Guild Wars 2

Update your video drivers and make sure any video output on your motherboard is disabled (GW2 may be mistakenly trying to use it). You may also want to reseat your video card (wild hunch).

While it should work, that PS is definitely outputting +80% or more of full load and that is not a good place to run constantly…..

I have seen quite a few mentions of that error when trying to submit a ticket from many different players. It seems there is difficult to see field (need to scroll up/down or left/right on the submission form maybe?) that is not getting entered by multiple users. That usually indicates someone needs to review the design of the submission form and possibly edit it a bit….

On a side note, you don’t need to fill in that field for CS to respond to you.

I’ve had 3 tickets positively resolved in the last year (one involved a hack attempt) and I never had my SN (lost the email to a HD crash).

KumajirouSan.3527:

Southsun gets the banhammer swung around it too much.

Southsun is notorious for huge numbers of Bots at all hours, so if they are gonna swing it somewhere that would be the place….

False positives happen and Anet knows it. If they are not Botting, then a CS ticket should be able to get the bans reversed. I get that it’s a PitA, but I’d rather Anet be doing SOMETHING about Bots than just ignoring them.

mercury ranique.2170:

He gifted you the account in the correct way. This means you are 100% owner off the account.

The only reason something could happen is if he requests a refund (and so cancels his gift to you). That would mean the account was considered never to be sold and would be closed.

Note that if he asks for ANY refund then he will likely loose access to ALL accounts that were purchased with that card (not just the one he requests a refund for). Online retailers usually want to cut ALL ties with those requesting refunds or reversing charges.

Can you log into your GW2 account?

Did the refund go thru on your card or is the only indication that a “refund was requested” came from the email you got? (Could the email be fake….did it have links in it asking you to click on to verify anything, ect.?)

How can your read beyond the subject and even consider this as possibly being a legit email?

I doubt the will add new classes. From the Devs own admission (and the loud complaints from many players), GW1 started down a “difficult” path when new classes started popping up every year or so. I think they learned a lesson and that is why they started with so many classes up front.

I wouldn’t hold my breath for new races either. The graphics work for just the character alone to add an entire new race would be MASSIVE. New weapons (and skills to go with them for each class) will be much more likely (they have mentioned that possibility).

If you want to actually explore, then doing map completion in zones can net good XP. If you just want fast leveling trading off doing story instances and Renown Hearts in Zones net the most XP per time invested (getting to the Hearts is a different matter). Note that some Hearts do NOT fall into the good XP/Time category, but these are far and few between.

Per above, you obviously want to pick up the WP in Zones, but I certainly don’t recall them giving “good” XP (tho they are easy XP). I suggest traveling to LA and completing the map (takes about 15 min) and then traveling to each city and clearing them. Then go after each starter zone and work up from there. I usually clear them, but picking up the WPs and easiest to access Hearts will likely yield the best XP/Time ratio. Clearing the maps DO provide you with XP and some loot (really GOOD loot in the higher end zones), but obtaining skill points and Vistas very widely in how easy they are to complete or access.

You can download and install the client from MY ACCOUNT and not need the CD at all.

I think it was possible in the past to avoid capitol letters after the first name through some method (but you can no longer do this). As mentioned above, YOU may not be able to use normal methods to delete that character (you will likely have to open a ticket with CS to get the toon removed).

Just so you know, Guild banks are not rolled back…..

Ozoug.4158:

….. Shallowest game ever.

….and you ruined your thought provoking and insightful commentary with an uncalled for, exaggerated and blatantly false statement…..why?

Personally, I don’t dislike the idea as I am not generally a social gamer. Then again, I think Anet WANTS GW2 to be a social game….so this is very unlikely to happen. I can see where it may be useful in Dungeon / Fractal instances, but in general Open World I don’t see it being needed or happening.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

As to GW2, how is it not P2W? Please point out how I can get good looking new armors in the last year that doesn’t involve the gem store? Or perhaps tell me how I can obtain watchwork sprockets next week outside of the vastly superior gem store only mining pick? Or maybe tell me how I can reasonably participate in super adventure box hard mode without the gem store only coin? Or maybe the gem store only resource packs for ascended jewelcrafting… I could go on and on, but that isn’t the purpose of this thread. I’m certainly not alone, many people see GW2 as a P2W game now, but that is just the way the market is heading, people have more money than time.

