Guild Wars 2

I think of this same idea every time I go searching to buy (waste my money on) new mini pets :-D

Also, here is the wiki article on it: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Map_completion

It should look like this: https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/4370/gw074.jpg

But, yeah, maybe it’s a level thing. Also, welcome! :-D

Behellagh.1468:

eisberg.2379:

CorrynnStarr.7942:

lordkrall.7241:

Seeing as the people working for the site refuses to actually tell people what happened, I would say we most likely don’t have the full story. Even when outright asked if they where forced to take it down they simply spun it around and refused to answer.

that gives you your answer right there… if they cannot be open and say what happened, then it is likely Anet forced them to remove it.

on second thought it could be the employee was fired for posting something he was directed not to….

Or maybe his editor thought it was a shoddy article and had it taken down and the original writer doesn’t want to talk about it because he is embarrassed or furious at his editor.

Many people, even the ones who agree with him on the general idea, felt the article was shoddy in many ways, and his editor could very well be someone who believes as such as well.

And it’s also possible he posted it before getting his editor’s approval. Maybe because it wasn’t clearly stated as his opinion piece.

His reddit responses seem to indicate he got read the riot act and can only say his editor took it down.

Wow. You are naive.

TTH get lots of access and exclusives, then one of thier writers posts a critical opinion piece, and it gets pulled. Hmmm.

It’s not hard to connect the dots. I’ll be interested if any other sites cover this. I bet they don’t.

Kaz.5430:

The addition of a guaranteed route could well reduce the number of people gambling with the mystic forge, which could have an effect of reducing the production of exotics being sold by people throwing rares into the forge, thus reducing supply and increasing price of exotics in general.

Their is already a guaranteed route. Well, several really – grind gold, but pre. Use credit card for gems, convert, buy pre. It’s all dependent on how easy, or not, the new method is. If it’s still easier to buy with gold, I don’t know that the prices will change much. Probably a little, but not hugely if the crafting route is too much hassle.

Kidel.2057:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Posted in New & Announcements, but repeated here to ensure that new players are aware of this news:

As ArenaNet President Mike O’Brien detailed in a recent announcement, ArenaNet is committed to protecting your game account.

Effective at 11:59 pm Pacific Time on August 28, 2015, all newly-created accounts will have SMS restrictions. These restrictions mean that you will not be able to use in-game mail to send items or gold, and you will be unable to access guild vaults. If you wish to eliminate these restrictions, simply add SMS or an authenticator to your account and the restrictions will be removed. Account created prior to August 28 will not experience these restrictions.

I hope your restrictions for F2P accounts are not only this. I’d make 10 verified email in 1 day and get 55 laurels each every 28 days, to make 550g. Imagine people with more time. It would destroy the economy.

So, that means even people that pay have to do this? Interesting. I could understand it for the upcoming Free 2 Play accounts. I have it activated. It only asks when my ip changes – which is hardly ever. And yeah, you can use the authenticator instead of an sms.

As for laurels and such, well you’ll have to pay for all those accounts – like you do right now anyway – and F2P accounts will have no mail or tp and all sorts of other restrictions – their is a post on reddit where someone has data mined all the restrictions they are going to put in place. Even if they get free login stuff, they won’t be able to do anything with it. I suspect free accounts will have no logins or different items maybe. I think they realize a flood of free accounts dumping gold into the economy would be bad.

NoTrigger.8396:

RAID HYPE

Are we all getting free WoW subs for a month?

BrooksP.4318:

Enjoy them while it lasts, GW1 servers are shutting down at the release of HoT.

Show Spoiler

hide spoiler

I jest, Congrats.

-_-

So we will have 3 tiers of players now?

1. People who bought HoT.
2. People who didn’t by HoT.
3. F2P accounts.

Didn’t they say they wanted to have less amounts of layers? I guess you can’t buy vanilla gw2 anymore though.

xarallei.4279:

Please lock these free players from the forums. We don’t need a million trolls here, it gets toxic enough at times as is. They also need to be locked from laurels and the tp.

Yeah. They should be able to have zero impact on the economy.

Captain Unusual.9163:

MashMash.1645:

Brimstar.9036:

pHIS IS a good thing.

