Guild Wars 2

UK here too. On Plusnet and stuck at 1% with 1072MB downloaded.

Does anyone know why at 99% done, with 960MB downloaded and just 2 files left to go the download speed drops to a crawl? It’s been maxing my line out as per normal, but for these final 2 files it’s nigh on dial-up speed.

Whilst we’re on the topic of Ranger’s pets, how about changing the ‘Hide Pet’ button to a simple ‘Pet On/Off’ toggle switch to prevent the pet from appearing if you take damage of any kind?

Dime Baggins.1058:

I guess the Chinese get it tomorrow. Maybe we will too. https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2yr2zv/chinese_client_will_update_as_usual_tomorrow/?sort=confidence

If that’s true, then I hope that we do get it tomorrow too. Otherwise that just reeks of them favouring one location over the rest of us.

This is one of my biggest bugbears. Some skillchain tooltips reach nearly to the top of the screen. A simple toggle on/off button in the options menu would suffice and is so easy to implement that I don’t know why the option isn’t already present.

The ability to toggle on/off the kitten mouseover skill tooltips.

ETA: Seriously, the word that comes after Hoover, Möhne, Eder and Sorpe but with an added ‘n’ is censored? Why?

minbariguy.7504:

Tachyon.5897:

I didn’t book time off work specially, but it just so happens that I’m off all this week (thanks to an idiot driver who pulled out on me, knocked me flying and didn’t bother to stop). I was really looking forward to getting some of the previously impossible jumping puzzles and other things made nigh on impossible by the broken camera done to alleviate the boredom of being partially housebound.

Typical, eh?

Ouch. Hope you recover quickly. That’s awful!

Thanks. It’s not that bad, just a broken ankle, a few cracked ribs (very painful) and numerous scrapes and bruises. It could’ve been a lot worse. Bike was completely totalled though.

mtpelion.4562:

As an IT professional, I always get a kick out of this question.
The answer is always “It’ll be ready when it is ready”.
It’s not baking where you put it in the over for exactly 30 minutes and it comes out golden :P

Then perhaps, just perhaps, this update shouldn’t have been lauded as a 10th March release then.

SyncOnari.1805:

I requested this day off for work, and I wake up to this.

Q_Q

I didn’t book time off work specially, but it just so happens that I’m off all this week (thanks to an idiot driver who pulled out on me, knocked me flying and didn’t bother to stop). I was really looking forward to getting some of the previously impossible jumping puzzles and other things made nigh on impossible by the broken camera done to alleviate the boredom of being partially housebound.

Typical, eh?

Are these QA testers new hires, or were they there nearly three years ago when the game got released with a broken camera?

I’ve asked for the clipping issues on weapons to be looked into many times now, my Norn Warrior’s sword actually drags half it’s blade through the floor when sheathed. It looks terribad. And don’t get me started on weapons and hairstyles clipping through armour.

None of my requests were even acknowledged let alone anything done about the horrendous clipping issues the game has.

Exeon.4358:

the main problem people have with the current system isn’t “I have to go to WvW this sucks” It’s more on the lines of “My server can’t take their keep on EB so I have to wait a full week and get lucky on what color my server get’s”

That is exactly my problem. I need 1 POI and 1 Vista in Eternal Battlegrounds for World Completion, the Veloka Tower POI and the Vista just North of it. However, for me to get this I need my server (Desolation) to be red because for as long as I’ve been trying to get these final two things I haven’t seen my server take that spot once.

Ele’s Mist Form when downed. You get three seconds to move to different place, and the enemies you’re trying to get away from just follow you anyway. It’s useless.

I killed a Lv. 80 Veteran Drake and got 80c and an axe. What was a drake doing carrying money and a weapon around?

Pet rock, pet schmock! I want a pet brick.

Shinzan.2908:

Screw anet for not realizing some people have work and stuff. I wanted these and just found out they are not being sold any longer… selling something like this for one day only is ridiculous.

That’s strange, I work 11 hours a day and have a two hour commute, yet I managed to get a set of wings.

And some of us just bought Gems with in-game Gold, so no money or budgeting was needed. Guess you chose the wrong option this time.

My necro, Necrotic Valkyrie. Well, she can’t be much of a Valkyrie without wings can she?

