Guild Wars 2

Lowellollipop.5817:

Not only top players would appreciate it: 90%+ (just a rough guess) of the playerbase would.

90% of the general playerbase probably couldn’t care less about sPvP. Just to put that in perspective.

Still no timestamps in the devtracker Thanks for the other fixes and additions though,

Josh Foreman.8250:

I’ve always called them Jumping Challenges which covers the scope of what they offer.

Griffinrook Run offers jumping, running, falling, outrage and madness. Which would be a bit unwieldily as a name though.

Not really a jumping “puzzle”, just some easier jumping involved, but I found Deidre’s Steps at Mount Maelstrom today and it’s absolutely beautiful.

I hate Griffinrook Run, good to hear that it’s “bugged” as of now, not gonna try it again.

If somebody should ever gain access to the encrypted password or the whole database, there’s nothing said person could do with it because it would take insane amounts of time to find a collision. Even more without any knowledge of the exact cipher used.

R0ti4JfirH~3 vs DogFaceHamsterFootball would be 1.74 centuries vs 1.83 hundred trillion centuries according to https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm (read the explanations for the given assumptions).

First, I reported Vik Flagge for his continuous failed attempts on constructive discussion here, telling everybody who doesn’t share his opinion to shut the… and calling people trolls instead. So, if you’re wondering – it was me.
Second, as TheDaiBish already pointed out, the number of replies in here already shows how small the samle base is, everything in here is then purely anecdotal. Remember that even if everybody who’s actively writing in these forums would comment on it, it would still be a minority when we’re looking at the total number of players.
I just looked in here because I was looking for “red posts” from the dev log – that already explains the high number of views on this thread btw. I personally didn’t notice a change in loot. Following your logic, if I find 50 other people claiming that nothing has changed, it automatically becomes true.

Those were Jormag pre-event mobs, was the bug that caused event vets not to count for the daily already fixed? Otherwise I’m not surprised it didn’t work.

Enderr.5416:

The Choosen (precursor for the legendary Flameseeker Prophecies) just dissapeared today from the TP, to reaper after few hours at a double price.
Like 3 weeks ago was 190g, then start to rise up to 250g today, and … suprise ! 499 g on TP now ! If this is not market manipualtion, then I don’t know …

The original seller probably didn’t have enough gold to pay the fee for a higher price. So somebody who did bought and readded it. How’s that manipulation? Precursors, like all other luxury goods, are the worst example to begin with. Nobody really needs them. If somebody pays those 499g, well then the price seems to be justified since the item’s worth it. Otherwise it wouldn’t sell for that amount.

Spencer.1386:

I have the two step authorization set up with my email account. A password on my account isn’t even needed as no one can access my account without access to my email. I don’t like mandatory password changes. My account security is my own business and my own problem.

What if somebody gains access to your mail? I guess you didn’t quite understand the purpose of a two factor authentication.

Shlamorel.8714:

My only problem with the password change is that you can’t change it to passwords you’ve used in the past.

I’m now on variation c to the square root to the 23rd power of my original password… It’s just kinda frustrating.

That is common practice and and default for corporate environments. Using the same password again would render a change useless.

Cribbage.2056:

by forcing you to change your password, Anet have just added a small risk of it being hacked during the change. Isn’t it great when people who don’t understand security get to mandate it to those of us who do?

Humbug.

Unfortunately this is an MMO, so it would be quite hard to exclude people from such events – that’s why dungeons exist. Although I agree that other games had more interesting mechanics for open world events, like Kazzak for example.

Some champions are just insanely easy to solo, as Snoxx already pointed out. That’s not a mesmer “problem” though, many champions are just dumb and do nothing but beat up single targets. I met the champion corrupted quaggan in Frostgorge Sound after killing the Claw yesterday, he’s clearly one of those that don’t even need special timing since it doesn’t even onehit illusions. Add in thoughtful placement of illusions so you can hide behind them and make the enemy run back and forth.

