Guild Wars 2

So it turns out that it’s the second story step after that, Temple of the Forgotten God, which gets you into the area with the POI.

I still don’t see how to get to this POI. I’ve already done the Battle of Fort Trinity story but I completely forgot about the POI until after I left the instance. Am I screwed?

I managed to get through as well, solo, after restarting the game. I died many many times mostly due to Pact NPCs being useless kittens (not fighting back, etc.) but managed get through the defending the gates stage and then went on to finish the rest. The retake the docks stage was much better, having the horde of NPCs, as useless as they are, helped, as did the reduction in undead that spawn.

There was one minor glitch, when I placed the bomb at the door to the Asura gates. The first bomb didn’t blow the door. I might have placed it too close to the door because when I tried with a second bomb a little further back, it worked. Again, probably a case of the scripting triggers being too specific.

Agreed. Additionally, when you type into the search box and pause, realize that you made a spelling mistake and start pressing the backspace key, the pause makes the search start so when you press the backspace key it makes the browser navigate back in your history.

What’s wrong with a simple Search button? Stop being so bloody fancy.

We just tried this solo, multiple times. We both got stuck at defending the front gates. In my last attempt, my “helper” NPCs stood in a group in front of the gate and did nothing while I got smashed by the undead and didn’t even fight back when the undead started beating on them. The scripting in this event is incredibly broken. The triggers are obviously too specific since the slightest deviation from the “perfect” way of doing things seems to break it.

I’m done bashing my head against this wall.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

I’m trying to offer a possible workaround for a bug that I cannot reproduce after playing through the story step a dozen times. Since I can only test solo myself, it might be an issue with multiplayer.

Find a friend. You must have a few somewhere around there.

My wife and I are stuck on this problem as well now. We’re about to try it solo. I’m personally dreading it because A) I’m an Elementalist and squishy as hell, and B) It’s been hard enough killing everything with 2 people.

Amen to this. It’s not so much saving inventory space but rather it’s saving time switching between sets. Especially when one keeps one of the normal weapon swap slots as a ranged weapon and the other as melee weapons — there are multiple melee weapon sets I’d like to be able to use and easily switch between.

My problem with the Battle of Fort Trinity is that the step “Take back the Fort Trinity docks” is retardedly hard and bugged.

1. There are mobs that show up as critters (their names are white) and only become aggro when you’re close, so you can’t easily target them before they become aggro.
2. The flying Risen Knights that are waiting at the gate into the docks from the central area respawn within about 30 seconds. Heck, even as we’re killing them they’re respawning!
3. If you get past that, then down the ramp to the right and around the corner, then there are 5 BAJILLION undead that rush up and curbstomp you into the ground. There’s no pulling of a few here, you attack one and they all come and eat your face in the space of a few seconds.
4. I also tried going left at the top of that platform instead of right, going down the longer ramp closer to the docks. Come around the corner and another 5 BAJILLION undead are waiting to rip me to shreds.
5. The horde of Pact NPCs that could maybe like help us are instead doing laps around the central courtyard!

Did this get ANY testing?!

Agreed. 46 copper here for my monthly on a level 72. That’s not a reward, that’s an insult.

I’ve been getting this as well. It’s crap-shoot when entering Lion’s Arch or the Personal Story instances associated with it (like the claw island stuff) whether I’ll actually load or whether I’ll just desynch a few minutes after entering.

Here’s my elementalist at level 61. She’s wearing the crafted “winged” linen set and a random drop staff.

+1

We don’t need to see the moderators’ “I’ve locked yet another thread” message. At the rate they do it, it fills up 80% of the dev tracker page.

What would also be nice is showing a timestamp for each post in the dev tracker so I can tell where I’ve read up to.

The RSS Feed icon at the top doesn’t work. It just loads the page again. Trying to use the RSS Feed URL in Google Reader just results in an error saying that the feed could not be found.

Agreed. The massive amounts of thread locking stifles conversation and the formation of community. Thread locks are a very heavy-handed moderation tool and should only be used to shutdown threads which have absolutely no value. Just because a person’s question has been answered doesn’t mean that the discussion is over.

A thread lock is the moderator saying to ArenaNet’s customers, “Shut up.” That’s bad business. It makes people not want to come back to the forums. It means that people will find better information elsewhere where they are allowed to freely discuss their ideas.

So I was reading the GW2 wiki on how influence works: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Influence

Regarding influence gained from logins, it is as I suspected random. Basically the game makes an attendance check at random intervals and if you’re logged on, the guild gains influence.

Also, events completed while in an overflow map don’t grant influence. However, this doesn’t explain why all our activities on Thursday night didn’t get us any influence because we were not in overflow maps.

Seth Moonshadow.2710:

doxxx.9206:

I’ve just noticed that my guild hasn’t gained any influence for any of the renown hearts and dynamic events we’ve been doing this evening. Only logins seem to add influence.

Odd, you received login influence and not others? So I am guessing we do get influence for loging in. I am about to log in again. So we’ll see if I get any influence this time. I’ll do another renown also.

Thanks for the comment, nice to know I was not the only one :-)

Yup, confirmed! not receiving influence for login or events. Maybe it will be fixed tonight?

I’m definitely not getting influence for events. My wife and I played for a few hours last night doing renown hearts and dynamic events and nothing (except logins) is listed in the guild history. The last entry in the history for influence gained from activities is from 2 days ago.

On a side note, every day we get the daily achievement chest, so we are definitely doing events.

Logins sometimes add influence. Like 3 out of my 5 characters, which are all in the same guild, when I login will add influence. I haven’t yet noticed whether it’s specific characters which don’t add influence. But all are “representing” the guild.

How about a mic-based voice chat system that alters your voice to sound like your characters?

My guild, Big Darn Heroes [BDH] on Blackgate US, is still not gaining any influence for any guild member activities. Not even logins are giving influence.

Agreed. The reset in the middle of the evening, prime playing time, is rather awkward.

My guild is not gaining any influence for renown hearts and dynamic events we are completing in this evening. It was working yesterday. Logins do give influence though.

I’ve just noticed that my guild hasn’t gained any influence for any of the renown hearts and dynamic events we’ve been doing this evening. Only logins seem to add influence.

I just checked the trade post. There’s nearly 300 000 sticks of butter up for sale. At 3c each.

Just a little out of whack….

Just wanted to say that I’ve experienced the same thing today. I’ve collected ~150 butter from supply bags and at most 5-8 of the various fine materials. This is ridiculous!