Guild Wars 2

Khisanth.2948:

Does anyone even care about “hero of the wastes”? O_o
Sure it’s better to have it than not but I would never actively put forth any effort to get it. It just doesn’t factor into any decision making.

Considering at 169% base MF, sharpening skull, lunar food, MF boost, cele boost, 5 persevere stacks, and hero, I ended at ~589%MF… Yes, it did affect decision making.

Complete breach/VW, stacks set, hit champ train, then follow chest train for persevere-affected chests. Open lucky envelopes during train. When train ends or breaks due to prep bar filling, farm dust mites/twisters while taxi’ing, stocking sand for chance for keys/lockpicks. Protect dollies to max all fort supply. Now slap legends with 589%MF for that much more of a chance of not having to buy associated armor boxes with crests. Breach (increased armor chest chance on drops)/VW/lab, lather, rinse, repeat.

During LNY the only time I left SW was to clear dailies as fast as possible and buy my envelopes for the day.

Akagami.9861:

I do love a good jumping puzzle from time to time…i did almost all of them. They are great, sick of farming, or runing paths or fractals? go do a jumping puzzle, get amazed at the complexity, scream a little, maybe cry…open the final chest and see all the blues…cry some more, but at the end of the day i love that there are such things in this game.

Gives me an Assassin’s Creed-ish feeling when doing them ^^

So… many… blues! They almost reduce the satisfaction of completing JPs.
<.<
>.>
Almost

Wow… people really WILL find a reason to complain about anything.

Mine’s the hidden cave in the colored WvW JP, with the cats training for battle against the sentient races of Tyria. Pretty, funny, and a little unsettling, all rolled in to one.

Deamhan.9538:

“Many a wild beast have succumbed to my might”

“That reminds me, have I told you my wife is pregnant?”

Also, regarding some of the replies above, I vote that “Kitten” be replaced with “Skrit”.

I wholeheartedly second this. “Skritt” should replace “kitten” for the wordfilter.

SIDENOTE: I’m drunk off my skritt while posting this; took 3 minutes to post and edit. Skritt off.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

1) Small guilds are allowed to claim objectives in WvW, as long as it’s useful. When you have JQ and BG beating down on your Keep from two sides, the +5 that a guild can activate makes all the difference. So guilds claiming with no buffs are trolls.

2) Trading Post PvP is different. It’s a market war that we play. I get mad that I’m undercut, but it’s something that I can accept. It’s all a troll, but by undercutting them back, it makes it even.

3) AFKing in an area only upscales it if there’s actual participation. That means either the player attacks something, or they get attacked. Plus, AFKing in a map can hold up slots for people who try to organize. I’ve experienced this in Wurm runs and Scarlet invasion/hostage rescue runs. That intentional AFKing is just as bad as ruining events by completing them early.

1) “As long as it is useful”. Again, forcing playstyle. But the problem with that argument now it that most small guilds can no longer claim keeps. In a run, an objective can only be claimed immediately by the guild that has the most participating members, while any other guild must wait until Righteous Indignation wears off.

2) It’s not a troll unless the intent was specifically to troll.

3) Incorrect. Vicinity is the trigger. Participation is not needed. Again, observe the tattered armor collection event near Maw for living proof.

Aidan Savage.2078:

After skimming the thread, I’ve come to the conclusion that if I decide to open steam ogre’s room exactly 20-21 minutes before fire elemental, thus depriving azhure’s guild an ogre spawn in favor of generating one in time for the world train to arrive, I’m fully within my rights, I’m not trolling, and azhure can suck it up. Sound about right? Anyone see something wrong with that?

Considering the intent was to intentionally deprive someone of content, “thus depriving azhure’s guild an ogre spawn”, yes, that’s trolling. Thanks for disproving your point in your own post.