I need Desolation to be the Red team now, I only need one POI and one Vista on Eternal Battlegrounds.

Andrius.8254:

Hello, first I wanted to say I’ve done Tequatl and Triple Trouble events DAILY since their release, and I haven’t got NOTHING from them yet.

It could be worse, you could have gotten nothing from them.

All I have to show for Tequatl is a spoon and loads of items thrown into the Mystic Toilet. I haven’t done Triple Trouble yet.

Look great on my Necro.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

I don’t want to kill the brainstorming….. but, there are no new weapon types being added in Heart of Thorns. Though, specializations will allow professions to use existing weapon types which they currently cannot use.

Could you answer one question for me? Why did you neglect to include two-handed Greataxes in the game from the get go?

FlamingMelon.4792:

Can you list some gaming pc you think will be good with the game and my price range is 400-500 if you reply thanks

400-500 what? Pounds, Euros, Dollars, Geese, Camels? Knowing your preferred currency would be very helpful.

What irks me is the way that "Target Next Enemy’ doesn’t do that, it targets yellow friendlies or static items rather than actual red targets.

Daroon.1736:

Maybe their is hope that some work will also happen to the abysmal targeting system?

I hope so. I’m sick of the “Target Next enemy” button targeting friendlies, yellows and static items rather than actual enemies.

Why would you not want something that has been broken since day one to be fixed?

Perhaps I can now actually get some of the jumping puzzles that I found nigh on impossible due to the broken camera done

I’ve needed one vista for completion for nigh on six months now, and I’m kitten ed if I can get it. The fort where it is is never in my servers hands.

shifted.4086:

I paid $40 for this game. Bank space is NOT a luxury. Maybe the 4th or 5th “tab” would start to become optional, but one is NOT enough AT ALL. I should easily have 3x as much bank space by default or it should be easily unlockable via a few gold or level gating.

Now I’m not going to spend a dime on your cash shop just because I feel like you’re greedy.

And don’t even try to post that you can get it for free. You’d have to drop >100g or 5k achievement points on ONE extra tab. That’s a lot of playtime- it’d feel good to put it towards something fun. Instead you need a bank tab so you can stop using your character slots for storage space.

One tab is frankly bullkitten. Don’t charge me $40 for a game then demand I drop another $10 to be able to store a tiny fraction of the stuff I get in the first 10 hours of play.

Why not do what I did and start your own one man storage guild? Just create the Guild, build a Guild Vault, et voilà 50 extra storage spaces straight away.

Glory.1493:

Tachyon.5897:

This ‘problem’ could easily be solved if they’d allow us to use a Transmutation Charge to skin a heavy armour piece with a medium or light armour skin, or any of the other combinations. I for one would love to see my female human Elementalist running about in heavy Flame Legion armour.

that would be great!

It would be so easy to implement too. Sadly though, I doubt it’ll ever happen.

I’m holding out hope that they’ll finally add the 2-handed battleaxe to GW2. A weapon which, in my opinion, should’ve been in the game from the very start and which my Norn Warrior is crying out for.

This ‘problem’ could easily be solved if they’d allow us to use a Transmutation Charge to skin a heavy armour piece with a medium or light armour skin, or any of the other combinations. I for one would love to see my female human Elementalist running about in heavy Flame Legion armour.

munkiman.3068:

It was pretty disheartening to see the gameplay of HoT where the camera still snaps off the terrain. In a dense jungle setting, you guys should really come up with some creative way to fix that. I can see plenty of frustration in my future.

This. Very much this. This aspect of the camera has been broken since launch, I can’t imagine how such a major flaw managed to get through the QA testing procedures unnoticed. Especially seeing as how it renders some aspects of the game nigh on impossible to play. One example I recently ran into, try doing the Dark Reverie JP as massive male Norn Warrior.

As a Ranger, I hope that they also include the ability to permanently stow your pet too.

Given the atrocious level of clipping when carrying dual wield weapons in this game, my Norn Warrior’s swords not only clip through his armour when sheathed but they also clip through the ground as well, why can we not have it so we carry dual-wields crossed over on our backs?

