Guild Wars 2

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

MashMash.1645:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

There are three possibilities:

• ANet already plans to add this feature Tuesday (or shortly afterward). They didn’t mention it yet, as to avoid distracting from the main announcement that legendary armor arrives with the next patch.
• It turns out the feature is more complicated (for some reason) for weapons and it’s not yet ready. Since ANet doesn’t announce features without a shipping date, they haven’t said anything.
• It never occurred to ANet that players would want this functionality for weapons, despite all the posts about it for over four years.

Which do you think is more likely?

It’ll be number 3.

Turned out to be the 2nd.

Strange, isn’t it, that predicting “that’ll be wrong” every time a statement is predicate on the idea that the anet developers are complete and utter kittens … turns out to have a hundred percent hit rate.

Your second suggestion was implemented over in WoW in the form of each quest reward giving ten percent “extra” money to the guild of the player.

This led to incessant spam guilds being created with the explicit purposes of (a) recruiting as many players, especially new players, as possible, and (b) thus channelling more money into the bank that the officers could use for themselves.

It did not result in higher quality guilds, it resulted in more guilds, used for the benefit of the people making them, at the cost of the players — because the guild didn’t do anything other than use them as disposable sources of income.

Xan Valeek.2063:

I just want a new race….maybe tengu

Not gonna happen, probably ever. The amount of work fitting gear to them makes the return on the investment way, way, way out of bounds to the effort involved.

Living Story 2 establishes that the Asura build and maintain them. So … you are welcome, from the people who control the world.

You would need to file a support ticket to get this refunded.

FWIW, it is impossible to dye any backpack, so it isn’t just this thing, it’s every single one in the game.

I’d try moving your gw2.dat file out, delete everything else, grab the installer again, get it to start downloading, exit it, then move the dat file back to save redownloading all the assets.

Sounds like something got corrupted unexpectedly, and that should hopefully clean it up.

Otherwise, I suggest filing a support ticket.

There was a post about rate limiting being introduced a while back, so yes, there are now limits. (…or soon will be, IDK.)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/HEADS-UP-rate-limiting-is-coming/page/2#post6559539

Lawton, perhaps that should get a sticky with details?

Your other option would be to write a ticket to support and ask them if they could please rebind it to another of your characters, so that you don’t lose the ability to build on it.

I don’t know if they would, but it’s certainly an option to pursue.

I’d suggest that a PS Warrior — that is, “Phoenix Strength”, which shares might with the team, plus banners — is also in the “support” bracket.

Really, though, I feel like the “support” role question shows a misunderstanding of how the game actually plays out, in that nobody is “just support”; everyone does DPS.

People complained it was very hard to distinguish from the others. I agree with them, though I just worked around it by simply double clicking them left-to-right until they said “I can’t” at me.

The bug where #26 was non-interactable should be fixed in the latest hotpatch.

BlackDragon.2084:

Or maybe this is only the nature of this Humans in Guild Wars. Running away when their friends need them. I mean pulling a Logan would be no surprise to me. But what really makes me angry. She attacks the Commander for not inviting her. But then by the first sign of danger runs away. AND THE COMMANDER JUST TAKES IT! If we stay such a beta character I will give the future LW episodes the middle finger! I want my character to talk back to such kittened up behavior!

I’m pretty sure that was “affectionate teasing”, as in, “yo, I know you want me here, but I feel a little sad that you didn’t actually visit to ask me, hmmmm?”

It’s said in a way that fits well with the character — consider her behaviour around the interrogations at the party in LS2, that sort of thing. It’s the way she would gentle chide someone she likes, because they did something pretty minor but still a bit sad.

Aidal.4901:

Moonyeti.3296:

Aidal.4901:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

His plan was foiled for now, but since he just disappeared into the mists, who knows what he might do next.

We never saw the body. Also, we know that Lyssa is also in on this, from the mirror sequence. So … it’s not impossible he just waypointed out, instead of death, IMO, and even if we did pop him off, we got five other gods with at least one “involved” in the situation actively…

Just providing alternative, but assuming Lyssa is in on it just because of a mirror might be preemptive. Balth’s says something along the lines of “They laughed at me” or something which implies that there may be some sort of god vs god conflict going on. For all we could know, Balth picked a fight with Lyssa, pillaged the mirror and left on this quest to get more power.

