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can we have the patch notes in advance?

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I think they are out let me check….

ahh yes

“Added stuff go find it and enjoy”

HoM as Guild Hall & personal housing

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Currently in game the Eye of the North is a bit busted and decrepit. I think it would be neat to have a guild mission to gather materials and recruit helpers to rebuilt it then have it become our Guild Hall and a separator chain to restore the Hall of Monuments of our ancestors and have that as our personal housing.

why does everyone hate trahearne?

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While others point out his arrogance his deadpan personality and his voice acting. there are things to consider. He takes credit for the acts of his subordinates, not because he wants it (as is noted by his absence from the party) but because people give it to him as the leader of the army. As a leader you have to maintain a level head and a certain distance from those under you else you find yourself making a whole new array of mistakes. Those traits of his I can forgive but there are 2 that I cannot

I dislike Trahearne based solely on the two points below .(SPOILERS BELOW)

1. During the battle of Claw Island he Stood in the back barking orders to an already over burdened attack force. It was his leadership decisions that lead to the death of my close friend from my personal order. A death which I took quite hard and yet he remained unflinchingly unphased. Without any remorse or even I’m sorry your friend died he ran off to leave me to deal with stuff and try to play catch up later. No leader no matter how detached or professional should ever walk away from such loses without taking a moment to reflect and consider how to insure their forces never again face such loses. Trahearne took the victory as simply that and payed no attention to the losses suffered and never showed any signs of learning from the outcome of the battle instead continued to use the same logic of if we press hard enough and toss enough body’s at it we can win.

2. (This I am told has since been patched.) In my personal story I came across Carys and helped her to rescue Tegwen and then assisted with retrieving a mirror from some scritt. A mirror which promptly sucked Tegwen in and trapped her in Orr. At this point I was faced with a decision seek Trahearne’s help since he knows of Orr, Or seek the aid of an Asuran since they know of portals. I weighed my options and came to the conclusion that even if I knew absolutly everything about what was on the other side of that mirror it would do me no good if I could not get it to open in the first place. So I chose the Asuran, and Carys and I saved Tegwen. Now jump ahead towards the end of the story and that kitten mirror shows back up and Trahearne has the balls to introduce me to Carys and Tegwen AND take the credit for saving Tegwen. This is not like a commander taking credit for the job his soldiers did or a manager taking credit for the work his employees did. This is straight up bold face lieing. To make a harry potter reference, He pulled a Gilderoy Lockhart on two people who I had befriended and became close friends with. He erased every trace of that friendship from them so I am left even more alone in this world.

Lets speculate a bit on story development

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possibly this is leading ot a new dragon expansion…

The issues in Southsun could be due to the dragon under water blocking our access to Cantha and this story will deal with things leading up to that. Possibly the Consortium is working for the dragon and trying to “feed” it people. and in 3-4 months (about the 1 year anniversary) we see the first expansion dealing with that dragon.

Alternatively We know Primordus underground causing a stir, and without the great destroyer as his general he could be looking towards those wonderful titans in the Ring of Fire islands and since he is currently underground and we know that last we saw him was in the shiver peaks that would put Southsun in a direct path between him and the Ring of Fire Islands. I certainly think a dragon and army of destroyers under their home would stir up some Karka. So this could lead to us seeing something like that.

Heck there is an unknown dragon somewhere out there AND a whole Tengu area directly north of Southsun perhaps the other dragon is behind the Tengu wall and is using them to cause issues in Southsun and we may soon get inside that wall.

then again the Consortium may be conducting experiments on the people and wildlife trying to make “super soldiers” so they can retake Orr from the risin and have access to all the riches there themselves.

Grenth and Balthazar always contested?

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this site
http://www.gw2dragons.com/guesting.html#/temples

lists all the servers and temples to make guesting on a different server to get merchants quick and easy (I just used it to get stuff from balth the other day)

Fractals as solution to one time content.

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hehe I wonder how the shiro/lich fight from nightfall would play out inside fractals if we got to relive it

Fractals as solution to one time content.

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Thanks for the quote maddoctor. Here is hoping that they do it.

Fractals as solution to one time content.

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The story behind Fractals is that it is supposed to be grabbing sections of the past and letting us interact with them now.
So I would think that to enhance it and preserve one time content after a temporary event ends parts of it could be added to the fractals rotation. For example this new dungeon, if it truly is going away completely and forever, Simply strip the dungeon down to just leading the prisoners out and the final boss and add it into the rotation of fractals. Another example could be a trimmed down version of the karka event. (I for one missed it and would love to have at least saw it.)