Your idea of “WINNING” is very different from mine….

I don’t begin to pretend they have not added lots of RL cash items (that CAN be obtained without RL cash, BTW) that can speed up or assist your specific personal goals in the game, but NONE of them are a requirement to play the game or be generally competitive where required.

As stated before, you either have NO knowledge of what an ACTUAL P2W game IS, or you just intentionally twist the term in your mind to suit some personal vendetta against GW2. I don’t disagree there is plenty of room for improvement in the game and I’m not crazy about some of the recent directions being taken, but I also realize they HAVE to make money and as of yet, I don’t see an instance where I MUST buy something or be unable to progress in the game.

Just to add, a corrupt DAT file CAN cause a single character to not be able to load (and that IS on your computer). It’s not really an issue with your system, but the data on your system. The corrupted data may be related to a piece of equipment, location or quest status that particular character has active (different from your other characters….that’s why they still load).

Just pointing out that it IS technically possible that the problem IS on your end even tho your thought process does not make it logically possible.

Also anything purchased by a Guild are tied to the Guild on THAT Server and will not transfer (including Guild bank items).

Where you purchased the game must be a valid distributor for the game or ANet is likely to be unable to assist you. The account codes are valuable….the client software (the physical copy) can be downloaded from this site and is basically free.

Just to add to WHY what the OP did MIGHT compromise your account.

Any WiFi Network you use CAN collect any data you transmit (unless you are connecting directly thru a VPN client….that would be encrypted outside the network encryption). Granted the WiFi encryption would have to be hacked OR the owner of the network would have to collecting data (or allowing) transmitted data to be collected. This would be considered a serious legal issue in many parts of the world….not so much in others.

Many countries have no laws to give any protection or expectation of privacy (while many have laws that give the WiFi network owners the right to collect whatever they want).

It has been reported that Russian laws allow for collection of data on the owners networks and this has been a major security concern at the Sochi Olympics (personally, I think the media has overblown the actual occurrence….but certainly the risk is there). Basically, there is no expectation of privacy on communication across a WiFi network you do not control (or that expectation is an illusion).

Are you actually using your account name (because you should be using your email address to log into the client)?

This is a common mistake (and the fact that you can log in HERE is proof your password is valid and working).

KOPPER.1458:

My thought on that is why does is bother those people? It doesn’t hurt them in any way so why should they even care?
Who cares about uniqueness? It is about choosing the armor that best suits YOUR character. And the first armor was just flame-ey enough for my norn ele.

Really? So it was ok for players to spend 60g on this flame armor and can be used on anyone. Where T3 Humans paid 119g and can only use it on humans. Nothing is wrong with that?

And lots of players care about uniqueness. There might not be many out there who are unique, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to be.

Don’t forget that the flame treatment also makes the T3 look kinda like the drab step-sister armor….

More posts like this are needed. Kuddos! (to OP and Support Team).

I would suggest that you simply get them to CLEAR the information and DON’T save the card info at all. If your account is ever hacked, that saved information could lead to some SERIOUS financial issues. Maybe I’m begin a bit paranoid, but I NEVER save CC info when the option is available. Taking a few minutes longer to make an online purchase is not that huge an inconvenience when you consider what is involved in getting CC charges removed and your credit rating restored.

• Using the same password “every where else” is how 75% of account hacks occur….DON’T do it.
• An 8 character password (with numbers, upper & lower case and punctuation) can be force guessed by a modern i3 computer in less than 24 hours. a 10 character password with all those options would take over 5 years. The first rule of passwords is, “longer is better”. Period.

The restrictions they have put in place are there to protect your account. Asking for them to remove them is a waste of both our times.

Rajani Isa.6294:

Also, if you know someone nearby who also plays, try asking the tech help forum for how to copy over the main data file. The way the game is packed, most of that 15gb is one single file.

