Guild Wars 2

Tyger.1637:

THERE’S A WOOD NODE?

Petrified wood? Yes. From the Ember Bay vendor.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Electro.4173:

I’m guessing they removed the display from the wallet because its basically a useless currency for a free account (in an effort to reduce confusion), but since you can still get it as a drop from nodes that its still counted.

That said, outside of a direct developer answer the only way to know for sure is to find someone with a free account, use some nodes, then upgrade and check the total. Or find someone that’s already done so, but I’d say the number of people who actually notice something like that AND who actually share other players’ home instances for harvesting AND who hang around the forums would be pretty low.

Well, the OP didn’t say free account. He said alt account. That only requires someone with a non HoT account mining a bloodstone node in a home instance that has one to check. Some people do run their alt accounts through their main accounts home instance. Maybe one will read this and report what they see.

It used to do it either when I was multi boxing or just a random person offering home instance harvesting.

So, i was farming a home instance on my alt account, and I noticed you can harvest unbound magic from the new home instance nodes (wood stumps and berries) from the new maps.

You cant spend the harvested items of course (or magic), unless you upgrade, but when i did this with the ruby node several months back, my wallet was showing the magic i was collecting – small amounts though it was.

Its now gone from my wallet, but i still show as harversting it.

Where is it going? If i upgrade will it be returned to me? Is it being tracked? Or is it lost forever?

That’s why I wear my invisible boots.

Seera.5916:

Gift of Battle requires playing WvW long enough to finish up the required WvW Reward Track for it. There are easier dailies that help with small little items that boost progress, but you still have to play WvW.

lulz. Not really.

NikeEU.7690:

Wow who would have thought a guild in an mmo would disband because different members had different priorities? This is surely the first time this has ever happened.

Oh hey, its the guy who got his guild kicked from raid testing.

Please bless us with your wisdom senpai. Also, any more leaks?

Hypairion.9210:

Blaeys.3102:

Hypairion.9210:

i guess you and I didn’t read the same thing…It’s just clearly stated by a raid dev team that what you want IS NOT POSSIBLE.

That is not what was said at all. She said it was not part of the original plan for raids. The thing is – plans can change (and is sort of why these kind of conversations are so important – for everyone to advocate why they think they should or shoudnt). In fact, they have commented in the past that raids weren’t planned for when the game came out – and that plan changed. You adapt based on the community. That in no way implies that it isn’t possible (or even that plans have to remain the same forever and always).

To the second point she made – that raids should be the hardest content in the game – I think most people agree with that. That doesn’t mean they cannot be more than that however. We see it clearly in other games – people have talked extensively about how it could happen in GW2.

Tier systems for Raids come up a lot as a result of what Fractals did. I worked on the original Fractals team and a tiered system with increased difficulty scaling was always part of the original plan for that team. It was never a plan for Raids. They are, and should remain, the most difficult content in the game.

sorry but when i read that, for me it means that raid tier difficulty like fractals won’t happen, because raid were not developped with that in mind. They’re going to put easy boss at the beggenning of the raid so that more people can go into raid and beat one boss (VG problem maybe).

Kraggy.4169:

Crystal Reid.2481:

It was never a plan for Raids. They are, and should remain, the most difficult content in the game.

In that case STOP PUTTING CORE STORY content in a part of the game designed to pander solely to the small elite minority!

there is no core story into raid. You enter, you beat some bosses, and if you want you read some books.

They also put stuff from the first game behind raids.

While the garbage main story is everything else. And it’s only going to get worse, with more stuff from GW1 picked as raid content.

Thats like the worst disaster any player amd lorehound from GW1 could have hoped for.

Best thing would have been for them to have made something completely disconected from the game.

Raiders dont give a crap anyway. They just want thier loot and then leave – as we see from numerous posts whining “wahhh, give us more raids, my whole guild has quit, wahhh”.

OneUP.3024:

I appretiate your philosophy and that you don’t just listen to the whiners in the community and instead do your thing. But please release the new raid already, half of my guild went inactive already.

Locusts. They’ll come back. And then leave again when the content is exhausted.

It looks rediculous. But, I guess, all the previously serious Legendaries are now going to get joke versions.

So I guess all the serious weapons are now getting joke versions?

Vayne.8563:

If every casual left this game there would be no game.

Correct. Causal players finance this game. Without them, everyone else would have to go and find another game to play.

The game is becoming….. hmmmmm, well, it’s taking on more and more of the ‘traditional’ trappings of MMO’s you could say.