He passive-aggressively steals his girlfriend’s mirror when she dumps him then leaves the country. The god of war has fallen on hard times, indeed.

It’s Balthazar man, he aggressively stole it and probably took a dump on her carpet before leaving.

Head-canon established! …but, seriously, that’s a good thought, and thanks!

zealex.9410:

Do. The. Story………………………………

This. I hate to break it to y’all, but the game is a story game. Themepark, not sandbox. You have to do the kitten story once, so kitten it up, buttercup!

Ashantara.8731:

And even those who aren’t have become quite immature in their actions; see Braham, who is behaving more like a 12-year old rather than a young man of, let’s say, 20 years of age.

How about we say 16 years of age, the actual age of the character?

It’s like jumping into a TV series in season four — you are gonna see references to historical events, character development, etc, that you have no context for, but everyone talks like you do.

How much that bothers you is up to you, but … you can definitely do it. Just accept there are backstory reasons for everything that make sense, and you should be OK.

Personally, I found doing the available story components in order improved my enjoyment of the whole thing, but I don’t think it is necessary. Nothing requires the knowledge other than the question, “why is X doing this thing now?!?”

Wouldn’t that purchase enough gold to use the waypoints, like, thousands of times?

Daddicus.6128:

Interesting. I didn’t realize that. But, I should have, since I seem to have an account. Also, do they have a preferred browser? Many of the controls don’t work with my usual IE.

No idea. I use chrome and it works fine. There is a ticket tracker, though, so I guess report it to them and see what they say? The developer is pretty responsive. Find the link at, like, the bottom of the page or something?

gw2timer.com — and possibly other API clients — offers a tool to watch the gemstore and alert you when an item is available. You might find that useful to ensure you don’t miss out on this in future.

If they have the same upgrade level, you can only harvest one. For a while it was possible to harvest both if they were at different upgrade levels for the synthesizers.

It’s not impossible that was fixed, since it wasn’t particularly intended as evidenced by the fact that the same tier of harvesting nodes in the hall can only be gathered once a day.

It might well not be your ISP, but it could also not be anet servers. The first place to start is with https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network — a guide to tracking down where on the path between you and anet things are getting slowed down.

You can also file a support ticket with anet directly, but the first thing they will ask you to do is exactly what that guide covers, so might as well save time and do that first. (Don’t forget to include screenshots or whatever to anet if you do file a ticket.)

If you can’t figure out reading the traces, feel free to post screenshots here and we will help interpret them.

I don’t know why your friend suggested the 32-bit version, which is almost certainly going to be less reliable, but…

Add the `-32` parameter to the shortcut, which will ask the launcher to use the 32-bit version of the gw2 client.

sunrun.4521:

As someone who’s not from the US, am I right in reading this as meaning test versions will be available this month to try? Is it just for people who are enrolled in a special testing program or do you think it’ll be open to any Mac user to install the test version?

It means this:

ANet have their internal testing team working on alpha builds. “alpha” means “we already know it has serious bugs, and expect more”, so it’s definitely not ready for the general public yet.

They hope to make it available to the public “soon”, but there is no implied timeframe about when that is — could be this month, could be christmas. It depends how serious some of those bugs are, and how long they take to resolve.

The most common cause, recently, of crashes at the character select screen have been out of date memory-reading DPS meters. If you use any of those — or anything else that gets into the graphics pipeline, such as reshade, gemfx, Afterburner, RivaStatisticsServer, etc, etc — disable them and see if the problem still occurs.

Caedmon.6798:

Flatley.1620:

I’m reaching but… what about a BIOS flash? Ryzen is pretty new so I’m wondering if you MOBO needs a kicking. First check with more tech savvy folk than me though.

Also re-seat any cards you might have, Run a -repair. Do the stuff suggested above.

His other games worked fine so i doubt that.he said he copied his gw client from his laptop to his new pc..I think thats the issue.

