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At present, the localization of guild improvements is the only thing that ties players to a particular server. I’m not sure how important that is, but it feels important to me.
In my opinion, this would strengthen the ties between guild and member. Why do you think it’s more important to tie people to a server and less important to support guild portability?
While server-loyalty has some importance to WvW, there’s no special benefit for PvE-players. My guild started on a world that turned out to be unpopulated during our peak play times. We moved to one that suits us better, but all the improvements we made were lost and, for our purposes, wasted — there’s no chance we’ll be returning to the old world.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Suggestion: Allow a guild to pay influence to move upgrades built on their old home world to a new world.
How it works now: Influence currently accrues to the guild only on the world where the members participate in events. If the guild moves, then any upgrades are lost.
Intended audience:
- Guilds that change worlds.
How it would change:
- Guild accrues influence and builds improvements on World A.
- Guild decides to move to World B.
- After earning enough influence on World B, the guild pays an influence fee to move some/all of the improvements from A to B.
- For example, if the guild might pay 500 influence to move the Guild Vault, which cost 2,500 influence to build (including upgrading the Architecture Level).
- The guild would no longer have a vault on World A.
Other uses:
This might be helpful for guilds that have most of the members on one world, but a few stragglers elsewhere. They could decide to move their vault from the primary World C to the smaller chapter on World D and then rebuild the vault on World C.
Issues:
- Amount to charge. Perhaps it should include coin.
- Should the guild be required to move all upgrades? Or can they pick and choose?
- How long would this take?
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
There are two unofficial RP servers, one in US zone and one in Europe:
- Tarnished Coast (US)
- Piken Square (EU)
There’s lots of different types of RP/immersion out there, so you’ll have to find the group/guild that works best for you.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
From the wiki:
Each time you are downed will incur one point downed penalty which will reduce your downed mode health by 25% and each point will last for one minute. When you have been downed five times within one minute you will be automatically defeated without the chance to fight back.
I would guess that you recovered recently from being downed one or more times.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
It’s more likely the bug with equipping the same runes in PvP as in PvE; it counts some of them twice. Head to the mists (top-left tool bar, second icon from right — the crossed swords), then look at your armor mods. If you never play PvP, you can replace your character’s PvP armor with non-runed gear.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I’ve never seen this happen. Which weapons were you using? Did you have an environmental weapon equipped at some point? Was it during combat? or outside of combat?
You might try using the in-game /bug command if it happens again. That way ANet will have there when/where and can look at the logs. Without some additional data, it will be nearly impossible for them to troubleshoot something that is intermittent and difficult to reproduce.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I think I would prefer this as an option I can select in [F11] options.
- Auto-target and keybinding targets include neutral NPCs? Yes | No.
- Auto-target and keybinding targets include out-of-sight targets? Yes | No
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
The trigger point is not always obvious. You don’t get credit for completion, you get credit for moving your character to the right spot on the map.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
And when it will work?
ANet hasn’t announced a date she will start accepting commendations.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
The key point here being that there is a fixed value for players to aim at, so players stop undercutting for 1 copper and undercut in more appealing amounts.
Undercutting by 1 copper is a legitimate tactic. There is nothing wrong with it. I don’t see any reasoning above that explains why we should pay people to sell at certain prices.
Again, there is already an incentive to undercut for “more appealing amounts” — you sell your stuff more quickly.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
They have announced plans to allow “guesting” — that is, you will be able to play with your friend on their server or vice-versa. For reasons they have not explained, there is no ETA for this. But it’s clear that ANet intends to release this as soon as they can.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
+1
I’d like to see this on every vendor panel, too: the crafting stations have a check box to filter out recipes when we cannot use the product; the hero panel automatically filters out stuff we cannot use. So I don’t see a practical reason why it can’t be programmed into other interfaces.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
The hero panel automatically filters out equipment you can’t use, so I don’t see any reason why vendors can’t have a check box that says, “filter out stuff I can’t use.”
The crafting panel also allows you to filter out recipes for stuff you can’t use and that was added later, perhaps due to suggestions on this forum.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
There’s already an incentive to undercut the lowest seller: your item sells more quickly.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Angry that I didn't get much from Giant Wintersday Gifts
in Wintersday
Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781
According to people who opened 1,000s of gifts, the drop rates for goodies from the gifts (large or small) were very small:
- Ugly sock/hat/sweater: ~85%
- Snowflakes: ~10%
- Recipes: ~1%
- Skin: ~3%
- Rune or Sigil: 0.1%
- Unbreakable Bell or Endless Tonic: less than 1 chance in 100,000.
