Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6028:

Update: This whole situation was a glitch in our system, and there was no account intrusion whatsoever. No one has accessed your account from that IP address.

That’s good to know. Will this entry get removed from our authorized network list then?

I have the same thing in my account. It shouldn’t be there.

Rarespawn.6028:

For everyone having problems with this, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!

Once in the makeover kit…change the gender of your character to the opposite gender. For example…my character is female, I changed her to male. Go to the glow slider option for the opposite gender(this is the slider below the glow color options), and it will be turned all the way off for some reason. Turn the glow slider back all the way up to max level, and change the gender of your character back to your intended gender.

Check the glow with lights off (wait for the glow to ‘pulse’)…and amazingly, it now works! Took me two hours to figure this out…it is a silly bug, but I assure you this solution will fix it.

Seriously, thank you. This got the glow preview to show for me, now I can actually change my character’s appearance without having to worry about a random outcome.

P.S: This is a really silly bug. Having to (briefly) gender bend before being able to style the way you want to (silly.)

Wilow.3061:

Once a bosses has been aggrod (and its objective is in your log) it’s been my experience that you cannot complete the dungeon without killing them.

This seems to be closer to the truth. I have been in groups that:
A) Skipped the first burrow and Kholer
B) Skipped the first burrow but killed Kholer

In either case, we did not aggro the boss[es] we skipped and I have yet to end up in a group that had the NPC[S] bug out.

Of course, the groups I have been in where we killed everything also had no bugged NPC[S].

I have the same issue. No glow preview in the makeover kit window for my Sylvari.

The kit does not show me the glow preview when the light button is set to night. I tried changing the colors, changing the intensity from high to low and going into a zone that is at night then trying previewing the glow again, it just does not show it. I am not going to agree to style changes when I can only see the day setting :/

I did this dungeon path weeks ago on my first attempt at it. To get by the mobs we all used ash legion spy kits (bought with karma, 10 seconds of stealth when not moving) whenever a wave of mobs got near we popped a ash legion kit. Once they moved on, we moved on. It was easy to do and the first two bosses are really easy to kill as well.

Note: The ash legion spy kit does not stealth your pet, so don’t try that method with a ranger.

Mainly because of the Asura movement animations, emotes (cheer, laugh esp.) and voice are really good (the female voice anyway) and I like how the ears rise up in combat too. Its overall movement style comes across as sort of ‘wobbly’ compared the more composed Sylvari or humans (nice.)

But in general I like playing the smallest race possible in whatever game I play.

Arciel.9650:

Hello, I crafted Sunrise last night and equip it right away (didn’t do anything weird to it like transmute w/e). However when I look at the character selecting screen I don’t see the medal for it. Is this a bug?

According to what I read here, it is either:
A) Neither Sunrise or Twilight count towards the medal. You need to combine Sunrise+Twilight to make Eternity before you will get the medal.
B) Or, maybe Sunrise/twilight need bug fixing before you will get the medal.

THANK YOU for the chest, my ranger couldn’t complete it but got her chest today.

I still have my Ranger but it is reduced to collecting lodestones and the occasional dungeon run (non-speed runs.) I did re-roll as an Engineer. The sheer variety, potential and less-bugged state of the class is enjoyable.

Still deciding on whether to level up my Elementalist or Guardian to have a third option of play.

raykor.6723:

I have two players farming in the same area as me atm who are using teleporting hacks and not even being remotely subtle about it. What is the best way to report them, under the “scamming” topic or the “botting” topic? There is no topic to report hackers or did I miss it?

The option simply doesn’t exist. It could be an oversight or that they simply do not have a team in place to deal with these reports. Hack prevention. I.E. investigating people reported for hacking and dealing with them before they can do any collateral damage.

Making a support ticket to report them was the only way I found to get the staffs attention.

OneMaxedKitten.8605:

awe extender.1908:

I wish we had birds that actually could fly, and not bee on an invisible grounded leash.
Also pets that could jump down instead of taking the marathon length walk around a mountain.

As a new pet:
- “Nagini” snake
- Vulture
- Lion
- Whale
- Rhino

The flying idea is great! I still wonder why my Eagle can’t reach an enemy on the wall of a keep etc. – it really annoys me that some of our potential damage just isn’t happening.

It is probably game-engine related.

I remember when I was modding for Fallout 3 (map editing/creating, etc.) You couldn’t simply put your map pieces together and expect the NPC[S] to be able to use it. You had to put down a ‘navigational mesh.’ The mesh basically being the areas where NPC are allowed to travel across, anywhere that didn’t have a navigational mesh the NPC[s] could not go across. Of course the mesh was invisible in game, but the NPC[S] could see and use it.

So maybe it’s some kind of limitation along those lines

I wish that they would stay forever (GW1 optionality style.) Currently they’re making my dungeon group sessions harder than they need to be.

Dolyak runes

/15char

Fay.2735:

I know I posted pictures before but Lilyfay has gotten herself a new outfit making her even more adorable she’s so cute!

My first thought on seeing those pictures was that princess from those Fantasia movie.

