Guild Wars 2

I doubt we’ll ever get this one but I would LOVE to get the Mistfire Wolf (from the original GW2 Deluxe) as a Ranger pet! It’s special F2 ability could then have it summon the pups!

In addition to that I have no idea why they never gave us a Dolphin to tame as I think that would have made a great underwater pet and it’s already in the game.

Gaile Gray.6029:

markk.2401:

DivaCeryn.2673:

Me and a few others in my guild purchased the $79 version and got most of the stuff already. We didn’t get the 4000 gems? Is this a bug or just slow?

DivaCeryn , it states in the email after purchase that can take upto 72 hrs to get the gems, so wouldnt worry just yet.

Correct. I’m getting that added to the main FAQ for Path of Fire, so it’s info that players can get real easily.

Cool thanks! I was one of those people who got a little confused as to why I got all my other items instantly but didn’t get my 4000 Gems. You know how people are about reading emails LOL!

Neutra.6857:

I think you are supposed to activate all the nodes not deactivate them

It should be possible to do it both ways. I’ve done this stage on 4 different characters, sometimes with activating all nodes and sometimes with deactivating them.

• If all nodes are deactivated the bubble vanishes and she attacks normally
• If all nodes are activated the bubble overloads she loses a bit of health before she attacks

Had the same issue with the items in Bloodstone Fen when I must have killed over a hundred ghosts and elementals to finally get the tokens I needed. I also recall mining a ton of bloodstone nodes before I got the collection token.

Didn’t have an issue with the petrified stumps though. I think I got it on the 3rd stump myself.

Personally I would prefer it if ANet made the regalia for the other gods first.
I’m still missing complete outfits for my Melandru, Grenth and Kormir characters.

Also… Wasn’t Abaddon destroyed? Or was he merely defeated and Kormir simply took his power (just like Menzies apparently stole Balthazar’s power now)?

My Guild Wars lore is a little hazy so I’m not sure if Abaddon is completely destroyed or merely defeated/imprisoned.

If you participate in the events to restore the shrines, they allow you to buy up to 8 more every time per event cycle.

And while they contain ‘nothing special’, they only cost one pearl and always seem to give you at least the same number (or more) back in addition to salvage materials. So it’s always worth it to buy them.

Yeah, whatever they tried to do in the latest patch it did not work. Frankly it feels as if it made it worse.

• Improved server performance in Siren’s Landing

Please try again ANet as your improvements did nothing.
And while you’re at it please also check out what’s going on around Noran’s Homestead in Lake Doric as it also has severe lag issues where the game just stops responding for several seconds at random.

Can confirm. It made the jumping puzzle in Noran’s Safe Room … very frustrating to say the least.

My Mini Toy Golem has some wierd kind of purple effect instead of its normal textures and makes a wierd sound effect whenever I transition to other zones (it sounds as some kind of teleport effect).

Previewing it in the Hero panel and its icon are normal but ingame it’s purple. Deactivating/reactivating doesn’t fix it either.

I believe something happened with it with the release of the latest Living Story chapter as before that it was fine.

Event is called “Defeat the undead giant before it can kill Willowdread” in Siren’s Landing.

I have been waiting at the Champion Willowdread for quite a while yesterday and today but I have yet to see any undead giant event.

Is it bugged again and won’t trigger the giant event? Or does the giant only spawn a few times a day or something?

Sorry, if you want exclusive HOM items you’re just going to have to play Guild Wars like the rest of us.

As I recall I bought the entire collection pretty cheaply on Steam a month or two before Guild Wars 2 came out and was easily able to get the 10 points (which is what you need for the sword) just by playing through the campaigns.

Link accounts = 3 points
Any Pet = 1 point (freebie when playing Ranger)
Eternal Hero 3x + Eternal Protector 2x = 5 points
Any Hero = 1 point (freebie with M.O.X.)

The above should be the cheapest/easiest way to get your 10 points I think.

Me and 2 friends were running the instance together and had VERY inconsistent results on collecting these pages.

When one of my friends was owner of the story, she could only pick up 2 pages. My other friend managed to pick up 9/10!! I also could only pick up 2 pages but they were from objects that she could not interact with. I also couldn’t interact with the bookshelves and chest at all!

So we went in again with my other friend as the owner, this time I could interact with the bookshelves and chest but I only got 6/10 pages in total as a lot of other items didn’t give me anything. She managed to get 7/10 items while the owner of the instance (the one who had 9/10) couldn’t get his last page at all.

These pages are completely messed up as items suddenly can’t be interacted with at all, can be interacted with but don’t give annything or randomly give a page to one person but not the other.

I really hope ANet can find out what’s causing this issue.

Uncommon my butt! Might as well call them rare drops with these Korean lottery boxes that give you crap 95% of the time.

