Guild Wars 2

Stormie.1284:

Scaredy Cat XD

That is quite possibly the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen!

I really really really wish I could have a bigger version of my engineer’s April Fools icon here. Best avatar ever…

TwinFrozr.6214:

I’ve bought two of those tools and got the same problem aswell. Activating autowalk will just result in one gathering before the character runs away from the tree. Hope it’ll get fixed soon

It happens for me even without using autorun.

Would it at all be possible to see larger versions of the ingame character select icons?

Because I absolutely must have a larger version of my april fools engineer bobble head icon – preferably at a minimum size of 256×256!

Just an fyi, Gates of Arah is the name of the meta event chain in Cursed Shore, leading to the dungeon instance – The Ruined City of Arah.

So ‘Gates of Arah’ has nothing to do with what you’re reporting here. ‘Arah’ is often both used to refer to the event chain or the dungeon, depending on context.

Customer service is usually pretty exceptional I’ve found – if you really want to refund it, just submit a ticket.

Personally, I’m going to wait, as I’m sure it’ll be fixed with enough people reporting the issue soon enough.

McFribble.2349:

- Glyph of Storms: Either reduce the CD to 50 Seconds, or up the damage. I feel this skill underperforms compared to how long we have to wait in order to use it again.

- Armor of Earth: This skill IS getting reduced to a standard 75sec CD. I fully support this, but since the update hasn’t happened yet, I still decided to list it.

- Mist Form: I feel this should be on a 60sec CD standard or up the duration by 1sec. You really don’t get far with it, and you can’t actually DO anything but move while it is active, so the 75sec CD is a bit excessive.

- Tornado: I’ll save you the trouble of complaining about the crap-tier selection of “elite” skills the Ele has to choose from, and just say that 150sec between uses is laughable. Reduce this to 100 seconds, and it MIGHT still be worth picking. All in all, it is pretty sad when I would rather choose another Utility skill in this spot than any of the Elite ones, but I’m sure Anet would never let that happen…

- Attunement: Make the base CD on Attunement swapping 10 seconds.

Storms and glyphs overall need a little bit of love I feel. Sandstorm is amazing in PvE for blind spam, but the cooldown is a bit silly – atleast toss a radius buff at us, if not a cooldown reduction.

Mist Form (and related skills like Elixir S) currently cancel your current action when the form cancels – there’s conflicting reports on whether or not this is infact a bug, or an intended nerf. Last I heard, it was supposed to be fixed with the August changes last year…

Tornado may be pretty meh outside of extremly situational uses, but the underwater Whirlwind is easily one of the better underwater elites out there – particularly for high power/crit damage builds.

Nolani Stormshield (engineer) – Second in command of the former Iron Legion Shield warband. Now technichally a gladium in the employ of the Durmand Priory as a Magister, lending her expertise in alchemy and firearms to the practical branch of the order.

Kanna Lightweave (guardian) – Runt of the Weaver warband; known for it’s wide range of expert fletchers, smiths, and mechanics. Found no aptitude with typical craftmanship – instead finding a talent for drawing on inner strength and projecting sheer force of will through others to provide inspiration and even restorative capability on the battlefield.

Kalith Seerbane (warrior) – Legionnaire of a lesser known Blood Bane warband. Born of a shady shamanistic sire, he’s not shy about his distrust of magic and dislike of the Flame Legion. About as level headed as you can expect from a soldier in the Blood legion – a tactician and strategist, but not afraid to leap into the thick of the action.

Just a few of my charr characters that I’m more set on with lore and background!

It’s been like this since release as far as I know. I’m not exactly hopeful for a fix, as it could be argued that nothing is really broken to begin with anyway.

Don’t use the FT auto (or similar skills, like Fumigate) with a target, aim manually and you’ll always hit. You technically don’t need a target for any of the FT skills – but sometimes the momentum prediction is nice for Flame Blast.

The issue of not being able to find a path is more related to static objects. You’ll notice this with a lot of other ‘minion’ type skills, particularly mesmer for example, or ranger pets. Some targets simply can’t be pathed to – almost all of them static objects.

It’s not related at all to this bug – minions will simply idle even with a direct path to the target, sometimes even while attacked (at range), and even while you are attacking, and being attacked.

Noticed today on using it that I harvested once and then stopped while not using auto run.

I don’t think it’s related to auto run at all, something simply cancels the harvest cast with the tool for some reason.

