Guild Wars 2

Pandaman.4758:

For a brief moment I was so happy to see a thread complaining about the patch speed… until I saw the patch notes.

“Fixed a server crash.”

Guess it won’t be until next week that we see a fix for the various collections.

They fixed the server crash. If you can’t log in, the server can’t crash. Fixed.

Tapioca.9062:

Boysenberry.1869:

Anet official response on reddit: “We are aware of the patching issues with the 64 bit client and are working on it. For now, the 32 bit client is able to be patched.”

And, of course, their official response is posted first on Reddit and not here. At this point Reddit really is the new official forum.

Yea they’ve always been stupid that way. Communication is NOT one of ArenaNet’s strong points, and never has been.

On another note, ArenaNet have finally given us a choice of how we’ll not be able to play!

A) Ridiculously slow download for the 64 bit client, preventing playing, or
b) Go back to the 32 bit client and crash every few minutes, preventing playing!

Yes, I’m having a laugh at this whole thing…

2 hours and still downloading at 8kb/sec. WTG ArenaNet – always living up to your reputation of don’t fix anything without breaking something else!

Hype.5687:

So when are we getting Australian servers mr dev?

To answer your question, lack of response from ANet means “no”.

Tapioca.9062:

GUN EM DOWN.4078:

They would be empty in pvp/wvw :/

All must bow before the cult of esports.

The funny thing is, they absolutely killed any real chance they had at GW2 SPvP being an ‘esport’ by launching before “when it’s ready”, and especially without GvG.

GW1 GvG was the closest they ever came to a legit ‘esport’. If they’d been ready with GvG and the Guild Ladder and tournaments similar to GW1 when GW2 launched, they’d have been right in there, and would have likely had a thriving PvP scene for all these years now…

A lot of decision-making at ArenaNet blows my mind. “When it’s ready.” Heh.

When I lived in Australia, I had to get Lowerping. Maybe try that.

Having separate Australian servers would probably kill this game. Splitting NA and EU hurt enough GW1 guild by forcing separations…

Doing it to GW2 would upset an awful lot of people…unless ANet could somehow connect the Aussie servers with the NA ones so we could still all play together…but this is ANet we’re talking about…

Probably wasn’t a priority because only one person rolled a human male light armor wearer since launch

I don’t know what subforum is appropriate for suggestions. There’s not an obvious one. So I guess the mods can move this to wherever it needs to be.

Suggestion: Please put the sound effects from The Dreamer under the “Player Instrument Volume” slider.

This is the most painful, high-pitched squeal I have ever heard, and when partying with people who have The Dreamer I have to turn down game effects that I’d otherwise prefer to hear.

Suggestion 2 (ad hoc): Please make a “Suggestions” subforum for those general suggestions that apply to the whole game.

So per this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Item-Restrictions-in-Raids/first

You can’t use boosters in raids.

So why is there a Raider’s Supply Package for sale on the gem store with boosters in it that you can’t use in raids?

So…why is there a “Raider’s Supply Package” for sale on the Gem Store that contains boosters that you can’t use in raids?

Agree, the UI in this game is awful.

Very few items can be moved, skills can’t be rearranged, most windows can’t be resized, and if they can be, they often don’t stay the size and place you put them.

Simplicity is nice, but options are nicer.

I do find it amusing that their first UI in Guild Wars was so much better.

Doubt they’ll change it, though. It’s been the same for over three years.

Edit: Funny, I’ve been thinking about this and I think it’s an excellent example of why this game isn’t simply outstanding. All the little things that feel rushed, half-worked, not communicated across developers, and yes, sometimes even lazy.

I really think that the sheer quantity of annoying little things like this are why GW2, to me, isn’t just completely amazing. There’s always some little frustrating thing you’ve got to work around in anything you do in GW2.

Bump again, for the same reason as stated.

Simply put,

Can “Retreat!” be renamed to “Fall Back!”?

Two reasons:

1) “Fall Back!” sounds a lot less fail, and
2) “Fall Back!” was a shout in Guild Wars that was similar to “Retreat!”. So lending a bit of authenticity to it, and
3) I know I didn’t say there were three reasons but I just thought of another: nobody’s recorded anyone yelling “Fall Back!” in GW2, so I wouldn’t have to listen to it repeatedly every single day. Therefore, renaming the shout would also make it no longer annoying!

