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Articles in "News" bugged on Mozilla Firefox

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Works fine for me in Firefox using uBlock

Make it more paranoid and it will. uBlock Origin with certain rules enabled will block the social media elements on the page, which in this case happens to be embedded in the article, so the entire thing is hidden.

Articles in "News" bugged on Mozilla Firefox

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AdBlocker software.

… is what’s causing it.

Game shutdown after I press play (Windows 10)

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Windows 10 Creators Update has an issue with all types of overlays, including their own built-in Xbox app / DVR, which you’ll need to disable. If you have an NVidia GPU and have GeForce Experience, disable the sharing / shadowplay /overlay features.

You could also try to force the game into windowed mode using:

Gw2.exe -windowed

If you were using any of the dll mods, delete the bin folders in your GW2 folder.

GW2-64.exe is not a valid windows application

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It’s a Windows error that means the executable is corrupted. In this case, it’s just an empty file due to GW2 failing to update itself. Gw2.tmp/Gw2.### are the temporary files created by the launcher when updating. If one of them is ~30 MB, rename it to Gw2.exe or Gw2-64.exe, whichever you were using. Delete all those files when done. If none of those files exist or are valid, redownload Gw2Setup.exe/Gw2Setup-64.exe and simply rename it to Gw2.exe/Gw2-64.exe.

If you have GW2 installed to either of the Program Files directories under C:\, move your GW2 folder somewhere else, such as C:\Games\Guild Wars 2. Program Files is a protected directory that needs administrative access to modify, which can cause GW2 to fail.

Your security software could also be blocking it, so whitelist the GW2 folder.


Alternatively, rather than download Gw2Setup.exe, which is an older version, you can manually update Gw2-64.exe instead:

First you need to retrieve the current build information:
http://assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com/latest64/101

The second number is the current file ID, which at this time is 1744951. Download that file and rename it to Gw2-64.exe:
http://assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com/program/101/1/0/1744951

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Precision Blade/Hold the line

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For Hold the Line, simply let the NPCs die and stand in the back. When not in combat, the enemies will walk around the room in a circle, taking a brief break in the back. When they’re at that back, use the revive skill at the front, which causes Kiera (Anise) to pause rather than stick to you. The enemies will circle back around and engage the NPCs. Let Kiera solo them, she’s immortal, and do not interfere, as you will immediately attract them to yourself. Repeat for as long as you need and however many kills you want.

Magma Elemental tweak please?

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If anything, make all mobs as hard as these fiery guys ^^

That would be a nerf to a lot of the enemies in HoT. These things are weak compared to veteran shadowleapers, smokescales, bristlebacks, desolators, ancient golems, etc.

Dwayna updraft buggy/noAerial fighting skills

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The glider abilities from Bloodstone Fen are only available there and in Lake Doric when touching the ley lines coming from the cannons. This is because those abilities come from bloodstones, which Bloodstone Fen is saturated with and what is shot from the cannons in Lake Doric.

Game tells me to update, but never updates

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Try a different patch server:

Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2

Root cause of Last Chance bug

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As an elementalist, there were always 3 sparks per dome, so 6 total at the start. When you kill a spark, it’ll respawn in ~12 seconds rather than waiting for the entire group to die like usual wave events.

Defeating Self Doubt

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The most garbage fight created up to date. Like what were they thinking? Development inside a box with no play testers…

Agree. Got so frustrated using my main (Ranger) I just forced quit out to take a break. Come back to try again and it’s the same old garbage, start from the beginning , redo previous test, can’t skip cut scenes. Guess I’ll grab my warrior or just forget about it for a while. Hope the exp doesn’t continue with this.

It’s one of the easiest fights in the game. Interact with the NPCs to gain a special action ability, then simply kill it. Ignoring that mechanic and brute forcing it is the optional achievement.

Single Digit FPS

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Rename Gw2-64.exe to Gw2.exe. Alternatively, open NVidia’s control panel and manually configure Gw2-64.exe under 3D settings > program settings.

Cannot log into GW2

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Re-downloading the game shouldn’t have any effect. Is GW2 properly installed? There’s a bug where it may install directly to your temporary folder or show a login prompt prior to installing that doesn’t actually work. Rename Gw2Setup.exe to Gw2.exe and place it wherever you want to install it. If it was installed properly, you have other software interfering with it.

