Guild Wars 2

Bugabuga.9721:

Hello

In the current version the mortar shots got swapped around too. Single shot (explosive and incendiary charge) should be one boom, like before. Instead it plays barrage sound which used to be used for knock down skill (the one you get after being traited in wvw – it fires multiple shots that knock people out in the target area)
Could you please double check it?
Thanks

This effect also applies to the mortars in Orr. I used one, near south part of Straits of Devastation, and it did the sound of Concussion Barrage, as well as the animation for it while trying to fire. Of course it only sent out one shell. Assuming all mortars are doing that (those mortars are just copies of wvw mortars or vice versa)

It serves multiple purposes. It is a gold sink. It is also a way to trade items without risk of being scammed.

And as I see it, if you want to sell the item, you pay the fees. If you don’t, you are just being extra greedy. Be thankful you got the valuable item in the first place.

As for soon you’ll be seeing people selling low ticket items? Kinda late for that, it’s been going on, and only continues to get worse. I wholeheartedly agree Anet must take a firm stance, or give them an alternative on lfg so they quit tying up people trying to legitimately use LFG for it’s intended purpose.

Mesmer stealth sounds and blink are still not right.

I’m reporting it anyways. And will unless anet comes out and say I should stop. I’ve wanted a clear answer on this, and still want it. They should not be doing it at all. It is clogging up lfg, and is abusing it’s purpose. Same thing for guild recruiting on there. both are using it for something besides what it was intended.

zoom in when in interiors… it helps a lot because when you are zoomed all the way out and the camera hits against a wall, it’s trying to go back to where you last had it, and ‘spazzes’ out.

With embellished yes. I’m not sure how it downscales being level 78, probably would end up only equivalent to level 80 at lower levels, either way it works out very well and a lot more convenient since it’s account bound

exotic level 80 with exquisite jewel:

Main stat: 47
Secondary stats: 31

exotic level 78 with lv 65 crystal/medallion
Main stat: 46
Secondary stats: 28

exotic level 78 with lv 65 embellished jewel
Main stat: 53
Secondary stats: 31

edit: Wanted to thank Gudy for clarifying on that, because I wasn’t thinking of embellished when I wrote the prior post. Even more reason to use the crafted.

I noticed it fast because we had a similar issue I think 2 years ago, where we were given an item that wasn’t level 80 and couldn’t upgrade it and it confused us all for a while until one of us figured it out. And know that you aren’t alone in getting frustrated with that, but the difference is so minor that it’s still a very good investment

as far as I know it has always worked that way. Crossing the edge of a SR, including lag moving you out of it, will instantly reveal you whether you had 1 second of stealth or a minute (which isn’t possible just saying for example).

It is completely intentional. In fact, if you overlap 2 SR’s and move from one to the other, you will still be revealed. This fact sucks when you have some thieves randomly throwing down SR’s.

to be safe, wait until the Shadow Refuge completely disappears before you begin to move out of the area. With some practice you can tell how close you can cut it, but if you move out of the ring before it has vanished you Will be revealed. The way I worded here may seem odd, but think server lag. Don’t rely on SR if the servers are very laggy, or do if I’m facing you so I too can wonder why you were revealed suddenly >.>

*edited for clarification.

TheWastator.9071:

Hello everyone,
Yesterday i crafted Elegant Armorsmith’s backpack, I chose berserker stats for it but the problem is that I can’t insert any upgrade into it. I tried with crests, jewels and I really don’t know what’s going on.

-_-

you are putting level 80 items in a level 78 item…

The game isn’t clear but that is the issue. It’s not a bug because that level 78 item has higher stats than a level 80. Even with the lower level upgrades put in, the difference in points is minor. And if you could put level 80 upgrades in, that backpack I think would have higher stats than an ascended one (perhaps not, far too late for me to figure out the difference but it would definitely be higher stats than any other level 80 exotic backpiece)

it’s not just that. It’s everything. There is something going on between the maps and the login server I am assuming. You can be in for a while and then it will just up and disconnect you.

It’s all maps apparently, every so often it’s happening in Lion’s Arch as well

This is for people I know:

When you discover a new armor combination and level a whole new character just to wear it.

I would think a better solution would be to do that, but also allow 1 single link from the front page to archived forums instead of showing every subforum under ‘Archive’

but at the very least that would allow searching from
say google via site:forum-en.guildwars2.com

I don’t know that for sure, because what # of ram usage is he actually looking at?

