Story Jounral: Heart of Thorns Part 14. Sign Cutting
On step three “Find the tracks Rox left behind.” where you walk over the tree and find a rock on the tree no matter how you interact with it it doesnt’ complete the step needed to progress this mission. Can’t progress the Heart of Thorns story journal as of this time.
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I had the same issue. Problem was worked around by hopping to a new IP.
Hiding this behind spoiler tags. I tried to be as vague as I could to not give away anything but descriptive enough to explain what I encountered.
Final boss fight buggy too. The “things” you need you need to interact with sometimes spawn outside of the combat area. Final boss’s attacks gradually get more difficult (or seemed to) and don’t reset if you’re forced to restart which makes it a little more challenging. During the first part of the instance. when you’re fighting the two bosses, sometimes the NPC with you get’s stuck between phases causing you to have to restart. In one case, they were stuck as being determined so I had to restart the entire instance.
“Sign Cutting” story instance will not progress. The bar never goes to complete and I’m pretty sure the rock that says I can interact with, although I can’t, is supposed to progress this.
Update
I logged in today and was able to complete the story step. I was on a different IP this time.
I suggest those having issues (e.g. the scout) to try again and see if the problem can be worked around by being on a different IP.
Made an update to my post but wanted to bump it up in case what I found may help people work around the bug they have encountered until a fix is made. Not saying it will but worth a shot. It was a workaround that we did back when the game launched for some Orr skill point challenges.
“Sign Cutting” story instance will not progress. The bar never goes to complete and I’m pretty sure the rock that says I can interact with, although I can’t, is supposed to progress this.
Update
I logged in today and was able to complete the story step. I was on a different IP this time.
I suggest those having issues (e.g. the scout) to try again and see if the problem can be worked around by being on a different IP.
Probably more for the new maps too since you have many meta chains going on and they want to prevent people from doing enough in an event to get credit and then leaving for another.
If experience is rewarded through a reward chest, that experience will be applied to the region it was earned in, not the region the chest was opened in.
Darn. I had two characters ready with one vista per map for the HoT masteries.
Experience and gold awarded for completing a dungeon have been reduced.
Three of the four do not offer discounts. The other’s web page would not load for me. You can try from other companies online but be aware that you run the risk of getting scammed. Do your research before hand to determine if they’re credible.
Despite the buggyness, it was an epic fight. Rebalancing it for a 5 man fractal boss would be slick. I mean let’s face it, we need more boss fractals, and this would be an amazing one.
I want to chase it through the forest, knocking down trees, dropping the side of a mountain on it, survive the hatchling death spiral, and do the epic stomp again. Doing it under the influence of instabilities would be a really interesting challenge.
Please new fractal team. Make it so after HoT launch!
Rebalancing so it doesn’t take 3+ hours? Lol
Most of the time sink in it was the camp events if I remember right. Make the camp events boils down to a single mob wave (say a champ karka with respawning elites, kill the champ to move on) and you’re left with just the fun bits (chasing it down and forcing it in to the lair for the final battle) and that would put it right around ten minutes or so if its HP was appropriately balanced for 5 players I think. if the camp events were all champs, the loot would be at a scale that compensated for the slightly longer clear time than maw/mai trin/duo
Alternately, you could just have it skip the camp events altogether and make the mob wave sections just a single wave of mobs.
most of the time sink of that event was the multiple “okay, now clear ANOTHER lengthy mob spawning section!”
Really, what was fun about the boss was the chase section. The actual boss fight once you got to the bottom was pretty meh, so spreading it in to linear HP sections (so phase 1 has just as much hp as the final phase) would pace the fight pretty short, but it would still be a nice multi-phase encounter, and unique among fractal bosses as a moving boss fight.
All I remember is what seemed like hours with the entire map attacking a damage sponge while praying you don’t get D/C’d.
you may be aware, we changed to a new billing system last week. The system providers have fully reviewed the legal requirements related to sales tax (or its equivalent) and a charge is added to purchases in those states, provinces, regions, or countries that require taxation.
