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Playing on OpenSuse 13.1

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GW2 is based on DirectX9, the Mac Beta Client uses Cider which is based on Cedega which in turn is based on Wine. Wine has a good DX9 compatibility already if you have a good OpenGL linux driver for your GPU.

It might work, albeit not 100% flawlessly, see also: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1126-Guild_Wars_2.html

add renting commander tag option

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There are much more effective ways that yield more than 20 silver in 3 hours btw, and no, it’s not called gem-to-gold and also not called flipping.

Safespots and Exploits

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Thank you.

Is there any chance of Spider Queen being reverted in this case? It had a poison attack it would cast at range, and people could melee to prevent it. This was changed so that the queen used it regardless of proximity which reduced the depth of the encounter.

No thank you. Keep it as it is now. Let those fools that still try to cornerstack waste another 10 minutes. I’d rather wait 5-10minutes more for a “no spider stacking” group^^

GEM wars

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does this game have anything free soon? it seem to slowly turning into typical Limited free to play game… and why use feature patch name for these updates when they actually are pay to gem updates even dye options have gem notice is that what we paying next?? i bet upcoming events are pay to play too i respect areanet all those years but recently i am very disappointed you,, if you so much need fees please start selling expansions like orginal game instead of turning main game slowly big gem store

At least you don’t pay USD15 a month, do you?

Commander's Compendium on trading post

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This is not a bug, because those compendiums were posted before they became account bound. They were left there in hopes of a sale because if they cancelled the post, they’d have to keep it because upon transition to the inventory, it becomes account bound.

Rezing through gate/watergate

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I think it’s time to fix the (water)gate scandal. The easiest fix would be a LoS checking whether that LoS would cross obstructing, non-walkable meshes.

Allow us to remove followers

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Block unwanted followers if you think they stalk you. (This will remove them from the follower list). Your online status is hidden to people you block as well.

10 mins commanding FR zerg and being reported

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I’ve attached an image that shows what a whisper from a GM looks like for further clarification.

Implement loadscreen subtitles and include this one as one of the random tips displayed during loadscreens.

Being punished for playing the game.

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Blix 2.0?
Anet, pls fix that.

Alliances & Alliance chat /as ?

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It was a suggestion and merely stating it’s something I’d be happy to see.

https://www.google.com/search?q=open+world+pvp+site%3Aforum-en.guildwars2.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=Palemoon:de&client=palemoon-a

it was discussed ad nauseam already.

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Alliances & Alliance chat /as ?

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So Yes please to both Guild Halls and Alliances. Please also include Enemy Guilds that we can fight in openworld…

Go play Eve Online if you want that. This is not something that should be in GW2 (Open PvP).

But I agree towards the implementation of alliances and alliance chat because there are guild so large they had to split in order to grow further.

I have not gotten my gems after purchase!

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You get the gems instantly. Check your inventory (lower left) or the BLTC window. There’s no mail involved.

Sometimes it takes a relog to refresh the count.

Ingame Survey

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The issue is that advertising a survey ingame can be seen as intrusive. People want to play, not want to answer questions.

Of course there could be methods to gamify a survey ingame, but unless it turns out to be profitable, i think it would be skipped by most.

Game Dev abusing power? Any way to report it?

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It says I put “The Devs name is Kitten y” but the Dev’s name was kitten y …Without the spaces inbetween the letters lol

You mean Der py? (without the space ofc)

Also, aren’t words that are banned in the forums banned as in-game name as well?

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kicked to another server after dc

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Because you tried to relog while your previous instance became full.

Gaming machine needs Tyrian input :)))

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http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

AMD FX-4350: 129.99 USD 1521 Single Threaded Points
Intel Core i3-4330: 129.99 USD 2036 Single Threaded Points

TL;DR: Stay away from AMD CPUs as long as games are still single-threaded (like GW2 and every other DX9 game still is)

Black line on my screen

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Try playing with just a single GPU. GW2 is not optimized for Multi-GPU solutions.

Very strange graphical bug with new gpu

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Turn your GPU in for RMA – It was delivered with defective shaders or memory. Include a printed version of the screenshots inside the turn-in.

Replacing mail

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Create a support ticket: http://en.support.guildwars2.com/

Elder Dragon Zhaitan - Story did not update

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Did you do any living story episode? Note that you can’t run a living story and personal story at the same time. You’ll need to disable your living story episode before running the personal story instance (in that case Arah Story).

