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We’re aware of the connectivity issue and are looking into it. Thanks for your patience. ~RB2

I’m a WvW Player.I don’t have lag…but something worst started to happen..

After last updates/maintenance my game just freezes when 2 enemy zergs meet.

This have never happened before.

Even in when both 3 Tier 1 EU server fight inside SM lord room i never had this problem..only my skills was delayed but game has never freeze…i could move as i want since my pc specs are above the requirements and i have 100mb/s solid cable Internet.

Something is definitely going terribly wrong after last server maintenance in Wednesday.

I’m a WvW Player.I don’t have lag…but something worst started to happen..

After last updates/maintenance my game just freezes when 2 enemy zergs meet.

This have never happened before.

Even in when both 3 Tier 1 EU server fight inside SM lord room i never had this problem..only my skills was delayed but game has never freeze…i could move as i want since my pc specs are above the requirements and i have 100mb/s solid cable Internet.

Something is definitely going terribly wrong after last server maintenance in Wednesday.

I got extreme lag after Wednesday maintenance.

WvW is freezing in big battles.

It wasn’t like this before that.

When enemy and our blobs meet my game freezes and i’m dead after the freezing is gone when one of zergs leave the area.

Since than the Open World creeps almost don’t render at all.I cannot see more than 3 creep at same place at same time.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Other than adjustments to Orr rewards (as covered in the release notes) the only change made in this patch to over-all loot was allowing high level characters who are playing in lower level zones the opportunity to earn top level gear to provide greater rewards. (as also covered in the release notes)

There are no “stealth nerfs”, any changes will be covered directly in the release notes, of which there are none.

To back up this story i just made 3 times Shelter/Peni events and i got 3 rares in total so i got a rare every event and i have 0 MF and on top of that i got tons of moldy bags (like 15 for each event) which granted me a good chunk of mats.

As someone who is running with 0 MF since the start i can tell that there wasn’t any loot change at all that i notice.

If there is a problem with loot its probably related to MF not to general drop at all.

I just wanted to ask ArenaNet devs about the possibility of Shortbow to be transformed to Crossbow or Mini Crossbow in future ?

I’m a huge fan of crossbows myself and i think crossbow fits better Thiefs class for example.

Healix.5819:

Some people used to heavily abuse the 1 day server transfer to gather hundreds of Orichalcum a day and were never banned.

I checked the karka hive Orichalcum on a guested server and it wasn’t there, so I’m guessing if you gather it on your home server, it’s also disabled on the guest server.

I just hopped to desolation from my home server to take some obsidian shards from Balthazar temple (since they opened it) and all Ori Ores are there.

So thats why i’m asking if its OK or NOT.

I want to ask :

Is it against the rules to gather gather-ables than guest on another server and do it again ?

e.g. Gather all Ori Ore nodes on home server than guest on another server and gather them again.

Is it intended or against the rules ?

What is the exact size of this update Anet ?

I will really appreciate if you include this small detail on patch notes :)

Hello guys a quick question here i was talking about in the Live Stream chat while you was getting ready for part 1:

Why thief don’t use cross bow instead of short bow and are there any plans for a change in future or add an ability to use cross bows as well ? (e.g. Dishonored game mini cross bow)

Thank you and keep it up.

Amos.8760:

Rehashed Jibe Tube.7102:

I’m more bothered by the fact that nothing is immune to bleeding. earth elementals, ghosts, golems…they all bleed. I figure if they were going to give the dredge an immunity based in lore they should have been more consistent with it as an over all design.

It isn’t anything game breaking. Obviously it comes down to a game play based decision taking precedent over lore. But I can definitely relate with you being puzzled by it.

Ghosts bleed ectoplasm, golems bleed oil, earth elementals bleed…… hmm, out of ideas here.

earth elementals bleed – lava.

Toxyn.9608:

Three major things were mentioned about WvW:

1. There will be unique abilities.
2. There will be prestige ranks.
3. There will be leaderboards.

Put all three together and I think a good guess is rank-based titles and abilities, somehow based on personal performance in WvW.

Become a top ranked WvW player and get an ability to rally your troops and have a high military ranked title.

As an Aion player i already saw this.

