Guild Wars 2

From what I understand you have to do this event first:

http://dulfy.net/2016/06/28/gw2-ley-line-anomaly-current-event-guide/

In order to see the sad anomalies popping up everywhere.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong. :O

Considering the Consortium’s track record, I obviously went with the Priory.

PvE is p. cool.

I’m more upset with the lack of resolution of plot holes and unanswered questions left behind by HoT. I’ll be more than happy to get worked up over the possible retconning once we get some actual, in-depth stuff on the Pale Tree, Zojja, Logan, the Nightmare Court, and if Treesus is gonna have an actual memorial like Eir got. :x

Guys, c’mon. This is clearly a bait thread. :\

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/583/043/800.png

This is all assuming Anet does anything more with Logan which, based on the chapters released so far, doesn’t look likely. <_<

I think what Ithilwen is trying to get at is that being competitive and being a jerk/salt dispenser are mutually exclusive ideas. You can compete and be competitive without being malicious to others.

There’s always going to be that one person who’s a jerk to everyone no matter what but for the love of all that’s good just at least be honest about it. Just come out and say “Yo I’m a jerk because I can”. Don’t hide behind the “competition” justification/excuse (or any other justification/excuse) as a reason to be a jerk to others.

Anything that gives me a better update and detail on Zojja’s condition gets my seal of approval so of course I’d like to see something like this happen. C:

Honestly, the PC doesn’t feel much like a PC to me anymore after PS. None of my PC’s would have let Caithe go near that egg after what she had done.

Good thing I’m a role player and I don’t play any of my characters as ‘commander’ at least. :v

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Zedek.8932:

Nemo.5609:

Greatest prison you can waypoint out of any time.

Excelsior.

When you’re waking up you’ve already been a test subject for several hours and and the Peacemakers took all your biometric data and created a felony report. The ticket and the receipt will be sent via mail later. The “prison cell” is actually an anaesthetic recovery room. That’s why we put several of you in one without any safety concerns.

Don’t worry, we keep the results and the embarrassing footage for our studies … ugh … I mean, we keep them save and hidden… cough

Then we test your Bookah level by checking how long it takes for you to leave. The more desperate you get, the higher your score. You’re free to use another great Asuran technology from now on to leave (the waypoints) whenever you want.

I got this from UFO Abductions and realized that with a few small modifications that it was eerily close to this situation.

Abductions are complex series of events and procedures directed by the abductors to passive or controlled abductees. In a typical or common abductions, [players] are taken out of their normal environment by aliens Asurans. The [players] are rendered passive and cannot resist. They are taken aboard, their clothes are removed and they are made to lie on a table. A series of physical, mental, and productive procedures are then administered to the subjects. [Player’s] physical bodies are probed and examined.

The aliens Asura perform staring procedures during which they gaze into abductees’ eyes at at distance of only an inch or two. These “mindscan” procedures appear to be neurological manipulations which give the aliens Asuras the ability to “enter into” peoples’ minds.

Sometimes abductees report that they are required to perform tasks, that they are “tested” in some way. They say that machines are brought in to examine them. They are returned to their normal environment and within seconds, they forget what has just happened to them.

Verrrryyy suspicious.

I, for one, welcome our new alien Asura overlords.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Just a note to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread.

For those who have not had a chance to add their thoughts, we welcome feedback in any number of threads or sub-forums, but are very much hoping that everyone will comment here, as well.

I am going to mirror this thread in the Living World Sub-forum as well, and will combine comments in both into a report.

Thanks again.

Thank you for giving us the chance to provide feedback.

I enjoyed the fact that I didn’t have to deal with Rytlock at all after that part in Chapter 2.

Seriously, I hate him. <_<

Spartacus.3192:

Newsflash: its not “lately” it started getting really toxic as soon as Season 1 started. This terrible combination of Pips and division/tier safety nets etc has made the toxity ooze out of nearly everyones orifice.

I’d argue that the toxicity has been around before the seasons even started. It certainly was toxic for me before the introduction of seasons. It just exploded and became more widespread when seasons were introduced.

Asuran prisons best prisons.

Or how about actually giving us a proper update on Zojja’s and Logan’s condition outside of a line of dialogue from Rytlock or some kind of memorial for Trahearne or what’s going on with the Nightmare Court since Faolain’s death. I mean, I know it’s still early in LWS3 but I’m merely going by what we’ve been given so far. Based on the first and second chapters, it feels like Anet wants to focus on all of the new, shiny stuff instead of tying up loose ends and filling up plot holes. I really wish they would have spent the first chapter or two tying up things or actually have some kind of proper epilogue/conclusion to HoT before moving onto new stuff.

