I assure you, we have an extensive QA Department. As you may have noticed, this is a quirky bug, in that it doesn’t affect everyone, and those it impacts are seeing different outcomes. For instance, I had my auto-loot turn off, someone else had his double-click reset… It’s not a simple “This happens for everyone, all the time” situation.
Actually, it only seems that way due to people having different options set. What this bug does is set the first option tab to default, not reset individual settings.
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Many people don’t change their options so are less likely to notice. However, some of what are the defaults seem to have changed since original release, especially relating to the camera, and these things would hit and annoy players that have been in gw2 longer. It changes the camera and all checkboxes to defaults along with the content guide setting. Forgot to add also the achievement tracking apparently but I never use that so didn’t notice myself.
My screen looks like it’s stretched. I have a 1900 × 600 laptop screen resolution as well. And the camera is acting funny.
It also changes the camera settings, all of them it seems, so that is probably why as Field of View can give that appearance, and all the other camera settings defaults are not what used to be the defaults so even if you hadn’t adjusted it before, it seems to be different now. From what I’ve seen the graphic settings do not get reset but then again, they are kept in a xml file on the computer, whereas all the other settings are pretty much saved in the local.dat and on the game server.
Windows 7, 64bit client
Since last hotfix it has been intermittent on occurrence. Prior to that it was consistent. However, just logged in, everything reset again
Is it it strange though that Guild Wars 1 had the exact same holiday decorations and the exact same holiday quests every year, and people just did them and didn’t complain.
Same problem, very annoying.
My cameraspeed and my charmovement feels also somehow different and annyoing.
Change in camera settings can give that appearance.
i am not stupid, it still feels very different after changing the settings
Didn’t say you were stupid, but my mistake for stating something that others might not be aware of. You’ll have to excuse me for trying to be helpful.
As for the options, it appears that they now stick with the 2nd patch (for me). but it still means refixing all the options -_-
edit: nvm, I changed character, and all my options reset… Seems random some keep settings, some seem to change. Nothing seems consistent. No surprise there though.
It wasn’t a mistake last year. They told us it had to be that way due to the changes done to pvp, if I recall correctly. Because activities shared coding with pvp (dear gods why Anet?) or some such craziness. And they couldnt revert it ( heavy sigh ) I’m not even going to go attempt to find that post, too much work.
Yeah that was the reason given. It wasn’t a mistake it was intentional. But we did have it party based one year. Never again will we have it that way apparently.
We got the expansion so I’m sure they didn’t have time to fix it. I’m extremely disappointed you still can’t enter with you’re party, but it’s sadly what I expected would happen.
lol. It will always be something as to why we won’t have party back for this. They knew last year we wanted party.
My graphic settings are normal, but same, all my General Options were reset. And reset on every login. It’s going to take a long time to get everything set back how I want it. And that’s if it didn’t even reset every time
This is pretty trivial to worry about. I don’t think Anet really cares. I haven’t heard of anyone being actions against for using the LFG as a sale/buy tool. Just my two cents.
They have taken action before, and multiple statements were made by Gaile about it then.
someone just told me that attaching runes to items in your inventory soulbinds it? is that true?
That’s true. The only exception is ascended armor, which is always account bound.
except hasnt it always just ACCOUNT BOUND stuff? Because this soul bound… well it soul bound this exotic gear. I tried the same rune on a piece of trash armor, and it only account bound that. Is that how its supposed to work, vary based on rarity of armor? Because I was just fine with account bound, it was the soul binding that took me by surprise.
unfortunately no. Unlocking skins account binds, but applying upgrades soulbinds. It’s dumb and has remained this way.
Thing about the guild siege golems that were made via influence before HoT, it was not an actual blueprint item in inventory. Once pulled out of guild, it was automatically put into your hands to throw and couldn’t be stowed for later, so if it used that version, it either went poof or was somehow put in the guild reserve… so it going poof would be a concern :/
Did you use the ‘shortcut’ to get it? That makes it much easier and can easily get under the time, and as above, advanced gliding makes it easier, although isn’t needed to get silver afaik. Might be basically required to get gold though I’m not sure. Might be worth it to have a look at youtube.
