days it’s good others it’s horrendous. I can stream 1080p60 videos on YouTube yet I cannot get a decent connection to Guild Wars 2? It has become so bad that I just give up and don’t log in for many days at a time. World v. World has been the worst having latency issues and player characters and skills not loading for 10 seconds once I get into combat. Makes that game mode unplayable, which is probably the only reason why I play this game currently. It’s sad to see this game be so buggy because I like it a lot. Spent the last five years playing this game and I hope to continue but at this pace, I might not last another month.

Queued up for a game of PvP with two other people. Now stuck with the Map Results screen like the others on this thread (also see image below). They’re also stuck with it as well and will direct them to this thread afterwards. Please help if you’re able.

I’ve been experiencing the same problem here on my end as well. I mostly play WvW and prior to this match-up, engagements and fights were fine; this week is completely different. Lag starts occuring around 5 PM PST and continues on throughout the night making it impossible to play (internet connection is running fine). When I had a chance to play in the early morning and noon hours, GW2 was runs normal.

Anything that comes out of the “Black Lion Chest of Goods” you get for daily log-ins:

Mystic Forge Stones,
Box of Fun,
Merchant Express,
Bank Access Express,
Black Lion Salvage Kit,
Trading Post Express,
Instant Repair Canister,
Revive Orb.

Didn’t include the Black Lion Chest Key or Transmutation Charge because more often than not one would almost consume those immediately. As for non-BLTC chest items;

Philosopher Stones,
Mystic Crystals,
Shimmering Crystals,
Tenebrous Crystals.

Update:

I put in my ticket and got a response from the support team. The team stated that they are unable to exchange items upon request, and that they were sorry for the inconvenience. I can understand that to a degree because it then could become abused by a population of players. Still, I’d like to see a recipe added to the mystical forge or to make the Gifts of Condensed Might & Magic salvageable in light of the new Legendary weapons being postponed.

Sphinx.8014:

Yes, you should probably contact support and ask if they could help you there. They are usually very helpful if you ask nicely

Edit: it’s at the top left corner of the page

Doing it now, thank you.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Honestly, I wouldnt have crafted the gifts until you actually GOT to that step of the crafting. Your best bet is to contact support to see if they’ll remove those gifts in exchange for the base materials used to craft them.

I will definitely pursue this route on top of making my plea. In hindsight, yes, it was a bad idea. Since it’ll be my first time submitting a ticket into the support desk, is there a specific link, or route that I take in order to do this? Thank you for the advice.

This is not going to be a topic about how upset I was when I found out the next generation of Legendary Weapons were placed on hold. This is a I want to see something in return since work on the new Legendary weapons have been suspended.

I planned on making a new HoT legendary weapon since the release of the Expac back in late October. But Nevermore, Astralia, and H.O.P.E. didn’t catch my eye. I was really looking forward to new weapon. A weapon that would excite me like a next dagger, sword, rifle, etc. So I waited and got items crafted in advance, planning on seeing this all the way through.

However, now I’m stuck with 2 Gifts of Condensed Might, and 2 Gifts of Condensed Magic. That’s a lot of T-6 materials locked away in a format that I am no longer interested in. I’ve looked on the Wiki and on the release notes because I heard something about a patch note where you can salvage, or un-do a crafted “Gift” item. And what I found was only this:

Items – The Gift of Fortune can now be salvaged into its base materials.

I have now moved onto making Bolt and its precursor crafting has been going swell. I’ll eventually get stuck when I need to make the Gifts of Might & Magic. I would like to see a way to salvage Gifts of Condensed Might/Magic be put in the game in lieu of work being postponed on 2nd gen. Legendary Weapons. I don’t believe that I should be punished for being prepared. If a developer could please make this change in the game, that would make me happy. :)

Minx.7521:

Yeap. Basically this. STOP WORKING ON THE UPCOMING EXPANSION THEN AND FINISH THIS ONE.

I didn’t think about this proposal originally, and tbh, I like it better. We just got the 1st expansion after three years, and you’ve got 70 developers working on the next one already. This was from your Reddit AMA you had earlier this month when Colin left, “We have about 120 devs working on the live game, 70 devs on Expac2, and 30 devs on core teams that support both.” Mike, you went onto explain further what ‘live game’ entailed. “For example on Live we have the PvP team, the WvW team, the Fractals team, the Raids team, the Living World team, the Legendaries team, and a couple others.” Why not take six, or however many you need, devs working on the next expansion, and have them work on the Living Story? The players are not expecting another expansion for some time, but new Legendaries and the next Living Story season, that needs to happen sooner than later.

Frenzy III: Rage, Lashoosh Friendship Bracelet. Event is not ‘popping’. I have waited around for 2 hours, doing various in real life stuff, waiting for this event to ‘pop’ and it simply does not.

FlameAlchemist.8143:

@Swandive

Please stab me for not seeing your post! It’s a pleasure to meet you! And an honor to be the guild that stands out from the others! An Engineer main! Well, I think you might be the first to main engi here haha! A few of us are trying it out not in hope that we’ll like scrapper. We definitely look forward to running dungeons and fractals and eventually raids with you!

I’m currently on a subway to class, so I won’t be able to send you an invite, but will make it my utmost priority to get you checked in on time! Count on it!!

