Guild Wars 2

Black Lion items can sometimes be delayed by having a full inbox – you could try deleting some mail?

It’s part of the story line. Next time one appears, try to get close and interact with it, and you’ll start a quest that’ll explain what’s going on.

You’ve not consumed the mini to unlock it in the wardrobe (look at the pop-up in your screen shot, it says “Miniature locked”). Right click on it and there should be an option to unlock mini, and that should also update the collection.

There’s no need to set foot in PvP – shards of glory are tradeable.

You can wait until you hit level 80 before buying and not miss out on much – all the major expansion content (story, new maps, masteries, and elite specs) requires max level. One thing you could use now – each expansion lets you instantly boost one character to level 80, but the concensus is that it’s better to level up to 80 normally on at least one character first, and use the boost on an alt.

Gliding requires a level 80 character to unlock it, but because masteries are account wide, once one character unlocks gliding, every character on your account, regardless of level, will be able to glide.

Gem store items get cycled in and out all the time. If there’s something you want that’s not there now, it should come back around eventually.

Adry.7512:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

I’m going to go out on a limb and posit that this would be a venture that would not only be time-consuming, unneccessary and costly, but would also invalidate content that is specific to each map, so it’s unlikely to ever see implementation. Just my 2 coppers.

I knew someone would say something like this. Fortunately, you’re wrong. It’s a quality of life and it’s as costly or a lot less than any quality of life they have previously done. No revamps are needed, no special coding, nothing really. Just take away a few waypoints and merge the map server, very simple, fast, cheap work. I understand that you’re the average joe that constantly pops up the time consuming money consuming line on every topic, but lol it’s not, and at the end of the day money and time are needed for many things, very necessary things.

So how does this work with population?

Does the new map have a cap three times each of the individual maps? If so, how will this affect scaling on events if everyone zergs to one temple? So the events may need to be reworked to cater for the increased population?

Or is the cap left where it is? Now the players are spread thinner, so the events might need reworking to cater for fewer players.

Or somewhere in between, but still all those events will need to make sure they’re appropriate for the population levels present.

What about map rewards? There’ll be two fewer maps in rotation for those so how do they get reworked? And bear in mind this is something that has an impact beyond just the Orr maps.

What about map completion – the rewards would need reworking to reflect three times the effort to complete the map?

I doubt it’s an easy thing to do, certainly not as simple as just merging the servers. I’ve just come up with three area that would need rework off the top of my head, and I’m sure there are plenty more things that would need doing that you and I have no concept of because we’ve simply never seen the code behind all this.

Which begs the question, what benefit would we really get from doing this? Save a loading screen if you were to go directly from one map to another. That doesn’t seem worth the effort to me.

If it’s like HoT’s launch, we’ll get the download piecemeal between now and launch and not all in one massive download on the 22nd – for example we’ll be getting the new elite specs, masteries, and at least some of the new maps downloaded when the beta comes along later this month.

As for the size, 50g is the total size of core game + HoT + PoF, so PoF itself is just 20G.

Edit: added link to Gaile Gray’s post clarifying the game size: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/no-new-system-specs-Path-of-fire-no-buy/first#post6664362

Shadow was one of the Shining Blade in GW1. Anise and Livia are role playing two old members of the Shining Blade as you relive an event from GW1, normally Anise plays Shadow but this time she wants to swap roles with Livia.

You don’t need to break the shield – it will eventually time out if you don’t, and then you can fight the cleric anyway.

It’s because you’ve played fewer matches than the minimum required to appear on the leaderboard (currently 90 matches, going up to 105 tomorrow).

What you’re seeing is your rating as it was when you were last above the minumum. By the look of it, that was during the first week of the season when the minimum was 15 matches.

The answer is both.

You can unlock the reward track to be permenantly available by completing the dungeon’s story mode, or you can wait for it come around on rotation – a different dungeon’s reward track is made available each week.

No we don’t, other than the standard 2-3 months after the previous release, which would put it somewhere between first Tuesday in July, and first Tuesday in August. 11th July is almost certainly off the table by now, considering that we didn’t get a trailer last week, so one of 18th July, 25th July, or 1st August are the most likely dates.