What say you?

I’m finding it interesting that the current Zeitgeist of the GW2 community appears to be that open-world events can’t be done, and will probably fail, unless someone has a commander tag up…

Not trying to draw any real conclusions for this…just interesting food for thought…

Algaron.8459:

Sole purpose of that feature is to let everyone know about the event, option to disable it would not make sense. I think it’s totally fine..don’t see anything messy about it.

How about if I disable it after I’ve seen it? So I’ve seen it. I know about it. I don’t need it cluttering anymore.

Please, can we have a way to turn this off.

Would be nice to be able to turn off dailies and all the other clutter that appears there, too.

It’s just a mess. I read it, I know about it, may I turn it off now please?

Thank you

Well, it wouldn’t work if ArenaNet didn’t know what to Google lol

If such a list were published and stickied, and kept updated, I bet there’d be lest pestering from the community, because we’d know that you know!

Not to pester, but it would be nice to hear something from ArenaNet about this – whether or not they intend to do anything. Replacing rings is pretty grindy.

No map completion rewards for Dry Top, Silverwastes, Southsun Cove, or anywhere in HoT.

I’m sure this has been posted before, but the forums search function is also bugged.

Can’t use LFG right now because “You have joined too many parties recently.”

I’ve been in exactly one party since I logged on, and I haven’t been in that party for almost an hour.

So something’s not right with the “joined too many parties” code, I’d guess.

Anyway, why does this limitation even exist? What does it matter?

Well, there’s no “Suggestions” subforum so here goes…

Dear ArenaNet,

May we please have a UI option to “turn off” the text on the right side of the screen (Story, Event, Dailies, Announcements).

This can get very cluttered and very distracting, and often when there’s meta events going on I don’t see things I want to see because things I don’t care about are taking up space.

It would be awesome if I could disable any or all of the above categories as I desire. More options are never a bad thing!

Thanks!

Hey, people like that are just telling you what sort of person they are. It’s a big, lighted, neon billboard sign that says an awful lot about them. Makes it easy for you to avoid them.

Blocking is easy to do.

Playable, but doesn’t look very good. Wouldn’t try it in a warm room, either.

Khisanth.2948:

Element.4319:

Chuo.4238:

Honeslty I’m feeling very frustrated at the game now, too. I feel like I’m having to fight it, not play it. Absolutely everything I want to do is blocked due to a bug or bad programming:

1) Can’t complete Dungeon Master because Arah P2 no longer awards achievement credit.
2) Can’t complete HoT story because one of the episodes is broken and won’t progress.
3) Can’t complete HoT map completion because rewards are bugged.
4) Can’t progress in Fractals because my Ascended rings cannot be Attuned, due to a bug (or bad programming oversight).
5) Can’t complete meta events due to client crashing, and then inability to get back into that map.
6) Can’t just run around and play because the client crashes at the drop of a hat.

Very, very frustrating…I definitely feel like I cannot get the game I played $99 for…

At this point, the current motto is:

Quantity over Quality, right?

Not really. Even if you are going for quantity it has to at least work for them to count. Lets say we measure quantity on a scale from 1 to 100. If 90% of your stuff is broken then your quantity would still be at 10. I don’t think the actual amount of broken things is this high but it sure feels like it partly because many them have been broken for a very very long time so you run into them over and over again making it feel like there are more broken things.

I listed 6 things (basically, the top 6 things that interest me) to do in this game, and why they’re broken.

Which leaves me with a very incomplete, frustrated feeling. Everything I want to do is broken. So that’s 100%, in my book.

And guess what? Because I can’t do these other six things, I devolved into something I’m normally not interested in at all: crafting.

And wouldn’t you know it, the gear I want to make (Trailblazer’s) can’t be made because the Trailblazer’s Intricate Gossamer Insignia, a required component, does not exist in game.

So were up to what, 115% of broken stuff I want to do?

Ridiculous, frustrating. Unbelieveable.

