From a previous thread: from a year ago, before Legendaries were ascended
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Oh boy, so when I was waiting for my group in the fractal frozen I wanted to salvage the rare I picked up. I forgot that I switched out my Sunrise for the staff earlier and wasn’t paying attention … so puff. Sunrise salvaged … for one Mithril Ore.
I submit a ticket so hopefully Anet can restore it. But just throwing it out there, don’t be the other guy like me. Don’t even touch your salvage kit when your legendary is in your bag T_T
The best way was right then in game. Click on the persons name, select verbal abuse. They can check the chat logs to see.
I’m assuming you didn’t do that so go to support at https://help.guildwars2.com/anonymous_requests/new And make out a ticket with all the particulars such as date, time, names, etc. Include the screenshot.
After reading both sides I think the gem store flag that you have to buy and wear in order to duel has the most promise. Those who don’t own a flag and/or don’t have the flag engaged, can’t duel. If the person who has the item is visibly flagged then duelers have no incentive to request duels from people without the flag as it’s not even possible.
Well with key sales comes the speculation there may be new BL weapon skins following shortly after. So many will be stocking up on scraps or pray for the rare full tickets. Even if sometimes the gold to gems used to buy the keys could probably buy a whole bunch of skins from TP.
Yep.
Looking at the stats for BL chests, it averages out to 49 keys for 10 scraps. Assuming that someone gets a ticket with an average number of tries, with a current price of ~3293 gems for the 49 keys. 100 gold gets you ~983 gems so ~335 gold will get you the 3293 gems.
Considering most weapons sell for less than 100 gold, at least until several months after they are released, buying gems with gold to buy tickets for scraps is not cost effective.
The price with real money isn’t better. It would cost $42 USD to buy the 2 sets of 25 keys for 3360 gems to get a reasonable chance to get 10 scraps.
Did you bring up every single character you have to make sure the skins were added to your wardrobe?
If you checked each character and skins you had in personal inventory are not there then you need to contact support. It needs to be personal inventory, not bank or personal guild vault.
I have no idea why you guys are being so dismissive of this idea. I’ve seen a number of threads where people claim to have perfect security, no possibility of being hacked, and yet they were. While everyone should have the email or 2 factor authenification, not everyone will. The game has the auto log in feature which allows the possibility of someone getting into an unattended computer, as well as situations where someone has to abruptly leave the computer. Such as one situation where a man was playing and he heard his pregnant wife cry out. He jumped up and left the computer running unattended to go to her and while he was gone his young son got into the account.
An extra layer of optional security that locks people out of your bank and possibly your personal guild bank, why is this an idea that needs to be readily dismissed?
You could use all conditions and you’ll kill stuff when running around solo but it’s slower. Your chipping away at them rather than hitting them hard. And world bosses will hardly notice your attacks because of the way their set up with capped condition damage.
If you pug dungeons and someone else dealing condition damage comes along the 2 of you will be competing for the same condition damages resulting in less damage overall.
There are bugs that cause you to get ruined ore nodes when certain traits activate like the warrior’s traited ‘shake it off’ or balanced stance. I believe aegis being removed will do it as well. My necromancer can harvest with several mobs hitting her and walk away with nothing ruined, yet if my warrior has any of the traits I mentioned activated whilst in the middle of harvesting (like a temple area giving a condition like the Dwayna one, which triggers shake it off), ore/wood = ruined. This has been reported months and months ago, was acknowledged, yet we’ve never seen a fix.
I’ve reported it at least twice myself but didn’t know it was related to the trait triggers. I only knew I was using orichalcum tools and getting ruined stuff back. Not cool.
Even better would be making it so that you just can’t use a tool on a node it can’t harvest and getting rid of the whole ruined mechanic entirely. It does nothing but annoy the player/customer.
Not being able to harvest unless you have the proper tool would be a great solution. I’ve stopped carrying anything except ori tools after I’ve forgotten a couple of times and harvested T6 nodes with mithril level tools.
“Incorrect. BLT has no interface for individual trades as there is none in the game. As for you and only you considering it stupid to want to trade with a player you don’t trust. How about not play mmorpg period unless you want to trust everybody with your account info and password. Maybe you should trust them with your social security number?”
