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March Sale item record

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I was happy to help out Shades by supplying the graphic. Thank you, Shades, for keeping track for everyone and updating so regularly! I was quite late a few times with updating the pic, like today. :\

I’m disappointed in the final sale day in that people who were hoping for the toxic items to return had one chance left today. I’m sad they won’t be able to get them like the people who wanted the other limited time items were able to.

I did get several things this month from the sales, so thank you ANet for running it!

@Donari
I don’t expect any full set armor skins to leave the gem store after the patch as all full armor skin sets have always stayed available once released. Now, will their prices increase after the patch? I wouldn’t be surprised to see that. But I would be surprised to see existing full set armor skins no longer available. If Krytan does get yanked from the store for some reason, you can always pick up the Digital Deluxe Edition which includes the Heroic Edition items, which also includes your choice of one of the 3 classic skin sets in it.

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March Sale item record

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Will I loose skin?

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You cannot equip an item without selecting stats. If you were to apply your wings to it right now you still would not be able to wear it without selecting stats.

Since you want to wait to select stats on the back item, but you wish to have your Holographic wings to wear right now, you can purchase back items from the trading post (or a guild back item) and apply the wings to that item to wear right now. When you select the stats on your Spinal Blades back item after the patch, you can use a transmutation charge to apply the holographic wings skin onto that back item as well since it will be unlocked in your wardrobe.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Back_item
Search for any of the following on the TP to find back items:

  • spineguard
  • brace
  • splice
  • back

Even still, applying the skin to it and then selecting stats will not revert the skin to the tempered appearance; the holographic appearance would persist even after selecting stats.

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World Bosses, hopes on what will change

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Thank you for altering your title to more appropriately reflect your thread contents.

Regarding your suggestion, I like the idea of boss portals taking you to an instance to engage the boss (but not for all zone boss events). The Thaumanova Reactor has a boss event such as this that can be activated by opening a portal to engage a Displaced Steam Ogre (by using an infused Matrix Cube Key on the console in the shielded area of the central chamber).

This would also allow for a more appropriate level of scaling for the event based on how many port in to engage the boss. As it is now, players can engage most (if not all) zone bosses for a few shots and then run off to the sidelines out of harms way and still receive their rewards after the boss goes down. These players are no longer contributing to the fight against the boss and the boss is still scaled to include them. If everyone who ports in to the boss through the boss portal has a limited area of movement to where they cannot run off to a safe area (personal story boundaries), then the event can maintain its proper scaling due to non-participating players being removed from the instance.

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World Bosses, hopes on what will change

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But it is already stated that they change things about the world bosses with this feature patch.

They did state that? Where?

In a German inteview! They asked about plans to change the organizations of such world bosses and the community manager hinted at the last 3 blog posts!

Here is what they are talking about, I think. I can only guess as they did not supply the requested citation.
http://nerdybookahs.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/foostival-2014-interview-with-ramon

This is the interview from Foostival with Ramon Domke, the German community manager of Guild Wars 2

9. Will there be more world bosses like Tequatl?
He definitely does not want to exclude that possibility.

10. Are they thinking about putting the bigger bosses that need lots of coordination onto special maps? So that those who do this content don’t disturb those who want to level in that zone.
He refers to the last few bullet points on the April 2014 Feature Pack release and tells us to wait for those to be revealed ((Facilitating Friendly Play Parts 1, 2 and 3 which will be shown April 2 – April 4)). This question will be answered in detail in there.

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Number 46 is very interesting. I wonder how it would affect the event timers (including zone bosses) on many websites.

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World Bosses, hopes on what will change

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Intentionally masking a personal suggestion with a thread title that misleads and tricks players into clicking on your thread to boost its viewcount with a statement of fact that is not, is very shady and causes me to not even read your suggestion out of principle.

I request that you or a mod edit the thread title to remove the “incoming!” and add “[Suggestion]” to the beginning. (title was altered)

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March Sales Gem Exchange Record

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Thank you for the update.

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Bag/bank slots tomorrow, no grenth hood/toxic

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Tomorrow will be bank/bag slots.

Will you supply your source for this information? You said “will be” without a hint of there being a possibility of it being something else, so I expect you know it for certain from having seen it written by a dev someplace that it would be bank/bag slots for sure.

