Guild Wars 2

Still bugged, and very frustrating.

However:

Casser.1826:

Hey guys, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad, still no acknowledgement from ArenaNet that this bug exists . . . BUT . . . the good news is that, totally by accident, I discovered a really easy way to kill the Mordrem Predator. Its almost unbelievable really, and it came about by the latest ArenaNet Customer Service Officer dealing with the support ticket I submitted on this bug a week or so ago asking me for some screenshots of the NPCs acting like zombies. I decided to go one better and make a video of my attempt at the chapter during one of my daily bug reports, and made one of the whole thing including finding the NPCs in the labyrinth (https://youtu.be/fm8ZMMlp6yI).

Then the most bizarre thing happened . . . after I had got to the second restart after dying twice in the end battle (to show how the Predator returned to full health every time I died and restarted), I stopped the video, saved it, and then started to watch it to make sure the recording software had worked. I am not sure how long I watched it for, between 5 and 10 minutes maybe, but you can imagine my surprise and confusion when I closed the video screen and returned to the game, only to find the battle over and the Predator dead. This had basically occurred while I had been AFK, from the game screen anyway, so I had no idea what had happened. All I had to go on, in attempting to reproduce it so I could share it with you guys, was the position I had left my character in at the very end of the video.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I was able to reproduce, and record on video, this discovery after several hours and many fails, and so have also uploaded that video too (https://youtu.be/2K-fLeIlANA). In it I defeat him in about 5 minutes suffering zero damage. It would have been quicker if I had used more of my skills from the beginning, but I started out wanting to show it could be done AFK using the auto attack skill only. About halfway through I decided to speed it up.

I hope this helps some or all of you get past this blockage, and thanks to everyone for supporting the reporting of this bug in this thread even though ArenaNet, after a month and many players posting confirmation of the bug, either didnt bother to read them, or, if they did, didnt bother to post an acknowledgement that the bug exists, and what they planned to do about it, on this thread.

Casser, you are my favourite person in the world right now.

You’ve unlocked all the Exalted masteries, but to buy that, you need to have unlocked the collection as well. To do that, you need to buy a Plated Pistol from a Whispers Keeper after doing the Dragon’s Stand meta. When you’ve done that, you’ll see it unlocked.

Neurion.4086:

Tyria and “Fear Not This Night” will forever go hand in hand. It was my best reward for finishing the personal story – and I will do it again.

Every time I finish the personal story, I stop and listen to “Fear Not This Night” all the way through. It’s the best part of the reward for me too

Thank you, Anet: code writers, music composers, character designers, story writers, every one. You’ve given a lot of people a lot of fun over the last four years.

+1!

I hate that event, it’s just so slow.

I’m trying to join a squad in another instance of Dragon’s Stand and keep getting this message:

Network error.
Please check your Internet connect and try again.
(Code=178:9:13:6241:101)

It happened yesterday, it’s happening again today. Internet connection is fine. I’ve left and returned to Dragon’s Stand, logged out and back in, tried switching characters, tried other characters in other regions.

Any ideas? Kind of messes with things if I can’t join a party or squad in another instance.

If you’re around at server reset, there’s a group that goes from Tequatl at reset and onto TT after that. Look for the post-reset taxi in LFG.

Yes—if you’re NA, then every day just after reset, a group of guilds runs for triple decap. Post-reset group, watch out for the taxis in LFG, or just go to Firthside WP. Commanders explain everything, the group’s got a pretty good success rate at triple decap. It’s well organised.

(Matter of fact, we’re about to get going now, if you read this in time.)

Couldn’t be there because of work, but I did love seeing the tweets with screenshots

Naming tabs would be nice

As I go cantering around Field of Ruin farming soft wood, I’ve just realised I’d pay for something that would show me all the nodes on a map. Pair of binoculars or something that would let me farm more efficiently.

Looking at time differences, it turns out this is on when I have to be at work. But in spirit, my characters will be there in rainbow colours. I’d love to see screenshots

Sylvari mesmer:

Snapdragon coat, Orchid leggings, Chaos gloves, Embroidered shoes. Mask and shoulders hidden. Dyes are a mix of Brandywine and Abyss.

