Not sure if this was posted before but this is so much fitting to what wvw is now
Has this been fixed? It has been more than 4 months and this is becoming unacceptable if this bug is still there. The only way to play for me is on the lowest graphic settings even tho I have a ATI Radeon HD 4870 512 MB which does enable full textures but still has that bug where the game crashes on a certain graphic glitch.
Has this bug been fixed?
Is Anet working on fixing that bug?
What really annoys me is that this bug is global and a lot of people are and have reported it. Still there is no mention of it in the list of known bugs…why is that?
I don t really see how this is not a bug.
This is happening on my ele…
(not sure if it is relevant that because of the dstbits bug I have to run wvw in lowest setting on my mac but in case I ll just note it here)
Ok I figured out how to transmute…it is not as user friendly and intuitive as I expected but it worked. I think the interface needs help text on the side of the window, maybe something like
→ Select stats to keep
→ select item
Or have a ? button you could click and see a little animation showing you how to do it.
Ok thanks I think I get it.
Now my problem is that there is no section on the trading post for backpacks? So I have no idea what to buy now that I got to level 60
I have no idea how to apply the quaggan backpack to another backpack now that I leveled up. Can someone either explain or point to somewhere where I can learn how to salvage the backpack and apply the skin to a better one?
As a side note to Anet this is not intuitive. A simple right click on the bag to remove the skin would have been way more convenient.
Thanks in advance
hmm according to what I read about that snowflake incident it looks to me like a market issue was not foreseen by Anet and instead of fixing the values of the items being salvaged or the changes on the salvages they banned people who used the salvage method to make money because the money they made would have damaged the economy… fine , then remove the money made and don t ban the player.
That is what I mean by creating bad precedents. And it does not matter how much money you made from this, if it was available in game you should have been able to make money from it until it was removed. But banning people for such actions is just dumb you ban hackers and botters, not people who find creative ways to make money.
Bad precedent because it will make others think twice about spending more time in the game which in turn may affect sales and get bad publicity.
lets say you find a npc you can kill over and over for more xp than any other NPC and thus you level faster. Should you be banned or actioned because of it? Of course not, the NPC should be fixed and you move on. Those example are very different from exploits and bots.
In the end the rule should be that if something is available in game to anybody and that action can be done with a normal client by anybody anytime then it is not the fault of the player if that action or series of action is done.
I understand where Gaile comes from but you can not have a vague definition of what Exploiting is. Exploiting could be anything you want when you are a moderator or developer. Doing something available to you in game over and over should NOT be considered an exploit. I understand the economic implications but in that case you wipe the excess that was done or you reimburse mats…but instead people got banned.
hey that s their game…I just think managing for the exception without actually fixing the problem and instead correcting the mistake without alienating players would have been better. But then there is the issue of resources and now we are wayyy off topic so i ll stop.
TLDR: spies and saboteurs are not an exploit and are part of all wars
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There is nothing whatsoever that can be done about people burning supplies as long as anybody can do it. Sending screenshots means nothing as there are NO rules whatsoever that tell you how to play.
Anet could action someone but that would create a precedent where they would punish or penalize someone for playing the game they bought the way they want.
There is a huge difference between what is doable and what is morally reprehensible. Just like you can not action a commander who bought the tag just for fun and likes to run into enemies and knock on doors just to see his/her group wipe…or people burning supplies, or people jumping in the JP for hours blocking spots for actual combat on the map.
These things were put in place for people to use them. In my opinion the JP is a total disaster as it blocks spots for actual control of the map while there are people in queue but hey that is Anet’s decision, they believe this creates a means for people to do something else that is fun inside wvw when most people see the JP as a waste of time and resources when you need every combatant on defense for example.
If the whole map goes to do the JP, will you report all of them for jumping in the dark instead of fighting? Of course not…those were tools given to players by Anet so you can t report people for using them
None of those things are and can be forbidden in game, you can NOT punish someone from doing something that the game allows them to do. It sucks but it is like running with a zerg and purposefully not using any skills and just being a target. Obviously nobody does that but if your entire zerg was only made of people using Dolyak transfor potions there would be nothing you can do about it.
Sometimes to scrw around I thrown in a potion to transform into an animal for fun. you want to start policing that and ban or action people? You can t because that would create precedents that would destroy gameplay.
I do not condone ANY of those shenanigans I am only explaining that you can not police these actions and tell people how to play.
What Anet can do instead could be to have requirements to limit these abuses. Like requiring badges for commander tag instead of gold. Requiring # kills to be able to deploy purchase siege so that a level 5 on an enemy server could not drop siege and would require tons of kills that sort of thing.