Actual usage by gw2? or what windows is allocating for total system usage but not actually using?

He won’t give any specs, won’t really answer anything. Without more information, this isn’t going to go anywhere. I have max settings on 64 bit windows 7, it has 2.5 used for gw2 it says, and it stays around that. But 700 mb? no way will it only use that much.

If you won’t give the information, then there is no point to this thread and it should honestly be closed.

edit: To add, sitting in la, you are actually loading other things, you know, every time a new player enters the area, you are loading their model, etc. I myself can watch it go up, then back down. You list it as a memory leak, but that isn’t what you are complaining about. I think you are confused, and the fact you won’t answer on the system, makes people question more than just your apparent confusing description, as well as why this is in Bugs and not Technical Support.

That’s intended, it isn’t the only skill to do that. Keeps you from standing there for a few mins stacking minutes of swiftness. Imagine if a party of guardians could stack indefinitely… you’d have hours of swiftness within a few mins. Ideally you would stack staff 3 first, then again while running to add a little, stop when you need to up it again, and use other skills for more swiftness. Helps to have someone else stacking swiftness from a different source. At least it isn’t like Mesmer focus 4 >.<

It isn’t that easy to catch some of the cheaters. I wish it was, but it’s not so simple. Even when they do catch them, it is likely that there is a policy they have to follow before the person can be banned. Additionally, there are others watching what the GM’s do.

If they only cheat for a few mins, then play ‘fairly’, when an invisible (or visible) GM does show up to investigate the report, they are already gone or not actively doing it. Short of them standing around watching that person for the next 2 hours, there isn’t much they can do.

One of the GM’s stated before that they have to actively see the cheating going on. Until the devs add the ability to put information in when reporting, this is the alternative that we need, GM’s that talk to us. Yes reports via in game tool and support are looked at, and acted on. Unfortunately though, people do falsely accuse others too, intentionally and accidentally, and those can tie up their time to investigate actual claims.

It is a good thing for some to be visible and to talk to us. It’s also a good thing to know that they are in the background watching as well.

There is no reason to attack Anet when they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. There are a few people on here bringing up old things that are not relevant, or that show a dev playing the game for fun (which is also something good for people to see, that they play the game they work on), or even show something that Anet took disciplinary action for as I understand it. If the vitriol continues, mods will have no choice but to close the thread and/or delete said posts. It’s one thing to discuss, but it’s another entirely to sit and attack.

And all the effort I had to put in to get it first wintersday, because my ‘luck’ was among the worst, was like 50+ tries to get the thing, I’m about ready to relegate it to a mule. If they change how the skills work on players, I’ll be ready to delete it.

Was the screaming excessive? At times, but that could be changed some, didn’t have to be muted entirely. They’ve removed the toys from the open world wintersday boxes, it’s now just skritt. They’ve killed the scream. A number of minis have sped up idle animations. Sylvari laugh doesn’t seem the same, but maybe I’m just remembering wrong on it, idk anymore. So much keeps changing, things I liked are gone. And I’ve found out that little things around even the cities have been changed.

We all know about the animations on humans and why. I hate to sit and nitpick, but if everything many of us enjoy is going to be changed, to the point we hate them, what is the point in spending time or money in getting items that could be changed on us at any time, for no apparent reason? I mean, what’s next, an npc is crying, and if people complain, it could end up changed to a laugh? There have been changes made that are kind of akin to that.

The doll screams are just female sylvari screams, different pitch etc.
*edit The doll screams WERE just female sylvari screams, different pitch etc.

Side note… female sylvari laugh has changed and I don’t even know what all else has :/ Sylvari had a cute laugh, now it’s just a part of the giggle looping more often than not. Overly not happy that things we liked or enjoyed, even things that didn’t annoy others, are being removed/changed. And yet the female human chipmunk laugh is still there annoying us >.<

Right now, I see someone trying to sell on LFG, and saying if you don’t like it, don’t join. I just report them as LFG abuse. But while on the subject, I’ve often seen LFG used by some for the sole intention of guild recruiting.

I agree, the loss of these really ruins the mini and the tonic. This happened at the same time they ‘nerfed’ the Kodan tonic to not scream or anything anymore. The change happened about 2 weeks ago I think.