In your opinion. Many will hate this. They played GW2 to get away from raiding and all the associated BS.

Well, the main turnoff for me from standard raiding was the gear treadmill, and we know 100% that they’re not putting one of those in.

Yes, that is what they’ve stated. I really hope so. A large portion of this games player base is casual, and enjoy the game that way. Personally, I’m not against it. But I’ve seen how raiding can become in other games – it can be very unpleasant and toxic. Don’t want to see that here.

I also don’t want to see important or interesting story / lore locked away. Loot rewards sure, but not important plot stuff.

Brimstar.9036:

pHIS IS a good thing.

In your opinion. Many will hate this. They played GW2 to get away from raiding and all the associated BS.

Does this creep out any other Sylvari players? (I main Sylvari, and most of my other characters are Sylvari).

Marjory apparently alters what she says depending on if the player character is Sylvari or not. This completely changed how I view her. I don’t like / trust her now. Sort of.

Every time she calls me ‘boss’, all I can think is “she secretly hates me. She’s lying to my face.” It’s terrible.

Story wise this is fantastic, but personally I am really sad.

Vague Memory.2817:

So I’ve started doing Teq recently and realised I can’t finish the event without the game crashing. I’ve been advise to lower some of my graphics settings to prevent crashing (this is after already repairing GW2, and reinstalling the whole game).

I was wondering does everyone lower their settings for Teq to prevent crashing on a full map?

It’s a known issue:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Client-crashes-during-heavy-graphic-fights/page/2#post5322839

Basically, for some systems, when it hits 3gb the client can’t handle it and crashes – but for some it doesn’t. Amazing rigs can see it crash, while cheap ones are fine – it’s all over the place. ANet is aware of it, but it’s hard to remedy it seems.

The safest ‘fix’ is just to turn down textures and the one that shows characters around you to minimum. Their are various other tips on that thread also.

Traced.3495:

I adore the sylvari and I am in a world of misery.

Yes

Endless Soul.5178:

As an Asuran, I find the Sylvari to be an interesting anomaly worthy of study. One of these days I’ll have to study a few in my lab. However, my lab is currently filled with Quaggans while I research how high their threshold of pain is.

~turn up power~ “Was that excruciating?”

#WhatMakesThemTick?

You vermin kidnapped, tortured and murdered our babies.

We won’t forget that when the Dragons come for Rata Sum.

#LetAsuraBurn #NeverForgetNeverForgive

Manifibel.8420:

I heard from MattVisuals and WP’s stream that after the first burn phase on the Wyvern it melted. This is weird to me since the random Champions as part of events should be easier than a Wyvern in terms of the Breakbar, and right now its like its the other way around. It needs some tweaking, but the difficulity is great (I haven’t fought the Wyvern, so I dont know about that fight sadly Will have to go there in the remaning time.)

Theirs a Wyvern to fight? Where? All I can find are partial event chains that always bug out. :-(

I saw this feature mentioned in the post about bugged events, by Rubi. But I played most of the weekend and didn’t even notice their was a day / night cycle really. I did see the words on the screen, but the lighting never really changed. It never seemed liked night time or day time, just a sort of gloom (which was great – very atmospheric).

Maybe they could put some sort of on screen symbol or something. I dunno. Or nights need to be way darker. I always liked the suggestion I heard where at night you couldn’t see at all, beyond a certain range, like only within range of light sources. But I guess that would annoy way to many people (and might not be possible on the games engine). It doesn’t seem right that at night you can see miles away still.

CrimsonDX.4821:

I always found it absurd that anyone believed there would only be one map.

I think it was more the “give us all your money now and hope for the best based on these promises but no actual content shown sales pitch” that was the issue.

Considering what they are charging, of course you would expect more than one map.

And they still haven’t revealed what we are getting! No info – no money (from me anyway).

alicatrawz.9567:

isnt that a product ID….

That’s what I was thinking.

I created my account ages ago, but don’t you manually choose it?

Wow. That’s some name! :-O

Gynok.1756:

I’d personally like to see wvw and spvp exclusive legendary items.

Yes. That would be awesome.

Jayden Ennok.3687:

MashMash.1645:

serenke.4806:

If you are going to be forced to do fractals to get the backpiece, then you will have to decide whether or not it is worth doing. Anet is already catering to everybody by making almost everything available from several different sources.