In the end the objective of Developers is to NOT manage for the exception and that is valid for every game. Out of 200 people on the map you will have 1 or 2 tr0lls trying to waste supplies and spy or sabotage things…well that is part of war and implementing changes just for those 1 or 2 people would be managing for the exception and not the majority.
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Asian timezone update
Holy crap batman…Blackgate IS Beastgate
Dude if you’re saying MERC and ND don’t have skill, just ask FOO. BG oceanic didn’t hold that ppt unhindered.
Edit: When is the last time you checked the NA ppt, btw? You don’t have 0 players online now… so, what’s the excuse now? BG is +380-405.
Thanks for reminding me the name of the guild: MERC…loads of respect for that tag. I was in ts with them for a while last night and they were very pro and fun at the same time making jokes when not in combat. I very much enjoyed the night and would recommend then.
I do not think BG is fighting for 1st place at least that is not what I hear on vent/ts and what I read in chat. BG can NOT get to second place fighting two servers at the same time so saying it wants 1st place is incorrect imo.
Rofl.
BG can handle itself fine. Depending on time of day, BG will target the weaker of the two opponents to rack up points. Incidentally, during NA primetime, BG and SOR both take a big bite out of JQ.
You may not realize this, but BG gets more glicko taking points from JQ than it does taking points from SOR. Keep up the bright analysis.
No need to be rude… my point was that if what you are saying is correct then that strategy is not working to gain more points than red and blue ends up with less points than both…hence why I was wondering about instead going only after red targets to deny red points instead of trying to get more points from green which is like fighting two enemies at once and does not seems to be working.
i got some SS last night of ahem a certain other server ahem and getting roflstompedfacemelted without the chance to fight back so stop acting all sweet and innocent mr Blackguardian!!! Zergs happen, people die, moving on…….
I would be interested in seeing your screenshots of 70+ BG zergs because like bigfoot they do not exist. The Jade BG map last night HAD a 70+ people zerg going after BG, it was all over teamspeak and you could hear the facepalming happening in real time.
As a side not I don t play a guardian or at least I haven t for some time. My mesmer is barely level 20 and I am playing whatever class I feel like having fun with at the moment. I don t play to win, I play to have fun and I am not having fun when I see hacks or when a group is purposefully making giant zerg raids to deny opponents a chance to fight….with all due respect
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I seriously hope that it’s not something that’s pervasive throughout WvW. 90% of my time is spent in WvW and this is the first time I’ve seen something like this first hand.
So you’re dead and they aren’t? Big deal, would that pic make a difference if it was 3 from the same server who killed you? A FFA is a FFA.
Unless I am mistaken, having people from the same guild on two servers fighting a third server is not what was intended by the dev team…unless I am mistaken and someone can present evidence that the devs clearly have no problem with having potentially one giant guild spread on two servers fighting a single server.
This simply should not be allowed as it potentially opens the door to having twice as many players on your side than the side you are fighting…don’t you see?
What is the point of three servers then if you can spread your guild on two?
Gentlemen…(because ladies are usually smarter than men about these issues)
Way too much animosity around these parts so remember:
- its only a video game, it won’t improve your life and will only help pass time
- tier 1 means nothing but a number ranking, what is important is you having fun
- nobody really cares about you or your server’s kitten
- don’t be like the guy in the wow south park episode. If you look at yourself right now and you are that guy…go outside
If you are upset about something an anonymous person said or did in game or on the forums then your life priorities need to be looked at. Remember that in 6 months you will probably be doing something else and maybe playing a different game and all the time you are wasting now arguing on the forums could be used better.
Here is a virtual Quaggan burger for you
“Side effects may include being ported into a different plane of existence where MERC and Choo are on the same side”.
What I imagine Choo players when I hear the guild name or see the word in chat
I was going to add to this and quote specific example I saw tonight in EB but I was told that for some reason you are not supposed to talk about hacks on the forums even tho that s the only place you can report them since the ingame tool is only used for bugs
Looks interesting…I only played fire so far and still level 20 so I got to experiment…
Thanks
I know there is not a pure healer only but what profession and traits/weapons would you recommend do heal as much as possible and be a pure support player?
Thanks in advance
WvW is broken because of the culling.
Until it is fixed you will always have servers exploiting the rendering issue and getting killed by invisible enemies…really pathetic
This game, at least its wvw portion is not playable.
For days and hundreds of deaths I just put it on the side knowing that Anet was working on it. But I can t play this game anymore and this is not what I bought.
Situation:
You are somewhere doing something, then you are dead and ONLY once you are dead do enemies appear around you. This is NOT acceptable in a combat situation map.
I don t care what excuse you give for this, I do not care about the technical term…this is game breaking. Further more since everybody is affected by this you have servers exploiting the rendering issue purposefully.
