Guild Wars 2

Rob Thody.1539:

We are going to unsticky this thread due to the frequency of these posts. Please feel free to continue updating this thread if these issues persist.

Thank you.

I believe the word that was intended to be used was “infrequency”, and not “frequency”.

I’ve seen many dev responses making this note of the thread being un-stickied with the same copy/paste response stating this. However, the entire comment relays the wrong message as for why the thread is being un-stickied.

Un-stickying this thread due to the frequency of posts would imply the thread was being un-stickied due to it still receiving a consistent and high volume of posts relating to this ongoing issue…which is highly illogical as that would mean that the thread still being stickied was serving its purpose by directing all of the reports on the issue to where they should be reported at, and removing it from sticky-status would cause the reports of this issue to no longer be reported here, where they should be, and that the issue is still an issue.

Now, un-stickying this thread due to “infrequency” of posts would mean that the issue does not seem to be an issue any longer due to the infrequency of new posts on the matter. Infrequent posts on the subject in this thread would warrant it being un-stickied and is logical, as why continue having a thread stickied if the issue it was stickied to address is no longer an issue.

Suddenflame.2601:

This has been said time and time again already. Use the bloody search tool there is about 50 other threads all about removing leveling. There is even reports that Guild Wars 2 Alpha had no levels, but the testers were as lost as hell.

Have you tried to “use the bloody search tool” yourself? It has been non-functional for over a year and a half so no need to get upset at the creator of a thread covering a topic that has already been discussed. Do not instruct others to use it as it does not work and they refuse to either fix it, replace it with a functional search utility or remove it entirely.

tolunart.2095:

You’re free to express your opinion. The game is nearly two years old, and this is the first time I’ve heard of someone complaining because they make too much money.

Strangely enough, this is the second time I’ve come across a thread on the forums with a player that was confused (and the first thread creator was actually outraged) as to why they could not sell an item for less than the highest buy order due to their feeling it was not worth that high of an amount.

Mystic.5934:

I always prefer ‘2014/9/4’

I prefer Y/M/D (2014/4/09). It reveals to the reader the sequence of a date in the ideal order from left to right for imagining a time frame of when a date takes place, especially when discussing distant past or future dates (year for relationship to the present year, month for the time of that year, and the day for exactly when in that month).

@OP
Thanks Guhracie for making note of this when it first came up. I quickly picked yet another up. I always say I will keep it empty for when tengu come into the game, but a few weeks go by and I’ve already used it up and then plan to get another to hold permanently, temporarily.

Please edit your post and remove the website from it as it is a gold selling site and is very dangerous to visitors.

Or perhaps a mod could edit this.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Salome — so that I can best understand this: Was what you experienced an actual game bug? Or did you have a gameplay question that players were able to answer through forum posts?

Just to assist Salome:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/support-request-Mini-Toxic-Nimross-71572

It was related to the achievement unlock hierarchy to where, despite the conditions having been met to receive the mini reward, the achievement was not unlocked yet due to it remaining unjustifiably locked until its prerequisite achievement was completed.
(I say ‘unjustifiably’ as it seems that it is not initially unlocked simply for the sake of forcing all players to repeat the encounter just to encourage additional anti-toxin to be injected to advance the anti-toxin meter)

Had the Support Representative familiarized themselves with the most recent update then it would have been obvious to them that it was not a bug. They would have then been able to offer the same responses given by players in that thread and in a timely manner instead of also taking a week and still not being appropriately responded to. It does appear to me as if the ticket was not even reviewed to see if the issue could be diagnosed and resolved, but was instead dismissed with a copy/paste response that did not even attempt to offer Salome with the appropriate support.

As this particular issue was reported and discussed enough on the forums in the first days of the game update being released, I feel that Support should have easily been able to recognize the issue in the first reading of the ticket and then give an appropriate response to resolve the misunderstanding.

As you mentioned, Gaile, ensuring Support Representatives familiarize themselves with the latest game update would be ideal for issue recognition. Familiarization with frequently reported issues on the forums following a new game update would also help with appropriate issue resolutions for players contacting support.

I was quite shocked to actually see that suggestion being implemented.
I look forward to getting my griffon delivery agent after patching.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/customize-mail-dove
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Unique-Mail-Pigeons

Main questions I would ask are:

1) Are you sure you consumed the purchased Commander’s Compendium item to activate the commander function on a single character?

2) If so, are you sure you are trying to activate the commander function on the character you activated the Commander’s Compendium on?

3) If so, are you properly activating the commander function by clicking on your party drop-down menu and selecting the “Create Squad” button?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

SkyShroud.2865:

Please moderate WvW section, the LFG post should be in LFG, no1 move them since like 2 weeks ago.

