Guild Wars 2

Solo’d without dying (twice)

So .. is that it? I feel like there was a joke, but I didn’t get the punch line.

Further testing:

After this bug has taken effect, and I go back to character selection.. it was only randomly “beeping” when I single click on a character’s image. After restarting the client, the game was reliably beeping on each single click, as expected.

Hope this helps.

MISMATCHING KEY AND BORDERLAND PUZZLES:

I discovered, very long ago, that if you get the key for one, then use it on one of the OTHER borderland vaults, you don’t lose the key. This meant that a person would be able to essentially open the vaults every day with a single key. If you came back to the original map after opening another borderland with that map’s key, the chest would not open.

If you come back to that map the next day, with the key, I found it was hit or miss on whether they key would function or not.

There might be something new going on, or maybe it’s just a manifestation of this bug.

Has anyone else had this experience?

I’ve separated the key lock issue I experienced to this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Skill-Lock-not-Skill-Lag/first#post3184872

One more thing: I was playing Lyssa (final phase) and it wasn’t like when you are stunned or needing to look away from Lyssa when attacking her minions.

I walked away from the center battle area, checked to see if there were any conditions on me, etc. Stood around for a minute or so trying to get any skill to work.

When playing Lyssa tonight, I was suddenly unable to activate ANY skills. Everything else worked fine, but pressing any skill key resulted in nothing at all.

This isn’t like the skill lag.. I wasn’t getting any lag. The game is running great for me since I added a bunch of hardware and installed win8.1

Workaround: I logged off, and right back in (without restarting the client) and it was working perfectly again.

This happened only this ONE time and I ran WvW since about 9am PDT, then bosses, Tequatl and 4 temples ending at 2:03am PDT (eek!) so I wouldn’t say it’s a common bug.

I am a Guardian and I have autoattack turned OFF.

This needs to break into 3 separate bugs… I experienced “skill lock” tonight at Lyssas, so Bish I may stand corrected!

btw, I did try doing the local.dat thing

Nope. This is a new bug. I have lost some of the tracks, 3 times since the last patch, when there is a lot going on. That is: WvW zerg, Lyssa and Grenth.

I still hear Dialog and UI effects, but I believe both environment and effects are gone. (I never listen to the music).

Sound quality is set to Highest Quality and Lowest Latency.

I’ve had a few sound bugs before (ie: crashing) but this is something brand new, and I’ve corroborated on this with a few other people running the events with me.

I got that info from the server programmer’s post on here, so it is quite possible to be a correct solution.

As he said, it’s a race condition where your autoattack beats the client keypress, so the server doesn’t hear your attack.

Check that your antialiasing is turned on in your graphics drivers and the game.

If you are having skill lag, turn off your auto attack.

I sold my Kudzu for 2121g 21s 21c a few weeks back, and I used the proceeds to buy materials for Sunrise (which I crafted, not bought on the TP).

Why? Because I was going to use Kudzu and Dreamer on my Ranger, but when I realized that Kudzu’s arrows are close enough to the stock items to not matter, I bought an exotic longbow and was done with it. The longbow does so much more damage than the Dreamer that the extra bonus of using Kudzu is irrelevant.

Now, I have Twilight and Sunrise on my Guardian, and there is no sweet way that I will put them together as Eternity unless I am inclined to sell the result.

I agree that these two minis are a slap in the face to the collectible nature of them, as a whole. Seeing that they arrived shortly after ArenaNET’s public announcement of the removal of Set 1 from the gem store, I don’t see how this comes across as anything more than the company’s attempt to force the price of the minis into a space which they feel is appropriate, vs. letting the market decide (isn’t that Mr. Smith’s preference?)

That said, I also agree with Diamondgirl’s final statement. Unfortunately, making the minis drop so drastically in price will permanently limit the reduction of loss, due to all existing players having easy access to the items and limiting the future market size.

I have the feeling that if Mr. Smith was comfortable with the bludgeoning the mini market has taken, he would be speaking in favour of it. In the past, I don’t remember seeing him too concerned about whether he was making friends with his statements… so this implies to me that something or someone has limited his voice in the matter.

John Smith.4610:

Any changes to the economic systems of any kind will be in the patch notes. This was an error, there are no economic changes that are intentionally kept from patch notes.

