Guild Wars 2

Time to take our tin foil hat off!
No bug!

They should consider to finally put the tin foil hat into the gem shop (of course for free!). I would proudly wear it right now.

Thanks for telling!

I think they play it mostly on their test server(s).

And occasionally they play on the regular servers? I’ve seen screenies, but not once one on my world (which seems not too odd, because I am not playing on an US world).

Nothing has been changed. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ecto-Drop-Rate/first#post2236538

But that doesn’t tell us if the bug reappeared or not. Until now it just says they only did not change it intentionally.

Well, nothing has been changed sounds like that there were no changes made by Anet that happened intentionally. Have you checked if the recent bug could have had a comeback?

Some pictures of sword and pistol.

The hammer icon says “dregde sw” as a placeholder (and has a sword displayed). ^^

I like the sword (epee) and the pistol is okay, too.

Hopefully it is not RNG again. (I would not try to get them, if it is RNG.)

Well, Khisanth, you might be right, but I think there are some spots that deserve a closer look. I’ll never know for sure if they do not let me have some sight seeing. ^^ Each other map (southsun cove not completely, but better than Orr) does allow to be enjoyed and visited.. but maybe Orr is that ugly and bland designed that there is really nothing to see (what I do not believe!)…

I think it’s bad designing.. they just wanted to make Orr “hard”, but forget about a lot of other things. Well… ^^

Yeah, but they could just make them account bound, too?
That would show some very kind attention.

CoRtex.2157:

ectos don’t have drop rates, gold items do, and from that you have to take the salvage rate. I wish ectos became a drop again in some hard instanced area. Atleast exotics will gain some values again.

As I have been in the Orr thread that would be a great idea..
Ectos should be able to drop from Orr chest, in Orr dungeons, or directly from Orr champions!

And to contribute to this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Ecto-rate-suspiciously-low-again/first#post2235339

Orr was a okay before the nerf/ “optimizations”. It wasn’t optimal, but it had its own incentive to go there.
You could have made it more challenging and rewarding, but instead you choose the path to shoo away most of the players by removing rewards, the fun and increasing the “difficulty” (it’s not really challenging.. I know you wanted to improve the challenge feeling, but for a lot of people that didn’t work.. it feels more like we have now stupid and dull fights (it feels like the only point was to artificially lengthen the fights) against creatures that most of the time don’t even give loot).
You wanted to create more FUN, but we tell you the fun has decreased!!! (Yeah, there are players that might like the “new Orr”, but I think most people have been driven away from Orr by your changes.)

From my own opinion for example:
1. Grenth is not worth doing.
2. Melandru is fun (unless you are morphed into these little animals, but that is okay, too), BUT the spider hatchlings that do not give loot are nonsense! (Do these even count to event contribution? When you fight them – instead of the loot giving enemies on the right side – it might happen you receive a bronze medal…)
3. The nerfed penitent/ shelter/ etc…. well not only have you first nerfed the loot, no you now needed to completely kill the fun there.
etc.

In my very opinion ORR IS NOT FUN.

If you listen to your players, see that there exist players NOT liking what you did.

Ah well, another point is that you cannot really explore and enjoy Orr. Even if I really want to see what your game artists created and do a little sight seeing.. that’s not going to happen with your current (Orr) game design.

If you do not even get the medal that must be either a bug or you do not contribute enough. (It is not what we were talking about in the posts above, because there the issue was that the medal was received, but no chest(s)…)

You say you do enough damage, and – if you are right – it is indeed a bug, have you done an ingame bug report, too?

Astraea.6075:

Guardian has 2 shouts that grant quickness (“Retreat” and “Save Yourselves”). They are what I use on my guardian to run from the pre-events back to the boss.

Yeah, I know. Sometimes I use “Retreat”, however not always. She feels slow as soon as the buff ends and it needs some time to recharge. ^^

I will just keep in mind doing these pres only with my characters that are quick enough to run. That means ele, necro and ranger (and later thief) willingly will help, whereas my mesmer, guardian, warrior and engi will stay and throw a party. ^^

Lol, so the people that do the pres have to pay… doesn’t make much sense for me.
I did SB a few minutes ago as engineer and I was doing the monastery pre event, as I came back to SB his life points already had been dropped to 50% as I was in his range to see it. I think it was 30% as I was able to do damage to him.. ^^

I tried to show the berserker’s behaviour change in the videos above, maybe some of you have even better material?
He did not always behave like he does right now. He behaves bugged at the moment and we want to have a properly working berserker back!
The statement Jon gave us did neither resolve the problem nor address all issues (that the bugged berserker currently has) that we’ve mentioned and repeated several times.

It reminds me A LOT of the loot issue. No there is nothing wrong! Take your tin foil hat off! We cannot see anything wrong!
Oh well, you all know where that has led us to… -.-

The gw costumes has to be purchased once and then you could wear them on each character. You could destroy them and get them back.
You could wear them during fights.

