Guild Wars 2

If you haven’t even gotten an acknowledging email, read this thread: Not getting our emails.

If that’s not it, you might have a hacker deleting them before you see them. If you haven’t already done so, run a full security sweep of your computer. After that, change the password on your email.

If you still don’t get responses from support, you might get a new email and update your ticket asking them to send a response to that.

Tickets that are 3 days of older can be posted on the above stickied thread, tickets for review-3 days and older. But I would try to fix the problem first.

To ask about a refund, you need to talk to support.
Support-top of page. Submit a request-top of page.
There are 2 drop down boxes that need to be selected.
Be aware that this will not only deactivate that account with this game, but it’s accompanying credit/debit card and the email.

They are definitely weak at low levels.

I do key runs with a guardian and have no problems with killing stuff. I did the same key run on my Mesmer alt and the difference was night and day. It took noticeably longer to kill anything.

However, at level 80 and fully traited, this difference disappears. The traits make a big difference to a Mesmer.

It makes me wonder if Support no longer has access to these Spitters. I’m assuming the reason why they won’t send him another Eternity is because it won’t be account bound and that’s the same as handing a player ~5000 gold (since some people in his position, if they got an Eternity from support would sell it and keep their old weapon skin).

If they no longer have Splitters to send out then I’m not sure what they can do to fix this but I would definitely ask Gaile to review the situation.

OP’s signature:
“What you wish for may not be what she wishes for.” – Skull Knight

What you wish for may also be too early.

Try typing /age in the chat box for useful information.

Maybe you need to run a client repair to fix a corrupted file? If you want to try this go to top of page-Support. Then put client in the search bar to find, Repairing the client.

From the thread: GWAMM title does not show

Gaile Gray
ArenaNet Support Liaison
Update 05 August 2014
“I wanted to let you know that while a lot of the GWAMM issues were addressed last week, we are aware that a few of our players still are having issues displaying their hard-earned (and well-respected!) God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals title.
This is a known issue and it is on the list for a fix. We will include notes about this fix in the Update Notes for the build in which we are able to fully correct this issue. You do not need to submit a ticket about this, the next (and hopefully final ) fix will set things right for everyone.
So, please:
Watch the update notes for upcoming builds.
After you see this fix in the notes, check your account and see if your title is showing.
Submit a ticket at that time _if you still are having difficulties with your title. However, according to the devs, the fix that is going out should get everyone in spiffy shape.
Thank you, once again, for your patience with this matter!”
Gaile Gray
Support Liaison
ArenaNet

So they know about this and are looking for a fix for it.

You will always get exp from doing things on any zone, even a level one zone. You could level your character to 80 and never leave that zone.

All the maps have dynamic events. If you want another map of the same level, Brisbane is next to it. You can reach it through a portal on the north west corner. Gendarren hills, which is a level 25 to 35 zone, is reachable from that map from the north east corner. Once you’ve gotten to level 35, Harathi hinterlands is reachable from the north central portal in Gendarren fields.

Rangers are pretty good, but they don’t get a lot of respect in dungeons. The main reason why is many use longbow and a tanky, low damage pet (a bear). These weapons may be good for roaming but have disadvantages for dungeons. There are waxy to be good in dungeons. The ranger forum would be a good place you look for information there. If you don’t plan to do dungeons, rangers are fine.

Or you can put armor on him that covers up everything and never see the glow again. ^^

You will need to get another email, then contact support and change the old email to the new one. Once you do that you can change the password. Go to
Support-top of page. Submit a request- top of page
And make out a ticket. (There are 2 drop down boxes on that page that must be selected.).

My Ritualist Asuran armor from Guild Wars 1.

The skirt was made out of feathers and you could dye it blue so it looked like blue jay feathers. (Sigh).

(The 3rd one is someone’s personal collection of Guild Wars 1 female Ritualist armor, mostly minus the helms that go with each set)

No need to guest. If you are partied up with someone, which you can do across each region’s servers, and if you don’t land on the same map shard, then all you need to do is click on their party portrait and join them. No guesting needed. (You do need to be on the same map for this to work).

MrKahwk.9524:

Oh so it WAS in the game but now it isn’t? why? A lot of people want it why not put it in the gemstore?