Noerknhar.3826:

Dear John,

while I appreciate that you jumped in our discussion, I am a bit disappointed that your only comment was about the definition of inflation. If you had a look at the completed transactions for t5/t6 materials, ectos, bufffood and ingredients in the most common/most used bufffoods, you’d noticed that those prices went up by a lot in the last 4-8 weeks. I think ‘inflation’ kind of is the right word to describe such a situation.

Even if not, I don’t want to discuss the definition of a word. I want to discuss the main point of my first post in this thread: (casual) players don’t really earn money as prices go up and up. They will NEVER get a legendary as the precursor is the blocking factor.
Those two points are what i wanted to discuss.

Ah and by the way: I think that orders are a good indicator for inflation and that there actually is no need to view the completed transactions as orders are always “close around” completed transaction prices. gw2spidy’s data is the best available and it’s not bad.

Dear Noerknhar,

casual players were never ever meant to get a legendary.

Best Regards.
Iruwen

digiowl.9620:

One thing i am learning from all this is that one players insanely difficult is another’s snooze fest. Can’t say i envy ANet trying to make the game fun for that wide a spread…

Mainly because the different classes and builds actually play very different. I.e. depending on your class and spec,you can eventually handle a lot of enemies or a few which are very strong, but they may respawn instantly once they’re down, leaving you no time to recover.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/
Where exactly does a “forced redistribution of wealth” take place for these people? Bill Gates’ wealth is actually bigger than the GDP of three quarters of all countries.

bri.2359:

Do not like the nerfed population density and mobs are too easy to kill. The ‘old’ Orr you needed to actually think, plan and use tactics to get around, and that was still too easy for an end-game area. Now, it is just pathetically easy with the loot drops to match. Being down-scaled in starter map is more difficult than Orr …

I hope Anet introduces a proper end-game area soon, cos this is just sad …

Endgame doesn’t mean you have to be overwhelmed by a mass of respawning enemies, also they’re still trashmobs – there’s harder encounters elsewhere.

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

I use radeon pro to limit frames and enable triplebuffer can also enable double vsync(works wonders!!!!)

I’m using PrecisionX or Dxtory normally, doesn’t work in windowed mode though.
You can also simply turn on VSync in GW2, which limits to the refresh rate correctly also in windowed mode, that eventually introduces some input lag though. But since I didn’t notice any right now I guess I’l stick with that. ANet should fix this though.

If this hasn’t been resolved or proven wrong yet, there’s a chance other people could see it too:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Email-address-displayed-in-guild-roster/first#post1333269

Erasculio.2914:

• They don’t need to “buy low and sell high” as if the price were out of their control; they are not stock market operators trying to guess how the stock is going to change. No, they can buy all entries of some products and offer them at higher prices, effectively creating a “high” at which to sell. " Flipping" items like this is not limited to precursors.

That only works for items with low supply, which are luxury items though. You could buy all 999 existing Asus Ares II cards and sell them for a higher price, you wouldn’t be able to do that with an AMD 7770 though. Or you could probably buy the complete supply of Culatello ham, but not all bread. So this doesn’t affect the majority. Throughput of normal goods in the BLTP is so high that probably nobody, no matter how rich, can manipulate those prices.

John Smith.4610:

By I, I mean the game.

That’s what I call dedication

pulsecodesgnl.3470:

I’m making about the same amount of money I’ve ever made, yet precursor prices are going from double to quadruple the prices they were when we had responses from you and other ANet reps that the high prices were being looked into.

Maybe I am missing information that has been stated in the past, but are we just supposed to deal with this and continue saving up hoping that those gaming the market aren’t making money at the same time to increase the prices even more?

As long as somebody buys those goods, their price will rise. Otherwise they’ll be taken off and put again at a lower price after a while. Sounds just fine. The problem isn’t the TP; it’s the precursor drop RNG factor.

The frame limiter limits to 25 frames when set to 30 and to 50 frames when set to 60, is this actually working as intended?

Kruhljak.2705:

Is it just me, or is the client’s clock a rather strange way to track dailies?

In other statements they say it’s a bug.