“Bear in mind, I’m not arguing to be stubborn. I’m trying to make a point…”

At this point, I’m not even here for that. I just like to argue and debate

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Azure Fang.8605:

@Smooth Penguin
You speak of honor, yet you force people to play as they may not like, threaten to troll a boss to counter others play, and turn everything in to a personal attack. Trolling and griefing are such by INTENT. A player killing a champ out of train is not griefing; a player killing a champ out of train to derail the train is. A player staying dead hoping for a rez is not trolling; a player staying dead to upscale an event MAY be, depending on the intended outcome.

By your logic, if you walk through an event you are instantly griefing every participating player by upscaling the event, which was not a desired outcome by the participating players.

I’m having a hard time placing which logical fallacy you’re hitting with your arguments. Unwarranted Assumption? Affirming the Consequent? Existential? Argument to Moderation? Confirmation Bias? Circular Reasoning? Ecological (seems most likely)? Etymological? Composition? Division? False dilemma (also likely)? Furtive? Hedging? Incomplete Comparison? Intentional? Moral High Ground?

No, it’s definitely a Mind Projection fallacy.

Whoa ho ho ho! You want to discuss fallacies now? I’m King of the Strawmen. But I digress.

1) There are no personal attacks here. People say that it’s not considered trolling to ruin an event for others, right? So if I did that, no one can complain about me. If you did, then I’d call out the double standards. What other definition is there when 5 people purposely ruin an event for the other 95 people on the map?

2) Walking into an area doesn’t upscale it. Participating does. So if I’m at Teq, and I don’t know how to dodge the waves or big red circles, I get downed. If I’m not rezzed in time, I’m defeated, and just lay there. Dead weight doesn’t = DPS needed to kill Teq faster.

1) You just pointed out in another post people undercutting you personally on the AH, and you cry troll without intent. Every time you post, you lack intent, using the terms themselves as justification.

2) Yes, it does. This is why AFKs are such a problem. Walking past turrets on the way to Teq has been proven to upscale champs, and having the Maw train run by the Tattered Armor event without even killing a skelk or turning in 1 armor instantly caps out the turn in requirement. Vicinity upscales, not participation.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

To recap, the reason people were mad isn’t because they missed out on a minor Champ Bag. The main problem here is that trolls ruined the pattern of the run. Because of this, I haven’t touched the Steam Ogre in a while. I heard it was bugged, so I stopped going to FE. But now that I know why it was “bugged”, I’m upset, purely in principle.

But trolls are everywhere. In WvW claiming Keeps with 0 buffs in a small guild. Undercutting my prices on the TP. And purposely ruining PvE trains. I’ve learned to live with it, but that doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to be upset at some people don’t understand the logic of how a train operates.

To recap. Small guilds are not allowed to claim keeps, players are not allowed to compete on the AH, players are not allowed to run champs unless they are in a train.

Yes, you are allowed to be upset. I’m upset when I can’t make it to a SW legendary in time. I’m also upset when a train’s damage output on a champ, like SO, is so high that my attacks do not do enough damage to actually give me loot credit, let alone event and chest credit (Ulgoth war beasts and Wurm avatars are another perfect example of this). But they are not doing this to personally spite anyone. Players don’t know they’re undercutting YOU, and I’ve seen more large guilds non-buff claim than small since the claiming change (majority in keep = instant claim rights, all others have to wait until Indignation wears, or had you not known that?), and champs are meant to be killed, be it by 1 or 100.

cranked.3812:

Crimson Clouds.4853:

cranked.3812:

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@everyone else about the stupid QD champ train: There is a huge difference between someone killing a champ out of order on a map where the same champs spawn 5 minutes later and will be killed 100’s of times than there is when killing a champ that is basically part of the FE process and has been since the dawn of the game and won’t respawn until long after everyone is gone from the map. Stop making that silly comparison.

The comparison was made about the entitlement, not the kinds of champs or respawn rates. Besides, I’d actually argue that if a champ was killed in the QD train, it was more annoying because it would often upset the whole train. People ended up splitting up and the train would fall apart.

But either way, people are totally allowed to kill whatever creature they want to, with or without a zerg behind them. It all goes pretty well until bickering arises and A-net has to nerf things to improve the sense of community and the contents of map chat…

OK i see what you are saying about the entitled aspect of it. But, this is exactly why unwritten rules are created in society. Everyone knows it, everyone follows it and everyone is happy.

