Guild Wars 2

OriOri.8724:

I have to disagree with mirrors lasting long enough. I was not able to participate in the stress test, but unless they buffed the duration, 4 seconds is nowhere near enough time.

They did not. I had several instances where I was running toward a mirror and it would poof out of existence right before I got to it. This made me a very sad panda.

Abelisk.4527:

I’ve already made a raid build and a viable PvP build with Mirage all within an hour…

What I really like is the playstyle between PvE Mirage and PvP/WvW Mirage is vastly different. For PvE you summon phantasms, spam axe attacks and ambush attacks, never shatter. For PvP/WvW you do a mix of ambushes, phantasm spawns, interrupts, shatters, making you be pretty much insane. I can share both builds if you guys are interested.

A few tweaks to some stuff and Mirage will be chockful of build diversity.

Please do.

I’ve been reserving judgment until I could get some actual hands on time with Mirage. Granted I didn’t get a ton of time with it, but my initial impressions are not good. I can’t really explain it, but it just didn’t feel right. Maybe with more time I can get used to it, but currently it doesn’t appear this spec is something I will enjoy.

Contrasted with chrono, I immediately found myself enjoying that spec. This has me worried.

Don’t touch them. The sound is part of the package people spent hours working towards. If you want to do something make a user option for them to turn the unique gear sound effects off, or they can you know use the existing sliders to turn game sounds off.

This is pure crab mentality. I don’t like something/can’t have something/etc. so I’m going to pull the others down with me and ruin it for everyone. Same as the human female animations.

I got owned by supcutie once. It was glorious.

Fay.2357:

Please post Mesmer bugs to my thread of the same title in the bugs forum. One reason we may not have gotten fixes is the absence of a coherent bug reporting thread over there.

There were very comprehensive Mesmer bug threads. First compiled & updated by Lishtenbird here and then a new list compiled & updated by frifox here.

Unfortunately, it’s never been a lack of proper reporting that is the problem with mesmer bug fixes.

That being said, thank you for starting a new one, you might check those linked threads to see if any of the previously reported bugs still exist.

No, they no longer work with illusions/phantasms/minipets.

Clones – don’t work
Phantasms – don’t work
Turrets – don’t work
Banners – don’t work
Minions – work
Spirit weapons – work
Glyph elementals – work
Ranger pets – work (when alive); don’t work (when dead)
Minipets – don’t work

Above list is from https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Ranger-runes-are-done

Also happens when you enter downstate.

[sarcasm]
If only they were touching traits while in downstate… * cough recent Necro trait fixes *
[/sarcasm]

Galespark provided some good tips on camera movement.

Another thing to do is make sure you’re always attempting the same path. Find one you like and stick with it so you can get some muscle memory going (I like the far right path).

If you get to the fire, wait for and go as soon as the bottom row of white presents spawn (before the blues spawn). Then you should be able to go straight up the middle (may require a side step toward the end, but typically not). If someone goes before you wait for the next sequence as they will trigger the presents popping and you’ll be under tighter pressure.

Oh and pray this doesn’t happen to you… Death by Candy Cane… So frustrating…

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Oh ANet…

Can someone post the meme with the triple facepalm?

I don’t have the triple, but will epic facepalm suffice?

Chalky.8540:

I don’t believe this is an attempt to swindle players out of money – it really doesn’t look like that if you look at the experience of someone giving Anet money for gold right now.

Say I want to buy 800 gems and exchange it to gold, here is the process:

• Buy 800 gems for real money
• Click 100 G
• Click 1G
• Click 1G
• Click 1G
• Click 1G
• Click 1G
• Click 1G
• Click 1G
• Feel sad about the few left over gems that you can’t turn into gold

It’s not exactly streamlined.

You can’t argue that they’ve made this interface bad because it encourages people to pay real money for gold when the experience for them is far far worse under the new UI as well. It’s clearly a case of incompetence and not malice. What ever they were trying to achieve with the new UI, they completely failed and it’s a massive indictment of their QA process that they managed to go live with something this bad.

