Guild Wars 2

I don’t see how this is a bug.. If you click somewhere else on the inventory window, close the window or simply press the options icon you clicked to open it, it disappears. If you open a menu in almost any other program you’ll see they work the same. I personally haven’t had any issues with it and I think it works properly.

It’s embarrasing. I’m having this issue aswell.

Yeah, I keep forgetting to bring out the minis all the time, this would be nice for convenience. To make the mini automatically spawn when you enter an instance or go to another zone if you have one equipped.

That would affect the economy. If everyone knew where the orichalcum nodes were all the time, orichalcum ore wouldn’t be worth as much. Also I personally think it’s kinda fun and exciting that you have to find them yourself, but I can understand why some people would get annoyed by it.

Indeed. Hope this gets fixed.

This happened to me on occasion as well. I’m never able to wake up the drunks in the pirate cave in bloodtide coast on my characters, and my friend wasn’t able to either. The same for drunks in Lornar’s Pass. But I am able to wake up the drunks in wayfarer foothills.

A tip if you’re gonna play elementalist: go double daggers as weapons. They don’t have any ground-targeting spells at all Staff is horrible in that regard though :P

I thought you could use Ä, Ö and ß in names, at least you could in beta? :O But yeah, it’s really weird that Å isn’t allowed if ß is considering how many languages that use Å: Swedish, danish, norwegian, finnish, sami, walloon, north frisian etc etc.

Yeah, ArenaNet added the hearts and the scouts somewhere in alpha or pre-alpha when they noticed that people didn’t understand what they were supposed to do. “Just explore!” apparently wasn’t enough, so they added the scouts to point you in the directions of things to do and event hotspots. The vistas were actually added last of all in the beta.

They then added voiced dialogue to the scouts who give you a quick overview of the lore and content in an area. If they had made it so that you only have to unfog the area and instantly seen where all the hearts are and what to do there, then what was the point in writing and voicing dialogue for the scouts if people are just going to ignore them and run from heart to heart? I personally love hearing what the scouts have to say about the area and I’m afraid if they changed this to work the way you want, I’d just ignore them and miss out on the content. I’d also have a harder time understanding what I’m doing and why I’m doing it when completing the hearts. The scouts add to my immersion of the game and I think they work great the way they are.

Also, if you prefer not talking to the scouts and just explore the world without them, if you see a village further down the road that you’ve unfogged but haven’t been to yet, it wouldn’t make sense in my opinion to know what’s going on there already without being told that earlier. Instead you’ll feel curious and think “I wonder what’s happening over there”, and some of that feeling will also be gone if they changed this.

Those are the reasons why I think ArenaNet designed them this way. I seriously doubt it’s just an oversight and it’s definitely not a bug. They’ve thought this through.

I see your point though, it is indeed a little out of sync with the other stuff, but I personally have only had this problem once since I couldn’t find a scout anywhere to point out the last heart. Most often you’ll have all the hearts unfogged when you’ve talked to all the scouts. PoIs however, annoy me since they’re so hard to see on the map.

poe lyfe.5879:

lol larkir. you could have just said bad idea without tearing into him.

Huh? This is a forum. In forums you’re supposed to discuss things. There’s no point in just saying “no” and leave, that doesn’t answer anyone’s questions and the guy who started the thread won’t understand why it’s a bad idea. Anyway, I didn’t mean to be rude or anything, I was just explaining why I don’t see the point of introducing this.

And what would be the point of introducing this? If they had a trait line with generic stuff that doesn’t make anyone better, why would anyone spend points in them? The racial skills are enough to give the races flavour, and I don’t see the “racial flavour” in getting generic +2 stats.

No, ArenaNet specifically designed it to work this way. It’s working as intended. It’s not a bug at all. If you think they should have designed this system differently, you should’ve posted this in the suggestions forum, not here.

No, skill challenges are visible even before unfogging for whatever reason, but as you say, the PoIs and vistas are visible after unfogging (of course they are, how else would you find them?), but after unfogging an area you can see where the scouts are on the map, so just run over and talk to him/her and he/she will point the hearts out for you. You could keep playing without talking to scouts, but naturally you will have a harder time finding the hearts.