Try guesting to different servers. There is a chance it might put you in a different instance in case it’s only bugged in the one.
For reference: On char select screen, click on World in lower left, then choose a server, select Guest, then log in on the norn in the tutorial area and hope for the best. You are limited to only 2 guests in a 24 hour period.
Did you follow it exactly as it says? by using /point @ with him targeted after he loses his home?
If it’s done somehow differently, someone else that has done the collection would need to chime in… not all these collections do follow their hints >.< but so far wiki doesn’t say anything differently.
They took away the damage causing you to mine ruined items it seems. Not sure on the randomly causing it to happen. I haven’t seen this occur at all anymore except via tonics, which are definitely bugged on that now with a recent thread discussing it. However, a friend has had it happen a time or 2 for no reason.
I had seen this, but unless there is something odd with the animation it should be exactly the same between male/female. afaik there is nothing coded to behave differently and never was meant to be that way.
That is a very good point, that it could be that trait, if it was being used. That still leaves a question on the number of hits (although that may very well be rng knowing this game… so many skills have rng components even when they shouldn’t) I’d have hoped this was tested multiple times but who knows.
I think I might even know why this is. Every gathering tool and node is assigned a level. When you use a tool, you briefly swap your weapon out to it, and the node checks against the gather level of your equipped item.. When you’re in tonic form, the tonic overrides your weapon, and it appears it overrides your gathering tools.
except it worked before. And it is still harvesting with the tools, as it even plays the animations. I mean, I even got a watchwork sprocket along with the ruined ore. -_-
Anet changed something and intentionally or not, this is the result. Wouldn’t be surprised if it is intentional
Yeah it did work before. However, this is an area that ANet hasn’t spoken much about: it wasn’t included in the patch notes when they fixed the ruined-while-in-combat bug, as well as other changes made to gathering.
(FYI ‘bonus’ items have always dropped, even if you get ruined items, e.g. dandelion, hidden caches, and — back in the day — unID dyes.)
Yeah, I just added that to show that in fact I had on the pick, and it registered the pick being used.
None of the previous gliders, nor the appearance packs, have been able to be gifted before…
So that wasn’t intended? At least for the separate glider?
The Exalted Glider was always giftable, which is why I even thought to try and get this one. But yeah, some of the appearance/cosmetics items are not giftable. There could very well be a good reason for that.
Oh so it is. Only one that was giftable then? I didn’t notice that one was giftable, but I also never liked it. Of course I haven’t liked many, except the ones in packs >.>
Scruffy can be revived by a second party member (next to the one who “owns” the instance). Having done so, he just stands there and does nothing though, so it’s not really urgent to fix this.
only if quick to start the reviving the moment he dies, otherwise the prompt disappears (unless anet recently changed this too?)
I think I might even know why this is. Every gathering tool and node is assigned a level. When you use a tool, you briefly swap your weapon out to it, and the node checks against the gather level of your equipped item.. When you’re in tonic form, the tonic overrides your weapon, and it appears it overrides your gathering tools.
except it worked before. And it is still harvesting with the tools, as it even plays the animations. I mean, I even got a watchwork sprocket along with the ruined ore. -_-
Anet changed something and intentionally or not, this is the result. Wouldn’t be surprised if it is intentional
To clarify… When you stomp someone that has desynced and aren’t where they appear to be, no finisher is actually played when you complete the stomp channel. Is this what is happening Vala Numea? Or is it fully playing the finisher and still not actually finishing them?
Banishing someone that is downed is notorious for causing the issue Chaba describes.
Edit: so is downing them as they hit a leap skill.
