Guild Wars 2

For those that have been dying to see Asja performing live, she has released some videos over the past few months of her covering some great songs.

Perhaps ArenaNet will allow her to perform her most famous song that we all fell in love with…or finally release the video of her ‘Fear Not This Night’ performance from the launch party.

https://www.facebook.com/AsjaMusic
http://www.youtube.com/user/AsjaGW

Wow…it’s the exact same giant.
How…disappointing.

• The delay in unlocking the ‘Removing Restrictions’ blog after the ‘Account Bound’ blog had been unlocked
• The odd nature of the contents to where they would be more appropriately mentioned in patch notes and not in a features blog
• Repeating the trait reset change after it had already been outlined in detail in the Trait Changes blog

…Sounds to me like the blog was supposed to be about something else that was actually relating to ‘Removing Restrictions’ that got delayed or scrapped at the last minute and these few footnotes were thrown together.

We would notice if a hotly speculated on topic just disappeared. Suddenly removing the ‘Removing Restrictions’ blog from the list shortly before it was meant to be revealed would cause a lot of people to wonder what it was going to be about. But replacing it with scrap patch note changes and even repeating a change that had already been revealed and discussed seems like the less damaging way of scrapping an idea without anyone being the wiser.

Tears.5627:

Just imagine what the coding looks like if the grammar is this bad.

Accurate spelling in most areas of programming matters not, as long as everything is consistently misspelled throughout the code.

I’ve brought this up on the forums months ago and no rep from Anet responded and nothing has been done to fix it. I also reported it in-game a dozen times.

I’ve since stopped reporting bugs as they are never fixed or even acknowledged here on the forums (I don’t think they even read most of this stuff), so please don’t expect them to do anything about this clearly messed up sorting aspect of upgrade components. This would be shameful to still have this even in late-beta stage of development, let alone over 9 months post-launch.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Also, and this is not related to story, could we get more account unlockable rewards, instead of rewards that take up more and more bank space?

I really like the Zenith weapons. Not because they look pretty, but because I have them unlocked, and can spawn them when ever I want. Can all the other weapon and armor skins be like that from now on? Just unlock them for us, so we don’t have to keep them in our bank.

And if the skins are not going to be “unlocked” (which would logically be added to the ‘Unlocked Rewards’ area with the Zenith skins etc), then do not include the word “unlock” in the description of the skin/item on the release page as was done with the Gas Mask skin on the ToN release page. Players are very unhappy about this.

Also, if the skin is a head armor skin, do not say it can be applied to “any piece of head armor” if it cannot also be used on aquatic ‘head armor’, which is even called ‘Head Armor’ in their tool-tips. Clearly state “any dry-land head armor” or “any aquatic head armor” if it is one or the other. Saying “any piece of head armor” means any head armor, dry-land and aquatic.

Complete the meta achievement for The Nightmares Within to unlock a special Gasmask Skin! As the latest design in air purification and toxin prevention, the Gasmask is a universal skin that can be applied to any piece of head armor.

Both of these statements are not accurate and led many players to believe the skin would be “unlocked” and infinite use from the Unlocked Rewards area, as well as usable on “any” head armor, including aquatic, due to even stating it as being “universal”.

I guess what I am getting at is, please ensure that whoever is responsible for the wording used to describe rewards on the release page is more mindful of the wording used in the future. Frequently using incorrect and misleading wording in new item descriptions is not beneficial to anyone. This only leads to players feeling let down and misled (or even feeling lied to) when the information seems so grand and turns out to be much less so.

Would you look at that. Almost 8 months of it being reported and all it took to get it fixed was them to release a Gem Store armor with particle effects and the issue was fixed in less than 2 days.

I’m sure these are fixed now as well:

• Radiant Shoulders + Juggernaut Effects
• Radiant Vambraces + Juggernaut Effects
• Radiant Vambraces + Spectral Walk Effects
• Radiant/Hellfire Vambraces + Stealth Effects
• Zephyrite Helm + Juggernaut Effects
• All other armor particle effects + whatever issues.

Really, it seems that if an issue needs to be fixed then we need to find some way to show that it causes an issue with LS (slayer potions) or the Gem Store (Zodiac Armor with particle effects) for it to get fixed.

