Guild Wars 2

As SandraSolace mentioned, you are executing your game using a shortcut that has the “-repair” command line argument. This is evident by the “Cmdline: -repair” statement in the error.txt file.

Run the game directly from the executable in your Guild Wars 2 installation or from a fresh shortcut without the “-repair” command line argument added to it.

After you copy your friend’s fully patched gw2.dat and gw2.exe files into your GW2 installation, right-click each of them and go to their properties. Make sure that they are not set to “Read Only”. Many times, when copying files from a portable drive to a local hard drive, the files become read only. This may be causing the files to have to be redownloaded as they cannot be modified.

ElementaryProsody.6217:

Mine’s not character specific per se (and someone please correct or redirect me if I’m wrong here), but recently all player characters (excluding NPC’s) have a generic, monotone colored armor set as well as a black model base.

As far as I can tell, it doesn’t matter which character I play, which map or city I am in; it’s all the same. Likewise, I noticed the ghosts in the Plains of Ashford appear as regular citizens rather than semi translucent, blue ghosts.

I tried changing my graphics setting to best appearance, but this makes no difference.

This is an aspect of the PvE culling removal. In your Options > Graphics settings are two sliders that control the number of character models to display on-screen and the quality of those displayed models in both Open World and WvW.

Having the “Character Model Detail” slider set to “Low” will cause models that are rendered to be displayed as generic “place holder” models (the generic pvp models you are seeing currently). Lower quality generic models take less time to load into memory and less memory used in displaying. Increasing the “Character Model Detail” slider to a higher quality value will cause character models to display their customized appearances, which uses more memory and can increase loading screen times.

It seems that some of the living world minigames have had their achievements reset when their events ended. Sanctum Sprint is all back to zero progress as well for me. I believe this achievement reset issue has been discussed before, but I have not searched for those discussions yet…just sounds vaguely familiar as having seen threads on it once.

I feel that this issue not behaving as other ‘normal TP issue’ events, qualifies it for a 2hr (or 2hr 30min now) server rollback due to the amount of people afflicted with spent gold and many duplicates of items purchased this afternoon.

If the coin was not taken at the time of the failed purchase messages, how do you now see your coin missing since the TP is still down and the issue not resolved yet?

Did the act of them putting it into ‘maintenance’ cause your wallet and pick up tab to update instead of updating after the maintenance is competed and functional again?

If coin was not immediately removed at the time of the ‘failed’ purchase, then apparently this is not one of the ‘normal’ TP sell issues we’ve experienced for the last year. Sorry.

mercury ranique.2170:

I do not think it is a bug. mini’s use a certain skin and has a certain animation cycle. So it seems like an intended change in the design. However, I do not see any reason to change it. It might be that on they gave them weapons very short before release, and that an in between patch was taken with that pre-release change incorperated.

I’m really curious if arenanet is going to give an asnwer to this one. It seems odd to take away weapons from miniatures (unless they where dealing damage with them, but I doubt that)

There was the case of miniatures entering combat and fighting, though not really dealing any damage. This issue of weapons being stowed on minis that have them sounds like it came about at the same time as the minis entering combat issue was fixed. It is likely that this weapon stowing on minis issue is a result of that fix, though it probably wasn’t intended for weapon wielding minis to now keep their weapons stowed when the issue was fixed. Although it could have also arisen when the bug was fixed that cause all players to be seen running around with their weapons drawn and the fix caused minis to always have weapons sheathed.

I agree, hopefully there will be a response on this issue.

lim.6241:

I was purchasing some items on the TP before it went down when it was buggy and not working, as in the buy button did nothing.

Now suddenly all of my gold has disappeared and I’m down to the starting amount of 1 silver 52 copper…. has anyone else experienced this?

Sorry to say, but as is ‘normal’ behavior when the trading post has issues, every attempt to purchase an item will deduct the coin from your wallet despite giving the error/failed purchase message. It’s a good idea to watch your coin when purchasing to notice when your purchase actually goes through. When the trading post is fixed, all of the items you purchased due to the multiple attempts to buy will be delivered to your pick up tab. In the future do not keep clicking to buy. If it doesn’t work on the first attempt, yet your coin is taken, then assume there is an issue and do not keep purchasing more of the item. You can relist the excess items you purchased to recoup most of the unintended spent coin.

Someone else mentioned they were reset to zero as well.

