Guild Wars 2

Please edit your post and remove the website from it as it is a gold selling site and is very dangerous to visitors.

Or perhaps a mod could edit this.

That…was unexpected. And awesome.

Pretty creative “mount” running animations .

“Bandits have constructed a roadblock to stop Shaemoor traffic”
I have never, ever seen this event active in thousands of hours of gameplay. I had no clue there was even supposed to be an event on that bridge. I have occasionally seen some barricades on the bridge, which was quite odd, but never any enemies and especially not an event notification.

“Stop the bandit thief from stealing the pumphouse blueprints”
Never seen this either. I think I’ve heard an NPC there mention their successfully getting the blueprints back or having stopped the bandits from trying to take them…but I’ve never known what they were talking about.

I love doing DEs and this makes me rather disappointed. This makes me wonder how many fun DEs I’ve never experienced simply because they’ve not bothered to fix them in 20 months of the game being live.

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Syde.8213:

Since we have a lot of new pvp drops is it possible to have a bank npc on PVP area so we can deposit it right there?

sorry cant edit the topic title: BANK NPC on PVP. this is the right title

tnx

Heya, Syde. You cannot edit the topic title by editing your opening post. To edit the topic title you need to click the words “Edit Topic” that are just underneath the “Add Reply” and “Subscribe” buttons underneath the actual title of the thread at the top of this page.

See the attached image.

Grok Krog.9581:

Armor Booster, Scroll of Knowledge, 2 Unid Dyes that didn’t give me anything I needed.

Wasn’t worth it

Wasn’t worth it?

…it was free…

Gatherway.6975:

Eh..I was hoping that the ones I have bought before became account bound as well. but nope still soul bound orz.

As mentioned, un-equip your currently soulbound infinite tools into your inventory and then talk to the Black Lion Weapons Specialist next to most Trading Post agents. You will receive the ability to exchange it for the account bound version. This ability has been available for many months.

I’ve also had it to where I was stopped at a plant and hit my interact key to gather…and nothing happens. After spamming it then it starts to gather. Honestly, I’ve gotten so used to my interact and aoe loot keys not doing what they’re supposed to do on the first press that I’ve just made it a habit to spam my interact key to gather and my aoe loot key to actually aoe loot. I also just spam my aoe loot key any time I kill something just in case it has something to loot because sometimes the sparkles do not even appear immediately after it dies, especially if it was one of those stinking shadow skelks, melandru’s stalker or black jaguars that go invisible; if I kill them while they are invisible then it takes a few seconds for the corpse to even appear, then another second or two for it to start to sparkle. It’s quite annoying.

Basically, just spam your key until it does what it is actually supposed to do.

CC Danicia.1394:

We did a quick maintenance update so it should be sorted.

It is much better, thank you for letting me know it wasn’t just me as I was starting to think it actually was. I’m sure the web team is aware of this when it occurs so in the future I’ll just take a break from the forums for a bit until it passes.
Thanks, Danicia!

Lydia Solace.1348:

The store often doesn’t load for me either I find that closing it to refresh it usueally makes it open strangely enough

I’ve found that happening a lot since megaservers was put in place. Often my search results get lost when advancing the pages, sometimes I need to re-initiate page loads like going to view the buy listings of an item, and also find a tab will not load and I need to click a different tab and then go back to it for it to load. Seems like some instructions get lost and need to be re-sent for it to get received.

I fixed this by opening task manager and boosting the priority of the “awesomium_process.exe” from ‘normal’ to ‘above normal’. I do not encounter these issues of lost instructions to the TP server while running the process as ‘above normal’. If I turn back to ‘normal’ then the issues come back.

Problem with this is that the “awesomium_process.exe” (TP) only runs when you open the TP. Closing your TP ends the process. Due to Windows not saving process priority settings, setting the process to run ‘above normal’ gets reset to ‘normal’ every time you close and reopen your TP.

I had to download a small program for Windows called “Prio” that causes process priority settings to get saved across openings. Now my “awesomium_process.exe” always runs as ‘above normal’ and I do not have these instruction loss and tab loading issues any more. The TP is also very responsive now and quick-loading without bogging down after having it open for a while and doing a bunch of searches or buys/sellings.

