Guild Wars 2

Grimwolf.7163:

I could swear I’ve recently read a developer post saying directly, in simple terms, that there would indeed be a large update November 1st.
It’s now 5:00pm EST though, with absolutely no word on an update. Anyone know what’s going on?
I had thought that they were at the very least ending the Halloween event today.

The event ends today, the update you are thinking about is i believe the 16th.

They should make pvp consumables like the blueprints go into the collectables tab with the crafting materials and minipets. Heck, they should also make the dungeon tokens also go in there. The spvp items should also be able to be put into the spvp bank, like the finish emote things and the tickets.

But more on topic, i agree that they should make most of these things account bound and some of them shouldn’t even be bound to begin with.

I am glad it isn’t like most other mmos where you have every skill on your bar at the same time. I just wish the skills were more like the first guild wars. I don’t mind how it is here though, once you get used to it, it isn’t that bad.

I added it as a non steam game the day the game launched and haven’t had any issue with the overlay or anything at all.

@Mungrul, i used to have that issue a while back but haven’t had it happen at all in the past few months.

One of the devs mentioned a big update this month, so a functional lfg tool may be part of it.

They should have it being rebuilt over the course of a week or so, so each day you go there another part of it would be rebuilt.

I had this happen a few times after entering the mad king dungeon but i always zoomed back in a bit, not a fan of it being zoomed out that far.

I only got greens in it, best i got was an ecto from a bag. But it seemed like every run i did at least 1 person got an exotic and/or one of the event skins. One of my runs i only got was 2 low level crafting mats, that was the last run i did because i didn’t want to waste another second in that dungeon after getting that kind of drop.

Amen.2630:

am i the only one, but my skill bar didnt change .. i had my normal skill attacs in the dungeon O.o

It randomly chooses someone in the group to do it, i did the dungeon a bunch of times and was only chosen 2 or 3 times.

Wolfin.2076:

All greens not even a rare from about 25 runs..

Same here, i gave up after about 20 runs of it. I also did family size and the champion skeleton in the lab a decent amount of times with no luck. But now that i think about it, i don’t really care anymore. The mad king heavy armor set looks horrid imo and i don’t use gs anymore, only really wanted the stuff to make some money so i could afford the mats to make myself some exotic armor.

On the bright side, now that the event is over soon, i can’t be tempted to blow all my money on candy corn to make tots for recipes and stuff. Just need to work on getting myself to not blow all my money on rares to hit up the forge anymore lol.

I think the event ends at around noon server time which is in about 4 hours.

The changing skill bar one was straight up dumb, by the time i found the right one it would change just as i went to click it. Not to mention the skill bar one was confusing because the tooltips showed up like the “1” attack skill where it shows more than 1 thing in the tooltip so its hard to see which one it actually is. When i did manage to click the right one it would, for some reason, play a different emote. All the skill bar one did was screw you over. This one would have been better if some of the emotes weren’t combined into a single button and used all slots rather than changing on the bar.

As for the emote one, it wasn’t too bad but i noticed something kind of fishy during it. Almost every time i seen people doing the correct emote even before the mad king told us which one to do. He would say “mad king says” and people would begin using the correct one. I did it a few times and didn’t see any pattern for it at all except when he says a little story then mad king says, but people were also doing this on the ones where he only says “mad king says” and nothing else. This one was pretty neat and gave some laughs when people used something when the mad king didn’t say mad king says and got layed out.

Korrigan.4837:

I just hope they will implement guesting ASAP so they can get rid of the free transfers completely. But it’s indeed a welcome improvement.

Once guesting is in place i think they should keep free transfers, 1 free transfer per month (or even every 2-3 months) and any more than that would cost gems.

Ran my lvl 35 friend through the mad king book things and his aggro range in the last 2 zones was insane, was a struggle keeping him alive. When we finished with the whole thing he was almost level 40, but then again we did some hearts on the way and did the meta event to take the camp back on the last part.

Noticed this with dyes as well, some of them look really nice in the editor but look drastically different ingame.