Yeah, now that you mention it Deathrow, I had the same issue at launch and after logging in and out on GW1 I could access the items. I just assumed they had fixed it by now.

If this is a suggestion/feedback as to how you think things should work, why did you post this in the game bugs forum and not in the suggestions forum?

Anyways, I think the scout system is great as it is and I don’t want them to remove them. they point out what is happening in an area and show you the locations of the hearts. In no way is this a bug.

File a support ticket..?

I agree, I definitely think this should be an option since it’s about preference of playing style, and it wouldn’t make the people who use this stronger than those who don’t. A player who chooses to aim with the mouse and is good at it will naturally be better than the player who chooses to play like this, but I think this option would make the game more noob-friendly (no offense ppl) since you could start playing with this option on early on and change it later if you feel like getting better at the game. It would also make the game more fun for those who don’t like the way you have to aim with the mouse all the time.

Wapakalypse.7038:

Also, if you jump down the cliff and go character screen before hitting the ground. You somehow lose all the falling speed and land on the ground without taking the fall damage. However, this should not work in WvW where you will be ported out but then again you wont die.

If this is true then that could be seen as an exploit in PvE where waypoints cost money, but I don’t see this as an issue in WvW specifically since it doesn’t matter if you hit the ground there. The armor doesn’t break if you die from falling damage and the waypoints are free. The only thing that this impacts is the survivor achievements. However, lifetime survivor is still bugged I believe and the monthly survivor achievement thing is usually easily obtainable anyway.

Leeain.2431:

this is not the first time 100% of players agree…

I didn’t agree. Scroll up and read my post to see why. You can’t just assume everyone wants this just because the majority in this thread does.

I can see why they did this for tonics since they would have to add swimming animations for all the forms you get from them, but it feels like you’re wasting tonics when you’re feared/knocked back into the water all the time so something should be done about it IMO. The fact that it breaks you out of town clothes and puts you in armor is just annoying. Just make us unable to use the costume brawl skills underwater instead, but let us keep the town clothes on.

Yeah I agree with this. They could have a special storage for costume parts either in the collections tab in the bank and/or add the option to generate new ones you already own via a special NPC as you could in GW1. Whenever there’s a free costume/town clothes part in the BLTC I just end up buying a bunch of them so I have enough for all my characters in case I’d want them to wear them, then just leave the ones I don’t want to wear atm in the bank so now I have a bunch of gw2 launch caps and devil horns just lying there taking up bank space.

If they did this, prices of most tonics would be ridiculously low on the TP. Everyone has so many just lying around in their bank or inventory except for those who consume them for no reason. Most people would want to get rid of them. If the only reason for owning tonics is for costume brawl, and you already own an endless tonic or a costume with a toy, then why would you ever use the regular tonics for costume brawl? I agree that it would be nice to be able to sell them but then they would have to introduce something similar to the Party Animal title in the first game, so people would actually buy them to consume them, thus increasing the demand and price of them.

Bugged on Far Shiverpeaks aswell. In no way is this any player’s fault ppl. ArenaNet put this in and didn’t foresee this happening, so blame them.

ArenaNet have already said they’re going to release rentable PvP servers where you can host 1v1s, skirmishes and custom tournaments, so I don’t see the point of suggesting this now when it’s something they’ve already talked about.

Or maybe what you want is dueling anywhere in the world, which I don’t see the point of when they’re releasing these rentable arenas that’ll be alot more awesome than that. I would personally rather play in an sPvP arena than in the Lion’s Arch TP or whatever. Seeing people fight there would just be annoying. I guess it’s good for the RP community at least..

Same for me, I’m playing on far shiverpeaks.

I still haven’t recieved the black lion key I bought yesterday, but it shows in “recent purchases”..

No idea where to find some sort of incident number for this issue or if I even can – I purchased a black lion key via the gem store maybe 15 minutes ago, but didn’t get one via mail.

