Guild Wars 2

Just what limitations does using only 1 core have, in your opinion?

From where I sit it’s immaterial whether 1 core sits at 47% or 2 sit at 23% each, unlike LoTRO I perceive no performance problems duye to the client not being multi-core aware.

On another matter, I always turn off AO in every game and on every gfx card I use, I hate the black smudges which surround many animated objects and I see no improvement anywhere.

Devata.6589:

Kraggy.4169:

Lusts.3890:

Think about it, someone can go and save an insane amount of gold (if they are that insane) and buy said skin from say 2013, and then claim they were there from day one and got it the first year

So what if they do?

No, seriously what’s the problem here?

Do you REALLY think there are any bragging rights associated with happening to be playing a VIDEO GAME at a particular point in time?

Really?

It’s not about bragging rights. More a token of participation / completion. There is a game-value linked to an item that only comes from one source.

It means you where there and completed that content. Once you make an item tradable you completely remove that value from the item.

I perceive two possible ‘values’:

1) the personal value you place the sense of achievement YOU feel for having obtained that item and participating in the event when it happened – ergo, you were lucky to be playing the game at a particular moment in time and you enjoy having a momento of that, I ‘get’ that view, what I don’t ‘get’ is why YOUR personal sense of value is in any way affected by someone else being able to buy it, that IN NO WAY diminishes YOUR achievement …

… but it WILL DO if you subscribe to …

2) the bragging rights which possessing it and flaunting it you think it give, I entirely reject that view.

I see no other ‘value’ in something like this, and I’m sure it’s the latter for those arguing the OP’s view.

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BTW, I’m using ‘bragging rights’ because the ‘e’ word is censored but I consider that word far more applicable in this context.

Kraiz.6720:

Chris Cleary.8017:

tyu.9470:

I am sure you’ll agree that false positives happen EVERY time you do ban waves no matter how much you try to check.

Cheating on 2 of your 9 accounts got all 9 of them banned.

9 accs……. I fail to see any real reason any normal player would need more than 1 account. I also don’t see the reason of multi-boxing, anybody doing that cant have a honest reason for doing so….. unless they are like some kind of super-nerd…. even still…..
Kuddos GW2 team.

I remember at launch all the dang bots running around stealing all the nodes from underground. That was annoying. Probably unrelated but i’m sure they were multiboxers.

As was said here:

Chris Cleary.8017:

This is correct. However, if you are running multiple accounts and choose to cheat on one of them, we are going to close all of them. This ban wave had nothing to do with multi-boxing, but likely also impacted players that owned multiple accounts.

this is NOTHING to do with ’boxing so stop spreading FUD.

Albadaran.1283:

Although I like the idea, I do wonder if it will work out fine. I mean: Look at this forum, and even this post: people don’t have the discipline to chose the right forums for their posts. I see lots of HoT related stuff here, including this post, yet it is not posted in the HoT forum but here…

+1, I do love a good dose of irony.

Qayin.4306:

but then this patch comes out and in the patch notes it plainly says “fixed a bug that effected map completion” so…. what does that mean?!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/HoT-maps-reset-on-me/first

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi everyone,

We just pushed an update to fix the bug that affected map completion and are working on a fix for the players that have been affected. We don’t have an ETA for this fix. Thanks for your patience!

gricks.1897:

The event rewards are dropping, the issue is the new calculation of if you actually aided in the event. If you leave the event, and do not contribute again before its completion you get nothing. Where you used to be able to tag an event as it left (like the pack bulls), you cannot do it anymore. you have to stick with the event.

It is a real shame to be honest.

Glad to hear they did this, stopped you leechers in your tracks it seems.

Sarie.1630:

Asa.3602:

What was wrong with the old event system where you can tag?

You answered your own question.

Asa.3602:

leechers.

This^

/thread

Maybe related to this:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/HoT-maps-reset-on-me/first

Not going to help you much but I have that card on an i7-2700k with 8Gb with settings maxed on 1920×1200 and don’t have an FPS issue, though I rarely bother discovering the FPS number unless I see frame issues.

I don’t know for a fact but since the card is part of the Visa system then I can’t see any reason why Anet’s payment system wouldn’t accept it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/HoT-maps-reset-on-me/first

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi everyone,

We just pushed an update to fix the bug that affected map completion and are working on a fix for the players that have been affected. We don’t have an ETA for this fix. Thanks for your patience!

The post is marked as having been posted 7 hours ago, it’s still showing in Dev Tracker!

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

This information has been available since Play4Free was first implemented. Check the Knowledge Base (‘Support’ link above/below) or the Wiki for more information.

Good luck.

It never ceases to amaze me how people can blame the victim and tell them it’s their fault for not ‘researching’ something .. just how much ‘research’ do you expect a brand new player to do before they actually BECOME a player?

