Guild Wars 2

Grate update and new map, enjoying it.

The last boss of the story mode though, Jesus Christ! In my life, I’ve played many games, many many bad games with many awful boss encounters and the end boss of gw2 ls3 part 4 is right up there with one of the worst boss encounters in a game ever, as far as I’ve played. Sorry to say that but I can see no redeeming factors in it.

Anyway apart from that all good

You have to stand on the generator for some reason. Just stay stood on it and whack the oozes while aurene does whatever it does.

Guaranteed ToT bag to fill one slot? Jesus Christ what kittening awful idea, its not even a large bag, fecking hell they could at least give you a decent sized stack of them if they expect you to pay real money for this kittene.

Rip off!

I got a trick or treat bag, a tome of knowledge and a merchant express. Jesus Christ im so very glad I didn’t pay for this load of garbage. Think ill steer well clear of purchasing keys in the future.

Guaranteed ToT bag? Seriously? That is a rip off. You now only get two chances to get anything decent instead of three.

Wont the Vendor be gone at the end of the Halloween event though? Or you mean, you can just get it next year?

To buy all the candy needed id say that is between 900 and 1000 G or roughly £42 worth of Gems.

Either road you go down its a hell of a lot of grind in 12 days assuming you have no candy corn, little gold and no money to spend for something that appears may do very little.

If it flew around you as it it were a companion / pet toy type thingy, that would be cool to save up for but sliding along the floor as you walk around is incredibly kittene for such a massive asking price.

I guess it a case of, if you have gold to burn, cool go stabilize that economy.

If I am right then there are 12 days left of the Halloween event, so in order to get this mini I would need to farm 10000 candy corn a day to get the 120 candy corn cobs needed to buy the mini.

My question therefor is, is it worth it? Has anyone got this mini and if so what does it do? Does it fly around you? Perhaps land on your shoulder? For that amount of grind id hope so. I really cant be bothered with it if all it does is slide around on the floor behind you.

exactly same thing for me.. stuck on 1 remaining files, the speed flciks really quick between 1 KB and 200 KB and the file size keeps on increasing (now at 53 mb).

Now it is very quickly flashing and error… “Connection error” maybe

Same here.. it has 1 file left remaining but seems to be stuck or something

-I used to take part in the Tequatl encounter at least twice a week and really enjoyed doing it. I havnt been able to do Teq since the update due to the scheduling. This sucks massively.

-I used to run the temples in Orr everyday for fun. I cant do this anymore as the temples are permanently uncontested / already completed.

-Guild missions are a nightmare for our large guild to organize, everyone ends up in a different instance and its a real pain in the kitten “taxiing” everyone into one instance. When we get to a mission ect, there are usually 3 or 4 other guilds doing the same thing, what a mess to see 20 odd commander badges and all the fun sucked out of the guild event.

It is nice however to see some of the maps busier and people partaking in dynamic events that would otherwise be left untouched for weeks. But this is a small plus compared to the above problems I have with the mega server so far.

Actually its really affected my loot as well, as the above events are what I do most, I don’t do dungeons hardly ever anymore as ive done them enough already and they become very boring. Ive hardly made any gold since the update by doing the things I love most. I suppose I should buy my gold for real money? No chance Anet, no chance.

Just a thought. I know it is all RNG but I wonder if Anet control the amount of pre-cursors the MF gives out in a day.

For example today, it may only dispense 20 precursors and no more. If those 20 are already gone, you could put a million rares in and still never get anything.

£85 =8000 gems, 8000 gems = roughly 520 gold.

So curently £85 x 2 = a pre-cursor + some.

Its sad but im pretty sure this is how they really want you to get your precursors, with real money.

Same here, no cut scene. Hope there is a way to play it again. Pretty disappointing if not.

Before anyone suggests, NO, a YouTube video of the cut scene will not suffice lol

Ive tried entering Lions arch on both my lvl 80`s for the first time since todays patch and the cinematic doesnt play? :-(

Im pretty cheesed off about that, I spent ages in this living story and dont get to see what happens.

Is it because I went to the bar in divinities reach first? Has anyone else not been shown the cinematic?

