Guild Wars 2

okay, an update on this

i managed to find an install of gw1 and log in, harass the dude in my HoM, everything in there in GW1 is as it should be (phew)

logging back into gw2 seems to show that everything has triggered back into existence – my titles are all there, achievements showing correctly, and on porting to the EotN shows all my pets and skins as present and correct

HOWEVER, as everything has been reapplied, I have now gained the AP associated with the HoM achivements twice – from the first time before the titles were erroneously removed, and from the second time after I retriggered them. What is to become of this AP – 350 AP in total? Am I allowed to keep it? Will it be taken off me? Will I be penalised AGAIN for something that I didn’t do to begin with? Inquiring minds would like to know!

so i had this mail about the GWAMM glitch/exploit, etc etc

thing is, i never had the glitched GWAMM, since iirc it was available thru character creation and i had no free slots during the period of the bug.

i do however have a hall of monuments, at 37/50, though the link to share apparently does not work

this took me some time and is something i’m quite proud of. today, after recieving this mail, i check my hom status in the GW2 achievements, and… nothing. the skins seem to be present and correct in my wardrobe, but the hall itself is empty and the Kimmes npc just talks at me about heroes past.

i want my stuff back please.

Gathering while transformed – for exampled in the bandit disguise in the Seanan’s Bandits (Gallowfield WP) heart in Brisban, or using a tonic – results in a ‘fail’ (ruined gathered item) despite having an appropriately levelled tool, not being in combat, etc.

This is the case regardless of being in combat/not, making sure an appropriately levelled tool is equipped, etc. It occurs on all node types (ore, logs and plants). ‘Bonus’ items – gems, walnuts, hidden treasures – seem to drop as normal.

This behaviour seems to have started with the Wintersday patch.

Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere, I did look but couldn’t see anything.

lel. i didn’t even take part in that stress test, cause we were raiding and that seemed more appealing than pve…

Chaba.5410:

Chris Cleary.8017:

(please use Mobile Authenticator, PLEASE!).

I honestly wish two-step authentication was just an SMS text message sent to my phone. Yes, I’m lame and do not pay for a data plan on a phone, let alone have a phone that runs modern mobile apps.

If you don’t have a smartphone, you can always use a desktop app which supports googleauth (the system GW2 uses). There’s really no excuse.

weird note of this bug: playing with a guildie of mine who has it and mains mesmer. his clones will have the backpack talk, but his is silent.

Siphaed.9235:

JUG.3562:

Thats stupid by anet. I missed this as well, and also cant find Grawnk in my home instance. The letter should be trigger to making grawnk appear in the home instance so you can talk to him and do the scavenger hunt.

Not really. All the items for the scavanger event were removed post the holiday patch months ago. It was just that: a holiday event. I’m sure you might be able to repeat it next year in 9 months from now, but tough luck in missing out on something that was available for well over a month.

really, all of them? i still regularly get the ornament box thingy from the chest in fractals, despite having finished my star during the wintersday period…

Rest in peace. My condolences to you and all of yours.

Shamelessly bumping this thread to say that we are still recruiting both core and casual members on Aurora Glade!

As well as our private guild runs, we’re also involved in the wider server community, and regularly run open mics and community events. This Thursday just gone we ran a ‘Squish event’, where players were invited to bring their squishier characters. We peaked at around fifty players, on a mix of elementalists, mesmers, thieves, and even some nude guardians My video of the event can be found here; no doubt others will soon surface. Not only did we kick a lot of kitt, we had a lot of fun, as well – and we aim to do both these every time we run!

My problem with the alliance thing is that it boils down to turning wvw into alliance v alliance – megaguild v megaguild. To an extent that is how wvw rolls at the moment, at least in high tier servers, but it also has the effect of shutting out roamers, newbies, small and/or unconventional guilds, etc. As someone who’s been on the recieving end of guild drama, I’m also not keen on the idea of such a huge part of the game potentially being dictated by the whims of guild and megaguild politics – a difference of opinion between a couple of people that ultimately resulted in an alliance kick could result in tens of people suddenly unable to play a core part of the game through no fault of their own.

