Guild Wars 2

Ok so both payments have went threw now and I got all the gems,

You should probably check into this though, as someone may end up spending a lot more than planned seeing as it tells them there was an error, yet payment still goes thru, this could lead to ppl being charged twice.

I have tried twice now tonight to buy gems via the ingame market, and twice I have gotten the same error, when I enter the details for Paypal and hit submit, it pops up this message saying.

Unfortunately there was an error with the payment provider. Please try again later. If this error still persists please contact customer care.

I got this same message about a week ago yet the payment still went threw and I got the gems ingame, but tonight it doesn’t not appear to want to work at all, is this a problem on Anets end or PayPal’s end?

Reslinal.2359:

Their core guilds adopted a “fights only” attitude during season 1 and stopped caring for the rest of the server who may be interested in objectives. In the long run the division destroyed server morale and also created elitism in the server that discouraged new/pvx players from playing (so no new fresh blood for guilds like choo to recruit from). Guess their tanking to T2 and not doing well there is the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

That makes no sense at all, but ill just leave it at that,

OP, long story short, SoR’s CORE WvW guilds have all transferred over to TC, there is little to no coverage for most of the day on SoR now, and with the last few remaining SEA coverage rumoured to be leaving the server today, it will be dead in the water, SoR will crash to T3 next week, and probably hang around there for a few weeks until the server rating drops it further down,

Personally I think this began back at Season 1, not so much because of the PPT Vs Fights but because right at the start of the Season we lost most of our Euro Coverage, this made it that NA and SEA had to do way more than normal, and it slowly continued, until we lost a few NA guilds making it harder and harder for the coverage, alas its what happens in a game when the rewards are based on coverage etc,

I personally don’t blame the remaining guilds on SoR for wanting to leave now, its near next to impossible to compete in WvW when you have 30 ppl to cover all 4 maps.

What GFX card are you running, as this black screen error occurs with both ATI and Nvidia cards, but clearly have different fixes,

If you are on Nvidia, what driver are you on,

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Black-Screen-Issue-AMD-ATI/first#post38195

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Black-Screen-Issue-Nvidia/first#post3964

I don’t really get into the whole Lore thing, I understand that some people are really into it and don’t miss a trick, I was talking to someone the other day who said the Guild Wars books are good to read,

So I figured id ask the people who follow the story/lore what they think, is it worth picking the books up?

Seeing as Anet are trying to distance themselves as far away from the original game, and there are so many unanswered questions, do the books etc cover all this, like why the gods left tyria, etc etc etc.

Post your crash log, the picture the error states OOM – Out Of Memory, which is a common bug in this game for some users depending on your setup etc.

Well from an SoR point of view, don’t expect any fight there, in the last 3-4 days we have lost nearly all of our WvW force to TC, and the few remaining WvW guilds that are left, will probably find a new home somewhere else too, and I don’t blame them, you cannot play WvW alone its a team effort, if the team moves on you either join them or stop playing.

SoR will drop from T2 to T3 next week, and probably hover around T3-T4 for a good few months until the community rebuilds.

Bug Fixes:
•An additional rock has been added to the Swashbuckler’s Cove jumping puzzle in Gendarran Fields.

Just a note, its not a overheating issue, I can tell from the screen shot alone you are running an ATI card on Windows 8, as ive seen others with the exact same problem on these forums, from what some are saying a GFX driver update has fixed this problem for some,

As I don’t run ATI nor windows 8, I cant really give any more advice, hopefully some of the ATI/Win 8 users can give more info on this problem/fix for you.

You cannot really make a profit from crafting now, as the market levels out the prices of the mats fairly quickly,

As for the cost, that will depend vastly on what mats you have, and what mats you need, dulfy has a great break down, its heavily time gated for tailor its more than any of the other 2,

http://dulfy.net/2013/12/12/gw2-ascended-armor-crafting-guide/#t0

You need approx. 120gold of silk alone, and its the cheapest of the mats.

Syhnz.4928:

so just returned to Gw2 after leaving for a good while, come back…hmmm my server ‘’Eredon Terrace’’ people barely run dragons and world bosses other that Queensdale train… ok il go guest on Beastgate…hmmm same thing is happening here…onward to NSP…hmmm well would u look at that nothing’s happening.

The issue here is Server populations are dying Anet, Before releasing more living world u better start combining sum servers together or your living world is gunna go away in a Dying game.

