Guild Wars 2

Same here. It happened for 5 minutes and then it was great again for me but it started happening for more people in my raid party.

Also, everything else, I reapeat, everything else worked fine while gw2 was the only thing lagging.

It’s already been reported on this thread and there’s another one on reddit. Bump this one up for visibility.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dredgehaunt-Cliffs-Map-Crash/first#post6387877

I’ve just crashed in the same map and got rolled back too meaning that I’ve lost the progress I had done there for the last 10 minutes.

I knew this time was diferent because the very few times I have disconnected due to my internet, I’ve never lost any progress and my characters weren’t ported far away from where I was when the dc happened.

I don’t know what time frame makes you eligible for a refund but I got both Royal Terrace Passes refunded. I bought them last Christmas so it was fairly recently.

I’d like to thank GMs Silpale, Xbehelit and Angoraxt. They answered my ticket within 12 hours and they were really nice and made sure I got my gems back.
If Gaile or someone from anet reads this, please pass them the feedback.

I get it that some people think that a permanent ban is better to deal with these cheaters than a temporary suspension. After all, it seems commonsense.
However, commonsense is not always right and if sound data says otherwise, we should stick to the data.

Same error here.

I get the same message. Also I’ve tried crafting greater potions of auric attunement and verdant attunement and can’t use them in their respective maps either.

The chest of the fractal master gives a golden fractal weapon. Some of the others, which are way less expensive on the tp, drop golden relics that you can forge into either a random golden fractal weapon or an specific one. Here’s the recipes: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3r4jio/king_fractal_droprate_research_hot_update/

You need to combine the essences of the three cities that are to the east of LA with some mystic coins to craft the essence of the east. Same with the the 3 cities to the west.

CorrynnStarr.7942:

Freeelancer.2860:

Yeah, I know about glacial lodestones, but this is Glacial Fragment (2nd tier material). And I haven’t found any guild upgrades requiring glacial fragments :s

correct, my point was people often times promote t2 to t3 and t3 to t4 etc… look at charged lodestones… cores etc are all high priced due to people forging them into higher grade mats.

That doesn’t make any sense taking into consideration that the price of 1 glacial fragment is higher than the lodestone itself. No one promotes glacial fragments all the way up to lodestones because their price was way higher than glacial cores even before HoT was released.

Something has happened because not only glacial fragments spiked but many more fragments too like this guy pointed out 3 days ago.

Andraus.3874:

They don’t show up because they are older or perhaps because they were at some point equppied at some point. It’s not because of using the extraction tho. I had no issues using rings that j had never equipped and were probably less than 3 months old.

I managed to attuned an old ring as I said in my post. Also on reddit players are reporting that they can’t attune rings that they previously had used an infusion extraction device on. So don’t be so quick to rule out any possible causes.

Attuning ascended rings is bugged. Some rings don’t show up in the mystic forge when I want to attune them, like my non-infused crystaline band, even though they are in my inventory. Others do but they grey out when I select an agonized essence, a philosopher’s stone or an agony infusion, all of them required to attune the ring.
Also, I managed to attune an infused ring of red death that had been sitting in my bank for a long time and its name changed to “Attuned Bagh Nakh”.

I suspect that using an infusion extraction device before attuning them could be the reason why the don’t even show up in the MF. This is pure especulation though.

Don’t sell them, craft grow lamps instead for more profit. Also keep some quartz for yourself. Condi builds are required for the first raid and their popularity in pve has been increasing steadily for months.

Yup. I have 2 lvl 22 alts parked in the pirate JP for the double universal upgrade. I have dropped two silver doubloons a few times already.

CorrynnStarr.7942:

Dhorghar.5249:

IndigoSundown.5419:

maddoctor.2738:

Really? So adding a couple of new skins in content not doable by everyone suddenly will force 75% of the playerbase to leave? Out of a million skins they can’t get ONE and it’s the end of the world?

Blatant exaggeration does not help anyone’s position, including yours.

I don’t know about the “million skins” but that is probably a figure of speech like phys.7689 has mentioned above.

However, the “75% of the playerbase” was just a quote from CorrynnStarr.7942 who actually believes that adding a bit of challenging content would mean the end of a 10 year old franchise. That’s how ridiculous this is getting for the lack of better arguments against adding a bit of challenging content.

wildstar, eso, raiderz, archage, Tera, SWG… do I need to list more games that went spiraling down because the player base got upset and moved on?

