Guild Wars 2

Signed. Previewing was perfectly fine before. Who cares if it clips in previews? People know you can’t mix different armor types together, people just used it to look at things people linked or to preview things for other purposes.

The thing about mom/dad/wife/husband/baby aggro is that it’s usually random. People can’t plan for aggro to happen (at least 100% plan). Things come up and real life has to take precedence over the game.

Outamyhead.4812:

I’m waiting to see what frames I get from the whole event, little Charr, mini Tixx airship, or the holiday light golem would be cool with me, in theory should be able to build three mini’s from all of this…either way I’m having fun.

I believe Hoelbrak is a griffon [&AgGhlQAA] and Rata Sum is a golem [&AgGjlQAA].

I played Perfect World International, which was probably the worst RNG cash shop game I ever experienced. I think people are right to be annoyed/irritated/frustrated/angry at minis being RNG. It just looks like a cash grab.

I definitely hate the packs (calling them packs cause they’re essentially the same as Perfect World International’s infamous RNG packs for good items). RNG is a terrible way to go about collectibles such as minis. I opened 20 and got crap, a friend opened 20 and got his minis and made a quaggan. Not going to bother spending gems on special event things again if it’s only gonna be RNG.

+1 to less one time events, the jumping puzzle and bell choir.
-1 for the selfish gameplay promoted by Snowball Mayhem achievements

Oglaf.1074:

There’s not a tree in sight and all buildings are rubble.

The issue that our group had is that there was a structure that looked destroyed, but still had a piece that could be demolished.

Anyone manage to get this achievement? The one where you smash every miniature in the Infinirarium. My party leveled the entire place down, and nothing seems to remain (except the minis of the main towns (which we can’t seem to destroy)) and no achievement.

EDIT: Got it on the second run. Staff Guardian can be really helpful.

We’re given 25% despite the tooltip.

Cross posted from the game bugs thread I posted. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Conjured-Weapons-Bug-with-Sigil-of-Hydromancy

This is a new bug, as of the 12/14 patch. I use the Sigil of Hydromancy on my staff (freeze nearby enemies on weapon swap). The sigil only procs in combat, and when summoning a conjured weapon, the sigil will activate and it will not place the weapon in my hands.

I tried it with my daggers which do not have the sigil, and I tried it when I was not in combat with staff. Only when the sigil effect procs, would the conjured weapon not appear in my hands.

As you can see in the screenshot, I have the effects of the frost bow on my character, but I do not have the frost bow itself.

This is a new bug, as of the 12/14 patch. I use the Sigil of Hydromancy on my staff (freeze nearby enemies on weapon swap). The sigil only procs in combat, and when summoning a conjured weapon, the sigil will activate and it will not place the weapon in my hands.

I tried it with my daggers which do not have the sigil, and I tried it when I was not in combat with staff. Only when the sigil effect procs, would the conjured weapon not appear in my hands.

As you can see in the screenshot, I have the effects of the frost bow on my character, but I do not have the frost bow itself.

I would say it’s better to just get your own food and not bother with the feast recipe. Chances are, people will be using their own food, and unless you carry food that fits everyone, it won’t be of any use.

I farmed on my Elementalist right after daily reset. About two hours later, I farmed on my Necromancer and Malchor’s had changed.

The consensus seems to be that farming node locations change with every new build. However, since the last build, it seems like they’re changing regardless. Since the last build, Frostgorge has changed once and Malchor’s Leap has changed twice on Crystal Desert. I think Southsun Cove has changed once or twice. Cursed Shore has stayed the same.

Has this been happening to any other servers?

Redscope.6215:

For right now, ban the players that are purposefully trolling others. Its hard to be the leader of a pug and go afk multiple times without doing it on purpose. If you don’t know that you’re going to have 100% of your time free for a dungeon run, don’t constantly be a leader/instance creator. It’s not that hard to let someone go in first and ‘pass the buck.’

This. If I have to go afk in a dungeon, I usually explain that something came up and tell them how long it might take me, and apologize. It’s a lot better than saying “afk” and disappearing for 20+ minutes.

From what I’ve heard, Inquest in Malchor’s Leap, Grawl in Frostgorge (and Fractals) can drop them. They’re also available in Heavy Moldy Bags, which drop from most risen mobs.

Elementalist can be very challenging. Can you give us some info about your current build, weapons, and play style/how you go about killing things? What are your utilities?