Utopian fallacy. So the homosexual populous is happy about unwritten rules banning marriage in many countries and causing a legal quagmire? Yes, I went there, I’m sorry, but it’s a perfect example.

Unwritten rules are just that, unwritten and only enforceable to those that will be forced or by a majority forcing opinion on others. In game terms, there is literally no reason such rules should be followed, and many reasons why they do not matter (the time spent on that one champ may be spent on countless other, more rewarding champs, for example). This is literally a placement of false dilemma and moral high ground on a group following the WRITTEN rules of the game, by a group that feels entitled to play as they wish over all others, with no consideration to the fact that they do not own the world and do not write its rules.

@Smooth Penguin
You speak of honor, yet you force people to play as they may not like, threaten to troll a boss to counter others play, and turn everything in to a personal attack. Trolling and griefing are such by INTENT. A player killing a champ out of train is not griefing; a player killing a champ out of train to derail the train is. A player staying dead hoping for a rez is not trolling; a player staying dead to upscale an event MAY be, depending on the intended outcome.

By your logic, if you walk through an event you are instantly griefing every participating player by upscaling the event, which was not a desired outcome by the participating players.

I’m having a hard time placing which logical fallacy you’re hitting with your arguments. Unwarranted Assumption? Affirming the Consequent? Existential? Argument to Moderation? Confirmation Bias? Circular Reasoning? Ecological (seems most likely)? Etymological? Composition? Division? False dilemma (also likely)? Furtive? Hedging? Incomplete Comparison? Intentional? Moral High Ground?

No, it’s definitely a Mind Projection fallacy.

edgarallanpwn.8739:

You can bind most macros to mice key that comes with your mouse and keyboard software. AS long as you’re not using an automated bot program to spam it(which is obvious), i have never in the history of any game see anyone get banned for that.

Wow even encourages macros with its built in macro editor.

This isn’t WoW, now is it? It has been stated time and again that macros are allowed, as long as the macro is “one press, one action, no recording an attack chain, etc.”, with the exception being for instruments. Automation software not included, recorded macros are disallowed, and all the better. I’d rather have a player in a group know what they’re doing with their class than a script kiddie that recorded an attack chain to a G510s GKey and hits that every few seconds in between spamming 1.

Azhure.1857:

Azure Fang.8605:

As to the timing, did you actually READ the OP, I took it as 3 minures PRE, as in 3 minutes before the pre chain starts, when NOTHING is happening and half of the megaserver is portalling on to the top FE platform to kitten and tweet “im abot to kill FE 4 279th time #yoloswag420”, not during the pre. And even if, the pre escort is EASY. I’ve solo’d it on a really lazy megaserver, including the champ that can scale at the bridge which has about as much HP as a common firefly.

Ah. I should clarify further. Its not that early. The 3 minute mark is during the final pre event inside the main chamber. The only people that get on the map that early are one of our scouts, so we can anchor a map that has an Ogre not on cooldown (if possible).

Fair enough. So, during the final pre when about 50 people are standing doing nothing and maybe 10-15 are killing things, and at a point when anybody could tag a mob, run for ogre, melt it, and run back with still enough time to grab a bag of chips and STILL have 1 minute before FE actually shows (personally done, seems I’ve been in one of your goes in the past).

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Azure Fang.8605:

That’s about as thin of an argument as players saying “I don’t want to WP when dead at Tequatl because I need that 2s for my legendary.”

That doesn’t apply here. Dead players who don’t WP are just trolls. If they WP or not, they still get the loot at the Teq kill.

Azrael.4960:

How is OP (and their guild) beholden to the rest of the map?

Because it’s an unwritten rule that all players know about and have the honor to abide by. Steam Ogre comes after the FE kill. It’s been that way since we first discovered the Steam Ogre. To alter that is akin to moving Christmas to January.

@Teq rez
How is someone that wants a rez trolling? You will literally turn everything in to a personal attack, won’t you?

