Guild Wars 2

Well! I’m not really sure that we were seen.. But request granted. Buy 4000 gems in December for a “free” Mini. Mr. Sparkles.

People will have to take a deep dive into their wallet, but honestly, still better than eBay.
4.000 gems is obviously a ripoff, but at least we get to actually buy it in-game now rather than taking the next flight to Germany.

GarthDreamWalker.7806:

Hello everyone, I think I found them all! /cheer I never found more then 3 per map and sometimes that 3rd one was rather hard to find. If anyone finds any more please let me know.

Wow. Amazing job man! I would never have had the patience to do this. I’m a little disappointed that it seems like another “global event that does not disturb newbies”. But I’m still curious what they are. I first wrote that they looked like Aetherblade tech, but it also seems Molten. with that hammer beating up the ground beneath the machine.

Fror.2163:

Yes, +12 has hit the API’s items list today.

This means that someone crafted it. +18 has yet to be seen on the items list. This means it hasn’t been crafted yet.

That would mean Anet implemented it so that Infusions doesn’t actually exist as an item anywhere until someone have crafted it? kitten . That’s good Thanks for the info.

Tongku.5326:

Treeline.3865:

Fafnir.5124:

Treeline.3865:

I have a question. Is it possible to craft a +12 infusion? There are none on TP and Dulfy Datamining only had from 1-11. Does the +12 exist, or are the infusions not as infinite as they should be?

Cost 2x more to make those infusions so people who actually spend to make them most likely don’t want to sell them.

Which explains TP, but not datamining. Can anyone confirm that +12 is possible?

Hi

Yes, it is possible, my guildie crafted a +18, due to the way the crafting process works it would not be possible to craft the +18 if the +12 could not be done first.

I’m sorry but I will have to call you a liar on that one, unless you can provide a screenshot. A +18 infusion would take 131 072 +1 infusions, 1960 Gold, 82 Silver, 22 Copper. I really doubt he had both 2.000 gold and the money to buy over 100.000 infusions (Or fewer, more expensive ones) to get a +18 infusion

ZiemnyJoker.1763:

My friend made this, it shows the locations of all “DO NOT TOUCH” pillars.
http://imgur.com/a/Q6Vmn

~Royal Historian.

That’s not all of them. From the few I found, he is definitely missing one in both Bloodtide Coast and southern Cursed Shore.

Fafnir.5124:

Treeline.3865:

I have a question. Is it possible to craft a +12 infusion? There are none on TP and Dulfy Datamining only had from 1-11. Does the +12 exist, or are the infusions not as infinite as they should be?

Cost 2x more to make those infusions so people who actually spend to make them most likely don’t want to sell them.

Which explains TP, but not datamining. Can anyone confirm that +12 is possible?

I have a question. Is it possible to craft a +12 infusion? There are none on TP and Dulfy Datamining only had from 1-11. Does the +12 exist, or are the infusions not as infinite as they should be?

I gave up on mapping the DO NOT TOUCH, as no immediate pattern appeared. Seems another global event with a few random placements on every map. Here’s what I found, red dots are DO NOT TOUCH devices.

Some observations so far:
There seems to be 1-2 DO NOT TOUCH on every map, including Orr where Anet often leave things out. They are in WvW as well, not sure where (Guildie told me)
The ones I have mapped (15 or so) have no apparent pattern.

Ill give people that she’s kitten annoying. But I dont think her plot or story is bad

GarthDreamWalker.7806:

The “do not touch”, I plan mapping/finding those Thursday night/friday morning unless someone else gets them done. Anyone know if there is just one per area or more and are just randomly found?

Do keep us updated and thanks for the effort!
So far I have not seen more than 1 per map.

Qawsada.4251:

Thaumanova
-Remove Scarlet. She doesn’t need to be there at all. Let it be an all asura fractal.

Don’t you have enough threads about that?

Tulki.1458:

Snowblind: The Son of Svanir Shaman now sometimes drops AoE ice shards in fewer quantities while he’s on the ground fighting.

This is not new at all, shouldn’t be included.

Qawsada.4251:

Treeline.3865:

From an interview with Angel McCoy:

And there lies the problem as to why I would never accept your reason why Scarlet exist. Angel McCoy created Scarlet and she pamper her to being ZE BEST VILLAIN AROUND! The fact that Angel have the nerve to mess or destroy Guild Wars 1 lore just to make THIS exist infuriates me. It doesn’t help when Angel does not even know the Guild Wars 1 lore and the thread in the lore section pick point those points.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Angel-McCoy-Interview

Not to mention all the Living Story up to this point (excluding the holiday and SAB) was written by Angel in a way to make Scarlet “shine”, nevermind how bad or forced the story is.

