Guild Wars 2

Has there been any word on when we will be able to earn rewards in spvp again?
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“The glory vendor that was introduced in the December 10 build will remain until the new reward system is released”
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/phasing-out-pvp-glory/
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I enjoy spvp as much as the next person, but earning nothing other than rank points is somewhat demotivating towards wanting to play :/

The least they can do is let us earn the new points even if we can’t spend them yet, so our time is not completely wasted on just farming rank points only.

oh nvm.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Beat-this/first#post3790634
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Black-Lion-TP-glitch/
etc..

This is not my inventory! (I wish! lol..)

I do hope this isn’t one single player’s sell tab I accidentally saw… nobody is that rich.. are they?

it’s back now, thanks for fixing this so quickly

bought one, turns out you login back on the airship where you were, you do not get ported down to the ground.

ah thanks, so you have to pay to get back to where you were before you used the pass

before I buy I just have 1 question, if anybody can answer please.

when you logout then login while on the airship, are you returned from where you originally were before using it or do you return back on the airship, or does it port you to a random location like as-if you used the airship exit?

yes, as you can see it’s like some new intern has had a go at the map editor and occidentally cut some land away which is vital for completing this JP!

anet, obvious game breaking bug for this jumping puzzle please see this and fix it asap so we can once again complete this jp,

thanks!

Are you happy with BLC rewards?
If you are not happy with the contents of the Black Lion Chest rewards please say what you don’t like or what you don’t feel is useful to have in the loot table.
What rewards from the BLC just end up sitting in your bank for months without being used?

I know the BLC is a dice roll on something valuable/useful and not all rewards can be the most valuable in the game, but they should at least all be useful in some way with a level 80 character.

I’m sure anet would appreciate our feedback.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Chest

Some examples I can think of:

Killstreak Experience Booster
Gathering Booster
Instant Repair Canister
Essence of Luck
Mystery Tonic

I know some people will find the above useful but I find it hard to believe the the majority of players will be happy with these rewards, but I could be wrong.
Personally I’d much rather have any of the previously removed items than the above.

After dying, auto ressed at the start point and fell through the floor with no way to return to the match

Ever happened to you? First I’ve seen this…

I’ve not got any of these items, are they supposed to be mailed to us or something?

Solstice.1097:

you have to stand still until it finishes.

I have been trying this also, it doesn’t finish them. But it’s even worse that it stops other people finishing the player if we both do it at the same time, this shouldn’t happen at all.

(my guess the server thinks my finisher has finished, because it should have, and cancels the other players one)

hopefully they will address this issue in a bugfix update soon.

Just curious to know if anet has ever announced plans to update the archaic trading post system we are forced to use.

I don’t need to make huge lists of basic functions still missing or not working as intended, there are many posts about this already, I just want to know if they have any plans to update this UI or not.

Any info is most appreciated.

I can make some vids if nobody belives but, I have last chance trait on my war and when finishing players with this active buff the finishing does nothing, the action happens but they remain in the downed state.

additionally any other players trying to finish the enemy also have their finisher disabled at this point.

it this a major obvious bug which they are aware of or am I misunderstanding something here?

also add:

fighting zerg vs zerg on ONE BASE while the other (unguarded bases) are not being captured.

common sense clearly lacking in some people.

If you are granted the win points for volunteering to swap to the (usually losing) other side during a game, you should be granted the same benefit for hotjoining a game where there is really little to no hope of winning at all due to the points difference.

(eg, 100+ vs 400+)

Otherwise people will just rejoin another game assuring the imbalance remains and the team have no chance of catching up.
Fair is fair.

I thought that’s what the button says when you click it? that it will put you into a game appropriate to your rank… I guess this isn’t working as intended..
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You know you are on a losing team when when you see players do any the following:

- ignoring the orb in Spirit Watch, running past it or not bothering to stop players taking it to a base
- ignoring the powerups (even the one which grants you ALL bases when capturing it) in Temple of the Silent Storm
- ignoring svanir and chieftan mobs (+25 pts each) in Forest of Niflhel

I just swap teams or start a new game when I see this happening, they clearly don’t have any idea what’s going on, so what’s the point in playing with them.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Structured_PvP —> click and learn, it’s not rocket science.

it seems extreme lag for a few minutes, then no lag, them extreme lag again.. not just odd spikes, for me at least.

