Guild Wars 2

You are just trolling, Smooth Penguin, aren’t you?

I hope that an expansion will be released. An expansion that we can buy with money and that can offer A LOT of new contents to the players.
I really loved GW2, but this way realeasing expansions in chapter is really bad for some reasons:
1. gives players (bored of GW2 like me) the chance to log in just one day, unlock new chapters, play them and close the game again for other 2 weeks.
2. new contents became boring in a week because players have nothing new to do except for the new event (seldom bugged for the first 2 or 3 days).
3. the GW2 motto of a PERSONAL story is dead: we have no choice to do in the fight against Mordremoth’s creatures, we are just victim of circumstances.
4. there is nothing new to do: now 99% of players have all characters, played all races and explored the world more than one time. Mordremoth doesn’t offer a good novelty to keep players anchored to the the game.

Besides Anet didn’t annouce a real expansion, this means that it will continue offering us just few shreds of new contents for a long time yet…

Ok, thanks guys, I’ll try)

Yep, my memory is exactly 3GB . I understand nothing of computers, but the GC has its own memory, shouldn’t be sufficient to play? In any case all my graphic settings are medium-low, I’ll try to lower everything, even if play with these settings could be really bad…

Ok, this should be the last:

_*—> Crash <—*
OOM: arena=Default, cat=Gr Texture, allocBytes=4162804, arenaBytes=279785264, fallbackBytes=18186980, align=0 ,
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 4964
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 25436
When: 2013-10-30T17:53:18Z 2013-10-30T18:53:18+01:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:14:27
Flags: 0

• System <—*
  Processors: 4 [GenuineIntel:6:15:11]
  OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (32 bit)

• System Memory <—*
  Physical: 201MB/ 3071MB 6%
  Paged: 2306MB/ 6140MB 37%
  Virtual: 48MB/ 2047MB 2%
  Load: 93%
  CommitTotal: 3834MB
  CommitLimit: 6140MB
  CommitPeak: 3841MB
  SystemCache: 3246MB
  HandleCount: 27346
  ProcessCount: 61
  ThreadCount: 991

• Process Memory <—*
  Private: 1673MB
  WorkingSet: 1561MB
  PeakWorkingSet: 1561MB
  PageFaults: 1259527

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7600.16385 (64/32-bit compatible)]

• ClientContextThreadProc Thread 0×434 <—*

• Trace <—*
  Pc:006e0564 Fr:3ac1fd44 Rt:006e209d Arg:00000000 00000031 013d931c 000010a7
  Pc:006e209d Fr:3ac1fd64 Rt:006e21d9 Arg:00000005 00000000 00000000 013d931c

• Thread registers <—*
  eax=3ac1f7e8 ebx=00000000 ecx=013d931c edx=00000000 esi=75deb69a edi=00000005
  eip=006e0564 esp=3ac1fbfc ebp=3ac1fd44
  cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00200246

• Code <—*
  006E0544 e86784ff ff8b4d14 8b95ecfe ffff83c4 .g….M………
  006E0554 286a0051 528d95fc feffffb9 05000000 (j.QR………..
  006E0564 e8b70201 008b4dfc 5f5e33cd 5be8e38e ……M._^3.[…
  006E0574 27008be5 5dc21400 cccccccc 558bec8b ’…]…….U…
  006E0584 45086a00 50e892fd ffff5dc2 0400cccc E.j.P…..]…..
  006E0594 cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc 8b0dbc59 ……………Y

• Stack <—*
  3AC1FBFC 006e0569 013d931c 000010a7 00000000 i.n…=………
  3AC1FC0C 00000031 00000000 003f84f4 00000000 1………?…..
  3AC1FC1C 00000000 011582e4 01715580 00000000 ………Uq…..

• Error Logs <—*
  856) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again
  TRY_ALLOC failure on arena(Character) category(Character Packfile) size(16732) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again
  TRY_ALLOC failure on arena(Character) category(Character Packfile) size(21692) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again

• DirectX Device Info <—*
  VendorId = 0×1002
  DeviceId = 0×9460
  Version = 8.17.0010.1129
  Description = ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
  Compat = 0×00000000
  VidMem = 2297 MB_

Wups, sorry. I edited my post with the last crash log in the ArenaNet file. This is the same report that I can find in the AppData\Guild Wars 2

I don’t know what to do. I’ve red all the crashing threads, here, and I’ve tried all the solutions proposed, but nothing happen.
Usually I crash in Lion’s Arch or when I change map (before this new patch my PC used to restart automatically in particular spots like Spider boss in TA dungeon or in caves in Sylvari’s map, but I’m avoiding that zones so I don’t know if I still have this problem), but with this new patch I can’t stay online for more than 5 minutes, in Kessex Hills, and I can’t play in this way.

