Guild Wars 2

It’s now working, cheers!

Hi all, just did a fresh install of gw2 on a new PC running win 7, got the gw2setup to run and afterwards it asks me to log in, and now it just stuck there and won’t download the full game itself.

Any help?

TexZero.7910:

Markhov.4603:

To end this issue, they should come up with Upgrade pack from core game for existing GW2 players, cost $29.99. Case closed.

Pretty much.

Or give them the value of what they paid for the base game against the current value of the HoT bundle.

The $50 price tag IS for the upgrade, you guys need to get that fact into your heads.

Conncept.7638:

MoonStoneX.9245:

Conncept.7638:

Yeah I’m certainly not buying it at this point. Why is there no option to buy the expansion and only the expansion? So they can charge us all for the same game twice! This is the most dishonest BS ANet has pulled yet.

The Expansion is $49.99 (Standard) if you buy it on a new Account that doesn’t own the Core game you get the Core game for free. Now I am not defending the price just wanted to clear that up. I for one think this is far to expensive for the amount of content that they have shown us up to this point compared to other MMOs hell even Guild Wars 1. I mean come on we don’t even get a single free Character Slot for buying the Standard Edition?

No, read the announcement again, the basic ‘pack’ is $49.99 for the expansion and the base game, regardless of whether or not you already have the base game, with no option to purchase the expansion minus the cost of the base. Meaning, you are paying for the base game, again, whether you like it or not. And I prefer not, I will not be taken advantage of by ANet or anyone else, and unless they change this, I will not be buying the expansion.

And what is this BS about $50 dollars being the standard for an expansion? Every expansion I can think of for a major title is $30-40, with some being as low as 10 or 20.

No, Anet has already clarified on Facebook that the $50 is the price for the expansion. So don’t get your hopes up about stand alones. And apparently Anet have just set the industry standard for xpac pricing.

Azoqu.8917:

Josh Davis.6015:

Going to add a change list at the top of the bottom post for updates that I make to the list. Here’s one change we forgot to document:

Guardian

• Shield of Absorption cooldown goes from 30s to 24s baseline.
• Shield of Judgement cooldown goes from 25s to 20s baseline.

The above skills will still be affected by the shield recharge trait and will go to 19s for Shield of Absorption, and 16s for Shield of Judgement.

And Anet shows that they still do not know what the problem is…

You are sadly mistaking “our” problem with “their” problem.

Can someone please explain to me how having 1 or 2 sets of account bound ascended gear is enough to share across 8 professions? As in what I can do to get my ele to wear the medium armor set?

And how about runes? Please explain how an engi can benefit from a heavy armor set with soldier runes slotted in?

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Let’s say you only key-bind the keys that are necessary for combat, that’s

4 —- F1-F4
1 —- Weapon swap
10 —- Skills 1-0
4 —- Movement
1 —- Jumping
1 —- Dodging
1 —- Interacting/Looting
3 —- Target closest, next and pinged target
1 —- Look behind (useful in WvW and PvP)
1 —- Ping target as primary target
4 —- camera-control
1 —- place ground-targeted skills
1 —- open inventory for consumables or alternate weapons
33 —- total

And up to this day noone explained to me how to chat with a gamepad. How do you explain a random what he has to do in a dungeon if you realise that he has no clue? Someone explain this to me pls, since I’ve never owned a controller myself.

Only 33 buttons needed? Well here’s how it can be done plus a lot more.

Take a Xbox 360 controller for example, there’s 24 buttons in total if u count the sticks (4 directional and press down into it for the 5th). 2 of those 24 buttons are gona be set as Alt and Ctrl so say 22 free functional buttons for you to set how ever you wanted them.

Now:
1 set = 22 functions.
Alt + full set = 22 more functions.
Ctrl + full set = 22 more functions.
Alt + Ctrl + full set = 22 more functions.

For a grand total of 88 different functions on a 24 physical button game pad. That’s not even taking into consideration that some game pad software allows you to have more than 1 full set of key maps on one game pad, now multiply that 88 by another 10…

And as to how to chat, i would suggest pressing enter and then type in what ever you want to chat about on a normal keyboard just like everyone else, the last I checked most PCs have more than 1 USB plugs installed.

