Guild Wars 2

I usually only show player names and have allies(npcs) and enemies disabled and I set the buttons I can press and hold to show that stuff to ctrl and alt.

But that is a bit inconvenient in sPvP for example. I sometimes happen to accidentally post a skill in chat. Now I just changed the settings to always show all names while in sPvP. Much better. But don’t want it to change back and forth while switching between sPvP and PvE.

Different settings for each of the game modes would be nice.

Also would be nice if it was possible to remap the keys that are used in combination with leftclick to post stuff in the chat. Or disable them completely. I usually don’t need the one that posts instantly. Making a different thread for this.

I usually use 3 tabs. One set to map. Another one to guild. And the last one to say. Sometimes the game does not seem to remember…

I don’t want to change the setting everytime or type /map or something like that every time after going to sPvP for example(there it seems it automatically is setting the first window to ‘team’ and not setting it back after leaving sPvP).

I think the game should let us set for each mode – sPvP, WvWvW and PvE – different chat tabs and remember all the settings per char and game mode.

Halloween I did it with all my chars because there was unique stuff as reward(the back slot book item).

But now? So far according to wiki only jug of karma and capain tokens.

Do you think next part there will be another scaventer hunt(like halloween had a part 2) that requires you to have completed the first ones? And maybe with better reward?

Want to know if I should ‘prepare’ the other chars and to that stuff from part 1 with them too because I heard you can only do it now until part 2 starts and then not possible anymore.

So fractals need to be done for that 3rd subachievement. 2nd one requires “dungeons”. Anyone tried that did not complete the 2nd one already and can tell if fractals count for the 2nd one too?

Don’t like dungeon and only want to to stuff for achievements and would be nice if I could complete both with doing the fractals only and not needing to to other dungeons.

That map will stay open even after the november event? Or will it be removed. Or how does it work.

And how long will the kraka be available? Only the 3 days at the weekend or all november or forever? (Because of crafting material they drop and the achievement… but for achievement monthly the 3 days should be enough).

Canach and the Largos.
Server: Underworld.

Luthan.5236:

How to progress if you don’t have the map but already had the mail and received it… but somehow did not get it into the inventory(dissappeared)?
Only got that liquid drop of karma. After opening the mail… but that was not even in the mail. Don’t know why this appeard in my inventory instead of a map.

Oh lol. Found that map… I accidentaly had minimized one of the bags lol. And did not notice it until now. With all that lags and other trouble and only useless stuff in that bag… really did not notice it was minimized. And wondering why other stuff I got did not appear in inventory and then looking closer and noticed it. ;-)

One time events every 3 or 4 months. Not october the halloween… and then november already the next event.

Then tune down the max number of players. Let’s say 4 times the amount of instances of LA and only 1 fourth of the amount of players allowed.

Then it might work.

Also serious bugfixing and betatesting of the events stuff is recommended(thats why I want less events… not completly stop the events but less – every month is much more than they can handle).

Okay. This still worked. Some other guys could make him attack(they probably had the map). And then I got progress to. Mail about/from that Canach. But he seems bugged now.

Event to kill him but he is neutral/green and not attackable. Instead possible to talk. But nothing that makes him attackable. Lots of people waiting there.

Port from Lion’s Arch from the 5 gates that port to the major cities of each races to “The Grove” (sylvari city). Then exit the city. Its the sylvari starter area.

How to progress if you don’t have the map but already had the mail and received it… but somehow did not get it into the inventory(dissappeared)?
Only got that liquid drop of karma. After opening the mail… but that was not even in the mail. Don’t know why this appeard in my inventory instead of a map.

What about that map fragment? I got the mail opened it and took the map fragment. Back in the inventory I had some vial of karma. A bit smaller like that jugs from daily achievement and I think it was named “drop of karma” or somethink? I don’t know. Used it and nothing happened. Not even in the chat log saying something.