I know it seems a lot of people are having various lag problems and such like with GW2 but just want to say the problem this topic was created for is specific.

If you think the game is unplayable due to traffic management by your ISP then please run a glasnost test to check for certain whether your account is traffic management assigned. http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php (choose the bit torrent option)

If the test confirms you are being traffic managed then check with your ISP policy to see what times of day the traffic management is enforced.

BT customers on infinity option 2 who took contracts before feb 2013 will be traffic managed and will almost certainly be experiencing this issue between 16:00 PM and 00:00 am (i think) and pretty much all weekend afternoon and evening.

Read this if you are on BT and unsure if you are traffic managed on your contract
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/47278/~/traffic-management

Im sure all the other ISP`s will have something similar.

Hey Painbow,

What driver are you talking about?

Your righ Riyua, and I cannot explain why the ‘traffic shaping’ would only start affecting us in the last couple of weeks but for me personally im positive it is what was causing the problems. For example, when I connected to my works VPN during peak hours (bypassing BT) the game worked ok. When running on normal BT connection, crap.

I did wonder if I was being tricked and maybe I was but one thing is for certain, it is not coincidence. I, like everyone else have not been able to play at all during peak time up until I made the phone call and asked to change contract (im not saying everyone should do that, I was just desperate). Something has definitely changed for the better, glasnost still reports no traffic shaping and Ive been playing GW perfectly all evening, not even the slightest hint of lag.

I am certain traffic management has something to do with it, something has changed but BT wont admit it or maybe they just dont know. Maybe they didnt intentionally do something but something they have done has affected us. I do hope it is that, if it isnt then its very fishy indeed

Well…

Its during peak time and I have just had a good test on GW2.. It is now working like an absolute TREAT! :-D super fast, no skill lag, no dc`s. It takes like 3 seconds to load into lions arch.

I ran a glasnost test and surley enough there is no traffic shaping anymore.

Im not complaining but, it is strange considering my new contract that I renewed today doesn’t kick in until the 21st.

Is everyone else still having problems? If so make sure you run a glasnost test http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php

If you are with BT and the test says your traffic is being shaped (for bit torrent, whether you use it or not) then id place a large bet that it is the traffic throttling that is affecting gw2 during BT peak times even though BT tech support will furiously deny this.

I have BT infinity option 2 and started the contracted in 2012. Option 2 contracts started before Feb 2013 are subject to traffic management (on p2p services) But contracts started after Feb 2013 have no traffic management what so ever http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/47278

I just had to show BT tech support their own policy over live chat to get them to agree / admit that I was being ‘traffic managed’. They still blatantly refuse that the traffic they restrict includes Guild wars 2 traffic. (even if unbeknownst to them)

The only way to NOT be traffic managed any more was to renew my contract for another year which I have now done (not that anyone should have to). I will post here in three days and update whether it has worked for me or not.

Someone just posted this in the BT forum.

“FIXED : I have infinity option 2. I called about this to option (accounts) 0800 800 301 pressed 1 to say I wanted to cancel account (to get a person to talk to). After 1h and 30 mins and 4 calls each time being told there is no traffic management by technical and by the accounts team finally a hero looked at my account and saw that its code included P2P peak time shaping.

All that was then required was to recontract the broadband for another 12 months and this removed the traffic management. This does not cost extra if you are already suppose to be on an unmanaged connection.

Then after a day you should see that everything is good you can test at http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php this checks that P2P runs the same speed as http.

Don’t give up! Nobody believed that there was a problem but it was finally spotted. You to can get fixed!”

There is a new update coming very soon with new story line content, in the UK the download will most likely happen during BT infinity peak times..arghh :-(

So gutted we are not going to be able to play this content. Wish someone either on GW2 side or BT side or both would have a heart and help us out. I don’t think either company understand just how unplayable the game is.. What will it take to get this sorted? BT wont listen to us, GW2 support have been great (with me any way) but there is nothing more they can do except maybe give BT a nudge for us?

Is there any chance someone from Anet can contact BT please? It might help us get the issue resolved.