Unlike other tonics which works perfectly fine in WvW, double clicking on the batwing brew tonic does not seems to work.

“Soon”

/15charrrrrrrrrs

Oh ok, I thought they increased the range on the pistol a couple of patches back but I must have read it wrong.

As title.

/15charrrrrrr

Next balance patch: bring damage of Final Thrust more inline with current burst skill damages. wink wink

On the other hand, sword f1 is the only burst skill I ever use and it’s not for the damage.

localghost.9145:

Zplus.4217:

That’s a very interesting elite skill icon you got there, anyone know what that is?

It’s a charr racial, Warband Support. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Warband_Support

Ahh thanks, my deleted charr never got pass lvl 1 so never gets to use it’s cultural elite skills XD

That’s a very interesting elite skill icon you got there, anyone know what that is?

Yes it was a typo, they forgot the 250 badges of honor requirement.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready-for-wvw-spring-tournament-2014/

No to power creep vertical grind.

Big yes to horizontal skin, skill and build progression.

K.I.S.S

Danikat.8537:

Zplus.4217:

Idk, but from experience:

In the first few months, there is a very good chance that I will go into an overflow map every time I walk into a portal, any portal, in any map.

Since November 2012, I’ve never been put into overflow map, unless it’s event related.

This has very little to do with the total number of people playing. During the first 2 months everyone was new and almost everyone (except a few people who rushed levelling) was on a low level character in the same few low level zones.

Now people are much more spread out so unless there’s something happening to draw everyone to a specific map it’s very unlikely they’d all try to be in the same place.

From what I’ve heard GW2 is still a lot better than many other MMO’s because the down-levelling system means you do at least have the an incentive to go back to low level areas on higher level characters.

During those times I was mainly leveling with map completion, and no the overflow was not limited to “low level zones”, so I don’t know where else can all those people “spread” to these days.

Idk, but from experience:

In the first few months, there is a very good chance that I will go into an overflow map every time I walk into a portal, any portal, in any map.

Since November 2012, I’ve never been put into overflow map, unless it’s event related.

So which 8 stats are available?

aspirine.6852:

xandermander.4810:

aspirine.6852:

So is this a bug, an exploit or perhaps both? Whatever it is it does not look like it should happen.

Not a bug or exploit its just placing a cata on the ground at that spot

But there is no ground there. I doubt this was intended by Anet.

Its been there since day 1, and more likely than not it is intended by anet hence the breakable wg, I have a bigger doubt if anet intended the wg to be broken once you are INSIDE the keep.

On the other hand its easy to spot anyway, once you see bay contested its just usual procedure to check all gate and walls and bay wg is even easier to see than hills cata spot.

aspirine.6852:

Well since I am original from FoW I am used to being the underdog. You should try and visit some of the bottom servers to see what they have to put up with =). Or go to Mos millenium to see that right now they have nothing in EB or any BL.

Don’t bother, they can’t hear you over the sound of 70 man pressing 1 over and over and over and over again against doors.

What you may suggest to them is, try to get on during prime time, where we gets snowed under by the mountains of loot bags from deso 70 man guild runs 15 man pug groups.

A Warr that isn’t a Charr, Norn or Human?? Blasphemy!

And I’ll just leave my warr here.

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

about 33.5 gold for the lightning catcher skin, 24 for the sun catch, and 60 for the wind catcher. All those prices are for Tarnished Coast Server though. Desert Rose is about 24 gold on Tarnished Coast though.

As for what will happen to the prices in the next six months. That depends on what Anet decides to do about these limited edition skins. If for example they decide to release duplicates of these skins on the Cash Shop, then they may not be seeing a huge amount of cost increase.

The tp is cross server, there isn’t a “set” price for each different servers.

Theres is a critical bug with warriors banner where by if any player picks up a banner as it despawns, the player can not use any weapon skills nor utility skills, only way to fix it is to relog.

And it happens a lot specially during wvw where there’s lots of banners around and we are constantly pressing f for stomp or loot.

Please fix ASAP.

As a side note, we really should start calling those people cheaters instead of hackers, since all they did was download a programe and double clicked on it, whereas all the hacking was done by the sole hacker who wrote the programe in the first place.

