Guild Wars 2

Manasa Devi.7958:

Makes the skin more prestigious. Not that I like it or anything.

You bring an interesting topic. I will disagree that it’s not more prestigious but only because for the fact they had the currency (the sigils) implemented one way for one year then changed it drastically the next. I think if they had started out with it like this year as is, I personally wouldn’t have much of a complaint. I would look it and just see it as something of high gold value to go for and dismiss it. Not saying it as a bad thing at all, it would have been good for the people who wanted to go after it and the rest could just not worry about it. But you drastically change how to get an item and it’s AP achievement from one year to the next and not even say anything about reasoning. Something just seems really off putting about that.

While I completely disagree with the hoarding opinion of the OP, I do completely agree this is ridiculous that anet has not done something, not even made a comment on why nothing has either changed on how to craft them or put them back in as drops.

If they had a clear reason why they haven’t done anything, why would you hide that from the people? The first 24hr’s should have been an indication that this was an oversight from the TP graph as evidence and even if anet needed time to sort out the best way to fix it (while I personally think it’s an easy fix in theory you never know) why not come out and say they know about it and see this as a problem and it’ll just be a bit before they do something to correct this. Leaving us in the dark is the worst thing aside from not actually doing anything to correct what seems to a lot of people a big oversight on one of the very few big wintersday achievements to go after.

Yargesh.4965:

I may be missing something but if you don’t like the story and refuse to do it on other characters you have why is it a problem now? You got your rare weapon already so what else are you missing? Did they remove the mastery point? If not I really, really am having a difficult time understanding why you would care about this.

It’s why we care about anything in games really. If you complete something in a game, you want to be able to look back at it and have it say that it is. Not finish a game (story mode) and it says you only did 97%. Even if only the user can see it, I know I did it and I want the game to reflect that said ‘work’ I put into finishing it. Now if you don’t have that mentality that’s fine, but don’t disregard those that do please just cause it’s easier.

drunkenpilot.9837:

I think you misunderstood Gaile’s post.

If you successfully completed your personal story on that character, this update likely did not affect you. Log onto that character and check to see if you have an in-game mail from Scholar Aiti about your personal story. If you do, then you missed a step somewhere along the way. If not, the update did not affect you.

Nope, did not misunderstand at all, yeah I got the mail and yes it reset me to the start of Victory or Death in the personal story. Not sure how I’d miss a step if I finished the personal story all the way through. I killed the dragon, had the party, saw the credits all the way through and got the rewards. I did this before the PS had any changes or things taken out of it.

Yeah I finished my personal story to the end on one character so I could feel I completed it. This happened well over a year ago. Now your saying I have to replay it just cause. Sorry, no thank you, and I feel jipped that you choose to reset something I completed because you want me to do it over. I want to play things and do things I wish to do in the game, not have to replay something I don’t want to just to feel like I finished it when I already did almost 2 years ago.

Yeah it’s funny anet mentioned AB will be getting nurfed cause people don’t do other farms enough and then they nurf heavy on the new farm.

yeah same thing has happened to me, logged into my one character that has finished the personal story all the way through got the letter and checked, now its not complete but at the start of Victory or Death.

Nikal.4921:

Personally, I think selling gamble boxes should be prohibited by law. Maybe one day, they will be, once enough people get burned and make a big enough fuss. It’s predatory, no way around that, and there are other methods of monetization that are way more consumer friendly. Gamble boxes are a lazy and mean-spirited (IMO) way for gaming companies to make a little more money in the short term and can have terrible long term PR consequences.

There is enough RNG in these games, why should we be paying for RNG as well?

No idea what you mean by “It’s predatory” how? the game offers a system that is in no way mandatory or gives you vertical progression (an edge over people in game play). And how does it hurt the game exactly? they make money and hence forth able to pay for stuff to make more stuff. If no one wanted to buy the keys they wouldn’t.

Gambling for in game things is perfectly fine. Not even sure how this could be a debate actually, no one is making actual money off this. It’s really not even gambling, it’s buying gems with money, meaning your just paying for something in game and then use that to buy keys and play an rng system within said game. If you want to call that gambling then sure, semantics. But unless your issue is rng (let alone real gambling) should be banned from life, this kind of play is about the last thing on that list.

