Guild Wars 2

tyu.9470:

If you don’t want to deal with this, may i suggest using https://github.com/TheCheatsrichter/Gw2_Launchbuddy .

This is what i use to launch all my clients and it automatically kills the mutex every time. Simply launch it, select gw2.exe as your install path and click launch gw2 button. Once it launches the game, click it again and it’ll launch another instance. Repeat as many times as you like.

It has a lot of features (you can save settings, auto-log in etc.) but all of those options are up to you to use.

Remember you cannot patch with launchbuddy so every patch you’ll have to manually patch your game via launching it normally.

Just a small correction to your comment, you don’t need to manually open the launcher to patch, if a patch is available when you open LaunchBuddy it will prompt you to update, click yes and it will open the launcher and update it for you.

Will do if I see anymore Gaile

Just wanted to let Arenanet know that I found another scum of the earth illegally using Guild Wars 2 artwork

They couldn’t even use an obscure piece of artwork, they used one of the most known pieces, the artwork of Rytlock wielding Sohothin.

Links -

Itherverse Kickstarter

Itherverse Website

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Nothing wrong with the drop rates, just your luck so far. I didn’t get the new Glider until my 3rd set of 5 Keys. Didn’t get anything special (well, maybe a Wardrobe unlock) during Halloween’s set of Black Lion Chests.

One never knows when the ‘Lucky Fairy’ will strike. =)

wow you have some good luck. took me over 40 keys to get the glider.

I was browsing the black lion vendors in the vault in Lions Arch and it looks like the vendor for the bloodstone weapons is bugged, he opens up the window for the frostforged weapons instead of the bloodstone ones.

Bringing this across from where I posted it on reddit (Link)

I’m going to start by saying that generally I am happy with the changes Anet make and their direction, however this latest change with the black lion chest is very annoying and has started to make me doubt what they are doing.

Now don’t get me wrong I am fine with most of the changes, removal of boosters, etc. The thing I do not agree with is the inclusion of the new glider behind an RNG paywall, this has made something that would usually cost me 400-700 gems (depending on whether it is a backpack combo or not, which I am happy to pay for and support them) into something that cost me over 6000 gems just to get the glider once (not even the other stuff I got from the chests offsets this as it was all just trash items, not even any of the rare stuff).

To me this just looks like a shameless money grab by Anet and makes me worry for what they are going to pull next, I feel that this event has severely damaged their reputation and especially made me sceptical about future changes and additions they will make.

I am not a hardcore player or tbh particularity good at the game either so I don’t have thousands of gold to spend on converting gold to gems, the most I’ve ever had is the 200g I currently have and that’s only due to the halloween events and being able to get ToT bags from the labyrinth to sell, aside from this I’ve pretty much always been below 100g so that means I have to spend my actual money which I don’t have a lot of but do because of the enjoyment I get from the game, but to now have had to dip into saved money to get this glider instead of being able to use a little of the money I do have each month, I feel that something needs to be re-evaluated and for the sake of your reputation alone please don’t turn into another mmo that just destroys its player base with meaningless money grabs like this.

If you’ve got this far thanks for reading, I just wanted to put my thoughts out there and hope Anet takes note of them.

LinseyMurdock.4165:

There is no way we are getting out of this pet project without adding Blade Shards to Material Storage. I’m comfortable saying now that Blade Shards will definitely make the list of things to add to Material Storage.

Hurray, I’ll be able to move them out of my bank and free up some slots now

Don’t know if this would come under the unlikely stuff but I’d like the stuff like Teleport to Friend, Bank Express, Trading Post Express etc to be considered.
Personally I’m carrying most of them in my shared slots but it would be nice.

Malediktus.3740:

Do you really need to do this during EU primetime? I am sure you could do it 4-5 hours earlier or later or have different maintenance times for NA and EU.

If they went 4-5 hours earlier, people wouldn’t be in the office to either do it or fix things should it go wrong and likewise with 4-5 hours later, people would be looking at heading home on top of it being near the NA primetime, remember anet is in american so everything is done on american times.