It’s curious how many of the high and mighty idea’s they had for this game are being, and indeed have been, tossed aside (because they failed I presume), and in are being ushered the old tried and true (but also old, boring and tedious) idea’s.

Raids, more and more restrictive class roles (certain classes only for certain roles – seen that before, and presume it will continue / get worse), that famous horizontal progression is quickly disappearing, etc.

It’s really just ever so steadily becoming like every other MMO. It’s becoming less and less unique, you could say.

But I guess unique doesn’t doesn’t pay devs, CEO’s and bankroll expansions, huh? But what do we know. I mean we are just players and payers, right?

Oh well.

Yes, lets add build and gear viewers, because the game needs to become even more toxic, like when raiding was added.

dargon.7253:

celticdragon.9370:

I for one would love to see the storage caps raised, as I’m sure anyone who has whole bags – or even whole alts – reserved for storing bloodstone dust and empyreal fragments can attest to. Why can we only store 250 items? Why not 500? or 999?

Aside from that, writs and tomes of experience, and boosters.

Uhm, you can expand your materials storage via the gemstore, mine is currently at 1000

Up to 2000 now I think :-D

Blade Shards and Doubloons woukd be great.

Agony Infusions. Tiers of luck. Boosters. Blood Rubies. Petrified Wood.

The Guild Armour shards (I forget the name).

Gold Fractal Relics. Chak Eggs.

Jskiirawr.2473:

Anet won’t respond, they want their game to die

Which is ironic for this class.

badum tish thank you, thank you. my next show will be in la.

Menzies The Heretic.3415:

I fare quite well after swapping classes.

Yep.

Wow, this is what anet are wasting dev time and resources on? Has to be one of the tackiest armours I’ve seen in a while. It’s not the worst (looks at trion) but…. yikes.

GW1 endgame armour was better.

Pandora.5084:

I also just completed it now and I didn’t got the Mad King Chest either, got a sharpening skull instead… =|
There’s no Mad King Chest this year?

Some people are getting it. A guildie had it drop and pinged it in guild chat.

I thought initially, oh its an RNG chance maybe, but the wiki says its guaranteed.

Thiers a few weird things happening – I also got ‘Mad King Says’ ticked off but hadn’t actually done the event.

Completed the Clock Tower JP for this season (2016), and no chest dropped.

Just 5 bags.

misterman.1530:

When I got to this line in the patch notes:

“We feel that necromancers have been faring quite well gamewide, providing play and counterplay in many spots over the last few months.”

My question is, given this statement, why the hell did they change anything?

Their was certainly no need to crush the class into the ground.

At this point it doesn’t matter what they do to Epidemic.

No one will be using a Necro for anything serious anyway after the nerfs.

Indeed. 123456789

haha. OK, we all had a good Halloween laugh. You almost got us!

Please patch in the real Necro changes now. Being nerfed to irrelevancy isn’t funny.

Yes.

The only files needed are the .dat file and the gw2.exe file. Just copy them to any new folder and run the gw2.exe and the rest of the files will be freshly generated.

Wajjowww.8507:

MashMash.1645:

What version graphics drivers are you using?

probably the latest version
not sure how to check do.

Latest version is 373.06 – you can check in the nvidia control panel (should be an icon down in your taskbar by the clock – might be hidden from view).

Quite a few people seem to be having issue with the 10 series cards and some games. I had freezing / stuttering issues with my 1070, but the latest release fixed it. Seems a lot of issues are related to win10 and the anniversary update. What OS are you using – Win 7 or Win10?

If you don’t have that version I’d definitely try them. You can always go back and install older drivers.

What version graphics drivers are you using?

Curunen.8729:

Now I’m worried about having to go through the wasteland of T3 in order to get to T4… :S

I’ll be starting to pug T3 today – hopefully it’ll be painless until I can unlock T4.

Edit – nope, T3 is as horrible as you guys make it out to be… quality of players is definitely way lower than T2. Seems to be a constant res fest. Can’t wait till making it out of here till T4 though at this rate it might take some time. :/

Yeah, the middle two tiers are considerably quieter i found – I noticed this when going back to finish off doing all fractals. T1 & T4 are more popluar because of loot (T4) and newbies starting out / lower barrier to entry (T1). In the middle are achievement hunters and people building up thier AR.

Although that was before recent changes, so it may be slightly diffrent now

Famine.7915:

All fractals on all levels are easy. If you’re in it for the loot, do all t4 every day.

Yep.

Coldtart.4785:

> be in well known raid guild
> make serious post about how to adjust a boss
> get told ‘git gud scrub’

Never change, GW2 forum.