No response or fix was given in their thread.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Trading-post-glitch-1

Eredon Terrace
Having the issue as well.

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“awesomium_process.exe” will not launch upon loading the TP.
Cannot manually launch the program either.

Zalaan.2601:

I have no problems with the TP until this morning. Cannot see my transactions (what I am selling), and when I click on “sell on trading post”, my inventory items appear but clicking on an item to sell just produces a blank panel with zero information – no item graphic, no buyer price, etc. I have re-logged, I have exited game. No change.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Trading-post-glitch-1

Yours is a temporary issue that just cropped up this morning that is currently being addressed.

I like this concept.

Indeed. :\

I was clearing Rata Sum on a new character and ran into an NPC named “Yavvi” who has a hairstyle not available to players during character creation, nor is it available in the Self-style Hair Kit or the Total Makeover kit.

Why is this hairstyle not an option for female Asura? Can we expect this and other new hairstyles to be made available soon for new characters as well as in the makeover kits? If so, will this hairstyle, if offered, also include the pen/pencil behind the ear? Please?

This is an aspect of the PvE culling removal. In your Options > Graphics settings are two sliders that control the number of character models to display on-screen and the quality of those displayed models in both Open World and WvW.

Having the “Character Model Detail” slider set to “Low” will cause models that are rendered to be displayed as generic “place holder” models (the generic pvp models you are seeing currently). Lower quality generic models take less time to load into memory and less memory used in displaying. Increasing the “Character Model Detail” slider to a higher quality value will cause character models to display their customized appearances, which uses more memory and can increase loading screen times.

As Bill Freist mentioned, moving an existing installation of Guild Wars 2 (or installing from the very beginning) into a location other than in Program Files solves many issues with the game not working properly.

If you are already running the game as Administrator, it’s not your UAC settings, and awesomium_process.exe is not being blocked by security software, then try these.

Most TP issues are related to some temporary GW2 files where removing them will allow them to be recreated and the TP to function properly again.

First Option:

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)
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-{1501A8C1-6AA1-1601-C2A8-0115A16A0116}” or something similar. Delete this gw2cache folder.
10. Load up your game normally and see if the issue is fixed.

Second Option:
You can try to run the -repair utility on your installation to see if there are actually some damaged files within the game files.

Another thing to try:
If the above solutions did not fix the problem then there is another file that can be deleted. This one will cause you to lose your saved game settings so try the above solutions first so you do not have to needlessly reconfigure your settings.

1. Ensure your game is completely closed.
2. Browse your My Computer to:
   “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\Documents\Guild Wars 2”
3. Inside this Guild Wars 2 folder you should see a file called “local.dat”, rename this file to “backup-local.dat”
4. Load up your game normally. You may have a small download to replace the renamed file. See if the issue is fixed once in-game.
5. If it is fixed then you will notice your settings are all reverted to default. You should reconfigure your game settings once again to your preference. You can then delete the “backup-local.dat” file.

This has been an issue of great concern for many players.

There are Pre-Patch skins, and Post-Patch skins.
Newly acquired (post-patch) Specialty Skins have been made tradeable on the BLTP.
However, the issue that has many rightfully upset is the fact that Specialty Skins that were acquired prior to the change in tradability (pre-patch) remain untradeable and account bound, despite the tool-tip no longer stating that they are.

So, if you acquired this skin prior to the change (pre-patch) then your skin is account bound still and will not be sellable despite the skin tool-tip not stating this fact. If you acquired the skin recently and after the restriction change (post-patch) then it will not be account bound and is sellable.

There have been many threads and discussions on this unfair issue, but it does not look like the tradeability restriction will ever be lifted from specialty skins acquired pre-patch.

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If you are referring to the section at the middle of the top of your screen that displays information on your current target, then no. There is very little customization permitted with UI elements, unlike most other MMOs.

The chatbox can only be snapped to the upper left or lower left of your screen and nowhere in between. The minimap can only be snapped to the upper right or lower right of your screen and nowhere in between. Those are the only elements of the UI that can be moved and/or resized and absolutely no elements can be hidden from being shown.
:(

Listing fee is 5% of the listing price.
Sales fee after the item sells is 10%.

Yeah, top traded items has been stuck for several months at the values for the items that they were at several months ago. I think they stopped getting updated back about the time that the Item Preview feature was implemented.

