Guild Wars 2

Dime Baggins.1058:

Has anyone else noticed since the update yesterday that the little white arrow streaking from the bow to its target animation is different/less. When running around fighting alone in PvE it is fine, but in bigger battles it is almost completely gone and the animation starts farther away from the bow. It’s frustrating because other players ranged attacks are still perfectly visible. (Ex. the pink lighting bolt from Mesmers swords) It looks like I’m not even shooting anything. I even have the new “Effect LOD” checkbox unchecked. Feels like I’m shooting blanks.

Yep, I have it too. Never used to happen—-but now—no arrow streak animation (as you have described). I have also so experienced it in a varity of situations.
I never had a problem with it before.

Yes, especially if there are group at the top,, please move the chest down one flight of stairs.

Navi.7142:

Nooooooo. Why? Why? Why?

Maybe it was just an oversight from anet’s part. ^^

I would just remove the maybe and call it for what it is.

Agree—-those left over buttons should be able to be sold ,just like the tokens——since those the used the tokens were participating, or were thrown away after the event based on Anets’ past practice with left over event items.

Lesson learned—-will not participate next time. Making all the representation buttons sellable would be a nice way to make up for , what I see as either a serious oversight or a glaring mistake. I am sure someone at Anet could comment on this situation. It would be appreciated.

ForGreatJustice.3452:

Lisa.6102:

SwiftFishy.2643:

Ryuujin.8236:

You can also save yourself some scratch by not buying the cultural armour. Cultural armour is little better than stock gear for that level, the primary reason you’d buy it is for the skin.

But if you’re hard up for cash, buying vanity gear is a no-no.

well im annoyed by how my mesmar looks atm, and the vanity armor would make me happy

Then go do the sanctum sprint and you may or may not have your armor in a few hours

The more suggestions we keep posting, the more I feel the OP is either:
1) trolling us and knows perfectly well how to make money
2) expects to get money with little to no effort.

If it’s #2, OP, please, save us time and do some of the suggestions and report back after you invest the 2-3 hours it takes at your level to make the ~2g for T1.

I was about to suggest the same thing, but I am more inclined to agree with #1.\

It’s nothing to lvl up fast in this game and once there, make a few gold daily.

Turned it off, it messes up jumping puzzles(amoung other things) and added it to one of the thumb buttons on my mouse.

Kenny Mack.2653:

People, please use the search change function.

This has been said a million times already.

True, but the search function here is one of the most unfriendly, mediocre,useless,frustrating search boxes that I have ever used.
I avoid it like the plague.

Many threads here about the Black Lion Chests and the consenus is Don’t spend real money on them. They are ,simply put, money pit and Anet doesn’t bother changing the drop rates because people continue to be stupid enough the spend money on the fluff /cotton candy that Anet offers for sale while keeping the ‘good stuff out of most players hands. People must quit buying the the RNG stuff. Quite bluntly, there is no way (imho) that there is any randomness in the all various drops—I firmly believe they are always programmed/skewed in Anets favor and they will continue to do so regardless of the devs saying ’no way’ it just the way our random generator works. Actually ,No, it’s the way they programmed the random drops to work regardless of how flawed it is.
Don’t spend real money with the RNG game!!!

Basically if you are on Eredon Terrace—you can forget about it. We continue to own last place and will never be in a position to be the least bit competitive. Near impossible to do without switching servers unless you luck out the way cpg suggested.
Hopefully you are on a good wvw server. If only I did the server transfer when it was free,(and many got their 100% that way) I would have my 100% instead of being stuck at 99.

You are stealth for 3 seconds—what a useless trait (PvE).
But actually the most annoying to me is still the jumping and the crappy camera —it is one of the worst , if not the worst camera mechanic in any video game and jumping ranks up there with the worst implementation in a video game ever.

Or almost forgot the targeting system—-2 thumbs down!

Yasi.9065:

Oh god, please not more Boxes

Agree, I get and see so many that I just drop them or destroy them and ignore any Icome across that others have dropped.

Don’t know if this will help. It has all the areas. There are other similar sites as well.

http://game-maps.com/GW2/

and this thread here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Maguuma-Explorer-166-167-Solved/first#post2385481

Nick.6972:

SHM.7628:

Nick.6972:

What etiquette? Oh please. It’s a game.

