Guild Wars 2

This is my main, Vivi the Black Mage* Karplunkk the Grenadier.

*I get that comparison a lot.

Fomby.4295:

At least update the buff so it’s actually useful. I’m still picking up gray items when I have that that lovely buff. And the experience gain is fairly crappy too.

If I’m getting my face smashed in because the other server has a Zerg, why can’t I get some green/yellow items?

Blame that on the faulty DR and loot drop mechanics. Then again, that’s a different can of worms altogether.

Magiofdeath.2745:

In this topic – thieves telling others to L2P because there’s a lot of players that cannot combat a broken mechanic (stealth) buffed by a broken game engine aspect (culling).

Not in this topic – 90% of thieves admitting to the fact stealth is a broken mechanic, people NOT comparing sPvP to WvWvW (which really needs to stop, sPvP has way less people in it), and people saying guardian/ranger/necro is OP.

Did I miss anything?

Mesmers and Elementalists are also OP.

Other than that, you’ve pretty much covered it.

its been a ridiculous almost 3 months since the thief thread (which followed long weeks/months of massive QQ on the forum) and nothing has been done at all.. whats the problem anet?

Anet loves thieves. You didn’t realize that already?

Ikarushka.9564:

It has been proposed months ago that instead of removing orbs, they should have switched the orb and out-manned bonuses.

I totally support this, heck I was one of those clamoring for this change even way back when orbs were still in play.

Hadan.2841:

You guys do know the outmanned buff does absolutely nothing for the player unless ur a low level doing camp raiding lol. To QQ about karma/exp buffs is INSANE.

Which shouldn’t be how world conquest works.

The winning team don’t need a WINMORE button, they already have the skills and the sheer numbers to prevail. The losing team/s on the other hand, need motivation to fight back even against insurmountable odds—in other words, they get an incentive to go on while Outmanned.

So for the winning team, their reward should reflect what factions occupying the bigger territories receive. Thus, they get more loot, more gold, and more karma for being winners. This would serve as motivation to defend their holdings with their lives, and not abandon the camp/tower/keep they just captured ten minutes ago just so that they can continue playing the boring zerg karma train flipping game with the enemy servers.

I’d like to know any updates on this issue as well.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Alur.7510:

@Robert Hrouda

Once things are tuned down, there’s a chance the DR System is going to be taken away? It felt for me more of a time “solution”, but yea, main concern is, once everything is tuned, if it is going to stay or not, you know how it can be sometimes.

I don’t think it will ever go away, because there’s always the potential for something to slip past us and enter the game. Not all players will abuse things, but the potential threat to the economy and the game is too high to go back to a system where a safety net is not in place. We saw the data from when it wasn’t in place and what things were like for CoF, and we simply can’t go back to a system open to exploit like it was before.

Of course, I am not in charge of such things. People paid much more than me get to make those decisions

Then those “people” aren’t doing their job properly then, since this annoying issue will only drive away frustrated players and hurt the game as a whole.

Upon further reflection, I think (no need to confirm/deny on this, it’s just my supposition) the problem isn’t in the DR code itself, but the loot tables themselves—I shudder at the thought of the current state of the reward code. With all the patches and rewrites done to that part (as I suspect that it’s much easier for the programmers to just change the stored variables around at that part to “balance” things), the whole chunk is likely now nothing more than a jumbled mess of virtual spaghetti that’s two meatballs short of gaining sentience. Which is why it’s not giving credit properly right now….

You should get a raise or something since you’ve gone above and beyond what your duties and responsibilities, in any case.

Esplen.3940:

Keep it open for up to 5 minutes, it could be your internet being slow, or GW2 being slow to interact with Awesomium being slow to interact with your web browser being slow to interact with your internet.

Nope, this doesn’t work either.

What does work is having to close the client entirely, then restart GW2 again. Takes 3-5 tries before it starts working.

You’d think this is a top priority issue they’d fix since this is where the money goes.

Blitzkonig.3978:

My Trading post is also blank except for the pick up tab….

I’ve had this issue since I started playing September 2012, and I’m still having the same issue for months now.

This is ridiculous.

Numakulla.6125:

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So be patient and it will drop someday. They’re not supposed to be very common resource as you won’t need them that much anyway.

I just can’t let this insulting comment slide.

I’ve been doing Fractals 10-12 SINCE DECEMBER every single day, and I’ve never seen a single Glob drop. In comparison, I received a Vial on the very second run of fractals (that would be difficulty 2) back in November.

This is downright discouraging.

I was there when it happened. What happened was Scholar Brogun was downed before reaching the totem. Someone was rallying him while we completed the escort part of the event chain. So even though it should move on to the Destroy the Dragon Totem event, the program still thinks it’s doing the escort event, and is stuck.

Esplen.3940:

Try running GW2 as Administrator.

If that doesn’t work, try also running your default browser as Administrator.

Nope, this doesn’t work for me.

I’ve been having this problem for months now, and I’m not even using new characters.

Stop the undercutting -_-

Well, stop the overpricing, then we’ll talk business.

There’s the saying, “All’s fair in love and war.” The same principles apply to both trade and combat. A stout heart and sufficient supplies will always carry the day.

Can’t we just make the soulbound runes Account Bound instead (and Soulbound on use)?

Mad Rasputin.7809:

There is DR on the dragon chest??? That is news to me.

I on the other hand have been saying this for months. DR is a stupid mechanic and shouldn’t be implemented.