@Unwritten rule
In other words, as with all “unwritten rules”, absolutely nobody is beholden to abide, as there is no force to bind them and they are in the right no matter what.

EDIT: Also, didn’t you imply you were done with this thread? Aren’t you on a schedule to stand on the FE room platform in 4 minutes 30 seconds from this post?

@Behellagh
Why do it at all? Let’s see:

• Achievement
• Chaos orb charge
• Daily treasure chest
• Something to do as a guild
• All stay in for countdown to create a deathpile outside the reactor <-Personal favorite, and great way to work up revival achievement
• Metrica Province Daily Events achievement using a controllable event
• “World’s About To End -No Ogres Invited” dance party <-Permanently cancelled as the world did not end 12/21/14.
• Just really hates Steam Ogres

Need I continue?

As to the timing, did you actually READ the OP, I took it as 3 minures PRE, as in 3 minutes before the pre chain starts, when NOTHING is happening and half of the megaserver is portalling on to the top FE platform to kitten and tweet “im abot to kill FE 4 279th time #yoloswag420”, not during the pre. And even if, the pre escort is EASY. I’ve solo’d it on a really lazy megaserver, including the champ that can scale at the bridge which has about as much HP as a common firefly.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

That one missing Champ Bag could be the difference between getting an Exotic to MF for a Precursor, or having to spend 2 Gold on another Exotic. Tis a big deal to ruin the Boss train runs.

And if OP wouldn’t care about missing the Steam Ogre, then he shouldn’t care to wait another few minutes to do the event with the rest of the players on the map. /Logic

That’s about as thin of an argument as players saying “I don’t want to WP when dead at Tequatl because I need that 2s for my legendary.”

If the champ bag is that important, jump in to a 50% SW and get ~30 champ bags in ~15 minutes.

KngGilgamesh.3481:

You ran from a skrit.

All of my THIS.

If skritt ever became a playable race, I have a vision of WvW. You’re there, running to your next objective, when you see an enemy player running by with every possible speed buff the game can muster. Then, just as you attempt to make chase, a wall of allied skritt players roll by, yelling “You ran from skritt!” and “You lose!”, while one stops, faces you, says “More come, yes?”, then rejoins the skrittpile.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

And so with the kind words of a a couple of people who also don’t care what the map of players think, the OP will continue to grief the FE event. At least this confirms that this was a troll thread to get people upset.

Maybe a small group of us should time a Steam Ogre kill first, then OP can see how we feel about not adhering to their tight schedule.

Enjoy your “schedule”. I’m going to enjoy Guild Wars 2.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

It’s not about the 1 single Champ Bag that we’re missing. It’s the fact that a group of people are purposely ruining the train. And no, this isn’t the same was the Frost Gorge train. Champ bosses respawn every few minutes while you’re on the same map. Bosses spawn every 2 – 3 hours, on different maps. If my zerg is at FE, and we can’t do the Steam Ogre, we move to the next boss. By going back when the Steam Ogre timer is up, that ruins the Boss train. OP seems to understand this, and doesn’t care. Ergo intentional griefing.

Again, players are Entitled to play how they want, but they’re not Entitled to ruining the game for others.

So the train is entitled to ruin the game for others by setting a specific timetable for boss runs and grief anybody that plays otherwise? Stellar logic.

I’m going to be blunt. The counterplay arguments are exactly the same arguments that were being used by the event fail champ trains. They are toxic and have no place in the game. OP has directly stated multiple important points:

• No intent to grief
• Being considerate and announcing prior
• Picking a time before pre start so everybody available can join

When the boss is killed, the event goes in cooldown and everybody that missed it missed it. That is the simple reality of timing. But guess what? The event respawns and they can come back later to do it, at any time, at their leisure, EXACTLY as OP did. The trains have no entitlement to determine how content in an open, dynamic MMO is played. If someone misses content, they miss is. In a macro context, is ANet griefing you because you were on vacation during a LS activation period? No. You simply missed out, and now you have a second option, paying, to get that content.

