Guild Wars 2

Me and 2 friends have been working on Personal Story and when we come to this instance in Orr, its broken, badly broken, at the end of the instance when the helicopter picks you up, the reward screen pops up then the instance instantly ends and kicks you out back to Straights of Devastation, I was the instance leader, and when I loaded in, I had the option for a reward, but my 2 friends did not, and there story did not continue ( WE are all on the same storyline ) we have had to run this instance 3 times now so that we can continue.

This should be easy to replicate on your end, as we where able to replicate it 3 times in a row.

They are poor, we all know they are poor, Anet knows they are poor ( they set them ) but they wont change it, and we cannot change it,

The loot in general is getting worse, I ran 4 temples in Orr today and other than the Loot from the chest, it was very few and far between, when I maxed MF at 300% months ago the loot wasn’t bad for farming in Orr, I didn’t go in there for maybe 3-4 weeks now, and yesterday and today in there it was shocking, ive never spent an hour in hour farming events and not getting a single T6 mat, any wonder some items are rapidly going up in price.

So since I reported this there has been 8 hot fixes and a game update, and still this is broken with no dev response….

This bug started after last nights patch, I noticed it in Fractals first, but just had it when doing the MAW world boss, in combat I have the pop up that I can select any skill while in combat, but as soon as im out of combat it goes away and I cannot change skills,

This needs fixed.

Belzebu.3912:

I would like to see something like that, like the Urgoz’s Warren and The Deep in GW1.

Could you imagine how awesome Urgoz and Kanaxai would look in this game with its GFX, yes I can just see Kanaxai double axe attack in GW2, you may need more than Aegis for that.

The way you write this, is as if someone at support banned your account, where as a 3rd party company did have a system glitch, it sounds like it was the automated system that put the block on your account, and then support removed and fixed it.

I mostly stopped playing WvW due to some seriously toxic commanders, screaming on TS/ vent at people, demanding others get on TS/Vent all while at the same time kicking others off TS/Vent, belittling people on map chat, untagging and demanding the zerg follow them untagged, then crying at the players when they don’t follow,

Commanders who now only run tagless in WvW or only with there guilds, or who sit on TS/Vent in there own little channel with there buddies,

And you think EOTM is killing WvW, you so far wrong its not even funny, EotM is a nice break, where you get 1 or maybe 2 people tag up, run around and cap ( sure K train ) but with ZERO drama,

Also ive seen some T1 guilds running around EotM recently as a guild group, no doubt tagless,

I used to love running in WvW with the massive battles on T1 etc, but it gets boring listening to a commander who is just hostile towards everyone, or commanders that do a lot of talking then only run tagless with there buddies, then cry that WvW is dead, all this ends up with people leaving and not bothering to return.

You should also be very careful about what you wish for, as if Anet decide to nerf karma etc by 80% in eotm and leave it alone in WvW, where do you think all them ppl are going to go K train, you will be back on here after such an update crying that there is an 100 person Q because the PvE’rs are K Training in your BL, if you don’t play EOTM don’t worry about it, I play WvW and EotM and I can tell you its far from EotM doing the damage to WvW.

Was actually a pretty interesting read, sadly though it will fall on deaf ears, as according to Anet they had over 10,000 testers who said the game was to hard and needed dumbed down to a level never seen before,

Most of the questions asked on the survey are questions that have been asked time and time again on here, Anet knows people want new dungeons/fractals/perm content, we’ve already been told where not getting new dungeons/fractals, the LS2 does give some perm content in dry top but how long ppl will go there is another thing.

This was happening last night in Dry Top also, I got an item for level 31 from a lvl 82 dust mite during the Haze event, seems broken to me.

This heart in Bloodtide coast is broken,

When you collect the ingredients needed for the recipe and give them to the NPC you get the bucket of water as normal in return and then it locks you to the ground, you cannot move, several people doing the heart at the same time have the same problem, you must log out and log back into the game in order to free yourself,

Its making this heart rather annoying.