Snaff's Gyre?

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Snaff’s Gyre was an MF item type which was phased out. You had the choice of alternative stats on it and you chose Berserker stat set.

Your alternative obtainable rings with Berserker statset are:
Ring of Red Death
Crystalline Band

Turning off mail verification

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You can use mobile authentication instead, but mail authentication is the bare minimum in protection anet will accept.

If you keep saving your network, the system will learn your ISP’s netrange and it should occur more rare.

Video recording

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1536 MB for 600 seconds = 2.56 MByte/s = 20 MBit/s avg bitrate.
This is normal for a 4k MP4, even a bit low already (moderate MP4 quality at 4K is reached with 30Mbit/s+ avg bitrate).

To keep quality while shrinking size you could render in 1080p (which would quarter the pixel count per frame) with 5 MBit/s (reduction factor 4 vs. 4K because resolution is quartered) As you said above, you want to upload it in 1080p on Youtube anyway.

1080p@5 Mbit/s would yield a size of 375 MB for 10 Minutes (at the same compression parameters you used for 4K). Youtube seems to downsample the 4K content anyway for the 1080p mode, so you can save bandwidth by doing that locally already.

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Proposal: Anti-Stacking Debuf

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And concerning tag griefing: 2-4 commander per map would finally start to make sense, and yes I am convinced that WvW would be better if that happens. More strategic choices and bettwe fights.

This will lead to the same dillemmas we currently have on Tequatl with eastern and western defense spawning champions if too many people are at those.

Punishing for cooperation is not the right way.

Cannot reach loginserver

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1. Navigate to your Guild Wars 2 installation folder.

2. Right-click on “GW2.exe” and select “Create Shortcut.”

3. Rename this shortcut to “Guild Wars 2 Port Test.”

4. Right-click on this shortcut and select “Properties.”

5. Edit the “Target” line to include /clientport 80 at the end.

Note: Please make sure /clientport 80 is outside of the quotes

Correctly Formatted Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe” /clientport 80
Incorrectly Formatted Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe /clientport 80”

6. Once completed, click “Ok” to save your changes.

If you get an error trying to save, your target line may not have the correct format. Please try step 5 again.

7. Double click “Guild Wars 2 Port Test” and try connecting again.

GW2 Tickets for Review (7 days & older)

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  1. 4 days since last reply i have waited and waited. I do not wish to get an automated reply thanks.

You need to post your ticket number because your account id cannot be related to your ticket(s).

Proposal: Anti-Stacking Debuf

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Hmm… tag griefing gets a new meaning that way.

'Selection circle' graphics glitch.

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Do you have similar distortions in other shader-heavy games (Alternative: Try Minecraft. It uses OpenGL 2.0 but uses shaders for textures in similar ways)? If yes, it might be your GPU slowly dying because the selection circle as well as the shadows are purely rendered by shaders.

Your GPU driver is a bit old but appropiate considering your GPU’s age. Updating it won’t have any effects because the support for the 7000 Series has been phased out.

What you can also try is disabling any overriding method for Anti-Aliasing and Mip-Mapping (Set these to application controlled). Set your Texture Quality in the nVidia control panel to “High Quality”. “High Performance” might boost your FPS but may lead to pixelation issues.

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'Selection circle' graphics glitch.

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a dxdiag.txt might shed more light on what might be the issue.

Need assistance.

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Intentionally failing an event for a better reward contradicts the mechanical intentions of dynamic events and is thus exploiting.

Green must be a Commander Tag color

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Red and Green cannot be discerned by some clearly and clean.

To prevent confusion by colorblind people, I do actually NOT recommend a green tag.
I also do not recommend the use of an orange tag because it cannot be discerned from the blue tag by some blue/orange colorblind people.

Actually, this might be why ArenaNet did not include a green color.

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Game starts; cant see game screen; hear sound

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You can try to force windowed mode using -windowed to see whether it is an issue with full screen.

The issue itself can have multiple origins, such as the GPU’s driver or an overlay (Steam Overlay, Overwolf of TS3, Raptr, Streaming capturers) interfering with the D3D HAL in a way GW2 cannot cope with.

Duel at PvE World

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15+ Charrs say it’s discussed too often already.

