Guild Wars 2

Fay.2735:

I don’t understand why people are raging so hard. I mean yes $50 is quite a lot but it almost seems like nobody here has ever bought another game before. Let’s have a look shall we:

Evolve: $60 Pre-purchase
GTA V: $60 Pre-purchase
ArcheAge: $50 Founderspack
Sims 4: $60 Pre-purchase
WoW Mists of Pandaria: $40 Pre-purchase
Wildstar: $56 Pre-purchase

This is baffling. How are you even comparing full retail releases to an expansion? Do you even knows what goes into making a standalone game and an expansion or dlc for one? Vastly different things. I will shell out 60$ for a new game, I will not for an expansion, which is 50% (likely more) reused assets from the core game. Just take a dlc or expansion for either of those you listed and you’ll find your average dlc or expansion in the ballpark of 10-20$, with 20 being usually standalone dlcs that don’t even require having the main game to begin with.

There’s already a thread about this issue. Several players, myself included, haven’t received our serial codes. You can find the topic discussion here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Serial-Code-missing-from-Sales-Email/

They are aware of the issues with serials and are working on getting everyone their codes as soon as possible, as per this tweet https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/559401751015854080

Same issue here. No serial code. The register button links to the generic registration page.

Played through a free weekend during the invasions and I bought it the next day. I really wish they did more of these tbh, I have friends willing to try it cause they see how much I’ve been enjoying it for so long now, but they’re reluctant until trying it out. Or do trial keys of sorts…

Are you sure you were on the right character and story step (‘Victory or death’)? You would be unable to start S2 episodes on a character who hasn’t finished personal story. And if you were doing this, you likely completed PS a while back on this character and won’t get credit again. I know because I tried running alts in PS for the skins and it wouldn’t let me start episodes on those missing S1, the basic PS up to Arah story.

It’s not dead, it just needs some people with initiative to get things organized. I was on empty maps before and I just talked to the few on map, we got 4 tags up, spread in tiny group of 3 at forts and tried to hold them, while we all disbanded parties and ported players in by posting LFGs of organized map. Done once at 2 am and we filled the map within 15 min. There are plenty who need achievements still, if I wasn’t sick atm I’d be there hunting for legendaries too, so don’t shy away of trying to get it organized if no one else will.

So from what I read here, no linen?

For once I wish they would stop trying to be above the rest and do things their way and adopted a more traditional MMO maintenance/patch window of 2h on Tuesdays to release the stuff. It would stop these threads from surfacing every patch.

Also, hello 22nd

Your location: Romania
Time and date of incident (plus time zone): 22:30 pm (CET+1)
Game World: Gandara
Brief description of what you’re seeing: I was doing a string of dungeons with my usual party. First few were fine then went to AC and kept getting freeze frames for 5-10s during the boss fights, one resulting in a DC. Typical lag behaviour, seeing characters stop, seeing them run in a pattern, skills in bar getting locked but flashing. Game was working fine prior to last night’s patch. Briefly had issues with it again this morning, while running mats in Orr.

I’ve been catching up with story on my alts since the chapters got released and doing the line of stories in Orr lead up to the Cathedral of Silence/Grenth questline, which is displayed as a level 70 quest. It seems pretty inconsistent, as the quests leading up to it were 80, so I assume it’s wrongly displayed as a level 70 quest.

Several bugs occured during the Arah story run I did tonight.

1) players getting stuck on turrets during the airship and minions phase. Trying to leave turret to kill decked risen prompt with something along the lines of “You cannot use bundles in the air”. Happened to multiple party members.

2) banners fall through the floor or move by themselves during the same airship sequence.

3) Ground targeted attacks don’t appear. Like Symbol of Wrath. Same sequence.

I’m guessing there are issues with this particular airship, either the surface or collission detection box, I don’t know. This all happened during the “Take the fight to Zaithan” phase, on the airship you use to fight Ogravros and Fafnarin and Horrogos, before boarding the last ship.

I have no idea why some of you are harping on the player for making this decision and writing about it, at least he makes good valid points and addresses them with calm and ration, unlike a lot of the ragequit posts we see so often. I honestly hope someone from the Anet higher-ups somehow stumbles upon this and sees it, as it’s not just the voice of one player but something a lot of the current playerbase will agree on.

There’s been good and bad with every patch for the >1 year I’ve been playing this game and I don’t expect to it be perfect either, but it constantly feels like they’re taking a step in the wrong direction since spring. The OP is right, there’s little to no reward in the game.