Jessica Boettiger.2563:

Basically removing the achievement requirement during a tournament is an experimental step we took to reduce the incentive for achievement grinding. We want people to play WvW, and not focus too heavily on satisfying achievement requirements.

If we find that players prefer having numerous things to check off a list, then we would certainly take that feedback into account and consider it for future tournaments.

Some servers are crying out for more WvW players, the seasons did bring in the PvE players, but it also gave them servers a great chance to get some of them players into playing more WvW, when they see it can be somewhat fun, making someone spend 10 minutes in WvW seems wrong, furthermore it shows how imbalanced you are prepared to let the game get,

PvE player wants WvW Season rewards = spending 10 mins in WvW/Eotm
WvW player wants LS rewards = grinding thru several hours of PvE

Balanced much?

The old achievements where fine for any WvW player to get in the 7 week time frame, why are you so determined to cater to the PvE class while dumbing down the achievements for WvW players??? I didn’t see you’s changing the achievements on the kill 1,000,000 dolyaks!!!!

If this has been mentioned before then please merge this, as I couldn’t find a topic on this.

So I completed this tonight after getting the Fractal Spoon, now I don’t know who this achievement is aimed at to be fair, if it was for new players then they would have no chance until they where level 80, given that 2 of the Spoons are in high end zones per say, 1 being the Teq battle, ( good luck up levels ) and the other being Fractals, ( even better luck up levels )

Anyway the rewards where as follows

Greens
1 Mighty Soft Wood Focus of Hobbling
1 Mighty Soft Wood Longbow of Serpent Slaying
1 Mighty Magician mantle of the Lich
1 Mighty Soft Wood Focus of Hobbling
1 Mighty Swindler Gloves of the Afflicted

3 x Mentor’s Tome of Knowledge ( can only be used if you are under level 80 )

Exotic
1 x Initiates Ring ( level 20 – selectable stats )

So the question I have is, given that at least 1 zone you need to be level 80 or the very least level 70+(if you have an understanding guild to carry you ) why are the rewards for sub level 80 chars, this collection is 100% pointless for anyone who has max toons, is this a way to force or try to force players to go back and make new char’s and suffer that new level system?

Where as I didn’t do it for the reward, I did it to race a friend to it for fun, some will not be happy at this reward at all, and it will fall back onto the rewards in this game for time spent are lacking, maybe next time put something in that someone above level 80 can use.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/No-auto-login-after-patch

Reported already, has been 3 hot patches since, none have addressed the problem.

You know Vayne I sometimes swear you are an Anet employee, I think that if Anet set fire to a box full of puppies ud find a good reason why they did it,

As you have played the game since launch im sure, do you really think that NA/EU are getting so many new players to the game that they did not understand the old levelling system? Keeping in mind apparently this game has a 13+ age on it, and most 13 yo’s now a days grew up in an era of smart phones/ tablets etc and some of the most advanced computer hardware in history,

We ALL know you love the update, you love the game, and you cannot accept that some people do not agree with that, but this update was not meant for NA/EU, and if it was truly meant 100% for “NEW” players then when they updated the client, anyone who had an account registered before 9/9/14 should have had the old system by default with the option for the new one, and any account made on 10/9/14 is automatically part of the new system.

I cannot get friends now to come play this game at all, they have read the other sites etc where its telling them the update is bad bad bad and they want no part of it, it seems really strange in a time where games come and go online a lot, that 1 with a decent community size that the mean devs seem hell bent on pushing us away.

The game will play fine, logging in is not the problem its the broken auto login option,

When the client starts it almost looks like the Password field is blank, but the login button is high lighted, when you click on it the game logs into your account, then the 4 second auto start counts down,

It never used to do this, you used to Start the client and it would auto start the game, no re-entering passwords/broken fields etc, this is happening to all of my friends since update, so its not a local issue.

This has been discussed to death on the forums now, Anet never go back on something they roll out, because as far as they are concerned they are right, and to bad for the players if they don’t like it, the update apparently was pushed at the audience Anet wants for this game, and screw everyone else, so bravo on that part.

The comment below was left on another forum I use in regards to the update, from what I can see there entire playbase from this other community has abandoned GW2 over the last year.

