Guild Wars 2

IronPlushy.4256:

Hi I’m new, I was wondering how patching works here. Basically when does it start and how long does it last?

If “Patch Day” is April 30th, then the patching can occur at anytime while it is still the 30th according to the time zone where Anet is located; PDT.

So, while it could happen at any time, from 12:00AM until 11:59PM PDT, it will most likely ‘go live’ around 2:00PM to 4:00PM PDT as that is about the time previous patches have been released.

When they ‘go live’ with the patch, you can begin downloading the update immediately. Expect it to take quite a while, depending on your connection speed and the size of the patch. I’m anticipating about a 440MB patch, though it is possible that it will be much smaller or much larger, we just don’t know until it gets here. Also, while patching you will have no clue as to how large the actual size of the patch is as the progress bar increases based on percentage of files downloaded, not the size of the files downloaded.
So if you have 100 files to download, and you have 50 files downloaded, your progress bar will read 50%…even if those 50 files you have make up less than 1% of the total size of all files you will need to download. It is very, very misleading, and annoying, as you actually have no clue how long the download will take. It could be a 1gig update, and have 99% on your progress bar, but that last file could be 500mb in size…so you’ll be sitting at 99% for like an hour or something.

Just watch for the patch to go live and start downloading as soon as possible. If the release notes are available at the same time then read through and study the changes while waiting. When you’re finished with those , read ’em again Then, while you are continuing to wait, say hi to some family, play with the cat/dog (or shave the cat/dog), trim toenails, draw on yourself, make armpit farts, or hit YouTube

—PS—
If for some reason your updating encounters an issue, do not be alarmed. There are a lot of people patching at the same time so many of us will encounter stalled updating, or an inability to update at all for some time. Just be patient and your update should eventually finish.

—PPS—
Don’t actually shave your cat/dog…that’s cruel. But do trim your toenails…and draw on yourself, it’s fun.

tolunart.2095:

achensherd.2735:

Dude, even if there were killable kittens in this game, I think you’d need a 50+ zerg to maybe take ‘em. Just look at what they’re doing in WvW: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/WvW-Hidden-Room

My wife and I have three cats.

I type pretty good for only having seven fingers left. I’ve also learned how to open cans of Fancy Feast very very quickly.

Remember: people train dogs, but cats train people.

I have a large sign next to my kitty’s food that reads:
Dogs Have Owners;
Cats Have Staff.

Yes, my kitty will not allow me to remove it, and I don’t want to risk losing fingers :\

OT
I’ve never run into this issue of getting Champ credit from offing an ambient, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that is what happened.

Also, if you off a bunneh, you may want to hit your ‘look behind’ key frequently, as at any time there may be an army of furries behind ya ready to fluff-smother you at any moment.

They’ve known of this serious problem for almost 8 months and have done nothing more than ask for more info on the alleged bug from forum members…and even that was several months ago. So, no acknowledgement it even is a bug, let alone a statement of if or when it’ll be fixed. Sorry to bring you the bad news.

Here’s one thread on this topic of the several hundred that I’m sure exist by now.
In fact, yours might be merged into it some time.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Mouse-losing-focus-right-click-to-turn-not-working-Merged/first

Arale.4207:

StinVec.3621:

Yeah, would really like some open world PvE optimizations, DX10/11 support, and any of the bugs that have been around since beta fixed…doubt we’ll ever get them though. :\

PearlGore.7419:

Do you have a SweetFX that Won’t crash the game I can download?

I prefer FXAA PPI. Quick and easy to set up and run. Can use it in many games without installing it in each game or copying configuration files anywhere. All profiles are switchable, copyable, removable within the program.

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

Take a peek, see if you like it.
Left vs. Right – Before and After
Misc. Scenes
Waterfall Scenes

May I ask what settings you use for that? As someone else mentioned, SweetFX crashes a lot for me, yet I want a more sharp visual experience for GW2.

Here is my “GW2.profile” configuration file.
MediaFire DL
Save it someplace and then inside the program click on ‘Import’ and select it, then select where GW2 is installed. It will add the files and the ‘.profile’ file to your ‘Profiles’ folder inside where you installed the program.

If you don’t want to mess with importing the settings then here are some screens of what I am currently using, including the effect chain. As you can see in the ‘Game’ tab, I run Pre-Sharpen enabled as well as Post Sharpen. Also, on the EffectChain tab, since I have SepiaPass disabled, the Shader lines where I have SepiaPass selected do not get run, and yes, doubling the BloomPass does run it twice, to make it more intense. The order of the effects makes a major difference on the end results.