I haven’t been in any wurm infested areas lately, so I haven’t seen much recent behavior, but I can tell you for a fact that wurms I encountered only hit once previously.

I used to happily skip through the wurm infested areas of FGS on my guardian, with a single aegis taking the entirety of the blow.

Reflect used to work the same way – a single air blast from the flamethrower would reflect it before it hit, although air blast does technically have the capability of reflecting multiple projectiles.

I noticed this too, it seems to behave differently from the other tools.

Twice now I’ve continued running after gathering just one log – I didn’t actually pay attention to whether or not I was using auto-run at the time, but I use it a ton, so it’s likely related.

MTC.9536:

There is a bug when mark of blood (necro staff skill and trait) doesn’t apply Regeneration which is an issue considering necro surviveability.

Are you in range of it? Regeneration is only applied to targets near the mark when it’s triggered, despite the 1200 range placement.

I dunno if it’s even possible for a single zone to lag, but I was in zone for Claw of Jormag earlier and experienced skill lag for the first time in months.

People in map were also noting it.

Bump.

Minions are still standing around doing nothing half the time

It seems like it’s affecting individual minions randomly – I’ll sometimes get a jagged horror to attack, while my flesh golem stands idle several feet away, for example.

They still idle even after using their activated skill – like the flesh golem charge. Charge, do nothing.

It has nothing to do with the offshoots, I’m not talking about the toxic spore effect.

The chain was getting stuck before Tower of Nightmares even happened – Some part of either the Oakheart spawning or the SB related portals event causes a black miasma very low to the ground.

It was persisting in the area around Greatheart Weald specifically, and Oak did not spawn for a very long time – nor did the SB preevents.

I’d assume it’s more related to the SB portals actually – as the miasma looks much like the wispy black you see permeating from the area in the Swamp SB emerges from.

Two of my femcharr. Guardian and a mesmer.

(First guardian pic is a little dated, different shoulders)

Since the previous gravity cat thread has been buried: also – tossing in a few others!

Proof that Charr can take a catnap anywhere.

…anywhere.

Even the stars are not safe, nor the jagged landscape too uncomfortable.

Because who needs gravity anyway?

Breaking reality.

I miss this zone.

A candid conversation with Messiah Charr (See chat)

I wonder what Rytlock would have to say about this ‘party’.

Not strictly Charr related but… we appear to have an Orrian ‘artist’ with way too much free time. (Stumbled on this near Anchorage one morning)

The wiki page suggests that this is caused by skills that return to the user and grant you vigor.

Whether or not Arena net is aware of this or not, is another matter.

I believe TC has experienced this state once or twice as well long ago – before some attempted fixes to Shadow Behemoth and prereqs as a whole (which seemingly all focused on Brenda)

Is the corruption miasma on the ground around Greatheart Weald? When Oak stalled the chain then, it seemed like she didn’t spawn correctly, and the miasma effect that takes place when the event is active was all over the area, yet no champion in sight.

dutchiez.7502:

Halcyon.7352:

respeccing my engi
have no choice now with my current build’s upcoming reduced damage output

Your edit is ironically correct as well. My current build will indeed suffer from reduced damage output – so much so that to compare, I likely will have to switch to the current zerk bomb meta.

Even with the nerf, zerk BIS meta is still the way to go – even more so now. Critical damage affects more than just pure zerk builds, which was the point of my post.

bluestocking.6148:

Halcyon.7352:

While you’re at it Arena net, explain to me why ‘Illusionary’ is apparently no longer allowed in a pet name.

Did all the Illusionary Moas and drakes confuse too many people?

It’s not just pet names, I remember someone complaining that he couldn’t name his mesmer “Illusionist Bob” even though every other person in his guild had a mesmer named some variant of “Illusionist [Name]”. Apparently it’s some more recent change.

I was wondering if that was the case, and if so what happened to players already with the name.

My moa was simply defaulted to Juvenile, but I know that I’ve seen more than a few players with ‘Illusionary’ or variations there of in the name – my favorite probably being Illusionary Berserker.

Taku.6352:

Even better reason to gearcheck pugs and have them use meta builds.

This.

I’m respeccing my engi already to the generic meta zerk build, because I’ll have no choice now with my current build’s upcoming reduced damage output.

Thanks for the build diversity Anet!

While you’re at it Arena net, explain to me why ‘Illusionary’ is apparently no longer allowed in a pet name.