It is their ‘newest set’ so them saying ‘new’ I really don’t have a problem with. Along with the preview you can now see everything that you are able to get. I would hold the user more accountable then the company in this case. Though I do agree anet could have worded the advertisement better and just said weapon set and not ‘new’ cause of it being over a month old now. Changing it to ‘newest’ would have worked too.

Aside from that, I am sorry to hear preacher that you had such bad rng but that doesn’t mean you should just throw out claims cause you didn’t get what you wanted. I see buying something in the gem store like anything else. I take a look at the product, see if its something that I’d want and it’d be useful to me. I look at customer reviews and try and read up on the details of the item as much as I can, then make a decision. Doesn’t always work out but it’s leagues better then buying something shinny in a store and have no idea if it even does what you want it to do. Food for thought is all I’m saying.

yeah, same thing happened to me. I think i have either the 20% gathering and 10% pvp track buffs between my 9 characters and all 9 had lost their guild hall buffs.

my ranger had his heal skill missing, and my engi had his elite skill missing.

yeah the DC’s are happening every 2 or 3 min’s for me, so can’t really play like this. Hope this gets worked out soon, thanks for your guys’ (anet) hard work on this, it’s much appreciated.

You can get them through the Legendary Ley-Line Anomaly event ounce a day, Sometimes the daily is for using the mystic forge and if you do it then you get a coin as a reward. Also your login rewards have them ounce a week. Plenty of ways to get them, and it’s nice imo that not everything has no value what so ever aside from ascended stuff so I’m perfectly fine with the price and supply/demand as they are right now.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Perhaps, Windows did an update. You can download and install DirectX 9 from any reputable site. You can try a -repair of the client.

Good luck.

Thank you for the reply.

Seems after some more digging around trying to figure this out, doesn’t look like anything was updated which was a good idea to check on, so sadly still not sure what went wrong however, I have a Nvidia for my computer, version 372.90. gtx 960m. on a windows 10, I was reading a part in another topic that had to do with not being able to login due to crashing and a user found a fix by enabling 3D support to gw2.

Stormcrow.7513:

A fix though ! Enabling Custom 3D support in Riva tuner did the trick

I did that through my Nvidia control panel and now the game launches. So I guess that fixed it, still baffled by what happened but if it works who am I to complain I guess. Just wanted to leave an explanation in case others ran into something similar.

No idea what’s going on. Last night game was working fine. however now when I go to launch it today, I can get the login screen and sign in, however when I press launch I get a pop up window instead of it opening gw2 that says,

“Unable to initialize 3D output. Please verify that you have installed DireetX9 and an updated video driver.”

Then has a link for gw2 support below it. I have not made any software changes to my computer in between attempted play sessions so I’m not sure what it’s detecting (or not detecting in this case it looks like). Any ideas?

I agree whole heartedly with the OP. Its one thing if anet had the jp’s zone off correctly with a ‘no fly’ but they don’t and actually haven’t made any real improvements on the zoning since it came out and a few patches after for bugs here and there.

I would actually love a key bind, both that and an option would be preferable but I’d be ecstatic with either at this point. I stop running most jp’s for fun just cause I can do nearly all the jp’s, I’m slow at them but enjoy them and I"m fine taking my time but when i go to jump and end up gliding off and have to start over again and again with no way to stop it. Yes I know its triggered off holding the space bar, but I’m slow and have even tried putting some dedicated time into learning not to do that, it still just ends up happening for me all the time anyway when I don’t want it to, whether in jp’s or just jumping up somewhere in a pve map when I’m trying to get places.

It’s such a qol thing and has been brought up by many people over the year since HoT came out and I don’t think I’ve heard anything from a dev, let alone anything about it actually happening. is it really that hard for implementation?

Yeah I’ve seen this on occasion over the last 10 days or so, mostly in the new pve map, Bloodstone Fen, during the Jad chain events. At first I thought it was lag or something since a lot of people gather for those but after a few time of it happening I checked my ping and fps during those times and while slower then normal cause of all the people and skill spam, nothing else had lag and my ping was still decent. I’ve now seen it a few times in other places in pve maps but only when large groups of people are gathered, so now I’m wondering if it is lag or something on the server side? Not sure, is annoying when you try and res someone and they run away from you lol

Thanks for the info and help you two. seems I hadn’t tried it since the spring update since I had that info in my head that it wouldn’t work and never bothered to check again. Didn’t even think to look at the wiki, nice one. Went on one of my toons that hadn’t done the story and worked just fine, not sure why it didn’t work that first tried a day ago but did now.

