Guild Wars 2

I can confirm this bug. I’m not sure why this happens, but please fix it or give us another option to obtain the collectible.

With every update come new audio problems, sadly. I also didn’t hear any voice.

cocolu.7640:

I could not for the life of me figure out how to kill Malevolent Memory. Not a fun fight, really frustrating .

Instead of qq-ing on forums you could have asked somebody to help you or give constructive feedback.

Randulf.7614:

I killed a bunny in the shiverpeaks……

…… and I smiled

I made a video of me killing a bunny and laughing my kitten off afterwards… (Ice magic rules against bunnies!)

Are we going there again? <3

Yeah the Priory gets attacked.

It made me happy to see Ogden! It also seems the Pact is finally making their move.

I ran into the same issue trying to load Southsun Cove. Other maps (seem to) load fine.

Edit: Sparkfly Fen also broke for me. Seems to be an issue when there are a lot of people on the map?

Sold it for 80g. Well I’m okay with that. xD

http://puu.sh/cnOkc/96594fc0a0.jpg
http://puu.sh/cnOlu/39196aba3b.jpg

For science.

brittitude.1983:

My current running summary:

Item #1
- sinister, ghostly
- fit into a cylindrical case
- something you would not want to get wet
- “lies” seems to imply something that can be communicated, not necessarily a thing
- something that can be purchased, expensive
? is haggle important?

Suggestions

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ghastly grinning shield
Gift of Ascalon (not available in MF – Mattsta, Skoomagott, blueinfinity)
ghostly doubloon
Ghostly spineguard (not available in MF – Labjax)
Ancient Krytan Amulet
Mad Memories items (do not seem to show in MF- Alcyone)
Bloodstone bricks or dust
Glob of Ectoplasm
dowel
broken flute
Recipe(of what?) (those Myani sells?)
Bottled liquid (of what?)
ghostly tonic
eldritch scroll
bloodstone shard
Elonian wine
ghostly scrap metal
Offering of Ascalon (not available in MF – Skoomagott)
Lost Heirlooms
Gift of Darkness
Gift of Moon
Althea’s Ashes
Gift of Souls
Recipe: Ascalon ghost potion (not available in MF – Black Frog)
Ascalon ghost potion (not available in MF – Black Frog)
Vial of Condensed Mists Essence

Item #2
- an everyday item
- trivial by itself, but many had power
- area he is stealing from has people with a heritage they might feel sensitive about
- lots of merchants and guards around
- water nearby you can get to from a long alleyway
- reflective
- favorite of Zommoros

Suggestions

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Elonian wine
mystic coins
crystals

Item #3
- rocky area with geysers
- combat to get item
- creature is “alien, cur”, makes rumbling noise, charges, shelled

? uses a blade to get the item?
? bloodshed important?
? clinking noises related to third item or one of the first two?
? possibly the Brand & not Southsun?

Suggestions

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passion flowers
orichalcum dagger blade (or other blade)
karka shells
passion fruit
ancient karka shell (not available in MF – kalarchis, ShibakiBarrows)
orbs
vial of blood, venom sacs
foxfire cluster
Sclerite karka shell (doesn’t combine with mystic coins/eldritch scroll – Atalar)
Anthropoda
Crustacea

Notes:
Superior Sigil of the Night doesn’t combine with karka shells (TheBlackLeech)
Weaponsmith blades do not work with eldritch scroll/mystic coins/vials of powerful blood (Serophous)
Junk items do not work in MF

For item#1:
- fit into a cylindrical case
- something you would not want to get wet

That can’t be right, those are hints for item#2, as Lemarck does not have to steal something, that he already bought.

Edit: On second thought, I am wrong – he did not want to loose the item he bought 2 days ago when he was chased by the guards.

Dulled blade means probably the blade he was using to fight off all the wildlife in Southsun.

John Smith.4610:

edit 3 (in story form): Lemark wasn’t much of a haggler. the merchant had taken almost every copper he owned, but it was worth it. He was positive this time, no more fakes, no more copies, forgeries or lies, this was it. He could feel it, sinister…ghostly, it felt weird to hold, but he didn’t care, his journey was one quarter complete.

Coming back to this, have we decided, what it really is yet? Do we think we can buy this item from a regular NPC? It could also be an item available at the Trading Post.

When searching for ‘ghostly’, I find a Lvl80 “Ghostly Spineguard”, which is available for 100g (but Ordered for 10g). I know I may be taking this too literal here, but i’d consider it. (There’s also a lower level version, but you can’t put that into the forge).

People of Tyria have seen Windriders already – but Karka are new to them, hence I’d assume Lemark is referring to those as ‘alien creatures’.

Yeah I also thought of the Ancient Karka Shell.

