Guild Wars 2

Wolfield.9812:

My thief in a nice mixture of gear. 1 Wolfield point for who can name the leg skin!

Pretty nice looking!
Legs kind of look like the human cultural T3. Only seen them on female humans and never on males, but it looks like the same crisscross pattern.

Mystic.5934:

I really hate skills that do this. especially ones that do it inconsistently. my main source of aggravation over this is blink. I think I’ve narrowed it down to: if you are in combat and blink, you will always end up facing your enemy. 100% of the time, this is the wrong direction you want to be facing with this skill. it’s a bail skill, used to get you out of tight situations. it shouldn’t be trying to get you into tight situations. ideally, it would face you in the direction you were blinking to.

I’ve found that disabling the Use Free Camera setting would help you in that situation.
Your skill would put you facing the enemy, but your camera would still be facing another direction. Hitting your forward movement key would turn your character around and immediately start running in the direction away from the enemy as your character will move in the direction your camera is facing instead of the direction they were left facing after using that skill.

That is, unless Blink automatically moves toward a target due to the Autotargeting setting that automatically selects an appropriate target when a skill is used and you don’t want it to select a target and go toward it.

It seems that only movement keys will reposition the camera behind you and holding the RMB before/during/after the skill will not reset it. :\

However, if you disable the Use Free Camera option, hitting your about face resets the camera behind your character instead of your character to the direction your camera is facing due to your character already facing the camera.

The only thing disabling this does is if you are running and turn your camera with your LMB to look at your surroundings while running in another direction, releasing the LMB will put the camera back behind your character. Also, releasing the LMB while looking in another direction and ceasing your movement and then starting to move again will cause you to start running in the direction you left the camera facing instead of your character continuing on in the direction you were already going.

You can then bind a key to activate Free Camera if you tend to find yourself running in one direction and looking in another and want to continue with your initial trajectory after stopping running and starting again without resetting your camera from where it is looking.

The statement said they’d go into more detail on the feature pack and the changes coming with it and they did; the blog posts on the feature pack were made and all of the discussions and changes that followed as well. The statement said nothing about going into details on LS: Season 2 or what new stuff might come later in the year, only about going into detail on the changes coming with the feature pack after LS: Season 1 finished up.

Also, if you edit your post then you must re-check the “Disable Textile” option to keep it disabled on the post, otherwise it gets re-enabled after editing.

However, checking the "Disable Textile" option on a post that has a linked image in BBCode does allow it to display.

Textile seems to conflict with gif images embedded with BBCode.

So try using the [img]link-to-image[/img] and disabling Textile on your post in the meantime to embed a gif.

[img]http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/square/000/013/003/dead-horse.gif[/img]

Hmm. The image you attached is a jpg image. I don’t know how images work on iPads, or file storage for that matter. I would expect you would be able to save the gif to your iPad and then attach it to a post.

Another way is to put exclamation marks before and after the link to the image hosted on the web. However, most forum areas do not allow image embedding in comments…and there is really no way to know which forum area does not permit it until you try it. You would add them by putting exclamation marks around the image link in your comment. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/faq

!http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/square/000/013/003/dead-horse.gif!

It seems this forum area does not permit it.

Also trying it with the BBCode tags:
[img]http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/square/000/013/003/dead-horse.gif[/img]

Nope. Seems this area doesn’t permit that method either.

This gif below attached properly without an error page probably because it is such a small file size and the site does not give the error page unless it takes a long time uploading to where it thinks it timed out or something.

SkeletalHorses.2108:

My mesmer sapling, Yuureibana. Perhaps my first and only decent screenshot of her, so far. Still under 30 so she’s still in low-level armour (and wearing the colours of the flower she was named after).

I really like the ceiling on the second floor of the Grove. ?

You have quite the artistic eye with how the elements of your image are presented, especially with respect to your character and her facial expression. Very nice.

Astral Projections.7320:

If someone would post instructions on how to add a gif, that would be helpful.

Hiyas, AP.

The forums didn’t always have a problem with adding a gif to a post. However, it recently started giving an error page after sitting there waiting for it to upload for a long time.

