Guild Wars 2

Pifil.5193:

Just to elaborate on what others have said: the “mega-bosses” are pretty much inaccessible to working Irish, UK and (I believe) Portuguese players during the week. For us the “mega-boss” times fall at 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 17:00, 18:00 and 19:00 (that’s local time, not CET).

As a working man who (like most workers now, I’d imagine) commutes the only real option there is 19:00 and even that is a stretch. This seems like it might push away a lot of working players.

A fairer way (fairer for everyone, not just people who can consistently make the current times) to do this would be to have more spawn windows that “rotate” and change from day to day.

A given boss needs to spawn every 5 hours or that each boss spawns 4 times per day at predictable, but different, times from day to day. So with this system the spawns for every boss will be one hour later the next day so if a boss spawns at 5 pm today it will spawn at 6 pm the day after and 7 pm the day after that. Every 6 days it will “reset” back to the original time. For example, the 5-9pm 5-hour spawn windows would look like this:

              Boss1   Boss2   Boss3       "Free"   
Day 1   5 pm   6 pm   7 pm   8 pm 9 pm 
Day 2   6 pm   7 pm   8 pm   9 pm 5 pm 
Day 3   7 pm   8 pm   9 pm   5 pm 6 pm
Day 4   8 pm   9 pm   5 pm   6 pm 7 pm
Day 5   9 pm   5 pm   6 pm   7 pm 8 pm
Day 6   5 pm   6 pm   7 pm   8 pm 9 pm

Note: in this system the bosses spawn every 5 hours from these times. So when Boss 1 spawns at 5 pm it will later spawn at 10 pm, 3 am, 8 am, 1 pm, 6 pm and so on.

As there are three bosses (at the moment, this also gives a couple of free slots for future bosses) and 5 “slots” in this system 2 hours out of every 5 there will be no mega bosses spawning, which leaves about 8 or so hours a day without any mega-bosses spawning, in the current system there are 15 hours when no mega-bosses spawn.

Edit: oh and the other, “smaller” bosses should continue to spawn while the mega-bosses do, preferably with a similar rotating timetable so that you’re not facing the same bosses at the same time of day constantly. Not everyone will want to or be able to do these fights so providing people with alternatives is not a bad idea.

Was about to post something when i came across this thread and this post, i agree 100% being from the UK i can no longer do any of the “extra-hard” mega bosses now.

Oh well, even less of a reason to log in now.

OK i have worked out what it is.

With the new board i got a program called Virtu MVP it basicly makes use of the on board gpu as well as my 560Ti to give better/smoother frame rates in games, it seems that the GW2.exe will not run if you have it listed in the games with in Virtu MVP.

Dont supose anyone will knonw if this will ever be supported as is could be a nice feature ?

Hi just tried that, does not work for me

Hi, so the other day my mainboard died on me and i had to get a new one, after installing everything with a fresh install of win 7 64bit i decided to try GW2 from the exe i was using just the other day.

This would not work, i get no error messages its as if it starts to run then just stops, so i decided to get the exe from this site and re download everything, but again this will not work, when i run the gw2setup.exe i get an error message saying “install cannot be completed, please contact support”

so here i am, i using win7 as an admin and i have turned usc to its lowest setting, one thing i did have to do even using an admin account was to give my self privliges to the old game exe, .dat and temp files, but this did not help either, so now i am stuck unable to play with my old game files and unable to download it all again.

any ideas ?

I’m not sure if this has been talked about or asked for but with the amount if tokens needed for different armour sets, events etc that clog up bag and bank space would it not be useful if they were automatically added to a section like coin is when you loot something and karma is if you finish an event.

You could have another sub section on your hero panel clickable on the left so you can see all the different types of tokens you have acquired, you could also list karma, gems and even how much coin you have, all in 1 nice neat section.