As someone who has done the run from time to time, but not lately.. The patch note update which was finally posted comes across mostly as a technical “see we posted a patch note.” In the skill changes, we see an attempt at a discussion of rationale, but absolutely no justification accompanying this statement.

“Champ boxes nerfed because zerkers are twits” or “because farmers made too much gold” is better than “it just was, suck it up.”

Painful honesty is better than sugar coated air.

Ixl Super Ixl.7258:

No matter how many times anet crashes the mini market, collecting minipets is still give you some profit I guess

No, not if they keep crashing it. How do you plan to make money on a mini that is forced never go to up in value by whimsical introductions of commonly dropping rare minis, shortly after they ramp the prices up by announcing the removal of the series 1 minis from the gem store.

There is no conspiracy theory about market manipulation by players.. only clear demonstration of it by ArenaNET, themselves.

Miflett.3472:

Holland.9351:

One of the major issues with Longbow is it requiring 50 trait points to grab its traits:
30 in Marksmanship for Piercing Arrows and Eagle Eye
20 in Skirmishing for Quick Draw

The Shortbow has the same problem:
20 in Marksmanship for Piercing Arrows
20 in Skirmishing for Quick Draw

Both Quick Draw and Piercing Arrows only affect the Longbow and the Shortbow. So both the Longbow and the Shortbow need to spend at least 40 trait points to get their relevant traits.

The solution is quite obvious if you see it:

Longbow Mastery (replaces Piercing Arrows – 20 point into Marksmanship)
Longbow arrows pierce and Longbow skills have 20% less cooldown

Shortbow Mastery (replaces Quick Draw – 20 points into Skirmishing)
Shortbow arrows pierce and Shortbow skills have 20% less cooldown

With this both the Shortbow and the Longbow only need 20 points to get piercing arrows and less cooldown on their skills instead of 40. Talk about improving build diversity!

With this change, If you still want to use both Longbow AND Shortbow together and want both to pierce AND have 20% less cooldown, then it’ll cost you 40 points. Which is exactly the same amount as before the change.

Currently the game basically tells you to go dual bow with how the Piercing Arrows and Quick Draw are set up.

Agreed completely.

We need some more talk on where Bows are currently, because I’m very disappointed that they are so far back on everyone’s backburner now. Class defined by its mastery of bows: yea.

The MM trait line is simply too diluted to do any good for anything but melee weapons. It seems that balance wants everyone to main melee. GW2 hates circle kiters and ranged professions, as evidenced by the pure ineffectiveness of kiting, and missing out on vital group buffing when in ranged combat.

Longbow needs a real focus, and the shortbow needs moment of clarity to actually bring something useful to the table.

Oh so much of this, please! Finally, after so much reading of skills and traits balance since launch, two posts that resonate for me.

I have level 80’s in all professions (Ranger and Guardian both have world completion, 81% on my Engineer that I gave up on long ago) and each has their ups and downs, but Ranger is the one I feel has become more and more disconnected with what it felt like she was meant to be. In GW1, I made at least 4 level 20 rangers and I loved them so much.

PLEASE.. oh I beg you so much, PLEASE pay some TLC to the beautiful unicorns and rainbows that I worked so hard for, beyond adding more special effects.

2.
I don’t even mind if I don’t get any buff for making my pet stay off, I can survive with the shortbow pew-pewing as it is already, taking away the flying aggro beast in itself is enough of a buff

Got 8 just this moment.

I got my first charged a couple of days back, from the node.

BTW.. I know, it’s always crap timing for someone

Funny, I just watched the GDC presentation last night where a certain developer bragged about how they don’t ever have to take the system down….

So I watch a movie with my son, knowing I can do my dailies after.. and .. right during PDT prime time? How is that for crap timing.

My main weapon is a shortbow. I bring a lowbow along now as my second weapon so when I want to do damage, I have a weapon for that. The only reason I use the shortbow is because it’s the Dreamer, and back when the game was new it seemed to be able to do some damage.

I put quickness on the #2 skill on my longbow and end up getting massively greater damage and short cooldowns, making the shortbow seem almost pointless.

Is there any intention to do anything with the shortbow? It feels like I’m shooting toothpicks with it since losing the original quickness and range, plus the modern targeting system does no love for it.

