Guild Wars 2

Alin.2468:

No, thank you, I shall not participate. I am just a client, not an employee.

Well, since its usually CLIENTS who perform stress tests of software being delivered by a company, your comment makes zero sense. That’s ok though. One less person might make this one easier on my connection and I’ll be in town for this one.

I’ll try to jump on and see what, if anything, breaks.

I will be at work. But that is ok. I can wait for the PoF release.

Your loss. I look forward to free advance opportunities to play. I never seem to encounter any real bugs, or other stressful situations.

Thanks for the information and opportunity. =)

Honestly, I think an account should have at least one level 80 before it unlocks as an option for gems. If they are going to sell them as is, then they should undo all the level gating design changes they implemented in fear of ‘confusing new users’.

It’s a standard item most other MMOs (especially NCSoft ones) have, so they had to add it. It won’t affect people who have been playing for years and may have stacks of tomes or birthday leveling scrolls. Great for new players who want to be confused though :P

Now the new people will buy them and complain they don’t know what to do :P

I think it’s over due BUT I think there should be a limit per account.

There is no profession that are useless. You can do pretty much any content with any profession. But when you talk about end game like raid, there is composition, build and profession that are better than others. It doesn’t mean that you can’t do the content with any profession, but some group will want to be as efficient as possible. The thing is that what is the most efficient change over time and depend on what content you want to focus on. So unless you want to do raid on a regular basis or make speed run you shouldn’t worry too much about that. Pick the profession you like the most and you will be alright.

Gop.8713:

Someone should totally sue . . .

That’s the only reasonable response…

Mind you, if you’re suing for your gold back then you’ll have to sue them in Tyria and I heard that ArenaNet totally control the courts there.

Ubi.4136:

SO, people who already have a commander tag it costs 150g. Those people already spent 300g to become a commander.

So, current commanders=450g to get the catmander tag total.

People who do not currently have tags it costs 300g.

So, new commanders get to be commanders and get the catmander tag for 300g total.

How the hell does this make any sense?

Are you truly surprised at this point after five years of similar illogical decisions?

Y’all have digressed far from the OP’s post which was asking ANet not to use recycled ideas or content. There are two problems with this request:

• The content/mechanics of the expac have long since been determined. Even if ANet agreed today, the game could not possibly be changed to reflect that any time soon.
• The OP hasn’t defined what they mean by “recycled content.” Or why it’s bad.

Accordingly, there’s nothing to discuss, unless the OP wants to get more specific. Right now, we’re using the first post as a Rohrschach illustrating more about our own preconceptions than offering ideas that might be useful to ANet in making choices that we like better (or worse) than the recent ones.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Gee, I thought their original concept was to be innovative. I mean, that’s what they said even before the game launched. (It’s even in the Manifesto.)

They also said they would have a personalized storyline before the game launched. (Was also even in the manifesto) =P

Though saying that innovation is part of Guild Wars 2 now is pretty much a stretch. Just some new gadgets in a map, doesn’t feel all that innovative to me. They had lots of stuff like that in the game since launch, which then got removed from starter zones because they were confusing. (??? what) And now they just add them to the latest maps without even thinking whether it might get a bit too much for some people.

Sazukikrah.5036:

If you watched the video…

Don’t assume that people are going to watch the video nor that those who do are going to understand the point you want to make.

I almost never watch linked videos because 9 times out of 10, the quality is bad, the video includes a substantial amount of blather (“hi guys, here’s my video”), and rarely makes clear the point it’s trying to get across (whether it’s a bug report or a training video or etc).

ANet’s no different. They are busy people.

So, please, for Balthazar’s Kormir’s sake, explain in text what you think the bug is and how the video is evidence of it.

A effective way to protect your domains (e.g. guildwars2.com) from email spoofing etc. used in phishing, is to use SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

Each contributes to protect the domain i different ways:

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a DNS text entry which shows a list of servers that should be considered allowed to send mail for a specific domain.
Protects domain in “Mail From”.