The old FXAAPPI would allow for making changes on the fly while in game, now changes you make take effect when you ‘save’ them and you then reload an area…like go back and forth through a portal, or hit another waypoint in the main town (so it’s free travel)..whatever gives a loading screen.

If you run into some issues or want some assistance or suggestions for some settings or how to get your game to look a certain way then I’d be glad to respond to any PM’s about it.

Yeah, would really like some open world PvE optimizations, DX10/11 support, and any of the bugs that have been around since beta fixed…doubt we’ll ever get them though. :\

PearlGore.7419:

Do you have a SweetFX that Won’t crash the game I can download?

I prefer FXAA PPI. Quick and easy to set up and run. Can use it in many games without installing it in each game or copying configuration files anywhere. All profiles are switchable, copyable, removable within the program.

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

Take a peek, see if you like it.
Left vs. Right – Before and After
Misc. Scenes
Waterfall Scenes

Melana.8345:

I’ve seen this many times on my Ranger too – particularly in the water. It’s really frustrating to have a mob that is actively hitting you and/or your pet become “immune” and still continue to hit you (for general in-the-world mobs activating “I can’t path to you” protections, not special event mobs).

Other things that cause it:

• Mob focuses on pet, and pet moves/is knocked back onto a rock – mob thinks it can’t hit the pet anymore and becomes immune – even though the mob is in melee range and/or has the ability to simply run (not jump, run) onto the same rock.
• Mob is higher/lower in the water than you. They don’t understand height in the water properly. Even 1/2 a body length difference in height, with NO obstructions around, can result in the mob going invulnerable. They can be in Spear melee range, but above/below and will go invulnerable and start healing for 5-10 seconds before re-engaging.
• Mob chases you across the map. You stop to fight it…stand in one place not moving, and at 5-10% health mob turns around and runs away, healing up again, invulnerable while running away, and then turns back around to attack you again. If they were leashed – why did they come back? Why did they take so long for them to decide to go? If they were not leashed – why did they turn around, become invulnerable, and run away? If they were just healing (like a player would), why did they also become invulnerable?
• (Affects Rangers) Jump down off/up to a ledge to fight a mob at melee range. Mob stands there doing nothing and invulnerable. Look around and realise that your pet stayed on the previous ledge, and because the mob can’t hit the pet on the ledge it’s standing around doing nothing. Swap pets so that your pet arrives at your feet, mob immediately attacks pet but takes another 3-5 seconds to clear out of invulnerable mode (it’s hitting you/your pet, but can’t be hit back). Meanwhile, your opening skills are all on cooldown, etc – wasted because the mob decided that the pet way over there that hadn’t hit it yet was more important than the Ranger in melee that was actively trying to bash in it’s face.
• More recently – I don’t think this was an issue originally, but the last week I’ve been seeing it a bit. Successfully kiting an enemy (in a circle, so not leaving leash range) with snares can see the mob decide to become invulnerable because “it can’t hit you”. Chill/Spike trap/SB “3”/LB “4”/speed boost from Rampage as One/dodge – if it doesn’t get to hit you or your pet for a significant period of time it goes invulnerable thinking you’re exploiting terrain, instead of just using the CC skills you had effectively. That’d tie in with blind also triggering it.

The severity of the “immune” has seemed to become a lot worse/more frequent in the last week or so for me. I don’t know whether that’s an artifact of where/what type of fighting I’ve been doing (e.g. becoming more skilled in kiting/using CC), or due to some change introduced in the patch a week ago.

^ All of that also…still. (awesome post Melana)

In addition to those, on my ranger I also frequently get the enemy racing toward me, all the time being pelted in the face with my arrows from my short bow while I’m standing still and not moving at all and in a flat and open field, and as it is getting closer to me my hits suddenly turn into a spam of “Out Of Range” or “Obstructed”… It is mere feet in front of me and it’s suddenly being blocked by air that has magically become too dense for my arrows to pierce, or it has some gravitational lensing ability that it uses to make it seem as if it is farther away than it actually is.

sigh

Farzo.8410:

It was hard to make capes because of Charr, they are running on all 4, and it clips horribly.

However, that shouldn’t really stop ArenaNet to make capes in different shapes.

http://i.imgur.com/vv4TpSD.png

http://i.imgur.com/yAsfFMu.png

Some of these looks awesome, for example. If they really, really do not want capes to clip on Charr, they can have race restrictions to it, or something.

Fantastic graphics and designs there and they seem to be very easily implemented! I don’t know who drew those, but if it was you then you should be hired.