If you wait then you forgo all of the fun you could be having between now and then. The only difference between making a character prior to the 15th is that it would be locked into the current method of unlocking traits…which really isn’t a bad thing. Characters created after the 15th will follow the new method for trait unlocking. You could always make a 2nd character after the 15th to see if you prefer the changes and then delete/remake your first character that is locked to the current way of advancement.

Summary: Start having fun now.

Good notes on the stream here as well:

• http://dulfy.net/2015/09/25/gw2-druid-ranger-elite-specialization-livestream-reveal

Does not cover everything mentioned yet, but they revealed so much that it will take some time to sort it all out and list everything.

Real glad to hear that! Very happy to have helped you out.
TP issues can get pretty complicated so I’m glad it was something that you could quickly try that did the trick.

Happy gaming.

Yes, single use skins that can be used on multiple armor weights will be available for all armor weights in the wardrobe when that skin is unlocked. Feel free to use your ticket and get your gauntlets without worry of it being tied to a specific weight after the wardrobe goes live.

“Single items, such as the Fuzzy Hats and Scarlet’s Spaulders, will be unlocked for your entire account and usable with any armor weight.”

From the last paragraph of the “Collecting Weapon and Armor Skins” section of the wardrobe blog.

“Jesus” is not permitted? Really?
All those poor people who want to use the name “Jesus” (Hey-Zeus) are not allowed to simply because one person who may or may not have existed 2,000 years ago shares the name? I see plenty of characters with “Lucifer” in their name. Why is that permitted and “Jesus” is not? Is “Satan” also restricted? Buddha? Ghandi? Some of these I can see why they are restricted if they are, as Buddha is not a name one would expect a ‘normal’ person to have for their name. But “Jesus” (Hey-Zeus) is quite common as a name, as is Mohammad.

Really going overboard on restricting names that shouldn’t be, and not restricting names that should be.

Try to:

Clear the game cache
Most TP-specific issues are primarily related to some temporary GW2 files where removing them will allow them to be recreated and the TP to function properly again.

The quickest way to clear the GW2 Cache is to:

1. Ensure your game is completely closed.
2. Hold your “Windows Key” and press “F” to open Windows Search on your computer.
3. Search for “gw2cache”
4. It will find a folder called “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}” at:
   “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\AppData\Local\Temp”
5. Delete this “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}” folder that is shown in the results.
6. Load up your game normally and your TP should now function properly.

If your search for “gw2cache” does not produce the folder I mentioned, then you will need to enable hidden files and folders in order to delete this cache folder.

Make hidden files visible and clear the game cache

1. Close your game completely.
2. Browse your My Computer to: “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName”
3. Then in the window menus, click on “Tools” then “Folder Options…”
4. In the window that pops up, click the “View” tab
5. Select to “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and click ‘OK’ (attached image #1)
6. You should now see a folder in your file listing called “AppData”, open this folder
7. Inside that folder open the “Local” folder
8. Inside that folder open the “Temp” folder
9. You should now see a folder called “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}”. Delete this gw2cache folder.
10. Load up your game normally and see if the issue is fixed.

—note—
By “window menus” I mean up at the top of the window where it says “File Edit View Tools Help”. If that bar does not display in your window for you along the top, then click the drop-down arrow next to the word “Organize” and then click on “Layout” and select “Menu bar” to enable showing of the menus (attached image #2).

Another way to do Steps 3, 4 and 5 to make hidden folders visible is:

• Click your Start menu and then open Control Panel
• In your Control Panel, if items are sorted by “Category” then select “Appearance and Personalization” on the right side, then in the second bottom area under “Folder Options” click on “Show hidden files and folders”. This will open the same options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.
• Otherwise, if Control Panel is sorted by Icons, simply click on “Folder Options” from the list to bring up the options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.

Speed is very fast on the sickle; 1/2 – 3/4 of a second from start of harvesting until the crop is placed into your inventory. Much faster than any other sickle I’ve seen. You get the goods halfway through the swipe animation, so no need to wait for the entire thing as you can run away mid-animation and have the goods.

Logging axe seems to take longer than normal, but it’s just a delay at the start while you “whip out your axe” before the first chop. Though I think the time between chop 2 and 3 is slightly faster, so it works out to the same as other axes in total harvesting time.
So instead of delays being like:
- 1 – - 2 – - – 3
It seems more like:
- – 1 – - 2 – - 3

This may not be related, but what corner of your screen do you have your chat box positioned in? Have you tried moving it to a different corner to see if that ‘resets’ the chat box and its settings or something?

