Guild Wars 2

Razor.9872:

HyruleanHyroe.1473:

Man, I got plenty of ROMs. I uber-clock my DPU in RADE so i can pwn my HDDHSdD on troll noobs . 500 GiggaWatts of ROM, 2000 MilliClocks of CGP, 7500 PetaJoules of Amps. 20 gigs ain’t nothin. I play 20 gigs on like one Friday.

I think you’re getting ROM confused with RAM and your GPU and CPU clock speeds :P

Thanks for coming. Try again.

Well I think you don’t know what ROM is. Because what u meant was hard disk space which is certainly NOT Read Only Memory. :-P ;-)

I understand the need for an idle kick system in WvW, sPvP matches, and PvE explorable areas.

However, it would be nice if players could remain idle in instances either forever or for an extended period (e.g. 6 hours). This would include the following areas:

- Dungeons
- Personal story
- Home instances
- Hall of Monuments

(see: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Instance)

This way, if I knew I wanted to go idle for a while, I could pop to Hall of Monuments with a portal stone and when I returned to play again, all the party/guild/whisper chat will be preserved (particularly annoying that guild chat gets wiped when kicked/char swapping)

Thanks for reading! 8-)

Sure. I will join up in my lunch break.

OK but… does anyone know if ArenaNet plans to change the Outnumbered effect at all on Tuesday?

With this new transmutation system coming into play on Tuesday, I was wondering what I should do with a few skin items I have in my bank such as..

- Princess Wand Skin
- Scarlet’s Veil Skin
- Holographic Dragon Wing Cover
- Gas Mask Skin
- Light/Medium/Heavy Horns of the Dragon Skin

Will these items be converted to wardrobe unlocks and removed (thereby requiring a transmutation charge to apply them to an item) or will they remain in my bank and allow me to apply them once to an item for free (and then presumably unlocking in the wardrobe at that time)?

Thanks in advance,
Ben

Does anyone know if ArenaNet plans to change the Outnumbered effect at all on Tuesday?

Hey Underworldians,

I’ve just created a new Mumble server (voice communication.) It’s like Ventrilo, Teamspeak, etc. but better and Guild Wars 2 even supports positional audio with it (see http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mumble)

There are currently 4 channels – one for Eternal Battlegrounds and one for each of the Borderlands maps in WvW.

Address: underworld.are-so.sexy
Port: 64738 (default)
Password: (undisclosed)

The server has an access password which I obviously cannot post here as we don’t want to let those nasty other worlds in but if you whisper me in-game (Combatter.5123, “Maetheryl Thorswood”) or send me an in-game mail, I will test that you are in Underworld and then sort you out with the password.

I’ve only just set this up so expect further improvements in time.

Share and enjoy! ;-)

Ben

Armor repair will be free as of the update on April 15th which will make the “Take no armor damage on death” effect of Outnumbered less beneficial.

How about adding in an effect to Outnumbered to compensate for the lack of money saving that goes something like:

“Structure upgrades cost 25% less gold”

This might encourage players to purchase upgrades even in times when it might otherwise seem a bit pointless.

Cheers for reading,
Ben

See:
- http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Outnumbered
- http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Structure_upgrade

Also see:

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/eu/pvp/friends
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/eu/pvp/guild/Your%20Guild%20Name

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/eu/achievements/friends/
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/eu/achievements/world/Fissure%20of%20Woe
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/eu/achievements/guild/Your%20Guild%20Name

(instead of spaces in World or Guild names, use ‘%20’)

Edit: capitalisation doesn’t matter for Guild names but DOES matter for World names

The CSS and Javascript seems broken because these URLs aren’t working (no response from web server):

https://fakecdn-leaderboards-live.ncplatform.net/combo/_/services/bumpers/css/header.981516932.css&/services/bumpers/css/footer.1527481343.css&/css/main.391264027.css
https://fakecdn-leaderboards-live.ncplatform.net/combo/_/services/bumpers/js/rating.1652401605.js&/js/_config.1993526191.js&/js/init.673117417.js&/js/ga.1875170925.js

However, you CAN still get the data if you can put up with the ugly page by requesting the correct URL. Examples:

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/eu/wvw
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/na/wvw

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/eu/achievements
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/na/achievements

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/eu/pvp
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en-gb/na/pvp

Hope that helps :-)

What do you think?

The minimap currently represents nearby defeated players with a blue skull and crossbones icon instead of the blue ankh icon.

Please could this be used in the main view too? This would help to more easily differentiate between those allied players who are downed (high priority for reviving and much easier to do so) and those that are defeated (lower priority for reviving and much harder to do so).

