Guild Wars 2

I haven’t noticed any issues with it on my elementalist. Seems to apply the buff correctly after using a heal skill.

I didn’t use vampirism prior to 4/15, so I have nothing to compare to there.

If it is indeed tied to a trait, I’d report this ingame as a blocking progression flagged bug report.

This is yet another world boss that very commonly bugs out and stalls.

Doesn’t help any that people never bother to revive the event NPCS afterwards.

Thus stalling the Dredge Commissar world boss.

This has been a bug for months if not longer – it would eventually glitch out on almost every realm I guested to, during off weeks of Living Story previously.

Much like the countless other stall bugs with numerous world bosses that have persisted for ages, I doubt we’ll see a fix. But hey, who knows, maybe now they’ll do something about it with it causing and issue even for Megaserver.

Oakwind.6187:

Gyler.8150:

Anyone know the weapon coefficient for static discharge? Trying to figure out how hard it can hit with full buffs (25 might stacks, banners, sigils). The wiki doesn’t say, not sure if it’s similar to the ele staff air 1.

I am guessing it is the same thing as Sigil of Air one. In which case:

- The lightning strike has a 1.1 damage coefficient.
- The lightning strike has a base damage of 955.

Considering that the skill functions pretty much exactly like the elementalist’s Chain Lightning projectile skill, I very much doubt it would have the same properties as Sigil of Air’s instant proc damage.

I heard it a day or two ago, and mentioned in party chat to a friend new to the game. Shortly thereafter, he noticed it too.

Is this relatively new or something I’ve just always missed? I do tend to play with game volume near zero…

This has been in the game for nearly as long as I can remember.

There are numerous threads about this issue that go back over a year.

I’ll sum up anything I’ve posted in the threads:

Random extremely loud noise that plays randomly. It doesn’t seem to be any single repeat noise – but rather seemingly any sound, played at ridiculous volumes. The sound is unaffacted by the ingame volume slider or at the very least is on levels of several magnitudes louder. The only way I’ve found to mitigate it is to turn down my system volume, or specifically GW2.exe

It sometimes seems to trigger after I tab back into the game. Running at windowed fullscreen pretty much all the time. Most common after I’ve been playing for an extended period of time, almost once every 2-3 hours after a while.

I too often tend to listen to other things while GW2 is muted or low volume, and the noise is so startling that it still catches me off guard once in a while, makes me jump.

I’ve deleted local.dat and run -repair a few times to try and address this and unrelated problems, which seems to have no effect.

Posted system specs in one of the older thread, but relevant specs are: Onboard Realtek audio, AMD Phenom X2 550 BE.

I thought something was wrong with warr axe #5’s whirl. I didn’t play my warrior quite enough to fully realize it though.

Just tested with a friend in the mists using ethereal fields – 15 stacks of warrior confusion ahoy!

maestrochino.7104:

I have almost a full bank tab of Black lion salvage kits from daily rewards without ever buying one from the gem shop.

I’ve come to use them on rares now… I just have too many =/

A downed engineer is a dead engineer, unless there’s something to rally off of.

I still would very much like Grappling Line (#2) to mimic harpoon gun #3 -Retreating Grapple. That is to say, make Grapple Line additionally push back the engineer slightly, opposite the direction of the pulled target. At least then we’d have the chance to move out of AoE.

Corax.7381:

Hasn’t happened to me yet, kills take between 2-3 minutes. But that’s obviously crazy (and bugged).

It’s not a matter of minutes, it’s a matter of mere moments.

There’s purportedly a Reddit thread that’s been propagating the exploit, and I’ve seen people trying to duplicate it, often failing falling short on range and misplacing the skill (and failing to insta kill)

It’s an old bug, one that I’ve reported before ingame.

I’ve even seen the NPCS spawn undergound underneath the Plaza, far from where they should be.

Before Megaserver, the chain had stalled a couple times because of this on TC.

I have seven level 80 Charr, and two sylvari at 80. Leveling an additional one of each. I figure we can’t be too different, OP!

I personally love that Charr run on all fours. Maybe it’s as much due to my potential OCD as anything, but I always sheath my weapons after combat.

And yes, I can live with some of the tail clip, it’s the helmets that drive me insane. I have exactly two (Charr) characters with shown helms, and one is just a goggle eye piece. I’ve similarly given up on a lot of shoulderpads – I tend to reuse a lot of the same ones that don’t magically float or aren’t the size of a mini cooper.

Eh, I can’t really agree with the class or build typification.

I’ve seen everything from D/D elementalists to engineers. One thing in common though is that they pretty much spam the same skills in the same order, and never deviate from the pattern – including standing still.

Another good tell is how they react when a new mob spawns – sometimes there’s a delay before they begin attacking.