Aion have this system since forever and it is bad.

There based on your accumulated PvP points you get a Rank,Title and skills based on how high your rank is.

The highest ranked players get ridiculous skills and a transformation which turns them to small sized HP depots with even more ridiculous aoe dmg. skills.

So believe me you wont like 1 man taking Stonemist solo while 100 man cannot even scratch him/her.

Seeing the price of 10 DYEs made me think that they wont be easy to acquire or to stock.

You don’t always need eyes to see.

Blind creatures use their senses to “see” you and interact with you.

You don’t blind their vision but their senses.

In case you missed the front page and reddit :

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/16m9st/gw2_plans_for_2013/

/discuss

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey guys,

Just a quick update on where the whole scavenger hunt system stands since I know that’s a topic many of you have brought up recently. We’re not currently actively working on building any sort of legendary precursor scavenger hunt, this is something we want to do in the future and we’re in the midst of designing how this would function, but no one is actively building this feature and you should not expect in the Jan/Feb/March releases at this point.

We are however working on expanding reward systems to make them more re-rewarding across all parts of the game, making the open world more rewarding, and adding new ways you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.

Some of these additions will come as early as the January release, and will get covered in more detail in the next week or two as well release all the details about this release once testing has signed off it’s all ready to go in January. (we’ll also provide a high level summary of our goals with reward systems, etc. in our 2013 blog post, which should be out next week)

I’ll just leave this “The Lover” Broker price progression statistic here so you can work on it as a homework.

http://i.imgur.com/BQv3t.png

Right now Anet literally force people to buy gold from 3rd party websites by not addressing the high pre-cursor prices since forever.

Happens on Blacktide too.

The “Corrupted Ice Shield” is barely visible and underground which is indication for bugged shield.

and firing with pack weapons on it don’t do any dmg. at all. (not that you can target it)

Felt like sharing :

http://www.reddit.com/r/guildwars2funny/comments/1624e0/what_wvw_devs_do_every_night/

Vol i don’t know what server you’re in dude but i’m a WvW player mostly and i’m surrounded by players who have Legendary Weapons at my server (a tier1 server)

Which makes my desire even bigger rather than as you said smaller.

There are many Legendaries already after the lost shores and seeing them make me want 1 myself even more.

You’re wrong at all points related to this topic.

How is 1200h+ and 500 rares easy?
Do you mind to define what is HARD and the the right way to get pre-cursor if not all the time i spend in this game doing all what is in my powers to get the pre-cursor ?

Vol.5241:

There are other threads to discuss this.

Also, they clearly stated pre-cursors will be acquirable through other means in a patch in the near future.

In The Future i may be playing another MMO mate.

As someone who have 1200h+ in GW2 and 500+ rare bows tosed into the Mystic Forge with NO precursor i want this matter to be focused as well since its the 5th month after the launch and still not solution for this.

So after you fixed the bug preventing legendaries to be SOLD on TP now the pre-cursor prices reached edges of our galaxy and are beyond the reach of mankind as we know it since people now rather craft the legendary itself to sell than pre-cursors.

So whats the plan Anet ?

P.S. Meanwhile players can /discuss the latest pre-cursor price changes here.

Habib Loew.6239:

Thank you, Grit, for posting that link. It points to a post in which I describe the culling issue in some detail and discuss a few of the issues involved with changing culling. An even more in depth explanation of what culling is can be found here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/page/4#post356817 (be sure to read both that post and the next – my description exceeded the post size limit).

As you know we’ve been working on this problem for a while but what I think we haven’t ever said before is that our goal is to remove culling completely from WvW. In order to remove culling completely we have to address three issues:

1) Bandwidth out of our servers/datacenter (traffic would increase without culling)
2) Bandwidth in to each client (traffic to each client would also increase without culling)
3) Client performance issues related to rendering (potentially) all the players on a map at once. (Note that we base our performance requirements in this case on min-spec clients. We don’t want to stop anybody being able to play the game after all.)

Until all three of those issues have been dealt with we can’t turn culling off because doing so would cause something to break or perform poorly.

Ok, now let’s talk about what progress we’ve made!