On the griiefing topic, this very subject was touched upon during the fail train fallout, and addressed. Content is meant to be played, one way or the other. If people want to wait until after, that’s completely fine, but they have to accept the consequences of that system. There is always that chance that their waiting will be for nothing as the content is available and someone is ALLOWED to play it. Just like how players are allowed to fail an event for a different outcome, and must accept that players are also allowed to succeed at that same event. There should be no harassment; the game was played, period.

And don’t go passing the buck, “blame ANet”, “blame map design”, “blame llamas”… learn the game, and take responsibility for the outcome of your actions, or lack thereof. You choose to play the way you do, but you are as special of a snowflake as everyone else who plays THE WAY THEY DO.

OP, you may have been the reason I missed Ogre yesterday. Good on you for playing. In the end, I got to see the exploit people were using to get past the shield, screenshot it, and report it. Afterward, I went out to the Silverwastes and got 28x the bags I could have gotten from Ogre without even trying. All in all, better than anticipated. Keep playing how you wish and have a nice day.

Killing dolyaks in front of their children… Personification and emotional transference aside, this is no different than said parent getting torn apart by roaming raptors. Now, the shiverpeaks heart support the crafters of Soderhem which has you slowly poison rabbits to death so that they can be skinned without damaging the fur, THAT is sadistic… and profitable

The problem: Some tokens can be used as Mystic Forge items.

The solution: Treat the account wallet like the materials bank tab with unlimited capacity, where currencies can be pulled out as item sets as necessary.

Problem solved and all sides are happy.

As mentioned before, “taxi” is at least as old as EverQuest. “Taxi’ing” was when one player would guide another to a specific location for a fee/donation. Older MMOs often had a /follow command that would tether you to the target, causing you to automatically follow said target whenever they moved. Taxis, usually Bards or Druids (usually Bards since their movement speed buff songs were constant with no need to recast), would buff their target, have them /follow, then run them to their destination for a fee/donation. This was different from “ferrying”, as previously mentioned, which was primarily Wizards/Druids casting their teleport spells that teleported all in the area to a predetermined landmark.

Whether it was around in UO, I can’t say. I started my MMO career as a Bard in EQ. Professional Intercontinental Taxi, Corpse Locator, Bat Wing/Bone Chip Farmer, Grandmaster Potter and Master of 7 Different Languages, Kamilie of Tarew Marr, lol.

I can agree with this. Balance isn’t a consideration since there’s no level restriction, so why soulbind this?

MauricioCezar.2673:

What I mean here is : If this nourishment already have a different icon, shouldn’t it be usable along (together) with other foods? Just like guild banket food? (Same nourshment icon). That is how I think it worked tbh. Seens a little powerful, but its a 2-years gift anyway.

The blessing consumables you get from the Wayfarer Foothills heart merchants have unique icons, but count as primary nourishment and override/are overridden by food. It’s not the icon, but the classification.

On the marketing and PR: I don’t thing I’ve seen any marketing for GW2 that has actually looked good except for the original SAB launch.

On trinity: I’m from EQ pre-Luclin… What’s trinity? Seriously though, trinity arguments are stupid as hell. There’s more to any MMO class balance than three roles, and any MMO based differently (yes, I mean WoW, I won’t sugarcoat it) is suffering from “generation first syndrome” and brand name fanaticism.

On OP: Troll harder. The WoW “Night elf Mohawk” PR stunt was worse than this. Stop with the hyperbolic doomsaying and get back to playing, or give me your stuff and “move to a more successful, multi-million seller”.

I’ve suggested a mini-pet slot many times. At this point, I’d like to see soulbound minis (like the orange tabby kitten) account bound so we don’t have to carry a copy on every character :P

I will admit one skin I would like to see. I’d love to see exposed barrel pepper boxes with barrel rotation animation on fire.

Our entire back story should have some more bearing on everyday gameplay.

