Guild Wars 2

I really hope that Anet does not do a beta invite system this way again.

Here’s my reason: The level of frustration that you get farming for hours to try and get the drop and not getting it is much worse than the annoyance of rng if the invites were taken from the mailing list. Especially when there’s reports of people getting it within 5 min of entering silverwastes, getting multiple portals, or even getting it after 15 hours of farming. I’d much rather know that rng just wasn’t in my favor from a pool of possible invitees rather than having to spend hours and hours trying for it and then having rng still not be in my favor.

Did stress test, no chest.

I believe a dev said back when they implemented the new TP that the app that’s used to generate the TP results cannot see the information about our accounts so it cannot currently filter that way.

That said, I really wish it would work. I’m missing various items from each weapon set and it would be very time consuming to try and figure out what exactly I’m missing and buy them so I’ve never bothered.

So I spawned in skyhammer and fell through the map and ended up in the water under the wurms below. I couldn’t get them to attack me or get out of the map so it would teleport me back to spawn or anything so my team ended up loosing because of it. How do you get back up if you find yourself down there?

I can’t give much feedback on the revenant as it’s hard to jump into a new class and figure it out in a rather short time, looking forward to seeing the other weapons… Was hoping to find out what its underwater weapon is so I can decide whether to make the trident legendary now. :P

The wyvern fight worked well once folks started noticing that when the bar went blue that was the time to try and chain him down. he’s kinda like the roadrunner in drytop was my impression once I figured it out. a hint might be helpful for the new defiance bar to let people know that when it goes blue its time to use their CC abilities.

I’m a little on the fence about the wyvern fight not having the usual ‘tells’ about where attacks are going to land. This is an issue with the mordrem teragriffs and the rocks that popup from the ground in the last LS episode boss fight as well. I’ve gotten so used to looking for it to determine if I’m going to get hit that not having it on random things now causes me to get hit more often than I think I should.

The most confusing part to me was the mastery UI. It is not clear to me how you actually progress in it. I went straight to the glider line and tried to put my two points in and picked up a third, and it told me that I needed a total of three points to get to the next tier but I had that. I understand there’s supposed to be a XP requirement as well, but it was not clear if I was progressing along that. I think I was because I had it selected. I then tried to put a point into the mushroom track as it appeared that would unlock the bouncing mushrooms but that did not unlock anything. Maybe something that resembles the pvp reward track ui more might be a little more clear with a continuously visible xp bar and the ability to spend points when it hits the next tic rather than having them compress to the left as they are selected? Alternatively with a pvplike ui, you have the progress the xp first than that unlocks the ability to spend the mastery point to actually get the skill? I’m not sure what would work best.

Oh that explains it…. I moved that all the way to the right thinking it gave the the largest setting there, instead it gives the fewest ticks. moving it back to the left gives me more ticks.

Thanks!

I may be wrong on this, but wasn’t the camera supposed to have something like 42 clicks for the zoom levels to get the exact level you wanted? I am only getting 7 still.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the camera changes, but my preferred zoom level seems to be right between click 2 and click 3 zooming out from FPV.

Think it may only be sylvari males. My female sylvari doesn’t have her weapons move at all when toggling the outfit on and off. Checked with greatsword, sword, both bows, and a warhorn.

Nope, never bought anything that I know of.

Is there anything that consumes laurels other than spending them at a vendor? Last time I checked my laurels I had mid 40’s but when I checked this evening I’m down to 30 but I swear I do not recall ever spending them on anything since I made my last check. I’ve checked my account security and there’s no logins from anywhere other than my pc, and I don’t share my pc with anyone, so I’m rather puzzled if my memory is failing me or if they have just vanished…

So I did Jade maw for the first time just now and my teammates kept telling me that I was about to die, and then I did. I didn’t see the jade maw beam or anything, I just got downed. I finally zoomed my camera out all the way and then the skull icon started appearing, but it was at the top of the screen almost under the picture for my target. However I could see it right above the head of the other players in the group when they got targeted. I’d assume that it’s supposed to be appearing where the commander icon appears.