@Signet of Forums: Give me one good reason except “They should focus on other more important issues” or “This isn’t an issue for most people”, that I shouldn’t have given my feedback by starting this thread? I was only saying my opinion. To be honest, I don’t really care what other people in this thread think. They’re entitled to an opinion just as I am and people can disagree or agree however they want. I’m sure ArenaNet appreciates as much feedback as they can get and I don’t care if they miss or ignore this thread, but at least I said what I wanted and you said what you wanted (that it isn’t important enough), and that’s all that matters.

@Cinder: I see where you’re coming from and it does make some sense. They turned the charr from the bad guys in gw1 to the good guys in gw2, so of course they could make them a playable race, but it would be a big challenge for them to keep the continuity in the lore and making it feel not contrived. I still don’t see how they would implement rapid communication part though.

You do get rewarded for ressurecting people. You get xp and there’s also an achievement you can get for doing it.

@Blackhand: Games are a lot more than just program code and systems. Games have to be designed in a way that makes it fun for instance, or nobody will play it. I never said that the system is malfunctioning. What I’m saying is that I think they designed it in a stupid way. I won’t quit the game because of it, but I do feel the way it’s implemented is unfair and impacts my enjoyment of the game somewhat in a negative way. Why would bugs and system malfunctioning be the only valid types of feedback? It should be in ArenaNet’s best interest to keep customers happy and how would they do that without listening to all types of feedback? Okay, nobody in this thread seems to think this is an issue to be taken seriously but at least I said what I felt I had to say and ArenaNet can do whatever they want with it.

@Beaster: You clearly didn’t read what I had to say.

@Blackhand: I’m sure many others have done the same thing and thought to themselves “Man, that’s stupid.” I never said that there weren’t bigger issues in this game. I just find the system as it currently is stupid and unfair and had to point it out, not only since I personally have an issue with it. This issue can be fixed by developers. I’m sure others have made this mistake aswell and many will keep doing it. You disagree with me. That’s okay. Forums are for discussion, right? Just don’t facepalm or patronize me like that, because I should have the right to point things out in a forum and my post was serious. I wasn’t trolling one bit. If you think I’m stupid for pointing it out or that the issue is too minor to be worthy of your attention, then just don’t comment and this thread will die down.

I don’t get why people in this thread think mounts are integral to a fantasy setting. Sure GW2 has a fantasy setting, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the same fantasy setting as in other games, movies and stories.

I mean, think about this: The charr have tanks standing around in the black citadel. The asura have invented waypoints and asura gates. If we had teleporters in today’s society that were accessible throughout the world, who would ever use an airplane? How common is it ride a horse to work in today’s society when there’s cars and bicycles etc.?

Having mounts in GW2 wouldn’t make sense except for in certain situations or areas like in some unexplored wilderness that has no waypoints in them. As I’ve already said, I wouldn’t mind if they added more temporary mounts that gave you abilities when mounted (like the siege devourer in gw1 or the golems you can enter in gw2) or mounts that only worked in certain areas. Mounts that you can find in games like WoW really have no place in the Guild Wars universe.

Yo bring me something?

This race would be hard to implement and would work very different to the other races if they were to make this a playable race and follow the lore. The lore says that skritt are stupid on their own but smarter among other people since they can communicate rapidly in a way other races can’t comprehend. How would they implement that?

I’m not saying I don’t like the skritt. I love them. I love quaggans too. And hylek. But they are not good candidates for playable races. Tengu and Largos however, are.

Yeah well I keep doing it and I’ll probably end up losing a couple of gold totally because of it..

There’s alot of small things in the game like this that are annoying me and I’m sure other people as well. Sure, there are other more major issues with the game but fixing the little things are important too for a game’s longevity. I don’t see how this would be hard to implement either and it’s quite stupid the way it is atm imho, so it’s better if they take care of it now than later.

This makes sense. Having to pay for going to cities only affects maybe 20% of people playing the game right now since most people are aware of it. Maybe those who don’t know about it never entered PvP or just didn’t hear about it. They shouldn’t be punished for it. Plus, less loading screens!

