Guild Wars 2

:D

Try this:

Clear the game cache
Most TP-specific issues are primarily related to some temporary GW2 files where removing them will allow them to be recreated and the TP to function properly again.

The quickest way to clear the GW2 Cache is to:

1. Ensure your game is completely closed.
2. Hold your “Windows Key” and press “F” to open Windows Search on your computer.
3. Search for “gw2cache”
4. It will find a folder called “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}” at:
   “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\AppData\Local\Temp”
5. Delete this “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}” folder that is shown in the results.
6. Load up your game normally and your TP should now function properly.

If your search for “gw2cache” does not produce the folder I mentioned, then you will need to enable hidden files and folders in order to delete this cache folder.

Make hidden files visible and clear the game cache

1. Close your game completely.
2. Browse your My Computer to: “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName”
3. Then in the window menus, click on “Tools” then “Folder Options…”
4. In the window that pops up, click the “View” tab
5. Select to “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and click ‘OK’ (attached image #1)
6. You should now see a folder in your file listing called “AppData”, open this folder
7. Inside that folder open the “Local” folder
8. Inside that folder open the “Temp” folder
9. You should now see a folder called “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}”. Delete this gw2cache folder.
10. Load up your game normally and see if the issue is fixed.

—note—
By “window menus” I mean up at the top of the window where it says “File Edit View Tools Help”. If that bar does not display in your window for you along the top, then click the drop-down arrow next to the word “Organize” and then click on “Layout” and select “Menu bar” to enable showing of the menus (attached image #2).

Another way to do Steps 3, 4 and 5 to make hidden folders visible is:

• Click your Start menu and then open Control Panel
• In your Control Panel, if items are sorted by “Category” then select “Appearance and Personalization” on the right side, then in the second bottom area under “Folder Options” click on “Show hidden files and folders”. This will open the same options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.
• Otherwise, if Control Panel is sorted by Icons, simply click on “Folder Options” from the list to bring up the options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.

The only things I can think to try would be these:

Run As Admin

• Close your game completely.
• Right-click your GW2 game shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Compatibility” tab, check/enable the box for your game to “Run As Administrator”.
• Hit OK after making sure this setting is enabled.
• Re-launch your game with this game shortcut and see if the issue persists.

If that doesn’t fix it: 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 game can take screenshots properly.

Last resort would be to: Delete the local.dat file
Deleting this file will also cause you to lose your saved game settings (graphics, stored login data, etc.) but may fix the problem. If you rely on your stored login info to log in, make sure you can recall what your login info is as the stored login info is also cleared.

The quickest way to do this is to:

• Ensure your game is completely closed.
• Hold your Windows Key and press ‘F’ to open your Windows Search.
• Search for “Local.dat”. 2 files may be found.
• Ignore the “Local.dat” file that is in the game installation folder if one is found there.
• Delete the “Local.dat” file that resides at:
  “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2”
• Load up your game normally and see if the problem is gone.
• You will notice that your settings are reverted to default. You should reconfigure your game settings once again to your preference.

Cidikmanjo.3247:

ahh, I thought it provided certain bonuses…

Unfortunately, and sadly, it does not. Pyroatheist is correct in saying that it doesn’t matter at all (in its current implementation). The only thing your character personality affects is having certain dialogue options available to you with NPCs. If you are very high charisma, but very low in the others, then you will have just the charismatic response available to you. If you are about even across all three then you should have all three responses available for you to choose from.

There is a lot of potential with this system in many aspects of the game; available character abilities, spell colors and effects, weapon aura/color and effects, character aura glow, unique emotes, prefix/suffix title options for character names, ranger pet behavior and appearance, ranger pet availability, necro minion appearance, and many more things that can change based on your character’s personality. So much potential…..

Electro.4173:

Its a good addition to be sure. Getting advanced notice is always nice.

HOWEVER, I think they should also make a sticky post here in this sub-forum announcing it as well. Honestly, I rarely look at the announcement forum any more (not since they moved the patch notes to another sub-forum). I don’t know what made me decide to click onto the announcement forum tonight when I jumped on the forums, but under normal circumstances I probably wouldn’t have actually seen the announcement. As said information pertains specifically to this chapter of the Living Story, it’d be nice if the info was here as well.