This policy is bad on several levels. It does not encourage people to do certain content. It does not reward more effort (fractals 50 is generally worse loot than chest farming).

I have no problem with this exclusivity, as long as they also provide a Legendary Back piece unique to WvW, PvE and PvP play modes – it can look different of course.

Fractals should not be the only place to get one. That particular back piece, yes, but not every / the only one, and no where else. Why have they designated Fractals the special petal that gets Legendary items?

So why exactly the fractal legendary annoys you so much, if it’s not the skin you are after. Since you can get same stats with ascended gear, what is the reason to want that particular backpiece? Or is it the fact anet won’t mail it to you as a gratitude for your awesome existence?

What annoys me is that their is a single avenue to getting a Legendary Backpiece. Why not WvW, or PvP or PvE? Why just Fractals?

Like I said, if this is the way they are going to set things up, I hope we get separate Legendary Backpieces and skins for PvP and WvW, etc and other game modes. The Fractal Backpiece looks awful – I could care less about the skin. It’s the item I want.

The title is pretty self explanatory. Many, many people hate Fractals.

Will grinding them be the ONLY way to acquire one? (Different skins – not the one pictured). If so, why?

Will we be able to acquire one based around other game modes – WvW, PVP, PvE, etc?

But will you be able to get different Legendary Back Pieces from other play modes – PvE, WvW and PvP?

If not, why were Fractals chosen as the only place to get them?

serenke.4806:

If you are going to be forced to do fractals to get the backpiece, then you will have to decide whether or not it is worth doing. Anet is already catering to everybody by making almost everything available from several different sources.

This policy is bad on several levels. It does not encourage people to do certain content. It does not reward more effort (fractals 50 is generally worse loot than chest farming).

I have no problem with this exclusivity, as long as they also provide a Legendary Back piece unique to WvW, PvE and PvP play modes – it can look different of course.

Fractals should not be the only place to get one. That particular back piece, yes, but not every / the only one, and no where else. Why have they designated Fractals the special petal that gets Legendary items?

xarallei.4279:

MashMash.1645:

xarallei.4279:

Not to mention with the pvp reward tracks you can get the tokens to get your gift for the old legendaries. And eotm makes it easy for those who don’t want to really wvw to get badges. Locking new legendaries to fractals only seems against the spirit of this game. I don’t mind if there is a particular back piece legendary that is fractal only. That’s cool and all, but I would hope there are ones you can get outside of fractals.

Not that I really care about this because I don’t really care about legendaries generally and would probably not bother getting one even if it was outside of fractals. I’m just saying it does really suck for those who want the new legendaries and hate fractals.

Now the thing I am concerned about is that ascended water breather recipe. You better be able to put that on the tp because it’s unfair for something like that to be locked behind fractals. We don’t even have an exotic version for god’s sake.

The Winterday pvp track has an exotic breather. It’s the only one in the game as far as I’m aware.

I take it that only unlocks during wintersday? Or is it unlockable any time? It’s only water breathers I suppose and underwater combat is not a big thing, but it severely annoys me how I have complete ascended on my main except for that kitten rare water breather.

Yeah. I imagine it’ll be back each year though. Gave this: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ultimate_Wintersday_Gift

If you picked the Ancient Mariner’s Oilcloth Bag you could pick an exotic breather.

Tongku.5326:

UKADAM.3910:

from what it states to be able to fully complete it you have to do fractals :/ i know alot of people don’t do them and still not above level 10, so does this mean we are forced to do them ?

is there some dude wit ha gun to your sister’s head or a knife to your kids throat and says that if you dont get this backpiece he’ll end them ?

this is a legendary, not a 1 spam farm/world drop. specifically, its a fractal themed legendary.

if stats are your issue just get yourself any of the ascended backpieces that are already available. otherwise its a FRACTAL SKIN based on fractals.

That’s all fine, as long as you will be able to get a Legendary backpiece via other gameplay modes – pve, pvp, wvw, etc. They could have different skins for each of them.

