Guild Wars 2

Can we get some feedback from Anet about this?

If it is “Chinese version only – reaching level 13 of the VIP system.” as Wiki said, then I suggest it is made a gem store purchase for the rest of the world.

I agree that if this Mini is not going to be available for everyone, then it would be better to remove it from the Wardrobe, because that’s just like showing a kid a toy and then saying they can never have it.

Yeah they will very likely bring it back, but there will be difference. I don’t think this should be expected until a long time after Heart of Thorns though.

I’m all for it!

I also would like it to come back.

I’ve gotten so used to clipping in mmo’s it doesn’t even surprise me anymore. Shame though.

Agreed, this is not a good achievement. There is indeed a difference between difficult and just plain time-consuming.

I agree, 100 is way too much.

I got constant dc’s in the Silverwastes too until I managed to stay online long enough to get out of there.

This bug still exists lol. Logged in today. “You are not in a guild.” Logging out of the game completely and back in doesn’t help. Turns out it was because I was set to Invisible status, so I’m mentioning this here in case someone else has that problem.

Yep I’ve been in the Silverwastes a few days now, no Annihilator and people are asking about it in map chat. He’s the only boss I need as well.

Still bugged, Krewe Leader Dobbs is still just standing there at the renown heart, or near the shore. I submitted a support request, hopefully more people bringing the issue to Anet’s attention will help. I want to finish the Treasure Hunter collection as well.

Edit: I’ve since then had a reply from ANet support, stating the dev team is aware of the bug and is working on it. So let’s cross our fingers for a quick fix!

sirsquishy.8531:

Feirlista Xv.1425:

This being an HP PC I would look at the power supply check the watt rating, HP in notorious for putting under rated power supplies in their system in hopes that the customer will not drive the system very hard. This game can run your CPU to its max and with the video card and other stuff your issues sounds very much like the power supply is not giving enought power to the system while playing the game check the watt rating on the power supply if it’s under 500W then that is most likely your issue you will need to get a power supply that is at least 550 to 600watts. For several years I have built my PCs and never go under 600watts, hope this helps.

FWIW;

R9 290 is 300w
i7-4770K stock is 88w
HDD/SSD is 5-7.5w each
RAM 4.5w each

I’d bet that HP threw in a 430w PSU in that system and the OP OC’d that 4770K to 4.6ghz pulling 125w for the CPU (if the CPU is less then stellar and pulling more then 1.25v) That would be enough to cause this issue, if the PSU is low end at not at 500w+ ratings.

The bios was overclocked when it was delivered, I found that out a few days after I bought it. I turned it off but that didn’t help. I’m returning my computer soon as possible, for the seven days that I’ve had it, it’s been unstable and loud. Very sad.

ty for the replies

@ cedo I followed the steps in that post, but it didn’t help, this time GW2 suffered an unrecoverable graphics error and had to shut down.

jazzy, how can my gpu be overheating because of this game? The computer is a week old and more than capable of handling GW2. It may be possible but I don’t see how.

Hello.

I have a new HP Envy Phoenix desktop with an AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics card and an Intel Core i7-4770K processor @ 3.50 ghz which cannot play GW2. OS is Windows 8.1. 64 bit, RAM is 32.0 GB.

I’ve updated my graphics drivers, installed the latest version of AMD Catalyst (driver 14.501.1003-141120a-178000C, 14.12 AMD Catalyst Omega Software) and Raptr Evolved. I’ve also updated my chipset drivers.

If I’m lucky, I get a “display driver has stopped responding and has recovered”, if I’m unlucky the game does not recover and the screen goes black. I have to hard reboot my computer in that case. The game has also caused several blue screens.

I’ve played around with the graphics settings and it seems the culprit is Render Sampling. If it is set to subsample, I can play, if it is set to Native or Supersample the game goes haywire within a minute.

I have Vsync enabled and throttled the framerate down to 30, but my card should be able to handle GW2 at its highest settings.

I checked the bios during startup to make sure it isn’t overclocked. Any suggestions?

Yeah bugged for me too.

No more response from Anet I see. Sad.

