Guild Wars 2

On the PC that it has stopped working on:

1. Scenario and possible fix:
   1.If I read your response correctly, you have integrated graphics as well as a custom GPU in your PC and your PC has an image when connected to the integrated graphics, but loses signal when connecting to the custom graphics card. If this is the case:
   1a. Connect the monitor to your integrated graphics port. You should have picture. Go to your desktop properties (XP) or (Win7)right-click and hit Screen Resolution.
   Then under the listed displays: If XP, select the “mymonitor on customGPU” that is listed, instead of the “mymonitor on integratedGPU”. In Win7 either do the same for listed displays or simply click on the other graphic for Display #2 shown.
   Your screen will lose signal since it is switching over to using the custom GPU signal instead of the integrated GPU signal. Now switch the monitor cable from the integrated graphics card to the custom graphics card. You should have picture. Try running GW2 now.

If I had misread your statement on the situation above, then:
Does it only not work when running GW2 (as opposed to all the time)?

If it only loses signal when running GW2 (or another 3d application) then:

As iSmack asked, is it connected via DVI, VGA or HDMI cable to the PC?

What graphics card is in the system?

Are you running Windows Xp or Win7 or another OS?

1. Scenario and potential fix:
   If you are running an AMD/ATI graphics card and are connected via DVI, then:
   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. If so, then also check the box for “Alternate DVI operational mode” on that same screen.

If not an AMD/ATI graphics card, or if not connected via DVI, then more information will be needed as requested above.

I hope something in this has helped you.

I prefer FXAA PPI that will also have DirectX10/11 support added together with the integration of SweetFX features soon as well.

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/fxaa-pp-inject/wiki

Under the “Files” area, grab the “FxaaToolSVN117.zip”. It’s only 978kb

The program is GUI based with sliders so you don’t need to worry about editing settings via text in various files, though you can also add your own custom shaders into this as well.

I keep FXAA in-game enabled as well and full CCC quality boosting. I’ve also found better frame rates running in Windowed Fullscreen mode instead of Fullscreen mode.

With only a few tweaks to your graphics with some of the features below, you can increase graphics quality with very little fps loss. You can also toggle it on/off on the fly for comparison with one key (pause/break key) and also do split-screen.

Shaders included so far:
FXAA – Anti Aliasing
Pre-Sharpen – Removes FXAA created blur on edges
HDR – An HDR-effect-like shader
Bloom – Makes light texture colors bleed into the scenery
Tonemap – Adjusts gamma, exposure, saturation, bleach and defog
Technicolor – A three-strip color process, like found on old movies
Sepia – Adds Sepia tones to the scenery
Anaglyph – For usage with Anaglyph 3D glasses
Vignette – Adds a frame around the scenery
Post Sharpen – Another way to Remove FXAA-created blur on edges
Final Limiter – Adds option to limit the color output
Split-screen – Adds split-screen views, original vs shader
Noise – Adds noise as dots and lines
Radial – Adds from center drawn radial blurred lines
ScanLines – Adds horizontal lines
CustomShader – Add your own shader into CustomShader.h, 2 toggles and 6 sliders available for it in the GUI

Sorry on pics, I like a lot of bloom so I run multiples of it at max in the effect chain.

Also, here are some in-game split-screen comparison shots: http://imgur.com/a/qFbqk#0

FxyO.8243

It’s not really your hardware. Please look at what I am using and what I’m seeing with what I’m using. The TL;DR is wipe your drivers and CCC, go back to the 12.10 version, and run in Windowed Fullscreen, not fullscreen. You’ll notice 45-60fps on max(minus reflections) settings. Just saw that you fixed your issue, but try this anyway to see if it is better for you.

I’m running:
AMD Athlon II x4 630 2.8 Ghz OC’ed to 2.9 (I have cooling and airflow issues)

4gig DDR3 ram

ATI Radeon HD 5750 1gig GDDR5
Drivers and Catalyst Version 12.10 (13.1 and 13.2b7 both turned my image to crap and frame rate to 14, I highly recommend going with the 12.10 drivers and CCC)

Win 7 x64

Basically, with what you have you should be able to run with 45-60 on highest, minus reflections, though I prefer the appearance of the water without the reflections.

