Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if it is a bug or not, but the wiki does state in the notes that rich oricalchum veins provide 4 ore minimum.

Hi Nark

I as Skugge said from a support ticket there is no tool that allows ANET to generate items in the live build because of possible security and abuse threats to the overall health of the economy in the game as well as it reduces the amount of tickets that support would recieve if they did have a way to generate items.

You can imagine the amount of false tickets that would be sent if they had this feature and trying to sort the legitiment tickets from the false tickets would be a massive task for any company to undertake.

I haven’t tested or tried this theory but try putting them in an invisble bag or safe box. I believe they are not moved since items are not sorted or put for sale if they are in the bag/box.

The prices for gems from the gem store or online retailers is the same, as far as I know the only way to gift gems is to buy them from a retailer. I have only seen two different gem cards, one that has 1200 gems or 2000 gems.

Hi Daynorth

There is a bug in the lifetime survivior achievement that it resets if you log out or change zones however if you do not any of the above then you can get the lifetime survivor achievement.

I gained access to it by jumping from the main land with a speed boost as i could not find access to it either.

From your description it sounds like you tried to use a debit card and not a credit card for the purchase since you contacted your bank and not the company that issued the card.

I haven’t tried a debit card so I do not know if they are an accepted form of payment for gems.

Gold is treated the same as items in the pick up window, if you have a lot of items in the pick up tab, gold will not show up until some of those items are removed.

If you got gold for something else that was posted after you removed your buy order make sure that you didn’t get the item you were buying, or if you picked up items with a different character your gold might be on that character since the trading post is shared by all characters on the account.

I did a little searching and found that select retailers do have gem cards, while I have not checked in-store for a physical card if you buy a gift card from those retailers then the person you want to buy gems for can go buy either a download gem card or a physical gem card (if they have them).

Is your mail box full?

If you have the maximum number of mail in your mail box you will not get new mail until some of the other mail is deleted.

The temples in Orr have karma vendors that sell lvl 80 exotic armor when they are uncontested. They might not be the best but they are very cheap with the changes to karma if you are looking to save your gold for something else.

Did it get sent to your mail box?

If it is not in your mail make sure that your mail box is not full as this will prevent some mail from reaching you and is stored until your mail box is not full.

I’m sorry to hear that all the effort you put into advancing to harder fractals was wasted but from what you have described I do not see any bug. The Solid Jade Sea is a bonus fractal that you have to complete on every even difficulty fractal to continue to advance to harder and harder difficulties.

If you go to the cursed shore you can get this achievement in 1-2 hrs

They send it to your Mailbox and not the inventory.

How much damage did you inflict on the champion? Were you using a support build?

@ Leal
I’m going to guess that it behaves like the monthly survivor and you can’t log out, change zones, etc for the achievement since I got disconnected and my progess was reset on the achievement.

I’m not sure what the cap is but I believe in another thread a few people confirmed to have over 12 slots. Currently the number of slots is believed to be higher than 17 with 5 from buying the game and 12 you can purchase

This would be something to post in Account support or I suggest creating a Support Ticket to get the issue resolved or they will be able to determine if you have a valid code or not. When you create the ticket make sure you tell them where you bought it, as you may have bought it from a non trusted retailer.

Theres already a thread about this, I personally have not had noticed any changes to the drop rate, with regards to the renewed focus on combating bots and RMT that ANET is taking at the moment I expect the prices to return to their historical value. I don’t know if you were playing from the headstart or have just recently started playing but for the first few weeks ectos were trading around 20-22 silver. It may return to this value or it may start to level out at a cheaper or more expensive price since the amount of total gold in the game is increasing.

Another thing to take into consideration is how much of the market was as a result of bots which is something we don’t know, we can assume that some of the ecto market was because of bots, but since the supply of ecto was fairly small I assume that there are a small portion of players buying large amounts of the ectos on the market.

However this is not only the reason why ectos will be at a high price, another significant reason is the recipes that use ectos, crafing exotics, mystic clovers, some high end mystic forge weapons, and legendaries. While the percentage of the population crafing these weapons varies they all add to the demand.

I don’t think we need a candy corn sink yet, but if 7-8 months come around and the supply is still above 4 million units then there might be a problem where some small changes to recipies or changes to the halloween event itself in the future where candy corn nodes are not as common as they were for this year.

I haven’t noticed any change in the drop rate in ectos, while I don’t salvage for them specifically; of the 7-8 rares I did salvage I got 8 ectos.