The people that are constantly complaining just suck at the puzzle, no ifs ands or buts. I went through on my full sized norn male which took a while but i finally got it, then went through on my smallest size asura and got it on the 3rd try, then went through on my smallest sized human female and got it on the second try, then i went through on my smallest sized sylvari female and for it on the 4th try and managed to get it 2 more times back to back after that so 3 total back to back wins on a tiny female sylvari. While on my sylvari there was an asura there doing back to back wins with me as well, i believe he got 3 back to back before the server kicked us for the patch yesterday.

Trick is to not even focus on your character, look at your screen and focus on the center, and line that center with each jump and you will have no problems. Also helps to not have the camera angle directly behind you, angle the camera down a bit and zoom out all the way. If you are still stuck, then watch a youtube video of someone doing it so you know the path then after practice it literally becomes a cake walk.

They are not speed hacking or using some sort of mod or anything. They are merely exploiting a bug and since anet didn’t fix it with the last patch, i think it is safe to say they don’t care about people using banners or the air trait to do this. Whenever some moron uses the banner on everyone half the group falls the instant the buff falls because of the sudden speed change, the speed boost does little to help you but more to hurt you especially if that speed boost is only temporary.

@account

What i said has nothing to do with the fact they are foreign, it has to do with the fact that i am sick of them constantly thinking they are better than everyone else and should get the event earlier than everyone else because the time it happens inconveniences them.

And the game was made by Areananet, yes their parent company is ncsoft which is a korean company, but the developers and people in charge of the game are located in the US, not asia, not europe. Every single game company out there does event based off of their own time zone, i have never seen a game company redo limited time stuff multiple times just to convenience everyone.

@taynavaro (gah when are they going to fix this not being able to quote crap) The 4th part is available yet.

For rumble talk to the guy hiding next to the pile of wood on the side of the lions arch bank with a crossed flag icon over his head.

Sernius Alathar.6538:

Boo-hoo, at least your not in an Oceanic/Asia area, we are already screwed for the events, gogo 4-5am for the Halloween once off event. At least in Guild Wars 1 they were competent enough to cater to people from around the world instead of stroking the ego’s of their ‘specific’ audience.

Yes because not being at some random event the second it starts that probably won’t even be that great anyway is wayyyy more important than the fact that people may lose their homes to what they say may be the biggest hurricane to hit the east cost in recorded history. You may need to be on at some odd time to enjoy the event, but you are still able to attend. the people that will be affected by this hurricane may be forced to sit out with no choice.

But you people who live in asia europe or wherever are starting to piss me and i am sure countless others off, if you don’t like the way they time their events then quit and go play some asian mmo with events timed more to your liking. Everyone gets access to the event at the EXACT same point in time. Just because you are inconvenienced by the time of the events doesn’t make you special enough to get another event just for you. They are not going to give it to you early, not only because of spoiling and making others wait, but because it could possibly break their entire server system and cut you guys off from the rest of the world so you can’t play with people from other countries at all and are forced to play with people from your own country/region.

Redfox.7890:

Getting into the spirit with my mixed set of Halloween costumes.

That just looks wrong lol.

Heres one i took with the mad king suit on using the fear skill with the candy corn pet out and the ghost minipet.

Xodus.7802:

same here, I’ve not looted the chest in over 24 hours and i still cant open it:(

The reset time is in about 4 minutes. Well should be anyway. So you should be able to loot it again then.

Did the thing 3 times since the patch, my main (warrior) got a crappy lvl 70ish green and one of the crafting mats, one of my alts (elementalist) for a black lion chest and one of the crafting mats, my other alt (ranger) got a small moldy bag and one of the crafting mat.

Before the patch i did it twice on my warrior, i got 3 mid level 70 greens and some crafting mate, second time i got a level 78 exotic amulet (barely an upgrade over my level 80 green i had) and 2 mid 70 greens and some crafting mats.

I am fine that they nerfed it, just not a fan of how they nerfed it. What they should have done was make the champs spawn once every 1 or 2 hours and let you loot the chest every time as well as lower the chance of exotics a bit or even made it not drop any exotics at all except the chance at the event stuff only or some crafting materials (decently sized stack). I couldn’t care less about getting full top end exotics, all i wanted was the mad king outfit, now that is impossible for me.

But honestly, the vast majority of the big champion events in this game are just flat out not worth doing more than the first time just so you can say you did it (wouldn’t completely be the case if they were more than simple tank and spanks). Most of them don’t drop chests at all and the ones that do have iffy drop rates for stuff remotely worth using.