Custom Arena ~ Guild hall

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With a custom arena you can set a password so it can be private … you can set character limits and extend the time its there…. so can it be used as a sudo guild hall by setting a really high toon limit and a password?

Dear Admin - Can I change...

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I do want to mention that for the most part, all that someone sees in the game is your character name, and your display name here on the forums shouldn’t trouble you too much.

Thanks for understanding.

Unless they are in your friends list … or your guild … or your party… or you attempt to send an in-game mail to them via one toon name while they are on another.

Gaming references found in the SAB.

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the jumping puzzle-ish part of world 2 where you jump on the water spouts reminds me of the old taz-mainia game for sega

Cannot target Giant Jungle Wurm

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again tonight failures abound at this event

Great Jungle Wurm

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just saw this again tonight it didn’t even make it out of the ground before it was dead.

Invincible Bag

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We have invisible bags that hides stuff at merchants and equipment bags that helps with sorting stuff what I would like is an “Invincible Bag”/“Unbreakable bag” that will prevent you from salvaging its continence (and preferably if you unequip armor it will go in there first)

I have a guild mate who has a horrible habit of getting over zealous with his salvaging and salvages his extra gear ….. well lets just say he does it often.

I feel like I'm being pulled in so many directions

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Hasn’t Anet said from the very beginning that they wanted to give us as many options on how to play as they could so we play the way we want to. They give us plenty of options and we get to CHOOSE what we want to do if you cant understand the difference between choices and mandatory actions Id hate to see you in a voting booth.

Looking for a Jade Quarry guild

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Hello My guild is looking for members check out our thread here

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/4-guys-a-girl-and-a-guild/first#post1158104

4 guys a girl and a guild

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actually we have a guild and are looking for more people to join us but thanks for the offer

4 guys a girl and a guild

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I’m in game and bored right now so I’m Bumping this feel free to message me in game.

Kill the Svanir Shaman Chief chest

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I’m stuck in it…..

right before the boss died he knocked me back into the downed state I rallied at his death and found myself inside the chest that spawned … now I cant get out.

Im sure porting will work fine … but still

and the chest finally despawned and I’m fine now

LF Guild

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4 guys a girl and a guild

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Who we are.

We are a small group on Jade Quarry who recently left a larger guild to pursue our own interests. We are looking for more people to join us. We enjoy dungeons,fractals, WvW, and anything else totally random that peaks our interest. Currently we are having issues getting all of us on at the same time for stuff. So we decided to try to find a few more people to join us.

What we want.

We all have at least 1 level 80 and enjoy high level content. So while we do not want to make it mandatory to have a level 80 toon, we would prefer it.

We get together on TS every night, so we want someone willing to be on TS and chat with the group. Even when everyone is off doing their own thing.

We currently are sharing the guild bank for personal storage so there is a huge amount of trust. We are wanting people that we can eventually trust and share the space with.

We are all 25+ year old adults in various stages of life, from single to married with children. So we are looking for other adults whom we can relate to and converse with on a level field.

While non of us are fully free from mental issues. We do want people who aren’t spastic, overly dramatic or otherwise looking to cause more trouble than they are worth. We are however ok with small amounts of nuts, crazy, dirty minded,and even small amounts of morbidity.

Obviously we are looking for the normal game stuff … PvE, dungeons, WvW, maybe even PvP but none of that is quite as important to us as the person behind the keyboard.

Reply here or message me in game to find out more

Obligatory 'best name I've seen' thread...

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I recently saw Mesmer Norris

p.s. we need a new version of this thread for guild names… just a thought

Fractals: The World Below Jade Maw

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after defeating the maw a friend and myself went around the edges looking to see what we could see and discovered the roof of the domed building from the ascalon fractal and several other structures. also saw something like a head but not the colossus.

Wintersday JP tips

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Alright I’ve seen alot of posts about people having issues with the jump puzzle and thought I would offer the advice that helped me to be able to succeed about 4 out of 5 tries.

1. Turn all graphical settings and audio quality down to the lowest settings possible. this will increase your frame rate and the closer to 40FPS you can get the better (tho its not required)

2. When the travel dialog pops up to leave overflow, take it. It seems that on Jade Quarry at least the non overflow is less populated than the overflow.

3. Turn up mouse sensitivity. and turn by holding your right mouse button and moving it right and left. your goal is to be able to turn a full 180 degrees in the space of your mouse area (no lifting and moving mouse to go from looking straight at right shoulder to looking straight at left shoulder)

4. While jumping try using right and left strife to jump sideways without turning sideways. This reduces the amount of turning you have to do.

5. There are several jumps that you can skip. if you see three platforms close together try skipping the middle one by waiting until the last moment to jump then trying to make it to the farthest one.