Your argument is illogical.
Not wanting to add another layer of trading that players think is ANet approved but is susceptible to scamming is not the same as giving random people on the internet your SS number and account information.
I think we’re getting to the point that this discussion is going nowhere. The OP doesn’t seem to get that his points are nonsensical and when it’s refuted he changes his argument. Before this gets anymore circular, can a moderator please close this?
Actually when he is refuted or someone brings up a counterpoint, he waves his hands, says “your argument is illogical,” and considers that a rebuttal.
If someone would post instructions on how to add a gif, that would be helpful.
Hiyas, AP.
The forums didn’t always have a problem with adding a gif to a post. However, it recently started giving an error page after sitting there waiting for it to upload for a long time.
Add a gif the same as any other image, but if/when you get the error page just let it stay up. It seems like it stopped attempting to upload it, but it is still uploading it to the post despite giving the error page. Continue waiting while it continues to upload the gif.
Ideally, have a duplicate tab/page of the full thread you were making your comment in so you can refresh that one to tell when your post actually gets made so you can then close the error page.
Also, I’ve seen it happen to where I can only attach a gif in the above fashion after making the post and then editing it to add the gif.
If you attach a gif and get the error page, then hit ‘back’ and try to attach it again you will end up with two of the same gif attached when it eventually finishes attaching and updating your post. Or, if it was a fresh comment and not an edit, you may end up with duplicate posts, each with the gif attached to them when it finishes uploading both queued posts with their uploads.
Unfortunately your answer, while helpful, doesn’t go back far enough.
Maybe because I’m using an iPad, but when I click on a gif I get a static picture. For example, the beating a dead horse gif. The other instruction I read was to get the http string and add [img][/ing] to get this. [img]http string[/img] which was supposed to result in a moving gif. But the time I tried it it didn’t even result in an image.
So is there some sort of site that you put a gif on to transfer to the forum?
I’m using an iPad and this is what I see when I do it. I’m assuming it’s the same for all.
Below the box you type in, in red, is More posting & formatting options. Clicking on that gives you an Attachments button with an option that says Chose File and then Take photo or video/Choose Existing. Selecting ‘Choose Existing’ gives the ability to select from all photos saved on your device.
After you select one you preview and then Post Reply.
Your computer and probably your email has been hacked. That’s not ANet’s fault. You should immediately run a security check and then change the password on your email before they do damage to your finances.
According to the instructions you use the Guild Wars 1 login, your email and password.
“To link accounts, just follow the instructions below:
Sign in to your Guild Wars 2 account at https://account.guildwars2.com.
Click Link Accounts on the left-hand side.
Enter your original Guild Wars account name and password exactly as you would if you were logging in.
Click the Link Account button.
Click OK."
If you don’t have an email and password or you have forgotten it then you will need to contact support.
You could always change your character name to Agent Ed, leader of the Ederal Bureau of Investigation. They’ll think you named the guild that way on purpose then. The other option could be to make another guild with a different name and use the first one as a personal storage guild.
ANet has a scam proof way to trade between people. At this point when someone does get scammed, while ANet does punish the scammer their policy is to not get back the scammed item as those items are commonly sold, salvaged or given away by the time the ticket works it’s way through the system.
So if ANet puts in another system of trading then it’s a system they put their seal of approval on. People who get scammed using a player to player trading system that ANet specifically puts in for the purpose of bypassing the TP will reasonably expect to get their items and gold back. This means that anet will have to research the claims of what was scammed and where it went, which will increase the amount of work support has to do and how long it takes to clear a ticket.
And how will ANet return the items and gold? Many items will be sold to others or salvaged. Should they make the items out of thin air, contributing to inflation? Should the items sold to people innocently buying them be taken away? If the scammer bought items with scammed gold, should the sales be reversed? What about people who innocently sold to a scammer and got scammed gold and then bought items with that gold?
Sorry but no. Accounts can be rolled back to a previous date to restore them to a state before a hack but not guilds and their contents. Those items once gone are lost forever.
ANet has a system put in that has zero % chance of scams and that’s what they want you to use.
Gaile Gray
ArenaNet Support Liaison
“Yes. Please use the Trading Post. Please tell your friends — even your sworn enemies — to use the Trading Post. If we all use the Trading Post, scammers are out of business in the blink of an eye!”