Just go to that post and click on the icon that looks like a little crawly person (allegedly that’s a flag). A panel will open and you can type a message there that goes directly to the moderator.

I only ever saw a ‘flag’ …now I cannot unsee the crawly person. :|
Thanks, Fleshy.

Any. I’d much prefer Largos over all others, but this far into the game’s release I would take absolutely any of them and be thankful.

Ursan.7846:

Again, you have no idea how many people think like you.

I never stated, nor implied that I did.

Ursan.7846:

Go ahead and complain about the RNG all you want, but to argue that it would make more business sense to do something else based purely on personal preference is to be narrow-minded and ignorant.

Go ahead and throw insults and call me names, you’ll only get infracted.
Also, do you have a business degree? Do you own your own business? Do your customers for said business continue to come back because they are treated how they want and deserve to be treated, while also keeping said business profitable? There is plenty of profit to be had without giving in to greed. A flawed business model that is only profitable in the short term is still a flawed business model.

Looking back at the history of what they consider a “feature” and what their idea of “big” is regarding GW2…nobody should be expecting anything worthwhile and should actually be fearing unwanted, unneeded, unrequested things that break other things to be all that is included in it. Until they actually start releasing expansion-like content consistently through their LS and feature patch releases and start behaving like a real game company again, I’ll not take anything they say seriously and file it under bloated PR and marketing talk as that is all it has ever been for GW2 with no tie to a little thing called “reality”.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-November-12-2013/3194135

• Fixed several client crashes, including one that prevented some players from entering the game.

Did this fix that they did after your posts correct the problems all of you were having?

I may be in the minority, but I really do not enjoy the way minions are handled in GW2, especially since it was so incredible in GW1.

I understand that there are reasons for why resurrecting minions from corpses was not implemented in GW2, but I feel that the way minions are currently handled is not ideal and is also lacking in depth. There is a lot of potential still to be had with the GW2 necromancer regarding minion acquisition and management over simply ‘buying’ a summon skill with skill points to summon one of the few predefined kinds; Bone Minions, Bone Fiend, Flesh Wurm, Shadow Fiend, Blood Fiend.

Imagine if, just as the ranger has to ‘charm’ a juvenile pet for it to be selectable in the pet management, that a necromancer would need to kill an enemy/adult animal and perform a 10 second ritual or something which summons a dead/death-touched version of it, thus binding the soul to you and being summonable in this proposed necromancer minion management. Necromancers could then be able to share the same pet control mechanics as the ranger in regards to controlling minions.

It wouldn’t have to be all types of animals that can be resurrected as the ranger has many of the same types of animals it can ‘charm’. Death form of animals could be one of each species; e.g. a feline, a drake, a spider, etc, but would look like dark, twisted versions of them…instead of just a reskinning, though I’d not complain about that if that were the case. Or it could have nothing to do with animals and be entirely focused on species like Centaurs, or Humans, or even turn a Risen to do your bidding.

Due to the increased control over minions (such as a ranger with directing their pet), being able to summon two or three minions at once would then be possible only to those necromancers who trait into minion controlling. To counter the OP nature of having three controllable pets, I would then like to see the return of the mechanic of minions constantly losing health and the need for sustaining your summons through sacrificing your own health, or better yet, your life force bar for death shroud. It would be interesting to have to choose between assuming death shroud or using the life force stored there through killing enemies to heal your minions.

And if you have two (or the max of 3) summoned minions, keeping the additional ones alive would be very taxing on your life force bar, so keeping and maintaining one or two would be ideal, but a third wouldn’t be impossible if there are plenty of enemies to fuel your life force bar. Even then, converting the life force into health for sustaining the minions could be attached to minion F-key skills with a cool down so you could only heal each of them so often.

continued below

Also wanted to include some more screenshots.
Can view them here: http://stinvec.imgur.com if you would like.
I use FXAA PPI for enhanced anti-aliasing, color richness, bloom effect, sharpness, etc.
I also have side-by-side comparisons with ‘vanilla’ GW2 settings there.

[…Continued]
In my cultural situation resolution proposal I outlined making the cultural armors available on the Gem Store and switching to Class Armor. It would also implement the ability for past and future Gem Store armors to be infinite use for a fee of unlocking the Base Skin (Cultural 1.0) so players that want the 1.0 pay what the players paid for their Cultural 1.0 skins and they would also already have it unlocked as they already bought it. My proposal offered a way to make everyone happy without trivializing the time or money earned and spent on Cultural 1.0 armors, as well as retaining armor sets that are restricted, but to class instead of species. The Class Armors could even be GW1 class armors ported or re-envisioned for GW2, which would also make even more players happy that some GW1 skins would finally return.

