Game has become unplayable. 4 more crashes since my update above about 15 minutes ago. This may not even make it to the forums
I cannot seem to stay connected to the game client. Is anyone else having this issue?
Yep. 4 times so far since reset (1.5 hours ago). Definitely not my internet, as the only thing affected on my 3 computers is ANET on this one.
All crafters maxed too 500, after ascended armor was released. All weapon makers had already moved up when ascended weapons came out. The jeweler of course, remains at 400.
Once I learned you had to craft your own ascended, up they went to 500.
9 elites, one of each class, all with at least ascended weapons, coat, pants, and jewelry. Some full ascended. I can even play some of them, at least to kill the easier champions.
I went to 400 as part of leveling 4 of them, (2 crafts each) and the rest leveled harvesting mats while the 80’s ran world bosses for ectos.
Yes, what Greener said about HP’s in HoT. Every one gives you 10 HP.
It’s a vertical zone, with HPs at several levels, requiring gliding, running, riding air currents, etc. Run your gliding masteries up first, with perhaps a pause to get bouncing mushrooms, and a few starter masteries for the 4 zones. However, gliding is the key to sweeping up HP from the zones.
For some, just getting to them is a challenge, but then you just commune to get the HP. No fight. Others the fight is just a Vet + some adds, so you’ll be able to handle it, with maybe a few do overs to learn what the mobs are doing so as to overcome it.
You’ll know immediately when you take a champ that isn’t soloable. You’ll be looking for a waypoint to revive, and some help. Just skip it. You only need 250 and you have 4 maps to do it, with I think around 400 HP available.
You make it sound so difficult. It’s really not that hard to just walk to the circles when they spawn, seriously.
I played the fight daily on the ground for a month before I discovered I could stay airborne the whole fight. I really do understand the fight, but I hate the ground clutter in some of ANET’s fights. A comment above made me think that the general view that airborne folks are viewed as slackers, just riding on other peoples efforts has me off checking damage delivered both ways. I observe what would be credible damage from up there, and far more healing than I ever do in a ground fight, so I’ll do a few weeks check and see. Unless you are prone to motion sickness, you should check it out for yourself.
The primary reason not to fight in the air is because standing in the green circles gives you a special action that massively amplifies your damage for a few seconds. If everyone did that properly, the fight would go much quicker.
I understand the green circles. However, getting to them from elsewhere in that ground fight is problematic. Then there are the wandering seekers, physical impedimentia to progress in the fight ground area, respawning white mantle behind you and the boss itself wanders all over the place. Looking at the logs, I would not be too sure that the airborne crew doesn’t do as much damage per person as those on the ground. Perhaps more.
If I think about it, I’ll try to pass over the green circles to see if they increase airborne damage as well.
I mentioned touching the ground only because occasionally you get knocked out of the sky, or forget to turn back in time to reach the lift before you glide into the ground. I was surprised it would not stay on auto fire after I set it the first time.
I also have long set my ground targeting so that when I push the key down, the green appears, and releasing it fires the skill. Holding it down allows one to position the damage burst over the Guardian, or over some annoying white mantle attacking peeps from behind. Similarly for the heal (skill 3) and it’s very wide, and produces a bloom of heals rising off the ground when it goes off.
I’ve spent the last two weeks doing the boss of the Jade construct Meta event chain in Bloodstone Maw entirely airborne. It looks like the fight was designed to be fought that way, and it’s certainly a lot easier than all that mess on the ground around it.
There are two uplifting air currents, and either can be used for an out and back foray over the fight, depending on where the Unbound Guardian winds up. I do about 5-6 seconds out and use my reverse key to do an abrupt 180 turn, and fire away back to the lift. Rinse, repeat.
Skill 1 has to be set to autofire if you desire, and resets to non autofire any time you touch ground. I usually manually fire it, and intersperse skills 2 and 3 during the flight.