I’d argue she’s a quite talented writer. Quite the experienced one too. Again a random quote from wiki; 2007 should indicate that she’d know a thing or two about GW1 lore:

Angel Leigh McCoy officially joined the ArenaNet writing team in 2007, though her heart was here long before that. She has been a professional writer in the games industry for twenty years, working for Microsoft Games Studios, Wizards of the Coast, and White Wolf, among others.

This is a bit off topic though.

Qawsada.4251:

Treeline.3865:

Scarlet Briar says in the story instance:

I told the Inquest chaos energy was a misnomer. Mind you, dragon energy is tricky, so I can see how they flubbed it.

so it is a fair assumption that she did in fact not cause the Reactor incident.

Yes, because we can totally ignore this following line.

Scarlet Briar: Reactor approaching critical, panicked evacuation, general mayhem and hysteria…Yep, I’d say my work here is done.
Scarlet Briar: Sorry about all the death, and for the portal pandemonium.

Its heavily implies she start or escalate the reactor explosion. She is not innocent in this instance and in all account, shove in the fractal for no other reason regardless.

You are assuming that her work refers to the reactor meltdown. It’s not impossible at all, but as I read it, it’s just a “Reactor melting down? Yep, time to get the beep out of here”. statement. If she was responsible, why would she do the teaching statement that she warned the Inquest who “flubbed it” anyway?

Anyways, would anyone take on mapping those DO NOT TOUCH thingies? Maybe they add up to something. It would be very interesting to see

Scarlet Briar says in the story instance:

I told the Inquest chaos energy was a misnomer. Mind you, dragon energy is tricky, so I can see how they flubbed it.

so it is a fair assumption that she did in fact not cause the Reactor incident. She did however not seem concerned with it either, so I guess she learned what she could from the place. But what many of you say is true. Scarlets twisted mind combined with all the alliances still seems disconnected. We have still little clue as to the purpose of the alliances. And yes, it is very odd that ArenaNet has kept it in the dark for so long, but it could turn out to be a very nice turn to the story, whatever the idea is. There are pieces to the puzzle that we do not yet have. But just because we dont have a motive thrown at us, does not mean it is a bad plot. Only that Tyria probably still is in grave danger, given that we have little clue to the enemys next move.

AysonCurrax.3254:

The Ley Line Theory would actually make alot of sense, since, as they were just mentioned in the Fractal, coincidentally, all those “Do Not Touch” Devices just happened to pop up all over Tyria, potentially placed at such “knot points” like the one the Thaumanova Reactor was apparently located at, atleast thats what i have gathered from what you posted.

Haha! I’ve been thinking this! But I did not want to “reach” in my post without any solid ground. These devices could be litterally anything.

My wild guess with no grounds to them what so ever:

The devices look like some kind of Aetherblade technology to me, already bringing Scarlet into the equation there. Their exact function is anyones guess, but they are found everywhere in the world on seemingly random locations. They don’t appear to be tactical or follow obvious patterns at all.

Assuming that the ley line theory is somewhat correct, and the DO NOT TOUCH devices are in fact tied into this plot, it could explain the locations, but I still have no reasonable idea as to what Scarlet is trying to achieve with them.

It could be anything from tracking/mapping the ley line pattern to trying to disrupt them, causing havoc to the Magic of Tyria somehow.

But even if the devices are tied into the ley line theory, why now? The Reactor meltdown happened more than a year ago. (It was “recent” according to Wiki).

There would have to be some piece in the puzzle she did not have yet. Aetherblade technology could be one factor, but that still does not account for what she has been doing the last few months.

Guess we will have to wait on the Living Story for that one

Oh and the DO NOT TOUCH devices could just as well be a new global clean-up machine, ending littering as we know it.

haviz.1340:

Fror.2163:

Yeah, level 50. What about level 51 ?

Anet told us that there are 19 instabilities meaning that scale 50 does not have any.

Or maybe scale 30 didn’t have one

Guild Wars is indeed a bit misleading, as it is a reference to oooooooold lore. In context of the current game, it means absolutely nothing, unless you like to read the ancient lore (which is actually really good imo)

Fror.2163:

few days? People are already playing 41-42.