Like others have said, sometimes bot routes will overlap as well.

Algreg.3629:

and before they occupied slots on the various server map instances. So, the difference is, apart from another opportunity to bash the megaserver concept, exactly what again?

For one, they take up valid spots on a limited copy of the zone. That means less people ending up where they should be, and more chances of being in a less deseriable copy, with either less people you know, and/or different nodes and different events going on. Could well have missed whatever events you zoned in for, even.

Bump.

This happened to me as well just now. It’s possible to instakill the wurm, reportedly using a skill from a specific class.

It died in about 3 seconds on the last Wurm I was at.

The downscaling works a lot better when you’re not geared up on exotic or ascended zerker’s gear. Or pure damage gear in general.

Go level with your lowbie friends on your supporty type characters instead of your BiS zerkers.

Bump.

This has stalled every single time I’ve done it.

The NPCS never show up for the stabilization event.

I’ve since changed the dyes very slightly, with the new Wardrobe system.

I personally don’t care for Light of Dwayna on Charr, but it might work with your dye scheme High Lord Orion.

I’d give my mesmer the Desert Rose if it didn’t float so noticably on light armor…

Has anyone else from high population realms noticed how very dead the maps are now by comparison?

It took about half an hour for enough people to gather to be interested in doing Dwayna in the Megaserver Malchor’s I was in earlier today.

Similarly, no one on map responded to Arah Defense in a CS I was in just now. Nobody cared to help me kill the Champ at Anchorage to restart the event either – only two people responded to map chat, and too late to matter at that.

It seems like Megaserver has had a very interesting effect on those of us from higher population realms: Spreading the population too thinly across the megaserver fractals.

Morrigan.2809:

Jski.6180:

I think you should want to play with other ppl in an mmorpg what the point of playing an online game if your only going to solo most of the time? I love how the cities are full they are no longer ghost towns during the wrong times.

I want to play with my friends- not a bunch of random people I don’t know from a bar of soap- just because MMO

MMO only means a lot of people are online playing it- it does not mean that you have to be joined at the hip with others 24/7

This. Seriously.

And don’t give me the line about party, guild being weighted for megaserver copy placement – I don’t want to be forced to always be in party, nor do I want to always represent the same guilds just for a chance to be in the same copy of the map.

Cities should not be megaserver.

Celestina.2894:

Halcyon.7352:

Another fun problem I’ve come across while leveling is the sheer amount of players upscaling certain events. There are a lot of events that are just plain unfun, or do not scale well, and take far too long to do with lots of people.

I miss being able to easily chain events and finish them on my own accord – or with my own party – and not have to worry about the hordes of people potentially causing them to fail, or take ridiculous amounts of time.

Honestly most of the events I’ve ran into just go down even faster now.

If anything a lot of them need to scale more.

I’m not talking about whether or not events scale – scaling is fantastic. The problem is, some simply do not scale well.

Have you ever done the Svanir Dome chain in Wayfarer for example? The third to final event, where you have to break Svanir morale by killing is a prime example. Do this by yourself, or with one or two people and it goes by incredibly quickly.

Have more than maybe 5, and suddenly it takes forever to wear down morale.

There’s another event with poor scaling at the Bear shrine task in the same zone – with few people it doesn’t take very long. Have more than a handful, and you’ll be fighting for a disproportionately long time.

There are countless more examples in Orr and other places.

Another fun problem I’ve come across while leveling is the sheer amount of players upscaling certain events. There are a lot of events that are just plain unfun, or do not scale well, and take far too long to do with lots of people.

I miss being able to easily chain events and finish them on my own accord – or with my own party – and not have to worry about the hordes of people potentially causing them to fail, or take ridiculous amounts of time.

Palador.2170:

I think that, in this case, they expected the pre-event to be the challenge. If it’s not, then expect them to make it harder at some point in the future.

There’s nothing particularly challenging about the pre-events. I’ve managed to take all four camps with just 3 people a few times, if you’re smart about what order you do them in.

The problem with Karka Queen is that there’s virtually no upscaling past a certain point. Her health seems to stop scaling early on, and although she does put up slightly more stacks of the egg busted armor – wiith enough people you do not even need to remove the buff.

Nabrok.9023:

I guarantee you that it was non-destructive as I kept both versions, and have both unlocked in my wardrobe.

This. It wasn’t used in a destructive recipe, as most ‘progression’ items later on were.

I still had both items on my engineer. I actually had specifically only the completed flamey edition on my Necromancer.

I honestly don’t remember why my necro had only the complete edition, it’s entirely possible I simply destroyed the original, or it wasn’t needed (and thus not at all a progression item).

Either way, it’s probably just an oversight and a bug.

DarcShriek.5829:

Leamas.5803:

DarcShriek.5829:

Leamas.5803:

How is Balthazar affected?