It seems that many, many people ignore sticky threads completely and rarely even notice that a new one has been added. That issue aside, I can see why you feel that it may be more appropriate to have future announcements of this nature be made and stickied in the appropriate temporary sub-forum for the associated chapter. I think that the News and Announcements area was chosen mainly for its visibility and that important information tends to be posted there. Unfortunately, for ANet and us, the Announcements tracker on the right of the forums has been broken for some time and had stopped updating completely. We also recently saw the Announcement tracker get wiped clean and, despite it having been reported and also being easy to see that something is wrong with it, it still has not been fixed so that it tracks these updates once again.

I don’t know if it is intended, but I know of several NPCs that have allowed you to spam the personality attribute of your choice since the game came out. They’ve been reported several times around here since launch, but they never got a response and were never fixed. I figured they were never broken in the first place and was intended or they would have fixed them sometime in the last 19 months…right?

In just a couple minutes of initiating dialogue, selecting the desired attribute and then repeating allows one to max whichever one they desire and remove the others or to attain that perfect balance to get one of the more obscure ‘personalities’.

I got 2 keys from dailies within the past 7 days and saved them in my bank as I was going to wait until this LS ended to use them due to reading this thread. I decided not to wait and used them tonight to open two chests.

Chest 1

• 1 Unidentified Dye
• 1 Crafting Booster
• 5 Alliance Bags
• 1 Ticket Scrap

Chest 2

• 1 Unidentified Dye
• 1 XP Booster
• 5 Alliance Bags
• 2 Ticket Scraps

So 3 scraps in two bags. That’s the best luck I’ve ever had with getting them, actually.

Thank you very much for this information. It is very courteous of you to start making this type of informational announcement for our benefit. I know many have been asking for exactly this type of information to be made available and clearly worded, and this informational announcement fits both of those requests. I look forward to this type of information to continue to be posted in the future. Thank you again!

I’ve not had it happen to me yet, though others were talking about it happening about a week ago: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Headless-Horseman

Morrigan.2809:

Soulmyr.8094:

But you have the right arrow there at the second panel. What happens when you click it?
You seem to be missing 2 faces not just one.

hahaha omg I feel like such an idiot.

yes there is another arrow- I swear it did nothing before, today I have another panel.

I plead insanity since lack of coffee cannot explain how I missed this for an entire day.

Thanks everyone for your help and now I will just slink off into a corner and go face-palm myself

:D Glad to see it wasn’t actually broken and having to go through all of what that might entail to try to fix it.

On a side note, I’m not happy that every time I see “facepalm” now, I think of “Could’ve had a V8”…
/grrface

CC Danicia.1394:

Temporarily stickied for great justice! But seriously, this is great information and helpful to the community.

That was quite nice of you, CC.

Like you, Shades, it did confuse me for a minute when I, too, couldn’t find it. Almost went to my post history to locate it when I saw it on sticky.

This has been an issue for over a year with several of the affected armors being seriously messed up by this red texture bleeding issue. I think one or two pieces got fixed early last year, but the other few dozen (which also includes several of the gem store skins) have never gotten fixed. The sticky thread here and this entire bug forum has had many, many reports with pics and they’ve not been addressed. Perhaps one day, but I’ve given up hope and the many skins I’ve bought that are messed up (from TP and Gem Store) just sit in storage.

I’m glad to see more finding this information helpful.
I hope the lag issues go away for you, Bigoak. I don’t know many things that work to help lessen it.

I wish the launcher would have a ‘Clear Cache’ button. I know clearing it does not guarantee solving all TP issues, but it does in most cases. As this has been such a common issue since the game released, if I or someone else do not help the many hundreds who experience this type of issue by sharing this information (to those who actually come to the forums), then Anet may very well be losing a valuable player and customer due to their not being able to use the Gem Store – or even the entire Trading Post in many cases.

I have it there as well on the third panel.
I wonder if it is a case of the image asset not being displayed like it should and the box could still be selected, or if it is more complex. Can always give a cache clear and -repair cycle a run to see if it corrects it.

Also, in your attached pics you show panels 1 and 2, but it is on panel 3. The organization of the faces are messed up and it puts it at the end of the second horizontal row. Seems that it got swapped with the last face at the end of the second row.