Nobody gets slighted, nothing is removed from being attainable, restricted armor ‘mechanic’ remains, desired features get implemented, more appearance options available for every player, Anet sees increased Gem Store revenue, stagnant/half-implemented game aspects receive purpose.

Regarding the horizontal aspects of skills and traits I offer my thoughts on:

• Necromancer – Minion Acquisition and Management
• Ranger Changes
  • Pet Dismissal Replaces Pet Stow
  • A Non-Pet/Beastmaster Class Option
• Further distancing from trinity-influenced aspects of RPGs
  • Armor weight class restriction removal
  • Character Level Irrelevant; remove levels and switch entirely to stat-based down/upscaling
  • Base stats same across the board regardless of class; remove stats from armor; players increase stats based on character creation choices and frequency of skill usage (actual experience with skills increases that skill’s stats and its effectiveness instead of relying on an outmoded form of character progression to increase stats and dictate survivability, effectiveness, and appearance options: leveling)

Indeed, I saw others mentioning its return, but I was not affected by it. Then I happened to move my inventory from where I had it for the first time in months and from that point on I’ve been dealing with the resizing issue on login as well.

Getting really, really old having to (again) resize it constantly.

Omar Aschi Popp.7496:

I would like some side-by-side comparison of a full set of x armor and the mix-match version. Some of these while looking awesome, look like they are part of a set anyway(maybe you’re that good at matching).

Many people really are just that good at coming up with real nice combinations of armor. Many times the armors look “better” in the mixed appearance a player posts than they do with the individual armor sets they came from.

Sites like Argos-Soft already have images of the full armor sets and most posters here are kind enough to follow the encouraged and appreciated behavior of including the names of the sets that the pieces are a part of.

If posters were to include images of the full sets for each individual item used in the mixed images then they could be unnecessarily including 6 or more additional images, one for each piece of armor used in the mixed appearance, that can already be found on armor sites like the one I mentioned.

If you see an appearance you really like, but the poster did not include the names of the sets the armors came from, quoting their post and asking what the names of the armors are is usually quickly followed by that poster (or someone else) responding with the names of the armors used. We’re a really friendly and helpful community.

:) Happy to have tried to help out.
If you need a hand with that program or any tips to get certain looks or anything I’d be glad to help out. The effect chain setting for multiple passes of settings is really nice.

Here are a couple anyway
Screenshots taken from that program get saved to the installation directory of the game it was taken in. So GW2 screenshots will be saved in the GW2 installation folder. If you put it onto another game then screenshots for that game will be saved to that game’s installation folder. Helps to keep game screenshots organized to each game they were taken in.

Due to Print Screen being the screenshot key for the program, you may still see the ‘screenshot folder is full’ message from the game due to also using the game’s screenshot key. If you bind a different key to your in-game screenshot key then that will leave Print Screen only bound to the program’s screenshot function so you will not get that message anymore when you take a screenshot.

Happy gaming!

Already being discussed a few threads down on page 1.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Why-back-items-dropped-at-price

Electro.4173:

It makes perfect sense. They’re meant to represent the Toxic Alliance which has a green glow, not the “glowy pink swirl” alliance.

And I don’t think any glowy effects are dye-able on any armor. None of the fire effects are dyable on any of the fire armor, radiant armors aren’t dyable, the Zephyrite helm glows aren’t dyable… its either not possible to dye them, not reasonable (meaning it could be done but it would be a lot of extra work) or they just don’t want them dyable.

Your cited examples are not Gem Store armors, they are armors only obtainable from playing the game. As these are Gem Store armors they should be of premium quality to justify the outrageous price for a single piece.

Also, as these are not fully dyeable and are directly related to a Living Story chapter, they should have been awards for meta achievement completion much like the Molten Gauntlets were from Flame and Frost.

Making LS related pieces of an incomplete armor set that cannot be fully dyed only obtainable via an outrageous price in the Gem Store was not a good idea.

Have you changed or checked the setting on your system to see if it is configured to 5.1 surround sound, stereo speakers, headphones, etc? It can make difference and cause this problem with some games if you have it set incorrectly.
Screenshots below should help if you need them.

Win7:
Control Panel
Sound
Hit Configure button in the dialogue box.
Select the appropriate Stereo or Headphones option.
Also check your balance in the configure screens, or in the Properties button of your listed headset and check the Balance button there to ensure both left and right are equal.

Win XP:
Control Panel
Sounds and Audio Devices
Volume Tab
Lower “Speaker Settings” area
Advanced button
Then under the “Speaker Setup” dropdown, select “Stereo Headphones”.

