Guild Wars 2

This isn’t a problem but it bothers me that it only started to happen a few days ago
or around the time of an updated to the client. Wondering if its just me or if its
happening to others too.

I’m playing in full screen mode. I noticed the last few days when I launch the client and the loading screens are on from either moving map, waypoints the game briefly flashes back to desktop during the load (like alt tabbing out of full screenmode) and it flashes a snaphot for a second or two of old information that was on screen.
(as if its displaying something form a video cards memory)

Two Examples:
I had taken a screenshot in game and each time I moved map or waypointed
and the loading screen came up it briefly went back to desktop then back full screen and flashed the screen shot I had taken earlier up on the screen.

I exited the client and restarted it. And I had a browser window open with the fourms up. I closed the browser and entered the game. When I did this and the loading screen appeared it flashed up an image of the Browser window I had open a few mins before that I had closed down.

Its like its flashing up screen information thats stored in a buffer/memory someplace.
It never done this before.

I’ve a new PC I only bought in July that’s got not nothing installed on it apart
from drivers, anti-virus, a defragger, windows updates and guildwars.

Am using a Radeon 7800 series card

~B.

I’ve been reading LOTS of threads here with people moaning about this and that.
People here really seem to be hung up on comparing dealing damage with other classes and feel bitter that they are not the King of DPS.

I’ve played the Ranger Class since Beta as its still my favorite class.
I play 30/20/10/10 with SB/LB and traps as my utilities with a mixture of toughness and power in my Armour. For me personally I’m not melting my brain doing maths and over-analysis combat logs looking at all the numbers too much. Sure I look
but I don’t get obsessed with them.

In WVW I’ve not noticed that I die any more or any less than others
so not sure what the problem is.

In PVE group events I’m rarely dying compared to other classes and mobs
still die and events still get done so not sure what the problem is.

I’ve Zero problems soloing so not sure what the problem is.

The Pets I use to keep mobs distracted or off me or just add to my damage until
I need to swap them . If I had my way like others I’d like to permanently stow them and get extra perks to compensate. (The original guild wars I played a ranger without a pet) but it does not overly bother me If I’m forced to use a pet.

Spirits are pretty boring so never bothered using them in the first place.

Not sure what all this resentment is for the ranger. People keep comparing them
to the other classes as if they are inferior in some way.

I’ve tried warrior/guardian/thief/engineer and out of all of them my ranger was the most fun to play and to survive and enjoy my gameplay regardless of the type of game
content I spent my time on. I’m still enjoying it the most despite of everything I’m reading here.

Sure I’d love more this and that and more stats added and a lot of the little annoying things fixed but I for one wont be changing class any time soon and wont rage quit.

~B

I’m no dummy but felt like one as on Both on the Halloween event and this even I had not got a feckin clue what the heck was going on when events launched and half got everything. I ended up googleing my way through events as things were so vague and was left more frustrated than fun filled.

~B

Visited the Chantry of secrets both ways and got all the rewards for all maps, and did the hall of monuments and completed the WVW ones this morning. Also have my personal story complete.

The total number of POI was 717 in total before for world completion. But now its 719
so I dont know where the extra 2 magically appeared from . Last night in game there appeared some extra ones at Lions arch got those.

Going thought the list now and ticking everything off map by map.
which I had done before where all I was short was the WVW stuff.

EDIT: Diessa Plateau I think thats the map where I could be missing something
Phew! almost there.

~B

Howdy,

I thought I was about to get world completion a while ago but I just noticed that
what I thought was 717 POI’s is now reading 719 so I’m missing 2.

I got the extra POI’s that appears in Lions Arch last night for the Shores events
and they display on map and it tells me I’ve 23/23

wondering what are the missing two POI’s that might not have been there before.?

When leveling my character I did not leave the areas and progress to new areas until
I was sure I got each map 100% complete. (or so I thought)

~B

I love guildwars2 but I tend to miss a few little things from other games I’ve played.

There is no character inspection. I’d love it there was.
sometimes you see a player running about with nice armour or weapons or the player
is playing really well and you get curious about them. LOTRO had a lovely feature that the player could inspect another player to see how they were equiped.
The Player could enable or disable this function if they wanted people to be able to inspect them or not. It was handy for comparing equipment with each other.