• Bonus objectives in open world events based on your story selection only visible to players with that selection. Let’s use the “save the farm” event in Queensdale for example.
  • If you selected Dignity: BONUS – Take no more than X damage.
  • If you selected Ferocity: BONUS – Personally kill X bandits related to the event.
  • If you selected Charm: BONUS – X/X farmers must survive.
• Repeatable subquest lines and daily instances based on Order (now made possible with the story journal).
  • Vigil: Settlement/town protection instances.
  • Priory: Dungeon/ruin delve instances.
  • Whispers: Settlement/town espionage instances.
• Daily racial incursion instances in associated territories surrounding the major cities based on racial/background enemies (Asura vs. Wayward experiment results/Inquest/Skritt/Ogres [“first contact” style due to racial sympathy] out in instanced chunks of Maguuman zones and inside Rata Sum, for example). These could be treated as “Activities” in terms of new racial achievements and “Daily Activity Participation”.
• Daily Orrian cleansing missions for players in the Pact chapter or have completed the personal story.

On a note to the racial and order instances, this could be used as a springboard to add a faction bonus system similar to GW1. Further, an Asura could bring a party of non-Asuran characters into a daily Asura instance. The Asura would get 100 faction points, while the others would get 25, allowing faction gain and experience cross-racial content.

I will admit, though, that I hate Quip. I do not want to be packing Pinkie Pie’s Party Pistol :P

And yes, that step block was a form letter. I have it prepared for whenever I hit a technical thread. Life of a PC technician :P

Accessing Facebook, especially with the malicious ads that were being hosted earlier this year, is threat enough. With such ads, you don’t even need to see them. As long as the page loads them, they’re downloaded into browser cache, and from there they execute unseen. There was even a rash of such ads being provided by Google that were exploited a while back. If you’d be willing to humor me, follow these steps.

1) Shut down your computer completely to force Windows to install any queued updates.
2) Turn on your computer.
3) Navigate to http://www.bleepingcomputer.com. The site should be tones from white to blue, with articles about recent anti-malware software and internet security threats (as a Facebook user, you may be interested in the article titled “Were You 1 of the 698,003?” on the center page). If it’s not, instant red flag that there’s something malicious installed on your PC. Discontinue steps and post here.
4) Hit “Downloads” and search for the programs “Rkill” and “Combofix” using the search box on the right. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com is the ONLY safe place to download these tools.
5) Download them both.
6) Temporarily disable your anti-virus.
7) Run Rkill. Rkill is an automated tool that resets some internal Windows settings that should generally never be changed (but often are by virus scanners and malicious software), temporarily shuts down unnecessary processes and some malicious programs so that a system scanner will have a relatively clean environment to run. You’ll know it’s done when it presents you with a text log on screen. Save that for later.
8) Run Combofix. Combofix is a well known, powerful automated scanner that detects and removes malware that anti-viruses miss, can’t see, have been tricked in to not seeing/believing are safe, and uses methods that anti-virus heuristics view as “potentially unwanted” (and rightfully would be, if not used by combofix), thus the need to temporarily disable your AV. “Yes” through any prompts. It will complain that you have anti-virus software installed. When it gets to a text block stating “The scan may take 10 minutes…” sit back, relax, go get something to eat, go see a movie, do anything EXCEPT touch your PC. If you haven’t shut down your AV, combofix may never finish and we’ll have to work out NEW issues caused by the AV disabling/deleting scripts/tools mid-process. Combofix may have to reboot your PC, so if you check on it and it’s at a login screen, log in like normal and it will continue. You’ll know it’s done when you are presented with a text log. Save that for later.
8a) If any notification boxes come up during the scan, something nasty was found. But the only thing that I can think of that would prompt this would be RootKit.ZeroAccess, and if you’re on the internet at all, you don’t have ZeroAccess. But if such a box pops up mention here before proceeding.
9) Copy your logs to a service like pastebin and post the links here.

I fully understand if you don’t want to do any of this, but what you describe is unlikely to be hardware. If it were hardware, you likely wouldn’t have this happening out of the blue one day; it would have more likely been happening from the start. It sounds like traffic shaping malware or malware communicating on the same ports as Guild Wars 2.