6. Sometimes a near miss can be saved. when you hit the edge of something but still miss if your reflexes are quick enough at the moment you hit the edge you can jump again and sometimes luck will be with you and you can actually jump back on the platform ( there is no good way to do this and it is not reliable but it has saved me on more than one occasion.

7. You can dodge roll through snowman breath.

8. You have more time than you think you do. Take your time and learn the jumps. and if you fail due to being too slow while learning at least you learned something.

9. When you have to jump from the platforms to two candy canes angle your jumps so you are hitting the canes at an angle and you will have a larger margin of error.

10. Be patient.
10a. If there is a large group at the start let them go and be one jump behind them, so you can see yourself.
10b. Until you are certain of the timing on the snowballs go ahead and wait for the next one.
10c. Anger and Frustration do not necessarily make you any better at the jumps.
10d. Use the reset time after a failure to calm down and use the stripes on the candy cane to practice jumping with mouse turn.

Todays Wintersday Jump Puzzle No Reward

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same thing here

Corpse Spying

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why not just up culling to 100% for dead people so when you die you cant see anyone around you at all.

WvW suggestion

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This would also help with peoples complaints of the low drop rates from the MF

WvW suggestion

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When I first started reading about WvW I envisioned people putting effort into taking and keeping keeps and towers and sending out groups from each to escort supply lines. worlds working to fully fortify and upgrade to get more waypoints across the map and basically notable battle lines (ala luxon and kurzik lines in factions). I assumed a very slow progression across the map with people actually staying with keeps and towers to hold them against attacks. small groups of people sneaking into enemy territory just to takeout supply dolyaks. You know something large and on a grand scale.

What I see when I go to WvW is commanders leading zergs in a game of round robin of who controls what. While this can be fun, It definitely lacks the epic-ness I had hoped for.

I was thinking one way to encourage people to not just pass points back and forth and actually try to keep locations would be to make the mystic forge in stonemist keep have a higher chance to give rare items and make that go up by 1% for each location held and and increase that by 1% for each 15 min it is held

ie
existing % + (1% per location held )*(15 min it is held)

Toymaker Tixx voice?

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I thought it was Jim Conroy from FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NIfXtvu_wJk#t=2s

I burn my eyes cuz of white background!

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this is not the best solution but it will work

step one: install the grease monkey extension to either firefox or chrome
step two go to the main page of this forum and click the greasemonkey icon and click new user script.
in the window that popus up name it ForumBG changer (so what ever actually)
and in the includes box remove what is there and replace it with

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/*

click ok
it will probably come up and ask you to choose a text editor just navigate to notepad (usually c:\windows\notepad.exe in XP or C:\Windows\System32\Notepad.exe in win7)
it should open notepad and fill in something like this

// UserScript
// @name fbg2
// @namespace https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum
// @include https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum
// @include https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/*
// @version 1
// /UserScript

after that simply paste

(function() {
document.getElementById(‘content’).style.backgroundColor=“#808080”;
})();

then save and close notepad and reload this site

I will explain what this does exactly as to show that it is safe and not an attempt to do anything bad

grease monkey is an addon that allows your browser to run extra javascript on a page
the page is specified by the include statement in the file so in this case it is only going to effect the guild wars 2 forums

the javascript we are running (document.getElementById(‘content’).style.backgroundColor=“#808080”;) breaks down as follows
“Document” <— this tells javascript to look at the page that is open
“getElementById(’’content”) <— this says to examine something and find a part with an id that matches the part in the parentheses in this case “content”

now that it has found the part that we are looking for it needs to know what to do with it

so first we go to the style of it with “style” then to the backgroundcolor portion of the style and lastly we tell it to make what ever it was equal our new color

with this you can change the color to anything you like by changing “#808080” to the hex value of the color you want.

you will notice that Anet built the buttons with white backgrounds to match the site so they now stand out a bit but if you truely are having issues with the white background this will help

kicked from JP to LA

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I did jump I have had the issue of not jumping and being sent to LA but this was I jumped and even loaded at the top near the chest THEN kicked to LA

kicked from JP to LA

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it has happened twice now that I have completed the jump puzzle and loaded into the top of the puzzle and before I could so much as take a step it kicks me to LA This is very annoying

on a side note I occasionally get a bug where I lay flat on the ground like Im dead but I have control over my character it makes gauging jumps a whole new level of interesting.

disabled IE issue

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so I thought to for peace of mind about IE remove its access to websites I went in and set lan options to use a proxy and gave it an IP of 0.0.0.0 (this very effectively kills IE (and any malware that uses it)

This also kills the trading post.