Social options. Sometimes you just want to Solo and do things by yourself.
I’d love a toggle option to automatically refuse Party & Guild invites.
Last game I played even had an option to only accept whispers/tells from friends.
(I’m guessing setting your status to invisable does not do this)

Charcter info for forums. I’d love if there was away to pull your character information into forums where you could have a sig or display your character data
via your profile info. When your not logging in from Home for example having a sneaky surf at work it would be nice to have access to character info.

Crafting the personalised touch.
One of the things I enjoyed in one of the previous games I played was being able to
craft and equip all my characters with gear I created myself. When you created something via crafting it displayed which character created the item. Also on critted or special items you could name them. This was also a nice feature that complimented the inspect player function. On a previous game I played this info
also appeared when stuff was sold on TP. It allowed players track stuff via seller.
(So you might have a favourite seller that reguarly offers fair prices or you might want to avoid a certain seller that often over inflates prices)

ingame voicechat. When I used to raid on a previous game we used ventrillo
and used ingame voice chat as a backup. Its a major pain in the backside if your
raiding and doing PUG’s and your trying to give players not in your guild ventrillo login/setup info or mumble/teamspeak passwords etc if you want good communications.

Camera and draw distances.
As I play ranged and Kite a bit I like to be able to zoom out to be more aware of my sorroundings I also like to be able to zoom out for taking landscape scenery screen shots. I cant Zoom out enough. Also I’d like to be able to adjust the draw distance for character rendering and not just scenery rendering.

My ingame house. Love the idea of an ingame house where other players can visit
your house and you can decourate and display trophy’s.

~B

Cheers for the tips folks. Have my thief up to to L38 now. One thing this profession has thought me is to actually look for the attack animations which I would not have paid as much attention to when playing a more ranged profession. (Much harder to see in Zergs)

I would usually play by constantly flanking and kiteing if very low on health.
I’ve messed about with different weapons and found Double Daggers and Short Bow
is easiest for me to play with. I did not like the Pistol for some reason found it slow.

Been focusing on Toughness rather than Power or precision and have not upped precesion yet. But not L40 get so can only but 10 points into each trait line. So going to focus on Shadow Arts for most points.

Loving this out of combat run speed its horribe when I switch back to my main
and running feels so sluggish.

~B

Did it Solo since grouping did not work died a few times. Got a chattering skull, a 10 slot bag and something else that was crap. The reward screen would not disappear or give me an exit instance icon, I saw a chest icon on the mini map so I was not sure if there was a chest to open as well as the reward screen (could not see one) due to splash screen not going away despite me trying to explore with it up. Eventually an accept button appeared to accept the rewards to exited in an anti-climatic mood.

~B

another event which forces you to form a party of 5 without giving you a choice.
Grrr.

I play a Ranger as my main, all through levelling 1-80, WVW, instances etc I found I had
great survivability and did not die a lot. I played with shortbow/longbow always on the move flanking and dodgeing.

I’ve rolled a few alts but have not really levelled any past L15 yet. The Thief has become my second favourite so far but one surprising thing was I’m dying a heck of a lot more than ranger.

This tells me I’m doing something wrong !

The early personal story intances I’ve died on which never happened when doing personal story on ranger. if theres 3-4 mobs I end up dying.

With the ranger I often went to areas a level or two higher than me while levelling and had no issues yet with the thief I die if I try and solo a combat skill point area.

The Auto (1) attack I try and leave tick 3-4 times before hitting another skill
as I had assumed it was a chain skill and would break the chain if I hit another skill,
I’m doging and moving and even switch to a short bow and try and kite but I’m feeling extremely squishy.

For all the Thief’s out there. What am I doing wrong ?
Any tips for a thief noob ?

~B

500 Gold on TP :O

Thanks for the info.

If I’d only known this 10 mins ago. I had not seen anything posted to say it would not transmute. Gonna be much more careful now doing things or what I spent the candycorn on. I dont see any merchants selling any recipies to craft is it a disovery item?