Level-locking the weapon skills is awful, you’re stuck with the same few skills until you hit level x now because it might overload your brain to unlock them all at once.

I hate being patronised in a game, and GW2 really treats you like a moron for the first 15 levels now.

From ANet:

“For example, rallying from the downed state can be overwhelming to a brand-new Guild Wars 2 player. We’ve moved the downed state to unlock at level five so players have time to learn the basics of combat before they experience this system”

Yes, I was completely ‘overwhelmed’ the first time I was ever downed. I didn’t get over it for weeks*****

My monthly achievements still shows Fractals, yet some of my friends since the patch have had the Monthly Fractals changed to Champion Slayer,

It seems completely random who got changed etc, some have been able to complete monthly a second time due to this.

dietzero.3514

Are you paid to do this? Seriously, are you?

I and several of my friends wonder the same thing, every single topic where someone complains about something, that same person shows up to tell them they are wrong,

The new levelling system is shockingly poor, I know people who have all but abandoned making new toons now, how do they expect newer players to hang around, I don’t know why they are hell bent on forcing these shocking updates down our throats, this update wasn’t a feature patch, no matter what way they chalk it up, it was them throwing the Chinese Client at us, the 2 markets are completely different, its like they are completely disconnected from the playerbase altogether now.

I am so glad I had all my toons maxed out to level 80 before this nightmare rolled around, I really really do pity new players to this game, this was a bad bad update to the levelling system to accompany the horrible “new” trait system, which we where also told was to confusing for people, yet we managed just fine.

And you will see more and more frustrated posts coming over the next few days im sure, but just like when they pushed the megaserver out, all the posts will go ignored, they have all the cards atm, because sadly there just isn’t another game out there to really compete against them, because of there was, there is no way they would push this onto us.

We just ran a level 19 fractal and the 3rd one we got was the Thaumanova it was pretty straight forward, after we took down final boss, the cut sence did not play, everyone just stayed up top, 3 ppl who where down had the retry from checkpoint and it put them back in the starting room, the other 2 where just left on the upper platform, where it continued to randomly remove tiles on the floor as if the boss fight was still active,

No one got the final chest, but we all had the option to continue to the final fractal….

The only way I will ever make a new char now is if its a completely new race to the game, other than that I pity anyone who is stuck at low levels now.

Oh come on it was 100% from the Chinese Version of the game why we got this update, in 2 years on these forums I seen very little posts about the old levelling system / downed state, every now and then someone would ask a random question but nothing on a major scale like Anet are making out,

The only reason the new levelling system/ trait system was put into China was to slow the rate the person could level up, they didn’t want people farming Orr in 6 hours, it makes sense I suppose, giving this game as no end game, the longer they can keep you away from the 80 zones the better,

It was also stated by some that every update going forward after Chinese version was launched would be for them, and not for us, if an idea/ update etc does not work there, it will not be put into game, im still guessing we will see the VIP system before Summer next year.

Why did they make it when you want to buy multiple things of the same item I have to increase price, before I just entered 10 and it bought 10,now I have to manually select 10 items. Unless ive missed something, its like they have made it harder to buy items,

I agree with a comment from another thread all we asked for, for 2 years was a filter on armor, and instead they did a complete revamp, removed a lot of useful things and put things in that we did not need, hopefully they take feedback from this and correct it.

Just tell him that, Anet had to make the EU/NA client just like China, and that this works in China, and that some progress had to be relocked.

Ok, after talking to friends there are some major differences in the games now,

Under collections, 1 of my friends has Black Lion Collections, none of the rest of us even see this tab

Under Monthlies, it appears that anyone who completed the fractal monthly has had it removed and it is now Champion Slayer, I do not have this as I am at 9/10 of fractals,

Just throwing this out there so its fixed in a hot patch, as its clear not everyones game patched the same.

I will not make a new user account on windows, for something that worked perfectly before the patch, its clearly something that is broken since, 3 of my friends are getting the same problem as I am.

Thanks for your reply.