Please review this thread to see if your answer is here.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Sounds-coming-only-to-my-right-earphone/first#post1682587

Mr eX.3420:

Given that the downtime was resolved within minutes on Monday evening with active responses from the community team via the @GuildWars2 twitter account, I’d say they’re well aware of the issues. They probably don’t want to provide an update until they can say they’ve fixed the problem or have a path to fixing it.

This kind of downtime is very atypical of an ArenaNet game, so I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt that it’s a complex issue and they’ve had people looking at it since it started happening.

Wait a second…
So if I want to be kept up on what is going on, I should stop coming to The Official Guild Wars 2 Forums and go to an outside, unrelated social media site to read any kind of updates on issues?

Yeah…you’re doing it wrong, ArenaNet. Much like nearly everything else you’re doing/not doing.

sigh
Anet, I really want to know…what happened to you?

You’re trying to sell it from within your bags?
Is it residing in a slot of an invisible/hidden bag?
If no, try moving it to your bank and back to your bags.
Hope you resolve the problem.

Eredon Terrace…for over a week.

Everything was great pre-December for me. No culling or graphical issues, no lag stuttering or these 5-30 second lagout lockups, none of this right-click player turning/camera losing focus crap. Wish they’d quit messing with things. Game was great from launch until pre-December for me, now it’s a struggle to even get any game time in without encountering these major disruptions. Sometimes it gets bad enough that I am barely in-game for 5 minutes before it has completely soured me to the point of turning it off as it’s just not worth even trying to play. It’s like they’re actively trying to get people to stop playing by letting these massive issues go unfixed…but hey, get your new worthless town clothes while they’re hot, though don’t waste any money on buying any hats as that bug is still unfixed also.

haha
I know that feeling all too well.

Sadly, I have reported dozens of improper word usage, spelling and punctuation errors in NPC dialogue, skill and item descriptions, and many other areas since the game launched. None have been fixed. I have since given up reporting them as it’s just a waste of time. Same for bugs. I don’t really see a point to reporting anything anymore as nothing is ever done about them, let alone them even acknowledging their existence. :\
It makes me sad.

Maybe you’ll get lucky and they’ll actually take the 2 seconds to modify the file to correct it…when cows fly. (yes, that was a joke related to the cow-a-pult)

Happy gaming.

Hovering over the right side of the map, where the dark bar is, below the + and – for zooming, you should be able to left-click grab and drag it back to the bottom right of your screen. If not, then you may need to resize it to max size (from bottom left of map area) or from large to small…maybe it is just stuck and doing this might help un-stuck it so you can drag it correctly again.

Over 6 months of this issue persisting. Hundreds, and even thousands of players all experiencing this issue to different degrees, from a minor annoyance to all out gamebreaking to the point of not even being able to play due to the severity of the issue.

And in all that time, all we’ve gotten as a response is one post 5 months ago asking for data about their bug. Another post 4 months ago asking for data about their bug yet again. (Don’t they have payed employees to get that data?) And a post 2 months ago stating:

Ashley Segovia.8276:

Hey guys this is still being looked into. Unfortunately I don’t have any information to provide on the status of this issue other than that, but again, I would recommend creating a support ticket for one on one assistance.

Really? Looked into? Over 6 months of this and all that’s being done about it is allegedly looking into it?

Disappointing.

I know a disappearing bug that happens on occasion for me, but I discovered how to un-disappear the items.

One instance I dragged a stack of 50 consumables from my bank to my bag, but the result was them disappearing from my bank but not appearing in my bag. I already had a stack of 19 of that same consumable in the same bag I dragged the stack of 50 to, but it still read as 19, not 69 if it had merged with it for some reason, even though I dragged the 50 stack to an empty spot.

I thought they just disappeared as relogging made no difference. I then dragged the stack of 19 to my bank, then back to my bag (to the same spot I originally pulled it from) and the empty spot where I had dragged the 50 stack earlier suddenly updated and showed the stack of 50.

“Its no longer shows in my bag or bank.”

When you forged it and received it into your bag, did you move it to any other bag slot, or move it to your bank and then back to your bag? If so, then this bug of the bag not updating to display the added/moved item might be the culprit.

Can try 2 things.

1.
Try to remember exactly which slot of your bag Storm was in when it disappeared. Drag another item from your bag to that spot. If it is there, but invisible, then Storm will be swapped to the spot of the other item and it might update and display it properly. Also, try dragging an item from your bank to the bag slot Storm was in as the items might then be swapped and Storm will be in your bank, and the bank item in the slot Storm was in.