I buy gems with $ because I value my time > than the price per gem. I usually buy what I want from the store and then convert the leftover gems to gold. The above situation is exactly what is going on.

This doesn’t strike me as a money grab. If it was, then it’s very poorly executed since I’m now less likely to buy gems since it is a hassle now to exchange the leftovers for gold.

This strikes me more as a poorly thought out or QA’d implementation that was designed to simplify the process (I don’t mean that in a derogatory way, oversights happen, it’s part of being human). I have no problem with the set amounts. When Gaile likened this to “shopping experiences”, I believe she was referring to the gem cards in brick & mortar stores. I can’t buy 42 gems at Target, I can buy 1200 for $15 or 2000 for $25, etc. In that context the increments make sense, however there should be an alternate/advanced method to account for these odd amounts of leftover gems, i.e. a slider at the bottom or something to that effect to allow us the freedom to trade exactly the amount of X we want for the exact amount of Y we want.

As it is, I’m stuck with 7 gems that I normally would have just dumped with the rest of the leftovers in one transaction instead of the 5 or 6 that it took with the current system.

IGN: Aeowyn Elyssar
Playstyle: PvE (dungeons) & WvW/GvG
Server: Fort Aspenwood
Role: Scholar/Tester
Time: Just about every evening 8:30 pm CST till whenever I get tired

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

frifox.5283:

I think I need to upgrade my facepalm emote. My epic picard facepalm is not enough for this one…

Get the double facepalm for these type of situations

For times such as this…

EDIT:

Re-watched. Triumphant Distortion sounds nice after reading the trait tooltip instead of listening to the wording.

I am excite now.

AgentChaos.4932:

lol is this thing still even on? :P

if it is, and he’s still accepting names, count me in!

Kept forgetting to post this. I swore to myself after last year that I wouldn’t do it again. But that title… the draw was too strong.

At some point our reflect skills should probably have their tooltips updated to include something along the lines of “… reflects projectiles, except when it doesn’t, …”

This would also need to accompany updates to the abilities section on every enemy with non-reflectable projectiles to specify that said projectiles are non-reflectable.

A new mesmer might find it a bit confusing when enemy projectiles start hitting through their reflects.

Yeah it was totally weird.

It’s not in the video, but I did try blinking (no effect). Waypointing to spawn however did fix the problem.

I noticed when I was jumping that wall and landing in the water it looked like there may have been several impacts with the terrain. I’ve seen instances where someone hits the wall from a great fall and dies but their body keeps falling down the cliff. They’re unrezzable because their body is actually somewhere else. This could be something along those lines (i.e. my body—according to the server—was actually somewhere back by the ruins stuck on the wall or something). That would probably explain why the Bauer Estate capture event kept flashing even way over by Hills.

Anyway, that’s for the devs to figure out.

I couldn’t find anything similar in the bug forum, so I’m posting here. If this is not the right place, please feel free to move it.

Last night I was running with my guild in the SBI borderland in WvW. We were running through the ruins toward Hills. When we jumped in the water near the Bauer Estate ruin everyone started disappearing except for my party. At first I thought I was lagging out except when that happens normally I see everyone running into a wall or everyone just stands there. But I could still see my party and their actual movements, boons & conditions on them, and their health. I however couldn’t see anyone else.

Then my weapon-set kept swapping between my land weapons & water weapons (but no skills on the water set). I couldn’t enter Hills (which we owned). All I could do was just run around and follow my party as they fought an invisible enemy. I’ve never had this happen before and after waypointing back to spawn it seemed to resolve itself. It hasn’t happened since. It was just weird.

Here’s the video of what exactly happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQYGw4trRk8

Crystal Reid.2481:

It is not retroactive. You will have to defeat her again to unlock the title.

You’re fast. I was logging in to say it’s not retroactive.

EDIT: I can’t tell you how happy I am to see that they updated the AOE circles from that heard to see red to those highly visible orange circles from the marionette fight! Thank you ANet!!!

