Guild Wars 2

Then it’s probably best if you submit a ticket to support so they can investigate your account if you haven’t already.

I haven’t heard of it amongst my guildies/friends or experienced the issue personally yet.

Are you checking your hero panel or your achievement panel when getting these numbers?

Pretty sure it doesn’t effect dye drops. I’ve had about 10% MF from release (from the guild buff), and got about 5 dye drops a month if I’m lucky.

After the MF change and having 50%, it doesn’t seem like I’m getting less or more.

The most dye drops I get are in invasions because of the amount of mobs I kill in a short period.

Still, not sure if it has any effect on loot bags or not. I’d imagine not, but it’s a reasonable concern.

Pretty common bug.

It’s been in the game for a while.

RagingDragon’s right. The above steps tend to fix it, as well as disbanding, exiting GW2 and then logging back in on the commander.

I dunno, this is a tough one. On one hand, I get the complaint. It’s jarring being able to solo content all the way through your PS but the last part for those people who don’t want to do group content.

On the other, I strongly feel Zhaitan shouldn’t be a PS boss. The dungeon fits him well.

They should have ended your PS at the Cleansing of Orr, I think. Given you your PS completion award and then got rid of the Green Star in the top right, but clearly explained that Zhaitan is in a story dungeon if you want to get the end of Zhaitan’s story. For the story parts after Zhaitan, they could possibly send the player mail after they complete Arah that instructs them to go to Fort Trinity, so they can see the ‘we have more dragons to go!!!’ cutscene with Destiny’s Edge.

Not the complete ideal solution, but it’s better than what we have now.

Kekai Kotaki definitely doesn’t. They named the legendary spear after him, because it was the last weapon he designed, I believe.

Not sure about Jamie Jones.

I agree, though. It’s currently my wallpaper.

No, it doesn’t.

The similar champions won’t be effected until they revamp Arah story mode and (if) they revamp the Claw Island one.

I agree with Ele. It also seems to suit ele the best, in my opinion. It’s nature themed and astronomy themed and now it has lightning foot falls.

It definitely does build memories but I’ve never played any other MMO so I can’t compare. I’m pretty kitten against Sub fees, which is a reason I played GW1 in the first place, and no other F2P MMO has caught my attention.

Still, I remember the LA statue slowly falling apart and then exploding to reveal the man we loved to hate in GW1. I remember the Karka attacking LA (but I also remember how laggy it was), the Molten Facility and the cutscene with the Dredge and Charr bursting from the walls. The first time I played SAB – something I didn’t expect to see ever.

ANet are pretty kitten good at creating memorable events (both good and bad) and I hope it continues!

People thought mounts were coming because a Flame and Frost update had people riding horses in it. So no, I don’t think it’s a hint. It’s just the artist using creative freedom.

It’s not impossible that they may release spears to use on land at some point in GW2’s life, though.

He does it if people fail the ‘defend the laser/battery’ event for sure.

Not sure if he does it any other time. He may use it when his health is at 25% out of desperation.

It’s a bug that occasionally happens.

You won’t be able to activate any guild buffs when this is happening, either. Exiting Guild Wars 2 can fix this problem, and so can switching maps.

If this happened to you today, then it appears to be a specific problem with Blazeridge and the invasion text saying Timberline.

This happened a couple of days ago, too, with Timberline being pinged but Blazeridge actually being the map.

If you truly believe that, will you give me 100 gold if I provide you a screenshot of him failing post update?

Yes, I believe they want to do this with the other major events.

Shatterer is in desperate need of one.

The biggest problem with the Karka Queen is actually getting it to start and there being no consistency. It’s not because she is necessarily difficult. If she were set to spawn at times throughout the day, she’d probably succeed more often. There’s no easy way to tell your server you’re going to start her.

She succeeds every day about an hour after daily reset on our server. We set a time to co-ordinate her.

Thankfully, this problem doesn’t appear with Teq. He’ll spawn regardless of whether players do something and his rewards seem pretty decent.

Well, I’m hoping there’s some story involved.

Why is he stronger? Especially post-Zhaitan’s ‘death’ (if this particular release is still following the timeline of the others).

I wasn’t expecting any for SAB and they snuck some into there, so I’m hoping there’ll be at least some story involved with him, rather than just “AAAH, he’s stronger!!”.