And: NO map fragment in my inventory. Can I still continue the quest or do I need to contact support now because of bug?

Ask the support to ban the followers permanently. This should not be allowed to mass follow one person to make them lag.

I noticed with my new ranger that stow pet is not working correctly. I want to move through the cities without the pet. But while doing some jumping and getting the vistasy I took a bit falling damage and the pet appeared again. Also it seems it appears if you change maps.

It should remember if you stowed it. Or just remove the “Stow Pet” button completely if it is not working and if it is not planned to make it work correctly.

I can see a reason to have it like this: Probably it automatically spawns on damage and thats why it spawns on fall damage to make it easier to protect you if you get attacke by mobs. But why then the button in the first place? Could just leave it spawend all the time.

There should be at least a setting to switch that auto spawn on or off. Also I don’t see the reason why it is not remembered on map change.

Really? Did not know this. Is this in the wiki? Does he offer only the stuff YOUR char started with or every possible combination. And only armor? Or the class specific items you choose at one of the questions too?

Thank you for making this thread. In the german forums there was someone complaining because he bought the wrong thing and asked if support could restore his money but I can understand that the support can’t do this.

Also I don’t know about reselling…

Easiest way would be to prevent the mistake. I agree with Cinder.

Salvaging gives confirmation dialogue. I think for everything green or better rarity?
Sometimes this is a bit annoying. I want to get rid of the green stuff very fast too.

I would like an option to set the rarity at which the salvaging dialoge asks for confirmation(to set it higher than green and starting at yellow).

And same for buying and selling at NPC. Selling to set the rarity at which it asks for confirmation. Buying to set the amount of karma or money at which it asks(if it costs more than a specific amount).

Maye filter too to filter out the stuff you can’t use.

Edit: And especially double click and lag is a problem. Even more of a problem if you are new to the NPCs and want to check their offers the first time and don’t know they have something expensive to sell(then you might be more careful and try to press F… but still game trains us to use double click often cause it is fast especially in the buy window).

Are they still bugged? I remember this from some time ago and have not tried again because I’m playing other chars now that are not high level enough but last talk entry at the wiki page is from October 31th.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talk:Asura_gate

At some point in the story you are allowed to use the portals at Fort Trinity to travel to all of the order headquarters. You can travel back but if you leave the area with the portal you need to talk to an npc to get through the door and use the portal. Only the npc of the order you joined will let you pass.

This seems a bug. I even remember having this reported ingame. Hope this will be fixed. Can’t understand why they won’t let me pass – I’m commander of that pact and they don’t need to protect against someone that is allied with them and leaving. I could understand if there was restriction from the other direction against attackers or spies… but not this way.

“And even then, what about germans?
So, this will end sooner or later with non-english speaking servers drop to the bottom of ladder. Not because of skill lack, juste because they just can’t compete on 24/7 presence due to language spoken on server.”

I’m german but I play on an international(english) EU server because I don’t like most of the other germans. Too many “power gamers” that care about stats and playing most efficiently instead of playing for fun… I thought. Ha ha. Until I saw a lot of french being the first in things like legendaries and other stuff. Seems they have even more people like that there.

But I think we have good social security lol. And a lot of unemployed can afford to play during night. Don’t underestimate the housewives, unemployed and students that don’t need to work next that and are able to play all the night. ;-)

Maybe you have only 1 chance to get the hat. And if you forgot the chest the first time you won’t be able to get the hat later? But that would be a problem for people that are just in the area of the event but not really trying to participate and then of course not going to look for a chest should the still get chest rewarded.

I just opened a few black lion chests with all the keys I stored up so far from story rewards. So far no luck. But gut a few mystery tonics and made a few Mad King’s Chests. They say “account bound”. But wanted to open them with another char and could not take them from bank to the inventory of the other char.

Are they souldbound and wrong tooltip description? I hope all the things you can get from the chest are account bound then.