This is the last error message I took from error box:

_"*—> Crash <—*
Out of Memory: arena=Environment, cat=Prop Packfile, allocBytes=5436592, arenaBytes=127874608, fallbackBytes=19809124, align=0 ,
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 4460
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 23244
When: 2013-09-11T11:58:16Z 2013-09-11T13:58:16+02:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:24:21
Flags: 0

• System <—*
  Processors: 4 [GenuineIntel:6:15:11]
  OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (32 bit)

• System Memory <—*
  Physical: 412MB/ 3071MB 13%
  Paged: 2514MB/ 6140MB 40%
  Virtual: 59MB/ 2047MB 2%
  Load: 86%
  CommitTotal: 3625MB
  CommitLimit: 6140MB
  CommitPeak: 3887MB
  SystemCache: 14926MB
  HandleCount: 26183
  ProcessCount: 62
  ThreadCount: 983

• Process Memory <—*
  Private: 1559MB
  WorkingSet: 1481MB
  PeakWorkingSet: 1489MB
  PageFaults: 1208964

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7600.16385 (64/32-bit compatible)]

• ClientContextThreadProc Thread 0×1338 <—*

• Trace <—*
  Pc:006d0ab4 Fr:3aa7fcf0 Rt:006d25ed Arg:00000000 0000007c 014608ac 0000044d
  Pc:006d25ed Fr:3aa7fd10 Rt:006d2729 Arg:0000000d 00000000 00000000 014608ac

• Thread registers <—*
  eax=3aa7f794 ebx=00000000 ecx=014608ac edx=00000000 esi=7564b69a edi=00000005
  eip=006d0ab4 esp=3aa7fba8 ebp=3aa7fcf0
  cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000246

• Code <—*
  006D0A94 e80787ff ff8b4d14 8b95ecfe ffff83c4 ……M………
  006D0AA4 286a0051 528d95fc feffffb9 05000000 (j.QR………..
  006D0AB4 e8e70201 008b4dfc 5f5e33cd 5be8933b ……M._^3.[..;
  006D0AC4 27008be5 5dc21400 cccccccc 558bec8b ’…]…….U…
  006D0AD4 45086a00 50e892fd ffff5dc2 0400cccc E.j.P…..]…..
  006D0AE4 cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc 8b0d3497 …………..4.

• Stack <—*
  3AA7FBA8 006d0ab9 014608ac 0000044d 00000000 ..m…F.M…….
  3AA7FBB8 0000007c 00000000 0052f4b0 00000000 |………R…..
  3AA7FBC8 00000000 012e4364 016e92f8 00000000 ….dC….n…..
  3AA7FBD8 079f3630 014608ac 00000000 012d96c4 06….F…….-.
  3AA7FBE8 013825cc 6e657261 6e453d61 6f726976 .%8.arena=Enviro

• Error Logs <—*
  files and attempting again
  TRY_ALLOC failure on arena(Environment) category(Prop Packfile) size(153244) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again
  TRY_ALLOC failure on arena(Environment) category(Prop Packfile) size(180708) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again

• DirectX Device Info <—*
  VendorId = 0×1002
  DeviceId = 0×9460
  Version = 8.14.0010.0678
  Description = ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
  Compat = 0×00000000
  VidMem = 2298 MB_

These are the characteristics of my PC:

Intel Core2 Quad CPU
Q6600 @2.40 GHz
Ram – 3 GB
OS – Windows 7, 32 bit
GC – Radeon HD 4890

I don’t know if all these crashes depend on my GC, but I currently have setted my video options by clicking on Autodetect, medium Animations, no Reflections and no Shadows.
My audio is setted on: fastest Sound Quality, shorter Music Interval and Lowest Latency in Mixing Buffer Size…

As many people said before me the world seems to be live at a first sight, but after a year playing, all seems to be artificial. And when you have more than one character at cap level, with maps fully explored, this feeling is even more deep.

I’ve red a lot of good ideas, but I didin’t read every post, so I don’t know if someone has already suggest to create a complex chain of events: almost all the events consist on just 2 or 3 steps – the quest starts, it can be solved or not and, in the first case, it can start a new gathering quest. After that, all come back home.
What if this process has a more complex scheme? Something like a tree diagram of events?
For example at the second step the event could bring the player to attack dredge directly or stealing their resources. Than the player could choose to stay in the camp and defend the resources or outflank dredges and strike them in their back, now that they are more weak.
Obviously the end of every step could produce a different effect – failing a step doesn’t mean that the player fails the event, at least if he/she fails one of lower steps – so if the player fails the attack he/she could have to face the defense of the encampment by a lot of enemies. Or if the player fails stealing goods in time, he/she could be attacked by dredge waves bigger than those would have attacked if the quest would be completed.
This system brings a lot of possibilities in just one event and give more life to events, it would be like an “under the open sky dungeon”.