I want to say that if you still have them then you can still use them. You just won’t have access to purchase those consumables again or obtain them elsewhere in the game. You won’t be able to use influence to queue any upgrades.
All you can do, after the expansion goes live, is purchase the following:
Influence may be exchanged as follows:
– Favor may be exchanged each week.
– Resonance may be exchanged as much as desired.
– Aetherium may be exchanged every 24 hours
I’m currently lvl 79 and so ive not done any of the living worlds story, so my question is as i don’t really know much about the living world stuff do i need to have completed them to do the heart of thorns story?
No. You can do any of the living story episodes out of order just like you can do the expansion first. The story may not make as much sense so I suggest reading the summary before doing the expansion.
Despite the buggyness, it was an epic fight. Rebalancing it for a 5 man fractal boss would be slick. I mean let’s face it, we need more boss fractals, and this would be an amazing one.
I want to chase it through the forest, knocking down trees, dropping the side of a mountain on it, survive the hatchling death spiral, and do the epic stomp again. Doing it under the influence of instabilities would be a really interesting challenge.
Please new fractal team. Make it so after HoT launch!
You can get it, if you have characters that were able to do that part of the story after they reverted the change. Your old characters that were past that point wouldn’t be able to do it.
Can you clarify the bolded part?
I’m reading it as either:
You have to have a character from before the update that hasn’t progressed past that point.
The older character must be on that story step to still retain access.
Shifting from DX9 to DX11 or even 12 would from my experience require an entire re-write of their rending engine since it’s a modded GW1 engine. It would in theory take a VERY long time and lots of money.
To use an example.
DX11 was released October 22, 2009
WoW a milti-million dollar MMO took over a year to get DX11 into Beta for their game as it came with the beta of Cataclysm
December 7, 2010
The one thing you need to remember here is WoW’s engine and GW2’s engines are vastly different so this comparison is shoddy at best but gives a good example of the resources and time needed to fuddle about with your games rendering engine.
Coding isn’t just flipping a switch or changing a variable to make this stuff happen it requires re-engineering possibly millions of lines of code. I can’t hope to know what GW2’s architecture looks like in engine but it’s not just something that can be wishfully thought on and have happen.
Edit: Due note I am a novice coder at best, but I understand a decent amount of it. Milage may vary in actual degrees of difficulty depending on just how amazing GW2’s coding team is and how complex their language and engine is.
Yeah and you’d likely get more benefit from them re-writing the entire engine rather than what you would get from upgrading DirectX by itself.
No. You may have to wait until December but most likely next year.
Its already on sale for up to 36.00 us.
Shop on google.
And no a site that has been legitamate for years isnt going to suddenly become shady just for one game.
May get lower later though.
If only anet offered prices people would get at first sight. Oh well!
I’m referring to directly from Anet obviously. I’m not going to price check every online site and whether they’re legitimate or not.
Ah, then you misunderstood his purpose, he simply wanted to know when/if he could get a better price legitamately
Edit: And this is one of several review sites I found on the company that had many listings of the expansion for $36 on google like you suggested I look. Yeah…
But hey. It’s your money. If you feel getting the cheaper price is worth the risk then go for it.
Lol i wasnt talking about that one. I said legitimate for years.
Scaring people by talking of boogeymen. You realize some of these companies have been retailing games longer than gw2 existed right?
Then name one rather than make a blanket statement to check google shopping.
This is what I saw when doing the search you recommended. Only one came up for the price you mentioned or rather close to it.
They ll lock the thread if i link a sale. Its happened in the past
Its close to that price maybe 37 or so
In the same family
I was just asking for the name of the company. I don’t think it’s against ToS to list only the name and especially since I’ve seen people name off Steam, GameStop, etc.
It’s really up to you if you want to or not. There’s nothing that either of us can gain by continuing this anyway.