Dragon Jade
Super
Beaded
Aetherized
Ebonmane
Bloodfly
Fused
Master Blaster
Peacemaker
Priory’s Historical
Glyphic
Flame
Pact
Dark Asuran
Molten
Inquest
Godskull
Etched
Fractal
Antique
Sunless

I think we have a decent list of great looking pistols. But that’s just me

Heard some chatter a week or so ago that there are still some guilds around for organizing Teq/TT runs. If so, come and get me!

Let me break down a few possibilities.

First, anti-virus software in general has become little more than a resource hog. Relying on heuristic detection more than their databases of known threats, as well as packaging extra features when they’re supposed to be just anti-virus software has led to common occurrences of legitimate software being hindered, or in the worst cases completely blacklisted. Windows 7 has a surprisingly strong anti-malware solution integrated: Windows Defender. If you’re using “off the shelf” solutions like Norton or McAfee, I’d fully recommend removing your anti-virus software, enabling Defender (as it was likely disabled by your anti-virus software), enabling automatic updates and scanning, and free your computer from draconian scanning practices and bloated software with features you never use and may not even work in the first place. If you want me to elaborate further, I can and happily will.

Second, you say he doesn’t have issues but you do. That leads me to believe it’s either your Windows Firewall settings or you may have some malware causing issues. We’ll get in to the malware possibility after something a little easier to test: Windows Firewall.

There is always the possibility that the settings in Windows Firewall could have become corrupted some how (bad disk write, malware, didn’t perform a virgin sacrifice last full moon). Try temporarily disabling Windows Firewall (Start Menu>Control Panel>Windows Firewall>Turn Windows Firewall on or off>Turn off Windows Firewall (not recommended)) on both public and private networks, then run Guild Wars 2. If the issue disappears, we’ve found the problem and can move forward with fixing it on that level. If not, turn it back on; there’s still plenty more that could be the cause.

Then there’s the possibility (that I’m leaning heavily to; it’s always this) that it’s an infection of some sort of malware. And before anyone brings up anti-virus installed: that doesn’t matter. As previously stated, most anti-virus software has become useless and there are even malware strains that use anti-virus software to replicate and spread.

If disabling Windows Firewall does nothing, we’ll move on to checking for infections.

Considering you say you have disconnects most commonly during transitions, I’d check your firewall and port settings. I was preparing a long post to cover this, but I should ask a few questions first.

When did this start happening?
What operating system are you running?
Are you running any anti-virus software?
Are you running any firewall software?
Have you noticed any other network anomalies outside of Guild Wars 2 recently?
Who is your internet service provider?
What type of service (DSL, Cable, Satellite, Wireless, Fiber Optic, etc.) are you on?
How is your computer connected to your network?
If wireless, what connection type (b, g, n, a, ac) are you using?
If wired, how long is your ethernet cable?
If wired, what type of cable (CAT5, CAT5e, CAT6) is it if you know?
What is the make and model of your router, gateway, or both?
If both, how long is the cable running from your gateway to your router?

And yes, I’m serious about cable length if you’re wired.

This was a common occurrence in the Queensdale champ train. The contribution threshold for loot rights isn’t always the same as event credit. A hypothetical example would be that loot credit kicks in when you deal 0.5% damage to the event target, while bronze credit requires 2%. I’d personally call it a bug, but until loot/event credit become standardized, it’s “working as intended” in the rawest sense.

Vayne.8563:

I think what happens in if you log off the server knows you’re offline. But if you don’t give it the command to log off, I think there’s a check that it makes periodically to see if you’re there. I’ve been on mumble with people who say they’ve been kicked but I still see their portrait.

If you’re logging off completely it’s different because you’re informing the server of your intention to leave.

No. Regardless of disconnect method, when one disconnects they are left in their current party for ~5-10 minutes, or until they are removed from party. If you see someone go offline then drop from party quickly, it’s likely the user switching to invisible and leaving party.

But why would the green orb be Zhaitan when the color correspondence of the dragons was confirmed ages ago and has backing in-game? It makes no sense to the established lore.

I don’t think it was actually done away with in the first place. Personality dialogue still exists and new characters still pick a personality trait on creation. But it would be nice to see an official statement on its removal from the hero screen, as well as more bearing in-game.

