Guild Wars 2

Nikizi.7681:

I seem to be having a different error than what I’ve seen others complain about. I try to open up the client, it starts trying to download whatever “patch” they’ve cooked up this time and then repeatedly tells me “connection error” then starts downloading again until it’s almost complete, then permanently tells me there is a connectivity issue and refuses to download any further. My boyfriend battled with this for 3 hours last night following every solution he could find to no avail. I’m really bent out of shape about this considering we had just dropped $100 to expand both our accounts like many other players have as well. Pleas fix this asap since we also have a limited time to play the Halloween event!

Heya, do you know if your boyfriend had tried the Command Prompt > “netsh winsock reset” (without the quotes) solution to see if that would help? If yes, and it did not, I’ll do some digging and see if I can think of a more likely solution for the specific situation you two are experiencing.

(if you want to try something else, if you’ve not tried it yet, try adding one of these command line arguments to your game shortcut to see if it helps:

• Close your game/launcher
• Right-click your game shortcut and select ‘Properties’
• On the ‘Shortcut’ tab, the first line says “Target:”, immediately after the end quotation marks in this field, put a space and then add -clientport 443
  It will look like this (but with your installation location):
  “F:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -clientport 443
• Make sure there is a space between the " and -clientport 443
• Run the shortcut and see if you can patch properly without the connection problem
• If it still gives the “Connection Error(s), retrying…” message, try closing it and changing the 443 to 80 and try again.

About this command and why it may help solve the problem:

-clientport 80 (or 443)
Instructs the client to connect to the game servers over port 80 (HTTP) instead of the industry standard gaming port 6112. Some ISPs throttle different port traffic at different times of day so this helps some people get a better connection. (It isn’t the default because some ISPs also modify port 80 traffic, which will break the game connection.) In December 2014 an additional valid argument was added “443”; this is the standard HTTPS port, and may be more reliable for some players. It is hoped that port 443 is less likely to be modified by ISPs since it usually passes encrypted traffic that appears to an ISP to be noise.

There is also a thing called “Opportunity Cost”.

True, one does not need to spend 3,000 gold buying materials from the trading post to ‘craft’ it if they acquire all of the needed items manually.

However, all of those manually acquired materials are still worth the equivalent to 3,000 gold if they were to be sold. So, in essence, the ‘crafter’ is still spending 3,000 gold to ‘craft’ the item by exchanging these manually acquired items that are worth 3,000 gold for the Night Fury item.

Then there is also value of the time needed to manually acquire all of these items worth 3,000 gold which is more ambiguously valued.

Tyloric.7520:

I still can’t log in with my warrior, but I can log in with my guardian? I want to play my warrior, though. ;_;

Others have reported that if you can log into one character, if you travel to the same map as a character that you cannot log into, it will unbug that one and you can then log into that character.

So if your warrior is in Rata Sum but cannot log in to it, log in with your Guardian and travel to Rata Sum with it, then load into your warrior and it may load properly.

I hope this helps you.

thewaterguy.4796:

Same issue here, repairing just ends up freezing up the application and I’m forced to shut it down…this is really getting ridiculous

The repair dipping into the ‘Not Responding’ state is normal. Be patient and just let it finish on its own – should only be a few minutes max. Actually, I imagine that End Tasking it without letting it finish may actually cause problems with your archive and it would need to be run again and allowed to finish its repair cycle to also fix any potential new damages caused by forcing it closed before it could finish running its previous repair.

Glad to hear! ’Grats on finishing your reward getting.

briggah.7910:

Got this about 12 midnight EST last night. Decided to go to bed. Can’t load a map today either and now trying that -repair thing but it keeps going into Not Responding..

:(

Just wanted to mention that the repair dipping into the ‘Not Responding’ state is normal. Be patient and just let it finish on its own.

Not sure if that will fix the problem for you though – nothing seems to work consistently to fix this problem for everyone. Some things help, others do not.

He is in the same place every time I’ve been to LA – at the candy corn icons on your map, by the southern-most one/bottom left one standing in front of a tent or something.