If you are running special software that came with your G35, check to see if you have enabled the “Surround Sound” button. It may be conflicting with the settings you’ve chosen in the properties dialogue (XP) or configuration (7).

I hope this has helped. Please see the images below for more details if you need them.

Fantastic. Simply and utterly a fantastic read. Thank you for taking the time to write and post this.

pew pew pokes q q.7816:

I believe this is a fake god you just made up lol. Ill look into it but I’ve never heard of it and doesn’t seem legit. Don’t you dare turn this around on me. You know as well as everyone here that the symbol represents the purest of evil and has bad history to it. Its just like displaying a swastika on a staff or shield and saying I was born a German its part of my history and culture Show me some respect. Its not bad because of my nationality and I believed in the nation I was born in. Same difference. Just like the Germans slaughtered millions in WWII, now its banned. But people still use it. Just like the Rams head, people today are trying to use it to symbolize idols, and demons or their religion and it has a thick bloody history in WWII with the Germans as well, that shouldn’t be in a game that’s supposed to be fun. Look up WWII history on SS Occult meetings. Its in the history books and you can read about it. The rams head was a powerful symbol to some who were involved with mass murders.

You do realize that the swastika is a symbol that has been used by civilizations for over 7 thousand years and the word “swastika” literally means “to be good”, or “luck”, right? It is the basis for how 4-leaf clovers were synonymous with being lucky, because the 4-leaf clover resembles the swastika symbol. Should clovers be banned? Would you boycott Lucky Charms cereal because of the shape of the clover resembling the swastika and how its being synonymous with bringing luck is directly attributable to the meaning of the swastika? Just because one guy used the symbol as the label for something bad, does not make the symbol bad, it makes the acts committed under the symbol bad.

“Or another translation can be made: ‘swa’ is ‘higher self’, ‘asti’ meaning ‘being’, and ‘ka’ as a suffix, so the translation can be interpreted as ‘being with higher self’.”
So it is also a symbol of spirituality and peace.

It was not that there will be lots of water, it was that players should bring lots of water – implying that it will be dry where we will be going.

Also, I love underwater combat. I know I am not in the majority there, but I would gladly welcome more underwater areas, and especially hopeful that we will one day see an underwater main city for a new playable species.

Zaxares.5419:

^ Source? I would be thrilled if that were true, but the last time I heard Colin speak on the subject he said that they were “happy” with the way PvE aesthetics was currently being handled.

PAX 2013, around the 21min mark.

pupi.2465:

Thank You very much Sir! This saved my day! I love how it stills there are nice ppl in virtual world.

As for the others saying “just use another button for dodge” , i play this game since beta, and use dodge on mid mouse button, even with a mouse with many other buttons, for me, it doesnt work well as in the mid button… i am sucessful in pvp this way, so im not changing, also, the other buttons already have its binds.

Thank you and gg all.

Very glad to hear it works as you desire it to. You’re quite welcome.

If you wanted to remove the task of having to launch the script and GW2 separately, you can also look into creating a shortcut that launches both the script and GW2. May help in the future if you run into some instances where you forget to launch the script and have to tab out of GW2 later on to launch it. I tend to do that sometimes myself, but do not forget frequently enough to put forth the effort to make the dual launch shortcut.

Happy gaming!

Redenaz.8631:

I’m withholding my enthusiasm until I see how much it ultimately costs. Looking at you, Nightfury.

It does look really neat, though, so I’m hoping it won’t include any components that cost an arm and a leg.

The info so far reads like it will be craftable via the mystic forge after getting all of the collection items awarded via RNG for grinding repeatedly completing Wintersday activities.

Sigils
It’s shoulder armor, why would it use sigils in its forge recipe and not runes?
Anyway, depending on what sigils are needed, I expect the supply to get bought up immediately and jacked up in price. So this is one area where it can potentially become very costly if you do not already have the sigils. Then again, perhaps the sigils will be the ones that drop from the Wintersday gifts so we’ll get a supply of them simply by opening the gifts earned via doing the activities to get the collection items.

Collection Items
I’m sure each activity will award a piece needed for the collection and the collection itself gives you an account bound item that gets used in the forge. It is said that the RNG is low enough that you get a piece for the collection like every 3rd completion of an activity. If all we have to do is play each Wintersday activity ~3 times to get its piece, then that’s not too bad.

Then again, it’s disappointing to me that I would need to play the PvP activity to get its collection piece as I do not like PvP at all. I feel even worse for those not able to do jumping puzzles, let alone needing to do it ~3 times, who would then not be able to get the piece awarded for doing that activity.