I’ve done this more than 10 times now, yeilding the 4 blood rubies each time, so I know it works. I see a few people taking it up, but only 2 or 3 persevere to the end. Why not try it? It’s easy, and a lot safer than down below and a ton less aggravation.
I just did it for the 10th time a few weeks back. Given you have everything BUT the 250 needed for elite, (presumably from leveling and from Tyria), drop into HoT zones and start doing the 10x HP ones map by map. Most (75%?) are solo able. Some are just hunt them up and commune, others require killing a Vet and a few adds, and even some of the champ ones are solo able. Others, just start and someone will show up and help.
You only need 25 of them, you won’t be entirely through the 3rd zone and you’ll be done. Takes about an evening. The additional benefit is you’ll learn a lot of the maps.
Followup.
All was well the next morning, about 8 hours after trying several times, and hours before the next server reset. I am told by several that the message is used for Free To Play using the Black Lion TP, where they have restrictions on what they can buy. I know I occasionally get that message when I’m clearing bags at the BLTP even though I have had this paid for account for 4 years and have HOT. People also told me the WvW and PVP servers where having trouble last night and apparently it went on quite a while.
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Something is glitched.
The account has passed it’s 4th birthday, and I’ve owned HOT since it’s launch, and this would be the 4th (maybe 5th) earring I’ve purchased from that vendor. This was the first time the character had even entered the zone. Thinking it might just be a server glitch, I’ve logged out and in several times, but no joy. Otherwise the game seems to play okay.
What does that mean?
Situation: level 80 character, elite, wants to buy an ascended Black Ice Earring from the unbound magic vendor in Bitterfrost Frontier. The account has sufficient unbound magic and winterberries, and she’s already wearing an ascended Petrified Wood earring, and was not in possession of a Black Ice Earring, nor had she ever been.
When highlighting the item, the Buy button would not light up, and the title message showed up. I’ve bought 4 others for other characters successfully. Since I only was purchasing one, what does “single purchase only” mean? How do I get the earring?
Basing my conclusions based off other things GW2 does, it does seem like they removed it to kill off personal guilds so people couldn’t use it as additional storage.
They have a 10 mail limit for mail from players so people can’t use it as additional storage.
They only have an option for take all in the auction house presumably for the same reason. It’s not difficult to add an option to take items individually, as other games do.
Personal guilds allowed for a lot of extra free storage, which goes against ANet’s goal, to get people to use the gem store to buy additional storage.
But we got to keep our storage, all 3 banks. Also our ranking and permission system.
Not only us, but anyone we invite can use it.
We just can’t make any other progress, and have no source of funding or the ability to create anything, including the banners we could create prior to HoT.
Can’t you just buy banners now? From Guild Commendation Trader or something?
As I understand it, only if a member of a large guild. To earn the tokens, I have to run GM’s with that guild, representing them, and then the traders that sell them appear to be located in their guild hall exclusively.
So our guild lost what it had worked to get, and we were displeased.
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We lived on the daily log in amounts, mostly, so it took a while to accrue and we spent it on things we could use, like banner generation. I recall a something like 24 hour gathering boost, which we used when we would spend a while gathering crafting mats.
We never took the 1 hour boosts, as it took too long to accrue their cost vs the benefit gained.
I was and still am profoundly angry that they did away will small guilds. Two of us used to be able to craft some basic banners, and use them on weekends we planned to harvest, or run world bosses, or whatever the banners helped. All influence driven.
I had no issue with ANET creating a large guild system, with lots of benefits we would never get. However, it was unconscionable to kill off our benefits. What could they possibly hurt? The software was already in place, nothing need be added.
Whenever I see ANET quarterly declining profit sheets, I think on this and several similar issues. It is much better to grow new opportunity for the players than kill off things they’ve worked a long time for.
So it’s still another tool tip error? The tool tip rounds to an integer number of stacks, which is what caused me to write the OP.
In the history of the game, has any tool tip error ever been corrected? I still see the %crit being wrong by the same % it was at launch, and the same can be said for some necro cast times.