I guess now would be the time to keep an eye out for trademark and/or domain name registrations if you want to spot the name early. Some people reported Heart of Thorns being registered shortly before the final chapter in season 2 released, and I’d expect the same to happen again with season 3.

zealex.9410:

cant you dye the wings?

Backpacks aren’t dyeable.

Eternal Battlegrounds isn’t on Tyria, it’s in the mists. It may not even be on a planet, given the state of the mists in other places, so the usual rules may not apply.

If this was taking place on Tyria, though, you would be right – if both were on the same horizon, it would be a new moon, with the moon’s illuminated side facing away from us and therefore not visible.

If you have too many unopened chests, new ones will go straight to your inventory. Also, if you have enough unopened chests, some will get automatically opened into your inventory when you swap maps.

As long as your inventory isn’t full you shouldn’t lose anything.

You also shouldn’t need to use the -password or -email command line options (unless you’re using it to switch between multiple accounts on one computer).

To log in automatically without having your password in plain text on the command line, put -autologin to the command line instead. As long as the ‘Remember Account Name’ and ‘Remember Password’ boxes are ticked in the launcher, it will log you in automatically.

We’ll probably get to choose a second racial backpack too.

How many games have you played? The minimum went up to 30 on Tuesday, so if you’re on less than that, you won’t see it change until you get to 30 games.

Just happened again, so not an isolated issue.

Wolfeen.6310:

And I can’t even get back on the game because game is constantly crashing, asking me to send a report and stuff like that.

Anet please ! Make a patch to fix this patch !

See this thread – they’re working on the crashes: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Opening-mail-in-new-PvP-lobby-causes-crash/first#post6624322

It now looks like the match got killed somehow – no record of it in my match history, and no dishonor for the disconnect.

After disconnecting in a ranked PvP match, on reconnecting my character loads into the lobby, not the match, despite the match still being active.

Mini Crinny.6190:

This is happening in Divinity Reach too

Odd, Divinty’s Reach was the ‘elsewhere’ I tried, and had no problems.

I’ve tried opening it with mail pending and without, both cause crashes. Mail can be read safely elsewhere.

You need to select Herald as one of your specialisations – as it’s an elite, you can only select it in the bottom spec slot. Once you do that, you’ll be able to use a shield and the Herald skills.

If your problem is that you don’t have enough hero points to unlock it, you need to complete hero challenges, which are marked on the map – levelling to 80 only gives you enough points to complete the core specs. Hero challenges from the original maps give 1 point each, and those from Heart of Thorns give 10 points each. You’ll need 250 points to fully unlock Herald.

LeaveItToDeavers.2189:

haha ah gotcha, so how much instant reward does each give? not really noticing any jump when opening the chest

It’s pretty small, not measured it exactly but looks like maybe 10-20 points.

If you go to the achievement panel, there should be 12 achievements in the same ‘Daily’ category as Daily Completionist (Daily and then Daily again) – 4 for PvE, 4 for WvW, and 4 for PvP. Complete any 3 of these to complete Daily Completionist.

Use Heart of the Mists to get to Lion’s Arch, then complete one of the jumping puzzles there.

The Draconis Mons Insight achievements don’t count towards the the total – this seems to be by design rather than a bug, as the equivalent achievements in previous chapters also didn’t count. If you discount those from your total, you are probably left with 17.

If you click on the main achievement, Flashpoint Mastery, it shows you exactly which achievements are intended to count towards it.

Nausicaa.9563:

Yeah Ancestral Outfit is in the armor/weapon category as well. Also, Brewmaster’s Backpack should not be in there as it is an achievement reward.

The outfit also appears even if you already have it unlocked.

Nokomis.5076:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Not correct, or the CS Team would not find it qualified to send out replacement duplicate Black Lion Chest keys.

I’m not sure why you’d argue about it; the CS Team will send BLC Keys for duplicate Noran’s Pass bundles. That’s a fact.

Not for me. (German) support just told me, that, because Norans Pass was a seasonal item, they will not reimburse me any keys at all because the seasonal item is now the Zaishen War Paint Kit.