Answer: who knows. This armor has been the topic of many a forum thread. Why such a widely requested armor was complete removed from the game is a mystery.

Chat suppression typically hits after 2 messages of this type. It looks like you got hit with a long one because you kept messaging after being suppressed. It will (or should) wear off by itself. If it doesn’t within 24 hours you can contact support, but be aware that that route will also take a day or two and unless it’s bugged, they might just tell you that you need to wait it out.

Protoavis.9107:

Astral Projections.7320:

Beldin.5498:

Esplen.3940:

DR was implemented because of T5/T6 mat farm spots, in conjunction with heavy spawn areas, or “improved” drop mobs, such as Barracudas.

DR was implemented when masses of people farmed the tunnel events in Orr and
at that time the mobs there only dropped T6 bones and Dust that was not really
worth much .. main income was really the drop of blue/green trash that was sold
to the vendors .. and so also generated directly gold out of thin air.

T5/T6 mats don’t generate new gold since they mostly are traded at the TP they
even remove money.

DR was in Guild Wars 1 (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Anti-farm_code) and at launch for Guild Wars 2.

It was in GW1 yes, but it wasn’t in GW2 at launch the way it is now and anyone around GW2 at launch would know that given how much of a stink was kicked up when the current implementation was put in place about 2 or 3 months into the game.

Since DR is a system used to combat bots and was in gw1, I found it hard to believe that it wasn’t firmly in place at launch. The game launched on Aug 28th 2012. I found a reference talking about how the current version of it is bugged, dating from Sept 21 2012. This reference dates to when the game is 3 weeks old.

http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/arenanet-diminished-returns-are-not-funtioning-as-intended/

If they are talking about how the current version is bugged then that means there were previous versions in place before the 3 week mark, or most likely, since launch.

They did did make DR on dungeons account based a couple of months into the game, which is what you are probably thinking about.

The name of that armor is in here.

Typically it’s not until the ticket prices increase to 5 tickets that the prices on the trading post go up. Once they go to 5 tickets, supply is essentially fixed to what has already been bought from the Black Lion Weapons Specialist. With a fixed and diminishing supply, the price typically increases.

I am saying typically, because it does depend on demand. But in general, the prices do go up after the ticket prices are increased.

Karma boosters will indeed increase the amount of karma you get from doing hearts and events. You can increase it even more by using a guild karma banner, nourishment such as ice cream or a kralkachocolate bar, and a guild boost.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Karma_Booster
Double-click to gain a buff that increases any karma gained by 50% for one hour. This does not affect karma gained from consumable items.

• By consumable items it’s referring to items like liquid karma, such as what you get when you complete your dailies.

@Filaha
“If I go and delete one of my characters and then put in a ticket saying it was a mistake and deleted the wrong one, should I realistically expect them to undelete it? Not really, since their security measures are pretty dang foolproof in that regard.”

And yet people delete characters and then make tickets about it all the time. A few examples.
one
two
three
four

There was even one post where someone contacted support because they salvaged an ecto and they wanted support to send them another one. If people make tickets about one salvaged ecto or about a deleted character where they are warned about what happens if they delete, then they will definitely make tickets when they get scammed.

leebe.2093:

Astral Projections.7320:

I would think the question here is, did ANet make events, any events, with the intention that players would purposely fail them in order to have endlessly spawning mobs to farm?

failing the event doesnt cause endless mobs to spawn, the event itself causes a lot of mobs, when it fails its over, no more mobs

Astral Projections.7320:

I would say the answer is no. That they intended players to make every effort to succeed and that events would fail in spite of their efforts. In that case, if players are doing something that ANet did not intend when they made these events, if they are doing so in order to farm in excess of what was intended, then it’s an exploit and players doing so may be suspended or banned or the event changed to stop this farming.

so are you saying its an exploit because ANet doesnt want people to fail events? and if they do they are exploiting it? or are you against farming in general? did ANet intend people to farm? how can people farm in excess of what was intended? surely ANet controls the loot and DR

bottom line is this event is supposed to finish in one of two ways and it does, there is no exploit, players take the event to its predetermined conclusion, again and again

For the record, I love farming. If I didn’t suspect that this was an exploit I would be there too, farming for hours and loving it. I was there for Penitents and I was nearly there for the linen farm (I heard about it the day before the mass banning and didn’t go for lack of time and missed being banned by that much). Both times I didn’t think it was an exploit and both times ANet did.