For the achievement you only need to be in Lion’s Arch one time during Act 4 I think. I logged in the first time Act 4 when there was no Mad King says event and already had that achievements completed after logging in.

Mad King says event only for chest. Not for achievement neccessary.

I don’t think it is intended. But I also don’t think they should be banned. ArenaNet needs to fix it.

I can understand that removing the cap is a problem. But having it as it is now seems to be a problem too.

Why not remove the cap and make damage per player lower if there are mokittengets that get hit(only until a low cap for damage that it does not go to 0 or 1 if there are 100 players getting hit but will still be above a cap and be in a range between min – max and at max if 5 or less players get hit)? Then everyone gets hit but you need more attackers to kill more people which is totally okay.

I have completed the scavenger hunt with all my chars. Still need to do the clocktower with one more char.

Then I have time to farm a bit and go with one char somewhere instead of switching between the chars all the time.

What is best? Clocktower is giving ToT bags but I still can get them elsewhere or farm a lot of candy corn and trade it for bags.

What about dungeon vs labyrinth?

Labyrinth chest drops armor too I heard. But is is not with unique skin? So best option would be to farm the dungeon?

I start to like it. Want to do have something like this available all the year. Of course other achievements and other rewards and the halloween stuff only for the people that were able to complete it during halloween event.

Account.9832:

I can sort of understand missing chest #2, but #1 and #3 are right in the middle of the way. You land right on top of of #3 when you jump down from the beam.

By the time I made that post I only completed it 1 time with asuran elementalist and speed boost. Camera a bit crap with asura and I tried to be really fast. Now that video someone posted helped. And I found the chests and completed the tower with my main human engineer without speed boost.

But did not get the chests. I will probably try more and try to get the chest on top and the 3rd chest on way. Then later trying to get that 2nd… seems to cost a bit time and you really need to be effiecient. Maybe going back to my speed boost char for farming later. Doing the other chars first now for the slippers.

Also my pro tip:
TRY NOT TO LOOK AT THE OTHERS
I noticed this. Always if I see the other that seem to jump a bit better or be faster I tend to try to be faster too and make mistakes and fall down. If I try to focus an the environment only I get much better results and even get past the others that seem to get ahead first.

Really? I have seen a lot of complaints but this…
There are no achievements. Nothing. Nothing for low death counter. Not even displayed unless you use the command in chat. I don’t think they will make the trouble to check every time you died and revert it if it was from the tower.

“Two PvP modes (Lunatic Inquisition and Reaper’s Rumble). I really hope the Inquisition becomes a permanent mode later.”

I preferred the Rumble. I hope Rumble will be permanent later. Should be with other map and no halloween theme and you should play a normal sPvP char with the the skills of your class.

Then while halloween or other events changed to fit the event.

15 slot? Do you know that the runes cost? They still want people to buy gems and trade them into gold and runes for 15 slot bag cost 50 silver. It is a bit too much. Even clock tower only had that slippers which are worth only a few silver if you sell them to npc.

If you have more than one char at your account you can trade items between them and the bank with the bank window and relogging between chars.

It would be easier if there was a way to access all the other chars inventories from one window.

Of course it should not be possible to log out with one char far away from a bank NPC and then login with another and access the inventory of the first char. This would save too much time(and maybe money because people otherwise would use waypoints and the game wants us to use our money).

But lets say if you logout with one char near a bank NPC you could the account could remember this – should be possible since there is already other stuff that is saved at per account base like the achievements for example. Maybe showing the player a buff icon that displays that the char is near enough to a bank NPC.

Then these chars could be accessed from another char while at the bank. Would only save the trouble of relogging.

So we already have one thread like this for the clock tower and for races and if speed boost was used or not. Now I want one for the Scavenger Hunt.

I did it with 5 chars:
Level 80 human engineer
Level 44 norn guardian
Level 21 asura elementalist
Level 5 sylvari ranger
Level 5 charr thief

First with my main. Did not want to do the others first but then changed my mind and did it with them all and even created the last 2 chars at the last empty slots to get it for them too.