It is unlikely that “awesomium_process.exe” is causing the problem as “awesomium_process.exe” is exported to the temporary folder every time you open the trading post for the first time of the game session. It is then deleted when GW2 is closed.

Most TP issues are related to some temporary GW2 files where removing them will allow them to be recreated and the TP to function properly again.

First Option:

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)
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-{1501A8C1-6AA1-1601-C2A8-0115A16A0116}” or something similar. Delete this gw2cache folder.
10. Load up your game normally and see if the issue is fixed.

Second Option:
You can try to run the -repair utility on your installation to see if there are actually some damaged files within the game files.

Another thing to try:
If the above solutions did not fix the problem then there is another file that can be deleted. This one will cause you to lose your saved game settings so try the above solutions first so you do not have to needlessly reconfigure your settings.

1. Ensure your game is completely closed.
2. Browse your My Computer to: C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\Documents\Guild Wars 2
3. Inside this Guild Wars 2 folder you should see a file called “local.dat”, rename this file to “backup-local.dat”
4. Load up your game normally. You may have a small download to replace the renamed file. See if the issue is fixed once in-game.
5. If it is fixed then you will notice your settings are all reverted to default. You should reconfigure your game settings once again to your preference. You can then delete the “backup-local.dat” file.

Hi, Sammy.

I’m guessing that you are using an AMD Radeon HD graphics card in your computer.

Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue with some older drivers for AMD Radeon cards, as well as the AMD 13.8 Beta drivers released at the beginning of August and the 5xxx Series Radeon cards, that causes subsample quality textures on armor. As AMD has just released the 13.10 Beta Drivers, it is possible that you automatically or accidentally updated to these beta drivers and they may also contain the issue.

If you have manually installed or automatically updated to these 13.8/13.10 Beta drivers, revert your drivers and CCC package to the 13.4 Driver and CCC package. Reverting to the previous, officially released driver and CCC package has solved this error for other people having the issue. I also recommend you be more wary of updating to any beta driver packages in the future.

Also, due to your graphics corruption you showed with the “weird lines”, it sounds like you may also have a corrupt driver of the drivers you are currently using. Installing the 13.4 Catalyst Control Center and drivers should correct all of the issues you are experiencing if you are, indeed, using an AMD Radeon graphics card.

If you are not using an AMD Radeon graphics card, what is your graphics card manufacturer, what driver version are you using currently, and what Windows OS and ‘bit’ (32/64) version are you using?

There are DVD scratch repair kits sold at most electronics stores and electronics departments of department stores and shouldn’t cost much at all. The data should still be uncorrupted on the disc as a surface scratch only prevents reading of the data. Only if the scratch is actually a gouge and physically damaged the written data will a scratch repair kit not work to repair the disc.

Also, to prevent the DVD from getting scratched again you may look to make sure there is no debris in the DVD tray. You should also consider getting a laser lens cleaner so any dust buildup doesn’t cause another scratch to the DVD or read errors.

You can also download the installation without need of a disk.

I also recommend you make a backup copy of the fresh installation with patches somewhere else on the computer so you can just copy over the data from the backup installation instead of fully reinstalling and downloading all of the updates again in the future.

I would also recommend running the -repair utility on your damaged installation before resorting to a full uninstall/reinstall.

I know, it’s horrible.

A dev responded in this thread about the issue and that it will be added to their tracker to be looked at. However, that thread only mentions The Grove, and not Black Citadel as well.

It has been reported that gameplay data usage is far less than streaming videos and is actually somewhere around 10-20 megabytes an hour for standard gameplay, though some have reported up to 50 megabytes an hour for some content that requires increased data usage. You shouldn’t have any issue with data usage while playing, but if there are any game updates then you can expect to have a significant increase in data usage. Minor patch updates are usually around 40-50 megabytes and are done only about 2-3 times over two weeks, but the major updates every two weeks are usually 250-500 megabytes depending on what is included in the update. Even still, you should not encounter any data usage issues with a 3 gigabyte data allotment per month if you are only using it for playing GW2.

I also recommend using software like BitMeter to keep track of how much data usage you have used during a month. It is completely free. http://codebox.org.uk/pages/bitmeter2

You can tell exactly how much you are using and how much you have left so you know if you will need to take a day or two off or limit how much time is spent in-game for a few days.

It also includes a data usage restriction meter. Just enter your 3GB data usage limit and BitMeter will warn you when you approach that limit. Should check it out.