Just did the family size chest on 2 of my alts and on one of them i got a black lion chest from the chest and my other alt i got a small moldy bag. I am fine with them nerfing it a bit, but giving me crap like that on a 24 hour event chest is total bullkitten.

The chain events that open the mad king doors count for it as wall as the events in the mad kings lab. If you really wanted to you could get the achieve by only doing 1 particular event over and over 10 times. The ones that spawn from the doors when going “trick or treating” in the main game don’t count towards the achievement, only the ones from the doors in the lab and the meta events.

What they should have done is instead of nerfing the chest so it is unlootable after the first time would be to just put set times on the champs instead of how fast you do the other events.

I found out about this too late , i did it twice before the nerf, first time i got 3 greens and second i got a lvl 78 exotic amulet and 2 greens. After the nerf i did it twice and first time i got no gear at all and 4 of those skulls and second time i couldn’t even loot the chest.

They over nerfed this big time.

Not to mention the champ skeleton event which the chest never spawned at all before the nerf when i did it and after the nerf it did spawn but i couldn’t loot it.

Ya, the entire time i was trying to do the puzzle i was getting flammed and put down nonstop by other people because i was using my norn. A few even threatened to report me for griefing because i knew it messed them up but used that character anyway.

But seriously, i have seen several asura and smaller characters complete the puzzle while i and another norn and a charr were in the game no problem. Even had a human manage to beat it the same time i did even with both of us right on top of each other the whole run. Not to mention the fact that even us norn and charr have issues seeing ourselves in the big pile of other players.

It may be difficult but focus on your character and try to block everyone else out and you will do fine. To make it easier to see yourself, try putting lots of bright dye colors on your gear to make you stand out more.

Capn Evan.4586:

Pandemoniac.4739:

Just out of curiosity, how do you play a game if someone managed to get the name you wanted before you did? Do you just give up? What happens when ANet releases the reserved names and someone else snags it before you do?

They…can’t? They’re…reserved?

“What happens when ANet releases the reserved names and someone else snags it before you do? "

But really, just pick a new name. Why so many people refuse to play the game at all because they don’t have that one name, is beyond me. Just pick a new name and continue on, if you refuse to then don’t come around here complaining. I mean seriously, i didn’t get the name i wanted (and i am the worst when it comes to thinking of new names, my imagination is nonexistant) but i still managed to think some out for my characters. (one of which i am shocked i came up with because it is so fiendishly clever lol)

But seriously, just pick a new name and play.

Did it on my norn after the latest update fine, you just can’t get caught anywhere or it is pretty much an instant fail.

Someone was using one when i did it but he stopped after i asked him to.

As for too many people, i am a norn and i too have issues when charr or other norn are there, i can only imagine the pain people who play as asura go through. They should make it so there is only 5 people per thing. The hardest part is the beginning because of all the people, but once you get ahead or everyone else falls, it becomes pretty easy.

And the queue timer should not come up at all in it. My first time getting to the end and the thing popped up for me just as the clock face blew open nearly making me miss it.

Norn Warrior no speed boost.

It was tough for a while but once you get the hang of it, it gets pretty easy and pretty fun.

1. Love this feature, hate having to constantly rejoin the party like some other games.
2. Love this feature when a friend messages me right as i go to switch characters so i don’t miss anything he says to me.
3. Almost everything is shared between characters and i actually like it that way.
4. You don’t need to mail stuff between your character, just put it in your bank and take it out on your other guy.
5. Accounts are made for 1 person only and as far as i know sharing the account with someone else is against the rules.
6. While i do wish we had another slot or 2 for free, 5 is often more than alot of people would actually use.

@coglin

This has been an issue since day 1 and only happens when meleeing. It is not just him.

But anyway, i think they have started fixing some of them. Like weapon racks aren’t giving me as much trouble as they used to now. But that is about it, everything else is still messed up.

My only complaint with them is that almost all of them are crammed into tight spaces making the hardest part about them fighting with the camera so you can see. The best example for this is the one in la in the north west part of the map that starts in the well. (forget the name of it) That one is a nightmare, especially with a norn.

The ones in bigger areas and not so cramped are pretty fun.