Confirmed to be the case. Tested on some non-expensive mats, because i’m not intentionally ruining those >.> Appears anything over T1 mats will return ruined materials while in tonic form…
same bugs if www (300g) commander tag up, try off tag at player who get or send invite.
except no tags are up on the people sending or accepting invite. It just doesn’t work. Can invite to party but cannot join a party. Using a tag would convert current party to squad and would require more work than just cancelling the join and inviting said person.
Someting is weird tho, its caped as I see it, think its over the minute or so u dont gain shi*, notice that when I was gathering wood et.c with harvestbooster.
That isn’t actually weird. It is in fact capped. Not duration, but ‘stacks’, and they depend on the source, and the duration of each stack of course. If you have 5 guardians all throw down swiftness, unless they have extra duration, you’ll still be limited to something like <40 seconds if I remember right. But a guardian, war, and ele blasting static field, you can easily have over a minute, upwards of 1 1/2 or so.
As above post says, it will be there. The reason it shows all 3 crafting professions, is because of one single recipe that is available for all 3.
always always always open it only on the character with the profession that can actually make the weapon you are trying to do. Unfortunately anet didn’t make this clear, and never has made a recipe account bound. Fortunately the npc does in fact have them so you can replace/relearn it on the proper character.
edit: do not choose the ‘misplaced’ option. That is for replacing things like ’Destroyer’s Heat’ for astralaria after you acquired it already. Follow above directions to go through ‘show me your wares’
Tangled Depths Meta event for Mistward colection. I finish meta event 5 times now, and i tray all lains and i dont get that Mistwar helm casing wtf i colect all chest and nothing comon am i bugd or what?
The meta itself was actually successful? All 4 lanes must succeed and kill their chak gerents. The helm casing comes from the final chest, not from actually killing 1 chak gerent.
edit: lol. I’ll take that as meta wasn’t completed before
I saw that the +5% damage wasn’t working, but that the +5% condition damage was supposed to be. I have not tested it myself however, so I don’t know if it did work before or not. Not surprised one bit though.
It’s not a specific pull skill that does it. It’s terrain and any pull really. It’s entirely possible that people are intentionally abusing it, it’s also possible just bad luck/where you happen to be standing. It’s occurred for a long time, it is funny to see, not so fun to be receiving >.>
You know excessive bumping is against the rules right? In fact posting for the sole purpose of bumping is as well. At the very least, on all forums, give 24 hours between >.>
It’s supposed to reopen the map and not close it at all, but then again what is working with megaserver.
I remember mapping on another character about a year ago and the map would say ‘map is closing, would you like to volunteer’, chose later because the buff is basically worthless, and then not 1 min later, this option would disappear completely. Another few mins go by, it would again say the map was going to close in an hour. It repeated this I think 4 times or so. Was there for over an hour… but I’ve also gone into a map, with lots of people on it, only to have it suddenly close. It isn’t supposed to be doing this, but again it’s megaserver, it’s never worked properly.
Last year we couldn’t go in Toypocalypse with a pre-made group due to a bug. Will it be fixed this year?
That wasn’t a bug… That was basically intended and they stated as much, because they set it up like the activities. They also said it would not be changed for last year, and I have no expectation of it being changed for this year. If it isn’t changed though, I won’t do it even once. If it is, might be able to a few times before everyone is away from game due to holidays.
Oo nice, didn’t know that! I’ve only really done a few fractals already (4 and 10 specifically, for the collection), so not sure when the globs start dropping but I guess I’ll have to do a lot more fractals :-/ thanks for the info!
Well… prime reason I say to go for globs, is I did earlier fractals repeatedly (again this was early 2013 but still) and the achieve for fractals done was over 100 before I had any mist essence at all drop. It was bad x.x but as soon as I started doing fractals higher, I was getting globs left and right.
Yay thanks Gaile! And thanks for the communication.
Edit: Nvm just saw sheets of aurillium thing.