I went about the place collecting 150 candy corn just so I could transmute the appearance of my shortbow. I used a fine transmute stone but I could not drag it into the window. There appears to be a 3 hour countdown timer started also once I bought the bow.

Is this bow going to disappear in 3 hours? why cant I transmute it ?
Not happy at all about just after wasting 150 candy corn if I can do nothing with the bow.

I logged in at 3 in the morning local time when there was fewer people playing
and managed to complete it on Far Shiverpeaks

Nobody seems to want to move out of the way and all bunched up where
Lady Lyrica to let her spawn despite everyone saying move out of the way.
There’s characters camped on the spot and others that keep casting AOE’s on the spawn not sure if its griefing or people that might be just a little dim.

I noticed this the other night too, I thought I was going mad.

Even though all my mouse buttons were working the game would not allow
me to left click to select Mobs/Notes/objects/NPC’s and and would not allow me
to right click to auto attack. I switched characters and it did not help.

Restarted the client and the issue magically disappeared. Hopefully it was just a glitch.

~B

Niji.8034:

When fighting underwater… you can set your 7 – 9 skills. BAM!

I always thougt you just can’t use your 7 – 9 skills underwater, since my out-of-water skills vanished and the slots were just blank. And yesterday… I had to wait a moment

Thanks for this tip! I’ve about 300 hrs played and was full sure I could not assign the 7-9 skills underwater. I could have sworn I tried doing it before and it would not let me. Cant wait to try this when I get home from work.

~B

I’ve not done any of the Dungeons yet as I’ve been spending all my time
leveling PVE and crafting, going forward into 2013 not sure how much time
each night I will have to play so not sure yet if I’m going to commit to doing any
content which requires you to form an actual party.

How long typically does it take to run through each Dungeon
in both modes. could someone stick up a list ?

Also been wondering about the following:

Is everything a Zerg Fest or are their boss mechanics & tactics that players need to learn.

Communication between party member etc do things require “raid leaders” types.
since there is no ingame voice chat and you might be meeting strangers with no ventrillo or team speak, it must be difficult if people need to type to chat and fight mobs at the same time or communicate where you want the whole group to
stop, change skills on the fly, take a break or afk or briefing before next combat starts etc etc

If someones never done a dungeon before does it force the entire party to do it a specific way. I don’t want to be in a situation in 6 months were I decide to do a dungeon and nobody wants to do story mode and it too interested in just repeating
the same instance over and over as fast as they can to gain tokens.

~B

I was just about to post the exact same thing!

Yep I was/am worried about this too. I’ve been reporting each and every single
Gold Farmer spam I’ve received and also every time they spam the map chat.

The other night I reported two mails I got and I noticed I could not delete the mails
until I accepted 1 copper. I had no choice but to accept the coin as it would not let
me delete the mail until I did.

Looks like a sneaky attempt at gold farmers to prevent people from reporting them
in the hopes people may not by accepting the coin.

~B

cheers thanks for the info. I feel like a Dummy now cos I never checked the vendor’s last buying tier.

~B

Hi Folks,

Spent a bit time acquiring mats and also a few gold getting mats to craft to reach 400 in Leatherworking.
Got all the insignias I could make and used them in all pieces. Kinda stuck now
as nothing I make will gain me any experience to get me from 393 to 400
am I missing a 4th ingredient when it comes to discovery?

~B

same here.

I’ve went through this where they just stop at the bridge and do nothing.
I’ve went through it when they stop at the bridge and their are mortars set up already
on the bridge when I get there and then they do nothing.
(I just posted a new topic on this before I saw this post sorry to the mods)

The instance mission called “Shell Shock” at L64 along the main
Human Ranger storyline in Dysphoric Rim does not appear to finish for me.

I’ve to escort an artillery company. I’ve killed all the mobs, talked to all the NPC’s
and explored the map. The NPC’s wait at a bridge after all mobs are dead and nothing happens. I tried last night and today but still nothing. I dont appear to be able to complete the instance and move on the storyline.

Is it possible I could be doing something wrong? or is it bugged?
I cant see anything else to do within the confines of the instance.
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w70/bullets_ie/guildwars2/gw078-1.jpg
~B