I’m not actually sure if this is bugged or not and so I thought I should ask since map chat had conflicting opinions on the matter.

My questions is, am I suppose to be able to get into the inner chamber on toons that haven’t done the story that far yet?

To start off, I have exalted mastery maxed so that shouldn’t be an issue. And have done the whole story of HoT on 1 toon, however I was under the impression that I had to do the story on each toon up to that chapter where you enter the Inner Chamber to be allowed access after for things like the vista. (map completion is mainly my reason for this), however when someone asked in map chat about wanting to get into the chamber for the vista, someone answered they could get in without the story and have done so on a few different toons for map completion since on one of their toons they had completed the story and have the exalted mastery and a few others chimed in saying that was true.

So which is correct? having to do the story up to that point on each character or just finishing with one on your account to have access on all toons (plus mastery). Cause if it’s the later I’ve been bugged it seems for like the last 6 months if that’s the case.

Yeah I think it comes down to play style and builds, love my necro but mesmers can take down camps and such really fast when done right with builds for that. I actually use ele more in group plays for to bunk and pump out might and heals which is fun for me. I would suggest maybe looking at places like metabattle and maybe just going into spvp and trying out a few builds and see what you like best. Its aways a good way to try out stuff without spending your gold first.

A lot of people sound like they have nostalgia goggle on when talking about the old maps. While I never loved DBL that was mainly due to the mechanics of it at the launch, with the new changes I’m quite happy and do not want these to go away. I’m fine with a rotation but it’d be really silly for good maps like these to get taken out of the game when they are now better then the old maps.

yeah, whether I’m already in the TP on the sell section and select something or in my inventory and right click to sell something and the TP pops up; I’d say there’s maybe a 2/5 chance that it’ll go to the wrong item for me.

This is a very broad topic I wish to talk about, so pardon if I don’t cover everything or bounce from one thing to another. Would love other peoples input and thoughts on the subject matter.

Now I’m sure the gliding in jumping puzzles has been brought up more then a few times in the past. However I’m not trying to discuss why it should be one way or another but what changes I would like to see made so the way it currently is would work better. Example; I was finding while in the Dark Reverie jumping puzzle a few days ago that in spots I could glide a little bit and in other parts I couldn’t. Some consistency there would be nice. I know, I know; the icon is there for that, however it didn’t seem to matter much. Even with the icon there I sometimes could fly a few feet and sometimes couldn’t. Well pretty much I never want to glide during a jumping puzzle, I have heavy fingers and doing them is hard enough as it is, but when you go to jump and start gliding and then fall off your spot it is very annoying. I’ve noticed that at more then a few jumping puzzles when I occasionally do them here and there (I’m sure dedicated JP’ers could maybe added to this on how big a thing around all the JP’s it really is on whether it’s a problem or not, would love the input). Another thing I noticed was ounce when I was almost finished with that jumping puzzle, I fell and while there was no fly zone on, I thought you could at least turn it (gliding) on low to the ground so you wont die. Well I was mashing my space bar and never happened. The icon never disappeared either. While I have seen that particular feature work before in other puzzle it didn’t in this one. I have run into other places where I am doing a lot of jumping that I don’t want to fall from whether for chests or collections or a few mini dungeons come to mind as well, that I will jump and start to glide and can’t turn it off fast enough and fall off where I am and have to start over.

Another area I would like to bring up is diving goggles. While this may be very specific, this may have more impacted on new players or ones that are just starting to do achievements in this area so keep in mind if you got a lot of these done you may not realize the annoyance that gliding has brought to them. I have found while trying to knock out the Dry Top diving goggles where if your not familiar you have to climb up a bunch of bamboo and then grab your goggles and jump into a tiny pool below. It seemed since I was having a lot of attempts at it (kept missing the pool) that maybe 1 out of 5 times I would jump off with the diving goggles I would hit the jump button too hard and start to glide, thus cancelling my dive and having to start over from the bottom of the climb. Things like Dry Top and Silverwates achievements have to needing to jump really specifically into an area below (I think one of the HoT maps as well) and it just seems like an added difficulty for no reason, why cant when putting on diving goggles stop you from gliding? I have no idea how hard that would be to implement, but it does seem worth it. What do you guys and gals think?