My Asura’s style at the current moment:

Cyrus.8261:

It used to be that way for a few weeks, and then ArenaNet listened to the people that prefer convenience over security and changed it so that you don’t have to enter a code when coming from remembered networks.

I prefer the old way, still hoping they give us an option for that.

That makes it almost useless in my opinion. It should ask all the time.

I have the same issue, thankfully I’ve had no deaths caused by it yet.

I was fighting a champ risen post patch on my ranger, it non-stopped spammed its most powerful rifle shot (whatever the skill was, it hurt a lot.) I killed it, but I had to dodge almost non stop to evade it. It wasn’t much fun.

Increasing monster difficulty by allowing them to spam their special skills endlessly isn’t a good way to go about increasing game difficulty.

Well, having level progres account bound rather than character bound would be helpful, as would crash recovery.

But what gets me the most about fractals is that by locking the do-able level for a group to that highest achieved level of the person with the lowest attained level— it:
a) Creates a scarcity of low level groups— making it harder for people to start out in it.
b) Further divides the player base, rather than bringing everyone happily together, it does the opposite.

A sincere approach to wanting to bring everyone together would be:
A) Level achievement is account bound
B) The highest do-able level by the group is determined by the person with the highest level reached, not the person with the lowest level reached.

Well, according to what a developer said in the ranger forum: there is only two people planning/implementing/etc class balance (therein skills.)

Not a full team, just two over worked people.

Too many event patches taking up their time and not enough focus on fixing outstanding class bugs/general bugs that have been around since the beta days.

You know what they say about house building? Build a house upon bad foundations and it will collapse. Build a house upon sound foundations and it will stand. < Something along those lines.

Just please, start fixing outstanding bugs and more thoroughly test patches out before putting them live.

Summary: You know what’s fun? Playing a game that is is relatively bug-less and where big events are lag free (therein fun for all.)

I’m not sure if this has been posted about before, but after waypointing to somewhere with my Asura and starting to run forward. My Asura’s character’s body would visibly scrunch up by 50% making it look deformed for several seconds.

I don’t get the scrunching up issue on my other characters post waypointing which aren’t of the Asura* race.

It’s a visual bug.

Never underestimate the bird

But… just drop a ground targeting AOE at your exact location, preferably fire (if you can.) And you’ll see that ranger desperately trying to dodge away for a few seconds but being unable to (dodge away.) After they do eventually manage to dodge away they will try to heal, so use your interrupt, heal yourself up and then finish them off, easy kill.

I don’t see how disabling auto attack makes it better. All of the times I have had my ranger stood in front of a target, with the sword and auto attack off. Pressing the 1 key often in that scenario would just send my ranger Jedi flying across a great distance randomly. In a PVP context, with auto attack off, it gives the enemy player several seconds+ to take the ranger down.

xPraks.5096:

AlexRD.7914:

And there is nothing you can do to stop it.

You can stay close to your pet and attack towards it. If thief tries attacking the pet chances are you will hit him. Having pets that have aoe skills at F2 work too, eg wolves with the aoe Fear. Another option is to run around and spam F3. Your pet will follow so if the thief tries attacking your pet you will be close enough to bring him out.

The pet tends to keep a distance from the ranger. If I am measuring the distance on my screen in centimeters (CM), it is 3.5CM when stood idle and at least 8CM when running around. Also if you run, say forward, then veer backwards the pet has a 1s or so delay before it will follow you. So i really don’t see how you can keep it “close” to you when the pet is always at a perpetual distance (never stood right next to you.)

Also, I don’t get why WvW is classed as PVE when it is clearly a massive PVP environment. As such, these so called “nerfs” to a thiefs, specifically, C&D, don’t take affect in WvW. WvW being where most thief players hang out.

Coldviper.6794:

Try having pistols… I’ve pretty much stopped playing my Engineer because of this because I really have no desire to get better looking weapons because they’re hardly noticeable as is.

Same issue for my Asura engineer.

Why bother saving for legendary weapons, let alone legendary pistols for the Asura when most stowed weapons, pistols especially are all but invisible (meshing near entirely into your armor+being extra tiny). I see no point. Anet went out of there way to make weapon differences more cosmetic than statistical, but stowed weapons on an Asura appearance wise are all but un-seeable.

I’d personally like to see the maximum allowed population limit for over flow servers slashed by at least 30%, it would make the over-flow server(s) less prone to lag and crashing during these one time only events.

But leave the main servers maximum allowed population as is.

Phase 1: Numerous Bugged NPCs.
Phase 3: EXCESSIVELY lag ridden over-flow servers. It took me 2 hours to find one that had no lag. When I did it was like halle F lujah, instantly the event went from hate to enjoyment.

Just standing on it’s dead body.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

By the way turning down graphics does nothing.

Because it is network failure on their end. Nothing to do with your display card.

What the heck Anet? This is not a tech support issue. The problem is on your end.

Lag lag lag. Skills don’t work. Get warped about and cannot see monsters. Don’t think I;‘ll be able to do Phase 3, just like I wasn’t able to do phase 1 due to lag.