Any argument you use for an additional system for them to put in that by its nature is not scam proof needs to address this.
As you yourself said
4. A trading interface significantly reduces the amount of fraud and scams. Because both players would have to accept the trade, the person who gets the item first can’t run away with it.
The number of fraud and scams using the trading post is zero. Even if a trading interface “significantly reduces the number of fraud and scams” it will be still higher than zero. Any increase in fraud and scams means more tickets to support. More workload. More cost to the company in terms of work hours and payroll. More people who get banned for scamming others.
In return your arguments that are needed to convince ANet are
1) I want. Not convincing as one person saying ‘I don’t want’ counterbalances your vote.
2) other games have it. Not convincing as all games don’t need to have all features and ANet feels their trading post positives outweighs the negatives.
3) the scam rate will be low. Not convincing as the scam rate with the TP post is zero.
It was great. You could speak to the NPC http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Anatomical_Engineer_Llye and see what you looked like with a sex change, new hair color, new hair style, face, skin color, etc without having to buy a kit first. It was a great motivator to buy and spend makeover credits.
You can’t even control yourself from trolling in a thread about dueling. Way to speak for your cause. Good job.
Edit: Scrambles posted a fake PM screen shot from Colin that used derogatory words.. His post was deleted by mods. Just mentioning this so my post makes sense.
Oh wow, that’s a level of sad I never thought anyone would go.
I have it on good authority that scrambles posted that pic in an attempt to be funny. I don’t think he expected anyone to really believe Colin would send him a derogatory PM.
I thought it was funny :P
Possibly Colin read it and thought it wasn’t funny to be represented as unprofessional and rude? Or just the moderators opinion also.
I’ve been keeping records for the last 60 key runs and so far it’s averaging out to one every 4.6 runs (21.7% chance) and the most time without a scrap has been 8 runs.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Chest/Drop_rate
The rate for scraps here is 173 out of 848 opened chests, which is a 20.4% chance (every 4.9 chests). The chance for a ticket is of course much lower, 6 out of 848 or 1 ticket out of every 141 chests. Essentially though you should get 10 scraps about every 50 keys or so.
It’s not really the players that you need to convince, it’s ANet. For them the current setup has two big pluses. One is the gold sink to keep inflation down. The other is the decreased business cost to them from zero scams when people use the TP.
Your idea would cost them several ways. One is the need to more closely monitor inflation and possibly decrease rewards for everyone if a substantial number use player to player trades. The other is the increased number of scams, as no personal trading can be made scam free. So they would have an increased workload for support, increased payroll, increased numbers of people banned for scamming and possibly decreased rewards to all players to offset inflation.
Any suggestion you make needs to be worth the costs to them.
Ok. The champ train bags were designed as an appropriate reward for starter chars killing them, not fully rigged level 80s killing them ez mode on an endless loop. They are appropriate for the zone and the expected level killing them. Don’t be expecting ANet to cater to level 80s getting a bunch of them while neglecting level appropriate content.
Email them to some starter character you see in the zone or if you are feeling evil that day, whisper a friend you are sending them a gift and email the bags to him.
You can install the client from http://www.guildwars.com/support/downloadclient/ From there all you need is your email and password. If the 2 accounts are linked its the same login as Guild Wars 2.
Perhaps there isn’t a true black or a true white because both will wash out or cover up armor details to an undesirable amount in game, so they chose colors which are close but not exactly there.
They have been putting a new costume back in the trading post each week, so far the past Wintersday and Halloween costumes have appeared. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the grenth hood shows up, maybe after they finish running through the rest of the costumes. Possibly they will start on the armor pieces in a few weeks.
Grenth Hood is a skin, not a costume.
And? The armor and armor pieces are skins also, including the masks that are currently selling in the TP.
They have been putting a new costume back in the trading post each week, so far the past Wintersday and Halloween costumes have appeared. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the grenth hood shows up, maybe after they finish running through the rest of the costumes. Possibly they will start on the armor pieces in a few weeks.
Apparently it’s not that simple, for a couple of reasons. One is there are 3 types of materials and each one dyes differently. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dye
“Up to four different colors may be applied to an individual item, and the outcome may differ depending on the type of material (cloth, leather, metal) that the dye is used on.”
