Guild Wars 2

Amaimon.7823:

Maybe you kicked them too fast and 2 out of 3 kicks didn’t get registered?

Probably, considering it took me well over 50, maybe 100 kicks as I chained it out of the area. Alternatively, you and those you know are just really lucky and it has something like a 5% chance after a the first few kicks. When you kick it, it pauses for a second before running back. You probably have to wait for that or else it doesn’t count.

According to another topic, it technically takes 2 days with a season in between. In short, the shards are a one time reward.

Ascended gear will get easier to acquire however, much like how they’re giving away accessories/rings/back with season 3. Because one day it’ll be required. They’ve always hinted at having a treadmill, just stretched out. Originally it was increasing the level cap, then it was infusions.

Magic find only affects drops from enemies and specified containers that simulate drops from enemies.

MoarChaos.8320:

Remove the ability to join a lobby that will finish in 2 minutes.

It’s not really an issue since it just resets. It failing however is another problem, but in the case of the JP, that’s how you can score a private instance.

MoarChaos.8320:

Enemy name tags??

Hide the UI. (ctrl+shift+h)

MoarChaos.8320:

Otherwise how can you say we shouldn’t be wisps for this one?

Falling wisps aren’t as fun to watch.

They probably didn’t make people whatever because it’s a much easier experience compared to everyone starting at the same point and expected to hop between a few little objects. Not only can you choose a different path, you can also simply wait a snowflake turn, then you likely won’t see the other players again, assuming you all don’t fail early on.

Sky.7610:

you have to actually buy things and be in front of a Trading post to pick up, so i don’t see how it can be worth abusing. Besides, TP already have infinite storage.

If you could selectively pick and choose, there’s nothing stopping you from using the trading post to store stuff forever. As it currently is, you can no longer use the trading post to buy something you need without first picking up the 100k+ items you were saving to flip at a later date. Any serious flipper however has multiple accounts just for this purpose.

Sky.7610:

I’m not sure how it would create any extra burden on the server, considering it already remembers everything you bought.

It actually doesn’t. They’ve already had to cut down the trading post’s history to improve performance.

How bad it’d be however is heavily dependent on how it’s coded. Regardless, letting you sift through everything is obviously a huge difference compared to only letting you view some of it. It could be done and it would definitely have paging/limits, but it’d probably require a lot of work, especially considering that they seem to be currently using a simple queue to interface communications.

Sky.7610:

Its like opening a document that contains 10 pages. The computer already remember whats written in all 10 pages (saved data), it will not reduce the performance if you decide to scroll to page 3, instead of reading the pages in order. Same concept.

The data still needs to be processed in order to even find page 3. If the goal was to read random pages as fast as possible however, like an indexed database, then the pages would be stored in fixed blocks, allowing the page number to be calculated.

Sky.7610:

Trust me, as someone who knows their IT, a patching server uses exponentially more “server resource” than the small amount needed for what i’m suggesting and there is obviously no problem there.

A patch server only uses a lot of bandwidth, which ArenaNet outsources to a CDN. Handling cached files requires very little processing. Real time database transactions are the opposite, requiring little bandwidth, but having high processing costs.

When the JP was first introduced, it was an actual map, like any other PvE zone. It was later converted to the SPvP format, which added the time limit and scoreboards. They use the PvP format because PvE stuff is disabled there. People were using speed boosters for example in the clock tower. You have to be careful however, because sometimes your PvP equipment is a factor. Not sure if it’s still the case, but stack vitality gear for Snowball Mayhem; the other stats do nothing.

It would be far too taxing on the servers, plus it could be easily abused for infinite storage. They’d have to first limit you to like 100 pickups, which would defeat the purpose.

It’s not labeled/named. It’s just an interactable object you walk up to and use (press F to light). The potion isn’t required. If you’ve already completed that episode on that character, try exiting and entering the instance, or start a different episode to abandon your progress.

