Guild Wars 2

2016-10-14.

New player. Sylvani. Had to talk to Warden Spy Alarin three times, watching the cinematic fully each time to get in.

Bearer of Burden.4621:

The new password system is horrible, and actually less secure than even.
It looks like If you choose a password that someone else has already chosen, then the system tells you "the password has been use my you or someone else before, of is on the bad list)

So an ideal way for hackers to create a password list containing “currently used” and bad password. Then by removing the obvious bad and the onces from other password lists you get a list with allot of currently used passwords.

All I have to do now is make a script to change my password. For every ‘someone else is using this’ error, I know that someone, somewhere in game has this password. I cycle that list against the email addresses and I now have the usernames and passwords for people.

By telling us that someone is using the password already, you are giving account thieves information that they can use to compromise more accounts, not less.

The diving tower in LA is the bestest. It even has a Way Point to the top so you can just jump down onto the ramp below. Rinse and repeat.

You can’t use the same password on multiple accounts?

I have three accounts. They have a pretty secure password (’incorrect’ is secure, right?) but I’m sharing that same password across all three accounts and I haven’t changed it since the game when live.

So...fine, you are making me change the password. I change the first account from ’incorrect’ to ’incorrect1’. It works. Great.

I change the second account from ’incorrect’ to ’incorrect1’. It tells me it’s already in use. What?

OK, fine. I change the second account from ’incorrect’ to ’incorrect2’. It works.

I change the third account from ’incorrect’ to ’incorrect2’ and it tells me it’s already in use.

All this is being done over the same IP, though the emails and account names are different, not linked. Is this game trying to tell me that I can only use a password once per IP?

Yes, I know it’s silly of me to be using a globalized password. That’s not the point. Does each account on a single IP have to have a different password and, if not, what is going on in my situation?

I mean, I’ll just go grab different IPs to have them all the same again but now I’m curious.

edit: Actual error

Unavailable password. You or someone else has used it before, or it’s on a known list of passwords stolen from other games or websites. Please use a new, unique password for your Guild Wars 2 account. We recommend a new one made with four random, unrelated words, as shown in this comic strip.

This leads me to believe that EVERYONE has to have a *unique* password. I can’t have the same as Jason’s who can’t have the same as John’s.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

With the ability to be part of up to 5 guilds – considering you are playing with your friends on a different server, you can be in their guild and advance that guild.

The same was true when you transferred a server or where in an overflow server, so I do not see how this is perceived as a “new” issue?

It’s not new. I’m sorry it came across like that. And you are right, we could join up with the friend’s guild and progress that guild.

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. I appreciate it.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

To answer the question about guild influence:
You will gain guild influence on the world you are guesting on.

So what is the advantage of Guesting over, say, a transfer that can’t participate in WvW (which is what we have now, right?)?

I can go to a different server to play with friends but not progress my Guild in any way. What you have done is made the community make a choice between Guild and Friends. Is that truly how a “Global Community” is supposed to work?

What happens to guild influence earned while I’m on a ‘guested’ server?

My home is Ferguson’s Crossing (don’t laugh). I plan on going to Tarnished Coast for RP stuff (again, no laughing). If I do an event (earning my guild two influence) or finish a dungeon (earning my guild ten influence), does my guild, who is still on FC get the influence or will it go to a ‘shadow’ guild on TC?

Same on Ferguson’s Crossing, Overflow.

I haven’t read through all 120 pages.

I do not want gear progression. I do not want people to be more powerful in WvW just because they have better gear (yes, I know that this is occurring now). I love the idea that the end game grind is for cosmetic items.

Please, do not add a ‘better stat’ tier of gear. You want Ascended to be cosmetically better? Great. Do that. You want it to be better stats? No. Do not do that.

I enjoy the system as it is now. I enjoy helping friends or randoms in lower level zones through things I haven’t done before while still remaining challenged.

Please do not change the system by removing the ’downlevel’ effect.

"Should I’ keep going" (without the apostrophe near the I) is being filtered as ’shoulkittenep’. From here.

Lopez.7369:

Months? The game hasn’t been out for months. LOL.

August, September, October. Three. Is that not multiple months? Even if you go by days, it’s been 51 days; which, again, is multiple months.

Quote cubed.2853 "...but what are 4 legendarys transformed to?...."

Four Legendarys (Legendaries?) transforms into way too much time on your hands.

I’m a bit confused. Is this saying that the system has no memory? A number one server could be number 10 and last can move to first?

I’m explaining oddly.

Every week (two weeks when it’s working like that), the system looks at the scores on all the servers, puts them through this formula and spits out ranks. Using those ranks, the servers are trebled (see what I did there?) up in groups of three. 1-3 are together, 4-6, 15-18, etc. The system doesn’t care (has no memory) of the previous matchups, it’s based purely on *this* match?

So what’s to stop a high ranked server from taking a dive one match to completely dominate a lower ranked server? Not saying that the fine players of GW2 would stoop to such nefarious deeds, but that would be possible within the system, yes?

Did this go in? It looks like all the vendors take specific coin and nothing has changed. I see nothing in the patch notes, either.

After rescuing the second set of researchers, I am supposed to go south to the exit with Trahearne. They aren’t moving. I’ve cleared the tunnels, there are no undead but the NPCs will not move to the south exit.