Yeah, you could only buy them with your money, but most of them were worth their money, especially if you really liked how they looked.

Ohh, I miss how they handled it in gw… :-(

If you encounter an over sensitivity you can post it there: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/forum/Bug-with-Swear-Word-filter/page/2#post1820770

No, it’s there to protect our all eyes and ears. If you want to curse either the forum automatically changes it to “kitten” or the users themselves use it in the first place.
So talking about how kitten something is, you can assume that someone is really kittened off (that one begins with a P and ends with a D^^) …

Striker.9413:

So, my only problem was yesterday. Not everyday since the most recent update.

I also had my suspicious ecto experience yesterday. (I thought it would be a great idea to salvage exotics with blk(s), obviously it was not -.-)

It seems camping there with your ranger is your “problem”.

For more information look here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/No-Chest-After-Shadow-Behemoth-Event/first#post2063832

And here a shorter version: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Boss-Bonus-Chests-Not-Always-Appearing/page/2#post2188923

Albert Of Tyria.2149:

[…]but they are the same Anet thats made GW1. […]

They are not. (Maybe they were in the beginning, but it changed a lot. E.g. two of the three founders of GW have left, etc.)

I experienced massive lag since the last update, too.
Of course there have been lags before, but it’s worse than before the latest update.

I know…….. but we can try to skip that part where we have to prove everything before they check it? (Especially as it recently was an issue!) ;-)

Doesn’t matter. We know it bugged out last time, and it’s not our job to salvage thousands of ectos to provide them with a sample size that is “big enough”.
They shall just check. =)

I agree. It might have happened that whatever caused it is back or something else.
I experienced a strange ecto salvaging behaviour since the last big update, too.

They never told us officially they nerfed our (berserker) damage. Until they do that I will assume what happened is a bug.

As a pve mesmer my berserker did never “wtfpwn” my enemies. Before he was bugged he did his normal attacks with his normal damage, now he is bugged and he behaves not like he used to. Don’t care if you agree with that or not.

I posted it in that other thread where Jon posted the last time (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Did-phantasmal-zerker-get-fixed-this-patch/page/10#post2221310), but anyway I quote myself..

“Just for the comparison (because there exist videos with properly working/ unbugged berserkers) how a berserker can behave and what damage he can do (yeah, there are skill differences and so on, but it shows that the berserker we now have is far from what he used to be):
- 8th of December 2012, nine month ago (after they repaired the berserker the first time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnHPdxJP518 (note: lvl 35 mesmer)
- 28th of December 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LENLSPBg2M0
- 8th of December 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGocFzGiy0I (skip to 8 min and begin there)
- 2nd of September 2012 (properly working since launch): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJLJipvBTBE
- 21th of September 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAveraXKao

Bugged:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OIxE09FP_o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF8vtwO_PvM

In my opinion it shows what we are talking about, but maybe there are even better videos that can be used to compare the bugged and unbugged berserker?"

Just for the comparison (because there exist videos with properly working/ unbugged berserkers) how a berserker can behave and what damage he can do (yeah, there are skill differences and so on, but it shows that the berserker we now have is far from what he used to be):
- 8th of December 2012, nine month ago (after they repaired the berserker the first time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnHPdxJP518 (note: lvl 35 mesmer)
- 28th of December 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LENLSPBg2M0
- 8th of December 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGocFzGiy0I (skip to 8 min and begin there)
- 2nd of September 2012 (properly working since launch): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJLJipvBTBE
- 21th of September 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAveraXKao

Bugged:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OIxE09FP_o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF8vtwO_PvM

In my opinion it shows what we are talking about, but maybe there are even better videos that can be used to compare the bugged and unbugged berserker?

Locoman’s and Dan’s asura are just too cute! <3

Well, I play “attractive” characters (only females.. I am a female, too), BUT I think they do not have a mainstream or supermodel attractiveness, because my taste differs.. (for example: in my opinion most of the models don’t look that great ^^).

They already nerfed our damage in addition to that strange behaving whirling attack. ^^

Relshdan.6854:

lol…..so the skill can hit between ZERO and 4 times. this is intended?

I really cannot remember when my berserker (as he was properly working!) did not hit at least once.
But what should I say.. in my opinion he (in his unbugged version) most of the time did all the 4 strikes, not sometimes 1 strike, sometimes 4, sometimes ZERO.

Do you really want to say he behaved in that way (ZERO to 4 times) before he became buggy?

If it matters I am talking about the pve berserker.. :-)

They bugfixednerfed Orr to the ground.. ^^

It’s not really a pleasure to spend my time there anymore.

I would like a revamp of Orr with properly working events and appropriate enemies (not that kittened stuff what has been implemented as “improvements” recently!).

Who does Balthazar? Grenth? A little penitent/ shelter farming?
Exploring the area with alts a second time?