Felahr.9830:

like what? iv never known her to do that

I only know these ones because I’ve seen people complain about them:

Cryptonym strongbox in TD. She tries to go over the branches, but you can simply take the updraft right around the corner.

Token #39 in EB. She tries to glide into the hole, but there’s an underwater cave, the same one used for #16, that leads right to it.

Mal.1670:

Do the rifts still spawn or did they break in a recent update?

If you still need the stabilizer, you basically need to find someone else to open a rift for you. Unstable rifts, which are hidden and marked as nearby events on the map, are still all over the place and in various maps.

Fun fact, a set of cultural armor cost around $500 during the first several months. That’d be 7k gold today.

I don’t know how many times it took, but it took me around 10, maybe 20 minutes to get. After a few minutes, I changed my goal to how far can I kick it, since it doesn’t run back unless you let it recover. I went down to the chest behind the bone wall, twice.

Sometimes Dulfy is funny, like do this impossible jump to get this item, when the intended foot path is right around the corner.

In short, GW2 is running out of memory.

HoT basically made a 64-bit version of Windows a requirement. You can’t fix the problem without upgrading to 64-bit, but you can try to avoid it. Set the model limit/quality under graphics settings to lowest and restart the game after waypointing to a new zone. The longer you play / the more objects you load, the more likely you’ll crash.

If you want to upgrade, you may be able to use your existing Windows 7 32-bit key for the 64-bit version:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows7

If you don’t know your key, you can use ProduKey to recover it. Note, security software may label it as malware, because it’s reading your key.

Depending on your version of Windows, you can use the mklink command, which basically creates a shortcut, effectively redirecting where the screenshots are actually stored. You’ll need to first move the Screens folder to a desired location (D:\… in the example below).

Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) as an administrator and enter the following command, substituting your own paths:

mklink /J "C:\Users\%username%\Documents\Guild Wars 2\Screens" "D:\Guild Wars 2\Screens"

OriOri.8724:

They are designed for large groups.

Tequatl and the Wurm are the exception, being designed for a nearly full map. The original world bosses were designed for 10+ people, but scaled for 3+. Split metas like HoT are designed for 20+ (4 groups of 5).

Busted Flagon/Bouncer/Bar Brawl was basically the same idea as Costume Brawl, but with NPCs. They were probably abandoned because how would they have implemented them back then? Private instanced activities? Now however, they have phased adventures. The shooting gallery is what target shooting would have been like. If they ever bring them back, which would probably be easy to do now as they’d be redundant, expect them to be as adventures.

Why would they remove them just because you can’t play them? The visuals still add to the atmosphere and the carnival area is used for the human personal story.

An easy/normal mode would be easy to implement. It could be as simple as offering permanent protection. It wouldn’t be a good idea to split open world maps however, but they could easily do it for the story. Since they let groups trivialize it anyways, which is probably ArenaNet’s intended version of an easy mode, they wouldn’t even need to disable the achievements or reduce the rewards.

GW2 was always meant to be challenging however. The game was heavily nerfed during beta because of the standstill MMO crowd, where even a level 2 Moa in Queensdale would kill you within a single channeled peck. Their intention was to ease-in the difficulty, increasing it over time to improve those players. They have gone back and nerfed old content however, like the Silverwastes, so maybe they’ll blanket nerf HoT with the next expansion.

Scaling can work, but it needs to dynamically adjust to the total size of the guild. For example, they would need to limit guilds to 5 people at first, which could be upgraded or downgraded in quantities of 5. As you changed the size of the guild, everything would scale accordingly, including the requirements of anything already completed. Any excess would be banked for future upgrades, or a portion could be recovered.

Decorations should be easy to make and simply be balanced around singles though, but they can easily scale by requiring multiples in order to place them.

The problem however is that guilds would be discouraged from increasing their size, especially when smaller guilds are more likely to contribute compared to the spam invite zerg guilds.