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nevermind...

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Can I run around with 2 rifles on my engie then?

Yeah. Unfortunately, due to being an engi you are limited to both rifles pointing backwards so you have to “about face” when you encounter an enemy in order to shoot at them. Also, due to the massive backpack that you cannot hide, there is a 92.6% likelihood of each shot being obstructed, thus wounding yourself instead of the enemy.

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nevermind...

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I demand 4 arms so I can use double two handed weapons at once. They’re not two handed if you can use them with one hand, by definition.

lol. wut. A 2-handed sword is still a 2-handed sword, regardless of if you use one hand to grip it. A 2-handed staff is still a 2-handed staff, even if I only hold it in one hand.

Or with no hands. Why do we need hands to wield weapons at all? There’s freakin’ magic everywhere! Can’t we just have 20 greatswords spinning around us at all times?

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Toxic Armor Skin

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Tomorrow is the last day of March sale, so i think no, there is no chance for toxic mantle and gloves… so sad i hoped that there will be toxic and grenth hood this month.

The day after tomorrow is the last day. There are two days of sales left. 30th and 31st.

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Level up with higher level chars

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I don’t even pay attention to gaining character levels, let alone in a hurry to gain them as fast as possible to get to 80. If I get near 80 I actually start a new character. In fact, if I could turn off XP gain, I would. I play the game and have fun doing whatever with whichever character I feel like playing at the time based on how I made them to look.

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Trading post issues

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As you’ve already cleared your game cache and are running as administrator, could you also look into these:

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 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.

4) Check the game for errors and repair it

  • Close your game completely.
  • Next, make a copy of your Gw2 game shortcut and rename it “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 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.
  • After it runs through, start the game using the normal GW2 game shortcut (not the repair shortcut) and see if your TP can function properly.

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Also, do you happen to be using any command line arguments, such as -nopatchui?

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Personal Guild Bank gone!

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If you actually mean you “guested back to the old server” then you would only have access to your current bound server’s guild bank (if you made a new one) while guesting to the other server. You would need to fully transfer back to the original server you left the guild upgrades on to once again access that guild bank.

I made the guild on my 1st server, I then transferred. The guild was still on old server. It wouldnt let me access the bank, I tried guesting onto the Old server and then tried to access the bank and still wouldnt let me.

If you actually mean you “guested back to the old server” then you would only have access to your current bound server’s guild bank (if you made a new one) while guesting to the other server. You would need to fully transfer back to the original server you left the guild upgrades on to once again access that guild bank.

Unless you know and trust someone who is on the old server with the guild bank who can pull out and mail the items to you, the only way to once again get access to that bank and its items would be to fully transfer once again back to that server.

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Trading Co. not working

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Does Kyllaa.1385’s steps outlined here help resolve your TP issues? They also posted another possible solution lower in that thread.

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Personal Guild Bank gone!

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The server transfer is exactly what matters.
Guilds are bound to the server, since you transferred, the guild you made in the previous server doesn’t exist in the new server.

But I went back to the old server also and still wouldnt let me open it.

If that is the case how am I suppose get all my stuff back out without other players?

If you actually mean you “guested back to the old server” then you would only have access to your current bound server’s guild bank (if you made a new one) while guesting to the other server. You would need to fully transfer back to the original server you left the guild upgrades on to once again access that guild bank.

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How to make money as a solo player?

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I solo play 99% of the time as well with the occasional temporary meeting up with players at random as I help them out with events or things they are too low level to be doing in the first place

Harathi Hinterlands is fantastic for solo play. I solo the event chain from the start up until Ulgoth spawns and sometimes a few people show up at that point to help out. But generally the entire chain is more fun alone so it is good nobody goes there on my server. End up with full bags and 6 champ loots. If some help on Ulgoth then you have your boss and bonus chest as well. Sometimes only one other person shows so we 2-man Ulgoth. Usually deaths are involved, but it’s so much fun! Generally can run the whole chain from start to Ulgoth in 30-45 minutes solo.
If you let Ulgoth’s timer expire then the centaurs regroup and push in on the last camp. Defend this camp and you get another run at all of the pre-Ulgoth events of 4 champs and a ton of centaur waves, which means tons of loot. Let Ulgoth’s timer expire again and use that time to empty bags. Then defend the camp again and do the run to Ulgoth again to get 4 more champ bags and full bags of loot. Can start from the defend the last camp stage about ever 30 minutes or so. Each defend to Ulgoth gets between 3 and 6 gold worth of loot (mats, junk loot) and usually 1-4 rares with 124% MF, as well as 80-120 supply bags. Usually enough time to clean bags before the next assault starts…usually.