I normally wouldn’t mind so much but I wanted to pvp tonight and seeing myself standing alive on a base, some enemies coming at me.. then dead on the floor with nothing between.. ye thats not fun.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Conjure_Fiery_Greatsword

A guild distribution mailing list would be a good idea, as would many other vital (and still never changed since launch) basic functions expected for guild interfacing such as members being able to deposit items to an existing stack in the guild bank, amongst other things.

Pre-launch they said they will be taking the best elements from other mmo’s and incorporating them into the new gw2 game, so they must know of guild features like this that other games have but for an unknown reason decided it was not important to spend time and money implementing to gw2, at least not yet anyway.

But definitely this is a good suggestion and I hope the devs pay attention, it would add new/more functionality to guilds.

Yes the gw2hero website is useful, but the game should show events on the map you are in, not having to rely on a website to find this info.

I know the original design for gw2 was to try and make this more immersive where you happen to stumble upon events while travelling, but for the most part of players now we like to find events to do on our mains or alts, for fun, karma, daily/monthly achievements etc…

Maybe they are working on this, who knows, but it would be nice to log in and play gw2 without having to keep alt-tabbing to websites to find things to do, especially when leveling an alt it’s very useful to know where the events are happening on the map you are playing in.

Incorporating the LFG tool ingame was a step in the right direction removing the need for at least one website, now let’s keep the ball rollling with this way of thinking please

protovibe.8417:

I see your point.

protovibe understands now, no need to keep going on about it

This game has prided itself from not going down the path of “the holy trinity” since development started, where the traditional tank/healer/dps roles will not be used nor any content designed for this requirement.

As such, there is (and never will be) a requirement to have a “healer” in groups, and if there is then either you are doing it wrong or it’s poorly designed content, and as such should be reported for the devs to fix.

There are some weapons (like guardian trident) or combinations of builds (like elementalist water) which provide healing with attacks in sacrafice for damage output, but a dedicated healer is simply not required.

If it’s just a personal preference to want to play a “healer” role in a group, there must be content designed for this otherwise there would be no point to designing this role as it could break current content in a way where people won’t need to do what is required to complete the content. (ie, move out of aoe, press buttons, jump on things, whatever to avoid damage).

On the “Sell on Trading Post” tab it would be more useful to know how much my items are selling for rather than the buy order values.

I really can’t understand this design decision as the true value of items are what they are sold at, not at an arbitrary number defined by a player.

as players generally will want to buy low and sell high this should be changed to make more sense.

just like with a sell order, we should have the option to “add to buy order” showing what existing buy price we have already put for an item so we can add to it or see if somebody else is offering higher to match their order.

indeed, any of these suggestions would solve the issue.

as dailies have their own short list anyway, I don’t know why they need to be in the nearly completed list especially if you have already fulfilled the 5/5 requirement for the day and it still shows other optional dailies you can do for the achievement which you have already finished…

and yes definitely more than 3 in the top list (or a new category/list or tab to click) showing more would be really useful.

I do like the new “nearly completed” summary list, but it just needs a bit more thought put into it for it to be more useful to players.

another idea may be to change it to show the overall completed of the whole achievement, instead of how much % left on that tier, as some % of tiers are hugely different to others, especially ones with more than 20 tiers are always in the top list although you are very far from ever completing them fully.

please remove them from the list of the Nearly Complete achievements summary so we can focus on and see what actually completable achievements we still have to do.

there is no need to show the dailies or infinite looping achievements from this list.

We should be able to click “take all” once and get all our items and money made in one click, currently we cannot due to poor design.

I buy and sell a lot as this is my main fun with guild wars 2, as it is with many people, but clicking “take all” over and over until it finishes giving me all my purchases is not fun nor does it help not knowing how much money I’ve made selling items as this is split up into each “take all” session (ie, you only know how much money you made during the sale of items over a period of time that max out the take all slots).

I know the TP needs massive work done to it but this design decision is just terrible and no doubt creates more strain on the TP servers which, as players will tell you, are not exactly fast nor responsive at the best of times.

please fix this,

thanks

Enable auto stacking to existing stacks of items in guild bank when depositing.

Currently, contributing to a stack in your guild bank requires you first remove the item, combine with already existing stack in your inventory, then re-depositing the new stack.. who’s clever idea was this?

please fix it as it creates unnecessary/boring admin work for guild leaders managing guild bank contents.

thank you.

aha.. not that I want to make the problem worse, but if you keep clicking log in, it eventually gets you in, worked for me.

just had the urge to login and play some gw2.. and can’t get in :<

For achievements with several tiers, the points gained from each tier should scale with the effort (difficulty & time) it takes to complete them.