They should have just made them like waypoints. When you zoom the map out for example, dungeon icons stay visible and at their normal size. These would be the same.

onevstheworld.2419:

Wait… are you saying your 8-pin power input for your GPU only has a 6-pin connected to it? IIRC a 6-pin delivers 75W and a 8-pin delivers 150W. I’m not sure what side-effect your setup would cause though.

Both can actually supply the same power with 3x 12v pins, but the 6-pin is only specified for 2 with 1 unused, so it’ll vary by PSU. If it is 3x 12v, it’s entirely possible to rig up the last 2 pins with a fake connection as they’re only ground wires. The lack of those 2 pins being connected at all however could be causing the problem, as one is an optional power regulator which the GPU is probably going to test, and with nothing there at all, it may default to the lowest power configuration.

BrainedBot.2106:

I’m looking out for some incompatibility on, maybe, my cpu, or eighter any program I might have…

The “bus interface load” is the amount of data being sent back and forth between the GPU. Notice how GW2 was capping it while the other game wasn’t? The limited bandwidth of x1 means that GW2 is having to wait on the GPU.

Check the BIOS for any PCIe limiters / manual slot configuration and while you’re at it, disable the integrated graphics and any power saving/green features it has. Update the BIOS (compare your version) after testing, which will probably reset the settings, so try again. Some boards will share the PCIe bandwidth, so try disabling all non-essential features in the BIOS – USB Turbo has been a cause in the past – and after testing that, strip down the system to its bare components (take out any other PCIe cards) to test.

Take out the GPU and check its contacts for damage or dirt, then do the same for the slot. All it takes is 1 pin without contact. Be careful not to damage anything. Slot it back in, ensuring that it’s properly in place and not slanted or anything (the clip on the slot should snap in place, if applicable). Additionally confirm that GPU is properly powered.

If you’re not intentionally running it, disable NVidia GFE shadowplay/sharing.

Wintersday, because it rewards success whereas Halloween rewards failure – an example of what’s wrong with the system.

Conncept.7638:

I mean they can’t even scrounge up a new story instance like the ones they put out every other month now?

Back in the day, the festivals were a part of the actual living world, which is why they were updated. Now however, they’re simply distractions used to buy time. They could maybe squeeze in 1 festival a year to add on to, but anything major would certainly take the place of a living world episode, meaning everything gets pushed back by 2 months. There’s simply no profit in doing that.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually removed the weights altogether one day just to make it easier to develop armor (1 vs 3 sets). As it is now, the different weights have to fit a pattern, so the chest and legs can’t be mixed, but the rest can. It’d probably be a simple change to do, where if the legs didn’t match, they’d simply be considered damaged/broken and thus invisible with no stats.

It has the same use as the story. It’s limited to that area, makes them friendly and allows you to access the heart vendor.

Just some stuff in HoT to play with…

Ancient Golem duo, found inactive on the path to the golem hero challenge in Auric Basin (run past both of them, then turn around). They have the usual golem rapid fire, except it’ll spam you with slow. When they’re not doing that, they’ll rush to knock you over.

Shadowscale pack, found outside the cave leading to the golem hero challenge in Auric Basin. Take on multiple veterans to deal with a constant stream of invulnerabilities and deadly assaults.

Veteran Shadowleaper, found in Verdant Brink, various places. High damage, immune to ranged targets and is highly mobile, a counter to builds such as a staff elementalist.

Veteran Devastator and friends, found in Dragon’s Stand. Immune to damage and spams leap until it gets tired. Without simply running away to avoid it, evade the leaps while taking out the rest of the group.

MarkPhilips.5169:

I mean, how could they change this gap lag between these 2 nodes?

Your ISP can’t do anything as they have no control over someone else’s network. If you contacted them, they’d likely ask for a tracert then probably just point that out. The most they would do is forward your complaint, which would then be ignored. They might be able to route you over an entirely different network, but it’s highly unlikely. If you want a quick solution, you can use a VPN to reroute your connection, though you’ll need to find one that is both close by and not on the same route.