Updated image for Days 1-10.

I completely agree. Isn’kitten bit silly?
Odd. It did not filter your usage of it when you placed it into quotes, but it filtered mine when it had an “a” after it; “it a bit silly”.
…odder and odder.

:D You’re welcome. Really glad to hear that it fixed the issue for ya!

Happy gaming!

Try to:

Clear the game cache
Most TP-specific issues are primarily related to some temporary GW2 files where removing them will allow them to be recreated and the TP to function properly again.

The quickest way to clear the GW2 Cache is to:

1. Ensure your game is completely closed.
2. Hold your “Windows Key” and press “F” to open Windows Search on your computer.
3. Search for “gw2cache”
4. It will find a folder called “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}” at:
   “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\AppData\Local\Temp”
5. Delete this “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}” folder that is shown in the results.
6. Load up your game normally and your TP should now function properly.

If your search for “gw2cache” does not produce the folder I mentioned, then you will need to enable hidden files and folders in order to delete this cache folder.

Make hidden files visible and clear the game cache

1. Close your game completely.
2. Browse your My Computer to: “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName”
3. Then in the window menus, click on “Tools” then “Folder Options…”
4. In the window that pops up, click the “View” tab
5. Select to “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and click ‘OK’ (attached image #1)
6. You should now see a folder in your file listing called “AppData”, open this folder
7. Inside that folder open the “Local” folder
8. Inside that folder open the “Temp” folder
9. You should now see a folder called “gw2cache-{bunch-of-letters-and-numbers}”. Delete this gw2cache folder.
10. Load up your game normally and see if the issue is fixed.

—note—
By “window menus” I mean up at the top of the window where it says “File Edit View Tools Help”. If that bar does not display in your window for you along the top, then click the drop-down arrow next to the word “Organize” and then click on “Layout” and select “Menu bar” to enable showing of the menus (attached image #2).

Another way to do Steps 3, 4 and 5 to make hidden folders visible is:

• Click your Start menu and then open Control Panel
• In your Control Panel, if items are sorted by “Category” then select “Appearance and Personalization” on the right side, then in the second bottom area under “Folder Options” click on “Show hidden files and folders”. This will open the same options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.
• Otherwise, if Control Panel is sorted by Icons, simply click on “Folder Options” from the list to bring up the options dialogue box shown in attached image #1.

I didn’t experience the kick or rollback.

Where were you and what were you doing at the time you experienced this?

How can you tell that there was a rollback/are you missing something now that you had gotten prior to the rollback?

There wasn’t as big of an increase as I was expecting for Kasmeer’s Staff Skin being available for just one day. I’m looking forward to seeing how the other unavailable weapons will affect the exchange rate when they come up compared to her staff.

Thanks, Behellagh.

Hamfast.8719:

How cute will Quaggans be when they start wearing HUMAN backpacks?

Dangerosive.6973:

I am having this same issue on my main and I tried the instructions that Anet told me to do (you can see them above, the repair instructions.) they DID NOT WORK! I cannot even log her on on my fiances brand new laptop. This is BS. I am incredibly unhappy with this.

This is my main and I am a guild leader, I need my main to successfully run guild missions not to mention I’ve spent a lot of money and time on her! UGH! So frustrating!

If you haven’t yet, you may want to try the Delete the local.dat file resolution I mention above as it has helped solve the stuck character issue for many in the past.

Sorry, Shades. Just now getting on and I’m still patching to get the TP screenshot.
Update for you soon.

Buttercup.5871:

StinVec.3621:

Behellagh.1468:

Now StinVec you need to shape the image in the form of a calendar for March.

How’s this?

THAT is bloody brilliant!

:D !

Aberrant.6749:

StinVec.3621:

Behellagh.1468:

Now StinVec you need to shape the image in the form of a calendar for March.

How’s this?

Nice job!

…but you need to fit the normal march holidays in there as well so that we can use it for a calendar as well….

Can you make them into stickers so that we can put them up as the sales come in?

OOOooOOOOoo Never mind. Instead, make it like an advent calendar so we can open up each day and get a piece of chocolate and a little pice of paper telling us what the sale is for that day (no peeking ahead guys).