CHeck your luck stat and see if it hasn’t auto applied. I’m afraid it is way to far back to remember how I got it, but if it was mailed, ensure your mailbox isn’t full
They gave us like five legendary luck or something like that.
There is basically no difference between OPs two screen shots.
Wrong! One has “PC (DX9)” in the bottom left corner and the other has “PC (DX11)” in the bottom right corner.
Like I said, maybe a little better lighting and the displacement mapping / tessellation on the green thing on the left.
Yeah. The one of the left had a little bit of glare. It’s not a very apparent difference in graphics unlike the Xbox vs ps4 versions of that one game where you hack technology. Too lazy to look it up to find the name.
No. You may have to wait until December but most likely next year.
Its already on sale for up to 36.00 us.
Shop on google.
And no a site that has been legitamate for years isnt going to suddenly become shady just for one game.
May get lower later though.
If only anet offered prices people would get at first sight. Oh well!
I’m referring to directly from Anet obviously. I’m not going to price check every online site and whether they’re legitimate or not.
Ah, then you misunderstood his purpose, he simply wanted to know when/if he could get a better price legitamately
Edit: And this is one of several review sites I found on the company that had many listings of the expansion for $36 on google like you suggested I look. Yeah…
No. You may have to wait until December but most likely next year.
Its already on sale for up to 36.00 us.
Shop on google.
And no a site that has been legitamate for years isnt going to suddenly become shady just for one game.
May get lower later though.
If only anet offered prices people would get at first sight. Oh well!
I’m referring to directly from Anet obviously. I’m not going to price check every online site and whether they’re legitimate or not.
Ah, then you misunderstood his purpose, he simply wanted to know when/if he could get a better price legitamately
Edit: And this is one of several review sites I found on the company that had many listings of the expansion for $36 on google like you suggested I look. Yeah…
No. You may have to wait until December but most likely next year.
Its already on sale for up to 36.00 us.
Shop on google.
And no a site that has been legitamate for years isnt going to suddenly become shady just for one game.
May get lower later though.
If only anet offered prices people would get at first sight. Oh well!
I’m referring to directly from Anet obviously. I’m not going to price check every online site and whether they’re legitimate or not.
50 bucks is nothing. I spend more in coffee in a month.
I really wish people would stop being so dismissive of another persons concept of ‘expensive’
Many people DONT spend £40 a month on Coffee because they are too busy making sure they can pay their energy bills on time…learn a little empathy
What if the game had a monthly subscription?
It has been about 270 days since the expansion was announced. If someone started saving at that point, they would only need to save about 19 cents a day.
It’s been about 127 days since they announced the price. You would only need to save about 40 cents per day.
Your fallacious comments don’t have anything to do with me calling out someone behaving in a condescending way….many many reasons for not saving their19c a day for example wanting to se if the content is what they really want because they are – poor??
Actually scrap that – if you are on here trying to defend someones bad behaviour with Maths you obviously don’t get it.
I’m not defending bad behavior. What I am doing is arguing against how it is so expensive that the impact of the price for someone who is strapped for cash couldn’t save money over time. There’s also no harm in saving money each day. If they chose not to buy the expansion, they could’ve used the money on something else.
Well I don’t think it’s worth the price and that’s my opinion so you can believe whatever you want. I won’t be buying my 4 copies until the price is lower.
I was not saying anywhere that it is or isn’t worth the price. What I am specifically saying is that it was entirely possible to have saved small amounts of money since the announcement and been able to afford the game.
I have been playing through GW1 recently, and realized that I was missing the expansion Eye of the North. I purchased the GW1 Trillogy on Steam for $15, and this single expansion is on Steam for $20… I was expecting it to be around $5.
To put things into perspective, GW2 is now free to play after 3 years… Guild Wars+Factions+Nightfall was $15… and Eye of the North Expansion was released in August 2007 and costs $20.
