Guild Wars 2

Well, the monthly includes five dailies, so they have dragged the mystery out a few days.

I have always had problems targeting foes with the mouse. This has many causes, but lately I may have found the real or root cause. Sometimes I completely lose the ability to click any character, npc or human. The only fix is to restart.

I played GW1 almost exclusively with the mouse because I did not have much if any practice or experience with AWSD. I also generally feel like I am wearing mittens while playing, so I still use the mouse a lot, and only use my left hand for skills 1-5 and sometimes F1-F4.

I often ‘drive’ with both the mouse and the keys using a strange blend of both. If I want to look around while just running, left hand pressed W while right hand pans.
In battle however, my left fingers are using the skills and maybe dodging side to side while the back mouse button lets me walk or dodge back, and the cursor is used to click skills 6-10.

I often lose target during battle, especially if I am targeting AoE skills. Lately I discovered I could double tap those skills and that would cast at cursor location. (I don’t want fast cast as sometimes I need to carefully target the crosshairs.
My forward mouse button is set to select nearest target, and I find myself using that a ton to be able to monitor my targets health/conditions. Unfortunately the nearest target algorithm often does NOT choose what I want. It seems to choose what I am looking at which may be 10 times farther away than the enemy just to my right, that I CAN see on screen. The results are almost always bad as I either agro another enemy or worse jump to it.

Sorry for the rambling, but is seems to me that targeting has some issues, some of which may be bugs. My friend works for NVidia and he swears that the graphic driver is in no way responsible for target selection.

I seem to see this problem in Lion’s Arch actually on HoD. Very often you have to wait in the overflow, and when you get in, it’s seems like a ghost town. Usually there is a stream of LFG or other chatter to indicate people are in there, but in the last few weeks it’s often totally deserted chat wise after a queue wait.

The monthly reward could be given in two days, so we shouldn’t have to wait that long. There already is an upgrade recipe (which is useless as cores are just as unattainable) so I doubt the binding agent will do that. Converting one lodestone to another seems a little odd, but it would balance the lodestone market somewhat.

I do find it odd, and annoying that the drop rates for Charged Lodestones was measured at .075% for a 6000+ Orrian Jewelry box test compared with .15% for all the others. The most needed lodestone was deliberately made the hardest to acquire, also randomly.

If they made a group event with a chest at the end that dropped charged lodestones, that would be great because we could at least be certain of progress with effort put in.

Where is this 100% chance? There is NO statement that lodestones are created, only involved. The Orrian Jewelry Box has a CHANCE of dropping lodestones which should lower the prices slightly.

I also lost out on my first daily Laurel because of this. My friend and I where doing combos right down to the last second, with more than half of them not giving us credit. I was at 90% and cussed for quite some time as we had clearly met the requirements well before the timer ran out.

Thanks for fixing this, that was REALLY annoying since I mainly play Ranger and Necro.

What are “Unidentifiable Objects”? Is this just vendor trash? What are they worth?

Not seeing much justice at this point. A minor panic sale and ZERO information on what the binding stones actually do.

There really should be some kind of spawn blocking if a player is in the immediate area, especially if that player has already killed the spawn.

Also tired of waiting. I am running out of things to do where I can make progress. I tried farming sparks, and after over two hours of it I have only one lodestone. I did get decent drops otherwise, but generic gold farming is no fun either.

My server seems to be emptying out. This weekend LA was a ghost town both nights. No way to get a dungeon group together.

Walked right up and did this fine on HoD yesterday. Didn’t even have to wait for the event, as it did not seem to be running.

On my server, HoD, we always have to wait in overflow to get to LA, but the last few days, almost no one is there when we get in. Gone are dungeon lfg’s and all other chatter. It’s a ghost town, but it really feels like some kind of bug because we shouldn’t have to queue if no one is there.

Is the server empty or is the pop limit reduced in LA for HoD???

The complexity would be fine if they gave us a storage mechanism to handle the item bloat. Having at least one of everything on hand to properly use discovery is just not possible with space requirements. I ended up ‘cheating’ and looking up recipes because I never had that one last ingredient, usually intermediate, on hand.

Also, it would be easier to craft if you could right click on a missing ingredient you have already crafted and bring up that recipe because the recipe list is also ridiculously long.