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It is time to take a second look at racials.

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While your suggestion is an “interesting” one, you should put it in the suggestions forum.

[ … ]

The “suggestions” forum has been closed for quite a long time and ANet has expressed their desire for everyone to make their suggestions in the appropriately related sub-forum so the teams related to that area may see the suggestion better than they would sifting through a mess of suggestions unrelated to their area of expertise.

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Suggestion: A pet for everyone

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Seems that some are forgetting that rangers are not the only class that currently has pets

Minions and pets are two fairly different concepts.

I really wish my Asura could have a “pet” golem though, I’d love to have a golem – even if it did nothing but hold all my bags for me – named Claptrap.

Even with all that said, though, I think this idea is terrible. Pets are for rangers.

Would be nice though to possibly see some sort of companionship – even if it has no gameplay functionality – such as golems or pack dolyaks. Possibly some sort of luggage carrier you can buy (will basically just be your inventory backpack, but be a walking object). There’s no need to implement any sort of mechanical pet though since these pets already exist on the ranger class and should remain exclusive to rangers.

“Pets” as terminology are what rangers alone have in name only. “Pets” used as a term for any spawned NPC companion which provides a combat advantage that the PC must maintain and use strategically is not limited to just rangers.

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Suggestion: A pet for everyone

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Seems that some are forgetting that rangers are not the only class that currently has pets; necromancers do as well. Also, elementalists have an elite skill that spawns a beneficial companion. Mesmers constantly spawn what can be considered pets (illusions). Engineers have various contraptions that can be considered companions. Thief has a trap that spawns a companion thief, and even an elite that spawns several. What about the human Hounds of Balthazar elite skill? Charr elite warband skill? Asura 7-Series and D-Series Golem elites? Norn Wurm?

And with other consumables spawning elementals as well as the Mistfire Wolf elite skill, currently any class can have pets that provide bonuses even if they are only temporarily available due to expirations and cooldowns.

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I think I messed up

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Glad to hear! In the future, missing edit button may be a sign of the page not seeing you as being logged in. May need to force a refresh of the page without using cached elements (CTRL + F5). Or if using multiple tabs, try to visit it from the main tab where you know it shows you as logged in.

Hope you don’t have the issue in the future, though.

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I think I messed up

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Are you saying that the edit pencil in the bottom right of your post does not appear for you, or that clicking it does not do anything? If you mean that you can enter into edit mode for the post and make changes to the text, but saving the changes only makes the post disappear then that is actually normal on these forums for the post to not update immediately after altering it. Edit your post and save the changes, wait 5-10 seconds and refresh the page to see the updated post, though sometimes it takes a few refreshes as it can take up to 20 seconds or so after editing it for the post to get updated.

Also, that sub-forum seems just right for what you are discussing.

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Is the trading post FIFO, or LIFO?

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Most recent John Smith quote stating it is here.

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March Sale item record

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Baha! Hah! I told you it was coming! Yes! ANet take my money!

:D Awesome!
Your “Baha! Hah! I told you!” made me think of Mikey from Goonies when they reveal the tunnel under the fireplace in the Fratelli’s basement. So awesome.

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Suggestion: A pet for everyone

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No, this would be just like that other horrible MMO which I will not name, where you can have a pet and it gives stats, making it a requirement to get best in slots, if ever they do this It should only be cosmetic and Cash shop

Consumables (food, oils/stone/crystal) give stats and many feel they are required for maximizing stats. Should those not even be in the game due to many even kicking players from dungeon parties if they don’t have them? You cannot talk about additional items being required for maximum stats without pointing fingers at other things already in the game like those items.