Straights is on a megaserver, that’s how.

Well, DUH!!! LOL

If you knew the answer, then why did you ask?

Stop being rude.

This is true for Malchor’s Leap as well.

Unless you have a party or guild/other friends also actively IN map and waiting, there is no way to know for sure when one of these three temples is going up.

Add that to the absolute mess of the Assault vs Defense trait debacle, and Megaserver is honestly the least favorite feature of this update by far.

Fix the clearly erroneous text. Don’t appease or reward people for botching events and event rewards for others.

I don’t play a minion master Necro, but I imagine that MM necros are nearly unplayable right now, due to non responsive minions.

Been an issue for at least a month now, minions will simply idle half the time. Just a heads up.

I love you OP.

Clearly, Arena Net also loves you

Because we needed more people than there are already stalling entire meta event chains, and robbing people of a daily chest.

Engineers are an incredible solo class, as they have the means to self combo and a wider array of skills at their disposal.

I also primarily used grenade kit but also elixir gun while leveling, ages ago now. Grenade kit is amazing for rounding up mass amounts of melee targets, while Elixir Gun offers a reliable stunbreak, extra healing and acidic leap offers a low cooldown blast with a pretty powerful damage over time you can drop on mobs that are chilly from your grenades.

Rifle is pretty invaluable for single target control as it offers a low cooldown immobilize and a reliable knockback. Pistol/shield is a another good choice regardless of whether you use condition or power for damage.

One thing I have to stress to you as an engineer is that you should pretty much never be just auto attacking. Untraited explosive shot (or fragmented as it’s now called) is pretty terrible, and even the fully traited version is underwhelming at best. Rifle can do some decent direct damage with the auto, but unless you’re somehow lining up mobs for the perfect piercing shot all the time, it’s probably not the most efficient way to kill things. Even for kits, the only half decent autos I can think of are Toolkit and perhaps fully traited bomb and grenade kits.

Despite engineer players being perhaps some of the most vocal and sensitive about changes to their favorite class, a well played engineer is in a rather good spot right now still.

It only applies to yourself, unless something has changed relatively recently.

You can always take Altruism runes or similar, or better yet, use your turret to detonate fire fields.

I don’t quite understand, are you looking for something to tag event mobs with, and still do decent direct damage?

If so, reexamine the flamethrower. 425 range is amazing, and because it hits so many times you’ll be able to easily tag multiple things, despite the maximum three target cap.

Flamethrower engineers are arguably better for mass mob tagging than staff guardians. It’s certainly a lot less work, as you have to spam 1 far less, and it also hits targets through walls and objects just like Wave of Wrath.

Spicyhash.7605:

I’m sure it will be patched out and they’ll ban anyone who “abused” this.

If they do that, they’d probably also have to ban any rangers smart enough to use the same system to keep amphibious ranger pet names when switching out pets. It’s probably the same mechanic.

Which I very highly doubt is going to happen, because they’ve done nothing wrong.

Brother Grimm.5176:

To be honest, the fact that you can alter on the fly now kind of makes the sites a bit obsolete (but they are helpful).

Yeah, the instant trait reset makes them pretty obsolete.

I’d still love to have them on the web so I can theorycraft builds when I’m not ingame however.

I don’t know about other classes, but I can tell you that for the Engineer, Energized Armor (gain power based on toughness) does NOT count the Juggernaut extra toughness when determining power boost.

Been using it for a few months as I run cavalier trinkets.

Edit: Quick test with Energized Armor
Ate some Zucchini Bread with the trait, which provides 50 vitality and 40 toughness, I gained 2+ power.

I would hazard a guess that the traits probably universally work with consumables, but not traits and other temporary skill buffs as intended behavior.

Test them again when your pet is in combat.

I thought Concentration Training was broken too, it’s not. A surprising amount of ranger traits only work when in combat, either you or your pet depending on trait.

This dates back to at least Aftermath.

It’s certainly not anything new with the feature pack.

Bump. I noticed today that I could dodge vet wurm throws in Diessa, but could NOT evade them with evade skills. Was doing daily dodger.

My thief kept getting interrupted by the impact while using Pistol Whip evade and Disabling Shot evade.

It seems to me that something changed with the spell, causing the interrupt to take precedence.

Edit: Okay this is really really weird. I decided to test Flanking Strike’s evade with the same veteran wurm in Diessa, same location just respawned. Flanking Strike successfully evaded. Then I tried Disabling shot… evaded. Killed it and waited for another spawn, and both Flanking Strike AND Pistol whip evaded it successfully.

Something seems to be causing some kind of inconsistency here with the results. And yes, I’m well aware of what part of the cast on Pistol Whip evades – there’s a delay from the intial stun hit before you begin evading.

