Guild Wars 2

akalpurakh.9306:

Redenaz.8631:

akalpurakh.9306:

Of course someone from Arena Net responds to a topic about gold… while ignoring every other important thread. Lovely!

This topic has a very straightforward answer, one that can practically be quoted directly out of the company policy. There isn’t much danger of being misinterpreted, or people expecting a drawn-out debate about the current state of the game, what’s best for it, etc. It’s a simple answer.

I know it’s frustrating that the easy questions tend to get answers, while the more complex ones don’t, but surely that’s not a surprise? At least this suggests devs are reading posts, even if they’re not answering the topics you really want answered.

Wow.

logic is awesome eh

did you already harvest 1 of the plants from Gilded Hollow before coming to Lost? I think nodes are account bound regardless of hall.

if your guild has the scribe station unlock, you can access both at the same time by standing in between Scribe station for material storage and Workshop npc for Treasury.

so it’s not a drought then. You just use much more than the average players. Seems fine for everyone else.

for me I have enough ascended boxes from fractals for all my ascended needs (with raid) with the stat conversion in forge. Never used laurels for them.

I bought Ascended Accessories using Guild Commendations. I got 1 Ball out of like 20 Accessories.

I also made 3 Ascended Beta Fractal Backpack (the 1st ascended state of the fractal back, cost about 1500~2000 relics iirc) and got 2 Balls out of 3 backs.

seshat.9652:

You know what? We all have our idea of what progression is. To some people having every dye in game and all outfits, is progression. Some people think its a guild hall, some people think its running fractals..etc and so on. To me, after years of gaming..my progression is being able to have my toon become more than it is. New content being conquered, new feats awaiting.. and yes more power. No new power, means no new content..it means same content just cosmetically different, eye candy changed.. same difficulty…no progression. To me, its a company saying this will keep you busy, so you feel like you are doing something worthwhile..but its really only something to keep you busy doing nothing. There is no challenge..no new skill needed. If I wanted, for me, to have items and look good.. there’s places like second life. Where are mmos, for people like me? People who want new challenges..new things to conquer and fight for? I think I am a dieing breed.. and its sad. I will hang out in gw2, til something comes along, or I just finally say.. im done.

“no content”: new maps, new elites, new profession. “no challenge”: ever tried to solo hero point champion by yourself? “no new skill needed”: gliding and find your way through the air is a new skill.

yup. it’s clear gw2 is not for you.

And no, you’re not a dieing breed. There are more mmos out there that fit your needs than game like gw2. Games like gw2 are actually a minority.

pugster.9378:

Yeah, I will guest into a EU server. Which EU server should I guest to or it does not matter?

You cannot guest to EU from US. You can talk to people there but your can’t come there. It’s region-locked unless you transfer your whole account.

btw, I just did a Triple Wurm with EVOS 2 days ago, 4h after reset. I taxied with a friend when the escortings were happening and didn’t even need to right click join. I just waypointed and got in. Another friend also joined and got in after 5min spamming join.

Just try to get in 30 min early, or while the events are happening since people may crash (poor them). Just be patient and dont give up.

On the 1st day of HoT, I had trouble moving around in Verdant Brink because of no mastery. Then I proceeded to do story and other events around that I can reach while trying to learn the map. After I got the gliding, and then the jumping mushroom later, the map became like a whole new world. I could reach places I couldn’t before. I could enjoy more scenery, reached more bosses, tried out new Hero Point Challenges…. I felt like I progressed more in my exploration. That’s progression.

I’m now at Tangled Depth. There were some Hero Points that needed Poison Mastery or Ley Line Gliding Mastery. One day, when I progress more on the mastery line while doing story, enjoying events and exploring the map (I’m proud to say I have understood TD and how the map works), I will come back and finish what I couldn’t and progress my map completion and feel completed inside.

After I’ve done all that, I will focus on Fractals with my guildies (hopefully Anet will improved rewards by then. It’s the only thing that bugs me with fractals). We will try to progress to scale 100 while working on that shiny legendary backpack. My group quite enjoys Fractals for what it is.

When raids come out, we will work together to learn it, master it. Then we will progress to next raid wings when they come out and see what challenges await us.

There’s also that Guild Hall. Our guild is taking our time to progress through the upgrades and especially toward Guild Armor Trader 2 for that sweet new Light Guild Armor.

So, there’s my progression, things to work toward and how it feels good to progress.

PS: did you miss the memo that Guild Wars 2 is all about horizontal progression?

Can’t use laurel anymore.

Influence is not available anymore so you can’t buy it.

New currency for upgrade is Favor which can only be gained by doing Guild Missions or exchanged with at least 10000 influence if you still have.

An Exalted npc told me or I read it somewhere in the game, the Guild Halls were previous cities the Exalted used before they moved to Tarir Golden City. Those old cities were expired (something about no more energy I forgot) so they had to move their city.

I can’t recall where I got those info though. Most likely somewhere in Tarir.

You can try randomly double click on any of the not available one. One of them may give you the skill. It’s kinda random or there’s a certain one.

