Guild Wars 2

Same here, husband and I both made characters before reset then went and did normal content for reset and came back to having lost all map progress and no mounts.

That was part of one of the updates to the forge ages ago. It is unfortunately not a bug and is intended. Sometimes at least the level 76-78 exotic you get back at least has a good rune/sigil. The same applies when you toss in 4 lvl 80 rares.

I did mostly what Healix described. My only change was killing as many waves as possible before Shadow left, then I hid in the back & revived mobs while Anise killed them. I tried it by just hiding and Anise just kept following me and not getting into combat. I had to help her get engaged with the enemies.

This is going to be fun.

I only hope that since gliding in wvw is gained through ability points (not HoT Mastery points) is that as we max it out we can get things like the bombs/med packs from Shatterer and folks can get advanced gliding/stealth gliding through the ability points even if they don’t have it outside of WvW.

Maybe we can eventually get some leylines added in the desert BL between the shrines if we control them. That could be fun too!

There is a collection achievement for it and I got 7 full tickets back.

Still cruddy that they were 2 tickets each though.

Healix.5819:

khani.4786:

Is there not a skip to get straight to this part or a retry mote?

No, but it’s a trivial achievement. Simply let the NPCs die. When not in combat, the wave of enemies will move around the room. You only need to stand in the back and move with them to evade them for as long as you want. If you want to additionally kill them, revive some NPCs at the front while they’re at the back, which will cause Kiera (Anise) to stop moving. She’s immortal, so she can solo the waves for you. Just don’t help her, since you’ll pull them all.

Thanks for that. That strat helped a bunch.

Is there not a skip to get straight to this part or a retry mote? I’ve only tried 3 times now and am pretty tired of sitting through all the stuff at the beginning of the instance.

LinseyMurdock.4165:

Rejected:
• No Lumber Cores or Pruning Shears. We count these as trophies used for guild hall decorations which I already mentioned we opted to not include.

As the guild scribe I question this….I can’t give them to the guild to hold onto and some recipes require 5, 10 sometimes even 50 of an item in order to craft one decoration. It’s no more niche than blade shards which have even less use after you’ve crafted the backpieces. I can always craft more trees/shrubs/etc and have them be useful but I still can’t really play my scribe because her inventory is full of these “trophies”. Which is a shame because I love my scribe character and would love to play her without having to stop every 5 minutes to clear her bags because they’re full.

I do thank you for the things we can deposit now. I’m not ungrateful for the additions at all but why let badges of tribute be depositable but not my lumber cores, grass seeds, pruning shears, etc?

Tiburon.8634:

I’d second the suggestion to add lumber cores.

And if you’re looking for things to cut, we could do without things like the anthology of heroes, milling basins and other things purchased from vendors. The only reason they would have to stay on the list is if they’re going to be added as loot drops in the game too.

For example, you could leave the vision crystals off the list because they are pretty expensive and most people probably won’t make too many that they don’t need, but you can get them from achievements and from the bloodstone/dragonite/empyreal gobblers, which means people can get extras regardless of whether they will use them or not, or even if they have the necessary crafting level to use them. And because they’re quite expensive they’re too valuable to simply throw away.

From the scribing section, if you’re going to drop anything it should be the scribing kits. Again, most people aren’t going to make extras just for the heck of it. And if dropping those means a higher chance that we can get lumber cores added in, that’s a great trade. Besides, what makes crafting the kits annoying is having to go craft the pen and paper materials again and again, and those are great additions to the list.

I want to keep the milling basins & crystalline jars on the list. Those to me are like Thermocatalytic Reagents or Spools of thread. Need them in high amounts and would just rather buy a bunch and store them.

To get my base (droppable from node/event/mob) scribe mats added I’d say remove the dowels, wood pulp and scribe kits. The only reason I have extra dowels or scribe kits in my inventory is due to my own math error on how many I needed to make. Those are craft-able in quantities of 1 so you can just make those on-demand as you need them.

I know you can’t include everything and I didn’t expect you to. This list looks amazing and it will free up quite a bit of space and let me deposit some new things which is fantastic.

I am curious why many of the scribe materials that I have on my scribe weren’t included.

Lumber cores, Pruning Shears, Giant Mushroom Spore, Badges of Tribute and the like.

I generally don’t make the intermediary things like wood pulp/dowels until I’m actually crafting something but the other things I have hanging out in my inventory until I get everything else. I’d love to deposit all of these things too. They’re not consumables, they’re not components, they’re a base crafting material that comes from nodes, drops and chests. I would personally give up all the dowels and wood pulp to get these items added. I’d love to play my scribe again but I can’t easily do that until her inventory is free. (See relevant bit of her inventory attached)

AP rewards should not be in the unlocks. I hope they fix that.

