Guild Wars 2

When a battleground queue finally pops up after 40 minutes, the notification sound effect that reminds you that you can finally return to playing the game is for some reason inaudible. A fix would be greatly appreciated!

No, he also stomped me invisibly when I was downed, it were normal hits by an actual player. And we were only 4 people around, very sparsely populated at this time of the day.

You were hit by … using Stab.
-> instantly defeated, no downstate.
(I was not down before (first death after logging in for 30 mins), so it wasn’t the 3 strikes thingy.)

In EB three of us were just killed by a permanently invisible thief, he did not appear even once. (I assume it was a thief.)

If you want to accumulate badges, don’t go elementalist.
If you make him tanky, you don’t dish out enough damage. If you go dps you will just die quickly since it’s got super low base hp and no armor.

Thief or Mesmer or maybe warrior are the way to go for badge farming.

They probably have a reason why you have to register to the forum before you can read it.

Just watch what our framerates will be after a christmas event =P

That seems right, what a kittening bad game design.

That also means if someone is stomping an opponent who’s down, if someone else kills the downed opponent by pure damage before the first player can actually finish the stomp, the first player gets no badges but the dps’er gets them (if they drop at all), right?

If that’s right, it means basically never stomp people, but do dps instead?
And in a zerg, never DOWN people, but only dps those which are already down?

I think the whole down mechanics should maybe just be removed, they just make everything silly, from AoEing random stuff to get rally, over 2v1 problems, up to badge issues.

I also think, however, that arenanet probably doesn’t care^^.

Ok will try grouping/AoE+siege weapons, thanks. But really, the items could cost a bit less..

It could be partially the driver, but the game is highly suspect for being at fault:
You said “it started after halloween upgrade”, well, people are still reporting that they sometimes see Raw Candy Corn nodes in the game for the blink of an eye.
It seems that somehow the game is still convoluted with halloween elements, which are simply invisible or something, but might additionally be draining from your rigs performance. Just a guess.

You could try CLONING your friend’s laptop’s hard drive on your own laptop
That way you two would definitely have the exactly same software and 3d settings and all.
Also, when the notebook starts, go into the “BIOS” and check that you two have the same settings there too. Some of those can affect the performance quite a bit.

Hi guys, I’m trying to acquire some badge gear, and I’ve been playing since release, I’m mostly playing WvW by a long shot, yet I only accumulated around 1000 badges so far.
Question is, what am I doing wrong? I feel I’ve been playing pretty actively, the usual pretty vital heal/tank elementalist (all exotic of course), and sometimes a bit glass cannon just for fun. Yet it seems other people reign in like 100 badges on a single night? Your help is appreciated.

The elementalist definitely sucks at getting WvW Badges. His speed of acquiring these is about half as high as that of say warriors. It’s not a question of whether an elementalist can beat a warrior in 1v1, certainly a tanky ele played by someone who knows what he’s doing can wear down a warrior, it’s just that elementalist sucks at dishing out damage, big time, and it’s the factor for gaining badges in WvW. Even if ele goes glass cannon and staff for (nerfed) aoe, his damage is puny at best compared to what other classes can do with 1/2 the effort and 2x the survivability.

Welcome to excellent game design party~ wheee

good game design there!

Two possible bugs I know of..
1) the game doesn’t recognize you as being in combat. This happens with traits frequently and is extremely annoying, even happens while you are taking damage from attacks and all,
2a) many Sigils/runes are actually bugged too (and many have wrong or lacking tooltips), it is possible that Sigil of Energy gets “overridden” by the sigil in your main hand weapon, especially if that too is a “on swap” sigil. Also it’s possible that..
2b) ..sigil of energy actually just doesn’t work in secondary weapon, only in main hand.

Arenanet knows of these bugs for months but they don’t really care.

they suddenly turn out soulbound, which is a major annoyance because they are thereby useless and just ate up my resources for nothing.

“juste”

ele “weapon swap” aka attunement change is over 10 seconds (depending on skills) :-p

How about 100 golems?

So our party is stuck in AC and we can’t do anything, not even another path. Halp?
(We tried leaving and reforming party, but it didn’t help.)
Also, WTB in-game GMs who just fix it for you on submitting a ticket please.

It says to go to flooded temple, but we are there, and nothing happens. Done this before and it actually worked. This time it doesn’t.

Well I came to the conclusion that basically the game is still beta state and was just released way too early.

nomen est omen..

It also disappears when you go down, while food doesn’t. Just a side note.

oO yes sorry, oops

We mined a rich orichalcum vein in Eternal BG and while I only got 3 charges out of it someone else said he only got 1? oO

If at least rare cultural weapons could be used as skins for karma, but those will require purchase of fine transmutation stones again, so, no thanks. How about making fine stones purchasable for karma though, solves 2 problems in 1 go.

send me your affected source and/or string resource files and I will help you fix trait/skill bugs or at least correct the frigging tooltips for you. For free. In my spare time.