Did anything happen to work?

You mentioned a connection error on the launcher, which means it can’t connect to the patch server. If GW2 isn’t installed yet, rename Gw2Setup.exe to Gw2.exe and place it wherever you want to install it. In the folder with Gw2.exe, append the following to the address bar and press enter to launch it:

\Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2

The above is using ArenaNet’s own patch server, so if it fails, you either have something blocking the connection or a network problem (ping 64.25.41.2). If it worked however, to actually fix the problem without relying on the above, switch to using Google’s DNS, since your default is supplying outdated information.

Shining Blade Secrets-Impossible Achievements

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You can do the same trick to kill 50 if you really want. To speed it up, kill them normally until Shadow escapes, at which points they become super powered, so kill the wave and back off prior to that and let Kiera solo them. When waves spawn, they will always run in a circle around the room and pause at the back, so you only need to stay in the back, then rotate to the front to avoid them. At the front, where the waves spawn and the NPCs should all be dead, use the revive skill on some of the NPCs; it doesn’t matter which or how many. This will cause Kiera to stop, assuming she was stuck to you due to being out of combat. The wave doesn’t stop for long, so they’ll be back around shortly after that revive at which point they’ll kill all the NPCs and Kiera should engage. Stay in the back and watch her solo them for a few minutes, then repeat. Just don’t try helping her kill them, since you’ll immediately pull the entire group.

To do the 50 kills normally, it’s simply a DPS race. I for example only had to deal with 1 powered wave, as my 50th kill was the same wave Shadow escaped. Professions with AoE blind spam will have a much easier time dealing with the stronger waves.

Wait What? A new Expansion? But But But...

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I will define it as false advertising if any of those 16 legendary weapons attatched to the legendary journies entry is put behind a 2nd expansion paywall.

Were any of the legendaries locked behind season 3’s paywall? They’ve already stated that only HoT will be required as they continue to release the remaining legendaries into the next expansion. Also, this will be the last expansion set they’ll add, as future legendaries will be separated from expansions, meaning they can require the materials from the latest content.

But HoT is needed to make them right? so.. should they not finish HoT content before they release some new expansion?

Why would they hold back everything just to release a few weapons when most people don’t even care about them? They’ve already continued past HoT. Season 3 is a paid expansion itself, packaged as DLC.

Wait What? A new Expansion? But But But...

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Actually Anet said a set of 16 new legendaries with HoT

Not with HoT. The 16 legendaries were stated to be post-launch content, which would be released in small groups at regular intervals until the full set was complete.

Defeating Self Doubt

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Btw, I think i could dodge some hands, not a lot but some.

There’s no point in dodging them, since the hands are just for show. The debuff is unavoidable and applied on a simple timer.

Shining Blade Secrets-Impossible Achievements

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Hold the Line is actually trivial. Sit in the back and let the NPCs die. Anise is immortal, so you only need to get the enemies to aggro onto her first, then she’ll tank them for as long as you want. Alternatively, it’s a standard wave event, so the next group of enemies will only spawn when the previous is killed. Leave one the melees alive and simply run around.

Defeating Self Doubt

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It’s like 3 seconds of alacrity which honestly won’t help much with 25 stacks of the debuff and the boss attacking you.

5s and applied every 20, but it’s really not going to help since 25 stacks is +125 seconds to your abilities.

Personally, I just went easy mode on a zerker greatsword warrior. Easy access CC with low cooldowns and Healing Signet out heals the damage.

Updates won't complete for last month

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I did try this solution just in case, and the client couldn’t even connect when I tried it:

The IPs can change. Those from 2 years ago are likely long gone, especially since ArenaNet has flipped through various providers over the last year. Try ArenaNet’s own server:

Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2

For some people however, only a VPN will work as something is manipulating their traffic and causing GW2 to download corrupted files, which it gets stuck on. Some have had success in simply leaving the launcher open, for hours. You can use the -log option to see what it’s doing, which creates the file: %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.log

New player just bought HoT

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If you purchased directly from ArenaNet, you’ll likely be automatically upgraded to the next expansion (a leak suggested ArenaNet would be doing yearly half priced expansions, hence HoT’s suspicious price drop) or will receive a refund when buying it.