I’d highly recommend trying this out:
Uninstall your CCC and drivers (I used amd_cleanup_util_1.2.1.0 to clean everything out for a fresh install of drivers and CCC)

Install the 12.10 version of Drivers and CCC.

Run in Windowed Fullscreen for better FPS than fullscreen.
Though take notice that you’ll be using your desktop gamma, but you can adjust that in your CCC to change your gamma when you run GW2.exe if you prefer a different brightness than what your desktop is at.

I hope this helps you out.

Myself and a slew of others have been requesting armor and weapon skins to be added to the gem store to buy for at least 4-5 months, though I’ve also seen some people politely requesting since week 1 of launch.
Don’t hold your breath :\
6 months later and there is still a huge opened seam across the abdomen of several of my female characters. Some of them the seam was “fixed” in the front simply by them moving the seam to the lower back of the models. New armor skins won’t matter much to the appearance of my characters when their torsos are floating above their waists. :\

This isn’t the best shot I have of the seam, but it shows my point. It’s much, much worse on my Sylvari females.

Again, it would be extremely awesome to have some gem store skins made available for armor and weapons. I have 8 characters myself, and can easily grab a few more slots for new characters that I’d be keen to outfit with new styles. I have seen some people with 30+ characters (yes, over thirty) so I know you and I are not alone in wanting some more choices in their appearances. But, don’t hold your breath. :\

I almost threw up while watching that third video montage. I do not have an Asura Engineer, but I seriously sympathize with each and every one of you and I hope this is fixed asap.

I know that originally we could transmute an item while we were wearing it by dragging it from our character loadout screen onto the transmute window, and everything was working fine.

Then they decided to change it. Since then we have had to unequip the item to our bags, and then drag it from our bags into the transmute window.

I’m sure it was just a temporarily glitched item, but don’t be surprised if at some point the glitched appearance comes back randomly or if/when you transmute that helm again.

Happy gaming.

Never thought to look it up to see if there was a bug causing this situation as I have never been on the sending end of this issue, only the “Player Z” receiving end of it.

I haven’t had it happen to me for months, though I rarely stay by the bank long enough for it to happen anymore. But I would receive random items in my mail while at the bank. I always whispered the person who mailed the items to me and asked them if they intended to send these items to me or if it a mistake. None of them have ever responded to my whispers, so I just kept the stuff. It was pretty worthless items anyway. Had they said something like, “oops”, or “yeah it was a mistake send it back”, I would have. But no response showed me they didn’t care enough about the few items to be bothered to respond.

Ah, thank you Catisa. I know of != and <> as being alternatives to the mathematical ? symbol. I thought =/= might’ve been a typo but I now see it as a broken equals sign, like cutting a cord. Sorry for that.

And thank you for the heads up Rift. I read the mails and it mentions refugees having lost possessions along the road and to look for them in those areas. But, mementos are possessions, so I didn’t understand that there are special possessions other than the mementos out there to find. Was confused. Thanks for clearing this up, both of you

I had made it a habit in other mmos to send amounts of coin (usually 50s or 1g in GW2) to random new players that I encounter that are nice. After seeing all of the people mentioning on these boards about being suspended just for sending money to people, I’ve since stopped being a generous soul…which is one aspect of the game that I enjoy, helping out other players if I am able to. I actually fear that either I or the person I send the gold to could be suspended…and I will not take that chance, more so for their sake as they did not ask for the coin.
The excessive amount of suspensions I’ve read of and heard of actually seems to encourage a more selfish attitude to me, instead of selfless.
You may say that my sending many large or small amounts of coin to random people will not get me suspended, but I won’t believe it. I’ve seen too many who have, or claim to have been for me to take you at your word on this. And that makes me sad. It’s a real shame, as making those random gifts is what I enjoy and “how I choose to play”…or used to play, as it seems that it isn’t permissible behavior in GW2. :\

Thank you. I believe I understand it now, though I think you meant to say mementos are not possessions, not that mementos = possessions.