I know why Anet implemented the restrictions they did for ‘free’ players and it’s a shame that the OP’s friend is in this position but sorry, expecting people to do serious ‘research’ before they begin to play something is ludicrous.

AehAZE.1867:

Anyone know where this installs to by default because its not in my normal GW2 directory and its taken up a butt load of space on my SSD….

The 64-bit download is simply the client .EXE it CAN’T have consumed the amount of space you’re claiming, unless you failed to follow the instructions and ran it from where it was downloaded, in which case it WILL download the whole game again.

Lusts.3890:

Think about it, someone can go and save an insane amount of gold (if they are that insane) and buy said skin from say 2013, and then claim they were there from day one and got it the first year

So what if they do?

No, seriously what’s the problem here?

Do you REALLY think there are any bragging rights associated with happening to be playing a VIDEO GAME at a particular point in time?

Really?

Ravion Hawk.4736:

There was an interview with Colin that the GW2 facebook page shared where Colin pretty much summed it up that small guilds (less than 10 members) should use the Guild Initiative in Lion’s Arch and that Guild Halls are not meant for them.

So, all the small guilds (husband & wife, family, close IRL friend guilds) are shut out of Guild Halls by Colin’s Proclamation.

He said <4 aren’t a guild in another interview elsewhere.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/10256/Guild-Wars-2-Heart-of-Thorns-One-Week-In-with-Colin-Johanson.html

Inangelion.8645:

I think there might be a small point you’re missing:

Tyu did not share his account. People shared their accounts WITH HIM. This makes a huge difference.

Imagine a friend asks you to just log into the game for his/her dailies for a few days while they are away. You accept and help them out. New thing you know your main account is banned.

This is way too harsh! You catch a cheat? You can the account. You don’t ban all accounts that were recently played from that IP! I’ve worked at a game publisher before and this is a ridiculous policy to have. Imagine this IP was in a internet cafe or a PC bang. You’d be banning random people’s accounts. Or in this case someone who’s infractions are little to none.

I urge you to reconsider your stance here and simply ban the accounts you detected the cheats.

Why are you so intent on defending cheaters?

If someone has 10 accounts and has been caught cheating on one there’s a good chance his cheating on the other nine hasn’t been detected yet .. BAN THEM ALL is a perfectly reasonable policy.

markot.3946:

Not much to do without it.

Plenty to do for anyone new or with 80s, HoT itself has little longevity it seems anyway unless you enjoy mindless grinding.

The ‘dark to the back’ is caused by one of the body markings options rather than being an attribute of the ears themselves I believe.

Tiscan.8345:

Lets face it… a LOT of people are currently really annoyed because pretty often you get disconnected due to lag/routing problems/whatever and upon re-entering the game you end up on a different (much worse) instance of the map than the one you played before.

I get annoyed when the stupid mega-server kicks me off one map simply because Anet want to save power by closing down what they consider to be an under-used phase VM.

It’s the way it works, changing it the way you’re asking for would be a huge amount of work and clearly open to massive exploitation.

Zoltreez.6435:

if i ONE more time see someone compare HOT content to WoW expansion Content i gonna rip him apart.

just to keep this short:
WoW expansion content = more crap conent 90% of them loose its porpuse the momment your geared thats like hmmmm a week after release and ALL the zones and 5 mans you never gonna step into hell for zones you even forget they exists once you level up to max.

Hot on the other hand have less but WAAAY more meaningfull content. All the zones constantly reward you with something for doing different events that are on nonstop and changing no mater how well geared or what level you are. and it will stay meaningfull for YEARS not just a freaken Week.

i Won’t go into it deeper but these people kitten me off.

While you clearly dislike WOW you can’t possibly argue with any credibility that WOD wasn’t far better value for money in terms of total content and I’ll keep saying it to keep you kittened off.

You also cite GW2’s XP grind as a positive thing “All the zones constantly reward you with something”, all they reward are HPs as part of the Elite grind, yet you no doubt would deride WOW’s Jungle grind as something different: it’s not, you just want to paint it so to bolster your agenda that GW2 is great and WOW sucks.

I don’t see any basic difference between the two cases, class change by purchase or class change by quest, either class changing is good or not, how it’s done doesn’t seem to me to be the core issue: and for me class changes in MMOs are usually a ‘no no’, it allows someone to level using an OP class and then switch to something that’s harder to level at level cap.

In GW2 it’s probably less of an issue where all classes seem to be easy to level, but there are still many aspects of leveling that are controlled by class and so the ‘OP’ issue isn’t entirely negated.

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Oh, and to address the XP tome issue in case you want to raise it, the huge penalty for doing that is lack of HPs to unlock builds, if a class change also wipes HPs then I may reconsider it as something I could go along with.

