Guild Wars 2

Yes its likely related to servers suddenly coming down

The servers are down. if you zone or logout, you can’t get back in atm. Further reports in the tech and bug forums

yski.7642:

Fringilla Vigo.8594:

same here…
Funny thing – my wife on her laptop (using same wi-fi) keeps playing…

The log in servers are separate from the actual servers – so long as she doesn’t log out, she can keep playing, but if she does logs out, she won’t get back in

Dont zone either

Yeah seems to be a problem atm. Ive got a thread going in tech support if you want to add to it

Hello,

Is there a known login issue atm? I crashed out and can’t get back in, but neither can anyone in our (EU) Guiild (Gunnars Hold)

thanks!

Last week I downloaded all the NES Mega Man games

I’ll be ready

The watchwork only fix didnt work for me. 12/13 despite doing what the above dev post said. I’ll keep at it and hope I get the 13th by luck.

Interesting clarification. This isn’t what has bugged mine though. I’m surprised this hasn’#t been communicated wider though since it’s quite a major point

The invasions are in mid level zones so new players wont see this. If anything, the opposite as people wont be in the starter zone as much. They’ve done exactly what the community asked for – epic content, whilst making mid level zones more active.

Also, they are bringing back the flame/frost and aetherblade dungeons later this year as fractals.

Finished my 13th diff zone today, but didn’t get the achievement. Seems an odd bug

Thoroughly enjoyed it as well. It said 5 player, but clearly was soloable. Felt like a good old fashioned GW1 mission in many ways.

Very satisfying and good fun

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Underwater combat needs a little love.

Not every aspect of this game is for everyone. Lot’s of people hate jumping puzzles, but we constantly get a new one of those.

Yet, no underwater update.

There would be nothing wrong with adding an underwater update every now and again in addition to the dozen or so jumping puzzles that are added.

Saddens me that a whole aspect of the game is being ignored and pushed out.

Agreed. I don’t like JPs either, but I respect they exist and are pushed because ppl like them. I love underwater combat and environs and so plenty out there. No reason not to have some small underwater content updates here and there for those who enjoy them.

Lorelei.7809:

why not have multiple events in multiple maps? This way even though you get zergs in each map, people are spread out across the game world and the zergs aren’t as bad. And then that would draw people into multiple maps at the same time, with the game having less of an empty feeling if you’re out in a map without a Living Story event going on or whatever.

This would have been ideal.

Don’t get me wrong I like the epic feel of the big zergs (I’m an old hack ‘n’ slash addict at heart), but it likely would have worked better spread out to a couple of maps

I love the idea, I love the mobs and whilst a kindless zergfest, it does have an epic feel (offset by God awful music which doesn’t set the battle up at all). The story started to improve as well (not great, but better)

The problem is the gating – ie not being able into Pavilion or into an event if you miss an overflow that was active 10mins post. There is no reason not to have multiple maps on the go. It’s a question of “right time” to log in…ie luck.

So far 5 invasions, only got into 2 of them. Hats off to the designers of the mobs though. They are VERY cool to fight. And a nice design. Lots of screenshots of them!!

So, you can’t do the pavilion until you follow through the story and get through the invasions?

But, you can’t get into an invasion if lots of people are in there, or you miss the 10min overflow timer?

So doesn’t that lock you out of both? (please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, I can’t genuinely imagine that’s how it would be designed).

If so, why not increase invasions to 2-3 maps? It would spread the load surely?

Why can’t there be invasions on 2-3 maps? That would probably solve this issue, an issue which pretty much is similar to the Karka fiasco. In theory, its actually possible for someone never to see the invasion content if they are unlucky right now

Imperatora.7654:

ColinJohanson.2394:

stay tuned! (and no the reveal is not an expansion!)

Half-life 3 confirmed!

I just choked on my drink at this one lol

The Skritt Burglar event? It matches your description exactly, except he’s not a bunny (he may morph you into one though – there’s achievements for being morphed into diff animals by him)

I haven’t given up! 50% once! There’s a lot going on in there that I find hard to keep tabs on. Compounded by an unforgivable number of bugs and glitches

I’m just farming more tickets then I’ll keep at it. Also..I need a bigger swear jar. I filled my last one pretty quick….

Eurafrica.9307:

Randulf.7614:

A 2-man gauntlet would also be cool!

If you’re really lucky you’ll get to fight the previous player’s enemy + yours solo. Daily double!