Shush. We have the friendliest community in MMO’s!™

Ashen.2907:

MashMash.1645:

I just thought it would be nice for non raiders to still be able to get spirit shards.

They can.

Well yes. I meant via the xp bar fill though.

Have you tried the latest drivers, 373.06? I installed these on Friday and the problem has been resolved for me. It also fixed the stuttering / video freeze issue i was having.

Its worth trying them out, as thier was an acknowledged issue with drivers under win10 anniversary update.

Just create a new folder where you want to install the game.

Copy over the GW2.exe and the .DAT file to the new folder you created. Run GW2.exe and it’ll generate the bin folder and all neccessary files.

Game should work. If it doesnt, the issue is something else on your PC.

Lightsbane.9012:

Mithrandir Rawohtar.4027:

What’d be nice is introducing another set of weapons available to each class to accomodate for that expansion. I’ve listed some options to suit the current classes available.

Guardian – Axe(main hand)
Warrior – Staff
Mesmers – Hammer
Elementalists – Sword(main hand)
Ranger – Shield
Revenant – Greatsword
Necromancer – Torch
Engineer – Mace(main hand)
Thief – Longbow

Only these two weapons weren’t applied: -
- Scepter
- Focus

dagger is a much better choice for ranger.

I love my Ranger, so when Druid came out I was very disappointed. I did not play Ranger to be a healer.

But, Rifle and Dagger to nothing for me either. I mean, maybe Rifle, but it would need to have some cool animations and abilities. Dagger? I guess it’s rogue-ish like in other MMO’s. But I find melee in this game to be sucktastic. I hate it – I’ll be honest.

Lightsbane.9012:

do you seriously have that many legendaries and ascended armor pieces?

Yes.

This blew up way more than I intended. I just thought it would be nice for non raiders to still be able to get spirit shards.

Do Anet directly pay content creators in that way? Not sure.

That being said, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for those content creators or ‘influencers’ that are financially benefiting from selling the game via their media sites be required to disclose that.

Look at the problems non disclosure created on YouTube recently. Not sure we need a list of them, but they should definitely be required as part of any agreement to promote the game, to disclose clearly that they are making money off of their relationship with Anet.

I have noticed many put it in the description, but no where else. And who reads the descriptions? Exactly.

Like numerous others here I have had random stuttering / freezing while playing guild wars 2 recently. Nothing bad, just for a second or two, games and it was infrequent, but it was annoying. Im on a 1070, but know the 1060’s and 1080’s have had issues also.

Based on trawling through the nvidia sub reddit thread it seems its somehow involved with the Win10 anniversary update, but also something not working in the drivers. Thier were posts from nvidia devs acknowledging problems.

Well, i installed the current release, 373.06, and have had no problems all weekend – even running multiple clients at once (which was freezing badly). I suddenly realized after playing for extended periods over the weekend that it hadn’t it stuttered or frozen up at all.

Your mileage may vary of course, and other issues have cropped up for other users, but its worth trying them out I think. You can always go back to the old drivers.

I’ll update if any issues arise.

I spent three hours going through that awful jp. Then didn’t get any credit or the chest.

Went back a few days later and a friendly mesmer in map chat ported all the checkpoints and i got the mastery, chest and cheevo, in about 10 minutes.

Never going back again.

Ah, so I’m not the only one. I just put in a 1070 a few weeks back and noticed this.

It seems to be relate to the ‘shadows’ settings, which I usually had set to Ultra. When I turn this off, it goes away.

I noticed it most in the new Ember Bay map, around the Mursaat Fortress – the purple lighting really shows it up. I have just turned off shadows until it’s ever fixed. I also tried several driver versions – shows in them all as far as I can see.

I would note, I am having a few issues with GW2 and my 1070. I also get minor freezes every now and then – but it only occurs in GW2. I have been playing Witcher 3 and Overwatch a lot also, without issue.

Is it perhaps because it’s a DX9 game? I am not techy enough to answer that though. Maybe the GW2 engine is showing its age.

Could you also get them to look into how killing the towers and jade armours isn’t counting towards Heart Completion?

The other hearts are great, but the one around the mursaat fortress is really buggy. I end up having to kill 2-3 times more mobs because for some reason they don’t count on the heart track.

You also get weird things like if you kill a tower one time, you get no credit. But kill it another time, and you do get credit.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Remove the update?

I don’t use Win10 (it doesn’t seem compatible), so I’m only familiar with how things work in Windows 7. Are you able to choose the option not to install updates, as you are in Windows 7?

