Guild Wars 2

The Claw of Jormag event in Frostgorge sound is a really popular event on my server, unfortunately as more and more people show for the event we have a severe lag issue, very similar to the Karka event.

• Spells do not cast. The buttons blink but the spells do not go off.
• When spells do go off, it’s a significant delay from when they were cast.
• Character movement stutters. When Jormag fears people up the hill in P2, the movement of all toons stops and starts rapidly, like they are dancing up the hill.
• Random freezing of toons. It’s like they are frozen in ice, however there is no ice prison.

Thank you for your attention to this! You guys have made a great game

I’m right behind ya, buddy.

Well…er, maybe not -right- behind you, more like 6 months behind you…..

Supergratz!

Dead.7385:

Since Wow has a sub that means all games with a sub = 12 million players.

Logic wins.

Lol, it’s been years since WoW had 12 mil subs.

Nope.

/15 Charr

Naw. They never had a sub in GW1 and they had content patches and expacs.

Colin Johanson said that the Jan & Feb patches together would be as much content as an expansion. Hold on to your hat!

You’ve been brainwashed into thinking a sub is neccesary. It’s not. The games that charge them are ripping you off.

Seeing your guild’s colors flying from the castle’s walls

JMadFour.9730:

No. been playing MMOs since Everquest. I understand this.

This forum is a bit worse with it, than some other MMOs I’ve played, though.

was just an observation on the tone of this particular sub-forum.

There’s a reason this forum is worse. A big “Elephant in the Room” type reason. See, GW2 is taking a big slice of that Elephant’s revenue. The Elephant is not dying yet but you can count on the more successful GW2 is, the louder that Elephant is going to scream.

Over a hundred of my guildies are online atm. Most everyone loves the game, the only grumbles I see are hard to reach vistas, annoyed at WvW map completion (when we are losing), and the occassional complaint about mob density in Orr.

It’s a great game, I love it

The Mad King Chests were only available for the Halloween event.

Next year!

Wearing a staff in a jumping puzzle and hitting 4 thinking to give a speed buff but instead rolling backwards and off the ledge leaving a trail of fire because it was in Fire Attunement and not Air.

(yes, the player was me lol)

I know there is the title Miniature Collector for mini pets. Not sure how many you need though, I’m still on Tier 1

I hit 80 about 3 weeks after release and I’m still finding different things to do.

Finding the mini-dungeons (I actually like these better than the s +xDungeons). Some have very cool event chains to open them.

Dragon events. I use the website with the timers on it, always tons of people and tons of fun going to those.

Zho’qafa Tombs event in Straits of Devastation – there’s a chance at a super rare staff, the Final Rest. It’s a fun event also. I go there every couple days to see if I can pick up the trail of the event chain, I’ve found them dead in the swamp and dead in the tombs. Grab a couple guildies and round out with people on the map and we’re off!

Go Skritt Burglar chasing. Did this today, me and a couple guildies went map hopping to all the Skritt chest locations and chased that bugger all over Tyria.

Fractals. Love this dungeon. Only made it to level 10 so far, I don’t feel “driven” to go super high but it’s really fun.

Strike up random conversations with people. There were 3 Charr sitting on the bank steps, I went up and said they looked hungry and asked if they wanted a snack. They agreed that a snack would be tasty so I pulled out my Skritt pet. Hilarity ensued, they tried to BBQ the poor critter.

Teach people how to synch dance and dance with their weapons.

Do the Troll’s End jump puzzle in LA and offer portals to the chest. Give people tours of the jump puzzles in LA if they haven’t seen them and are interested.

Go to just about every event anyone in my guild links.

Scrimmage in WvW jump puzzles.

Halfway serious, halfway not working towards a legendary. Throw greens I get from events in the forge to get rares.

6 am PST on a NA server….in overflow.

You get one from map completion at around lvl 15 I think, and very rare chance from mobs.

You can buy them with commendations from Lionguard Lyns. Cheap rare (lvl 65) and exotic (lvl 80 candy corn) jewelry give the most commendations – much better than paying gems for keys.

When you decide to name your first child Lucky Charms of Doom after your Immobulus scepter.

I’m really curious about how they are going to roll out more servers because we clearly need them -the game is busting at the seams.

I was in queue all evening to get into WvW (never happened) so I ran around and did events – everywhere I went there was mobs of people and constant overflow in Lion’s Arch.

Today over 60% of NA servers were FULL with the remaining Very High and with the upcoming Christmas rush where will they put all these people?

I’m thinking they might need to add 3 servers at a time because of WvW matching.