Overall I think the consistency is the problem with the no fly zone and jumping puzzles. So I don’t know when I can and can’t fly, to know if I can’t jump without having to worry about my glider turning on. I would love a check box or a keybind to turn off gliding since there are places in just normal pve that I don’t want to deal with by mistakenly turning on my glider. You think I’m over reacting or did I hit the nail on the head here? Would love to hear what everyone thinks. Thanks in advance.

PS: Also maybe its just me, but could I get the no fly zone icon in wvw turned on? I keep forgetting that I can’t fly in there and the icon would be a nice reminder. Maybe that’s too much? Needless putting it in a game type that doesn’t have flying at all so it would be icon spam on the screen or would you like to see that as well?

Happens a lot to me randomly as well, with what other people have said but as well when I go into someplace like wvw then guild hall right after that, if I try and exit the guild hall and go back to pve, I’ll end up in Lions Arch like 50% (not sure actually percentages but it feels like a fair amount) of the time. Or say head into pvp lobby then into wvw and log out from wvw. If I log back in and am in the pvp lobby if I exit the lobby to get back to pve I’ll end up in Lions Arch almost every time, and any combination of pvp/guild/wvw order if I go into two of those, one right after another and then log out and come back in later and try route back to pve I’ll most of the time end up in Lions Arch. Doesn’t look like from what I can tell, matters what map or place I’m in, in pve. Been all over when this does happen and when it doesn’t.

I was in someones home instance for gathering nodes (and daily) and ran out of my logging axe, so I decided it’d be faster and more convenient to just quick use a merchant express and grab one then ask to hop out and get one then come back in when I was almost on the last node. So I place one down and press ‘f’ on it but nothing happens. I take some steps back and forward again, nothing. Selecting it or not to click on the merchant doesn’t make a difference either.
I pretty never use those kinda items(merchant, bank, TP npc’s, etc) for ‘just in case’ scenarios and then when I finally decide to use one, it doesn’t work

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Genlog.4983:

we need some cute animals

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Great_Critter_Hunt

I wonder if the Rangers tried to get quaggans as pets that some people would see that as enslavement and then people would take sides and war would break out and then the quaggan tell their tale of how ‘Steve’ tried to enslave them and so they had to leave the ocean and now they are worried about the same thing happening here. So the Rangers’ decide they don’t want to be as horrible as something a dragon would do so they decide to help the quaggans take back their old home as a form of redemption for trying to subjugate them. And thus is the opening to the third expansion into ‘Steve’ The Deep Sea Dragon.

Ok, that works then, I read through the patch notes when they came out and they didn’t say anything about it so wasn’t sure if that was suppose to happen or not, thanks for the info Stitch. Nice change imo.

Actually I think I did pretty much the exact same thing last night (well really early morning Friday) but I was on my Ranger and logged out from wvw to play on my ele and then a few others in pve, then went back to my ranger and my 6-8 which I routinely change between pve and wvw had switched back to my pve setup without me doing anything.

Rayti.6531:

The problem with this karka is, that it’s not intuitive at all. You basically have to shoot through the balcony the flowers sit on. No line of sight there… It even looks like a bug to me.

Maybe it would be better to place the karka a bit more to the front of the balcony, so you can only hit it from one specific angle where you get line of sight…?

Don’t get me wrong , I already have my “princess” so I don’t need this change. It’s just that as soon as most people have finished the achievement, new players will have a very hard time finding the “soft spot” on their own without sources outside the game.

I completely agree with this. If there was only a certain ‘spot’ or two where the gun aim would turn green and no where else on that ledge of flowers with doing direct line of sight for this so you knew you were aiming in the right place so when you do get the timing right, it would hit and count then I’d be quite happy with it.