My security is perfectly fine, but in any case as I said the point’s moot as I can’t receive SMS message at home.

Thanks for the command-line options, bypassing the launcher seems a good idea for several reasons.

It’s not terrible but IMO Rift’s is a lot more polished and easier to do, I find targeting in GW2 is sometimes a nightmare with camera issues in confined spaces, such as the underwater passage to get behind the waterfall in Metrica.

Linken.6345:

yea but if I dont recall wrong you can only have max 4 crafts active at the same time max.

Per-character, that is correct.

How do I stop the kitten ed launcher spamming me every few logins to register for SMS.

I CAN’T RECEIVE SMS AT HOME so this ‘service’ is useless even if I felt inclined to use it, so please stop pestering me!

3 level 80s and a level 35 crafter from two years ago (I deleted 1 level 80 and a level 3x crafter along with a couple of lowbies which I had no desire to play again).

A new set of 7 Asura working their way through Metrica ATM; only classes not playing now are Warrior and Revenant, I see nothing in the Rev. that’s appealing.

In the lower left-hand corner is a ‘!’ icon, click it to report it.

LOLdamagemeters in a game like GW2 .. so sad.

CptTrips.6512:

i still don´t see where Central Tyria Mastery requires jumping puzzles.

I suspect zone completions come in here somewhere but like you I’m baffled ATM.

WeedyZeGreedy.8635:

I’m not the first to adress this but as the discussion has died i feel like i need to bring it up again. .

Perhaps it died because the dead horse had been flogged to a bloody pulp?

elikal.7356:

I went through a lot of changes in my years in WOW. Or EQ2 or LOTRO. But I can not remember ever returning to a MMO and found all classes changed so much, that essentially all I had learned was out of the window.

Seems to me the wholesale changes that took place in WOW with LK, Cata and Pandaria, or the huge class changes that took place in LoTRO with SOM and ROI are just as great if not moreso than in GW2.

It’s interesting that Turbine are blaming a spate of crashes after the latest update to LoTRO a couple of weeks ago on Nvidia cards, even though in their case it’s clearly their game client (32-bit) trying to access more than 3.5Gb of memory according to TaskManager.

Is it the same issue here I wonder?

That said, Iv’e not so far had a GW2 crash but LoTRO crashes 2 or 3 times an hour for me in the new LoTRO zones.

TexZero.7910:

So let me get this straight you really don’t get that if you have friends you can get those “Hard Hero Points” done ?

Gotcha, funny how people want hard content then are so very quick to want it nerfed to the floor. Either get friends or get good enough to solo the content

Still some work needed on your P/A issue.

Christonya.3856:

I have two choices. To throw money at the TP.

I don’t understand, help me out here .. surely if they’re available on the TP YOU can farm them too?

No?

Not this year .

DarcShriek.5829:

Celtic Lady.3729:

DarcShriek.5829:

It’s time for small guilds to stop being so elitist and invite more players to join them.

It shouldn’t have to be explained to anyone that small guilds are not small guilds due to an elitist attitude. But whatever.

Yeah, a lot of them are. If you only open membership to you and a small group of friends, that’s a clear signal that you don’t think anyone else is good enough to play with you..

Actually it’s more likely to try to avoid guild drama from those who sneer at small guilds .. there’s a mirror over there →

Vaelen.5294:

Easiest and fastest way to get a Precursor is to do the following:
Step 1. Go out and find a job making over $20/hour
Step 2. Realize that time is money and just pay Arenanet $100 for 8k gems, it is only 5 hours of your time at work.
Step 3. Convert 8000 gems into roughly 1000g and buy your Precursor off the TP

And there you go, fastest and simplest way to get it, right?

8000 gems = 1000g, what planet are you on?

For the last couple of weeks the price has been around 1800 gems buys you 250g.

Ranlares.2513:

The period that Season2 of living world was free after it ended was REALLY long, months.

Not true, I logged in only rarely during LW2’s existence and l had unlocked when I re-started playing some weeks ago were chapters 1,2 and 7, clearly showing that the chapters ceased to be unlocked the moment the next one was released otherwise I’d have 1-7, so the OP is right about the unlock mechanics for it.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

To be fair the developers encourage this. They could time gate it so only about 2-3 hours of progression a day is achievable, but they know then the hardcore crowd would get very fussy and rage-leave.

Square Enix did exactly that in FFXIV V1 it was called the fatigue system and you’re right, it was hated but not just by the hardcore being referred to in this thread, because ‘casual’ is a flexible word and by no means does it refer to only those able to play a couple of hours a day, at most.

SkiTz.4590:

Most of the ppl didn’t buy it to play story mode…….

You seem to confuse I with we.