Another aspect of the “living” world that not seems too much live is the importance of your character in the whole world. In the personal story you become a commander, you have saved the world from the first big threat and saved or lost a lot of souls. But when you go in the open world nobody seems to know you. NPCs speak with you as you were a common nonentity. I think that something that represent your hero, at the end of the killing of Zhaitan could increase the feeling to be important, to be famous and to be thanked. Not necessarily a statue, but even a building, a portal a monument of Zhaitan’s dead…

Last but not least I totally agree with people saying that the dragons presence is too low. They are our enemies and we are eager to see everyone of them, so defend an acampment from Zhaitan poison or Kralkatorrik shards could be interesting. Ok, sure, we have faced just Zhaitan, at the moment, but this does not mean that we finally see or have to defend from manoeuvre from other dragons or their first liutenants. Besides dragons are the best creatures in the fantasy world and I can’t wait to fight them again :P

P.S.: english is not my first language, so esxcuse me if I made mistakes…

I have the same problem. I re-installed GC drivers and the game ran better for a while, but tonight I’m crashing every 10 minutes or less.
This is the last report, I don’t know if this is the important part to understand what is the problem:

• Crash <—*
  Assertion: !FAILED, result = 0×8876086c
  File: ..\..\..\Engine\Gr\Dx9\Dx9Shader.cpp(1294)
  App: Gw2.exe
  Pid: 4520
  Cmdline:
  BaseAddr: 00400000
  ProgramId: 101
  Build: 16597
  When: 2013-01-31T10:08:09Z 2013-01-31T11:08:09+01:00
  Uptime: 0 days 1:19:13
  Flags: 0

• System <—*
  Processors: 4 [GenuineIntel:6:15:11]
  OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (32 bit)

• System Memory <—*
  Physical: 676MB/ 3071MB 22%
  Paged: 2304MB/ 6140MB 37%
  Virtual: 96MB/ 2047MB 4%
  Load: 77%
  CommitTotal: 3835MB
  CommitLimit: 6140MB
  CommitPeak: 4055MB
  SystemCache: 4192MB
  HandleCount: 24252
  ProcessCount: 61
  ThreadCount: 886

• Process Memory <—*
  Private: 1591MB
  WorkingSet: 1512MB
  PeakWorkingSet: 1605MB
  PageFaults: 4054351

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7600.16385 (64/32-bit compatible)]

• RenderThread Thread 0×14cc <—*

• Trace <—*
  Pc:00735fa0 Fr:37a9fde4 Rt:006fde9f Arg:0000050e 0c5052e4 0c50526c 06c84c50
  Pc:006fde9f Fr:37a9fe14 Rt:0072f962 Arg:a883b1ee 0914c6a8 00000048 00000000
  Pc:0072f962 Fr:37a9fe64 Rt:00733dab Arg:06c821f0 10895ab0 00000000 00000000
  Pc:00733dab Fr:37a9fef0 Rt:006f53ff Arg:0c502564 00003414 3a6938a0 006f566a
  Pc:006f53ff Fr:37a9ff14 Rt:006f414d Arg:06b5a464 00003414 37a9ff44 006f4878
  Pc:006f414d Fr:37a9ff24 Rt:006f4878 Arg:00000000 06b5a460 00672b6f 00000000
  Pc:006f4878 Fr:37a9ff44 Rt:008cf5fd Arg:06b5a460 bc026889 00000000 3a6938a0
  Pc:008cf5fd Fr:37a9ff7c Rt:008cf6a5 Arg:00000000 37a9ff94 76421174 3a6938a0
  Pc:008cf6a5 Fr:37a9ff88 Rt:76421174 Arg:3a6938a0 37a9ffd4 7796b3f5 3a6938a0
  Pc:76421174 Fr:37a9ff94 Rt:7796b3f5 Arg:3a6938a0 40144163 00000000 00000000
  Pc:7796b3f5 Fr:37a9ffd4 Rt:7796b3c8 Arg:008cf623 3a6938a0 00000000 00000000
  Pc:7796b3c8 Fr:37a9ffec Rt:00000000 Arg:008cf623 3a6938a0 00000000 3ecab165