Thanks in advance

Thank you

Unfortunately, there are actually hundreds of holidays this month all around the world (happy Women’s Day, Kiribati!) and it would not be feasible to include all of them on here. However, if you or anyone else actually do want to use this then I’ll make one with standard holidays marked on it (with or without the sale items and day backgrounds), just say where you’re from.

No advent calendar version…all the chocolate are belong to me!

Behellagh.1468:

Now StinVec you need to shape the image in the form of a calendar for March.

How’s this?

Zaxares.5419:

So you’d still purchase a Royal Terrace pass over the Airship even though the Airship has more services (Activity NPC and Black Lion Weapon Merchant, from what I hear), purely out of layout and aesthetic considerations?

Also, I believe the Royal Terrace pass saves two loading screens upon logging in if you had logged out while in there that you would have to endure for the Airship.

• If you log out while in the Terrace, upon logging in you are booted out to just on the other side of the gate and you can re-enter immediately.

• If you log out while in the Airship, upon logging in you are booted back down to Vigil Keep which is a full loading screen. You must then activate the pass again and have to sit through another full loading screen just to get back into the Airship. Not very convenient.

I can see this lack of additional loading screens (due to how they’ve poorly implemented the passes) for the Royal Terrace as being beneficial to those who like to limit how many loading screens they are forced to endure just to access this “convenience” location. Perhaps fewer services is worth it to many, especially if they do not have need for those two missing services but for rare occasions.

Personally, I have no need for either of these locations. In fact, the dozens of one-time use airship passes that dropped from LA bags will most likely sit on a mule and never even get used. :\

If you have a physical copy you can always:

• Snap and melt your install disc
• Burn your manual and your serial code on it so you will never be able to load your game again.
• Uninstall

Or digital:

• Delete email that contains your serial code
• Uninstall

Only other real way to close your account so it can never be used again is to be caught botting or something and banned. (not suggesting doing that, just saying, ban is as good as deleted – I don’t think one can actually request a ban from support)

Shanaeri Rynale.6897:

wasn’t it running due to all the crying and hiccupping?

But if it had been running it would be going down, not up.

This was kind of shocking to see when I saw it in the video. I literally went “Whooooah. Wow. That’s a lot of makeup.” Kind of ruined the moment for me and was just a distraction from the scene.

Here is another thread from a long time ago with more input from some players on the subject if you are interested.

• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/sylvari/How-can-Sylvari-be-Necromancers

Also, the one conversation between a sylvari necromancer and another npc is quite humorous. I can’t remember where it is, but the sylvari is quite cheerful and talking about death and the other npc says something about are they sure they’re a necromancer and how maybe they’ve chosen the wrong profession.

This is a bit away from what is normally discussed on these forums, but as I frequent many scientific sites and keep up on many developing subjects, catching this article had me immediately thinking of Sylvari and how beings such as them existing in our real world universe someplace (or some distant future or distant past on Earth) is actually not all that far-fetched.

“A ‘New’ Form of Intelligent Life? Plants Found to Have Memory and Make Complex Decisions”
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/03/a-new-form-of-intelligent-life-on-earth-plants-found-to-have-a-memory-and-make-complex-decisions.html

“In a new discovery, scientists have concluded from their study of Barberry (Berberis vulgaris), which is able to abort its own seeds to prevent parasite infestation, that plants can make complex decisions. The results are the first ecological evidence of complex behavior in plants. They indicate that this species has a structural memory, is able to differentiate between inner and outer conditions as well as anticipate future risks.”

It goes on to state many more fascinating and surprising abilities and one is left to wonder if a race of intelligent plant life could have actually existed once, exists currently, or one day may exist someplace other than in fantasy?

I implore anyone interested in Sylvari to consider taking the time to read this article.

…

“These new insights shed some light on the underestimated abilities of plants, while at the same time bringing up many new questions.”

Smooth Penguin.5294:

DeWolfe.2174:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I vote Logan x Rytlock.

That has to be your first post I’ve ever +1’d
Kinda figured Logan was a furry with that hair. Either that or a Twihard hiding behind his armor

That means you hate me 99.9% of the time. :P

On a side note, there’s gonna be some good RPing once we get Faren swimtrunks in the Gem Store. My charr is ready.

I’d buy that for a dollar!