It really doesn’t help that Zojja is my favorite character and it’s irritating that she’s in this limbo state at the moment. :x

More Asura is always a great thing and I definitely want to see more. <3

Rognik.2579:

TheOrlyFactor.8341:

Rognik.2579:

Logan and Zojja are major NPCs, not a side one like Malyck. They’ve just been stuffed in a closet and will be pulled out when the next dragon attacks.

You’re a lot more optimistic than I am. :V

I’ll rub it in your face when they come back in 5 years… :p

Please do. :P <3

Rognik.2579:

Logan and Zojja are major NPCs, not a side one like Malyck. They’ve just been stuffed in a closet and will be pulled out when the next dragon attacks.

You’re a lot more optimistic than I am. :V

Rognik.2579:

I have faith Logan and Zojja will return eventually (even if their VAs were too difficult to recruit most of the time :p), so we might have seasons dedicated to their back stories in the future.

Sadly, if Anet’s track record on tying up loose ends is anything to go by, there won’t be any resolution for them. They’ll be in the same boat as Malyck. :\

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

The writers at Arenanet seem to be experts when it comes to leaving loose ends.
Logan, Zojja, The Pale Tree, The Nightmare Court. Apparantly neither of those were deemed important enough to properly adress.

And that’s just the recent stuff, the personal story is filled with it. Take the Lost Sister story path from the Human personal story for example. You hear that your long lost sister is still alive and you go to rescue her.

Then never hear from her ever again.

Your long lost close relative that you grew up with recently returned in your life. No big deal or anything…
This was just so baffling to me I honestly couldn’t believe it when I first experienced it. I was convinced there had to be something, some continuation of that particular story. But there wasn’t.

But that’s a different topic.
I said it before and I’ll say it again. HoT needed an epilogue to properly end the story arc and tie up all loose ends. Not stop immediately after killing Mordremoth. It would be like a movie where the screen goes black and the credits start rolling at the exact moment the villain dies.

All of this.

I guess the best thing for us wanting resolution to these loose ends is to give up on it. I get the impression that no matter how much and how many times it’s pointed out that nothing’s going to change. They’ll just remain unresolved. :\

I’m still disappointed that there’s still loose ends from HoT that need tying or need further elaboration story-wise though this release did cover one of them. However, I did enjoy this release a lot more.

Just hope in future releases you’ll continue to tie up more HoT loose ends, like with regards to Zojja and Logan. A line of dialogue from Rytlock regarding the matter felt like and still feels like a slap in the face. :\

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Zojja and Logan are actually briefly mentioned in Out of the Shadows. Though, uh, Zojja’s not blind – even if you rescue her first. And which one is comatose there depends on which you rescue first (if you rescued Logan first, then Zojja’s the comatose one). In S3, both are stated to be awake but heavily injured.

I really wish Anet would have spent more time on them. Maybe it’s just me but I wasn’t satisfied with what amounted to one line of dialogue from Rytlock on the matter. It would have been nice if they had a section dedicated to them like what Eir got, maybe get more details on how they got captured and what exactly happened between then and when the Commander frees them. Heck, the same for Trahearne while we’re speaking of. He deserves a memorial service of some sort.

I imagine the behind-the-scenes reason behind Zojja’s and Logan’s prolonged absence has to do with voice actor availability, which if that’s the case I wish they’d at least find new voice actors for Zojja and Logan. I’ll admit that I’m a Zojja fanboy so I want to see more of her and Logan’s kind of grown on me.

However, I have a feeling that, like Malyck, Zojja and Logan are going to fall to the wayside with no resolution whatsoever. :\

Buy Some Apples.6390:

They dont even care for their own forums, preferring to post on reddit!

http://cdn.quotesgram.com/small/58/75/2033786295-whywouldyoudothat.jpg

Remove PvP from the game.

Problem solved. :^)

Honestly, I got more rubies farming Bloodstone Fen, doing events, hitting every Bloodstone Crystal node, etc. in a couple of days versus the time it would take me to do the PvP reward track.

I mean, I might do the reward track if PvP wasn’t such a cesspool. <_<

Randulf.7614:

What is a potential shame is that any loose ends from HoT appear to have been fully dropped now.

This.

