Still no trading post preview.
My god…
2 minutes 45 seconds till new build…
game disconnects
Oh ANet, you don’t disappoint.
Ugh, this still hasn’t been fixed…
Was just at a zerg in Orr when I got this WooWoo sound, few seconds later the game froze.
Went to task manager and GW2 was using over 1.9GB of RAM, seems pretty excessive.
I use mouse to look around (hold right button) and WASD to move. Also have the second half of my slot skills bound to mouse.
Guess we won’t be seeing money that has disappeared on the TP, then…
Any idea of when said patch may arrive?
Salvaging requirement is a joke. I stopped doing it once I realised I needed 500 salvages.
Not going to waste all that money for a rubbish reward.
Thankfully this rollback wasn’t as bad as the previous one (lost all progress on one heart/task) but it’s still a rollback.
So is this going to be a daily occurrence now?
Just got disconnected.
Wonder if we’ll be rolled back again…..
I’ve found this to be a big issue, bosses and other mobs will suddenly just walk off and become invulnerable. In ANet’s attempt to prevent safe-spotting, they’ve gone over the top and broken some bosses.
No because they will have found the cause for that particular glitch and fixed it so it wouldn’t happen again. Also, even though you probably won’t be getting back any of that money, hopefully they would have implemented some secondary logging functionality so that in similar future situations they might return money to you.
The best you can do really is to avoid leaving large sums of money with the auctioneer.
Doesn’t have to be this specific issue, I’m sure there will be other significant glitches in the future.
It’s been over three days since the Trading Post crash which lead to people losing their money (lost 70 silver myself, other people claim to have lost much more) and ANet have not even acknowledged this as a glitch or something that happened.
They’re not going to get anywhere if they just keep sweeping things under the carpet. Sure, they may get away with it this time, but next time it could effect many more people, what will they do then?
Dual daggers for up close hard hitting attacks and staff for long range stuff.
I only use fire and air, earth isn’t too bad, but water is rubbish (needs to be more effective at healing).
It would be nice if by tomorrow I received the money I lost in the TP three days ago.
Lightning hammer = RPG jump of GW2.
Getting 20 people together is easier said than done, especially in Orr.
What annoys me is seeing the Mistfire wolf skill there, but knowing I can’t use it unless I give up ~7.5 gold. :|
people are addicted to “loot”.
forgetting that the path is more important than the destination.
but none of us are the same, we all have different interests.
impossible to please everyone.
Well the path was absolutely terrible, so we could at least get a good reward.
Terrible boss fight but it wasn’t bugged for me.
You have to wait for him to launch all the cows there. Then it will work.
This and preview option, just hurry up and implement it. :\
I don’t hate the backpack, it’s even funny seeing a bunch of us running around with it. But I just wish there were a smaller version.
Like a cute little backpack to go with my cute light vigil armour and guild shirt.
Value of these backpacks aside, I don’t see an issue with what you want.
People aren’t generally complaining to alert developers, they are complaining to have their 30 minutes recovered. Don’t give people that much credit please.
Either way, they are both legitimate reasons to speak up. If you personally don’t care, then why are you even posting in this thread, other than to tell people to stop posting in this thread?
To supply my opinion in a discussion thread. Feedback is fine, but expecting your 30 minutes back is as you well know, silly.
I am as much entitled to my opinion here as you are. be respectful enough to understand that please.
Where did I say I wanted the lost progress recovered????
People aren’t generally complaining to alert developers, they are complaining to have their 30 minutes recovered. Don’t give people that much credit please.
Didn’t take long for me to re-do what was reset…
Honestly, at this point I’m less upset about about the “lost hour” of progress than the official response (on Twitter, no less) of “Due to the nature of the outage, we will be unable to restore any progression or items. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience .” ^MK
Seriously? Are any steps being taken to ensure this doesn’t happen again? Quite frankly I don’t really feel like playing again until I at least know what happened and have some sort of official statement towards a repeat of this incident not occurring in the future.
If compensation cannot be forthcoming (and enjoy the fallout on that, btw), then at least do the professional thing and address this issue in an official channel (not Twitter).
Wait… Wait… They choose to make comment on their Twitter page, but not on their OFFICIAL forums? Amazing…
Don’t spoze anything about the disappearance of money from the TP has been said on Twitter?
5 gold for something with with +2 power and +1 precision over my level 80 spineguard? Bugger that.
Not exactly.
Assassin backpack
Tier 1, 1g
+6 power
+4 precision
Unused upgrade slot
Tier 2, 3g
+12 power
+8 precision
+1 critical damage
Unused upgrade slot
Tier 3, 5g
+20 power
+14 precision
+1 critical damage
Unused upgrade slotThe other two are similar, but give bonuses to different attributes.
Aside from those minor, but useful stat bonuses, it shows your guild’s emblem and is a show of achievement. It’s particularly useful if you want to keep the cultural armor bodypiece, but still show off your guild’s emblem.0
Still not worth the 5 gold (not for what it has over the lvl 80 spineguards), though. :|
If you’re this upset over 30 minutes of progress being lost in a computer game then you need to step back and take a real hard look at your priorities.