Part 1( http://dulfy.net/2012/10/23/shadow-of-the-mad-king-scavenger-hunt-guide/ ):

Easy to get everywhere and solo except for the last one(site 5 in the guide and you get the 6th part of the book there). There is a champion but usually enough people there are killing it. If you have a higher level char you can help and also help clear the veterans and few mobs on the path. Traps are not that hard. You only need to be careful at the beginning 1 time then you can walk arount them all easily if mobs are killed. Usually enough players around.

Part 2 ( http://dulfy.net/2012/10/26/gw2-shadow-of-the-mad-king-mad-memories-act-2-guide/ ):

Harder than part one. VII easy to get there. Needs help to do the event or a higher level char and log between each chars. From this part one I moved all my 4 other chars to next location and got the item and then moved them all to the next and so on. Earlier I just had played 1 char all the time and collected as much as I could.

VIII was the biggest problem because the rewpawn time of the ghosts seemed very fast. Needs a lot of players around or a group where you can stay close and go with.

X was easy. XI as well but needs a few players around to clear mobs nearby because you get aggro easy and from more far away mobs if lower level it seems. There were enough players usually.

IX I had a bit trouble to get there first until I figured out a good way around the mobs in the water. Then there is an event that needs high level players to clear it but safe area after event.

XII not that hard. You need to secure Fort Cadence if not meta event already cleard it to make it easier(I ran past everything with my main but really this is a trouble). Then running down the stairs and having some others around clearing ghosts. I switched a bit between my main and helped killing ghosts and if enough others seemed nearby I ran down quickly with my other chars.

Was fun getting there with low level chars and without a big guild and just the other players around there that were doing the quests too.

Can someone tell where the additional chests are? I only know about the one at the top where you get the achievement and I only completed the tower successfully with my 1 asura elementalist and 25 percent speed boost.

Are they hidden or are they directly on your way up and you don’t need much more time to open them(if you know where they are)?

I think Lion’s Arch will be attacked and a huge group event(causing lags and the sound bug) will happen where you need to defend it. Most mobs will appear around the statue. Will take a bit longer to finish the event. No achievements and the reward will be small.

Then maybe the party… or party will still take until Act 4. Should be something where you just need to get into the orange circle in Lion’s Arch and then automatically get the achievement.

The other thing were we could only get to 3/4 maybe at the last Act.

Meta event chains. Gendarrans field the one is in the south west I think. You need to complete the chain. Which means doing the smaller events(and really trying to do all of them I think there is some defense stuff where you could lose progress and do some attack or ecsort quest again if you don’t defend). Then a bigger boss will spawn and after you beat it the doors will open.

Also these events count for achievement halloween events with highest tier needing 10.

Finally. Completed it the first time.

Asura
Elementalist
Speed boost 25 percent while staying in air attunement
(which sometimes felt a bit too fast for some jumps).

A few failed tries with my 40+ norn guardian yesterday where I was too slow. And a lot more tries today where I got further up but missed some jumps… maybe because of too much speed.

Trying again with my human main engineer later. Those Mad King’s Slippers… you really get them in the armor type you need for the char you complete the puzzle with? Cause I have them in light armor now and I would like to have them medium for my main engineer.

Not an exploit. Intended use of traits. I’m elementalist too and still trying to do the tower and using that trait. If they did not want us to use the traits they would have disabled them. Think twice before opening such a troll thread. ;-)

Maybe they could make it available all year… if it does not count for the title and you get all the other achievements and get the title… then you are emissary of the mad king, right? Then you should have access to his realm and be able to do that puzzle all the time(of course tune down the chest rewards then). That seems like a good solution.