I used 25 keys before I got the glider and the parrot and considered myself VERY lucky.

Last time when I wanted that Balthazar Hound Mail Carrier (also uncommon and only available in Black Lion Chests) it took me over 75 KEYS before I finally got it. And the first slot is always locked and already gives guaranteed junk as well.

In my opinion ANet needs to change this into something so that the first slot always gives you a guaranteed ‘Seasonal Ticket’ that works like a Black Lion Claim Ticket Scrap or Miniature Claim Ticket so that if you’re unlucky and don’t get the item you want from the chests themselves you can use the guaranteed tickets directly and buy the item from a vendor.

That way you’re at least guaranteed to get the item at some point instead of getting fed up or spending way too much money on these Korean lottery boxes.

Sorry for the rant but I just wanted to share my opinion on these current ‘Account Bound Black Lion Chest Only’ items.

But to answer your question, I don’t think they’ll be back. Unless it’s in another year or two.

I just experienced a ‘connection’ crash as well kickingg me back to the character screen. When trying to log back in I get a network issue and the game crashes to desktop completely.

And just when I was trying to show off Dwayna’s parrot and that Zephyr feather glider and pretend I’m the coolest kid on the block on my character called “Champion of Dwayna”

Spirit Weapons were in a pretty poor state from the very beginning. Their traits were all over the place and I think I was the ONLY person on my server actually using a Spirit Guardian because I liked the concept. The first character I made on August 25th 2012 (during the 3 day Headstart) was a Guardian because of the Spirit Weapons.

Then ANet destroyed them completely during the January 2013 patch by making the Spirit Weapons killable while still keeping the short duration, long cooldown and traits all over the place.

Personally I would like to see Spirit Weapons either return to being unkillable while they are active or persistent (until killed) similar to Necromancer minions.

Just my opinion.

Did someone say Kormir?

I just hope we won’t have to destroy Balthazar or some wierd crap this time. I’d rather be offered the choice of kicking Menzies in the nuts and help Balthazar get his stolen power back.

Is it my imagination or did Taimi also get a lot bigger? I swear, during the last Living Story she was as big as an adult Asura.

Give me back my tiny lovable munchkin!

I’m still waiting on outfits for the remaining human gods (Grenth, Melandru, Kormir). So before adding new armors and outfits maybe ANet should also focus on their incomplete sets?

I have a full set of ‘god’ characters but only 3 of them have their corresponding outfit (Balthazar, Dwayna, Lyssa).

WE COME BEARING GIFTS!

(drops 50 feasts of clam cakes on enemy emergency waypoint tactivator)

:D

I know, I know…! Upon death you not only have to wait a minute in a time-out box but your participation level starts to decay immediately! And because ANet doesn’t deal in half measures but always goes full kneejerk nerf you also lose a participation level every time you die! /sarcasm

Seriously though I think the current system is fine.

This is probably related:
Just now I wanted to send a guildmate an item from my inventory and the game crashed as soon as I hit ‘Mail To’. Loading back in and trying to send the item crashed my game again.

So I take it that currently anything tied to the mail server (opening mail, sending items, picking up gemstore items etc) will immediately crash the game?

I hope Jormag shoves that flaming dinky bow up his whining Norn butt! :P

Kasmeer = Goddess of Hiccups! :P

Would have loved to buy the Balthazar Hound mail carrier directly, but it will be a cold day in hell for me to gamble away my money. Especially when every time I used one of my rare freebie keys from the occasional map completion reward I got nothing but trash items.

To me these Black Lion Chests are currently just a Korean style cash-grab scam imo and I would never spend actual money on buying keys.

And a full Grenth’s Regalia Outfit as well please.

Only “Melandru’s Orchard” (Cursed Shore) and “Seaside Propagation” (Draconis Mons) are disabled for the moment because they caused a game crash when interacting with the soil. The rest can still be planted normally (I just planted the rest).

Guess we’ll just have to focus on collecting these Druid Stone fragments for another 6-7 days and hope ANet will have fixed the problem with those two fertile soil patches after that.

Well, I appreciate you mentioning it anyway.

I didn’t know ANet already stated it was an intentional feature when it acts and sounds like a bug to me.

Could someone point me to where this statement was made?

I agree that the 15 minute timer is rather annoying and superfluous but I guess it’s in line with the other Endless Tonics.

The fact it can’t be used underwater is rather odd as well, especially when it’s Endless Miniature Tonic counterpart can be used just fine underwater. So I’m not sure why the devs suddenly decided to deny the use underwater on this one.

Other then that I really like the tonic and even though they were pretty expensive for what they do I already purchased 3 to make my Human God ‘avatar’ characters appear more … godlike. I think it works especially well on my Weapon Of Balthazar and Champion Of Dwayna characters.

But the main downside is that I no longer hear any audio associated with my shouts.

