Guild Wars 2

Well I am more interested in what the first one(without the 8.8.8.8) gives.

The second one(the one you posted) is what the results should be. They should be nearly identical except maybe for the first two lines.

That does not sound right …

the second command should look like

Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: drwkwiejruot6.cloudfront.net
Addresses: 52.84.139.154
52.84.139.218
52.84.139.186
52.84.139.85
52.84.139.196
52.84.139.136
52.84.139.51
52.84.139.244
Aliases: assetcdn.101.ArenaNetworks.com

The order of the IPs in the “Addresses:” section doesn’t matter but the set of IPs should be the same.

videoboy.4162:

I wish we could convert the regular relics into Pristine relices

That is never going to happen because if they allow that then they might as well just remove pristine relics entirely.

You forgot the enemies with troll breakbars. No matter what CC you use on them the bar doesn’t move.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Speaking of bugs: The ‘Support’ links (redirects [to get to the Known Issue Tracker]) on this page seem to be missing a certificate, or something…according to Firefox.

I’ve not tried other browsers, but using a direct link to help.guildwars2.com works fine (in Firefox).

Works fine for me and clicking for further info shows that is is verified. This is for the English version of the site.

Is it a bug? Who knows.

At least it is consistent with other conversion which only works with the values prior to any other conversions.

BinkyofFuraffinity.4629:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It’s often Tier 3 connections. You know, the provider your ISP hands off to? Like Telia, Qwest, Level3, etc.

thank you for this information.

I just got off the phone with the tech crew of Cincinnati Bell in Ohio, i gave them as much information as i could and they said that they have been having similar complaints for the past few days.

The said that when they have tried to ping Arena Nets servers one of the servers is not relaying the ping back or something??? Im not tech savy, so i just kept saying “ok”. I am assuming the tech support i spoke to means that when he is pinging the individual servers one of them isnt sending information back?

He kept telling me that its not Cincinnati Bell’s issue and that because internet is working in the household and other households in the area, that it is not the IP’s fault. He did say that others are having issues with GW2 over the past few days, and they even knew about Arena net when i tried to spell it out. They asked the game and company and as i was spelling out Arena net they stopped me and went “Oh. Yes. Arena net. I know that one” no joke. i was kinda taken back by it.

sorry everyone for my long winded responses. I am not intentionally trying to cause any drama . I am just trying to make sense of everything after trying to fix it on my end for so long I just wanna relax a little in game.

Is your ISP aware that they are dealing with a CDN? The list of destination IPs are not static. 3 days ago when I was checking all the addresses were on the 54.230.36.* subnet but when I checked just now it is on 52.84.139.* There is a potential for this to be a DNS issue if your ISP provided DNS server(most people will be using whatever their ISP provides, I changed mine because I don’t like being shown ads from typos) is caching expired information causing your GW2 patcher to try to connect to the wrong IP.

If you know how to get to the windows command prompt what do you get if you run

nslookup assetcdn.101.ArenaNetworks.com

and

nslookup assetcdn.101.ArenaNetworks.com 8.8.8.8

The resulting "Addresses: " section for both commands should be the same.

Incorrect DNS does seem to be a problem for at least one person on the other thread.

Coolest? That has to be the mini ice elemental.

The #2 is both buggy and unreliable. I guess you can aim for where you want to go before you use the #2 skill. The option to “Lock Ground Target at Maximum Skill Range” is also helpful since it basically reduces your aiming from being 2 dimensional(angle and distance) to a single dimension(angle only).

I just noticed that the wings on the fire elemental from glyph of elementals looks much nicer than the fiery wings that are in the store.

Adding ‘maxlength=“45”’ isn’t exactly rocket science … I know there are at least two people at ANet who could make the necessary change in their sleep.

Anyway if you are really bothered by it you can use something like Greasemonkey to add in that attribute to the input box.

BinkyofFuraffinity.4629:

Its either Anet , or the ISPs, and since so many people with different IP’s are saying they are having the same issue, i believe its Anet.

That is an illogical conclusion. If it was on ANet’s end then the vast majority of players would be having problems rather than a small minority.

Hmm … my boring suggestion

Sell https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic-Warped_Packet for pristine relic and
one of those bag of masterwork gear for regular relics which is already on other vendor that takes its own unique currency

Tarasicodissa.7084:

I wish the mentor tag was removed altogether. Most people just shamelessly abuse it to draw attention to themselves without having to obtain a proper commander tag. Since HoT release I’ve seen maybe 2 people, who used the tag the intended way and actually tried to help/mentor people. But in 99% of the cases they just use it as a cheap substitute of an actual tag.