Why should only Fractals get a Legendary backpiece?

xarallei.4279:

Not to mention with the pvp reward tracks you can get the tokens to get your gift for the old legendaries. And eotm makes it easy for those who don’t want to really wvw to get badges. Locking new legendaries to fractals only seems against the spirit of this game. I don’t mind if there is a particular back piece legendary that is fractal only. That’s cool and all, but I would hope there are ones you can get outside of fractals.

Not that I really care about this because I don’t really care about legendaries generally and would probably not bother getting one even if it was outside of fractals. I’m just saying it does really suck for those who want the new legendaries and hate fractals.

Now the thing I am concerned about is that ascended water breather recipe. You better be able to put that on the tp because it’s unfair for something like that to be locked behind fractals. We don’t even have an exotic version for god’s sake.

The Winterday pvp track has an exotic breather. It’s the only one in the game as far as I’m aware.

As regards the Legendary, yeah, that’s what I’m hoping for. I have no problem with thier being a fractal only legendary backpiece, but other play modes should get thier own as well – wvw, pvp, pve. Maybe a guild one? Or region ones – maguuma, ascalon, kryta, etc. They can have lots of options and ways to get them – just not a single one only though.

VentiGlondi.9830:

You already need to play WvW for legendaries.
Or am I mistaken?

You can get the tokens via the daily wvw rewards chest. I don’t really consider porting to WvW and killing an npc or standing at a ruin for 30 seconds as ’playing WvW" lol.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

So, am I to understand that this legendary back item can only be obtained if you play fractals?

Also, will the ability to get this also be locked away from people that don’t buy HoT?

Yes and Yes

It did not however say that this would be the only legendary back item. There will probably be more in the future that will not be locked in fractals.

I hope their are alternative Legendary back pieces that can be obtained through other modes of play – not just Fractals only.

I don’t mind their being a Fractals one, just give us the opportunity to get a Legendary back piece in other ways – pvp, wvw, pve, etc. They can be different skins of course and would reflect what we do in game I guess (content wise I mean)

With the new Legendary backpacks and new Legendaries weapons announced as having a requirement to do Fractals in order to get parts for them, will some future Legendaries instead require other game modes only items instead in order to be made?

Say, Legendaries that require heavy WvW, or PvE, or PvP tasks/play? They would be different items of course, with different skins or whatever, but still Legendaries.

I hope it’s not all locked away behind Fractals only. Why was this game mode anointed as the special child for new Legendaries, but not others?

Vesuvius.9874:

lol forced…

I love these threads where people make it sound like someone has a gun pointed to their face to do content. When will they learn?

So, is their some other way to get the Legendary backpiece then? No. So, yeah, many will be forced to do content they hate in order to get an item. Or never get a new Legendary.

Linaeus.6253:

The problem with it being stuck behind fractals is this the first legendary besides weapons we have. The problem is it alienates a group of players, which hate dungeons. If there were multiple back pieces with different content, then sure, lock them behind different ones, but doing dungeons with randoms and idiots, dealing with frustration, etc is not the way the very first legendary armor piece should be treated. It should be based on individual skill anyway. Too much of this game relies on having bad players who get carried.

There should be alternative ways to get them, or at least different ones maybe that you can get another way.

As it stands, under this system, you have to do fractals now if you want a new Legendary.

Daegony.3604:

You are “forced” to do WvW for badges. You are “forced” to do dungeons for tokens. You are “forced” to play the game to get gold for mats. Oh well, not sure it’s worth to argue about this again.
If my opinion is of any value, it’s totally fine that some rewards are gated behind specific content (and we are talking about a legendary after all). You are no more forced to do that than you are to salvage exotics if you wan’t ascended armor. (I don’t like to salvage a shiny, shouldn’t be forced to yada yada yada)

Nope. I got all my tokens from the pvp track. And WvW tokens I got doing dailies – never have to actually do any WvW. Killing npc’s and wvw are just pve activities in the WvW map. Never do dungeons. I had to force myself to do the bare minimum of fractals to get some stupid tokens for Mawdrey. And I think I went to WvW and ground some tokens ankitten ever going back. Ever. Hopefully they add some of these items to a pvp track.

Starlightpaw.5871:

Menadena.7482:

Hanako.1827:

Kasmeer and Marjory are just shoehorned lesbians that constantly flaunt the fact that they are together in our face

Remember that the next time you see a heterosexual couple kissing in public, wearing rings, holding hands, referring to each other, and so on. For some reason it is only when non-straight couples make it obvious they are a couple that it is “flaunting it in your face”.