I looked on sites like Green Man Gaming to see if I could find a deal on a steam key but its not listed on that site. Is there a legitimate source where I can get a steam key cheaper than $20?
Why would it be $5? The trilogy is normally $30 unless there’s a sale.
50 bucks is nothing. I spend more in coffee in a month.
I really wish people would stop being so dismissive of another persons concept of ‘expensive’
Many people DONT spend £40 a month on Coffee because they are too busy making sure they can pay their energy bills on time…learn a little empathy
What if the game had a monthly subscription?
It has been about 270 days since the expansion was announced. If someone started saving at that point, they would only need to save about 19 cents a day.
It’s been about 127 days since they announced the price. You would only need to save about 40 cents per day.
Your fallacious comments don’t have anything to do with me calling out someone behaving in a condescending way….many many reasons for not saving their19c a day for example wanting to se if the content is what they really want because they are – poor??
Actually scrap that – if you are on here trying to defend someones bad behaviour with Maths you obviously don’t get it.
I’m not defending bad behavior. What I am doing is arguing against how it is so expensive that the impact of the price for someone who is strapped for cash couldn’t save money over time. There’s also no harm in saving money each day. If they chose not to buy the expansion, they could’ve used the money on something else.
I have been trying to track down information about the exclusion of xp consumables but am having trouble locating anything. Will the exclusion only apply to consumables that grant xp directly such as writs of xp or also include xp earning buffs such as killstreak consumable?
There was a Zam article well before the first beta, that stated that xp boosters, xp banners, etc would also not work on xp gain for mastery tracks; however, I do believe that people were able to use these during the betas. So it is unclear if this statement still applies.
We have had a definitive statement that neither tomes or writs will work for mastery tracks. Writs cannot be used on a lvl 80 character, 20 of them can be combined to create 1 tome. A tome used on a lvl 80 character will grant you a spirit shard, but does not apply any xp to a mastery track.
Yeah. We were able to use XP boosters during the beta tests. I think you can easily get well over 400% depending on what all can be stacked.
That’s what I thought.
So I wonder… was that just for the betas, or have they changed their stance on those things being usable?
I’m guessing since:
they could be used during beta
anet was looking for feedback on how we felt about length of time to achieve masteries
the boosters were recently changed
That we’ll be able to use them and they’re just planning on padding xp numbers as needed from our feedback.
They worked during the final beta. I guess we’ll know for certain within 15 hours. It sure hasn’t stopped people from buying those lunar fireworks.
Yeah. If you’re planning on leveling fast, you can farm the Halloween minions in the labyrinth. You should be able to stack enough boosters to get over 400% more XP per kill.
I have been trying to track down information about the exclusion of xp consumables but am having trouble locating anything. Will the exclusion only apply to consumables that grant xp directly such as writs of xp or also include xp earning buffs such as killstreak consumable?
There was a Zam article well before the first beta, that stated that xp boosters, xp banners, etc would also not work on xp gain for mastery tracks; however, I do believe that people were able to use these during the betas. So it is unclear if this statement still applies.
We have had a definitive statement that neither tomes or writs will work for mastery tracks. Writs cannot be used on a lvl 80 character, 20 of them can be combined to create 1 tome. A tome used on a lvl 80 character will grant you a spirit shard, but does not apply any xp to a mastery track.
Yeah. We were able to use XP boosters during the beta tests. I think you can easily get well over 400% depending on what all can be stacked.
50 bucks is nothing. I spend more in coffee in a month.
I really wish people would stop being so dismissive of another persons concept of ‘expensive’
Many people DONT spend £40 a month on Coffee because they are too busy making sure they can pay their energy bills on time…learn a little empathy
What if the game had a monthly subscription?
It has been about 270 days since the expansion was announced. If someone started saving at that point, they would only need to save about 19 cents a day.
It’s been about 127 days since they announced the price. You would only need to save about 40 cents per day.