Also, I guess it was just seen as poor wording on Anet’s part, in my view, as mementos are possessions.

I guess I’ve just not encountered the actual “possessions” for that achievement. Maybe I will eventually by chance, as I’ve not seen anything mentioned about where they might be located.

Guess this can be closed/deleted now.

I’ve been turning in dozens of mementos to several of the “Refuge [Memento Collector]” yet my Living Story achievement listing still shows I’ve not turned any in.
It’s still sitting at “0/1 Refugee Possessions Returned”.

Am I missing something, am I bugged or is IT bugged?

I actually had fps issues when I updated to the latest 13.1 catalyst drivers and control center released on 1/17/2013. I uninstalled and switched back to the 12.10 I was using previously and poof, no fps issues at all once again. Using “the latest drivers” is usually the cause of the majority of issues I run into, not the solution. I’ll stick with the ones I know work well.

I use a Radeon HD 5750 1gig.

Seems to be working again now. Over 36mb done now. Guess it’s just a patience and waiting game as I expect I could lose connection again, then pick it up again. Guess I’ll just walk away and come back in an hour.

Same. First I couldn’t get news feed in the client, then download lost connection. Tried restarting client and it just sits here at this.

Death Reincarnated.3570:

Players undercut so that they are next in line to get the sell order done. If they undercut by small margin then they want to maximise their profit, however, if they undercut by a large margin then they still want to make profit but improves the probability that someone will buy it sooner than later.

Agreed, but that does not work in the GW2 economy due to the Mystic Forge.
One person can make a buy order of 1000 for the lowest price you’re able to on the TP for an item they will use in bulk in the Mystic Forge. The problem comes, not from someone listing their item far below the “going rate” so they still get a profit over vendor price and it sells very quickly, but from the person who made the bulk buy order.
Example:
Vendor value 10c
Buy order by one person for 1000 at 11c
Going rate 1s
The person that made the bulk buy order will list 20 at 12c (1c above their bulk buy order)
By the time those 20 are sold they would have had 200-500 of their buy order filled by people who figured they’d get the cash-in-hand instead of listing it at 12c, because what’s 1c anyway.
So to the person with the bulk order they plan to sacrifice 20 of the item at 12c in order to fill half of their buy order at nearly 1/10th the actual “Going Rate” of the item.
And since people perceive the 12c to be the new going rate they will simply add to the stack, thereby erasing 88c from it’s value permanently. Before too long, the stack of sell orders at 12c is large due to all sell orders being forced to be added into it….not to also mention that all of the sellers listing this item at 12c are actually taking a loss since they sell for less than the vendor price due to the sales tax and listing fee.

Had this person not manipulated the market in this fashion in order to get what they wanted in bulk at the cheapest possible price, the item would have sat at the 1s “Going Rate” since that was the balance point between supply and demand for the item. It was artificially lowered to its base price by a person working a flaw in the system.

Then again, my personal feeling on the GW2 market is that all items listed should simply be added to a stack and when someone buys one from the stack a random item from the listing is selected. So sell your item to a vendor, or add it to the stack and eventually it will get selected randomly to be the one purchased. The price of the stack could be 150% the value of the item or more depending on the rarity. This way the drop rates for items could be adjusted by Anet based on the supply of the item on the market in “The Stack” to balance out with the demand for the item. The market could even be made to automatically influence the drop rates of the items based on the demand so as to keep a manageable amount in the stack.

That’s my view, anyway. I like order, logic and consistency.

Nike.2631:

eisberg.2379:

I undercut by 1 copper every time, and by the time I am done putting things on the TP, vast majority of them sold, with a few that sell with in a few hours to the next day. I will continue to do this because it is free crap that I don’t want anyways, and I make a profit every time.