Last week I had a sad feeling, because we brought our new lvl 80 alts to Orr and I saw a place and I wanted to have a closer look at it, but we had to RUN, RUN, RUN.
There is not much time for sight seeing (compared to other places). Whoever decided it was a great idea that people should not have the time to look at their really well done ingame graphics.. humm.. dunno.. thumbs down
:-(

It is NOT only a damage floater bug!

Unless you are happy with a broken berserker and the nerf that come with it, then you can insist on a visual bug.

For the love of the mesmers don’t take us for an idiot. Most of us play them since launch and have noticed immediately when and what was broken whenever a change/ update/ patch was made that messed up with the berserker.

We also need a few more answers:
1. Is the bouncing “bug” intended?
2. Is it okay for you when illusions sometimes do NOTHING until they are dead?
3. Can you check if LOS is a little buggy again?

That didn’t resolve the issue, but thanks anyway and hopefully you will investigate more and believe the mesmer players that insist that this is not the only bug that the berserker currently has. (Remember the loot issue and you’ll see that players can easily find out when something isn’t working alright.)

There is a reduced damage and a misbehaving that the berserker when he was properly working(#) does not have.
(#) compared to the beserker after launch and in between the last fix of his first bug (December 2012) and the last berserker breaking update (January or February 2013). Or do you want to tell us that he is now working as intended and he wasn’t before (as everything was normal for the mesmer players and no one complained about the berserker)? (Because there are a lot of differences of berserker’s behavoiurs bugged and unbugged, not just that the damage floaters are not properly displayed!)

Or that he has been nerfed?

Is it possible that after the last patch it is bugged again?

Yeah, I really appreciate you communicating with us! <3

Or why was he working before (after launch), then he was broken and repaired (end of 2012), and now he is bugged and it should just be a damage floater issue?
That cannot be true?
He behaves not as he behaved before he broke. It is not just that his damage isn’t shown!!

What about the reduced damage that we have seen compared to before? Why was he doing more damage (and not just that because all damage was displayed) before?
→ The numbers of berserker hits were higher before!!!

What some people seem to forget is that the berserker was properly working from launch, then he was broken for 1.5 month, then he was working for 1-2.5 month, before they broke him again.

As the berserker wasn’t broken, as he was working as intended, everything was fine.
Right now he is bugged (like he once was) and that’s not acceptable compared to what a properly working berserker can and should do.

Yesterday my bf had an out-of-body experience. We were killing the melandru priest and then he morphed us into these little animals.. however I thought my bf wouldn’t have been moprhed (although he stood right behind him, but you never know what bugs will appear ^^), but he started laughing and then I looked at his screen and saw that he – of course – has been morphed into the animal, but his big norn guardian stood there as a double as well.
It might be that it was due to lag.. after a few seconds (it was quite a long time!), his guardian double disappeared..

Anyway, you got me with your thread title! I thought dual profession might be in the work..

AlietteFaye.7316:

Agreed, but ArenaNet has actually finally spoken out on the loot issue. Colin said that we can expect a loot revamp by the end of Summer, so that’s all we can look forward to now.

Can you please provide me with a link to that statement.. I remember reading that, but I just want to recheck.. :-)

EnRohbi.2187:

Maul.3284:

Garr.1823:

…then why this ulti hardly ever used by mesmers? =)

If it’s hardly ever used I guess people won’t miss it being removed from the game.

No problem,
Take away Moa Morph and give me Panic back from GW1.

<3 I would really love that! <3

Maul.3284:

Garr.1823:

…then why this ulti hardly ever used by mesmers? =)

If it’s hardly ever used I guess people won’t miss it being removed from the game.

That would be indeed a great idea!
I would love to have a useful elite skill as a mesmer. :-)

Moa has been nerfed long time ago. ^^

Jon, I appreciate what you are trying to do and if you and your team really tries to fix these bugs, please have a look here and don’t “ignore” it any longer: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmer-is-broken-Massive-bug/first#post2208916

Jon, do you need more information in that particular thread here?
How can we help you still more?

I changed in my last post that my number were for the maximum damage my berserker made in average. Not the average damage my berserker did. (It’s a huge difference if my berserker makes 400 – 900 – 1500 where 1500 is the average maximum damage I will see or 1000 / 1500 / 2000 as average damage. Unfortunately it’s the first thing I’ve seen and tried to describe.^^)
Which comes close to your findings, Sorrow.

Can you have a look if you made any “mistake” I described here?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/No-Chest-After-Shadow-Behemoth-Event/first#post2063832

And here a shorter version: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Boss-Bonus-Chests-Not-Always-Appearing/page/2#post2188923

Not trolling.

If they forgot to remove/ change this message from a silver (sounds like 1 silver) to 50 silver then we can assume that it maybe cost 1 silver before. WHY and HOW they came to the conclusion it would make sense to increase it up to 50 silver I cannot understand.
1 silver sounds like an increase to 1.5 or 3 or even 10, but not like it would make sense to increase it from 1 to 50.
Unless the “a silver” was just a placeholder for the right amount and has never been an option as an amount…