I love how people start calling other people stupid when their arguments don’t work out or the others just have a different opinion. Way to go Sylosi.

Riss.1536:

For people who have issues with long term goals, everything is a grind if they can’t have it within their short term reference (5 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day).
So we have a lot of lazy guys who don’t want to play a month to have the best amulet of the game, or don’t want to play more than a week to get the best weapon in slot that will scale with the new tiers.

That’s exactly what I think.

Just compare pre- and postpatch screenshots. That shouldn’t be too hard.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

The funny thing is that if they didn’t nerf the drop rates, next week all these same people would be here complaining that they can’t make any money because T6 mats are worthless.

And if they didn’t change anything at all, people would still claim they changed something.

MrNobody.4357:

Ok i was very interested in coming back to GW2 after i stopped playing because of the drop rates introduced in November patch, but i see there is no will into making this game fun instead of just a grind job.

Such a grind based game only benefits bots, because they can profit before they are caught, and since i don’t like or endorse botting, nor i like the idea of a game where my maximum hope and excitement as player is the thrill of dropping a crafting material i do need, then i’ll continue staying away from the game, and spend my money happily elsewhere.

I’m displeased my post is negative, there is no flame or troll or hate making intent, but just my honest feedback.

Have fun with the bots, to next patch hopefully, sincerely

Me

What do you grind for? Who’s forcing you to do that? It’s your personal decision. No need to grind for keeping up, this isn’t WoW at all. Grinding for gold? If they increase the drop rates, the prices fall, which means less profit.

Miragee.3604:

First when I walked to the laural vendor I thought: WTF, 30 Laurels for ONE amulet? Like one month of playing each day’s dailies to get ONE amulet with better stats? Clearly no gear grind there.

How do you “grind” dailies? That term is being used so inflationary these days, almost everything you could possibly do in a game is considered grind. The best gear is supposed to be achieved over time. If anything at all, they should remove the fractals grind, because there the term actually is correct.

Define “easy”. Pressing just one button? Won’t work. Killing and thus progressing quickly? Also won’t work. Not spending any gold on repair costs and waypoints because you hardly die? Absolutely. I love my mesmer. If only the bugs would be fixed and there was some certainty on the things to come concerning balancing attempts…

Kyosji.8961:

Well, to start flaming, you need to find a person and just start verbally harassing them in a threatening manner. Insult them over the littlest things.
To start frosting is a bit more difficult and confusing, but it involves cake!
In all jokes aside, it just kind of ‘happens’

I see what you did there… and I’m mildly amused

That wasn’t directed at you personally, hence the separate paragraphs.

Martinulus.1760:

I don’t know how events work on ANet’s end: do they manually flip a switch, or change some code, or just give in a timed switch about when the event kicks off? If it isn’t manual but actually an automatically timed thing, might it not be possible to have different starting times for the events on the American and European servers? That way, Europeans and Americans won’t get into trouble with their working hours and we might have a lot less complaining players here because they missed an event (of course, communicating a time window for event start would come in handy there too).

Dude, those are LONG TIME EVENTS, is that so hard to understand? It won’t simply stop tomorrow. It will progress, but you’ll probably be able to get the volunteer title for a longer period of time. They actually learned from the Karka event debacle, just see what they did with the christmas events.

We seem to have the most ungrateful community ever here. I LOVE how ANet handles this now, this is exactly my understanding of a living, developing world. Things just happen. The people who complain the most now probably want to grind Fractals all day long and just troll in for half an hour to gain a title and then go back to what they did before. That’s not how this is supposed to work. Finally stop complaining and play the game. You won’t miss anything important. In a dynamic, long time, world changing, chaotic event chain, nobody’s gonna tell you exactly what’s happening before it happens, and that’s how it should be.
GW2 finally turns into the MMO I expected, and I’m glad that I have the opportunity to witness how it evolves.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

You guys really need to have a lot more open communication with your players.

Really? Check the dev tracker, blog and their videos. Even more communication and they won’t have any time left to actually fix and extend the game. GW2’s development process is neither democratic nor open source, they won’t tell us everything.