2.
Switch the order of your bags. By switching the order, the slots and the items contained in them are updated and arranged differently. If it is just that Storm is invisible then this might help fix it. Also, you can try emptying all of your bags and see if your bags still shows an item contained in it. 1/15, 1/20, etc. Can also attempt to “Auto-arrange/organize” your bags, maybe after you’ve emptied them also.
If it is just not displaying Storm in the bag, then something I’ve mentioned here may help you out.

Good luck.

Gaile and company, I thought you would like to know that there are some players that I’ve seen that may be using a bot program to spawn ON the event chests in the world, similar to that list of bots (that are still in-game botting, by the way) that spawns on repair NPCs. They may be farming baubles and converting them to bauble bubbles to flood the trading post with the skins.
Now, this may only have to do with the extremely excessive, and completely unnecessary culling stuff (which I wish would be put into the options menu just as the WvW culling has been, I don’t want culling at all).
I was in Metrica Province on Eeredon Terrace server and I was at one chest and two people showed up out of nowhere…thought I might have just not seen them close by due to the culling…err…stuff, that has been implemented. Then they disappeared after gathering the baubles. There was another chest close by that I could see from the first chest location, I started to head toward it, it disappeared from my mini-map meaning it was opened, 4 seconds later I was at it and those same two players appeared at that one, killed the things, and proceeded to disappear once again. If this is just this silly culling stuff where people disappear when they are 5ft in front of me, then I guess just ignore this.

I got this issue in Zone 1, defeated the cage boss, grabbed my baubles and then exited the instance to Rata Sum prior to the countdown timer hitting zero. Camera was stuck zoomed out. I then switched characters and the zoomed view persisted. As mentioned above, I had to completely close my game and reopen it and re-log in for the super zoom to go away as it was reset to the default max camera zoom out level.

I’ll just not exit to Rata Sum again around the boss fights to avoid this.

Simple QA oversight, and simple fix. Literally one line of code. Though I am not sure why they did not simply use the code from the forced camera zoom out level when encountering a zone boss that was pre-existing and functional.

It has been in my head, that exact same scene (as well as the teacher’s math lesson about not being able to calculate 2 bars) since I was purchasing keys I was really surprised to see that nobody else has brought it up yet lol Glad to see I’m not alone.

heh, just noticed, “… dawn till dusk” GW2 has both Dawn and Dusk

Anyone else have a Willy Wonka scenario playing in their minds?

I would love a trade-in of account bound gem store items; i.e. boosters, etc. for tickets.
Trade in for a ticket…not this chance at a ticket stuff:
20 XP boosters = Ticket
10 XP boosters + 15 PVP Glory Boosters = Ticket
The combinations of items is vast. I have over 100 Karma jugs and a dozen karma boosters…I’d trade them all in for a single ticket. I know people are buying bank space simply to store all of these boosters that are never used, but the space previously occupied by those boosters would be replaced with account bound armor and weapon items that do not stack, hence needing more bank space than with stacking boosters.

There are ways of working the acquisition mechanics to increase gem sales and actually boosting profits higher than what they may be with these current practices that many seem to view as “scams”. Steering clear of RNG and potentially chasing away players from future gem sales, or even from the game itself, ensuring players have an honest ability to acquire the goods they desire, and boosting profit higher (if done properly) in the process while ensuring continued patronage sounds good to me.

Ursan.7846:

Again, you have no idea how many people think like you.

I never stated, nor implied that I did.

Ursan.7846:

Go ahead and complain about the RNG all you want, but to argue that it would make more business sense to do something else based purely on personal preference is to be narrow-minded and ignorant.

Go ahead and throw insults and call me names, you’ll only get infracted.
Also, do you have a business degree? Do you own your own business? Do your customers for said business continue to come back because they are treated how they want and deserve to be treated, while also keeping said business profitable? There is plenty of profit to be had without giving in to greed. A flawed business model that is only profitable in the short term is still a flawed business model.

Rajani Isa.6294:

Tanef.7284:

Amazing how you actually think its as simple as “Unlucky”… im pretty sure its a bug of some sort. there is no way you open 500 chests and get nothing. and if there is, someone should sue Anet for stealing all of our money for false promises.

If they are actually getting “nothing” they need to file a support claim.

If they simply are not getting the item(s) they want, well, RNG. Unless you can show me somewhere where Anet promises those specific items within X chests?