Or does resizing the chatbox or increasing/decreasing the font size the chat text appears in via the chat box options help?

Do you also have the option to display channel tags enabled? Also, timestamps?

Just trying to see what might be causing some chat elements to not display, while allowing others to display normally.

Also, it is a very long shot and probably won’t be fruitful to solving the issue, but do you happen to be running your game in fullscreen mode? (not windowed fullscreen)

edit 1
Also, is this only an issue while in WvW areas or while in Open World PvE areas? I’ve seen players having chat issues while in WvW before, but it was mainly all chats not appearing after being there for a long period of time, not specific chats not appearing in the chat box from the get-go.

edit 2
Another ‘also’.
Apparently others have had this same issue. I’m not sure on whether support managed to fix it for them as their threads were not updated.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Cannot-chat

edit 3
This may be related to this Guild issue from a while ago coupled with the currently bugged offline/online settings that many are experiencing. You may be set to online, but hovering on your name in the chat box shows you as offline.

Happened to a friend, while we were partied together.
/say worked both ways. I’m guessing, but so did /map.
What he said in /party didn’t go through (and /guild) nor could he see it.
Whispers said he was offline, but he could whisper me.
He still showed in party to me, although I didn’t see him in the guild list.
Logging in/out fixed it, but then it happened to me a minute later.

On this guild chat bug thread, one way to fix the guild chat is to leave the guild and rejoin it. This process seems to fix that issue so it is possible that it will fix yours if it is the one you are encountering.

Still digging up more info.

edit 4
Are you an EU player playing on an NA server? If so, then this may be tied to the ongoing issue of EU players on NA servers displaying as offline even though they are set to online, which bugs guild chats, party chats and whispers as well as even getting into parties or dungeons, etc. Though the same issues are also present for same area players; EU on EU, NA on NA.

yep, another edit
Well, it seems this may also be related to the whole “trial account” issues that have been experienced by some for several months since the original “mass trial account” issue Anet had. Did you also experience a recent “trial account” notice or warning issue with your account when you weren’t a trial account?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Party-and-Guild/2073091

Updated image for Days 1-10.

Due to the preview screen of the Gem Store only allowing preview of the heavy armor version of the toxic gloves and shoulders, non-heavy armor wearing characters are shown with their armors removed in the Gem Store preview screen.

Here are the chat codes for the two items so players can view how they would look with their existing armor if they are not heavy armor wearers.

Toxic Glove Skin: [&AgGHvwAA]
Toxic Mantle Skin: [&AgGAvwAA]

• The skins are identical for each weight type.
• Medium version is inordinately larger in terms of scaling than the light and heavy versions which are identical in size.

Edit
Dye Details For All (L/M/H)

• Gloves
  • Seem to have 3 dye slots (preview testing) for the bone-spike elements.
  • Green ‘Toxic’ elements are not dyeable.
  • Black base part of gloves are also not dyeable.

• Shoulders
  • Seem to have 3 dye slots (preview testing) for the feather and bone-spike elements.
  • Green ‘Toxic’ elements are not dyeable.

Squidlips.3817:

This doesn’t look like it violates the policy to me. Most keyboards use 2 keys to activate one action (moving diagonally). This keyboard would be 1 key to activate one action.

The act of moving diagonally is not one action, it requires the combined effects of pressing two individual keys that perform their individual actions; moving sideways and moving forward. This key seems to perform both the forward movement and the sideways movement at the same time with the use of a single key press instead of two individual keys. So it is definitely One Key that performs Two Actions. My question isn’t whether it performs two actions with its single key press, it would, but rather one of whether or not this behavior by this Guild Wars 2 branded keyboard is not actually permitted to be used with Guild Wars 2, or if those keys would need to be disabled or unused during GW2 play?

I’ve had this problem of the flash occurring above the minimap in my lower right corner, while the gold medal is displayed in the upper right corner below my personal story and tracked achievements notification area.

It has been this way for me since they adjusted the PS and LS panels in the top right in the Janurary 21 game update

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General

• User Interface: Various updates have been made to the right-hand side of the HUD to improve its appearance and functionality.

EDIT
Got a good screencap of it. Have seen this constantly every single time I finish an event since January.