I saw a thread about a year old on this issue but no fix. Is this normal or was I just bugged? I’ve got a tall norn female warrior if it makes a difference.

I spend enough money on the gemstore as it is, I do not want to spend another $50 on an expansion. With 3500 hours of gametime, I still have not manged to set foot in 80% of the dungeons, do more than 1 full fractal, or do more than ~170ish pvp matches(just got wolf rank a couple days ago). I’ve got more than enough content to meet my gaming needs if they continue putting out living story content as they have been. (though I would like the living story pieces not to keep ending on cliffhangers)

I’ve been frustrated with this for the last couple hours and only now decided to check the forum to see what I’m missing. If the meta says complete 11 events, and I’ve got 12 from the festival category completed then I should have the meta done. Especially since in all other previous releases even the dailies counted towards the meta. The hidden list that you have to pull up the meta to see is frustrating.

Yes, I know about that. In fact, my entire post is in regards to that page. :p

I’m just wondering since we never really got any dev feeedback as to why we didn’t just the get the “In light of your feedback, we will update the Currency Exchange so that you can decide how you want to use it. We will keep the new streamlined system and also offer a new “Custom” button on the panel that you can use to exchange any increment of gems or gold.” and instead got a system that only allows you to trade in amounts that round to the nearest gold.

I just wanted to followup and see if it was off the table as a possibility.

Just wanted to check in and see if there was any plans to change the gem exchange custom quantity so that we could get the actual value of the gems we are trading in, and to be able to trade in a custom amount of gems for gold. This was brought up back when it was reimplemented based on the feedback from players but it only allows you to trade in an amount of gems that gets close to an even gold.

I have 85 gems left over from my various purchases. I’d like to be able to trade those in for gold. Right now if I did so, I’d have 1 gem left over. The only way around this is to check in regularly and see if the exchange rate allows for full trade in. I would like to be able to open the custom exchange and turn my 85 or my 1235 gems into gold and not have leftover gems or have it round down to the nearest gold.

Johnny.1634:

Just finishes the reward track, these are the options inside-

Is it completable multiple times or is it a one time reward path?

Unwanted gift vendor only sells the heirloom toy chest.

thehipone.6812:

For what it’s worth, this is how you announce a new forge recipe.

No RNG either.

Yes there’s RNG. You mostly get gift boxes, you might if you are incredibly lucky get an endless tonic.

Here’s how it looks on my sylvari.

Yeah from the Wow! from Gaile I expect you got insanely lucky…

Which brings us again to the insane RNG for the average person. You have the cash to do things like that, or open 7.5K gifts. the average person might only be able to open 1K by the end of the event. what is there for them to work towards?

I actually love it on my female characters.

Wanze.8410:

FrostyBou.5491:

Could you get Josh to add a recipe for the new exotic aquabreather since he’s adding forge recipies?

He just did!

10 each t2-5 snowflakes -> 5 giant wintersday gifts!
I opened 7500 giant gifts and got 1 aquabreather.
So all you need to do is to buy 60 stacks of each t2-5 snowflake and start forging/open gifts!

Awesome, isnt it.

Just kidding.
One forge attempt costs 50 silver atm if you buy the flakes on buy order, while 5 gifts cost 30 silver.

I might do a couple of hundred forges to check out the droprates on the toymaker and dolyak tonic and to see, if the toy specific endless tonics also drop.

So basically the aquabreather has a droprate similar to mini gwyn at halloween? I’m off this week, I was hoping that there was something to work towards with this holiday event, but absolutely everything reward wise is hidden behind incredibly low RNG droprates… sigh

Yeah, after Halloween they set the bar really high for holiday rewards. Only thing I can see right now that’s worth opening the present for is the hoho tron mini and the rebreather from the personalized presents. the vendor basically sells you presents for what you got out of presents. no minis, bags, outfits, armor, nothing of note on the vendor to buy with the ugly clothing unless you want the choir bell.