Opened more tot bags today, still no Gwyn haven’t even seen a Zuzu or that thing you need to start the collection. From all the tot bags I’ve opened this Halloween I’ve gotten nothing special so I dread the Gwyn drop rate even more.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Vladimer.7051:

I will add as a mini collector and a avid gem purchaser, I am rather ticked that the only way to get this mini is all based on RNG. I have already opened over 5k bags and nothing. I always buy the gem mini’s to complete my collection. I will have to stop now due to this matter.

boohoo to me I know, This is now the only aspect of the game I enjoy ( I am a digital Hoarder)

I understand, Vladimer. I am the same sort — I’m still playing sometimes for a MPB (Miniature Polar Bear) in Guild Wars during the Wintersday event.

If you continue the quest, I will wish you luck, as one collector to another.

With all due respect, Gaile, he doesn’t want good luck wishes, he wants another way to obtain this pet other than RNG. The Miniature Polar Bear you could at least buy if the numbers didn’t favor you. We don’t have that option here.

Wonderly.1324:

I’m not sure you really understand the mentality of a collector, Gaile. I have every single mini in the game. Every. Single. One. For the sake of completing a collection, I purchased 2000 gems for Mr. Sparkles. For the sake of completing the collection, I’ve purchased every gem store mini, even the ones I thought were ugly and would never use. For the sake of completing a collection, I begged and bribed and formed a ToL team and trained for weeks to win a Mini Llama. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on gems, but always on gem store items, because I refuse to convert gems to gold for rewards that can be earned within game. If this mini were to be so unrealistically unobtainable that the statistical expected return would cost over a thousand gold in ToT bags and moreover this amount has to be amassed within a 2-week time frame, it would destroy my collection and eliminate my desire to continue pursuing a complete collection. This would eliminate my desire to further spend gem store purchases on minis, and also remove a core goal that drove me to play and enjoy this game.

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I am NOT fine with this Mini Gwynefyrdd because it is unreasonable to put in the amount of time/effort/gold required for the statistical yield of this item, within a two week period. Do you understand?

I agree, this is exactly what’s wrong with this minipet. No matter how much effort you put into getting it, you may still not get rewarded for it because of the rng, but there’s no other way to obtain it. Yeah no thanks, I will gamble with virtual currency only to a certain extent, I’m not a glutton for punishment. I’m a collector too, so if Anet makes it impossible to complete your collection through hard work, then I’ll do what I did in SWTOR, I’ll stop putting time and effort into it. And money.

The drop rate is insanely low, pple have been opening up to 45 k worth of tot bags and not seen it. Also it sucks that it’s not only rare but account bound too. So even if you grind for tot bags, you still may not get it. -_-

Mini Gwynefyrdd is a rare drop from Trick-or-Treat bags that is account bound.

Since there are people who’ve opened 15, 20 to 45k worth of tot bags without getting it, I would suggest Anet that you increase the drop rate or remove the account bound limitation so it can be bought on the trading post.

I created a support ticket so lets hope I hear something soon and that I can put it in this thread. It seems the problem is mostly for people with an Nvidia card.

Anybody got any ideas? It’s still happening after updating my drivers and it’s getting worse. Getting a kernel drive error now.

My system specs:

Acer laptop
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M (latest driver)
Intel Core i7-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20Ghz
Windows 8.1 64 bit

Excact same problem here, after talking to Sieran and Kekt I get a mail to go to the Ascalon Catacombs. The game crashed for the umpteenth due to a display driver error, when I went back in the third time Gixx was suddenly available. Odd, but anyway going back out and in could help.

Ugh it’s still happening even after I updated my drivers. Really annoying, I put this here so Anet would react to it and do something about it but there’s been no response. Plus a friend of mine reports the same problem. It’s not that all of our computers and cards are failing. It’s GW2 and Nvidia conflicting at some point.

Okay I can’t play the game anymore like this, now it’s occured 4 times in 15 minutes come on.

Okay this is really annoying. I was in the Crown Pavilion with a group and the game crashed for the 1000th time because of a display drive error, it just freezes and I have no choice but to shut it down. Now I can’t get into the pavilion because it’s full so goodbye fun.

It’s making playing a pain. I didn’t have this problem on my previous computer. And no it’s not my computer’s fault because I never have this problem with any other program, it’s only Guild Wars 2.

My card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M, please look into this and fix this error within your programming, thank you.

And less than an hour after I got back into the cp the game dc’d lol.

It’s not fixed. The recipe can’t be mailed either, or dropped in a guild bank.

844 Giant Wintersday presents opened, neither a Shadow of Grenth nor Light of Dwayna recipe. Sigh. I do hope they fix the recipe issue.

Yup don’t have it either.

