Guild Wars 2

My reply to the OP is don’t pay attention to the bloggers. After that interview with Colin, there has been talk of expansion on the horizon by NCSoft shareholders. ArenaNet started hiring as well shortly after that interview.

The Living Story stuff(as ArenaNet gets better at it) is awesome. I can not wait to see what they are doing with that type of content a year from now when they start operating it like a well oiled machine. I find it way more enjoyable than churning through an expansion on all my characters where it is rehashed content. Southsun is awesome now and it isn’t even done yet. I think to look at F&F as the end all of this type of content is overwhelmingly myopic. ArenaNet will just keep getting better and better at this stuff.

Keep your chin up soldier. This game isn’t going anywhere.

Ashley Segovia.8276:

Hm… I’d need to collect more info from you in order to further investigate. Unfortunately with these error codes, 7 in particular, there are a number of different causes and thus a number of different resolutions.

Would you mind posting a Game Advisor report to this thread so that I could take a look? If you’re not comfortable putting this information on the forums, I’d recommend creating a Technical Support ticket. The thread below should detail contacting support as well as creating a Game Advisor report:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/How-to-Submit-a-Technical-Support-Ticket-2/first#post3957

I attached the file. Also be aware Ashley that I got an error code 14 today as well. I have also had my ISP send a tech out and he rerouted me and that still didnt work. Running out of options. Please save me!

EDIT: Heads up too, some friends of mine are suggesting my router is getting flooded. My internet light on my modem stops blinking for 3-5 seconds and only when on GW2. I also installed GW1 and Neverwinter to see how those games responded and I was able to play them fine with no disconnects. The problem is I don’t want to play those games! I want to play GW2! Thanks in advance for anything you can do to help me resolve this issue. I would hate to not be able to play my favorite game anymore.

Disastro.4086:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just for clarity, this quote isn’t from NCSoft PR, marketing, or ArenaNet.

I’m really glad to hear this directly . It had me very worried a friend’s guild even knee-jerked, him and their 224 members left for neverwinter over it I know it’s not a very large number but none the less the statement was enough to scare people.

However it does seem the place where this originated is in fact contracted with NCSoft .

so they left gw2 for a game that had to do a 7 hour rollback because of multiple hacks that included but were not limited to being able to post a negative number bid on the auction hose and then turn that in game gold into real world currency? wow.

can i have their stuff?

I did all those. No dice. I installed GW1 and it runs fine. No disconnects. I figured if it was my network connection that I would get dropped from all games or at least arenanet games. As far as security software, like I was saying, it’s a fresh install so no anti virus etc. The basic thing that happens is my internet shorts out only in gw2 for like 4 seconds and the client drops me to a black screen and then i have to shut down gw2 manually and try again and then it drops me again.

I don’t play over 1080p so this card is irrelevant for me.

I can try it. Are there certain ones that are known to be culprits? I’m on a fresh Windows 7 install and mostly only running GW2 when playing. Sometimes I run Team Speak 3 and it does crash more often when that is up. Thanks for the response and I will see what I can do about background stuff.

1.5Mbps DL Speed .75 UL Speed Enough to Meet Requirement?

Guild Wars 2 keeps dropping me. Sometimes I can connect for an hour, other times I will disconnect every 2 minutes. TeamSpeak 3 doesn’t drop though. Just Guild Wars 2. I get error code 58:11:5:504:101 and error code 7.XX.XX…etc. as well. I get booted to a black screen when it crashes and then I have to manually shut GW2 down. I recently moved but my internet speed and router are the same as before as well as the same company. I can stream shows and watch movies etc.

I have tried opening ports on my router, resetting, etc. Does anyone have any ideas of what could be happening? Thanks in advance for any responses or help.

My Dead Characters.9517:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/red-hot-new-items-in-the-gem-store-now/
OMG ITS SMALLER HERE THAN ON THE FIRST ONE !!!! ITS A FORGERY!!!!!:O

That is really solid investigative journalism on your part. Keep up the good work! There is a conspiracy here. Evon Gnashblade may be a Gem launderer for the Consortium!

