Guild Wars 2

Paradox.5498:

When you’re in a party of 2 or more and you want to kill Queen Bee Dogs, have 1 party member spam the whip on the Queen while the rest just hits it with the stick. The whip keeps it stunned.

Looks like the perma-stun with the whip is not intended and will be removed at some point in the future. So don’t rely on it too much.

Also, as a tip for something NOT to do, don’t try to stand on the log below the 2nd boss area and bomb the mushroom spore that is hanging up near the cage. It did not work, but kicked off the boss fight and then I had one heck of a time getting up there.

Thedes.8794:

Ha and I thought you just got one instantly. My first run I got the exact skin I needed for that character. Yay!

Nerf Thedes. Luck is OP in this one. :P

Same happened to me. I thought maybe I was just missing it, but now I’m thinking a bug report may be in order.

That said, are the ones in the worm needed for the achievement? Wouldn’t that leave you skipping others out in the zone?

They stay bought for that character, but are not account-wide. If you go through with an alt, you’d have to buy them again for the new character.

Donari.5237:

The only change I see is that in the third tab you can’t get a singleton continue coin now. Though in tab 2 the stack of 5 coins only cost 1 bauble bauble, is that different?

That price for 5 is not different based on what I saw last night. Maybe the single was removed because it was half the price (25 baubles) of the 5 stack. I wondered why it was that way.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

I just had a look at Moto’s vendor lists in Rata Sum and some things have changed.

Whatever has been done was definitely a subtle change without requiring and update.

o.0 What changed?

(also, Soundcloud link was added above)

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

That should have gone hours ago then, if that were the case. I’m glad I got a movie of that music though, that was epic. However if they were to deactivate the super mystery boxes (as being an April 1st thing) then they let it go well past it’s deadline.

They were there one minute and gone the next, like someone pulled the plug on them.

Ah, ok. I have been trapped at work all day, so I did not know when they “vanished”.

As for the music, did you see they have all the tracks up on their Soundcloud page?
https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/sets/guild-wars-2-super-adventure

Uh oh. Wonder if someone decided to wreck it with an exploit. I hope not.

edit: Unless the world-spawn chests were just an April 1 thing and were turned off along with the character select midi music. That is a possibility.

A chest takes a little while to come back after someone opens it, so you may need to wait a bit. Are you saying you never see any on the big map? I saw them on the Metrica map last night.

Odin of Ark.4860:

You’re positive that the ones you buy are going? Like you have a quote or post saying that? Or are you just assuming.

Pretty sure that was referring to the vendor not being available once the SAB is down. (Meaning, if you want to buy one, get it before the end of the month!) I very much doubt the skins you already bought are going to go poof.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Do you have a javascript blocker running in your browser? If so, create an exception for guildwars2.com.

In addition to that, I had to allow cloudfront.net. Even with an exception for guildwars2.com, without cloudfront it looked just as the OP describes.

(Also, having cloudfront.net enabled/disabled changes the font on the page. Go figure.)

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

It appears then, the “once a day” is account based as well.
Why?

If that is the case, I’d guess it is because people have proven they will take the opportunity to exploit the event by creating multiple new characters to farm the karma 24/7. I do not understand that kind of behavior myself (it would be incredibly boring to me and would probably sour me on playing at all ), but I have seen it enough to know it happens.

Even so, let’s assume there are those 50 spots and you want to get them all. You get 50 logs a day on your account (the achievement is account-wide as well) and could theoretically be done in 3 days. Plenty of time to finish it given a whole month.

Mitch.4781:

That’s because you obviously can’t understand why people like things different from you. A classic narcissist

I agree completely that you are entitled to your opinion on this content and that if you don’t like the content you can let ArenaNet know why. No one should tell you to stop having different opinions.

However, looking at your post somewhat objectively, you, too, are asking for something to be changed because you don’t like it. You even admit that some people do like it. Asking for certain types of content to be removed or never created because of our likes and dislikes is just as bad as someone telling you that your likes and dislikes are not valid.

That said, while the Box will remain all month in the game, it may very well be that the character select music is just for today. If it is not, put in a polite suggestion that it be changed back for the remainder of the event. I don’t happen to mind it because I know it is short term no matter what, but I respect that you don’t like it and I think a decent compromise would be to have the music change for only this day (or maybe the week if they want it a bit longer) rather than the whole month.

I hope you still have fun with the rest of the game.

Are you “farming” the same ones over and over? From what I have read, you can only loot a periscope once a day, so you either have to keep finding new ones (I have seen that there is a total of 50?) or wait for it to reset for you.

DaWolv.8503:

Or better yet, just let us all use all 3 different portals once we have the story step unlocked that allows us to.

That might be nice, but it also leads you to those gates before you reach the step to unlock your order’s gate.