Hamfast.8719:

Also, I always have to JUMP through Asuran gates. This idiosyncrasy is due to the classic Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”. The show features a device similar to the Asuran Gates, but due to poor set design the actors had to “hop” over a threshold to pass through. Hence, my characters have to hop through the gates. Is that weird?

I always knew I couldn’t be the only one!

I’m getting this too. No NPCs have died, it’s just that I can’t swim to the chest(s) to open them and look for the orb. It’s like there’s an invisible wall in the way; either I’m behind it or they are. More likely me, because I can’t get out either.

Any ideas on what triggers the Taimi bug? Just got that far and she’s frozen. No more info?

Woohoo! Unbugged for me, after a couple of days!

Thanks so much for working on it

Female human ranger, experiencing this now. Have tried shifting maps etc, no luck

Aha, that explains it. This is the first time I’ve bought two sets from the same tier.

Thank you.

Hi

I just bought Norn tier 2cultural armor (the Predatory set). The skins unlocked fine (and I got the little ‘skin unlocked’ graphic, so I didn’t have them already—plus I looked to make sure they were showing as ‘skin locked’ before buying), but the Norn Specialty Armor achievement stayed at 12/18.

Not the biggest problem, I know, but any ideas?

Same here: triggered the asura to be hostile, and can’t unstealth. All progress lost.

I think I may have dodged out of range or something as the asura triggered, perhaps?

Also, there’s no ‘Living World’ category in the bug report interface in-game.

Oxblood is rather lovely, imho. 75 silver on the TP at the moment.

Okay, probably a silly question: how do you start the ‘Bashing Bauxite Alchemicals’ meta? There’s a crashed aircraft, and the guide text is at the “An Order of Whispers strike team has crash-landed on the northeastern tip of the island” stage.

There’s no NPC to talk to, and the wiki page doesn’t give any guidance. The discussion page does say you have to initiate the first event by speaking to an NPC, but there isn’t one here.

Any ideas?

Same same. Everything ticked and checked as it was pre-update, but no auto-login.

From memory, I think you can help out by doing the target practice thing and/or combat with some of the skritt guards to keep them in practice.

Oh my god. I had never heard that cat show audio before.

::dies laughing::

The wolves look like corgis.

Well played, Anet.

Dang. Thought I’d found something

(I’ve seen the new dialogue with the Pale Tree, with both a Sylvari and non-Sylvari character.)

I just went into the Grove via Asura gateway from the Keep, and ran into some dialogue I haven’t heard before. A pair of Sylvari near the gate: one saying she’s having terrible dreams and can’t believe something so horrible could originate in her; her companion tells her to not give in. They seem to write it off as Nightmare Court interference—but if it’s new dialogue, could it indicate something about Mordremoth’s growing influence now he’s awake?

Celtic Lady.3729:

Then spores should be gatherable like food items. The events themselves seem a little out of place now.

They still are. There aren’t many nodes, but they’re around in Kessex Hills at least. Look for four or five of the little leafy/plant symbols close together.

Eleri Tezhme.3048:

Zergs don’t have to happen, they don’t need to happen, if people make the effort to do something different. If this is a zergfest, it is because the players aren’t thinking outside the zergfest box.

The first run in the new LA I was a part of, (in an overflow, mind you) immediately after the patch, there was no tidal wave zerg of people, running mindlessly around. There were several commanders who each focused on a quadrant of LA, and people joined them there. Even with the miasma being already half full, we saved almost 900 citizens, and got most of the rewards. We did awesome, without a major zerg in sight.

Each time since then, I’ve seen nothing but Wall O Players zerging, less than 400 citizens rescued every time, and most of the events failing, because the zerg is off doing something else.

Don’t want it to be a zergfest? Stop zerging all over the map. Actively resist just being a zerg. Split into smaller groups and kill, kill, kill. Rescue more people, because that gets everyone more and snazzier rewards.

This. It’s up to the players—Anet’s not standing there with a gun saying “Zerg or die.”

The best results I’ve seen—the quickest miasma fights, the highest civilians rescued totals—have come when players haven’t zerged up, they’ve gone in small squads. There’s no setting for this, it’s not a switch that Anet throws; there’s only the will of the players. If there are zergs, it’s because players choose to be in them.

There are very few areas I haven’t been able to stay alive on my own, and I’m not that good a player—most of my LA forays have been with my ranger character.