The two bauble chest spots in the water aren’t digging up for me. Is this daily bugged?

I own both Dreamer & Quip. I use Dreamer on a daily basis and love everything about it. I don’t want it changed at all.

Quip is a little grating if you use it a lot, but that is part of it’s character. I rarely use my quip since my main classes can’t wield a pistol….but if they could I would be using it more often.

Please don’t change my death whinny!

But if you can muzzle that job-o-tron backpack (or move it’s sounds to player instrument volume) that’d be great. I appreciate changing the color of the text on the speech bubbles for it that you did already. It is a step in the right direction for the obtrusiveness of it.

Another option for those with alt accounts is to park a lvl 60 character at Sharkmaw and open the chest each day. It’s slow, but it works just like folks do with lvl 20 characters for silver doubloons.

IMO All the gatherables (Nodes & unbound magic) should reset at reset. If I have to leave the zone and come back in at reset that’s fine, but please for the love of cats, let the unbound magic and harvesting nodes reset AT reset. It’s annoying and I like to use the same set of unbound magic to do the dailies each day and I can’t because sometimes due to my schedule I don’t do the zone dailies at the same time every day.

The first room, the riddle is the same for everyone, there are just two possible answers. If you answer Corn you go to the room where the answer is Charr. If you answer Chicken you go to the room where the answer is Centaur. It’s not a big puzzle really, it is 4 rooms in a diamond formation so the first room leads to the two side rooms and those two rooms lead to the bottom room. The floor spins to disorient you and make you think there are more rooms than there really are.

I just wonder if Ceiling Cat is still hiding in one of the fake rooms that mobs come out of.

Don’t jump into the updrafts, just walk and it should bounce you into the air and you can then deploy your glider.

That said, the updrafts don’t always work.

What do you have to do for the third boss one? I had the heart active for my kills of that and I’ve been alive at the end. What do you have to actually do during the fight in order to get the heart for that fight?

Yeah, same here. If you restart the story it seems like you can’t go back in. That’s dumb

I restarted the story to do some achievements and now I cannot enter the Butler’s room in the Bazaar.

Boo!

Liberating the area does not count for the achievement. You have to do the defend event where you keep them out and kill Centaur Irondude before he reaches the house.

Is there something wrong with the SS Pinkeens defend events? 5-6 people there spawns champs. the regular mobs and vets have a breakbar that is so hard to break with everyone using every CC they have and even then it is nearly impossible to break their bars. I don’t know how you’re supposed to progress that achievement (for a whopping 1AP) if you don’t even have a chance to succeed.

Wow, that’s no good at all. Hope they can fix this.

My husband and I both did the event to stop the bandit ghosts and none of them made off with any wood. He got the achievement but I did not. We both got gold credit for the event.

throw bloodstone shards from around the room at the boss to break his bar (the NPCs tell you to do this). after you break his bar he’s stunned and you can do a bunch of damage to him. I had to break him 3 times to kill him.

Khisanth.2948:

The easiest way to finish that event is to swim out and stab it with your spear. You can move around quite a bit since the ship has a gigantic hitbox that is at least twice as large as the visuals would have you believe. That is assuming you are using a power build since objects in core are still immune to conditions.

This exactly. I’ve successfully soloed this event on my ranger and necro. It can be a little harder on some other classes I’m sure but those two it’s easy.

Kojast.6304:

Why does the new Rooster Statue decoration use the basic version of the rooster backpack model rather than the colorful upgraded version?

See for picture:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5ok4lr/guild_hall_rooster_statue/

Considering the Scribe recipe to craft the decoration requires the more expensive upgraded version of the backpack, you would think the guild decoration would use the nice upgraded colorful model. Is this a mistake? If not, why choose to use the blander base version while requiring the more expensive recipe?

Yeah, it makes me sad that the lantern on the statue doesn’t even light up. The Monkey statue is shiny & has lit lanterns. The ram….well it’s just a ram, nothing special. It’s a pretty statue, I just wish that the lantern at least lit up at night.

I can NOT complete the activity in the festival area.

I can complete the activity, but not in the festival area, only outside the festival area.

• I take packs of snowballs and go to Mabon Waypoint. I go north from there. The only problem is the skritt aggro themselves on the other wildlife around there or sometimes people are completing the heart and thereby killing the skritt. And even then you have to be very careful since you can’t throw snowballs in combat.
• I would love to be able to complete it in the festival area, all we need are some skritt snowball fighters alongside the other snowball fighters. (Maybe throw a quaggan in there too so we can throw snowballs at a quaggan just for fun). There used to be a snowball fighter skritt when the festival was in Lion’s Arch, why did they not move to DR with the other fighters?

Alpine Trees need to be a thing for the guild hall. Currently the only use for Alpine lumber cores is a bookshelf.

Each lumber core needs a corresponding tree for the guild hall. Please.

