Guild Wars 2

Sfr where never considered the “best” server, they where just the most stacked.

A lot of people are playing the Halloween content and the HoT maps should fill up a bit more once Halloween is over.

There is also the fact that people have stopped playing the HoT maps for various reasons and not as many people purchased HoT as Anet would have hoped.

Jaken.6801:

No, there is no full set to collect.
It was a requested feature for the core classes since launch (class specific armor, to reflect some GW1 nostalgia for example), however all you get for your specialization is a weapon and a piece of armor.

Oh that’s a shame!

It would have been nice to go on some quest or something to collect the rest.

Thanks anyway for the reply.

I’m sorry if this has already been asked before, I have tried searching blogs and in game via achi’s but can’t find anything.

The class specific armor set you receive after mastering your elite spec (in my case it was chronomancer epaulets).

Is there a full set of this armor to collect? I really hope there is because the shoulders i received look awesome.

Thanks in advance for any info.

I wouldn’t say its unplayable solo but it is certainly difficult and not catered to someone wanting to complete things on their own.

A lot of the hero challenges need toning down though, they should be challenging and require skill to complete solo but not to the point where you need a group to kill the champs. Most of them are a pain to reach and its annoying when you manage to get to them only to have to stand around waiting for 2/3 other people to show up so you can trigger them.

Other than that I’m enjoying the majority of HoT.

But your night is someone else’s day!

shutting some people out of WvW would be unfair, I have no idea how the devs are going to address night capping but completely shutting people out because they are in a different time zone to you isn’t the answer.

And they said GW2 would do away with the need for a healer in the party.

Nuff said.

WvW is dead!

Just sayin.

Maja.6372:

even the npc dolyak caravans are lagging what is going on

This!

You can be on the other side of the map trying to kill a Dolyak but they take no damage because they are not at the point where it shows them at.

Zachary Stiers.1879:

With Heart of Thorns the exotic equipment purchased with gold and Badges of Honor will become salvageable. Salvaging a piece of this gear returns only the upgrades that were applied and some Badges of Honor.

This is great news Zachary and much appreciated.

The trapper thief are a pain in the kitten and should NOT be able to constantly apply condition damage while remaining un-seen.

They should become revealed as soon as the condition damage begins to tick.

I wouldn’t say there is too many mesmers in general, there is however far too many cheese fest perplexity mesmers running around. The same goes for condi trapper thieves and stealth condi thief rolling around unseen dropping caltrop’s.

But hey it’s the condi meta and Anet loves it.

EotM is not WvW.

Warrior will be helpful lighting the way in dark dungeons, Or failing that at least he will have something to light his cigarette.

AlphatheWhite.9351:

Kusa.6438:

First, here’s the exact build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAW7fnsIClphNqBGpBcrhlXDycFzYEoBInNpMB9OaA-TxxHABspbwgHCgKq/c7+D1pEEgrAQRK/IEwi5A-e

As for openers, start with your scepter and torch.
Stealth is your friend, it’s what this build is designed around.
F2 and F3 are your primary shatters. F2 for full clones.
You can F3 if someone gets in close to you. Even F1 for the blind.

You can achieve 45 second of full stealth if you need to run away.
Torch > Decoy > Mass invis > Torch > Torch > Decoy > Torch.

F2 and F1 are your primary shatters. Even without dealing direct damage, F1 is on a much, much lower cooldown than F2 :P
Better to save your F2 for when you actually need to daze.

F2 isn’t for daze though it’s for applying confusion.

Hahaha….A reward for WvW?

That’s a good one, best joke I heard in a long time.

FrownyClown.8402:

Anet does the best they can. You can’t blame them for hardware that can’t handle all the data coming in. Servers have limitations and so does your mind.

Hang on sec!!

They developed this game and then sold it…You don’t sell something that your own kitten hardware can’t handle.

If you bought a house that was built on dodgy foundations and started to subside would you say “Well the builders did the best they could”?.

Not going to happen!

The community has been asking for this for as long as I can remember. Anet wants us to buy upgrade extractors.

Funny thing about these mesmer’s running PU Perplex is they will kill you and then dance over your corpse like it took some skill to do it.

I’m in the process of a refund for my HoT pre-purchase, WvW is in a terrible state at the moment and its not likely to get better with the expansion.

I think Anet must have let the Apprentices do this weeks patch.

They are located in Anet’s Forgot to add to patch folder.

They don’t update anything, Hell they don’t even reply to the plethora of exploits and bugs in this game at the moment.

Congratulations Anet on totally ignoring your playerbase!!!

I’m gonna get a refund on my HoT purchase.

C’mon guys!

You know by now Anet couldn’t give a monkey’s nuts about WvW.