CreatorBurden.7840:

StinVec.3621:

Try closing your game completely and then loading it back up and giving it another try.

A character load attempt > close game > load again seems to be what fixes the problem for others still experiencing the issue.

Yup, that worked. Cheers!

Glad to hear all it took was a client restart post-patching. Have fun!

For everyone still experiencing a connection issue:

• Try closing your game completely and then loading it back up and giving it another try.

A character load attempt > close game > load again seems to be what fixes the problem for others still experiencing the issue.

It seems that a client restart is needed after patching for it to function normally again.

CreatorBurden.7840:

Well it seems to be back up, but I am still unable to login. With all my characters, when I try to log into one of them I get a long loading screen (5 mins +) then get a network error. The map doesn’t even start loading, stays at 0%.

Try closing your game completely and then loading it back up and giving it another try.

A character load attempt > close game > load again seems to be what fixes the problem for others still experiencing the issue.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

StinVec.3621:

Last dev response:

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

We will bring the servers down for maintenance in 20 minutes. Estimated downtime will be 30 minutes. Thank you for your patience.

Current Status:
Servers have been down for 28 of the estimated 30 minutes needed to perform the maintenance.

Sometimes things may take longer than estimated. Thank you once again for your understanding and patience.

Completely understandable!

Just wanted to help and keep a running status of the situation for those coming to find out why they can’t log in and assure them that it’ll likely be over soon.

If I could hand-deliver coffee and doughnuts/tea and strudel to you and the techs I would. I’ve had nights like this. I’d say they weren’t fun, but I’d be lying – I find crunch-time emergency tech squad to be a fun job.

Edit:
Wiped post due to latest dev response making this post no longer relevant.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

sirsquishy.8531:

Ravion Hawk.4736:

sparc.3649:

Ravion Hawk.4736:

You all do realize that there are currently 7 MMOs under DDoS attack here in the states right?

All of them with over 100ms pings and some even hitting Europe.

http://www.mmoserverstatus.com/index.html

If it were ddos it would be MUCH higher than 100ms… IJS…

The last time we had a DDoS (Confirmed by ANet), they averaged between 100ms to 120ms.

If this was a DoS it would probably hit level3 and you would see Ping bouncing from 100ms-3000ms. as such is the nature of such attacks.

You have a valid point.

Just need enough to disrupt service. 100ms “could” keep it under the radar long enough to get enough people really P.O.ed.

Haven’t heard the shortened “PO’ed” version in a long time!
Reminds me of the PO’ed game I had many years ago for my Goldstar 3DO.
I loved that system. Good times.

Raven.1524:

I guess this is a good time to pop up this little video I found on the internet :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjj9newZBp0

I’m not even mad actually… I’m just sleepy after playing and working for days… I guess this issues came so I could get some sleep.

I loved every second of that.

Thank you.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

We will bring the servers down for maintenance in 20 minutes. Estimated downtime will be 30 minutes. Thank you for your patience.

Thank you for the update! And thank you to everyone’s efforts in correcting the issues.

Chris Cleary says… “We are currently aware of this issue and are working to resolve it.”
:)

Test.8734:

Nike.2631:

Really. You think the folks whose livelihoods depend on the game and have been working towards this release for about two years now didn’t think about it?

Yep.

Just like they didn’t predict the massive outcry when they announced the price of the expansion.

Or when they announced the new “gold to gem” conversion system.

Or any of the other times when they had to take back a decision they had made because of a massive community outcry that they didn’t properly predict.

You can claim that ArenaNet is perfect and thinks everything through correctly and perfectly. This mess with the specialization points show otherwise.

If anything, this is a sign of how poorly they are doing. People are complaining because the specializations are locked behind a grind wall. The grind wall exists because ArenaNet is trying to artificially inflate the duration of HoT. They are artifically trying to inflate the duration of HoT because the expansion has very little content. HoT has very little content because ArenaNet couldn’t make more, even after all this time working on the expansion without adding new content to the core game. ArenaNet couldn’t make more content because they are extremely ineffective at making things.