Is he farming vials of blood? O_O

I suggest putting an extra slider into the UI to adjust the amount of gems/gold you want to exchange.

Funny that it’s 5 for 150 gems while a full armor consists of 6 pieces. I see what they did there.

+1 so hard I broke my mouse.

Yargesh.4965:

Don’t understand your point, you can dodge in the exact same way now as before.

He was making a point of why veteran players shouldn’t try to reevaluate the NPE.

When succeeding an event is less profitable than failing it… Doesn’t that tell us that there’s a major design flaw with event rewards?

Edit: Anet also seem to have realized this, just look at the Dry Top events.

I think foxfire drops are a permanent addition to the game, so over time they will become cheaper.

BrotherBelial.3094:

I don’t like the skins so I’m praying I don’t get one. They’ll rob me of a drop that I could use/sell.

You can sell them now.

^I like your theory. It would explain why Rytlock would be able to lift the curse, even though he is (obviously) not a descendant of Doric.

Rauderi.8706:

Behellagh.1468:

Then it’s not RANDOM CHANCE.

If it’s 10% chance that an item is in a chest, it doesn’t mean you are guaranteed to get one out of every 10. There is still over a 1% chance of getting none after opening 43 of them. There’s never been a guarantee that everyone will “win” but overall, 10% of all chests will have that item. You may get it on your first chest, you may get it on your 1,000th chest but everyone has a 10% chance per chest.

And that’s just not very good. :\
And we all know a 10% chance is WAY too generous for GW2 loot.
So, odds are, it’s 1%, or .1% (400 chests = 1% or ~4500 chests =1% respectively)

To repeat that, expect 4500 chests. That’s abysmal.

I do have to wonder how much difficulty to code (probably not much) or game load (maybe?) it would take to add increasing gains to loot boxes and the like. So, take 0.1% and increment it by 0.1 for every “miss.” By the 90th box, you’ve got a thing. Then the gains reset, and it starts all over at 0.1%
Number, of course, adjustable for how expected loot is supposed to happen.

You would have to keep track of how many boxes of which type each player has openend and which item-subclasses they received out of them. It further means to implement dynamic loottables. I don’t think such a system will be implemented by Anet (and I don’t think it’s a good, transparent solution). I would prefer a system that has true RNG but also allows you to trade RNG for playtime.

Let’s take the current problem with exotic insect drops in Dry Top as an example. First we have to clarify something: players can only receive the item by opening special chests with a special lockpick item. Lockpicks can be obtained by playing in Dry Top and farming Geodes by doing events or killing enemies. So it’s obvious that the Devs want to motivate players to play the new content by giving them a chance at this rare item.

But why only give a (slim) chance at the item? Why not gurantee the item for players that spend an average of x hours playing the game? For me the prestige of the item is not important, I just want to have fancy looking skins for my weapons/armors/etc. (I really like the ambrite weapons btw!). So an obvious solution seems to be giving players another item every time they open one of those chests. It can’t be Geodes, because you can buy keys with them to open even more chests. It could work maybe, but the implications are too subtle for me to dive in now.
So we’ll invent a new account-bound item (remember, the devs have good reasons to make items account bound), and we make it so players can exchange a set amount of this item for one exotic insect. People who don’t care for those items can simply bin them (or we allow them to sell the items to NPCs, so they don’t feel cheated or something).

What are the implications of this? If players are lucky, they will still get the insect out of the chest, so no harm done here. But for all the other players it implies the following: they can make a good estimate of how much time they will have to invest to <b>definitly</b> receive the item they want. They know how many Geodes can be made on average per hour, which can be exchanged for lockpicks to open the chests. For the sake of simplicity let’s assume you get exactly one of those special items each time you open a chest. It’s really easy now to figure out how long it will take at maximum to be able to get the insect. Moreover, you have the chance at a <b>shortcut</b>, that is the insect dropping from one chest due to RNG.
The only difficult thing I see with this whole system would be finding a good estimate for the amount of items needed to get the insect. You don’t want the number too low, because then this whole discussion wouldn’t make any sense, but you also don’t want to make it too high, because players will be upset again.

What do you guys think?

I am a little upset now as well – but not because I got no insects, on the contrary: I just got a second one… And I can’t give it to anybody (for example my gf, she really wants the butterfly-axe), so the only thing I can do is trash the thing. :| I have no interest in grinding another 350 geodes.

My suggestion would be to give players a second way to attain an item like this Fossilized Insect, either through Gems or some other way that rewards players dedicating their time to the game.

And here I was thinking yesterday that it’s kind of sad that the Charr were not really involved in this LS… then Anet comes along and throws lore-happyness straight into my face. \o/

A “gift option” would be a really nice feature for account bound items though.