We’re not entirely sure what exactly will award mastery points in the core game. Completing the personal story, world completion, Living Story Season 2, Dungeon Master, maxing all crafting professions, and probably the jumping puzzles may be some examples of what could likely award mastery points.
Progress for masteries is gained by earning experience on a level 80 character in the area of the game for the applicable mastery you have set to be trained. HoT masteries such as grinding can only be trained on the new maps. Tyria masteries such as for legebdary crafting can be trained in any parts of the game that exist at this moment which award XP. Tomes, and the other XP consumables, cannot be used once you’ve reached level 80.
I can turn 350k into 1000g. That’s not the point of this thread.
Proof? There is reason to question it since you’re using it in your argument.
Apparently some have be building guild catapults with influence. When its done you get a blueprint that they do something with and sell on the TP for approximately 2g each. So basically 500 influence turns into 2g or 350k Influence into 1400g.
Though we have know we were losing influence a long time ago. As mentioned it is there to spend on Favor, Aetherium, & Resonance after HoT.
I didn’t think that those could be sold. I figured they were like the golem ones which couldn’t.
Whether something is balanced towards a tier of gear doesn’t mean that you cannot complete it in lower tiered armor. Also be aware the the thing that most people complain about in regards to ascended is the cost of the armor despite it only contributing around 2% of damage over exotic.
A full ascended berserker set vs a full exotic berserker set is a 12.5% difference. If you want to niggle over armor alone then ok, we are talking about full ascended vs exotic silly…
Whether something is balanced towards a tier of gear doesn’t mean that you cannot complete it in lower tiered armor. Also be aware the the thing that most people complain about in regards to ascended is the cost of the armor despite it only contributing around 2% of damage over exotic.
Trinkets and back item are easy/cheap to get. Weapons are the 2nd highest expensive item at 50-60G per weapon not counting cost to get craft to 500.
Whether something is balanced towards a tier of gear doesn’t mean that you cannot complete it in lower tiered armor. Also be aware the the thing that most people complain about in regards to ascended is the cost of the armor despite it only contributing around 2% of damage over exotic.
Whether something is balanced towards a tier of gear doesn’t mean that you cannot complete it in lower tiered armor. Also be aware the the thing that most people complain about in regards to ascended is the cost of the armor despite it only contributing around 2% of damage over exotic.
Expansion content is all level 80 and I doubt they’ll be scaled up. Players cannot participate in the claiming of the guild hall unless they own HoT. They can enter the guild hall once it’s been claimed but will only be able to use limited services within.
Whether something is balanced towards a tier of gear doesn’t mean that you cannot complete it in lower tiered armor. Also be aware the the thing that most people complain about in regards to ascended is the cost of the armor despite it only contributing around 2% of damage over exotic.
Recommended = You’ll find out that you need it after you keep wiping out.
Think of Isaiah as a tire sales person telling you he recommends snow tires on your car for the winter. Obviously he can’t tell you that you have to, but when you get stuck or crash then you’ll be right back there getting your “recommended” tires.
Recommended does not equal required.
Sure, you can enter raids with exotics, but…
Sometimes you have to read between the lines and take hints for more than hints…
Recommended = You’ll find out that you need it after you keep wiping out.
Think of Isaiah as a tire sales person telling you he recommends snow tires on your car for the winter. Obviously he can’t tell you that you have to, but when you get stuck or crash then you’ll be right back there getting your “recommended” tires.
And actually there’s still a large amount of players doing PvE and selling Silk, but I’ve always seen the price of the Silk increase or stay at a price that to make a Wool of Silk buying the silk from the TP you need barely 10 golds.
That will really not help Light Users to make an Ascended Armor.
And components obtained in Raids will help to make a Legendary Armor, not an Ascended. And for a Legendary Armor you will need Months, if you have enough Ascended Armor Pieces to make some different Bosses that will require it (for a not jet definited fight/damage/condition system).
Old information. It was clarified hours later. It’s recommended.