I was wondering when some twit was going to post this obnoxious comment (no, I was not baiting it, but after I posted my thread, I just knew someone would say it).
Sure, so far it’s only happened once and it was only around 30 minutes (probably closer to an hour when I think about it).
But now that it’s happened, what’s to say it won’t happen again and more than 30-60 minutes is lost when it does.
so i can use on my motherboard only 4gb max?
Maximum 4GB, yes.
As previously said, it’s a combo board which supports both DDR2 and DDR3, however you cannot use DDR2 and DDR3 at the same time.
DDR3 is cheaper than DDR2, grab a 4GB (2×2GB) DDR3 kit.
If you’re currently using DDR2 memory, remove it when you add the DDR3 DIMMs.
5 gold for something with with +2 power and +1 precision over my level 80 spineguard? Bugger that.
well im not gonna change my mother board now ! that allrdy to much !
i just need i guess more ram to still play with decents FPS
but i know there is serval of rams like DDR not sure what i have and what i need !
I was asking your motherboard model to determine what memory you need.
Just ignore it. At lower levels, it’s hard to get, but once you get nearer to level 80, it’s really quite easy to get.
intel core 2 duo CPU e8300 @ 2.83GHz
2gb ramGet 8GB Ram
get Intel Core I7Video card is not everything
Ignore this.
ye i guess i need more ram for this !
but i dont know about it so
which ram i need to buy?
Do you know what motherboard you have?
Most likely you’ll need DDR2. However some of the later 775 (the socket your CPU uses) boards accommodate DDR3 RAM.
intel core 2 duo CPU e8300 @ 2.83GHz
2gb ram
They are two quite significant bottlenecks for this game.
Anything less than a 1st gen i series will be an issue, especially if it’s only a dual core. The game also loves memory and 2GB is quite low.
Ideally, you want a new CPU and more RAM (which means new motherbaord as well).
Seeing as your memory is so low, I’d imagine just adding more would see a reasonable improvement without costing much.
What processor and how much RAM do you have?
Also are you using 32bit or 64bit OS?
Got nothing to do with you being “old” (your words, not mine), I died many times in the personal story (was worst around the halfway point of the story), and, well… I wouldn’t call myself old.
Get overwhelmed by dozens of mobs was a common thing in the story.
There is some really nice scenery and landscapes in this game, I don’t mind having to look at all them instead of grinding the same thing.
Also as far as losing money due to glitches go, it’s seems inexcusable that it’s been two days and they still have not made any effort to tell people what’s going on.
A bit of reassurance goes a long way. Ignoring people does nothing but make things much worse.
Yes, this game has a LOT of really good stuff going for it
and this is what you can choose to hold onto, or let go and leave. there’s nothing anyone can say. it’s a weighing of pros and cons.
for me, market being down initially meant nothing. i dont care much for lore so the Zaitan fight doesnt impact my opinion of the game. i dont need to 100% complete everything, so i dont care about an odd glitchy DE or skill quest. etc.
youre right on all of your points. do you care enough to leave and come back a little later when the dust has settled? up to you. given your lack of experience with MMO’s, id like to emphasize that this release was the smoothest in MMO history, hands down, believe it or not (except for TSW maybe, but that game is skin and bones in comparison to what ANet achieved). if you look at the rate at which ANet is repairing the game, you might feel a little better.
Well I guess the best way of looking at it is; yes, the majority of this stuff should be fixed within the first month or so.
Hopefully by the time I start on my next character, I won’t have to deal with the above, again. It really does gives you a negative feeling for your initial play-through, though.
I guess ANet are lucky in that most reviewers aren’t going to wait until they hit level 80 and complete the story before writing their review.
Now it took me ~150 hours to get to level 80 and I don’t expect reviewers to put that much time into the game before they review it, but I’m sure if most did, there would be less praise.
I’m not someone who gets too into lore, either, but I was still miffed with the Zhaitan battle. It just didn’t make any sense that the two lesser dragons (prior to Zhaitan battle) were more of a challenge than the boss of all bosses.
It would have been better had they just shown a cut-scene where you launch a nuke (or what ever the fantasy equivalent of a nuke is) at Zhaitan killing him in one hit. Sure, still would have been incredibly underwhelming, but at least we wouldn’t have had to waste 5 minutes mashing the number 2 key.
Orr was clearly designed to be conquered with a large group of people. Problem is, (at least, this early in the game) there’s rarely enough people around to help do something.
I dunno why they thought it was a good idea to put tough boss events right on top of skillpoints, because it can be really difficult at times just to get enough people together to help clear the event.
Hopefully once the more casual players reach level 70-80 and start entering the Orr region, it won’t be such a challenge.
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Sometimes things go awry. There’s a heavier load on the servers than when people were in beta. Things will break.
That’s exactly right, which is why I don’t understand why they did not open up the betas.
I’m sure there were many people like myself who were planning to play in first week, but did not pre-purchase. I pre-ordered a hard copy from somewhere which were not given beta keys.
If they’d opened up the betas (I can only remember one or two open betas, long before launch), they would have had a better idea of what to expect and possibly wouldn’t have had to halt digital sales for a week or so there.