And that explains why they are doing so poorly. We know that:

• ArenaNet had basically to make server merges with the megaserver thing, due to how empty the maps were.

• ArenaNet itself had said that, if they did it right, the Living World would mean they wouldn’t make an expansion. Here we are with an expansion, hinting that no, they didn’t do the Living World right.

• We also know the GW2 earnings during the Living World and, accordingly, it didn’t stop falling. Not only the LW didn’t raise the earnings like expansions do, it didn’t even prevent them from falling.

• GW2 became free to play, and we know that no MMORPG went free to play when its previous business model was being a success.

• NCSoft, which completely owns ArenaNet, has distanced itself from GW2. We have been told that it’s ArenaNet who’s publishing GW2 now, instead of NCSoft; the lack of advertisement about HoT is a very clear sign of how few resources ArenaNet has as far as publishing goes when compared to NCSoft itself.

• HoT has been released in a hurry, with many promised features that aren’t actually here but have been postponed for “later” (legendary weapons – they didn’t release even the three they had mentioned earlier -, raids, the new squad system, etc…).

• Lots of important people have left ArenaNet this year. Chris Whiteside, Eric Flannum, Jon Peters, Kristen Perry… Many of those have left in the last few months.

If they really did think so thoughtfully about things, they wouldn’t be in the middle of all those issues.

With the current mess about the specialization grind being just one more mess among many.

I had no idea Kristen Perry left!
Reading about this makes me very sad. I had compiled a huge post talking about her history and asking about what she has been up to in regards to HoT that I was going to make after the HoT dust settled. I guess I can just scrap that. :\

She’s such an awesome person. I hope she is doing well wherever she has moved on to.

• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Blurry-textures-in-my-characters
• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Blurry-Character-textures-and-armor
• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Texture-Rendering-Issue
• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Graphics-problem-with-character-models
• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Armour-stuck-on-Subsample-rendering
• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bad-armor-detail-on-max-settings-with-any-set/first#post2622973

My replies in those threads helped fix the issues for others that experienced this sub-sample character texture issue over the last few years.

I hope it corrects the problem for you as well.

Reply again if you need more help after performing the driver installation/re-installation if it did not fix it for you.

This would be better handled by sending this information to ANet directly:

• exploits@arena.net

I recommend editing your post immediately and removing this info that can be exploited before it allows damage to be caused and sending it to the email I mentioned.

Dev replied in a HoT thread asking about this:

Dara Potocska.8196:

Hey Frost,

This is indeed not intended behavior. I’m talking to my team and we’ll be investigating.

EDIT:
Nevermind, Dara ninja’ed me with a reply.

DarcShriek.5829:

I already knew that information. It’s on the item.

You know that information, yes, but you can’t link the item from the game into your comment so, as I said, I am supplying information to help. Others who may be able to answer your question may need to know what item it is you are asking about. Now that they know exactly what item you are asking about without having to search the net/wiki to get more information on it, perhaps your question is more likely to get an answer, possibly a quicker one even.

Greetings, bug devs.
A drop in dye prices was noticed since the release of heart of Thorns and a player is reporting that it may be due to Unidentified Dyes dropping from new masterwork quality “Heavy Thorned Bags”.

• https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/What-the-heck-happen-to-dye-prices

Q.

• Is this intended behavior for these bags and they are supposed to be dropping Unidentified Dyes as a new source for them?
• Or is it a bug and Unidentified Dyes were unintentionally added to the loot tables for these bags?

Sasuke.2573:

The heavy thorned bags (green item quality) can contain them. I found around 4-5 in them already.

Ah, I can’t find anything on a masterwork “Heavy Thorned Bag” around the net.

I’m guessing it is an account bound item given as a reward from events in the expansion zones and not a tradeable item as I can’t find it on the TP or on any TP website item lists.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shark_Fin

• Rare quality
• Ingredient
• Account Bound

No clue what it is used for, sorry. Just supplying some more information on the item to help.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a wide-scale misunderstanding.