If you need, some clear examples of broken scaling are weapon master and slayer achievements.

Rewards should always scale with effort, achievement points should not be an exception to this, especially since now that AP produce rewards.

Please take this into consideration.

Please make more Giants in GW2, just like every other creature type so we can complete this achievement reasonably, or at least adjust this to include counting risen giants.

To complete the Giant Slayer achievement we must kill 1,000 giants, which would be fine normally, but unlike other creature types Giants do not appear in masses, there are only 3 places in tyria that spawn one giant each time.
(http://dulfy.net/2013/05/13/gw2-slayer-achievements-guide/)
With a full party and an estimated 6 minute cooldown on one of the scalable Giant summoning events, they say you can get 4 giants spawning.

Sure, if you have 4 other friends who like you, won’t need to sleep, eat or rest and play 24/7 for several months, you may be able to finish this achievement.

I can’t imagine many people in the world (if any?) have actually tried to complete this ridiculous achievement.

Either something was cancelled in development which was going to bring giants into the world of gw2 or this is devs trolling us, either way it’s not cool a year on to leave this oversight in the game.

Please adjust.

thank you.

aha.. it’s working now for outside offshoots only.
I guess the offshoots killed within the new living story tower don’t count towards this achievement

is this achievement bugged? it’s not moving for me when I kill offshoots, it’s been stuck at 8/10 for many days

anybody else have this bug? are anet aware of this?

I hope they fix it before the living story finishes…

Axe & Warhorn for travelling, axe & axe for combat, 17 minutes!

this time I changed graphics settings from the character select sccreen, then logged in to my ranger in lions arch, crash again..
so then I logged into my elementalist sitting in bloodtide coast at auto detect (mostly full) settings, works fine, zoned into lions arch, no problems..
logged out and back into my ranger, no more crashing… odd huh?

as for the black citadel FPS leak, I can tell you exactly where it happens every time without fail, set your graphics settings to full or high, go to heroes waypoint, walk into the main building with the spiral staircase (imperator’s core), mostly anywhere near the red door directly to your right as you enter (used a lot for charr storyline quests).

though it never causes crashing, just bad framerate, poor map design I think as it happens on both winxp 32bit and win7 64bit with drivers a year ago updated every few months up to today, still happening, so I doubt it’s caused by outdated drivers, I guess the dev’s/testers don’t use a GTX-570 card, strange as they are/were quite popular.

thanks for the info, I hope not, this is a brand new OCZ SSD! but I’ll do some checkdisk scans.

What is odd, when in lions arch with “best performance” graphics setting’s it’s fine, when I change it to “auto detect” then close the window, it crashes, on demand every time. Also I noticed since the last update sometimes the framerate in lions arch (like in some areas of black citadel, like it’s been since launch) the framerate drops to unplayable speeds, like barely even 1fps, when I move to a different area of lions arch (or same in black citadel) it returns to normal 30-60 fps.

In all other cities or zones there is no problem at all, I can only conclude it is some new “content” they have added into lions arch causing this conflict.. I’m using an nvidia gtx570

Since the latest update now MY game on windows7 is crashing quite often, usually when in lions arch.
the last “crash” says it happened on 3rd sep, which clearly is not true.

this at the end of the log file:

—> Error Logs <—
VerifyAccess failed or denied access with 0×80070716 – 1
Disk write failed with error 112 (incomplete): file ‘C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\gw2cache-{0400A8C1-F5D8-1781-C2A8-0004D8F58117}\awesomium.dll’
Disk write failed (112): file ‘C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\gw2cache-{0400A8C1-F5D8-1781-C2A8-0004D8F58117}\awesomium.dll’

I have 6gb ram (win7 64bit), with 3.5gb physical available ram, that should be more than enough for gw2, surely?

I clear my temp folders regularly, so it’s not a temporary files error, and there is sufficient disk space on c:\

Anybody know what could be causing the problem?

I would like to see the logs for my xp machine, where can I find the crash log files?

I see Crash.dmp but this is empty, and my game surely has crashed many times in the past.

If you are on Windows XP, you will learn like I did, gw2 does NOT support XP properly.