Some people seem to insist on staying defeated right next to a powerful foe in these time-limited events and this change would make it easier to prioritise who to revive.

A special icon could also be shown to represent defeated enemy players in WvW/PvP.

Thanks for reading,
Ben

Any comments from ArenaNet about this?

A while ago you disabled the ability to use town clothes from WvW. Many people got upset, including me.

Why don’t you bring back the ability to use town clothes in WvW but disable the skill bar whilst town clothes are on (so that players cannot gain any advantage from being in them)?

Cheers, Ben

Well I guess I’d just prefer it if there was a bit more clarity from ArenaNet as to what is safe to delete. For example, whilst I’m mostly sure that it’s safe to delete Mystical Cogs and Toy Soldier Frames (that were used in Wintersday 2012 but not Wintersday 2013), I’m less sure about items like left over Aetherblade Code Fragments (will these drop in the future?), and Queen’s Gauntlet Entrance Tickets (will the Queen’s Gauntlet return?).

Cheers.

I’m a bit of a hoarder and I’m often running out of inventory and bank space. It seems quite often living story chapters involve items that later become useless.

My suggestion is that once these items become completely and permanently useless, ArenaNet could set them as ‘junk’ (grey) items with a small merchant value so that it’s more obvious to players that these items are no longer of any use.

What do you think?

(putting this in this forum as the ‘Suggestions’ forum appears to have been archived)

OK so I know I’m reviving a v old topic but yeah according to this wiki article:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Graphical_user_interface#Screenshots

… Ctrl-Shift-PrintScreen is supposed to take a screenshot without the UI but as with the original poster, it doesn’t seem to work.

Ctrl-Shift-H to toggle the UI does work tho

I accepted ghost’s answer because they answered my question directly however I appreciate the advice of Mystic and Hayashi.

I currently have 2.7 million karma though (I saved up my karma jugs and spammed them with all the modifiers before the update) and I’m not sure I’ll be running out of karma any time soon.

However, I will probably be going with either a Karmic or a Magical infusion now.

Cheers

Trying to decide what utility infusion to get between:

Gilded Infusion “+20% Gold from Monsters”
Magical Infusion “+20% Magic Find”

What does it mean when Gilded Infusion says “monsters”? Does this include foes in PvE foes that are human/charr/asuran/norn/sylvari? What about invader (player) foes in WvW?

Thanks in advance,
Ben

Guild weapon skins, armor skins and backpacks are currently soulbound but it seems that there is no valid reason for them not to be account bound.

Admittedly, I should have checked the binding before I bought the shield skin on my ranger (to transfer to my warrior) but now I have a useless soulbound shield skin that means I wasted 20 silver. :-(

There are probably other items in the game that are soulbound but should be account bound too. I understand that some are soulbound to require characters to reach various locations on the map before they can receive them. However, guild weapon skins, armor skins and backpacks are all purchasable from the major towns (inc. Lion’s Arch) and therefore are accessible to all characters anyway.

Thanks for reading,
Ben

I’m having this issue too. V annoying. Any word from ArenaNet?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record… BUMP!

PS: I wouldn’t mind so much but the ‘Subscribe’ functionality on this forum has been broken since the game launched so I have to keep refreshing this page to check if an answer has been posted.

Getting a bit grumpy.

Someone just told me that the season will finish at 7pm GMT today (Thursday 5th December) – is this true?

I really really need an official answer from ArenaNet on this and am sure that a lot of others who are trying to do the meta achievement do too!

Thanks in advance,
Ben

It seems logical. But as I say, the official forum post from ArenaNet says that it ends on 5th December. This clarification is very important to those who are close to finishing their WvW Season 1 Meta achievement!

This is kinda important… BUMP!

Thanks for the advice, Jayne. It worked, I completed the meta achievement and have my key. tyvm

According to this post from ArenaNet:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-Season-1-Schedule/first
… the season ends on 5th December (which is a Thursday) rather than 6th December (Friday).

Knowing that WvW matches usually end on a Friday, can anyone from ArenaNet please confirm that the season does actually finish on Friday at the usual time?

Perhaps the forum post is a mistake due to assuming that November has 31 days?

Thanks,
Ben

Jayne.9251:

Go find a tower wall, build a cata, hit the wall. Every three hits with the cata gives you one point towards this I believe (you may need to get the wall down for it to total up). I got it done entirely in about an hour, solo running supply to my own cata and hitting the walls, and getting them down, by myself. (Guild catas off the trading post only require 25 supply so it’s faster).

And before you complain, I’m in tier 1 and have actually done this on reset before vs Viz and SFR and totally alone without a zerg. You can do it. Just read the map and find a sneaky spot.