Perhaps people in the dye markets misread/didn’t read the patch notes. Maybe they all incorrectly think that the new Scribe can craft dyes with the pigments so they are all trying to offload their dyes before the market gets flooded.

I do not see anything in the patch notes about unidentified dyes being lootable in the expansion zones. Still digging around to see if that is true.

• “Scribes use pigments to make inks for their creations. Pigments can be found on plant-harvesting nodes throughout Tyria and can be salvaged from dyes.”

If anything, the dye prices should be going up due to their being bought and salvaged for pigments.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Guys,

Please read the topic of this thread. The subject is: “If you did not purchase HoT, are you still playing (or will you continue to play) GW2?” Not, “Why I didn’t buy” or “What I think about the pricing,” or other off-topic comments. That’s not what the OP asked, and let’s respect this thread for the actual question that he or she posed.

We have a lot of threads in which you may share your opinions on those other subjects. This thread is asking a simple question: _If you didn’t purchase HoT, will you continue to play the core game. It’s an interesting question, and it deserves “breathing space” without tangential commentary and oft-repeated input.

Please stay on topic.

Thank you.

Same statement but in regards to this thread.
Enjoying the expansion? Good for you. Go post your comment stating so in a thread praising the expansion.

This thread is specifically asking for people to list their reasons why they are driven away from the expansion, which many are posting as requested.

You are off-topic if you are stating that you are enjoying every second and are not being driven away at all.

Anoop.3187:

well i have downloaded about 6 GB how much more is it ???
Is it really 27 GB that is like whole game.

Percentage wise it went fast till like 8500 (no of files) after that its is really slow. Seems like these files are pretty big.
Any heads up how much more (time or size wise) will it be for me ??

If you are downloading the entire game and not just the HoT patch and subsequent updates, then you have a long way to go. My Gw2.dat file is 24.4GB so a total of 24.5-25GB total download size for the entire game with a single language being used. Total size will be more if you switched to a non-English language as those language files would then need to be downloaded as well (likely several hundred megabytes to a gig or few for another language).

Shoulders are Striders – can find that on the gem store if it is still available.
Chest is Sneakthief – can find that on the TP.
Legs are also Striders – gem store
Gloves look like Mistwalker – WvW vendors

Serval got the helm and boots already.

No Action Camera Keybind Addition

• Patched up fully overnight
• Downloaded additional updates
• Logged in for first time and there is no Action Camera Toggle keybind for me

Tried a repair.
I really do not want to have to reset my preferences/delete my local.dat file and redo everything all over again just to see if it fixes the problem.

Has anyone else experienced this?
If so, does -prefreset fix the problem?

EDIT:
Apparently one must load a character into a map for the Options menus to update with these new features (Toggle Action Camera, Allow Skill Retargeting, etc).

I find this to be rather odd. It means a new player that logs in and customizes their settings would need to first make a character and load into the game world and then have to go back in and adjust these additional settings. If they do not reopen their options after making/loading a character, they would not even be aware of these settings existing as they weren’t there before when they were customizing them at the character select screen.

• I can only think that there is a bug there causing these two new options to not be in the Options until after loading into a map with a character.

ShaggyBodom.9360:

echoeagle.5439:

I don’t notice anything different. Is the action camera only for HoT?

Go to Options, Control Options, then scroll down to the Camera section. Add a keybind for Toggle Action Camera Took me a second to find, I was looking for a toggle, not a keybind hehe

Wow, this is weird. I don’t have the new keybind listed there as everyone else seems to.
Still just:

• Free Camera
• Zoom In
• Zoom Out
• Look Behind

Well, off to troubleshoot this I guess. :\

EDIT:
Apparently one must load a character into a map for the Options menus to update with these new features (Toggle Action Camera, Allow Skill Retargeting, etc).

I find this to be rather odd. It means a new player that logs in and customizes their settings would need to first make a character and load into the game world and then have to go back in and adjust these additional settings. If they do not reopen their options after making/loading a character, they would not even be aware of these settings existing as they weren’t there before when they were customizing them at the character select screen.