I have no doubt they can produce content at an amazing rate after playing the beta. There was a beta weekend finale event called Hunger Royale that took 1 designer about 12 hours to put together.

They’ve got some incredible technology over at ANet. Look for great things

I live to slay internet dragons.

1) Party up for better drops from mobs
2) Tag all the mobs
3) Use MF

I get at least 1 rare 50% of the time, and twice I’ve gotten an exotic. Get lots of t5 & t6 mats from the mobs.

From this day forth, today will be known as Loot Day in LA!

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Try doing the temple of Balthazaar without a coordinated group.

^^^
We didn’t fare so well against Balthazar yesterday. Ran into the timer.

Santa! You’re so thin, don’t they feed you up there in the North Pole?

::bustles about with pots and pans making tsking noises like an Italian grandmother::

I’ve yet to see any pet drops but I have purchased a few from the Trading Post. Not the gems store, the regular trading post where other players are selling them. Plus I’ve recieved a couple as prizes – Pink Day in LA <3

Mini-pets are not soulbound, you can trade them after you use them. They keep like an item in your bags.

I think the reason you don’t see so many is that you have to keep summoning them everytime you change zones or waypoint. That’s the reason I don’t have mine out usually anyway.

Run dungeons for tokens. (vendors are in Lion’s Arch)
Karma vendors in Orr (at corrupted god temples)
Crafting.
Random drops from mobs and chests.

I’ve told everyone I want gemcards for Christmas

Since there is going to be a large amount of new players, won’t they group with each other?

Super grats!

Doylak plushies!! Why didn’t I think of that!

Thanks, Jon!

Good info, Valmarius.

I know MF doesn’t work on chests, but does it work on nodes and loot bags?

You need to have the commendations in your bag to see her offerings.

Get those by purchasing the package item from Miyani, then put package and jewelry in the Mystic Forge to get commendations.

I don’t think anyone has the %, I’ve only gotten a couple keys from map completion. I think you get one early, maybe lvl 10 or so.

Best way to get keys is the jewelry turn-ins for commendations.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/13co8v/2000_captains_council_commendations_for_1/

Look behind waterfalls and bushes, swim upstream in rivers to find underwater caverns. Sometimes almost whole zones are hidden underneath the map!

It really is a gorgeous varied world. I am very particular about companies that just copy/paste the same old caves or terrain over and over. Haven’t come across anything like that yet

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/20356

Price is going to continue to go up, in my opinion. There are lots of blacks out there, Midnight Ice is a good one

Depends on how comfortable you are with risk/future reward and how much you need the gold now.

Try using Order of Whispers Spy Kit, makes traveling solo much easier.

I think the point of that place is to make us hate the risen, hate the idea of them taking over Tyria, hate them so much we want to wipe them off the face of the planet.

Former. Try very late at night/very early in morning.

Took my friend about a week to get on my server.

Take the cost of the gems to purchase and divide by 25 uses to get the cost per use. Yesterday was ~22s.

I only use them on exotics with desirable/comparable cost runes to get free ectos.

Mif.3471:

You should spend it cute Asura girls.
Like me….

D’awww

That’s a little gold getter if I ever saw one.

You could use some to purchase gems from the Trading Post and buy vanity or fun items.

Other than crafting a legendary you really don’t need much gold in this game.

All the armors in the game can be seen here:

http://gw2armorgallery.com/index.html

My brother is a big PvP-er.

I’ve been playing GW2 since beta but recently I was talking with my brother over the Thanksgiving holiday and told him about the game.

When I told him he could immediately pvp at level 80 without gearing or leveling he was instantly interested. So much so that he went out and bought the game within the hour.

Now he’s a busy guy and doesn’t have much time to play. He jumped straight into WvW for a couple sessions and was having a blast and I figured I wouldn’t see him in game much since I mostly PvE.

Last night in game he whispers me and says WvW is full, come level with me. So I log over to a toon I’m leveling and we go to Plains of Ashford since he’s playing a Charr. He wasn’t sure where to go and told me to lead.

After a couple hearts and events we end up at the heart where you get the gun to shoot, gunbutt/knockback and capture the skelks and minotaurs for the pit fight. The queue for WvW pops and he whispers me, “Leave queue, this is fun.”

Forget me leading after that, rofl! He was off, roaming about, healing NPCs, chopping down trees, doing hearts and events, grouping with players, randomly running into mobs or champions too powerful for him (whoa), trying to figure out what to do with all the loot in his bags, find the trading post, fall off vistas, etc.

I had so much fun just watching him, couldn’t stop laughing.