Yeah, ettiquette as opposed to a rule.

It’s better if it remains “etiquette” rather than becoming " a rule" which would be more punitive. Meaning if you happened by an event later = no/less reward. That would suck for eveyone.

You follow?

If I can leech, I’ll do it.
Why?
Yeah, no thanks, do a crappy event for 25 minutes to get 2-3 blue items from end chest. No thanks.

Bingo!!!!! If the drops were super items maybe some changes would be justified—-but not the way drops are now—generally they are mostly junk with the odd bone thrown in—-Classic example of Pavlovian Theory working at it’s finest.

Ricky Da Man.5064:

As far as world bosses are concerned, you should have to get a gold medal in the pre event to be eligible for the chest.

No—because even if you are tagging a and fighting through the whole chain in an event, you may not get gold because they are simply too many players killing. The Maw and Wurm events come to mind-you will never get a gold for all the events in the chain unless there are fewer people playing the event.

Sorry, but I do it for the claw. It is one long, boring, tedious event. I wait until the claw is in the final battle, I just want to skip the whole corrupted wall sequence. It just doesn’t scale down if there are not enough players to get him down to 50% is a reasonable amount of time. It really needs to be reworked. I do all the other events 100% though.
As far as punishing players for joining late—not going to happen (imho), nor would it be in Anets’ and the games’ best interest in the long run.

Teege.4623:

I notice a trend of old content being slapped with a new skin. “Farm X out in the world” (kite boxes, holograms, candy nodes, etc etc) and “do these jumping puzzles for X” nothing terribly exciting here. And yes, it gives them a chance to add stuff into the BLTP because their main goal is money.

Agree 100%—just the same old recylced grinding. Just a different location, different faces and a few items to make some them money.

It’s a problem on Anet’s end. TP has had problems for quite a while and logging out and back seems to help. That being said, I have noticed that the problem has become worse over the last couple of weeks.

g e o.2589:

Why do you care more about prize than content itself? Overall this is a game where you are supposed to have fun, what is more fun exploring a puzzle to get a mini or running around with mini in Lion’s Arch?

Actually neither of the 2 examples given are any fun for lots of players. Each to their own!

From what I read here
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/july-09-2013/

nothing at all to get me excited about the game—just more grinding and mediocre content and rewards—I’ll give it a look—but pirates really such was a let down —so much so that I really don’t care if I even try four winds.

Ulti.6730:

This game deserves a huge thumbs up, never played anything like it. Captures everything I love about video games. Awesome job guys.

The body of the the post was acceptable even though fanboyish—however the title was so far off I can’t see it as anything other than trolling.

I hear that they are going to be adding a real ranger with decent skills , bows and contollable pets. ;-)

Dante.1508:

Yes temp content is great once in a while, but when temp content is the majority of the content things go down hill…

Players will only tolerate these tedious and grindy achievement based content with very little rewards for so long, already so much of the populations have moved on partially due to these things adding zero to the game..

What Guildwars 2 needs is some very real permanent content that increases its longevity of play..

Agree , I didn’t even bother with Pirates because it was a recycled tedious grind as well as forced wvw maps etc. The Ranger nerfs and changes to orr didn’t help either. Anyway, my time in the game has been decreasing.

You could pick Eredon Terrace—it’s very active maintaining last place. It is consistent if nothing else.

Do all the 1-15 maps (Plains of Ashford,Wayfarer Foothills, Caledon Forest). That should lvl and gear you up. Then do all the 15-25 maps—then the next lvl of maps etc. Add some living story instances as you progress.

My gems are ready for a couple of them once they are added whenever they are added.

That being said. I have always found it extremely shortsighted of the devs to leave the forums out of the loop when making these types of announcements. As many have noted they don’t use twitter or facebook. And I agree—announce/share on the official forums and then add it to the various social feeds. Or the other way around, as long as info is passed to all equally and in a timely manner but the forums should never be left out of the loop.

Right click on them in game and report as botting—Let Anet sort it out.

Lets see/ if this axe appears today.

Was discussed in another thread too

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/skypirates/Cache-in-the-Tears-of-Itlaocol-bugged/first#post2314067

Maybe they should actually concentrate on fixing the game 1st , stop making non permanent (bugged )events that offer nothing new. Just grinding for something over and over hidden under new characters and skins.