Leave the zerg and have a good time.

There’s a merchant at the camps where you can exchange them for goodies.

JazKW.6547:

Sobat.8650:

Sobat.8650:

bwillb.2165:

Anen.1742:

Tom Deluxe.9105:

Avascar.9237:

Let’s count to 10,000 before the event begins!

1.

2

3.

7.

13

12

4

π

The instances aren’t that big. Look for the icon on your minimap.

I play both at different times. My first main char was a mesmer, and I’ve had great fun in both PvE and WvWvW with her. Staff & sceptre/focus or sceptre/pistol, and she gets by well enough. My d/d ele is still around L50, and takes a different style of play—much more mobile with rapid swapping of elements. I haven’t taken her into WvW yet, but as a solo roamer in PvE, she holds her own.

PeterThomas.7243:

Consider this: A casual player might only have time to attempt the marionette once or twice over a couple of days; if they work full-time and have a busy family life, perhaps they’ll only find time to play once or twice a week. So if they attempt the marionette and fail each time – which seems quite possible – they have absolutely no chance of getting the living story reward in the two-week time limit.

…snip…

It sucks that I probably won’t be able to get my sprocket node because I can’t dedicate the time to grind it. I really wanted one, too…

The meta only needs 11 achieves, and you’ve got several weeks. Participate in each ‘lane’, whether successful or not, there’s your defender, and there’s at least a few of the dailies done; kill energy probes in different maps and that will give you both energy probe dismantler and defender slayer; get to the lair (you just need to have participated in the marionette fight to do this, and you don’t have to have succeeded); run with the Vigil in Bloodtide Coast, and that’s Field Supporter. Add a few more boss thumper dailies and you’re there without having to dedicate hours and hours per day, even without defeating the marionette.

Bruce.

/15 chars.

GoM, just now. Not sure if it was the first time, but a lot of folks in mapchat said so.

Female 2, 1 and 1.

I’m not Creeper, but I find sylvari an awesome race to design. They have a huge range of variables in their design—skin colour, patterns, pattern colour, plus glow. The ‘hair’ designs have wild variety. In comparison to a sylvari’s exoticism, humans are rather everyday.

They aren’t human, so applying human beauty standards is a bit irrelevant, really

Hi

I just played through the Source of Orr in the personal storyline and, in the last fight scene, the “fight” sounds disappeared. Only PC and NPC voices (e.g. shouting ‘retreat’ or whatever) played. Then, when we hit the cutscene where everything blooms, no music. Which is a shame, that’s one of the loveliest pieces of music in the game, imo.

Audio had been playing normally up to that point, and the conversation cutscene after the blooming played fine too—just in that interval.

It’s unbugged. I think the devs messed it up during Nightmare Tower so you couldn’t go to Not So Secret and get the aetherblades achieves there.

Donari.5237:

That carnival set up was there. It’s part of the human storyline “wish I’d joined the circus.” It’s where you start the Grizwhirl investigation.

I wasn’t misremembering: it’s not the carnival, it’s Thump-em-ups. The wiki page dates to June 2013, so that’s probably a bit far back to be LS-related—more likely they’re getting ready for the bar brawl activity, perhaps.

Donari.5237:

That carnival set up was there. It’s part of the human storyline “wish I’d joined the circus.” It’s where you start the Grizwhirl investigation.

Could be—it has been a while since I did that storyline. But it didn’t look familiar to me.

MakubeC.3026:

Are you totally positive of this mate?
Carnivals would take it to whole different level…

Ayup. Just imagine: entangled by fairy floss, beaten to death by dagwood dogs…

Something else new in DR: a bit west of the Dead End, there’s a carnival that wasn’t there a few months ago. I think there was a little menagerie, but now there’s a full fledged carnival. Maybe the next alliance involves carnies…

Wow. Dulfy, that’s amazing. Thank you.

It’s still in Kessex Hills, a bit north of where the tower was. Look for a treasure icon on your map.

Not So Secret is a jumping puzzle in Gendarran Fields. As well as the achievement and chest, there’s also a set of diving goggles behind there.

For a while, it was disabled—either accidentally or intentionally—but now it’s back.

For a while, the second launchpad was busted. It’s un-busted now.

Gotta go get that last set of diving goggles—Dive Master achieve, here I come!