“They’re not. But, you know, Skritt happens.”
which reminds me, I was in a guild in another game called Crit Happens
Since condition damage is awarded in 1 second ticks, if a skill duration exceeds an exact integer number of ticks, does the remaining fraction get awarded at the end, or is it dropped?
Researching the Wiki or the forums produces a lot of obsolete data, and I thought the game changed to fractional awards.
However, I’m tweaking up my necro and find the the tooltips show the damage being dropped.
You have to complete the provision masters line to access the recipes.
Thank you. Done, and I now have it.
I need a Viper’s Ascended Insignia, which the GW2 Wiki says can be procured from the Heroics Notary in the Borderlands, or in the Eternal Battleground. I have plenty of the WVW tokens for it, vs shortage of tokens for the Auric Basin vendor.
However, when I go to the vendor, it does not have insignias for sale, of any sort. There is a tab on his listing with nothing on it, however.
What might I be doing wrong, or has the game been changed and the Wiki has not?
Unless there’s been still yet another update , I am updated. I loaded in at reset, did they daily, about 15 mins, and headed for WvW. On the other hand, each launch of new (even last year’s) contents seems to bring on a chronic update cycle. How many now since Lunar New Year launch? 5 so far?
Anyway, I’ll log out in case there’s been another.
The last 2 evenings I’ve spent half an hour trying to get into WvW, only to get the error message “WvW is temporarily shut down while we update the matches.”
I have no clue what “updating” a match means, but how long does it usually take? Is it a regular thing every night?
I’ve done okay in parts of the game I play. I have 9 characters, one of each type, all 80 elites. All have ascended weapons, ascended coat and pants, and a full set of ascended jewelry (thanks to LS3). I have all crafters to max level. One can do those things one handed, for sure.
I raised the first two with the Been There Done That approach, soloing everything. I raised the rest gathering mats for Ascended weapons/armor (sell excess, buy what can’t be farmed at the TP). I hated to waste all that gathering experience on level 80’s, so rolled another character and out they went. The rose to 80 in the rags they got from drops, then at 80 got a full set of exotic, and ascended weapon(s), and were sent out to solo a champion. Any champion. That’s how I learned to play the class, rather than the occasional skirmish while gathering. I don’t think it’s too big a deal to kill a champion, as many can kill lot tougher ones that I have, but it’s my test for did I learn the class. C’est la vie. Fun to figure it out and do. I’ve died a lot of course, but got it done. That earned them an ascended coat, pants and full set of jewelry. If I couldn’t play them well enough to solo it, they just sat there camping some chest nightly until I could, or ran World Bosses gathering ectos.
I’ve avoided PVP and instances. PVP because I don’t twitch well, and instances because I can’t keep up with folks who have run them for years and just run through. I hold them up, and the loot is no better than open world bosses. I must have run several thousand instances in another game, so I didn’t miss it.
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I both applaud you and envy you.
I too have roughly the same handicap, one good hand and about .2 of the other. I applaud you because you play. Good for you.
I envy you because you play things I can’t. It’s a “twitch” game, and I can’t twitch and run a good sequence without needing the 2nd hand more than what I can do with it.
I understand DPS to a fare the well, so know what I should be doing, but haven’t found a way yet.
Good hunting.
Thanks. That was the answer I was hoping to see. I picked it over Scholars because I am usually below 90% life, and wanted to count on the 7% all the way down to death. OTOH, mere crystal adornments tooltipped better than either Ranger’s or Scholars.
I don’t see any effect of the “+7% damage while you have an active ally” on the tooltip damage indicators for longbow, either with my pet up or when in group with a friend.
Is this one of those tooltip bugs, or is the 6th rune itself just bugged?
Does it work at all? Will my pet count as an ally to trigger it?
Apologies in advance, as I’m sure this question has been answered on this forum before, but I cannot find it using various search engines.
Ok, I read the rewards. That poses a question, to derail my own thread:
If I used the boost on a Level 1 character, how many hero points do I have at level 80?
<snip>.