They should really change this to be determined by the server instead of client time. Not because it bothers me personally, but because threads like this will be popping out all the time because there will always be somebody messing around with the system clock in some way.

Makovorn.1706:

As an update to my previous posts (incl. the ones with the sound quality slider work-around) I just want to mention that I got this audio bug a few days ago while fighting in the Claw of Jormag battle – that is, with the sound quality slider a notch down from it’s highest setting.

Even though the work-around has worked great in the past months, I’m sad to say that it doesn’t solve the problem 100% of the time. I would still reccomend it for those that haven’t tried it, as it seems to greatly reduce this problem.

Hopefully, ArenaNet will find a solution to this … or perhaps give us a bit of an update. This problem has been with us for quite some time now.

Sounds like there’s some kind of overflow happening when too many sounds are played in parallel as I’ve never had that happen outside of large events, also explains why it doesn’t happen with reduced settings.

Kraggy.4169:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

It’s a dungeon, so it’s not soloable,

Which sucks hugely and is a nasty surprise for those who didn’t realise GW2 was a ‘forced grouping’ game at the point it matters.

It’s an MMO, how could you possibly miss that?

It’s not a one-time event, who cares about when it starts. People need to grow up and stop moaning like little children about everything. It was all in the patchnotes and you’ll be informed via ingame mail when something happens. Jesus.

Dungeons are meant to be hard. If you have people in your group who can’t play, that’s bad luck – then play with people from your or another guild.

PS: I still think there should be three paths with ascending difference for each dungeon, as well as for jumping puzzles. With scaling rewards of course.

Gaudrath.6725:

The problem is people don’t know how to play the game.

Yeah. Or maybe the problem is people can’t read, because Colin already said it was removed because it’s not working as intended.

PS: I found the amount of level 80 players that asked what a combo is disturbing too though.

harbinger.2698:

the Combo Killer achievement is a really poor idea for a Daily Progress award because it forces you to try and team up with someone which I think is a ridiculous idea in the first place…..

Yeah, really a ridiculous idea to play together in an MMO. What did they think.

I don’t like gathering. Or killing. Or playing at all. Just give me the reward without even logging in.

new one’s better. And the thread title is stupid.

I’m a bit disppointed there are no real Mesmer bugfixes. But I’m getting used to being hated.

A dev recently made a statement on why this function doesn’t exist, I just can’t find it…

Sigh… connection error, retrying… I didn’t mean that literally.

/e: reconnected, shortly back to decent speeds, now it’s dying again….seems they’re using Cloudfront which is part of AWS.

Woah… I started downloading with 1,2MB/s and got 250MB quickly, now it’s down to 5KB/s. Their CDN is dying It’ll take forever at that speed

Dungeons are meant to be hard. Now you can’t corpserun. Good fix.

I can confirm this.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Annoying-Sound-Bug/first
That bug exists since launch…

Just happened to me twice at the Claw of Jormag event, trying to change sound settings resulted in a crash both times.

Jason King.2647:

Hey everyone,

Thanks for continuing to give us details about this bug! I just checked with one of our programmers, and he’s still hard at working tracking this one down; I’ve passed on the information about the sound slider reducing the chances of it happening as well.

As before, please let us know if you find an exact way to consistently reproduce this issue, especially if you find a way to do it outside of a huge group of people.

Thank you for your patience and understanding; we’ll continue to work on this one and update as more information comes in.

Is this a regression or did he never find the cause?

covenn.7165:

Iruwen.3164:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Update-on-Culling/first#post1137307

PS: using more GPU memory is not a sign of quality. GW2 is well optimized in this regard.

Link to old information thus a useless post. ANyone that follows or cares about this issue has read that already.

I also never said that using more GPU memory is a sign of high quality. You assumed that, but it was not what I said. (One issue is how CPU bound this game is, to see where I was going with my comment)

You obviously didn’t read it, or you wouldn’t have made that statement. Apart from that, your last comment about memory makes it even more useless. If you want to say something: say it. Don’t make shady assumptions to be interpreted by others and complain afterwards.