Phy.2913:

People want an xpac to be as big as the original game?

When the price is comparable it’s a reasonable expectation I’d suggest.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Masteries is a pretty original way to level up without leveling up

Actually they’re not original, FFXI has had non-leveling character progression for many years and other MMOs also provide for increasing character ‘power’ without an increase in level number, LoTRO’s Legendary Items being one other.

That said, gating content by such mechanics is a bad idea IMO and is why people consider it a grind .. it gate’s desirable content behind the need to acquire masses of points of some sort or other which can only be obtained by repeating content over and over and over again, the very definition of a ‘gind’ for many people.

dankid.9321:

I played through as a Druid which is most situations was almost invincible.

That simple statement is the reason you think the way you do, as you would if you played a ‘minionmancer’ as I’ve seen it described.

Yes, a few classes/build are OP and don’t have a huge problem in HoT, you happen to be playing one of them so don’t see what the majority of players’ problems are.

Paralux.6714:

And just a note, personally I think that it is much more encouraging to work for something I know everyone else that wants the same thing has to work for aswell, rather than knowing some people can just buy everything they need.

MY sense of achievement doesn’t depend on how others may get something, why does yours?

But then I don’t consider items in MMOs some sort of status symbol to be flaunted at others. I really couldn’t give a rat’s kitten if I spent months ‘earning’ something others get from using their CC if I gain a PERSONAL sense of achievement doing it.

Many players in MMOs would be far happier if they stopped thinking of the ‘kitten’ value of phat lewt.

Eagelseye.6312:

Turamarth.3248:

HMIPCore.dll is causing the crashes.
You should remove that.

What is this and how are you sure of it? Please help us understand.

They know because the crash dump analyser has identified it and shows it at the top:

Exception: c0000417
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 10048
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00210000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 54779
Module: HMIPCore.dll
When: 2015-11-01T06:46:05Z 2015-11-01T01:46:05-05:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:08

Chris’ post explains what it is.

Tried 3 times using perfectly valid PayPal and CC accounts, address details perfectly correct .. the PayPal one is what I used to by HoT two weeks ago!

No matter what I do I get the dreaded “An error has occurred, please try later”.

Experience over many years of many online systems tells me this isn’t a temporary error, my attempts to use these accounts has failed. I contacted PayPal and the CC issuers, none had received a payment request so none had rejected it.

So what do I do now?

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Discovered by trial and error I can only select lower numbers of gems, selecting 800, 2400 or 4800 worked, not 8000.

BUT still there’s a problem. I now get to try to transfer to PayPal but there’s no “Proceed to PayPal” button to click to go to PayPal, only a ‘Done’ button.

So now what?

[edit]

LOL, this is a broken system, cleared out the dialog, started purchase again, this time my browser fired-up!

Not the smoothest of on-line purchases I’ve ever made .. but at least in the end it worked and I got some gems.

Crinn.7864:

Harper.4173:

There is very, very little content in the new expansion – and it forces you to stretch it out even more to make it appear as if there was more content.

Compare the amount of content in HoT to the full game – remember you paid full price for both.

Now leave aside the map size – some might argue the new maps are more content rich – concentrate on the other things.

HoT brings fewer new skins, fewer events, fewer instances, fewer story instances, fewer new enemies, fewer mechanics – fewer everything than the core game did on release.
I wouldn’t even be upset if they at least did 60-80% of what we had on Core release – but this is absurd.

And no – core Tyria masteries are not content – they are features – you can’t take old content and present it as new.

I’ve never seen a MMO expac have as much content as the original core game did. You realize they literally spend years developing the core game right?

HoT has more than enough content to warrant the title of “expac.” Also note that expac size vary by game.

That comment seems to conveniently overlook what seems to be one of his main points:

Compare the amount of content in HoT to the full game – remember you paid full price for both.

Bbrot.9104:

It just kind of seems they’re focusing more on profits than on the content being provided to the playerbase

How DARE Anet want to make profits, it’s outrageous.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pact-commander-masteries-on-points-of-interest-a-summary/

The design team is planning to grandfather in players who have already done most of the activities in the open world, and each of the story instances from Season 2 of the Living World story will grant a Mastery point, rewarded retroactively. Josh reiterated that every Mastery unlocked by a single level 80 character will be available to every character across the account as a permanent bonus.

Carighan.6758:

Thagyr.4136:

Blame the TP flippers for the price. They have been pouncing on everything desirable in the past 2 weeks and jacking the price up. Endless bat tonic went from 80 to 278 gold.

You mean the people removing gold from the economy are responsible? For inflation? Really? o.o

Er, how does TP flipping REMOVE gold from the economy .. TP flipping is a gold TRANSFER mechanism from a player to a greedy player leeching off the hard work of others.