Aside from that one karka, I really have had a blast with this, it let me explore the new place while having a goal I was working to; to see things I might not have otherwise and just overall had a good time running around shooting some karka. I do really like this, and I know it’s an optional thing and I see some people complaining like their being forced to do this or something. Or there was an idea about maybe selling the prize at a vendor. I’d ask that you please don’t. Keep everything the way it is with this achievement (aside from that one karka). It’s a bit hard but not too hard, makes you explore and it’s not something that has to be rushed so people really can go at their own pace with it. Overall, thanks for adding this anet. To me at least, this was a really fun add.

Mea.5491:

How do I get this one? I’ve been standing at the stairs for 20 minutes now, can’t get it and no one knows the answer. People just shooting at the wall around me… x_x

Yeah, got the other 49 out of 50 for the achievement. It seems some people are having trouble but getting it eventually, however I’ve looked at a few sites, looked at a few gif’s, listened to a few people willing to help in chat, and 3hr’s later on this one karka I still don’t have it. I have the timing down pretty well where i nail it a good 1/3 of the time if not better but for some reason or another I just can’t ‘get it.’ maybe make this one a bit easier? not ‘easy’ just ‘easier.’

Kal Spiro.9745:

You sir are a monster, and very short sighted. What we should actually do is tame them and raise them to be Lion’s Arc defenders. Lion’s Arc now has airships for sky defense, already had the navy for above water defense, the Lion’s Guard for land defense and an army of Karkuard would make ideal underwater defense. Also since they’re walking tanks they would be pretty useful on land too.

What can I say, I think they would be so tasty with some good horseradish sauce. And I’m not a monster, I’m just a guy in a woman avatar who’s wearing a quaggan outfit is all :p

Though really I do like your plan; if and I mean, IF they could be trained then I’m all for it. Otherwise I’ll go with my default plan

Here’s one I don’t think anyone has linked yet… http://imgur.com/lQDAwyU

As far as what I’d do with these buggers, I’d say since they’re just hatched, why not just gather them all up put them on a ship and send them back to Southsun Cove. Or we could just find them all and cook them? I mean I love crab…. make a big bond fire on the beach and have a luau with karka legs to eat!

Congrats you two
As for an event in game like that, I’d definitely try and show for it. I always found if there is a theme of the event and a mass give away, some sort of food that ties into the theme normally works pretty well since there’s such an abundance of great named consumables we have.

Yeah same thing happened to me as it did IndigoSundown
Got through the first 7 questions and hit next then the same 7 questions popped back up. Does that mean that was it and was submitted? or something bugged?

@Just a flesh wood
ah, well huh, that’s strange that ori is different then the rest on that. Just assumed it was the same with how the nodes acted.

Thanks for the info and clear up you two.

I run the Obisdian Sanctum jumping puzzle in WvW for the Orichalcum (nearly daily atm) as much as I do for the chest at the end there. Two times this week I have been ‘lucky’(?) enough to find a Rich Orichalcum vein. However both times now I have only gotten the first single cycle and then it shows as used and I can’t get anymore. Both times each 3 orichalcum ore. Haven’t ever run into rich node problems before but this one twice in a row. Anyone else having this problem in there? Just wondering how wide spread this is, also just posting this so anet knows this has been a recurring for me. (reported it in-game bug the first time) The first time this happened I went back in with a different character back to the rich node since it was close to the start that time and tried to mine it, same thing happened with only one cycle through and 3 ore. Haven’t tried it this time with a second character, but I assume the same thing would occur.

Thanks for your time.

I keep logging in then after a few minutes then gw2 will randomly boot me and restart back to the log-in screen, I try and log back in and sometimes it works and sometimes I get stuck on the loading screen after selecting my character. When I do get in, everything seems to be frozen except for my player-character and the chat. However I can’t type into it just see others. I can run around but nothing moves and can’t use any windows or skills or anything. I have to completely exist the game and then go back into it. But it’s just the same thing all over again with it working for a few minutes then it will auto restart on me and I have the same problems. Been trying it since reset.

@Bbear
Thanks for the heads up about the invisible stacks, I looked again and the silver ore was in my inventory. At least that’s some good news….

Thanks all for the support, yeah I always found the whole thing to leave a guild so easily a bit silly when you have over measures for junk toy items, so they can’t even say a system isn’t in place to change it. That’s a quality of life change that should really have been done ages ago.

EDIT:

Talked with guild wars and seems nothing can be done at all. Was told pretty much to just move on. IDK, i just feel numb about this whole thing.