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ascended spinal back question

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Hi, Zaoda. Esmee is correct, unfortunately. One must make an all new spinal blade backpack and upgrade it all the way up to the Tempered version to then be used with a different power core to make a different colored one. Yeah. :\

And since transmuted versions cannot be upgraded, even after the wardrobe changes goes in to effect we cannot try to get around that by applying the unlocked Tempered version onto the back piece and then upgrade it with a different core to change its color. Seems they really want everyone to be forced to remake it from the very beginning for each color no matter what.

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GW2 Honesty

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I used to have random items (cheap mats, some black lion chests, mostly worthless stuff) mailed to me while standing at the bank in DR. I would PM the person and ask if it was an accident. If they responded saying it was then I would send the items back and explain to them how it happened (see note at bottom). If they did not respond then I kept the items as they obviously weren’t of importance to them if they could not even be bothered to reply to my PM.

If I suddenly had 100g mailed to me then it would be returned, but I would include a long and detailed message in the body saying how lucky the sender was that it got sent to me instead of someone else that might’ve kept it. I would also include a message to any ANet employees who might’ve flagged the transaction stating the situation to avoid potentially being banned for first receiving a large sum of coin as well as sending such a large amount to another player, despite sending it to the person who first sent it to me.

Fear of getting banned for sending coin to people (oh the horror stories I’ve heard and witnessed) is the main reason I stopped sending random gold to new players to help them out or as gifts to friends…more so because I don’t want them getting banned for receiving the gold (that they didn’t even ask for) and being flagged as buying gold from a gold seller than my getting banned for sending it and being mistaken for one. ANet’s heavy hand and questionable automated system auto-banning made me stop being so nice to my fellow players with giving random gifts as going through support to (maybe) get unbanned for being wrongfully banned is not worth it.

Note for paragraph 1:
There was a “bug” in the game since beta up until a few months ago where typing out a mail complete with the intended recipient, and then right-clicking an item and hitting “mail item to…” would add the item to your existing mail message but would also replace your pre-entered recipient with your current target’s name or even the last player you targeted…which happens a lot standing around the bank and TP. This unwanted behavior seemed to have finally gotten fixed sometime in the last 2-3 months, though there was no mention of it in the bug fix area of any patch notes, but that’s not really a surprise, sadly.

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April Joke... Upcoming April Patch

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You made a thread in the lore section that had nothing to do with lore, then made a thread in the GW2 Discussion area that is nothing but a link to your thread in the lore section?

Perhaps copy the contents of the other thread and then delete it, then edit this thread and paste its contents here.

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Feedback: No more Armor Repair costs etc..

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There was already a primary feedback thread on this with 122 comments in it, why make another one and separate the feedback so a mod needs to merge them?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Feedback-Thread-Say-goodbye-to-Armor-Repairs

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Please Remove the Toxic Offshoot events

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I agree. Their persistence following the fall of the Tower was a nice touch, but lasting through both the Escape From and Assault On Lion’s Arch was stretching their welcome. Having them persist beyond those events is illogical and should have been removed with the Epilogue update. However, since they were not, I expect they will likely get removed in the next content update as making everyone stop what they’re doing and download a new build just to remove them doesn’t seem courteous to all players in-game at the time, or efficient. Unfortunately the next update seems to be coming on April 15th. Unless they decide to throw some things together into a small update between now and then, it looks like we are stuck with them for several more weeks.

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Thanks John..

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so from what I can get from /deaths.. I have 1774 total deaths on my account, giving myself a higher than actual cost per death (as not all of those are level 80 characters, and none of my characters has higher than a 2s repair bill per death) of 2s per death.. I’ll save.. 35 gold for a year and a half of content.. no idea how many times I’ve respecced but it’s not often and so I’ve probably spent less than 5 gold on respeccing (that’s a very high estimate).. to give a round figure of 40g in savings.. I think this change is just going to be net loss in money for me. I’d rather have waypoint costs removed than repairs. Waypoints cost way more than repairs.

So.. I guess.. use those instant repair canisters I’ve been hoarding before the 15th..

Repair canisters still retain all of their usefulness after the 15th as they are a convenience item that allows you to repair your equipment anytime you want out in the field instead of having to visit a repair NPC. The only thing that is changing is that people who take the time to visit a repair NPC to repair their equipment will no longer need to pay the little bit of coin it currently costs.