WHY IS THE TP TIED TO IE

Fractals upleveling & agony

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last night a group of us went in to fractals on our alts at fractal level 1 and took someone who’s alt was level 12 it occurred to us that at fractal level 10 the agony mechanic starts to kick in. but the ascended gear is lvl 80 only does this mean that even tho it scales you up low level people basically are sol when it comes to higher level fractals

Toy Frame Warning

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Remember guys you are only allowed to make 2 of the 5 mini pets from the toy frames. Please make sure you wait till you have all 5 frames before you spend your [Mystical Cogs].

There will be no refunds or Toy mini pet gift exchange if you change your mind at the end.

can I get a link to an official statement showing this?

date confusion

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why is it that according to the scheduled monthly quest reset the first of the month starts at 5pm on the 31st of the previous month.
yet events scheduled for the 14th will may not start until 8-9pm on the actual 14th (which according to the monthly reset would be several hours into the 15th)

Trouble with the Black Lion trading company

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Ive had this problem for a long time and made a thread about it if your issues are as follows

1. on gem store in the upper left where the gem icon and amount show. this box will be empty

2. on trading post in buy screen buy button greyed out

3. on trading post on item lists no popup

4. on sell items screen screen completely blank

it is the same issue I have

I used to solve it by closing and restarting the game over and over till it worked but someone suggested a different solution that seems to work in my thread

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Trading-post-failure-to-function

Try to open “Options” window with TP window still open, and change your game language – for example English ? French, wait for TP to reload, and back to your original language.

This method works for the one who posted it and myself as well so give it a try.

Inaccessible "Buy" option on Auction house

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ask your friend if they are also having these issues

1. on gem store in the upper left where the gem icon and amount show. this box will be empty

2. on trading post in buy screen buy button greyed out

3. on trading post on item lists no popup

4. on sell items screen screen completely blank

if so then it is the same issue I have
I used to solve it by closing and restarting the game over and over till it worked but someone suggested a different solution that seems to work in my thread

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Trading-post-failure-to-function

Try to open “Options” window with TP window still open, and change your game language – for example English ? French, wait for TP to reload, and back to your original language.

This method works for the one who posted it and myself as well so give it a try.

Lich form Crash super easy repro

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…and now Im home came first thing to my computer …. it no longer crashes

Lich form Crash super easy repro

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also note it will not crash if you transform THEN open hero panel

Lich form Crash super easy repro

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tho if it helps at all I am running
Windows 7 64x
2 gb ram
Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 1GB
Graphics are set to best performance except sampling is set to native and best textures ( the top check box) is checked.
1440×900 screen resolution

Lich form Crash super easy repro

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Fair enough, but like I said I’m at work and my friend is not answering his text so hopefully someone else can.

and now I have a new question I am going to be upgrading my computer in January Can I get the specs on the machines you guys test with? As if they are resistant to this bug that may be the direction I wish to go with my upgrade.

Lich form Crash super easy repro

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I would but I’m at work but I have texted a friend to see if he can. Else Ill do it when I get home in 2 hours (hopefully someone can beat me to it tho.)

but I wonder with as simple as it is to repro can’t you guys do it?

A foolproof way to make us happy.

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hmm maybe we will get to see him go off to aid in the fight against the next dragon succumb to it and have to fight him in the end


Kinda like they did with Rurik except we were upset when Rurik died.

Sound engine breaks often

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I don’t know if its the same issue but my sound occasionally changes but for me I love it.

When Im in WvW and a large battle is going on sometimes most of my sounds get quieter and all ambient sounds and music stop and mainly its the big sounds that I hear.

Its like in an action movie when something blows up and all sounds get muted except the person yelling at the dazed person.

Usually the muting has perfect timing for me to concentrate better and it almost is like the world slows down to allow me to better react to the goings on around me.

I Don’t care if Anet fixes it but PLEASE give us the option to have it as a feature.

what the heck happened to my voice

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I notice laughter on my sylvari is messed up and all voices for the asuran seems messed up

Lich form Crash super easy repro

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Necro plague form does not crash

Lich form Crash super easy repro

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getting in a asuran power suit with the hero panel up … crashes

Lich form Crash super easy repro

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alright I should update this to apparently ANYTHING that changes your form will crash you when you have the hero panel up
I tested with an endless Halloween tonic a friend tested with endless tree

Unresponsive Jumping @ Dec 3rd Patch

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so playing with it I basically have noticed that you must take 2 steps before jumping.
I tested this on the ledges of the bridge near the mystic forge if you stand close to the outside edge and run and jump you will jump if you stand close to the center edge and very quickly run and jump you will not jump