I really love playing my ranger, and still do so in spite of the lack of love for the shortbow. Please do something.. anything…

SHORTBOW

Compare longbow and shortbow damage to justify the current state of the shortbow.

The Dreamer was my first legendary, and though I still use it, I now switch to an exotic longbow when I need real damage inflicted. Is it just a perception that the shortbow is underpowered?

I only play PvE with my ranger

IDEA: auto teamups of the two trailing teams

When leading team score > (2nd + 3rd) / modifier then 2nd and 3rd become automatically allied and/or gain bonuses for attacking the leading team.

The question was answered above, Dulfy forgot one circle on her Maelstrom map.

There is a screenshot on the right side of it which shows the location, from th perspective of the shard.

I like this much better than this year’s Halloween or the Twilight Assault (that felt cut short).

I’ve completed the witches, so this isn’t for me..

Please put a delay in the spawn of the Krait Witch after the Eztlitl event:

After leading a group through the meta to spawn the Witch, only to find no witch..

until I see Defend Chief Eztlitl from the krait running again.

So, we do that, and then I notice the witch spawns -before- the Eztlitl event finishes.. so people camping the Queen get the quick kill before we even arrive.

Fortunately, we ditched the Chief and caught her at about 40%. Fastest run up the wreck, ever.

Would be nice to still have the stereoscopic 3D checkbox available for non-nVidia tools… over-under is so much better, why oh why must we continue to suffer with 3d play?

I’ve been stable since I set animations to “low.”

Other than that, I
1) turned off camera shake
2) low shadows
3) no post processing
everything else on top setting (ultra environment LOD, all reflections, etc)

I upgraded my computer with:

Intel 4930K (running at 4.5GHz, 6 core)
32GB PC-2400 DDR3
>>DUAL<< GTX 770’s (4GB each)

and now it runs all right, except it still crashes under zerg with animation set to high.

I’ve stopped buying them now.. after the jack-a-lop’s footsteps were removed, and we still get the howling loud “for gems” halloween ghost… :P

Having to be in a specific guild and be on at a specific time of day (even with multiple options) kills Tequatl, for me. The event itself is pretty cool…. maybe an extra few minutes and scaled down to 30-40 minimum instead of 80 would help?

Now, I clean her toenails until the Krait come along at the end and down me, when Tequatl is a daily achievement. Other than that, I never see her anymore

I must need to switch TTS guilds, as the one I am in consistently has next to no one representing at anytime when I am available to first the great beast.. And I’m in PST time zone.

Waiting in a zone for an hour in advance to be able to get in is what gets me the most, though.

Tonight, I got a daily by cutting her toenails for 15 minutes. Depressing.

Oh yes, and

4. Please don’t put a completely different style log off menu in front of me, which requires a specific click to get away from, when I hit ESC too many times while trying to close all my windows when being attacked.. Or to stop targeting a gate (etc) when I am far from it. I really love flying off in some random direction that isn’t forward when I press the 3 key for my guardian’s greatsword, because the game didn’t un target the item I stopped attacking 2500 units ago….

I know it’s a no no, but I has to make a macro which centres my mouse when I press down on my mouse wheel. It is the only way I’ve been able to keep myself from going insane trying to find the darn thing.

1. Please don’t hide the mouse when I right click. Yes, it will be where I left it, but when I am right mouse “driving” for a couple of minutes, there’s no way I am going to remember where the mouse last was before it was hidden.

2. Please make the mouse colour and/or size adjustable.

3. Please adjust the camera view so I can see the heads of the bosses without having up look up my own skirt.

Thank you.

LoL to the above ^^ !!! The forum replaces a known gold seller name with that huge bold letters banner, but in game…. Does that not say something to you?

When the name is Msxjxosjmxx, and the chat log is full of gw2walmart and I AM A GOLD SPAMMER. PLEASE REPORT ME BY PRESSING THE REPORT FLAG ICON IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT OF THIS POST! automated map chat entries, repeated over a two to three day period, how is it now obvious to a support member that the account is selling gold and needs , at minimum, squelching?

What makes this a real insult is when I commanded groups through Scarlet map invasions, multiple times, I would consistently get “excessive messaging” blocks when posting (requested and thanked for no less) waypoint links in map chat..while real spam carries on unchecked.