Can’t figure out where to get them, either…

Honeslty I’m feeling very frustrated at the game now, too. I feel like I’m having to fight it, not play it. Absolutely everything I want to do is blocked due to a bug or bad programming:

1) Can’t complete Dungeon Master because Arah P2 no longer awards achievement credit.
2) Can’t complete HoT story because one of the episodes is broken and won’t progress.
3) Can’t complete HoT map completion because rewards are bugged.
4) Can’t progress in Fractals because my Ascended rings cannot be Attuned, due to a bug (or bad programming oversight).
5) Can’t complete meta events due to client crashing, and then inability to get back into that map.
6) Can’t just run around and play because the client crashes at the drop of a hat.

Very, very frustrating…I definitely feel like I cannot get the game I played $99 for…

I have the same problem. I submitted a ticket and was told to send in a screenshot of proof and they’d fix it. So I sent them a screenshot.

This was the answer to that:

“Thanks for replying, its great to hear from you again.

At this time we cannot fulfill your request, even when was offered we do not have the ability to manually grant achievements. You may have already done that but please make sure of the exact path you are missing is the Musraat path, you can confirm that on your Hero Panel under Achievements >Dungeons> Master of Arah (see the screenshot below) Please accept our apologies for the misinformation on the previous responses.

Please let us know if you need anything else."

So yea. GG, ANet. Can’t complete dungeons, can’t attune Ascended rings, client crashes at the drop of a hat, can’t get into maps with meta events…

Welcome back to GW2, Chuo, thank you for buying Heart of Thorns.

Le sigh…

I’d be in so much trouble at work if my stuff was this messed up…

Anyway, TL:DR – Don’t expect them to fix this. They don’t appear to be able to manipulate their own code.

A bit of frustration and sarcasm, yes. When you find you’re fighting a game instead of playing it, yet you spent so much money to get it, you get a little frustrated…

Agreed. Tizlak is not interactable, and just follows my character around instead of doing whatever he’s supposed to be doing. I love a good bug at the end of a long instance…

Dear ArenaNet,

Please let us know if you intend to fix this or not…I’m missing out on content because of it, but I don’t know whether or not to waste resources on new rings.

They’re not legendary because there’s no “legend” behind them. That’s all.

They simply should have been called something else, or (way better) some effort should have been put into incorporating them into the lore.

I personally can’t stand most of the legendary skins – they’re crass, flashy, tacky, and ugly. I’d reskin them to something else. What would REALLY interest me in a legendary is if there was some tie-in with the lore, and some storylike questing as part of acquiring one.

Anyway, I’m off topic completely, and for that I apologize, OP. We’re talking about two different things. The title of your thread just got me to thinking is all…

Carry on…

:)

There are lots of ways to play besides Berserker’s glass cannon. There always have been. Berserker’s is just one way. Unfortunately, people tend to get fixated on the erroneous concept that there is “one best way” to do any given thing.

Play how you like, mate. If you like Berserker’s, great! If not, great!

I personally find it much more fun to come up with viable builds around my own playstyle and gear them appropriately…sometimes Berserker’s is appropriate…sometimes something else works better…and guess what? They all work fine if you put a bit of thought into how they work and what you’re using them for.

And it’s fun

Don’t get sucked into the groupthink “must have the meta omg the meta is the best” mindset. Play how you like!

I’d really like to see a comment on this from ArenaNet, just to say that either they intend to fix it or it’s as intended, so I know if I have to start the grind all over again, or just wait for a patch.

Please let us know, ANet!

I’m having the same issue. Rings I acquired before the Attunement patch won’t attune.

All I want to know from ANet is whether or not this is intended, so I know whether or not it will be fixed someday or if I have to grind out new rings.

There was once a Sylvari from The Grove,
Who versus Mordremoth strove, and strove.
But when a Morderem she’d bash,
her client would crash,
and out the window, her computer, she hove.

Feel free to contribute your own poetry here…

Also constantly crashing and losing out on meta events. It’s very frustrating.

Aveneo.2068:

Sometimes the Mad King takes him away. I saw him walking around Lion’s Arch at times and stopped to chat with Drooburt. Something about eating some people and then they both vanish for a time.