That’s really my biggest gripe with LWS3 so far. I mean, the one thing I really care about (Zojja’s and Logan’s condition) was barely elaborated on. I know part of this is due to voice actor availability for those characters but c’mon, give us something more than Rytlock saying they’re “still laid up”. That doesn’t really tell us anything. Surely there’s a way to give us more that doesn’t involve/hinge on voice actor availability. :x

They (Anet) seem more keen to pursue new stuff than trying to tie up loose ends they created with the mess of a story that is HoT and this just…disappoints folks like myself who want some resolution.

Sure, they could end up addressing those issues later down the line in future chapters. However, all I have to go by is what they’ve released and going by what they’ve released I’m not filled with confidence that Anet’s gonna resolve loose ends from HoT ever. :\

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

I, for one, welcome our new Asura overlords.

As someone who mains a Human but has 16 Asura (and counting), I, too, welcome our new Asura overlords.

Whoo boy.

Somnium Luna.6294:

I am really impressed at how lazy players had become… Those achievement with daily don’t take more than 15minutes to complete.

For you. Stop speaking for everyone because I can assure you not everyone has had the same blazing fast experience as you seem to have.

No one is forcing you to play what you don’t like… And just don’t. Let the players who do like it, play.

Nowhere did I say I did or did not like something. Please don’t put words in my mouth.

Somnium Luna.6294:

I presume you do it for achievements points. The name says… You need to do something harder in order to achieve something.

You presume incorrectly. There’s plenty of other things I can go to if I want achievement points. Additionally, there’s a difference between something being hard and something that wasn’t tested enough before being pushed out the door. The new Daily system feels like it needs more polish. It feels like it needed more time to “cook”.

Somnium Luna.6294:

Or you would just like to do things like build a snowman, kill a rat?

There’s at least achievements for those.

Somnium Luna.6294:

Or should anet just make some tetris or kid style game so we can all farm 10000 achievement points in 3 days.

I have no idea what you’re going on about here. :v

Somnium Luna.6294:

Why do you hunt AP if you don’t have skill to do basic things? Enjoy the content you like, play game for fun it offers. You don’t like music puzzle or jp . Then just don’t do it. Go and do what you are good at doing. That’s all.
And let the others enjoy a bit harder and different content.

You’re assuming (incorrectly I might add) that I’m hunting for achievement points, and we all know what happens when you assume.

Not doing something doesn’t change the fact that it still needs work and needs tweaking/fixing. Using that same logic, I should stop walking if I break my leg because it’s too hard/painful/challenging to walk on it. Sure, I can do that, but it doesn’t change the fact that I have a broken leg that needs to be looked at by a doctor if I want to function normally.

Also, I know Anet isn’t forcing me or anyone else to play this game and its content. However, in order to improve on certain features and aspects of the game, some critiquing and feedback from the players is certainly needed. If feedback/critique isn’t given, the game can’t improve. Issues current players are dealing with never get addressed, which gets passed onto newer players. Those issues could very well lead to other, bigger issues if not addressed and not mentioned.

In short, the feedback I left is because I love the game, as I’m sure OP does, and I want to see it become better than it is. Providing feedback/critique is one way of doing this. By saying nothing, by “not doing the things I don’t like” or “not doing the ‘hard’ things” when a fix may very well improve things is doing this game and any other game a disservice.

In conclusion, cool post but I think you completely missed the point OP and I were making or trying to make. :U

I second this and I’d like to add my own thoughts which may echo points OP already brought up.

When it comes to doing events with the current Daily system, it introduced (in my opinion) some unneeded headaches. There are zergs trying to do events for the Daily and everyone is spamming “1” like a madman, only to have a handful of said zerg get credit while everyone else doesn’t. It’s happened to me on several occasions and it’s not fun. While, yes, there’s less to do to get Daily rewards, there lacks the variety that the previous Daily system had.

With regard to Wintersday, the lack of variety and options for those Daily’s is also disappointing and pretty much drove me away from all of those events. I too don’t have the reflexes and/or the keyboard responsiveness needed to do the Wintersday Daily JP’s and Bell Choir. Compare that to the Halloween Daily meta where (in my opinion) there was so much more to choose from.

Like OP, I feel like the Daily needs to be generalized a bit more. That or bring back the variety the previous Daily system had.

Since the forums/board isn’t letting me edit my own post, I’m having to resort to double posting/bumping. Double great.

Using the -repair command didn’t work. Still having the same issues that I’ve been having since the September 2014 Update.