Note that a default formatted USB drive (FAT32) will NOT copy that large a single file (FAT32 is limited to a 4GB single file). This means the USB drive will have to be formatted with NTFS or you will need a USB hard disk (that defaults to NTFS).

Is your account still tied to the “suspect” email account? If it is, there can be no doubt someone else has compromised your email account. Never use it again.

Hackers don’t really care about your Serial #s as Anet can pretty quickly determine account ownership without it (and who is NOT the owner even if they have the SN).

What kind of passwords are you using? If they are guessing it (or you are using one you have used on another website in the past), then by all means make a LONG password of 4 to 6 unrelated words you can easily remember. An 8 character long password (with letters, numbers AND punctuation) can be guessed in less than 24 hours by an i5 computer. A 16 chracter password of just lower case letters would take hundreds of years to guess.

yagit.2543:

iVlad.9421:

got this post from tipidpc.com -

“High latency is caused by the cable break in the international peering link within the Asia Pacific region wherein some of the major ISPs in the Philippines using this link are affected. Rest assured that PLDT has already made possible coordination for its resolution. We regret that we could not provide you the definite timeframe, yet. Thank you.”

Got this reply from PLDT’s fb page :/

- this may explain the severe lagging?

Yeah this may be the root cause but who handles this kind of concern and where can we check for updates if the problem is fixed?

btw I’ve noticed if you play 11pm(gmt+8) till morning I don’t lag. Daytime.. well all I can do is gather from nodes!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t do dungeons because its too lag!!

While there may actually be a “cable break” causing this, I’d be suspicious that the ISP is using that as an excuse to throttle bandwidth during peak hours. It does not make sense that the “cable break” only causes you issues during peak hours (tho, it could be they are changing the routing to accommodate commercial connections over residential during business hours due to the “break”).

Peak hour bandwidth can cost an ISP up to 5x more than off-hour bandwidth and this is a very common method of cutting costs for many internet providers. This kind of tactic normally does not cause major issues with most software as the very large bandwidth users either don’t matter (file transfer) or have built in client side buffering to eliminate the user noticing the throttling (data buffering in media streaming apps). Games that require near-RT data to operate properly will certainly notice the limitations.

Unfortunately, if your ISP is blowing smoke up your tail about the real issue, there is nothing you can do about it (sans finding another provider….but most all of them use this tactic in some form or another).

Are both characters on the same server? If not, that’s likely your issue (Guild Banks are tied to individual servers).

You should be able to mail the items / gold to your second account without an issue, however.

There are so many things in you post that are just wrong (Promoting Silk does not effect available supply……REALLY? It does not destroy material and remove it from being available to anyone in the game?) and just flat out back-peddling of your claims of DIRECT manipulation (if DIRECT does not imply REAL-TIME I don’t think you understand what DIRECT means), I’m done with this waste of time discussion.

I think a lot of this is just a semantics argument of the term DIRECT. You seem to think that ANY tiny effect ANet makes to the game that may in some way influence a player is DIRECT control….I do not.

Per above, your EFFECTIVE level (down or up scaled) determines a significant portion of your Crit Chance.

From you original post, you seem to be under the impression a skin can be used multiple times….it can only be used once (you will need multiple skins to apply the look to multiple weapons).

If I misread your OP, I’m sorry but I just want that one point to be clear to you.

• Do they put limits on how many items can be sold, forged or salvaged by any individual player (or group of players)?
  -> Lol what? How does this have to do with anything? Okay, yes they do. Providing a limit to posting ins tacks of 250 is a barrier. Defining how many resources are required for an item directly affects how many of said item you can produce. Salvage efficiency is directly related to how the refining loot table works.

So you don’t think that being able to promote Silk to Gossamer has NO effect on the available supply of Silk? Crafting Ascended or other items that require Silk does not effect the supply? How exactly does Anet control those player decisions?
Listing material on the TP directly effects the available supply and a limit of a 250 stack does NOT limit what I can sell (or buy) it just makes it more time consuming (not saying it is not a FACTOR in a players decision, but it does NOT stop them one way or another).

• Can only X # of players generate silk at any one time?
  -> Your question are not even on topic any more. If anet wanted to they could make it so. They could put in a line of code saying:"Only characters with names beginning with the letter “R” can now salvage silk."