I was here at release and a few bots that run together at a certain area which I reported were STILL RUNNING IN THE SAME AREA after 1 year, Anet may have done something about bots but the bot reporting option we have ingame certainly isn’t working.

Also, if you want to see bots just go to FSG or Orr, necro minion bots everywhere, every day, every hour, after every reports.

There are hacks out there that speeds up the character’s movement and skill CDs.

Andrew.4506:

Harvesting isn’t the only way to get iron and wood. In fact there are much faster and easier ways to obtain them. Maybe look in to those before asking the game be changed to suit your gaming behavior.

And in doing so make someone rich, very rich.

knives.6345:

Smith.1826:

I’d be down for this, but not without an overhaul to enemy AI. How many mobs do you see that willingly take 100blades to the face? I feel that that’s more of a pressing concern.

Make mobs dodge too. lol

There are plenty of mobs that dodges, most of the flying ones, oozes and many others.

Bright.9160:

Except that champ farming is literally running around in circles and spamming your autoattack with not the slightest risk of casualties, whereas dungeons take skill and organization.

And secondly, dungeons were pretty unrewarding before they updated the reward system, and although they’re still not rewarding enough imo, they’re better than they were before.

Not to mention, some dungeon skips take more skill than you have to put in a week of champ farming.

Dungeon requires organisation, I agree. Skill, nope.

Dungeon takes 5 friends to be organised. A champ farm organises 10+ random players.

Bright.9160:

Zplus.4217:

Beldin.5498:

thefantasticg.3984:

I love in this thread the “I don’t like the way you play the game. I’m glad they nerfed it so you don’t play the game how you want to.” replies. Fark you guys. I like to farm. I enjoy it. Quit trying to make me quit playing this game, Anet!

Yeah .. maybe its time to start a “nerf Dungeon rewards” Thread, since i don’t like Dungeons, so its time to nerf them also.

Especially the ones where people can just skip most of the stuff and get rewards for practically 0 skills. I wouldn’t really call that a fair reward system.

If it takes 0 skill, why don’t you do it?

Also, oh the irony… A champ train farmer complaining that dungeon running takes 0 skill. It’s almost painfully ironic…

You realize you have been showered with gold for 0 skill for months now, right?

0 skill dungeon skippers complaining about 0 skill champ farmers, oh the humanity.

Also, you do realise you have been showered with gold for 0 skill in dungeons SINCE launch now, right?

From FS champ farm, 2g/hr is the average, 5g/hr only if you are EXTREMELY lucky and got a couple of exotics to sell.

And to the risk vs reward argument, I do not see the difference between dungeon and champ farming where in dungeon you just run, dodge, press 111!!!!11!! and loot, where in champ farm you run, dodge to run faster and run more then press 1111 and loot.

Please enlighten me where is the so call “risk” in dungeons?

All I can say is, welcome to September last year.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

thefantasticg.3984:

I love in this thread the “I don’t like the way you play the game. I’m glad they nerfed it so you don’t play the game how you want to.” replies. Fark you guys. I like to farm. I enjoy it. Quit trying to make me quit playing this game, Anet!

Anet does not believe farming is a valid way to play the game. This is an objective fact. There is 7 years of GW1 nerfs and 1 year of GW2 nerfs that follows this trend. If you are a farmer then Anet does not want you playing the game, end of story.

If you want to go out, do a bunch of different activities every day once a day then that is fine. But if you want to just run in circles and do the same thing over and over then Anet will make sure you are rewarded as little as possible.

I don’t know what you expected. I mean the reason people were running these trains 8 hours a day was because they knew it was too good to be true and was going to be nerfed. Now that it was nerfed everyone is “shocked and surprised” that their “legitimate” way of farming was nerfed. Just the same as CoF P1 was.

Rewards are slowly being balanced across the game now. Dungeon Path running, World Boss running, and champ trains are all about equal now. WvW is the one area that is lagging behind the most.

Is that the reason why we had Crown Pavilion and Scarlet’s Invasion, where in both cases offers waves after waves of mobs which encourages players to “just run in circles and do the same thing over and over”?

Beldin.5498:

thefantasticg.3984:

I love in this thread the “I don’t like the way you play the game. I’m glad they nerfed it so you don’t play the game how you want to.” replies. Fark you guys. I like to farm. I enjoy it. Quit trying to make me quit playing this game, Anet!