I’ll try working on it more this evening. Too frustrated to do anything now.

EDIT/UPDATE 2: Don’t know what else to do. Sent off a support ticket. Still hoping someone here knows something about what’s going on. Prepared to triple post/quadruple post/bump endlessly if necessary.

Operating System
Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33GHz
Yorkfield 45nm Technology
RAM
2.00GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
Intel Corporation DG31PR (J3E1)
Graphics
V223W (1680×1050@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 (PNY)
Storage
298GB Western Digital WDC WD3201ABYS-01B9A0 (SATA)
Optical Drives
ATAPI iHAS220 6
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio

Figured it would be best to post my system specs first before I detail the issue I’ve been having.

Alright, since the introduction of the September 2014 Feature Update I’ve been having issues with the client. What happens is this: I’m able to log in with no issues. It brings up the latest news and the Play button. When I click on the Play button though sometimes I’ll get what looks like two windows blending together (one that says Untitled and the other that says Guild Wars 2). They’ll flicker and blink but they won’t bring me to the Character Select screen. In fact, the first time this happened I couldn’t even Ctrl-Alt-Del out and had to hard reset. Since then I’ve had to keep the Task Manager window open in the event it happens again (and it has) so I can Alt-Tab out and manually kill the non-responsive process (that process being Guild Wars 2). The applications tab of Task Manager will show two instances of Guild Wars 2 being open, one instance with the status Not Responding with the other instance Running.

At first, this only happened occasionally. As the updates continued it’s become worse. When I manually kill the non-responsive process, I’m unable to get the character select screen up when I try logging in again. It flat out crashes with no error report window. Even worse is that when this happens (when I have to manually kill the non-responsive process) I can’t play any of my other games unless I reboot my PC. What started as me having to reboot at most twice before I could play GW2 without issues when this issue began has evolved into having to reboot eight or more times before I can even get GW2 to launch right so I can reach the character select screen.

I thought it might have been a nVidia thing since I was getting a black screen so I messed around with the 3D Settings and even made a shortcut to play GW2 in windowed mode, as mentioned in the tech support sticky and tech support page. It worked once before I’m once again having to manually kill the non-responsive process and reboot over and over, hoping that one of those reboots will finally let me play the game instead of running into the window-blending issue that forces me to Alt-Tab out, manually kill the non-responsive process.

What was the exception (window-blending issue forcing me to Alt-Tab out and manually kill an unresponsive GW2 window) is now the rule and I’m pretty much at my wit’s end on what to do about it, so I’m posting here in hopes someone has found a way to fix this issue.

One more thing: When I did try the Windowed mode fix, I made sure to set the shortcut so that it would run Minimized in hopes that maybe I could find out what the second Guild Wars 2 process is. I ran it and Guild Wars 2 was minimized. The other window I got said the following:

“A disk-I/O error has occurred. Guild Wars 2 will now terminate.”

I’m not having this or any similar issues with any of the other games I have. It’s only been Guild Wars 2 and this has been going on since the September 2014 Feature Pack update.

Other than that, when I can actually get into the game, everything runs fine. It all just hinges on whether or not I can actually reach the Character Select screen and, as I mentioned before, it’s getting harder and harder to get there as the client issue seems to be getting worse and worse for me.

Hopefully I’ve provided enough info on the issue that a diagnosis can be made. If not, let me know what other info is needed and I’ll do my best to provide it.

Thanks.

EDIT/UPDATE: So after doing some reading on the tech support forums I’ve come to the conclusion I got bit by the same Coherent_UI issue like most folks have before. Setting my ESET Smart Security 7 to Gamer Mode seems to have done the trick (though I had a GFX issue the first time I tried it – was still able to log in and select my character; second time I was able to play with no GFX issues but as soon as I exited the game my monitor went black like the PC was off when it wasn’t; semi-fudged up the hard reset after that led to XP doing a CHKDSK to make sure everything was kosher, which it was).

Hopefully this is the last of the headaches I’ve been experiencing. If I have the monitor issue and/or the GFX issue I had before I’ll come back and update this.

EDIT/UPDATE 2: And it’s back to doing the whole two windows blending together-flickering thing. Great.

Gonna try the -repair command and see if that helps.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

https://twitter.com/itzchF

Apparantly it’s this guy. Something to do with him hating autism (and of course being an attention whore)

Nonsense like this is why I’m a proponent of year-round public schooling.

Summer break? Nope! Have some Algebra 2 to study from the beginning of May to the end of August huehuehue :v