Or you can go into Guild Initiative Office, buy a simple flag pole from Commendation Trader

Gudradain.3892:

NTDK tried my puzzles tonight and liked them but now think that I like to make people suffer…

Anyone else wanna be the next victim?

lol

it’s ok. I’m still sane. and I still need to finish the 3rd jp

oh that place looks interesting. I’m interested in trying

here is the one I made in Gilded Hollow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjSHTam8Cao
If you don’t want spoiler, I just say that it leads to a mini jp by anet behind the waterfall, and the goal is the building in middle of waterfall.

We can try each other’s out if you’d like. I’m available everyday after daily reset.

Frediosz.2718:

NTDK.4897:

Frediosz.2718:

And no, this core game isn’t free its at least 2/3 of “expansion” price right now.

wrong. Prior to the expansion release, the core game’s price was at $10 or less on Anet website. Price was reduced overtime over the past 3 years. And now it is free and doesnt affect expansion’s price (exlcuding the leftover stocks from retailers)

Core game isn’t free, with your “free” game you get butchered version of GW2 without acces to all core GW2 features – you need to purchase GW2 in order to have full acces to core game.

I’m not talking about the Play4Free version. I’m talking about the real price of core game right now which is free, not sold anymore and bundled together with expansion. P4F players buy the expansion to unlock the core game for free (leftover stock of core game that you can still buy from retailers are not counted)

ProtoGunner.4953:

We don’t wanna do PvP kitten, we only wanna do PvE.

Change your setting to PvE only then? Click on the gear icon somewhere on the top left of missions window

Best thing to do now is to find a crash prevention party on map chat. There’re usually a few people that want that party. You dont need to interact with them. Just be in party to taxi back in in case of crash.

Frediosz.2718:

And no, this core game isn’t free its at least 2/3 of “expansion” price right now.

wrong. Prior to the expansion release, the core game’s price was at $10 or less on Anet website. Price was reduced overtime over the past 3 years. And now it is free and doesnt affect expansion’s price (exlcuding the leftover stocks from retailers)

Yup. EVOS does it. Check LFG about 30min before the spawn time for EVOS taxi

EVOS is more pug friendly than TTS. You don’t need to join. Just look for LFG posting.

TT is easier now than before after the change to condition. EVOS’s pug group can kill pretty fast.

Not sure about other time, but I have seen lfg for 9pm and 12am EST time.

For trek, you just need everyone to stand in the mark to get credit. So what our guild did was to tell everyone to come to 1st location mark, and we interact with it when everyone was there. After that, just need some people to finish the rest of the locations. Everyone got chests.

But I agree that new guild missions are buggy and bad.

Rush is shorter (although we can start it as many time as we like), and buggy. No chest, no count even if pass the goal and didnt miss any flag.

Puzzle is also bugged. No Chest. And because it is instanced, we couldn’t portal people that are stuck outside like before. And particularly the Brisband puzzle, the maze doesn’t show on minimap anymore. So it’s hard to know where to go in the maze.

for trek, you can let everyone stand inside the shiny mark and then interact. Everyone that stands inside will get credit. Meanwhile, a few people can go finish other locations

the commander tag you mentioned, you can use a helicopter at night to reach him. They are most likely killing the night bosses, which are accessible at night with helicopter. No need for updraft.

though, just do events man. There’re plenty of events around during day and night. There’re super easy one like protect rally point, pact supply, etc. Killing night bosses give good exp too.

oh and there’re adventures. You can do them daily. They give daily exp and permanent exp from achivements. You can just do easy ones like the vine burning one, or the one at bottom of a gladium. Both of them are easily accessible.

All your alternatives are there. Just because you dont bother looking or understand how events work, that they aren’t there.

someone said before that you can try double click on those unavailable decorations in your Guild Panel. Some of them will let you access the skills even though there’s none.

Or you can go into Guild Initiative Office, Guild Commendation Merchant, buy a flag pole decoration and use it.

just a note for Processing Table, it’s for Scribe to make stuffs like guild banner etc.
They put them in there as a queue and they’ll finish in time. I suppose there will be a Guide (in Guild Panel) when your Scribes are able to use it. And since it takes item from scribe’s inventory, I guess its interface can’t be put in Guild Panel.

eyesrutherford.1357:

ok well then if its for the gvg and wvw community, then how come can we not invite other players to come to our arena who are outside the guild. We cant do GvG because we cant invite another guild to our arena for a fight.

I haven’t tried yet but I remember reading that you can before.

So I found this article: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-hall-arenas/
“To invite someone to your hall, first invite them to your party or squad, enter the map yourself, and then have the other player enter either via the in world portal or via a waypoint if they have it unlocked”

One way I found that works is to invite other people into your guild temporary, after they got in Guild Hall, they can rep their own guild.

still, the mini map and layers are still sometimes confusing

Essence Snow.3194:

Is there an option to have our arenas use our PvP setups? Kinda seems odd to go in with PvE setups.

that’s the point of the arena. it’s for the WvW, GvG community.

if you want for PvP, just get a custom room.

Moopy.7908:

NTDK.4897:

It needs a filter feature!

A filter you can customize? Like just tick on what maps you want to see or not? That’d be great! Maybe if I only want a AB map LFG/taxi, it will only pass my filter if party leader is in said map….or a taxi tab showing only options that are in the map you are currently in.