Ever since megaservers though, other than the EU/NA split there is no connection whatsoever between your ‘home world’ and pve, the only thing it matters for any more is wvw anyway. Not that PvE events and communities don’t still happen, but they happen around large pve-focused guilds – which is great for pve players, don’t get me wrong. For wvw though, it makes it all the harder to recruit from your server’s pve population, as such a thing no longer truly exists, and the average pve player probably doesn’t know or care about the tiny bonuses they gain from their world’s wvw score.

Rather than turning wvw into megaguild v megaguild I would rather see a rethinking of how world association works. my badly thought out proposal follows:

require a player to select a wvw “home world” before they can enter wvw (even edge, as it affects if they are red/blue/green). have a hard cap on how many people can be associated with a wvw world at any one time. require a player to sign into wvw at least once a week (or every three days, or some other cadence) to remain associated with their world; after that time passes without a login, they lose their association with that world and must reapply to join that world.

maybe have a queue system so that people who want to join a popular world can still have a chance without having to hammer “select $bestservereu” 24/7. you can join a low pop world so you can still wvw while waiting but once your queue pops you’re shifted to whatever world you chose. same rules still apply – fail to login for the set amount of time and you lose your spot.

for implementation, people would initially be associated with whatever world they are currently playing on, but what you would see is that after the first ‘week’ (or whatever cadence) passes, pure pve and pvp players who do not enter wvw would lose their world association and the population levels would start to stabilise. Removing the bank/tp/crafting stations from the WvW citadels would also help, as much as it would be a pain for pve players it would also mean a lack of people jumping into wvw just to craft, which would mean that people entering wvw would be a true reflection of people who are /playing/ wvw.

for setting the population cap, obviously anet would need to look at all the metrics and set a reasonable cap on the numbers per wvw world. it’s likely that this number would have to be lower than the current wvw population of high/gold tier servers simply because population imbalance is what we are trying to fix. my proposal for this would be for gold tier servers to only be able to /lose/ people until they are below the cap.

example:

server a has 250 players
server b has 100 players
server c has 50 players

the pop cap is set to 150 players

server a is 150 players above the cap before the limit is set, so while it is losing population due to people losing the association via the login limits, new people cannot join.

servers b and c however have 50 and 100 free slots respectively, so new players looking to join wvw and/or former server a players who need a new home can pick one of those.

player d wants to join server a, but cannot because of the cap. player d thus joins a queue to join server a, which cannot happen until server a has 149 players. in the mean time, player d is able to join server b or c if there is an available spot (and indeed may end up change their mind about joining server a in the mean time).

this would not prevent people from joining high pop servers/worlds if they want to, but also encourages people to join lower pop servers. it also does not shut out roamers, newbies, and guilds who do not want to deal with large alliances.

- Joined TeamQ arena match
- We lost the match, but i still got enough rank points to advance enough to get rewards – some loot boxes and a transmutation charge (it seemed kinda odd to me that I got two from a loss, tho it’s the balth track if that makes any difference?)
- I don’t know exactly what happened next as I had to step afk due to inhaling some tea, but when i managed to return, I had been dumped to the character select screen and there was a “lost communication with the server” message
- nb: was not able to get loot before the dc due to said inhaling of tea (user error)
- reselected the same character and entered heart of the mists. No bouncing chest with my rewards, nothing automatically deposited to my inventory
- the character seems to be stuck in ‘tournament queue’ mode, the UI claims there is a match in progress with the other participants being the other people
- clicking “join now” just chucks me into random hotjoin games
- the pvp button at the top of the screen is a trophy which says “Round 2 of 1” when hovered over
- logged out normally/properly, using quit to desktop option in menu
- logged back in
- still no bouncing box, still nothing in inventory
- completed another TeamQ match, won this one
- recieved the loot from the most recent match
- reward track still shows the advancement from the lost match, which is past the loots i did not recieve
- still no additional bouncing chests/items in inventory

:(

http://www.guildmag.com/guild-wars-2-interview-part-1-general-game-living-world/

there is an interview here which seems to imply SAB will not be coming back.