They didn’t deal with the Dragon Ball AFK’ers the messed the game up for those that were playing (and they should have been dealt with a major blow by Anet). Ditto here.
Nothing will happen, and let the paying customers deal with the programming shortfalls.

July 1st for axe?? Has it been confirmed or is it still just speculation?

Yamsandjams.3267:

It’s partially to get people back into jumping puzzles as well. Some people never bothered to do them, so this encourages them to do them. It also makes barren sections of the game see some new traffic and possibly more activity. For instance, a player goes there to get the achieve, but an event or two pops up along the way that they decide to complete.

If the events were not fun the 1st time around (for some—-me included) why would giving a crappy reward for redoing what frustrating before make it any better? Goin around and revisting holograms that may or may not spawn pirates and bugs galore, again not worth the time and effort. Same old, re-wrapped with different skins.

New content please-exotic rewards -not just grinding out numbers at old locations for crap.

Geez a mini and a monocle??

agree with the OP, and have decided to not do it. The whole is event is tedious and 1 big grind, bugged, and continues with the bad drops/incredibly bad rewards for the time spent.

When you put it all together—it’s just one big search, kill and find over and over a few hundred times, (and nodes don’t spawn blades alot of the time), with lots of bugs and then throw in WvW cache as well—-no thanks done with it. I’ll buy my axes if they ever figure out how to put them on TP, and don’t care for the new skins The event is a major fail for me personally, although others may love it.

That ends it for me, bad enough some of caches are bugged and have to find work arounds on the net, but forced wvw, like the 100%map completion is just wrong, add to it more grinding with crap rewards and quite bluntly the new content isn’t worth the effort.

Thanks, Should have looked there first. After reading the WIKI—the event is obviously bugged and the various solutions (which may or may not work) clearly shows the Anet needs to be involved and fix it.
I will try a few of them and see what happens, if unsuccessfully I am not going to be bothered with the pirates event or achievements. It’s enough of grind game as is is without the bugs.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tears_of_Itlaocol

Update
I used some of the suggested patterns, and eventually one of them progressed the event and the second eye appeared with a pattern. That being said—after doing a few caches—-I just can’t see my self wasting anymore time grinding in the non grinding game—lol.

The placing of the stones seems to be bugged. I place my first set of stones to match the 1st eye and the left torch lights up and then I can’t proceed any further, the 2nd eye doesn’t light up and show the next pattern of stones to match—-you have to match 4 times to open the gate to cache but it won’t advance after I successfully match the 1st pattern.
BTW, I saw in dulfys’ video that the rock face has pattern showing in both eyes, when I enter the area, only 1 eye has a pattern.
I even left and reentered and it was still locked up with the 1st pattern placed.
Anyone else? Will it eventually reset so I can try again?
Thanks.

God I hope not—-kiddies will just use it to annoy and grief people.

Open the site in your brower and alt/tab between the game and site.—-simple and easy.
Having it running on another device is ideal though.

Only if the AFKs could be reported and 12hr ban from the game handed out.

Hopefully it’s B S because the ranger and pet get the nerf hammer. I’ll stick with ‘official’ news as well.

and up in another forum——the reason to change the way the horn works—

“I bought it to annoy people with. Single high pitched note in LA, thats me.”

Oh well—many more like him—at least he is honest.

^ two thumbs up!

No would be the answer, the game designer seemed quite clear
“During my live stream on Friday I confirmed that the Dragon Ball achievements would not count towards the overall. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.”

What a waste of my time—dealing with AFK, that made the challenge longer.
If it would have been noted in the arena as you enter, I would have not bothered.
BIG fail on Anet! And why even have the achievements listed in the first place? Sounds more like BS to me and they don’t want to find the time fix it. And yes it wasn’t much fun for me.

^- Dev really didn’t answer—it’s ambiguous. The fix could be making the achievements count or putting up an announcement at the arena that Dragon Ball will not count towards achievement.

And as others have said, I too would not have wasted my time playing dragon if I knew from day one they wouldn’t count. To make it more frustrating those darn AFKers really make it take longer.

Thanks for getting it fixed!!!

Ccleaner does nothing—I could go make a cup of coffee and come back and it works.
All you can do is keep trying an it will work eventually.

Nothing from Anet on their facebook page as well. At least it comes and goes.