This is a fairly typical distribution for consumable boxes in an ANet game: lots of low-value stuff, with a small chance of something fun, and a tiny (or smaller) chance of something awesome.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
If you get trapped in an instance, use the /stuck command. Not only will it auto-record your position and report the glitch, but (as long as you don’t do anything for 30 seconds), it will move you to safe area, where you can rejoin the story without restarting.
(This happened to my mesmer over a dozen times, before they fixed the ground over watery areas — phase retreat or other teleports put me in non-toon’s land, in between land and sea.)
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
You can tell if the game thinks you are still in combat by seeing if you can change your slot skills (you won’t have the little triangle). It’s fairly common to aggro something on the way up to a vista. Besides moving away, another work-around is to [F12] your character and restart it — you’ll be back at the vista and out of combat. (Don’t do this in WvW, since you are liable to respawn defeated and with broken armor — that’s the new penalty for quitting during combat.)
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
What are we supposed to do Anet? I cant even stay in the servers long enough to type an error ticket?
Create a support ticket and contact them directly. Posting on the forums only delays a response that will resolve your issue. This is also true even if there is a systemic issue that they have to resolve: the more data they have, the more likely that they can identify a root cause on their end.
https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/ask/
Every game always has people who DC for reasons that have nothing to do with their computer or ANet’s servers — there’s a lot of internet between the two and sometimes this is the reason behind the disconnets.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
For the monthly, you don’t have to discover 30 unique puzzles — you can repeat the same puzzle on multiple characters or the same character at different times. It could be the case that some puzzles have odd trigger points for getting credit, but even so, it won’t stop anyone from completing the monthly requirement.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Having the same problem with getting disconnected from server code 7:11:3:189:101 and it happens all the time to the point to were I can’t play the game. I disabled firewall and antivirus so it is not on my end. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!
Chris: you should contact support and create a ticket so that they can help you troubleshoot. There are all sorts of things that can go wrong, not just the ones posted above.
7:11:3:189:101: The game client lost its connection to the server. Please wait a few minutes before restarting the client and trying again.
That is consistent with trouble maintaining your internet connection, e.g. perhaps a wireless router or an ISP that is having trouble serving all its customers. However, ANet can help you directly.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
It depends on the JP; they don’t all give credit at the beginning — some do at the end. Of the three LA puzzles:
- Weyandt’s gives credit when you reach the mouth, near the vista (beginning of puzzle).
- Troll’s End gives credit when you jump in the well (beginning of puzzle).
- Urmaug’s gives credit when you get to the chest.
(Testing notes: I kept the monthly achievement screen open, so I could see exactly when/where the “discovery” triggered.)
If you miss the “trigger” point, you won’t get credit (e.g. there’s a way to jump through the Sharkmaw mouth without triggering the JP “discovery”).
On the silver lining: you can repeat the same discovery on the same toon by returning to the trigger point. This works in overflow LA and I believe the reset for same shard is a few hours (but perhaps is 24 hrs). You can also use alts to “discover” the same puzzle.
I suspect this is working as intended, since it’s consistent with all sorts of other mechanics, e.g. carving pumpkins or building snowmen.
edited to add testing notes
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No, magic find does not affect what happens when you open an unidentified dye. It almost certainly affects how many unidentified dyes you get, but the only time the game checks for MF is when a foe dies.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I don’t think this is a bug. Some items are probably more likely to drop in certain zones than others and random numbers are going to create some interesting coincidences. If half the players were getting Verdant Bows half the time, that might reflect something odd. For what it’s worth, I didn’t get a verdant item from Sparkfly completion.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Ian: you should also file a support ticket. Only a few posts on the forum get lots of attention, but support tickets always get looked at by someone who is paid to help resolve issues (you will probably get a generic reply at first, which might not relate to the issue). Click on support at the top and then “ask a question” (no account needed — just an email address). Include your server and whether it happens in every zone or just some (or you don’t know because you are usually in the same place).
Despite the fact that your other games aren’t affected, the problem might not be on ANet’s end either. There’s a lot of internet between your computer and their servers.
Good luck.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
then have a full set of MF that max’s out your MF and then open them this will help you get uncommons and rares more.
Magic Find only affects loot dropped by foes; it has no effect on dye packs or opening unID dyes.