Add a gif the same as any other image, but if/when you get the error page just let it stay up. It seems like it stopped attempting to upload it, but it is still uploading it to the post despite giving the error page. Continue waiting while it continues to upload the gif.

Ideally, have a duplicate tab/page of the full thread you were making your comment in so you can refresh that one to tell when your post actually gets made so you can then close the error page.

Also, I’ve seen it happen to where I can only attach a gif in the above fashion after making the post and then editing it to add the gif.

If you attach a gif and get the error page, then hit ‘back’ and try to attach it again you will end up with two of the same gif attached when it eventually finishes attaching and updating your post. Or, if it was a fresh comment and not an edit, you may end up with duplicate posts, each with the gif attached to them when it finishes uploading both queued posts with their uploads.

Ok. How large is the Gw2.dat file? (hovering on it for a few seconds should pop up an info box with its size, or right-click it and click ‘Properties’ where the size will be displayed)

Also, are you currently allowing the launcher to download the game again?

First thing to do is:
Back up your Gw2.dat

• Copy (right-click > copy) your Gw2.dat file and paste it on your desktop or somewhere else to have it as a backup.

Then:
Remove Read Only Attributes

• Make sure your launcher/patcher is closed.
• Right-click your Gw2.dat file in the installation directory (not the backup) and click on ‘Properties’.
• Make sure the check box at the bottom for ‘Read Only’ is unchecked.
• If it was checked, uncheck it and hit OK to save the change.
• Do this for all other files in that installation folder so nothing in that folder is marked as being ‘Read Only’.

Then:
Enable Run As Administrator

• Make sure your launcher/patcher is still completely closed.
• Right-click your GW2 game shortcut that you normally use to launch the game and click on “Properties”.
  (I assume it is on your desktop or in your start menu where you launch the game from)
• On the “Compatibility” tab, check/enable the box at the bottom for your game to “Run As Administrator”.
• Hit OK after making sure this setting is enabled.

Then:
Check the game for errors and repair it

• Make sure your launcher/patcher is still completely closed.
• Next, make a copy of your Gw2 game shortcut (that you normally use to launch the game) and rename this copy of the shortcut to “GW2 Repair” or to something that you will recognize it for being only for running a repair on your GW2 installation.
• Now, right-click this “Gw2 Repair” shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Shortcut” tab look in the “Target:” field, you should see:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” or wherever you have Guild Wars 2 installed.
• After the closing quotation marks in this line put a single space and then add -repair
  It will look like this but with your GW2 install location:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” -repair
• Hit OK after making this change.
• Run this repair shortcut. Your game will run through a repair cycle and fix any damaged files it finds. I believe others have said it can take up to 15 minutes to run through.

Finally:
Re-launch

• Start the game using the normal GW2 game shortcut (not the repair shortcut) and see if your game can start up properly without having to re-download the whole thing again.

The folder that the Gw2.exe file is in, do you see any other files at all in that folder? Gw2.tmp, Gw2.dat, Gw2.000 (or 001, 002, etc)?

Is that the same folder you initially chose to install the game into?

Are you playing on a Mac or a Windows PC? It sounds like Mac because the Windows PC executable file is called Gw2.exe and not GW2 Client.exe (is that what it is called on Mac?).

Paradox.5498:

Evilek.5690:

Ghastly Grinning Shield skin – drop in event dungeon
Ghastly Grinning Shield – this shield can be made

I thought only Mad Moon had a recipe to craft it.

Indeed.

There has never been a craftable version of the Ghastly Grinning Shield, let alone a tradeable one. The only shields with this skin that exist are shields that have had this skin applied to it, which also causes that shield to become account/soul bound and not tradeable.

This is the GW2spidy for the item being reported. It has no history and suddenly appeared May 8th:
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36332

Evilek.5690:

Ghastly Grinning Shield skin – drop in event dungeon
Ghastly Grinning Shield – this shield can be made

There has never been a craftable version of the Ghastly Grinning Shield, let alone a tradeable one. The only shields with this skin that exist are shields that have had this skin applied to it, which also causes that shield to become account/soul bound and not tradeable.