Good luck.

I don’t think you can remove them under Windows 10.

The only way to stop updates is to cripple the update service. I have been attemping to make update on Win10 my choice, myself lately.

MS have removed the option to do so under group policies in Pro. The only way now seems to be via registry hack to trick the OS not thinking its on a wifi connection.

But that only delays it. To truly stop updates you have to completely cripple some aspects of the OS update services.

TexZero.7910:

Everyone in this game is capable of raiding.

Their are any number of reasons why this is not an accurate statement.

BrotherBelial.3094:

It’s not like its hard to Get XP in core. Just do a bit of map completion, get it in no time.

That isn’t the point.

Ohoni.6057:

Taking nothing away from that person’s accomplishments, but she could have completed the JP in half the time if not for all those random “maybe a ledge, probably not” bunny hops. That’s just poor architecture design when you need to land on specific invisible pizels if you want to stick, otherwise you slide. You should be able to see before you leap which edges are platforms and which are not.

That bugged me the most. Thier are spots that are basiaclly just invisible ledges. Unless you looked at a guide its not obvious.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Video of someone doing the new JP in less than 7 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dh78W58PUE

Just . . . wow. . . .

I sometimes took 7 minutes just to get in the first entrance.

I gave up in the end.

SmirkDog.3160:

I’ll start off by saying what everyone assumes, that I’m a casual player. I’ve played since launch (technically early access, is that what it’s called?), but I don’t play a lot, probably less than 2000 hours total. Intermittently, since I can’t play anything for long periods of time and tend to get burned out easily.

Anyway, the concept of mastery levels is cool, but having it be visible to everyone can cause problems. My reasoning for this is that similar concepts are in other MMO or online-only games. Like the item level (or ‘ilevel’) in Final Fantasy XIV, ‘light level’ in Destiny (maybe they changed it since I last played), etc. and it’s basically the ‘yeah we get that you’re the max level but show everyone how much you’ve actually played after that’ sort of thing. And people do get treated differently for it. Before mastery levels were added, it was nice that everyone at level 80 was basically the same, and they didn’t seem more level 80 than anyone else.

So now I’ve seen people get talked down to after joining a dungeon group for having a mastery level of 30 or something, usually by people who have 150+ (or whatever the maximum is, I can’t remember). And even vice versa in rare cases (like the 30 telling the 150+ they have no life or try too hard yadda yadda).

People are no doubt going to give me hate for this, but keep in mind that I just think there should be an option for people who want it. Just to change it so it has the little symbol then a ??? or — after or something. And before anyone make the comparison, hiding the mastery level is different from hiding the actual level.

I agree.

Just another thing that segregates and causes people to discriminate, like a number of other things they’ve added to the game.

But as people told me when I mentioned this sort of thing back before HoT – that won’t happen! GW2 is the friendliest MMO in the world!!!!

Yeah right.

Not to sound like the person that complains about insider trading every other day, but do ANet have a fix for this spawned items issue yet? There was a dev post a while back that said they were looking into this issue.

Went out to the Silverwastes camp today, because it’s the vista daily there, and what do you know? Someones spawned the golem banker there – directly on top of the vista. Because of course they have.

Can you please at least slap peoples names / account names on these spawned items? We can report and block them at a minimum. They’ll learn very quick when they suddenly find themselves shut out of everything and ignored.

Chyanne Waters.8719:

Well if you watched the Guildwars 2 streaming like guild chat. You would know that one person is responsible for creating Symon/Sya. That person is also a transgender goes by the name of Teddy Nugyen. Just so you all know that don’t

I follow her on twitter – she’s awesome (and very talented). :-D

She posted about it I think, on reddit or twitter. I forget where exactly. It’s really sweet.

note: it was on her twitter she talked about it :-)

Jerus.4350:

Sarahfull.4930:

Cameron Rich.3905:

I can say we agree that the fight could use a bit more tuning to bring in line with the difficulty level we’d like to achieve while still being a fun experience for new and veteran players alike.

The wording puts me off here, " new players " when talking about T4 doesn’t sit right..

Yup, I’m thinking(hoping) he’s referring to the t1/t2 versions with the new players in mind.

Why bother though? It’s completely faceroll below T4 – it wouldn’t require changing at those levels. And their are ‘new’ people (as such) that are moving into T4 from the lower tiers.

Personally, I don’t mind how it is now. But, as mentioned earlier, pugging it is a nightmare. Tumbleweeds and crickets everywhere.