Well actually in this case I want to craft a nice longbow in the Mystic Forge. So either I can spend 1-2 hours per lodestone (assuming that it’s open for farming). or farm for 4g and buy one (not sure how long that would take as I have not really tried to do that, or wait around for CoE to open up and get in a group for a run or three hoping to get one. The net is hundreds of hours of some kind of grind, for just one part of this non-legendary longbow.

All I am looking for is official confirmation that grind is what is intended OR a remedy is coming at some point.

For now I am doing something else. What makes the game fun, and worth playing, is making progress with whatever it is your doing. Fairly shortly I will have a forth character leveled up with full exotic (basic) sets of armor/jewelry/weapons, and all of the crafting professions at 400.

That will leave me with getting all the dungeons complete, and working on some nice exotic or legendary weapons. Since they STILL have not provided a LFG system my interest in the game may fade quickly. Standing around saying lfg is not progress. GW2LFG.com is NOT a solution. Killing sparks all day (or rather waiting around for a group so that I can then kill sparks all day), pointlessly I might add, is NOT fun.

I am only a casual player, meaning a few hours a day. I can’t imagine what the hard core gamers are doing since they probably hit this state months ago. Collecting 400 gold is probably not a big deal for them, but I have never had more than a few gold on any one character. Something needs to change or I would think player populations are going to evaporate if they have not already.

All we are asking for is some kind of statement saying either “To bad, sucks to be you, but grind away as we are OK with ridiculous charged lodestone prices.” or “We are aware of the issue AND we are working on making it better somehow.”

The said they where addressing the Legendary issue somehow, but I took it at the time to be the precursor issue, NOT specifically charged lodestones.

Many exotics rely on charged lodestones and they have said nothing about making them any easier. The question is, why is any recipe requiring 100 lodestones NOT a legendary (granting slightly better stats)?

Whats makes a Legendary legendary? RNG shouldn’t be the factor as the precursors make them. That leaves grind? How much grind is ‘reasonable’?

All we are asking for is some kind of statement saying either “To bad, sucks to be you, but grind away as we are OK with ridiculous charged lodestone prices.” or “We are aware of the issue AND we are working on making it better somehow.”

The said they where addressing the Legendary issue somehow, but I took it at the time to be the precursor issue, NOT specifically charged lodestones.

Many exotics rely on charged lodestones and they have said nothing about making them any easier. The question is, why is any recipe requiring 100 lodestones NOT a legendary (granting slightly better stats)?

Whats makes a Legendary legendary? RNG shouldn’t be the factor as the precursors make them. That leaves grind? How much grind is ‘reasonable’?

Maybe four buttons is to much to ask but how about two buttons, My Sales and My Purchases which would show active by default and history as an option (with a button, NOT a pull-down).

Fairly often my sound card goes into a nuclear claxon mode when I am in a group of players over 20 or so. I have and Audigy Soundblaster I think. Anyone else getting this? Only a game restart fixes this.

There is an audio bug where sometimes pet sounds are ridiculously louder than normal. Usually just swapping pets fixes it.

Dungeon Master requires story mode? Seemed like it only required all paths.

It seems like story mode is longer and gives pathetic rewards. The titles only count completing the many paths of a dungeon right? Story mode is much harder to get a group.

For a dungeon behind an event, is there any reason to do story mode or should I just jump in and explore mode group?

Loot bags are a great source of fine materials. If you are going to farm for them, focus on human like enemies, and even better mobs of them during events. The cash rewards from the events can also be used to buy items you didn’t get dropped. Always salvage low value armor, and sell high value. Also look to just buy the insignias to use in the discovery pane as they should be cheaper than the ingredients.

I have done AC a number of times to earn a nice greatsword, but I was unaware of CoE dropping charged lodestones. Doesn’t it also require an event to be completed before it’s available? It took me forever to finish my personal story (the first time) because of the Arah event requirement. I will have to check out how often my server has groups doing CoE.

ArenaNet says that bots are nearly dead, so why do we need diminishing returns? Why should paying customers be denied rewards for any farming they decide to do? The have stated many times they don’t want to force us to farm, but all the nice looking stuff requires exactly that, and not just a little bit, a RIDICULOUS amount.