PS. Bloody forums don’t even work properly, had to retype all that.
Ok, I came into this game without any real expectations. My past MMORPG experience was in a game (which I’m almost ashamed to mention) nothing like GW2, WoW or anything similar so their wasn’t really the possibility that this game was just going to be another MMORPG that I’ve played before.
When I first jumped into this game, it was like; mind=blown, it was amazing, and it stayed amazing for quite some time.
However as I’ve leveled higher and progressed through both the personal story and different areas, my attitude towards the game has gone down just as quickly as it went up.
Problems started to arise when I started in got to the level 60+ areas (there are bugs in lower level areas which I did not get to until later) where I found stuck skillpoints and stuck dynamic events.
To begin with, it was just 1 or 2 in total for an area, but as I got to the Orr region… It was far worse. The whole Orr region is/was a complete mess with at least two stuck skillpoints and two stuck events per map.
For someone like myself who likes to complete an area as they go through it, stuck skillpoints were a huge pain in thekitten and of course stuck events mean the meta event cannot continue. To add to that, the stuck events lead to 75%+ of the waypoints being contested which (on top of the rage-inducing mobs in the region) made getting around the biggest challenge to be found in Orr.
Unfortunately the bad does not end there, here’s some more evidence (contains more bugs) that the game was released before it was finished.
-Trading Post being constantly down. I think it’s spent more time “under maintenance” than working.
-Lost money due to TP crash. I guess you could say I was lucky in that I have lost a relatively small amount (70 silver… So far…) compared to other people.
It’s been two days since this happened and ArenaNet have not made a single constructive comment on the issue. All they’ve said is; herpkittenit should be working.
-Bugged quests. I cannot remember the name of the quest, but I think it was in the 40s, you had to swim through the tunnels beneath Lion’s Arch.
The first THREE times I tried to do this quest, I got disconnected from the game.
The fourth time I tried to do this quest, it would not progress (I killed the final thing, and the quest would not ‘complete’).It wasn’t until the fifth attempt that I was actually able to finish the quest.
Other glitches in this quest included both ally and enemy NPCs clipping through walls.
It’s like they didn’t even test this quest.
-Hands down the most anti-climactic and underwhelming final boss battle I have ever seen in a game.
There is NO WAY the devs looked at what they did with the Zhaitan battle and concluded that was a fitting battle. Spamming the number 2 key (yes, that is all you do, you don’t touch any other buttons) for five minutes isn’t even a battle. That battle just screams rushed release.
-A bit of a minor addition to the above – Bugged loot. I assume this is a bug, I certainly hope ANet did not intentionally reward level 80s doing a level 80 quest with blue and green level 60 & 70 (some people got stuff below level 50) gear. This was just more junk I had to sell to a merchant.
-Rollbacks. The most recent of bugs I’ve encountered is losing a decent amount of progress.
There’s no doubt more, but this is what I’ve experienced.
Yes, this game has a LOT of really good stuff going for it, but that does not excuse so many bugs.
ArenaNet said Guild Wars 2 would not be released until it was ready for release. Well… We know they didn’t follow through with that, which leads me to the question.
Given the choice, would you rather the game wasn’t released until the game was actually finished and all the major bugs were dealt with OR are you happy playing an unfinished game, just so you can play it as soon as you can?
Sure, I couldn’t wait to play Guild Wars 2, but I would have rather waited a month or so more if it meant my time in Guild Wars 2 would not be so frustrating.
EDIT: Added a severely bugged quest I had trouble with.
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After working on map completion for an area, I logged out to character select but was given some connection error.
I didn’t think anything more of it and went off to do some other stuff.
Now I come back and log in to find a good 30+ minutes of progress down the drain. At least two hearts, one or two skillpoints, a vista and a few POIs that I completed, all reset.
Oh and of course, the TP is down AGAIN.
When will this game be fit for release? We were told Guild Wars 2 would be released when it was finished, well this obviously wasn’t the case because nearly every day I find a new bug.
Anyone else had this happen?
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3) Mostly what I do now: D/D circle strafe like if you stop for a second you’ll be roast dinner. Or roasted vegetables in my case. (Partially my fault too for often going after quests a level or two above me. >.>)
Ugh, this gets boring and annoying.
On the Claw Island quest where you had to deal with ~6 giants, I had to lure them out one at a time and run around in circles for 5-10 to kill each one, was hella dumb.
I feel water really needs to be buffed. You don’t heal that much and you do crap all damage.
I’ve played an Elementalist through to level 80 and yeah, staying alive can be tricky.
I’ve completed the personal story and found a lot of fights in the middle part of the personal story very difficult but once I got to around level 60, the quests started to get much easier.
Ele seems to be able to put down a lot of damage over a large area, but this is rarely useful.
I primarily use dual daggers, which suits my wannabe-rambo play style and with daggers, both fire and air can deal a decent amount of damage.
I haven’t actually put much time into another class yet (got a lvl 3 necro and 2 warrior), so until I do that, I won’t have a good idea on how ele compares to the rest.
Something that should have been in there from day one. Seems like a bit of a no-brainer.
Next day, still no coins and no response from ANet.