I’m super excited about this. I’m actually interested in making another legendary now since it won’t be locked to a single character that a) I may get tired of playing or b) that weapon may become nonviable on that character due to meta changes.

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

Dramatically reduced frame rate when encountering large zergs certainly makes it much harder to survive, let alone skills that won’t fire, is there some way the game client can somehow sense these situations and automatically scale back the graphics in some way to help the situation out?

On the other hand, the drop in framerate can be very handy in WvW.

Say for example, you’re approaching a tower and are about to round the corner… Suddenly a wild fps drop appears!

Queue internal monologue “My spidey senses tell me there’s a large zerg nearby, I must be cautious.” Slowly you creep to the corner, peek around, and what do you see. Nothing but red names and spell effects as far as the eye can see. Calmly you about face and walk away telling yourself you didn’t really want in that tower anyway or pop every stealth/stability/immunity you have and hope to get in the door.

As much as I’m sure we’ll miss that spidey sense feeling of a nearby zerg, I’m very excited to see the upcoming performance improvements!

It’s actually quite clear. It’s staring us in the face. Follow along…

Mr. E —> Mystery --> Mystery synonym is Enigma —> E Nigma --> Edward Nigma —> We’re getting a Jim Carrey as The Riddler style character to combat Harley Qui…errr Scarlet Briar!

Gaile Gray.6029:

Randulf.7614:

If I haven’t received either reward…is it worth submitting a ticket? I’m UK based, so I appreciate it is probably still active daytime/early evening over there, so happy to wait if need be.

Since we just tweaked the distribution details, could you please wait about, oh, 20 hours? I believe you will have your rewards in a matter of just a few hours, but waiting until Noon Pacific time tomorrow — that’s 8:00 PM your time — would be greatly appreciated, since we’ll then be responding to just a few edge cases and not those for whom there is no remaining issue (because the rewards are queued up and ready to go).

Thank you for asking.

Received my Mr. Sparkles overnight! Yay!

Gaile Gray.6029:

mginn.4502:

I’m in the same boat. Got the backpack, but no Mr. Sparkles. Submitted a ticket with all of the information I had on the gem purchases/card redemptions and crossing my fingers. And toes… I’d cross my eyes as well, but that gives me a headache. ;-)

Dannybio.4267:

Same here. I bought the gems on DEC 31st, but seems the order was only registered at 01.01.14. I’m at GMT -2, PST -8, waiting for my support ticket to be answered…

Perfect, that’s exactly what you should have done. With the info in your ticket, the team will be able to get sorted. Thanks (and thanks for your patience, as well).

cillercammy.8064:

Thanks for your response! I did receive my green quaggan backpack. However I still havnt received my mr. sparkles

I suggest you also submit a ticket. The situation may be corrected automatically, but it can’t hurt to get into the system with your request!

Unfortunately, now I find myself highly tempted to camp my email… ;-)

cillercammy.8064:

Gaile Gray.6029:

cillercammy.8064:

I still haven’t received my mini Mr sparkles
and ETA for when I might get it?

I’m sorry to hear this, cillercammy. Can you tell me if you received the Green Quaggan Backpack but not the Mini Mr. Sparkles, or did you not receive any rewards at all?

I suggest that if you do not have your reward(s) by Noon, please submit a ticket by clicking Support above and then use “Submit a request” to let us know what we can do to help. Thanks!

Thanks for your response! I did receive my green quaggan backpack. However I still havnt received my mr. sparkles

I’m in the same boat. Got the backpack, but no Mr. Sparkles. Submitted a ticket with all of the information I had on the gem purchases/card redemptions and crossing my fingers. And toes… I’d cross my eyes as well, but that gives me a headache. ;-)

Redeemed a $25/2000 gem card from Christmas and bought myself $35/2800 from the gem store with Christmas money.

I received the backpack a few minutes ago. (yay!)

No Mr. Sparkles yet… ;_;

I’m hoping they’re doing this in waves like usual.