The one thing I don’t like in fractals is Afflicted. I’d rather have last laugh and toxic trails together than deal with afflicted.

Solid Ocean has great scenery…but it really is boring and needs help.

Manasa Devi.7958:

/signed

This combined with the “world full” bug tends to eat minutes off my karma buffs.

-World full…
-World full…
-World full…
-World full…
-World full…
-World full…
-Ah, I’m in!
-Nevermind, free to play phase…
-Waiting for it to end…
-Zoning to new instance…
-World full…
-Back to Divinity’s Reach

Rinse and repeat.

This completely. I love bell choir, I hate trying to join an instance and I hate joining to find that they’re playing the last song so it’s not worth being there. Then you have to fight again to find a new instance or afk around and hope it actually moves you into a new instance.

This is a fantastic idea. I hate having to choose which of the teleport items to put into my shared slots and if I had a single book that I could add the various scrolls to I might consider buying some of the other convenience scrolls. I have:
Royal Pass
Airship Pass
Home Portal Stone
Hall of Monuments Portal Stone
Bloodstone Fen Scroll
Ember Bay Scroll
Bitterfrost Frontier Scroll

And I don’t have the space to keep all of them with me. I’d love to switch it up and go to the airship or DR, or maybe have my home portal stone handy for an afk spot and visit my cats. A single item that you can unlock the various teleport spots would be super helpful.

Miku.6297:

mrauls.6519:

Did ANet publicly tell everyone that there are DPS meters in Alpha, or did Nike just leak that info?

at what time stamp in the video did he actually say there was a DPS meter in alpha?

At the start of the video he says there was a 3rd party dps meter that was released, it does read memory and is 100% in violation of the ToU and could result in action being taken on your account.

I was just wondering where he said there was an official one in alpha.

5:47 in the video is where he says that.

I finally got to try the Nightmare fractal at 100. I do love this fractal…but the final boss.

My husband and I first tried it with pugs and we wiped repeatedly (maybe bad pugs?), dailies reset before we could finish but we didn’t give up. We found 3 guildmates to help out and still wiped a couple more times but we finally got it. It’s a really good fight but I hate how many times I was out of endurance so I couldn’t dodge yet another attack. I know it’s going to take learning all of the different tells for some of the things, but some of the attack chains felt cheap as hell. The pound (run out of the circle), then shockwave (jump it) and then the hallucinations (dodge) is brutal if you miss the very first get out of the circle because you have no chance to recover from the second and third parts of the attack chain. It feels a kitteneap.

I feel like it takes a little bit too long to cap the circles during the bullet hell phase too. Just a little bit too long. You don’t want them to cap too fast obviously, but this part of the phase just felt like it could use a few seconds shaved off.

Projectiles you can’t destroy/reflect feel bad. I understand not being able to reflect them but if I could at least nullify a few of them with Corrosive Poison cloud it would make the phase more manageable for me. This is unlikely to change so I’ll figure out how to do this phase better. However, their hit box feels like it’s way bigger than they appear so I kept getting hit by them even though I didn’t think I was that close.

It felt good finally beating the final fight. I do wish the basic lvl 100 was tuned down just a little for the final fight mostly so I don’t have to spend 30min-1 hr on one fractal when it’s the daily. I generally only have an hour to do fractals when I get home from work and don’t have time after reset to do them before I go to bed, but that’s my own issue to work out.

Overall, it’s a great fight and I’ll get better at it and eventually try the challenge mote.

Same. Before the mini-patch I didn’t see the petrified wood or winterberry bush. After the mini patch the petrified wood was there and correctly applied to my home instance, but the winterberry bush is still MIA from the vendor.

Yeah, I had long ago bought the bloodstone node and I can’t see the Petrified wood or the berry nodes at all at the vendors.

Aitadis.8269:

Legit last straw for me if this is the legendary shield, many of my friends quit shortly AFTER the start of this expansion but I carried on through desert bl, content drought and everything else that made this expansion a disappointment in the eyes of many. If this is seriously considered legendary in the eyes of Anet I will not be buying any future expansions. I don’t like flameseeker prophecies that much to begin with, mostly because it doesn’t glow when shiefed making it look bad and was looking forward to the legendary shield that was suppose to be coming with this expansion for my mesmer, but if it’s that, no thanks.

If you leave…can I have your mystic coins to help me make this most amazing shield?

If it was any quaggan other than the killer whale quaggan I would have been Hmmm maybe about it, but that’s my favorite of the quaggans. and it’s a fishbowl. I shall sploosh water everywhere and protect myself with a (hopefully bulletproof) glass fishbowl!

I would like the Daily AP cap removed unless they plan on changing the amount of AP we get from the newly added achievements. Right now I have no meaningful way to progress my account and it feels stagnant. Even if you only got 5AP from dailies after reaching 15k that’d be fine.