Why not just get rid of DR entirely in the meantime until all this loot problems are fixed?

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DR really needed to go away. If it’s supposed to discourage botting, it’s not working.

MF does not affect chests, but DR definitely does.

What I’m wondering now is that who is the prominent player/dev/community member the NPC Commander is named after. (Like Siegemaster Dulfy…)

Zappix.7928:

Did Claw of Jormag today. There’s a champ that spawns. Didn’t drop anything.

Yup, I was there too (Sorrow’s Furnace server) earlier. And yes, we attacked the Vets and Champs, and none of the participants report receiving any loot better than blues.

Check your inventory again. You’re supposed to receive crates of commendation, which contains commendation credits that total 2000.

I did this earlier, and got the credits without any problems.

Here’s a more in-depth thread about this issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first

Would be nice to hear the official word on this. Sadly, the devs remain silent.

I see. I’ll be testing this now, to see if I can get it to work or not. Maybe the server maintenance earlier broke something.

Edited to add: Okay, I’ve tried to get it to work, and it does for me. I’m using my asura engineer main, btw, with the temple armor set from the Arah karma vendor.

Traxous.2304:

Hoping desperately for a response:(

Preferably an actual non-automated reply. Anything at this point would be fine by now, at least to put this question to rest.

I wonder if there’s actually an actual ceiling to the Magic Find stat (like say 100%.) and going beyond this hypothetical value would cause the code to “wrap around” the effect. So if that is the case, if you have too high MF your loots would actually DECREASE in quality since the game recognizes the converted MF value (like for instance if you have 150% MF the game thinks you have -50% MF instead).

First and foremost, we’d like to have an official word on this, and how Magic Find actually works, since what everyone believes what MF does does not actually seem to be the case here. The many cases of players using 0% MF receiving better rewards than with 200%+ MF equipment/consumables/boosts come to mind here.

I’ve been using this rune too (the Arah temple karma armor set) and I actually thought the chances of it happening are very, very low, or that any user actions done when the effects are triggered (like say pressing 1 to attack while in downed state just when your life points reached the required number) cancels the effect.

Not really aware that this might be bugged. Would like to hear the official word on this.

I wonder if we can replicate this bug. So much potential if we can…

InfernoToad.2549:

I think the fact the event ran for 12 hours (no matter if it was designed that way or not) gave an opportunity for pretty much everyone to do the event. Thing is, some people that could only get in in the last 2-3 hours could not finish the event because of the new build. I think those players should be awarded as much as any player who got disconnected during the “true” event. Was it intended to run for 12 hours or not? I don’t really care, people did in fact play for a few hours all for nothing and they should be compensated.

Except it didn’t even last the entire 12 hours.

Until I read this thread, I actually thought the lousy drop rate was just normal. This is terrible, and must be rectified ASAP.

I can’t believe this. I couldn’t complete it because of something going on at the server side, this is really infuriating.

I don’t mind spending all the time, money and effort during the event, but the fact that I was disconnected because something was wrong on the server side is really infuriating. I am so very, very dissatisfied with this.

I got disconnected at the last part too, and I got disconnected. There was nothing wrong with my internet connection or was there an outage. When I finally logged back in, the whole event has ended.

I am so very dissatisfied right now.

MatthewMedina.5419:

Allow me to clarify. My answer was specifically addressing the OP’s question about our new map, Southsun Cove. The content there does not count towards map or world completion.

In addition to that, we have added two new POI’s to Lion’s Arch, that DO count towards map completion and world completion, which will reduce your percentages if you’re at 100% already. So you will need to unlock those two POI’s to recover your 100%. This should not impact your achievements, your rewards or your medal.

The loss in achievement points is a bug that has been reported and is being looked into.

Seeing that I thought I lost about 1k achievement points, I’m relieved to hear that this is a bug.

Niim.9260:

Skribulous.3521:

Corvindi.5734:

Well I hope you do this in a way that lets us earn the same gear the dungeon runners will be getting, that will resolve a lot of issues over it.

…Besides the weapons are armor you can already get for Badges of Honor?

…yes because everyone should be happy with the same exact set of armor/weapon, regardless of class and build…

Isn’t the Invader set the best combination of stats for PvP and WvW?

Then again, I see what you’re getting at. Someone somewhere must really want a +Healing Power / + %Crit Damage / + Condition Damage set.

Corvindi.5734:

Well I hope you do this in a way that lets us earn the same gear the dungeon runners will be getting, that will resolve a lot of issues over it.

…Besides the weapons are armor you can already get for Badges of Honor?

RLDragon.1738:

If any of my characters have teleported at any time since I entered the game I cannot use the BLTC AH function. I must quit the game to desktop and re-log into the game.

I’m still having this problem too, except that after quitting and reloading the game didn’t resolve the issue. No BLTC for me since the update.

I’m having this problem right now. Already sent support tickets for this, but this issue still hasn’t been resolved. Sad to see I am not alone with this issue.

I’ll be fixed on the next big update, which should be by tomorrow.

Maybe.

Agomar.4719:

Can’t buy or sell anything on the TP. Thought it would have been fixed in a few days or so but still can’t.

I’m also still having this problem. Already sent tickets to support, but a fix still hasn’t happened. So frustrating.

I’m experiencing the same problems too, and already sent support tickets about it. Hope the patch fixes this problem.

I tried, still not happening for me. The checkpoint puts me all the way back to the starting area.