• Thread registers <—*
  eax=37a9f980 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000044 esi=00000000 edi=00000000
  eip=00735fa0 esp=37a9fd94 ebp=37a9fde4
  cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000246

eax-32 37A9F960 8ae1d392 00000000 fffffd34 000002e4
eax-16 37A9F970 fffffd34 000002cc 00000018 00000000
eax 0 37A9F980 80000003 00000000 00000000 752c9617
eax16 37A9F990 00000002 00000002 10230ad0 00000280
eax+32 37A9F9A0 00000000 00000044 37a9fd00 37a9fa80
eax+48 37A9F9B0 37a9f9d4 008d3203 37a9fa80 00000000

• Code <—*
  00735F80 565168f0 4531018d 45bc6a40 508bf2e8 VQh.E1..E.j@P…
  00735F90 3cb3f2ff 8b4d0883 c410518b d68d4dbc <….M….Q…M.
  00735FA0 e86b29f4 ff8b4dfc 33cd5ee8 f96b1900 .k)…M.3.^..k..
  00735FB0 8be55dc2 0400cccc cccccccc cccccccc ..]………….
  00735FC0 0f282560 8769010f 28d10fc6 d1d20f28 .(%`.i..(……(
  00735FD0 d80fc6d8 c90fc6c9 c90fc6c0 d20f28ec …………..(.

• Stack <—*
  37A9FD94 00735fa5 0000050e 42997c20 49414621 ._s….. |.B!FAI
  37A9FDA4 2844454c 75736572 2c29746c 73657220 LED, res
  37A9FDB4 20746c75 7830203d 36373838 63363830 ult = 0×8876086c
  37A9FDC4 37394600 00000000 37a9fe14 37a9fdb4 .F97…….7…7

• Error Logs <—*
  ink child ‘0×00d28d’ from parent bone ‘fxwristl’, there’s no bone with that name.
  Model ‘0×006620’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00d28d’ from parent bone ‘fxwristr’, there’s no bone with that name.
  Model ‘0×007209’: Can’t link child ‘0×00e36b’ to parent bone ‘rgriphand’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
  Model ‘0×010cb6’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×0355b3’ from parent bone ‘fxtip’, there’s no bone with that name.

I have the same problem. I think it depends on patch since there are period in which the game doesn’t crash so often (but still crashes). In the last weeks creashes are considerably incresed (one every 20-30 minutes).
Could it be caused by my graphics card? I’ve tried to decrease graphic options, but nothing happens.

Intel Core2 Quad CPU
Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
RAM – 3 GB
OS – 32 bit
GC- ATI Radehon 4890

Braxis.8396:

You can read on game box that “your decisions will change a game world”….

The dynamic events-world. In the story dungeons you take no decision on what will happen

Konig Des Todes.2086:

So I think the Priory would be teaching the poor how to read and write, so as to improve the passing and recording of history and knowledge.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cultural_Diffusion_in_Contemporary_Kryta

This is exactly what I was thinking about.

In any case the idea was not to live, in some way, near Jotun or Krait or anyother tribe to learn their transmission method, but just having the awareness that in the world exist creatures that still use this way to hand down knowledge. Thanks guys

I was thinking about the poor human background of my character and I think that he could never learned how to read and write, so the knowledge he has of the world could be given orally by other people who share his same living conditions.

I sadly have not a big knowledge of the lore, so I’m here asking you if there is – or there was -, in the history of Tyria, an organization, a tribe, a cult which were known to be heavily users of the same druidic way to trasmit knowledge between their members. I just know about GW2 principal races and dwarves, but they all use books, technology or something that’s not oral.

Grawls, maybe? Centaurs? Hyleks? Maybe Skritts?

Danikat.8537:

I think it depends on what you want from the guild.

This is the problem: for many guilds staying in their rooster means represent it everytime and everywhere. It’s absolutely not a complaint – as I said in the OP I think that it’s obvious and legit that a guild expect a 100% representation -, but this means that depends on what you want just while you’re choosing the guild. From that moment the important thing is that what your guild wants. And I say again: I’m very lucky because in my guild there are a lot of people and we can do everything everytime, but someone could not be as lucky as I am.

I’m not the player who loves change guild every month searching for something new or more fitting. I like socialize and make new friends, but this could be just my “problem” :P

Anyone has ideas on how I can solve this problem?

I was looking for a RP guild, these last days, so I started to search in the web for guild forums which answered my purpose, but every guild I found demands that all members rapresent the guild in every moment.
Reasons why every guild leader expects that all members always rapresent his/her guild are obvious, so I asked myself: is that multiguilding idea really useful? How should this system work for ANet? Should it be a way to increase social relations or what?

I’m not a veteran player of GW – I played just for few months -, but I remember that there was an alliance chat, so is this multiguilding system supposed to be the same of that alliance system?