Puck.9612:

Moonlit.6421:

I’m afraid you did manage to misunderstand one thing though. My thread isn’t about the golem rush event

He says even though the thread title is “So let’s talk about the Golem Rush event…”

He just wanted everyone to talk about the “Golem Rush Event” on HIS thread.

Moonlit.6421:

But honestly I don’t like logging onto the forums to see over 10+ threads on the first page about the exact same topic.

So you make another one?

lol what a numpty!.

Well because of all the crying going on at the moment about how overpowered mesmers are its inevitable that we are going to face the nerf bat.

You may find yourself hopping back to your thief as Anet renders mesmers back to useless again.

Anet is so out of touch with this game is it any surprise they added an event like this?

Just abandon wvw for the coming week

TyPin.9860:

That is a good question… let me get my Excel open^^ [info follows below]

EDIT:
Okay, I calculated for this build

I tested in PvP the different runes against the npcs (I circled and kept attacking with a standard shatter rotation [SW #3 -> GS#2 -> GS#3 + F1]) to figure out the average Fury and Might uptime. Basically Fury was all the time up and the Might stacks are more or less an average by feeling. Not really exactly measured and of course, in a real fight, those stacks might have a different uptime.

The results of my “testing” can be seen here. The damage was not calculated off of any skill but only by stat comparison. Skill damage and target armor are take into account via multiplication. So the average comparison would turn out the same (I think^^).

If we assume the number of Might stacks are more or less correct, then Traveler is the weakest in terms of dmg output and Pack, due to it’s higher precision, Strength is actually on 1st place. This whole thing did not take rune procs into account.

EDIT2:
Forgot the dmg multiplier from strength rune…

EDIT3:
Fixed the mistake. This makes Strength the strongest… as one would have expected^^

Holy Kitten! Typin.

Thanks so much for this information …..That is what you call a detailed reply.

Capricorn XI.4390:

Traveler’s runes are always an option. I personally use Traveler’s runes over Pack runes mostly because I have gotten so used to the 25% speed boost that I feel extremely sluggish when I don’t have it on. Also I very much dislike being caught in a fight with SoI equipped when I need pretty much all of my utilities for a fight. I also use Traveler’s because I put it on a set of WvW gear and can’t salvage the gear to get the runes back :P

How much DPS is lost using Traveler runes compared to Pack, Hoelbrak, Strength?

Sorry if it sounds like a dumb question i am useless at math.

I love GW2 and haven’t got any other game to play at the moment however I’m sorry Anet but I refuse to pay over £30 for standard with nothing thrown in.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

GrandHaven.1052:

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

Different routing. It’s as simple as that.

Except… Not so simple, right?

Network Engineer here.

That’s funny, because I’m a network engineer as well. If some players have a perfectly fine connection and some don’t, it’s almost certainly not the fault of the software. Instead I’d recommend that those people do a tracert to the server as well as analyze their net traffic when connected to see how it’s traveling back and forth to the server. What would be your first thought?

There is far too many people with the same problem for it to be a routing problem or with individual players ISP/Connection.

I was just in EB Piken square and whenever 2 zergs approached each other every single member of our server suffered severe packet loss and warping over the area, The same was happening to the enemy zerg.

The problem lies squarely with Anet.

If this isn’t fixed by the time HOT is released i won’t be purchasing HOT….Simple as that.

I have been having crashing issues for 2 weeks now, I have tried repairing the archive and even downloaded the client again and did a total re install but it still happens.

Exception: c0000005
Memory at address 6a31c4ff could not be written
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 3224
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00840000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 47388
When: 2015-04-13T13:21:16Z 2015-04-13T14:21:16+01:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:30:04
Flags: 0

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 4445MB/ 7881MB 56%
Paged: 11782MB/15761MB 74%
Virtual: 1839MB/ 4095MB 44%
Load: 43%
CommitTotal: 3979MB
CommitLimit: 15761MB
CommitPeak: 4248MB
SystemCache: 2867MB
HandleCount: 25608
ProcessCount: 49
ThreadCount: 841

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1821MB
WorkingSet: 1780MB
PeakWorkingSet: 1967MB
PageFaults: 8817986

