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Just Finished HoT and...

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I simply don’t find HoT maps that challenging.

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I don’t see value in running around zones that I can beat with any build, predominantly using my 1 skill. It doesn’t make me feel heroic. I don’t feel like I’m in a war zone.

I complete VB and AB to relax before bed.

I suggest you join marines and have tour to Iraq for a real feeling of war, challenging and heroic. Games are for entertainment and leisure time to have fun and get away from daily stress at work, school, life pressures and not add to them

HoT is nothing but group events and...

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I never had a problem soloing the story all the way except the very last mission. I’m not seeing the problem.

Would you please elaborate more on this? What is your ping, latency, computer hardware, class, armor, weapons, skill configuration?

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Your claim is very subjective.

For those who didn’t have time to read my post before attacking it, I simplified it for you.

LS3 Maps Enemy NPC Scaling

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FrostDeaco, the Siren’s landing was an example. most maps including LS3 have this issue, such as toxic something in gendaran field or kessex hills. if a group of players just pass the area, the whole event scales up and spawns elites and even champs and others doing the event having hard time.

Another example would be overlapping leyline runner event which overlapped the toxic event in gendaran. people chasing the leyline mob, passed the area and 3 of us had to deal with 7 elites which outcome is clear.

[Suggestions] Quality of Life Changes

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Currently we have reward track for WvW which allows us to review our progress.
Could you please bring the same concept to the PvE too, in a manner that we can review our map bonus reward progress for each map we enter?

[Suggestions] Gemstore Items

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Currently these items are available in TP for gem

(800 gem) Basic Lumber Node Pack
(800 gem) Basic Cloth Rack
(800 gem) Basic Ore Node Pack
(800 gem) Basic Harvesting Node Pack (vegetables)
(800 gem) Basic Leather Rack
(1200 gem) Black Lion Hunters Contract

And following items are available from BL Lock Boxes.

Hard Wood Logging Node
Elder Wood Logging Node
Ancient Wood Logging Node

Iron Ore Mining Node
Platinum Mining Node
Mithril Mining Node
Orichalcum Mining Node

Flaxseed Harvesting Node
Ghost Pepper Harvesting Node
Lotus Harvesting Node
Omnomberry Harvesting Node
Orrian Truffle Harvesting Node
Snow Truffle Harvesting Node

Advanced Cloth Rack
Advanced Leather Rack

The above nodes are available in Trade Post for prices from 220g ~ 1750g in quantities of between 1 to 9 mostly (except elder wood with 68 available and Iron node not available).

I would love to see these as Gem purchase (maybe for 600-800 gem each?)

The resources dropped from these nodes are not much (3 at most from each node) which makes having these nodes in home instance not a big deal. You can head to their specific maps and find at least few of same nodes. However my “Completeness OCD” kicks in and I want to have them all, but not with the price of gambling!

And to make BL lock boxes more attractive, you might be able to include some items in hefty amounts such as “1000 Iron bar” or “250 Orich Bars” as common loots. or may be some legendaries as super rare?


To make this post complete, there are other home instance nodes that are available through achievements and purchase with game currencies other than gem.

Aurillium Node
Personal Airship Cargo Voucher
Personal Crystallized Supply Cache Voucher
Personal Exalted Chest Voucher

Enchanted Treasure Chest
Gift of Magnanimity
Gift of Candy Corn
Gift of Quartz
Gift of Sprockets
Greater Gift of Candy Corn
Personal Bandit Chest

Bloodstone Crystal Node
Fire Orchid Node
Jade Fragment Node
Orrian Oyster Node
Petrified Wood Node
Winterberry Bush Node

Dreaming for a new home instance cat

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Normally games are undermining the laws of real life. I suggest putting a cat in home instance and call it Schröedinger which is carrying a box! I’m also OK with a box called Schröedinger’s experiment which doesn’t do anything.

[Suggestions] Quality of Life Changes

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Black Lion Delivery Box is a mailed item that we receive by purchasing Black Lion Hunters Contract from TP for gem.

The item is sent to player by mail (which I don’t understand why can’t we get it like other nodes in a box or something in home instance) on daily basis to the first toon that log in to game. This mail is at character level, like personal story mail which is not visible to other toons. for people like me who have many characters and doing chores on multiple characters each day, some of these mails end up in different toons and to retrieve them you need to find them first.

An easier alternative would be sending the item to players with mail status like any other Black lion items which is visible to all toons.