I’ll prolly enjoy the events for a couple days, but I’m not seeing anything worth trying to get since the items of note from the presents seem to be a very very low droprate.

I looked at the release page but it doesn’t say how long the event is running. Is if 2 weeks, or till the next living story release on the 16th? I can’t find any official date on when it ends.

Could you get Josh to add a recipe for the new exotic aquabreather since he’s adding forge recipies?

In the spirit of Lions arch being made with what’s on hand(previously ships), I’m hoping that the new version has alot of black citadel type architecture with all the pieces of scarlet’s breachmaker lying around for building materials.

I crash every time I accept the choice of the minor rune or sigil from the conqurer chest bag. I submitted a crash log, but thought I’d mention it here as well.

I’m wondering if there’s a way to always show interactables. running around SW this last month I’ve had my CTRL key held down non-stop and it’s starting to physically hurt. I’ve looked in the settings but don’t see an option that looks like it would turn them on all the time.

Is the carapace legging box only supposed to be purchasable from the crest vendor for a character that has completed the story? The previous releases did not have this limitation, the shoulder and glove boxes were purchasable by all characters and the boot box unlocked for all chars once the requisition order was used.

Long term not a big deal, I’ll prolly run through the story with a couple chars to get the leggings, but it seemed odd since it wasn’t following the same pattern as the previous releases. Wondering cause my character that I do silverwastes on is not the same as the character I usually do living story stuff on.

I’ve been playing nothing but norn characters for a while now, and today I went back to my Sylvari character. I noticed that the camera on that character is aimed mid back. On my norn it’s aimed at the back of their heads. Are the camera positions different for different races or is it a setting that I’m missing? Or is it perhaps a bug?

Is the bottoms up achievement still bugged since it was released? Fought the threasher and not a single interactable dropped when he did his poison attacks.

Yeah I went to try and exchange my 405 gems for gold this evening and hit the max gold option which if I had gone through with the purchase would have left me with 6 gems. That’s not a very helpful amount to have… Needless to say I’m not exchanging my gems.

I’d really like it if the exchange went back to the old method of being able to exchange the exact number of gems you want to sell and get the exact amount they are worth based on the current exchange rate, none of this rounding to the nearest gold.

I’m just hoping LA ends up kinda like a mix between it’s old self and the black citadel what with all that scrap metal lying around. The citizens built the old city out of the parts that were lying around (shipwrecks) so I’d hope when it’s rebuilt it shows that alot of the wood was destroyed (as it was all on fire) and now replaced with the various bits of scrap metal they now have as available building materials.

Yeah, not a fan of the change. I always support the game with direct gem purchases but occasionally when I’ve needed 50 gems or 100 gems to get the amount needed for an item because I was a little short I’d convert gold to gems. I’ve only ever needed to do this a couple times, but I liked that I didn’t have to do a large conversion to get the little amount I needed. That was one thing that stood out to me about how customer friendly Anet was considering almost all other games made you get preset blocks of gem store currency.

My current setting is “Hide Events and Personal Story” as I’m working on map completion on a new character. I’ve noticed that the compass prioritizes hearts over everything else. I’d assume that with the setting I’m using, it should be for map completion so everything should be equal priority. See the screenwhots I’ve attached.

In the first, I’m standing right next to a vista and the heart is still top priority.

In the other, there’s a Point of interest closer to me than the heart, and it still chooses the heart as the priority.

Guild missions QoL:

The ability to control who can accept credit for a guild mission. It has happened too many times that one person (usually new) ends up on the wrong layer and participates in a rush/bounty/challenge/puzzle and accepts credit causing the other 80+ members participating to not get credit and the guild has to redo the mission.