If you purchased from a 3rd party, you’ll likely be considered a veteran account and receive the bonuses for owning HoT rather than a refund.

This is what happened with HoT.

It’s more likely the new expansion will be 3-5 months away.

Pre-purchasing however will likely open on August 1st.

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Hold the Line & Precision Blade

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Like usual wave events, the next wave only spawns when the previous is killed.

Precision Blade is a simple DPS race. By the time she escapes, you should be on your last wave, which is super powered. You only need to zerk them down before they kill off all your helpers.

Hold the Line is a joke. Don’t bother killing them and just stall. Let all the NPCs die and only Kiera (Anise) will survive, because she’s immortal. Hide in the back and let her agro the full wave, tanking it for as long as you want.

First mission problem. Justiciar Araya - OPE

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Stuck on this for 45 minutes. How do you turn them all on?

Reset it (leave the instance), then scroll up and follow the pictures.

Defeating Self Doubt

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It gains a stacking buff every time it takes damage that reduces damage taken up to 100% at 20 stacks. It doesn’t gain stacks while broken, so you essentially need to CC with minimal hits, then burst it down.

If you’re not going for the achievement, simply interact with the illusions on the side and you’ll gain a special action ability that breaks the target and causes massive damage.

First mission problem. Justiciar Araya - OPE

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Unfortunately, the 2nd puzzle isn’t solved like the first one.

Both can be solved by turning them all on, which overloads the shield and causes damage, hence why the second one required it. You get an achievement for doing it on the first one.

Window mode problem

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It looks normal on browser, so it’s only in GW2, on others games like SWTOR or ESO everything is fine

That’s because those windows are maximized, which removes the shadowing and takes the full size of the screen. GW2 can’t do that, because it automatically switches to full screen mode if you try to maximize it.

First mission problem. Justiciar Araya - OPE

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Can someone please post a youtube video of how to do this. I’m an idiot.

You grab bloodstone fragments and throw them at the things on the floor. The first one has them in a barrel, whereas the second one comes from the enemies. When you throw them, they’ll invert the state of the one you threw it at as well as the ones directly next to it.

To simply solve it, throw the bloodstone like this, following the numbers:

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Are "Intelligent" Macros allowed?

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It’s against the rules. Their policy states that 1 key should not be able to perform multiple actions. A smart macro is just that, allows you to automate your play and breaks their general advantage rule. In truth however, it doesn’t matter what you do as long as you’re not actually botting.

Window mode problem

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Unless you want to switch to windowed full screen, you can’t. That gap is the shadowing on Windows 10 and is factored into the size of the window. You’re trying to resize it to be bigger than the actual screen, which GW2 won’t allow so it snaps back.

unable to verify the guild wars 2 executable

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Rename Gw2Setup.exe to Gw2.exe, place it wherever you’d like to install the game, then right click it and run it as an administrator.

If you were already at that point, you can try looking for a Gw2.tmp file in the same folder as Gw2.exe. If it’s ~30 MB, rename it to Gw2.exe and try it. Exclude GW2 in your security software to prevent it from interfering and don’t install GW2 under Program Files unless you always want to run it as an admin.

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Game Client - Disable SMS Security Requests

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You can’t disable it, at least not with a simple option. It’s intended to annoy you because the average user has no idea what they’re doing and 2FA can be more secure for them. For advanced users however, the basic email authentication is actually the most secure option.

You can get rid of it by doing it what it says and adding 2FA to your account, either SMS or an authenticator. Since an authenticator can be ran on your computer, it’s the fastest option and can be as simple as pressing a macro button to paste your code.

You can bypass it by automatically logging in:
Gw2.exe -nopatchui -email example@email.com -password expansionpwd

You can disable it (eventually) by never running the launcher normally again:
To update: Gw2.exe -image
To launch: Gw2.exe -sharearchive
(-sharearchive forces the game into read-only mode, so you won’t be able to modify some of your settings)

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Hate hero points farming

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How is it worse when they´ve decreased the needed heropoints ?

The excess is worse, which was what they were trying to solve when they originally redesigned hero points.