Issue #1 was the easiest to deal with because we can basically just throw money at the problem. When we first started down the road toward removing culling from WvW I took a bunch of bandwidth measurements and then went to the executives and said, essentially, “Hey, if we disable culling our network traffic will increase by X%. Are we ok with that?”. The answer I got was a clear and unambiguous “yes!” So issue #1 isn’t a problem after all.

Issue #2 is a little harder. We need to ensure that folks with a min-spec network connection won’t be overwhelmed by the data we send them and we obviously can’t just buy a better connection for all of our players. So we put our heads together and came up with a plan to reduce the bandwidth required for WvW (and Gw2 in general) as much as possible. Those changes are in testing now and will be rolled out as soon as we’re convinced that they’re solid. Assuming we’re able to get everything working the way we’d like (and I’m fairly confident that we will) then this will address issue #2.

So that leaves us with issue #3: client performance. Some time ago the WvW team acquired an engine programmer who is focused 100% on this issue (and he is being assisted by another engine programmer who isn’t officially on the WvW team). They’re working on some really fantastic optimizations and engine modifications which we hope will allow even min-spec clients to render all the players on a WvW map. We’ll be talking in more detail about the specific changes they’re making when things get just a little more nailed down, but I can say right now that I’m very impressed with the work they’ve done already.

So that’s where we are. Engine programmers are working their magic even now and we’re testing the networking changes that will be required. I believe that our goal of removing culling from WvW is achievable and I’m looking forward to the day that I can announce to you all that we’ve pulled it off!

Good job really

I have a suggestion: Make the culling changes player optional.

e.g. I have 10k$ worth PC configuration and a solid 100 Mb/s international connection while some1 else have PC with lower configuration and slower internet so my PC can handle bigger data processing while the other pc cannot.

Make it so i can choose to enable rendering more players/data and use more Bandwidth while the other pc owner can disable/activate culling to not get his Bandwidth/PC burned out.

Putting an limitation option is a must – let players decided if they need culling or not depending on their PC configuration/Bandwidth capacity.

So after watching this : http://youtu.be/3C7u5iT52FU

We’re may be getting a new map on top of the other fixes and stuff related to WvWvW in Jan and Feb.

So i was thinking … since they wont change the Borderlands meta (meta: yea they’re all the same and every server has it own borderland which make total of 3) i thought that it may be : New Eternal Battlegrounds Alike Map(copy/paste rework?)

The idea is to have a new map with Stonemist alike Castle and 3 keeps+camps in differently art-designed map or even map with 2-3 castles this time which will take the heat off the "main castle" which is currently happening in EB. (Tropical map anyone? e.g. lost shores)

On top of that since they introduced NPC involved siege mechanics (Break out events) now we may expect to see more NPC involved stuff in WvWvW.

/disscuss

For Great Justice.

It was about time that Anet shows the stick and stop the carrot stuff.

“If You’re Afraid of Wolves, Don’t Go into the Forest” (wise words)

P.S. This is just WARNING for future exploits if you ask me.

If i was a hacker i would follow this topic very closely and pick my victims from here

Sadly i’m not and i find it quite stupid to brag on public forum about the only thing hackers want the most : GOLD.

u y all so …. n/c.

Thief will be OP only when Anet add an Elite skill : “Call Protoss MotherShip” to their skills !

This is Northing !

Just wait and see the Toy Soldiers !

1 of them can wipe 1 party easy

Doggie.3184:

Gem store.

/meow

I ask for the vendor skin not gem store skins which are totally different.

Vendor is missing Pistol skin only.

/wish people read before posting.

I checked the vendor who exchange the ugly wool stuff and couldn’t find it.

Is it placed somewhere else ?

As a thief i just die kill 1 of them downed …die kill another one downed and so on…

And just finished my monthly this way

I just got it

Destroying everything includes the trees too

Skirtts OPi guys i was telling this all the time …no body cared

This time Anet did a great job.

I enjoyed every second i spend in this Puzzle.

The fact that have 2 stages makes it event better.

I did it on my 2nd try (1st try i messed up my way at snowballs part) and than i did it 4 times straight without failing :)

Could be nice if there was a sign that points the way at giant snowball part.

Thank you anet.