Incidentally, it’s generally cheaper to buy the dye you want directly than to gamble. Unless you are extremely lucky, the odds are against you.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
You want a longer term bonus? Change your gear. Consumables by their nature are meant to be transient and 30 minutes seem very generous (a few foods do have 45 minute buffs; a few potions have 60 minute buffs).
Chef is already a very useful crafting profession. I doubt that stacking food buffs is going to do anything to the food market. People who use consumable buffs already reserve several inventory slots and already buy lower-level buffs to save money, depending on how they want to use the food. Increasing the duration won’t encourage non-consumers to …consume.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
The Engie’s a lot like the Ele.
You’re expected to utilize everything all the time if you’re going to succeed, and ANet won’t buff anything up because the power of your versatility/utility is too great.
I agree with this. The Engineer has tons of potential, but because it’s a less popular choice, the profession isn’t as well explored as Thief or Warrior. I’m not all that good at playing thief, I’m undergeared and yet I’m finding several builds/style of play that are amazing in terms of aoe damage, combos, and or/or support.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Great idea. ….
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
@Cervaux: if you can, ask a friend in the States to buy you a gemcard and use the code from that, so that you don’t have to wait until after Wintersday to make your purchases.
@Moonglum: be sure to delete all your email from your in-game mailbox — BL purchases are mostly delivered via mail and it can get blocked even by a few emails. Also, a number of players have posted that they have seen delays as long as 24-48 hours between purchase and receiving the goods. (My impression is that delays that long are usually related to a full inbox, but it could also be a queuing problem.)
@Snow & Moonglum: if you have tried the tips above without any luck, you really need to contact support — they are the only ones who can help you resolve the issue.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Oh hmmm, maybe I did try partying with americans… my bad. Didn’t know that didn’t work..
I wouldn’t kick yourself about it — there’s no way to know. My friend and I have been trying to play together for months and we kept trying every known work-around (and attempted to create a few more)…and we only discovered that thread by accident. Every time there’s a new holiday event (or new dungeon, like FotM), we try again just in case something changed…but no luck so far.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
@Snow: then you should contact support so they can help you troubleshoot.
(By the way: it’s not GW2 that gets blocked or interrupted — it’s the awesomonium process, a separate program spawned by GW2. If GW2 runs with admin rights, then so well awesomonium. If GW2 doesn’t. then your BLTC might not function properly.)
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
The BLTC works like a custom web browser and is subject to limitations similar to what you see for a website without permitting scripts to run, e.g. you might see the interface but without any item details or have a greyed out “buy” button.
There are things you can adjust at your end that will address this:
- Run GW2 as an administrator. See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Configuring-User-Account-Control-UAC
- Make sure your anti-malware program isn’t blocking the TP’s “awesomonium_process.exe” (in effect, the custom web browser). See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Configuring-AVG (that’s for AVG, but similar techniques apply to other anti-malware).
- Make sure your firewall isn’t blocking GW2 or the awesomonium_process. Sometimes restarting your router fixes this.
As noted above, restarting GW2 often resolves some/all issues (it’s the quickest and most reliable way to restart the awesomonium_process).
If none of the above helps your situation, then I strongly recommend you contact support. They will help you to troubleshoot the issue (which often involves asking you to run some diagnostic tests).
Although you can find other posts of people who have persistent issues connecting to BLTC, it’s relatively rare for players generally. In other words, it’s more likely the solution to the issue is on the client end, not on ANet’s.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Was the other server based on the other side of the Atlantic from your home world? For some reason, the game’s infrastructure doesn’t allow us to do this. The error messages stated above are consistent with this. See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Can-i-party-with-americans-from-europe/first#post838261
Within that restriction, you can group with people from other servers for dungeons (and I believe for personal stories, although I haven’t tried to do that recently). In fact, gw2lfg.com assumes that people can group together (it does not require you to name your local server, only whether you are NA or EU).
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I useally summon Hounds of Balthazar, drop a meteor shower, then throw a lava font down on the present THEN open it. As soon as the toys spawn, they are already taking damage. I very rarely have any problem taking them all down myself, regardless of what they are.
Any sort of traps, bombs, or other skills that you can cast before unwrapping help. But it’s relatively easy to unwrap, grab your gift, and escape. I don’t find them OP’d, but they can be tedious in the L1-15 zones.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Glad you guys got your stuff (even if it arrived slowly). Thanks for letting us know.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I recommend you create a support ticket (link at top, use the “ask a question” option).