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Trading Post hasn't worked for over a week

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GW2 uses the Awesomnium Engine for in-game web browsing (The BLTC is a website actually). Are you sure you didn’t block awesomnium.exe in your firewall?
Also make sure that the Internet Explorer (which is used internally by Awesomnium) is in online mode.

Unable to authenticate ISP address

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Ask support to change your mail address and get a private one. You’re not supposed to use a mail address you can’t access 24/7. Thus using your work or university or school email address is deprecated.

Need for a Trial System

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  • If person referred is banned for gold spamming during trial, so is referee

No. Just. Don’t.
Collective punishment is not a good approach to deter this behavior as your friends or whosoever can try to get you banned out of spite. Instead, permanently remove the referral privileges.

Crashing due to a "Invalid Character Motion"?

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I had this issue twice in a short time-frame while logging elder wood logs on a female norn warrior. However, setting animation quality to low seemed to fix that issue for me.

stuck in fractal

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During boss fight 3 people had strange lags and disconnected at low hp, managed to finish boss in 2, when rest logged in final cinematicss didnt play and we got stuck.

This is the culprit. The 3 people relogging managed to crash the cinematic firing script by logging into the instance right at the moment the cinematic should fire, causing an undefined state and thus the script crash.

That sounds like a plausible explanation of how the bug got triggered, but … as players, we shouldn’t have to worry about when we try to recover after DCing.

Such a coincidence is extremely rare though because of the microscopic timeframe you have to “exploit” that. A precursor drop is more likely to happen than such a coincidence.

Losing Battery While Plugged In - Laptop

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This is perfectly normal for current laptop models, because manufacturers seem to save on PSU efficieny (or the power supply specification reaches the maximum deliverable). Because your laptop needs more power than it’s PSU (which is external) can deliver, it taps additional power from your battery. Most gaming laptops do this. You can see a similar behavior by playing a battery taxing game on your smartphone while it is charging.

You can throttle this behavior by the following methods:
1. Lower graphic details ingame
2. Throttle your CPU via BIOS overclocking tools by underclocking it.
3. Throttle your GPU using the GPU tweaking tools of your GPU manufacturer by lowering core and shader as well as memory clocks.

stuck in fractal

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During boss fight 3 people had strange lags and disconnected at low hp, managed to finish boss in 2, when rest logged in final cinematicss didnt play and we got stuck.

This is the culprit. The 3 people relogging managed to crash the cinematic firing script by logging into the instance right at the moment the cinematic should fire, causing an undefined state and thus the script crash.

issue with buying gems?

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If you bought GW2 recently, please wait a few days before trying again.

can't instal the game

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Are you trying to install GW2 on a non-NTFS or non-ExFAT formatted drive? If that is the case, then yes, it won’t work because the GW2.dat is far beyond the 4 GB file size limit of FAT32.

Will this laptop run GuildWars 2?

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Beyond minimum setting (and even that bad)? Nope.

Pig Iron Quarry... Broken?

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Have you done this JP with a different character? If yes, then this is probably the issue because achievements count account-wide.

2xPC and ADSL modem

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NOTE: Key broadcasting by any means is officially forbidden.

what is that?
I only use Logitech G 600, perhaps it is not prohibited?

Key broadcasting = Sending the keystroke to 2 or more PCs at the same time.

2xPC and ADSL modem

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1st: This is normal and natural, you’re behind a NAT.
2nd: Multiboxing and Multiaccounting is allowed in GW2 as long as you still play all accounts manually without any multi-action macros or bots.

NOTE: Key broadcasting by any means is officially forbidden.

Help With Mailing

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Hold Alt Key, drag the stack, then you’ll be asked to how much you want to split. (NOTE: Only works in your inventory)

Download with wireless

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Alternative: If you know a friend who also has GW2, have him copy over the GW2.dat

Need laptop for college / gw2

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also would like to be able to play gw2 at about high settings…

Forget it, for two reasons:

  • Those being able to do it easily cost 4-digits in euros.
  • It’s not advisable regarding the Shader work the GW2 graphics engine puts about – if the CPU can handle it in time (which the laptop versions certainly can not due to being throttled for thermal reasons) – on the GPU. Your laptop will fall apart due to heating issues.

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So many Tomes of Knowledge...

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This could be seen as a pay to win, buying $50 worth of Gems, trade for gold, getting a level 80 character, fully decked in gear.

Which will become more expensive the more players do Gems → Gold because the more gems are converted, the less gold they’ll yield.