When I start the launcher for the game it no long auto logs in, the cursor is in the password field, if I hit login it will start the game as normal, its like the game did not patch correctly, when I try to use the -repair command it just crashes the launcher completely.

Curtis Johnson.8456:

Collective.9206:

Curtis Johnson.8456:

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Thanks for the clarifications Curtis, would it be possible to clarify the missing “Projected profit” UI element, it seems to be missing for no real reason other than to now arbitrarily calculate yourself how much money you make per sale instead of being able to see it directly on the screen.

We felt it was important when selling something to know exactly what price your buyer was going to see. The change also is the least cluttered way to address feedback we received previously about profit including / not including fees and wanting to be as clear as possible on the order of operations.

We’re balancing a lot of UX design against desire for more information with the new UI.. We’ll be watching to see what sort of confusion comes out of this and may or may not re-introduce a net profit display later.

Instead of showing

Listing Fee
Exchange Fee

Just display it as

Trading Post Fees
Total Profit

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter about the individual fee’s as we have to pay them regardless, so combine them and just show what the total amount we lose it, and the total amount we gain is, seems a lot simpler than trying to work out overall profit, espically if you are selling x10 or x100 of an item, why make it overly complicated for us.

When you take what they are putting into the patch, Vs what people have been asking for this last year, we aren’t really getting all that much, did we really need to move minis to the wardrobe, Minis where already account bound,

Lets look at everlasting harvesting tools, they are account bound, yet you still have to go your bank, put it in, log out, log in, take it out again etc, they should make it that everything you buy from the TP that is Account bound, either goes into a special tab so that every char can get it at the same time, or make it that you type in /bonus and it gives you all account bound items that you have bought, its a QoL thing that ppl have asked for, (why should someone who is actively supporting the game via gem store not get this update we’ve already paid for it)

I would say that in the next 6 months they will really start to see the hurt ingame with sales, unless then do a MASSIVE overhaul of dungeons and fractals ( which they currently said they wont ) people will just give up, the WvW community is getting hammered into the ground with lack of updates, how long do they think that can go on for.

This patch really seems its aimed at new players vs older players, which lets face it a lot of companies do, I have to question though are we really seeing that many new players to the game now Vs older ones who are still around,

Newer players reading this feature patch might thing happy days look at that, but anyone else is like meh it should have been there from the start, we will never get numbers but im guessing more leave then join this game on a monthly basis, id be stunned if most of our feature patch wasn’t already stuff that was put into the China release at launch, and we are just being upgraded to them, ( wonder will we see the VIP system )

I personally would not recommend this game to a friend / family in its current state, and im even having problems getting friends who played it to come back, ( I know everyone’s views are different though ) for me, I was an avid GW1 player, and I had extremely high hopes for GW2 that just have not materialised at all.

I personally just bought the Ecto right out and salvaged them, your return of 125-170ecto per 140-150 rares seems a little high, ive seen me salvage 30 rares and get 1 ecto before,

Also given that Ecto are selling for 41silver each, if you invested 50g into buying rares, your Ecto return rate would get you nearly 51-70g would you not be better selling some of the Ecto to buy more rares keeping your 50g balance the same, and salvage the difference?

Regardless, what im saying is, if that return rate from rares was so high, rare prices would be way higher, as big big TP flippers would be all over this.

Ill try find the link on the forums to the guide to maxing MF that someone did, and post it here.

Have you tried telling it “No” and see if the game plays normally, ive done that before.

It will stop asking, im guessing that whatever map you go into when its loaded has a broken texture file somewhere and when you close the game the file is corrupted so when you restart its asking you check,

Ive noticed this more recently espically when people are reporting bugs on certain maps, my party was in Brisban Wildlands the other day doing some mapping, and one of the hearts where you have to collect ooze essence, from the cave, when we went into the cave to interact with a switch we all got kicked with the same bug, we all where asked to verify the archive.