It gets used for the TD meta and DS as well.

People also farm the molten boss fractal for karma(usually on scale 40 so you want to get you personal level to 50). That is a base of 2,400 karma and takes about 5 minutes.

The tag doesn’t seem to have lived up to its name but other than that how is it any worse than the usual stuff in chat?

Meh … the issue pretty much goes away once you get a lv80 character and play for a while.

Pretty easy in AB. Usually an ancient sapling east gate plus a palm. There ancient sapling spawn points near each of the other gates as well.

onevstheworld.2419:

The other logical time for a sale is Black Friday or Cyber Monday… whatever those 2 big sales day in USA are called. Even if Anet don’t have a sale then, their partner retailers probably will.

http://www.dlgamer.us/download-guild_wars_2_heart_of_thorns-pc_games-p-29808.html almost always at 25% off

You might want to check the Windows event logs to see the reason for the shutdown.

Telemin.7380:

Before my guild imploded, we used Skype Group Chats for out of game messaging/chats.

Its not quite exactly what you are asking for, but it achieves the same purpose.

We use LINE and IRC. Something external is better since it persists through different games.

That was cancelled ages ago.

Ranael.6423:

Crystal Reid.2481:

A few development updates for you guys since there are some things I can clarify here.

While Forsaken Thicket was 3 wings that encompassed a complete story line, that does not mean all raids will be 3 wings. We’ll do that where it makes sense, and sometimes it will make sense to release a stand alone raid with 1 wing if we think we have an interesting story to tell there that doesn’t need to be stretched out over multiple releases.

Sorry to hijack your answer but if you think you can break the cycle by having a raid only composed of one wing, do you also think that now bosses could also not live in circular rooms/platforms ?

Bosses on a torus could be interesting.

For deleting those types of items I usually do

1) shift+click the item
2) shift+home
3) ctrl+x
4) delete item
5) ctrl+v
6) backspace, home, delete key, enter

Generally less typing than typing out the actual name and avoids typos.

Zarghoul.5687:

i understand that there are plenty of in game skins, and yes its down to everybodys preference as to what they like, Im questioning more the fact that 90% of these items are gained through a gold grind, and no real skill is required to achieve any of it, what i would like to see is real challenge and not personally seeing all my effort go to waste, when a new shiny outfit or skin appears on the tp.

the vast majority of new content in the game comes from the tp, its really not the right way to go about extending the lifespan of a game, i love the lore i love the maps, there is no other that has this style of gameplay, there just is not enough reward for anybody’s efforts outside of a meta based gold grind.

Reason seems pretty obvious and likely the same reason why additional legendaries got cancelled. That type of thing requires relatively high amount of developer resources to make but ultimately it only applies to a minority of players.

Zarghoul.5687:

I want armours and weapon skins that have a true challenge applied to them, and are so amazing that they overshadow the gemstores constant influx of weapon skins and outfits, i want to see somebody wearing armour and know they are incredible, the pve side of guildwars just does not have this, and once uv beaten any form of story, all thts left is the endless gold grind for more gemstore items in order to grind again.

You have missed a very important factor here. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Cakemeister.5792:

Is it possible to craft a second Mawdrey? I have another vine.

You can craft multiple of the backpack but not the bloodstone eater.

Sorting? O_o

I use the crafting/oiled bags to auto sort those. Everything else gets salvaged. Exotics are the only things that get checked.

Tharos.5712:

@Khisanth: Apart from the fact that we never intended to fully upgrade the Guild Arena… are you telling me that the time of a custom arena only gets used up while someone is playing in it? Meaning, if nobody ever used it, the arena would last forever?

I’m asking, because me and the guild play only once a week, so if the custom arena time gets used up whether or not people are playing in it, a 200g custom arena would last us 4 evenings. Obviously not a very attractive option.

I would have to double check with my friend. She mentioned that a while ago.

Edit: Unfortunately it turns out that is not the case.
The time ticks constantly.

Fully upgrading the guild arena cost around the same as 1.8years of custom arena time and that is assuming someone is in there 24/7.

So basically there needs to be better communication about the availability of custom arenas.

OriOri.8724:

Still? I thought they had fixed that event by now?

A friend tried to do it a couple of days ago.

One of the event for the Bolt collection is also frequently broken. That is worse than having a time gate.

Monk Tank.5897:

Khisanth.2948:

Randulf.7614:

Khisanth.2948:

Randulf.7614:

And HoT Story Act 4 has an amulet you can get which “I think” you can choose viper stats from.