What ArenaNet doesn’t want is for elite specs to be obtained the minute the expansion is launched, since they want you to play the content with a sense of progression. If you had 100% of the available points going into HoT, it meant you were roughly 50% complete, which is really how it should have been for everyone (fully unlocked halfway through the expansion). They wanted your past progress to matter, but the problem is, it’s not fun for everyone else, since in order to play with the new stuff, you had to screw yourself for the majority of HoT.

Nerfing the hero points required for elite specs wasn’t a bad thing itself and was only the result of HoT’s foolish design. The mistake they made was requiring nearly all 40 of HoT’s hero challenges (assuming a normal player) and making them group events, which only guaranteed that it would fail and eventually become unplayable in the future. Further requiring 65 points for your core skills would have been a disaster, considering leveling normally from 1-80 is only going to get you about 40. ArenaNet took such an odd turn with HoT, I wouldn’t be surprised if Colin wanted it to fail on his way out to Amazon. They would have been far better off with half the amount at double the points, with them stacked into the earlier maps (20 total, 8 in VB, 6 in AB, 4 in TD, 2 in DS for example). The way elite specs are unlocked also needs to be changed, since if you want to use the new stuff, you’re forced into using empty traits. It should be balanced so traits are first and all unlocked within the first map.

The problem in nerfing the amount required was that it permanently doubled the amount of excess points available. ArenaNet’s going to have to make a choice with the next expansion. They could leave it as is and allow the minority to forever unlock future specs on day 0, further bloat it as they did with HoT, or scrap it and shift to something specific to the expansion.

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can't name a character Chie Amano

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It won’t allow “Chie” specifically. It could be an employee’s name, like how they have “Gaile” blacklisted for example.

Mounts [merged]

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If they implement the next expansion, as the Devs said they will, they won’t need to consider ‘not requiring HoT to play’, as it will be included, along with the Core game.

The problem is in forcing players to play through other content first. Masteries were originally intended to be expansion-specific and not used anywhere else, but that may have changed after they opened gliding and certainly after mounts as they’d be too useful. Imagine what the game would be like for new players in the future if you had to grind through each expansion to obtain their masteries. GW2 will quickly become the opposite of what it wanted to be and far worse of an experience than traditional MMOs, since here you’re required to do achievements. This can be somewhat easily solved however by simply removing the mastery points, which should have just been experience bonuses, and once again allowing you to level however and wherever you wanted to. This time however, only gliding is potentially needed and it could easily be reintroduced through the griffon.

Hate hero points farming

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According to the rumors, the game will require 400 points during the next specialization. At first I laughed then I told myself, I wont be buying the expansion if that is true.

HoT was originally 400 and another 65 was needed for your core skills. They were trying to tone down the excess, but only ended up making it worse. If they want to try again, the next expansion will need to be closer to 800 points, since HoT doubled the excess. It doesn’t really matter how much the total is, because they’ll just bloat the value of hero challenges again, which you can only hope they don’t try to foolishly justify as raids this time, considering they’d need to be 20+ points each.

LOD Distance: settings have no affect

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I can’t tell the difference.

Open both images on top of each other and flip between them. The city, the flowers on the bridge, the far left or right houses and tree in the back for example.

LOD Distance: settings have no affect

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Objects in-game will only change when they need to, so if you’re just sitting there flipping the option, it’ll never change. You actually need to force it to update by moving.

Here’s a sample, low vs ultra:

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Mounts [merged]

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Maybe. It didn’t seem like there would be anything that would glide or fly. We don’t know how the hover could behave.

The griffon can jump and wing flap, which is likely slow fall. They wouldn’t want to require HoT to play the next expansion, so they’ll either not require gliders or simply reintroduce them. They’re going to need a lot more invisible walls however if they simply allow these special abilities; high jumps for example.

And that cannot happen by adding mounts only to the new zones and keep them out of the old ones?

There’s no point in advertising to people who’ve already purchased the expansion, and the more restricted mounts are, the harder they’ll be to sell. Making them useless or not allowing them in the core game would only be costing ArenaNet, which is likely why they rushed to add gliding to the core game.

In their revenue report, they noted the disappointment of HoT’s sales and failing to sell to F2Pers. It’s really no surprise that they’re finally trying mounts, which are probably the most popular item in MMOs. Look at how well gliders sold. With mounts being far more useable and several types to choose from, they’re going to sell a lot more, as long as people can regularly use them.

