Guild Wars 2

oh lol, kitten had my hopes built up there, i got a surplus supply of armor too.

I sold all my old DPS armor and gear on the trade post

I didn’t realise soulbound stuff could be sold on Trade Post, this is good to know. Does it became un-soulbound for the buyer?

Just went through this jumping puzzle myself. As previous poster I opened the small chest first, splendid chest was already open when I reached Veteran Troll. Can anyone confirm if opening/leaving the small chest has any effect on whether the Splendid chest at end of puzzle will be open/closed.

Have you tried transmuting while not wearing the gear. I believe it was the 10/1 update that took away the ability to transmute while wearing gear due to it causing some bug. I have no problems transmuting my HoM or Karma gear once they have been unequipped.

yep sure can, if you’re impatient and want to spend coin to get something you will get anyway by just going through the story

you get this PoI regardless 2 quests after Battle of Fort Trinity, called Temple of the Forgotten God, level 72 story mode.
spoiler
you have to attend a meeting and then speak with Trahearne and this winged chick called Sayeh al'Rajihd this actually takes place at this PoI
so you can’t miss getting this PoI as long as you go through story mode.

I dont know how you can replicate this.
My armor hasn’t changed at all. I logged in after the 10/1 bug fix update, and the sound went from a nice plating jostling when landing as you put it, to a clunking of 2 old tin pots but it doesnt even sound right and slightly annoying, and it defintitely not the sound I was getting previously to the patch.

I do know different armor have a slight different sound, but as I said, i did nothing different, its all transmuted heritage armor which were done pre-patch. My armor wasn’t touched at all. One day it sounded one way, logged back in next day after patch and it sounds completely different, highly noticeable and horrible.

It’s such an unpleasant sound i thought my sound card or speakers packed in, but no, everything else played through card and speaker sounds like it should and I even tried different soundcard and speakers.

It may be an intentional sound, but because my armor hasnt changed prior to patch or after patch, and the fact its just an unpleasant sound, I can’t see it being their on purpose.

As the title says.

I have never looked forward to a game as much as GW2, and yes it has fulfilled eveything to me i was expecting, and being a long tme GW1 player I was a bit apprehensive as to what to expect as I was expecting major differences that i wasn’t entirely sure i would like. And behold I wasn’t disappointed…at first.

Now don’t get me wrong I am loving the game, loving the direction Anet has took and still coming across stuff within the game that makes me freeze in awe.

But now I am just totally demotivated and demoralised with the experience.

Why?

Well firstly, I have lost all motivation to complete the storyline, not only the neverending progession halting bugs that never seem to get fixed, but once these are fixed and I get to the end, I then have to be one of those people that LFG in chat to take part in a dungeon that finishes my “personal” storyline. I have nothing against dungeons but trying to form groups is not my cup of tea, and maybe I will get into the dungeon scene once I have exhausted everything else I want to experience in the game, but i do not wish to be forced into having to form parties just to finish my own storyline.

So no motivation to complete.

Secondly, the 100% map completion. This is similar to the storyline, its forcing me to go into places I have no interest in, that place being WvWvW. I want to explore and attain all the PoI’s waypoints vistas etc on my own, I have tried several times to go to WvWvW to get my map completion just to find it a chore and in some way impossible, as being there I am now a target as others now think i am part of the WvWvW battle. Either that or these little groups who seem to ambush me know I am trying to get my exploration and just find it amusing to stop me in my tracks.
Plus, yet again progress blocking bugs too are a factor, Skill Points constantly bugged, regardless how many fixes come out. And I just lost motivation to even attempt getting this anymore because of the risk of all that effort to get 100% when i am seeing people that have reached 100% having issues with either not getting rewards, stars next to their names and so on, and the fear will I get these issues too. And even if i didn’t get the 100% completion issue I still have to ask players to please look at my star just to confirm its working. Why something wasn’t implemented from the start where we could target ourselves like we can other players and see our own titles and info I don’t know.

Lastly, i was around at beginning of GW1, and yes it had its bugs at launch, and Anet were amazing at tackling them, and the majority were being fixed regular. But in GW2 the updates and patches seem to be taking their time in being implemented and when they do get implemented the progression killing bugs are still not fixed, with an added surprise of another bug suddenly materializing due to the so-called fix. The big 10/1 update just never delivered, the main game killing bugs never got fixed, and to add to my misery, I now have to try and motivate myself into doing something around Tyria in silence because of a bugged Warrior audio issue that appeared since last bug-fixing update.

I know Anet will get majority of the bugs all fixed eventually, but with more and more bugs appearing on each fix which is making the whole GW2 world less enjoyable is taking its toll on me. I log on and I sit and stare at screen coz I am at a loss as to what i want to try and do since everything I was hoping to do has been stopped dead in its tracks by bugs and forcing me into places of the game i don’t want to go to.

So I think I must take a break, feel disheartened and a bit distraught that months/years of anticipation of this game has just left me feeling deflated.