This is the GW2spidy for the item being reported. It has no history and suddenly appeared May 8th:
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36332

Sure, call me whiner. Now I know not to read any threads started by you as this is how you respond. Tried to give you a pointer that would increase the likelihood of participants in your poll. Good luck with your poll, whatever it is for.

Nope. :\ They’ve never bothered to remove the key pieces or the completed key from the drop tables despite it steadily being reported since the chest was removed without warning.

Would help if you actually mentioned what you were polling about in your OP.

Not going to click some random poll just to find out if I even want to click on some random poll to then fill it out – that’s what clicking on your thread was supposed to accomplish.

I also could not get the projectile from Infiltrator’s Arrow to be visible.
However, I could see the projectile fired from Shadow Shot…odd part is that the projectile was the model of my equipped dagger instead of a bullet.

In this pic you can clearly see the model for my “Marjory’s Dagger” (green) being fired from the pistol. Perhaps the projectiles being visible/invisible is related to the skin of the equipped dagger. If you have a standard Iron dagger, or even the Zenith AP skin on the dagger, perhaps it is not visible.

I was using a Zenith skin on the short bow when I was firing Infiltrator’s Shot. I did not try any other skins to see if that missing projectile was related to the weapon skin.

vydul.3726:

My ranger’s new look

Lookin’ pretty snazzy!

I know that enabling the graphics option “Effect LOD” only really has one effect and that is to make fired arrows from ranger bows invisible, perhaps you have that setting enabled and it also affects the effects from those skills. If you have that setting enabled, try disabling it and see if the projectiles from those skills return.

I pretty much ignore the number 6 bonus on superior rune sets due to aquabreathers not being salvageable and being forced to throw a rune away on that item when I replace it.

Yeah, I love underwater combat, but aquabreather functionality is horribly designed and implemented, especially with regard to the lack of availability of non-karma acquired versions since karma gear cannot be salvaged and the rune is lost upon upgrading.

Also (to me), the sixth rune bonuses are also not all that great or worth having instead of the single rune bonus from a different rune. Running 3 of two major runesets is more beneficial stat-wise than running 4 of one and 2 of another. And then running 6 different minor runes is usually better than running 2 of 3 different runes since the number two set bonus on minor runes isn’t really worth having.

Short-Short Version of below:

• Minor Runes – I use 6 individual ones and copy the helm rune onto the aquabreather.
• Major Runes – I run 3 of two different sets and copy the helm onto the aquabreather.
• Superior Runes – I run 5 of a single rune and ignore the 6th bonus. I then use a single stat boost from a single superior rune on both the helm and the aquabreather.

Longer than it needed to be version of the above summary:

Having a character focusing on power and berzerker stats:
Levels 1-38

• The 2 set bonus isn’t really worth it so I just have 6 unique minor runes that give +10 power on each one. I then put whatever rune I had on my helm onto my aquabreather as well. It being a minor rune it is pretty cheap to replace when I upgrade my aquabreather and throw out the old, unsalvageable one.

Levels 39-59

• I usually run 3 Major Mesmer runes on my boots, leggings and gloves, then 3 of another rune (usually one boosting power+precision or precision+ferocity) on the chest, shoulders and helm with a duplicate helm rune on the aquabreather again. Tossing the old aquabreather out with a major rune when I upgrade it (due to being unsalvageable) only loses a rune worth 3-5 silver so it’s not that great of a loss.

Levels 60-79

• I’ll run 5 Superior Mesmer runes on my boots to shoulders, then have a cheap +25 Power superior rune on my head armor and aquabreather. I’d rather have +25 Power than whatever the silly sixth bonus is on runesets, especially since I’ll be trashing that superior rune on the aquabreather when I hit 80 and replace it.

Level 80

• When I hit 80 I throw the Benthic Waterbreather from the TP on the character. I still run 5 superior mesmer runes on non-helm armor, and the helm and aquabreather continue to share a +25 Power superior rune.
  Figures – now that I have an aquabreather that can be salvaged for the rune were I to upgrade it, I no longer have a need to upgrade it and can use whatever rune on it I want. Oh well. :\

Based on the title of this thread I thought this was going to be about items being listed for less than their vendor price that I happen across occasionally on the TP:

Item Vendor Value 1s
One mysteriously listed at 80c
Buy it and vend it for some profit

This one has me stumped, but I believe it may be tied to bots and a bug in the TP coding.
Just thought I’d mention it.