If you want to give it a try just download, install and reboot. Then once in-game, open your TP, alt+tab out to task manager and set your “awesomium_process.exe” to be ‘Above Normal’ CPU priority. Closing and re-opening your TP will always have it set to run as ‘above normal’ then. Should notice a big change in the responsiveness of your TP.
http://www.prnwatch.com/prio

Heneral.8519:

StinVec.3621:

Lexoj, please try to clear your game cache folder as it should fix your issue.

Clear the game cache
…

Did this but it did not work for me.

I’m sorry to hear that. :\

Some other things to try are listed here in the sticky thread if you want to look at some other possible solutions to the TP issue.

Also ensure that you are running the game as an administrator

• Close your game completely.
• Right-click your GW2 game shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• 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.
• Re-launch your game and see if the issue persists.

Just in case others are suddenly experiencing this issue, know that it is not just you.

If the web team wasn’t aware of this being an issue today, this suddenly started up again a little over an hour ago for me and has gotten worse since then. It’s hard to get any pages on the forums to load at times and seems to go in waves of pages being inaccessible and then being fine for a few minutes.

Banzie.5248:

Each item recieved is a entirely serperate roll with BLC I believe, correct me I’d I’m wrong. So it is entirely possible to get three boosters, albeit extremely unlikely and even more so of the same booster. Too bad it wasn’t 1 of each perm contract eh;)

“Each Black Lion Chest contains 3 lots of items. The first lot is always either a booster or, rarely, a booster multi-pack. The other two lots of items are selected at random from the other categories of drops. It is possible to receive two of the same item, including two stacks of the same item, if that item drops in stacks of more than one.”

The Black Lion Chest wiki page has not been updated to even include the Swim Speed Boost item as being acquirable from the chests, despite it having existed for quite some time in the store and available from chests.
(I’ll look to edit it in or bring it to the keepers-of-the-wiki’s attention later for addition to the list)

If 3 of the Swim Speed Boost were given from a single chest, perhaps there is a bug to where it is marked as being in the Boosters category as well as in another, non-booster category…which would lead to it being in the pool of all 3 lots of items able to be dispersed. It would then be a super coincidence for it to get chosen as the item from all three lots.

If possible, would a dev that happens past this thread please comment on if there is an issue with the classification of the the Swim Speed Boost that would cause it to be made available to be selected for dispersion in all three lots of items given from a Black Lion Chest, or if that is actually not a possible output from a chest?

Lankybrit.4598:

Kim.4152:

Lankybrit.4598:

What are you guys talking about? I didn’t see this in the article about the Gem Store.

If you go to the Promotions tab on the trading post, you should have an option to receive 1 Black Lion key for 0 gems. Note that it is worth it to check the Promotions tab on a regular basis because there are often freebies available.

OK, I will do. Why don’t they announce this like they did with the free Magic Find booster recently?

The free promotional item tends to not get added to the launcher news feed for at least 24 hours after the actual free item is made available. Should expect it to be available for a few days, but the actual notice won’t be posted for a little while.

OIIIIIO.7825:

XP Booster
Tome of Knowledge
BL Key

Used second key

Armor Booster
Black Lion Ticket Scrap
Permanent Trading Post Express Contract! What!

Best Chest yet!
Edit Added Screen Shot

That is freakin fantastic! Grats!

This issue usually results from leaving an area of default dye on the helm while changing others, but the area left is of a color you do not possess on your account.

If you wish to dye some areas of the helm, but would like to keep one of its default colors, then you would need to make sure you have that default color unlocked on your account.

Again, if you are keeping one of the default colors on the helm, but you do not have that color unlocked, then either leave the helm in its default colors or unlock the default color to then be able to keep it while dying other areas of the helm.

So:

• Purchase and unlock the default dyes that are used on the helm that you wish to keep on it.

or

• Use the Dye Remover tool on all areas of the helm and then hit Apply to save the changes. Then re-dye over all areas of the helm, being sure to not leave any of the default colors on it, and hit Apply to save the changes.

Astral Projections.7320:

Oooohhh. Ty for the heads up.

My pleasure.

As a note for what my free key got me:

• +50 Luck
• 1x Armor Booster
• 1x Total Makeover Kit

I’d love to hear what everyone else got using their free key.

Wiki for it: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Fire
“The effect originates at the target with a radius of 240 and affects up to 5 foes.”