I completed the Winter Wonderland Mastery to get to 15/15 for a total achievement point total of 9941. Then the “match” ended and we were reloaded into the instance and my total now shows 9938.

Where did my 3 achievement points go? I realize it’s just 3 points, but if this is a recurring problem I’d like to make you guys aware of it.

I had to do the one in the NE corner of Caledon Forest twice. I killed the mobs, transcribed & it completed the animation and the Transcribe option reappeared. But I didn’t get credit for it. I hit Transcribe a second time and everything went exactly like the first time, but the second time it counted and I completed the achievement.

You also get the limited mad king and scarecrow finishers as drops in the labyrinth. And I’m sure Mr. Gnash blade would be happy to sell you the permanent mad king/scarecrow finishers…

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Crescendoll.7612:

BoogerSammich.7189:

Is there other gear as well or just gloves? would be super nice to be able to aquire a full celestial set just for running clock tower

Just the gloves as far as I know mate!

We got boots last year. So it seems 1 piece per year. Though last year you couldn’t choose the stats.

Last year we got 1 pair of boots per character you ran through. You can’t get a second pair of gloves on a second character. So the rewards are account bound it seems this year instead of character bound.

You need to jump just before/just as the lightning strikes the tower. Also make sure you’re not jumping too early. My first few times through I forgot you sometimes have to wait a couple revolutions before the lightning strikes.

Decided to give this a go on my lunch break. The only change seems to be the mist form other players (think the blue dots from Southsun Survival).

First successful completion gave me an Exotic Mad King’s Chest, a Spooky Skeleton Tonic and a Spooky Ghost Tonic.

Opening the Mad King’s Chest presented me with the option to receive Account Bound/Soulbound on Use Exotic gloves (Light, Medium, or Heavy). You get to choose the stats, and they come with a Superior Rune of the Mad King.

Subsequent completions on the same character seem to only grant 4 Trick or Treat Bags. I have yet to try out a second character.

Edit: Ran a second character through and only got the Trick or Treat Bags so it appears rewards are account bound. Therefore, rewards are worse than last year as it was possible to get the Boots on each character.

Was planning to hold out until precursor crafting/whatever, but decided to just buy Zap since that was all I had left. I can always make more gold. So here’s my unlegendarily acquired legendary Bolt.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

More frustrating than fun.

Oh so frustratingly fun!

I just tried both methods. Invisibility didn’t work. Sneaking behind the shop awarded the achievement.

Completed world 1 on an alt, so I wouldn’t lose my birthday booster on my main.

Here’s my main, with her shiny new King Toad’s Greatsword!

I’ll be the first to admit, I said some very not nice things, that I’m not proud of, about Josh Foreman and several of his relatives. Well done, sir!

Now I’m trying to decide if I want to give world 2 a go…

Everything’s done except Icy Runestones and Zap. Got enough gold to buy the runestones, but sitting on that—since it’s a fixed cost—until I get Zap.

So frustrating being so close, and yet so far.

Mesmer

Mirror, Feedback, Arcane Thievery, Decoy, Hounds of Balthazar

Berzerker Sword/Berzerker Focus + Berzerker Sword/ Knight Pistol

Knight’s Armor + Centaur Runes, Syzygy Amulet, Berzerker rings/earrings

Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew & Master Maintenance Oil

10 (III) Empowered Illusions (+ illusion damage)
20 (IV, IX) Blade Training & Duelist’s Discipline (shorter CD)
10 (III) Master of Manipulation (shorter CD on arcane thievery)
30 (IV, VIII, IX) Mender’s Purity, Warden’s Feedback, Temporal Enchanter (-condition on heal, Focus CD & reflect, longer Feedback)
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Don’t forget to turn off Post Processing prior to entering arena to eliminate the unnecessary blind across your screen.