I don’t know the status on the fix for this but I’m going to assume that it is on the back burner as bugs that affect the gameplay in a negitive way take priority over minor things like this. Another possible reason why this hasn’t been fixed yet is that the bug is more complicated than what it seems to the players and would require more resources than can be spared at the moment. An example of this would be the dead skill challenge NPCS where its not as simple as just resurecting them.

There is a limit of 9 mails in your mailbox. Once your mailbox has reached this limit, you will not receive any mails that have been sent. If you have reached the mailbox limit, additional mail gets put into a backlog and by deleting one or more mails, you will receive these

Hope this helps

I’m not sure if you are talking about Black Lion Mining Picks since you mention buying keys for chest or the item Masters Mining Pick.

The Masters Mining Pick varies in strength with the level of the quest that rewards it.
I haven’t had any issues mining all nodes with the Black lion mining pick.

If you get ruined ore from a mithril node while using a mithril mining pickmake sure you are not in combat as that will also give you ruined ore sometimes.

I’m going to guess that if they add more legendaries they might add another way to get 1-2 gifts if they do large expansions for Cantha and Elona, if not you might have to make new character and get 100% world completion again.

I just want to point out that gold sellers don’t have many accounts for the game so the banning and blocking their ingame accounts that advertise the selling of gold will do nothing since these accounts are stolen from people not using strong passwords.

The only way to get rid of gold sellers is to not buy from them since if they weren’t making any money you would not get these messages.

I also want to add that I have seen a great improvement in the reduction of these mails since the start of the game so everything that ANET is doing to combat this problem is working, but if we want these to go away the communtiy has to learn that you need a strong password and not buy gold from the gold sellers.

Ok, i’,m pretty much out of ideas besides going and checking all zones again to trigger the reward, if this does not work you will have to file a ticket with support.

Just make sure you have all the Points of interest, hearts, vistas, and skill challenges in the cities, explorable zones, and WvWvW. You don’t have to check dungeons or sPvP

It is game wide and not limited to each server

Can you try going to the Chantry of Secrets even if you have already been there as sometimes this fixes the issue.

I agree with Tallis, I looked over the User Agreement and did not find anything that would cause you to have your account suspended for not using the trading post ( it may be in there since I did a quick read through). Slark is also correct when saying that your account can be suspended for not using the trading system but its not because of the fees. If you post over and over again WTB such and such item that can be considered spamming the chat which is something that people can report.

As the other posts can said use the report function if you get scammed using the mail system but if you never did any business with the other person then do not report him because someone else says he scams people since that is a false report.

Mrsrachelm pointed out that using the mail system for trading is a “use at your own risk”

I’m just going to throw a wild guess as i don’t know the interworking of the systems but they may have done a server rollback after you crafted the first one which caused you to unlearn the recipe. I don’t believe that roll backs cause items earned by the players to be deleted. If it is a bug, you can always buy the recipe again and with the changes to karma it is very easy.

As far as I know there is no way for Anet to make items in the live build for security reasons, while it is unforunate that you encountered a bug doing a dungeon they have no way to give refunds.

Did you click on the medal on the right side of the screen, that has the gifts of exploration in it, it would have been on the left side of the chest you get for the last area that you completed.

You need to select the cataoult and not the NPC, sometimes this does not work either. The way I was able to do it was after a Dynamic Event that involved defending the herd from harpies. After the event there will be some dialog and he will launch 2 more cows. As soon as this was finished the catapult became selectable and I could get the vista.

I haven’t done a character creation in awhile but you might have zoomed in if this is even possible.

9.) Siege Equipment disappearing is not an issue as if a piece of siege is not used for 30 min it despawns. I like this system since if siege stayed for the week I would put 50 arrow/balistas in SM lord room and forget the walls and defending gates no one is getting that castle.

10.) There is no need for this as this is a 3-way war, if 1 server is dominating the other 2 servers don’t fight for 2nd place fight for 1st place. Fighting for second place is far too common .

11.) Transmutation stones

12.) if the doors can only be damanged by siege equipment why would we push them from the doors all we have to do is focus fire any siege they build on runs and let them try to clear the walls. Making doors be damaged by players makes us have to push them back with numbers or coordination with small groups.

13.) we already have parties and squads we don’t need to make a raid system also since there is a lack of a healing class parties are kinda worthless besides seeing the location on the other person, you can still travel in groups of 20 and there is an indicator on the mini map if an ally goes down.