I am forced against my will to use windows7 to play GW2 as on xp it crashes garaunteed every 20 minutes or less, whenever I do anything like changing zones, during combat randomly, whatever… its crazy that they say it supports xp and yet clearly not tested properly. (intel core i7 950, nvidia gtx-570) (been like this since beta, and still today it’s like this on xp tested recently with the latest drivers)

I understand winxp is coming to end-of-life for support (by microsoft) in april 2014, but even still, by not supporting older operating systems fully you are forcing people to pay for newer version of windows.

in personal story or in open world, after shooting a turret or catapult just once it auto dismounts you from it… it’s very frustrating when trying to complete some personal story missions!!! please anet fix this obvious bug, it’s clearly not intended and in in some cases definitely progress blocking.

this should be high priority to fix, and I hope it fixed soon.

The trading post sometimes does have a slight delay, but I’ve never heard of it being this long! That is not normal from what I understand.

As far as bugs and issues go… yeah there are bugs like clicking the dropdown menu to show sold/bought/buying/selling lists often shows nothing, then u have to close the tp, open it again, and pick the dropdown menu very fast after opening the my stuff tab…, then lo and behold all the correct information shows.

It is very frustrating I have to agree, I only manage to keep using it is because I have learned how to work around all the bugs like this.
The trading post is very unstable and buggy and has been since launch, and imo it’s the biggest downfall of this game, as everything (don’t kid yourself, everything!) revolves around gold, you would think this would be their #1 priority, but it is improving, slowly but surely, if you can bear it.

Right click —> “sell on trading post” just opens your “sell your stuff” tab, and doesn’t actually open the tab to sell the item you right clicked on.

obviously broken, also another account on a different laptop has the same problem as me, so the problem isn’t with our game installs.

probably related to the other trading post bug where u can only see 10 results whatever you search for.

I HOPE these bugs are because anet is testing/upgrading or tweaking the efficiency of the trading post, heaven knows it needs it..

EDIT: they have fixed it now

Indeed, nobody likes an elitist, but if you are an elitist joining a party which becomes full, the LFG request is then automatically removed and then they leave.. so you have to remake it again.
Sure it only takes a few clicks, but it’s still unintended trolling.

allowing players to see what levels are in a party so they don’t end up wasting their own time and the time of others makes practical sense to me.

or, add a timer to the “auto-remove-from-LFG-when-full” so it allows people to pop in and out of a group quickly without removing their LFG request.

When on an alt it’s sometimes nice to see if any parties are doing instances that my other character may like, but if my alt is not in this level range I cannot even SEE if their are any parties LFG so I have to relog just to check every single time.

why make it like this?
why not just disable the join button to parties doing content above your level, won’t this make more sense?

just a thought.

mobs are only immune if they cannot attack you.
if they are ranged mobs and you are above them and they can still attack you ranged, they will not be immune.

also this same argument you make can be made for melee players, why go melee when ranged is ALWAYS safer without any penalization?
the best classes at ranged dps (most dps) are not the same ones who are equally good at melee. (ie, the non heavy armor classes)

Thanks for the LFG tool but some basic functions are still required.
Seeing peoples class in a group is nice, but why not show their level?

SCENARIO 1:
Level 80 player joins an alts party then leaves, wasting time and removing their LFG request.

SCENARIO 2
On the flip side, a low level may join level 80 group not realize its a level 80 run and leaves or gets kicked, again wasting time and removing their LFG request.

If this tool is to help players find groups, adding level info would remove the frustration of of players who are searching to play in certain level brackets.

(or just give us a level selection tool in the LFG advert post)

Also, if an instance says level 30+ (for example) why does it auto invite people many levels below this?
I know you can’t enter LFG queue if you are very far behind the dungeon requirement, so what are the level brackets below a dungeon level requirement to use for the LFG tool?

Count yourselves lucky you are even able to sell anything, I have been unable to use the mail or sell anything on the trading post for over 2 weeks with this error.

Ticket was raised, responded with “wait and see” response I waited.. I saw.. nothing happened.. they said it was escalated, and still nothing is being done.

This entire system should be reviewed as it’s crippling peoples gameplay.

and yes, I have been playing since beta and only seen this problem recently, and permanently, for my account. At least buying isn’t a problem, that’s something I guess.

I think you are calculating incorrectly. See prices @ http://www.gw2spidy.com/
100 gems = 3 g 14 s 36 .
So, 314.36 (silver) x 1.25 (125 gems) = 3g 92s 95c. Where does 6 gold come from?

But yes, the point remains, most people unless very lucky or TP experts, cannot make this much money in 20 minutes or less, so it’s more profitable to do key runs than to buy from the gem store.