I wouldn’t be honest if I called it getting nothing, but one of the chests I opened with a purchased key contained only a bag of coins that gave me 3 silver…was like lemon juice on a paper cut. :\

Ursan.7846:

StinVec.3621:

That is not how you do business successfully.

I’d like to point out that the desires of one customer doesn’t reflect your entire customer base.

True. But how about 100 customers? 1000? Several thousand?
At what point do “the desires” of customers mean something when looking at your current business model?

If your comment is meant to imply that what I would have done is not what many others would have done, then consider this: My 40k gem purchase is equivalent to 40 other players buying 1k gems. From what I’ve seen, and the impression I get from others that are vocal on the forums, my 40k purchase would have been weak in comparison to what they would have spent had Anet gone the straight to Gem Store route, instead of the way they chose to implement the new skins.

So my 40k gem purchase from one person is equivalent to 40 people buying 1k gems…there are many more people who would have bought multiple times what I stated I would have…even into the 100’s of thousands. Dropping $200 on gems, 400 euros on gems… my measly 40k is nothing compared to the sales they just stopped themselves from making.

Yeah, it makes me sad, and very disappointed.

After going through all of those chests before I came on here and saw this thread, and after that major disappointment, all I can bring myself to do is sad face…

:(

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me… Thanks Anet, for teaching me the brutal honesty of that lesson, and I get the message loud and clear: Don’t spend money on gem store ever again.

Oh well.

Yep, it was 429.19mb for me.

I hadn’t seen a small wooden chest drop for me for several weeks, or more closely to nearly 2 months. That is, until 2 days ago when I killed something, looted it and went to walk away when I zoomed my camera out one step and was surprised to see one floating in the air well above my character’s head above where I killed the beast. I was unable to loot it at first, due to its height, but luckily I killed it near to a rock facing and was able to get some height and barely reach it to loot it. Had a masterwork glove in it if I recall correctly.

Otherwise, yes, in my experiences and compared to how frequently they used to drop, I think they have been intentionally and severely limited in drop rate to the point of being almost entirely removed from dropping at all. :\

Ah. I’m on Eredon Terrace and it worked fine when I was there recently, perhaps it is bugged on your server. I hope they eventually get around to fixing it. Last time it was busted on my server it took 4 months to get it working again…4 months of many people not being able to get zone completion on multiple characters. They should just remove it and move the vista or let people go up some stairs to the top.

https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/ask/

Then you’d probably select “Technical Issues” in the dropdown and then explain the situation. Then…wait for a response.

To interact with the cow-a-pult, you must go to the front of it and interact…not the back, which is counter-intuitive as it loads from the back where one would expect to ‘get in’ at. But nope, head to the front after he’s done launching cows and interact and you get launched.

Glad something I mentioned helped you out.
I figured it was more likely the G35 Surround Sound button, as I have seen that be the issue with other audio programs such as Xear3D and Audigy software.

I’ve seen only 7.1 available before, but I have not looked deeper into the reason for this, though it is probably also related to the reason for the G35 Surround Sound button bugging out.

Have you changed or checked the setting on your system to see if it is configured to 5.1 surround sound, stereo speakers, headphones, etc? It can make difference and cause this problem with some games if you have it set incorrectly.
Screenshots below should help if you need them.

Win7:
Control Panel
Sound
Hit Configure button in the dialogue box.
Select the appropriate Stereo or Headphones option.
Also check your balance in the configure screens, or in the Properties button of your listed headset and check the Balance button there to ensure both left and right are equal.

Win XP:
Control Panel
Sounds and Audio Devices
Volume Tab
Lower “Speaker Settings” area
Advanced button
Then under the “Speaker Setup” dropdown, select “Stereo Headphones”.

If you are running special software that came with your G35, check to see if you have enabled the “Surround Sound” button. It may be conflicting with the settings you’ve chosen in the properties dialogue (XP) or configuration (7).

I hope this has helped. Please see the images below for more details if you need them.

It’s not bugged, it’s under ground.
Go south and west from there to the Bad Omen Beach poi and go into the cave under water there. It leads you to the poi and then to the large lake northeast of there.

edit
Just saw that tigersrule.5309 posted that 3 months ago, Tobin.

Apparently they noticed I was watching them closely, as they started messaging me in broken English tonight, in-game, stating they’re reporting me in-game on all of their accounts, their words. Then started saying something in another language I do not understand. I do nothing, so I know I should be in the clear from their mass report attack on me. But can something be done about them please?

Seems to be something local to your system.
Did you update, install or remove any other software between when you did not have the problem and when the problem started?
Have you recently switched to an older version of a web browser or uninstalled/installed a web browser or an add-on to a web browser?
What OS are you running?
Do you have the latest updates if you’re running Windows?
Or did you do an update to Windows around the time this issue started?