I highly doubt it, but perhaps the collection items will be tradeable. I doubt they will be, but if they are tradeable, I expect those items may cost a bit if one wanted/needed to sidestep completing the activity that awards them.

alchahest.1423:

It is in fact people on the rocks and whining? This is a new issue, people have been on the rocks since the event opened up. Please use less inflammatory language to describe the people who are trying to prevent someone from taking away their chances at some payoff for the time invested in the event, simply because “it’s how the skills are intended to work”.

And to top it off, those of us “Whiners” who don’t wait on the rocks, but instead will wait behind the instigator or off to the side, many of us were denied loot, too.

It is not a new issue, it has been occurring since the start. You may not have experienced it from that point, but it has been happening since then.

I did not use any inflammatory language to describe people that stand on the rocks outside of the theoretical scaling detection zone. I did, however, use intentionally non-inflammatory language to describe them based on their documented behaviors and quoted choices of words against those dropping traps. Yes, they are whining. One who whines is, by definition, a whiner. Much worse could be said of them and their behavior.

I stated nothing of there also being people who are whining and are also not on the rocks. Did you just confirm that there are also people in the battle area who whine as well? I did not include them in that statement as I specified those on the rocks, you included them.

Perhaps those that are not up on the rocks should encourage those that are to come down to the actual area where the Instigator spawns to potentially prevent improper scaling from occurring.

I also did not state that those who were not on the rocks and were actually within the spawn area, yet happened to be unable to target the Instigator to take part in the improperly scaled event, were whiners or to blame whatsoever.

All who are denied the chance to take part in the combat due to their distance from the improperly scaled event is extremely unfair and very disappointing. I myself have missed out on taking part even though the fight began at the time I waypointed to Kiels and was unable to make that short distance to the fight before it was over.

However, the less than adequate targeting system is no excuse if you are in the area waiting for him to spawn. You do not need to actually target and attack the Instigator directly to get credit for taking part and receive the chest. Attacking the settlers grants equal participation to attacking the Instigator. If you insist on receiving a chance at his body granting loot, then there are many skills and abilities that any person can activate, regardless of class, that are active without having a selected target…just use them in his general direction and the power of odds that one hit will land is greater than not.

Try storing it:

• in your collections tab of your bank/expanding your collections tab
  (not too helpful since that’s at most like 4 stacks worth of storage)
• in your actual bank slots/expanding your bank slots
• on other characters
• in a personal guild bank
• by utilizing all of the above

Or even selling some.

You’ll need to empty your pick up tab eventually, might as well do it now.

Was already just a few threads down on page 1 of bugs.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Radiant-Gloves-preview-light-mid-bug

Sorry, Shades. Just now getting on and I’m still patching to get the TP screenshot.
Update for you soon.

jazzllanna.1278:

Belenwyn.8674:

A new race at July 1st is possible and would be a nice surprise since we lost one. But a new race I would rather expect during season 2.

Doesn’t season 2 start July 1st?

Also, what race did we lose?

Glad to have helped.
The remove dye/re-dye trick normally fixes the problem when an item isn’t saving dye changes if it isn’t something more complex keeping it from dying properly.

It isn’t an instance, it’s a zone, so that is why there isn’t a ‘leave instance’ button.
Also, you can choose to waypoint to Divinity’s Reach or anywhere else. Bring up your map and go up a level when viewing it (to see the surface map which is above this zone) and choose any waypoint you want.

Before MegaServer I would RP hunt/gather as I camped out in the woods of Timberline Falls. After MagaServer I could no longer remain immersed into the activity due to dozens of players constantly running past me and flamethrowering everything around me. I’ve not been able to RP hunt/gather/camp out since MS was forced on us.

Before MegaServer I would make it a daily activity (sometimes multiple times daily) to go to the Harathi Hinterlands to kill me some centaur! I would end up doing the entire zone event chain up to Ulgoth completely on my own. It was so much fun. Now that Ulgoth is on a timer and the zone is filled with so many people due to MegaServer, it is not nearly as much fun. I went from slaughtering hundreds upon hundreds of centaur (I used to actually keep as close a count as I could to how many I rid the lands of) and killing their leader every day, to barely being able to tag a few of the beasts due to all the players around and only catching Ulgoth “up” one time. :\ Can’t even go into that zone without becoming very sad, so I don’t go there anymore.

Still trying to find a new area that is free of so many other players that could work well for RP hunting/gathering/camping. :\ Orr areas aren’t good for this kind of activity at all, really, even if there are so few people there.

When files and folders are placed onto a removable drive they tend to immediately be given ’Read Only’ attributes.

Now, due to the way the ’Read Only’ attribute for folders is handled by Windows, specifically that Windows ignores that setting being changed through the ’Properties’ window in relation to folders and that setting instead only applies to files within the folder, it is possible that the files in the folder are, indeed, being set to ’Read/Write’ by your un-checking the ’Read Only’ checkbox in their ’Properties’, but the folder itself is marked as ’Read Only’ due to being created on or moved onto the removable drive.