If you’re more concerned with coin earned by the next time you log in, you might try this protocol~

• Right click the item and hit “buy more from Trading Post”
• Click on the item.
• Examine the number of items being offered above the lowest for sale – in particular you are looking for a ‘clot’ of offers. They might be arranged as 2, then 5, then 4, then 817 as the prices go up. The clump is generally very easy to spot.
• Now right click the item and hit sell on trading post.
• If the item is something you are comfortable changes hands thousands or even tens of thousands of times a day, attach your to the clump or 1c below the clump – not whatever crazy sell it this second price is up. Its not unusual to see a price that is actually 1 left over item that someone offered to standing buy-order – and then there is a 10-15% gap between that one item and the rest of the standing sell offers. If you don’t read it out, you just pitched money down a hole.

Basically you’ll gain more profits buy gauging how many of them you think will sell by tomorrow- and then inserting yours into the stack as close to the END of that volume as you can, rather than the beginning.

On higher end stuff I’m regularly able to squeeze out 10-12% more profit by reading the for sale offers rather than trying to jump to the front of the queue. On lower end stuff you can get more like 20-30% better returns by ignoring the lowest sale-offer and realizing that the price for the item fluctuates a couple of coins either way hourly. Its still all sold when I come back tomorrow.

This is the procedure I follow with every single one of the many hundreds of items I list each day. It would be so much easier and profitable for all if Anet made the buy and sell screens merged, or at least showed both the top 5 buy orders and top 5 sell orders on the same screen while you’re selling an item. It would also get rid of jumpers.

example: Highly traded material.
Clotted sell price of 1000 of the item is 1s
Bulk buy order of 1000 is 50c
Someone lists 10-20 at 51c (same one with the bulk buy order usually)
Since the average person going to sell their item is unable to actually SEE the “going rate” instead of the hyper-undercut price, they will simply stack it in with the 10-20 at 51c, thereby losing half of the value per item listed and increasing the likelihood that people will simply sell to the buy order.

Now, if the top 5 or so sell orders were visible at the time of listing your item then the seller could make a more logical and informed choice as to what price to list their item(s) for.

It would save a ton of player time by not having to follow the same time-consuming protocol for every single item you list, would encourage more conscious sellers, and it would absolutely cut back on the damage being done to the market by greedy people taking serious advantage of this lack of information.

OP What key do you have bound to start chatting? Is it ‘Enter’?
I bound my start chatting key to ‘T’ and sometimes when I type in the search box of the TP and I hit the ‘T’ it forgets that I am typing in the TP search and I’m suddenly typing into chat. Closing that chat windows and then clicking back on the TP search it refuses to re-activate it as the active field. I need to completely close the TP and start over.
Also, I have my ‘Reply to a PM’ button as my ‘Backspace’ key, while typing in the TP search box if I typo and hit backspace then it opens the chat reply to someone I messaged.

For me, the TP seems to have an issue with recognizing key presses for typing and mistakenly translates them to their bound functions instead of as letters.
So many times I will be typing in the TP search and suddenly I’m running nonstop into a wall or into an enemy or off a cliff since ‘R’ was default to constant run I guess and when I would start searching for ‘Draco’ it would input D and then I’d start running and no ‘raco’ would be written. I had to unbind the R key, now with R unbound and I search for ‘Draco’ it actually works without a problem.

Apologies if I may not word this response properly, though I hope my concern and request for the requirement to be removed is gleaned from its content.

Unfortunately for me there are currently 4 personal reasons for why I choose to not have my computer set to the actual current date/time/zone.
Players/paid customers should not be forced to alter their decisions for how they configure their computers not related to GW2 just for an aspect of the game to function properly again. I suppose in my mind I could liken it to being forced to not have an audio CD or MP3 player playing in the background while playing GW2, or to not have a specific manufacturer’s product installed on my PC in order for this game feature to work.
Due to this requirement that every player’s computer have its time/date/zone set how you want/need it to be, I guess I will be forced to no longer take part in the Daily Challenge and its rewards in GW2, at least until this requirement is changed .
Removing my personal choice to how I would like my clock on my PC configured so I can once again take part in a very enjoyable aspect of a game I’ve already paid for is unethical to me.
Oh well.
There’s plenty of other fun and challenging stuff to do in this fantastic game.
Enjoy your daily challenge everyone.