The other is, each race handles dyes a little differently
“Also, each race has a cultural palette that reflects the character of the species. This means a red color for a human may not look the same as a red color for a norn or charr.”
Which means at the very minimum there has to be 3 dyes for each identical color, if not more, depending on the material (and the race sometimes).
Apparently support is really busy right now, from what Gaile has said on other threads. Getting accounts back is also time consuming as they have to be sure they are not giving them away to people trying to steal accounts, so it takes a while.
He just needs to continue to work with support. It’s likely to be a few more days to get it all settled. When a friend of mine got her account hacked while playing Guild Wars 1, it took a week from start to finish.
You posted and gave the reasons why you felt that you got bad service
The reasons were
1) the agent said “thank you for patiently waiting”, which you felt was rude or sarcastic.
2) you didn’t get the item you wanted.
In an open forum where all can comment it is perfectly reasonable to post out that in English, thank you for patiently waiting, is neither rude nor sarcastic. And that the item you wanted, support was physically unable to supply to you.
1) in English "Thank you for patiently waiting” is a set polite phrase. There is no sarcasm intended, no more then saying “have a nice day” or any other set phrase.
2) they currently don’t have the tools to give you items like the Shattered Wing covers that were generated ingame by completing an achievement. This is undoubtably a flaw in the game that needs to be fixed, but reporting support for bad treatment for something they are literally unable to do is to misunderstand the situation.
You will not be able to get what you want from this site. This site is to give advice and and answers and for Gaile to see ticket numbers that need special attention. Regular support isn’t reading this forum.
All you can do is make sure your computer is secure and continue working with support on any issues. As long as your account hasn’t been hacked before you can get it rolled back to a point before the hack to recover deleted characters and lost items and gold.
If you delete it not only can you get 3 more tonics by making a new character and speaking to the NPC again but you can also buy it from the trading post if you don’t have a free character slot. Current price is 60 copper. http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36179
I don’t think this is correct. New characters will not have town clothes, nor will they get a tonic from the armorsmith. I just made a new character a few days ago and tried it myself.
Whatever you have, that’s all you’re getting.
Oh really? Good to know. I didn’t realize they had removed them from new characters like that.
I believe GW2 is going to take a hit soon. The old school guys like me are already looking elsewhere
‘A hit’? – Sorry…but based on what? Wildstar’s imminent release? – i think that’s a little OTT.
I wonder how many other MMO’s have been released, since the launch of GW2, where someone along the way came out with exactly the same argument? – it would be interesting to find out – although i doubt there’s an A-net employee anywhere…with finger poised at the off switch, shrieking ’ It’s Wildstar….everybody RUN!’
If you really want to look further afield then do so, by all means, they already have your money so it’s your loss really.
Picture leaked from super secret ANet Dev meeting where they are debating over whether to panic over Wildstar or not. As you can see both sides are represented.
Yah. There was a complete reworking of the trait system.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/traits-unleashed-forty-new-traits-and-more/
One fundamental change to the way traits function is that you won’t be required to visit a profession trainer and purchase a training manual to access the adept, master, and grandmaster trait tiers! Once you reach the appropriate level, we want you to be able to dive right into the system and start playing around with it, so you’ll unlock each tier for free!
As part of this approach to making traits more approachable, we’ve pushed back the level at which the different trait tiers unlock for new characters in order to better pace the early game experience and to add more meaningful character progression from levels 30 to 80. Starting with this feature pack, new characters will unlock the adept tier at level 30, the master tier at level 60, and the grandmaster tier at level 80.
It is highly unlikely that they will ever put in player to player trading. Not only is it a major gold sink but it keeps the number of scams to a minimum as you can see from what Gaile has to say about it.
Gaile Gray
ArenaNet Support Liaison
“Yes. Please use the Trading Post. Please tell your friends — even your sworn enemies — to use the Trading Post. If we all use the Trading Post, scammers are out of business in the blink of an eye!”
And:
“The devs created the Trading Post to give you a safe and secure means of trading and selling items. I consider TP fees as “insurance that the other player will play fairly” so I don’t try to avoid them. I encourage you and every player to use the TP for all transactions.”