Can confirm. Came to the area to do my Heart and the event bar was at around 5-10%. So I figured I’d just kill regular mobs for my Heart and then participate in the Wurm event.

Killed enough mobs to finish my daily but in those 10 minutes that I was running around not a single event mob spawned near the bloodstone barrels.

The Endless Embiggening Tonic which people can purchase in Draconis Mons lowers the pitch of your character’s audio files (which is very cool imo).

However there seems to be a bug where character voicefiles from abilities no longer play (which is less cool imo).

When my Human Male Berserker has the tonic active he will no longer yell the voicefiles attached to these skills/abilities:

“I will destroy you all!” when activating Berserk.
“No!” when Berserk is about to end
“Shake it Off!” soundfile no longer plays
“On My Mark!” soundfile no longer plays
“For Great Justice!” soundfile no longer plays
“Fear Me!” soundfile no longer plays

When not using the tonic the voicefiles play every single time without fail but with the tonic active they are gone.

I have also tested my Human Female Guardian with and without the tonic active. Without the tonic the shouts can be heard perfectly every time. With the tonic none of the shouts have any audio voicefile anymore.

Meh, I am still waiting for my Mainhand Pistol for Mesmers since 2012.

Last expansion every other class got cool mainhand/2hand stuff and we got shafted with a crappy offhand shield. And now we get a crappy axe.

I really would have loved to get a mainhand pistol so we could have had a cool onehanded ranged power weapon as we are really lacking one.

We were only 3 people when we got our guild hall. We just asked a couple of guys from an allied guild to help out. As long as you enter with less than 10 people you only need to kill 1 enemy pod at a time.

Our guild is currently lvl60 so we have managed to get almost all upgrades as well.

Besides, why would PvP guilds want a guild hall? The PvP lobby is your guild hall as you guys never leave that place anyway.

Same here. As soon as I go into CA and the internal cooldown on the little icon hits 0, it just kicks me back out without me being able to do anything.

Just Marketing BS and wordgames, every company does it to a lesser or greater degree (especially EA).

Thanks to the Wiki (and Dulfy) I know what to do, as I wouldn’t have had a clue otherwise. With the Wiki especially with ANet’s convoluted system of recipes-for-recipes, discoveries and how to get specific stuff from the MF. And Dulfy is invaluable to me for everything else (especially events and achievements).

Ester Sauter.7694:

There is an option, in the gear on the top left of the chat box

That option doesn’t seem to do anything Ester either on or off. Not even sure what it’s supposed to be doing but I assume it is only related to when a player states something in /s?

At any rate my backpack still obscures my screen with a chat-bubble whenever it makes a random comment and I can’t recall it ever doing that until this patch.

smitske.4912:

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

After putting in the request and thanks to Joel Helmich’s masterful sleuthing into ancient systems and programming magic our Ranger Pets will now retain their customized names between sessions across all your pets. No more sticking to a single pet to keep their names between logins!

WOOHOO!

Great, now next can we have the longbow fixed? I really dont like how half the attacks get blocked or some other kind of not hitting effect. For example in WVW the veteran boss is often just cannot be hit with the longbow.

has perfect line of sight on the mob

OBSTRUCTED
OBSTRUCTED
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Yeah, I’d really like for them to fix that.

Best thing about this map is that it gives you those salvage items that give random tiered materials.

So I no longer need to farm a specific mob in a specific region just to get bags that might contain Linen scraps and such.

I was already sitting on 14/16 pages for all the books and used Dulfy to find the last ones

SO HAPPY they are individually labelled! That made getting the last ones so much easier (especially compared to that coin hunt in Dry Top back in the day)

One thing I noticed however. I got all the completed books in my inventory now, but I also still have books labelled (incomplete). That was a bit odd that the incomplete books were not removed from my inventory when it granted me the completed version. I assume it’s safe to toss those incomplete ones out?

Can’t recall ever seeing a speech bubble myself until this patch hit; and all my Asura are running the Tron backpack.

Was already looking at the options but couldn’t see an option to turn it off.

We already buried him in our guild hall.

Took my elementalist there today with the Stone Heart trait and let myself get pelted by rocks to test the ‘Crit=Crash’ theory.

Sure enough I got hit A LOT by these homing rocks but never got knocked out of the sky once. So the White Mantle knocking you out of the sky with their homing rocks definitely seems to be tied to them critting or not.

As such it seems an Elementalist while in Earth Attunement with the Stone Skin trait is immune to getting knocked out of the sky.

It’s still a stupid mechanic though and I don’t know who at ANet thought this would be a fun idea. I mean, I can understand if White Mantle archers and casters would try to use their arrows and ranged spells against you, but throwing rocks that home in on you just to either pelt you to death from impossible range or simply force you out of the sky on crit feels cheap and unimaginative.

Mail-r-Tron mail carrier.