Z didn’t awaken first, though. The order of awakening was Primordus, Jormag, Zhaitan, Bubbles, Kralkatorrik, Mordremoth. And it didn’t seem to me that Mordy’s orb gained power. Remember, the NPC heroes mention that they yanked you out of the machine, which potentially ended the vision early. We didn’t see if the other orbs were going to “flash and strike”.

The way I see it, the Mordy orb wasn’t a view of unbalanced power. It’s that Mordy will be the first to actually begin “cleansing” the world in this waking cycle. If the dragons are a true force of nature, they do nothing but destroy, then go dormant and radiate magic (dormant Primordus in the Central Transfer Chamber), they seem more to me like a natural “reboot switch”. Destroy and consume all they can to reset the world for a new cycle of growth and evolution.

Wow, some players really will complain about anything.

As Bubi said, the sand is OVER AND ABOVE the normal loot. It isn’t a replacement (except in extremely rare cases when harvesting cacti). On dust mites it’s a 100% drop before normal loot rules kick in, and on other mobs it a random chance that does not replace other loot. Clean the sand out of your collective eyes (could have typed something much worse and been banned even after autocensor), enjoy your free loot, and quit being over-entitled munchkins.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

All I want is for them to bring the old Lion’s Arch fountain from GW1 back to the surface. Raise it from the bay, for old times sake!

I’d rather see them build a new monument out of some of the scrap left by The Breachmaker.

While I can understand the premise here, I must pose one important question: How do we know Zhaitan’s dead?

Yes, we kick his teeth in and drop him. Yes, lore states that the undead are retreating and his influence is receding. But we never actually saw him die, and the aftereffects could also be placed on Primordus and the Destroyers after the death of the Great Destroyer. We saw him plummet from the sky in a Hollywood style “I’m dead but I’ll be back for the sequel” style of scene.

I’m firmly of the mind that we simply sent Big Z back in to dormancy and what we’re seeing with Mordy is simply the devastation of his awakening, which seems to be equal in devastation (or gearing up to be equal) to that of Kraik.

CaptainVanguard.4925:

Actually in Season 1 Jory mentions some reference to E being part of the priory I cant remember exactly where but it was during the battle for LA or escape.

She doesn’t know his identity to my knowledge but she does know he works for them, I cant remember where its referenced though.

Unless I missed an entire scene somewhere, Marjory has never mentioned that E is part of the Priory. She has mentioned, on several occasions, that she herself was once part of the Priory and kept some contacts. Perhaps you misunderstood that?

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Only treants count for “Plant Slayer”.

In my opinion, hostile bushes should count too.

Mordremoths minions though should not – the other dragon minions have their own slayer achievements, so that should be “Blighted Bane” or something along those lines.

Actually, only undead have an achievement of all the dragon minions. Sons aren’t technically minions, icebrood and branded don’t have achievements at all. We need Kraik Bane, Jormag Bane and Mord Bane achievements :P

After clicking my reset, I’m stuck at “Read Your Mail”. I can repeat any step, but it never progresses linearly. It’s rather annoying.

One of the object interactions with Taimi in Scarlet’s room is different if you’re an engineer. I’m loving the fact that they’re adapting to character/PS. Small things add character to games like this.

As to OP, yeah, I noticed her the moment I walked in. Seeing even minor characters “continuing their lives” makes the game feel alive.

Jedi.7543:

Drop rates are too low to be worthwhile to go farm them. I don’t go looking for them; they just find their way to my inventory.. lol

160 piles = 2 geodes. (oO)

Should be an Archaeology achievement for sifting through the sands.

As much as I hate collection achievements, I could agree with this one. Add in the title “Sand Sifter” and 100 units of sand as an achievement reward (it gets everywhere, even in the pages of your journal) and I’m sold.

And to the guy that said MF affects item drops from sand: Wrong
MF only affects monster drops on kill. Not bags, not dyes, not chests, not crates, not sand. This has been officially confirmed time and again.