Phase 1 – Keep reflects up on Liadri while doing crystals, wiggle back and forth if reflects are on CD to throw off her attacks

Phase 2 – Hounds of Balthazar right before last crystal + Focus 5 when she jumps at you and does her whip/spin attack for great initial burst, swap to Pistol kite & drop pistol phantasm (feedback + pistol phant = Confusion + Bleeds). Arcane Thievery as necessary, Focus 4 to cripple, alternate between Focus Phant & Pistol Phant with Feedback to keep her crippled, bleeding, & confused. If close to downing her you can Illusionary Leap + Swap —> Blurred Frenzy --> Mind Wrack for a final burst but it’s not without risk.

I ended up not needing Arcane Thievery or Decoy in the run, but they’re handy for cleansing cripple and relieving pressure/getting distance between you and Visions/Liadri, respectively.

Talk about an adrenaline rush! My heart was pounding and my arms were literally shaking afterwards for a good 5-10 minutes.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Oh, and another thought… the changes to dungeons makes the 20% GF infusion not as attractive looking also. These proposed changes have big impacts to a lot of expensive gear already out there.

That is the first thing I thought of when I saw the dungeon change. Spent 20 laurels on the gold find infusion for Syzygy. It sure wasn’t for open world where that Champion mob that drops 10c now drops 12c; it was for the bosses scattered throughout the dungeons where that 10s00c became 12s00c, etc.

I hope they address this when the change to dungeons gets made. Maybe make the GF infusion affect all gold income not just monster drops? (I’m getting greedy now…)

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

The problem is that people can camp one of these spots for however long they want. Check the well in this screenshot for example. How is anyone supposed to climb this thing, while there’s a whole bunch of guilds camping at the top, and throwing every aoe they can down on you?

And as far as I know, there is no other way up there. They should add multiple roads, and they should make it so that stealth from the fountain, cannot be broken simply by getting hit. Because they just need to throw some area effects in the well to break anyone’s stealth, and then they pound them into the dirt. Some of these guilds can keep this up all day.

Use these http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Fountain

When I went in to get that kite there was a group of NSP camping right by the entrance to the puzzle and another at the top of the well, and one up at the very end of the jp fearing anyone off that tried to complete the puzzle if you managed to make it to the kite.

So I used the stealth from the fountains and got through completely unnoticed.

eris.9654:

mginn.4502:

What happens when we level up?
1. We are fully healed.
2. We are granted full adrenaline (if applicable).
3. We launch nearby foes (and damage them).

They already killed the knockback I believe and O.o let me spend $100 of real money or 300g to maybe, MAYBE get this little boost. Go cry somewhere else where your crying and small minded opinion may actually matter.

If you re-read the post you may notice I come to the conclusion that this is not “Pay to Win” but simply smells like an “unfair advantage” at best if not properly implemented. And, as I said before, I’m sure ArenaNet has thoroughly thought this through and implemented this properly; therefore there would be no advantage at all.

According to the wiki the knockback is still in place. If not then that’s only one portion of the level-up benefits. The other benefits would still a valid complaint, again, if this is not implemented properly.

Furthermore, your assertion that this would cost $100 or 300 gold is faulty. I made no argument that this was a cost effective approach. The fact remains that whether this is $1 or $1,000, if not implemented properly, the advantage would be available to any who sought it. Also, RNG being RNG, it would not necessarily cost the $100 or 300 gold as someone could get it just as easily from one chest as someone else could get it from 100 chests.

All that being said, I fear this explanation is wasted as your very mature response leads me to believe you either don’t care, or simply lack the basic reading comprehension skills necessary, to understand anything beyond the simplest of sentences.

I bid thee good day, sir.

Actually… It depends on the implementation.

1. Is the Tome of Knowledge usable in combat?
2. Does the level gained perform the same actions as when you level up through normal means?

If so, then yes it does sound very close to “Pay to Win”.

What happens when we level up?
1. We are fully healed.
2. We are granted full adrenaline (if applicable).
3. We launch nearby foes (and damage them).