Mounts [merged]

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If they do add mounts into the game, and are available maps outside of that expansion, they must not provide anything other than aesthetics.

One of them is the new glider, so they’re probably going to be more than just cosmetic.

There is literally nothing good that can come out of adding mounts to the game as it is now.

For ArenaNet there is. It’s simple advertising and will boost sales.

Support inacessible - error page

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It’s a problem with the certificate they’re using. They can’t modify the forums, so the link above is a redirect with an invalid certificate, hence the insecure warning.

The actual page is:

https://help.guildwars2.com

Problem downloading the game

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Right click Gw2.exe/Gw2-64.exe and select properties. If it says the file came from another computer, unblock it. Right click Gw2.exe and create a shortcut. Right click the shortcut and select properties. For the shortcut’s target, add the following so it looks similar to this, but with your own path:

"F:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe" -log -assetsrv 64.25.41.2

Right click the shortcut and run it as an administrator. Monitor the size of Gw2.dat while it’s downloading files by right clicking it and selecting properties, which you will need to redo for each check to force it to update. If it hasn’t changed after a minute, close GW2 and open the following log file:

%appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.log

The log contains what the launcher is trying to do.

future lw releases, open beta testing plz?

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The live servers double as the public test servers. If the living world had a beta, nothing would change; you’d still need to patch.

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Elite specializations are meant to fill that role. There could be a new profession/class one day, but it’s highly unlikely considering one of the reasons they gave for adding one in HoT was to fill out the 3 weights with 3 professions each.

Hate hero points farming

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Originally, if you wanted your abilities while leveling, completing skill challenges was required. It wasn’t until 80 that the alternative opened up, the ability to gain skill points for further levels.

If HoT stuck to the original design, you probably would have bought an elite spec trait book for 10g, which would have unlocked usage of the specialization and all of its traits. For the abilities, you would be free to choose which ones you wanted, but they would be tiered, so you’d need to buy the healing skill first, then the abilities and finally the elite. Additionally, HoT would have had its own HoT-brand skill points complete with its own experience bar to gain extras.

There was no challenge.

The core game’s original skill challenges as intended were more challenging than HoT’s. If you want the same experience today, you need to play in +10 level areas with a condition build.

No HoT discount for owners of the game?

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If the price of old XPac+Core were to drop to $10 or $20 when the new pack releases, the financial burden on new players would be greater than now, but at least the rationale behind thinking that new customers are getting a better deal would be removed.

Selling the expansion by itself and everything else bundled together for $30 would actually be a better deal for new players and a better experience. The one box model may sound good if you know nothing about the game, but what they don’t tell you is that each season is sold separately at a fixed price. Season 2 + 3 is an extra $30 in gems and with the current plans, each future expansion will add another $10.

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(which is scheduled for end of this year if everything works out)

Pre-purchasing it however could be as soon as next month. If the rumor turns out to be true, that ArenaNet is planning on yearly half priced expansions, hence the price drop at such an odd time, it’s actually available right now.

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Start up a kickstarter for new servers and move out of Seattle and move to Texas or New York.

The datacenter is already in Texas and ArenaNet has already been experimenting with new servers using Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing.

[Suggestions] Gemstore Items

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And what makes you think that the devs are going to add new styles in the x-pac?

Some have already been added in preparation, though there’s the possibility that they keep them exclusive to NPCs.

Connection Issues: July 11 and 12

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The thing is that it’s on this site. I clicked the support link up top and it’s doing it. It only let me in after I closed the client, closed the web browser, then retried and it let me in. It was using https so I guess it was safe. I’m no web wizard. Most importantly though, is this happening to anyone else?

Everyone with an up to date or paranoid browser. It’s because the certificate is invalid, since it’s for *.guildwars2.com whereas en.support.guildwars2.com is *.*.guildwars2.com.

It would be simple to fix normally, but they apparently can’t modify the forums at all. The actual link to support was changed a while ago and is https://help.guildwars2.com

Grand Finale on 25th July

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It looks like Orr with a Canthan boat!!

That boat was datamined a long time ago (img). It was back with the Zephyrites, so it could be them. It was also used in concept art, which was used for Bloodtide Coast.

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