Take dailies for instance. You get a measly 5s a day. At 80 that barely covers 3 close waypoints. I hate to draw comparisons so I’ll avoid names, but I’m playing another MMO where completing a set of dailies 3 days in a row pretty much warrants you enough gold at exchange that you can buy yourself something nice in the item store. And that’s even a F2P, you don’t even need a boxed copy to play it, so please don’t try to defend this and tell me the game needs the gemstore to survive. I’ve spent plenty on the gemstore before spring 2014, it all probably rounds up to a good few hundreds of real euro, but I stopped trying to be supportive of this new item-store model they’re promoting the moment they went from 800gem armor-sets to 400gems per single armor piece and from 3-pack minis for 400 to single minis for 500.

Coupled with the removal of guaranteed unique items for the 2nd season of LS in favor of more RNG stuff. Somehow one backpiece serving as a huge mat sink, some goggles skin or monkey mini that may or may not drop from hundreds of locked chests in Dry Top doesn’t really compare to the more rewarding season 1 LS that had a guaranteed unique item as a meta reward. I personally did not care for half of them that much, matter of taste after all, but it was nice to get some sort of meaningful reward after completing a set of tie-in achievements, and not just some seed that’s completely useless until you farm for hundreds of geodes to put it in a pot and spend a fortune in mats for weeks crafting food to feed it to turn it into something remotely meaningful.

Dungeons we do really need more of! I’m not an avid dungeon runner, I only run them every now and then but I’m already burnt out on the content. There’s only so many times you can repeat the same dungeon, fight the same mobs before it gets repetitive and boring. While I enjoy all facets of the game, which helps keep some semblance of diversity, they need to also focus on all aspects of the game. PvE gets living story chapters, WvW gets competitive seasons, PvP has tournaments and rumored new maps. Time to shine a light on instances for a change. But I get a feeling something like a dungeon may come at the end of this story chapter, where we fight the dragon similar to Arah/Zaithan fight… but hopefully more engaging than sitting behind a turret.

I’m sure new players will have a blast venturing into Frostgorge at level 6! No one would ever quit now, with such an efficient compass to lead to all these fun locations for players of all levels to experience!

I’ll take the option to turn it off. The system is flawed and displaying to any and all players/characters. Zoned into QD for Behe only to be told in the top right corner to “Learn how to dodge” on my 80, who incidentally had her first year birthday about a week ago. Went to Ashford to do Ascalonian Catacombs, told again to learn how to dodge on an 80!

Crafting XP has been nerfed quite a while back. Like a lot longer than 6 months, it predates even the first feature patch. I don’t have an exact timeframe of when it happened, sorry, but you get an average of 7-8 levels out of it these days. But 0 xp from maxing jewelcrafting doesn’t sound right, probably best reported as a bug. Maybe they’ll retroactively give you the XP or some consolation tomes.

If it’s a “feature” working as intended can we maybe opt out of it?
The minis work in dungeons, full party can see each other’s minis, but in PvE only if you refuse to leave map on prompt. Also, what is up with that? I load into a map and less than a minute later get prompted to leave it for another. Wouldn’t it make more sense to just prioritize players to the bigger map while they’re loading? :S

Just horrible that they’d lock this away. Unnecessary backtracking since you’ll have to come back at a later time for it. Read on Reddit someone couldn’t interact with skillpoint, undoubtedly also locked behind some level requirement.

It appears Jumping Puzzles start at 21, I had a scroll-leveled Necro I logged into today just to verify she was stripped of her utilities (which she was, lost my 9). At level 21 I had Jumping Puzzles pop on screen with my level unlocks. Could anyone with a lower level char or free slot please verify if JP chests can be interacted with if under lv21?

It’s in the named exotics collection

It’s just the initial hype for colorful tags. Don’t worry it’ll die down within a few days.

Also getting booted to menu every 1-2 min. I tried the NonToxic suggested fix for these errors https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Code-7-11-3-191-101-2/first#post3215811 but it’s really not working with this patch.
Guildies and several folks on map chat reported the same issue. Seems like a problem with the patch/update deployed tonight in particular.

LE: @Frood also on EU

They drop from the Zephyr Sanctum Supply Boxes, which you get by exchanging raw materials.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zephyr_Sanctum_Supply_Box

Drop-rates are very low tbh, I’ve opened 1500 boxes and only got 1 worthwhile skin to show for it, a Sun Catcher skin.