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is a method to verify that the messages’ content are trustworthy, meaning that they weren’t changed from the moment the message left the initial mail server.
Protects against modified content in mail.

DMARC, (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) helps senders and receivers work together to create more secure email communications. It enables the message sender to indicate that their messages are protected with SPF and/or DKIM. And clear instructions for the message receiver to follow if an email does not pass SPF or DKIM authentication.
Protects domain in “From Header” (Sender) and more.

Sometimes, all you have to do is close GW2 and reopen. If that fails, with GW2 closed, start any toon on GW1, close GW1, and restart GW2. (And if that fails, follow cdsmith’s suggestion.)

GW2 periodically double-checks to make sure your GW1 titles are ‘earned’ and occasionally, can’t reach the HoM calculator API to do so. If that happens, you automatically get an email saying those titles are being revoked. Sometime after, GW2 rechecks and if it still can’t verify, it revokes the titles.

Starting GW1 (and sometimes entering the Hall) forces the two games to start talking to each other, which resolves the issue… well, unless GW1 is completely down (in which case, it will get resolved when it comes back up).

tl;dr don’t panic. The problem will fix itself eventually or enter GW1 to jump start the repair.

Amaimon.7823:

yea, I can see the point, but there’s doing a little, and there’s doing “nothing”.
I mean.. when they stand there with their weapons drawn and do attacks like.. 1% of what I do, then they won’t do anything really, but at least visually it looks like they’re involved.
But right now, they stand there with their weapons sheathed. Meaning that whhen I look at them, I don’t think of them as weak, I think of them as indifferent, and that’s something else entirely.

What would you think if you watched a game of soccer and your team had like 5 players that were standing still in their spot. Not turning around, not taking a single step, just standing there. I mean if they at leats ran after the ball, they don’t even need to hit it, but just run

Except this isn’t a soccer team. It’s an MMO instance designed for up to five players and you (or I) sometimes choose to go it alone. The NPCs are there for lore, not to play the game for us. I’d like to see them rez us from dead (rather than ‘restart from checkpoint’) and I’d love to see a mechanic like Arkk’s from Nightmare Fractal (“Quickly, retreat inside my shielding!”).

But for now, it seems ‘fair’ that they do too little rather than too much for the sake of gameplay.

I wouldn’t mind if they did more. All the same, I think it’s fine — and perhaps even better — that they do little.

Ni In.6578:

No, that’s not an issue at all. That Level3 is a router is simply ignoring ICMP traffic. As long as the packet makes it to the final destination with a reasonable latency (64.25.40.114 in this case), you’re almost certainly fine (*see asymmetric paths below).

ICMP is very low priority (and usually rate-limited) for most routers and handled by a rather slow CPU, rather than the ASICs that handle your bog standard network traffic. Don’t expect a low latency or reliable ping to any specific network device. Again, as long as your final destination is reliable with acceptable latency, you’re good to go.

https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/tuesday_steenbergen_troublshootingtraceroute_62.49.pdf

Look at pages 33 through 36. It’s also important to note page 38, but there’s nothing you can do about the return path — it would be up to NCSoft to traceroute to you.

That said, if you contact ANet support, they’ll have you run WinMTR. They’ll base conclusions about latency and “packet loss” on unrelated network devices, e.g. Level3 equipment, but this is just a misunderstanding of the results traceroute/WinMTR is showing us. Again, as long as the final destination packet loss/latency is fine, you’re golden (again as long as that asymmetric path is a non-issue).

Anet as a whole needs to understand that having Level 3 in their networking path is a death knell for all gamers.

Period.

Just 1 time ever did they have to. When in wvw something went wrong with armor binding. They did a roll back. It was 1 time in 4 years that I know of. But it’ll be okay. I have faith they can fix it.

Gaile Gray.6029:

aandiarie.7195:

If they can’t figure out what’s wrong then can they just roll it back?

That is very, very, very seldom necessary. But don’t worry. The team is keenly aware of this situation, and top people are working on it!

I sure hope so.