Even having to purchase the initial basic blue tag for 300g and being able to “upgrade” to include other optional colours for (say) 25-50g a pop would be better than this. I can understand an acc bound tag costing more than a char bound one but requiring a further 300g per colour, especially since the main game mode that wants this and will benefit from this has such pathetic rewards compared to other areas of the game, is pathetically delusional. An individual commander will take a long time to grind up the 300g; even if a guild clubbed together it would either cost a lot of gold per member or require a very large guild, and even then, there is no sign of guild-only tags.

Anet, please reconsider the cost of additional colours!

Blazing Liger.1236:

I second this! I spent through the nose to get the CE, and while I love my Rytlock statue, I’d like to show off in game too!

you don’t have a rytlock mini as well? or the mistfire wolf?

underwater combat > farmhammer

I think it’s new. There’s a date as part of the file name – 2014-06-04.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Since they are putting off updating the vendor to next Tuesday with the new build, I wonder what else will be released on that day!

Well, we know that custom arenas will be purchasable with gold from then as well

I would like to have just skill templates. For example:

Skill templates for pve/wvw would need to contain the following:
- traits and trait point allocations
- heal/utility/elite (on ground)
- heal/utility/elite (underwater)
- weapon type equipped
eg, rather than the template requiring my particular ascended beserker gsword and ascended berseker shortbow, it would just call for “greatsword” and “shortbow”

as a part of this i would also like to see some way on the hero panel to equip underwater heal/utility/elite skills without having to be underwater

an spvp template would obviously have to consist of the above plus rune/sigils/amulet, minus the underwater junk.

these templates would be linkable in chat, shareable, etc.

i would like to see wardrobe ‘templates’ handled separately. rather than being a linkable preset these would private (unlinkable) and relate to specific pieces of gear rather than just a generic shortbow/plate helm/whatever. each player would start with two slots for presets, and can buy further slots from the gem store (woo monetisation). this is to enable, say, a gear set for pve and a gear set for wvw (since gear is p much irrelevant in spvp). this would include: gear pieces, trinkets/accessories/amulets, backpiece, specific weapons (rather than the generic ones that are associated with the skills template). since it relates to specific pieces of gear rather than generic ones, there is no need to include information on sigils or runes, as these are parts of the gear. as long as a player is out of combat, it would basically be a one click gear swap between any of the (player specified) sets of gear. these could be custom nameable (with a character limit) so the player can specify pve/wvw/eotm/farm/whatever gear. Obviously all gear would have to be carried in the player’s backpack, so the more ‘gear presets’ they want to use the more gear they will have to lug around.

i would not personally bother with templates for skins and dye.

tea and cookies, both of which we have

between the “mystical dragon” finisher and the “mystical dragon” mini in the special section of the mini collectibles, i suspect that there will be something this year, possibly as part of the zephyrite festival. they are implied to have recently come from cantha, and the “mystical dragon” is a canthan/chinese style dragon. having a dragon bash as part of the “lion’s arch fundraiser” is one possibility.

Glory boosters dropped like mana from heaven (pvp dailies, rank/win chests, etc). Being able to convert them to other boosters would put a serious dent in [potential] sales of other boosters. While it’s true that glory boosters could be bought from the store (though goodness only knows why somebody would), those that were paid for with gems were able to be refunded.

On the other hand, letting people convert boosters they have paid for [by buying BL keys, regardless of whether they use cash or gold to buy gems] to ones that they find useful will remove the sting of getting yet another useless armour/regen/strength booster and thus make people more likely to spend gems on keys in the future (or at the very least, not make them more averse to the idea)

isn’t there a tickbox to disable “autoloot on interact”?

Baoz.4735:

how else do you explain the war between the two leged and the horse, im sure it cant be slavery.

A mixture of slavery and humanity pushing centaurs out of their territory in order to resettle it for themselves, combined with concerted attempts at genocide on humanity’s part.

nekretaal.6485:

B/c

China got them in their collectors edition.

My guess is that they will never be rereleased, but that it wolnt matter because something else cool will be released.

China got the holographic dragon wings with their CE, the wings that were available as drops/in exchange for 10,000,000 zhaitaffy

not the shattered wings, which were for completing the meta

The rewards do seem a bit random. There are no dragon wings, there’s no mini Horrik, for meta items; for non meta items, the mad memoires backpacks are not available (these required a scavenger hunt), but the mask of the night is (this was a reward from the Mad King Says chest).