Yeah .. maybe its time to start a “nerf Dungeon rewards” Thread, since i don’t like Dungeons, so its time to nerf them also.

Especially the ones where people can just skip most of the stuff and get rewards for practically 0 skills. I wouldn’t really call that a fair reward system.

I run into this issue ALL THE TIME in wvw, specially when I want to AoE a wall, only to be blocked by the enemy player’s health bar.

I too do NOT like the new changes, please revert.

Dezarys.1372:

Armor 1:
http://i.imgur.com/V1ELnIw.jpg

Armor 2:
http://i.imgur.com/6aT9v81.jpg

Go for the black one, it totally reflects your personality.

Also, nice trolling on the newbie who asked for help.

The “recent” lag issue started long ago, at least it started with teq patch on my side. They have been working on skill lag for some time now, but I am not sure if this is the result of their work we are seeing ingame.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Official-state-of-skill-lag-and-server-optimizations/first#post2994791

1. New maps: perhaps we can use one of those open world maps and just add breakable gates on some of those structure already existed? 1 open world map is easily bigger than all 2 wvw maps combined.

2. Server lag, never mind skill lag, with the new changes to skill lag a dev talked about in his sticky, now I just gets outright DCed whenever there’s a large battle going on, at least with skill lag we are all on even ground. With the new server lag everything stops and I gets DC, log back on to find myself dead.

3. Commander tag, I think its about time to give them a bit more options other than just 2 buttons and 2 command lines.

1. RNG and DR should never have existed together.

2. Ascended gears and its alt-UNfriendliness.

3. Skin locker, extend it out of pvp and put it into the rest of the game.

I wish it was the skill lag we used to get, at least I can still use 1111111111, but right now everything just freezes in place and I am walking around people like time has stopped, then 2 mins later it will either DC me or I found myself dead on the ground. And this is what’s happening EVERYDAY during prime time since teq patch.

And no magnetron you are not alone in this, check out bug report and tech support sections, there are many people all around the world who are having this issue specially after teq patch, heck even anet has a sticky on the main gw2 general forum about skill lags.

To those who are saying the market isnt being manipulated, I am sure you are making a killing on the TP.

I don’t know, but ever since the teq patch I’m getting lag and DCs regularly now, specially during prime time. I guess DCing players during prime time is a way to relieve stress on the server.

Take a look at tech support and bug report forum, there are plenty of players who are having the same issues all over the world. Please bring back my old gaming experience where by I do not get DCs every 5 mins before you further “optimise” the game server, cheers.

And here I thought its my ISP’s fault, exactly the same problem that people described but only happens randomly. Will try some of the solutions people posted here and see if they helped.

Which isn’t “our” fault, and technically it isnt anet’s fault neither but when an issue affects a company and it’s customers then the company would have to resolve it.

Theftwind.8976:

Run a trace route from you to GW2. One of the nodes along the way may be having issues, especially if only a segment of the people are suffering from the type of lag you are describing.

The issue here is, those “segment” of people who are having issues lives in different parts of the world, are you trying to say they all happen to use the same ISP? Or that all different ISPs all around the world are having network issues but anet’s totally fine and perfect even though the issues all started after the latest game patches?

Ashley Segovia.8276:

Hi hobbitpimp – I can tell you that this issue is not on our end. If this was the case, there would likely be a very large thread with most forum frequenters agreeing with you in a very short period of time.

Also, you can attach your Game Advisor report to the thread (The Guild Wars 2.txt file within the zip folder) by clicking “More posting & formatting options…” since we’re not able to access it from your computer :P

I can tell you it’s definitely anets fault, the problem started with the teq patch and people from all over the world are getting disconnected left and right ESPECIALLY during prime time. You can turn a blind eye to all those complaining on the issue but don’t lie though your teeth as if those complains don’t exist.

I think the answer OP was looking for is FOTM, which is already ingame…

Having this issue since teq patch and it’s getting worse, totally random DCs and sometimes I gets DC every 30secs for 10 mins than back to normal only to get DCs again in 30mins.

I’m in UK btw, so it doesn’t only happen to specific country or ISPs.

At least we need someone from anet to acknowledge the problem.