Gaile Gray.6028:

Go to the Contact Screen [Y], click the drop-down next to your name, and choose “Invisible.” That would seem to address your desires for playing privately.

Hi Gaile. This method first requires you to log in completely visible to others to change, and it does not save once you have logged out. Each time you log in, you are visible to everyone else until you load into the game and change that setting to invisible, every single log in.

I believe the request is for a setting on the login screen for a checkbox to log in incognito, as once you load into your character select screen you are immediately visible as online in contact lists and in guild member info, just without a current zone, which is an obvious sign that you are currently at the character select screen.

Hi Gaile and other forum mods.

First, would you please make this thread sticky.

Second, botters tend to blink in at waypoints frequently, so it’s easy to catch their names when they show up there for the split second and manually type their name into your contacts list. I have several dozen that I’ve caught that way and reported them. It’s nice seeing half of my contacts list (which I only use for marking botters) as never being online anymore. Great job
Though bots have now started to spawn dead at waypoints, like they drop into the waypoint, die, then teleport somewhere else.

Also, I have several dozen botters on my list that fall into the TP botting category, but they teleport like bots, just not from ore node to ore node (though they still do this). These bots are spawning en masse, stacked on eachother on Repair NPCs (as I’ve mentioned they like to do before). These bots also then teleport to a Repair NPC in a different location in the zone, and sometimes a whole different zone altogether. (bypassing waypoints, as they spawn on the Repair NPC).

Case in point.
Server: Eredon Terrace
Zone: Queensdale
Spawning on the Repair NPC located at the Trading Post in the Village of Shaemoor are dozens of bots, most from the same guild and follow the same name formatting. Tracking these bots and standing there watching them with them in my contacts list, they proceed to disappear. They then instantly show up in Caudecus’ Manor on the Repair NPC there. A few minutes later they once again spawn on the Repair NPC at the Trading Post in the Village of Shaemoor…completely bypassing all waypoints, so it’s obvious that they are bots.

I have video and screenshots of them spawning on the Repair NPC, disappearing from Village of Shaemoor and appearing in Caudecus’ Manor in my contact list, then spawning again on the Repair NPC in the Village of Shaemoor. As well as in reverse, of them being at Caudecus’ Manor and going to the Village of Shaemoor and back. I also have all the names I’ve managed to catch.

Also, it would be nice if names stacked up on eachother like in GW1 when you hovered over a group of people, this way it would be easier to select individual people that are stacked on eachother.

Knowing this behavior should help you with catching them.

What would you like me to do from here with what I have?

Khisanth.2948:

Nay of the Ether.8913:

StinVec.3621:

Ah, thanks for informing of that change. It has been some time since I have had the occasion of having a broken item I was transmuting. Glad to know of this change.

Zeivu.3615:

Not anymore. You transmute a broken item, the broken part carries over now.

That’s not true unless they changed it since last week. I just transmuted a whole set of broken armor and the new armor wasn’t even damaged at all.

I would expect that to depend on which item is damaged. When you were transmuting was the damaged item the one that was providing the stats?

Very good observation. Damaged status would be tied to the stats of the item I guess, and would carry over if you chose the stats of the damaged item in transmutation, whereas the stats of the undamaged item would imbue the end product with undamaged components.

This has happened to me once before.
I made a new character and was running through the intro leading up to the intro boss. While unlocking my skills a message popped up stating that there was a new build available and that my client would restart in forty-five minutes, 5 minutes later, 40 minutes until restart. Cool.

Less than 5 minutes later I defeat the intro boss and went into the story screens. I hit skip to the end, as I’ve watched it before. Immediately my client closes and I am at the login screen downloading the update that I was going to wait until I finished the intro to log out to download.

Ok, not that big a deal still.

The problem is, as has happened to me before in this scenario, is that I must do the whole intro all over again. I can go through it again quickly, but that is totally unnecessary and, frankly, it’s rude and a bad impression to make on those just playing for the first time that happen to be starting when a new build is released.. I still had over 35 minutes before my client was due to auto restart to get the build.

Just thought you would want to know that players that are going through the intro when a new build is released are forced to do the whole intro all over again.

Also, my writing “45” where I wrote “forty-five” was marked as a curse word and replaced with “kitten”…very odd.

I don’t think that event has ever worked properly. I know for a long time you could only plant a few of the emblems and it would get stuck.