I totally agree with the OP’s post many things you posted are things me and my friends have discussed many times on TS/Vent, and is a good reason why nearly everyone I know has quit this game, I refuse to do FotM now because of the terrible loot system, and its general unrewarding nature, I felt sorry for the people who where forced to do it to make that recent back piece, although funny to see loads of LFG lvl 1 fractals,

However sadly your post will fall on deaf ears, we all know the reason the devs started posting was part of operation “damage limitation” from the recent interview where they basically said screw you dungeon/fractal community, sad by true.

killcannon.2576:

Keeping veteran players is not and never will be a priority in b2p or f2p games..

This is the best quote from the topic, do they really care for the long term vet players, ive stated it before that anyone who plays this game for longer than 1-2hours a day are not the target playerbase, they want causal players who log in take an hour for dailies, maybe do a quick dungeon run then log out, as these players are less likely to complain about loot drops etc, or notice bugged/nerfed events, the Vet players are the bain of the dev team,

Some of our "new " feature updates are just updates that where put into China from launch and they are rolling them out here, I did question do we really need a new levelling system in a game that is 2 years old already, when they could have spent that time making new dungeons/fractals and or actually fixing many of the bugs in game….

I like many others will await this weeks blog posts about what the vet players are supposed to get in terms of updates to keep them interested in the feature pack, but right now everything is either “it worked in china so here you go” or “we only cater for new players so suck it up”

I really do/did enjoy this game but its not living up to its potential not even close.

It really depends on what you do ingame, if you run Dungeons and Fractals or do sPvP you will not see any great impact,

If you farm high end zones, ( Dry Top, Cursed Shore, or run WvW/EotM ) then you will see better results.

I maxed my MF at 300% about 6 months ago, and in Cursed Shore I get a lot more T5/6 Mats than before, and where people do stay your rares etc are more you are still subject to that broken RnG mechanic sadly, I have seen days where I farm Cursed Shore and get no rares, and very little T6 mats, and others where I walk out with 40+ T6 and 15+ rares,

The only thing I will say is, if you are expecting to max it out and see exoitcs dropping all over the place, you will be disappointed.

And I agree that hopefully Vol will drop in, as he has done some extensive farming and I believe also has max or nearly max MF.

How do you propose they block it though via a chat filter, as annoying as they are, ive seen so many variants of message recently it would be impossible to block, imagine if they blocked PVPBANK.COM heres what you end up with

P V P B A N K . COM
PVP B A NK . C O M
P VP BAN K . COM

Do you see how many ways Anet would have to block this, it would be impossible, I tend to report them and block them, then after a few days you do not see them online anymore so I remove them from the block list, Anet is pretty good it seems at checking and removing accounts that spam goldsellers.

Recently it seems to be certain zones getting hit, I don’t normally go into Rata Sum, and I entered the other day and instantly got spammed by like 15 bots.

Does NA/EU really have that many new players, I mean unique new players to the game that the levelling system had to be revamped, I can understand China where they apparently have 500k new players at the same time, but we are 2 years into the game, and now they are suddenly talking about new players come on, its pretty clear every update we are getting no matter what spin is put on it, is to make NA/EU fall directly into line with whatever China gets,

Its only a matter of time before we see VIP status on EU/NA like China has, and from reading this thread I can bet I know who the first person to buy it would be………

They talk about the levelling system, yet everyone who has played for the last 2 years made it to level 80 no problem, all the problems around levelling came in when they decided to restrict the trait system.

OP, I feel sorry for you posting here, you never had a chance, there are 2 types of people on these forums, the ones who agree with you and, those who do not, sadly on here its the ones who do not who are heard and will shout loud enough or spam hard enough to have this topic locked,

The game doesn’t have an end game at all, if you go looking for it you will be disappointed, some argued that Cursed Shore zone was end game, and Anet’s nerf team hit it with the nerf bat several times over to make sure the zone was a ghost town.

The LS really isn’t going anywhere, you log in do the story in an hour then log out, they try to add some time gated rubbish to it that forces you to log in if you want it, nearly everyone that started GW2 with me on launch is now gone, some to other games, some back to older games,

I totally understand this is now a 100% causal game, or for those willing to drop $$$$$ on gems to buy everything, everything is designed for those who play for an hour maybe 2 a day then log off, and that’s fine, as when the game im waiting for comes out, I just wont log back in either, the game is stagnant, those who don’t agree just expect less from the game I guess.