So when your weapon strikes an enemy, if the sigil triggers then the flame blast/lightning strike is directly on the location of the struck enemy.

Also, due to two-handed weapons now being able to slot two sigils, you can run both a Sigil of Fire and a Sigil of Air on the same weapon and both will activate and go on cooldown separately. One hit can actually trigger both to go off for a super powerful hit on the enemy. You just cannot run dual fire or dual air as only one will trigger at a time and both will go on cooldown due to one triggering.

More info:

• Sigils of the same name no longer stack together. Example: Sigil of Bloodlust will no longer add bonus stacks if another Sigil of Bloodlust is equipped. Likewise, a Superior Sigil of Fire will not stack with a Superior, Major, or Minor Sigil of Fire to have increased fire activations.
• Sigils no longer share the same cooldown. Example: Sigil of Fire no longer shares a cooldown with Sigil of Air.
• Two-handed weapons can now have two sigils applied to them instead of one.
• Sigil of Fire: This sigil now has a 50% activation chance on critical hit. Damage is now reduced by 15%. Rescaled the cooldown from 5, 5, and 5 seconds to 9, 7, and 5 seconds for the minor, major, and superior versions, respectively. This sigil remains unable to critically hit.
• Sigil of Air: This sigil now has a 50% activation chance on critical hit. Rescaled the cooldown from 5, 5, and 5 seconds to 5, 4, and 3 seconds for the minor, major, and superior versions, respectively. This sigil remains unable to critically hit.

Yeah, the wiki page is odd. It actually describes two versions of the hazmat suit, one with skills bought with karma, and another without skills and purchased with coin…but it only references where to get the one without skills and for coin.

I’m looking to see where the version with skills can be purchased for karma. Will update if I find it.

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I think the combat version that had skills and was bought with karma was from during beta. It seems that now there is only the tonic version bought with coin that does not offer skills.

One user on Dulfy.net wrote this about it:
“Hazmat Suit Transformation Tonic – Is not strictly non-combat. While you can’t pick up environmental weapons off the ground, it can be used with other ‘toys’ for great fun. Ie. fireworks or teleportation gun (flying golem anyone?) but most importantly, you can use items like the med kit, or charrzooka (which CAN be purchased near shatterer spawn after a certain event ends there. Not sure which event) while transformed. I fought shadow behemoth the other day as a rocket powered Hazmat Suit. Gold medal and all.”

There is currently a free promotion item in the Gem Store on the Promotions tab:

• 1 Free Black Lion Chest Key (125 gem value)

Just a heads up for those that do not frequent the Promotions tab.

Also:

“Sigil of Fire: This sigil now has a 50% activation chance on critical hit. Damage is now reduced by 15%. Rescaled the cooldown from 5, 5, and 5 seconds to 9, 7, and 5 seconds for the minor, major, and superior versions, respectively. This sigil remains unable to critically hit.”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-April-15-2014/3896042

This is the 0.85 damage coefficient (100% – 15% = 85%)

@Captain
Also stated there directly by ANet that it remains unable to critically hit.

Captain Unusual.9163:

2215 on a crit.

“The flame blast cannot critical hit.”
Wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Fire

That is variable based on your character stats. Also take effects of down-leveling into account when figuring.

Wiki for it: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Fire

"The effect originates at the target with a radius of 240 and affects up to 5 foes."
"The flame blast has a 0.85 damage coefficient."

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damage
So:
Damage done = (Weapon strength) * Power * (skill-specific coefficient) / (target’s Armor)

As it seems to be direct damage, you should be able to see exactly how much your flame blast hits for in your chat tab if you have combat messages enabled on the tab.

Banzie.5248:

StinVec.3621:

15 Characters currently
Plenty of 80’s
0 Map completions.

Will never do it until World Completion is made to be completion of the actual Tyrian World Map and no longer forces players into WvW to chart the same areas over and over and over again (fake areas that don’t exist on the long-established Tyrian World Map) simply because they want to try to force players into modes of the game that they may otherwise have no interest in just to get it. They can keep their carrot, I’ll stick to the modes of play that I enjoy to get the things I want. If I can’t get the things I want while playing how I want, then I don’t get them…simple as that. Not getting it doesn’t bother me…it’s just disappointing that they would cheapen what that achievement used to stand for by tying it to their agenda of forcing as many players as possible to take part in their pet project of a game mode when it has nothing to do with what that achievement is actually for doing.