• I can only think that there is a bug there causing these two new options to not be in the Options until after loading into a map with a character.

Ohoni.6057:

I mean, yeah, you can load while playing, to a point, but when I got to Torn from the Sky it told me that I couldn’t play until that bit downloaded. Why wasn’t this stuff preloaded days ago?

Dataminers, most likely. They didn’t want anything to leak prior to release so it wasn’t available in the client until this patch.

The one to Rule.2593:

joe….this thread was a month old…

Technically someone else necroed this thread saying they couldn’t make their rev yet. However, this person deleted their post so it now appears that Joe necroed it, which is not true. Just to point it out so Joe doesn’t get blamed for necroing this.

Azure.8670:

patch notes are up but doesnt show anything about the elite specs

There is a huge section on every elite specialization in the first post of the notes.

Zaig.4152:

Hit 1% on my download at around 113 MB….so if that is accurate going out, it will be 11-12GB.

Edit correction: Now it shows 3% at 129MB, so the percentage must be number of files, not total size of download.

Your edit is correct. Completion percentage is based on number of files downloaded of how many there are to download…strangely.

Game is playable at: 734 MB

Just got a new build available.
I do not think HoT is releasing early, so no clue what the patch is for exactly.

I was wrong.

112,844 new files to download. HoT is launched.

Knighthonor.4061:

Hey its 23rd now in America, bro..

In some of America, yes, but not in the part where it matters in relation to HoT’s release (Pacific).

I’d like to mention that these forums are on the same server as the patches, so do not expect the forums to load quickly or most likely not at all at launch time, let alone through tomorrow as others around the world are able to log in and patch up.

Just wanted to mention this so people do not think the forums crashed when they try to browse them while attempting to patch.

On that note, if you happen to be writing on the forums when the patch hits, be sure to copy what you’ve written before submitting your comment as it will likely not go through and you’ll have lost what you wrote. Simply paste it into your comment box and try again until it succeeds if this happens.

Quick tip for those not into keyboard shortcuts:
CTRL+A selects all of your text
CTRL+C copies it
CTRL+V pastes it
Or you can simply highlight it all and then right-click > copy/paste.

You must own HoT to eventually unlock the Druid elite specialization.

You can see gameplay footage of how Druid E-spec plays in this TwitchCon video that revealed it.

https://youtu.be/K2ZHhJQn0B8?t=112

MOBO: MSI 770 G45
CPU: AMD Athlon II x4 630 2.8Ghz
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB
RAM: 4GB DDR3
OS: Win7-U x64

Can run SOMA near max without any slowdown (streaming texture stutter load issue if I use max texture quality), Witcher 3 on mostly medium settings, some higher, Crysis 3 on max, Lords of the Fallen on medium-ish (game is not really that optimized).

I run GW2 with reflections and shadows off/low and other players in low-res textures but with their custom appearances (not generic pvp appearance). Everything else pretty much on max in native.

Odin of Ark.4860:

Can the wings be dyed or just stay purple/yellow?

Sadly, all back pieces, much like all weapons, cannot be dyed as armor can be.
We must accept the colors that they offer them in and buy/use it, or be deterred from buying/using it due to its restrictive nature.

CandyHearts.6025:

Here’s my Sylvari Mesmer! <3

Looks fantastic!

Doggie.3184:

They’re beautiful. :< But with HoT soon I can’t afford.
I also need Claw weapons for Zhang He cosplay.

Heya, Doggie. You may want to consider making a desire post in the [Gifting Strangers] thread in my signature.

A lot of people enjoy helping others get the things they want. It is not guaranteed, but it is entirely possible that someone would be interested in gifting you the wings if you share your desire for and inability to afford them just now in that thread.

Your BrainHex Class is:

• Seeker (I agree)

Your BrainHex Sub-Class is:

• Seeker-Survivor (I agree)

You like finding strange and wonderful things or finding familiar things as well as pulse-pounding risks and escaping from hideous and scary threats.