I’d also like to ask about the Vial of Condensed Mists Essence. I know we need 3 for one of the components, I think it’s the Imbued Mists Jar. Is there any way to make this less RNG based? I’ve been trying to get these vials for 2 days now and no luck. Would it be possible to make these purchasable for like 200-500 fractal relics? Or are they needed in other things, hence keeping the RNG element aspect to it?
getting those to drop was always a pain. In my personal experience since fractal was originally released, you are far more likely to get shards instead, but you can ‘break’ *globs down into vials.
Yeah, apart from the sheets of aurillium thing (which has been fixed now – yay!), trying to get these vials is my next annoying hurdle. Not sure how long it’s going to take but it’s frustrating it’s all RNG based I don’t mind working my behind off, knowing I can eventually get the vials I need, but because it’s RNG, there’s no certainty or end-goal as to when I’ll be able to get all 3 I need.
I gave link on the globs that I was editing in lol. I’d just keep raising your fractal level if you haven’t, and see if globs drop instead. One of them breaks down into 3 vials, and they always had a better drop rate for some reason. Just trying to do it for vials feels almost like waiting on a precursor drop. Obviously not that difficult but feels that way.
Yay thanks Gaile! And thanks for the communication.
Edit: Nvm just saw sheets of aurillium thing.
I’d also like to ask about the Vial of Condensed Mists Essence. I know we need 3 for one of the components, I think it’s the Imbued Mists Jar. Is there any way to make this less RNG based? I’ve been trying to get these vials for 2 days now and no luck. Would it be possible to make these purchasable for like 200-500 fractal relics? Or are they needed in other things, hence keeping the RNG element aspect to it?
getting those to drop was always a pain. In my personal experience since fractal was originally released, you are far more likely to get shards instead, but you can ‘break’ *globs down into vials. They drop on apparently levels 21+ now. I know it used to be about 11+ before hot changes. In fact, my first drop of mist essence was NOT a vial… it was a glob. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glob_of_Coagulated_Mists_Essence
I’m going to go ahead and update this. First, while some like the new aura effects, others do not, including some that have dreamer… No can’t please everyone, but it’s rather more disliked in some ways.
As for the sound, Still have not been able to hear in LA, even after the patch, except the situation described above. However, I did in fact hear the neighing while doing a hero challenge in Auric Basin when someone with the bow joined in. However I know that I’ve been in other areas and not able to hear it, so something about it is inconsistent shrug
Ironically, it was fixed with the evening patch on Tuesday, while the complaining was still going on. It was either re-enabled then or shortly thereafter, it just wasn’t in the notes.
How the hell was this not fixed already anet? This should have been a high priority as its halting progress. And it can’t be a big issue to fix. It is just ludicrous.
However they go about fixing it has to be tested so as not to repeat the problem or prevent it from working at all.
Correct this was not fixed in today’s patch. A patch, that the deadline to have changes in it were sometime middle of last week, about the same time they disabled this hero challenge. Expect it in a hotfix possibly still today, but most likely tomorrow or the next day, although all we’ve been told is they are working on it and we’ll get it when it’s done.
You report these things by sending an email to exploits@arena.net.
As I already said last time I reported an exploiter via the website support I was told to report it in game, since then I decided to not waste my time on this half baked report system.
This is the reply I received last time I reported an exploiter
Hello Vavume,
Thank you for taking your time to report this player for exploiting siege weapons.
The Guild Wars Support Team no longer accepts violation reports through our ticket system. If you’d like to report someone for a potential rule violation, please use our in-game report system to do so.
When something is being exploited, send it via the email not via support tickets. Support tickets won’t get to the right people really and they want people reported in game. But since we can’t explain things, or maybe it isn’t really easy or appropriate to report exploits in game, there is the email to explain things to them as well.
As you may have noticed, this is a quirky bug, in that it doesn’t affect everyone, and those it impacts are seeing different outcomes. For instance, I had my auto-loot turn off, someone else had his double-click reset… It’s not a simple “This happens for everyone, all the time” situation.
am i bugd or what?
thanks Gaile! And thanks for the communication.