Can we all refuse to do the painstakingly boring 97% PvE world completion because it forces us into your game mode?

Absolutely. WvW only players shouldn’t have to enter PvE either, but to get this achievement, one would.

Forcing WvW players to do OW-PvE to get that achievement is unfair and illogical due to it being a PvE achievement, just as forcing PvE players into WvW to get it is.

Perhaps WvW can have their own title and icon on their name for mapping all of WvW. Do both WvW and PvE’s world completions and you have two different star-like icons on your name.

I feel more achievements should have a visual icon on our names when selected or highlighted. Would really help to make it readily apparent what this character/account has achieved.

As an alternative to SweetFX, especially if it doesn’t work for you or if you experience crashing with it, you should check out FXAA PPI.

I use it for enhanced anti-aliasing, color richness, bloom effect, sharpness, and other enhancements. All of my screenshots in my gallery linked in my signature are using it. I also have the split-screen comparisons between it and regular GW2 in my gallery as well.

It is quick and easy to set up and run. You can also use it to enhance pretty much any game that runs on DirectX 9. Each game can have a profile and the profiles are switchable, copyable, removable within the program so no copying files everywhere and editing config files like SweetFX has you do, or did have you do…not used SweetFX it in a very long time.

FXAA PPI also has absolutely no game crash issues that I see others having with Sweet FX, so that’s a nice bonus too. Also, FXAA PPI doesn’t need to be running for it to work on any game. Configure it for your game and it does it on its own. No need to launch games through the program like SweetFX makes you.

I find FXAA PPI to be very easy to adjust with clearly defined effects so it is easy to know what to tweak to get the results I desire. It really has a lot of options. I also have absolutely no performance loss with it unless I go real overboard on the bloom passes.

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/fxaa-pp-inject/wiki
Grab the latest FxaaToolSVN117 from the ‘Files’ tab.
Hitting the download button from the main page is the FxaaToolSVN112 as it hasn’t been updated with the latest version available.

Here was a discussion from about 10 months ago with some others on the FXAA PPI application. Some more info there as well:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/8-months-and-zero-optimization/1910878

It has some settings screenshots/file links there also for what settings I was using at the time. I switch up and tweak them frequently. If I am on my warrior I tend to adjust settings so I roam areas with almost a medieval tone to where things seem less saturated/cartoony and have a bit of a darker atmosphere or a less rich color to the environment. Sometimes I tweak it so it has that dirty western feel for one of my rangers. Sepia tone, scan line and noise adjustments are really great for this, especially to add a bit of a film grain quality as if in a western movie.

Anyway, I’ve recommended this to others in the past and have had players let me know how much the like and prefer it over SweetFX. Can give it a try, especially if SweetFX doesn’t work properly for you or if you don’t like having to launch games from within SweetFX or have it running all the time for it to be active in the game.

Any questions, let me know. Would be glad to help out.

15 Characters currently
Plenty of 80’s
0 Map completions.

Will never do it until World Completion is made to be completion of the actual Tyrian World Map and no longer forces players into WvW to chart the same areas over and over and over again (fake areas that don’t exist on the long-established Tyrian World Map) simply because they want to try to force players into modes of the game that they may otherwise have no interest in just to get it. They can keep their carrot, I’ll stick to the modes of play that I enjoy to get the things I want. If I can’t get the things I want while playing how I want, then I don’t get them…simple as that. Not getting it doesn’t bother me…it’s just disappointing that they would cheapen what that achievement used to stand for by tying it to their agenda of forcing as many players as possible to take part in their pet project of a game mode when it has nothing to do with what that achievement is actually for doing.

DrakoRoma.4167:

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you can try dropping the model detail (I believe that’s the name) to the lowest setting.

Unfortunately, even setting Character Model Limit and Character Model Quality to “Lowest” makes no difference on the displaying of both back pieces and weapons, as well as any effects on those back pieces or weapons like legendary auras or spinal blade back item glow. Even turning every single graphics setting to the lowest setting possible does nothing to hide any of the auras or effects on legendary weapons or back pieces.