14.) I never had trouble getting a group to go and resupply at a supply camp even if we had to fight our way there to do it. Supply is the limiting factor in WvWvW besides population and adding a place to resupply would make it way to easy to capture keeps if the entire zerg waypoints to base for supply and leaves for the nearest keep instead of going to hit 2-3 supply camps before making the assualt on the keep.

15.) Workers waste supply were as player are smarter and can run to a nearby supply depot. If workers repair walls or doors it will be too hard to upgrade anything especially SM if all the supply is used for repais instead of fortificaitions.

These are my thoughts and everyone is allowed to have an opinion, feel free to agree or disagree just be respectful.

Going through the order of the topics

1.) free server transfers should be limited to once per month or a reward for the rank1 server to allow guilds to transfer off when queues get too long or they become too stong for other servers to put up a fight and win by 100k-200k points a week. I really don’t like people that transfer to winning servers but will respect people that transfer to weaker servers citing TA leaving HoD.

2.) WvWvW was never intended to be fair, if your server can’t compete with servers with larger populations you don’t belong in their tier. If your boarderline were as your server gets destroyed one tier up and dominates 1 tier down then you will have to change how your server plans for the match to even the score (cap camps before the timer on scoring goes, play at different times, if your really outmanned don’t try to compete in all 4 maps focus on 1 or 2 maps and even the numbers that way but i don’t believe that one server should be able to dictate the numbers of partipants for the other 2 servers.

3.) Class Balancing: thieves are fine yes they go in stealth and that can be annoying but there are plenty of counters. Mesmer portals could use some work, my suggestion is not to nerf them but limit the number of people to be able to go through to 10 this way you can still hide a mesmer in a keep use the teleport get 10 on the wall, make sure there are 2-3 more mesmers in the group that ports up have them use portals as well and we still get 20-30 people on the walls. I believe that this might be able to help with rendering that occures with mass teleports.

4.) orb bonus- swapping them is a bad idea because if all we get is magic find, more karma , and something else I for one will never go for the orbs since it isn’t worth it. Now could the efffects of owning an orb be lessen to +25 stats instead of +50 stats thats for ANET to decide but would be interesting to test for a few weeks. However I feel that if you have a outmanned buff there is no hope even if you had increased stats.

5.) I think that the rewards for defending keeps are fine and any extra rewards to the person who upgrads it is nice in theory but it will provide grief to the server. An example is a small guild (less than 10 person guild) claims stonemist they do one upgrade just for the rewards instead of the large guild with buffs upgraded and the amount of coin to fully upgrade the castle. I know of no server that will say let them take SM without a fight. The person from the small guild will benefit but the server as a whole will not.

6.) Team voice chat: Besides for the massive bandwith it takes to do this i don’t want to try to listen for the few rationial people over bickering that goes on in some servers and not everyone is mature so it will cause 2-3 of the population on the map to turn it off. There are a lot of alturnatives that are free and guilds have been using for years.

7.) The main defense is people, 10 people can hold 40 attackers for so long but without reinforcements the tower or keep will fall, making siege more expensive hurts the little guys that are not a part of the parger guild but want to supply siege to help their server.

8.) changing the reports to include hacking and exploits are good, with regards to “leachers” i’m sure you get kicked out after a period of inactivity much less than the 2-4hrs and its not something than ANET can do directly against the account. I could be wrong but I did not see anything about standing in the spawn areas in wvwvw that can result in your account being suspended. From observation bots are a much larger problem in WvWvW an people standing around.

birdiegirl.2463:

something is up with the TP. I bought some orichlicum ore on the TP, got them just fine. made ingots, did the math to see if I could make anything selling the ingots. put them on the TP. realized that I did the math wrong, so I “removed” them from the TP. got the cash, but no ingots, and odds are, its gone. Really makes me hesitant to use the TP to buy or sell anything if I am just going to lose it. Cash is hard enough to come by.

I guessing that there was a delay of when the items sold and when you removed them. If you put something forsale on the trading post then remove it you shouldn’t get cash but the items back. From what you described you got cash which means your item sold.

Reading through all of the discussion I saw that there was one thing that everyone was missing that I believe caused the gem market to rise this month. GW1 players know that there is a holiday event at the end of the month so it was a good investment to convert gold to gems anticipating that there would be costumes usually 2 for this event and then 2 for wintersday (unconfirmed event). Using this I believe that for 3 months of the year there would be high gem prices coinciding with these events and after these events the prices should drop. So is the gem market inflated? I don’t believe so. If there are no costumes those gems can be used on BLSK or mystic forge stones, storage slots and other items that are used. So I see the current spike in gems as holiday related.

