Guild Wars 2

Your support account is separate from your game account, if you haven’t created a ticket before you need to create a new support account.

If you cannot remember your support account email, simply emailing support@guildwars2.com will get you in touch with a customer service representative who can handle your case.

You shouldn’t be sharing your account either.

Simply afking is not against the rules.

Running a bot while afk is against the rules. As long as your character is not performing any action while you are away from keyboard (such as to circumvent an automatic logoff in wvw) you are fine.

If it is an email verification message, it is probably legit.

Which means someone has your GW2 account password and you should change it.

Paypal has your street address, arenanet has your street address, telling them what it is isn’t going to hurt you. See: Paypal’s Website

Not answering the question may delay the response. I don’t have any idea why you think this is an intrusion of privacy or what not.

They already have your information

And it is not excessive, this is a standard way for a company to verify an identity to make absolutely sure the person they are dealing with owns the account. Fraud happens every day and if companies are not careful a hacker could fool support into changing the email address. They could easily figure out 8, they could guess 9 with probably around a 50/50 success rate, and put ‘I forgot’ in on #10, or lift it from your email account.

You are being needlessly paranoid and combative. Anet is following a security minded business practice here so they arn’t fooled by frauds just trying to gain access to your account. Compromise through convincing a support agent to change an account password has happened before, email accounts are what control access to your game account, do you want it to be easy for me to open a bogus support ticket and gain access to your game account?

@Anz

A moderator kindly removed the link from your post, but keep in mind if ANY reader on this forum clicked that link, hackers now have access to your account at this VERY MOMENT.

Please navigate to https://account.guildwars2.com/account/security and check to see if 124.228.44.162 is under authorized networks, if it is remove it right away!

In the future please refrain from copy/pasting confidential information from email, always be sure to remove activation email links!

And remember ArenaNet sent you that email because that hacker group already has your password, you need to change your GW2 account password ASAP.

no, there is not.

simplesimon.2084:

means someone in China has your password. You should scan your PC and change your password

Exactly, and by posting that link on the forum, now the spammer can click it and gain access to your account! I have reported this to the moderator.

It is not unusual for a company wanting to verify your identity to match it with billing records, answer the question. I’m sure that will be the last one.

Its not harassment, its standard practice.

Just so you know, they already HAVE that information, they are making you prove your identity by making you provide that information, so they can check it against the information they already have.

I think if the ticket is 3 days old he can post here, sounds like this has been going on for 6 days.

No, you must go out in wvw when your team owns those objectives. The devs are considering randomizing the position each team starts at, so you can alternatively wait until that feature is ready.

Iruwen.3164:

Draygo.9473:

Ok guys i’m going to drop a not so secret here.

Email servers can send emails from any address they want without verification.

At least guildwars2.com and ncsoft.com are using SPF records though, so while a server can still try to send mails under their name, any decent spamfilter should sort it out unless any of these entries accidentially contain a spam relay, which I doubt.
guildwars2.com text = “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all”
ncsoft.com text = “v=spf1 include:_netblock_rnw.ncsoft.com include:_netblock_global.ncsoft.com include:_netblock_global01.ncsoft.com include:sgizmo.com ip4:211.189.163.230 ip4:211.189.163.231 -all”
The arena.net domain lacks an SPF record btw.

They should probably add one as it will help email providers to properly put these emails into the spam folder.

It isn’t just using cure
its using cure+dodge.

You can spam the dodge button as you cure because you wont dodge till the immob is off. That way you instantly dodgeroll when the immob is off and avoid getting it reapplied.

or just use lower level foods… +30 upscaled is pretty close to +70.

RI is a pro zerg mechanic that encourages leaving supply camps undefended, freeing up players to participate in zerg battles.

Now I have nothing really against zergs, but I think the number of targets small teams of people can hit needs to go up – but Righteous Indignation stands in the way. Its a mechanic in place – I believe – to stop groups of people from trading a camp back and forth in rapid succession. However it encourages zerg behavior because camps can only flip every 5 minutes (unless you are a zerg), so a camp with the RI buff is unassailable to a small team.

For example I have a team of 5, including me, we decide to control our north camp. We set up some defenses and defend it from small incursions. Sooner or later a large zerg shows up, blitzes the camp and takes it. They all run off leaving no defenders. We cannot take the camp back for 5 minutes. So we have to focus on other objectives in that 5 min span.

For me, if you don’t leave defenders on the camp you shouldn’t automatically be able to keep that camp for 5 minutes.

If I want to take my group down south in my own BL and take a south camp, it should be a valid tactic to retreat from larger forces, and retake the objective when they leave. If they do not leave defenders they do not deserve to hold the supply camp. By removing RI smaller groups can harass the camps much more easily, forcing the enemy to also leave small groups of defenders or lose the objective.