I was thinking of a text filter. Like, I put in “teq”, and it only shows lfg with “teq”

It needs a filter feature!

Ice.5162:

I am actually running GW2 Reshade for the first time, and I cannot seem to get it to work. I get a crash if I launch the game normally and the Unlocker says “Cannot open process.”

Did all as instructed, any ideas?

You don’t need to use Unlocker. Just download the archive file from ReShade.me (the Sweetfx 2.0 one). You also don’t need the Mastereffect files if you only want to use sweetfx.

Then put these files and folders from the archive into bin64 folder: Sweetfx folder, Reshade64.dll, ReShade.fx, Sweet.fx
Then rename ReShade64.dll to d3d9.dll

Then you go here to pick a preset: https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/1/
Pick only SweetFx preset if you only use it. When you download a preset, it gives you a text file. Rename the downloaded text file to “SweetFX_settings”

Then put the “SweetFX_settings” text file into SweetFx folder (in bin64), overwrite the current file.

and Done.

Do the same thing for the bin folder (32bit) if you want. The only difference is taking the ReShade32.dll

Djahlat.9610:

I’d do Guild Commendation Trinkets. 5g each is reasonable, and all you gotta do is follow religiously your guild’s mission schedule

Do you know where the commendation merchant is?

I can’t seem to find him anywhere

And you call yourself a Norn? the Spirits are disappointed!

I agree with everything said here.

Just want to add this: Let us reorganize the Guilds in Guild Panel (/g1, /g2, /g3 ….)

you can use Guild Initiative Office. It was meant for such use of small guild.

agree. It’s annoying when that message pops up.

It was expected that non-HoT couldn’t even get into Guild Hall.

But Anet let them. So that was good of them. Can’t expect to get everything new if you don’t buy HoT

I think a text filter feature would be better than more Category. Because people will just put everything in Open World since it’s the fastest.

A filter where I put in “teq”, it will only display lfg with “teq” in name. It would be more helpful.

The new effect of the new legendaries seem to be on the arm

in MMO, these things are expected. You should go play single player game. I heard asking for refund because of bugs works there.

idk about you but I found all MP and HP in Verdant Brink by myself. And you do NOT need Choper for any of them. Gliding and updraft bring you anywhere up on canopy.

I had fun exploring and discover the route.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Hmmmm. That means those who only have access to one guild hall can’t get the other weapons? I guess it’s possible to temporarily be a member of another guild with the other hall to get them.

You can easily switch Guild Hall if you pay another 100g and do the claiming. You keep all your upgrades.

Our guild intents to switch Guild Hall sometimes later to let everyone get the skins.

does farming Centaurs in PvE (Harathi, etc.) give you that?

that is guild hall weapon skin set. You need Weapon Merchant 2 upgrade in Marketplace to get it

There are 2 sets actually. 1 for each guild hall. The one on the picture look like Lost Precipie set

you can see some of them here
http://dulfy.net/2015/06/19/gw2-guild-hall-points-of-interest-livestream-notes/

if you dont have scribe, you can go to Guild Bank, then on the top left, there’s a drop down to select Account Vault (Personal Bank).

however, you cannot access material storage that way.

yeah, how to get credit for trek needs to be changed to be more fair.

However, for now, trek is free to activate and is totally possible to solo using Dulfy’s Guide. So if anyone want to get their rewards, perhaps leaders can just activate it for them and let them do it.

they have already stated that they are fixing this bug and you will get all your rewards. Nothing will be missed if you do right now

make upgrades. You can see how much exp each upgrade gives.

Mastery Point Achivement “Verdant Brink Insight: Holdfast Hollow” is WRONG.

There is no mastery point around the POI Holdfast Hollow.

The mastery point that helped me cleared the achviement is actually in the canopy just North of Pact Encampment.

Insiferi.4831:

Our guild is having a similar, if not identical issue. We can’t run any of the PvE missions for this week because our level is below 10, and we are locked out of the other types of missions as well. We can’t convert influence into Favor since we spent it all on upgrades before launch, so that’s not an option either.

Our guild is small, we banded together to help another small guild get their hall but are waiting to earn enough Favor to get ours. With any luck, the elite spec cost reduction will quiet things down a little so those of us with less pressing concerns can be seen as well.

IIRC, there is no level requirement to run PvE missions. You should click on the cog icon to change the settings to PvE, the default last week was PvP and WvW. Just change it back.

the lv10 requirement is for unlocking more slots to have more missions. But by default, there should be 3 missions available each week.

When the Guild Hall instance closes and opens a new one and it asks you to switch to new map, the waypoints in the new map will be bugged. They won’t appear on minimap. If you try to waypoint using the big map, it will say “You are already in this selected game”.

Please fix it. Thanks

A dev has explained this a long time ago.

Armor weight is not just a name “heavy”, “medium”, “light”. Their differences lie in the animation skeleton. For example, medium armors’s skeleton all have a coat tail part even if you don’t see it. The technology behind is not that simple to just mix them together.

This is hard to explain. But that’s the gist of it.