Guild Wars 2

Sure enough, my tarnished shield appears to have been caused by the shader effects having been lowered, probably when I last updated the driver for the graphics card. Upon using a higher setting, it regains its silvery luster. Thanks for the help!

Here is what it looks like to me now. Definitely not the mirror-like shine I remember
Is it possible my graphics card is somehow rendering it differently than previously? Doesn’t seem likely, and I have not noticed any other signs of that.

What happened to the Guild Defender shield? It used to be a gleaming silver shield, polished like a mirror, with your guild symbol emblazoned on it. It was one of my favorite shield skins in the game. Now it looks tarnished, dingy, and stained. And not in a cool, “I’m a veteran of many battles, so my shield is worn with use” way, but rather in a lame, “I’m too lazy to clean my shield, so I just let it rust” way. Please restore the former appearance!

Is Soothsayer Jacinda even there anymore? Or has she turned into a wagon? Because when I go to the spot where she should be in Lion’s Arch, an empty wagon is all I see.

Well, this is annoying. So any guild with less than 10k influence is just shafted? Was this made clear beforehand, so guilds with less than 10k would know to spend what little influence they had influence before the change took place? If so, I missed it. Now I am stuck with 8k influence that could have been used productively instead being completely useless, with no way to increase it or spend it.

Still a major problem for me. Can log in on the character who happens to be located in Divinity’s Reach/Queensdale at the moment, but cannot move to any other maps, and cannot log in on characters currently located on other maps.

Same problem. No influence trader to be found.

I, too, noticed this missing, and would like to add my plea that it be restored.

Illustrious Fox.7196:

POSSIBLE FIX

I don’t know if this will work for everyone, but:

- Enter any PvP match with your ranger as a spectator
- Spectate another ranger that has access to their pet
- Press “K” to open up pet management and select your two pets
- Enter a match or HotM to check if your pets will be summoned

Congratulations on figuring out a fix! Sadly, it arrived a little too late for me. Growing frustration at being unable to use my ranger for PvP, and at the lack of an any official response to the issue, led me finally to delete my ranger and create a new one. This has left me rather annoyed at the way this issue has been handled (or not handled).

As far as I can tell, this bug has existed for years. While certainly not game-breaking, it is annoying. I would rather my character say nothing than constantly say things that are so incongruous.

The beginning sylvari tutorial instance, Fighting the Nightmare, seems to have been cut short. After defeating the dragon minion, the cutscene with Mender Serimon no longer occurs, so the initial dialogue proclaiming that the character has been called to a Wyld Hunt is missing. This not only makes the transition to waking up in Astorea much more abrubt, it also causes subsequent references to the character’s Wild Hunt to make far less sense, at least to those who have not played through the sylvari story previously.

Has there been any official response to this somewhere on the forum?
The suggested “fix” of going underwater in PvE has no effect for me.
Still unable to activate any pet in PvP.
Still no response to my bug report.

Chalk me up as another ranger whose pets cannot be accessed in PvP.

Location: Wisconsin, US
Time and date of incident: 15 February, 2100-2200 Central Time (16 February, 0300-0400 GMT)
Game World: Piken Square
Brief description of what you’re seeing: Consistent skill lag, some rubber banding, occasional disconnections

Your location: U.S.
Time and date of incident: More or less constantly for the past few weeks
Game World: Piken Square
Brief description of what you’re seeing: Consistent lag

A few seconds of lag seems to have become the rule rather than the exception. It does not appear to be related to frame rate; I have experienced it with frame rates ranging from 30 fps to over 60 fps. Nor does it seem to be confined only to peak times or highly populated maps. Network diagnosis attached.

The same bug seems to occur with tridents and artificing – unable to combine low-level ingredients in the discovery panel to craft tridents, and basic trident recipe missing.

I am having the same problem – basic spear recipe not showing up, unable to craft low-level spears in the discovery panel. This appears to be a bug, so I reported it as such. However, the recipe for the Quetzal Harpoon does seem to be usable, once purchased.