It’s completely illogical and ridiculous that we have settings to make standard low quality armor forced on everyone else, but back pieces apparently do not count as armor and we also cannot remove the graphics and effects on weapons (primarily those annoying legendaries and their effects)…the main things that actually cause graphical FPS issues, are visually annoying, and that players would actually desire to make hidden.

http://dulfy.net/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-karma-vendor-list

This should help out. Can then wiki the individual item names from the higher level zone karma vendor offerings.

The tradability change to BL Chest skins only affected those that a player acquired after the change. Nobody’s skins that had been acquired prior to the change were ever converted into tradable versions. Everyone else who acquired a Zodiac weapon skin when they were released, but prior to the fix that made them tradable, have always been stuck with it due to having gotten it before the bug was fixed.

ANet’s stance on that matter had upset many players then and still continues to upset many players now. We all know they can change the binding status of items at will (there are many, many examples of it being done even to this day), but their refusal to do so with previously acquired and unused Black Lion Weapon Skins and to only make newly acquired skins tradable was intentional. They intended for previously acquired and unused skins to remain bound to the account instead of also being made tradable. It was a conscious decision on their part to essentially screw players over who had acquired skins prior to the change and they’ve still not given a good reason (or any reason at all) for why this decision was made…just that it was the decision they made.

The only choices that have ever been available to players who possess a skin acquired prior to the change in tradability back then are to use the skin (which now unlocks it for your wardrobe) or delete it.

I know, it really sucks for a lot of people that acquired skins prior to the change…but that is the situation they’ve made and the only options they’ve provided; i.e – have a skin acquired prior to the change, you’re stuck with it and can only consume it or delete it. :\

Your screenshot doesn’t show a reward as being selected.

Does selecting one of the choices provide an accept button below them?

• If so, is this accept button unable to be clicked?
• If it can be clicked, does it simply not progress to placing the item in your inventory and dismissing the pop-up?

Perhaps your inventory is full so it cannot place the selected reward into your inventory.

Also, as this is part of the Norn Personal Story, your screenshot seems to show this shield as persisting on your screen even after exiting the instance.

• Did you exit the Personal Story instance prior to accepting your reward choice?
  • If so, did you waypoint out of the instance, go into the red area and get kicked out, or manually click the Exit Instance button above your minimap (which should not have been available to you until after you received the reward) to exit the Personal Story instance?

What step of your personal story does your Hero Panel display you as currently being on? The Championship Fight (still) or Rumors of Trouble (the next chapter)?

Have you tried doing a heart quest in a zone, map complete an area, or complete your daily to then spawn a chest above your minimap? Perhaps bringing up one of these chest awards will overwrite this stuck Personal Story reward screen.

More information is needed to try to determine a way to get it off of your screen.

Astral Projections.7320:

WHY do the shoulders and helms need to be ridiculously huge? He looks
like a child dressed in adult clothing. >.>

Child in adult clothing is the perfect way of describing how the scaling makes armor look on male sylvari. I can’t believe ANet still refuses to correct this issue. May just delete my male sylvari due to giving up hope that they would. :\ Their silence on the matter and the issue still persisting shows that they have no intention to correct it.
Such a shame. How can this issue be acceptable to them? Giant boots, shoulders and gloves…
le sigh

One way to do it quickly is to create a new character and throw all the skins into its inventory, then delete the character. No typing out anything other than the name of the character once.

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Due to low inventory space on a new character, even with cheap 10-slot bags on it, you may need to do it several times if you have a ton of skins…or throw some coin out for 18-slot bags and try to cram it all into one deletion at the cost of some bags.

• Do you get a black screen briefly prior to the game minimizing?
  Or is it just an immediate minimize to task bar situation?

• Do you run the game in Windowed or Windowed Fullscreen mode?
  Or are you running in Fullscreen?
  • If Fullscreen, do you have the game set to a resolution that is different from your desktop resolution? (example: game @ 1600×900, desktop @ 1280×720)

• Do you use NVidia, AMD/ATI, or Intel for your graphics?
• Is your monitor connected via DVI to your graphics card?

Miguel V.5203:

Oh yea… how stupid…

So I need to buy an new bag? :o

If you just move the items to a non-invisible bag you will then be able to sell them properly.

If you have no need to store items in your inventory in an invisible bag where they are safe from being accidentally sold to vendors or on the TP, then feel free to sell that bag and buy a new one that does not have that functionality.