Area: Clayent Falls
Dynamic Event: Defend the beehives from hungry bears

Glad you noted your server, most forget to include that detail as knowing which server the issue is on is crucial information; yours is bugged, the dynamic event for protecting the bee hives on Eredon Terrace is not bugged.

Hope they get to fixing it on your server. :\

In a related note, I wish that dynamic event would last longer. Being the only player in the area, after killing 3-4 bears it ends, which is about 10-15 seconds duration at most.

Also, Fiona Hastings is my second favorite NPC I’ve seen in-game. First is Mona for the Escort the trading post caravan to Claypool dynamic event.
“Don’t look at me, don’t talk to me. You chat, you die. Let’s go.” So awesome.

As for your post, “calling out” players with their character or account names on the forums is against forum rules. You may want to edit their names out so you do not receive an infraction for including them in your post. Reporting them in-game for suspected botting is all you should do. Just trying to watch out for ya.

Have you also tried clearing your gw2 game cache files? Most TP issues are related to some temporary GW2 files where removing them will allow them to be recreated and the TP to function properly again.

Make hidden files visible and clear the game cache

1. Close your game completely.
2. Browse your My Computer to: “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName”
3. Then in the window menus, click on “Tools” then “Folder Options…”
4. In the window that pops up, click the “View” tab
5. Select to “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and click ‘OK’ (attached image #1)
6. You should now see a folder in your file listing called “AppData”, open this folder
7. Inside that folder open the “Local” folder
8. Inside that folder open the “Temp” folder
9. You should now see a folder called “gw2cache-{1501A8C1-6AA1-1601-C2A8-0115A16A0116}” or something similar. Delete this gw2cache folder.
10. Load up your game normally and see if the issue is fixed.

—note—
By “window menus” I mean up at the top of the window where it says “File Edit View Tools Help”. If that bar does not display in your window for you along the top, then click the drop-down arrow next to the word “Organize” and then click on “Layout” and select “Menu bar” to enable showing of the menus (attached image #2).

Another way to do Steps 3, 4 and 5 to make hidden folders visible is:

• Click your Start menu and then open Control Panel
• In your Control Panel, if items are sorted by “Category” then select “Appearance and Personalization” on the right side, then in the second bottom area under “Folder Options” click on “Show hidden files and folders”. This will open the same options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.
• Otherwise, if Control Panel is sorted by Icons, simply click on “Folder Options” from the list to bring up the options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.

Popinjay.6091:

It’s not an issue with my character, more like everyone else’s I see in game. No matter their race, sex, profession, or gear, they all appear as very dark-skinned human males wearing pink armor. And they scale with race, so I’m running around in a world of replicas from Norn-sized down to Asura-sized. The only differences are the armor weight: I can tell the heavy armor from the medium armor from the light armor, but that’s the only distinction.

It doesn’t affect gameplay or bother me; it’s o.O inducing more than anything else and thought the powers that be might want to know. Or maybe this is something that was intended to happen and I missed a blog post somewhere?

Attend:

This effect is controlled by adjusting your “Character Model Quality” slider in your Options > Graphics tab. Lower quality gives a generic model to players, higher quality shows their true and customized appearances which is more graphic and memory intensive than low quality generic models.

I just threw some on real quick and ended up with:
Celestial
Midnight Ice
Winter Frost
Electro Blue

Electro Blue is much more expensive than the others, which are also pretty expensive, but there are cheaper dyes that are pretty close in appearance and may match the ice on the rifle better.

There actually was a single use checkpoint there as an option to players. Tixx gave you a present at that platform to take with you and deliver at the end to earn more rewards, but if you fall then you lose the present but restart one time at the present wall for another shot. I believe that was how it had worked.

They’ve removed that this year.

Yeah…my ‘sigher’ is already broken from their other decisions, so I can’t sigh at this sad and unnecessary change. :\

Depending on the material being dyed, as well as the specific hue you’d like to lean toward (blue/green), I’d recommend looking into Blue Ice Dye, Winter Ice Dye, Sea Ice Dye, and possibly Shiver Sky Dye, Glint’s Crystal Dye, Glint’s Purview Dye and Glint’s Sanctuary Dye.

This is at the bottom of the first page.