You can try to go from behind the folder and files on the drive through the Command Prompt to ensure that both the game folder and the files within it are, indeed, ’Read/Write’ and not ’Read Only’.

First:
As Espionage mentioned, place the game files (Gw2.dat, Gw2.exe, etc) into a folder on your flash drive called "Guild Wars 2".
ex. If your flash drive is ’F’ then your directory structure would be:
F:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.dat

Then:
Run these two commands from your Windows Command Prompt, replacing ’F’ with your flash drive’s ’Drive Letter’:
attrib -r F:\Guildw~1
attrib -r F:\Guildw~1\*.*

This will force the game folder and all files within it to be marked as being ’Read/Write’ on the flash drive. You should not have to re-download the game files again and the game should be able to update properly when a new build is released as the existing files will be able to be accessed and written to properly.

Do others agree with this scenario I’ve outlined of the folder and files not being writable due to being placed onto a removable drive and thus the game attempts to re-download the whole game again due to not being writable, and that these commands being run may be effective in solving this problem?

(’disable textile’ was un-checked by my editing my post, the commands are displayed properly now)

Is “moa” plural still “moa” (like deer and sheep), “moas”, or would it be “moai” (mow-eye like “The Moai”)?

Regardless, I like your ideas. Very well done.

Syde.8213:

Since we have a lot of new pvp drops is it possible to have a bank npc on PVP area so we can deposit it right there?

sorry cant edit the topic title: BANK NPC on PVP. this is the right title

tnx

Heya, Syde. You cannot edit the topic title by editing your opening post. To edit the topic title you need to click the words “Edit Topic” that are just underneath the “Add Reply” and “Subscribe” buttons underneath the actual title of the thread at the top of this page.

See the attached image.

If you check the age of each of your characters, you can then determine how long until each character receives their respective birthday gifts for their age.

While in-game, enter this command into your chat box: /age
When a character’s age reaches 365 days they will receive the Year 1 gift.
When a character’s age reaches 730 days they will receive the Year 2 gift.
When a character’s age reaches 1095 days they will receive the Year 3 gift.
etc.

You can also go to a website like timeanddate.com where you can add or subtract days to determine exactly what date it was you created the character on (when their birthday is) and how many more days until their next birthday.

My interest in HoT, and how much I would pay for it, is dependent upon what it contains and offers for my play style.

New area(s):

• I enjoy exploring full zones and immersing myself in the atmospheres of them while finding the little nooks. Because of how Dry Top and Silverwastes are micro-zones with a gimmick, as well as no real exploration potential or atmosphere, I do not enjoy being in those zones. As HoT will only be offering new area(s) that will clearly be more of the same type of gimmick and ‘keep them occupied’ mechanics found in those two zones, I would not buy the ‘expansion’ for the new playable area(s).

How much I would pay is decreased due to not containing something of interest to me.

No new playable species:

• One thing that would offer me many, many months of playtime would be adding another species to the game.
• Making a new character that is a new species would offer me 14 new ways (7 male, 7 female) to play the existing professions (minus engi that I cannot play due to hobosack) and to experience all of the existing zones all over again.
• This would induce plenty of appearance customizations, transmutation charge usages and using makeover kits as I tweak and fashion each one and see what the new species can look like. This could also mean more armor set skin purchases that work great on the new species that I had not purchased due to not looking right on the existing ones, as well as up to 14 new character slot purchases (at 20 currently).

It would mean quite a bit of money for ANet from me, and many, many hours of playtime leveling the different characters. By not offering a new species, ANet not only forgoes all of that additional spending, they also decreased my interest in HoT and the likelihood that I’d even purchase it.

Again, how much I would pay is decreased due to not containing something of interest to me.

A new profession:

• I enjoy playing many of the existing ones (I have nearly 20 characters), but it would be nice to experience the existing world with a new profession.
  (I could experience the world with an engi for the first time if they’d remove the hobosack, instead I’d need to purchase HoT to experience the world with a new profession)
• At most I would fashion and explore the existing world with 2 characters; a male and a female…maybe a few more of another race or two. However, there would be very little to nothing spent on makeover kits due to my already knowing what I like existing species to look like. I already have the heavy armor skin sets I want due to how they look on existing species. I’d likely use a few existing transmutation charges one time due to not needing to experiment with looks on the two genders.
• I may not like the way the new profession plays and not explore the existing world at all due to it not being enjoyable.