Regarding the Razer Keyboard issue.
That’s quite odd that there was something with the Razer Keyboard that was preventing drop down selections by your mouse from being accepted. I can’t think of any configuration or software option that would cause that, considering how keyboard interaction with the trading post is limited.

Just curious, but do you also use a Razer mouse? Does the keyboard also use the Synapse 2.0 Configurator? I was thinking that, with using both a Razer keyboard and a Razer mouse, there may be a priority issue between Windows and the Synapse 2.0 Configurator or a possible configuration/driver/firmware issue. Hopefully you won’t encounter that issue again.

Graphical

• Charr Footprints Are Backward [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]

Has been this way forever, reported dozens of times, yet has never been acknowledged or corrected.

If the spiders are killed quickly enough then she doesn’t reset to full health. If there is not enough DPS to kill the spiders before they reach her, causing her health to reset, or not enough DPS to kill her between spider spawns, then it is a good idea to lure her out of the center of the cave and into the tunnel a little bit. Doing this causes the spiders that spawn to not come near her and they can then be ignored, damage can be focused on her without fear of her regenerating, and the time limit will be inconsequential. But be careful to lure her only into the mouth of the tunnel and not fully into it, as luring her too far down the tunnel will cause her to reset.

Oh, I completely agree. The way results are loaded is horrible. I’ve found that doing the action twice sometimes forces it to show me the results.
So click on “Items I’ve Sold”, wait a few seconds, click on “Items I’m Selling” and then back to “Items I’ve Sold” again. Doing the action twice sometimes causes it to load the results as they should be.

It’s silly, is it not? I don’t know why it is designed to try to load up all of the thousands of items sold instead of just loading the first page of results. A simple database query with the specific, limiting criteria is all it takes.

Possibly related is the issue that has been happening since release, where right-clicking an item and selecting “Mail Item To…” would automatically place the name of a nearby player into the “To” field. Even if you have nobody targeted during your entire logged in session, it would overwrite the name you manually entered with the name of the last player that was “highlighted” by facing toward them, though usually this is someone standing in front of you near a bank in a town. This has led to many items being sent to the wrong players and has never been addressed…hopefully it will be now.

Functionality

• Warrior: Berserker Stance [ Dev Response ]
  Extreme condition duration reduction

This issue was reported and responded to by a dev almost a month ago. It has still not been fixed.

When switching to “Items I’ve Sold” or “Items I’ve Bought” it sometimes takes 5-15 seconds for the results to display as there are usually a lot of results to load up. Just be patient.

It is as Khisanth mentioned.

It has been reported before and is in the Functionality section of my Tracker – Living Story/Game Update Bugs thread, but there has been no response on the issue from a dev yet.

• Flames of Kryta Torch: Sharkmaw Caverns
  FoK does not give light in the Lion’s Arch Sharkmaw Caverns jumping puzzle area when ‘Shaders’ is set to ‘Low’

That is already in your options. Take a look and disable right-click to interact or attack.
I also enable Double-click To Interact so a double left click interacts with NPCs.

Most subcategories do not list anything at all, and some do not even list the relevant items in the search results…still.

• Consumable > Food
  Results in no food listed, instead it lists alcoholic beverages
• Consumable > Generic
  Nothing listed at all
• Consumable > Transmutation
  Nothing listed at all
• Consumable > Unlock
  Nothing listed at all
• Gathering > All
  Nothing listed at all
• Gathering > Foraging
  Nothing listed at all
• Gathering > Logging
  Nothing listed at all
• Gathering > Mining
  Nothing listed at all
• Gizmo > Salvage
  Nothing listed at all
• Tool > All
  Nothing listed at all
• Tool > [[Crafting]] (yes it is actually displayed with those brackets)
  Nothing listed at all
• Tool > Salvage
  Nothing listed at all
• !!! Upgrade Component > Weapon !!!
  Does not list any sigils whatsoever and instead lists only trinket upgrades…which does not even have its own subcategory.

Seriously, is there someone in charge of maintaining the BLTP?

Many items do not even exist in any category, like back items. To find them you must search by name within the entire listing of all items on the TP, which the names of the items must first be found by searching online/on the wiki. Most players do not even know that there are back items for sale on the TP.

I, and many others, have reported these issues several times, but they’ve not been acknowledged once and no attempt to correct the erroneous search results or remove the useless subcategories has been made.