Bounty in particular is bad for this as we are usually merit capped so we only do 1 of the 6 every week so people get their commendations. we spend 10 minutes trying to get everyone to the same layer, find the bounty, wait 2 minutes for everyone to get to to the bounty, and kill it. 1 person nullifys that 12-13 minutes of prep required to get everyone to the same location and the bounty has to be done again.

An alternative fix would be if the bounty got flagged as complete, but didn’t grey out and everyone could still do it again, or could do it multiple times until the timer ran out on the bounty to get folks their commendations.

Guild Puzzles require someone to stay at them to get credit even if you complete them and they do not always properly flag as complete even if a guild member is in them when they complete. This can be a pain when you can complete the puzzle in 10-12 minutes, someone has to hang around for another 15-20 to accept credit. Fixing this would be a nice QoL change. Maybe it get flagged as technically complete but doesn’t close down when the minimum number of people complete it but everyone gets their commendations when they enter the final treasure room before the final countdown completes. That way if you do run it a 2nd time to catch people that got stuck behind a door or something they could still get their comms as long as it’s under the 30 min timer but nobody has to hang around if you do complete it in 10-15 minutes.

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Custom Guild events:

A neat guild event that could be created would be a hide and seek type event that guilds can craft. The guild crafts it and when activated it prompts for an item or gold and then appears as a sparkle on the ground at the feet of the person who activated it. It would only be visible to the members of that guild. the first person to find it and loot it would get whatever is in the package. Ideally it would not have a title other than the sparkle so it would be easier to hide and by dropping it at the feet of the person it would mean that it would have to be reachable. Maybe it would exist for 30 minutes and if the map closed or it wasn’t looted, it would automatically mail the items/gold back to the activator.

Another fun guild item might be a custom rush. when activated, slots 1-9 get filled with skills that place flags that you have to run through or activate in the proper order. Touching the first one applies a buff that disables all speed boosts for a duration. when the last one in the series is touched it would reward whatever was assigned as a reward. Again, only visible to the people actively representing the guild.

Alternatively the first person to click either item would create a guild message that they were the winner so they could be mailed the reward. Perhaps the first 3 people to touch the final flag/sparkle so you could do multiple places.

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More uses for merits. Not sure what other uses there might be, but I know the guild I’m a member in is almost always merit capped. With the change to the boss timers there’s no need for us to activate the bosses ourselves as they occur often enough that everyone can do them. Maybe to buy stuff for guild halls?

I always list at the lowest seller unless there’s a weird discrepancy with someone trying to massivly undercut. This change added a click to every single sale I make. I’d really like the option to choose a default.

Thought of another item…

It would be really nice if the search let you find items that are part of a collection or skins that aren’t unlocked.

Oh and I can’t add to my existing sales.

Is there a way to disable the salvage highlight?

It blues out everything when you click the kit initially just enough to obscure the rarity indication, but then disables itself once you salvage the first item.

Maybe if there was a small icon in the lower corner of each item that indicated salvagablility that stuck around and didn’t cover up the rarity highlight it would be more useful. Or maybe if it darkened the items that aren’t salvageable.

I like it except for a few issues.

It’s missing the projected profit. I know the old one wasn’t correct but this was the perfect time to fix that.

The sell count should be set to sell max automatically or at least have a button to instantly set the value to max.

The collection box should compress itself once you pickup what gold and items you had waiting.

I would like the list view to be somewhere between the Gnashblade mode and the current. Maybe 15 items or so.

With the slightly smaller fonts and icons there would be room to make the count be its own column along with the buy price having its own column. Curently the count is unreadable on a lot of icons due to the color of the text being very similar to the icon underneath it.

My Latest Trades doesn’t seem to be working. It’s listing items I sold months ago.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I wonder why the playerbase wasn’t up in arms about the ‘projected profit’ in the current TP? Probably should have asked for this change long ago, maybe it would have been added to the new UI. /shrug

Probably because a large portion of the playerbase (myself included) were under the impression that projected profit was how much you’d receive in the mailbox. I believe that it was in a sense correct though? the listing fee got taken from your current gold and then the 10% tax got taken when it sold so projected profit was how much showed up?