I saw this thread’s title and chuckled a little as I thought for sure I knew what the OP’s post would say:
“Said no one, ever.” – meme

Or if it was a serious post then what the first response would be:
“Whaaaaaat?” – Chris Griffon

I almost didn’t check the thread out, but curiosity got the best of me. I’m actually pleasantly surprised that my expectations were not met (but Shifu’s comment was appropriate and close enough) and that there is actually an interesting discussion taking place filled with good information about the events.

I have several in-game contacts saying they are not getting any loot. I know there are threads in the bugs section and here about it being bugged and not giving loot…I’m (nearly) surprised that it has not been fixed yet.

Shades.4572:

Ooooo I like the red X’s it’s a nice touch lol. While updating I noticed you didn’t change the border color but in the time that I was going to mention it you fixed it XD

Haha. As I noticed you snagged the 1st pic before I could update the attachment, I updated it and was pm’ing you that I updated it only to see that as I sent the pm you had already grabbed the new updated one. You’re on fire! I’ll keep making little tweaks to the pic probably, include all the info that you are including in your post.

I pulled the X’s over from my old mockups in my Single Piece Armor Purchase request from long ago. I hang on to everything lol. Never know when it may come in handy.

Serval.6458:

The wiki also says:

“Anomaly: The stat selection process indicates that resulting item will be soulbound, but it is actually account bound, and does not even become soulbound upon equipping”

I was under the impression that the pop-up warning of it stating that it would become soulbound upon selecting stats was the bug/oversight and not that it failed to soul bind and instead became account bound.

The reason this seemed logical was the fact that, previous to the patch, the back item came out of the mystic forge as “Account Bound” only, not “Account Bound – Soulbound on Use” like it became post-patch. I believed they had simply copied the stat selection coding used on legendaries or other items with stat selection and they neglected to remove the warning from it considering it was flagged as being “Account Bound” from day 1 and not “Account Bound – Soulbound on Use”.

Had it been an issue of a bug that was causing it to not properly soul bind upon selecting stats, then the initial item from the forge would have correctly stated “Account Bound – Soulbound on Use”, it would just be that it wasn’t properly soulbinding upon selecting stats as it should have.

So it was not that it was not properly soulbinding upon use, it was that they failed to mark it as being “Account Bound – Soulbound on Use” in the first place and instead marked it as only being “Account Bound”. That was their fault and it should have remained as it was.

Limiting the binding to being “Account Bound – Soulbound on Use” without warning (2 weeks after they were made available to craft and not in a hotfix the next day) led to thousands of equipped spinal blades to already be Soulbound upon logging in. If they wanted to change the bindings then the only decent way I could see that as being not as bad as what they have chosen to do, would be to force all spinal blade back items to be unequipped to the character’s inventory or to the players bank so they could chose which character they actually wanted to soulbind the back item to. Or give us a head’s up in-game mail about the impending change. After thousands had already been made at different quality stages (fine -> Exotic) that were produced to the players as Account Bound and remaining as Account Bound after use over the past 2 weeks, removing our ability to move it between characters without warning after already allowing it to move freely between characters for 2 weeks is very, very wrong.

Shades.4572:

I feel like it is worth noting that the new skins, mini pack, finisher was released on Day 4 as well. I know I instanta bought 2 of the mini pack when I saw that. Granted I personally didn’t convert gold to gems I am willing to bet a lot of people did for the new items.

On a side note I feel like they jumped the gun on the key sale. If they had that sale after the new weapon skins they might have sold a lot more imo.

Ah. Good point. I had completely forgotten about those other items having been introduced to the gem store.

Bag slot expansions are per character. Only the bank expansions and collectible storage expansions are account wide unlocks.

Also, if you happen to be nearing the limit of your bank/bag expansions or not sure if you already are at the limit, if you go to purchase the bag or bank expansion do it from outside of the gem store; bag expansion via your inventory and bank via the drop down below your bank storage area. If you purchase a bag or bank expansion via the gem store and you happen to already be at your max, then you will still purchase the expansion even though you cannot use it. In that case you would have to try to go through support to get gems refunded. Why it doesn’t check whether or not you can actually use the expansion before selling it to you like when you purchase it via the bank/inventory buy button is beyond me, especially when the collectible expansion via gem store will not sell you more than 3 and even says how many more you can purchase of it. It’s quite silly that it has not been addressed yet.