Dondarrion.2748:

But it’s only after a certain quest at Fort Trinity (lvl 70 or so personal story… “The Battle …”) that your Order’s short-cut Asura gate to Fort Trinity will become accessible to you.

Could call it a little visual bug on Anet’s part that they indicate that Asura gate as portal towards your personal story before that Asura gate is available to you… maybe they fix it at some point by checking what stage your personal story is at.

If they do fix it, it would be good to also check which order you joined. The marker doesn’t care and will point to the closest gate whether it is yours or not. For most people, this will mean their marker always leading from LA to the Vigil.

Gaile Gray.6028:

AnonEMouse.7932:

Not trying to call out a dev, but wouldn’t an idea be that if you guest on a server you should be able to access the guild unlocks that your guild has on that server?

I moved my account away from the my guilds normal home, to another server… but even when I guest back on the original server, I still can’t access the already unlocked guild benefits.

It just strikes me as a little odd.

Please feel free to post this suggestion in the Suggestions Forum. Personally, I feel that it’s appropriate that guests do not have full-member privileges, but you’re entitled to your opinion and may share it in the appropriate forum.

I would support this suggestion as well as any others that make the game a bit friendlier to cross-world guilds. With things like influence gain and buffs being world-specific, unless you have a large number of guild members on each world, the system feels broken. Even if you do have a large number, it seems in your best interest to group only with “local” guild members.

This thread actually brought up an aspect of making things world-specific that I had not considered. Being able to have more than one guild bank if you are able to earn enough influence on multiple worlds. I still think the cons outweigh this pro, but I would love to hear more things that would be in that pro column for people. Or what it is about guild guests to your world that makes it inappropriate for them to benefit from your guild buffs. What, if anything, would this break?

Thanks

Harbinger.9645:

Did the damage seem lower to you? Did you test this in WvW/sPvP/PvE? I’m honestly curious because I definitely noticed the lower damage myself and I figured my weapon damage might not have been factored in perhaps related to the missing weapon on my illusions.

I was using the iZerker last night through multiple combo fields and didn’t notice it using the finisher, but honestly I wasn’t really on the look out for that.

This was PvE in Timberline Falls. I just hopped to the event nearest where I’d logged off. I was generally fighting one mob at a time and made sure to use no other skills that should be combo finishers.

Truthfully, I paid less attention to the damage since I could only do a very quick test before logging off. I can test more extensively later, I just wondered if the Confounding Bolt coming up was a fluke, or if we were going more on the tooltip not mentioning the combo finishing whirl.

So if you check for the combos and I check on the damage, we should have it covered next time.

I just got home and, while I may be missing something here, I still seemed to be getting Confounding Bolt from the berserker whirling through an ethereal field.

I will try it on a few other types of field as soon as I can, but initially it seems there is an error in the tooltip rather than a change to the mechanics.

I also found references to the combo finisher not being noted in the tooltip even from before the patch. (Shows how closely I read the skills before.)

Again, maybe I have it wrong, but if someone else can check once more to break the tie, I’d appreciate it. Thanks.

Esplen.3940:

Daimerous.9652:

The problem I see is that it doesn’t have a distance limit. I can cast feeback at max range and then run out say really far, and then get ported into the huge group and instakilled. If it had a limit on range, then I would be more ok with it.

That would mean nerfing Feedback, not Dark Path, just saying.

“The projectile can hit from a longer range than indicated. However, if cast from longer range, it will not track and you will not fully teleport to the target.”

What if it just took this and applied it in the other direction? You have to be within 900 of the necro to get ported over.

Dan.8709:

I think it’s working as intended and tbh it even makes me want to make a necro to surprise some of my fellow mesmers :p

It does make for an interesting Feedback counter. I know I’d be shocked.

I thought the whole point of the loot fixes in the patch were so we would not have to all go for instant heavy damage builds to compete for drops.

Munkee.3542:

It’s confirmed. “Combo Finisher” is no longer in the tool tip and it no longer combo’s with fields. Kind of a lousy stealth nerf if you ask me.

Thank you for checking.

I’d hope it wasn’t intended, but if it is no longer in the tooltip it is not likely an error. I still very much want to hear ANet put it as an official change, though, and let us know why it was done.

Bunda.2691:

In my testing it is no longer a combo finisher

Can anyone confirm this? That would be a pretty big change.

SteepledHat.1345:

In CoF there is one mob that likes to use a channeled flamethrower skill. Because it’s channeled it’ll follow you through stealth.

I have wondered if that is intended. Also, I noticed this the other day when fighting a flame legion caster. I stealthed, then dodged to the right and was still hit by a fireball that curved in midair to my new location before stealth wore off.

I was not sure that was how it is meant to be, whether it is a bug, or if I just had a moment of freaky lag.

As for the stealth no longer dropping aggro, I have no problem with that, so long as they (and the projectiles) still can’t see me when I move.

