Guild Wars 2

The other common cause of being stuck in combat is applying a non-damaging condition to an ambient creature. They can’t attack you and they are easy to miss.

This looks like the thing that can happen with button mashing and channelled skills, probably some lag involved too. There were similar complaints about Hundred Blades doing the same thing before.

HenryChinaski.4732:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I noticed, awhile before the loss of Power of the Mists, that I gathered 10 items from Rich Veins with only 3 strikes (i.e. stopped needing that fourth swing). I thought it odd, but nothing worth reporting or posting about. Perhaps, a change happened back then to gathering in general. /shrug

You do this 4th swing with almost every permanent gathering pickaxe (except the one you only get in bundle for 2400 gems and the one you get unbound magic with). You still have this strike. You also have the chance for extra mats with the banner so i think its just the WVW change.

Banners gives increased chance for rare materials like gemstones when mining. Currently the only thing still giving a chance for extra strike is the Item/Heroic booster

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You might; I did not. Not only that, I did not specify using Permanent Gathering Tools.

That was just a change to some of the gathering tools a while back. They made the third strike give you two items at once. Unfortunately it was not retroactively applied to the older permanent tools.

Kunzaito.8169:

Someone suggested to me that it’s due to the WvW PVE buff removal, but that can’t account for this complete lack. Even on the days just after reset I formerly could expect a node or two across all my characters to get another strike. But now nada, not one.

That assumes there is a greater than 0% chance for extra strikes as a baseline. The extra gathering chance is not mentioned anywhere else in the game so there is no reason to assume there is a non-zero baseline.

When Power of the Mists was around the minimum was 2% even right after reset.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People like the idea that there’s some stuff that you can’t just get with a big wallet (whether RL or in-game) and others dislike the idea that most of the stuff we get from dedication to the game is available via multiple sources.

I guess it is true that a big wallet alone wouldn’t be enough since you would also have to be someone who is willing to pay ridiculous prices for things.

Donari.5237:

I’m confused. While one can see commanders on the map and /squadjoin them (if free to join), LFG doesn’t auto list any squad a commander has made, does it?

So when perusing the LFG panel you’d only see the squads that have deliberately and manually created an LFG entry.

Squads neither autolist nor autodelist although the delisting would be a nice feature for when the commander leaves the squad.

Just go kill the one in Fields of Ruin instead.

IndigoSundown.5419:

• Players can get loot without going near the mob’s corpse if they own HoT and have gotten through the Pact Commander Mastery line. The last Mastery in that line gives true auto-loot, as in auto-deposit to inventory.

Even without owning HoT there is the AoE loot keybind. IIRC that has a 900 range radius.

There is also a champ at the beginning of 3 different fractals: molten boss, mai trin, and urban battleground. There are also a couple in thaumanova but those aren’t meant to be fought.

Djinn.9245:

I am not replying to state that this bug has been resolved.

Just wanted to make that clear. However I did find out what was causing the bug. The event “detects” a number of chak near the beetles, however it detects the chak in 3 dimensions. Since there are bridges in the cave where it takes place, the event can detect chak far above the floor of the cave where the event takes place. This should be fixed since the point of the event is for the beetles to kill the chak for “practice” and the event group will never go up any of the levels to get the beetles.

It is actually not a case of detecting the ones above. The problem is that the event is spawning those mobs on the floors above. This error in the way the game spawns event mobs is much more clearly seen when it happens with https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stop_sun_zealots_from_indoctrinating_the_Itzel and it spawns the mobs on the area where you fight Mayatl which is normally empty.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I agree with the sentiment behind the OP’s request, but not any of the specifics: I mostly hated GW1 armor because it was either too plain or too ornate; there was anything in between. The cheap assassin armor looks like PJs; the expensive has all the blades and spikes that the OP (and I) dislike.

I also don’t think it’s a question of “realistic” versus not; “realistic” includes a lot of uglier designs.

However, I think the root problem is that there are just too many possible designs and not enough designers in the universe to come close to covering all of my design preferences, let alone a decent cross section of the entire community.

From a practical standpoint realistic also means plain. Ain’t nobody going to wear ornate armor into actual combat on purpose. Any that you see IRL are either for ceremonial purposes only or worn by people who stay faaaaar away from any actual fighting.

All of them but that is based on the title. Based on the actual post … no idea. They aren’t asking the same thing. I can only say that chasing after the flavor of the month is probably going to lead to a bad ending.

hrm? if you have to fight it there are fortunately many options to attack things through walls, rocks, etc.

xikira.3264:

Is this a lore culture thing or just hasnt been put in the system?