OT:
I am in agreement with much of what has already been stated by the others. Some people just do not go to the lengths needed to get as much profit as possible, or do not give it a second thought despite losing coin on the sale. Some are content with getting a little bit of profit instead of doing some extra work and calculations which may lead to more coin. Perhaps they see it as they could make more coin doing other things in the time it would take for them to maximize the profit on that one sale.

I’d have bought that if we could dye or toggle the bone spikes (aka: hiding the excessive artistic elements on armor that can drive players away from purchasing it). :\

3,788 hours played and have yet to get one to sell. ::shrug::

Also my newest newest.

Orgamechoid
Female Sylvari Ranger
Medium Armor

• Helm: Glowing Crimson Mask
• Shoulders: Aetherblade Shoulderpad
• Chest: Sylvari Cultural T3 Chest
• Gloves: Aetherblade Armguard
• Leggings: Viper Leggings
• Boots: Sylvari Cultural T3 Boots
• Back Item: Lightning Catcher
• Weapon: Tormented Longbow

Dyes:
Midnight Ice
Celestial
Grapevine (purple accent on the chest, gloves and boots)
Rich Grape (purple accent on the shoulders)

BlakThornArrow.2389:

StinVec.3621:

My newest: Khrysalis Ra

what dye combo is this?

They are Midnight Ice Dye for the dark and Celestial Dye for the light. The yellow is several different ones to match my glow and yellow hair/branch tips due to the dyes appearing differently on the different materials.

“Sour Apple” on the Viper’s Shoulders
“Stem” on the Sylvari Cultural T3 Boots

Stem also works well on the shoulders, but is a little bit too bright on that material.

Here are some old views of them in different lighting and inverted Midnight Ice and Celestial (with some lighter colors as well).

My newest. I’m actually quite surprised by how many in-game compliments I’ve received about how good she looks.

Orgamechoid
Female Sylvari Ranger
Medium Armor

• Helm: Glowing Crimson Mask
• Shoulders: Aetherblade Shoulderpad
• Chest: Sylvari Cultural T3 Chest
• Gloves: Aetherblade Armguard
• Leggings: Viper Leggings
• Boots: Sylvari Cultural T3 Boots
• Back Item: Lightning Catcher
• Weapon: Tormented Longbow

I believe it was with the February 26th, 2013 game update:

Reward Updates

• “Fixed a bug on certain world boss chests that was causing them to drop fewer rewards than intended. These chests can now only be looted once per day, to encourage players to fight multiple bosses and spread out across the world.”

“World Bosses are special event bosses encountered throughout the open world of Tyria that spawn a chest and award players with one bonus chest when defeated. Each individual world boss can only spawn a chest once per day, per character and award a bonus chest once per day, per account.”

The quaranteed rare being moved into the bonus chest:

“Daily chests with an increased drop rate in exotic and precursor weapons were introduced in the 26 February 2013 update. They included a guaranteed rare or better weapon that was moved to a Bonus Chest in the 26 March 2013 update.”

Though a “day” has always been classified as being from daily reset to daily reset.

“00:00 UTC (20:00 UTC-4) – Resets daily achievements; certain objects respawn – chests (e.g. from Jumping Puzzles, except for those in World versus World), and event-related interactive objects (Carving Pumpkin, Magic Snow).”

Coffeeman.7356:

it was the first time today i did the event. i did not get a chest

You just mentioned “first time today”, though earlier you mentioned “I did these bosses yesterday” – Did you do them yesterday after the daily reset? If so, then that was technically “today” also. You can only get the chests once per day per character between daily reset times as that is when everything resets each day, not midnight your local time. It is one time in a 24hour period from daily reset to daily reset.

Daily reset is 8pm in my local time (server time +3 hours). If I get the chests at 8:10pm then I cannot get them again until 8pm the next day when daily reset occurs, not 4 hours later when it is past midnight and is technically the next date for my locality.

Quite welcome. That’s great to hear!