I don’t recommend gambling your mats or gold for these, rather sell those mats or save gold to buy directly on TP.

I’d love that on my thief

My main gripe with it is the long and epic journey that ends with you killing the fearsome foe known as Zaithan with a turret. I would’ve just prefered it to be a real legendary boss encounter, and not what we got in Arah story.
This is the same feel like Mass Effect 3 to those that know what I’m talking about.

No option for balance of both across all classes, which is what I’d like. Too much skimpy light armor, too many long trenchcoats for medium.

MikaHR.1978:

Yah, “geared lvl80 only” lol Next thing will be “5k min”

Well, to be fair, I’ve seen the downside of running with upscales. Of a team of 10 on Kuraii yesterday, 6 were upscales (some in their mid-20s level) and 4 of us 80s. And we were last on several kills because there was time wasted on picking folks up after getting steamrolled by centaur, but we did make gold in the end.

Thing is I don’t see the Boss Blitz a viable leveling method, mobs give no xp, don’t even count for daily kills, all the xp you get in there is from the event reward and that is scaled down substantially with lower levels. Plus anyone opening their chests on a low level will get green bags, not exotics. An 80 simply can support their team more, get exotic bags from chests and can farm the tokens easily to buy tomes of knowledge for any leveling chars they may have.

He’s in between the other merchants. Left of the bridge off the boat, if that helps. Only trader with just 2 sell tabs, for Candy Corn and Sprockets.

They promised to make all guild unlocks cross-server since Megaserver, but until it’s officially implemented my guild always takes the extra time to remind all to guest to one server to be certain they receive rewards. Despite it being Megaserver, it still only seems to count if you’re currently on the server where the mission is activated. You didn’t really miss out on much, 2 rares per bounty.

Once you have the home nodes unlocked on your account, they will appear in each home instance in every city, and you can visit them to mine with any character. However you are limited to one mining a day per account, not per character. The obelysk shard will give 1 SP to every character you have over level 10.

Skins unlock in wardrobe account-wide. If generic skin/look shared across classes, it will unlock all armor types.An example I can give you is the Lightning Zephyr helm, I bought Heavy for my warrior, but the skin unlocked Light and Medium in wardrobe too.

Saw a “Cursed by RNG” while doing flying doly race the other night

I’ve gotten one after 400+ chests. Was nearly done for it but still had last stacks of mats orders come in TP so I bought an extra 15. Opened them and one dropped a Sun Catcher Skin.
A guildie got a Zephyr Rucksack from ~300 chests.

You’re low on dragonite.

Buy the recipe from the trading post http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/49480
Have 500 in armorsmith/leatherworker/tailor
Visit Rojan the Penitent in FS to buy 50 icy runestones (50g)
Craft or buy 15 bolts of damask.
Combine with 7 charged lodestones and a vision crystal.
I think with wardrobe it unlocks for all armor weights as skin in wardrobe, regardless of which one you choose to craft, but don’t take my word for it as I personally haven’t crafted one myself.

Imagine how I felt seeing the prices fall. I bought a Lightning Skin for 93g on Sunday. 2 days later selling for a 1/3 of that. I need to work on my morning coffee prediction skills some more :\

What lerak said, you need to be a member of the Order (level 30 story as I recall to join order) and you need to be with a level 80 character before you can access the wares. I went in with a 77 whisper-affiliated thief trying to prep her gear in inventory for when I hit 80, but was told I don’t meet the requirements to view merchandise. It was there once I reached level cap.

Latest waypoint added to the game was in Lion’s Arch, by the portal that was added to lead to Durmand Priory/Lornar Pass.
Before that was a new waypoint added to Lornar Pass for the Marionette LS.
If it’s neither of those, you could mouse over every map and see if any of them show 98-99% completion instead of 100. I know there’s one such off the beaten path wp in Harathi, with no areas of interest nearby, but it does count for Harathi completion so if you got that 100%, the wp should be unlocked.
Have you gone to all WvW maps? They count too for map completion.

This is your main issue with Eternity? The way it looks like? I’d consider the fact you can craft it, selling and walking away with over 3500g and getting to keep the progressive skins unlock for Twilight & Sunrise to be a greater cause for concern.

I’m not even sure where you’re going with this. If WvW gear can’t be salvaged it’s not something any player be it PvE/PvP or even your WvW fellows can help with. It’s something that needs to be taken up to Anet to adjust, not players.