This game was always going to have to be massive in order to compare to GW1 in terms of content and story, so far it has not delivered, it does have outstanding graphics to which ive yet to see rivalled in another game, but they only go for so long.

As for the comment someone made about no raids etc, if they didn’t want raids in the game why make the Wurm and to a lesser extent teq the way they did, where its practically takes a map zerg on TS in order to beat it, ( more wurm than teq )

For those who are opposed to the OP’s post that is your right, and im glad you enjoy the game for what it is, and don’t have massive expectations, for the rest of us we can keep hoping.

A lot of these “exploits” have been reported 18 months ago and still go “unfixed” and now there saying if you use them in the current “meta” you can be temp banned, LOL what a joke, great way to support the community, this is why I don’t run dungeons and or fractals, if the fights where not boring, and loot was not so shockingly poor, people wouldn’t stack to kill a boss in 5 seconds ( no one wants to spend 10 minutes max ranging a boss down ) or skip mobs, but no instead of fixing it we’ll just tell players they are not allowed to do that no more LOL.

I’ve only done this event twice, the day it came out and 2 days ago, it was being farmed, but the event did not fail, infact the commander running it said, they would not let it fail, as they always complete events, and sure enough we completed it,

I guess it restarts every 60 minutes ( could be 90 as I wasn’t there for the start ) Anet before you hit the event with the nerf hammer making it no fun at all to do for those playing, just make it that if the event fails it has a 2 hour restart timer, if it is completed it then restarts as normal.

On the glitched part, are you by any change loading into Dry Top, if so its a known bug.

If you know someone who has the game also, you can copy there GW2 folder to an external storage device, then when you copy it over, delete the local.dat file in there, so that it doesn’t hold the settings from there system, and run it, the game will update the dat file as needed, and recreate the local.dat file,

Its great the way the Anet team made this game all in 1 file its far easier to back it up etc.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/buying-gems-went-wrong/first#post4278043

No, I play on Tarnished Coast and Dry Top this morning was bad also, but it didn’t go as far as DC’s though, yesterday was also bad, a guild mates instance of The Golem event in MM DC’d the entire server, when they all logged back in the Golem had reset.

It just seems to be certain maps that are being affected by this random Lag.

OP, for the next fews the only thing you cant do on Eredon Terrace is World vs World and Edge of the Mists, other than that Mega server has you covered.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Crashing-due-to-a-Invalid-Character-Motion

There may actually be a problem with this puzzle, as I used it this month for the monthly JP’s and did not get credit, nor did 2 of my guild mates.

You only get to use the TP 3 times per day, further uses will cost 50 gems each xD

I seen this event your talking about last night, and personally I found it boring and left, I wouldn’t overly worry about it, Anets nerf team will be on the case soon im sure, and will make that the event is destroyed completely, be it successful or not, that’s how they role in Orr,

They need to fix the drops across level 80 zones, if they made loot in general better, people would not flock to 1 event over and over and over.

One of the new lost coins on the new map is invisible on the screen or its stuck in the wall, this prevents you from seeing it when you press the alt key, I only found it by luck when I jumped 1 to many times and the interact option popped up.

You can see from the screenshot that the interact option is there but no lost coin, im guessing the other one is like this also, it could be the instance of the map we are on also, but yea, its def bugged on my map.

So the Perm Hair style contract which is said to be a very rare drop doesn’t even have a 1:1000 chance LOL, let that be a warning kiddies, do not buy BLKeys with Gems or $$

I salavaged over 21,000 ecto this year to max out MF, most of my Ecto was bought when it was around 30-35silver each, I then sold off the dust to recoup the losses.

By the end of it, I was down around 1400G, it was an expensive way to max MF but I wanted it done,

In the short term if you salvage 1 or 2 ecto you may get a high return, by hitting max ( insert RnG now ) but in the long term over several hundred ecto you will lose out.

Dust will always sit around 1/2 the price of an ecto.