Though it didn’t really represent the true cost of selling an item and alot of people didn’t take that into account.

Include me in the folks that would really like to have at a quick glance the true projected profit. It’s invaluable when you have a couple seconds free to dump your bags in EotM while waiting for something to cap or a door to fall that you can do a quick compare against vendor price to see if you need to wait for a vendor. And yes, I was one of those people that never really realized that the projected profit was not the actual profit. I knew that there was a 15% tax but I somehow always thought it was figured into that value. All the money I lost… I used that number pretty much every time I opened the AH for the last year and a half.

It’s like if your pay stub at work listed your hourly rate and all the various taxes that were being taken out, but it never actually listed your take home pay but expected you to do the math every time. You can see how much is deposited or do the math, but wouldn’t it be so much more convenient if it was listed on the stub?

I’m also interested in whether this means we will have a fix for the error attempting to sell.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

The Feature Pack announcements will continue next week and some of them will definitely contain information that’s relevant to those of you who’ve been playing the game for long. We won’t tell you about them until the articles are live though, to keep the element of surprise!

The risk is that if there’s a complaint like the one with the commander’s tag change, it will be too late to adjust it based on feedback and get it run through Q&A. I think the desire for surprise contributes greatly to the discontent with the lack of communication. Time for the community to give more feedback hopefully in a less harsh way than last week’s would be easier to deal with? I think this is why the community is looking for more communication to better provide details on what they are wanting and why before it gets so far along that it is a surprise the week before the patch.

I was hoping based on Chris Cleary saying they’d have a post here yesterday that Arenanet would give some clarification by now. Guessing either they are changing their plans or running the statement by everyone in management before posting it.

Some items, specifically the Spectacles and the Scarf do not refresh when you search for them. If you click on them and go back to the search results, they will cause the search results to temporarily display the correct sales value but if you search again, it displays the incorrect value again.

This same thing happened when the phoenix skins were added to the Trading Post.

cranos.5913:

LS was not fun because it was a one time community event. Everyone not playing this game super casually will agree, why? because even the biggest ls fans haven’t seen any content since the end months ago. Everyone wants some new permanent content now.

I don’t get how this is a bad thing. People get storytelling now, zerg press1 = win events and maybe, just maybe if we’re really lucky an actual difficult fight fingers crossed.

I’m casual, but I play alot and I’m fine with how they’ve been releasing content. Anything permanent risks spreading folks out too thin as they’ll only be in the new areas, or abandon them mostly like southsun.

Just saying that some of us have been fine with the way things have been, just not vocal on the forums as we’ve been enjoying the content.

Let me preface this with: I’m not especially skilled, I tend to mash whatever button is not on cooldown as my method of fighting. Sometimes I can get more complex and not press the knockback button when I’m fighting with folks.

I just hope they don’t tie any major rewards to the hard achievments and they are there more for personal satisfaction as I liked working towards the meta as it was the source of the reward each release. But I don’t have the skill to do something like the liadri 8ball achievement and would be quite disappointed if I was unable to get a skin or something because of not being able to complete that achievement.

Again, this is just my personal opinion and I know there are folks out there that would prefer that super hard achievements granted exclusive skins or titles.

I like the megaservers, but it does make some items hard to complete. an example would be the heart “Assist the Ash Legion” in diessa plateau. Everyone always completes it so there’s about 1-2 spawns of charr to kill when it’s not running. It makes completing the heart VERY difficult.

Was logged on at reset, didn’t get the 1st place achievment, I have the meta completed. Have not recieved the chest yet. JQ Server.

I’m not worried, I figure they’ll get it sorted out.

When I search on the TP, it shows one thing, but click the item and it shows another value. is there any way to clear your cache or something to have the search results give the correct data without having to click on every item?