No, actually. It’s considered flaunting when straight people do it too.

Please direct me to all the posts with people complaining about straight people “flaunting it”.

Hanako.1827:

Menadena.7482:

Hanako.1827:

Kasmeer and Marjory are just shoehorned lesbians that constantly flaunt the fact that they are together in our face

Remember that the next time you see a heterosexual couple kissing in public, wearing rings, holding hands, referring to each other, and so on. For some reason it is only when non-straight couples make it obvious they are a couple that it is “flaunting it in your face”.

Go outside. That rarely ever happen.

With Majory and Kasmeer it’s referenced a lot not only by them but by other NPC’s

I have been outside. That’s common. They are your main companions, so of course you see people commenting on them.

Your bigoted attitude is, unfortunately, not unique. The mere fact that queer characters exist, at all, is reason enough for some to suggest they are “flaunting it”. Basically, behaving like any couple would, somehow different rules apply because they are gay. No one ever says this sort of thing about straight characters.

You see this in various media too – movies, TV, etc. If they include a gay character, the thinking is they’re only putting it in to be controversial. And everyone sexualizes them.

Even the comments in this thread are appalling. Comments like “there only there because lesbians.” and transphobic jokes. This game has a trans character, so that one was particularly awful.

Personally, I like how ANet have added all these characters. I hope they add even more. Lots more. The game could be even more diverse. I mean, the game has thousands of characters, and a handful aren’t straight, white males and y’all come here and complain? Don’t make me laugh.

Kila.6492:

Same here, also in Australia,
was playing GW2 mins ago then I log off for a min and try to start the game again,
and now I get this connection error detected. retrying… message,
can’t even type my user name and passwords.

You just need to apply the fix on that reddit post. About 75% of the patch servers are down for some reason. Just add a command to the launcher exe to force it to pick an active one. Should be fine, and you can remove the command later when they are back up.

Must be a hamster loose somewhere lol.

Here you go. Just select an active patch server – https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3f4jvk/cant_load_launcher_stuck_at_0_heres_a_quick_fix/

No idea why so many are down.

sirsquishy.8531:

Discobizkit.6531:

Hey Everyone,
So I keep getting atimagsys crashes, the most recent one being video_tdr_failure. But unfortunately have had other types of crashes with this card. It’s a brand new computer and the card doesn’t fail unless I am playing gw2. I have researched forums and although there are many possible solutions nothing seems to work.
Here are the specs.
i7 4760
16gb ddr3 ram
2 tb hd
amd radeon r9 270 2gb
win 8.1

So long and short what GPUs have you had success with that have more stable drivers or have worked with gw2?
Thanks!

A 270 is a 7870/7850. its also a under clocked 270×. Its also now a 370/370x, once again. Its one of the oldest running cards that has been re-branded to date under the GCN 1.0 core.

I suggest looking at a GCN 1.1, 1.2 based cards (anything that’s a 300 series, that’s NOT a 370/x, and either a260x, 285, 290, 290x, or Fury/FuryX).

For Nvidia my only 2 recommendations are a 980 and 980ti. I cannot recommend a GTX970 due to how Nvidia decided to partition the ram on that card.

I’ve recently got a GTX 970 – the 980’s are just too expensive. For a replacement card anyway (maybe on a new build). My well used 7970 was struggling, and the 970 (which I got on a good sale) has been a great replacement. I can agree with issues with AMD cards – the last few I’ve had have had various, consistent issues over a long while. Nothing disastrous, but always constant and annoying. I was fed up tbh. Haven’t had an issue with 970 so far. I did read about the memory issue before buying, but I’ve thrown a variety of games at the card and I’ve no issues. Performance has been excellent. Worth it if you can get one, and its definitely be a step up over your current card, and value for money – and no need to mortgage the house to get one lol.

Jon Olson.8439:

Bloozeclooze.5948:

so i wait for another crash and grab it?

Looking at your posts again: the crashes you are encountering currently are Out of Memory issues. This can happen for a variety of reasons, but generally it’s because memory have become fragmented enough that the game cannot find a segment large enough for the requested space.