But then how do we protect against the exploit RI is ment to protect against?
Well we can change the way the DE interacts with the capping of the camp.

Assault levels:
The assault DE starts when an NPC in the camp is attacked.
The assault DE’s level is determined by when the camp was last flipped.
Level 1- 0-3 mins, awards 25% of current rewards for a camp flip
Level 2- 3-6 mins, awards 75% of current rewards for camp flip
Level 3- 6-15 mins awards 100% of current rewards for camp flip
Level 4- 15+ mins awards 125% of current rewards for camp flip
Assault DE’s last for 3 minutes, and now have failure rewards, if the camp is under attack when the assault fails it starts again, at one reward level higher as it is now 3 mins later. (which is why the levels are based on multiples of 3). Killing guards or players reward credit for assaulting the camp, gold credit requires 3 NPC or player kills. Credit is also awarded for participating in the capture circle, as it is now. Dolyaks or their guards do not give credit for the assault DE.

Because camps take time to flip, even if enemies are intentionally passing a camp back and forth, the new reward levels will make it so that flipping a camp back and forth is no more rewarding than the current system. As a safeguard for zergs doing it, you can put a short RI buff on the supervisor that lasts 30 seconds.

RI itself can stay for tower, keep, and castle lords.

TL;DR help small teams, nerf RI in camps.

@Ark, change your email account password (its likely compromised), initiate a password reset for your gw2 account, that should let you recover it.

gane you could switch to a server that respects your playstyle, or maybe find a smaller FA guild that could use your help.

One man guild sounds a bit lonely to be frank.

The problem with is argument is that he believes gems have monetary value.

They don’t. Buying a BLK costs 0$. Buying the gems is what costs money.

Furthermore gems can be attained from in game currency, further reinforcing the above. If gems could not be attained via in game currency you could claim that gems are just a farce to get around the law and have a monetary equivalence.

Also remember you are not buying BLK chests off the Gem store, but BLK keys. The chests are entirely obtained playing the game. Keys can also be attained while playing the game.

turshija.3627:

Chuo.4238:

turshija.3627:

I made my own leaderboards which crawl the official one, and added search, graphs etc
It was meant only for sPvP, but many people asked to make achievements too, so I did

Check it out here: http://www.gwshack.info
Like it ? Comment in this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Leaderboards-with-search-www-gwshack-info/first

Is it wrong of me to be laughing at ArenaNet because, once again, there’s a website out there doing it better?

How long did it take you to do that? How many people did it require? How much were they paid? If you don’t mind me asking. I’m willing to bet you did it faster, better, and for less money than ArenaNet did.

I did the first version in 2 hours + I streamed it (there is a video here: http://www.twitch.tv/turshija/c/2137971), after that I invested 2-3 more hours into polishing it and adding features
That doesn’t mean I am “smarter” then Anet engineers that did that, it only means I had some spare time to make a tool I needed + uploaded it online so that everyone can use it .. I’m sure Anet devs can make that even better, but they are a small team of devs with many tasks, so they can’t invest too much time into one feature …

You have to keep in mind that this player is only displaying data that already is out there, copy pasta is very very easy to do. Anet is doing much more than just putting the list out there, they are calculating your elo, showing you how far up or down you are moving in the ladder between updates, and a ton of behind the scene stuff that makes the whole leaderboard work in the first place. Remember there are millions of accounts in gw2, the fansite is only looking at 1,000 players while arenanet is looking at the 3+ million accounts they have. If you notice in this thread issues with the webpage are getting fixed relatively quickly, look a few posts up about the error on an erroneous value entered by a user, now it just lands you on the first page of the leaderboard.

DevonCarver.5370:

We are aware of this little strategy and have our top minds hammering out possible solutions.

Best solution:

Get rid of cripple on arrow cart and replace with immobilize. Reduce duration of immobilize arrows from 5 seconds to 2. Each immobilizing arrow applies 2 seconds of immobilize.

Done.

^ exactly, also in fight clubs (which is what these are called) if you are dueling often you are worth 0 wxp anyway. Dueling is not an efficient way to gain wxp by any means. Farming a pve event in wvw over and over on respawn would probably get you more wxp per hour.

Change your password

You only get the authentication email if someone types in the correct password for your account. Changing your password to a new, unique password (don’t just tack 1 on the end of it) should resolve the problem.

Contact support, they will be able to help you restore your account and gems.

Also note that your character names are reserved to your account up to 24 hours after you delete them, so you don’t even have to worry about losing the character names!

ShadyNZL.9018:

My question is where are these scammers getting email addresses from? How are they targeting actual GW2 players and being so accurate? I mean there’s been A LOT of people complaining about this recently….