Becka Williams.4978:

Well, to be fair, the BL weapon traders will look pretty stupid with tons of bags on their merchant popup. They’re probably removing weapons that aren’t very popular. I mean, you had a long time to get them, and does anyone like the scelerite weapons so much that they’re willing to waste 3 tickets or 30 scraps on them? (the trading post says no)

Yes the menu was pretty big and could use an overhaul. However, I don’t think removing content is they way to go. At this rate they could add 2 new weapon sets when LS S2 starts and decide “hey let’s remove Fused and Aetherized to make room for 2 more”, I don’t see how that would benefit anyone. A much simple solution would be to provide a secondary BL Weapon Specialist, I believe there already are 2 in every city, they could just be selling different things. Or spread them out even more and give each city vendor a different set and just rotate between who gets a new one with releases to keep their sell tabs at even numbers.

Sonder The Seller still has the 20-slot Halloween Pail available, but at the cost of 15,000 candy corn, it’s probably cheaper to buy the holding rune and craft your average ori box instead.

While I’m not bothered by the gemstore, I am however a bit weary the only articles we’ve got for weeks now were on gemstore promotions. I know not to expect articles on things to come, but I’d love it if they mixed it up a bit with stuff like classes guides divided by such as weapon choice so the subject doesn’t get exhausted right away or do small features on different maps weekly or such to give players a refresher on some of the events and areas of interest there, like the fun Oouo chain in Timberline no one ever bothers with.

Well with key sales comes the speculation there may be new BL weapon skins following shortly after. So many will be stocking up on scraps or pray for the rare full tickets. Even if sometimes the gold to gems used to buy the keys could probably buy a whole bunch of skins from TP.

endirasae.3015:

The OP is talking about how, previously, transmuting items level 79 and below was a third of the cost it is today post-patch. The game was friendlier to characters who used low level armour and weapons, allowing them to cheaply experiment with their style and/or maintain the same style as they updated their gear’s effectiveness every 5-10 levels.

But now you can buy a costume skin and level as many alts as you want in style, just by selecting a checkbox and with no hassle of transmuting armor every 5-10 levels. I call that a bargain.

The Mystic Dragon could potentially be a standalone mini that would come in June if Dragon Bash were to return. Just speculation on my part, but I believe it was said Dragon Bash is among the festivities that return every year, like Halloween or Wintersday.

Yes Essence of Luck can be refined with Artificer. No level requirement as far as I know.

1) Cross-realm guild bonuses.
I’m very reluctant to recruit these days due to Megaservers, as new members could likely be from another server and not get any of the benefits like karma, magic find, gathering, xp bonuses we run everyday, along with access to the guild bank space.
2) Ways to acquire precursors that don’t involve grinding insane amounts of gold (1,2k gold Legend ffs) to give to already pretty wealthy forge gamblers. And the oriental version gets a precursor box for VIP. Maybe add one here in the high number AP chests? 7.500k heavy AP chest? With a choice of one account bound pre?! It takes time, dedication and some effort to get there. Took me 9 bloody months and still 400 AP short…

Exotics should remain stable. For one you have a market that constantly buys exos to throw in the forge for a pre, keeping supply low.
And you have some of the expensive craftables like Volcanus, Foefire, Vision of the Mists, Dwayna bows, etc. that given the crafting cost and mats required (gifts/lodestones/lots of oris/wood) will remain the same price. Or maybe fluctuate a bit based on mats, which seem to have gone up just a tad after feature patch.

The event to Escort Fen is disrupting the Ghost Wolf Run guild rush.

While being transformed into a ghost wolf for the course you can get one-shot by the friendly npc with the stomp attack he uses against grubs. As you can see in the attached screenshot of the combat log, I got hit for 2,149 as a wolf while hp transformed is 2k.

Isn’t farming Orr a better alternative? You can get direct T6 drops as well as Heavy Moldy Bags, which can give T6 as well. And a bunch of T5 to promote on top.

If you only really need just claws, I’d trade in any surplus of other T6 or doing a couple dungeon runs for the gold to buy them.

My guardian character made it up to Retribution for story, which is retaking Claw Island from the risen. I put it off until the weekend cause it’s one long boring story step to do.
Add me in-game and send me a whisp Gyro and I’ll take you there. Also on EU, on Gandara, on a GMT+2 timezone here.

I heard there might no be any content until WvW S2 is over :\