Guild Wars 2

I’m getting fed up with the silence – it’s been weeks now since Magic Find items were removed from the game… Last night I did some crafting on my Huntsman and made a Level 30 rifle – it appeared in my Inventory with the message “Double click to set the stats” (at which point I LOL’d) but it also told me that it was now soulbound and accountbound so I could neither sell it to the merchant or on the Black Lion!?!?!

Why does this happen? did you not update all the crafting recipes? We shouldn’t be able to craft such items using mats in the process that we now lose because we can’t salvage only destroy? There’s even been an update since the patch that removed MF too and yet still this? shakes her head in disbelief

It would seem that you got caught up in the whole Soul bound not Account Bound fiasco too

Now folk who haven’t played since the patch are logging in to find items returned from Black Lion with ‘Double click to select’ enabled – they do so and the item becomes soulbound and therefore untradeable. Well thought through… :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Item-became-Soulbound-without-equipping-it/2798231

Perhaps this is the “disequilibrium” of the economy they talked about?

How do you explain to a new player in Queensdale running around after champions that when he/she gets to 80 they’re going to be doing exactly the same on Cursed Shore to get Gossamer to make Ascended armour?

Grind mechanism for the Far East market perhaps?

It’s always amused me that searching for ‘upgrade components’ only lists trinket upgrades – I always imagine the search code for Black Lion was written by someone who read an article about DB queries, wrote one to that finds weapons so they thought “Great – that’s all working then – let’s get back to designing events” :P

I suppose Anet are hoping that if they ignore the elephant in the room, that everyone else will ignore it and carry on as normal while the few that feel very aggrieved simply leave the room.

I understand the feelings you folk have, thankfully I’m not that good a player to have ascended to worry about BUT I do feel that a simple statement of “Sorry guys – we did screw up the patch notes, what happened was what was intended/was a mistake and we’re gonna do something/not do something about it” would go a long way to healing the soreness about this.

To just sit there reading this type of thread and think “Well, if we say nothing it’ll get forgotten” is a silly notion – do ANet not read about this little ‘world’ of MMO’s that they inhabit and the player rebellions in Eve Online for example? It would cost them nothing to say something more on this issue – it might win them some respect back.

hedix.1986:

What will REALLY happen, considering the recipe for the Living Story updates so far, players will rush in to fight Tequatl, he will roar and proceed to reveal himself in all his draconic majesty…. but then—- Aetherblades skyship will appear crashing the dragon-slaying fest and Scarlet will do her maniacal laugh: “No more dragons for you! Mwahaha!”

Feeling ignored, Tequatl the Sunless will retreat and write an out-of-game blog post saying that he has shown us all the skills he needed to show.

…and reset everyone’s monthly’s that were AFk for the event :P

It’s starting to affect the in-game economy as well I think, the price of ectoplasm is starting to fall as are orichalcum insignia – a usual sign that demand is falling. The exchange price of Gems for gold is down too (though I’ve not paid much attention to that until the last few days – so that might usually be low when swapping gems back to gold).

It’s interesting too that the most ‘pressing’ map talk I’ve seen over the last week has been in Queensdale (Far Shiverpeaks) about people screwing with the champion train that some commanders run there. No mention of new weapons, crafting or MF – perhaps for the greater part of the playing population this has passed them all by. The conspiracy theory ‘voice’ inside me says this is how Anet want the game to be…

Bugs in GW?

I don’t believe you!! :P

Solid Gold.9310:

Well I never, you really couldn’t make this up.

Oh I’m sure you could if you let Ricky Gervaise do your game design :P

Vick.6805:

Not true. The monthly reset on Tuesday allowed people to be rewarded for September’s monthly twice. I verified this with a guildie of mine who received the reward twice.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Unintended-Monthly-Achievement-Rollback/2765037 and here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Unintended-Monthly-Achievement-Rollback/2765233
– you don’t get Laurels twice – the system awards the prize/bonus but only one set of Laurels.

I guess it’s to do with Magic Find being removed as a stat from game items…

“All existing crafting recipes that produced items with Explorer’s stats now produce Assassin’s stats (Precision, Power, Critical Damage).

All existing crafting recipes that produced items with Pillager’s stats now produce Hunter’s stats (Precision, Power)." from the release notes for Sept 3rd

I’ve not read anywhere in those notes that food is excluded from the change – so that’s probably what you’ve discovered.