Wolfey.3407:

Maybe the consortium forged his signature to try and mass advertise their product :o

if that’s the case, the BLTC needs to conscript a privatized army to invade Southsun and crush the Consortium.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/incredible-new-items-in-the-gem-store/

Evon’s signature is on the article and it’s for the Consortium! Everyone knows that The Consortium is the arch nemesis to the Gem Shop. Is he a double agent, or does someone need to fix a mistake to the announcement page? I’ll go with the latter.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Hey folks,

Thanks for liking the whip I created (well, as much as a single designer creates anything that is). Currently the whip is not an item players can use. Thieves can steal a tentacle whip off of some creatures, but I don’t think it is something players can use.

I’ll try to keep in mind that there is interest in that weapon, and see if there’s not people I can talk to about adding more permanent solutions.

Hey Robert, it’s a great idea to add these! Many people in my guild want these too, including me. I would say wait until(if) you guys do new classes. If you don’t, then it would be great as a new weapon. I also think adding flail skins for maces would be a good way to diversify a poor selection of maces in the game(just my opinion). The mace market could use some love and different types of flails would be a cool way to do that and add some style for mace users.

My computer died about 3 weeks ago and I just got my new one up and running, so needless to say I was really looking forward to the new stuff in Southsun. I am totally impressed thus far and think you guys did a great job with it. It feels like a fully fleshed out zone now and I know that it is only going to get better as this storyline progresses.

Didn’t really want to say anything more than to show you guys a little love for what you all do to make this game better each month. People may not agree with some of the changes you guys do, but I will argue til I am blue in the face with anyone who says you guys don’t work hard. It’s obvious that you do and I appreciate the effort! Cheers!

I would have reported this ages ago. I’m gonna miss having southsun all to myself.

Dramatic much? I am of the opinion this thread should get locked for the over the top title alone.

that champ patrols. there is a place by the wall where you can sneak back there and cap the skill point without even getting into combat. use a stealth kit and sneak back into the corner. when he leaves, cap the skill point.

In the future, could we see this turned into guild halls? This just seems like a more robust system than what we had with guild halls, except I didn’t have to pay for a guild hall with real money in GW1.

Also, the Quaggan Pirate.

I forget the name of the quest, but there is a really involved quest in Lornar’s pass where you get dwarven items at the bottom of a lake and then researcher’ kitten the items up from a guy and there are some Bloodstone Shards involved. There is no chest for that one and I really think there should be.

it all depends on why you play. if you care about ranking in a game that pits randoms against pre-mades YOU are the one doing it wrong. If you like how the pvp plays in this game more than a ranking system that is obviously not representative of how things should be, then you should keep on playing. I play it because it is fun, ignore the ladder because it isn’t right yet and hope that they implement a better system in the future.

I see people all the time putting their chest out about ranking, but then say it’s broken. Why would you boast about being on a ladder that is broken?

don’t worry about the leaderboards. they don’t mean anything. play because you like the game. until they separate the pre-made teams from the random teams it’s like if you saw a college football team(pre-made team) go play a high school team(random team). arenanet has rendered their own system moot until they separate it.

if custom arenas cost money for all parties involved it won’t fly. my guild does spvp for fun every friday. we do stuff like necros vs. guards, thieves vs. eles etc. and we use the lobby. we all want custom so we don’t get 1 or 2 random peeps in our matches. if everyone had to throw down money to do it? wouldn’t happen. people weren’t paying money for paid tourneys, i don’t see people paying for what amounts to a practice space that we had for free in gw1(AKA Guild Halls).

I am of the opinion that the way tourneys flow is more the way the devs intended the game to be played than how the games flow in lobby matches. I also enjoy it more as I am sure the majority of the community does as well. People in tourneys play to win. Lobby matches get played for personal score and rank points. Releasing a ranking system before the separation of random tourney/structured team was a mistake in my opinion, but that is a topic for another day and another thread. I want to call the community out here. I am calling for you all to dismiss caring about leaderboards for the time being so that the tournaments stay filled with people. I don’t want to go back to playing gank fest matches in the lobby. That isn’t how the game was meant to be played. I also have a hope of a ladder reset once there is a separation of solo/duo queue and full queue matches, so I am of the opinion that rankings shouldn’t matter at this point.