Issue: Copper mining node in a tall tree
Where: In Caledon Forest > Wychmire Swamp > Twilight Arbor Waypoint

Right at the Twilight Arbor Waypoint there is a copper node up in a tree. I don’t know if this was intentionally put there or was a glitch or something but I managed to jump up the tree limbs to get it. Afterward I had the thought of what if it was “Bot Bait” and I had managed to get up to it to mine it. If this is bot bait and I am tagged for botting or something then I can show you how I got up to it over and over to show I got it and was not botting.

I just wanted to mention this on here in case something happens :\ If it was Bot Bait then it might be a good idea to place it somewhere with absolutely no chance of a curious, tenacious, non-botting player to manage to get at it.

EDIT:
Over 2 years and 9 months later, this node is still stuck up in that tree as shown by others reporting it.

Thank you Gummi I hadn’t realized that adding an @ would alter the emote to be specific to who your target is. I guess I was expecting that to be automatic if you had a target and not required to be manually added as I did not see the ‘@’ function mentioned when inquiring into chat commands in-game. I’ll look again.

Taven.5402:

GummiBear.2756:

i still fail to see a charr hug an asura even while kneeling without crushing their arm alone is as long as an asura is high almost, and kneeling to do a highfive… kinda kills the point… xD

There is a think called being gentle you know? xD And what’s so hard to see about it? A charr kneeling, or sitting, to hug an asura, same so with a highfive maybe. It’d probably be funny for a taller race to tease an asura for a highfive…then they suddenly jump up with rocket boots or something. Use your imagination.

Great ideas! If it were my company/game/job then you’d be hired to help with these features as you seem to have ideas of what players would actually enjoy doing/seeing

You can always write /emote hugs you.
Will show as an emote: MyCharacter hugs you.
So everyone thinks you just gave them a hug. Or /emote hugs manuallytypedoutname.
To specify who you’re hugging.
I agree that emotes should state the name if you have someone targeted.
Like without a target /wave = MyCharacter waves. With a target /wave = MyCharacter waves at MyCurrentTarget.

Be careful of people who advertise their guilds in emotes. You can’t select them to block them. You have to manually add them as a friend and then block them or to report them if they’re saying disallowed things in their emotes.
/emote My guild is recruiting, tons of members, we do stuff, blah blah blah for 4-5 lines.

I understand that it may be very difficult to implement, but moving merchants and resource nodes will really throw a wrench into the bots programming. Were NPCs and nodes to have alternate spawning locations or an algorithm to where the NPC were to walk to an alternate location every 30 minutes, then it would really disrupt their activities. If nodes were to all shift a little from where they are once or twice a day then the bots won’t be able to gather. I can see how it would be difficult and time consuming but it instead of combating the never ending bot problem simply remove their ability to function by adding the element of randomness to the environment so they cannot be easily programmed to function without limitations.

darkbluefirefly.9650:

OK Bots are getting bugged on most servers.
It’s in Queensdale.
My server is Maguuma, and most other server should have these stuck bots.
Waypoint is “Claypool waypoint”
Location is next to the repair girl named Anne
How do I know? The people stacked there. Humans don’t stack at the repair in 6+ and afk. They all all stuck there, must be a bug or something. And another thing, there are people “poping in” like teleporting tot he exact spot that the bots are bugged in. They didn’t run there, they teleported. Wish I had fraps to record.

The stack of players standing at a merchant or anyone they are able to sell items at (merchant, repair, etc.) are Trading Post bots. So bots can continue to loot stuff out in the world without getting full bags they mail their items to these stationary bots. The stationary TP botters receive items in their mail from the field bots and they post them directly to the Trading Post. You’ll know this is the case if you see this Stationary TP Bot standing at a merchant constantly mailing items off to the TP and every 20-30seconds they talk to the merchant so they are not booted for inactivity. They also sell their junk and stuff to the merchant that is sent to them from Fields bots. This person also NEVER moves, NEVER logs out and NEVER responds to PM’s. I just tag them for botting once a day after a watching them for a few days with them never moving, etc. In fact there is one on Eredon Terrace right now standing at the Merchant near the bank in Divinity’s Reach (won’t name names on here)…low level like level 3 or 6, mailing away items for several days now without moving or logging. Take a peak and see exactly what I described.