“Analysts who prepared this report are registered as research analysts in Korea but not in any other jurisdiction, including the U.S. PLEASE SEE ANALYST CERTIFICATIONS AND IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES & DISCLAIMERS IN APPENDIX 1 AT THE END OF REPORT. "

I have no idea what it is you are trying to point out that supports your questioning the existence or non-existence of an expansion.

Can you elaborate a bit more and say what it is you are talking about?

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Nevermind, others did it for you while I was posting.

The middle-of-the-week login reward that gives select items from the gem store has given me 3 BLSKs already.

May want to make sure you keep logging in every day to get them that way.

Otherwise, key farming is still an option, but you are much less likely to get a BLSK from it as there are quite a lot more possible items that a chest can drop.

Shanaeri Rynale.6897:

wasn’t it running due to all the crying and hiccupping?

But if it had been running it would be going down, not up.

This was kind of shocking to see when I saw it in the video. I literally went “Whooooah. Wow. That’s a lot of makeup.” Kind of ruined the moment for me and was just a distraction from the scene.

Draknar.5748:

Crimson Clouds.4853:

This. Something may not personally offend me, but if I believe that it’s against the ToS I will report it.

I would suggest only reporting things that you know for a fact are against the ToS, and not things you believe are against the ToS.

That’s not our job.

• We report.
• If those who view the report and have the ToS memorized and/or sitting right in front of them deem it as a violation, then they will take action.
• If they do not see it as a violation, the report will be discarded and they will move on to the next report.

That’s about it.

I do not believe your view on this matter will change regardless of what logic is offered to you, so further discussion on the topic with you is not something I shall continue. Just letting you know a response directed at me would be a waste of your time due to my being unlikely to ever read it.

Mel.8769:

@StinVec Have you cleared the GW2 temp files? I had a similar problem a while back and that fixed it.

I’m sure you have, as you are a smart cookie, but it never hurts to ask. Sometimes I will forget the easiest/most obvious solution when I am solving my own problems. Then I will promptly (facepalm)

:D Thank you, that is kind of you to say! Aww….now I really want some cookies.

I cannot stand working at something for hours only to find out it was something insanely easy. Yes, facepalm normally follows shortly thereafter.

Unfortunately, this is not one of those times. I have tried clearing the temp files already and other potential issues regarding that directory.
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Thank you for the suggestion though! It doesn’t hurt to ask.

I was working out different potential causes for the issue when I discovered others were encountering the same issue as well. This led me to believe that it was not likely to be something I could correct on my end and was tied directly to functionality on their end. I couldn’t find any correlation between different elements that could reproduce the issue when desired. Once in a long while it will work fine enough to get 6 or 7 items sold quickly, but then it gets wonky. I’ve tried comparing high populated areas and unpopulated areas, high graphics settings with low graphics settings, latency and checking traceroutes, other potential conflicting programs or something.

I also hate having an issue I cannot fix and this is really bugging me, to put it mildly. :P Will still work at it to see if I can figure it out, if it is something that can be figured out and fixed on the user’s end.

I’ve seen patches cause graphical problems for select players in the past, but I was never included in those experiencing them. I and another player had to run a repair on our games to fix the graphical issues we were experiencing after today’s patches.

It is usually just a damaged file in the archive that can be fixed by running a repair on the client. I recommend running one on your client to see if it fixes the issue.

If you need a hand doing that:

• Close your game/launcher
• Right-click your game shortcut and select ‘Properties’
• On the ‘Shortcut’ tab, the first line says “Target:”, immediately after the end quotation marks in this field, put a space and then add -repair
  It will look like this (but with your installation location):
  “F:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair
• Make sure there is a space between the " and -repair
• Run the shortcut and it’ll repair the game files if any are damaged.
• After the repair is finished, close the launcher, remove the -repair argument you added and run the game as normal to see if it’s fixed.

Apparently it is also likely that the repair will dip into the ‘not responding’ state often, but it should finish properly after a few minutes or so.

Your thread belongs in the Guild Wars 2 Discussion forum as it is a thread for discussing a topic and you are not reporting a new, previously unreported bug.

Main thread for this issue:
Mouse losing focus -right click to turn not working [Merged]
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Mouse-losing-focus-right-click-to-turn-not-working-Merged

All of these are related to the same issue. Most affected users encounter it with their Razer Naga and Logitech mice, though it has also been an issue for Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and generic brand mice.