Seeing that we already have the backpack, gathering tools, a mini (well sorta) and now a glider I figured that having our talkative little golem deliver mail as well would make for a pretty cool mail carrier.

Eponet.4829:

Aveneo.2068:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Agreed. They do ignore stealth gliding. I’ve been pelted too. Not enough to be knocked out of the sky it seems, so I’m not complaining about being pelted. But it seems a shame to gain a stealth gliding mastery and find it ignored.

Not entirely sure but them knocking you out of the sky seems to be tied to wether or not they crit. I’ve been pelted to downed state without getting knocked out and at other times 1 rock was all it took to knock me out of the sky.

I swear if a rock they throw at you manages just 1 crit, you’re knocked out of your glider immediately with a 3 second forced cooldown before you can enable your glider again.

Also tested Stealth Gliding some more, but they just don’t care and keep throwing stones at you as if you were plainly visible. So a Tier 4 skill (5 Mastery Points) is now completely useless in that specific zone when it was working as intended everywhere else.

Does that mean that elementalists can gain immunity to it by entering earth atunement and equipping the trait that prevents critical hits while in earth attunement?

Good question! I think I’ll take my elementalist there tomorrow and test it out. If it works it may become a “Go Ele or Go Home” zone.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Agreed. They do ignore stealth gliding. I’ve been pelted too. Not enough to be knocked out of the sky it seems, so I’m not complaining about being pelted. But it seems a shame to gain a stealth gliding mastery and find it ignored.

Not entirely sure but them knocking you out of the sky seems to be tied to wether or not they crit. I’ve been pelted to downed state without getting knocked out and at other times 1 rock was all it took to knock me out of the sky.

I swear if a rock they throw at you manages just 1 crit, you’re knocked out of your glider immediately with a 3 second forced cooldown before you can enable your glider again.

Also tested Stealth Gliding some more, but they just don’t care and keep throwing stones at you as if you were plainly visible. So a Tier 4 skill (5 Mastery Points) is now completely useless in that specific zone when it was working as intended everywhere else.

LOL!

I’ve never even bothered with them as I couldn’t be kitten d with the convoluted system of all the recipes and crap involved. Not to mention the ridiculous amounts of Crystalline Ore and Commendations you had to spend per recipe. Hell, you need to use the wiki to actually know what the heck you’re supposed to do.

K.I.S.S.

Would have been much better just to have the vendor sell the pieces directly for the crystals and some commendations instead of the recipes to craft components for recipes to craft the actual item. Basically like those WvW vendors that sell armor and weapons.

Pretty sure I have enough crystals to build every individual weapon and piece of armor with the stacks of both Tenebrous and Shimmering crystals (as I have access to both guilds with max mining nodes) were it not for the sheer amount of Crystalline Ore and Guild Commendations required just to get the kitten recipes.

I still have nightmares of the Crystalline Ore I had to get just to make enough ingots for HOPE… Talk about Grind Wars 2.

To me all of them feel rather useless.

• Experienced Enrichment +20% Experience from Kills (so you get an occassional spirit shard now when they were already dropping like candy everywhere)
• Magical Enricment +20% Magic Find (never noticed any difference between 0% MF and max% MF)
• Karmic Enrichment +15% Karma (after the great karma nerf of 2013 and general lack of use I’m not sure if it’s worth it)
• Gilded Enrichment +20% Gold from Monsters (get a few extra copper but only if a mob even drops any money)

Not sure if there’s a reason for me to spend 20 laurels per character for one such ‘enrichment’ when the benefits are infinitesimal.

I would have preferred to simply put my old WvW infusion back in to be honest.

Agreed, it’s ridiculous.

I was gliding around the crater trying to find those book pages when suddenly I get pelted out of nowhere by 9-10 rocks and in less than a second I lose 60% of my health off and fall to my death because I wasn’t allowed to activate my glider again in time.

At one time while I was trying to ride the Leyline up to get out of the crater they just kept on pelting me with rocks until I hit downed state and fell all the way back to the floor.

Apparently the Stealth Gliding is borderline useless most of the time as well as they just keep throwing these homing rock-missiles at you.

Was playing briefly with the new story instance but after that ‘fixed a server crash’ patch I can’t get into the game anymore.

I can make it to the character select screen, but if I then try to load into the game it gives me:

Network Error .
Please check your Internet connection and try again.
Code = 1083:5:7:159:101

I’ll try some other characters but my character that was doing the new story can’t log back into Rata Sum and a character that was parked at the elder wood farm in Orr can’t log in either. Both give me a grey screen with ‘Network error’ and then kicks me out the game

EDIT: Seems I can load in just fine on my Herald that was parked at the flax farm in Verdant Brink now. Wierd…

EDIT2: Now my main character can load in normally again. Wierd x2. Maybe a glitch on the server?