Now I attribute this scenario to the TP bots, but it might just be a**holes screwing around with the TP so they can get stuff for dirt cheap. (another reason I really hate how the TP and item valuation is configured). Have you ever noticed how, say you list a single item for 10s and the current highest buy order is 5s and it is an order for like 500 by 1 person. That’s usually the TP bot. Now after your item is listed at 10s suddenly there is a stack of 100 of this item listed by a single person for like 9s…so you re-list yours at 8s99c, they re-list at 8s, and this will continue for about 10 minutes until the value is destroyed and you’re forced to list it for 1c higher than this buy order stack of 500 by a single buyer. Then the next day their buy order is 1s and the cycle repeats until the item that is being sold is down to vendor value…

Issues have all been resolved after their 2nd maintenance earlier today. Happy gaming.

@Sparrow
That’s a real nice capture!

Same here…no change. Everything is still broken :\
sigh

It better be resolved before the big update so I can actually get gems for the gem store as I see several things I’m interested in…though emptying my bank and all of my characters bags and sell it all on the TP will be first priority so I can actually play, then buy proper gear and weaponry for all of my characters.

I got a very quick response from Support saying:

“I apologize for any confusion, it looks like the maintenance has not yet been applied to address the problem you’re seeing. It sounds like the plans are still to try and do that today, but the exact time is not yet announced. I would recommend to keep tabs on the Official Forums, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news, as we will post the maintenance time there once it is verified.”

Here’s to hoping we can get back to gaming as normal again soon

After talking with Support I was told to wait through the weekend until a second maintenance could be carried out this morning. I don’t see the maintenance mentioned anywhere on the site other than in my support correspondence so I don’t know if it was even carried out.

“I’m sorry to hear that your Guild Wars 2 account is experiencing this issue. After the recent maintenance on January 17th, an extremely small number of players can no longer complete their transactions. You are one of the unfortunate few. We have confirmed that all requests are being entered successfully and will complete as normal when we have corrected the issue.

I recommend that you not attempt to make any more transacations (Trading Post, Currency Exchange, or Gem Store) until we fix it. Otherwise, you might end up with more transactions completed than you really wanted.

We intend to correct this issue by having another maintenance which is scheduled for Wednesday morning, January 23rd. I’m very sorry for the inconvenience this issue may be causing you, and thanks in advance for your patience."

Either way my issue is still not resolved and I’m still unable to use the trading post for anything. I updated support that my issue is still not resolved. Awaiting a reply.

Anyone else’s problem get sorted out or were you told the same thing?

I’ve reported (in-game) dozens of typos since the game went live and none of them have ever been corrected. Maybe in the ‘Big Update’ they will be.

Theme Submission – Waterfalls
Waterfalls Album: http://imgur.com/a/hld0W
(all in-game, no editing)

Going to prowl Tyria and take some more shots
Samples from album:

Fook, Geikamir, it’s called funds allocation and planning ahead. GW2 has been out for several months, allocating funds to something you enjoy and wish to continue enjoying is an intelligent move. Had you allocated some money toward the game each month since release and not found something WORTH spending your hard-earned cash on then by now you would have more or less than $100 allocated. Do you believe yourself to be purely righteous and altruistic? You appear to have internet access, that puts you in the 1% richest people on the planet. Scrap your internet payment and donate it to the homeless. If you enjoy smoking for entertainment purposes do you not also allocate funds to support your interest in it? The OP was stating that they allocate funds to GW2 but there is nothing of worthy to spend it on. Had Anet added in more items to keep interest then perhaps they would be receiving those allocated funds. It was a request from Anet to add stuff that may be worth spending money on.
Trolls. Grow up.