As we all know, teleporting and ressing at waypoints in WvW is free unlike in PvE (unless you’re in a town). I have a habit of leaving or logging out when I die or fail in WvW, and I often forget to res before logging out. When I later log on, my character is still defeated but in the PvE world, and I have to pay a ressurection fee or wait for some random peep to res me. I shouldn’t have to do that since I died in WvW where ressing is free..

So my suggestion is: When I log on, I should be alive in the PvE world if I logged out from WvW regardless of whether I was alive when logging out or not. Atm it feels like you’re punishing me for forgetting.

@GroundZero:
You don’t seem to know how wikis work.. You can edit the page yourself if you think it contains information that is incorrect or misleading. Anyone can edit articles on the GW2W.

Personally I can’t see anything on that page saying you can have a bigger party. It only says “The maximum size for a squad is currently 30.” Squads and parties aren’t the same.

I’d love to see snowball fights (with the presents), rollerbeetle racing (although this would be more fit for an activity when we get to Cantha or Elona imo) and costume brawl return in gw2. Would also love doing the little stuff you could do in gw1 such as bringing wintersday gifts to children. You really could make some cool stuff with the events. I would love to see in-town events involving the mad king and such but also events in explorable areas. The dynamic event system is perfect for this stuff, and maybe you could even throw in a couple of temporary hearts!

@Shael.4703: Tbh, I was unsure where the tengu originally came from and I can’t find any source on the internet saying that any tengu ever said they were originally from Tyria. The only thing I could come up with was that you must have confused the tengu with the dredge regarding those tunnels. The reason I said I believed tengu originally came from Cantha was because I thought I read that somewhere in-game in GW2 while talking to a tengu, but I probably misinterpreted what he said since he was probably talking about their rather recent migration. I think for now we probably don’t even know where they originated, just that they were present in both Tyria and Cantha before they were pushed out of Cantha and travelled north to join their brethren in Tyria.

@Shael: you’re probably thinking of the dredge that escaped slavery in Sorrow’s Furnace by digging tunnels to the Echovald forest. The tengu were originally from Cantha I believe, not the other way around.

@mercury ranique: we do know the origins of the icebrood. They consist of living beings and creatures such as norn, kodan, elementals, wolves etc. and were corrupted by Jormag’s champion, the Dragonspawn.

You’re too late. You had to log onto gw1 sometime in 2012 before july 31st and make the character with that name on headstart or launch day. They made a blog post about this: http://www.arena.net/blog/reserve-your-guild-wars-character-name-for-guild-wars-2-by-july-31

The cave from where they spawned in GW1 was the same cave where primordus was sleeping. Everything was just rocks and magma down there except for the asura who had their central transfer chamber adjacent to the cave. We could see the destroyers spawn from the magma. This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the only way for destroyers to be created though. We didn’t see destroyer harpies in GW1 if I recall correctly, so they probably got corrupted some other way later on.

I would find it annoying to see everyone on a mount all the time instead of walking. It wouldn’t feel like I was playing a Guild Wars game anymore.. I would find it acceptable if they introduced “temporary mounts” in certain zones kinda like the junundu or siege devourer in GW1, but not the kind you would find in games like WoW.

Yeah, it’s easy to miss though.. and if I’m just running around in the open world or in WvW I can’t expect everyone around me to be in the same party as I am.. Or is the color different no matter if you’re in a party or not?

I love the #2 skill on the downed skill bar as a mesmer, but at the same time I have major issues with it. Mesmers are about confusing the opponents, not the allies. This skill sure confuses the opponent and gets me away from them, but quite often people in my party or team are trying to revive my clone instead of me. This is annoying both for me and my teammates. I want my actual body to be ressed and not my clone. Also, my teammates might go into trouble or waste time trying to get me up, only to find out they were ressing a clone. I love using the skill but I feel bad doing it alot of times since it confuses my allies.

Yeah, it’s the same for me. I’m unable to search the forums when I’m logged out, but I can when I’m logged in. I use chrome.