(And no, I’m not gonna do binary patches.)

I think by maxed out he meant that GW2 actually always tries to keep your card at maximum performance similar to a benchmark to prevent certain gpu-related power saving mechanisms from kicking in, which is sort of a “trick”, but don’t ask me about the details, I don’t really know.

I think you guys only read half of the OP.
Had I need for the exotic armour offered then I wouldn’t ask what to do with my Karma, obviously.
But even after that, karma will accumulate and then what?

Yeah the temple vendors, but those are a) no trinkets/jewelry and b) pretty weird/useless stats.

Someone made a topic in Tech Support forum, saying his notebook was fried by playing GW2, (because as he said “it permanently maxed out my FPS”), but a moderator apparently decided to delete it instantly.

Now, a friend of mine had his GTX8800 card fried while playing GW2 actually, which surprised him very much. He’s convinced that fanning wasnt faulty.

These two incidents just made me wonder if there were actually more people who had their hardware unexpectedly poof when playing GW2.

I have 500k karma piled up and I certainly don’t want legendaries nor learning cooking.

There should be a way to get siege weapons or exotics for it. For example why do weapon/armour crafters have to fight token/badge rewards but jewelcrafters are the only source for trinkets? How about making trinkets available for karma? Talking exotics of course.

(Side note: The armour pieces you can get for karma are all pretty useless stat-wise).

bug fixes and code testing

I am talking about the system giving you a bright red “7” and the other threads that say how set bonus is broken if you have the same runes on pvp gear and go above 6/6.

I’m not talking about the obvious change of helmets, which is certainly correct.
It’s basically as if noone of them ever thought anything through to the end and actually tested it to see how it looks like/works out.

In general I’m highly annoyed by the density in skill/trait/rune/sigil bugs all across the game by now, and with the attitude of just ignoring them (most been there since beta).

Also, has anone actually tested a 7/6 setup and can confirm that it really works? (cause if you get >6 due to pvp items it stops working).

God, just how bad are arenanet developers. It’s unbelievable. Guys (@anet), get a frigging grip. How do you think this looks like, aren’t you emberassed? I don’t want my favourite mmo being coded by a bunch of trainees.

Also, a lot of traits are bugged since beta and have never been fixed. Similarly, tooltips are displaying wrong information.
Arenanet for some reason never bothered to fix this stuff.

So many skills have just been nerfed into uselessness, the work of amateurs.

Hmm interesting, that explains why ele feels so half-baken.

You remove a feature instead of fixing the exploit? Sorry, no comment.

However, the Orb buff was definitely bad gameplay-wise, but what should have happened is keep the exciting Orb mechanics and just make the buff magic-find or something similar.

Welcome to the world of arenanet sigils, runes and traits, where every second tooltip or effect is wrong/bugged and nothing is done about it.
Even though it has been suggested to add an “item/item mechanics” subforum they just ignored that.

It’s a bit lame that all commander icons are the same, pretty confusing.
Make the colour of the commander icon definable by the commander! So you could have a “yellow commander” and a “blue commander” etc.

I suggest banning everyone who writes flames/slurs from the forum for 30 days.

turn off “reflections”

Easiest way?
Buy gems for real money and trade them for gold.
That’s the kind of game this is, unfortunately.

People are just buying gold with real money anyway, so the only ones who get shafted are people who try to earn their gold in-game the good traditional way.
Also, 2 nights ago.. 4 commanders on Desolation/Arborstone BL zerging pointlessly in a single spot while none of them had anyone actually watch a keep which was promptly lost, that was just terrible.

Holy kitten, I was just refreshing yesterday’s thread to see how WvW was going, what the heck happened to it?
What I don’t get, why would someone delete a thread instead of actually the people who write infractable stuff.

It has no effect at all.
I dodged twice, then measured time till my endurance recharged with S/D, and there was no difference when I used the “Vigorous Scepter” trait and when I didn’t.

It’s pretty ironic I wanted to use it to replace the currently broken “Final Shielding” trait (that casts shield at useless 10% HP instead as the tooltip says at 25%), just to find out it’s bugged too, lol.

I wonder why they allow this 2nd rate combat log, it makes them look 2nd rate as well and they can’t want that.

What I don’t like about the RP idea as outlined above is that raw damage output decides how much credit you get.
I’m playing a support build that is able to stall a good number of players or to output a lot of AoE healing, and I get basically nothing for it. Except repair costs.
Currently you don’t get badges in wvw for supporting either, your only option is to go for outputting damage, damage, damage.
The repair cost that feel insulting paired with the lack of rewards for playing a support character is basically what makes me quit WvW an hour sooner than I’d like to, each day I play.