Lost Shores is truly a lost cause. The fix they said was on Canach and other NPC has not fully fixed the NPC, sure you can attack them now but what good is that when you get nothing of ’em? So, no progression. Noll is still bugged too. It was stressful enough yesterday just trying to get my skills to work during the opening event, but this just adds exasperation.

I defeated Canach, he tells me nothing. I cannot progress with the event.

Canach on Desolation

Yeah, exactly which 3 items+amount are you dropping into the forge? I can’t get anything to take.

CC Eva.6742:

Hello guys.

I have proceed to merge the threads that are talking about the lag in Lost Shores. Rest assured that the team is working on it.

Thanks for your patience!

The event is over, you have nothing to work. ‘Cept maybe preventing this from happening again please? People like I logged in to play your one-time event and we simply couldn’t play it. Between skills not starting, not able to resurrect yourself by waypoints, getting kicked to character select and then after all of that to find out that it’s over in the instance you get kicked into. I had no fun. In fact, I could have just watched the FMV on youtube and avoided the stress.

MajorMelchett.6042:

Melonbrew.9681:

Lag is getting better, Can hit things now lol

That could be because people are leaving the area to get away from the lag.

Or they are being kicked to character select and end up in a different over flow :/

After at least 20 disconnects and being killed while not being able to use any skills, or even being able to waypoint to res. I log in again to a overflow (again) where the event has been completed.

Thanks so much anet for sliding showing me to death and not letting me partake in the event I logged in for.

The mad king event was not as bad as this is. This is a total failure.

what the heck is going on?

Attack skills flash but do NOT work. Got kicked to character select screen, logged in again. Now I’m dead on the floor and there is so much lag that even waypoint-ressing does not work. So i’m stuck dead on a floor doing sweet F A.

Fortunately I took a screenshot when I hit 3k a week ago.

nerva.7940:

I laugh at rifle warriors on my ranger. Just sayin

Yeap, I suppose you must have a little humor to take getting one shotted all the time by them. Props to you.

I had 3,030 achievement points PRE update. Post update I had 1,850. Now logging in again this morning I have 2,950. I still have not got all my achievement points back.

I found this line to be the funniest part of it: “I see a lot of talk about ranger weapons, but I don’t think that is the real problem. I think sword and longbow are both good weapons, <SNIP>”

They are anything but fine. Delete your warrior and make a ranger main, then you will see how much of a weak and bugged (obstructed, obstructed, obstructed!) they are, when compared to weapon skills on other classes.

I can’t help but get the feeling that there’s has to be some internal, unspoken, company reason behind this “mismanagement” of the ranger class.

Irony!

A promised substantial update for ranger is a minor one. Also a bunch of them are under water fixes, under water combat was not a priority for ranger. Well, it looks like the ranger is going to be in a bad state for long, longggggggggg while.

Engineer and Necromancer get substantial changes. Not that I’m complaining about the Engineer changes, as I made myself level 80 engineer a couple of week ago. They made some good changes to it (note: I don’t PVP, I only play the PVE side.)

Advent.2513:

Why do people cry about gear progression? It’s not like exotics are hard to get… They are only releasing a few pieces of ascended at a time. Enjoy the challenge. The gear isn’t 10 levels higher or anything. Plus the only thing after ascended Armor would be legendary.. Who the kitten would complain about THAT.

So at this point you’re right. The problem with a gear treadmill is that it never stops. Based on how this. But when they release the next content patch after this one there could be another class off gear added and they will proudly say: “We’re releasing a new armor class to bridge the gap between ascended and legendary armor.” Next thing you know there will be a new armor class released with every major content patch and we’ll have 10+ different armor classes between exotic and legendary.

There’s no real use to the ranged skills of the ranger when slight/major height differences exist between you and your target. They will almost always go invulnerable forcing you to run in like a warrior and whamdo it in close proximity :/

And if being on ranger stresses/angers/saddens you play one of your level 80 alt(s) some, make one if you have to. I did, now I see less of the ranger flaws because I play it less (more balanced spread of play time between two characters) and generally I’m happier for it. I really hope the 15th patch changes a lot of things for the better

As unspecified said, try previewing things in the PVP locker.

When I was gearing my ranger up, I bought a bunch of medium exotic armors, all of the cultural mediums (1,2,3) and even crafted a MF set. In the end though, sylvari T3 cultural was what I choose. I then transmuted my spare Orr exotic set stats onto the T3.

In general, medium armor is VERY generic looking. I would suggest get a exotic set for the stats alone and then choose from one of the 3 cultural sets for your race, then transmute your exotic stats onto the cultural. Is what I done, for my ranger and engineer.

Well, I’m not holding my breath anymore. Much as I adore my Sylvari ranger, I got fed up of QQing and waiting about for the magical, long needed fixes to show up. I used the time to level an Asura engineer to 80 and am just about finished getting its exotic gears setup right, but already the massive critical damage potential plus dungeon support is a lot more fun than the ranger. The nice thing is though, no need to worry about a pet popping out in a jumping puzzle or dungeon and getting me agro killed.

If the the promised patch does fix up a lot of things I’ll un-shelf my ranger and split the play time between it and my engineer. If it doesn’t, I’ve got my engineer. Whatever will be will be really.