He’ll be back though asking for more Candy Corn.

You’re right. He came back. Thanks, just figured it was another bug

StinVec.3621:

StinVec.3621:

He is in the same place every time I’ve been to LA – at the candy corn icons on your map, by the southern-most one/bottom left one standing in front of a tent or something.

Are you absolutely sure that he is not there for you as he is for me and others?

Yes.

Title says it all. He’s not in LA anymore.

An interesting idea, but there are already loads of annoying character chatter that I’d give anything to turn of without losing dialogue. When they make chatter individually muteable, then sure, fantastic idea, OP. Until then, nty.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
My client keeps crashing,
Fix This: to do.

Drow.2081:

Calcifire.1864:

Chuo.4238:

All Commander/Mentor tags are is map spam. They break immersion. Therefore, an option to not see them should exist.

I’d love an option like this for those kitten ridiculous wings, those are FAR more immersion breaking

I do not agree with you. I love the wings to death and pieces. Especially butterfly wings on a badboy looking big Charr. Esp when they don’t match his outfit! To bad I didn’t take his picture – didn’t think about it at the time.

Immersion breaking. Lolz.

This is where the OPTION to not see them would be nice. You like them, someone else doesn’t. Each to his own.

I think I’d prefer removing the “Mentor” prefix and not having a Commander one at all. Between Mentors and Commanders there’s already far too much “in your face notice and pay attention to me” ability out there in the general crowd.

You can already tell from all the complaining by commanders about mentor tags that a vast number of Commander tags weren’t bought for any reason other than to say to the entire map “look at me, I spent 300g”.

May I offer an alternative suggestion?
– Allow players to filter out Mentor and Commander tags from their maps.
– What would be even more fantastic is if I could have an option to also just see Commander/Mentor tags from my party/squad/guild/friends list, and not every single one out there.

All Commander/Mentor tags are is map spam. They break immersion. Therefore, an option to not see them should exist.

IEatCabbage.1907:

you have to be level10 because they don’t want a free to play player who would 1. troll players 2. don’t even know there skills and jump in pvp right away

If that’s the case then make free players have to be level 10.

I don’t mind that we have these so much as I mind that we can’t FILTER them out of our maps. This goes back to the same complaint many made about commander tags, once they were getting common and you’d see many of them on a single map.

Now absolutely EVERYBODY has the ability to tag up, cluster up, and cover up the map.

Can we just have a map option to turn them off, filter them by color, filter them by guild, filter them by friends list, something? Otherwise all we have is yet another way for large numbers of people to seek attention to the detriment of immersion and gameplay.

Hello all,

Back after a very long break from GW2 – most of the people I knew play no longer, or little at all, and the guilds I was in are pretty quiet.

Primarily looking for a guild that’s active in the afternoons/evenings Server Time (mornings/afternoons USA time).

Very interested in dungeons, WvW, and most all group activities.

Looking for mature, respectful, active fun – I will behave the same.

Currently on Northern Shiverpeaks [NA], willing to consider relocating for a vibrant WvW experience.

Dear ArenaNet,

It’s been three years, and I still say this is absolutely the most maddeningly annoying thing about GW2.

Please, for a slightly belated birthday, can we have a patch where it’s possible to turn character chatter down or off without killing all dialogue (so I can still hear personal story / living story)?

I am so, so, tired of hearing the same one-liners every time my toon gets a buff.

Please? Just change this one thing. I’m begging you

Oh dear, you like it.

The female human one looks like the wedding dress from the Guns ’n Roses “November Rain” video. And nothing, nothing says “tacky and trashy” like a Guns ’n Roses music video.

See minute 1:35 of the linked video for what I’m talking about.

Zalladi.4652:

AysonCurrax.3254:

I thought you were joking at first. now i have lost all respect for A-net for not even knowing their own game. GG..

That’s a bit of a reckless statement. I find it more likely that they used the GW1 map because they don’t have an empty updated map of GW2 readily available,

They have such a map. It’s even on the wiki. It took me all of 30 seconds to find it.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Tyria_map_(unexplored).jpg