Character ordering issue

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Character selection screen of game has a very long standing issue that need to be fixed and I believe its fix is very easy to implement.

As I can see there is no way to re-order the characters the way you like and the only supposed to be order is last login, which is not happening.

Why is it annoying

Lets say you parked 3 of your toons in Verdant brink (many people do) to harvest 9~12 flax a day per toon (which sometimes you need over 3000 of them for one purpose). You are using a harvesting tool in shared inventory slot. you login to first character grab the tool, do your thing then logout, login to next toon, opps, the tool is not there, now you want to logout and login to previous toon to swap the tool. here is what you do, you are expecting the previous toon to be in second slot so as soon as you see the toon selection screen, you double click on second toon, opps! it was the same toon, logout again, this time because in your previous attempt you saw the previous toon to be in first slot, you double click the 1st slot as soon as you see the toon selection screen! opps! it was moved to second slot this time. and this might happen a few more times before you be able to do the thing that you wanted to do.

Same goes when you have 17 characters and you are trying to select the one that you remember was the last character in 2nd scroll but it is not 3rd character in 2nd page.

Steps to reproduce: *

Emm… just login to multiple characters in any order and then record the order in paper and compare with the order shown in list.

How and when it is happening

When you login to character and log out in same minute and login to another character in same minute and logout fast the order of characters are mixed up and falls back to alphabet ordering (or order of creation?)

How to fix it

Here is what I believe happening from my observation. I apologize if I’m not right about it. If I had access to the source code I would be able to pin point the problem in few minutes.

Currently System is using the last login (logout?) date for ordering the list, but with a minor issue. It is only using the time to minutes accuracy and ignoring the seconds. If seconds also included in ordering decision, the list will not appear to be randomly ordering characters.

Forum Login Issue.

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This is an issue (Not a blocking bug) which happens while trying to login to forums.

TLDR

Please remove referer check from your forum login page.

Long description

Forum login relies on browser REFERER header to figure out if user is using the login form on website or a 3rd party login page.

This has been obsolete even before GW2 forums launched. I would love someone from dev team to look at it and remove it or if it is absolutely necessary, replace it with a Time/IP constraint encrypted security token included in login form.

1- REFERER header can be manipulated by lots of browser extensions (there are about 358 of them for Firefox). Some of these extensions, even allow users to send site specific referer. This makes using referer as security feature, pointless. A normal user would never know and never care, and a little advanced user can easily undermine it.

2- For my security reasons (avoiding trackers, cross domain hidden frames, etc) I always disable referer for cross-domain websites. meaning if for example yahoo.com tries to send a referer header to facebook.com, it won’t be able to. Non-referer taking urls are easier to block with different extension.

3- It happens that login page for forun-en.Guildwars2.com is on account.guildwars2.com which for referer removal plugin, it is considered cross domain and they will remove the referer header and you’ll see an strange error message on page (see attachment)! If you are not paying attention, you might end up spending hours of your time and support team to figure out what went wrong.

4- If security for server is a reason, referer easily can be replaced with an encrypted security token that is included in login form (a hidden input), which is valid for 60 second (or 5 minutes) and for that specific IP address. This allows user enough window to login and saving page or automated login software will still need to access login form to be able to login. Also this combined with cookies, gives website a lot more security than referer. Although I still think having this token to avoid automated login is totally pointless unless you have captcha on your page (same reasoning is valid for referer header).

5- This is only an inconvenience to users who installed referer removal extension to avoid tracking. every time they want to login to GW2 forums, they have to disable the extension (even by pressing a single button) and then activate it after login (if they remember to do so). This also makes me avoid forums as much as possible because I have to change my usual configuration for one specific website.

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Can someone explain this to me?

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Xbon,

If you still haven’t noticed, It is 170,000 GOLD (count the zeros) in one single buy order which is only 1 copper above the previous buy order.

HoT is nothing but group events and...

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I never had a problem soloing the story all the way except the very last mission. I’m not seeing the problem.

Would you please elaborate more on this? What is your ping, latency, computer hardware, class, armor, weapons, skill configuration?

My ping is about 400 in great days and 560 in normal days and sometimes raises to 700. on 700 Core maps are still playable but not HoT or maps stories.

I have an I3 5th gen computer with 16gb RAM and Nvidia GTS-450 graphic card which gives me about 50 FPS in most core maps and drops below 30 in all HoT maps except lake Doric (may be because of amount of faces that are visible in LoD vertically?)