Can confirm this is not fixed. Daily Fractal Runner won’t update.

I’m stuck at 82/83 hints. I’ve spent a laurel, but the corresponding hint in “Items & Equipment” won’t update, I’ve fired a trebuchet (both in WvW and in the Mists) but the corresponding hint in “PvP” won’t update either.

Hint Completion is part of “Hero” and good for 10 achievement points.

It’s bugged for me too, it shows as completed, but no achievement points are given and it doesn’t count towards the “Premier Season Veteran” achievement.

Yeah, it’s bugged for me too. The achievement shows up as completed, but I didn’t get any points for it, nor does it count towards the “Premier Season Veteran” achievement.

Does that mean that we have until November 11th to complete the achievements, or only until November 1st? I realise I’m bumping an old topic, but I’d like to be sure, so I know how much time I actually have. Could be that after Nov 1st there’s only vendors or something.

Edit: I found the answer, sorry. It was here:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/release-notes-for-blood-and-madness/

We simply don’t have the number of people on the Sea of Sorrows server to take down that Lich. Also delighted the horribly laggy Clock Tower is back, and as a daily achievement too. I’m having so much fun pressing keys and watching my character react a full one or two seconds later. Add to that the superbly irritating nagging message that I got an item equipped with no stats even though I’m only wearing the pvp gear that the clock tower puts you into, as well as the constant badgering that even though I’m jumping non-stop on that hellish tower, I get “Unless you resume active play you will be kicked in 50 seconds.” I’m having a blast!

Try having Toxx run away from the spot where you were kiting her and go berserk trying to kill the dolyaks, ignoring all the players and unable to be pulled away. Then tell me it’s not hard. Maybe if Anet didn’t encode that golem to focus on ruining the achievement it would be easier.

Why oh why did they make it a pug event? There’s people who don’t even bother reading the instructions. “Where can I get snow?” Makes me want to cry. So yeah it sucks.

Surbrus.6942:

Are you kidding? Alt-f4-ing someone is just going to make them want to kill you even more. I don’t get a reward for killing you???… your butthurt is my reward and the knowledge that I can make you squirm like a little pathetic baby. If I was able to consistently find you, then that is worth at least 200 badges to me to be able to farm your emotions.

I pity you.

Nanoha.3892:

Why would you NOT kill them? I join wvw to kill people, no other reason. It baffled me when I was fighting 2 people in one of the jumping buzzles and the other people on my side stood around saying “leave them alone”. I killed them anyway (they weren’t naked) because that’s what wvw is about; killing the enemy.

Yes WvW is about killing the enemy. That’s why jumping puzzles and vista’s and poi’s should not be in there as a requirement for world completion, because Anet forces people who have no interest in WvW at all to go into that area to get their achievement.

I like Anet but some of their decisions just baffle me. This just causes so much unnecessary grief.

/signed

It’s not about making the achievement easier. The issue is that people who enjoy pve are forced to go into a pvp free-for-all area to get map completion. As a result, when I enter WvW I don’t go there to help my fellow players, I go there to map and get out fast as I can. I’m sure I’m not alone.

As it stands map completion doesn’t depend on determination or skill, it depends on whether your server holds an area because no matter how good a player you are, you can hardly storm the castle alone.

Is it a permanent addition? (hope so)

They said Kiel and Levvi will spawn in two places so don’t worry, we’ll be able to finish Phase 1, as long as you played up to the part where you got the map.

1 hour ago they said on Twitter: “Hey folks, we are looking into the events that are not working. ^MK”

So I assume they’re working on the missing Noll. They said we’d be able to finish Phase 1, so I’m sure they’re working on it.

Well, it’s now 2:55 am in the GMT+1 timezone. The organisers of this event at Anet know full well there are players, many of them devoted GW1 players like myself, who absolutely do not want to miss the start of the Halloween event. I started waiting since 9 pm, thinking every hour, hey it might be soon. Now I’m sick with fatigue and my head is killing me. And I just read that instead of “late this afternoon”, it’ll be “late this evening”. I’ve been up till 3 am for nothing. I’m already tired from work and housework, if I didn’t like this game so much I never would’ve bothered and worse, it’s all for nothing. I could’ve gone to bed at 10 pm and gotten up really early to partake in the start of the event. Now despite all my trouble I’ll miss the start + feel like crap all day from staying up too late. I thought Anet was a lot more considerate than that.