The problem with this situation, the way is see it, I don’t think ANet designed the dynamic event system with the intention that masses of people would deliberately fail an event repeatedly for monetary gain. Fail one to see the next step, ok. Fail one in spite of trying to succeed, ok. Fail one repeatedly by a large number of people for hours at a time in order to get loads of loot, not ok.

Any time there has been situations where crowds of people are in one spot, farming for extended periods at a time, where ANet did not intend people to do that, those places have been nerfed and in a couple of times, there were mass bans. The problem, as far as I can tell, is the amount of loot generated in a short period of time by so many people. When so many are getting so much, it floods the market and prices start dropping. Now you nor I might not consider dropping prices like this to be a problem, but to ANet it’s a sign that this particular farming is in excess of what is intended. And there lies the problem, because their solution may be only to nerf it, but they may also hand out a blanket ban to stop it in its tracks like they did with the linen farm.

Does no one here remember the Plinx (Dec 2012) and Pentient (Sept 2013) farms and what happened to them? How about the linen and jute farms (Dec 2013)?

While these three aren’t identical to what is happening now, I see some similarities.
1) farming in excess to what is intended.
2) farming endless mobs

What was different:
1) the first 2 were farming events that cycled rapidly. (Penitent and Plinx). End result, nerfed events.
2) the others were farming a bugged site. (The linen and jute farms). End result, mass bans which were later changed to suspensions.

Imo, this situation is falling between the 2 types but is closer to the linen/jute farms because they are deliberately taking advantage of a unintended consequence (failing the event). While ANet is very likely to simply nerf this event, they are also very likely to ban everyone there, like they did for the linen/jute, and reinstate later with a warning.

When you are considering to yourself if this is an exploit it wouldn’t hurt to remember these questions.

• Does it seem to good to be true?
• Would your friends consider this to be an exploit?
• Does this seem like something that could be reasonably considered to be intended by ArenaNet?"

If the answers are yes, or you think ANet will say the answers are yes, then you might think twice before you do that event.

knives.6132:

My 2 cents:

It’s NOT an exploit because the event is designed to have 2 VALID outcomes: Success or Fail.
No game mechanic is broken when you purposely fail the event.

I would think the question here is, did ANet make events, any events, with the intention that players would purposely fail them in order to have endlessly spawning mobs to farm?

I would say the answer is no. That they intended players to make every effort to succeed and that events would fail in spite of their efforts. In that case, if players are doing something that ANet did not intend when they made these events, if they are doing so in order to farm in excess of what was intended, then it’s an exploit and players doing so may be suspended or banned or the event changed to stop this farming.

Any bug of this nature is best reported ingame at that time. That way they have access to all the game logs without having to look for them. For example, your post here doesn’t tell them what server, day, time, which PvP map, character name or other useful information that would save time and effort for them to check it out.

Exploit: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Exploit

“An exploit is the misuse of a software feature or bug in a way that allows a player to generate in-game benefits without the risk or time expected by the game’s designers. It can involve the use of a third-party program and it includes generating currency, experience, or other things of value to players. It also includes actions that allow one player to gain a gameplay advantage over other players.

ArenaNet will temporarily suspend players for using exploits deliberately and permanently suspend those who purposefully and repeatedly make use of them, depending on the severity of their actions."

Identifying an exploit
“ArenaNet defines an exploit as any deliberate action that provides an unfair advantage over other players or otherwise hurts the game, community, or economy; it does not matter whether the exploit is a hack or makes use of a mechanic (bugged or otherwise) within the game. Before taking punitive action on an account, ANet considers whether players made deliberate use of the exploit; use of hacks or bots is always assumed to be deliberate. In addition, players that publicize an exploit are also subject to suspension or even banning, regardless of their motives, since well-publicized exploits require ArenaNet to react immediately to prevent the abuse, which diverts resources away from the rest of the game.

For a variety of reasons, the company cannot equivocally define exactly what will be considered an exploit, but they have offered the following rules of thumb:

Does it seem to good to be true?
Would your friends consider this to be an exploit?
Does it provide you with an unfair advantage over other players?
Could this be the result of a bug introduced with a recent update or new feature?
Does this seem like something that could be reasonably considered to be intended by ArenaNet?"