It would also be acceptable if everyone could get the achievement. You can do Griffonrook Run without getting the chest and move slower and still get achievement. ;-)

Still trying it with my level 20 asuran elementalist with the 25 percent speed boost on air attunement. Got a bit further… but only was lucky. Now I’m having again problems…

Problem is that first wheel where you have to wait. All the players catch up and big group and I always have trouble with the next jumps and to see that wall parts. Others somehow always are faster… I tried to jump directly at wall and on small wheel first that comes next. But others still faster and hard to see anything there. Later it seemed easier. With a few tries and training at the later parts it should be possible with speed boost since you have a bit more time to time your jumps.

I thought it was bound and you only get the quest/dialogues 1 time?
Really the best solution regarding alts would be if they made achievement like the pumpkin carver where npc is reacting to it and talking different stuff if you completed it – and then an npc just giving out that skin for all the chars on that account if you completed that achivement.

Still would not solve the problem with people completely new to the game but they could just run with a group. Would be more worth the trouble then if they unlocked it for the whole account.

I only did it with my level 80 main and this was enough. It’s not that I need this item for all of my chars… and there probably will be other items in the future for the back slot with a nicer look. Book does not fit to every race/class.

That is cool. They should not remove it then. Otherwise people will have completed the achievement easier and there might be a few who could not have completed it without that advantage. They would have an advantage over others then because they should not have gotten the achievement and others that are the same will not be able to get it if they remove the buffs from traits.

Should stay like it is and everyone is free to try to level a char to get the trait buffs too or for that banners? .. they could just ask a friendly warrior to help.

I think I need to level my level 18 elementalist to level 20 a bit. If traits work the attunement air trait that gives you 25 buff if you stay in air will work?

It is the time… that is the problem here. Other jumping puzzles you could take your time and do them slower. Here you need to be fast. Not everybody can do that stuff fast. I like to wait after some jumps and carefully move the char a bit slowly in position to do the next jumps.

Still it should be possible do to the tower if you try enough. But then again the time – it is limited to the halloween event. They could at least have chosen a puzzle where you can wait between the jumps.

Or make it instanced for faster tries that you don’t have to wait for all the other to fall or complete before being able to try again.

Could you transmute it to another level 80 back slot item(is the last one from the story level 80 item?) and then put upgrades on it? Of course it would need one of the better transmutation stones…

Play with your level 80 main. There was enough time since headstart to get to level 80 with at least 1 char. If you did not buy the game early and started leveling early then it is your problem.

Only 1 item here. Not even an achievement. ;-)

Now how do they remove the stuff people got when it was still possible to farm there. Some people already got an advantage. They still need to do something about this. Or make the chests like they were before so that I can farm too.

Does the clocktower achievement count to the final achievement with title? Still need to finish that.

Also I want to check if I got everything else:

- Scavenger Hunt Part 2

- Halloween events 10/10 for that achievement which counts to the title (events in queensdale, kessex hills and gendarran fields which lead to reverting the doors and giving access to the mad kings realm – all the doors are marked by red pumpkins at minimap then – if this is the case you need to wait or go to another map because if doors are reverted they seem to stay like this for some time and no halloween events)

- Mad King’s World 3/4 (the 2 minigames and the labyrinth? or was 3rd from the clocktower only visiting not completing it I don’t know)

- Clocktower achievement(still need to do that)

So only party and 3/4 of Mad King’s World left for Act 3 and 4?

Entered through portal near that npc into the real labyrinth version with mobs. Killed one and it dropped 3 personalized tot bags.

Entered mad realm through a door. Seems at all the locations there are permanent doors now? And visible with icon at the mini map. Gendarran Fields

Then talked to one npc there and entered a mini game in spvp style which gave an achievement at the 1/4 “It’s a Mad Kings World”.

I had trouble in the asuran story mission where you have to extinguish fires at the burning archives. Standing directly in the fire did not work. A bit away did not work. I really had to be a bit more a way where it seemed like the animation did not hit anymore.

Would be better if there was a small ground targeting skill with very small radius.