Think about it: Do any of us really think that it matters when our guild teams beat a random team 500-80? I think the STYLE of play(playing to win) trumps caring about a leaderboard system that is so obviously broken right now. To put it in Guild Wars 1 terms: Random Arena teams used to go fight Team Arena teams after 10 straight wins. Most of the time the RA teams would get beat the first match if it was a true random team and not a sync team. The way the system is now in Guild Wars 2, the Random Arena is coupled with the Team Arena so to speak. I know ANet has to pour over metrics and refine, but isn’t just that enough reason for us to keep playing and not care about ranking at this point?

I would prefer ArenaNet disable the ranking system at this point while they refine the matchmaking and until they add solo/duo queue to the mix. That needs to happen sooner rather than later lest it kill off the random crowd and possibly not recover. matches are moot at this point and I hope the community can come together for the love of the format and dismiss the notion that ranking matters right now, because it can’;t when it’s clearly not working as intended. Thanks for your time and your constructive opinions on the matter.

What do you guys think? Where on the order of importance does a solo/duo queue separation from full team queue fall? How high should it be on the list? Thanks again.

until hotjoin tourneys and built team tourneys are separated, the rating system is moot anyways.

everything in guild wars 1 pretty much got left to rot story wise. i always thought it would have played out in war in kryta and didn’t. maybe we will get something about that when we actually head into the depths of tyria, but i doubt it. GW2 is being treated like a stand alone thing with minor things that don’t need people to understand gw1 thrown in as fan service. i like the little nods, but i still find it odd that all the major plot points from eye of the north never got wrapped up.

if they release any areas up in the isle of janthir area we may get some answers too, but i would imagine it would be a lot of lesser lore like we have already gotten.

i feel like they dropped the ball with characters that were in gw1 that could be old enough to be in gw2 and aren’t here. there is a particular dragon from gw1 that i feel should have been in gw2. it would have been more interesting seeing her battle a dragon than to not be here at all. heck, it would have been a way better tyria with her in it. to have a character’s story play out in a game they want to make a “Living World” is way better than having it play out in a book from this gamer’s perspective. I would have liked to see how big she was now and man she would have been an impressive thing to see in this gorgeous game. To see her fighting another dragon would have been an impressive Dynamic Event.

i may be the only one in this camp, but one of the reasons i haven’t wanted to get a legendary is because if i put that much time into getting one skin, i may want to roll that weapon/trait line too much. legendary kits are a great idea though. heck, legendary skins that aren’t silly are great too. quip isn’t my cup of tea. i was kinda soured on the legendaries after seeing the short bow and long bow as well. both are pretty feminine. there is nothing wrong with that. it’s just not my thing.

I don’t really enjoy my Engineer in PvE. I love it in sPvP. I love my Ranger for both formats. I don’t play WvW so I can’t comment on that really. I love my Warrior in both, but I play it in totally different ways. The disparity between a good Ele and a bad Ele is a huge chasm.

Play what you like and hope that the devs can find a balance soon. I think we need skill splits like we already have rune and jewelry splits in spvp/pve. I just wish the devs would stop holding out on skill splits and do it already. In GW1, they did skill splits, but never reverted the Paragon back to its original strength for PvE and we ended up with only a handful of viable options for it. The Engineer is that way as well.

CC builds are great in spvp. They are terrible for PvE because boss mechanics. There is no need for trash mob CC. Mace/Mace Warrior(just a single example of awesome CC weapon set) is rendered completely useless in PvE, but works great in spvp. It would take some skill to use in PvE, but has no place because of boss mechanics the way they are.

Vista32-bit user here(SP2). AMD 6570. 2gigs Ram. Dual Core processor at 2.3gHz.