I have trouble in VB map with frogs on my guardian with exotic gear, I can’t even drop those frogs HP to half before I die.

I have same trouble with my warrior again in exotic gear killing rolling thingies.

I have trouble with my ranger in full ascended to do story steps of Flash point and one path ends. but not even slight trouble solo vet mobs in VB even two or 3 of them.

I have trouble in Tangled depth on my Necro in exotic but no trouble solo holding the camps in VB.

I have trouble with pocket raptors on all my toons except engineer that has no trouble torching them down and that same engineer can’t stand hammer hit of mordemorth guardians and mesmers.

Your claim is very subjective.

Just Finished HoT and...

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If you liked the HoT maps, good for you, I didn’t like HoT maps for reasons valid for myself and may be a few more and I’m not trying to convince you that I’m right or change your mind about it.

If a map is too hard or does not align my goals or my playing time frame, I don’t go there anymore.

for example. Since HoT launch, I have been to Dragon Stand less than fingers of my one hand. And been to Cursed Shore and SW so frequent that I can’t remember. It has nothing to do with enjoying the zone or not. There is a massive grind job in game to make ascended gear to keep up with my limited weekly play time that I feel being in DS is to tedious, time consuming and less rewarding than CS or SW.

If you are using “enjoyed” in past tense, it means you are not going there anymore. if you are doing maps once and forgetting about them or waiting for a new map to come out and finish that too, means it is not a good map and I consider Lions Arch a better map, because players spend more time in there.

HoT zones are designed for groups of players, very well. I would like to see how those maps will work when everyone get busy with PoF zones. I already see less people in Verdant Brink and Lake Doric because they are busy grinding in other areas.

And lastly I won’t take anyone’s word for like or dislike if they are talking on behalf of “Everyone” or “Majority”, please show me your reference. And I don’t accept your word as fact if you are saying because “I” could do it, “Everyone” can do it or the other way. Not everyone is playing in your style, internet connection, ping, latency, hardware, timezone, guild, gear, character configuration and many more different factors.

Install location is no longer?

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While at it, I would love to see the updater module get separated from GW2 executable.
So this is how it supposed to work.

1- GW2.exe launches and checks for updates, if no new updates available, Continue to login and launching game
2- If an update is available, run a shell command for updater and exit from GW2.exe

This have two benefits. first I do not have to unblock a temporary file in my firewall each time there is an update for GW2 and later clean the list of in firewall settings from many new entries of a program that doesn’t exists anymore.

next is as downloader is just a simple program, doesn’t need to change as often as GW2 changes due to bugs, enhancements and other stuff thus saving me an extra 30meg or so download each time you are saving two copies of game in temp folder and game folder (other than GW2.exe itself)

Map bonus reward diminishing

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I normally stay in game about 20minute to 1 hour a day to do my dailies and log off. Yesterday was my holiday and didn’t plan anything else to do so I stayed in game more than usual about 6 hours.

Yesterday cursed shore events were dailies and so I did them and then event after event and then I noticed I’m getting about 13copper and 78 karma from events and realized iI hit diminishing returns and very hard. however the map bonus was still dropping in quantities of 2 and then 4.

From the wiki article I can see that I am able to earn 8000 points in a week in total and 1700 (unverified) max a day.

Is there a place to see these points? How do I know I earned all the map bonuses possible for a week and move on to a different map?

Can someone explain this to me?

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I believe you guys didn’t get the issue here.

Look at the picture again. There is a `200 Order` for 850G in the top row of order.

1- if someone has the money to place order, most probably put order for 850g 2s and 12c and next person 13c and so on. (look at previous orders or in fact any other order transaction in TP)
2- obviously this order placed by one person who didn’t care to cause suspicion.
3- assuming it is single order from one person and it is legit, that person already put 170K gold in reservation to buy that many dye which obviously will not use.

I played the game for 2.5 years and did great in TP and still my total gold transaction is about 7000g in total.

I’ll let you to come to conclusion.

I’m sorry but I still call it Anet’s fault, in a way or another.

If everything is legit about this order game money sinks is not functioning as expected.
How it would be possible to have that amount of money after so many money sinks in place.
and if this is not a legit order, how Anet didn’t notice people earning money in that rate.

UGLY Launcher

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1- It is big, on some screen you have to move it, specially when your recorder is on.
2- Its color is too strong and not appealing to some people (including me)
3- I don’t care either, it will go away after pressing play button, but can you press that button while patch is downloading? you have no choice to stare at it.
4- finally I like the picture posted by Jaxom.7310 much more, it is less intrusive. if you haven’t seen it, here it is and matches better with previous load screens.
5- anyway, why we should even have a load screen? put login inside game screen and it is all gone.