Sorry, I find it hard to believe you guested to Blackgate and no one was doing a world event, for certain events espically Jormag, Shatterer, all temple events, I would occasionally guest to blackgate, and it doesn’t matter what time of day I pick these events there are always a zerg at them, same goes for Jade Quarry, Mag’s can be good aswell for world events depending on time of day,

If you only came back to the game today or this week, then everyone will be farming the event in LA which runs every hour, as it requires a lot of farming to get some of the rewards etc.

OOM: Heap, bytes=33967608,
OSVersion: Windows 5.1 (32 bit)

Im not sure what windows you are actually running, but the OOM is Out of Memory error, this is a common error with windows 32bit OS, just search the forums for out of memory and see how many results you get,

My guess is that your old card was not running higher settings so you did not run into this problem, and your new card can run the game with higher settings, try lower your settings and see if this helps, the only real fix for this it to upgrade to a windows 64 bit OS.

Kalan.9705:

BT call centers in india will swear blind that no traffic management exists on BT accounts. The only way to get anywhere helpful with them is to force them to read their own page on the BT website confirming that traffic management is applied.

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/47278/~/traffic-management

This is the reason I don’t use BT, you use a British company and when you contact them you get a support desk thousands of miles away with someone who has probably never been to the UK, reading a script, im glad my ISP has an all British support team, I have had no issues since that first few days, my connection seems to be back to normal, im putting it down to that massive DDoS attack that went on last week, me friends connections have also returned to normal.

We tried this with about 4 of us thinking it was scale, WRONG first bridge WHAM comes the Vet train, all dead, so we returned with 40 of us, WHAM Vet train all dead again, these guys are super squishy, and completing that event it really down to luck, on whether or not the Vet train will pwn them before they buff themselves to the heavens, thankfully you don’t need all the event to complete the meta.

It seems really random on whether you get this achieve or not, I did the event about 6 times and got no achieve increase for it, then as I was running past it, I hit 1 of the elites a few times and ran on and I got the achievement for it.

Rennoko.5731:

Ok I Did It.2854:

We already figured that most of EU will not see this patch today, but can they at least post the patch notes so we know what where logging into tomorrow.

Look, EVERYTHING is in flux until the patch hits your client… I mean any number of things could change…. Why do you expect they should be able to post patch notes ahead of time?

Just like today, they decided at the last minute to add in all the sigil and rune changes, that is why it is taking so long to get the patch out….

I don’t believe that, these last 4 patches where planned months in advance, its not a last minute thing, this patch should have been ready to go 2 days ago, im guessing just like the EotM update, it was/has not been tested and something major and now popped up, hence the massive delay.

They add to patch notes all the time, if your claim about them throwing something else in at the last minute it true, I highly doubt it in itself has been tested, 90%+ of this patch should have been tried, tested and ready to go, they could easily post the notes for that.

We already figured that most of EU will not see this patch today, but can they at least post the patch notes so we know what where logging into tomorrow.

Yes but its not likely to be all account bound mats, im sure it will require gifts etc which are all account bound when made, but its all the other mats, if it requires stupid amounts of T6 mats for example, some people will not want to farm them, so they will still want to buy the precursor out right, then it because a demand/supply, and you normally pay for something that you want quicker,

This update will benefit a few types of players

The rich who can afford to buy pre cursors out right
Those who do not mind time gated content
And those who have no interest in legendary weapons, and will sell all the mats and super high prices

The very very broken RnG system is was destroys this game for me, I have friends who run around with little to no magic find as they don’t believe it in, and are picking up exotics left right and center, and myself and others who play with 250%+ and don’t see squat in game, it just makes me feel that the games drops are based on when you create your account, you either get ticked with,

1. awesome drops
2. below average drops
3. everything else

Actually depending on how much they make it cost, and hopefully they make them account bound on crafting, it could actually push the price of pre-cursors up on the market, as you will always have those people who don’t want to farm/grind for the mats to craft it, espically if they put something in that is RnG based.

Have you tried running the game as an admin,

Right click the exe>properties>compatibility>then select run this program as an admin

see if it helps

The only time I got a visual glitch was when I changed monitors, and I deleted the local.dat file and allowed the game to re-create the profile, and never had an issue since.