A new profession does not decrease how much I would pay, but it also certainly does not increase how much I would pay due to the possibility that I may not like it.
A new species guaranteed new ways to play 7 professions that I already know I enjoy playing; a new profession could be hit or miss. If it’s a miss, then I’d feel I made a poor decision spending that money for it. This would then lead to less interest in spending more money on the game or on future ‘expansions’.

Because of the possibility of it being a miss, how much I would pay is decreased due to not wanting to risk spending more for something I am not sure I will enjoy.

The switch to releasing only outfits instead of both armor sets and outfits:

• A big part of what I enjoy in the game is not just exploring large areas, but looking good while I am exploring large areas.
• The complete scrapping of and refusal to release new armor sets, and this switch to only releasing outfits, has caused me to not spend much time fashioning my characters.
• They’ve made it clear that they do not intend to release more armor sets in the gem store. They’ve done this not only by releasing only outfits for so long, but now also by releasing appearances that clearly should be armor sets as outfits.

No new armor sets that I can buy and integrate into existing fashions as my characters’ appearances evolve, as well as it being highly unlikely to see any new armor sets in the store in the future due to the 100% switch to only releasing outfits without a single word or a single response in the hundreds of threads on these forums alone, has severely decreased how much I would pay for HoT.

Many other negative changes and nonsensical overhauls of unbroken systems, as well as the lack of effort to decrease the number of actual broken systems and persistent bugs, leads to quite an even higher decrease in how much I would pay. I’ve seen how they conduct themselves with the base game, why should I think it will get better after the ‘expansion’. I do not reward bad undesirable behavior.

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

Hi. All of these are related to the same issue.

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 recently added 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.

Absolutely!

I’ve noticed this issue with the guild armor as well. It even happens on the guild backpack.

The guild emblem should be a type of decal that goes on top of the armor’s texture. Apparently it is not being applied as a decal and is instead being merged into the armor texture. Due to their basically making half of an item and then mirroring it to the other side, only half of the guild emblem is visible and this half is being mirrored onto the other half.

As it is, there is no point in wearing guild armor. Even if the resulting emblem can look pretty cool (as it does in your shot), it is still not your guild emblem, which is a source of pride for the guild and its community.

Hopefully they will correct this issue.

Kain Francois.4328:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1djssi/upcoming_gemstore_items/

I must admit, I’m particularly disappointed. Usually they give us a month or two to calm down after the RNG boxes.

Notice the skins this time are also account-bound, much like the Fusion weapons. I have a bad feeling…

Pistol: [&AgGCpgAA]
Rifle: [&AgGFpgAA]
Scepter: [&AgGIpgAA]
Shield: [&AgGLpgAA]
Short Bow: [&AgGOpgAA]
Staff: [&AgGRpgAA]
Sword: [&AgGUpgAA]
Torch: [&AgGXpgAA]
Warhorn: [&AgGapgAA]
Greatsword: [&AgF2pgAA]
Longbow: [&AgF8pgAA]
Hammer: [&AgF5pgAA]
Mace: [&AgF9pgAA]
Focus: [&AgFzpgAA]
Dagger: [&AgFwpgAA]
Axe: [&AgFspgAA]

sigh
Why do I even bother coming to this “Official” GW2 site and these “Official” GW2 forums if this stuff isn’t even posted on here for actual players that purchased their game and we instead have to go to some outside, unrelated social media site to get information about changes to a game we paid for?
I think I just answered my own question. I won’t be going to those sites, but I guess there’s also no reason to come here either. :\

First, make sure you actually have gotten all 10 and that you did not simply miss one. Dulfy.net has a good guide with pictures (and I think videos) showing them all and how to get them.

The one many forget about or cannot find is the one inside of the cliff far down below the skydock waypoint.

If you are already running the game as Administrator, it’s not your UAC settings, and awesomium_process.exe is not being blocked by security software, then try these.

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.

First Option:

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)
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.

Second Option:
You can try to run the -repair utility on your installation to see if there are actually some damaged files within the game files.

Another thing to try:
If the above solutions did not fix the problem then there is another file that can be deleted. This one will cause you to lose your saved game settings so try the above solutions first so you do not have to needlessly reconfigure your settings.

1. Ensure your game is completely closed.
2. Browse your My Computer to:
   “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\Documents\Guild Wars 2”
3. Inside this Guild Wars 2 folder you should see a file called “local.dat”, rename this file to “backup-local.dat”
4. Load up your game normally. You may have a small download to replace the renamed file. See if the issue is fixed once in-game.
5. If it is fixed then you will notice your settings are all reverted to default. You should reconfigure your game settings once again to your preference. You can then delete the “backup-local.dat” file.

StinVec.3621:

I just pointed out a clipping issue on female sylvari where the ‘underwear’ of the armor clips right through the back end of the skirt of the armor.