This is how I read this statement:
“An exploit is the misuse of a software feature (the event under discussion here) or bug in a way that allows a player to generate in-game benefits (loot) without the risk or time expected by the game’s designers (they expect the event to run to its expected conclusion and end).
And that:
If people are deliberately not allowing the event to end and are using that to farm loot in excess of what that event was expected to generate, then it’s an exploit.

ANet may not ban or suspend the people involved in an exploit, they may only nerf that event, but it’s taking a risk to join a situation that looks like an exploit. Imo, the loot generated is not worth your account getting banned.

They can’t do something like that from the forum. I’d they can at all, they will have to do it after you make a ticket to support.
Top of page-support. Top of page-submit a request.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Vayne.8563:

Astral Projections.7320:

“I haven’t played GW2 in a few years or so…”
“Ah it feels like a few years but I suppose it’s been just one and some months”

There is a fairly substantial difference between a few years and a month or two. If it’s been “a few years”, or 2 years since the game is 2 years old then there are substantial changes to the game. I suggest you read the blog posts. However you now say it’s a month or so. So. Season 2 of the Living Story has begun and a new map, Dry Top, is opening up. That’s about it.

I think one and some months means a year and some months.

You’re right. That’s what he meant.

Lol. Ok. I read that as one month or two.

The troll met his end at Troll’s end jumping puzzle.

Another thing to blame on Scarlet.

Kaze.1508:

Astral Projections.7320:

To get that answer you will need to contact support by making a ticket.
Support-top of page. Submit a Request-top of page.

That’s what I did yesterday, ticket numer 834824. No answer :-(

One day is a short time. They get thousands of tickets a day. Each new one goes to the bottom of the pile then works it’s way up to the top, where someone reads it and starts working on it. Typically most people get a first response from a person within 24 hours and are fully resolved by 3 days. You just need to wait a bit longer.

My mom and dad were great people too. ANet should give them some sort of ingame reference.

But seriously, just because someone famous dies, great guy or not, it doesn’t mean something should be put in the game about them. Death is a fact of life. Eventually every famous person is going to die. They can’t all be put in the game. If they are going to be put in, they should have some sort of previous tie to Guild Wars 2. There is no indication that Robin Williams had ever even heard of Guild Wars 2, much less ever played it.

To get that answer you will need to contact support by making a ticket.
Support-top of page. Submit a Request-top of page.

If you have already applied the skin to an item then there is no way to make it non account bound so that it’s tradable again. With items now tied into the wardrobe system, it’s extremely unlikely they will ever make this available as it would allow you to keep the skin and sell it too.

The splitters were made to remove expensive skins, such as a Legendary, from an item, while still keeping the skin account bound. Or perhaps to remove sigils and runes. So, imo no chance of you ever being able to give this skin to a friend.

I bought the torch a couple a months ago. I saw it was 85 gold and grabbed it. Maybe it makes one of the lesser used Legendary in the game (shrug) but my Ranger and my Mesmer can both use it.

“I haven’t played GW2 in a few years or so…”
“Ah it feels like a few years but I suppose it’s been just one and some months”

There is a fairly substantial difference between a few years and a month or two. If it’s been “a few years”, or 2 years since the game is 2 years old then there are substantial changes to the game. I suggest you read the blog posts. However you now say it’s a month or so. So. Season 2 of the Living Story has begun and a new map, Dry Top, is opening up. That’s about it.

600something. Had 1500 but blew it all, down to no gold and selling inventory, on making Mjolnir and getting the Fashion and Emperor titles. No WvW or PvP.

All items and gold in your regular bank carry over. The wardrobe is part of the regular bank and also carries over. The only thing that won’t carry over is your guild bank and any items in it, and of course any items in the inventory of a deleted char.

It’s hard to tell from your posts what exactly you did and what is the problem.

If you tried to link a new CD key to a deactivated account and now it’s glitched, you need to contact support. If you need to change the email, you need to contact support.

Essentially, you need to contact support if your new account is messed up.

If they are empty when you get there it’s probably because you arrived late and were put on a new, empty, overflow map shard. Try getting there a little earlier.