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Does Effect LOD work?

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StinVec.3621

The only noticeable effect enabling the “Effect LOD” setting seems to have is that it causes arrows being shot from bows to not be visible, just the effect of wisps of air that normally surrounds the arrows remains. :\

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Suggestion: A pet for everyone

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StinVec.3621

Is “moa” plural still “moa” (like deer and sheep), “moas”, or would it be “moai” (mow-eye like “The Moai”)?

Regardless, I like your ideas. Very well done.

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Where do I find my account-wide uh... stats?

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StinVec.3621

Search function hates everyone. It has been completely broken for over a year. We begged that it either be fixed or removed…but it is still there. :\ Best bet is to use google and search for “GW2 forums” and then your topic of interest.

Also, if you hit “More posting & formatting options…” beneath your comment (or hit edit and then that) you will see some of the formatting tools available, like:

  • Bulletpoints
  1. Numbered
  2. Stuff

As for all of your listed queries, other than how many times you’ve died and how many hours you’ve spent on your character(s) and account age, I do not think any of the other items are tracked. Sadly.

There are some achievements that show how many times you’ve done something (run a dungeon, killed ambient creatures, killed enemies with specific weapons, damage done in a single hit), but those only track up until the point to where you earn that achievement. Beyond that isn’t tracked. :\

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Have you ever broken ALL of your armor?

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StinVec.3621

I’ve never broken all of my armor pieces. However, I have been down to nothing but my boots, back item, shoulders and breathing apparatus being unbroken during one of the Living Story Zerg events, but I honestly cannot recall which one it was. Other than that one instance I think I’ve only ever found myself with a single broken armor piece one other time.

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Again, ANet built up too much hype...

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StinVec.3621

I don’t think you’re right on that at all. No where in the blog does it mention removing restrictions at all, plus we know there are more coming next week with more info on what’s coming.

Oh, and we also know they’re working on removing the profession restrictions on weapons such that we’ll ultimately have access to every weapon for every profession… just saying…

I’m not sure if you are trying to troll, or if you are too hopeful, but we’re pretty sure this was the “remove restrictions” blog.

http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/featurepackfeatured.jpg
Count them up and they add up to the right number.

And we don’t know what they are doing. They are also supposedly working on new legendaries, bar brawl and precursor hunt. Heard anything about that recently ?

Hmm… perhaps I was wrong. OK, I concede the blog was initially poorly named yet the name was changed to something more accurate prior to release.

Every blog has a different title once it has been unlocked that details the contents of the blog. The locked title is meant to be a snippet of what to expect it to be related to. The problem with this blog is that it has no relationship to restrictions being removed as the locked title did. I honestly think it likely that the original blog (that actually dealt with removing restrictions) got yanked and this piecemeal collection of random patch note snippets and a reiterating of previously released trait reset info was thrown together at the last minute, which is why it was not unlocked for several hours after the Account Bound blog was.

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People's Republic of China

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StinVec.3621

It’s not just you, that last line bothered me as well. It was quite odd, but hit me a little differently. It actually made me think – “What the… Huh? Why are they even mentioning China and our in-game economy in the same sentence? Why make it sound like they have anything at all to do with our in-game economy or its release being related in any way to being justification for our in-game economy being improved upon?”

That whole blog post reeks of being a replacement for the real ‘Removing Restrictions’ blog post that got yanked at the last minute. If that was the real ‘Removing Restrictions’ blog post…I have no words. I’m just…wow. Just wow.

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Feedback Thread: Say goodbye to Armor Repairs?

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StinVec.3621

  • The delay in unlocking the ‘Removing Restrictions’ blog after the ‘Account Bound’ blog had been unlocked
  • The odd nature of the contents to where they would be more appropriately mentioned in patch notes and not in a features blog
  • Repeating the trait reset change after it had already been outlined in detail in the Trait Changes blog

…Sounds to me like the blog was supposed to be about something else that was actually relating to ‘Removing Restrictions’ that got delayed or scrapped at the last minute and these few footnotes were thrown together.