MoggyLXIX.2891:

Five pages so I do apologise if it has been asked before. I had completed my monthlies.
Completed JP, Master items, group events and Champion kills. Also completed events so I basically finished 5/4. If veterann kills were there orginally I would have completed that too. I received the monthly award, now that I am back to 2/4 do I get this reward again? Or was the award I received removed and I do not notice?

If you’d completed the monthly’s as set by Anet on 1st September – the system regards you as having done Septembers round even though Anet reset the targets with the update on Tuesday.

The bottom line is – the system’s already awarded you laurels (and remembers that) so won’t give you any more until the new monthly’s are set in two weeks time :P

RLHawk.3290:

I truthfully cannot comprehend how you can radiate such hate for such an amazing team and amazing game. Nor how issues like this can possibly take away all the positives they have done and continue to do. I pity you all.

Whilst I understand your sentiment but after a weekend when Black Lion wouldn’t accept items from trial accounts (which seemed to be almost everyone online), Black Lion wouldn’t sell items it had in stock (but then fulfilled all the failed orders 12 hours later), Gold vanishing from account wallets, Codes for free mini’s given away at a US Show had EU codes so wouldn’t validate and now today – monthly’s reset, some crafting can go to 500 and some can’t…

One does feel that the “amazing” teams polish is looking very much tarnished and this discussion is now preserved for posterity by Google from post 1 most likely – a more positive response than has been given by Anet so far would settle ‘tempers’ a lot and perhaps win over future customers.

Timze.7980:

I expect NO more responces from Anet regarding this issue and this topic just vanishes slowly then, quite sure that is what Anet is trying now…-.-’’

Yeah – I suspect you’re right – it’s not like we’re paying monthly to play so they don’t have to worry about players cancelling. The most they’ll see is probably a dip in Gems sales as some folk decide not to bother any more. They’ve had our money so they don’t need to worry about us – it’s all about the new customers they can get between now and the New Year. Hopefully some of those prospects Google and wonder “Hmm – that doesn’t sound good….”

Decado.9304:

Kuzzi.2198:

You don’t lose out on anything, you can still get your 10 laurels by completing the monthly.

If you managed to do a portion of the monthly in 3 days then you should have no trouble completing them in 27 days.

Do be presumptuous. I’ve been on holiday and managed to play a lot more than usual so was at 3/4 now I’m back to 0/4 and may not have the time to redo everything with going back on shift for the rest of the month.

Okay no-ones died (or gotten “stabbed in the face” – seriously posters calm down) but its still a tad annoying that the time was wasted and of course then you get Regina spouting the usual “we’ll fix it, oops no bugger you” rubbish which doesn’t help.

L2test properly please GW staff? I would say that this was a fairly obvious thing to miss during a patch test

A really big Plus One for this. The “Oops – we messed up but there’s bugger all we can do now” attitude really hurts.

“If you were close to getting monthlies and had them reset, I can understand being disappointed. But if you got them that fast, you’ll have no trouble getting them in the next”

Yes – we will have trouble getting them this month – the Clockwork event had almost got my Champions completed and I’d completed Group Events plus mostly finished the Master Crafter. So no – I’m not happy and I don’t give a stuff about laurels – I wanted the Achievement Points toward my next chest.

I’m sorry Anet – I’m buying no more Gems with Real World cash as long as I stay in the game now.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

This is definitely not intended. Thanks for the reports, all. The team is aware of this problem and they are working to resolve it.

The more I sit here wondering how this frell up happened – the more I feel that “Thanks for the reports…” doesn’t come anywhere near making me feel better about it.

A “Sorry folks – we’re aware there are issues and we’re working on them” might have made me feel better hearing someone make some move to an apology and recouping the huge loss of faith (a lot of) people are having today.

It’s one way of not needing to get new servers online – everyone will have gone back to Aion :P

Just noticed this…

“Crafting experience for all disciplines has been updated to accommodate leveling to a rating of 500. As part of this, the total amount of leveling experience that comes from leveling a crafting discipline now requires leveling all the way to a rating of 500.”

but….

“Weaponsmith, Huntsman, and Artificer can now be leveled to a rating of 500.”

Which is it? Jewelers, Tailors, Leatherworkers and Chef’s can’t be levelled or can they? I’ve checked two toons now and both show 400/400 – Tailor and Jeweler

Why did you even attempt to roll out an update the day after everyone returned after Labor Day weekend and how come “quality control” didn’t spot monthly’s being reset?

WTF is this crap? You’ve reset Magic Find and my Monthlies? And in return you dish out some crap present from Scarlet?