Been there since it was originally released in the Winds update and was reported many hundreds of times (literally) yet it has gone unfixed. Do not expect it to be fixed. It almost seems intentional with the way the ledge slopes down right there and there is a jump boost RIGHT below it. Either the designer of that area of the map, or the person who placed the power upgrade knew what they were doing when they made it like that, which makes it seem intentional…sadly. A professional designer doesn’t just accidentally angle a ledge down the perfect amount and place a jump boost right below it…
It was quite the disappointment when no dev would even comment on this issue in the several dozens of threads reporting it and the other several dozens of threads in the living story forum for that update.

Haven’t played the minigame since the event ended as this clear exploit was never taken care of. I lost first place too many times to people using the cheat while I was going for the finish line as it should be done.

Behellagh.1468:

The dailies give you ones that are good up to level 79. The ones that work on level 80 I’ve only seen in BL chests or bought at the store.

Dailies can give you Transmutation Stones, but there is also the chance to get the Transmutation Crystals as noted in the link I provided. You can also get many other items in daily chests.

Is it possible that your mailbox is full? New mail cannot be delivered if it is full. You must delete some items for the pending mail to get delivered, though it may take a few minutes or (rarely) a client restart for new items to get delivered.

Hopefully this solves the problem.

More detailed info.

Zone: Timberline Falls
Area: Gyre Rapids
Quest: Help the Priory’s excavation of the ruins
Issue:

• No Risen spawn to kill
• No Toxic Ooze spawn to kill
• No Golems spawn to then be able to protect or revive
• Some Artifacts (Bone, Axe, Dwarven Powder Keg, Hammer) disappear upon pickup without being collected for depositing into storage crates

OP, would you please add what server/world you are on? This is a crucial piece of information as bugged/stuck/missing NPCs and events tend to be world specific and not game-wide.

The Ranger Greatsword Weapon Skill #3 (“Swoop”) has the same effect.
Leap skills tend to ignore terrain, sadly.

I’ve always found it quite disappointing that, instead of leaping down the slight hill at an enemy, we instead launch up into the air and freeze in midair 10 feet above the enemy, swing and hit absolutely nothing, and then fall straight down onto the enemy far below us…which sometimes also incurs fall damage.

roamzero.9486:

Worst part about the gem store is that apparently since Anet thinks customizing the look of your armor is a luxury its suitable to gate it entirely via gem-store-only Transmutation Crystals.. Beside that and the Infinite Continue Coin I don’t have any problems with the gem store.

Transmutation Crystals are not only acquirable through the Gem Store. I’ve gone through several dozen of them since the game released and I never bought any of them from the Gem Store. I’ve gotten them all from Daily Reward Chests and once or twice from a Daily Reward Chest giving me a Black Lion Chest Key and I then got them from opening a Black Lion Chest with that free key.

In addition to the lack of ‘burst effects’ upon drawing the weapon, is this what is trying to be described?

Item: Eternity
Issue: Throwing the greatsword as a projectile results in a generic weapon model being thrown and not the Eternity greatsword with effects

Or is it that the model is of Eternity but it lacks any of the Legendary effects on it when it is thrown?

Either way, it should only take a second to take a screenshot of it being shown equipped and then of it thrown to show the issue and then include it here.

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

There was a discussion about this in the mesmer forums. It has been ongoing for some time now, I remember a friend summoning those things on his mes a while back. Somehow the clones are keeping the 6th armor bonus… in some situations mesmer clones were proccing fear from another rune set.

Josh… if Anet paid more attention to the class forums you guys would know this stuff already…

Bugs should not be reported in class forums, that is what this Game Bugs forum is for. It was finally reported in the appropriate forum which is why this issue now is being addressed.

Cody Crichton already commented on the “Low Volume” issue being fixed soon here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-1-Boom-Box-is-too-quiet/2821490

Your best chance to get it refunded, which I expect would be likely due to the clear wording on the item not being accurate, would be to file a support ticket and explain there just as you did here about it clearly stating “wherever you go”, yet is non-functional in WvW. Your gems should be readily refunded until such a time when it is corrected to be functional in WvW in line with the “wherever you go” portion of the description…if it ever is.

Mt Terror.3284:

StinVec.3621:

That image is the first image since the wallpapers that were made available before launch that I wanted to set as my desktop.