Ratatosk.4265:

I agree, at one point I was trying to jump into the pot but people kept fighting around me that I would lag so much that I wouldn’t know where I was jumping to. I was about to start breaking things.

Same here, made that pot jumping puzzle way harder than it actually was. Not to mention those food fight tables that when used throw you into costume battle so you can get hit by people and no way to leave it.

Imo, costume battle here is absolute trash, it was way better in gw1.

Redamz.5038:

Nope, did it the first day of the month.

I applaud your reading skills.

They seriously need to get this fixed. Every single time i want to quote someone the button isn’t there and doesn’t show up no matter how many times i refresh or do anything. But of course it shows up here, where i don’t want to quote anyone.

If the people in charge of the forums can’t get basic functions to work reliably they should get rid of their current forum system and use one of the other premade ones out there.

Same problem with chrome.

They are not dead, they just don’t have countless spam posts like most forums because this forum (at least as far as i know) requires you to own the game to make an account for it.

mulch.2586:

The game plays a LOT better if you turn off map chat anyway.

Lol tell me about it, i split various chat channels into special tabs with one just for npcs which i pretty much stick to completely unless i am in a group in which case i use the tab i made for just party chat. Map chat is pretty much nothing but kitten so i mostly avoid it and only open it every now and then to see if any big events are going on.

They should change how waypoints get contested. For example, make events where a group of enemies could move in on a waypoint and build a quick mini base at it that players need to either stop them from setting it up or take it out if it is up to get access to the waypoint. An example of the mini bases in the orr zones would be them making those claw wall things surrounding the waypoint with trebuchets inside to attack players attempting to retake it and have enemies that spawn outside it to defend the wall. This would add more events for people to do and would stop waypoints from being contested, often for no apparent reason.

This is one of the main reasons the instance list thing in gw1 was so nice. It was dead simple to get groups of people together in the same area with almost no effort. You just tell everyone which instance to meet up in and everyone joins it.

GW2 really needs that instance list feature for overflow servers.

Please add a thread title character limit. I am sick of seeing thread with half the title missing and the op says something like “what the title says”. So please, add a hard character limit to the title so people don’t make them longer than they can be.

I don’t mind accidently hitting deer and whatnot with aoes so much. But what i seriously can’t stand is when i use a skill that jumps between a very limited number of mobs and it almost always jumps to a critter walking by instead of the half dozen red named mobs i am already fighting.

They can leave aoes hitting critters as you can avoid hitting them most of the time with better placement, i just want them to change the skills that jump randomly between enemies to not jump to yellow named mobs. This is the pretty much the main reason i stopped playing my engineer after the first few levels since his auto attack is a jump skill so i was constantly pulling yellow named mobs.

It would be cool if they made a new npc (with a ui similar to the recipe discovery or forge) that combines 2 1h weapons into a set that takes 1 inventory slot so you can easily equip and unequip sets and give it the ability to use the same weapon in multiple sets. They could even add these to a new tab in the inventory or to the character panel.

If you want to upgrade one of the weapons in the set with a new one you would go to the new npc again and swap it and it will change it to the new weapon for all the sets that had the weapon you replaced in it. The npc could also have a remove weapon from sets option to completely remove a weapon from all sets so you can sell it.

They could make a new gemstore item for this so you start off with the ability to make 1 or 2 sets and pay 100 gems for each extra weapon set. Adding and swapping weapons in sets would cost gold depending on weapon level and/or quality. Removing weapons from a set would be free. Weapon sets would be hidden so they can’t be vendored or used at the forge until you remove the weapons from the set.

CC Charles.3675:

Hey,

Thanks for the information, I will forward this to the appropriate team.

Thank you for your help

Should also tell the appropriate team to also tell you the name of the thread that was moved. Currently the “moved topic” messages are completely useless and are nothing more than spam.

At least they aren’t like some companies who use twitter and only twitter to relay news. But i use the wiki for gw2 news and whatnot.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page

The best and easiest fix for this is to make zones determine price rather than your level. At level 80 in high level zones it is super easy to make up the amount it costs to use waypoints because you get more money from things and still make more money than you use per waypoint. But in the lower level zones as a level 80, you almost always lose money when using waypoints because the junk loot price doesn’t scale with level so you need to get way more of it to make up the cost of using the waypoint.