I’d assume that didn’t bring over local.dat, and required a reconfiguration of the graphics settings, so … it really, really shouldn’t. Which isn’t to say that it is impossible, just unlikely.

I have placed a few in-game bug reports of the same thing. It blocks progress on the daily, as well…. seems like eventually the enemies just stop spawning, but without completion.

gw2efficiency.com (and, probably, other GW2 API using websites) provide these features today, while you wait for the core game to support them.

Natto.5819:

I like that writers are making the story like real life. I don’t have HoT yet, but I watch my cousin stream the story. Having the two girls fight a strong enemy, but still bicker over communication between them mirrors my best friend IRL. My friend and her girlfriend argue over little things like what they need at the market, and do it while stopping the car in the middle of an intersection blocking cars while they shout. I guess it is typical female priorities when they’re together. Cashmere and Marjory is a great addition to GW2!

I think you are ascribing behaviour to gender that isn’t actually there — but that’s mostly beside the point.

I like that the couple do have that sort of concern for each other, and also a willingness to talk about problems.

I also like that Braham is acting like a traumatized 16 year old boy, responding badly to feelings of responsibility.

Pretty much all the characters actually behave like real people, which is great.

Lahmia.2193:

I mean its kinda true that they’re doing joke/serious for each legendary. So far we’re had:
bifrost / nevermore
I guess it doesn’t work for the axes, at a stretch you could say astralia was jokish.
quip / hope
dreamer / the tiger bow
moot / eureka
shooshadoo / flameseeker prophecies
hms divinity / predator
flames of war / rodgort

All except axe.

We had a developer comment here in the forums that they were surprised people regarded the “HMS Divinity” rifle as a joke, because internally at anet they considered it a serious legendary.

I don’t think the Bifrost staff is a joke — it’s got rainbow effects, but nothing like the unicorn arrows tied to it otherwise. It’s … also kinda, like, a rainbow themed legendary, because the (serious) real world Bifrost is also known as “the rainbow bridge”.

FWIW, it’s probably worth using the `/bug` feature in-game. While it won’t get a response from anet, it should include the exact location of the player, the map instance, and a bunch of other internal (and invisible) details about how you got there so that anet can debug it.

It’s a legit complaint, but I also suspect that it’s intended to follow through a sequence of upgrades — strongly encouraged by the zone mastery achievement — to end up as something better. So … this may be intentional, IDK?

Ashantara.8731:

Chadramar.8156:

So why did “Lazarus” help us protect Aurene?

To earn the Commander’s trust for access to the dragons, also so he can later harvest Aurene’s magical powers?

That’s my read of the situation. Combined with the annoyance that our spy reported on the activities they wanted to keep hidden, and that we didn’t share the existence of the machine with them. Kittened off that their deception didn’t work out.

Katastroff.1045:

With the addition of the new torch, will the wedding attire return to the trading post ?

I really hope so, because I’d actually kind of love the combination. I also <3 the improvised focus, and some of the other “you grabbed a what to beat up a dragon?” looking gear.

I think it’s just putting them a little step back while we work out what the heck went on with the six — why they vanished, why they came back, who stole their powers — because even sleepy dragons eat magic, and that is also gonna destroy almost all life on the world…

Starting later in the story will be OK. You miss some of the setup, but … it’s like starting watching a TV series with character development in the middle. Just … accept there is a bunch of history, go with it, and you should be fine.

Did you notice the “I’d love to be in it … if you will have me?” later in the conversation?

Sounds like a slightly snarky, slightly “but, maybe they don’t want me, only my girlfriend” sort of response to me — and it felt in line with her general tone. (eg: looking at the party investigation in season 2, where she says similar sorts of things.)

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

His plan was foiled for now, but since he just disappeared into the mists, who knows what he might do next.

We never saw the body. Also, we know that Lyssa is also in on this, from the mirror sequence. So … it’s not impossible he just waypointed out, instead of death, IMO, and even if we did pop him off, we got five other gods with at least one “involved” in the situation actively…

Arden.7480:

By the way I was angry at her, because she left us so fast, but well… Kasmeer believes the gods and she prays to them, then Balthazar shows up and injures her fiancee.