Eleima.5027:

Just chiming in to say that I too banged my head against the keyboard when I used my first transmutation stone. I had no idea you had to click on the different parts for it to work, it just isn’t all that self-explanatory!!
Also, the items don’t have to be in your bag, you can be wearing one when you transmute, I’ve done it before. And regarding StinVec’s explanation, you can’t use basic transmutation stones for level 80 gear, you have to use fine transmutation stones which you get mostly in the gem store (a guildmate told me she found some in a chest, but I’ve never had any drop for me).
Happy transmuting!

I know originally you could transmute an item while you were wearing it, but then it changed and it had to be in your bag. I guess that has changed once again. lol

They had mentioned they were using a fine transmutation stone. I’m not sure if that was intentionally used due to the requirement, or just the only stone they had available to them to use. I was going to mention something about that too, but I’m glad you did now Though if you’re in a pinch, you can use a Fine stone on sub-80 items, you don’t have to have a level 80 item to use it. That got me for a while too until I read its description better.
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I’ve gotten Fine Transmutation Stones in Black Lion Chests (very, very rarely) and I’ve also gotten some in Daily Completion Reward chests, as well as from doing my main story quests…though I haven’t gotten any in a very long time.

I’m assuming your monitor is connected via DVI to your card.

I recommend:
In Catalyst Control Center
Select “My Digital Flat-Panels” tab on the left
Select “Properties (Digital Flat-Panel)”
Now check the box next to “Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution displays”
Now try it out to see if you still have the issue.

Hope this helps you.

Anet recommends:
Anet says to try setting your CCC graphics settings for Anti-aliasing from custom to “Use Application settings”. I’d try out my suggested approach first though as if it fixes the problem then you don’t have to sacrifice some AA to fix it.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Black-Screen-Issue-AMD-ATI

I have not had any kind of update for weeks. I’m sorry I cannot shed some light on why you had to download that. Since your backup also had to download this ghost update then I guess it cannot be attributed to suddenly corrupted files needing redownloaded. My current install is 15.3gb.

Also, good idea on having a backup, updated install to save you from having to download all the updates following a fresh install. I have that for GW2 and other games as well on a backup drive. I highly recommend all others to do the same if they can spare the drive space for it. It will save so much time in the future if there is a need to reinstall the game for whatever reason.

Kuunkulta.7152
This may sound odd, but try running your game in Windowed (Fullscreen) instead of in Fullscreen mode. Take note of the increase in FPS and no change in anything else. For me, changing to Windowed (Fullscreen) boosted my FPS to solid 60 from 35-40. You can also tab out of the game easier in windowed fullscreen to do other things or check the net for something.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Town-Clothes-Headgear-not-Visibile-Merged

This is the merged thread, so expect your topic to be merged into it. It is a still on-going issue that may eventually be taken care of. A rep in this linked merged thread has stated that it is being worked on, but did not get completed in time for the recent patch, though it may be in the March 26th patch. I can only recommend waiting until that patch is released to see if the fix is included in it.

GenoUnknown.7504:

Ah, I never actually clicked on the items. Never really occured to me to try it, nor was their any indication telling me to do that (That I saw anyways). So this was indeed my own ignorance. Thank you for the help. It worked.

No problem. I remember trying to figure it out when I first tried to use one. There is no guidance or explanation on it, so I completely understand.

Keep in mind, that the final product retains the level requirement of the stats you select. So in this above case, were you to select the stats of the level 80 item, the end product would be a level 80, if you selected the stats of the level 70 item then the end product would be level 70. This is especially important if you want the appearance of a level 80 item on, say, your level 20 character. You would select the appearance of the 80 item and the stats of the 20 item you plan to use, this way your character can actually use it as the end product would be level 20.

Also take note, if you try to include the rune (or a sigil) of the higher level item in the transmute window, then the end product must meet the level requirements for the rune. So if you have a level 20 armor item, and you’re trying to grab the appearance of a level 80 armor item that also has a superior rune on it, then you cannot include the rune in the end product as Superior runes require a level 60 armor item.

I hope you don’t run into any more issues now that you know the mechanics of transmuting. But if you do, don’t hesitate to ask for a hand again

Ah, thanks for informing of that change. It has been some time since I have had the occasion of having a broken item I was transmuting. Glad to know of this change.

Zeivu.3615:

Not anymore. You transmute a broken item, the broken part carries over now.