Judging from the Charr hair that doesn’t seem like possible reason for not putting things in …

Healix.5819:

There certainly won’t be something like WvW or even single map instances for Australia, but the potential is there now more than ever. The goal of this experiment is likely only to gauge its power, which could potentially reduce server lag under stress and open up more complex possibilities, including higher caps.

Not sure how experimental it is meant to be. It is being used for at least one of the WvW borderlands right now and it seems to be getting used for more and more zones.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Muffuzzler.5472:

Every year I check back to see whether or not you have AU servers. 300 ping is not playable, this is literally the only reason my friends won’t buy the game and I won’t buy the expansion. They don’t even need to be in Australia just give me an option that’s sub 150 and I’d buy the expansion that day.

We just have to find a way to pay for ANet to add a new data center, and sell enough new copies of the game to have six distinct WvW worlds. ANet’s done a lot with their server tech, but they haven’t figured out a way for accounts in different data centers to play together (due to the same latency issues that frustrate your gameplay).

They can just ignore WvW … but the timing of this is interesting.

ANet has started to run game instances on Amazon EC2 and one of the regions available for EC2 is located in Sydney. At least as far as “hardware” is concern that is dealt with.

There is an account limit for jade fragements, petrified wood, blood ruby and primordial orchid nodes. The only thing that is not limited are winterberries.

You should be able to pay the skritt kit as long as you have the checkpoint buff on you. There are also several of them around including around the starting area under the ship. You could try talking to different ones. Maybe that particular one is broken.

A mesmer or necro would cover boon removal but there isn’t a whole lot of PvE content that requires it. It could be more useful for PvP

Fighting more elder dragons would not make sense unless Taimi was wrong and it would also means that ultimately our character made the wrong choice at the end of Flashpoint.

If we are going to the Crystal Desert/Vabbi/Desolation/etc. then we are also going to be fighting Palawa Joko. Which means more undead but smarter ones this time.

Donari.5237:

Well, at launch it was a lot more hectic. You needed a group of five and were likely to wipe thanks to the constant waves of mobs on small fighting platforms. Even the tedious end part of firing the lasers had wurms sprouting out of the deck (gotta wonder how, there not being a lot of burrowing room in a metal deck) to force you off the lasers to deal with them or die of poison.

The poison is still there.

As for not making sense … have you ever observed dredges on the platform in the middle of dredghaunt or in the underground fractal?

and would you want to do that every time you ran swamp?

nosleepdemon.1368:

Khisanth.2948:

nosleepdemon.1368:

I was part of a swamp fractal group that took about an hour to kill Bloom Hunger the other week. We eventually took him down and it was quite the celebratory moment. I tend to enjoy overcoming ridiculous odds for the joy of it over loot, but I do understand the perspective of those who just want to get it done.

That seems to be missing an important point. Challenges presented by the game(developers) aren’t treated the same was as challenges as a result of lackluster teammates.

Have you killed Bloom Hunger? It’s not exactly taxing…

It’s not but having all the challenge come from someone screwing up constantly isn’t all that interesting either.

nosleepdemon.1368:

I was part of a swamp fractal group that took about an hour to kill Bloom Hunger the other week. We eventually took him down and it was quite the celebratory moment. I tend to enjoy overcoming ridiculous odds for the joy of it over loot, but I do understand the perspective of those who just want to get it done.

That seems to be missing an important point. Challenges presented by the game(developers) aren’t treated the same was as challenges as a result of lackluster teammates.

Don’t join those kind of groups? Works out pretty well for me.

On the other hand you might have a higher risk of running into the other end of the spectrum where people don’t know what the heck they are doing.

Meh … got a few siege decoration from the first couple of chests but they are so disappointing that I stopped caring about them every since

nottsgman.8206:

if you’re going for a legendary, you must do some things you might not enjoy. for some, that is wvw, for others it is map completing zones, and for some it is achievements.

if Anet removed all the things that people may not like when it comes to making a legendary, there would be nothing to do and they’d just mail you one.

Well you CAN get the first gen ones with just gold.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Why isn’t a fractal also a dungeon?

Its instanced.
Group content
5 people

What’s the difference, besides the name and the agony mechanic.

and never having to leave LA

The blood crazed wyvern can also spawn at 2 other places, 3 if you count the other cliff separately. One can overlap with one of the other Legendary wyverns so many that is not quite an improvement.

Could have grabbed some eggs and finished off that event. Not sure how well or badly that event scales for the number of eggs that need to be collected.

You are also describing an event in VB while the title says TD. Doing it in TD other way to avoid the overlap.

You do realize that many of the “junk” can be worth quite a bit right? For example if you play in Auric Basin this week you would be getting a bunch of Shiny Baubles which vendors for 30s. Sometimes it also gives you 10 at once. That is 3g right there.