I don’t know what this should have to do with my ticket (#6410348 btw if any other supporter want to take a look at it). Can’t understand why they argue with someone and make him disappointed, whos paying money at them every month (yes, I do like to open black lion chests)

That’s not right – the seasonal item equivalent to the Zaishen paint kits back when Noran’s Pass was available was 2 heavy crafting bags.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

HeavyBoySK.6893:

If they will start something like this, they can buy better servers.

All they need to do is buy better servers and reconfigure the game to remove all portals. That sounds easy enough, in my head when I think it. Occasionally I wonder though if the things I imagine are actually more expensive and harder to do in reality.

I think this may be relevant.

I suspect the way other games have seamless transition between maps is that as you approach the edge of your current map, the nearest adjacent map is loaded in the background. That to me doesn’t sound like a trivial change. Not impossible, but also not something that could be done quickly. For example, how would this work with mega servers, where there’s not necessarily going to be an equal number of instances of each map? If the answer is fewer, higher capacity servers, as some seem to have been suggesting, won’t that mean every map’s events will need revisiting to balance for the increased numbers?

I’ve only played one game that had the seamless transition, but it there seemed to be a quiet zone with no enemies around where you crossed over, similar to how there’s no enemies right on top of the portals in GW2. Basically the only difference is you lose the loading screen between maps. If that’s it, it sounds to me like a lot of work for very little gain.

Not everyone is in Dragon’s Watch anyway. The vote was separate for each supported language, and, for example, French players chose Eternity’s Guard.

1) World choice only really affects the WvW game mode. For PvE and PvP all players across all worlds are effectively playing on the same servers.

2) Tailoring is the right choice for a necro’s armour and most necro weapons are crafted by either a weapon smith or artificer. Crafting is useful for making end game gear (ascended) but not required as there are other means of obtaining it. If you’re willing to put in the time and expense to level up the crafts, they can make your life easier, but you can also get by without if crafting is not your thing.

Crafting is also useless for food (chef) and utility consumables (weaponsmith, artificer, and huntsman) for endgame content. Most can be bought on the trading post, so again, not strictly required, but can be handy to be able to make your own.

One craft I would avoid right now is jeweller – top tier jewellery is not craftable, and relatively cheaply and easily available from farming the newest maps.

3) Respecs in terms of skills and traits is very forgiving. There are enough hero point available to unlock every skill and every trait, and you can switch which ones you have equipped at any time when not in combat. By the time you hit level 80, you’ll have enough points to get all the skills and traits from the core specs just from level-up rewards, so there’s little point banking them for later.

Respecs on gear are less forgiving when you get to the top tier ascended gear – depending on the stats you respec to, it can be quite costly. But it sounds like you’re a long way off that right now, so I wouldn’t worry about it yet.

Ashantara.8731:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It doesn’t give the key until opened. It’s a bundle that includes the Pass and the Key.

That’s how I remembered it too, thank you. Hence my previous argument was correct: this bundle does not qualify for “dublicate items”.

The reason it qualifies is because as a duplicate both items have no value. The pass is worthless as a duplicate, and Noran gives his keys away the for free.

Vayne.8563:

Healix.5819:

Vayne.8563:

I’d rather not have a double dose of masteries to level all at once time> I’d like my gliding masteries and living story masteries trained before the next expansion comes out.

There’ll likely be at least 2 months between pre-purchase and launch.

Assuming their plans haven’t changed, anyone buying HoT right now will likely be refunded anyways, if they pre-purchase. Just don’t buy HoT from 3rd parties, since they’re not eligible. However, I’d expect them to drop their 1 box model when they announce the expansion.

I wouldn’t assume that people could get a refund if they buy now, and I’d be very scared to suggest it. My best guess is that the $30 to level that stuff before the expansion comes out would be worth it to me.

Yeah, I’d be wary on expecting refunds. They happened last time because people were potentially misled into buying the core game – for the six months or so between HoT being announced and pre-purchase being available, the HoT FAQ stated that new players would need to buy the core game first to play the expansion. Assuming they stick to the same model this time, the correct information is already out there, so this time no-one is being misled into buying twice.

Vayne.8563:

I’m the other way around. I’d rather not have a double dose of masteries to level all at once time> I’d like my gliding masteries and living story masteries trained before the next expansion comes out.