Hitting max level is not the same as receiving 1% damage though. I’d give it a few days until we know (: The first player will surely hit 50 today.

I don’t mind the current way of Fractals. Even assuming you are very slow, there is nothing wrong with content taking 1-2 hours to complete, as long as there is a decent system in place to ensure accidental disconnects or the like does not mess things up. Not everything should be rushed in 7 minutes or less.

2 hours is kind of the limit as to how long you can expect people to sit in front of their computer without any break.

I suspect you will have that answer in a few days, as soon as the first people hit level 50. The first will most likely get there today. No lifers

clocksword.6052:

Well to be perfectly fair, in the blog post Scarlet was also mentioned having researched and interest in thaumanovic devices and such, so that does tie her into the reactor if only by description.

Would you mind linking this blog post? Not that I doubt you, I just can’t find it. Only reference I found was a single one in the short-story:

After months of painstaking preparation, Omadd’s experiment was ready. Ceara would enter his isolation module, a vast array of thaumechanical devices wired to a coffin-like chamber. Once activated, she would be unfettered by her physical body and could delve into the metaphysical vortex of reality as no one ever had.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Expect a gem store “upgrade extractor” for the low low price of 400 gems/use to appear shortly…

I fear this is exactly what they will do, but I really hope they will just let us swap infusions as we want to and upgrade on the fly, rather than having to make a new one every time we choose to use an infusion.

From what I’m gathering, ArenaNet either ninja changed the ring drops or broke it, so I updated the original post, asking them to confirm or move the thread to bugs

Jekkt.6045:

what im talking about is the difficulty of the content. cof p1 rewards you with 1g and takes about 10mins. fractals take 1h+ and you get almost the same reward in terms of gold. im not talking about the chests here because you already did get them before the update.

This I can easily agree on, and in general I didn’t like how they did their dungeon reward calculations.. Basically Arah is 3g per path while every other dungeon is 1g. To a large degree, they did not factor in the time spent on the paths, nor the difficulty. If CoF p1 is 1g, then there are certainly other dungeons that should have 6-7g rewards, and while I find Fractals to be rewarding during the run, the difficulty and time invested in a Fractals run, does not seem to be factored in by a proper degree.

sirflamesword.3896:

Treeline.3865:

To be fair you also get 4 chests, loot, fractal relics, some infusions probably, pristine relic and possibly a fractal skin or ascended weapon/ring.

And doing CoF p1 twice you get 6 chests, a little loot, and a few champ bags(ascended weapon chance)

I guess I was unclear, I will try again.

OP doesn’t paint the picture as there is much more to CoF and Fractals than the raw gold reward. CoF also gives tokens for that matter.

OreoWolf.9564:

It has always been a thing. Your rings have a CHANCE to be infused. This chance rises as your fractal level does. I heard somewhere about them changing it to always be infused after 26+, but it appears to be false.

It used to be very true. Level 26 used to be the level where you never saw a non-infused ring again.

Vissarion.6509:

i think i got non infused rings before at 20+ its not something new.

I’m only asking for 26+ At scales 20-25, non-infused rings definitely drops.

Asia Skyly.7198:

Is 30 YOUR personal reward level? Rings are guaranteed to be infused 26+, assuming that is your personal reward level.

Yes. I used to be around 40, got reset to 30 with the rest of you.

Battledoll.1803:

Yes, it will take forever to upgrade. Perhaps, we would be allowed to take out the slotted infusion and combine it with a same grade for upgrade. I’d even agree to charge me something to take out the already slotted AR (e.g. a special consumable tools to just do that).

I’m hoping for something exactly along the lines of this.

It’s not a OMG I QUIT issue, I just really don’t like that we have to overwrite our infusions to upgrade.

I would hope to be able to dismount infusion on demand.. Ideas could be:

- Just let us pull the upgrade from the item.
- Sell a single use removal tool: 250 Fractal Relics or 3 Pristine Relics in Fractals of the Mists.
- Putting an Ascended Ring (+3 AR) in the Mystic Forge with a +3 AR infusion + possibly two random ingredients (Mist essence, relics?) returns the same ring with a better infusion.
- Sell an Infusion Splitter in the Gem Store and make people hate you
- Applying an AR infusion to an item with a matching AR infusion just upgrades the infusion. For example applying a +1 infusion to a ring with a +1 infusions gives the ring a +2 infusion. Attempting to apply a different infusion gives a warning that this infusion will overwrite the existing upgrade.