[DbgHelp.dll is E:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> Error Logs <—
ound, auto selecting permutation
Map load hang on STATE_MODELS_STREAM detected: MapId: 38, Position: (33494.300781, -33254.000000, -1764.760010), Completion: 0.000000
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1465781116498615825’
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1502432776989712193’
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1512065984907714073’
Debug token ‘0×266fa’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Texture missing mip chain: 0×08be82
Model ‘0×08be8c’: Permutation ‘default’ not found, auto selecting permutation
Map load hang on STATE_MODELS_STREAM detected: MapId: 38, Position: (33494.300781, -33254.000000, -1764.760010), Completion: 0.000000
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1465781116498615825’
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1502432776989712193’
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1512065984907714073’
Texture missing mip chain: 0×08be82
Model ‘0×08be8c’: Permutation ‘default’ not found, auto selecting permutation
Debug token ‘0×266fa’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Map load hang on STATE_MODELS_STREAM detected: MapId: 38, Position: (33494.300781, -33254.000000, -1764.760010), Completion: 0.000000
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1465781116498615825’
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1502432776989712193’
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1512065984907714073’
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Texture missing mip chain: 0×08be82
Model ‘0×08be8c’: Permutation ‘default’ not found, auto selecting permutation

—> DirectX Device Info <—
VendorId = 0×1002
DeviceId = 0×679a
Version = 8.17.0010.1333
Description = ASUS R9 280 Series
Compat = 0×00000000
VidMem = 4095 MB

WvW is so broken.

I noticed in WvW yesterday that my game kept lagging out if i opened the Guild window, When i went into the options menu to check Fps i noticed that if you open the guild window the Fps drops by half.

dancingmonkey.4902:

Colly.4073:

Surprise surprise, Still no response from Anet even acknowledging this issue never mind fixing it.

Anet busy with HOT and couldn’t give a monkey’s about the WvW population.

Do you not read the “dev tracker” section of the forums? Obviously not, or you would know they have made several post on the matter.

How can you claim they are not posting about when you do not even know? Anet has added a “How to Address Lag” guide: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/91354558-How-to-Address-Lag . For example, but I gather, you do not know that either

I am with anyone who wants to be angry with good reason, for an extended issue. But I cannot support someone lying and claiming they are not talking about, when you haven’t looked.

I count at least 5 dev post on the specific matter since the issue started. So if you have lag, by all means, complain about it. But do not add lies to it as well. What level of intelligence to you have to be to think insulting the devs is going to get them to feel compelled to help you specifically?

And before you quote me and then proceed to call me out, Try to know what your talking about.

Surprise surprise, Still no response from Anet even acknowledging this issue never mind fixing it.

Anet busy with HOT and couldn’t give a monkey’s about the WvW population.

Anet has to acknowledge that the problem exists before it gets fixed, As they are ignoring every single thread that has been created regarding the Lag/Skill Delay in WvW then presume that it’s going to be a long wait.

Anet has ruined WvW with the stability nerf, Now it’s who has the most Necro’s and Ele’s in the zerg wins.

This just goes to show that Anet don’t play WvW…They haven’t got a clue.

Probably dire/condi thief and they are nothing special, They like to think they are but they are just another easy mode cancer build.

I’d prefer anet to sort out (skill lag) before the return if any tournament.

They do need a complete Rollback of this patch, So much stuff is broken it’s unreal.

Did you even test before releasing this Anet?

30kbs/sec is absolutely laughable….45 mins on the last file.

Good luck getting Anet to do a thing about this, This particular hack has been reported to death since last year and still they haven’t done jack about it.

Anet has a proven track record of being totally incompetent when dealing with cheats.

Anet wants to promote an active game, They are never going to agree to TRUE server population statistics.

WvW is failing and PvE is the only profitable End Game.

Sad but true.

You can pick whichever episode you want, Just replay your living story and look for the pink/purple stars on the map for each individual instance.

It would be nice if they would just REPLY about this admitting it’s bugged then we can all stop camping Red Rock in the hope it might spawn.

I have just received this error now and have never experienced this before, I tried a second time and received the same error. I did not receive a confirmation email from Anet or Paypal and also did not receive my Gems.

I hope i have not been charged for these failed attempts.

Redenaz.8631:

Colly.4073:

Andred.1087:

Colly.4073:

vanRijn.6348:

ArenaNet, help plz?

Anet couldn’t give a monkeys butt.

Yeah….. guess they’re a little occupied being on vacation for the holidays?

They have had several threads about this since the patch went live and chose to ignore them.

But then they want us to grind like mindless idiots until they can be kitten d with the new patch on 13th January, It’s a kittenty way to go about it.

Wait wait, there have been several threads? CANCEL CHRISTMAS, DEVS, YOU HAVE A BUG TO FIX.

I’m sympathetic to the frustration of the boss not spawning, and I don’t know what Anet’s holiday hours are like, but they obviously don’t want you “grinding like mindless idiots” if there’s a problem. It’s silly statements like that which make it hard to take problems seriously.

Sarcastic and sympathetic.

I take it by the anet defending you already have it and haven’t been camped for hours like a lot of others?