Did all the Illusionary Moas and drakes confuse too many people?

Tom Gore.4035:

It’s a mini-dungeon and yes, it’s awesome. For some weird reason, it’s not even classified as an Explorer achievement like many other mini-dungeons in the game.

It was in the game at release.

The other mini-dungeons were added later with corresponding achievements.

Nightarch.2943:

The area is apart of a dynamic event chain, if there is no Ogres then the area was claimed by the Ebon Vanguard.

This. The area is part of the Foulbear Kraal meta event. Unfortunately, that event likes to get stuck very often, not resetting properly and thus no ogres populating the area.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

baalblade.8465:

1 year ago when i do this i tend to get 1 big chest spawn at boss after each event. Now sometime there’s none.

Yes I’m talking about the big chest, not the daily floaty chest.

As for the damage to get chest, well i get Gold Medal, so if that not considered as enough damage i don’t know what.

As for the daily is there way to check?

They reset on a daily basis at 16:00 Servertime.

Or to be more precise, 00:00 UTC. I’m not entirely sure that it’s 16:00 for each server, though it is in my case.

And again, for the big chest once per daily reset still applies (per character in the case of the big one)

For me it’s a case of: How do I underwater when not an engineer.

As others have mentioned, grenade kit is pretty amazing underwater, even when not specced for. With net wall and freeze grenades, you’ll be able to kite anything melee with exceptional ease.

I prefer to use Elixir Gun as my ‘main’ kit underwater, and only switch to harpoon gun to keep #2 on cooldown for the silly amounts of damage with power builds, and use 3 or 5 when applicable.

Don’t dismiss toolkit for power builds either. Net wall, magnet, prybar, scatter mines, and acidic leap will make for a very very dead target, if they don’t have a way to quickly clear the immobilize.

Maskaganda brought up some really useful tips as well!

I also got the Harsh Detox daily yesterday while killing ordinary Nightmare Court in Maelstrom last night.

DR is a huge city to get lost in.

TC DR overflows multiple times daily, but that’s because it’s the unofficial RP server in NA at least.

I find huge amounts of people across the city when I actually look on TC anyway- so I don’t believe there to be some bug.

Most commonly this is because you’ve already done the event before reset.

Each ground physical chest is once per day per character. The bonus floaty chests are per account. Both reset with dailies.

The other common cause is that you don’t do quite enough damage to receive event credit.

I’ve seen people swear up and down neither was the case, but personally I’ve never had a chest disappear on me.

Are you testing this with your pet in combat? And I do mean your pet, not just you.

It’s really weird, but a lot of traits and effects only work in combat. Concentration Training with the ranger as well, for example.

There’s a destroyed bridge due west of Seraph Observers Waypoint in far nothern Brisbane Wildlands that’s swarming with bandits, just above an area known as the Lionshead Outcrops.

What’s really interesting to me though is that you can actually see a zone transition portal just like any other that connects every zone on the other side of that ruined bridge. There’s clearly nothing north of Brisbane in terms of explorable maps.

I’ll try and take pictures next time I’m in the area, but that portal has always tantalized me since release. I guess this could possibly correspond to any new content in the Maguuma Wastes.

Some white items cannot be salvaged, like the ones bought from weapons/armorsmith npcs. This has been the case as long as I can remember.

That being said, I have noticed oddities with white items lately, I seemingly got a white greatsword from loot in Orr, which was unsalvagable yesterday. I got a dagger a few days prior in Maelstrom as loot as well.

I’ve never before gotten unsalvagable whites as loot prior to Escape From Lion’s Arch.

The AI is very broken right now. I noticed this a few days ago, so it seems like it’s been around since at least Escape from Lion’s Arch

My Flesh Golem and Jagged Horrors would stand around doing nothing most of the time, only bothering to attack maybe half of my targets – usually only because they were hit by an AoE.

Hidden pistols suffers from a little bit of hundred blades syndrome.

It pumps out large numbers, and people assume it’s fantastic, but they don’t take into account the cast time. It costs nearly 2 seconds to cast. In that time, I could have delivered a flame jet combo for nearly twice the damage in a fraction of the time, or a prybar for about the same damage with 5x confusion near instantly, for example. It’s essentially a poison dart volley, without the poison.

The evade on hidden pistol can be nice, but I find myself using it a whole lot less than I would with other professions, due to our vigor, blocks and overall great heal skills.