Hope all the bugs do get ironed out, and I hope to return one day if I can get my motivation level back up, but all this has just kicked me too far down, something I never thought i hear myself saying about a GW game. But I can no longer devote hours to a game that has no goal for me at moment, especially as each liitle extra bug that rears its ugly head is just taking more and more enjoyment out of what i had 4 weeks ago away.

Kyosai.6439:

My Charr goes RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH like he’s falling to his death every other time I jump. Has done it since launch lol.

this is a completely different issue from what people are trying to bring to the dev’s attention, so not helpful.

Bit more info for Dev’s
Have spoke to several other players and it seems this audio problem is effecting Guardians and Warriors (all heavy armor wearers) since the patch.
All that i have spoke to have transmuted armor since patch too so don’t know if thats linked.
There is a temporary solution another player mentioned in the link i provided to the Audio thread where unequipping armor and re-equipping seems to sort the audio glitch out until you map to another area, then the glitchy sound comes back.

But this is an annoying glitch and has changed the feel of the game itself. Nowi just dont bother playing with sound on at all so it takes a lot of the game out for me.

I’m having this issue too, just sounds horrible, to the point I just play with sound off at moment. Yes this definitely started after the patch but i didnt notice it until after a couple of Armor transmutions, so not sure if the new transmute change in the update has caused this.

I posted this issue in the Audio section to see if anyone else was having this problem.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/Warrior-jump-land-sound/first#post321668

I logged in today to do my dailys. Moving about as I normally do i noticed the sound of my warrior when landing after a jump just sounds different and horrible now. At first i thought it was my pc, so i tried changing in game settings, windows settings, changing it all back to default, changed to my spare set of speakers, even tried using my onboard sound card rather than the PCI soundcard I was using, but no, it still sounds horrible and definitely didn’t sound like it did before. And i have tried jumping on all sorts of ground surfaces.

It sounds like a couple of tin pots clanging together yet previously it actually did sound more armor clanging and ground thudding like it should.

Has this sound actually changed in game? Anyone else notice how weird its sounding at moment.

i feel like i need to lock my bedroom door with them chunky female norns….phwooarrr

Kwami.4356:

Hell, I’d be happy if they at least deployed patches at a consistent time so that we could plan around it.

Amen to this, at end of day does it matter what time, as long as everyone is aware beforehand and not the 3 minute warning or whatever it is we get.

wasnt making out RoW v USA, was answering the question to how many servers there were, and pointing out there was more non USA servers, and the Full Europe servers are comparable to the Full USA servers.
I just cant see how anyone can claim definitively there are more American players or more non-American players without stats. If going by Full servers alone then its fairly even.
This is not the first thread stating all updates and patches need to be conducted outside USA prime time.
midnight Pacific to me sounds quite an optimum time and even though i am on Europe timezone i do think 9.30 eastern wasn’t maybe the best idea

Kwami.4356:

BlackDeath.8106: How many US servers are there? How many non-US servers are there?

according to my list 24 USA servers 27 Europe Servers
Plus this doesnt count all the Australian and Asian and their timezones.

So to me more non-American timezones than American playing

i was stuck on 163/165 for a while in Maguuma too, the 2 i was missing was
Cubular Fells in the NW of Mount Maelstrom
Shimmerstone Cave in Sparkfly fen

2 other easily missable ones are
Calx’s Hideout in SE corner of Metrica Province (as Valshia says, need to do Parma’s Gate Dynamic Event)
and Aurora Remains in Brisbane Wildlands (can access it just north of Toxal Bog SP)

Is this correct? You are forced to join up with others for your end of story in a dungeon?

I am nearing the end of my personal story and was planning on logging on for a few hours later to complete it. Now I have no motivation to do so.

I didnt enjoy my one and only experience in a dungeon as it is, joined a group to do story mode, but i ended up in a group where the rest had already did and learnt this dungeon, so while i was sitting watching the cutscenes as i never seen them before (and i did point out to the group this was my first visit and i be doing this), once cutscenes were over the rest of the group were already ploughing through the dungeon on a speedrun, it took me several minutes to find them and catch up to them, not knowing the routes it took me some time to find them, and by time i did they already more or less cleared the dungeon.

I am really disheartened that part of my Personal Story, especially the important ending part taking place in a dungeon where i am forced to join up with others. Been loving the going through the story so far and was looking forward to doing that last couple chapters, now i just feel like I dont want to bother if all I got to look forward to is a dungeon i am forced to party with others just so i can complete it.

I love GW2, but starting to think this “play it the way you want” policy has never been incorporated, if its forcing players, especially through the main storyline, to do party dungeons. God i miss my heroes.

I put a lot of time, effort and some major grinding in over the 5 yrs to get all my titles etc in GW1 and the HoM rewards to carry over to GW2. I admit half the stuff like the pets etc i probably won’t use. But these are rewards I earned by giving my time and effort, I can’t even see if my GWAMM or Champion of the Gods title I carried into GW2 on display for myself after selecting it, i just have to trust that other players are able to see it, so instead being able to wear a pair of Fiery God Armbraces or parade my Black Widow Spider I earned in HoM satisfies my vanity.