I think an on-demand full heal, full adrenaline, launch + damage to nearby enemies item that I can gain through dumping $ into the gem store fits the base description of pay 2 win, except for one thing. It still comes down to player skill. An unskilled player will still be unskilled even with this advantage, and may still lose to a skilled player. However, it does its part to level the playing field if not outright tip it in his favor. Now two skilled opponents (one with this item and the other without) or a skilled opponent using it against an unskilled…

I wouldn’t call this outright “Pay to Win”, but it certainly smells of “unfair advantage.”

That being said, I would imagine/hope ArenaNet has thought this through and has taken steps to mitigate said advantage.

Can I have your stereo?

seriously though, it’s always sad to see one of the good ones go.

I run the Celestial amulet (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Syzygy). I make up the loss of power via runes/other equipment, plus I get access to Utility Infusions. I run a lot of dungeons so I use the Gilded Infusion. +20% gold from the dungeon monsters? yes please. Suddenly that 10 silver the sub-boss drops is 12 silver, that 5 silver that champion dropped is 6 silver. The extra silver adds up quickly when you’re running dungeons or downing champions.

I used to have Berserker amulet but since switching and making appropriate tweaks elsewhere the only significant difference I’m seeing now is the extra gold. And oh no that mob took 5.5 seconds to down instead of 5… * tear *

But really, you should use whatever you find most comfortable/fits your style best.

Items

• Globs of Ectoplasm can now be salvaged into Piles of Crystalline Dust. This change should help Globs of Ectoplasm maintain a strong value in the economy and lower the cost of Crystalline Dust.
• Master Tuning Crystals, Master Maintenance Oil, and Superior Sharpening Stone recipes now take more Piles of Crystalline Dust to craft. This change is to help these consumables maintain a high value with the new influx of dust.

From https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-June-11th-2013

UnknownFreak.2805:

I think it’s time for me to update my mesmer a little… I think I still run one of the early hybrid builds. But it still works, as I usually have a zerg behind me now

But the problem is I have no idea to what I am going to change/update to. Both mist and heavy looks nice.. is it possible to merge them to a “new” hybrid?

That is exactly what I have done. I typically run a hybridization of Mist + Heavy + Seven Mirror. I always felt too squishy in one or not bursty enough in another, so I’ve found a happy medium between all that I am comfortable with and seems to still be fairly effective.

That’s the thing with the various guides out there. It seems to me that it’s best to take them as a starting point and make them your own and tailor them to your needs/abilities/play-style.

Zaxares.5419:

mginn.4502:

Zaxares.5419:

We need a new Fractal with high-level ghosts, methinks.

Do the ghosts in urban battleground fractal not drop dust?

I haven’t done Fractals myself, but I was under the impression that Urban Battleground puts in your the role of Charr attacking Ascalon just after the Searing. The Foefire hasn’t happened yet, so no ghosts around.

That it does, but if I recall correctly I believe I had read/seen somewhere that stated the game treats them like ghosts. That is http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Ghost_Slaying increases damage done to them.

I would assume that if true, they should have the same loot table and should therefore drop the dust. I may be completely mistaken and therefore ignored, but I’m almost certain about the sigils. I was just presenting a possible solution, as I agree with the sentiment that Crystalline Dust price is extremely out of whack.

Zaxares.5419:

We need a new Fractal with high-level ghosts, methinks.

Do the ghosts in urban battleground fractal not drop dust?

JayyxDawg.5081:

I’m not sure which legendary greatsword I want. I mean, Twilight looks cool, but everyone has it, Sunrise just doesn’t tickle my fancy, and, from what my friends have told me, Eternity isn’t worth it.

So, my progress?
Over three-hundred Badges of Honor, and about ten Obsidian Shards.
Yeah, I have a long way to go.

I’ve just been playing the game and one day I realized I had a nice chunk of the mats needed so I threw them into the MF. Buying the t6 mats that have dropped in price was the first concerted effort I’ve actually actively put toward the legendary. Everything else just comes in its own time. Much more relaxing way to go for a legendary in my mind than the grinding away everyday at it. But it’s coming much more slowly than what it does for others.