Jekkt.6045:

did lvl 30 fractal. daily gold reward was 1g 20s. 2x cof p1 pls.

To be fair you also get 4 chests, loot, fractal relics, some infusions probably, pristine relic and possibly a fractal skin or ascended weapon/ring.

Is this intended?

I’m a bit rusty on Fractals, but as I remember it, non-infused rings stopped dropping after scale 25. Yet I just got a non-infused ring at scale 30.

Edit:
From the responses this does indeed seem to either be a change or a bug.
ArenaNet, can you either confirm that it is intended that non-infused rings keep dropping after Personal Reward Level 25, or move this thread to the bug forum?

Thank you

lekyii.9856:

why?? just why did you change the camera on the Jade maw?

Its unplayable now

It’s hardly unplayable, but it was definitely more enjoyable before.

Well. First of all my accessories lost their basic infusions. Go figure, no biggie, they were not expensive.

What I really wanted with the thread was to discuss the new infusion slot with “infinite agony resist”.

As far as I can see, it works like any upgrade slot. You get an upgrade. You use the slot. You can override the existing upgrade.

In my opinion, that’s not the way to go for this new infusion slot and sounds like an annoyance.

Imagine that you gather a lot of infusions to craft a mighty +8 AR infusion. That’s awesome! But what now? Continuing the journey through Fractals you continue to gather small infusions, and one day you will again have a +8 AR infusion. That’s great, now you have two +8 AR and can make an even better one! – But no. If I understand it correctly, the +8 AR infusion that you used is stuck in the slot of your Ascended item, and should you want a better infusion, you can not make any use of the existing one. You need to create a brand new infusion from scratch.

In other words, and correct me if I’m wrong; Every time you use an infusion, that infusion will no longer be upgradeable. Should you want a better one from all the new infusions you have gathered, you will need to create a new one from scratch to get a better one.

If it’s right.. Then I hate it. It sucks a bit having to always wonder when the best time is to use those precious infusions you have gathered, rather than just keep upgrading and be happy that your AR keeps improving a bit at a time.

Darcy.2079:

I earned around 1000 tournament reward chests in my original server.
Transferred this morning. Found this bug and then this year-old thread.

Exactly this scenario confuses me. They should know a year ago that the longer they ignore this bug, the worse the transfer stories get.

Unfortunately I would not count on anything from Anet. They have been surprisingly bad here.

You can:

A) Transfer back, and pay up the gems yourself, and get rewards again. (I assume this is true, no promise)
B) Play. And every single time you don’t get a chest (= the next 1.000 matches), submit it as a bug ingame, and hope it draws attention eventually (Don’t count on it).

Serra.5479:

Can a dev answer us pls? Will be some way to get it ingame?

Request for answer seconded, but I’m losing faith on this matter

It’s a kitten good guess, but no, unfortunately no onboard GPU Only the dedicated card. Thanks for all your suggestions though. I won’t format my computer, at least until a holiday comes up, so I guess I will have to live with it for now.

About the memory usage on the GPU. Could there be something there? Or is it normal that it could max out often?

Again, thanks for your effort!

Another update: I ran GPU-Z to monitor my GPU, as suggested by SolarNova. Truth is that graphics isn’t exactly my specialty, but some something odd is definitely going on. I attached a screenshot showing the GPU-Z windows about 10 seconds after one of the FPS tanks ceased, letting the game go back to normal.

The spike started around 30 seconds before Fire Elemental was up. (It was not caused by that odd issue where the FPS drops right when it pops) The Fire Elemental spawns with a 15 minute timer, and as you can see on the screenshot it shows 14:07, meaning that the spike lasted for little more than a minute.

Im not sure what conclusions to draw from the GPU-Z data, hoping for some help there.

What I notice first is that for a while there is no load on the GPU at all. Secondly the GPU clock is.. Weird! Seems to keep jumping between 700mhz (Standard max clock) and 400mhz (standard minimum clock i think). And then something about the memory usage.

I hope someone gets an idea from this

Aaaand I hit a new can of worms.

So I decided to be a bit more thorough and use DriverSweeper to remove my ATI drivers and everything associated with it completely. After removing the driver I tried both the latest beta and latest stable – But when running the installer I do not get the option to install the ATI drivers, nor Catalyst Control Center. I have no clue why. Luckily Windows Update was clever enough to give me the latest stable driver from there. But I’m now without the Control Center to monitor the GPU. :/

When you went to Brisban to complete it, was it per chance almost done already? As in were you perhaps only missing a waypoint?