If they start to give me 15 seconds of time for each aspect then I’ll able to reach Maguuma Falls in no time. #WhoNeedsMapBoundaries
But I do have some empathy for OP, increasing the time could help.

Yes I agree, that’s a major flaw I see with the current journal system.

Yes it does happen. I got lucky and found a taxi with group finder. :P I think the main zones are always full and the megaserver system likes to put me into empty zones (that stay empty for some reason).

I think I waited for about 10 minutes for them to continue. On my first playthrough everything went smoothly though.

Got this bug too. I was fighting in the river to have more space to move and a few seconds before Taimi was finished with the console I went down. After rallying I noticed that there were no quest markers and I was stuck.

I’m not her friend…

Yeah when I recognized she was dead I was like “eh, whatever, another corpse to the pile”.

The way he talks to the PC doesn’t make him seem corrupted. I expect him to play a bigger role in S2.

+1 so much for a better visible mouse cursor!

Well at least something.

Welp, looks like my theory was not so far off at all… But now people (NPCs) should definitly realize that they should take action against the vines lol.

I just noticed, the Seraph are actively using the Mirkrise Waypoint to get reinforcements closer to the Tangle Root. When the Jungle Entaglement meta-event starts, a lot of soldiers teleport in there. It could be possible that the goal of the vines is to really destroy the waypoint-system to really hurt the enemie’s infrastructure.

There’s still something odd with that “magic sucking” theory. Why would those vines not go after the Thaumacore Inquiry Center? There is a huge energy source there, but not vines.

If we assume that the vines are part of Mordremoth’s corruption, then I have a theory: maybe the dragon needs fresh, uncorrupted energy to feed on. That purple energy flow above Thaumanova Reactor and the south of Toxal Bog is most definitly some kind of dragon energy (called chaos energy by the Inquest) and the purple glowing vine at the top of the mountain at the entrance to Dry Top seems to release dragon energy as well. My theory is that the dragon consumes the world’s energy and transforms it into chaos energy, thus there is no reason to feed on the Thaumacore.

By the way, did somebody check Zone Green again at Infinite Coil Reactor?

Edit: Attached a picture of the Thaumacore Energy Source.
Edit2: Sadly nothing new at Zone Green.

Rainshine.5493:

Talk to the Priory peeps at the outpost in Brisban where there’s an affected waypoint. They comment on the vines. So at least some of that is sprinkled around it seems.

You are right, there is at least a single NPC that comments on them. I feel a little happier now. Sadly she just says something like “yeah they are interesting, but leave me alone”.

onemantankwall.3641:

http://guildmag.com/magazine/issue9/interview.htm
It was said in an interview shortly prior to release. gw.dat image of Arah’s map that has a dragon corpse, but it doesn’t really match the release one and outside one wing (the other missing/covered), it doesn’t look like Zhaitan too much – on the map, it’s located SE of where the GL is.

dat map with dragon in it: http://i.imgur.com/AluWU.jpg
dat map without dragon: http://i.minus.com/jvAjEof21jMx4.jpg

There’s multiple changes between them, only the general layout remaining the same, and the latter seems to be the release one.

So it seems that Zhaitan’s corpse may have been removed – at least from the map itself.
And if u want farther proof google zhaitan carcass pre-launch, it was placed in beta but was actually redesigned then scrapped all together because zhaitan was actually too freakin big for the current map of arah that was released i would provide more but just got to work

There should be a 1o1 how to cite… Sauce: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/72448-zhaitans-remains/#entry2035923

Regarding the vines, does anybody know how fast they spread? It seems to take longer than a day.

cpg.7140:

The chaos crystal cavern is connected in terms of lore (although I can’t remember the specifics) with the Thaumanova Reactor and I suppose, therefore, dragon energy, so that’s likely the thinking behind it.

See my screenshot below.

Michael Walker.8150:

Wait a minute….

why are we (including NPCs) just starring at those vines that seem to destroy our means to travel and potentially suck out all the magic out of Tyria?

Anybody tried cutting them? (NPCs)

That’s actually a point that upsets me a lot. Not a single NPC can be found taking note of those vines – the first time I spawned and saw this huge shadow to my feet I was like “EEK, the hell is that?!”, but not a single character can be found commenting on what’s happening. :|

I expect something to happen to Thaumanova Reactor and Infinite Coil. :o

Viking Jorun.5413:

“Fixed a server crash”

….mmmhhmmmm >_>

I wonder how many server crashes they’ll be fixing between now and next patch?

I assume they were fixing bugs server-side, so you’d just relog to switch to the patched server.

They even put those story bits about Scarlet that were only present in that one blogpost into the game. (Talk to the holoemitter in Scarlet’s room)

I assume low vitality builds make it easier, as the quicksand deals %HP based damage and also armor doesn’t influence environmental damage at all.

Opened ~100 more, 100 token hype.