I’m glad to see a positive response from you and your guild. I’m going to be on later tonight for dailies. I’ve already gone ahead and added you, along with @SeventhGrave. From the looks of it, it seems like a lot of warm, enthusiastic, and fun people will be filling up the guild roster. Looking forward to chatting and learning each others’ play styles.

SwanDive.8651:

After scrolling through a bunch of Guild Recruitment messages for the past week, I finally came across your post which intrigued me the most. I can actually see myself running dungeons and raids with your Guild (if allowed to join) once HoT comes out.

Account Name: SwanDive.8651
Time Zone: US Pacific (GMT -8)
Mains: Engineer, Thief, Warrior, Guardian (have other 80s but not really playing them)
Fun Fact: Went to a drive-in movie theater and watched “American Graffiti” with my bae on Friday.

Hope to hear for your guild soon.

After scrolling through a bunch of Guild Recruitment messages for the past week, I finally came across your post which intrigued me the most. I can actually see myself running dungeons and raids with your Guild (if allowed to join) once HoT comes out.

Account Name: SwanDive.8651
Time Zone: US Pacific (GMT -8)
Mains: Engineer, Thief, Warrior, Guardian (have other 80s but not really playing them)
Fun Fact: Went to a drive-in movie theater and watched “American Graffiti” with my bae on Friday.

Hope to hear for your guild soon.

I ran my personal numbers on if I could actually obtain either one of the Selfless/Thoughtless Potions in time prior to the event ending. Right now I currently hold 140 Mordrem Blooms. I know I’ll get 60 per map for the daily reward which is guaranteed so that puts me at 200 (260 if this event goes past Sunday at reset). Best case scenario only requires me to get 190 Mordrem Blooms on my own. Ok. So say I get 10 blooms per map, that only leaves me with 19 map events to complete. Hey that’s not that bad.

But wait! Anet loves time gated stuff. So that means I now have to invest 19 more hours of my weekend just to get a shot at the potion. Oh, wait that’s wrong, make that 25 more hours because of a break in the invasion. I have a life outside of Guild Wars 2 where I can’t dedicate a full kittening day of playing this game. Please, next time don’t let your ‘intern’ design an event and then release it prior to the weekend. Remember Golem week?

As for ways to make this better, Tiemen.8427 couldn’t have said it any better. You need to seriously put this person on your payroll, compensate him/her for their post or give them a Legendary. Best of luck to those who can grind out the rewards they want. I hope you get them in time. I am giving up for now. I will have to wait and see if Anet does any follow up to this event in the days to come.

I am master of levitation. :^)

I wonder if this was any other Legendary that lost their effects (i.e. Legendary Greatswords) if there would be more of a plea from the community. I hope that Anet devs read this and resolve the issue if not address the reasons why and make some sort of statement. HoT is taking up a bunch of their time so I’m not expecting anything relatively fast but hopefully something.

The Legendary weapons available to Engineer (besides Flameseeker’s Prophecies) no longer have special animation skills for when you use Grenade Barrage; Grenade Kit tool belt skill. I have both (Predator and Quip) and just tried this out. Don’t know whether this is a bug or intentional. I’ve included two screen shot of my Toon; one wielding The Predator, the other Quip, having selected the Grenadier trait and using Grenade Barrage.

I hope it goes back to the previous special animation of Grenade Barrage since these weapons’ footfalls, unique glows and skills are only seen when they’re being wielded; using kits remove all special effects of these.

I finished crafting a Legendary, did some achievement point grinding, finished personal story on Thief, dailies in PvE section of the game, world boss train and oh, did some Bite-Sized Candy Corn Elemental farming in Bloodtide Coast.

iPsychO.5043:

End the event rather sooner than later. Ty.

Off-topic-yet-on-topic: This once again proves how much Arenanet appreciates the WvW community. This bug has been adressed for days now on both the official forums and on reddit. Makes me wonder if they even have any dev dedicated to WvW who is remotely active (and sensible). I guess the devs are too busy karmatraining to read their own community forums. Communication 1/10.

This is what Anet is doing right now:
http://i.imgur.com/JRQVzR0.jpg

Zepher.7803:

This is a game, and it’s an event in a game, get over it everyone so serious.

Until you get 10K Life Blasted by a Necro, 30K kill-shot by a Warrior, and 20K backstabbed by a Thief, then you’ll know why this event fails as much as it does.

Look, if Anet isn’t going to work on SAB until after HoT is released, I get it. We get it. But, please, do us all a favor and give us a vendor next to Moto in Rata Sum where we can trade in our Baubles, Bubble Baubles, and (if possible) Continue Coins for Masterwork skins; those that are account bound on acquisition. That’s not too much to ask for because we have Festival Reward vendors in Lion’s Arch and Divinity Reach selling rewards for content that is no longer playable… at the moment.

Let me ask you this. I’m on the west coast in the US. If I leave for work in the morning and I stayed logged into Guild Wars 2 under the character selection menu, will my Guild Wars 2 launcher (or whatever the correct term for it is called) automatically update while I’m gone? Or will I have to re-log and download the patch when I get back home from work?

I demand TP gems for these, grievous, inhumane, absurd delays.