Haha yeah been there. Liadru + Quaggan…bit more than i could chew! Still it left the previous players orbs as well which helped…

There’s a lot of luck with that boss. I think its the worst of all them personally. I only managed it when I was fortunate enough to have the meat thrown at me instead of the dog. My warr is fully pvt and I needed about 4 chunks of meat to kill the dog. Cripples are meant to work, but I still found the dog was faster than me. Knockdowns however worked much, much better

As for the bug, well there’s a huge amount of bugs and glitches in gauntlet. Whilst I really like the gauntlet, the sheer number of unaddressed issues is unacceptable

Also, dont forget the vendors sell tickets for 20s + 15 sprockets if you need a diff class

GW1 had cheaper design – hard mode meant spike damage, not mechanics. Whilst this still has some element of cheapness, it’s a big step forward for the dev team in the way they produce harder content and gives hope for future meta bosses.

I still find Liandri a bit over the top mechanics wise, but I could entirely forgive that if had been properly bug tested. Extra bosses appearing, red aoe areas not showing properly or their borders further than they indicate and the camera for norns makes it nigh on impossible to see. And that’s just a few. I wouldn’t want to see her nerfed, but none of those issues should have been allowed through. And the time limit puts pref over dps stats (altho not quite as much as everyone says..Ive done most of the achievements on a pvt warr with a shield)

We’ve had new builds since the patch..not one is a bug fix for gauntlet. A shame as it is one of their better pieces of recent content (I much prefer it personally over the zergfest downstairs).

A 2-man gauntlet would also be cool!

Birthday gifts are for characters hitting their first birthday as it says on the release page. If you created a char 2 weeks after launch, presents will be given 2 weeks after launch.

It wouldnt surprise me if an anniversary gift of some sort, prob gems, was given to all players

There’s been dev hype over this patch. Hopefully this where the story really cranks up a gear. We’ve been spoilt by rewards and festivals and items. I just hope it’s something epic!

Yeah given the choice of random centaur, random elemental, random harpy, random corsair or Queen Jennah, I’d rather they just gave the Queen Jennah mini pet. I remember the excitement of rng mini… I also remember being disappointed by the boring pet I ended up with year after year…

People would moan whicever way they did it. At least we are getting something for free

Cheers for the clearer responses guys

Still worried about performance issues, but I’ll play with settings and hopefully it’ll be OK

anzenketh.3759:

Randulf.7614:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Quoting Colin from another thread on this matter:

ColinJohanson.2394:

The setting adjustments you can make currently will expand beyond just WvW, and simply be a game wide setting you apply for culling rules. For most folks, this means you can adjust the settings to actually improve your performance over current performance if you wish, since fallback models and name-tags are cheaper than full model renders.

If you do want to turn everything up to insane, you also now have that option to see an extremely large number of people in all their graphics glory. The choice is entirely yours!

In other words, yes you will be able to adjust culling levels the same as WvW.

I’m afraid some of this computer speak of “fallback models” is a little lost on me. Does this mean to play the game at our current performance, we would have to reduce our graphics settings?

Look at the settings currently in there for WvW set everything to low. Then go to WvW you will see what they mean by fallback models.

Alrighty, I’ll have a look later tonight when I can get in game

I second the suggestion Jennahs a Mursaat in disguise, with her Shining Blade bodyguard actually a White Mantle operative who have recruited the Aetherblades to help restore their power.

At least that would be interesting and create far reaching consequences in the world..

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Quoting Colin from another thread on this matter:

ColinJohanson.2394:

The setting adjustments you can make currently will expand beyond just WvW, and simply be a game wide setting you apply for culling rules. For most folks, this means you can adjust the settings to actually improve your performance over current performance if you wish, since fallback models and name-tags are cheaper than full model renders.

If you do want to turn everything up to insane, you also now have that option to see an extremely large number of people in all their graphics glory. The choice is entirely yours!

In other words, yes you will be able to adjust culling levels the same as WvW.

I’m afraid some of this computer speak of “fallback models” is a little lost on me. Does this mean to play the game at our current performance, we would have to reduce our graphics settings?

I’d be interested to know what technical improvemnts have been made. Obv wvw needed culling removed, but that shut me out of wvw during peak time completely. I’d hate to see it happen in pve as well.

I personally prefer non spoken. The voices selected for my character are way off what I want for them and this gets round this for me.