Is it “Make a fool out of your players month”? In the 6 years I’ve played Guild Wars I’ve never felt so angry and upset with you guys. You’re lucky this isn’t pay to play – I’d be cancelling today.

Edited to add

One toon’s Tailoring is still at 400/400 and she still has Exotic recipes for insignia? this looks a bit half kitten too

For some reason the ‘wallet’ is misbehaving – all my toons only have the money from stuff sold in the last couple of hours. The 70g that should be there has “vanished” – hopefully it will re-appear :P

Lol – mine disappeared too – when they mess up, they make it a good one!!! At least I can sell stuff on the Black Lion again now – can’t wait for the big change of all the Magic Find stats – at this rate of progress I reckon there’s an even chance of getting junk instead :P

It’s probably a related issue to the same one that’s crippling the Black Lion system – there’s a hiccup with the system calendar or date calculation now we’re on 1st September it would seem. The Support website gripes about expired certificates when you first visit the page too – someone got in holuiday mode too soon I guess :P

I’m guessing it has something to do with it being the 1st September – the Support Link from the Guildwars website gripes about it’s certificate having expired when it tries to load the support web page.

I’m guessing someone forgot to check the routine when they changed the ‘age’ command to see what happens on the first day of a new month :P

Gotta love date calc’s in complex systems!

Nice one Seraph – I got mine on the same invasion – there’s no sense to this one :P – still well done though!

Danelin Raelon.1605:

Given that they have given a response with a workaround that isn’t working reliably for the people who DO have time to re-do all 13 maps, and they have un-stickied this thread and are trying to let it fall off the radar, it seems that their response is to ignore it and wait for people to be fixating on the next round of inevitable living world bugs caused by them trying to push up their schedule too far.

I’m not unwilling to give them ‘some slack’ when they give good customer service responses to problems. Unfortunately, their response to this problem so far hasn’t been one, and as someone who waited anxiously for release, pre-purchased, bought gems, encouraged many friends and even new acquaintances I discovered were gamers to play the game, I’m taking this particular response (that really boils down to a lack of one) rather harshly.

It’s just sad that their ‘fix’ is for the end-user to find a pen and some paper and make a list of the maps they’ve already visited and try to remember if they beat Scarlet there or not.

I (like you) have recommended this game to friends despite a rocky start for me in beta when I almost asked for a refund tbh and it disappoints that fixes to display a characters age in days rather than months can get pushed but not resetting the achievement level. I understand that adding a list of “completed” to the tracker panel would take time and the event ends on Monday, so the Dev’s are between a rock and a hard place with that. But then we did get Wintersday in July one year in GW1 because of server problems :P

However, what will remain long after the event (as well as the taunting 12/13 for so many players) will be the nasty feeling that it’s more important to ANet to have Living World stuff at any price whether it functions accurately or not. At that point – perhaps people might feel “Pffft – another Living World – that won’t work properly – gonna go … instead”

Edited to add 30/8 :
I got my Invasion Canceller achievement about an hour ago. Killed some Champions on Iron Marches (about my 4th invasion there) – didn’t stop Scarlet (didn’t even see her) and closed some portals then next thing ‘ping’ I’d got it. This is one of the weirdest achievements and it’s frustrating my friend something rotten – please make notes ANet :P

I got very excited yesterday when Browsing the News Announcements yesterday to an ‘invite a friend event’ happening on Nov 15th…

Ok – so partly it was dementia but I persuaded two friends that they wanted to try…

When I went looking for the ‘Invite a Friend’ button and couldn’t see it – I started looking at the topic again – and noticed the magic words in italics “8 months ago”

As your forum doesn’t show post dates in the summary, it didn’t help the topic was created without a meaningful title – an easy mistake I guess. On one level it’s sad that an event from 8 months is still showing as a front page item – but more so that as a specific event – it didn’t get pruned.

Just need to figure out now whether to fess up to my friends or lie

Mark – yes, I did try that one but it doesn’t give any ‘detail’ on the update except to say it’s happened. What would be nice would be a feed that gives the subsections of the update notes as a series of “bullet points” and an ‘at a glance’ precis of the detail for that point would be nice. (they can dig deeper on the wiki for detail at that point).

I’m perhaps expressing a wish that with all the progression of the story and game being made can’t be accomodated easily – I just wondered if a more detailed feed were possible – that’s all

Is there any chance of creating an RSS feed of the update notes for each update so we can aggregate the feed in to Guild forums?

I know, I know… but some of our members don’t look here for notes :P