You get no more hero points your 80 have already got them leveling up.
But I also asked what happens HP wise if I use the booster on a level 1. Do they wind up an 80 with zero HP?
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Just to save you some bank space you can turn those scrolls of exp into tomes at the mystic forge npc in la 10-1 conversion so instead of 500 scrolls you will have 50 tomes
Yes, I did that. That’s why I only have 2 stacks of them left, and also why I have a full stack of tomes.
Ok, I read the rewards. That poses a question, to derail my own thread:
If I used the boost on a Level 1 character, how many hero points do I have at level 80?
The rewards list state only stats and unblocks are given, but since HoT, a regular rain (8 to 10 at a time) of HP’s show up as the character levels up. With the fast track item, do they still show up? If I use it on a level 80, I do wind up with less HP than I start with? My 80’s are elite, and I’d hate to de-elite them just to get rid of that boost item.
Inquiring minds want to know, and all that stuff……
Thank you.
It’s not that I need another level 80. It’s that I’m tired of that shared inventory slot being wasted on that item.
I recently did a bank clean up and became aware that I have over a stack of Tomes of experience (+1 level each), and over 2 stacks of writs of experience (~10% experience each). Since I could level almost 4 more characters, I’ve reached my threshold of needing that slot more than that item.
ANET’s going to make me work to get rid of it, since I can’t destroy it and don’t want a new character. I have a couple of lowbies whose job it is to camp chests at the end of jumping puzzles, hoping for the occasional silver doubloon. I’ll raise one to 80, kill it off, roll another, raise it up to level 22, then have to jump it back up there.
C’est la vie. All for lack of a delete option. <g>
The game will not let me remove my level 80 booster from the shared inventory slot until I consume it.
If I do consume it, will the slot remain afterward for me to use with any other sharable items, or will it leave the game?
Nevermind. I found the answer. All LS3 jewelry is “unique”, ergo two cannot be equipped on the same character.
Can a player equip 2 identically named Ascended rings or identically named earrings, or must they be different names? Specifically, for Bitterfrost earned rings, which have the full range of stats sets selectable but all have the same name, can 2 of the same rings or same ears be equipped ?
I seem to remember that 2 identical Ascended items could NOT be equipped, but wonder if it’s now been changed now that stats are selectable from a common name.
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I agree with IllConceived. It reports to me that I must own HoT, then reports that I do, then reports that my new account must be validated, and reports that it has. So what’s it’s point? If they’ve determined I own HoT, and am a validated account, then why interrupt the transaction and announce it to me? Just do the transaction.
For the last 100 or so years I’ve done software for a living, and this screams of amateur debug code, either left in the client accidentally, or ill designed in the first place.
I expect no nourishment from customer support on this type of matter in normal times, and this is holiday season in ANETsville. OTOH, if enough players are seeing it, it’s likely a code bug and hot a malware irritant. It requires clearing the error message, the TP window, and any other open panels to restart the transaction.
My account has 11 chars, 6 or 7 of which have their 3rd year birthday present. For the 2nd time in a week, when trying to sell ordinary chest loot on the TP, using the “O” key to open the TP from the field, I’ve gotten an Account Verification alert/interrupt.
It warns me that new accounts must be upgraded to HoT (done at the time of HoT launch, and 9 elites later I’m getting this alert) and newly activated accounts must be validated. (see birthdays, above). The character involved is only one year old.
ANET, what is considered a “new” account? Is this alert to be considered something sinister going on with my not so new account, or a normal software bug?
Seems only 16 nodes could be collected today, which may be off by one. Net was 16 petrified wood, with a couple of bonuses from killing boss type mobs.
Indeed, only 3 per heart vendor per character per day, and the hearts don’t persist over the account per day. I.e. each character has to work the heart themselves, and each day. Ergo about 30 total petrified wood per character per day.
Is there a reason for this time gate, other than as being an irritation? Is there some exploit that’s being made from petrified wood?