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Lets open a new wanted feature: Housing

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But but, I don’t want a home!

seriously, we have a home instance, and it is already customized per player (also per toon). you can already add cats and gross dead animals to your backyard. why don’t ANET put an scribing table in home instance and let scribes do the rest and customize their own home instance?

No Flying Mounts?

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Even if they wanted to, they wouldn’t be able to, unless redesigning the whole map again.
Those guys who played Wow remember anger because of not being able to fly over Exodar.

Anyway, if you ever managed to get to top of for example Divinity, You’ll know that there are lots of surfaces that are just an empty facade. you pass them and there is nothing behind them. Try flying there and you’ll see the ugly truth.

If you ever managed to reach the border of map on top of hills such as Verdant brink which is possible even on kite, it kills you immediately.

Flying makes sense if you could fly from one city to other city while watching scenery down there which is also not possible because of zoning.

And by the way, those who say flying will break events and make exploration easier, it will not, you will still need to do hearts to complete exploration. The only benefit for flying is avoiding mobs on the ground, which is also won’t happen in GW2. Aggro box in wow is a circle on ground, if you are flying over the face of mobs, they won’t attack you, in GW2 aggro box is a very tall cylinder, even if you are flying above mobs, they will try to hit you even if you are out of direct range of their weapons (try it in Bloodstone fen)

Fishy drop rates w/daily login rewards

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I got a key about a year ago and it is still in my bank. but that is it for past 2.5 years.

I noticed something interesting about RNG which makes me believe it is not Random at all and should be called PNG (preassigned number generator).

I get 7 [Black Lion Salvage Kit] in a row this year between February and March and another 8 last year at the same time. Also I got 3 [Mystic Forge Stone] during April and another 5 about same time last year (April-May).

This happens on JP chest loots too. I had same loot for long period of time on same character and same chest which is different from other toon on same chest but it is similar for same toon, which makes me believe that SEED used for RNG is a combination of Player account name (Id?), Character name(id?) and partial date may be tried to be smart and put an MD5 or SHA1 hash on it too. Although this makes it unique to not be seen in big sample data size, but in an isolated sample size it is visible enough. e.g. looting 8 green heavy chest armor of same type and same stat within same month specially when the toon looting, is using light armor.

What I’m trying to say is you might not even see a single key for rest of your play time. make another toon, and loot chests with that. Maybe you get lucky this time.

Suggestion: Random Unlock Wardrobe Box

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Well, Just like that, if they are just a drop from black lion chests, Nope! not gonna happen, I will not buy a single chest hoping to get that.BL chest is already a crappy RNG and another RNG over it to unlock lets say bunny ears, For me NO THANKS! If those unlocks sold on BL even for high gem price, I’ll look at it to see if I like and then buy it.

One more thing is that wardrobe unlock is a combination of items that I absolutely don’t care, such as glider, mini, backpack and full armor skins. Others might like those, but I won’t pay for something that might drop a mini for me which I’ll never use. I played wow for about 10 years and never pulled a pet although I had 99% of them.

Same goes for home nodes and contracts, although I can buy most of them from TP.

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Buy Path of Fire What does it want

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in the name field put a name such as “temp”, “whatever”, “Who cares” or a more meaningful name if you want to let anet keep your credit card number, such as “DingDangDong Credit Card”, “Mom’s Credit Card”

Invalid Phone Number?

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it seems you cannot use + () – in the phone number, just put the number in plain format with country code as 00xx in front to be sure

Very sick and dizzy playing the HoT

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You can make it better, by ticking “Vertical Sync” in options and limiting frame rate to 30.

If you feel dizzy when standing up from sitting position too, you might want to see a doctor. Hopefully this is not the case.

I agree with OP, looking at monitor when whole screen content moves without my interaction makes me dizzy instantly. This is the reason I cannot watch people play youtube.

I guess it is easier for A.Net to slow down the turning rate of the stairs or just simply stop them from moving at all.

I don’t see a reason why they have to test their skills on implementing big moving stuff in spinning manner.

buy.guildwars2.com, again!

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Website is working for me right now, I think the problem is solved.

It would be great if Anet could tell us if it was users who managed to break the site or a deploying new content glitch. I never liked JSP for web pages, too troublesome!