When I was first leveling my Elementalist, I mainly used Scepter/Dagger. Used 4 to create a fire field, then 2 and 3 to give might, followed by 5 to deal huge damage. Most things would die at that point. If they didn’t, I would switch to another element and spam any remaining damage skills. Circle strafeing is incredibly effective against most melee enemies in the game.

Some important things:
-Do you know what each skill does for your weapon set?
-Do you know of the self combos available to your weapon set?
-Are you staying in one attunement the entire time or switching?
-It may be helpful to run in soldier type gear (power/toughness/vitality) early on, if you’re having trouble surviving.
-Try to have more than 1 type of weapon set on you. For instance, I had S/D as well as Staff when leveling, now I carry D/D and Staff.

Elementalist is indeed a bit hard to get used to, but it is also one of the most fun classes in the game as well.

Ahlen.7591:

Rising Dusk.2408:

While that’s true, Ahlen, the scream’s duration outlasts a single roll. You’d need two back-to-back rolls to tank the whole thing from start to finish. Granted, it can be done and I do it when necessary, but just clarifying.

As to the main topic, this 270-degree scream has been this way since launch. I always felt this uber scream would be better suited for the HK, and that CR should have a better version of his leap more like the Graveling Scavengers.

Half the scream should also not kill you though. Also HK has a scream too afaik? I don’t really pay attention and just zone out on these fights, not like you can die on them.

Or is it GE that has the other scream..

Howling King also has a scream, but it only hits in front.

Anyway, Colossus has been like this as far as I can remember. Boss is still incredibly easy, regardless of it being 180.

Sorta attended (for demolition part, then left to go to a dinner) – came back on an overflow later that night / Looted / Mail

Skipped oozes before the cannon event, she didn’t start the script. Killing her didn’t fix it.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

What wrong with bandits? Here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bandits-Spamming-Launch/page/2#post936130

And to your #4, Hard mode in GW 1 = Dungeon elites (silver border). Same AI and mechanics: 2-4x skill damage and able to kite and dodge aoe and attacks. If you never played GW 1’s Hard mode, you’d be confused to dungeons’ difficulty until you learn how its mechanics and AI works.

Haha, wow. That needs to be fixed so bad. If the CM ones are indeed acting like that, then sorry to say OP, but you got caught doing the dungeon at a bad time. For point 1 at least.

What is wrong with the bandits at the moment? Been awhile since I did either story or explorable, but I don’t remember anything different.

Anyway, communication and experience always make a huge difference. I was one of the people who constantly ran CM story way back when there was no DR. When they buffed it, we tried it again and it simply took a mere 2-4 minutes longer. You can be a level 80 but be absolutely terrible at a dungeon if you don’t know what to do or if you fail to communicate with your party. You can be an on level character and best the dungeon like a boss.

As for the OP’s points:
1. The knockback is quite irritating, but focus fire and equip a stability move and they won’t be able to knock you around. Or CC them.
2. The mobs tend to say if it can do a buttload of damage to you. Snipers, riflemen, and I think one other mob specifically say they do more damage to moving targets. (Or should I say damge – the typo in game.) A lot of people, including myself like to joke that the game should be called Range Wars 2, but everything can be melee’d, you just have to be more careful about it. It’s also a matter of knowing your party. Do they have your back if you’re going to melee while everyone else is range? Do you have yourself covered in case you need to get back to your party?
3. I think this is more of an issue of not knowing how aggro works. Which is still majorly unknown.
4. Mobs tend to scatter due to their mechanics and AI. For instance, AC rangers and eles tend to move away if you’re in melee range. It’s not to purposely annoy you, they’re trying to kite and get away from you, much like a regular player would.

I’ve seen Hodgins bug up once at the first scepter part (burrows) when a group tried to skip Spider Queen + the gravelings after. He died mid dialogue and the run had to be scrapped. No clue if Hodgins still bugs at the collection part, but it almost always happened when players aggroed the oozes (in which there is a very simple way to avoid them completely, but players don’t seem to realize that walking on the left path doesn’t cause them to spawn). Killing the mobs or getting Hodgins never seemed to fix him.

However, Detha tends to work again when getting her killed.

Sigil Baram.8561:

Goatjugsoup.8637:

This isn’t too much of an issue but I have told the email authenticator to remember my IP address but occasionally it makes me authenticate again even though I never use a different computer. Mostly I am asking out of curiosity as to why that would be (like I said to start as long as I follow the authentication process there are no issues and I’m not being hacked or anything).