Generally, invisible bags tend to cost more on the TP, so you could sell your current invisible bag and buy a standard bag and make a little coin off of swapping it out.

Be aware, to un-equip an equipped bag it must be completely empty and you can then un-equip it and sell it.

Or, if you buy a new, non-invisible bag first, you can simply drag and drop the new bag over the old bag to replace it as long as the new bag has a higher slot capacity.
i.e.
Replace a 10-slot bag with a 12-slot bag without needing to first empty the 10-slot bag.

I do not think you can replace a 10-slot bag that has items in it with another 10-slot bag, and definitely not with a bag of smaller slot capacity even if the bag is empty.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You must be fortunate. Or have some kind of different settings. The only time I’ve ever seen a year on the date, was when I tried (today) to find something with the Forum Search function, opened a thread it brought up out of curiosity, and noticed a year on the dates.

I have no idea why years would show up there, and not on the regular, non-searched forum threads.

Just tried a search, again, and tried mousing over the date (with year included)…nothing. Nor will those dates (with year included) let me click to change the format. Must be in a different data-base, or something.

That is odd. I’ve always had the resting cursor info pop-up on posting time. However, I agree that it should have always been included in the actual text on the page for when a post was made.

I’ll see if I can find a setting for different browsers that would affect this and prevent it from occurring, in case you may want it to be (re)enabled for your browser.

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Interesting, suddenly it will not pop up unless I first toggle how the post date is displayed. It seems interacting with the post time displaying format reveals that area for hover info display (similar to flash videos like youtube where you need to click the video to make it the active focus or active page element to then be able to interact with the controls).

Perhaps try swapping the post date display mode and then try to hover on it to see if the info pop-up displays.

FrozenStarRo.7240:

You should contact support and they might be able to unlock the skins for you, but it may be a long shot as they changed gemstore purchase history to only show the last 3 months as I recall.

I believe that it was BL Trading Post “Items I’ve Bought” and “Items I’ve Sold” histories that were reduced to only the last 90 days and not gem store purchases. You’re right though, they should give support a try…it’s worth a shot.

Chizlett.1630:

StinVec.3621:

Chizlett.1630:

ever since the april update i can’t access any services in black lion trading company beside the gem store. the gem store display and functions normally but the others are just blank pages as shown in the attached picture. i tried change capabilities and set the game as administrator but none worked. i am now unable to sell or use any functions but the gem store.

Hi, Chizlett. Have you also tried clearing your GW2 game cache? It is the most common method for resolving TP issues like the one you are experiencing.

i tried this method, deleted my cache, but not only it doesn’t work, now gem store are gone too. everything remains blank. i also retried changing capabilities, still not working. ps my system is windows 7.

Sorry to hear that the cache clearing didn’t correct the problem. Unfortunately, it sounds like it is a more complex issue and not the common cache related issue.

Can you also:

1) Check for conflicting programs

• If you recently starting using any new programs like Mumble or MSI Afterburner, these programs seem to have an overlay aspect to them that interferes with the trading post’s functionality. Disabling these from running with GW2 can prevent the conflict.

2) Disable any proxy settings

• Check your Control Panel > Internet Options > Connection settings and make sure to disable any Proxy Setting that may be enabled there.
  Proxy Check/Disable
  In your Windows Control Panel via your Start Menu:
  • Choose to view as icons instead of as categories in the top right.
  • Open Internet Options
    • Click on the Connections tab
    • At the very bottom click on LAN Settings
      • Check/tick the Automatically Detect Settings box
      • Make sure the lower Proxy Server boxes are unchecked

3) Configure Anti-virus & Firewall

• Check your Anti-virus and Firewall to make sure they are not blocking the program “awesomium_process.exe” (the trading post) from running. Can also try manually white-listing the program so it will not be restricted from accessing the internet.

“Fixed an issue that caused daily achievement rewards to be granted erroneously.”

Seems it may have gotten fixed for those having the issue.

Knox.3748:

No reset on my daily, good job anet!

The patch isn’t for a few more minutes. Perhaps it will be fixed with this. Give a check afterward. Hope it is fixed.

I’ve had this problem of the flash occurring above the minimap in my lower right corner, while the gold medal is displayed in the upper right corner below my personal story and tracked achievements notification area.