I’m absolutely not intentioned to leave my current guild, but I’m lucky because it’s a big one and it can manage all aspects of this game, but what about people that play in a small guild which is interested just in one aspect of the game? What if they want to dedicate themeselves to other aspects too? Must they leave their guilds or sacrifice their other interests to stay with their current guild?
How many of you are members of 2 or more guilds? And how this does work?

Thanks for your answers and forgive my english

OMGthisiswonderful!

It happens sometimes, during my gameplay: when I visit some spot of Tyria my computer shutdown, my monitor turns black and the fans start to hasten. It goes on until I press the start button on my case, so the computer turn off immediatly, then I can restart the system.

It happened once in Orr, at Malchor’s leap in the water around Upsilon Test Facility POI in Midwater Hollows, and happened many times in Caledon forest – I played many Sylvarys. Today, especially, in TA dungeon path 1. All go well till the Spider Queen: when I tried to enter its cave, PC crakittenried to enter 3 times in that cavern, but my computer refused it. The same happened with the next boss (I avoid the first using WP immediatly before spider cocoons), just some steps and at the entrance of the other cave the system crashed again.

It seems that my PC doesn’t like caves in Caledon forest (and some spots in Orr) – or spiders – because these crashes happened when I enter the Grenbeck Delves or a little spider cave near Danador pen.

I don’t know if my computer is the problem because these crashes happen just in particular cases after all, in any case I copy here my PC characteristcs with the hope that someone more experienced than me with computers could help me solving this problem.

Windows 7
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6000 @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz
RAM: 3.00 GB
Graphics cards: ATI Radeon HD 4800

Thanks a lot.

Holy Skritt, this is amazing, Fay, thanks a lot. Just an idea: why don’t you write the creation date, near these builds? So people can understand what are updated builds and what are not.
Thanks a lot for your work, btw)

Well, we all knew that it would be a one-time event :P Especially if the first 12 hours are gone away with NPCs bugged :S

Einhanjar.3687:

you guys cry too much, be thankful its being updated with good ideas. Lets not forget the fact that gw2 is free, you can log out for a month and not worry about subscription. having new armors and new things are all ok as it gives players something to worry and grind on. there should be endless progression in a game if not players will be bored, if you are not happy then you are free to keep what you have and stay what you have.

“Good ideas”?? Make a game the same s**t of all the others it’s just the best way to make a game the best one, isn’t it? I really don’t like the idea to spend 10 hours per day grinding dungeons or something. So what? I just play with my lvl 80 character that will be useless without a grindinded gear?
This is the same situation I lived with World of Warcraft and this is the reason why I froze my Blizzard account 1 month after Cataclysm.

If I can reach the end game only grinding maps or dungeon I am NOT free to keep what I have because I will not able to play following contents without a gear that can allow me to play.
The solution is close my GW2 account, thank you so much, but I would continue playing with my characters…

I think that this step of the personal story (Durmand Priory, lvl 36) is bugged. Sieran asks me to find some dwarven artifacts, than to take the scabbard and escape from pirates. I don’t understand if I have to stay in the water, if I have to use only that sword, if I have to do something that I forget, but the fact is that when I reach the safe spot the scabbard disapper and I can’t complete the quest…

Ok, I don’t know if already exist something like that and I am too blind to note it, but the suggestion is: why there is a PvP wardrobe and not a PvE skin one?
If I would change my skin with another “old” skin I have to craft or buy the armor piece I need and apply the skin on my new armor, so that everyone (or the highest player percentage) use alwyas the last skin they find.

I think that would be awesome if with a transmutation stone we could destroy the armor or weapon pieces to add its skin in a Wardrobe. When we will want change skin, we will have to open the wardrobe skin and choose the “new” one.

I will rellay LOVE a class which the same weapon could use magical and physical attacks, something like Guardian maces, with his symbol, but more like… I don’t know, an elementalist or a necromancer

It’s really still bugged? Ok, I’m 80 and my story line is stucked at 66, unbelievable -.-

I have problem too, in this instance: Treharne run away charging everything is moving in the instance and the second NPC run to him when the Sylvari die. I can only stay watching them, because I can’t manage all the enemys in the instance, in the same time…

I found an odd bug in Ural’s Delve, the cave in Timberline Falls, I reached the skill point when, exploring the spot, my computer restarted. I relaunched the game with the same character and when I tried to move the camera, system restarted again.

Windows alert said that the problem was caused by a blue screen (that I never seen, because my screen turned off in this two cases), so I tried with my other 4 characters, played few seconds and have no problems.
I relogged my main and teleported it away from this grotto so I started playing again, without trouble.