Read

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Queue-is-broken/first#post3611615

According to the dev’s the Queue isn’t actually a Queue, its more of a guestimate of where you are, and when it updates ( note they said it doesn’t update right ) you change numbers, sadly if the “Queue” states your number 5 it could actually mean your number 45, again you shouldn’t really relay on this, alas its broken, but according to the dev’s its not “broken” its just not updating correctly, hence broken.

Install windows on your new HDD, then just copy the entire Guild Wars 2 file over to the new harddrive, I did this when I installed my new SSD drive, you should have no issues.

You will have to update any shortcuts to the new drive path.

Yr GFX driver is out of date by quite a bit your version is

Version 314.22
Newest 332.21

I run the 331.58 drivers, where these are not the newest the are the most stable drivers I have found that Nvidia have released, I have not had a single OOM related error since moving over to them.

Im not with BT, but my ISP does seem a little slower than normal, ive been with them for 10 years, and never in 10 years have I had an issues regards lag, yet this week it seems bad, I can still get into game unlike some others, but its 2/3 seconds of skill lag, I have asked friends in the UK whom also play and they state they are getting the same thing, again they are not with BT or the same ISP as me,

Now me and my friends connect to the NA servers from the UK, im wondering is there an issue with that connection, espically give the back to back severe storms the UK has been getting recently,

I will try a full reset later of my internet and see if that helps.

On another note, the BT issue seems to be sorted, well for some.

https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity-Speed-Connection/BT-throttling-online-games-guild-wars-2-all-the-sudden/td-p/1167348/highlight/false/page/7

Congrats to BG and JQ on first and second place in the Spring 2014 League.

There isn’t a single reference in that crash log to any Nvidia card at all, something strange there, was there an AMD card in there before hand? Maybe the old drivers etc are not removed, you also have something eating your ram up, according to that log you using 12gb of 16gb available,

Have you scanned that system for malware etc?

I wouldn’t advise WPing out, but anyway the problem you have is from the game not your end, there are a lot of people reporting this problem, I tend to see it more in WvW than World Events though, getting downed seems to the easiest way to fix it in a big event.

What GFX card is the game using, I don’t know if a dedicated card will auto shut off the intel card.

Where did the game install the first time?

Green server, made up of all the WINNING servers across all Tiers, thus probably the most coverage etc, maybe you want green keep to be an iron fortress that takes x10 as long to get threw the gate and walls that cannot be damaged, maybe some free AC’s in there too, a few legendary defenders that cannot take damage that can 1 shot a zerg, would that make it fair?

Red server made up from all servers that are losing across all Tiers and probably have the lowest population, shocking that there keep would be harder to take, im sure the green servers could get a super zerg to cap it.

WINSON.3278:

It seems that SOR has already started to give up………….

Maybe you missed the entire topic on how SoR is playing in EotM this week, and that JQ and BG can do what they always do without any issues this week, and go PvD.

@JoJoJo, that blob your talking about on SoR is nearly the entire SoR coverage atm, they need that to go against the super stacked servers we fight against, you see that blob and we see a bigger one on each BL we go onto, you cannot beat 100 players with a 20 man team.

Like I stated in another topic, BG/JQ should be over the moon right now, they never want to open field fight, and now you don’t have too, you have 4 BL’s to PvD and never have to meet each other :o)

DevonCarver.5370:

Black Scoutsman.5830:

Allie Murdock.8152:

The queue is not broken. It shows approximate positions, and at times like the reset it won’t be as accurate as the number of people logging in simultaneously can cause it to update incorrectly. Once you move through the queue, the positions tend to be corrected.

Thanks for the report!

If its updating incorrectly…….wouldnt we call that broken?

The queue itself is not broken, the display is an approximation. The queue is completely FIFO and while the display can be misleading on occasion, the underlying system is functioning exactly as you would expect.

So if its not updating as it should, people do not know if that number 7 in the queue is really number 70, as its not updating correct, so technically we are back to what we had before where there was no indicator of how long it would take…..if its not updating as it should its then technically thus broken.

SonofNoob.3102:

They’d rather fight pugs in EoTM instead of fighting the actual JQ/BG guilds. But hey being farmed 24/7 by BG/JQ for months on end got demoralizing to SoR. So I can’t really blame all the guilds who have left or died on SoR.