Cheers

You, like everyone else in the world who doesn’t pay extra money for a static IP address, have a Dynamic IP address. Some other random person now has the ‘network’ you told ANet to memorize. See my earlier post in this thread.

DON’T CHECK THE REMEMBER BOX. It might be annoying but the network you are saving isn’t YOURS. It is your ISP’s and they pass it around to all their clients every time your modem reboots or even more often depending on your ISP.

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@ANet:

So no comment on a system besides authorizing random IP addresses? I’m really confused how the fact that most the world has Dynamic IP address was a surprise or that the fact seems to be ignored and you are still letting people have them authorized permanently…

I really love your games, but this ignored annoyance/security issue is kind of disappointing.

The issue is those who selected it in the past but still were asked for a code. That was totally fine. Having it not ask for a code at all with a remembered network is baffling. It’s also further worsened by the fact you can’t forget any remembered network.

Hell, last time I checked, you can’t even disconnect someone from your account page without getting a page error. I would rather that ANet change the system back to asking a code every time rather than leaving it based on IP check that we can’t even manage if we happened to click it once.

It’s really depressing to see accounts hacked and get a bad response from ANet. When I played PWI and had my account hacked, the support was very responsive. I was able to call them and get my ticket through faster, and they constantly kept in contact with me. They were even able to give me back all my items, minus the money. That was a free to play game. I would expect better things of a buy to play game, especially one with the Guild Wars name.

It’s in Cursed Shore, and appears to be inside a coral. Not sure if it’s a bug or if there’s some super secret path no one has found.

Was farming in Malchor’s Leap earlier today and noticed that I was being blocked by a random bush. After jumping a bit, it appears that there’s a block of invisible terrain there. When I came on a different character, it was still there, so it wasn’t a random one time bug I guess.

Communicate. Talk to your PUG and learn what they know, learn what they want to do or think they can do. I play my Elementalist(15-0-10-15-30) a lot in dungeons, primarily with staff. Know your crowd control skills and utilities. For instance, earth and Glyph of Storms creates a blind effect as well as damage. Try to keep your distance and learn when to back off, and try to predict other people’s movement if you want to heal them.

Example of AC when you fight the first pack of gravelings:
I start in air and create the lightning field to daze the mobs, and then switch to water 4 to chill and slow them. Cast 2 on water and switch to earth and blind with Glyph of Storms followed by 2 (Eruption). Switch to fire, and use 2 and 5. Then after Meteor Shower is done casting, I summon Ice Bow and Ice Storm (4) the enemies if they still live.

I actually use almost pure glass cannon gear, but the most important thing is to know what you’re getting into, and adjust accordingly. Know what you can take, and get ready to run like hell if you get yourself into a bad situation.

This is an exploit. Karma/token rewards are usually not salvagable for this very reason, if you do this don’t be too surprised if you get your kitten busted and temp-banned like all the similar exploits before it

How is this an exploit? All dungeon token rewards have been salvageable since the beginning of the game. God forbid we have something to use our tokens on once we finish our gear. I imagine dungeon participation would tank even further if they were made unsalvageable.

I’m guessing you mean SE instead of SF.

All paths of AC are very easy, I actually think 1/3 are easier than 2. Just bring an Elementalist with Ice Bow and you steamroll the burrow events.

All paths of HotW are also easy. 1/3 are the fastest, and 2 is the slowest. None are particularly hard. Just get ready for some long battles.

As for SE, path 3 is the easiest to do right now I think. Find at least one experienced person that knows how the path works, and it will be very simple. 1 has infinite waves of mobs, 2 has an over buffed last boss that hasn’t been fixed yet (if I recall, a dev said it was a bug).

I ran some dungeons earlier today (after reset) and nothing in my monthly changed. Still on November.

nullixin.9462:

It’s possible. Arah path 3 first boss farm was like 5g/hr, given that you did 12-13 runs in that period of time.

I heard that got hotfixed so now only one boss drops money.

The gift will be account bound, so you can make it on another character. Also, in the end, the legendary will be soulbound on use.

Astralporing.1957:

Yes, more incentives to keep sitting in fractals never moving anywhere else. Brilliant idea… NOT.

This. We don’t need more reasons to split up the player base even further. Fractals and RNG have already fragmented the community, this would just make it worse.

I assume you can do this when you officially enter the order and their main base.

Please don’t use Signet of Shadows in a dungeon. The 25% movement isn’t needed that much, and from what I hear, the active isn’t that good either. I have seen countless thieves use it and never activate it. They are also the same ones I see dying regardless of that movement speed. Unless you’re skipping a whole lot of mobs, leave it out of your utilities for something else.