Swing.6439:

My account was banned for eleven days, but I never purchased any gold?

If you’re saying the reason for the ban was that you participated in real money trading, you don’t actually need to buy/sell gold to get banned. If someone sends you an item or gold in the mail for example, regardless if you accept it or not, you’ll be banned if they were flagged for RMT. RMT also happens through the trading post, which can get you banned if you fall into the trap of buying/selling items with extremely abnormal prices. If you share an IP with someone who gets banned, which includes any IPs across any accounts you’ve logged in to, they’ll assume the account are shared, so they’ll ban them all.

When you contact support, they’ll usually say something about how the decision is final. Ignore it and ask to have the ticket elevated. You can also post in that stickied thread.

Open a command prompt as an administrator and enter the following command:
net user TempUser /add

Open the start menu, click your portrait and switch to the new TempUser account. Download/copy Gw2Setup.exe, rename it to Gw2.exe, place it on your desktop and try to run it. This is to rule out a corrupted user account.

As a last resort, rather than reinstalling, you could try to reset Windows instead. Do not attempt this without another way to install Windows, because if it fails during the process, it could fail to recover, meaning you won’t be able to get back in. Backup anything important. To reset Windows, press ctrl+alt+delete to bring up the lock screen, hold shift and click the shutdown icon > restart. Under troubleshooting, choose to reset the PC.

beno.7985:

How do you show achivements to other players then?

If you really want to show someone, you can do so through the API by giving that person access. There are websites for doing it, such as gw2efficiency.com.

Tekey.7946:

I wonder if we’ll ever see some new events again.

Current events are to fill the gaps, so don’t expect to see them when there’s something else. Expect to wait a while actually. Wintersday until Jan 10th, episode 4 around the 20th and Lunar New Year until probably Feb 7th. The next current event will probably be around Feb 21st with another one on March 7th. Then it’s episode 5 around March 21st and SAB on April 1st. After that it’s open, but season 3 will probably be over or nearly so.

Ok I Did It.2854:

You say its not resolved like this is an easy fix for Anet, they would have to do a massive amount of work just to increase the game to 4k, all icons etc would need remade, take that across the entire game, all that work for maybe less than 1-2% of ppl who play at 4k

They would simply stretch the icons, which is how it’s already done. If scaling is already done by percentage, they’d simply need to enter a new value. If that was the case however, they probably would have done it already, so it must be hardcoded.

Start by making a “Guild Wars 2” folder on your desktop, rename Gw2Setup(-64).exe to Gw2.exe and put it in that folder. Right click Gw2.exe, then run it as an administrator just to test. You can move this folder wherever you want later.

It’s likely failing to download from your local asset server. You can manually try a different one by using the -assetsrv command, but do note that the IPs can change over time. You could also try using Google’s DNS as a permanent solution. For -assetsrv, enter the following into the address bar of the folder containing Gw2.exe and hit enter (or you could make a shortcut):

Gw2.exe -assetsrv 52.84.16.151

You can lookup other IPs yourself by opening a command prompt (cmd.exe) and entering the following command:

nslookup assetcdn.101.ArenaNetworks.com

… or using Google’s DNS:

nslookup assetcdn.101.ArenaNetworks.com 8.8.8.8

If it still fails, use the -log command, then open %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.log to see where it’s getting stuck.

Gw2.exe -log

When a map says it’s closing, taxi’ing people to that map actually increases the odds that it’ll close. The trick is, the map isn’t closing because it’s low population, it’s closing because the map ahead of you needs to be filled. When you volunteer to a closing map, it’s because the chain of overflows is collapsing.

Click show details on the error message and read it. There is likely a line in the first section that says Module: <filename> where <filename> is the cause of the crash. In a lot of cases, it’s caused by Lavasoft or other VPN/proxy/network software.

The error means that you’re missing something required by the executable in order to run, or it’s corrupted/unsupported/unreadable.

Just to rule it out, add GW2 as an exception to your security software. Disabling it isn’t always enough, and some security software will even persist after uninstalling.