What world do you live in, SoR moved into EotM because even the random pugs want to fight, all BG/JQ do is sit and hide in a tower and take turn spamming AC’s, you never come out and fight, and when you do get caught outside the safety walls, you rush to build as many open field AC’s as possible,

I would have thought BG/JQ would have been over joyed with the current setup, as none of you actually want to fight us on SoR and now you can just run from door to door and avoid each other all day long, its a win for all servers,

SoR gets to farm drops from killing enemies
BG/JQ get to beat down doors for PPT for bragging rights about winning that week.

Maybe Anet need to make it that you can only have 2 AC’s per tower and 6 MAX per garrison, what o what would BG/JQ do then…

So in short don’t worry about SoR where doing great, just go back to your normal game play beating down doors, must make it hard for you to try a 2v1 when the 1 isn’t playing huh………..

Seigfried.5938:

SoR guilds playing for ppt after they transfer to JQ.

Yea I like this I know some from a guild move JQ bought recently crying on TS before they moved about JQ playing for PPT and not fighting, and now they do the exact same, gold can do amazing things in this game.

artistry.5904:

My magic find is about 100% and I haven’t seen any difference in drops. I still get blues, maybe a green once in a while with a rare yellow occasionally. Hardly ever see an exotic.

Makes me wonder if there are unseen numbers assigned to your character during character creation (like when you roll an rpg character) that count for or against you. I only say this because I know some people with incredible luck like every time she logs in she gets anywhere between 3-5 exotics a day (during normal game play). I just don’t understand that.

They will tell you its RnG, but it does make you wonder, I know someone who got 4 pre cursors out of the forge in an hour, and has amazing drops in game, yet hardly ever plays, and others like myself who play daily and get next to nothing in the way of drops MF or not.

Vol.7601:

Ok I Did It.2854:

Vol.7601:

Ok I Did It.2854:

MF hasn’t worked correctly since the update went live for EOTM, there are people with little MF ( below 60 ) who are getting rares etc drop left right and center, and others who have over 250 who are not getting anything at all,

I was doing Melandru ( pre to temple ) and at the beacon defense stage where the mobs run at you none stop, after 6 mins I walked away with nearly nothing, WvW wasn’t much better, yet everyone on TS who had below 100 MF was getting crazy drops,

From what I was told on ts, the night the patch went live a dev was in LA and said that they where looking at MF as it was not working correctly, I wasn’t ingame so I cannot verify that, but they have no reason to lie on TS.

1.) Beacon is a popular event, it’s unlikely you did not get enough tags/ damage in
2.) You hit DR

Very popular event, although this was earlier in the morning US time ( im on a NA server ) still maybe 15-20 of us there, I was getting all the XP for the kills just no loot,

If I had been down there farming all day I would say that DR yes, but it was the first time I did the event in 3 days, and I hadn’t been in WvW for a week, like I said, when I was doing events/WvW before update I was getting decent look, and my MF is just sub 300%, yet friends who did not invest into MF at all, are getting way more drops than they normally would, and they even know it.

15-20 is still a lot of people to compete against, and unless you are a guardian and in a full party, you will be fighting for scraps. And just cause you get exp doesn’t mean you will get loot – the loot threshold is much higher than the exp threshold, which is why people party up since damage is pooled.

I’ve had instances where I didn’t get any loot for 2 consecutive waves while getting a ton in the 3rd wave. At default (no DR) it seems each mob has a 30% chance at dropping loot. And within that 30% chance, you have x % at picking up certain tiers of loot, such as junk, blues/greens/yellow/rares and bags.

I’ve had enough experience farming (+3000 hours) to notice if there is a problem with MF. It’ll always boil down to RNG or DR.

I know you farm lol I been following your website :oP

So tonight in WvW/EotM I decided to do some testing, this is a small sample, first role was with a guard, in a full team, I did a 100 kill test, the drops where close to none, even in the solo fights I had when running back to a group etc, the drops pre patch where far better, I ran a necro 2nd, to tag everything that moved, and again drops where sub par, yet still friends with very low MF are getting loads of drops,

I understand RnG but that should be based on the type of drops, not whether you get drops or not, and post patch, it seems very much that my MF is broken, and others is off the chart.