My go-to purchase that I always have gems set aside for is an additional character slot. Extra character slots are good even if you do not plan to use it to make a character you’ll actually play. It is cheaper to outfit the character as a mule with 15 or 18 slot bags and you get more storage slots than a bank expansion would get you for the cost. It’s great for storing all those items on that you do not have a frequent use for as well using it as a makeshift skin locker to store old skins for future use. You can also use an extra character slot to make a perpetual new character for doing black lion key runs on (takes about 28 minutes avg) if you do not agree with paying actual money for keys from the gem store due to the gambling aspect of the chests.

Also, every day this month there is a new item going on sale in the gem store. Perhaps wait to make your purchase until the thing you decide on goes on sale to save a few gems, which you can turn around and use to get something else of interest.

Are you certain one of you does not have the other on their block list?
If neither of you have the other blocked, and by friend you mean that you are both on eachother’s contacts list, each of you should try blocking the other and then unblocking and re-add to eachother’s contacts list again. Perhaps there is an issue to where the game thinks one of you has the other blocked. Perhaps actually blocking and unblocking will correct this issue. Not sure if it will work, but it’s worth a try.

Also, out of curiosity, are both of you from the EU playing on NA servers, or one of you from EU and both playing on an NA server? There had been an issue in the past that was causing this problem for EU on NA servers that had lasted a long time, though it had finally gotten corrected some time ago. I hope this issue has not returned.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

So basically people are still suckered into buying BLK’s… I never will understand why…

Nor I, Zudet. Though there does still seem to be a constant influx of new players who have not been burned by them yet and have to learn the lesson from their own experiences. I know there are also those who do not mind how the keys and chests work, or actually enjoy they way they work due to their desire for all those boosters that are actually of value to them. Some actually enjoy the gambling aspect of them. To each their own. Personally, I’ll continue to get my chest skins from the TP even though I know their even being available on the TP requires others to open chests. However, with so many players running the personal story key farm circuit for the sole purpose of getting these skins to put on the TP, I know that no keys even had to be purchased for them to be made available on there. Unless Anet nerfs the farming ability of keys or revokes the ability to trade the skins, I know they will always be available on the TP.

Zaxares.5419:

Today’s item is Repair Canisters. Get to it, Behellagh!

He stated he updates at the end of each sale at the time noted above. I look forward to tomorrow’s update to see how much more it went down/up compared to the mild decrease we saw with the crafting booster over the chest keys. The larger jump from the skins to the keys makes sense considering the quite odd 35% discount on 5-packs. Having two lesser desired boosters on sale in a row will likely be followed by a more desirable item to boost the gold > gem rate back up again to make cash purchases more appealing over gold conversion. Tomorrow’s item will likely be one of the currently unavailable items to attempt this major boost.

I anticipate the new zones (wherever the ED awakens at, likely Magus Falls & Maguuma Wastelands) to coincide with GW2’s release in China as they are likely to already have those areas opened up for them. Beyond this new area (or areas) being opened up, I do not expect we will see any additional regions opened for at least 2 more years, considering it took them this long to even hint at this new area opening up sometime this summer.

There do not appear to be any new races or new professions/classes in the works to be added anytime soon and likely not even this year.

There does not appear to be any chance of a load of new skills or new weapon options for classes as being implemented any time soon and likely not even this year.

I’m not seeing much of anything on the horizon that compares to even a small $15 expansion. Sadly, I do not expect GW2 to move into boxed expansions for at least 4-5 years and even that is dependent on their forgoing work on a GW3 at that time and sticking with GW2 beyond that point.

TheFool.4589:

Turn the HUD off for now.

Absolutely no HUD during a boss fight?

…

Now, if we could right-click on elements and select to exclude certain ones from being hidden when the entire HUD is hidden (so we can selectively hide excess/problematic elements while keeping others visible) that would be nice.

Or have an “In Combat” and “Out of Combat” setting so certain elements we choose are automatically hidden when we enter combat.

That sorry sliver of an excuse for a drop down box to change utility skills is the most aggravating element of all my time spent in-game. Well, nearly the most aggravating.