That being said, I am very fond of the skill still, and I love the gunslinger look for my engineer. I do sometimes take it in the open world, just because!

It’s apparently been this way since launch, if not earlier during beta.

DrDivine.5378:

Sandclap.5871:

Hi all , I have an Total Makeove Kit and I found an face that i liked alot. Does anyone know how to make this face?

Thank you

I use that face lol, when you use the makeover kit, go to the face options like you normally would when making a character and you’ll see the three special faces exclusive to the makeover kit, which includes that face.

The new faces have a little icon next to them, and are first in the list, so it’s pretty hard to miss!

Retaliation has never been dodgeable.

That’s part of why they changed many skills that make you invulnerable to evade instead, like Mesmer sword 2. (an intended nerf)

Osicat.4139:

@Cufufalating: but that change would make Torch with its weak phantasm extremly weak for any no PU build. Cant baance a wep aroun a trait that not al build use. A shatter build with torch atm is perfectly fine (even if I not agree with al this doom talk about PU eather).

/Osicat

Except Arenanet does exactly that routinely.

Despite the given track record, I still agree though – they likely won’t change Torch too much, or probably at all. I could definitely see them giving the Prestige a cast time and a visual tell eventually though.

Toggle or bust.

I would be heartbroken if I lost my flameybook light on my kits.

EG is an amazing kit. I cringe every time I see ye olde flamethrower engineer, seemingly hellbent on using only nothing but the Flamethrower. Any FT oriented engineer using only the flamer is frankly doing it wrong.

There are classes with traits and some skills that result in increased damage per condition on target.

It can be very beneficial in situations with larger amounts of players to keep an extra condition on targets for this reason.

Obviously this would matter little in most 5 man situations, resulting in a 1-2% damage increase for possibly just one party member if even that, but just something to keep in mind.

I’m not sure if it’s been mentioned, but Critical Infusion is apparently slated to be nerfed, as mentioned in a livestream some time ago. That will possibly result in a hit to the PU build’s vigor and dodging uptime, depending on what’s changed.

They’re probably going to move it up to either master or grandmaster.

uri.6521:

Fynally!! Thanks Anet

The two images are the armor before and after this recent patch:

Now with 100% more tailclip!

The wiki page suggests that player boon duration does not affect boons applied by pets.

It seems that the pet skill facts still erroneously report an increase in boon duration however.

I learned just now via some ingame testing and some help from ranger friends that Concentration Training works but only when your pet is in combat (specifically your pet, not just you).

As Inverted was saying, some events also scale mob levels up. And when attacking mobs that are higher level, you have an increased chance for a glancing blow.

It’s not uncommon to fight level 83-84’s during certain upscaled events.

It simply may not be player available.

There’s a couple of Charr fur colors that rare or unique NPC’s use that aren’t player available, for example. I recall a Charr mesmer with a rather striking shade of medium/light red fur from personal story, and there’s simply no reds anywhere near light enough from player choices.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I may have an idea where this sound is coming from, but it’s just a guess. Yesterday I was in Hoelbrak, and I happened to jump down a ledge. As I landed I heard this sound at the exact moment that I landed. Oddly enough, repeating the same jump did not repeat the sound. So maybe this weird sound is some how related to some of the landing sounds of the players?

Don’t believe so, as I’ve experienced it in water (on the surface)

Lishtenbird.2814:

Zorric.5704:

I have yet to meet a player who has not had this happen at least once.

Haven’t heard this sound ever (Win 7 x64, Nvidia GPU, Creative sound card). Maybe people who’re running into the issue could post their system specs to find something in common?

And are you absolutely sure it’s not some very common background process (like antivirus software, messengers etc) that pops out an invisible notification because it can’t show you a visual message?

I’ve had just as many people reporting the issue, as those that have no idea what I’m talking about.

It seems common, but not nearly as common as some would suggest.

Posted my specs in many older identical threads, threads that have been around since launch, but why not once more!

Win 7 Pro x64, AMD Phenom II X2, Geforce 9800 GT, Realtek HD Audio (onboard). I also at one point used a dedicated Creative sound card, and also had the issue.

It’s definitely not an intentional background process sound notification, because it ignores all volume settings aside from system (including GW2’s ingame volume slider. It still happens when master volume is set to 0) – not to mention it also never happens in other games or applications.