They arnt being accurate at all (I know several email boxes that have been hit that don’t have guildwars 2 accounts). But part of it can be harvesting off of guild wars 2 fansites. Part of it is email addresses just harvested off of general gaming websites, and some of it is from the lists for wow accounts they already have. Scattershot that email, a few saps fall for it and then we get headaches. Fortunately arenanet has email verification on for most people, which should keep your gw2 account safe, but if your gw2 account and your email account share the same password both can be compromised.

Ok guys i’m going to drop a not so secret here.

Email servers can send emails from any address they want without verification.

I can send you an email from my computer in my house to your email box that says its from noreply@arena.net

It isn’t even hard and can be done with a simple script. Or even manually, with a telnet connection.

Now a lot of email providers and ISP’s will attempt to verify it through all sorts of wizardry I wont get into here, and when it seems fishy to them they will put it in your junk folder or just might outright block it depending on the settings of the receiving mail server.

What can be useful to arenanet and your ISP provider is if you copy the header data of the email. This information contains the actual source of the email message, which is decidedly not arenanet.

Below is an example headerdata that proceeds an email message. I would recommend you not post it here unless you edit out your email address less hackers scanning the forums can use that to identify what email account belongs to your game account, but you can probably email arenanet support, and flag the message as spam without any real messages from arenanet getting blocked.

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No, it wouldn’t.

Match manipulation affects scores, this doesn’t.

This is equivalent to doing dodgeball in gw1 through the scrimmage system.

Snow White.9680:

Draygo.9473:

Implementing 3 would be a negative on the game. As it will be harder to contact people. For example if I want to catch a certain guild leader on another server when they are online its easier to add them to my friends list and pop them a pm when they get online. I’m not stalking them, just getting in contact. And as a guild leader myself and an officer in another guild I need to be contacted over all sorts of things, and for people to contact me its easier if they know I’m online or not before they try to send a message. All #3 does is impede these operations for no good reason, as your 4th suggestion would solve that problem.

They can always send you a mail.

Mail has a limit of 10 messages, and often when you are trying to do an invite transaction its easier if both parties are online.

If blocking someone stops the ‘stalker’ from seeing you online, your location, and the ability to send you a message it will solve all your problems without possibly getting something implemented that could impede my fair use of the friends list.

Because good servers will defend nearly as often as they attack. Otherwise they will lose significant PPT.

yes, but you should park them near the legendary defenders, then you don’t have to worry about it.

I strongly disagree with points 2 and 3

I strongly agree with points 1 and 4

point 4 makes point 3 quite irrelevant though. If you block someone and they cant see you online ever whats the point of implementing point 3?

Lastly account names are very important for reporting and game features. the game does everything by your account name so it should be perfectly ok for it to use that account name.

If someone is really harassing you, please report them.

Implementing 3 would be a negative on the game. As it will be harder to contact people. For example if I want to catch a certain guild leader on another server when they are online its easier to add them to my friends list and pop them a pm when they get online. I’m not stalking them, just getting in contact. And as a guild leader myself and an officer in another guild I need to be contacted over all sorts of things, and for people to contact me its easier if they know i’m online or not before they try to send a message. All #3 does is impede these operations for no good reason, as your 4th suggestion would solve that problem.

Why do people keep posting this like its a problem?

He cant kill any player in your spawn. Yet you can all kill him.

And it is entirely possible to get past the legendary defenders at the gates.

I would like the defense award to award credit for killing enemy siege, and downing enemy players only (give credit on down, instead of on kill).

I don’t want credit given for building siege, as that can be abused (build flame rams on the walls, drain the tower supply!)

Currently to get credit the best way is to pop 2 supply into a wall/door.

when in doubt, throw a grenade at it – usually fixes any croc hitbox issues.

5% is enough to take credit, I think the credit point is something like 2.5%. Or a single guardian staff hit.

The only time i’m having trouble getting credit in one hit is when i’m playing my upleveled characters that are not in max gear.

CorliCorso.6254:

Draygo.9473:

you can get multiple defense awards during an assault. Attackers only get one assault award.

What’s the reward for sitting on the tower for an hour to guard it?

Sit there for ages doing nothing, no reward. Let people know it’s about to be attacked, everyone turns up and you all defend it, you get exactly the same reward as everyone else who’s been zerging everywhere for the past hour.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Would you like bots to sit in your towers not tell your team anything to collect such a reward?

You need to suggest an actual workable solution that isn’t going to give you a huge kitten queue so you can play with the remaining x human players there.

The reward for scouting in a tower is usually the ability to man a well placed arrow cart and tag everything that is attacking, when your zerg rolls over their zerg usually you get large amounts of phat lewt (that is mostly greens/blues/boh).