I completely agree with you Vixtrolax. There are very few items I see worth spending more real cash on. I’m very into adjusting the appearances of my 7 characters but there are not enough armor skins to purchase or even consider purchasing. I agree, town clothes are kind of pointless to me. I want to beat the crap out of some centaurs and look really awesome while doing…not standing around (or dancing) in a town in my semi-OK looking town clothes as players run by. I like a lot of the Favor (heart) Vendor armor items appearances, but I switch my armor out depending on each zone I’m in and where in the zone I am at; is it in the woods, snowy, under water, mountains, caves, etc. I have several sets of the same armor (usually high level and expensive) with a different appearance on each that I swap out constantly…I’d really like to be able to purchase more cool and interesting skins. Character appearances are a very important part of the game for many players (and many of those with cash to spend), and may be the entire reason for continuing to play for some people I’d imagine.

3 days ago they had done maintenance on the trading post. I know many who have had varying issues with it and their accounts since this occurred, myself included.
As Zepi alluded to, in GW2 open your BLTrading Post, immediately when you click to open the TP a new process will be started on your computer titled “awesomium_process.exe” (Do not worry if it says *32 after it if you are on a 64-bit system). If the process doesn’t start then there may be an issue with the installation or the process is blocked from being allowed to start. If this process starts but is not permitted to access the Internet then your Trading Post will be unable to load any data since the TP accesses information from a separate server than that which the game resources are hosted on.

TL;DR summary at bottom.

3 days ago they had done maintenance on the trading post. I know many who have had varying issues with it and their accounts since this occurred. Seeing as your issue seems to be PC based and not account based I would ask if you can ensure:
1. Start Task Manager (not sure how it’s done in Win8) and under the Processes tab make sure they are sorted alphabetically.
2. Run and Log In to GW2 and hit PLAY
3. Hit F11 and switch to windowed mode (if you are not already playing in windowed mode)
4. Select a character and load in to the game environment.
5. Once In-game ensure you can see your task manager and it is sorted alphabetically.
6. In GW2 open your BLTrading Post. Immediately when you click to open the TP a new process will be started on your computer titled “awesomium_process.exe”
(Do not worry if it says *32 after it if you are on a 64-bit system)

If the process doesn’t start then there may be an issue with the installation or the process is blocked from being allowed to start. If this process starts but is not permitted to access the Internet then your Trading Post will be unable to load any data since the TP accesses information from a separate server than that which the game resources are hosted on.

TL;DR
Basically, be sure “awesomium_process.exe” opens in your running processes after you’ve opened your trading post and that “awesomium_process.exe” is allowed full access to the Internet in your firewall programs.

I hope this has helped you. Otherwise, wait until after Wednesday morning, January 23rd as they are doing another maintenance that should fix problems that arose with this previous maintenance.

What if…
…the demand and desire for dyes of all colors is also increased at the same time as increasing the easier acquisition capabilities of dyes by also adding the ability to dye areas of your weaponry? This could also increase demand for more common and cheap weaponry over the more expensive and more rare weapon models.

I have had an issue with the Post all day and all night! (jan 17th)
Anything I list lists fine, but anything that sells or anything I cancel my listing for is not delivered to my Pick-Up Tab; no coin from sales, no items returned from canceled items I’m selling, no coin from canceled purchase orders. Esplen, clicking the Take All even when nothing is listed makes no difference for me, I receive nothing. I am watching my items sell that I listed and not getting any coin delivered. I can’t cancel my items that I fear I may lose out on if they sell (with my not getting any coin for their sales) since I am also not getting the item returned to my Pick-Up Tab.
I’ve also attempted to purchase items. The coin is taken from my wallet but I am given the red “Item Does Not Exist” or “transaction does not match any listed item” or whatever it says when a purchase fails. So money is gone, no item given.
I’ve submitted bug reports.
I’ve tried end-tasking the awesomium process and restarting GW2 completely since I saw another user mention it had helped them with their TP issues; didn’t work.
I’ve done full restarts, reboots and restarts, logging in under different characters…nothing has worked.

Am I completely out all of the coin and all of the items I’ve paid for/sold/removed from my selling items/canceled purchase orders?

I really want some feedback from an Arenanet representative on this serious issue.