If you’ve googled it, you’ve probably already tried sfc /scannow to check the integrity of Windows. If not, search the start menu for cmd, right click command prompt and run it as an administrator. In the command prompt, enter: sfc /scannow. Run Windows Update after. If sfc failed, try again under recovery by pressing ctrl+alt+del to bring up the lock screen, then hold shift and click shutdown > restart to bring up another menu. Select troubleshoot > advanced > command prompt, which will reboot to a prompt. Your drives will move around while in this mode, so you’ll need to confirm which drive is your system. It’ll likely be d: instead of c:, so enter d: into the prompt, then enter dir to list the contents of the directory. Change the letter if necessary:
sfc /scannow /offbootdir=d:\ /offwindir=d:\windows

Press WindowsKey+R and open msconfig. Under the boot tab select safe boot with network under it, then ok and reboot to enter safe mode. This will disable non-essential software, so it’s a simple way to test for conflicts. Some security software will however persist, which can be a problem. Try running GW2 now. Uncheck safe boot under msconfig to return to Windows.

If you’ve googled it, you might have tried to uninstall/reinstall Microsoft Visual C++ runtimes. If not, open “programs and features” and uninstall all of them, taking note of what version you remove as you’ll need to re-download them from Microsoft later, otherwise your other games will fail to run.

As a compromise, you could try the 32-bit version of GW2 by renaming Gw2Setup.exe to Gw2.exe and using the -32 option (Gw2.exe -32). This would however mean that your system’s 64-bit DLLs are the problem.

As a last resort, use system restore or re-install Windows.

Laurels are exclusively from login rewards and achievement point rewards.

Ascended accessories, rings, amulet and back piece can be casually obtained from the season 3 maps. For armor and weapons, buy something else and use the mystic forge to stat swap.

Sky.7610:

Which is why an offical app would be awesome. They can charge gem for it if they want but i think it should be accessible to all.

If it was unlimited, they’d need to charge an actual subscription. It’s already possible to view the trading post through an app, including your personal inventory and transaction history. The problem with actually buying and selling however is that it makes it far easier to bot. People can already do it of course, but opening it would make it far more common. The counter to that would mean only being to do a small number of transactions a day.

Treyu.9714:

The new Bitterfrost Frontier map also seems to be good place with tons of events every minute, but as those two have dimishing return maybe that is why people choose Tarir?

Events? People farm Tarir by abusing the taxi system to farm the reward chests under Tarir 10+ times per cycle. In Bitterfrost, you basically do the same thing by collecting the frozen chests, then hop to a new map to do it again. There’s no DR on chests.

Katoomba.6905:

So as a single person you have to fight like 7 strong enemies and then more come, and more and it is not fun any longer.

Note that if the NPCs were as strong as the player, you’d no longer be facing 7 regular enemies, you’d be facing 30+, including veterans, elites and some champions.

suffish.4150:

I expect 8 episodes in this season of living world which will take us until about September and then probably a few months wait until we get expansion 2 in early 2018 (probably January or February ).

It could’ve changed with their new format, but considering seasons were originally planned to play out over a year in pseudo real time, there’ll likely only be 6 episodes at most. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 4th is the last. The living story only serves as an introduction to the expansion. Next episode Taimi’s probably going to reveal how to fight the two dragons and it’ll probably involve Aurene and some lost artifact, like something involving Glint’s old cave in the desert. They could still touch on and fill out some other things, but with the stage set, they could end with an expansion trailer whenever.

insomnia.8563:

The next quest (frozen out) is just kittened . Getting attacked by groups of veterans, that almost ignores your rolls. I roll and they just jump me. Its like they are trying to screw over the players and making sure they die. The game isnt really enjoyable, its a pain. You arent ment to enjoy the story, and not have the feeling of, you can’t wait till its over, which is how i have it

The NPCs will actually kill everything for you, so you can just run away and wait it out if you really wanted to. This is the problem with having actual helper NPCs compared to NPCs being mostly cosmetic (balanced for the group vs balanced for you). Your experience can vary greatly because of them, because sometimes they’ll actually tank everything for you.