I will give that a try. The last 2 times I didn’t get credit I was on a flame ram for almost the whole attack on tower gates in Eternal Battlegrounds. I have rank 2 Flame Mastery so was v surprised not to get a single point for the achievement.

Cheers,
Ben

This seems to be badly bugged and it seems like that’s going to lose me my WvW Season One meta achievement.

Why did the forum just convert the word ‘a g o’ into ‘akitten’ ?!

I am no longer able to purchase the ‘Toxic Seed Box’ from Glory Vendors in Heart of the Mists (sPvP). (see: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Toxic_Seed_Box )

I know that there is a limit to 5 purchases per day but my last purchase was over 48 hours akitten

so I’ve just realised that the Rank 10 Glory Vendor is no longer selling this item – I need to go to the Rank 1 Glory Vendor – which is kinda dumb imho.

Oh and whilst I’m bug reporting, you have named the achievement for getting 15 events within the tower ‘The Nightmares Within’ which is the exact name as the meta achievement – probably not wise.

Cheers,
Ben

Azure Prower.8701:

With 30th of September looming around the corner. SAB is soon going to part ways from us once again until the 3rd installment

Is tomorrow the official date of departure? I couldn’t find confirmation of when SAB was going away. I only have 31 bauble bubbles and was hoping for a Super Warhorn Skin…

Yes. Yes. Yes. When a big event like Tequatl kicks off, the AFK timer should be reduced dramatically. Excellent idea.

Hahahaha – brilliant

Boo hoo hoo ;-(

I fought Tequatl and we didn’t win and I wasn’t rewarded with lots and lots of cool loot. Therefore my time was completely and utterly WASTED.

Oh wait..
no it wasn’t…
I HAD A LOAD OF FUN!!!

:-D

I just tried to reproduce Arkanis Drako’s disconnect in Lion’s Arch with the following results:

With my graphics settings on a ‘medium’ quality, pulling out my network cable whilst I was standing still in Lion’s Arch made my fps increase from 32-33fps to 36-37fps (before the “you have been disconnected from server” message appeared)

With my graphics settings on a ‘high’ quality, pulling out my network cable whilst I was standing still in Lion’s Arch did not seem to affect my fps (which was around 24-25fps).

I have a theory that network congestion/latency issues (either client or server side) might be dramatically reducing fps. I started a thread about it here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Frame-rate-fps-tied-to-network-congestion

Hope some of you find it interesting.

ExTribble : I hadn’t thought of that – I suppose if a zerg of invaders is nearby, the game could be attempting to pre-render lots of stuff. But from what I remember, there was a good 10 seconds+ before the sudden fps reduction and the invaders appearing on my screen. And remember that almost all my graphics settings were on “Best Performance” so it shouldn’t even need to pre-render most of the player models anyway (because after pre-rendering a small number, it should give up and either show the rest as generic purple models or not show them at all.)

OptimusPrimo : It sounds like you do have an idea of what I’m talking about in my first post. The fundamental idea is that if the graphics card is capable of rendering the scene quickly enough (which I think mine should be, particularly on ‘Best Performance’ settings), network congestion should not prevent a decent frame rate. And I believe that with the current GW2 engine, it is preventing it.

This thread also makes for interesting reading: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Low-FPS-and-nVidia-employee-response/first

Arkanis Drako.5169:

My frame rate also drops long before I see any action.
It´s like a zerg radar, actually.

Also, maybe just a coincidence:

When I was in Lions Arch once, I had a DC, but stayed in game for some reason,
resulting in lots of player models around me but a big frame rate increase.

Like from 20 up to 45+

Even though I was disconnected, the load on my system should still be the same, so I wondered about frame rate increase ever since.

It never happened again but because of this experience I wonder if somehow the servers impact the frame rate.

This is really really interesting. I might try to reproduce this situation myself. Thanks for sharing. :-)

OptimusPrimo.9547:

It could just be two issues occurring at the same time.
A large zerg would cripple your FPS.
A large zerg would also increase the network load to your computer (and from the server) causing skill lag.

So you get lag and poor fps at the same time?

I’m still betting it’s the ArenaNet servers.

Yeah but the thing is that a large zerg shouldn’t cripple my FPS in a well designed game engine if I cannot see it. It shouldn’t really even increase my network load because I have no need to know about the locations of players that I cannot see/interact with but that can be a bit trickier.

I would say so, yeah. In my mind, my fps should really only drop if the scene gets more difficult for the graphics card to render (or the CPU is under really heavy load.)