There’s never been any option to exchange glory boosters. If you bought them with gems, you can request a refund (open a support ticket). Otherwise just junk them. Or keep them for nostalgia’s sake, it’s up to you

I know you get a Favour of the Festival from the meta, but… is it just me, or are the drop rates for others obnoxiously low? If you buy from the TP, it’s ~16g currently to buy a pair of favours, and then for a Sovereign weapon you have to pay a further 5g+ at the weapon vendor. Even last year a stack of sprockets was easier to farm, and cheaper to get from the TP. Everything that can be bought with Favours is account bound, too, so I really don’t understand why the drop rate has to be so low.

If the zerg actually splits into groups and downs the bosses as quickly as possibly (ie, 6 groups simultaneously fighting each boss) then the bosses are easier AND the rewards are better.

Lightsbane.9012:

Sartharina.3542:

Lazuli.2098:

Azhure.1857:

Revler.2359:

2) To balance/normalize travel speed between classes. It´s unfair a warrior can easily stack 1 minute of speed boost while other classes can’t.

Yes, its totally unfair that the classes aren’t all alike and can’t do everything equally. It’s just horrible. Horrible.

Realistically warriors and guardians should run the slowest since they are wearing heavy armor. The cloth-wearing scholar classes should move the fastest.

Realistically, Warriors and Guardians should run the fastest because they’re honed for athleticism and endurance and heavy armor actually isn’t very encumbering. The cloth-wearing scholar classes should move the slowest because they don’t have the conditioning and athleticism – Unless his name is Rincewind.

… actually, Rangers should move fastest, thanks to lighter armor, better trailblazing, and equal emphasis on endurance and athleticism to warriors.

lets see if you can crawl in 80 pounds minimum clad in steel let alone whirl in place with a greatsword. there’s a reason knights were phased out of military tactics. projectile+incredibly slow target=dead(not to mention the cost of paying a noble born shock trooper was huge). the knights had horses to thank for mobility, since we’re talking about realism in a fantasy mmo and everything.

Armour is/was a lot more flexible and easy to move in that people think. Remember, it was designed to fight in, not to stand around in looking shiny…

Prior to the Feature Patch, this skin was called the PvP Plated Rifle in the sPvP locker (I don’t think there was a PvE identical twin of the Hunter as there is with some of the precursors).

Left to right:

My ranger’s old sPvP look
- HoW chest and boots
- Heritage shoulders
My ranger’s PvE look
- Cultural T3 chest and legs
- TA boots, gloves, shoulders
Human Thief
- Ascended chest
- Whispers boots and shoulders
- AC leggings
- WvW gloves
Sylvari Necro
- Cultural T3 boots
- Cultural T1 legs
- Cultural T2 chest

I think Anet largely considered MS a failure as “nobody paid attention to them”. However, they were quietly added as part of a larger update and barely mentioned in the patch notes, which is a shame. I would love to see them developed more.

Astral Projections.7320:

Conncept.7638:

A race that can invent antigravity and instantaneous wormhole travel, can’t make shoes that fit their own feet…

The side toes need a lot of airing out otherwise they get really sweaty and smelly.

The side toes don’t even show up at all on T1 light boots. It’s actually faintly disturbing.

http://puu.sh/8MFan.jpg

Or even on the Lawless boots, for that matter. Which is even more obnoxious, since they’re gem store items.

http://puu.sh/8MFfq.jpg

One of the very few armours that even acknowledges asura’s feet shapes is the aetherblade heavy.

http://puu.sh/8MFjN.jpg

Anet why do you make these races if you can’t even be bothered to design armour for them properly?

Housing isn’t necessarily something just for RPers. It gives players an ingame, customisable goal that they can fill in to their own preference. It can also act as a shrine of sorts to their achievements ingame, a little like the HoM did in EotN. For example, completing the Teq achievements could unlock the ability to have a statue or trophy displayed in the player’s home instance to prove they have slain the beast. Or perhaps completing SAB achievements or gathering a bazillion baubles (note to Anet: do not make the requirement for this actually a bazillion baubles) could be used to unlock a permanent SAB access point, or even just an interactive holographic display of Princess Miya/Lord Vanquish/Queen Beedog.