Why are sparks ONLY available after an event, which by the way is impossible for even two people to do? It seems to me this ONE crafting material is severely unbalanced and ArenaNet is completely ignoring that fact. Since they nerfed so many things in Orr it’s usually fairly empty because everyone is in fractals, the only thing they have not nerfed.

Are they nerfing to BALANCE the economy? It seems Charged Lodestones are unbalanced so how about addressing that???

Almost 4 gold a piece seems to indicate a severe shortage of a material needed in so many recipes including exotics which are NOT legendary and should NOT require months if not years worth of farming.

This game is NOT supposed to be about grind, but grinding out 400 gold seems to be the only way to get 100 charged lodestones, as sparks are rarely available for FARMING on my server (or anyone else’s apparently) and even if they are, killing them for about an hour yielded ZERO!

RAGE! I have wasted hours and hours trying to do this, and I am right on the cusp. It’s the most beautiful feature for Wintersday, and yet it causes the most frustration NOT fun. Having to stand there waiting for and watching a continuous stream of people who just show up and blow right through really raises the steam levels.

Those who are good have almost no wait time while those who suck get their noses rubbed in it over and over again. Even without a timer it wouldn’t be trivial to get through it. The timer just forces you to have to jump with a crowd which really blows also. Why not just TIME it and give rewards based on that? People could compete for bragging rights, emotes, whatever, but why cant the slower people be allowed to get to the end and enjoy the pretty views along the way???

Who was the test group for this? I have no problem with crazy hard content for the skilled out there who want a test to measure themselves against, but putting up a retaining wall that says YOU SUCK is really a negative for the game. Come on Anet, stop doing this to us.

I like playing the Scout, and I always pick it before jumping off the starting tower. Even after the 2 or three resets where you get rezoned, then restarted. I even hit the cloak skill one time and jumped over the edge, only to find I was the stupid Guardian again before I hit the ground. I then have to go and try and get myself killed so I can switch back to Scout. I do enjoy steam rolling people, but otherwise the slowness of the guardian is maddening when trying to get a present or stop the present carrier.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Correction, I got a Corrupted Lodestone and a Silver Doubloon.

I have no idea exactly how, but somehow after a Tixx run yesterday I had both a charged lodestone AND a silver doubloon in my inventory, and I can only guess that something I salvaged or one of the presents dropped it. I promptly sold both fearing their value would drop, but I have not seen a repeat of the behavior. Anyone else have this happen?

This puzzle is a lot easier than the clock tower, but what I don’t understand is why there needs to be a timer. This is supposed to be a FUN event you can enjoy for a few weeks of winter right? If the timer is there to make it a ‘challenge’, why does there only have to be only ONE level? Why can’t the timer or difficulty scale so some of us more challenged individuals can actually complete the thing, at least on a lower level.

Let there be jumping puzzle ranks that the talented people can achieve without excluding us clowns. I spent close to three hours last night and never made the peppermints. If the timer was maybe 5 seconds slower, I probably could have completed it, but instead I just feel I wasted my time. Jumping puzzles are fun, timers are NOT.

WHY WHY WHY must we wait for people who know how to do it? We have to race the clock which is bad enough, then when we fail WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. That’s the worst part. If I could keep practicing I wouldn’t mind keeping at it, but instead I get to wait and steam rather than put it behind me cause I am jumping.

How about this, if you already have the title, your in a different group. Or make it like fractals where you level up and the timer speeds up for higher prizes.

Collecting the data cores wasn’t the problem, I had like 70 by the time I was done. The problem was keeping the NPC’s alive with the crazy multiple re-spawns.

My necro was working her way through Cursed Shore last night and saw that Arah was open and a group was forming to do story mode. She wasn’t ready for it, but my Ranger was, so I ran her back to Gavbeorn’s Landing to switch characters in what I thought was a reasonably safe spot.

When I logged in tonight as my necro I was immediately under attack and half dead. My attempt at a heal was interupted, and I was dead moments later. There are THIRTY plus Risen loitering around me. WTF? How is this fun?

There is an event to escort some engineers into the lab, they where all dead outside when I came by so I rezzed them and the pain began. DON’T ATTEMPT ALONE. I would suggest a minimum of three people.

Umm, story mode for Arah and final personal story step ARE the same thing. My friend and I where both stuck at the last step of our personal story, and last night we finally managed to get into a Arah story mode dungeon group, which KILLS Zhaitan (or knocks him into the water anyway), AND triggers the celebration personal story step.