Here is a dye list with swatch colors:

http://flufffactor.wordpress.com/gw2-dye-list/

Note that the dye can appear slightly different depending on what it’s put on; cloth, metal, leather, feathers, etc. You can preview a dye if is in your bags or if you have a link in chat. Links can be obtained on gw2spidy.com

mavet.3047:

And yet another one of ANet’s debacles strikes again. They’re starting to remind me of the incompetence that was known as the SWTOR “devs…”

They fixed it within 2 hours Mavet. You are behind the curve.

Fixed now. The hysterical shrieking can move on to another topic

Stormleaf.1769:

As someone who can happily adapt to bugs until they’re fixed, rather than stopping everything to declare the entire game broken and worthless the instant I so much as hear about a newly-introduced issue, I wholeheartedly support the constant and continual addition of new content.

Thanks for being awesome, ArenaNet. <3

Hear hear.

Since the game launched I’ve only run into a few bugs. A couple escort events and 2 skill points (which have since been fixed). The only major bug was when the Trading Post was down for the first couple weeks of launch and honestly the game was SO GOOD I didn’t mind. It was worth being patient and guess what? It too was fixed

How on earth can you say more was broken than fixed? One new bug was added. One. Which they are working on.

Cont.

Structured PvP
•Heart of the Mists: Added light, medium, and heavy PvP Underwater Mask items to the PvP Armorsmith.
•Battle of Kyhlo: The hit box on the trebuchets has been decreased so that they are less vulnerable to certain AoE skills.
•Legacy of the Foefire: The red guild lord and his guards have been repositioned to more closely match the blue side.
•Forest of Niflhel: Fixed incorrect names on the archer NPCs that guard each base.
•Removed slots in the PvP locker for the Rawhide armor pieces, as they are not obtainable as PvP rewards.
•PvP locker now can store consumable finishers up to rank 6, glory boosters, PvP salvage kits, and tournament tickets.
•Updated the NPC names of archers in Forest of Niflhel.

Items
•Updated the names of the level 80 rare armorsmithing boxes to match the names of the items they contain.
•Runes of Balthazar and Orrian now properly apply quickness when the player is struck and below 20% health.
•Updated Knight’s Jewel so that it appropriately grants Power rather than Toughness.
•Updated the ingredients required to craft satchels and boxes of armor to match the ingredients required to craft the individual pieces contained within.

Commerce
•Fixed an issue with the Boxing Glove skills remaining when players swap to armor from town clothes.
•Mini pets are now usable in the Heart of the Mists.
•Fixed Krait Tonic second skill description.
•Fixed missing nightmare medium icons and pants using gloves icons.
•Total Makeover Kit and Self-Style Hair Kit added to the Black Lion Chest as rare rewards.
•Increased chance to get Mini boosters and Dye Pack boosters from the Black Lion Chest.

Profession
Elementalist
•Updated elementalist conjured weapons to appropriately apply attributes to all players that pick them up.
•Dragon’s Tooth: This skill’s blast finisher now triggers at spell location, instead of character’s location.
•Electrocute: This skill now has a maximum range and line of sight requirement.
•Impale: Fixed an exploit with this skill’s interaction with Signet of Restoration.
•Arcane Resurrection: This trait now applies five seconds of aura to allies affected by it.
•Evasive Arcana: This trait now has a blast finisher while attuned to earth.
•Elementalists will no longer get into a state where they aren’t attuned to any element. This commonly results in the player’s skillbar being empty.

Engineer
•Toss Elixir C: This skill’s underwater cooldown is reduced from 60 seconds to 30 seconds to match the land recharge.
•Elixir S: Fixed a bug that would cause this skill to go on normal recharge when Fast-Acting Elixirs is equipped.
•Smoke Bomb: Cleaned up skill facts.

Guardian
•Ring of Warding: This skill will no longer affect non-attackable NPCs.

Mesmer
•Updated the description for Blurred Frenzy to indicate that it gives evasion through “Blur,” instead of “Distortion”.
•Phantasms will now properly have all boons applied to them via player traits.
•Phantasmal Disenchanter can now be cast at the correct distance.

Ranger
•Fixed a bug that allowed a ranger to have two traps of the same type active simultaneously.

Thief
•Whirling Axe: This skill can now be cancelled by other skills.
•Using a stolen bundle item should no longer destroy a bundle being wielded in their hands.

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

Yeah, they did. However the Patch broke more than it fixed.