People still run them so that is not quite dead…

Meh .. for stuff like harassment/insults I would just block.

There has been a handful of times when someone decided to whisper me with a question but the offline made it not possible to reply. One of the times I did remember about the mail thing.

That sounds like the typical thing that would happen when people decide to jump out of the instance too quickly as a result of one of the party members deciding to watch the cutscene. I see that very frequently with explorable and less frequently with story mode but it still happens in both.

Mea.5491:

DeanBB.4268:

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by a “vignette.” Do you have an example, or can you describe it better?

If it is more screen clutter, I’d lean towards the negative. Perhaps an option to enlarge the boons displayed below would help? I dunno, you can have so many…

Maybe the OP means a “border” around the screen? Like Necro’s shroud (green border) or low HP (red glowing border). I think blindness has a dark border, that’s why the OP mentioned it? I personally hate these borders and want to turn them off, lol. They are annoying and the red glowing one makes me dizzy.

Yeah … and they feel like they reduce combat awareness. Appropriate for Blind, not so much for other stuff.

The game already does this when you have every boon on you. :P

That is not quite true either. You have to fully unlock your core specialization in order to unlock the elite specialization.

Also maybe go back to where ever you got your info from and tell them they are providing bad information?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Khisanth.2948:

20 Maguuma Lilies and 38 Freshwater Pearls sold in the last 3 months(API seems to be limited to that).

The only good spot to farm jungle plants is the middle of Tarir but octovine often gets in the way.

The BLTC says 587 Maguuma Lillies were sold/bought today.

Those numbers were for myself.

20 Maguuma Lilies and 38 Freshwater Pearls sold in the last 3 months(API seems to be limited to that).

The only good spot to farm jungle plants is the middle of Tarir but octovine often gets in the way.

Alaric.3980:

What I learned is that with your boost you won’t have enough hero points to immediately unlock your elite spec, but if you level to 80 you do.

That is a bit of a misleading statement. It’s not like leveling to 80 gets you more points, it’s just that when boosting you haven’t gone out to do any of the hero challenges yet. There difference is just a matter of experiencing the hero challenges as a lv80 or as a not yet lv80. In the case of communes there would be absolutely no difference in most cases. For the fighting ones it would be a bit easier with a lv80.

One issue with the boosts is that you can’t test the elite specializations … I guess you can try those in the PvP lobby.

In terms of missing things at most you’ll miss out on doing some content at slightly higher difficulty level.

On the other hand there have been people who are completely lost upon entering the lv80/HoT zones after using the boost but if you know that you still need to take time to learn things that shouldn’t be a problem.

The paper bags are hats and they are silly and I do want them so … yes?

Movement speed buffs do not stack. Only the highest apply.

Well asking is fine too as long as they aren’t being stupid about it. Presumably not everyone is in the middle of an event.

The Scythe Staff, Greatsaw, Grinning Gourd Rifle all have 0 vendor value as well and the same set of flags as the shield but they return results normally.

Every profession can heal allies … even thief.

Djinn.9245:

The other problem with the HoT metas is commanders asking non-participants to leave the map. Yes, I should stop what I’m doing in the middle of an event and go to a different map where the event might not even be happening at this time or will stop in the middle because I have to start over again so won’t be finished before the meta starts.

The HoT metas were a terrible idea.

When the meta starts it causes all current events to fail. That is the case for VB turning to night/day. AB when the challenges start up and TD when the first timer starts counting. If you are in the middle of doing a HP then it continues but there is no problem with finishing an HP first and if you can’t finish in 5minutes then you run into the HP’s time limit anyway.

Leaving the map when the transition occurs leaves more than enough time for people to taxi in. That is also a reason for leaving the LFG up …

mtpelion.4562:

Khisanth.2948:

mtpelion.4562:

Bloodstone items are the only ones with the stat reset (there is also a resettable ring and amulet available).

Just be aware that you lose anything socketed (infusions/upgrades/etc) if you do the reset.

They fixed that a while ago … did they break it more recently?

I believe that losing socketed items is the intended behavior, based on the ArenaNet-written note attached in game to the Capacitor item.

On the other hand Spinal Blades always had "NOTE: Cannot be used in the Mystic Forge if transmuted. " despite never being entirely true. The change to the capacitor happened around 6 months ago.

mtpelion.4562:

Bloodstone items are the only ones with the stat reset (there is also a resettable ring and amulet available).

Just be aware that you lose anything socketed (infusions/upgrades/etc) if you do the reset.

They fixed that a while ago … did they break it more recently?

Uh … what? A trait that reduces the recharge of staff skills is useless for healing?

There is always enough time to harvest some mussels. :p