I can live with all the bugs currently in the game as i know Anet will eventually get these sorted, but one thing that will make me walk from this game, is if all my years of time and effort is cheapened by having items a lot of us earned in GW1 just put up for general sale to anyone who can afford them.

So a big no from me, if you want these items then GW1 servers are still up, put some time and effort in getting them like the rest of us did.

Currently we are able to see other players info when we select them. For example guild they’re in, title they’re displaying, character class.

Is there anyway we can see our own characters too? unless I just can’t find any option to be able to.

At moment i am displaying a title, but cannot see it for myself, and with the likes of the 100% map completion star I feel a bit awkward asking other players if they can see it, just so I can confrim to myself its there.

I only have a small window during weekdays where I can get on to play. Moving maintenance back to 2 or 3am will mean 10 or 11am for me in the UK, which is slap bang in my window, and even more in the middle of the day for other Europeans. This is a global game and shouldn’t just cater for U.S. time zones.

But everything else I totally agree with, i spent 30 mins trying to get up to a Vista, and just at point of getting to the press F to view, server went down and was kicked. When i logged back was my char where i left him, no I had to scale up again and spend another 30 minutes doing it. And some sort of in game pre-warning when playing would be a huge benefit, I have the in game clock showing but yet i still lose passage of time with the immersion. And the server mainenance just springs up and takes you by surprise.

possibly, lol. Maybe that sPvP title appears differently once achieved. Does seem a bit silly having 2 different titles named exactly the same.
But the one you have is definitely from your HoM

looking at the titles you are able to choose in your drop down, all these are the 10 you get for completing 50/50 in HoM.

I had all these 10 too when i first logged into and created my first character in GW2, they were linked to my 50/50 HoM account.

Traveler – received from achieving 5 points in HoM
Guild Warrior – received from achieving 10 points in HoM
Rift Warden – received from achieving 15 points in HoM
Chosen – received from achieving 20 points in HoM
Ascendent – received from achieving 25 points in HoM
Closer to the Stars – received from achieving 30 points in HoM
Ghostly Hero – received from achieving 35 points in HoM
Flameseeker – received from achieving 40 points in HoM
Legend of the Mists – received from achieving 45 points in HoM
Champion of the Gods – received from achieving 50 points in HoM

with you achieving 50/50 in HoM then your achievement list is as it should be and you can display any of those 10 titles without any fear of being banned.

As for the sPvP title I am not sure about that as i don’t sPVP, but the Ascendent title in your drop down is indeed what you brought over to GW2 with your HoM point achievements.

Ok, just a quick question someone may know.
In GW1 you could see other players titles in outposts under their name, as you can in GW2 except in GW2 you get added info.
In GW1 you could see you own info box in outposts by pressing the F key.
IN GW2 I have been unable to find an option to see my info in the same way i see other players info.

I know how to choose which title to display in the Hero window, my question is, is there a way i can see an info box like i can on other players on my own character? so I am able to see if my title/achievment/info is displaying correctly

Am I missing something silly or is this not possible?

and its ok lol, forums can be a mad place at times, its easy to misunderstand others, i’ve done it myself :-)

coz it can give you a slight advantage for a short time, i don’t play elementalist but i presume the Vapor Form skill allows you to escape so you can rally somewhere else from your downed state without the constant attacks.

as with Vengeance skill on warriors, this brings you out of a downed state immediately giving you time to finish off your opponent, at the cost of dying after you have done so.

list of all the “downed skills” for all professions. Certain skills either return you to a downed state or kills you after its effect is over.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_downed_skills

Yeah Fatty, Vengeance is the Warrior skill, i believe Vapor Form is the elementalist version, the profession Ulrich was needing assistance on.

Silly question…but are you happening to be using the Vapor Form skill while you are down (the one in the 3 slot) coz using this skill is suppose to put you back in a downed state.

Vapor Form - Assume a mobile, vaporous form, returning to a downed state when the effect ends.

Rytlock you get from the Digital Deluxe Upgrade.
the Hall of Monument reward mini’s are

Tabby Cat – when earned 9 HoM points
Orrian Chicken – when earned 15 HoM points
Raccoon – when earned 21 HoM points
Golem – when earned 27 HoM points

these 4 can only be acquired by using HoM portal stone to be transported to HoM and speaking with Himmes the Historian

I’m assuming your GW1 and GW2 accounts are linked since you have received your chicken and cat, did you achieve enough points to get the other 2?

DavidOrtiz.7165:

Hi everyone.

We are fully aware of the issue and the dev team is working on a fix that will be applied retroactively to all your characters, but we still don´t have an estimate time for it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks for the response David

This is happening to me also. I know the DDU had several items included, but I wasn’t even going to purchase this util i was swayed by the Mistfire Wolf elite. Just feel a bit annoyed that I can’t use this on my main character after purchasing the DDU for that sole purpose.

Its a bit annoying that this issue has been highlighted a week ago with many complaining about the same bug yet this easy fix has not yet been included in any of the daily updates since then.

I do understand that Anet need to prioritise the bug fixes, and have done a great job at this, but this is an item people like myself have paid extra for, and especially as the DDU is still on sale, should be up there on their priority list of fixes.