It has been this way for me since they adjusted the PS and LS panels in the top right in the Janurary 21 game update

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General

• User Interface: Various updates have been made to the right-hand side of the HUD to improve its appearance and functionality.

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Got a good screencap of it. Have seen this constantly every single time I finish an event since January.

Largos and Skritt are my desire.
However, I would happily create a Tengu.

Mystic.5934:

I did the math a while ago. essentially, gold -> gem would need to go below ~94s/100 gems for mystic salvage kits to be cheaper than master salvage kits. that hasn’t been the case since nov 16, 2012
Master SK = 15s36c / 25 = 61.44c each

at 94s/100 gems:
Mystic Forge Stone = 45 gems each. at 94s/100 gems = 42s30c each
Mystic SK = (15s36c + 8s + 2s88c + 3 × 42s30c) = 1g53s14c / 250 = 61.256c each

at 9g/100 gems:
Mystic SK = (15s36c + 8s + 2s88c + 3 x (9g/100*45)) = 12g41s24c / 250 = 4s96.5c each (4s35c more than Master, 8 times as expensive)

I use any mystic forge stones I get from AP on mystic kits, then only use master once I run out of those. I usually use MSK for salvaging rares, so an extra 5s added to the cost essentially eliminates any profit margin (instead of 30s for a 37s ecto you’re paying 35s for the 37s ecto)

I always enjoy reading your posts, especially those that include math. I believe you stated previously that you really like math and it shows. Thank you for your effort and contributions to these discussions, they’re very informative.

Chizlett.1630:

ever since the april update i can’t access any services in black lion trading company beside the gem store. the gem store display and functions normally but the others are just blank pages as shown in the attached picture. i tried change capabilities and set the game as administrator but none worked. i am now unable to sell or use any functions but the gem store.

Hi, Chizlett. Have you also tried clearing your GW2 game cache? It is the most common method for resolving TP issues like the one you are experiencing.

Having fewer than 3 stones in your possession is of no use or value whatsoever due to requiring 3 to make a Transmutation Charge, unfortunately. They can either be saved for sentimental reasons, or be destroyed to free up a storage slot. :\

maddoctor.2738:

StinVec.3621:

It’s quite a silly design.
1. Why is a player able to unlock a locked trait in a zone designated for characters below level 30 who will not even have traits unlocked and viewable yet?

2. Why can we still not even see what traits are until we are level 30 and open it up? Can we please have the trait area viewable prior to level 30 so a new player can familiarize themselves with traits and what will be available to them after they hit level 30?

3. Traits should not be available to be unlocked by completing content in zones that are sub-30 due to traits not even being viewable and unlocked until you’ve hit level 30.

I think it’s good design, and the opposite is far worse.

The idea of the new trait system is to get your traits unlocked by doing content, that content should be at our the same level as you get the traits, for example level 30 content for adept traits. The only “bad” thing is that you got a notification to open your trait screen, unlocking traits by doing lower level content is meant to lead players to lower level zones too, I don’t think that’s “bad” design in any way.

What’s terrible is to require a 100% completion of Frostgorge to get an Adept trait… That’s silly. Requiring higher level content to get a trait you should have available at level 30 is far worse than unlocking some traits without access to the trait screen.

I’m discussing how this affects new players for characters below level 30 who do not have traits unlocked or even know what they are yet…not established characters above level 30 who know what traits are and already have them unlocked due to being experienced players who are now returning to lower level zones to unlock specific traits. I understand your comment and agree for the most part, but it is not related to the subject I am discussing. Thank you for your input though.

So I made a new character to experience leveling under the new system when the feature patch released. So far things are going ok, though I’ve not hit level 30 yet to unlock traits.

One thing I just ran into while exploring Kessex Hills (levels 15-25) confuses me as an implementation decision regarding unlocking specific traits.

I entered Goff’s Bandits to get the POI and released the caged trolls to get the chest in the cell. Upon beating the trolls I received an award stating I had unlocked a trait called “Pet’s Prowess” for my sub-30 ranger. It offered me an accept button which would take me directly to my traits panel to view the newly unlocked trait…but I’m not level 30 yet.

Not only can I not even look at the trait panel to see what will be available to me once I hit level 30, I can unlock a trait while I’m under level 30…in a 15-25 zone? This makes no sense.