We would notice if a hotly speculated on topic just disappeared. Suddenly removing the ‘Removing Restrictions’ blog from the list shortly before it was meant to be revealed would cause a lot of people to wonder what it was going to be about. But replacing it with scrap patch note changes and even repeating a change that had already been revealed and discussed seems like the less damaging way of scrapping an idea without anyone being the wiser.

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[Request] Feature Pack Pic - Fullsize Please?

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StinVec.3621

Thank you very much you two. I thought it was a new image for the feature packs blogs. Hadn’t thought to look up there in the media section. :\ Should have thought to look up there.

Thanks!

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[Request] Feature Pack Pic - Fullsize Please?

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StinVec.3621

Can we have a full-size version of this wonderful image released for us to download, please? Various resolutions, including widescreen if possible, would be spectacular.

It can be found on the Feature Packs Overview page.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/feature-packs/

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Issues with the trading post: please post here [MERGED]

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StinVec.3621

yo i got this bug since 5 days now and donno what to do…
pls help
i get a blank post every time i open the post
deleting cache and repairing wont work
—Lennex

Can you try ensuring you are “Running As 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.
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Trading Post not working

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StinVec.3621

Very happy to have helped and to see you are back to having a functioning TP.

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Don't forget to pick up your Braham weapons!

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Lovestruck pistols are sitting at 42-44g right now with a high buy order of 10g.
I have not seen much of a decrease in sell price for any BLChest skins…yet.

I have a Sclerite Greatsword skin I am not sure if I want to eat or sell still. Probably eat it

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What about armors I don't transmute?

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You can equip and un-equip any gear you choose when you choose (as long as you meet its requirements; weight, level, etc.). It is only altering the appearance of an item with one that is unlocked in your wardrobe that costs charges.

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Wardrobe query

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StinVec.3621

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/46419166-Wardrobe
More info at the link.

How do I unlock skins with the Wardrobe system?
Equipping, salvaging, or destroying a piece of gear or a skin will add the skin to your Wardrobe if you have not already unlocked it. You can also right-click the item and select “Unlock Skin” as well. This option will be greyed out and not selectable if the skin is already unlocked in your Wardrobe.

What happens to skins that already are on my characters/in my bank/in my inventory?
The game will detect what your character is wearing once the character has loaded into a map and will unlock those skins. You will need to unlock skins in your inventory and in your bank using one of the methods explained in the “How do I unlock skins with the Wardrobe system?” section.

How does Wardrobe affect my Gem Store purchases?
If any of your characters are wearing or own any piece of an armor set (such as the Profane armor set or the Magitech armor set), all of the remaining pieces will be unlocked in your Wardrobe in addition to any pieces currently on your character or in your inventory. Any newly purchased armor sets will need to be taken from the in-game delivery mail and the bundle then will need to be used in order to unlock the full armor set. Please note that skins or partials skins that you previously purchased but which you no longer possess will not be unlocked on your account. The Guild Wars 2 Support Team cannot unlock skins that fall into this category.

If I have an upgrade version of some piece of gear (i.e. Fractal Capacitor, Spinal Blades, Legendary weapons, etc.), will I have the skins of the “lesser” versions unlocked as well?
Yes. Specifically for Legendaries, the pre-cursor skin will be unlocked if a Legendary skin has been unlocked. This includes both Twilight and Sunrise for Eternity.

What happens with gear that I currently possess that is already transmuted?
The skins for both of the items used in the most recent transmutation of your gear will be unlocked in your Wardrobe in this situation. This means that you will have skins representing your most recent stats and appearance choices for each transmuted item.

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March Sale item record

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StinVec.3621

StinVec, you’ve forgotten Braham’s weapons. They’ve reintroduced every single LS1 weapon set except his so far, so I have every expectation that Braham’s weapons will come back.

Still, I desperately want Salvage-o-Matic. It has only been on sale once before for Black Friday, and I missed it!

I completely forgot about Braham’s weapons. Put them in place of the flamekissed as I honestly don’t expect those to go on sale either but couldn’t think of other skins that had yet to be re-released like Braham’s. Thanks, Rising Dusk. I hope Salvage-o-Matic gets put on sale for ya.

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March Sale item record

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StinVec.3621

The longer the month goes on the longer I think maybe I’m forever doomed to regret not picking up the Toxic Shoulders+Gloves. Woe.