Clones/phantasms still appear on the other side of gates, and sometimes still run off and attack other things.

But something I’m seeing, unless it’s just been some really odd flukes, is that Mind Stab does not appear to be removing a boon.

You were suppressed for a reason, and based on your post, the reason is rather clear.

(btw, spreading what you say over multiple lines in /say or /map, or spamming the same things repeatedly, suppress you after a certain threshold.)

Shadow.3475:

Lunacy Solacio.6514 they can make different LOS depending if it is grenades or a ele / necro AOE, were ele necro AOE is LOS and grenades as it is now.

Grenades are thrown, just as the disabler is. They have an aoe on hit, and it goes beyond line of sight, the same way cluster bomb on sb 2 does. That explosion is able to take down mortars at a number of towers and keeps, albeit slowly. The explosion from grenades, or bombs, or cluster bomb, or even guardian staff, can go through gates or the edges of the wall, etc. Disabler functions the same way.

Well we’ll give this thread a bit more of a chance to be seen with another post, but it doesn’t look like people are having this happen very much so it may just be the same continuing very rare, very difficult to diagnose bugs.

You had it happen multiple times though? I’d expect more posts if it was more of a widespread thing. While it isn’t the fastest path and some people don’t like doing it, it’s still pretty easy when it goes right. Even though we generally don’t hear back on them, we have been told, even recently, that doing the /bug reports in game are still being read and it gives them a lot of information to help find and fix bugs, and unfortunately that’s all we can do until Anet is able to recreate it or find it from what we give them.

So here’s to hoping it doesn’t happen again, or it happens enough so they can find it >.<

He can be stubborn, like most asura >.<

Hoping that was just like a weird one off type issue and not a bigger problem.

No, actually, it doesn’t know. It still has to be told. An example would be the issue we had with outfits.

For you to see this, makes me think you may have a latency issue. Even if everything seems to run fine for you, it may not be able to load the model quickly enough, so it’s doing what it is supposed to do, putting in the default model until it loads the necessary information. You could have a heavily fragmented dat file for gw2 so instead of waiting to load the new information, as stated earlier in thread, you get that.

Even if you have everything on a fast SSD sometimes players or npc’s can still load the default model, and clones would still be subject to that. You shouldn’t be seeing it for very long, and less so after the first time you make a clone in a map. If you still are, then I would expect you to have other noticeable issues. You could go so far as to lower your graphic settings to see what happens, just because. Do check that the character model and character limits are also on moderate-highest settings as well, although I assume you also meant those when you said everything was on highest except shadows, just covering bases.

Yes they did say it, no reason to say or imply someone is lying.

There is nothing to fix. That change was made ~April feature patch.

In the April feature patch notes:
“The chance of rares and exotics in the mystic forge will be adjusted. This will not affect precursors.”

Also a quick google search returns a number of posts from here and reddit showing that this was noticed months ago and commented on. There was dev comment on it somewhere, but that would require hunting it down, and since I’m assuming you’d reply with the same thing…

Sometimes you have to stand up on the ledge against the wall above the magmacyte, make sure he doesn’t have anything aggro’d on him. Next step is to get him killed and revive him, then repeat the above. If those aren’t solving it, (and it can sometimes still seem like it’s bugged out as it’s sometimes touchy on where you stand to trigger him), then it may be something new breaking it. When it happens be sure to do a bug report from within game. They keep telling us that those are in fact read and it does provide them with additional information that the forum cannot.

TexZero.7910:

insanemaniac.2456:

TexZero.7910:

Not good enough. Need to balance risk with reward. Remove the ability to throw them from places where you have no Line of Sight.

dont be like this bro
if we cry hard enough theyll nerf them some more, see where these changes have disablers at first

Still broken and stupid. That’s where these changes have them. If it was up to me I’d delete them entirely. However it’s not, and Anet wants to attempt to balance them so i’m being productive and giving them a very subtle hint. Risk vs Reward. Please analyze it with your valuable metrics.

It’s an aoe, so there is no way to remove the ‘no Line of Sight’. And if you could, what about Ele staff/scepter? Engi grenades? Thief cluster bomb? Arrow carts? What about catapults? Omega golem rockets? or even Trebuchet that is meant to hit things without an actual line of sight? You are asking for the game’s code to be rewritten to take all of that into account, which in turn would mean a lot more calculations, and likely give us a lot of server lag. Can you imagine the whining then? As it is, we have a few ip’s that are notorious for server to client lag, almost to the point of being unplayable.