Of course they COULD but what does that have to do with the current state of the game? If you are now stating that ANet COULD directly limit the exact supply of Silk in the game that is totally DIFFERENT from your claim that they currently DO so. Quit changing your claim.

• Can each player only generate X amount of silk over a given period of time?
  -> Sure they can, and the amount X is directly controlled by the code of the game. The code is 100% in control of anet, you getting what I’m going for?

Ok, maybe this one was worded wrong as the drop chance obviously plays a major factor here but it is not the only factor. My point on this was that if I farm Silk for 30 minutes or farm silk for 30 hours does change the supply of Silk in the game (not by much, overall). What if 100,000 players all farm Silk for 30 hours? Your implication is that Anet’s code would somehow alter the drop rates, salvage rates and loot bag rates so that the current supply of Silk would not be increased significantly? THAT is the part of your tin-foil hat theory that I don’t buy …. at all.

I HAVE never not agreed with the point that all these crazy theories about code manipulation are technically possible (I’m sure they are), but you making wild claims that it is actively how the game works with NO evidence is pure tin-foil hat conspiracy theory BS.

Cyninja.2954:

Not sure if serious. I’ll bite. Every and all of the games coding is done by anet. Ofcorse they are in control of everything you stated.

• Do they directly manipulate every drop to control the items that provide silk?
  -> Yes, by defining what items have silk on their refinable table. (And by defining I mean coding, you know the stuff that makes the game work the way it’s supposed to)

My question was do they ADJUST this on the fly to make sure that some X amount of Silk is all that is possible for a given time frame? The idea that they are constantly manipulating the potential for Silk to be “generated” is absurd. I have no doubt they have the capability to adjust this periodically, but you would have to provide long term evidence that this is the case (something that might not even be possible with DR code in place). Yes, the DR code is similar but does not target any one specific material like you are suggesting.

• Do they directly manipulate every salvage to control the quantity of silk generated?
  -> Yes, by defining the salvage chance and amount of silk provided.

But that is a set number that is not changed in real-time to directly manipulate how much silk is ever introduced to the game….it’s a set value (granted, it may change but again, evidence would be needed to prove it is being altered on the fly to effect ONE specific material).

• Do they make players farm above items or hinder players from farming them?
  -> Yes, but that’s beside the issue. Even if the answer were no it wouldn’t change the outcome since player farm is only a result to supply/demand generated through in game situations which are defined by code.

What? If 5000 players farm an area (that generates silk scraps from salvage) instead of 50, you want us to believe this does not effect the supply of silk? Demand has NOTHING to do with you claim that Anet directly manipulates the available SUPPLY…don’t change the parameters of your claim midstream.

Remember how anet buffed, then nerfed champion loot bags? There, directly affecting players farm behavior.

No….that’s called INDIRECTLY effecting their behavior. Directly effecting it would have been removing the champs from their locations (so farming them would have been simply not possible at all) or denying players access to the zone.

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Just curious, which karma exotic armor has traveler rune?

Pretty sure the OP must have added them.

What were the overall percent increases to ALL stats (I’m betting they were more than 6.25%)?

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Brother Grimm.5176:

I’m pretty sure silk is generated by items being dropped and salvaged by players.

Exactly how is the supply controlled by ANet?

• Do they directly manipulate every drop to control the items that provide silk?
• Do they directly manipulate every salvage to control the quantity of silk generated?
• Do they make players farm above items or hinder players from farming them?
• Do they put limits on how many items can be sold, forged or salvaged by any individual player (or group of players)?
• Can only X # of players generate silk at any one time?
• Can each player only generate X amount of silk over a given period of time?

I’m not sure what you were going for… but the answer to every one of those questions is yes…

Sorry, but I call BS on that answer…..prove even ONE of them is absolutely YES (without resorting to some wild, tinfoil hat theory….you know with some facts).

You do understand when I say “manipulate”, I don’t mean “let the game generate an RNG number that was programmed”, but mean that they CHANGE the potential outcome to directly determine just exactly how much Silk is available in the game at any one time….If you seriously believe that is even possible you need serious and professional psychiatric care.