Lately I am getting a crash/lock at character select or when the game loads into a zone. It forces me to restart my rig. It’s a hard lock. Can’t alt/Tab. Everything freezes. It took me loading the game 5 times last night until I could play. My other games work fine. I played Darksiders last night for an hour with no issues. Is there a way I can force a registry repair for GW2? Looking for any sort of help to fix this. Thanks.

- I would make a Fractal out of The Wizard’s Tower that is in GW1 and GW2.

- The first expansion would be a wholly new unexplored continent in Tyria.

- I would finish the Tengu starter zone and Tengu would be playable.

- I would release a new profession called, “The Offhander”. He only wields offhand items: Focus/Focus, Torch/Warhorn, Shield/Shield, Dagger/Dagger(for people that think 2 shields is dumb). Warhorn/Warhorn would be OP. Many players would whine that the 5th skill, “Toot Your Own Horn” was OP and that skills 1-5 are “stupid” because they are all buffs and the forums would be all rage-y about it with comments like, “WARE AR ALL THE ATTACKZ!!!1!??”

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Voidrunner.5093:

Craft Eternity,
sell it for 1 copper

Buy an elder dragon

Buy Lion’s Arch, make housing very low.

Start a charity for Skritt with disability

Start asuran research on quaggan’s with autism

Build detox centers for hylek addicted to drugs, and sylvari addicted to smoking

Start an AA for norns

Abolish slavery in all the krait states

Bring buddhism to the Charr

Buy Divinities reach and start a constitutional monarchy

Free Kodan’s from (strike)China(/strike)

Smuggle opium into Cantha

Elect the first Elonian President

Clone Giganticus Lupicus

……

socialism is yucky.

I think the real problem is people in charge signing off on it being ok for the same weapon types being added with special events. Not everyone wants to pay money or spend gold on gems for certain skins of certain weapon types but have access to greatswords, shields and swords every time new skins are added.

my hope is that at Halloween this year they don’t have the skins they had last year, but add the ones in that they didn’t have by way of in game acquisition that didn’t involve the gem shop. pistols, focus items, torches, warhorns etc. need to be the ones that get some love. MACES need love too ArenaNet. I can honestly say there are two maces that I find tolerable. As much as I love Moonshine, I dual wield it on my warrior and have one on my Guardian. Is a Morningstar on a chain too much to ask for?

Sometimes people mistake good play for a class being OP. It’s an honest mistake.

Skugga.5298:

I don’t like it but that’s my opinion.

PvP is based on Wins/Losses, while it should be more based on kills/deaths…
Now you can’t pug anymore because in pug group people leave all the time anyway.

Plus if it doesn’t reset, weekly/monthly then a new player will never be able to get in the list anyway.

I expected more from the leaderboards ; /

The winning part is actually the point of spvp. killing is just a byproduct of trying to get your team wins. maybe now that people se this they will try and get their teams wins now as opposed to just fighting 1v1’s off to the side and doing nothing to help their team.

My guild had no problems with T2 til the update. We failed 2 tier 2’s in a row after that. IDK what the difference seems to be. We beat the Mesmer boss in Maguuma the first time we faced him with zero problems. The second time however was a totally different story. In all fairness, we lost to Bookworm Bwikki(?) 2 times. One time before the patch and a time after. I don’t think it is every boss that has gotten harder, but something seemed different about the Mesmer boss the second time around. Just thoughts on the fights to check into.

The rules for fights don’t seem uniform either. SOme bosses will change into a Moa with Moa Morph while others do not even on a planned use of the skill after Defiance stacks are removed. It would be nice to start seeing rules be applied across the board. Without having uniform rule sets, it just becomes a crap shoot. More so when it isn’t listed in the boss descriptions. If they have a different rule set, it should be listed so that we can adjust accordingly.

Leo G.4501:

Reflection.

My opinion, of course. But that’s what I’m expecting considering all the reliance on this mechanic.