I am on BT infinity option 2, as I am in a contract I have to pay an expensive disconnection fee if I want to change provider. This isn’t possible for me and probably many others too. We shouldn’t have to anyway not when you have a 70 MB connection.

19:00 PM on Sundays is our guild mission days, I had to miss out on this, the game was unplayable regardless of a “super fast fiber optic connection” and a super beast of a laptop the surpasses the minimum spec by loads.

Also please, everyone who thinks they are affected by this, make a post here, dont let it rest.

https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity-Speed-Connection/BT-throttling-online-games-guild-wars-2-all-the-sudden/m-p/1167486#M127353

Hi I just thought id mention it here.

It seems that there are very many people from the UK who are on the BT infinity option 2 service that are experiencing the game destroying connection problems and lag that is causing error 7:11:3:191:101.

This seems to mostly be happening during peak time when BT throttle services such as p2p and torrent networks.

For some reason, recently, throttling seems to be affecting gw2 which it really should not be.

If you are getting this problem, please visit the BT forum, have a read and make a post, to help get this sorted.

https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity-Speed-Connection/BT-throttling-online-games-guild-wars-2-all-the-sudden/td-p/1167348/highlight/false/page/7

The problem might be solved though, a moderator has replied with this:

“Hi Guys,

Our Network team have let us know that they have rerouterd traffic away from Tinet in the hope that this improve your experience. Can you confirm if you guys are seeing an improvement.

Cheers

David
BTCare Community Mod”

So lets see tonight if things have improved.

Finally found a forum thread for this. I have submitted a tech support request but thought id add to this thread to help keep the problem in the limelight. The game for me is now unplayable, after running the usual maintenance repairs that are advised I am able to log in and play for a short while but its guaranteed to crash again and when it does you simply cannot get back in, it seems especially worse if you character is stuck loading into lions arch.

Has anyone actually permanently fixed this issue, if so how? For me it started after the edge of the mists update.

1) I have GW1 but cannot login in because my log in details no longer work (think i need to recover the account, just havnt got around to it)

2) I log in from the UK

3) I play at all times of the day but most often between 18:00 and 00:00

Thank you noble souls

Ok it was just me being a dumb kitten , just salvaged 10 pieces of HotW armor and got 4 ectos.

Please excuse my stupid sleepy brain :-)

Well now I feel stupid :-| they were low level dungeon armor I tried…

humm I don’t recall seeing one but then again I don’t follow every single update.

The last time I did this was about 2 – 3 months ago and I got loads of ectos. Ill have a route through the past release notes.

Hi,

One the most efficient ways I use to get globs of ectoplasm for crafting is to buy rare armor using my hard earned dungeon tokens and then salvaging the armor for ectos.

I have just salvaged fifty pieces of rare armor using master salvage kits and got exactly 0 (zero) ectos.

Surely this cannot be right? I don’t believe this is simply down to RNG. Is this a nerf?

Maybe someone from anet could kindly confirm or deny, thank you.

Thanks, I feel better now.. I am OCD about these things.

Today I went to go give some spores to that Majory character; only this time when I speak to her I see the option: “I think I must have missed something.. Replay the nightmare unveiled”

I didn’t see this yesterday, sorry to sound dumb but am I seeing this because I actually have missed something? If not how do I know if I missed something or not? There is no checklist of things you need to do in the instance.

I don’t really want to go through the instance again unless I have genuinely missed somehitng

But did you have fun?

Sorry to sound dumb

But what do you mean by role players in GW2? I ask because it is an RPG game and every time I log into the game I consider my self to be “role playing”, wheather I am running a dungeon, fractal, crafting, playing story mode or taking part in any dynamic event. I also consider everyone else who logs into the game to be role playing as that is exactly what they are doing, playing a “role playing game”.

So what is it that you consider to be role playing exactly? What is it you do in these taverns?

Thanks

If it were one chest per account, that’s as bad as saying there should be only one story mode per account. What would be the point of being able to create new characters?

If you have put in time to level up alternate characters, you deserve all the rewards you can reap from playing however you want to play.

Jeez some people have some crazy ideas…

I love the new dailies. It is a huge improvement, i’m so glad I don’t have to do the crappy daily gatherings every single day any more.