Each BrainHex Class also has an Exception, which describes what you dislike about playing games.

Your Exceptions are:

• No Commitment (I agree)
  You dislike being asked to complete everything, preferring to pick and choose which tasks you will attempt, or simply messing around with a game.
• No Punishment (I disagree with the first part – I agree with the second part)
  You dislike struggling to overcome seemingly impossible challenges, and repeating the same task over and over again.

Your scores for each of the classes in this test were as follows:

• Seeker: 20
• Survivor: 17
• Mastermind: 16
• Daredevil: 11
• Socialiser: 5
• Achiever: 1
• Conqueror: -6

I’ve never found any of the legendary weapon designs and/or effects to be worth the effort needed to acquire them. They are just not all that interesting or attractive.

In fact, I find many of the BL skins (pact fleet especially) to be of higher quality and of a more attractive design. They should throw some legendary effects on those skins, or separate the legendary effects from the skins so one unlocks the effect that can be used on the weapon of the player’s choice.

Regarding the new legendaries they have shown:

The axe was the first legendary I’d consider doing all the work to acquire.

However, I was basing this thought on the pic that got posted where it was white. Now I see that it is not white, but gold.

::sigh::

I cannot stand how they keep taking these great designs and ruining them by making them gold-colored instead of a neutral or more commonly used color.

Seeing this constant destroying of weapon styles with gold elements also forces me to become disappointed all over again because I’m reminded that weapons cannot be dyed.

So many good weapon styles that I will not work toward acquiring simply because of the color chosen for it, despite the style being perfect for one or more of my characters.

So much work is put into these weapons, but their obsession with making everything gold turns this player away from being interested in them at all, sadly.

It’s such a shame.

Linken.6345:

StinVec.3621:

Eggie.4602:

Am i out the money if i erased the character. my bad

You can try contacting support and explaining the situation to them. Perhaps they will be able to reimburse or restore the lost item(s).

https://help.guildwars2.com/anonymous_requests/new

edit:
(Fleshy, you ninja…)

And Inculpatus cedo.9234 is a more effective ninja

Indeed. The page loaded down to my new reply after posting it so I could only just see Fleshy’s response without scrolling up further. Double ninja-ed.

Good luck, OP.

Eggie.4602:

Am i out the money if i erased the character. my bad

You can try contacting support and explaining the situation to them. Perhaps they will be able to reimburse or restore the lost item(s).

https://help.guildwars2.com/anonymous_requests/new

edit:
(Fleshy, you ninja…)

Danikat.8537:

All the birds make that sound for some reason.

I normally use the confetti mail carrier and somehow I actually find that sound less annoying. (It helps that if you sell several things in quick succession it won’t play every time.)

Luckily, the griffon does not make that sound. It is the only non-pigeon bird mail carrier I can use due to all of the others having that pointless and annoying sound added to them. It’s also a griffon, so that’s a plus.

I honestly prefer the Revenant mail carrier when I am not using the Griffon. It makes a swooshy kind of sound. Some may not like it, but I do.

I’ve had that happen when a thread I had posted in was merged into another thread.

I know you are simply reporting the bug, but if you are looking to see if there is a way to fix it to properly display the arrow, you may be able to fix it by editing your post in that merged thread and adding a space or carriage return or something and then saving the change.

Otherwise, perhaps making an additional, temporary post in the thread and then removing it will allow the ‘reply’ arrow to remain on the thread icon.

Kraggy.4169:

hoewhoew.4619:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/its-the-final-countdown/

One comment is there now worries me that HoT isn’t for me:

battling to level 100 in fractals

I hope that doesn’t imply fractals are the ONLY way to reach 100 because I never have done fractals and never will. :|

I bought HoT but didn’t want to spoil myself so haven’t actually logged in.

Fractal levels are different from character levels. There is no max character level increase with HoT, nor will there ever be in GW2. 80 is max, progression beyond that does not take the form of increasing the character level but mastery level.