Ok, here are the fixes from today’s patch:

Release Notes:
General
•Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when repairing armor while transformed.
•Area of effect heals and boons now prioritize players over minions and NPCs.
•Guild leaders are able to demote other players of the same rank.
•Weapon skills will now properly display their PvP and PvE split variants in the Weapon Skills tab of the Hero Panel instead of displaying both.

Events
•Fixed a bug that caused NPCs not to resurrect other NPCs in various Orr events.
•Fixed a bug that caused Warmaster Jofast and her caravan to not advance properly through Cursed Shore.
•Fixed a rare bug that could prevent the event “Protect the trained skelk gathering kindling for Raintimber Mill” in Diessa Plateau from progressing.
•Fixed a bug that could potentially prevent progress with the event “Protect Orl’s research krewe” in Metrica Province.
•Fixed a bug that could prevent progress with the event “Stop the Inquest operatives from kidnapping adventurers” in Sparkfly Fen.
•Fixed a bug that could prevent progress with the event “Raid the Separatist camp with the Warhound Village veterans” in Iron Marches.
•Fixed a bug that could prevent displaced spirits from rejoining their bodies in Iron Marches.
•Fixed a bug that could prevent progress with the event “Protect the armory from the Flame Legion” in Plains of Ashford.
•Fixed a bug that would prevent “Ireta the Smasher” from team switching correctly during the event “Prevent the brawl between the three legions.”
•Fixed a bug that prevented Suwash from confronting Captain Jetsam in Lornar’s Pass in the event “Defeat Captain Jetsam.”
•Fixed a bug that preventing events from running properly near Eldvin Monastery in Queensdale.
•Fixed a bug causing skritt thieves to stop stealing harpy eggs in Harathi Hinterlands.
•Fixed a bug that caused Crusader Soma to give up searching for the lost caravan in Timberline Falls.

Dungeon
Crucible of Eternity
•Front door path: Fixed a bug that affected the aggro range of the Destroyer Specimen Boss.
•Submarine path: Fixed a bug with Bjarl’s armor not going off when he charges and hits a tower.

Ascalonian Catacombs
•Detha’s Path: Fixed a problem with Detha’s script where she would sometimes not start the event to fix the cannons.
•Hodgin’s Path: Fixed a problem in Hodgin’s script at the “Collect scepter fragments” event that prevented the event from starting.
•Detha’s path: Fixed a bug that caused the Ghostly Oozes not to use their basic attack properly, and spend a large amount of time loitering around players instead of attacking them.

Sorrow’s Embrace
•Fixed multiple problematic doors that would not open and close when intended.

Twilight Arbor
•Fixed a bug where Morrigu could die after defeating the final boss before the cinematic could start, which would break the dungeon and prevent players from receiving the final reward.

The Ruined City of Arah
•Seer Path: Fixed an exploit where rangers using longbows could trivialize a fight by attacking at max range, and the Melandru boss would not fight back.

Fractals of the Mists
•Cliffside: Fixed an issue where players could damage the final seal with their normal attacks.
•Cliffside: Fixed an issue where players were able to attack and kill the first boss before triggering the cinematic.

Personal Story
•Minor personal story bugs in multiple personal story steps were fixed.
•The story step “Forewarned is Forearmed” has been fixed to avoid an error that prevented completion.
•The story step “Time for a Promotion” has been fixed to avoid a problem that caused it to stall.
•The story step “Silent Warfare” has had the difficulty adjusted.
•The story step “The Artist’s Workshop” has been fixed to allow players to rally when they defeat hypnotized performers.
•Players who completed the sylvari “mirror” storyline are now recognized by the NPCs in the story step “Through the Looking Glass.”

World vs. World
•Invisible & invulnerable players can no longer contest capture points in WvW. WvW capture points now follow the same rules as PvP capture points.
•All players will now correctly receive WvW bonuses. Players who transfer worlds will still be locked out of bonuses for the current and subsequent match.

Do not purchase gold from 3rd party websites, they are in the business of hacking.

Never type your passwords into login screens. Copy it in from a different program.

Peetee.9406:

Sanctum of Rall has been full and locked for 9 days now. Outside of a few dedicated Wv3ers the server is a ghost town. I came from Jade Quarry which literally has 4x as many people.

There’s something wrong with the system.

That’s a load of hoohockey. I’m on SoR. Took this pic this afternoon at 1 pm

http://i.imgur.com/69lm0.jpg

And this one on Sunday at 7:30 am

http://i.imgur.com/1VCSt.jpg

Also I’m leveling a new toon in the Charr area with my brother who just bought the game, we can’t take 2 steps without tripping over someone – there are people everywhere!

In memory of….

Give it to me, I have many, many uses for karma