Thanks for the insight Bbear… and confirmation RoseofGilead…

When I go to rep one of the guilds I’m in (I have 3 total) all I do is change the guild page in the guild panel and hit the rep button to whatever guild I’m switching to and not touch the ‘un-represent’ button as to never run into the situation since it works to go in between guilds by just switching which guild page is up and hitting rep so I don’t have to hit any un-rep button and there for having the chance of hitting the leave guild button by mistake. That’s why I don’t think it was anything on my end. Plus I’m pretty sure a question window pops up if your leaving a guild, asking if your sure, for me the guild just vanished when I clicked rep of my main guild, I almost didn’t notice it gone before I closed the panel. There was in no way any notification.

As for the disappearing stack when moved, I had never heard of that. Didn’t notice the silver ore in my inventory when I was on that second time yesterday, but I have a messy inventory so I might just not have seen it. Will make sure and search for it when I get in game later. Thanks for the heads up with that.

Yeah, figured the data was lost when a guild is closed (or vanishes). Just seriously bummed out about it. Thanks for the confirmation you two though so at least I know.

I was playing earlier today when I was removing and adding stacks of mats to my personal guild bank (a guild I use only for it’s bank for storage space) when I went to move one of the partial stacks out to combine with when I had in my inventory to make a full stack and move it back into the bank for storage, but when I dragged it out of my bank and let it go into an empty square in my inventory it disappeared. I closed both windows and reopened them. Nothing. I logged out and logged back in, still the same. I reported problem….

Now that being said, I lost over 100 silver ore, it made me sad but not a huge loss.

However, tonight I was on again and just finished up a long run in wvw and was emptying some mats in that guild bank again. Everything went fine, I go to switch back to my regular guild that I rep and as soon as a click the rep button for that guild the guild I was just in and have for my mats, vanishes off of the panel. I close the panel and reopen it. Still gone. I log out and log into another character, still gone. I log back into the character I was in wvw with, still gone. I made a report to anet about this. Honestly I don’t know if they can do anything for me? Since I was the only person in the guild since it was an extra bank for me, I don’t think they can keep track of stuff in banks after it’s deleted so I can get my stuff back? Idk personally, but I don’t have high hopes. More just writing this to warn others of what happened and venting my frustration. I hope no else encounters either problem.

Thanks for your time.
Jay

Thanks A-net for a pretty fun April fools. Looking forward to next years!

Thank you very kindly for the offer, got the port up. Have no idea why that happened either, none of my other characters were moved (checked after posting) so must of been because I was on my ranger at the time for some reason or another. Well wasn’t a huge thing, just hope it doesn’t happen again, or to anyone else in similar positions.

I had my ranger parked at the chest of the No So Secret jumping puzzle after completing it since I mainly just do wvw with him and I like getting the blade shards you can from the chest on an almost daily routine. Well the build that just happened (in the last few minutes) just moved my ranger when I went to log back on to him, I was in wvw when the build popped up so I decided just to restart the game to get it done. Then I came back and instead of being at the chest I’m at the portal near Lions Arch like I just came out into Gendarran Fields. I am very unhappy. So not doing that puzzle over for the third time.

Had this happen a few times over the last couple days when I was just randomly loading in between maps or whatnot but now I almost can’t get on at all. I get into select a character just fine but as soon as I click to go into that character (tried most of mine) it’ll start to load in then about 10 seconds into it, it goes blank and I get that error message. I’ve even watched my active connectivity to my wireless as I’m doing this so I know that’s not it. Took me 8 tries to get into 1 of my characters a few minutes ago.

Not sure how others mini’s are annoying but I can for sure agree with the npc/player voices, especially the robot back pieces (forgot what their called) when I’m in a zerg for example doing a world boss or something I sometimes just have to mute the game cause how annoying those things are and it’s kinda sad cause I like hearing the action and music during events.

I’ve been on a few of my characters now since the new day started in game time and several of them (happened to my male Asura, and female Norn) just started saying random dialogue, back to back to back, etc… and it just wont stop, but it’s also in all the voices, female, male, all the races and all their sayings, (I think I noticed some npc sayings and voices as well mixed in as well) and it just keeps going and going. It’s pretty annoying with it being little to no pause in between the talking. Hope this can be fixed.

Thanks for your time.