Daggers seem to be OK for the main part, but swords, axes and maces look absolutely terrible when carried hanging from the belt.

badboyzpwns.9807:

WHO NEEDS 2TB OF SPACE, prioritize your GPU/CPU>mobo>ram>the rest. You could run the game better if you buy a cheaper HDD and buy a better GPU. Honestly you dont need 2tb of space, I have a 1 tb HD and I only used 200gb of it.

I do. I have 16TB of HDD space, but my OS and games are located on a 512GB SSD.

So the Aetherblades in the Gendarran Fields jumping puzzle drop them too?

Asuaka.1528:

They fixed the dye reset bug

No they didn’t. It says they did in the release notes, but not ten minutes ago I changed armour and the dyes reset.

How about a character creator like that of Black Desert Online?

Palleon.1657:

Please add Oculus Rift support

Occulus Rift coupled with the fact the camera is broken and goes absolutely mental when anything gets in front of your character would be a nightmare.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Mobs in living story instances give no loot.

For some strange reason, they don’t trigger sigils like the Superior Sigils of Bloodlust that I have on my weapons either.

Given how the game’s current camera is so broken that it makes anything that requires you to fight indoors migraine inducing and causes some jumping puzzles are nigh-on impossible, will HoT feature an overhauled camera with the spiel mentioning vertical maps?

Good God. I’ve never played as an Elementalist before so thought I’d give it a go. Whilst I’m loving the class, this new trait system is absolutely dire. It makes levelling a new character more of a chore than fun, and isn’t playing a game it supposed to be fun?

minbariguy.7504:

Tachyon.5897:

Remember when Sarah Brightman was revealed to be a Kurzick?

[img]http://i.imgur.com/WaR76IJ.jpg[/img]

LOL, yes I do. But she had permission, unlike these other rapscallions.

Yes, I said rapscallions. :-P

Such an underused and underrated word.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Ayrilana.1396:

Arietta The Broken.1875:

I’m sorry Gaile but I have to disagree with your comment here.

Until level 80, you don’t unlock the top tier of traits, this puts any downscaled level 80 over a significant advantage over a level 79 character.
Until level 80 most people will not invest in a specific rune set up, armor set up or accessory set up. Again this makes a down leveled 80 stat wise at a huge advantage over a true leveled character.
I realize you acknowledge that a downscale is at a higher power level than an actual leveled character but I do think the difference is a lot more significant than you do.

This can make very populated starter areas very difficult to complete if you’re just starting out due to other people killing all the mobs (during daily events.)
Ironically since NPE tried to make it easier.

As far as the reporting thing goes. I’ve reported plenty of people for being hostile and using offensive language. I have added them to my block list and still see them log in daily so I’m not entirely sure reporting anyone does a great deal unless multiple people are reporting them:/

I generally report anyone that trash talks although it rarely offends me. I just assume that they’ve done it to other people and it doesn’t foster a good environment. Better to just point it out through the reports and let Anet decide how they want to handle it.

You should receive a temporary ban for reporting players who’ve committed no offense.

Completely agree. Reporting people because they think that they may have insulted other people is a blatant abuse of the reporting tool and could quite easily result in an innocent person copping a ban.

Remember when Sarah Brightman was revealed to be a Kurzick?

[img]http://i.imgur.com/WaR76IJ.jpg[/img]

ViperionNZ.2509:

Well, that’s a thing That ain’t cool.

Edit: Man the swear filter is tight! I didn’t think a homonym for “dam” would have counted!

I noticed that the other day. I can’t believe that that is considered to be offensive. Mind you, it could be worse. A guildmate of mine lives in Skittenhorpe, Lincolnshire and as a result she has countless problems filling out internet forms and the like.

The complete four events in a particular zone PvE daily is a right pain at times. People ping the event and by the time you get there a massive DPS zergfest has already completed it. I dread to think how much currency I’ve lost by teleporting around a zone to find the pinged event over.

I’d be happy if it was something along the lines of chuck four stacks of Bloodstone Dust or Dragonite Ore into the Mystic toilet (or two/three stacks and some other items) and have the chance of an ascended recipe, a few unidentified dyes or a weapon/armour of description.

Whilst the offensive language thing is a the top of the forum, why the hell can I not name my Ranger’s pet Jaguar ‘Bagpuss’? It’s my favourite children’s TV show from my childhood, yet I’m told it’s an offensive word for some reason.