Thanks for putting Kas’ staff up this month, though! That was wonderful to see.

We have 5 days of sales left. As no skin items have been put on sale or re-released temporarily since the wardrobe system details were released, I think we may see these crammed in over these next 5 days:

  • The Wind/Sun/Lightning Kites -or- Custom Arena Starter Kit on sale
  • Toxic Gloves and Shoulders temporarily released for one day
  • Merchant Express -or- How To Dance Vol. 1 + BL Salvage Kit
  • Braham’s Weapons temporarily released for one day (forgot about those)
    One current armor set trio on sale (zodiac unlikely due to having been released ‘recently’, so probably flamekissed)
  • Bag Slot Expansion -or- Swim Speed Boost + Karma Booster + Cook’s Outfit

I don’t expect Salvage-o-Matic to go on sale.(was wrong)

These are just my guesses and are not based on any kind of information other than my gut feeling and I want to see how close I am to what actually does go on sale.

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Feedback/Questions: The Wardrobe System

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StinVec.3621

I would rather be able to mix town and combat clothes but apparently we cannot do that.


https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/45944258-Town-Clothes

What’s happening to town clothes with the April 2104 Feature Build?
The separation between in-combat and out-of combat appearance is being replaced by a completely new armor skinning system known as Wardrobe. This conversion will affect the town clothes that you already own in one of three ways:
Town clothing sets such as the Pirate Captain’s Outfit or Mad King’s Outfit will become one-piece account unlocks known as outfits which can be toggled to be displayed on your character instead of armor, even during combat.
Most pieces sold separately, such as the Fuzzy Animal Hats or Phantom Hood, will become armor skins for the appropriate slot, usable by a character that wears armor of any type.
Some promotional town clothing, such as the Dragon Emblem T-shirt and retired town clothes such as the hoodies, will become endless tonics which allow you to continue to wear the clothing in non-combat situations.

Can I still mix and match my town clothes?
Clothing pieces that are converted to armor skins can be mixed and matched with the same restrictions as other armors. Outfits cannot be mixed as each of them now is stored on an account-wide basis as a single unlock. Items related to endless tonics cannot be mixed or dyed.

What’s happening to toys?
Toys obtained prior to the implementation of the Wardrobe system will first need to be exchanged at a Black Lion Armor Trader for a new toy before they can be used again. Costume Brawl equipment such as the Boxing Gloves or riding toys such as the Witch’s Enchanted Broom—all of which previously were equipped on the Town Clothes page—now will be used directly from inventory.

If I don’t want a tonic, can I get a gem refund for the purchase?
Customer support will be able to fulfill gem refund requests only for town clothes that become endless tonics. Such requests must be made after the Town Clothes system changes take effect; refund requests cannot be processed prior to the April Feature Build. Customer Support is not able to fulfill requests for refunds other than those related to Town Clothes that become endless tonics. This means that town clothes that become skins are not eligible for a refund.

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Trading Post not working

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StinVec.3621

Sorry for not coming back to help further, sooner.

As you’ve already cleared your game cache and checked the game for errors and repaired it, could you also try these:

1) Try ensuring you are “Running As 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.

2) 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.

3) 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 the Automatically Detect Settings box
        • Make sure the lower Proxy Server boxes are unchecked

4) 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.
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Dye Changes Feedback/Questions

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StinVec.3621

Nowhere do they have in plain english “Dyes you have already unlocked on one character will become account bound”

It’s on the video https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-wardrobe-system/ in very plain english: Dyes are now account bound, each of the dyes you’ve collected on your characters is now available for use

See now they need to put that actual writing onto the friggin site here.

I’m going to bookmark this page just incase this is not the case on april 15th and WOOPS gotta unlock the dyes at least one more time. Because he doesn’t say those that you gotten will retroactively become account bound.

Might want to take a peek at my comment up there as it is a direct quote of text written on this site in the Support section’s Knowledge Base.

I, too, had concerns over the wording on the dye blog page yesterday and also because the video talking about the dye changes was at the very end of the wardrobe video on the wardrobe page so I had missed it. The Knowledge Base was pointed out to me, so I was pointing it out to you for this same reason.

“Each dye that one of your characters currently has unlocked will become available to every character on your account when you log in with that character.”

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