FYI occasionally, items sent via mail are delayed for 30-90 minutes for reasons that are unclear.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Good point. The link is:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Tickets-for-Review-3-days-and-older-merged
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Blackice: did you change servers? Influence accrues to the guild on a specific world (and the queue and benefits are part of that server, too).
On very rare occasions, people in overflow are unable to see their local guild utilities (sometimes this happens in conjunction with being unable to use /guild chat). This resolves itself after waiting (at least, for all the cases I have heard about since October).
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Apparently, you can only save names for the four pets in your current rotation (one each for primary & secondary terrestrial and aquatic pet).
It’s not clear if ANet designed the game intending this behavior or if it’s a glitch.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
You will get a response back via the email address you used in the ticket.
BTW: sometimes ANet suspends an account when they believe it has been hacked. They do this to protect your account from being looted further…and to prevent gold farmers/sellers from using your account to hide their activities.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
An auto-queue system would be good for only a narrow set of players. It doesn’t help people who want to speed clear, who have a crew of four regulars (and need just one more person), people who are new and looking for help, people looking for a group to run multiple paths, and so on.
I’m not against seeing it in the game as an option, but I wouldn’t like it if the game didn’t allow me to choose my own groups or restricted LFG in other ways.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I haven’t bothered grinding for anything. I do the things that are fun for me. Since everything in the game except chat generates some amount of gold, I’ve been able to afford the things important to me.
For me, the only things that explicitly require repeating content I might get bored with are cosmetics, i.e. specific skins. Everything else is available on the TP for reasonable prices.
When I find myself getting bored with the game, I turn it off and do something else.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
This is true of every bag with special properties: the sorting they do is done on item acquisition, not via the compact function. (Should it be this way? Maybe not, but it’s very convenient for being able to place items so that you always know where they are, e.g. consumables or alternative weapon sets that you want to swap into quickly.)
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Rangers have 22 benefits in the HoM (including weapons and pets). Thieves, elementalists, and engineers have 14 or fewer benefits. So, Rangers are hardly “getting the shaft” as far as the HoM is concerned.
The Black Widow compares to the Jungle Spider, not the Forest Spider, which has twice as much vitality as either.
The White Raven compares to the Raven, which has identical vitality (according to the wiki).
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
The chances are this is an issue you can resolve:
- Your anti-malware software could be blocking the TP software. See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Configuring-AVG (even if you use different software, the general tips apply)
- You might need to setup GW2 to play with admin rights and ensure that the installation folder allows you to create new files there. See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Configuring-User-Account-Control-UAC.
- It’s also possible your firewall and/or router is blocking the awesomonium_process.exe that connects your PC to the TP server. Restarting the router handles the hardware side of that.
If nothing above works to resolve your issue, you will need to contact support directly (click on the support link on the top navbar and then choose Ask a Question — no need to create a support account to do this).
Good luck.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
In real life, I eat a sports bar to gain energy …and then it wears off. For me, it’s more immersion-breaking if I click once on something and it never wears off (5 hours is equivalent to forever for most people — I can’t remember the last time, outside of BETA or headstart that I played that long on the same character).
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I like the invulnerable mechanic. It adds a really challenging element to certain fights, especially since some foes can fully heal if I’m unaware of how to crack invulnerability.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I don’t understand how your suggestion makes things better. If all characters are always representing all guilds, how does the game determine which chat to use? Which guild gets the influence for completing events? Which guild provides benefits during PvE or WvW?
My guild (and the others to which I belong) are happy to have members that only sometimes represent the guild. People can easily join our group activities when there’s nothing going on with their guild, but they can just as easily switch back to their default.
On the other hand, I can see how some guilds (particularly ones approaching 500 members) would want to know who represents 80% of the time versus who represents 20% versus those players who are rarely online at all. I agree that the guild structure could use help in this area.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
There are some of those in the game already.
I believe there are others besides these.
Its funny maybe ten minutes after I posted this I got the “Jackoloping Along” achievement. What it did not feel like, was something special. "Oh look a skritt is making away with the treasure! Kill it! Bam! It was over that quick.
You got lucky — those skritt move quickly. I’ve been with a group of eight (two parties of four) when the burglar escaped (and no one turned into jackalope), while managed it solo on another occasion — certainly felt special to me.
Anyhow, the point is that there are a bunch of these in the game. The burglar is one of many skritt-related ones. Modus Sceleris is a set of different encounters. They each pop up randomly, so you can’t camp them.
I’d be happy to see more and see more variety in the types of achievements and requirements, but for now, I think it’s pretty fun.
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