Overall there’s alot of good changes in there, though the one I’m not keen on is the change to Shroud #2, I know people had issues with falling off cliffs but that’s their fault for doing it (I did it myself aswell it just happens sometimes), personally I liked it as a charging type attack as it was useful for running through a group of enemies and now seems like it’ll only be good for getting you upto the target you want to fight and not going through a group (correct me if I’m wrong).

A possible bug I just remembered I saw while playing in the beta at the weekend was that the icon display on some of the new skills had a problem.

Specifically it was any of the new skills that were ground targeting ones, I noticed that none of them has the little target symbol underneath their icons when you looked in the menu when equipping them, it would then appear once it had been slotted.

Thought I should let you know.

First I’ll start with a disclaimer that I’m am by no means a great or even that good of a player, but I just wanted to drop in my initial opinions of the content during the beta weekend.

Elite Specs:

Dragon Hunter:

• abit unimpressive/underwhelming and needs some more work.
• I felt the attacks were abit slow, ended with my using the quickness elite alot to speed it up.
• I didn’t use the traps much as I wasn’t too keen on em, only one I really used was the whirling blades one (Procession of Blades) and that was just dropping it during a fight for more damage.
• Virtues were ok, I likes the spear and wings though I think they need buffing abit, I didn’t get much use out of the shield one, but this is most likely my own lack of skill in using it right.

Reaper:

• I really liked the reaper, it has made the necro a playable profession for me as I’m no good with the current version of it.
• I like the greatsword and its skills and I love the reapers shroud.
• although I think the greatsword does need a buff in some way, either speed it up (which is against the concept you were going for so not likely) or give it a damage buff as at the moment its a little on the low side damage wise.
• For me the shouts didn’t get much use, probably the only one I would use regularly is “Nothing can save you”

Tempest:

• I liked the new stuff, it definatly helps with how I like to play my elementalist, which is a close range dagger/dagger.
• The attunment overloads were fun and had impressive visuals.
• didn’t use the warhorn much as it didn’t fit with how I play, but that may just be a lack of familiarity it and it’s skills.
• Shouts again were not really impressive to me, I think they could use some work.

Chronomancer:

• Didn’t get a chance to try it as I used up all 4 of my beta slots on the other elite specs and the revenant, but from the streams I watched of it, it looks cool.

New Profession:
Revenant:

• Defiantly alot better than the last time I played it during the revenant beta weekend.
• The shiro legend was really good, its become my favourite legend at the moment.
• the buffs to damage etc have really helped it.
• I was reserved about the loss of customisation due to the slot skills being determined by the legend but I think it has been implemented in a good manner that made it turn out good.
• not to keen on the fact that under water you have no choice about what legends you can equip as out of the 4 legends you have only two can be used underwater.
• Adding weapon swap was a great idea.
• the energy mechanic is good, makes me think of my Guild Wars 1 days of mico managing energy and loss/gain levels.
• I think the choice of low/no cooldowns because of the energy usage was a good one.
• Overall it was quite a fun time time playing it and I can’t wait to see the elite spec for the revenant.

Map/Content:

• The beta content was really good, I has alot of fun playing the story and it was really interesting.
• I didn’t spend long in verdent brink due to the fact that I only got 6fps when in and of the HoT areas but what I saw looked good.

To finish up I just want to say it was a really good beta weekend and I I want to say thank you Anet for giving us the opportunity to take part and I can’t wait to see what new things you release and what changes you make from our feedback.

For me I got at most 6 fps on verdant brink on my Alienware M14X with all graphics turned to their lowest settings.

Though there is most certainly some optimisations that will be made before the release I can’t attribute most of my rubbish frame rate on HoT because my Laptop’s been abit off recently and I only get about 15-25 fps in the rest of the game world.

As for my main system I was getting 60+ fps with everything on max settings.