Zone boss physical chests can only be gotten once per day per character. It is possible that you already defeated those bosses and gotten the chests since yesterday’s daily reset on this character, which would then prevent you from getting them again with that character. You must defeat them with characters that have not defeated them yet since last daily reset, or wait until after tonight’s daily reset for the chest to be available for this character again.

Also as a note – the bonus chest that contains a rare item (for characters level 39+) can be gotten only once per day per account instead of per character like the boss chest.

These may help you:

• Clear your GW2 game cache
• Ensure your game is ‘Running As Administrator’
• Some other possible causes and solutions

• Clear your GW2 game cache
• Ensure your game is ‘Running As Administrator’
• Some other possible causes and solutions

[Insert your choice of “icing on the cake” pun]

Grats on your good drop.
I love those rings. Though I still wish we could transmute the name/icon from other rings/accessories onto the stats of another for nostalgia/RP reasons.

Here is a list by Lexy.3912 of all waypoints/POIs/etc added by Living Story since launch until earlier this year. I’m not sure if others have been added since the Marionette’s Landing.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Guide-Explorer-Achievements-and-100-Map/3156637

I hope it helps.

Please see this thread and post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Tradingpost-broken/3997790

Please see this thread and post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Tradingpost-broken/3997790

The in-game mail system is tied in with the trading post. Usually when there are issues with the TP (as there currently are) the mail system will also be affected. Mail should return to normal after the TP has returned to fully functional status.

Here is an on-going thread on the status of the TP:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Tradingpost-broken

Please see this thread and post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Tradingpost-broken/3997790

Please see this thread and post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Tradingpost-broken/3997790

Gaile Gray.6029:

Thanks for pointing that out, StinVec. (Yes, BG, he did have an active ticket related to this survey request, so no worries about a hack.)

I’ll ask a team member to take a look at the survey failure. This is not a website issue, it’s a survey coming from our ticketing system itself.

Thank you very much, Gaile. I know the surveys on customer experiences with Support are a valuable resource, I just wanted to make sure my positive feedback would be recorded properly. To date I have not had a single negative experience with Support and they do a fantastic job for which I thank them for their dedication. Also a big thank you to you for the outstanding support that you continue to provide!

Some additional information after looking into the matter deeper – I had been quite busy for the past two weeks that followed my experience with Support, unfortunately, so I was not able to give the survey the attention it deserved until two weeks after it was received. I do not expect a support survey token would expire in such a short period of time, if at all, but if they do, then the two weeks that passed between receiving the survey token and my attempt to complete it may have led to this situation. If this is the case (the tokens have expirations), then I would make a request that their lifetime be lengthened to allow for a longer time frame for which the surveys can be filled. If they do have expirations then I would also request a note be made in the survey email stating that the survey is only completable within 7 days (or however long) of it being delivered.

Thank you again.

Is your Character Model Quality set to Lowest in your Graphics Settings? If so, all player characters near you will revert to the default model to save on processing power. Set it somewhere higher so you will see player characters as they are supposed to appear.”

• When in-game, press F11 to open the Options Menus.
• Select the Graphics Options tab on the left side.
• Toward the bottom are two settings: Character Model Limit and Character Model Quality
• Turn Character Model Quality from “Lowest” to “Low” or a higher setting to see other nearby characters in their customized appearances instead of as the generic CPU-saving models.

I wasn’t sure if I should post this here as it relates to support and my account, or in the website bugs section as it also technically relates to a website issue. My apologies if I chose the wrong one.

I received a survey email asking me to rate my recent experience with support, though clicking on the “Good, I’m satisfied” option to open the support satisfaction page (where I would then verify my response regarding my experience) instead presents me with a line stating:
“No such token: My Long Token Number”.

Is there any way to request a new token or a replacement experience rating survey email so I can ensure my rating of my experience is properly recorded? Or should I just forget about rating my experience?

Request #538575: How would you rate the support you received?

Due to megaserver having been forced everywhere and each zone being made into a melting-pot instance of players from all servers, we no longer have the ability to see party member locations in different maps. Previously we could because all of the zones were on the same server/world and were the home world instances of the map. Before megaserver you would not be able to see party members if they were in an overflow instance of their zone. Since all zones are all overflow/megaserver, you can only see your party member locations by joining them in their instance and only while you are in the same zone with them.