Making the drop-down toggle bar larger, enlarging (like when you hover over your dodge meter), or having it expand further down into the skill box has been requested many times for over a year and a half. Anything that could help prevent accidentally activating the skill when attempting to quick switch a utility skill.

Having a skill go on cooldown right before entering combat and then being stuck with whatever the skill was before due to not being able to switch it now that you are in combat already by the time the cooldown ends…sucks.

Nothing has ever been done about it being so tiny and having all of like, 6 pixels, to click on to bring up the “quick” skill change box. How it was considered a good idea in the first place to have it so small, or even make it out of Beta without it being changed is a mystery. It’s like they expected everyone to be playing using the Extra Large UI setting as well as at 640×480 resolution so the bar would appear super huge and it would be less of an issue.

So many requests for this to be adjusted, so little response on the matter. I’ve given up on hope for it to be addressed…ever.

I’m still trying to get out of the habit of using that little thing and instead:

• Bringing up my hero panel
• Click my Skills tab
  (sometimes having to re-click on the “Utility Skills” section because it remembers which panel you left it on last and opens to it again and I sometimes look at the weapon skills or trait tabs)
• Hit the box and switch the skill there
• Close my hero panel

Doing that each time is safer than attempting to play Operation and getting buzzed and screwed each time I slightly drift down a pixel or two and click one pixel into the actual skill instead of on the drop-down.

This will be really great information to be able to check at a glance. Thank you for gathering and listing it in one place here. I’ve linked over to here from the other thread as well. I know I will be checking this frequently. Also, I believe they discontinued Felankor Boosters…temporary content and all. :\

You may want to post this in the Account Issues forum and try to get Gaile Gray’s attention there. I’m sure she would be able to offer more help there than the lack of attention your thread would get here. Good luck.

I just had this for the first time ever when downloading the small patch updates they put out since yesterday. I left it sit for a few minutes with 1 file left and then X’ed out of the updater. Waited 30 seconds and re-launched the updater and it finished the last file.

Others have mentioned changing the language (top right) which closes the launcher and reopens it and then change the language back again after the file finishes. This makes you download all the localization files for that language though…which is pointless and can actually cause even larger patch updates in the future for you as you would need to download those localization files also even if you don’t use them.

I didn’t do that though. Just leave it sit a minute, close the launcher, re-open and it should pick up where it left off on that last file.

Flissy.4093:

Sawnic.6795:

Delvoire.8930:

They haven’t implemented the Bezerker change yet. That comes next patch I believe.

Also, people are reporting after the No Condition phase there is a phase that needs heavy conditions.

That doesn’t fix the problem of “Condition players are forced to afk or respec.”

It’s a straight up slap to the face.

But if there is a phase that needs heavy conditions, it’s unfair to Berserker players as they need to respec too.

So anyone who is big into condition dmg just stands around out of combat for a long time until the condition phase actually starts? Shouldn’t those not dealing conditions have to then take their turn standing around doing nothing until the condition phase ends due to non-condition dmg being reflected back at them?

On the mini-map the icon changes from the blue arrow to a black circle with a blue skull and cross bones in it.

On-screen all you see above a dead player is the same blue revive arrow. Unless the player is self-healing to revive themselves or throwing dirt they lay there and look almost exactly like a fully dead player. It isn’t until you start reviving them or actually target them that you notice they are actually fully dead.

edit to add
It has confused me and wasted precious seconds at times. I’d have run over to a player I could tell was reviving themselves over this fully dead player had it been easier to tell, especially if they are right next to eachother you cannot tell which is which on the mini-map.

Cush.4063:

StinVec.3621:

Ah, thanks Khisanth.

Ignore all of what I documented above. They’re now all likely to be soulbound now upon selecting stats or even after upgrading to the next tier as with today’s patch they made all of the account bound spinal blades that were equipped or had upgrade components applied to them soulbound…I’m pretty peeved that they made this change without mentioning it.

Non-stat selected spinal blades are now:

• Account Bound
• Soulbound on Use
  Instead of just Account Bound.

Freakin’ Anet…I swear.

What do you mean? It was always soul bound from the beginning if you had equipped it on any version.

Actually it was not. The items stayed Account Bound even after selecting stats, equipping it, adding an upgrade component, upgrading it to the next version (up to exotic). It stayed Account Bound.