What do you think? Discuss.

why are you of this opinion? any reasons? in my opinion, reflection is available as a mechanic. i have never felt reliant on it. there are dungeons that really benefit a team using it like in CM or SE path 1. I love that we are given options. Until I see lame teams spamming “Path 1 SE GUARDS AND MESMERS ONLY!” I don’t buy that people are reliant on it as a crutch.

Xriah.5743:

I can’t help but feel like it’s a strange idea to spend development time on temporary content.

If you look back at older MMOs like Everquest or World of Warcraft or City of Heroes(RIP), they contain a seemingly bottomless pit of content. Years and years of updates and expansions stacked on top of one another make for a wealth of content that newer MMO’s can only hope to obtain in time. Even if it ends up being largely unused as the players keep up with the ever advancing endgame, it allows newer players to see and explore the past. Kind of like how the Southsun Cove is now. It’s fallen into obscurity, but newer players who wern’t around for the event have the oppourtunity to discover the area and explore it.

There are still so many areas of this game that can be filled out. Why spend time on this when you can make more permanent additions to your game and use them as selling points? Just from past updates, I get the impression that the dev team is spread thin enough as it is without tacking on tasks that only have a temporary impact. Spend those resources elsewhere like patch QA, bugfixing, mini games, new zones, polishing the personal story, balancing skills and traits, etc. I think that would be appreciated more than what were getting with the living story now.

Actually, it’s great. ArenaNet did this in GW1 as well. They have holiday events. That is whatthis is. Since we are not going to Cantha(The continent in Guild Wars Factions) in Guild Wars 2 we are missing Canthan New Year and The Dragon Festival. This replaces one of those and does so in a way that they can add more levels later on. Holiday Events are something to look forward to.

You guys keeping hitting it outta the park. The content you guys keep releasing is top notch.

Svanireal Diseases or Svanir Sighted. Johnny Charrson.

The Chrysacola Staff is in the game. It’s the pre-cursor to the legendary staff and also it is another staff called Imryldyeen

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Legend

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Imryldyeen

Also, the Crystalline Blade is in the game by the same name and also it is the pre-cursor. There are a ton of old skins in the game actually. I won’t list them, but I was SUPER STOKED when I saw that they were here. The OP’s idea is great though. My guildies and I always talk about how we would love to see Chaos Gauntlets make theirway back in the game via gem shop or just new skins, and ALL the old school armors should be in the gem shop. I love those skins they have in there right now and would love to get so many of the old sets.

Side Note: Fix the armors for the Charr please ArenaNet. Tail clipping is terrible. Especially when all of the Charr NPC’s in LA don’t have that issue. All their armor has a tail slot. It’s my opinion that Charr players should be treated better than NPC’s. Great job on the armors and weapons currently in the game though. Top notch art department.

Jordo.5913:

Flamenco.3894:

If you did some research you would notice that there are WEAPONS IN GW2 that you can get from the MYSTIC TOILET that resemble GW1 WEAPONS and these weapons require materials that are fairly expensive.

So putting weapon SKINS that resemble GW1 weapons in GW2, obtainable with gems, would be a CHEAP SHOT

I used to use SHIFT but from now on I use CAPS for CAPITALS

yeah but im talking about the MOST popular skins….the Chaos Axe, the Storm Bow, Chrysocola Staff

the stuff people spent time farming because they looked so cool

then you have all the old Asuran, Undead, Charr, Norn, and Tengu sets of weapons….then you have Mursaat, Tormented, Opressor, and Destroyer….they did actually keep Destroyer Weapons….so who knows they might do a bundle type thing for the gem store

i’d have to say i would most look forward to Tengu weapons, i think every single one looks kitten

i’d say this would be a legit way to make money on the in game store….a way for old gw1 players to get some of their nostalgic items….i would happily pay for them

people miss the point that cursed shore is designed to be group content. it’s the one map that is almost all group related stuff. all the other maps are for people going solo. please leave Cursed Shore alone.