We are basically in a state of every instance of a zone being a megaserver zone made up of players from all servers. Every zone is now essentially an overflow zone, but now blends players from all servers into one instance instead of just players from that server.

The days are gone of being able to see party members’ locations in zones other than the one you are in. In addition to this, you can be in the same zone and be in different megaserver versions of it. You could waypoint in to them and end up in a different version and would then need to right-click their name in your party UI and click “Join In…” to be placed into the same instance together. You could both walk through a zone transition and end up in different megaserver versions of the new zone.

It has been said that the way megaserver works in determining criteria for placing you and your party members into the same instance (contacts list, party members, etc.) should not place party members into separate instances, but it does. Haven’t had it not separate all of my party members up yet. Quite disappointing to have to “Join In…” every single time one waypoints to a friend and/or party member, as well as all going through portals at the same time and then have to waste time agreeing whose instance for us all to “Join In…” on just so we can get back to actually playing the game. sigh

The duplicate unlocks for exclusive gem store dyes will be replaced with a re-packaged version of the dye that you can sell. You will automatically receive these replacement dyes in your in-game mail soon. The post said they’d be sent out automatically to qualified players between May 6th and May 12th.

As for refunds on your town clothes, you will need to file a support ticket and request a refund. When filing your ticket be sure to include the full names of all town clothes items you wish to be refunded the gem cost for. There has been no mention of refunds on town clothes due to the changes being time limited…and there should not logically be one either.

Good luck on your refund request being filled quickly, but be patient with their responding to your request; it can take a while sometimes.

If you have issues of not getting their emails after you submit your request, this thread will be of interest to you:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Not-Getting-Our-E-mails-Hotmail-Yahoo-Gmail-Comcast

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Thanks for pointing that part of that post out, Inculpatus cedo.

Have any of you reported this exploit in the proper fashion of emailing exploits@arena.net with all relevant information, videos, images, character names and account names (name.1234) of exploiters you have witnessed?

Also, be aware that posting an exploit on the forums is against the rules and may actually get you in trouble instead of/in addition to those you documented as actually exploiting the bug. I don’t think many people from ANet even pop in on the bugs forum much anymore, especially in recent weeks/months, so I don’t expect them to even see this thread to remove it despite it stating exactly how to exploit and grief a zerg of players at a zone boss event.

Just some fyi. I hope they get around to fixing this sooner rather than later/ever. It’s a pretty serious issue affecting many, many players.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I never use Deposit All Collectibles. Lol. Started with making sure my pets weren’t deposited, and just became my preferred method.

I know, I know, I’m an odd duck. =)

I never use it either. I think I used it one time during the Ulgoth chain when I forgot to sell off some stuff before the next engagement so I was short on bag space mid-way through fending off a horde of centaurs.

I generally let my bags fill from adventuring and then take a break to sell off stuff in one sitting. However, as I do not craft, all of my materials get sold on the TP instead of depositing them and letting them sit in storage.

Mod is locking threads like this right now.

Hey, Mod, can you sticky that thread you are linking players to use for gem store item requests please?

Mini Largos – Left Wing Node Yanked Really Bad

Item: Mini Largos
Issue: In the middle of the left wing there is a node on the edge that has been yanked really far back and inward. In addition to being undesired visually, this issue may also be damaging to the value of the item which is currently above 128 gold.

Hedition, can I ask what server you are on? Though it may not even matter.
If you want to guest to Eredon Terrace if you see me online, you can pop into my home instance to mine my nodes. Also, I frequent Rata Sum, so we may run into eachother there if you are also there a lot due to megaserver throwing people from all servers into a mixing pot. Anyway, if you see me on then give me a yell. I’m sure partying may allow you to come to the same megaserver instance I am in. Will also give me a nice reminder to mine my nodes every day.

Also to note the nodes I currently have:

• Quartz Crystal
• Candy Corn Node
• Krait Obelisk

I’m sure others have all of them, but if you mainly just want the quartz, I’ve friended you so you can see me in your Followers listing. Hit me up.