Okay, so the grinding starts. I’ve been told several times what people like about GW2 is they don’t have to grind. Is there a more modern term for grinding? This sure seems to fit the definition. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind grinding, as I’ve done a lot of it. I just don’t like pretending GW2 doesn’t have it.
Yes, there definitely is a limit, and not a big one. My 4th player could not gather the first node, and I’m sure the 3rd one out there fell short, but was too sloppy with the bookkeeping over the night and following day it took between reset to get a handle on accurate count.
I wonder why a low limit? It appears petrified wood can be bought for karma at most of the heart vendors. I wonder if there’s a limit on that too? Like many others, I have about a zillion karma banked.
I’ll pay more attention after tonight’s reset, and should be ready for the first backpack, so will find out the wood issues.
Thanks for the answer. I meant the nodes on the map, and being new to LS3, didn’t know what to expect, since either answer exists in other parts of the game.
The Bloodstone Crystal wiki notes indicate those nodes cap at 35 per day per account, which is about 1.2 characters worth. Do you know if there is such a limit on petrified wood? Perhaps the bloodstone limit doesn’t exist any more? I’ll know in a few more days.
My intent is to get lesser capable 80’s into a gathering routine, leading to Ascended items that I can’t craft. If the port wouldn’t work w/o qualifying via the story quests, or I could only gather nodes once per account, it would be moot.
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Can the Petrified Stump be harvested once per day per character on the account (like ancient wood) or only once per day per account (like quartz crystals)?
Thank you very much. I expected that, but didn’t want to pay the price to experiment.
Can it be used to access Ember Bay by characters on the account who have not completed the Living Story chapters necessary for access? I.e. is it intended as an account short cut for access after one character has gotten there and gathered sufficiently to get the pass?
Thank you both for the answers, which encourage me to push my mob into Ember Bay and upgrade their backpacks.
In truth there is very little reason to upgrade to an ascended backpack, since it’s only slightly over 3% of a hero’s stat package, and upgrading is about 10% of the next lower level, so overall a .3% upgrade. I doubt I’ll notice.
Still, it’s only gathering stuff, so can’t be ignored in slow times.
Can the Lava Skull Backpack, when purchased from the vendor in Ember Bay, be equipped as purchased, stats selected, and worn? Or is it a merely a mat that has to be run thru the Mystic Forge infusing method before it can be equipped?
I’ll never get the mat(s) from the Fractals, so don’t want to by a backpack mat, but would gladly do with a Ascended backpack that doesn’t have an infusion slot.
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It is not difficult to finish your Elite in HoT. I have 9 Elites, one for each class, and all required HP from HoT to finish. My “Been There Done That” character, completed back when the WvW maps were mandatory, still needed 37 HP to finish. My least developed player needed 147 HP. All got them in HoT, and mostly by solo.
You’ll find of the 11 opportunities for 10HP each in the first zone (VB), 7 can be soloed as long as you can fly. Pushing down into the next 3 zones, about half in each zone can be soloed. None of mine had to get deep into zone 3 to finish.
Further, many of the tough HP chances (really tough champions) are so frequently done that you can just ad hoc them when you arrive. Start the fight and stay alive long enough and many will join just for the fight chest, even if they have the HP.
Far more important than getting to Elite once you are at 80 is getting into good gear. Full Exotic is a minimum and if you’ve done any laurel acquisition, you should be on your way to Ascended jewelry. That why you are geared enough to compete in HoT as you grow to elite.
The animation thing seems to work. F11, click on gfx, set animation to medium
Doesn’t fix it, just makes is every 10 minutes vs immediate, and crashes with a different message.
So far I’ve not done any Halloween events since the patch, and not previewed any outfits. In fact, I’ve not succeeded in leaving Divinity’s Reach.
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Welcome to open beta Tuesday. ANET’s implementation of software quality control.
Yes. A Window’s message box “a serious error has occurrec” and asking for feedback, which I’ve ignored giving.
Jumped in to complete the daily. I seem to have gotten rolled back farther than yesterday’s play……