They are added, and this has been confirmed in testing with many traits, including Dark Armor. You get the added toughness.

I have never noticed this, but if I have auto on, it’s always the first skill so maybe that is why. Interesting use of the auto feature to activate on dropping the kit but in this case it is working against you >.<

Maybe it’s caused by how they had the on-swap sigils activate when changing kit.

I noticed the same problem on my guardian. I completed personal story on there a while back, and have always hated that we are stuck with the story in the upper right even when we don’t intend to do them (which is a separate rant so I’ll stop there)

anyways, I took Tangled Paths, but ended up not doing it on guardian. I tried to quit that episode and was unable to. I can quit any other episode, but it defaults back to Tangled Paths, just as if it was ‘Personal Story’ that you are not allowed to get rid of.

This applies to all downed skills on all classes:

If you are doing an action, especially if you have another ‘queued up’, at the same time you are downed, the downed skill will ‘activate’ and go on cooldown. This is notoriously seen if playing a thief due to all the skills being spammable (good way to give some punishment for heartseeker spamming), but seen on other classes too.

As for op’s post, you need to target an enemy for them to activate. However, you should also be getting a message on screen that says, "You must have an enemy targeted”, although can be missed when doing a lot or frustrated.

I too can confirm that these ip’s seem to always be extremely laggy, and you can imagine how that is to be stuck on them in WvW for 4+ days. I was going to wait and see if I saw them again, but having seen this, there’s obviously something going on.

We had these ip’s in wvw last week, as well as I saw the 161 in a silverwastes map between patches on 11/18 that was extremely laggy. Same behavior has been seen in maps for Lions Arch, and I’ve heard from others for many different maps having the issue over the past few weeks. Curiosity had me start checking ip. I’ve seen other odd lag issues on other ip’s but they were no where near as bad as these seem to be.

64.25.38.161
64.25.38.162

edit: to clarify, when I say extremely laggy, I mean the following:
Many players appearing to teleporting around,
Everything randomly pauses for 2-4 seconds then rushes to catch up,
Random disconnects to character select, sometimes without an error message,
shadowsteps/teleports putting you far short of where you target, especially when you are moving,
etc.

Prosecutor.1457:

Might be good to have a posted list of GM’s in each servers that we can reach out.

As was said, they don’t communicate except under special circumstances anyways.
And they’d get messaged by many for countless reasons, as well as able to be followed and someone could use that to ‘avoid detection’ by leaving a map every time they enter it.

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Michael Henninger.7451:

so you must use the in-game reporting tool. .

Great! So I’ll just click on the invisible unclickable Unknown player and report them using the in-game reporting tool under the options for hacking……..oh wait.

Yes definitely!

Seriously though, the options presented just above do allow you to do so. I have reported numerous bots and a few client hacking …. lets refrain from derogative words beyond that but umm yeah I often add them to block list then report them from there. The biggest issue with this, is we have no way to tell anyone, via report tool, that they are under the map harvesting nodes, or that they are flying through the air, or that they are teleporting all around the map while in down state (which this has once been observed as a lag issue, but normally it’s them cheating), or following you in stealth, or somehow landing sic’em while you’ve been in stealth for the past 5 seconds and you never attacked anything (which granted that could all be lag, I don’t know enough on that, but I do know there are ways they can see you in stealth, and guessing where someone is and following erratic non-obvious movements is something else entirely), etc.
which is difficult enough in the chaotic situations of combat to pin down a single person to report, especially since we were under the assumption there were logs that could be reviewed to show some things, and now find out it has to be actually observed in action.

Anyways, I always block them quickly, then report.

Hamster.4861:

They do have in game GMs. I’ve got one of them on my friends list. I’ve seen them around in game as well. They’re normally named “GM First Last” The only way I can confirm that this was in fact a GM is that she moved servers twice in a day to find an exploiter in WubWub

I was under the assumption that No one is allowed to have “Gm whatever” as a name except GM’s anyways

Tamasan.6457:

Michael Henninger.7451:

To remove someone using hacks (teleports, speed, etc) we have to witness the act in game so you must use the in-game reporting tool.