Issue: Mouse Button Loses Focus and Does Not Reacquire It

• Most of the time that this issue is present (it is inconsistent), the mouse actually loses focus and never reacquires it, which prevents character and camera orientation with the right mouse button and leaves the game in a completely unplayable state. Some days it is very bad and prevents you from even being able to play, other times it is only a couple times a minutes, but leads to frustration and not playing the game the rest of that day.

Issue: Nearby Friendly Target Being Selected Unintentionally Due To Mouse Button Losing Focus and Reacquiring It Quickly

• The option to ‘Disable Right-click Targeting’ has helped with the linked issue of randomly selecting a nearby friendly target while moving your camera with the right mouse button. This happens because the mouse tracking has an issue to where the game reads you as releasing the mouse button (despite your having never released it) and then re-‘clicks’ the button down quickly. Due to this issue, if your cursor was over/near another friendly, then they become your new target as if you had intentionally clicked on them to select them.

Issue: Total Target Loss Due To Mouse Button Losing Focus and Reacquiring It Quickly Over Empty Area of the Screen

• However, disabling right-click targeting and interaction has simply made the issue of a new target stop happening, the issue of losing your target due to the glitch in mouse focus persists. Now we just have target loss due to the quick un-click and re-click of the right mouse button over an empty area of the screen which deselects the current target; instead of both target loss and random friendly selection.

Michael Henninger.7451:

DoctorDing.5890:

Surely using auto-cast while AFK is unattended gameplay ????

Yes. I’ve shot a mean glance his way.

But again: “Pet Kills & Macro Looting Excepted”

Chris-post incoming…

I do not afk-farm, but I am interested in the end result of this discussion and how it might indirectly affect me. This statement is one that seems might affect me and alter my play.

If using auto-cast while AFK is unattended gameplay and not permitted, does this mean that, if I have to hit the bathroom and I am not sure if I’m in a safe spot, that I can no longer switch my heal skill to auto (to attempt to negate any damage I’d receive from random enemies attacking me while afk) and head off to the bathroom?

Technically, even though I’d only be gone a couple of minutes at most, I would have a heal skill on auto-cast and I’d be afk…which would fit your statement as being unattended gameplay.

I guess I’ll just choose to log to character select from now on and lose my accumulated bloodlust stacks instead of risking being sanctioned simply because I stayed logged in and flipped heal to auto while I used the facilities. Better safe than sorry.

Thank you, Michael and Chris, for your responses and clarification on this topic.

DesolateDunes.9526:

Stalking in the wilderness….

Impressive. Looks fantastic in that setting.
Happy hunting!

You should try to:

Clear the game cache
Most TP-specific issues are primarily related to some temporary GW2 files where removing them will allow them to be recreated and the TP to function properly again.

The quickest way to clear the GW2 Cache is to:

1. Ensure your game is completely closed.
2. Hold your “Windows Key” and press “F” to open Windows Search on your computer.
3. Search for “gw2cache”
4. It will find a folder called “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}” at:
   “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\AppData\Local\Temp”
5. Delete this “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}” folder that is shown in the results.
6. Load up your game normally and your TP should now function properly.

If your search for “gw2cache” does not produce the folder I mentioned, then you will need to enable hidden files and folders in order to delete this cache folder.

Make hidden files visible and clear the game cache

1. Close your game completely.
2. Browse your My Computer to: “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName”
3. Then in the window menus, click on “Tools” then “Folder Options…”
4. In the window that pops up, click the “View” tab
5. Select to “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and click ‘OK’ (attached image #1)
6. You should now see a folder in your file listing called “AppData”, open this folder
7. Inside that folder open the “Local” folder
8. Inside that folder open the “Temp” folder
9. You should now see a folder called “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}”. Delete this gw2cache folder.
10. Load up your game normally and see if the issue is fixed.

—note—
By “window menus” I mean up at the top of the window where it says “File Edit View Tools Help”. If that bar does not display in your window for you along the top, then click the drop-down arrow next to the word “Organize” and then click on “Layout” and select “Menu bar” to enable showing of the menus (attached image #2).

Another way to do Steps 3, 4 and 5 to make hidden folders visible is:

• Click your Start menu and then open Control Panel
• In your Control Panel, if items are sorted by “Category” then select “Appearance and Personalization” on the right side, then in the second bottom area under “Folder Options” click on “Show hidden files and folders”. This will open the same options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.
• Otherwise, if Control Panel is sorted by Icons, simply click on “Folder Options” from the list to bring up the options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.