What Gaile has said:

Gaile Gray
ArenaNet Support Liaison
“For full disclosure: If someone seeks a refund, their account is closed, as required by our billing providers. This is not something an account holder should do lightly, and it is an irreversible decision, just as doing a charge-back results in account closure and will never receive reinstatement. The e-mail address associated with a refunded or charged-back account will not be usable in the future, as well.”

Each account has it’s own display name, account name and password. The old display name for a refunded account is deactivated. The account name (email) is blocked on refunded accounts. If you attempted to link a deactivated account and a new account, it might have glitched. In that case you will need to contact support.

Were you whitereaper.4135 and got a refund for the one you bought? on this thread?

If you got a refund, that old account is gone, it was deactivated.

You are able to log onto the forum. That is your new login, the same as for the forum.

It should be sent immediately after buying the game.

Have him read this thread: not getting our emails and see if he has one of the problems listed there with emails.

If not that, he needs to contact support.
Support-top of page. Submit a request-top of page.
If all else fails, he might need to use an email from a different provider and tell support to switch to that.

CureForLiving.5360:

ghost.3208:

Astral Projections.7320:

Does that mean you will no longer get the rewards for doing dailies, the laurel, karma and mystic coin?

I think it’s just the achievement points.

I believe it’s like the salvage achievement, you’re capped at AP gains from dailies but can still get the rest.

Ok, not particularly thrilled about no longer getting achieve points when hitting the cap, since one of the reasons I do the daily is working towards the rewards chests every 500 achieve points, but at least it’s better than getting nothing. It’s a long time from now, it’s just the thought of it that I dislike (shrug).

A person deliberately setting themselves to gain rewards while being afk is reported through botting/scamming or by sending a report to exploits@arena.net.

Beldin.5498:

Esplen.3940:

DR was implemented because of T5/T6 mat farm spots, in conjunction with heavy spawn areas, or “improved” drop mobs, such as Barracudas.

DR was implemented when masses of people farmed the tunnel events in Orr and
at that time the mobs there only dropped T6 bones and Dust that was not really
worth much .. main income was really the drop of blue/green trash that was sold
to the vendors .. and so also generated directly gold out of thin air.

T5/T6 mats don’t generate new gold since they mostly are traded at the TP they
even remove money.

DR was in Guild Wars 1 (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Anti-farm_code) and at launch for Guild Wars 2.

Does that mean you will no longer get the rewards for doing dailies, the laurel, karma and mystic coin?

I farmed that cluster in Straits last night then waypointed to a second cluster in Malchor’s, got 5 total. I’ve previously run whole maps and gotten one. I would say it’s still the same RNG.

Idk about the Orr thing at level 45. Everything there is level 70 to 80 and they all are red, not yellow. In addition, iirc, if you are way under level you are an aggro magnet. You will be one shotted every 2 feet in there at level 45.

If you want to just harvest for exp, go to a level 15-25 map and harvest soft wood and iron. Same exp, less aggro and worth more to sell.

I don’t remember seeing that post but this guide looks pretty good. http://www.gunnars-hold.eu/threads/1816-Guide-Black-Lion-Key-Farming

There are also various youtube videos you can watch. WoodenPotatoes for example put one out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCSdlhvdmyc) but there are others.

What game client are you using? (Windows / Mac)
Windows 7 64 bit
What are your current graphics settings?
Lowest possible, except for character modeling which is one above lowest
Are you playing in full screen or windowed mode?
Windowed full screen
Is your inventory full or maxed out?
Not full. Not sure what you mean by maxed out, but it doesn’t have maximum bag slots or maximum bag sizes.
Do you play with bags displayed or hidden?
Hidden.

No problem. Glad it worked.

StevoSupremo.4037:

I have one toon and have looked at everything in both my bank and inventory, and this thing STILL keeps coming up! Can someone please help me out? Just started playing again after a year away and this is driving me insane…

Why don’t you try stripping the char that is getting the message, all armor and weapons, both land and water. Put all items into your bank. Log out of game. Log back in. Then one by one add each piece of gear. After each piece you equip, do whatever it is that would get that message, I’m assuming here it’s logging onto that char. See if you can locate the gear that’s causing the method to pop up that way.