I’ve been running into a lot of gathering bots in PvE lately. They’re underneath the terrain and I’m not able to target them, so there is no way to report them using the in game tool. I’ve been putting in support tickets – 5 or 6 over the last 2 weeks. However, it really is a serious pain to need to alt-tab, pull up the website, fill out the form, etc.

Can you look at providing us an easier way to report bots that we can’t target using an in game system? I’d guess this might help in WvW exploit situations, too.

You can type the name into your block list, and then report from there. I did that for the one gathering bot I saw under the map, but for some names that won’t be easy. Best way is to quickly screenshot and then do it that way. You can always use the character map tool in windows or something to get the special characters.

Apparently you can’t quit Tangled Paths either? I selected it, then quit, and it won’t go away. I hate the story being in the upper right if I’m not currently working on it (and still wish there was a way I could fully turn it off without completing personal story on every character). Hoping for a fix on this as well when the other is, as it appears they may be related? Or does quitting even the newer parts not allow you to ever get rid of them without completing… as I don’t think ever checked that before. I was checking to see if it would crash. and appears for me to be no crash issue with or without personal story already active.

Curiosity gets you in trouble though… need to remember that!

So we just keep trying to report as botting? Which can be impossible for some?

So basically you are telling us that we are wasting our time, doing what we have been told before to do, by sending anything to exploits that isn’t basically showing how to do the exploit?

there’s also some nodes (namely Eternal Battlegrounds) where a mithril node only gives 1 ore, and a rich mithril node only gives 3. I am unsure if that has been fixed recently, but I know it does not matter if you have mined anything else in Eternal battlegrounds or not. It appears in/near Dredge and/or near SW Gate of Stonemist.
I was not aware of a general limit on how much you can mine from dry top or silverwastes.

As for the op’s post, that has been answered.

khani.4786:

VampyreJack.9183:

Gaile Gray.6029:

And I want to see posts and screenshots about this! (Please?)

Thanks for the update, Curtis!

about what? when someone finally gets their skin/raffle reward mailed to them, or? sorry, i’m confused

Yeah I’d like to know an actual date as to when the raffle prizes are going to be sent out….so I know what day to be disappointed :P

It would be great to know who all got the prizes…even if it is just a list of winners without which item they got.

Except not everyone likes their name given out. If I won one, I wouldn’t want everyone to know it.

This has been happening a lot lately. You are able to chat for a while before you see that you have dc’d, but to others you have vanished from the map. We had it happen a lot on one LA map, but later, when we were in a different copy of it, no issues. There are times when WvW is extremely bad, skills don’t activate, teleports put you back where you started, etc., and it will be like that until something resets the maps. These issues have been going on for quite a while, but it is getting much more pronounced in some situations.

was just dc’d in a dungeon, all of us, and it closed… we were almost done x.x

Edit: Additionally, many people were dcing a lot last night in Lions arch, and random bad latency issues.

It only does that on certain angles/objects, and umm, please don’t ‘fix’ it … those are hilarious and that is what makes it worth it to me. It’s the silly and funny things I enjoy and they keep getting changed.

What I’d like to do is be able to use it with tonics, even if they don’t sit.

I just found out the past few days that many things have been changed, to the point I don’t really want the items anymore

Even if you assume it’s 1/4 of a second to alt-tab and hit a key (probably ~1/2-1 second is accurate), then to the next which would require hitting alt-tab twice, etc. you are introducing delay there. Whether you want to nitpick over that point or not, there is no way to make farming 8/9 accounts remotely efficient unless you are botting and/or controlling each all at the same time, which was the point. Additionally, they can tell if they are being done one by one, or at the same time.

Thank you Gaile for letting us know.

But I, and many others, feel that these should not have been removed :/
And while I don’t pretend to know a lot about animations, I am curious as to why they have to be completely redone instead of ‘turned off’ in specific situations.

I always swapped weapon to cancel the rooting but understand that wasn’t an option for ele (engi I think could use toolkits to do it but not sure on that). The way it was done before pretty much matched up the character movement with the wasps, however, now it just seems kinda silly :/ well, sillier than it was meant to be originally.

It appeared to be fixed in the patch they put the notes on, but then I too noticed that without logging out, it would shrink. That was something I had not seen it do before. Sometimes it seems to change more often than before it was ‘fixed’. Maybe it’s multiple things causing it, and they only fixed one because they didn’t know the others were also a cause?