Disclaimer: costumes have not been confirmed by any member of ANET that I know of.

For legendary precursors

Yes they are hard to get but they are not impossible to the point that people will give up on them. Are some of the prices too high on the trading post, yes, but that is also expected as a small group of players have enough wealth to put thousands of rares into the forge and get them. As more of the population is able to do this the price will come down. I also remember reading that ANET is watching the price on the trading post and I assume that if the precusrors for some legendary weapons get towards 600-1000g they will adjust the drops.

I also don’t believe that increasing the drop rate so more people craft legendaries will stabilize some other items but will make them increase in price. The reason for items such as ectos dropping was that those items were over priced to begin with as a smaller percentage of the player base was in high level areas. Now that more people are in those areas getting more rare drops which some are not cost effective to sell on the market they salvage them increaseing the supply of ecto.

On another note the mystic forge is not the sole way to get precursor weapons, they also drop from large chests. (example Claw of Jormag and temples in Orr)

You can always turn off the map and team chat, I have never had someone from my team send me messages that you are not helping your team. You paid for the game as did every other player and you have every right to play how you want to play. Now having too many people wander around can affect the match so I would save the gathering nodes for PvE since most are from the early level areas.

When you go to the PvP areas you should try to help out somewhat, if you want to go off your own and kill random people that is ok as well since you can consider it scouting and of you call out possitions of raiding parties or enemy zergs you are helping you team.

Lets us your example of 2 silver and 41 copper item, there is a selling few of 5% which is 12 copper, but there is also a selling fee of 10% which is about 24 copper. You pay the listing fee out of what you have in your inventory but the selling fee was taken out of the price the item sells so instead of getting 2 silver and 41 copper you would get 2 silver and 17 copper in the trading post pickup window. The trading post math is correct and you are not getting double billed.

To figure out real profit take the item you buy off the trading post and multiply by 1.18 and this is the break even point anything above that is profit. I remember reading that the break even point was 1.178 somthing on the forums.

I want to thank Darx for pointing out that 1.15 was not working so i adjusted it to the safe value of 1.18.

5 × 1.18 = 5.9
5.9 × 0.15 = .885 about .89 so I should gain 1 copper

Using the other method mentioned by Tallenn below,

5 divided by .85 = 5.882 so either method will work.

I also checked the tpcalc.com site and it had the point of profit at 5.89 and the point of loss at 5.88

It seems like the method using the divison is the faster of the 2 if you do not use the tpcalc website.

Most of the special mini’s are all HOM rewards and require the same method that zippo burntfur described.

This is not a bug but a montly achievement that will be announced in the future.

I had the same problem as ConterK and it showed 100% but when I completed an event the events portion of the achievements that were at 100% changed to display the correct percentage and it showed 1/25 events completed.

It might get old if it lasts for months, however if you looked at the results for the past week our match was the very tight and was won in the last 2-3hrs. This is how wvwvw was supposed to happen. It is not fun for the other 2 servers if they are getting beat by 300k points and own 3 camps. Looking at the other matches I did not see any nearly as tight as ours which means that our match is balanced in terms of skill and activity. If you don’t want our match turn into weeks or months your going to have to earn it, or a lower server rises in the ranks, or a higher server falls in the ranks.

I think it is a little early to talking about limiting wvwvw to time slots since there has only been 2 1-week matches. I know on my server we got rocked the first week, but now we have found 2 other servers that compete with us. I don’t like rotating servers every 6 hrs since upgrades and defense would be worthless as we will spend 30 min attacking npcs to capture towers and keeps instead of spending time to attack the other servers. Also this is a greater disadvantage to the lower ranked servers than the top ranked server. I’m pretty sure the top tier of servers can demolish the lower ranked servers in 1hr allowing them to push those servers to the spawn for the next 5 hrs. Also the weak servers will be pushed to the spawn by some of the mid tier servers and the only time that they can be competitive is when they are facing the 2 other lowest ranked servers.

Another issue I see is that you will be paired with servers that have different peak times. If one server can’t field a large population during the 6 hours then that match will be won by the other server by default.

The ingredients that are account bound can be bought with karma from vendor, while the others have to be harvested or bought off the TP.

I remember seeing that they will be fixing some of the account bound items in the next patch, they might have this fixed by then as well. I also believe that the next patch would be on 10/1/2012 but they can always patch early or later depending on the issues they would like to address. Robert from ANET stated that this issue might be fixed in the normal monday patch.

you get this message everytime you kill risen grubs, this was intended as a temporary fix and is not a bug.