It’s more than that — side conversation from vigil members in the new map, “are they really hunting Balthazar? I worshiped him my entire life!”

Like … this is taking a fundamental of your life, and watching your boss literally fight your god. That’s a touchstone of life for humans, even if players don’t get it pushed that much, and … that stuff has to be super hard.

I’m sure they will adjust the recommended retail price, btw, and retailers will discount when they become aware of the difference. If you really want to speed that along, consider providing feedback to their corporate offices that the game is cheaper online, but you wanted to support them…

I’m not going to flame you, and I can understand why you would choose GW2 despite disliking the store so much — I’ve been poking at other MMOs recently, and they almost all feel terrible compared to GW2 in their gameplay. Slow, annoying, no ability to avoid damage, bleh.

At the end of the day, though, you are gonna be stuck with it — GW2 is a story oriented game, and advancing it requires the story. The current mode is oriented to the folks who do enjoy it, and that’s unlikely to change.

So… I’m sorry. Y’all probably stuck with it as the price of admittance.

haha, yeah, I kind of love my necros “skeletal hands” attack on huge critters, because those things are the size of a tall norn!

I’m sorry you missed it. That hurts. For the future, gw2timer.com uses the API to watch for things returning to the gemstore and can alert you; I wouldn’t be shocked if one of the mobile applications for gw2 offers a similar feature by now?

suicidalspectre.8106:

Lord Faren. Nuf said.

He always had that aura of being something more about him, didn’t he?

Sadly, since those are only available free if you log in at the time, or for purchase afterwards, this would mean daily things limited to people who owned them — and the associated complaints of being forced to “pay” to participate.

I like the idea, honestly, even though I’d treat a handful of them like I do the adventures — mostly ignore, because I don’t like them — since I do have other choices.

So, great idea, but I forsee it would not be an easy “sell” to the playerbase.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ArchonWing.9480:

• Would you like to see more of these eaters?

Absolutely not. There’s no reason for that these have to be worth something. Eaters take up more space. If ANet doesn’t want to release recipes that use these, then I say ANet should encourage people to delete them, rather than worry about it.

Mmmm, I’d rather see something more generic that consumed stuff, than more eaters.

They, alone, are the single thing that is making me consider saving the money toward a permanent bank access contract.

I’m pretty sure that just the other day I sneezed out two blues and a green, actually…

Since you asked for other opinions: I can’t, personally, see why anyone needs five guilds, let alone more. So, I’m going to speculate that anet developers probably also can’t.

I’d suggest you expand on why you think that would be good to have, because I’m sure you have good reasons for it — I just can’t guess them myself.

So, short version long, gw2specs uses image recognition to OCR the combat log. It works, but not super reliably.

On the other hand, anet have explicitly said they are … tolerating the use of memory reading DPS meters at the moment, provided the authors adhere to relatively limited scope for what they show.

arcdps is probably the best bet, right now, if you want one, but gw2helper or BGDM are also options. I’d strongly encourage one of the first two as being the most obviously trying to conform to the rules as written.

Using any of those is “safe” in the sense that unless anet change their mind, it’s not going to lead to a ban or anything on your account — and if they do change their mind, just stopping is likely to fix any issue raised by support or anything.

We can’t tell you what you will most enjoy. I mean, I can say “necromancer” because that is what I most enjoy, but … I found warrior decent but ultimately unsatisfying, so clearly we don’t entirely agree.

I’d strongly suggest trying whatever you enjoy. Engineer is fun, though you spend most of your time on kits. I found that the “throw faster, explode larger” trait for grenades, plus that kit, were awesome, and the flamethrower was fun for condition oriented damage.

You might look for a “hero point train” for getting the HoT points — a group can help you not have to deal with so much actually playing the maps.

You can also get pretty close to complete just using core tyria hero points, significantly reducing the amount of HoT points you need.

Finally, there are a significant number of “commune” hero points available in HoT, enough that you never, ever need to fight a champion to fully unlock the elite spec. dulfy.net has good guides to the “soloable” hero points per map.

Otherwise, what was recommended by Stitch.