Vol.7601:

Ok I Did It.2854:

MF hasn’t worked correctly since the update went live for EOTM, there are people with little MF ( below 60 ) who are getting rares etc drop left right and center, and others who have over 250 who are not getting anything at all,

I was doing Melandru ( pre to temple ) and at the beacon defense stage where the mobs run at you none stop, after 6 mins I walked away with nearly nothing, WvW wasn’t much better, yet everyone on TS who had below 100 MF was getting crazy drops,

From what I was told on ts, the night the patch went live a dev was in LA and said that they where looking at MF as it was not working correctly, I wasn’t ingame so I cannot verify that, but they have no reason to lie on TS.

1.) Beacon is a popular event, it’s unlikely you did not get enough tags/ damage in
2.) You hit DR

Very popular event, although this was earlier in the morning US time ( im on a NA server ) still maybe 15-20 of us there, I was getting all the XP for the kills just no loot,

If I had been down there farming all day I would say that DR yes, but it was the first time I did the event in 3 days, and I hadn’t been in WvW for a week, like I said, when I was doing events/WvW before update I was getting decent look, and my MF is just sub 300%, yet friends who did not invest into MF at all, are getting way more drops than they normally would, and they even know it.

They should have just made this a flame kissed dye pack, for 1000 gems,

And then show you what it would make each armor look like, that way if you wanted the old T3 style armor, you had to go buy the T3 armor, then add the flame dye pack to it. I think they will be handing out more refunds than people buying it for sure.

RED team is supposed to be made up of the servers that are coming last / ranked lower than all other servers in each match up, im sure stackgate could get a zerg big enough to cap the red keep, in EOTM, or does green/blue just want to dominate with numbers/zergs in WvW and EotM without much of a fight?

MF hasn’t worked correctly since the update went live for EOTM, there are people with little MF ( below 60 ) who are getting rares etc drop left right and center, and others who have over 250 who are not getting anything at all,

I was doing Melandru ( pre to temple ) and at the beacon defense stage where the mobs run at you none stop, after 6 mins I walked away with nearly nothing, WvW wasn’t much better, yet everyone on TS who had below 100 MF was getting crazy drops,

From what I was told on ts, the night the patch went live a dev was in LA and said that they where looking at MF as it was not working correctly, I wasn’t ingame so I cannot verify that, but they have no reason to lie on TS.

So this week we are on RED side, and I cannot find the Laurel Vendor at the main WP on the map, if I zoom out I can see where they are standing at the blue/green base but no where on the red base,

Am I missing something???

Zanshin.5379:

I’m disappointed that it’s still Zerg > all.

Maybe that’s just your server???

Im on SoR and after running around this map for a few hours today, this map is excellent, it really does offer something for everyone, today I seen.

Zergs
Havoc groups ( 5-10 man )
Roamers ( 1v1 2v2 )

The map is so big that you can easily avoid a zerg on it, sure some of the objective will require a lot of people to cap it, espically if its defended etc, but that’s always going to be the way.

Whoever at Anet developed this map is an awesome job.

Yup we blew up lions arch, I cannot get into game at all now, everytime I try it instantly comes up with network error, bravo bravo LOL

You need to run the -repair command, a texture file in your archive has become corrupted it, ( ever texture in the game that runs that same file will have this problem ) I get this from time to time, normally after an update, if you don’t run the repair command, it will eventually prompt you on startup that you need to run it,

This will fix the issue you are seeing.

Coldtart.4785:

If that 80 man blob split into four 20 man zergs and split their targets they would be more efficient at capturing all your base, but each group will get less rewards and if the enemy team is blobbing up then at least one of the groups is going to get wiped in the process. All in all, the team benefits, but the players suffer.

The problem here is, if you take your 80 man zerg and break it into 20 man teams, when you go to the tower, the enemy server will have an 80 man zerg waiting to destroy that 20 man team,

If you haven’t already wiped it, you can just copy the gw2.dat file to a USB stick, and then wipe the comp, unless the virus you have is something is likely to infect external sources when plugged in,

Also have you tried to remove it?

I would have no problem doing the underwater one at lvl 49 if the underwater combat wasn’t so badly broken, you ever tried to fight them vet krait at lvl 49, you are dead before you can even cast a skill.

Dredge at 49 is horrible but with a good team easily done, on my last 5 runs at 49 ive gotten dredge 3rd, so im glad we roll swamp first so we are not in there for longer than we need, ive found that we get Cliffside 2nd, I always get drege 3rd, and Cliffside isn’t always so fast.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/I-see-crash-window-when-I-exit-game/first#post3576826

The problem isn’t on your end, its a client side bug that was introduced with the Living Story update, just ignore it.