Gem Exchange does not show up

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Glass Hand, This is not related to gem purchase or delivery of it. Please check the screenshot

Gem Exchange does not show up

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Any news on this? it is still not working!

buy.guildwars2.com, again!

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Here is the request and response headers from firefox.

The page keep redirecting with header response 302 to same url and obviously will redirect again and again.

The only difference between each response header is Thread ID meaning another thread picks up the request (Either there is No keep alive or thread crashes)

Had to remove some of headers from last requests (replaced by "...") to fit it in 6000 post limit

Also note that, this happens in all firefox versions between 47 to 52


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Guild Halls Wager Results

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Posted by: bobsort.4097

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Why would you even thought people might like broken buildings with tall stairs and deserted and dry land to a flat accessible in middle of all maps, lush and green?

Anyway, why this post from a year ago came up again? are some guild planing to move their hall to new zone?

Path of fire anouncment - Feedback

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And then it is the stress of devs on words like “Very strong”, “you won’t see who hit you” and such, gives me the impression that I won’t be able to play WvW unless buy the expansion and unlock the new elites which obviously requires you to grind Hero Points all over the place again!

Path of fire anouncment - Feedback

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I think you guys didn’t notice that devs said there are places that you can’t reach without mounts and showed some in the video too. And to get the mount to reach there you need to put between 10 to 15 mastery point in each of them. meaning most probably you won’t be able to reach some parts in next few months to come including some JP specially designed to complete with mounts and “turn in mid air”!!!!

buy.guildwars2.com, again!

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I’m not sure if this ever help solving the issue, but here you go, network tab

I found something strange!

http://81.21.151.214/store?Locale=en_US&SiteID=gw2&pbPage=pathoffire

and

http://81.21.151.214/store?Action=html&SiteID=gw2&pbPage=pathoffire

do not redirect and shows the purchase page!

I get an error when i do that

Copy and paste the link, forum changes all & signs in url to &

however still no use, because to complete purchase you need to login and after login it redirects you to same buy.guildwars2.com which does not open

buy.guildwars2.com, again!

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I’m not sure if this ever help solving the issue, but here you go, network tab

I found something strange!

http://81.21.151.214/store?Locale=en_US&SiteID=gw2&pbPage=pathoffire

and

http://81.21.151.214/store?Action=html&SiteID=gw2&pbPage=pathoffire

do not redirect and shows the purchase page!

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buy.guildwars2.com, again!

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bobsort.4097

To be less paranoid on your referrers, use network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy = 1 (rather than simply disabling it with network.http.sendRefererHeader)

I thought it is for

0 (default) to send the full URL
1 to send the URL without its query string
2 to only send the scheme, host and port

not disabling referrer for cross domain?

Maps locked behind story episodes

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Posted by: bobsort.4097

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they are permanent, there is a book that all scrolls can be placed in now so that only one common slot is taken up. The book is more expensive than the scrolls I think 10000 unbound and 1 gold

I just checked lake doric. If all the portal scrolls are 1000 magic and 50silver means we need 6000 magic and 3gold to buy all. which opens access to all maps

Living world Portal Tome (book) is 1000 magic and 1gold which saves you 5 inventory space.

I assume you need to buy scrolls before you can have then in the book. Am I right?
if yes that is 7000 magic and 4g.

And still you won’t be able to complete some of dailies, right?

Maps locked behind story episodes

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Posted by: bobsort.4097

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You can use tele to friend and then buy the scroll (or not) to have alts access it and not waste tele to friend. This way you never ever have to set foot in a story instance.
Will be the same going forward.
Farm and eat berries or blooms and do dailies and all is paid for in a very, very short period of time.

If I remember correctly, some dailies also require you to do story before being able to complete it. For example in bitterfrost if I’m not mistaken, “Daily Elixir addiction” cannot be completed if you didn’t do story. NPC won’t give you the recipe.

Maps locked behind story episodes

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Having never had one of these scrolls… are they consumed on use or can you store them permanently in your shared inventory?

I’m not sure, I haven’t bought one yet. I took my engineer to lake doric with teleport to friend and my ranger by doing stories. Haven’t done the last two episodes of S3 yet. May be others can help with this?

buy.guildwars2.com, again!

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Two years ago when I was trying to buy the HoT, I kept getting error constantly until one day I was able to pass the error and open the page and buy the expansion.

The error is back again!