Blackwolfe.5649:

Ive definitely seen an increase in dye droprates. For weeks Ive perhaps found 2-3 dyes. The last few days Ive seen 10+ drop. Perhaps its because I have been leveling through 60-70 areas, dunno.

There is DYE drop rate increase.

I got 5 dyes in 1h today while i was doing few shelter farms in Cursed shore today.

Before i got 0 in many hours (and before you say i never hit DR since i never stay to much in 1 place)

We Norns have a saying : “winter is coming…oh well”

I was born way back in 1986
I’m an old man now
Bu I remember how it used to be
Any now my grandchildren ask me
Grandad they say
Can you tell us what it was like
In the days of the Thieves
You know, before Nerfs
And I’d tell them
When was that? Hmm, let me see
Some time back in the early 21st century
I remember when the Thieves was FREE
Behind our keyboard, people let us be
See, there used to be a thing called Freedom of Playstyle
We had freedom to teach each other, freedom to preach
Freedom to share culture and circulate ideas
Without the Anet trying to interfere, enter fear
We lost that freedom, not freedom as in free beer
But the freedom to be free from fear, even here
In the United Kingdom, the fact that I’m from England
Isn’t a matter that matters to our new masters and kings
I was a chap who could play and do as i like
And like minded citizens could watch me
I couldn’t afford an orchestra, I was a poor performer
In more ways than one so I sought an alternate formula
Reinterpreted the game around me
Satirized the leaders’ lies on found beats
Talked shop on top of a sample of a rock band
At least we used to, until heartseeker got banned
You didn’t have to act twisted to get your skills blacklisted
Just annoy a whiners and get fisted
They had a vested interest in nerfs
If one messed with them, then there’d be one less
Our representatives never represented kitten
So the Thieves was history, this was the end of them
I remember it like it was yesterday
I guess that day, I was too lazy to investigate
The escapades of another state’s government
Now I’m left to pay because the covenant
That they signed that day and ratified in law
Zipped our mouths up and took away our appetite for more!
I can’t do much now about the way it is
But if I could go back and change things I’d say this
Truth is beauty
And if you disagree with my views
Then you can nerf me
In the meantime I’ll keep using double pistols
Even if it means that I need to find a new playstyle
I’ll use pigeons and smoke signals

Original Song Lyrics belongs to Dan Bull – SOPA Cabana.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6GtwOvnWM&feature=share&list=LLHdK2Sj5dbyJN1-2dmmigbw)

It’s very amusing how the lyrics of this song (which i do love) fits thieves current situation. (just changed few words from the original text)

Please rollback this update Anet.

Before i hardly had any culling problems except when 3 tier1 servers was fighting with all force inside Stonemist Lord room.Only than i had problems to see players.

Now i don’t see anything at all.

We was just attacked by army of invisible Golems -.- and almost lost.

On top of that the enemy players that i saw around me started to disappear which wasn’t happening before as well.This is happening even when we was 3v3 or 2v2.
The enemy and allied players randomly appear and disappear now

p.s. now people will cry about thiefs again =.=

16 hours later still no chest.

Providing a screenshot not enough for Anet i assume.

Don’t know what else i can do more probably i should quit (or should have quit already)

Gaile Gray.6028:

I wanted to add a note: I don’t see how it is possible — given the coding for the distribution — that someone who did not log into the event at all would have received a chest in yesterday’s distribution. Maybe they forgot they logged in, but the way the distribution was configured persuades me that they did attend and that it why they received the chest.

Let’s be sure we don’t get into “I know a guy who…” discussions, but keep the topic ON topic and relevant to the discussion. If there is an issue, we’ll fix it!

Answer my question straight : WHY I DIDN’T GET A CHEST ?

I was at Ancient Karka Event (as obvious from Screenshot i posted and many more i have)

Drannor.3128:

Same here. I’ve submitted a ticket with screen shot. No reward or answer yet.

No matter if you put screenshot or not mate since as obvious participating to event is not a criteria to get restored with Karka Chest while people who wasn’t event online the whole 3-4 days of the event got the chest.

all who wait for the chest may want to check this SUPPORT answer : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/what-are-the-requirements-for-LS-chest/first#post943673

you may want to check this : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/what-are-the-requirements-for-LS-chest/first#post943673

I and many other want to know what are the requirements to qualified for Ancient Karka Chest ?