Gaile Gray.6029:

We have team members assigned 24/7/365 to player in-game reports. On a normal day, 100 or more players are actioned for everything bad names to nasty chat to cheating. On an abnormal day, action may be taken on literally hundreds of accounts.

No one — No one! — is ignoring in-game reports. And in-game reports have people assigned specifically to them, so they often are acted upon within minutes.

In the past few weekends, I’ve watched gold sellers spam LA map chat, in Crystal Desert, for days on end… And these are THE SAME accounts, not new ones each time. To me, this suggests
A) staff are playing and not responding to reports as you believe they are
B) prioritization of reports sets gold selling to he bottom of the pile or doesn’t file the report at all.
C) no weekend staff

As you suggest A and C is not true, which do we need? Reporting system review?

Do you get enough time to review response metrics with all the time you put into your awesome support responses on here?

Special effects overkill. The biggest joke in the game is the LOD effects checkbox, which I thought was supposed to be the fix for this.

The massive UI doesn’t make things any prettier. GW1 had lots of windows, but everything was nice and small. At 1920×1080, the UI feels like it is made of Duplo.. And if you set it to small text, the font becomes unreadable if you have antialiasing disabled in your video card drivers or the game settings.

I found myself stuff in spinning and raised-above-my-head GS animations recently until pressing a different skill.

I don’t use any channeling skills…

Well, I bought two sets of tools in their first iteration, and the Jack-in-the-box because it is useable in the open world. As I don’t sit around in LA, I am not the target market for the product.

I think they do want our $ bought gems, they are likely the main revenue generator of the company.

Up until now, I’ve always bought two of the three packs of minis for special events (one set for the forge). This time, I didn’t bother.

Halloween feels a little over for me, this year. I’m having a great time in the WvW series, even though I was confused about the trash of soulbound boosters that showed up in the first day, then disappeared without a trace…

Got my candy corn mini, after so many years, so there has been some positive from the Mad King in 2013

Sorry if that last message came across as angry toward you… I’m sad that there is finally a skin I really love, and it’s useless to me. I do the odd costume brawl, so it’s interesting to see “useful” town clothes for one activity. It’s not an activity that has a lot to it.. other than giving something to people who want duels in PvE.

It mostly makes me so sad… GW1 we could wear our “town clothes” anywhere. I don’t like this one bit.

And as I said.. it really should make me happy that I am saving some money.

Still sad.

Excuses excuses. I’ve got all the everlasting tonics and the consumable ones for costume brawls. “Can’t be combatable?” What does that even mean?

700 gems is under $10, same as the old game. Buying gems doesn’t make sense unless you are making a killing on the trading post, but then if you are you probably wouldn’t give 2 bits about the 700 gems.

The kicker is that they aren’t even armor skins. That’s what’s saving me lots of gems.

I checked the trading post to see what’s new after midnight… WOW.. what amazing skins!

Then, after a minute of looking in the virtual mirror, I read the description.

NOT SKINS —-> Town clothes.

I am crying now. The best skin ever for my Necromancer and it’s useless.

Shaking my head in disbelief… I was already to click buy (with my $ purchased gems). Glad I didn’t click too fast or I’d be crying to support instead.

Please… oh, I beg of you.. fix this travesty.

1. DR
2. DR
3. DR

Yep, bugged keys cost me the achievement. Sure, I could have run the Twilight Arbor dungeon to get the extra points… but after my first experience with it, I chose to ignore it.

Also confused as to why this event lasted only 2 weeks while other have been carrying on for 4 (and overlapping).

The problem is that these events shouldn’t hit DR, as they need to be done in order to finish the map-wide event. No one has bothered to explain how the event should be run to avoid DR. One person per red circle and once you’re done, stop playing?

Electro.4173:

Zaxares.5419:

Regarding the speed, it actually seems to be as fast as the Consortium sickle in harvesting. The node is harvested at about the same time when the clown pops up. His little manic cackle afterwards is just the after-animation.

Does that mean you can walk away after the slash and aren’t forced to stand there waiting for the full animation?

Yes. This sickle operates as quickly as the previous or, which is why I bought it. I can harvest when a monster is coming after me and be done before he strikes

Would be nice to have that benefit on the other tools….

But then that’s p2w now, isn’kitten