Why would a page keep redirecting to itself until get timeout?!
Please remove the referer requirement from accessing these pages (specially forum login)
For security reason I turned it off, so my browser does not send referer header to server. It is something that nobody use anymore and for security concerns it is better don’t rely on it either on client or server.

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Maps locked behind story episodes

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  • That character can purchase a portal so that all toons can reach the zone, for free. The cost is nominal, in map currency.
  • You can combine all portal scrolls for LS3 maps for a somewhat less modest amount of local currency.

I’d prefer no gating, but if we have it, this isn’t too bad.

Would you please include the price of each of these portal scrolls and how many scrolls for how many maps we need to buy to send all our toons to that map?

Also as others previously mentioned, I rather spend that money on home instanse nodes and port to friends for different purpose too.

Maps locked behind story episodes

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Posted by: bobsort.4097

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Hello!

Just trying to get a feel about what you think when you can’t actually get to a map until you have finished the requisite story episode.

In my opinion – and it is just that, an opinion – is that I find the concept frustrating. I know some will just say “do the story then” or TP to a friend but I am a very solo player and a Filthy Casual with zero skillz and am the complete opposite of l33t…

What’s your take on it? I suspect I’m very much in the minority here!

The story can be done solo with any class and high personal skill isn’t really isn’t a requirement.

I would love to see you solo, personal story steps (specially HoT) While in exotic gear and exotic armor on a ranger or elementalist and put the recording in youtube for us noobs to observe and learn. having above 540ms ping will be a bonus!

(edited by bobsort.4097)

Maps locked behind story episodes

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I could read every single opinion in here and why those maps should or shouldn’t be locked behind story step, but still it wouldn’t change my mind. doing story once is fun, second is reminding, third is boring and if you want to do it for every single of your 12 toons, then it is the most annoying thing ever. Why should I have to buy a porting item to send rest of my toons to that map!

And also frozen time has nothing to do with rest of my 11 toons!

Black Lion Trading Company down for us in SEA

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Black Lion Trading Post

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Currency exchange tab not loading

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Buying gems not working

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Black Lion Trading Post

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I believe it is a server error, in one of the files (in temp folder) that supposed to be SQLlite database, there is something like server memory dump

The file name is something like 2gemstore-dfw-live..localstorage

Other files are

Also I’m getting an error `n` not defined and `t` not defined in my javascript debuger, I’m not sure if it is related.

Black Lion Trading Post

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Posted by: bobsort.4097

bobsort.4097

If you are in SEA area, you are not the only one with this problem.
There are lots of other threads complaining about same issue.

do not touch any configuration on your system! wait for Anet to fix it.

Heart of Thorns final mission bug :)

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I was going to try it again, thank you for saving me from the trouble!

Black Lion Trading Company down for us in SEA

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I can see Trade Post and Home tabs and even Buy Gem which opens from home tab is working, but gem exchange page is showing empty.

Detail included here

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Gem-Exchange-does-not-show-up/first#post6661576

Also I can see content of all 4 urls that posted here.

I have 361 root authority certificates in each of my local account and machine account. If it is a certificate update, shouldn’t we get a notification about it?

Gem Exchange does not show up

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When opening Trade Post, Gem Exchange does not show its content (refer to picture).
I can see other tabs (Home, TP), even buy gem is working, but not Gem Exchange

I deleted content of username\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2
Ran “Gw2-64.exe -repair” which took 20 minutes and completed.

Running Game Diagnostics, does not show any errors.

I asked in game and others can see the gem exchange and did tell me how much is the current exchange

And I still can’t see the gem exchange tab.

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REmove the adventure from collection

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Posted by: bobsort.4097

bobsort.4097

Dear players, please stay in topic, which is collections requiring to complete adventures in gold, silver or bronze!

This topic is not about how hard adventures are or if we love them, like them or hate them! What OP is asking is reasonable and I totally agree with him. he is not asking to remove them from game! he is also not asking to make them easier or harder!

Some people such as me can’t do it for so many reasons such as high latency, physical inability or even both, which also applies to many other game types too. We simply don’t do them.

I believe OP, me and a few other players who posted here, are asking to remove them from collection requirement. if adventures have to have collections too, fine, add a specific collection for that or even 3 for collecting for bronze, silver and gold. You can even give each of them some shiny, fancy pretty skin!

But please DON’T put completing adventure as requirement for at least 8 other collections that are already hard enough to complete (e.g. play each type of toon up to level 80 and then do all the hero points in HoT with them!)

I’m with OP too, Please separate completing adventures from other collections!