I have really enjoyed all the patches. The thing anet did for smaller guilds and the training bounty was really cool. the NES Controller in Rata Sum is AMAZING. You hear me ArenaNet?! AMAZING! I can’t wait

i love that people knew BEFORE this game was released that all the stuff on the gem shop was gonna be cosmetic. Lo and behold, it all is! The description in the update notes says “Rare chance” and people still try 200 times and then whine incessantly when they don’t hit the jackpot. I for one am superstoked that they are account bound so that people aren’t tempted to gamble to sell them for a lot of money. I think this is a better system to protect people with tendencies toward gambling addiction that can’t help themselves.

We all know that tokens are being cleaned up a bit. Here is my idea. Karma and Laurels don’t come in a physical token form. What I mean by that is it’s not a currency that has a token that goes in stacks of 250 in a bank or inventory tab. Why not just make a panel that contains all the dungeon tokens in a similar fashion? That way you aren’t hindered by allotting them in stacks of 250. They just become meters that are drained the proper amount when you spend them. it’s better for us players too.

At first I thought you guys should just sell currency bank tabs in the gem shop, but that doesnt work because they only hold 250 each and most of us have more than that at all times. So why not just make them metered(for lack of a better term) like karma? Anyways, that is my suggestion for currencies. I know you guys pride yourselves on the sleekness of your UI etc. Time to go that route with currencies too.

I wouldn’t mind seeing us all turn into the Commando or Minstrel from the announcements page back in the day when they were announcing the real classes and put those there as April Fool’s Day jokes.

idk how i feel about an achievement ranking board. i think i feel the same way that i felt about Legendary Survivor in GW1 once you could use Lightbringer Scrolls in Kilroy’s Boxing Dungeon to get it or just trade in the hammers. With Infinitely repeating points being given out(even though they are capping them) it’s not all that impressive. It makes the number feel pretty arbitrary. It would be more impressive if we know what the max number was available and see how many points the leader had out of that. With Agent of Entropy, it is just kinda like, “Oh, that dude has wasted a ton of time salvaging stuff. Cool. I guess.”

Same here. It’s telling me it’s due to router or firewall issues or college campus internet. I can login to GW1, not GW2 atm.

i love the game. i wont sub for games anymore. the last few i have paid for felt like the devs took their players for granted. they also always had maintenance down times. gw2 is free and has no downtimes(barely ever).

I am sure I will enjoy the change. It will mean that more people are going to more events. Great move imo. It will also mean that overflows in dragon zones aren’t as bad. that really affected my guild for our tier 2 guild bounty the other night. One of the bosses was in Frostgorge and we sent two parties there. they all ended up in different instances of the map. This change will go a long way in changing that. Hopefully none of the people that are complaining about this change are the ones who were also complaining about the overflows.

I hacked the .dat files in gw2 to see what Destiny’s Edge sPvP rating was as a team. I removed Logan’s data from the file and the overall rating skyrocketed in every area except kiting.

IDK how I feel about this yet. Part of me feels like cap point bunkers need more to threaten their dominant positions on cap points. I also feel like dodging needs minor tweaks so that it is more necessary. This is a good way to do it if we are talking about Ranger/Necro/Engie. Thief shouldn’t be in this discussion. I feel like this could be a good way to bring those three up to the standards of the others which makes sense. Make them more viable, don’t bring the others down.

after getting two pre-cursors in 2 and a half weeks i did the same thing and craft leveled 2 characters to 80. i got to skip all the stuff i didn’t want to do again. i love all the content. i had leveled 4 characters to 80 the old fashioned way and was burned out on the lower level combat. i really think combat starts getting interesting post 40. it was just because i had the money to level them all the way that i did so. it’s actually really fun running from LA all the way to Orr as well after you do it. i had armor sets waiting for them too from doing a lot of dungeons and having tokens so that was nice. I bought Orrian Jewelry boxes and opened them and used the karma on those characters from the jugs too.

I find it nice that ArenaNet gives us so many options in how we want to play. After doing the low level zones so many times, I loved that I had this option to craft level and play new classes in the content I still really enjoy(Dungeons/Fractals/High End zones/Dragon Fights/God Temple Events etc.)/