Royal Champion maybe or Champion of Darkness.

Shiro would be very cool
Beating up Logan would be great. I’d pay real money for repeat beat downs on him
I like the “mirror” idea from GW1, ie fighting yourself

I like the idea of bringing back the old LA arena (from the book) for a 5 v 5 arena battle

Haven’t seen a champion or a bonus event since the reduction of centaur champ patch last week. Just presumed they’d been removed.

Congratulations! As someone not skilled enough to kill her (yet!!), I do think you guys who manage the 8 orb achievement should get a title. I know its buggy and annoying, but completing it even with those handicaps deserves a title for sure.

Nice achievment points btw!

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/09/guild-wars-2-teases-anniversary-plans

I think this might be the right vid where they mention it…

Whilst I agree it would make it more immersive, Lotro has a seamless world and it’s now catching up with itself 5 years on. The number of people suffering 15-20min load in times and other lag issues with each new zone added, is growing rapidly. It’s why I rarely log in there anymore..just too long a wait compared to other mmos

I believe the devs said changes to boss mechanics were coming, so hopefully at least Teq and Shatterer will get some sort of change – event it is to remove safe spots and make their attacks worthwhile.

Joining a frostgorge champ hunt today felt like a Monster Hunter speed run. I’m sure there are ways to improve the exisitng bosses to make them more than they are now. Whilst I’m all in favour of finally group killing champs, its too quick and easy atm.

Make them fight back!

Post your nicest balloon + landscape piccies here!

Yep, unbeatable atm. Level 80, dead in seconds, allies dead in seconds. Cannot defeat the champion. Even when you get some health down on him, he just resets

Totally agree. My fav expereince in this update was seeing an aetherblade ship flying past a balloon as I watched from a hilltop. This is the rpg stuff I want to see more of in the game. That’s not putting down the rest of the content, but the mini games and rewards focus needs to shift back to world building and atmosphere for me.

More stuff in the Orrian Boxes. I currently have double figures in the Balth mini pet, when really the whole temple set would have been better to have in them. Some exclusive armor or weap skins maybe inside. Or a chance at the Jade/Molten tickets. Or Bl keys.

Part of that odd dev reply is that I cant imagine any significant number of players knew about 40 extra DE’s in the core world. I certainly didn’t. Considering how many players don’t see every event in every zone, they probably assumed these were there from launch.

Sticking fun and interesting events in with nothing around them wont work for them either – they need to be supplementing new content. They’re kinda doing that now, but with much, much shorter DE’s.

I can’t say I’ve seen anything that suggests they are giving up on them. I vaguely remember them saying new zones are likely to lose hearts in favour of DE’s as they tell the story of the zone better. There’s a lot of threads asking for zones with POI’s, events etc, so the demand is def there for them, can’t say how much though.

I guess it is tricky for them. There’s doubt a fully story based, event filled MMO could hold its own hence why the zerg battles and farming are in there – to cater for the other side. I don’t think they’ve given up though on events. I think they are still experimenting with how they deliver content due to fractured community who can’t agree what they want either.

The problem is, if they were permenant, after a few weeks, people would struggle to find other players as the novelty wore off. The sad fact is, the majority of players are likely playing for achievements and not the fun of them.

Sprint, Dragon Bash and Crab Toss all tailed off at the end of their cycle as ppl got quickly bored. Bringing them in selectively keeps them fresh and alive with players

Yes it is
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Karma-Spender-Seems-to-be-bugged

darkace.8925:

Randulf.7614:

Nah, blew them all on T6 mats

I’ve considered this, but my 220+ laurels wouldn’t even get me a three stacks of the required eight stacks needed for the Gift of Fortune.

No they wont, but they will get you a significant way towards, which will help psychologically speaking. Especially as T6 mats are much more common with this patch. Also, you get tons from making clovers so you will be well on your way

Or, you can just sell that mat and make lots of Gold

Nah, blew them all on T6 mats

I’d rather see Gauntlet and Pavilion separated but still public. The viewing is what gives it the extra charm, but yes, being above an area unplayable for those of us without high end PCs at peak period is frustrating.

Overall, I’m happy with this LW content, but the performance issues are pretty bad

I noticed she still referred to the Charr as “our enemy” in the story instance..

Yep, pretty much how I felt. Was disappointed by the lack of story, esp at the end last month. This was a big improvement.