Hoping that no achievements are tied to certain days or one day/time events. Going to be absent half of that event time because it’s relatives visiting season.

Gmotagi.3641:

As it is right now only people who want to grind & craft have the possibility to get a legendary. What are you going to do to allow people like me who spend pretty much all their time in WvW to get one to? I really dislike crafting and I have a life so I wont farm the ridiciolus amount of mats that are currently needed. But I’ve paid for this game so how about some mechanic to allow me to get one as well.

A good majority of the legendary will require gold, as even pure farming for some items is over the top. Seeing as you get money (albeit low amount) from WvW, you would eventually be able to purchase some of the stuff. Doesn’t help with the 500 (not much at all) dungeon tokens, but if you don’t want to farm tons of mats or gold, then you won’t get legendary.

Just paying for the game does not entitle you to a legendary. You choose not to do certain aspects, so you choose not to get a legendary.

CharlesWildcrest.5824:

I just installed this app and set up my account to have this but when I just logged into the game, nothing ever had me put in a code.

Do you have your IP as a remembered network? If so, it won’t ask you at all. You cannot remove or change the remembered networks either, according to support.

It is pure RNG. I’ve only done level 1, maybe about 10-12 different fractals, and I have obtained 2 vials.

I haven’t noticed a difficulty increase, but I have noticed a loot decrease, despite killing the same amount of mobs.

Greatswords for Necromancer. Maybe even all classes. If I can use Saladbolg during Sylvari story, and Trahearne (a Necromancer) can use it later, why isn’t it for all? Not to mention ANet seems to love greatswords, let everyone experience it.

Ask in guild: Who wants Y dungeon? → X more for Y dungeon.
Watch map chat while in Lion’s Arch and ask a person “Got a spot?” in response to LFXM or “Mind if I join you?” to those saying LFG.

If I’m putting a group together – non guild, I put one character at the map the dungeon is on and leave one in Lion’s Arch.

@Khisanth
That’s usually what happens to us if I say “Who wants to go run some derngernz?!”

3. For the packs of dogs, AoE blind or any type of interrupt/stability can help. It’s quite sad really how easy they can be decimated when a Necromancer pops Plague and 2’s the entire time or an Elementalist uses Glyph of Storms in Earth. Mesmers can Time Warp and you can haste AoE everything to death. And on it goes.
6. As for the pods. Besides the required quest ones, don’t open them.
7. The first time my party did this (completely new), we wiped a few times. You shouldn’t have to Google the boss fight. Just realize what the boss does after awhile, learn from your mistakes and adjust.

Trash mobs are pretty much the hardest/and or most time consuming part in almost all of the dungeons.

Monki.5012:

Did they nerf him? If so how?

Also Id like to know if you use the Troll egainst him, does the troll kill him all on his own?

He hasn’t been nerfed as far as I know. Still the same easy boss.

I tend to like killing Kholer now. However, I dislike pitting Troll vs Kholer now, as it makes it difficult to get kill credit for both (both drop money) without havoc going on.

I’ve stuck with my same build (the only reason I keep Evasive Arcana is for the condition removal under water). I just pewpew from 1200 range when I run dungeons instead of giving boons up close and continue using D/D for traveling/farming. Pretty boring. I find my Warrior more fun now.

How does one un-remember a network from your GW2 account? I tried disconnecting logins from my account, but I simply get a page not found error.

Cyrus.8261:

Sera.6539:

I logged in at my friend’s computer which had never been used to log in my account before, and it didn’t ask for authentication at all. I definitely have mobile authentication activated. Something seems off.

Is that friend using the same ISP as you and in the same city/region? The authentication checks by “networks”, i.e. pools of IP addresses labeled by ISP as belonging to a certain region/city/area. If your friend’s IP address is in the same pool, you won’t get an authenticator prompt.

I checked with him. Different city, same ISP, different service. I can’t even disconnect any connections to my account, it just brings me to an error page.

With the rise of account hack threads popping up, I would rather have ANet revert the change that made it so it doesn’t ask for authentication from a remembered network.

I’m still interested in TA runs. I’m on Crystal Desert. I’m usually on in that timeframe you listed. However, what I’m doing varies heavily.

It was a tad hard to find PUGs during the weekend, but I’m starting to see more and more people ask for old dungeons again. However, the main majority asks for FotM. Perhaps a bit more time will even it out.