And once again you are laboring under the false pretense that we want to stop challenging content… we don’t. Have your challenging content, but don’t make rewards gated behind exclusivity, or people will give up and not play it.

I have to agree with most players in this thread, you are blowing things out of proportion.

This is what Colin said in an interview on Tentonhammer:

Ten Ton Hammer: Guild Wars 2 isn’t known for being a challenging game and rival products such as WildStar that pushed a hardcore agenda struggled to retain players. Why have you decided to now implement more challenging content with Heart Of Thorns?

Colin: […] So why more challenging content now? Simply put – it’s what our players have been asking for – and we agree with them that it will make Guild Wars 2 a deeper and more compelling game experience. We don’t have issues retaining players, and we think providing more content they are excited about will only be better for us in the long run.

/Thread

I think they’ve said something like that the sw chestfarm is bit too good and that they are keeping an eye on it.

I completed the Itzel event chain once last friday and again today (monday). It worked great in the maps I’ve been to and we managed to kill the Wyvern too. It was a bit easy although that might not be his tougher version. Also, his health might not have scaled properly.

However, the Laranthir and Skybreaker event chain was bugged in the same spot both days that I had time to play the beta.

The event Escort Laranthir and Chief Skybreaker through the ruins is bugged and won’t progress past the shrouded ruins.
Both npcs are stuck right downstairs and won’t move.

^^ Exactly. There’s many people in this thread that want to play how they want while not wanting zerkers to play how they want. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Not only they won’t accomplish anything because they are basically fighting human nature, which is futile, but they are making matters worse by revealing their true exclusive nature towards zerker players.

I won’t oppose anyone that wants to create a guild as long as he or she complies with the ToS. However, this doesn’t seem to be case.

This thread was made with the only purpose of seeking attention and stirring up drama. The OP just doesn’t seem to like that much all the LGBT-friendly events that have happened recently both in-game and in the real world.

This looks more like a kind of reactionary thing than anything else. Nothing good can come out of this.

DarksunG.9537:

SkiTz.4590:

DarksunG.9537:

SkiTz.4590:

DarksunG.9537:

SkiTz.4590:

DarksunG.9537:

SkiTz.4590:

DarksunG.9537:

ugh.. why won’t they address this? If this is (lost likely) broken, they need to fix it soon!

what the heck is broken??

Its called GAMBLING

people are reporting losses, people are reporting winnings.

I see absolutely nothing wrong here… what is wrong with some of you cry babies that whine about people getting all the nice stuff??

There’s nothing broken here. Its sheer luck (or lack thereof in my case lol)

All this is a hysterically lazy gold sink created by anet…

not if the win rate is like 80%+

yea everyone is having an 80% win rate that means everyone is literally winning and shouldn’t be reporting any losses…. /delusional.

you are just throwing numbers out there with no sense of logic

Talk about no sense of logic. what evidence do you have that the win rate is remotely viable? I’m speaking from experience. I could make 1000s if they let me. But I don’t want to get banned because they were slow to respond or fix this.

I’ve barely broken even after spending a couple stacks of ecto + gold dude… what freaking 80% win rate are you blabbering about?

You are literally the only person thinking this is some kind of exploit. No one is listening to you, and no one cares if you are scared of making 1000s of gold because you might get banned…

There is nothing to fix, its working just fine.. people are winning, people are losing, people are breaking even. You are delusional.

Obviously wasn’t here at launch. http://www.pcgamer.com/3000-guild-wars-2-players-permanently-banned-for-karma-exploit/
& that was just for crafting something cheaper.

People KNEW that was an exploit and INTENTIONALLY continued to do it

This is not an exploit, no one has claimed it as such, besides you, who is completely delusional.
More than half my guild saying they keep losing lol
Lay off the pipe, my godness. This is a completely reasonable gamble and its not being exploited.. some people who are lucky are making some gold, and if not, they are losing… its the same as throwing stuff into the mystic toilet in hopes of a precursor.. you can win big or lose big…

Stop trying to make this out as some exploit when its CLEARLY not the case…
You are

yes the karma was clearly an exploit because…. what?
This is clearly fair because…. I made lots of money?

You never get tired of spouting nonsese, do you? Gaile has already answered that. It’s not an exploit

This is clearly a sink in the form of a lottery. Don’t pay attention to those that claim to have made epic profits, they are either liars or outliers fortunate enough to have landed to the east of the bell curve.
Btw, people on reddit are reporting epic losses.