I usually prefer not scouting from directly within towers but escorting yaks that fall under attack commonly. large zerg rolls in, let server know, and retreat to the tower.

Uh if they take any sort of damage then close client they die instantly and give the attacker full credit.

I’m not sure what your asking here. They just saved you the trouble of killing the other 95% of their health.

Coroner.3168:

I am extremely mad right now. I have opened 75+ chests so far and have gotten but a single drop, NOT ONE! Now, this is a game of chance and I’m just unlucky, no problem there. My skin wil eventually come. Now the problem is my younger brother: he has done the same amount of chests and has gotten, … wait for it … 8 SKINS! Even twice two chests on a single character, an Asura (coincidence?). The current TP price for these skins is ~60 gold and the will only skyrocket in a couple of months. While I feel I am just wasting my time running all my characters each day ;_;

You realize you can just buy the skin you want. (with bauble bubbles)

If you are in this for profit instead of fun you are going to be disappointed.

Old school games don’t let you skip.

Farming zone 2 is more efficient, and that doesn’t have a cutscene.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/March-Issues-with-character-art-weapons-or-armor

Also there is no merc camp defense event, so that lines a bit misleading.

you can get multiple defense awards during an assault. Attackers only get one assault award.

If a player dropped it, it is a rare.

The 5 supply gain from the dolyak is considered a rare item, which is why dolyaks drop chests with ‘nothing’ in them. If you disable autoloot you can see the supply item before accepting it.

you cant, I was speaking in general.

kiba.2768:

Talindra.4958:

can do platform jump no problem but when come to motion + jump, there seems to be second or split second of lag .. can this be part of the issue making jumping more difficult here? :P i really want to get this done >.<

moving/running jumps do not increase your distance traveled. you only move as far as you hold the wasd keys while in the air

Dodge jumping does increase distance traveled while in the air.

It is accomplished by nearly hitting jump and dodge at the same time, where you are hitting jump a microsecond before dodge. It is notable on any ‘red’ jumps where normally you would have to jump perfectly to make it but dodge jumping makes it with ease (for example the 3 ‘suicide’ baubles in world 1 zone 1)

As to why: Your character moves faster while dodging, because your character is gaining a burst of speed it translates to a longer jump.

@Josh
I find a lot of video game motion sickness can be cured by putting a crosshair or dot in the center of the screen. For those with this problem try putting a dot in the middle of your screen. (slightly sticky piece of paper like a corner of a post-it note).

That’s not possible as keeping the old version running longer eats up system resources.

Theres a reason why instances have longer resets than the open world.

Definite times arnt possible because the devs don’t know exactly when the build will be ready for deployment or how long it will take to deploy (including uploading to the CDN’s). Anets tech is pretty fancy as it lets us play during patch deployment on the older version.

Skill lag isn’t caused by the performance of your computer, its the server maxing on CPU.

And WvW is far from unplayable.

Jski.6180:

Draygo.9473:

Jski.6180:

Draygo.9473:

25 instastacks of confusion makes it real hard for groups of 5 to complete it.

Bleh

LoL you do not want to attk him when he has his shield up if your just zerging like fighting your going to do and you do not want to attk in to mobs when they have some type of shield up.

http://dulfy.net/2013/02/27/gw2-guild-bounty-guide/
This will help out a great deal if you want to do these events as effectively as you can.

Yes because dulfy has some tips on how to deal with tarban with < 5 people.

Nope.

I am fully aware of dulfy and other resources in how to deal with it. I havent found an effective way to fight tarban as a small group yet. Partially it has to do with how confusion works, if you trait anything that procs an effect on dodge roll it will trigger that 25 stacks of confusion and down you. Same thing with any other trait proc, confusion triggers and you go down, you cant res when you have 25 stacks of confusion on you either because you go down, and you cant purge it, or you go down. Effectively you need to wait it out which is causing us to not do enough dps in the time limit.

If they scale the amount of confusion stacks he throws out it would be doable for smaller parties to take that fight, for example 10 stacks with 5 people 25 if you attack him with 10.

The trick with him is to watch your attks its becomes a big game of red light green light. Every one should run some condition removal (this is true for all points of the game).

Which is true, but at times you cant utilize that condition removal at all.

My main problem with the fight is the red-light green-light game were playing with him stretchs the fight out and often we just cant get enough damage on him to kill him in the time allowed. When you do him with a larger group the confusion goes on less people so you have more overall dps.

Play the game, dont just run from heart to heart but complete everything inbetween feel free to explore if you see something interesting.

If you like caster types try an elementalist. Other casters are necromancers and mesmers. Mesmers are tricky, elementalists are more straightforward.