Don’t think it’s necessarily a typo. They may just want people to experience it for a couple days before they give tips and tricks.

Overflow handles like it does for Scarlet’s events. A dev recently confirmed this.

It’s something they eventually want to roll out for all boss events, but that would probably involve synching them all across servers.

EDIT: Found the source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Why-80-players/page/2#post2755425

Flash.6912:

I just wondering if the new achievements for Teql Rising are perm?

The ones for Teq himself are under the ‘boss’ category if the PAX stream is anything to go on.

Judging by that, they are very much permanent.

I’m going to assume it’s more.

When they previewed Teq at PAX, all of his achievements were under the ‘boss’ tab, and not the ‘living world’ tab.

It may not be a lot more, but I’m going to assume there’ll be some meta living world achievements tied into how Teq got more powerful, for example. Basically more story than just ’he’s more angry! Let’s kill him!’

Well as of PAX, they haven’t decided whether or not Precursors will be available through crafting or not. It’s still up in the air.

They’ve somewhat done this with the Tequatl revamp. I believe you only get the champ rewards you’ve killed throughout the fight if Tequatl is defeated.

Other than being good at WvW roaming (that’s more a thief job), Mesmer seems to be what you want.

They’re wanted and decent in PvE and FotM, and light armour looks good (in my opinion). They’re more complicated than a guardian , but I’d argue that a thief has a higher ceiling in terms of mastering. Thieves are really easy to pick up and play and do well with, but someone who knows the profession really well will do a lot better.

Not one of those professions really has all of your bases covered.

I’d say level and gear a thief for WvW and then level and gear a Mesmer for PvE.

Why does it matter to you, out of interest?

It’s in the preview for world 3.

Go to the main hub and enter the world 3 hut and enter zone 1.

The rest, I’ll leave up to you!

I disliked them originally, but they’ve grown on me. I like them more than the original now.

I’ll miss the difficulty, too, but I understand Josh didn’t intend World 2 to only be completed by the best jumpers, so I don’t mind. I still have tribulation mode and world 3 and 4!

Not that I can remember, no.

The problem with W1 Z3 is that they seem to have removed a bauble by accident. I did it back in April when it worked, so I can’t exactly remember, but people are reporting that guides say there are 5 baubles in one place, but there are only 4 when they go there.

Judging by your skill bar, you don’t have the elite skill.

It counts, so you need to find it.

The best way to get across is to make sure you land on the front of the cannon, rather than aim for going inside it. It propels you further if you’re on the lip of it.

It leads to a poison maze, by the way. I’m not 100% sure if it’s finished or not, because I seemed to reach a dead end. It ticks your health away fast, though, so I didn’t have a lot of time to bomb walls and dig.

It seems to work exactly the same as the normal shovel. You just have a 15% chance of getting 1 bauble instead of 10%.

I’m not sure if it increases the amount you get out of dig spots.

I got it in normal mode with a group. One person got hit and frozen and didn’t get it, and the rest of us did. I used a lot of continue coins.

The bug isn’t consistent whatever it is, so they won’t be able to easily fix this until they figure out why it’s happening.

A whole thread of people do, yes: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/sab-bts/Is-it-too-hard/first

There’s developer responses throughout showing what they intend to do about it, too.

Linc.6834:

JayMack.8295:

Yes. The honeycomb in zone 3 is now possible.

The wooden panel is now solid, instead of you falling through it.

After getting about halfway through the maze on these there is one that looks exactly the same that you can still fall through, and I don’t see anyway around it =(

I haven’t checked if the cannon is unblocked or not though

As the poster above me mentioned, that one is intended to be fake. If you angle your camera around the corner, you’ll see another wood panel you’re meant to jump on.

Dodge Jumping makes a lot of things easier, but as Vince has said, it isn’t a requirement.

I just checked out Dulfy’s guide, and where she’s saying to double jump isn’t the ‘proper’ way to do it (or how Vince, Josh and the team intended it to be done).

You’re meant to ‘fake out’ the big boulder. So jump on the second pebble, jump back to the first pebble and then jump back onto the big boulder as soon as possible. It requires some quick reflexes!

Good luck!

Yes. The honeycomb in zone 3 is now possible.

The wooden panel is now solid, instead of you falling through it.