Looks like certain script blockers break the timestamp and it shows only in GMT. I could browse the forum, no problem, but there was no way to see them in my local time.

Allowing cloudfront.net to use scripts fixed it in Firefox for me.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Is there room in your mailbox? The X/10 messages in the Inbox is deceiving, because some mail doesn’t count against that limit, but will count against your max. Delete as much mail as you can in your Inbox, and see if the mail arrives.

I noticed this as well. Is there a way to know what counts against max and what doesn’t?

It was…um…there are parts of the experience I would rather not remember. The whole thing overall was great, though.

Thank you, ArenaNet. And thank you to the many many people who helped with fights and with revives.

jordain.8617:

so without any reset either weekly or monthly i may has well either quit looking for a group for this dungeon which is making me loose content in a game im otherwise enjoying.

I have not started the dungeon either, so I understand where you are coming from. If you have a guild, my suggestion would be to find people who want to run through at your level even if they have done it before. Some people will do it to help out, others just because they think the dungeons are fun at any level.

If that does not work, I’m sure there are more out there who will be just starting. Maybe keep an eye out for (or kick off) a forum thread for players who are in the same situation.

Most important thing is to not stress out about it now. If you enjoy the game, there are still plenty of things to enjoy. I guarantee both of us will be able to do the Fractals at some point if we really want.

SarahWitter.2317:

Huck.1405:

So where the hell is this soggy bag that Im suppossed to find on the shoreline west of sanctum harbor? I’ve been looking all over the place and all I’ve seen is a few empty crates that cannot be interacted with and lots of crowbars.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Lost_Shores/Phase_1#Inspector_Ellen_Kiel.27s_scavenger_hunt

That answers the “where”, but I don’t think this part can be completed since the start of Phase 2. I could still be misunderstanding.

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

There were some events that we could not extend past Phase 1, unfortunately. Extending all events in Phase 1 would have been a much more extensive fix, requiring much more time to thoroughly regress. Given the time sensitive nature of the event, we extended what portions we were able to effectively.

Our developers are reading all of your feedback and are taking all the critiques on board.

We apologize that this means that folks are not able to complete the Miyani chain.

This part of the announcement about the Noll fix:

“The subsequent steps of Phase 1 can be finished after Phase 2”

implies that Phase 1 can be completed after the bugged Noll part was restored. For anyone who does not read the wiki and prefers to complete the events on their own, this can lead to great disappointment when it is later announced that this is not the case.

Events and stories are the core of GW2 for me and probably for other players as well. We take the time and effort to find these events, to follow these stories. I understand that problems happen, that some errors cannot be easily fixed. Something like this, though, just erodes enjoyment. Does not remove it entirely, but there is a sour note in the otherwise beautiful symphony.

Please, if possible, let us know exactly what we missed out on because of this error.

Thank you.

This problem has cleared up for me after this morning’s maintenance. I think I can see all the display names that were missing.

Corax.7381:

I’m getting 1c for completing zones, which seems a bit… low… but I’m only level 19, so I can’t confirm it’s a bug. Item rewards seem fine, though.

I was getting the same. 1c and 3 transmute stones. Then the other day I started getting 2 items, 3 stones, and a couple silver for a zone completion. Was not sure if it was changed/fixed at that point.

That was what I thought at first, too, but a couple times I had no conditions and don’t think I was hit. I need to do more testing. When it works, though, it is great.

As far as I know, they should lose the target…when the invisibility works. I have successfully lost enemies that way.

My problem tends to be that I don’t get the 3sec of invisibility from something like Decoy all the time. I have not been able to pin down whether I’m caught in some AoE, it is an effect of a condition, or it is just a bug.

We saw this problem, at least with the bank and the armorer. One person in the guild noticed it was only an issue in certain cities, so maybe try another city to see if it works there.

In our case, the problem cities were Divinity’s Reach and Black Citadel.

World: Stormbluff Isle
Guild: Massively Overpowered
Position: Guild Leader

Problems:
•Unable to see items in the build queue
•Unable to add new items to the build queue
•Unable to change a member’s rank
•Unable to represent other guilds
•(new this morning)Can not see any guild members in the roster

Turial.1293:

Hi guys, this one had me stumped as well for a while. The “…” is actually the loading of the name. If you leave the friend/guild list open long enough they should load eventually. You can also notice this when looking guild info for influence, roster, etc.

Hmm. I have it happen for the same players on friend/guild lists consistently, so it did not occur to me to try leaving the list up longer to have the names load in. I’ll give that a try.

If it is the case that the names do load in after a while, does that mean the issue is with the accounts of those specific players, or with my account? Other people in my guild can see the display names even when I can’t.

Edit: left the list up for about 30 minutes with no change. If it is a matter of loading the display name slowly, then it is very slow.