Anyone else experienced anything similar or got any comments/criticsms of my argument?

I experienced something interesting the other evening that I’d like to share with everyone.

I have recently been getting headaches because my fps (frames per second – displayed to me using FRAPS v3.5.9) in Guild Wars 2 has been dropping so low – in general PvE and in WvW. So I opened Graphics settings and selected “Best Performance” preset. I made a few changes after that (such as switching to “Native” Render Sampling) but nothing drastic. Note: if I select the “Auto-Detect” preset on my PC, GW2 tends to set nearly everything at maximum, so I regard my system as quite capable (see bottom of message for my specs.)

A while later, I was playing on Eternal Battlegrounds and was within Stonemist Castle. Even tho I was in a small corridor with no visible activity (with my GPU rendering a scene that should be quite basic), my fps became very very low (around 10 fps). A moment, I noticed the orange ‘crossed swords’ icon on the map near me and then a mass zerg of enemy invaders rushed into the castle and destroyed us.

My conclusion for this is that fps in GW2 seems to be affected by network lag/congestion. As an avid online gamer since the QuakeWorld days and also as a computer programmer, I do not think that graphical fps and network latency/throughput should be tied together like this in a well designed game engine. My computer’s ability to render me smoothly walking through a basic quiet corridor should not be affected by the presence of enemy foes, especially not when they are not visible to or interacting with me in any way.

You might argue that my fps cannot be high if the network is congested in general play because I need to receive updates from the server to know where other players, NPCs etc have moved to. Well, this is why, back in the days of 33.6kbps modems, QuakeWorld introduced sophisticated prediction algorithms. Admittedly, when the lag/latency got really bad, this would result in players ‘teleporting’ around unpredictably as the algorithms kept getting it wrong and being corrected. But the fps remained high!

Whether the lag/congestion is down to my connection (broadband, but hardly anything great) or down to ArenaNet’s servers is unknown. I guess the only way for me to find out is to upgrade to faster broadband which I might actually do in the near future as I may be moving home soon. I’ll keep you updated if I do.

But maybe the servers themselves are struggling? Perhaps removal of culling has put a heavy load on them? Or perhaps the recent tendancy for people to ‘zerg’ in PvE (e.g. invasion events, champion trains) has exposed an inherent weakness. Maybe both of these things.

Within Hall of Monuments, on maximum detail settings and with vertical sync off, I get 80-100fps!

Anyway, that’s just some food for thought. I don’t want this to be a moaning, complaining thread because I love this game and play it a lot. I just hope we can get to the bottom of the fps issues that a lot of people seem to be having.

Thanks all,
Ben

PS: I have in the past commented that it would be nice if ArenaNet could implement a connection monitor dot like the one seen in Guild Wars 1. See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Ping-monitor/first I still think this would be a good idea.

My PC Specs
Processor: Intel Core i7-860 (Lynnfield) @ 2.80GHz (quad core)
RAM: 6GB DDR3 666Mhz (3 x PC3-10700)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Hard Disk 1: Corsair Force 3 SSD (60GB) — Windows 7 and GW2 installed here
Hard Disk 2: Western Digital Caviar (320GB)

Broadband: ADSL, 6307kbps up 1015kbps down (readings from router web control panel) – Sky Broadband Unlimited

Will the merchants in Crown Pavilion (the Emissaries) be staying in the game after tomorrow’s update or should I exchange my sprockets for stuff today?

Will Watchwork Sprockets still drop after tomorrow’s update in order to supply some of the recipes?

Thanks in advance,
Ben

Thanks for adding this link – very useful

I’m pretty sure ascended weapons are going to be account bound but this does sadden me somewhat as I would like to be able to make ascended weapons for my gf (we divided the 8 crafting professions between us).

Rayti.6531:

I would be glad if the ascended items would become at least “mystic forgeable” or “salvageable”.

Because otherwise there would still not be a chance to get rid of your unwanted stat combinations apart from destroying them. I already have enough rings from the fractals, just imagine weapons and armor also demanding space in my bank… O_o

I don’t know of any account bound weapons that cannot be put in the Mystic Forge or salvaged.

This has happened a few times to me too. Hilarious and great fun.

Now that karma is account-wide and soon karma boosts will not affect the liquid karma consumables (see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Karma-Changes-Temporary-Rollback), why don’t you remove the liquid karma consumables altogether and just add the karma (unaffected by karma boosts) directly into our account wallet?

And what is the point of the bags of coins? Why don’t u just credit the coins directly into our account wallet rather than unnecessarily taking up room in inventories and requiring us to manually open them?

Cheers,
Ben

Ah ok – thanks for clearing this up