My idea:
- You completed Briban Wildlands long ago, got your rewards and forgot about it (100% completion)
- ArenaNet added a few new things, a waypoint at least, if I’m not mistaken – The area now shows ~97% complete)
- You see it’s not complete, go to the area, complete it and get no rewards
- Confusion!

Same, waiting for 3 skins to be depositable.

There are a lot of areas that does not have any hearts, waypoints, point of interest or anything related to world completion. You can have 100% world completion and still miss areas.

SolarNova.1052:

Check ur GPU VRAm usuage just befor this happens, if its maxed out at 1024mb then its possible ur seeing a performance tank due to the VRAm, RAM, and HDD having to swap out data.

That said, since this is now happening after u installed W8 its likely just a software hitch. personaly i stick with W7, its more mature and helps avoid such problems.

I will try checking out if this is a case. Usually my GPU is not anywhere near maxed out, but who knows. I will give it a try Thanks for the suggestion.

By the way, I only upgraded from Windows 8 -> Windows 8.1.

As for defragmenting, I do this on both my partitions somewhat regularly. While I have a lot of crap on my laptop, it should also be “clean”. No crapware, no malware, no adware etc etc. The issue also persists when nothing but Windows stuff is running on the computer besides GuildWars. I tend to have a lot of things open, but it does not seem to affect the problem by any significant amount.

Xystus.3241:

Did you do a clean install of Windows 8.1?
Have you tried reinstalling your video drivers?
What are your temperatures like?
Is your laptop set for High Performance or Battery Saving/Balanced power profile?

No, I used the Windows Store upgrade. A clean format is not an option for me at the moment.
Yes, beta and non-beta.
70-76 celcius on the CPU, quite normal.
High Performance. Catalyst Control Center is also set to not mess with the performance.

Since installing Windows 8.1 (Or randomly around that time) I started having an issue where my game will be unresponsive for a while.

To describe it the best I can, this is what happens:

> Game runs “smoothly” – I’m on a laptop, so “smooth” is between 50 and 10 FPS, but obviously that is a matter of performance, how many players and stuff nearby etc.

> Suddenly the game clogs up giving me a slideshow. And by slideshow, I really mean slideshow. It’s not a matter of getting 2-3 frames per second. Usually I get a new picture every 3-10 seconds. Sometimes I even get a Windows loading icon (the blue circle) instead of my regular mouse icon, and sometimes GuildWars is “Not Responding” for a few seconds. That’s how bad it is. With that said, the game never crashes, and I seem to somewhat be able to interact with the game meanwhile. Sometimes I have tried running while this happens, but I obviously can’t navigate properly. The character moves though and seems to respond to most things.

> This usually goes on for ~15-30 seconds.

> What I notice while it happens is that my harddisk, a 7200RPM, 500GB WD, is running at 100%. It is reading or writing on full speed for some reason.

> This happens pretty reliably a few seconds after mapping to a new area, after a few seconds. It also happens a bit randomly, but the case of waypointing almost always triggers it.

> This did not happen until a few weeks ago, around the time I threw Win 8.1 on my laptop from Win 8. Could be a coincidence.

Any ideas at all?

The laptop has these specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5-460M (2.4Ghz Dual-Core)
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5870M (1 GB DDR5)
HDD: WD 500GB 7200RPM – Partitioned into 65GB C:\ drive with OS (15GB available) and 400GB D :\ which holds GuildWars (99GB available).
4 GB DDR3 SDRAM – 1066Mhz if I remember correctly.

You seem to be mistaken, as to the function of a driver.

Same. But hey, it’s a 10 minute instance.

ionfone.5803:

Just throwing this out there, but why not make it an unbound item? Then the mini can be traded openly on the market and the true value of it in-game will be governed by its demand in-game. I’m a bit confused as to why ArenaNet decided to make this miniature account bound only and obtainable only through a couple conventions/promotions.

My guess would be that their idea with Mr. Sparkles was to give a “nice item as a token of appreciation” without essentially handing people 500g ingame. In that sense, Account Bound makes sense. But when eBay is factored in, it doesn’t really mean anything.

Also thanks, KOPPER, Zaraxes

They have also fixed bugs like that in Lunatic Inquisition.
Also I like my CMstorm mouse. Nice account name

For more information, you might want to check out this thread