It’s a skritt that appears on the map with the symbol of an ecto. He’s located inside a cave close to the tengu wall, south-west of Lion’s Arch. The entrance is underwater to the east of the cave

As any other gambling thingy it’s designed so the house always wins. Only those outliers that are fortunate enough to land to the east of the Bell Curve will make a profit out of this.
Smart players will sell their stacks of ectos while this is hot.
I sold 4 stacks for 44.98 silver a piece.

yolo swaggins.2570:

Siphaed.9235:

stuff

1.) Freedom of speech is a right (at least in NA servers. idk about the others :P).

No
Obligatory xkcd: Freedom of speech.

No.

15/chars

Actually the meta builds were designed to bring all the support that is worth taking in PvE and once this was covered they focused on personal dps. So first and foremost, meta builds are support oriented builds and then comes the personal dps, but no the other way around.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

I must admit, I kind of surprised they’re calling this an expansion given some of the circumstances because, really, it reads like a glorified, if somewhat daunting, Living Story update.

Let me explain.

We get one new zone, that has three levels, something akin to Silverwastes already. New content, new achievements, and new mobs. They revamped the upper tier leveling systems, gave a new profession, and put in guild halls with some minor PvP and WvW changes.

And they’re calling that an expansion?

Now, before you jump all over me, think about this: Other than the new class and upper ‘mastery’ level, you’ve seen everything I mentioned in prior patches and updates through Living Story.

I get the distinct feeling they’re calling it an ‘expansion’ as opposed to a huge, Living Story update, to prevent the flames and pitchforks that would otherwise happen.

Again, not to be negative Nancy, but I saying, “I told you so,” over a glorified Living Story patch isn’t something to be proud of or gloat about.

It’s actually something a lot of people predicted.

Ardenwolfe, If I recall correctly you’ve spent days telling people on this forum that there wouldn’t be an expansion and that the mere thought of we having one was delusional.
Now that you have been proven utterly wrong, you try to make it look like it’s no big deal in what it seems like yet another attempt to kitten on everyone else’s bonfire. Perhaps you cannot bear seeing others happy about the game, and would prefer to see their enthusiasm shattered instead. Schadenfreude much?

This same op also said that raids should not have good rewards, I wouldn’t expect any well-thought-out post from him.

Hayashi.3416:

Overwriting a might stack with a lower duration might stack, attacking with a lower damage multiplier and without a +15% damage boost are a net DPS loss?

I agree completely that there is no need for further discussion. You are not able to understand how the builds function or their roles, so there is no further benefit for you. And it should be readily apparent to anyone else reading the past few posts which build to use, so I’ve fulfilled my responsibility in that area to others as well.

Let’s return to the original point of the thread, this entire diversion belonged in the warrior subforums and not on a thread about Might. Have a nice day.

Exactly, it is readily apparent that we should use DnT’s builds all the way and stay far
away from your trash builds.

No worries, we will know at PEX Seuth.

Dungeon subforum so toxic…

There are also many players that join zerker runs when they don’t meet the requirements. It happens both ways. The main difference here is that zerker players don’t feel the necessity to make stupid threads about it.

If a zerker player joins your party and tries to impose his playstyle on you, kick him just like he would do if you had join his party and move on.

Purple Miku.7032:

Ah, some friends of mine got help from a person that is a native speaker to translate that paragraph. Even he had trouble deciphering it lol. He says that a lot of letters that should have been accented were left out, which is why google had a hard time translating it.

Essentially he said that I was apparently smart to upload a video of my incident, and that he isn’t going to lose sleep over getting kicked… or something like that. Different than what I interpreted I guess xD

When all this was happening it was like 2 am here so I had to go to sleep and now that I’m back from class I’m trying to find out the whole story.

Your frist interpretation was right and Ryn.6459 provided a perfect translation.

This guy, BolaOcho, posted a rant saying that he had been kicked at the end of his instance in Arah P4 and that someone should ban de offenders.
An hour later me and Elrey exposed this guy in our posts telling everybody how he had done exactly the same 8 months ago. At this point, I think that he was a bit scared because he didn’t expect anyone to remember what he had done so long ago, let alone the fact that he had been recorded on video, so he decided to remove the original post to cover everything up.

However, it was too late, kitten had already hit the fan and his post was still visible in my quote, and Elrey had already provided the link with the video.

Then he decided to change his strategy and opted to discredit you to make it look like it was his word against yours. He also made a pathetic attempt at looking tough by saying that he didn’t care about it, but in the end, I think he was just freaking out that he had been caught red-handed.