When you are dead and look around you and see 12 blue revive icons you know something is wrong, you know those 12 people are going W.Tf??? It is no longer acceptable, I am not willing to spend evenings running for 4 minutes to get to a point on the map where I will be killed by invisible armies exploiting your server culling.
The game looks great in PVE, great soundtrack and great art direction…but your wvw which is what motivated me to buy the game sucks and it sucks really really bad. As of today I am not recommending the game anymore and I have no interest or intention to log back in.
Until I get an email from Anet announcing that the WvW component of the game is now out of beta and properly works then I won’ t bother spending more time in the game or the forums and I certainly won’t be buying any gem cards whatsoever.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Well I want to keep my sanity. You are taking a huge risk in not fixing this before ESO comes out…I hope you guys realize this
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All I can really say to you is use stun breakers?
I wasn t aware that you were able to spam stun breakers like you can spam spikeroot
I went to lion’s arch and can see cool decorations. No idea what the hell are the cauldrons for or the tables with food. I see batman types of fight cartoon animations..I see people turned in to pigs and other animals. Still not idea about what the hell is going on or what to do.
I ask people in game what is happening and is there a tutorial and get no answer.
I also hear there are going to be 4 events? Where? How do I join them? Is there a primer in game explaining what is going on? Do I need to read on a third party site explaining what is going on or is there an NPC somewhere that can explain who that king is or was and what is the relevance…basically what is going on and what do I need to do?
Thanks
One thing people do not understand.
You can not ban people for receiving gold just like you can not label anybody receiving 100 gold as a gold buyer. Wow and all other games have exactly the same problem.
Lets imagine that I send you 50G by mail to grief you. You pick it up and get banned even tho you never bought any gold.
The problem is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to tie an external transaction to an ingame email for the simple reason that it is not against the TOS to send someone gold via mail and that you simply have zero idea that this transaction did happen. Furthermore if for some crazy reason mailing gold was banned then Gold Sellers would then switch to sending objects to sell instead of Gold…then what you also ban sending objects via mail.
People jump to “ban them” conclusion without understanding the ramifications of those recommendations. The thing is you can NOT ban people from simply getting gold via mail because it is not against the TOS.
I wish people thought a little more about what they are recommending before making these posts. Yes gold sellers suck but you got to understand that monitoring manually all transactions to decide if those are legitimate is NOT efficient.
What is the solution? There really isn’t besides banning bots. Bots are the problem…you can t do anything about people selling gold OUTSIDE of the game simply because you have ZERO proof that someone receiving gold in game is not simply a gift or someone repaying a debt of a transaction done outside of the game.
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How about before a week battle start, server X, Y and Z can not transfer to each other for another week…no matter how many hops you do with other severs. That way you can still move to any other server at anytime but your account is blocking you from joining any of the other two you are fighting…no need to make people pay for transfers or increase the transfer time
Of course…when BG wins the map its because the opposite servers are in the bus or at work and when DB wins the map its because they pwn.
What I learned this week is that DB is a sad sad server where players use exploits and hacks and anything they can to win instead of playing fair and square. The amount of trolling seen since the weekend from griefers and DB players is almost frightening.
Good luck rebuildign your reputation DB
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Didn’t DB hack a secured orb a couple hours ago?
Can a CM close this thread? The discussion is moving towards name calling and will soon move to personal attacks. It is clear that Kaine is a troll. Nothing more needs to be said and the thread should be closed.
alt key codes are not a naming violation bro
You never took reading comprehension in school right? Look into what a strawman is.
Also I am not a ‘bro’ and I am not surprised to see your toon on DB has alt-code. You already have troll topics deleted a couple of minutes ago. Keep drawing attention to you and maybe you will learn what the word “karma” means.
How to recognize trolls (like the OP) in game:
- Clue 1: Special characters in their name for the only purpose to make it hard to type or report. Fortunately Anet has a good system for reports.
-Clue 2: see clue 1
I make it a point to never ever invite people who have weird characters in their name or follow their orders in /T or /M. If you do not have enough imagination to pick a name you probably won’t have enough imagination to help our team. This was especially true in wow but in gw2 you can use spaces in the name hence you have no excuse for using alt codes.
Blackgate also has a great community. You always have d.er.ps who grief a server and I doubt this is a Blackgate only issue. Also I have never had any issues with the leaders at night and instead can vouch that the Blue Doritos I have seen in the last 10 days are actually very competent…none of that ‘slave’ stuff mentioned.
I think this is an attempt at disinformation to move people from BG to DB.
What are the two wvw guilds you mentioned on Blackgate?
jan 2008 mac pro with ATI Radeon HD 4870 512 MB runs better (50+fps) under this port than under Bootcamp (20+)…not sure why but I ll take it. Thanks again