I love how you can select the ones you want to keep track of. When I am playing the game as normal I can keep track and work on the dailies that fit in with what i’m up to at the time.

Perfect.

It seems some people will never be happy what ever changes are made. Some folk are just born to whine.

I just got in. I tried what someone else mentioned.

Changed language (to spanish in my case). It logged in fine. I logged back out then back in again with English and it worked.

I have this error, its rather annoying.

Im on an EU server.

My PC is in the routers DMZ.

I was able to connect earlier today from work though, behind a university firewall lol.

Deleting all GW2 files and installing from scratch fixed this for me. It took about 5 hours to download it all though.

Dont speak for all of us dude. The colossus fractal is awesome as it is, I love it.

Dont think ive done the Grawl one though.

It doesn’t sound like he was saying he was experienced, more like he wanted experienced people to run with.

Either way it would have been easy and a nice thing to do to simply explain it to him / her.

We did it with 2 eles, 2 thieves and a necro. It was pretty easy. No need to kite, just kill the assasins quickly, stealth mag (not sure if that actually works) and use lots of AoE. Cripple and immobilise skills are useful for the assassins. If everyone tweaks their traits to help buff and heal each other this also helps a lot.

Ive not had the problems others seem to be having. I find this part of the dungeon very enjoyable. Much more than the 1 2 2 suicide kite cheat I mean tactic hehe

Hi Ashley is there any information on this error? Any other potential fixes?

It was the Cave troll in story mode (we kiled him just before taking on Master Nente). I think it is like a bonus event or something. But I hope your right that maybe it was either a bug or they didn’t put enough damage in.

It would seem unfair if you put a lot of work in then got nothing for being downed and your team mates couldn’t or wouldn’t res you.

Can anyone confirm this for sure?

Unlucky Giles and I am guessing they couldn’t have revived you even if they tried?

The idea behind the waypoint change is admirable in terms of getting people to work better together but hearing stories like this makes it sound really unfair.

In AC story the other day two of my team mates were downed by the Troll right at the end of the fight. We couldn’t res them on time before the Troll died; we got the rewards and they go nothing. This really sucks, they did a lot of work in that fight, but we just couldn’t get to them to res.

Again, I think this is to promote the sale of pay to win revive orbs. I hope im wrong about that.

Hi, I have the same issue. Even when I try to repair the file I get the same error message.

• Crash <—*
  Assertion: hdr→signature == PACKFILE_SIGNATURE
  File: ..\..\..\Services\Packfile\Packfile.cpp(1821)
  App: Gw2.exe
  Pid: 2200
  Cmdline:
  BaseAddr: 00400000
  ProgramId: 101
  Build: 16581
  When: 2013-01-30T16:29:10Z
  Uptime: 0 days 0:00:02
  Flags: 0

People should feel bad because they don’t have full exoctics? lol

Honestly, it is a fun game not slave labour. Dont feel bad poeple.

The waypoint change is good except that Anet should now also remove the res orbs from sale.

Before this change the res orbs were a convenience nice to have thing but after the change they are now a pay to win tactic.. Not very cool in the slightest.

I wonder how it will be for the last survivor of a group, they will be trying hard to res the others but the others will be encouraging the survivor to commit suicide so they can all get back into the action.

I know this change is to encourage a better play style with teamwork which is great, but it also encourages the sale of res orb or as I call it, cheating pay to win tactic. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the next couple of months.

By th way CoF path 2 is awesome now. It really isnt that difficult either. I did it in a PuG with 2 thieves, 2 eles and a necro. We whooped kitten it was so much fun.

If the purpose is to make people work better as a team and learn their class then that is all good but I think it also means they should remove revive orbs. These will become pay to win items, this idea makes me want to vomit… I hope this is not one of their intentions, to make more profit from revive orbs and other boosters.

Hey buddy,

Ive joined plenty o PuGs where people are friendly and chilled out. These are the best dungeon runs, there are some stressy people ive pugged with but usually they cry and quit which is pretty funny to be fair.

Just give it a go finding groups , you may be suprised. But yeah some solo options would be cool aswell, to help honour all play styles.