I kinda figured out that something like this could happen so I took some screen shots of his original postfor further evidence.

In the end it’s funny, all this just backfired so hard for him lol.

The Wurm is not like Tequatl that is killed by pugs every day. It requires more coordination so even if there were enough people in one map, most of them wouldn’t even bother to complete de event unless it was an organized run. At best, some pugs try to kill 1 head for the loot.
If you want to kill the wurm you should join an organized run by any of the dedicated guilds in NA like TTS. Usually these guilds create their own overflows so you won’t be in one of them unless you are lucky. Join them on ts and listen to the commanders to get into the right map.

If crafting some stuff wasn’t time gated prices would most likely skyrocket. So unless you had enough cash to buy all the stuff you needed, you would have to wait for quite some time until prices went down. In the end you wouldn’t get your shinies any faster.

According to this official post the EU population is more than healthy when compared to the NA one. It doesn’t give any numbers though so we can’t drawn any further conclusions.

Don’t forget to mention the main scapegoat that the ignorants have to explain changes in the price level for individual goods: the TP Barons. A very small and select group of filthy rich individuals whose only purpose is to control the supply of certain goods in order to become even richer while smoking habanos and laughing at the poor peasants that cannot afford to buy a cheeseburger.

Anet ban them asap!

Ayrilana.1396:

So what happens to the player base when they have exhausted all of the new content from an expansion within a month or two, like they do for each living story episode but in days, and then have nothing to do for the next year or two until the next expansion?

That would happen assuming that the new content released in the expansion would have the same level of replayability than the LS. However, that is not the case because the LS episodes have far less replay value than the content that you would find in an expansion.
We’ve been doing the same dungeons, pvp and wvw for 2 years in gw2, not a month or two. Now think how many players are gonna replay each episode of the LS for 2 years. Once they are done with the achievements, they move to dungeons, pvp, wvw, etc because that is the content that has replay value.

Yup. Many price spikes can be related to stuff that was said on reddit, specially datamined stuff from that_shaman because his posts get upvoted pretty quickly.
I still remember when he datamined the spinal backpack. The recipe said that it required wine but it didn’t specify which kind, so players started to speculate that you would need grapes to craft the wine. In the end it turn out to be elonian wine as some of us had predicted and those who bought grapes lost quite a bit of money.

In this case, I don’t expect anet to implement here everything that there’s in the chinese client. Even Colin said on reddit long ago that many features where exclusive for the chinese because the way mmorpgs work there is a bit different and also they are required to have a chinese publisher (Kong Zhong).

That’s true. The only path that is sold frequently enough for you to buy it as many times as you want without losing money is AC p1. However, if it sells for the same amount of gold that you get as a reward it’s most likely an exploited run. This also seems to happen much more in Europe than in USA.
CM and TA are not sold frequently enough for you to buy them immediately and usually cost more gold than you get back.
In the end you’ll lose too much gold and waste a lot of time.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

Last time I talked with a staff member in game, they said it was not reportable. It did come off as the in game staff would like it reportable AND ban-able.

I’ve caught wind that some of the “X gold” listings is code for “X usd” which means these players are making REAL money off the sale of dungeon paths.

Eventually ANet will have to set up the dungeons to have henchmen to fill in the party gaps so people can play the dungeons.

Ayrilana.1396:

synk.8762:

Ayrilana.1396:

Lol. Those prices have been pretty stable so no, I’m not buying that reasoning. What you’re describing is about helping yourselves rather than the economy. With the amount of players participating in this at the moment, it’s really having no impact on the economy. All it’s doing is helping players get the tier 6 mats either to use or to sell.

You can Lol. all you’d like, but you’d be wrong.
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24295

What am I supposed to be looking at that you’re supposedly seeing? All I’m seeing is an upward trend which is normal.

Also consider something else. Let’s say this causes all tier 6 fine materials to decrease in price by 50%. It won’t but let’s say that it does. What do you think the impact on the market would be?

One of the main uses for these is for the Gift of Fortune for the legendary weapons. If people could get these for cheaper then they’ll have more money they could spend on the precursor. This would also cause an increase in demand for the precursor as the overall cost for a legendary is now cheaper. This will then drive up the price for precursors and you could very well cancel out any benefit that you got from cheaper tier 6 fine materials.

There’s also something else that you’re not considering. Abusing this fail mechanic to farm the event over and over is against what Anet desires. This is evident by previous posts and actions against similar events. Anet will eventually fix this. I’ll let you figure out what the impact would be when they do this.