I was very, very disappointed to see that there wasn’t a 1600×900 version made available.
Seriously. Where are the high resolution widescreen wallpapers Anet? 16:9 is a very common resolution considering most computers have been sold with widescreen monitors for the last decade.

Shame. It’d look nice too. Could crop it myself, but then every time I look at it all I would think of is how disappointing it is to not have it as a supplied option in the first place.

Try to use that 1920×1080 wallpaper, it is 16:9 even in higher resolution.

After seeing your post I was trying to figure out why I only saw a few choices for resolutions on the wallpaper section and not this 1920×1080 that you referred to.

I’ve now worked out the cause for my seeing so few resolution options. Due to the sizes being displayed as an overlay to the image of the wallpaper, this “design” was apparently conflicting with an extension in my browser and was causing only 6 of the available sizes to be listed. So to me I was only seeing 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, and 1280×720.

Thank you for mentioning that there was a high resolution available. I should have known something was wrong, but with even the search function still being busted, you never know. Their overlay mouse hover pop-up isn’t the best way for resolutions to be offered and I’m a bit surprised that they programmed the resolutions to get displayed like that instead of being listed underneath the image. Oh well.

Thanks again Mt Terror.

Mai Eternal.7469:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

How is anything “overpriced”, when they are all optional convenience items?

Just because they are convenience or asthetical items doesn’t mean they can’t be overpriced.

What I’m debating here is whether it’s slightly too high because a price that’s just a bit too high may be counter productive to both anet and players alike.

There have been many times where I’ve thought “if there was an option for me to pay for 400 gems I’d get it” or “If that item was 400-600 gems and not 800 I’d buy it”

Bottom line is I am questioning the productivity / effectiveness of what they currently have because high prices mixed with very unflexible choices often puts people off, including me, and I have tonnes of money to spend. That’s why I made this thread. To highlight the possibility that they could be losing many sales due to something that could have more thought put into it

I made a similar observation regarding Gem Store Armor Sets being offered as Full Sets instead of individual items and the lost sales. I have no problems with cost of the items, just in the method in which they have been made available to us players.

The new armor releases really energized my interest in the game again, though I was then disappointed to see the new armors being sold as ‘Full Set’ only. Due to this fact, I feel you may have lost out on many, many sales of individual armor pieces by choosing to plunk them down in the Gem Store as a Full Set purchase only.
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I intended to purchase at least 23 individual items were they to have been released as individually purchasable items, but upon seeing that they were only offered as Full Set purchases, I decided to only get a single set that I still will not use all the pieces of. That’s 23 individual skin purchases at 200 gems (est) each, for a total of 4600 gems had they been offered individually. Instead, you’ve gotten 800 gems in total sales from me with these new skins. I’ve also seen many others hoping you would offer armor pieces individually, thus leading to your not making sales with them because they are not purchasing the full sets offered.
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I want you to succeed. I want you to make sales. However, I do not feel you are marketing your items in the best manner to ensure the largest possible sales while fulfilling the desires of your player base. People tend toward being more inclined to make many smaller amount purchases over a single large one.

Psychologically, players don’t like destroying 1-time items, and players also don’t like being forced to buy something they won’t use. Given a choice of 800 gems for 1 desired armor item that will be used, or 800 gems for a full set to where 5 of those items will collect dust in precious storage spaces as the player would feel guilty for destroying 1-time items…I think most would rather just get what they know they’ll use so they don’t feel forced into also buying and hanging onto other stuff they don’t want even if there is no difference in price.

aspirine.6852:

I wish these things came with stats on them instead of just skins.

There are some decent back items with stats on the TP if you search for “back”, “spine” or “brace”, and I think one item listed for “splice”.

What I wish is for the meta achievement back skins to actually include an account bound, white, stat-less back item with them just as the Charr/Quaggan backpack sets that drop from the Black Lion Chests and any backpack form the Gem Store do. Getting tired of buying a bunch of those sets just for the back items and then trashing or re-listing the covers.

That image is the first image since the wallpapers that were made available before launch that I wanted to set as my desktop.

I was very, very disappointed to see that there wasn’t a 1600×900 version made available.
Seriously. Where are the high resolution widescreen wallpapers Anet? 16:9 is a very common resolution considering most computers have been sold with widescreen monitors for the last decade.

Shame. It’d look nice too. Could crop it myself, but then every time I look at it all I would think of is how disappointing it is to not have it as a supplied option in the first place.