Wouldn’t hauling a kite behind you as you run actually cause you to move slower due to drag and resistance instead of causing you to move faster?

The only way I can see a kite as offering a speed boost is if it is in front of the player with a persistent wind blowing into it (ala ‘Wind Catcher’ back item wind gusts) and dragging the player along like a sail on a ship. Perhaps that is how it will be, but having an object in front of your player could be quite obstructive to one’s field of view while on the move.

Mouse losing focus -right click to turn not working [Merged]
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Mouse-losing-focus-right-click-to-turn-not-working-Merged

The recently added option to ‘Disable Right-click Targeting’ has helped with the issue of selecting a nearby friendly target while moving your camera with the right mouse button, but it has done nothing to solve the issue of your current target being dropped for no reason.

This happens because the mouse tracking has an issue to where the game reads you as releasing the mouse button (despite your having never released it) and then re-‘clicks’ the button down quickly. Due to this issue, if your cursor was over/near another friendly, then they become your new target as if you had intentionally clicked on them to select them.

However, disabling right-click targeting and interaction has simply made the issue of a new target stop happening. The issue of losing your target due to the glitch in mouse focus persists, only now we just have target loss due to the quick un-click and re-click of the right mouse button over an empty area of the screen which deselects the current target, instead of both target loss and random friendly selection.

In fact, most of the time that this issue is present (it is inconsistent), it actually loses and reacquires focus several times a second, which prevents character and camera orientation with the right mouse button and leaves the game in a completely unplayable state. Some days it is very bad and prevents you from even being able to play, other times it is only a couple times a minute, but leads to frustration and not playing the game the rest of that day.

I foresee there being thousands of new buy orders placed on Twilight between 1 and 50g after this patch. Twilight will never sell for 1 to 50g and it’s quick to access this item from the Top Valued Items list in the TP search area so making a new buy order to store your gold will be real quick.

Opening the TP had always caused a little bit of a lockup as the running awesomium_process.exe accessed the TP server and loaded graphics, which also used CPU, but it was not really all that bad, but noticeable.

However, the reason for the recent increase in very noticeable lag/lockup/delay when opening the TP is because the awesomium_process.exe used to launch upon opening the TP for the first time upon entering the game and stay running the entire time you played and then be closed upon exiting the game. Apparently, in addition to the serious issue of the BLTP interface disabling keyboard (chat/movement) binds when being interacted with, the awesomium_process.exe is launching when you open the TP and then being closed once you exit the TP…having to relaunch the process every single time you open your TP up during gameplay. This will cause a second or three of locking up while the process is executed and accesses the TP server. I think they made this change so the process doesn’t eat resources for the entire time you are playing just because you used the TP once. I think they tried to improve performance by closing the process when not in use, but underestimated the frequency at which players access the TP…leading to constant relaunching of the program.

I would really like to see weapon skill slot reassignment made available to players once all of the weapon skills for that weapon are unlocked. It is unlikely to ever happen though, sadly. :\

Tigre, I just wanted to update you with the development of a response from ArenaNet’s Curtis Johnson in the suggestion thread I created and linked earlier.

He states that they are “…looking into this”, though I do not know how soon one can expect a change to happen, if one were to happen. I just thought you may want to update your ticket with this information so they can find out if they can eventually help you with your current situation in the future and for you to hang on to those chests in the meantime.

I primarily use short bows, and for once I was looking forward to the jade short bow as being a smaller version of the longbow since this dragon longbow is so freaking awesome…then I was greatly disappointed.

Not only does the short bow not look like the longbow, but it barely has any visible dragon features other than the heads at the ends (yes, heads…plural) due to being completely covered up by these silver things hiding most of the bow…and to make it worse, the ‘handle/grip’ area is squared in 90 degree angles and wrapped tightly with brown string so it completely destroys any form of snake/dragon appearance.

So now I have a longbow skin just to have it despite my never using longbows. Only other decent looking one was the axe skin, but I rarely if ever use axes due to the skills for them really not being all that powerful/useful.

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Knowing i could guest to my old server and take the items (i did not have space for ad the time) on any given time in the near future.

Guesting to your old server does not allow access to your old guild upgrades that you left on that server…how did you come to believe this was so? You are limited to the capacity of a guest (hence guesting) with access to your current server’s guild upgrades.