Right now the closest we have is the home instance, which has /some/ ‘customisation’ (the ore nodes, NPCs from the personal story) but it’s kinda buggy (Mira will show up for characters who have not completed the Battle for Claw Island if other characters on the account /have/, Scholar Inkblood seems to show up regardless of what else is going on), not to mention empty and impersonal.

It might not be super interesting to you, but some people enjoy such things.

Human commanders will sometimes ask for donations of siege, but I’ve never seen one refuse to command unless they get paid. Conclusion: Siegerazer in EotM is Evon in disguise.

You won’t be able to take that asura gate until after a later step in the personal story. For now just ignore the green swirly thing and head back to Fort Trinity using a WP.

No, there’ve been no announcements or anything since the feature pack launched. There’ve been a bunch of red posts lately to the effect of they’re all tied up at the moment working on the new content and/or overseeing the Chinese launch.

Okay so I like to switch between audio languages because I am strange and indecisive. I have a few of them downloaded, but when I switch between them in the options it still mutes everything until I restart the client. Is this normal behaviour? if it is, then is there any chance of being able to have a thing in future where languages can be switched between without having to restart the client?

Hi Gaile,

I just want to say thank you for keeping people notified about what is going on, I know you and all the other customer support people must be super busy right now – even more so than usual. I have an outstanding ticket myself as well, but I’ve had a confirmation and all that so for now that is good enough for me

Jade ticket still is, you just have to have it with you in order to be able to see the weapons.

wait, people actually use those things?

Sylvari ranger A hollow victory. Her death does not mend the wounds she tore open. I only hope that in death she finds a peace she never knew in life.

Human thief Satisfying. At least, it was at the time. Every time I see the ruins of Lion’s Arch I just want to end her over again.

Charr engineer Learning her plans and reasons would have been more useful, even if she -was- crazy. At least then we might know exactly what she was hoping to wake up – and -why-.

sMihaly.1492:

Also… when i keep rolling over a downed ranger with DD thief, spamming 3rd skill, and maintaining 25 bleeding…. the ranger is still healing! nerf pls.

then stomp them instead of pirouetting about. /eyeroll

honestly I main a ranger and the fact that nobody here manages to down one before Lick Wounds becomes available is frankly pathetic.

Nightmare Court weapons from TA glow purple. /shrug

IIRC, the Court also already have a presence in Brisban, and I suspect that they would welcome Mordy’s corruption with open arms, at least at first. See it as a way to spread further havoc in the Dream, and all that. At least until Mordy/Mordy’s minions show the same courtesy to the Courtiers that they do to everyone else.

it’s still in the game, if you had it in your pvp locker then it’s available in the wardrobe. it can’t be acquired currently for people who don’t have it unlocked; my guess is that it will be in a pvp reward track at some stage.

it wasn’t a default item, it was given as one of the rewards from the first wintersday, from tixx’s chest. as it was a pvp reward, it would have been deposited into the locker any time the OP used the ‘deposit collectables’ functionality.

bank and tp etc can be found in wvw. if you can’t get to your home bl, then jump into any other bl, speak to the guild bank person to open the guild bank (assuming you are in a guild with a bank), and then pick ‘account vault’ from the dropdown on the top right.

anet will probably never put bank/tp/etc access in hotm because of their gem shop items (granted i don’t know of anyone who buys those things but eh)

I can only assume that infused versions of the gear was skipped over by accident. Surprised this hasn’t been included in any of the hotfixes though, given as it is quite the blow to celestial users.

It could be possible that the Forgotten performed their severing ritual on the plant seeds, or whatever produced those seeds, as well, but that prompts the question why they would then just let the seeds lie in a cave somewhere for hundreds/thousands of years. rather than, say. plant one and see if it worked.

So the new finisher in the gem shop plays SAB music when used, and features a Llama (an upcoming nod/reference to Llamasoft?), but there’s not been sight nor sound of an SAB part 3 since the Box closed last year.

Come on Anet, stop teasing us.