Answer from Support.

Hi there ;

At this time, we have finished delivering the rewards for the Lost Shores event to all accounts that qualified. This was done through a coding script for any account found to have qualified for the chest. If you have not received a chest then you most likely did not meet the requirements to have these items added to your account.

Now that said there does also appear to be some issues with the mail system. It seems mail boxes are getting stuck and not receiving new mails even when they are not full. So I would suggest clearing out everything in that mail box; after making sure to grab any items or money in there. That should allow more room for those pending mails to arrive. We have heard some cases where only deleting a few mails still didn’t allow the pending mails to arrive properly (for example some players may even show 1 out of 10 mails but still won’t get new ones). So I would again suggest making sure everything has been deleted in there, just to make sure there is nothing at all preventing the mails from being received.

If after you empty your mail the chest still doesn’t arrive, then your account was not found to have qualified for a restoration and I’m afraid you will not receive the chest.

I’m adding here 1 screenshot (while i have many) from the Ancient Karka Event same screen was added to support ticket.

Little after this screen was made i quit and wasn’t able to log back.

So if the actually participation to event didn’t qualifies me for restoration what does ?

18 hours since they started shipping and still no MAIL.

Loosing patience already!

People said on other topic that support replayed to them that the SCRIPT is DONE and if you didn’t get your mail than you will are not qualified and GAME OVER!

So i had to deal with not answered from support almost 1 week old support ticket and Gaile Answered that i have to post it on proper forum.

Well Gaile thank you for your help and pointing out the obvious : there is NO sPvP,WvWvW and General Game issues support sub-forums.

So i’m requesting those 3 sub-forums to be put in places so issues related to sPvP,WvWvW and general game support can be addressed when you support tickets get older and left to rotten.

Thanks again Gaile.

121203-001221 Unresolved 12/03/2012

121201-000663 Unresolved 12/01/2012

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Mark Katzbach.9084:

This has not been forgotten. The solution is coming down the pipeline and should be live this week.

Thanks for being patient.

So you have 38 hours left to ship the Lost shore compensation now ?

Anet Support said compensations will be shipped Early this week but its Thursday and tomorrow will be Friday which is END of the week for working people like me and than starts the WEEKEND where people don’t work.

Surbrus.6942:

soma.3812:

No i predict that they great feb update will just be 5 more jumping puzzles in all 4 wvw pvp zones. With more loot than playing wvw for a few hours will give.
Anet has a thing with jumping puzzles

Oh please, oh please, oh please! This would be awesome!

A couple tower/keeps that are jumping puzzles themselves. I would honestly be willing to look past the Ascended/gear treadmill thing for a bit for something this awesome to be implemented.

Other ideas that have floated around the forum have been that there could be a DAoC style giant PvE dungeon that one server has access to based on some predetermined requirements. When the server loses the PvP objectives that give them control of the dungeon, the dungeoneering players are not kicked or anything, but they no longer have access to re-enter the dungeon, but the enemy server will… leading to all kinds of PvP inside what otherwise would be a PvE dungeon.

That would be just as awesome as WvW jumping puzzles giving the benefits of towers/keeps.

This is very bad idea and i HOPE for god sake they don’t make it.
Aion (Another game related to NCSOFT) had this system where dungeons was placed inside Fortresses and to be able to actually gain access you needed to hold the Fortress.
It was 2 sided Fraction war and the area called “The Abyss” full of Fortresses placed on different levels – Lower,Upper and Core Abyss. (like in GW2 – Eternal,X Borders,Y Borders and Z Borders)
So i was in a server that never had chance to take the biggest Fortress in game “Divine Fortress” for 3 YEARS.
This way the whole content was denied from us for 3 years.We was the underdogs and the weaker fraction of this server since they ruined the balance with player transfers and happily the biggest and strongest playerbase moved to other fraction knowing they wont need to care for anything and just stomp us outnumbering us 1/1000 all the time and enjoy the game while ruining ours which led to massive quit on out side and eventually enemy players quit as well since the server was empty.