Forbidden Honey is now possible. I don’t think it was before.

The wooden panel on the maze floor is now solid, so you can carry on further through the maze (not all of them are solid, though this is intentional, I believe).

Tough Customer in World 1 is now fixed, too.

I haven’t attempted any of the World 2 Trib achievements, so I can’t comment on them, but here’s a screenie.

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Nausicaa.9563:

I got Professional Ice Skater and Tiptoe just fine.

In which mode exactly? I’ve tried it in easy and normal, but didn’t get it. Solo or in party? Maybe someone from my party failed it for the entire party, I don’t know.

I was in a group. One person got hit by the banana and I did it just fine. He didn’t get it, but I and those others in my party who weren’t frozen by the banana got it, too.

I was also in Normal mode.

Also, I’m not 100% sure that the Honeycomb one is impossible to do yet. I just think we may have to do something else to get past the cloud in W1Z3.

Professional Ice Skater isn’t bugged. I got it yesterday by avoiding all the Bananas.

EDIT: I’ll post a screen, give me a sec.

It is leaving again at the end of September, yes.

Whether or not they will make it permanent after World 4 has been released, I don’t know (and I don’t think Anet know yet, either).

I appreciate the short stories, Bobby, and I completely understand that the medium you are delivering them in allows you to do more. I’m not expecting to see these short stories in-game.

However….

I do think more could be done to tie the stories into the game a little bit more. Having NPCs that talk about sections of Moto’s past, journals we could find to piece together what may have happened to him in the past. An NPC who’s heard a rumour that he’s still moping after his girlfriend, etc.

I don’t want to walk up to one NPC or Moto himself and have him tell me his life story – it would feel weird. It’s not something people do unless they love themselves, but being able to piece together parts of his life or motivations through stories, journals, etc. would be great.

Zhaitan himself looked cool.

The problem I personally had with Zhaitan was that he was built up to be this deadly force, and yes, while I get that we weakened him significantly in the PS, the final battle just felt pathetic.

I left the Zhaitan fight feeling like I had murdered a poor innocent creature, who was haplessly defending itself by trying to swipe at my cannons to no avail. I just didn’t feel heroic. I felt like I was beating something while it was down and I didn’t feel like I’d contributed to his death other than hitting 2.

While he shouldn’t be the hardest boss as he’s tied to a story encounter, he should certainly feel epic to fight against as he’s the first story’s antagonist that’s been tormenting the lives of Tyrians for a hundred years.

I’m pretty sure I got some ectos AND dark matter when I salvaged my exotic.

Friend of mine got 2 for having 2 legendaries, so your second may just come later.

Well, they plan on revamping Zhaitan at some point, too…so they’re either going to have to just not tie that to a Living Story release, or actually go, “he was never dead, you just injured him when he fell, and now he’s actually angry!!”

I’m assuming there’s more to Tequatl Rising than just his fight, though. The achievements they showed were permanent boss related achievements. There’s going to be a meta (I assume) tied to it that’s in a Living World category, too.

Incorporating the SAB itself is doing that, regardless of whether it has a tribulation mode or not. I don’t think anyone bought this game expecting to have a retro style jumping puzzle in it.

Mobs spawn near the turrets. If someone is going to afk on them, I’ll just let the mobs kill them and encourage others to do so until its freed up. If an entire guild want to stop that from happening by camping their members near each turret and protecting the afk-er then power to ‘em! I’ll just leave and do Tequatl another time. I doubt they’ll be dedicated enough to do it each time he spawns.

They’re revamping them all eventually.

Why revamp Teq first, though rather than Zhaitan? Because he’s encountered by more players daily. Even if they revamped Zhaitan and made it a really interesting encounter, Teq would still have been more popular.

Don’t get me wrong, Zhaitan was one of my biggest disappointments with this game considering it was one of the encounters I was looking forward to the most, but I’m currently more excited about Teq being revamped because it’s equally a “press 1 to win” fight and I do it more often.

I wasn’t responding to you, so I don’t quite get why you’re responding to my post as if I’m saying Tribulation Mode and the style they’ve delivered SAB in is perfect. I was responding to a user expecting anything other than cheap death mechanics.

Also it’s available for a month, and if I play it all month long and can’t achieve that difficulty then I probably (personally) won’t achieve it anyway.