So, as a new player:

• I would be completely confused as to why I just unlocked a trait due to not even being allowed to look at the trait section to see that I would have needed to beat these trolls to unlock that trait.
• I would be completely confused as to why accepting this trait unlock notification would take me into my hero panel to view the trait I just unlocked, and then seeing that I am not allowed to even see what traits are, let alone what this trait does that I just unlocked.

It’s quite a silly design.
1. Why is a player able to unlock a locked trait in a zone designated for characters below level 30 who will not even have traits unlocked and viewable yet?

2. Why can we still not even see what traits are until we are level 30 and open it up? Can we please have the trait area viewable prior to level 30 so a new player can familiarize themselves with traits and what will be available to them after they hit level 30?

3. Traits should not be available to be unlocked by completing content in zones that are sub-30 due to traits not even being viewable and unlocked until you’ve hit level 30.

Not a problem. Glad it helped and that it wasn’t something obscure and problematic unrelated and unfixed by that setting.

Suddenflame.2601:

This has been said time and time again already. Use the bloody search tool there is about 50 other threads all about removing leveling. There is even reports that Guild Wars 2 Alpha had no levels, but the testers were as lost as hell.

Have you tried to “use the bloody search tool” yourself? It has been non-functional for over a year and a half so no need to get upset at the creator of a thread covering a topic that has already been discussed. Do not instruct others to use it as it does not work and they refuse to either fix it, replace it with a functional search utility or remove it entirely.

I’m not sure what is causing your screen to shake so violently or constantly, but did you disable the Camera Shake option and did it prevent the shaking you are encountering from continuing?

Regarding nibblesalil’s question on the increase of trolls due to megaserver:

I started reporting and blocking dozens of players since megaserver went active. I finally just gave up wasting my time with that anymore and have permanently shut my chat off.

Reporting does not really amount to anything at all, despite what some say, as the same players with their sexualized and immature names and highly inappropriate comments and conversations are still around day after day of reporting for months. I don’t expect them to suddenly start actually doing something about these players…or the guild names for that matter…the horrible, horrible guild names with full swear words and of gang kitten and violent “deflowering” and much, much worse. Nothing is done about those. Why must one screenshot the player and their guild name and then come here and file a complaint to support to get the guild name looked at. Why can’t we file an Inappropriate Character Name report in-game and then the person who looks at the report take 2 additional seconds to also look at the guild names this character is in. Or add an Inappropriate Guild Name option to the in-game report?

I do not even know if there is a maximum limit to the block list, but it will not matter as the trolls carry on conversations in /emote knowing full well that blocking them does not block what they say in that. And to even block a person being inappropriate in /emote one must manually enter their name to the contacts list and then report/block them. And with the /emote range being so insanely far, I see inappropriate emote conversations almost no matter where I go in a map. We’ve begged ANet to fix the block function, they refuse to do so.

And that is just chat trolls. This megaserver being forced on all of us has also made my fears realized. One day after it’s forced on us and there is no getting away from other players. There is no peaceful exploring any longer. It is always a dozen players running across your screen at all times.

It only took 2 days of megaserver being live for me to find myself getting trolled by a mob of flamethrower engineers constantly following me around and flaming me and everything else around me. Finally they moved on to trolling someone else and I was relieved…and then I felt bad knowing what that person was then going through.

Yes, trolls are everywhere and unavoidable now, even with chat disabled. I’m not sure if I like the game anymore. The main thing I derived enjoyment from in this game, and was the main reason I enjoyed playing, was taking a pleasant stroll through the woods and mountainside where I could appreciate the sounds, the art, atmosphere… To go on a hike down trails or to simulate camping and surviving in the woods…to hunt for my food. ANet has made it clear that they now seem to want no form of roleplaying to be done or able to be done in their game.

Yes, I’m quite disappointed.

Aidan Savage.2078:

This is why I only craft the mystic kits when I receive the stones from AP chests.

Same. Only thing I use them for anymore is for making kits. I tried to burn through them on the mystic forge daily when tossing white items into it for the daily to save 50c…that’s how many of these things I get; they’re barely worth a few copper anymore. I still have over 100 from the AP chests and I keep getting more from black lion chests and occasionally from dailies. Sitting at about 115 still. I’d give them all to the OP if I could.