There are no other ways unless more options are added as LS3 progresses

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mordrem_Loop but Bloodstone Fen is probably less annoying.

Def less annoying, but OP asked for other options and by that link, Act 4 is another option.

Well there is also the other issue. You can only get one Mordrem Loop.

Once you unlock the Mordrem Loop, who’s to say it wont be available at the Laurel vendor for Laurel’s. That’s the way all the other trinkets work in game. I don’t see why the Loop would’nt be there. If someone with the loop could confirm that its in the Laurel vendor list?

That is NOT the way all other trinkets work. For example the other amulets from the HoT story do not become available either.

If you just made a fancy chair then it is in the assembly device.

What is wrong with using the ascended versions? O_o

onevstheworld.2419:

You need to state if you are on a NA or EU server.

Guilds are global so that part doesn’t actually matter.

HnRkLnXqZ.1870:

The only thing which prevents me and many others in our guild from using the vendor are the crystalline ores. Because we do not farm DS. The only person who farms DS is our leader. And a few people who actually do not care about the guild armor/wepons.
Well I guess it could be worse. They could lock every recipe behind another 10k flax I guess?

That wouldn’t be worse because you can buy the flax which means you can get it by doing pretty much anything. Flax is also a random loot drop.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Astralporing.1957:

Not every pod drops ore.

Since the April patch, and maybe even the January one, every pod drops at least one Crystalline Ore.

It was like that even before the April patch. I remember because when I was making Astralaria I thought the most horrible thing to get was going to be the Crystalline Ore but it turned out to be not too bad because I always got at least one and sometimes 10. As it turns out the really horrible thing to get was the Ley Line Sparks.

there are a bunch of asian looking NPCs but that shrub isn’t one of them

Astralporing.1957:

That was a joke, you can’t really multimap DS. While the meta is running, any map that is going to do the events is going to be filled to the max within minutes, and after the boss is killed the instance gets locked.

That is not quite true. Prior to the April patch jumping between DS instances or with different characters was a great way to get the Ore. It does depend on how many characters you have.

Only 1500? I am still at least 10,000 short …

Seera.5916:

Svarty.8019:

Here are two more examples:
Sigil of Force: 5% damage increase, NO COOLDOWN === Meta

Sigil of Purity: 60% chance to remove 1 condition (10 SECOND COOLDOWN) === Not Meta

The chance at the condition removal is also why it’s not meta.

5% damage increase will always be welcome. The removal of condition could proc 0.5 seconds before you get a condition. And the unknown on whether you’d hit that 60% chance to remove the condition before the condition was removed would make it less useful than a 5% damage increase.

It only procs if you have a condition on you.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The recipes for some of the exotics you mention are cheap on the TP:

• Black Diamond Orichalcum Amulet
• Recipe: Freshwater Pearl Orichalcum Earring

Only the ‘Burl’ recipes are expensive (and that’s because they only drop from the less-farmed Dragon’s Stand).

In other words, the recipes that are easily-acquired for PvE are also easy for WvWers to acquire. The ones that are scarce for WvWers are also scarce for PvErs.

The Commander’s recipes also seem to have a lower drop rate.

The ogre pet whistle has a 30minute cooldown.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Khisanth.2948:

Well the reason is pretty simple. Legendaries provide ascended stats. Ascended giver’s doesn’t exist. That leads to the very logical conclusion of no giver’s on legendaries.

Except for explaining why ascended weapons don’t offer giver’s as an option.

That one is even easier to explain. Being inconsistent is just the way ANet does things.

The flamethrower had a fire field and a blast finisher.

Adrenal Mushrooms definitely work on rabbits but they don’t function as a buff, it is just an instant reset on all skill cooldowns. The one that functions as a buff is the speed mushroom.

Various consumables still work. Best one is probably the flamethrower. If you go in with 2+ people you can also stun lock the alpha with consumables if you want …

Randulf.7614:

Khisanth.2948:

Randulf.7614:

And HoT Story Act 4 has an amulet you can get which “I think” you can choose viper stats from.

There are no other ways unless more options are added as LS3 progresses

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mordrem_Loop but Bloodstone Fen is probably less annoying.

Def less annoying, but OP asked for other options and by that link, Act 4 is another option.

Well there is also the other issue. You can only get one Mordrem Loop.

Randulf.7614:

And HoT Story Act 4 has an amulet you can get which “I think” you can choose viper stats from.

There are no other ways unless more options are added as LS3 progresses

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mordrem_Loop but Bloodstone Fen is probably less annoying.