Generally large fights can cause a lot of fragmentation as there is lots of information that is going in and out of existence quickly. If you know you are about to head into a large fight, such as a World Boss, you may want to consider restarting the client to refresh the memory footprint. Some players have found relief from this by lowering their graphics settings to lighten the load on their machines.

The totes helps. Dumping the graphics settings to lowest periodically seems to do the trick. I have this same issue. If memory use gets up around the 3gb mark, watch out. If it spikes to 3.5gb, it’s go bye bye – game will crash.

Personally, I have process explorer running on a second monitor and keep an eye on it, and flicking the settings to low and then back up seems to ‘clear it out’ so to speak – it fluctuates between 2.5-3gb. That’s seems the sweet spot. Textures and number of people view distance (i forget the exact name in the drop down) are the culprits.

I have encountered this issue on other MMO’s although they don’t usually crash. As a complete techno boob I find it odd to set a game up this way – if it uses up too much memory the whole game crashes. They clearly know it will do this. How can it be fixed? I don’t know – as I mentioned, I’m a techo boob.

How do other games get around this? It’s probably false logic I know, but lots of other games thrash our systems six ways from Sunday and don’t crash, so why is gw2 set up like this? Or perhaps another question is why do some people never seem to encounter this? What’s their trick – I’d love to know.

Yeah, I’ve had this on and off for ages – across multiple cards and drivers. Mucking with settings can somewhat help but the only sure fire way to resolve it (until it reoccurs again anyway) is to restart the game.

It’s an odd bug. I can be tied to a weapon or almost anything in game – weapon swapping can make it go if that’s whats causing it. But switching back to it…. it comes back. Ones like in the OP’s post are usually mobs – and it’ll be all mobs in a zone, but only of that mobs type.

Does anyone with an Nvidia card get this? I’ve only ever seen it on AMD cards.

I thought they just changed it so that all the things that used to drop skill scrolls just dropped shards instead? And you get one every time you fill your xp bar too – instead of a skill point.

Einlanzer.1627:

It’s a little ridiculous how little detailed information we’ve gotten at this point. I’m not pre-ordering until I know how many maps there are at the very least.

Yeah, they’ve managed to cheese out months and months on class skills (Zzzzzzzzzzz), one pvp map, one wvw map and the mention of guild halls. No $$$$ until I hear how many maps we are getting – at the very least.

DarkSpirit.7046:

How do you kill the Facet of Light?

1. Open your browser.
2. Type in search engine “How do you kill the Facet of Light? GW2”
3. Watch video.
4. Beat instance.
5. Feel a sense of regret that you cheesed the fight, and didn’t bother figuring it out yourself.

Why $50? Because that’s the price they want to charge. Buy it or don’t buy it – but ether way that’s the price point they’ve determined the xpac to be at. It’s their property/asset and they can charge as much or as little as they like. Not sure what’s so hard to understand about this.

Depends how the staff on Ranger turns out really.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Can we get a tick box in the options to disable/enable this confirmation box please?

It is annoying, but a good safety net I suppose. An optional toggle in settings would be good though.

Got both the warhorn and rifle precursors from those green junk bags, both times while waiting for Teq to spawn. I also did buy the longbow pre off the TP as well.

Anyone else getting this? Getting it everywhere, regardless of what zone I’m in. Also, have tried the game on several different pc’s, in several locations, on several isp’s. I’m not that lucky, so I’m assuming it’s the game. Please fix.

Muusic.2967:

Considering once a character hits level 80 the xp they earn is wasted (until HoT comes out) is it a waste to do map completion right now?

It seems to me that anyone doing a heart or discovering a poi/vista is wasting xp that can be used to gain mastery points after HoT is released. If there were some reward for doing it now like spirit shards or hero points i could see the point in doing them but as it stands (unless i’m wrong) it’s a waste of future resources.

Now that it’s been so long since they took away our rewards for xp I don’t even see a resolution so i’m hoping there is something I am missing.

You do get spirit shards now. Also, you can’t make Legendary’s without it – you need the Gift item.

As regards the masteries thing. You get XP from all sorts of things, even after you have map completion. The only difference is that right now it’s largely meaningless – but after HoT it won’t be.