So what you are doing is:
You have both items in your bags.
You drag the barbaric to the left and gladiator to the right. (though side does not matter)
You click the image of the barbaric and it slides over to the center and the gladiator image disappears.
You click the stats of the gladiator and it slides over to the center and the barbaric stats disappear.
You click the rune of the gladiator and it slides over to the center.
Item Transmutation button then lights up.
You then click on the Item Transmutation button.
Nothing happens?

Does the window disappear?
Do you hear a noise when you click?

Edit*
Also, there is no need to waste coin on repairing the item if you’re going to transmute it. Transmuting it causes the end product to not be damaged. Can just save yourself some coin if you’re going to transmute the broken item.

I happened upon that mess for the first time many months ago. They were all stacked exactly on eachother and I thought it was just one or two, suddenly 30+ lvl 15’s turned around and destroyed me. At that time, I wasn’t as lucky as some where they focused on the door…they weren’t as intent on pushing through the door as they were at wanting me dead when I interrupted them. I learned to avoid that area permanently.

Nearly the same issue, but with friendly NPCs, occurs in the southwest corner of Caledon forest where a mess of fern hounds get lost and stuck near that heart quest in that back alley with the big wurms. They don’t do anything, but sometimes there are dozens of them just standing there.

Also, several NPC “SKTR-0100 [Runner]” golems stack on eachother in the Accountancy waypoint in Rata Sum. Also not a big problem, but they don’t stand there quietly…they constantly play their beep-boop music over eachother, and just out of sync so it’s a mess of noise. As well as them finishing with saying “good morning”, etc. over, and over and over. I have to keep reminding myself to mute my headphones when I am there as it is very irritating. :\

Jazhara
“if you prefer the blurrrryness of fxaa over smaa thats up to you, some do, thats why txaa has its fans.”

Was that spoken toward me? I have multiple settings that I flip through depending on what I’m in the mood for. In the bottom image of those I attached, it is clear that there is no blurriness you say FXAA creates, which it does, but that tool, as I stated, removes the blurriness that is created by FXAA, so you get the FXAA benefits, as well as pre-sharpening and post-sharpening with blur removal that is totally customizable. I know SweetFX has good features for sharpening and the like, but this isn’t a competition. Simply because FXAA is in the title of the app, it doesn’t mean you only get a blurry image, as I stated and have shown in the images in comparison.
Pre-Sharpen – Removes FXAA created blur on edges
Post Sharpen – Another way to Remove FXAA-created blur on edges
Also HQ Sharpening shaders.

I understand that you prefer SMAA and SweetFX, but “dissing” the app I showed helps no one. Pointing out valid shortcomings and bugs in an app does, however. They asked for ways to improve the game graphics, we both offered a method to do so, and I don’t think anyone should start up with ‘mine is better than yours’ posts. I have tried out and messed with SweetFX for other games, but I prefer this one and thought I would share it, as you have also thoughtfully done.

I’m still trying to understand the logic in relation to Anet’s Gem Store item releases.

As I see it:
They want our money, we want to give it to them.
They throw unrequested and bugged town clothes at us, we keep our money.
1,000’s of players begging for some armor skins, and we get backpacks.

I understand many people have bought town clothes, but those who bought head items can’t even see the item that they bought due to a bug that is as yet unfixed and has gone unfixed for months…notice there was no head item released with these new town clothes, that’s because the head items are still bugged. :\

Though don’t get me wrong, I like my Tiger Charr backpack, but I didn’t even buy gems for mine since the Tiger Charr backpacks are on the TP for 6 gold since they are a rare drop from Black Lion Chests…while the really, really plain brown Charr backpacks are Gem Store only and cost much more than that. That should have been reversed. You want our money, put the good stuff on the Gem Store so we will buy gems with cash to get the stuff we actually want.

It actually seems to me that Anet doesn’t want our money and instead intentionally goes out of their way to not offer what 1,000’s are requesting and would pay for, and instead spends time creating and adding in things that nobody has asked for and very few seem to be buying. Their behavior just does not make sense to me from a business standpoint. Having no monthly charge to play, I would think they’d be putting priority on offering goods that are highly requested as to keep generating income, while also putting priority on fixing the main bugs that are affecting people on a daily basis. I really feel Anet needs to sit down with itself and have a heart-to-heart, think about what it’s done, where it is going, where it should be going and what it needs to do to get there…for all our sake, as I want GW2 to be around longer and be greater than GW1 in all aspects. Also…I miss actual “Guild Wars” in Guild Wars. I don’t know who decided to scrap the foundation for the title of the game, but I don’t think it was that great of an idea, though that might just be me and my opinion. Anyway, thank you for the fun times playing so far Anet, I look forward to another couple thousand hours.