Just wanted to warn others of this and to maybe hold off on getting the armor (for a female sylvari) until it gets fixed as it is pretty bad most of the time.

ALSO
The inside texture of the skirt does not match up with the outside texture of the skirt on both sides.

• Outside texture hangs off of the outside lower bone of the waist armor
• Inside texture hangs off of the top-inner bone of the waist armor

Issues are still there. Should have fixed this at the same time as the change to normal map on the chest area that was not even really necessary. Will any of the issues with this and the other gem store armors ever get fixed?

darkbluefirefly.9650:

OK Bots are getting bugged on most servers.
It’s in Queensdale.
My server is Maguuma, and most other server should have these stuck bots.
Waypoint is “Claypool waypoint”
Location is next to the repair girl named Anne
How do I know? The people stacked there. Humans don’t stack at the repair in 6+ and afk. They all all stuck there, must be a bug or something. And another thing, there are people “poping in” like teleporting tot he exact spot that the bots are bugged in. They didn’t run there, they teleported. Wish I had fraps to record.

The stack of players standing at a merchant or anyone they are able to sell items at (merchant, repair, etc.) are Trading Post bots. So bots can continue to loot stuff out in the world without getting full bags they mail their items to these stationary bots. The stationary TP botters receive items in their mail from the field bots and they post them directly to the Trading Post. You’ll know this is the case if you see this Stationary TP Bot standing at a merchant constantly mailing items off to the TP and every 20-30seconds they talk to the merchant so they are not booted for inactivity. They also sell their junk and stuff to the merchant that is sent to them from Fields bots. This person also NEVER moves, NEVER logs out and NEVER responds to PM’s. I just tag them for botting once a day after a watching them for a few days with them never moving, etc. In fact there is one on Eredon Terrace right now standing at the Merchant near the bank in Divinity’s Reach (won’t name names on here)…low level like level 3 or 6, mailing away items for several days now without moving or logging. Take a peak and see exactly what I described.

Now I attribute this scenario to the TP bots, but it might just be a**holes screwing around with the TP so they can get stuff for dirt cheap. (another reason I really hate how the TP and item valuation is configured). Have you ever noticed how, say you list a single item for 10s and the current highest buy order is 5s and it is an order for like 500 by 1 person. That’s usually the TP bot. Now after your item is listed at 10s suddenly there is a stack of 100 of this item listed by a single person for like 9s…so you re-list yours at 8s99c, they re-list at 8s, and this will continue for about 10 minutes until the value is destroyed and you’re forced to list it for 1c higher than this buy order stack of 500 by a single buyer. Then the next day their buy order is 1s and the cycle repeats until the item that is being sold is down to vendor value…

I logged in just now after reading the booster changes and went to claim the free booster in the gem store.

Upon trying to claim the booster I was given a message stating that the listing has expired and that the page would reload to display the current listings. At this point it still showed the booster as being free, but no matter what I do it will not grant it to me.

The listing says that the sale is ending soon…

Am I out getting this free booster despite it still being there for me to claim?

Kraggy.4169:

Doesn’t getting a portal to get the ‘achievement’ kind of invalidate the ‘achievement’?

Still, I guess some folks cheat at solitaire, so …

The portal to the goggles does not give the achievement. You must actually grab the goggles and do the dive ‘properly’ to get the achievement. The portal just saves the jumper 30-90 minutes of making their way back up to the goggles after their inevitable failed jump.

If the NSS diving goggles were like any other goggles (save for dry top), where you get them and jump and you’re good, that’s one thing, but they are not.

A player can spend 30-90 minutes to get to the top to get the goggles, and then they have to jump blindly into the void and hope that they don’t hit the intentionally placed obstacles on the way down. When they do (I’ve not heard of anyone doing it on their first try), then they die and need to waypoint outside of the puzzle, go all the way back in, spend another 30-90 minutes to get back up there only to die on the jump again.

The task itself is not designed to be challenging, where successfully completing it gives a sense of satisfaction – it is designed to be frustrating with unnecessary obstacles that defy logic (even in a world that has magic) simply because the designer desired to make success more based on luck than on skill.

Challenge and award me for my skills, not for my ability to throw away hours doing the same thing without destroying my keyboard/throwing my mouse in the hopes of getting lucky enough one time to not hit some jutting pipe or two after jumping blindly and passing through a huge and pointless rock that lacks collision because reasons. Even then, people have survived the jump into the water successfully without touching anything on the way down and not been awarded the achievement due to some bug or whatever. That is not fun. It is not fun.

I will get a mesmer up there for you today, Lanfear. I’ll mail you in-game when I do and see if you still need me to help.