Maybe some people are different, but I would find three sets of masteries all at the same time overwhelming.

Likewise I’d like autoloot unlocked before the new expansion came out.

That’s a fair point, but what I was suggesting wouldn’t leave you dealing with three sets together. I would expect anyone who pre-purchases the 2nd expansion would get HoT straight away, so there’d be a few months between now and then to complete achievements for core mastery points even if the masteries themselves can’t be completed yet, then the time between pre-purchase and release (presumably at least a couple of month) to deal with HoT masteries before the 2nd expansion releases. Then again, I am making assumptions here, so nothing is guaranteed.

Ashantara.8731:

We don’t have a release date for Expac 2 yet.

Furthermore, if they don’t buy HoT now, they cannot currently unlock Living World Season 3 and will have to buy that separately later, which is also costly. (Then again, LWS3 is almost over, so they will have to pay for that either way.)

In the end, it’s the OP’s decision. No need to quarrel over it.

That’s not true – you only need HoT to play season 3, not to unlock it. Anyone who logged in at the appropriate time to unlock a chapter will be able to play it for free if they buy HoT at a later date.

My advice would be, if you’re not champing at the bit to play HoT, wait and buy the next expansion. As stated above, pre-purchase is likely to be along in a couple of months (at a guess, at or shortly after the release of the next chapter, so July/August) and that should also include HoT. Why pay twice when you don’t need to?

Ashantara.8731:

Nokomis.5076:

I had the same problem with Noran’s Safe Room Pass…

Now I have four of them in my bank. I’ve send a few tickets over the ingame ticket system, though nothing changed.

Noran’s Safe Room Pass is not an item which falls into this category, as it always provides you with an extra key to Noran’s Chest, hence is supposed to be able to drop multiple times.

Yes it is. When I had it drop as a duplicate, it got automatically replaced by 2 black lion keys. It was just the pass that was replaced, though, the key to Noran’s chest remained.

Linken.6345:

supply crate aint a turret skill it gives you some turrets along other stuff.

Yes it is. When the skills were reworked prior to adding the first elite specs, supply crate was changed to be a turret, and the ‘other stuff’ was moved to the toolbelt.

Sakco.2538:

Thanks. Yep that’s it, hit the cap. Thinking about it, how do people get to the 30K mark. Must of completed all or most achieves from the beginning.

Pretty much, yes. In particular, season 1 was a bit more generous than later seasons when it came to AP, and those are no longer available.

You’ve probably reached the cap for dailies & monthlies – 15,000 AP for the total of both.

I’m puzzled by this, because I can’t get the behaviour the OP describes at all. The only way I can get a skill to activate on release rather than press (I’ve tried with both keyboard and mouse) is a ground targeted skill with activation set to ‘Fast with Range Indicator’. In all other cases, with all other settings, the skill activates on press, even if the mouse slides off the button. The issue sounds like it’s more likely to be skill lag.

On the subject of press/depress, I’ve always been vaguely amused by the wording used in the UK on jars to describe the lid’s anti-tamper button – ‘May be depressed if opened.’ Makes me feel bad for upsetting the lid whenever I open a jar.

It’s intended – instead of using the forge, once you get the Knight of the Thorn title from the Pale Tree, you can change stats and weapon type of Caladbolg for 1000 unbound magic at the NPC in your home instance.

Somewhere between first week of July and first week of August, given the 2-3 month release schedule.

Ridhais doesn’t let you switch weapons until the day after you obtain Caladbolg. On the daily reset, you should get a mail telling you to see the Pale Tree, and after you do that, Ridhais should appear.

It’s all down to the player who opens the instance – only bosses the opener hasn’t killed during the week will be present, regardless of the progress of everyone else in the squad.

I think the relevant post is this one and its replies. It also includes a link to a forum post where a dev stated that unlocking refined armour should also unlock the same weight’s experimental armour skins.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Yeah, I noticed that long ago. I guess it’s flavor text, because it doesn’t really apply. =P

Good luck.

Really? If it’s on cooldown, I normally see a a number of seconds counting down. Unfortunately, the kind souls around me ignored my requests to not be revived, so I didn’t get to see if it was just a display issue or a genuine cooldown.