To access your old guild upgrades on your old server you must fully transfer back to that server. So, having left items in your old guild vault, you most now wait until you are able to transfer (not guest) back to your old server again, then empty your old guild vault out (store it all in your personal bank or on alts), then wait until you can fully transfer (not guest) back to your newly chosen server and place it all into your new guild vault you have there.

Emptying of an old guild vault prior to transferring to a new server is the smartest way to go. If one does not have enough room in their personal bank to store all the items from the guild vault, then it is better to make a few temporary alts simply for the purpose of storage while transferring worlds and until the new guild vault can be set up.

goldmagistrate.2601:

I could’ve sworn the 2 writers responsible jokingly admitted to writing the framework for Living Story S1 by locking themselves in a room and coming up with everything in 1 day.

That would be this, I believe, where GW2 writers mention that the entire year and a half of Living Story was put together by these two while locked in a room for two days.

Thoughtless.7148:

so since it comes with the left and right skin for the eye patch does that mean i need to have 2 separate helmets to transmute them both onto?

Yes. Only one can be used at a time, and using each once consumes the skins. So it is not an infinite use skin to be applied repeatedly to change which side is used.

If you apply the left patch to your helm it gets consumed.
If you apply the right patch onto your left patch, your left patch is gone for good.
You must have two helms with the skins applied to each of them and swap the actual helms to swap which eye is used.

Maybe they will add a PvE skin closet in the future which makes skins infinite use (I wouldn’t even mind having to pay some coin every time I withdrew a skin from it).

As it is now, use any (non-achievement reward) skin and it can not be applied more than once. That’s a horrible idea considering we are dropping a ton of gems on skins that are single use. I’m sure their sales would actually increase if skins were unlocked for the account even if there is a withdraw charge for future uses of the skin. I really don’t know about their monetization team and where they get these ideas or why they stick with them. My business and marketing professors that I keep in touch with just shake their heads with each new item added to the gem store. It is quite sad to see the potential to make many players happy and to vastly increase revenue at the same time not being realized.

You may instead want to post this issue in the appropriate “Issues with character art, weapons, or armor” sticky thread that is dedicated to this type of issue so Josh Davis can direct it to the appropriate department for attention and correction. It would also be a very good idea to include a screenshot of the issue in the post made there.

Strider’s Boots -GEM STORE- Clips With Bare Legs And Most Pants

Species: Sylvari
Gender: Female
Class: Medium Armor
Body Type: All.
Item: Strider’s Boots (Gem Store)
Issue: Clips with bare legs and 90% of leggings

Description:
Boots clip with the bare skin of the character.
Also clips with pretty much every pair of leggings in the game.

Pretty disappointed that yet another gem store armor has issues…even with the bare skin of the character. Are they not even test worn on different body types? Takes 5 minutes to test it on each body type of a single gender of a single species. Please spend a fraction of an afternoon and check new armors out properly on characters before throwing them into the store.

After buying almost every gem store armor released, I have only a single one that doesn’t have clipping all over it or some graphics issue like red bleeding all over its edges.

For gems/real money they should be of high quality.
There is no excuse for Gem Store armor to be clipping with the bare skin of the model (let alone the reported issue of the Zodiac chest clipping with itself that still isn’t fixed)!

Real disappointing.
Why continue purchasing armors if this is the quality of them that gets released?
And after months of these issues with Gem Store armors being reported they’ve still not been fixed…

The TP UI really is back to its normal, speedy self!
Thank you for tackling this issue! I’m overjoyed to be able to interact with it at a normal pace once again!

I believe I see that you have opted for the background listing screen to hide temporarily when a pop up is being displayed instead of the pop up overlaying on top of it. Perhaps this is what was causing the issue, some kind of layered animation and updating bogging down the animation and interaction with the pop ups.

Thank you for this corrective change.

No full armor sets have ever been removed from the Gem Store Style section once they have been released (Flamekissed 1.0 is another matter entirely).

The rumor you are hearing is baseless and contrary to the entire history of full armor skin availability in the Gem Store.

Do not pay attention to those spreading rumors as they are likely just upset and exaggerating based on the two weapon skin sets being discontinued at the Black Lion Weapon Specialist.

You have plenty of time to save up and purchase the armor set you desire from Gem Store.