As it stands though, the game still acts like it gives you the points, but the points aren’t applied which results in people who don’t know the cap exists filing bug reports and posting messages about it. Every other achievement that is repeatable and has a cap stops telling you that you’ll get AP after the cap is reached. So it does feel like a bug that dailies cap given the information presented by the game.

Yes please. We need snow covered trees for Wintersday.

I would also love the cherry blooming trees too.

Supposedly there’s a way to tell your new “magic bar” which keys you want to show up there and arrange it. But since it’s a touch screen you’re going to be missing that tactile feeling since it’s a stupid touch screen bar. My advice is don’t use a mac for gaming, but some people that’s their only option.

It is a bug that putting the lvl 80 boost items in your bank dissapear. There were several threads a while back about this happening.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/free-boost-lv80-given-armors-and-weapons-gone/first#post6153495

This post suggests that you contact support and tell them what happened and they should replace the missing equipment.

Another post about this says don’t put the level 80 boost items in the bank (since other characters can’t use them anyways): https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Level-80-boost-items-disappear-in-bank/first#post6328530

I’ve tried looking for the dev response about this, but since the forum search function is broken and I couldn’t find it via google easily then I don’t remember if they fixed it or not.

So, do contact support https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us and they should be able to assist you in recovering the missing items.

This is fantastic. For someone who didn’t have the time to do the temp achievements because the pvp season was going on (and now burnt out from pvp due to the seasons), I now have some new long term goals to work on.

axe.5621:

Oh, thanks. I didn’t knew that. Indeed it is 15,000 cap for me… So no point event to login every day now

While it sucks hitting the cap, you still get 2g and the other little things from the dailies.

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

A snowglobe decoration is cool, but I’d really like to have evergreen trees! Also, imagine we could make guild arenas into skating rinks that you slide around on… I know that probably requires a lot more work for the physics, but still, it would be awesome.

Yes, evergreen or snow covered trees for the guild hall are very much needed. Right now I have our Hall decked out for Fall with the Ascalonian trees, we have green trees for spring but we need some winter trees.

Mirai Okumori.6205:

With the amount of finishers we get every year, I say just give us the permanent versions. I still have hundreds left from a few years ago.

Heh, I have thousands. A permanent one would be nice, but in lieu of that consume all would be nice.

I like your suggestions and I would add:

• Have other new guild hall decorations purchasable with fangs/nougats/skulls.
• Have other new personal rewards purchasable with the refined fangs/nougats/skulls.
• Make Lich/Viscount chests give loot each time & make them auto-loot.
• Remove DR from personalized ToT bags from Ascent to Madness.
• I don’t mind the bloodstone dust/dragonite/empy fragments, but give the foods/tonics at least a 1c vendor value so I can sell them rather than mass delete all the time.
• Give the finishers a “Consume all” option.

maddoctor.2738:

khani.4786:

It’d be kinda neat to be able to spawn the actual raid bosses there so you could practice the mechanics. Perhaps if there was another golem assistant that you could skip to a certain phase so if your group was having issues with a particular phase you could practice just that phase.

Or do something like Taimi’s game because the area around the golem is rather small to “simulate” most boss fights.

Yeah it would need to spawn an instance area or somehow change the area there to accommodate the different arenas. If we could spawn the bosses in there you could then also test your group DPS during the actual fights so you can see what you need to do as a group to improve.

And the people that want to “easy mode” the boss can spawn the boss and give the entire party the entire slate of boons without having to produce them. They could then see all of the mechanics and practice the actual fight without having to worry too much. Obviously there’d be no rewards or progression, but they could at least see the fights and practice the mechanics so they would understand what to do.

I have no idea if this is even possible, but it would be really nice and the training arena could get more use.

It’d be kinda neat to be able to spawn the actual raid bosses there so you could practice the mechanics. Perhaps if there was another golem assistant that you could skip to a certain phase so if your group was having issues with a particular phase you could practice just that phase.

Next year I would like to be able to trade in fangs, skills & nougat (and the refined counterparts) for something either for the guild hall or personal rewards.

My guild banded together to buy pumpkins and two of us farmed the essences so we managed to make at least one of every new halloween decoration. Unless you’re trying to do it all on your own, then it isn’t too bad.

But, yes the mad moon is tiny for what I spent making it. it does fit in the Mausoleum nicely or on top of a column….but I do wish it had been much bigger.

I will miss stronghold, but it rarely ever popped for me (I kept BOTH options checked). I thought it was a nice change of pace when it did come up for me, but I wouldn’t want to do only stronghold. Too many people opted out of doing stronghold so there was never much of a chance for people to play that map. If it had been put in as one of the random map choices maybe it would have gotten played more often by more than a small group of people.