That part bugged for my friend when we did it together. He didn’t get his reward until after he left the celebration instance.

I think I did that with my first character through the area. Didn’t realize at the time how much pain I had avoided. To many of the events in this area require more than one or two people, AND block your progress. I don’t mind a lot of enemies to fight through, but the re-spawn rate is always ridiculous. They appear not to think this needs fixed.

6 pieces if ruined armor later, and my friend is losing armor as well. This event is total crap. All for a freakin waypoint? How many people are you supposed to need for this??? This is not a dungeon. Yet another ridiculous event in Orr.

I play 20-30 hours a week (I think that’s the high end of casual) and I am always broke. I do all of the above, and every copper I get is going into exotic gear for my characters. My primary has all exotic armor/jewelry and two weapons. My secondary only has 4 pieces of exotic armor and the pace has slowed greatly on that one. I don’t mind a little work, but if the latest trend continues it will get to grindy for me. The dungeons are fun and a nice change from killing Risen, but standing around LFG is time I am not making any money. Most nights I just can’t sign up for a dungeon because of the LFG time plus unknown dungeon time.

Grinding for a few hours and NOT getting a rare is really depressing since Ecto’s cost so much now. Oh Joy, another porous bone!

This is not a new bug, it happened to my party a week or so ago.

I am essentially constantly broke in my GW2 account as I am trying to get my characters equipped with Exotic armor. Lately the prices for Ecto and T6 are climbing signifigantly DAILY. Each single item takes 5 ecto and 5 T6, plus raw materials which are not cheap. You pretty much HAVE to buy these things, because they just don’t drop without a TON of farming, which means you need to farm to earn gold to buy them. That means DAILY, the farming requirements are going UP.

I am just a casual player with a few hours a day to spend and I am wondering what ANet’s intent is on how much time I need to spend farming to equip all exotic?

It’s not to bad now, other than the extremely limited number of farming locations. Without an LFG feature, I can’t even farm while I am waiting to find a group. Frostgorge is the ONE reasonably diverse area, we NEED some more. Ore gets old SO quickly with almost nothing but Risen.

Is there some way to fix weapon preview to have your character take on an attack stance as daggers, pistols, horns always get mostly lost in a Ranger’s Coat or a casters dress. We really shouldn’t have to get naked to preview weapons.

I have opened a number of in game bug reports taking screenshots of where I was. It seems I have a knack for falling into these things as I developed a bad habit from GW 1 because you had to go around every area rubbing the paint of the borders to make sure you got every fraction of a percent of the map. Is there any way to lookup the status of bugs I have reported?

Every time I come through this area, this stupid event blocks my progress. No matter how many times you escort the weapon cart there, it’s impossible to get that gate down unless there is at least 5 or six players. What’s the point of having this blocked off all the time, force players to use the portals? You can’t kill the Risen Mouths as they don’t take damage, and the each burp out more Risen than one player can do anything more than keep up with, and there are TWO of them. The gate takes a bazillion damage, and there are no big guns around.

I am occasionally hearing a fizzly sound, which seems to go away when I use a different bow, is the graphic affect broken?

I am trying a Superior Sigil of Air for the first time and it doesn’t seem to be working at all. Is the affect even visible? It’s on my longbow.

I completely don’t understand why Anet is doing this. Asking people to spend real hard earned money on an item that MIGHT drop something you want? That’s madness. This is a game, not a casino.

I understand they want to have items that are rare and therefore seemingly more valuable to people as they think it’s important to have something that no on else has, but I think that’s total rubbish.

What makes this game fun to me is the bling. Questing for it, crafting it, farming for it, whatever (as long as it not’s a ridiculous amount of my time). Killing stuff gets old after a while, but finding and collecting new shineys is just fun. I don’t care what other people have. I only care about what my characters look like. It’s all personal taste. If they sold skins that I thought looked cool, I would buy them. What’s so hard about that? If they had a large enough selection, personal taste would prevent everyone having the same skins.

Sound goes to a tone then crash during the Zerg fests.
This is really lame. Lag, die, crash.

I need to retract my earlier statement, that was 3 level 80 RARE torches for 140. So the key math must be a lot different.