As for the general difficulty, GW2 was always intended to be balanced for the action gamers, whereas most MMOs are balanced for the casual players. If you play an action game like Witcher 3 for example on a normal difficulty, you should notice a similar solo experience to GW2. The problem however is that GW2 lacks vertical progression to compensate, which is probably why ArenaNet allows groups to trivialize the content, except most people would likely quit instead of going out of their way to group. Some professions are also far easier than others; a necromancer is probably the easiest due to its natural defense, effectively having 5x the health and pets.

Take the thermal tube just to the south of the entrance to the bitter cold. It’s on the mountain and used to access the area above with the mastery point. From there you can casually glide to wherever you want to go.

Mea.5491:

Back in beta there was a patch when mobs actually avoided our AoE fields. It was a pain in the butt to kill them, EVERYONE complained so Anet removed it. Just sayin’.

They didn’t just avoid them, AoEs basically acted as a fear and was easy to exploit as the enemies would always run away from them. Nearly the same thing can seen in the new map, except enemies will occasionally ignore the AoE. As an elementalist for example, I’ve dropped a meteor shower and watched the griffons run far away, and sometimes they don’t even come back, though still in combat.

Allow ground targeted abilities to be targeted while still on cooldown, allowing you to pre-emptively place it, then immediately cast it when ready.

Doam.8305:

If this game phased it’s content as in new players would see a pristine tooth and older players would see a crack then I’d agree but phased content isn’t their thing so I’m against it all.

You only see a cracked tooth if your character has completed the story.

Considering they switched from a public web to internal API when they upgraded the trading post, I doubt they’ll make it public again. Back in the day, it was easy to buy items for example just by accessing a URL. Selling however required information from the game.

It is possible to play the trading post elsewhere, but you’ll need to keep the game running. Simply setup a remote screen viewer. It’s also possible to make an actual app, but it would be against the rules as you’d need to manipulate the trading post to gain access to its API.

You can actually AFK through the rooms and let the NPCs kill everything. You do need to interact at certain parts however to get them moving. It takes them like 5 minutes or so to kill the groups themselves, so something like 20-25 minutes. For comparison, as a zerker ele, the groups only take a minute or two.

I doubt they’ll bother adding a retry mote considering they never went back and redid season 2, and these achievements are trivial compared to that. Grouping up to cheat it is the alternative.

Why? Access to the treasury is the reward for completing the event. If you don’t participate, why should you be rewarded?

When? They’ve been talking about it for like a year. That’s all they’ll probably do until the next expansion (~ another year).

How? You should assume that if you don’t participate, you won’t get the rewards. Something like the particpation buff in the Silverwastes, or they may just put cooldown on the chests. If they wait until the next expansion, they’ll likely just nerf the contents and say it’s time to move on. They need to fix the core problem though – changing instances to farm the same thing over and over.

ThomasC.1056:

Vermignus could actually be an interesting world boss if there were any challenge in it. For now, even when the scaling is so high that 2-3 champion wurm pop at the same time, the golem in itself isn’t remotely damaged.

You have it backwards. Bringing more people only makes it easier (and funnily, more rewarding). Scaling was only intended to make it so larger groups could reasonably participate, like a level 80 in Queensdale. In terms of difficulty, if you bring 100 people, it’s actually going to be balanced for something like 60. Normal group events are actually balanced for 3 people.

Failing the wurm is nearly impossible however without intentionally trying. The wurms tend to ignore the middle relays, so it’s possible to win even if nobody shows up. If you want to see an event with a huge difference, try the sloth queen with only a few people. The zerg can casually burn her down, but a small group won’t be able to out DPS her healing, and trying will only cause her to eat the grubs faster, leading to a fail. The actual goal is to stall for the food deliveries, which put her to sleep.