CrazyDuck.4610:

Constant crashing this game needs to be fixed after months and months of people reporting the same thing over and over and over it’s getting ridiculous now. It has nothing to do with your PCs so don’t bother scanning ,etc.

Your logic is quite flawed as there are tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of players that have been playing for over a year WITHOUT any crashes at all. Telling someone NOT to look at the obvious source of these errors (their own systems) is very counter productive and helps nobody.

Appears there is some issue with a texture? Try to repair the GW2.DAT file.

Follow instructions to run a command line argument switch (you want -repair) from this page:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

Note that this may take a while if corruption in the database is found (will force a download and replace of corrupted files).

Best bet is to look into the different level loot bags lower tier enemies drop and farm them (or buy them on the TP). The level of the loot bag itself determines the materials they generate (not the level of the character that obtains the drop).

Mystic.5934:

you can’t say they don’t want a direct karma to gold conversion when they specifically add exactly that. orrian boxes are more direct than salvaging karma items.
salvaging karma items would be about the same, if not lower, return. sure, the first 10 or so listers would think they’re making bank, but when they get undercut in less than 8 seconds, they’ll be sad. If karma items could be salvaged, all that would happen is people would do it and prices of particular runes and sigils would drop to half their current price.
for those first 10 players, they would theoretically make about twice as much gold as the orrian boxes give. within a minute, however, that margin would drop to zero or negative.

I can say it all I want and in fact the DEVS stated it when they removed karma items from being salvageable several weeks / months after release (they USED to be salvageable).

I don’t totally disagree with part of your statement, but it was NOT so much about individuals making huge profits, it’s about the market being flooded with materials.

Assimilator.5342:

Well explain me if i dont buy golds with RL money trou gems, if i dont farm every day, how i am supposed to gear 8 characters with ascended armor ? And ele is my last alt lvl 80 ?

I don’t think you are suppose to put every character in Ascended armor….it’s not needed unless you are running high level Fractals (beyond 20s).

Mystic.5934:

“Mystic Flusher” is new to me. “Mystic Toilet”

Flusher == Toilet (US slang)

My roomate’s CoCo had a cassette player for storage….. I’m pretty sure that thing had a massive 16K memory (just fired up a new server with 256GB memory).

Am I missing something here or doesn’t WupWup still have a higher crit damage %?

I’m pretty sure silk is generated by items being dropped and salvaged by players.

Exactly how is the supply controlled by ANet?

• Do they directly manipulate every drop to control the items that provide silk?
• Do they directly manipulate every salvage to control the quantity of silk generated?
• Do they make players farm above items or hinder players from farming them?
• Do they put limits on how many items can be sold, forged or salvaged by any individual player (or group of players)?
• Can only X # of players generate silk at any one time?
• Can each player only generate X amount of silk over a given period of time?

All of the above factors determine the SUPPLY of silk and while it may be technically possible for them to actually perform the first 2, there is no evidence that any “secret” limits have been put in place (I will wait for the tin-foil hats to point those out to me).

Anet can CERTAINLY generate demand, but they don’t actually have direct control over it (unless they have some secret mind control device that works on every player).

Again, trying to obtain 10,000 silk scraps in a matter of a few days IS unreasonable, but over a month or so, it’s not that hard to do. This entire panic is caused by a segment of the players wanting a set of items that have been designed to be a long term goal RIGHT NOW. Anet has (somewhat) allowed them to be able to obtain it faster than their intentions, but it’s going to cost you quite a bit to be an “early adopter”.

You need to open a support ticket (nobody here can do any in-game operations).

Just so you know, Anet support does not reverse mistakes as a policy (exceptions have been made….but doubtful in this case). Good luck.

The answer to this depends on whether or not you have been gathering material or not.

In the crafting lists it is how many you have materials to currently craft or refine.

It’s nickname isn’t the “Mystic Flusher” for nothing…

You are seriously going to compare those items(with horrid material chances) to salvaging Exotic armor? That’s exactly why everyone spends all their karma on them….

Granted, people wanting material for Legendary or named Exotic forging can get a decent return for Karma with them, but as a gold source, they are pitiful.