Actually farmers in orr get a lot of T5 mats too that are one of the main ingredients required for mystic forging precursors. In the last few months there has been a pretty noticeable shortage of these which is arguably the main reason behind the spike in price of the precursors along with the wardrobe like Ensign explains here and me here

uberkingkong.8041:

Anyone see how many viewers there were? Also what were the scores of each game. Was they even close or just ground pound.

Seems like every tournament game was 3-0. Doesn’t seem that exciting if you ask me.

Roughly 1,1K viewers according to reddit Even the DnT invitational, which was a PVE tournament, had more viewers lol.

The match can be watched here at around 7:40

Aidan Savage.2078:

Ensign.2189:

If you believe that something has an IID 1 in 100 probability of occurring and you observe it to occur 50 times in a row, your beliefs are wrong.

Your beliefs are only wrong if you’re satisfied with accepting the results from such a tiny sample size. If you believe something has a 1:100 rate, and it happens 50 times successively, you’re going to need to attempt it another 4950 times to verify or downgrade the risk that it was a mere fluke you had that much success. Afterall, it IS possible for someone to drop 50 precursors in a row off the forge. An infinitesimal chance, but it’s still there. So does that mean if someone does come across that result, does that mean precursors dont really have a 1:89237645872364582 drop rate?

Sample size is everything for results.

Actually the probability wouldn’t be 1:89237645872364582 The probability that an independent event (A=obtaining a precursor) with a probability of 1/100 happens 50 times in a row would be P(A)= (1/100)^50 = 1e-100
That is: P(A)=1/10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

If that isn’t enough minuscule probability for you, type that same expression with a sample size of 5000 as you suggested and tell me what valor does the calculator return. I bet we wouldn’t be able to type so many zeroes in all of the subforums combined. It’s just ridiculous.

I sometimes feel like some people keep parroting things that they have read many times in this forum just to sound smart instead of thinking a bit.

Yup. I’ve always said in this forum that the wardrobe has played a major role in the price of precursors. Since the announcement of the wardrobe in March 25, 2014, most of them have gone up in price more than in the 15 months prior to that announcement.

Also, there seems to be a shortage in the supply of T5 fine mats necessary to mystic forge precursors just like Ensign says. Taking a look at the charts here The two lines that represent the quantity supplied and the quantity demanded, following their upward and downward trends, met (both quantities were the same) several times since the game was released. However, the last time that both met was in mid-january 2014 for most T5 fine mats. After that, the supply hasn’t been able to catch up with the demand for 7 months and counting and the gap between both is widening.

Sorry for the lack of better words but english is not my first languaje and I lack words related to the field of economics.

Potent blood below. All t5 fine mats except incandescent dust show pretty much the same wide gap.

mtpelion.4562:

Romek.4201:

no its not

you dont need copper doubloon to transmute you cna just thro 4 t1 gems in mystic forge for t2 gem

I think the point was that you CAN use the copper doubloon, so people bought all of the cheap copper doubloons. This means that the ones that are listed NOW are the older, expensive listings that no one wants.

Exactly, this is the point.

Romek.4201:

to transmute this you dont need copper doubloon and not for 5 silver^^

Buttercup is right.

An item called Grow Lump used to craft the new back pack was released with the patch. This item requires 25 sunstone lumps and a recipe. Someone or some people who were fast and could play the game right when the patch was released bought the recipe, read the ingredients and bought almost all the sunstone lumps from the market. The price spiked from 1s 30c to 25s.

Now, when that happens, usually people find alternative ways of obtaining the item, and in this case you could do it by refining sunstone nugget. However the price of these also spiked a lot so some players started creating sunstone nugget with copper doubloons again increasing their price. That’s what buttercup was referring to.

I made quite a lot of money during this patch. I mean I’m not the guy or guys who bought all the sunstone supply, I was not quick enough, but I bought something very related to it and got a bit of luck too.

Blex.8406:

nearlight.3064:

Really?

Most builds on any class can’t 1v4 for kitten. That only happens when you’re fighting stupid people. So don’t complain about condition necro being g weak when it’s one of the best 1v1 specs in the game.

I will agree with you on epidemics cast time making it hard to spread conditions before they are cleansed or run out, but the cooldown is so kitten short…

“best 1v1 specs in the game”. Absolute bs. If necros can’t 3v1, this game is obviously unbalanced. And then Anet wants it to become an “e-sport”

Also bear in mind that there are bots in the TP too. I’m not saying this is the case, but man it would be hilarious if it was.