I’ve had this happen maybe 3-4 times in recent memory, and it’s frankly really hard to deal with. I can easily see how it might lead to an environmental death.

In my experience it seems to be a very specific direction, most commonly as if I were pressing forward and right strafe at the same time. What’s really odd however, is how much I have to fight in the opposite direction to get my character to just stop moving.

I’ve tried moving in the same direction to see if it was simply jammed input of some kind, but it seems to still do it for a while.

It’s a very common programmed behavior in MMO’s to prevent players from dragging npcs and mobs across the map. Every mob has a predetermined ‘leash’ distance, at which point they’ll return to their default state and location and ‘reset’.

Unfortunately, sometimes it can be erroneously triggered – primarily when a mob can’t figure out how to path to you. If your distance is greater than the leash distance (infinity in those cases), they will leash.

Try not to stand on random objects, debris or odd terrain that could cause this. I have had mysteriously unexplained leashes too, and those are definitely bugs.

Hideable boots please.

Charr with light armor is a particularly bad offender. Everything looks either monstrously huge and padded, or blocky and ugly.

Do you use static discharge by any chance?

Apparently activating static discharge counts as a queued action.

Hannelore.8153:

Actually the in-game gears are based upon that concept art. For example, the weapons are the Legionnaire exotic pistols.

The issue is more that the artists aren’t the best at turning concept art into 3D. This can be seen with many things in the living story, especially Taimi’s artwork, where she comes out looking completely differently in game (like a doll), while in the concept art she looks more like a short young woman.

If you look at all the Orr concept art, it looks nothing like the actual buildings.

The shoulders and gloves also look incredibly familiar to me. I know those shoulders exist somewhere.

There’s also no real shortage of goggle type headpieces for medium.

This has been a bug for a very long time – I recall TC’s Queensdale stalling in a similar fashion over a year ago.

Here’s a picture of the miasma caused by the Oakheart event, despite no oakheart spawned. Can also see that I just activated the other pre-requisite event, Sister Brenda, and still no SB or Oak.

Bump.

Still very much not resolved. A reset/update is only a temporary fix, Sea of Sorrows is having the same problem currently

Here’s a picture of what Greatheart Weald looks like on SoS – the miasma I was referring to is stuck, as if the event is going on, yet no spawn. Has nothing to do with Offshoots.

Yamsandjams.3267:

Worse is the bug where the roll portion of the ability somehow decides to reverse direction and send you back at the people you were running away from. Not sure if it’s just camera or terrain stuff that can cause that to happen, but it gets rather silly sometimes.

I’m always amused when my plus sized Charr engineer decides it’s time for a mid air change in flight direction. Unless that’s back into the zerg I’m trying to escape from, of course.

Handiman.9573:

“I could outrun a centaur!”

I once came across a human mesmer simply named “A Centaur.” He was, naturally, struggling across the landscape of Cursed Shore with a focus in hand as his last moments of the boon ran out.

My vote for best mesmer name ever, anyway.

It seems to me that two things can cause ruined ore, aside from a low level gathering tool.

Certain skills and traits that trigger skills will ruin anything while gathering – Elementalist arcane shield for example. Anything gathered after the three charges are used and the shield detonates will be ruined until you ‘recast’ the harvest.

Certain attacks from mobs will also cause you to ruin ore. You’ll notice that most mob auto attacks won’t do this – but special attacks that cause other effects might, such as knockback. I don’t know if it’s a critical hit or some other criteria .

One thing I’ve noticed is that if your character stops holding whatever gathering tool is being used, and is forced to revert back to their weapon(s) while harvesting, whatever is being gathered will likely be ruined. Stop harvesting and recast it, or better yet, deal with the mobs and then try again.

Lishtenbird.2814:

It’s not fire lines or hitting shaman, it’s a 10-meter area around shaman. I tested it extensively and made a thread about fire shaman HP resets but since no one bumped it and the search function is a son of a cat here, no wonder it got lost forever.

Shameless bump.

I’m really tired of people yelling at everyone to not cross the lines when it has nothing to do with the why the elemental resets.

Curious though – did you test the effects of dead/downed players in the 10m area? Once had a commander lag out and die atop the shaman, and it sure seemed like it was constantly resetting before he finally dc’d.

Only previewed in makeover kits, sorry! Hope it helps.

Keep in mind that the dreads are a slightly different texture than the normal types of hair, and thus color looks a tad different on it. Also, the only part of the ‘tubes’ that are customizable are the dijon dyed bits in my screenshot.

Rovus.5428:

Which of those is the one you get nuked by jellyfish?

Yeah, screw that path. Not worth it in the least.

Can’t tell if sarcasm or serious…

The fact that they explode makes them a free rally. The fight is just really long and boring – almost impossible to fail because of this.