Guild Wars 2

weird, I guess then it’s a new bug, or it’s just the spec/traits combination I have, who knows, but you can see the vid is proof. anyway I’m just glad I found a work around to the bug, as my gear doesn’t permit me to kill him sooner than I am downed.

I found a work around to this bug.. kind of.
If you use the dicipline trait “sweet revenge” where you rally after killing a foe during vengeance, subject 7 does actually die, but you still die after ported back to the ledge after anyway, so there’s a second bug to note also.
But at least you can complete this (and I guess other events) with vengeance.
I fear this bug is not just limited to this boss only..

On my warrior if I use vengeance to try and kill subject 7, he is immune to death.
He’s goes to 0%, the damage shows up that I’m doing, but he DOES NOT DIE

I have tried several times, the result doesn’t change.

see this video below as proof, and arena net, please fix this bug so I can progress the tournament, thank you.

at 10 seconds in you see subject 7 with no HP left, while i smack him for several seconds and he’s not dying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlZLuBHdqE8

I remember shortly after launch people were asking “where can I get back items”.
Now almost a year later and I still see new players in divinities reach asking the same question.

Most veteran players like myself know you can search for the words “back”, “brace”, or “spineguard”, to find some back items, or if you know the exact name of a newer (event related) back skin you can search for this by name (eg, holographic dragon wing cover).

But what we really need is a filter in the trading post to search for “back item”, which also includes back skins and backpack covers, so people can browse and buy previous event back skins also.

Sure, players can use 3rd party sites to try and find back items/skins but we relly shouldn’t have to keep relying so much on other peoples websites to give us the information we that should be able to find out by playing the game.

boredinbc.2786:

Piggyback/hijack question, will the gifts Mastey/Fortune still be needed for the new legendaries?

I think this is a fair and popular question, so people know what they should be doing for the next few months (gathering/crafting materials or gathering gold).

Also for those half way through their legendary materials, who have now stopped because of this news, they would like to know if their time has been wasted or not.

I for one stopped immediately when I heard this news, I was close to starting to make my clovers once the new wallet combined my karma to make it easier, but now I’m just focusing instead on gathering as much gold as possible, until we have some more info.
I would like to stop this boring gold farm and get back on track to preparing for my legendary, but without any info on the direction of how they will be made, it makes it impossible.

I really think arena net should address this question, to be fair to the players.

posts like this which can affect the financial gain of the original poster (intended or not) should be banned and deleted, just like they are on the curse gw2 guru forums.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Small-Interface-screws-up-fonts/

they need to get on this issue, or give us better scaling options than 3 basic presets.

ah good point, yes that makes sense, thank you.

Thanks for the info SeasTheDay, I’m aware of this as it says that on the wiki, but I’d like to know from which maps it’s possible to get them from?
I don’t personally remember getting any from levleling up 3 toons to 80 from any of the map completions, the only ones I’ve been getting are sometimes from the dailies, though not often.

Nice idea, but this should be in the suggestions forum.

If you want to sell an expensive item directly, instead of risking having to keep re-posting due to undercutting, agree a price with a buyer first, then sell via the TP.

It’s better to pay the 15% deductions from a successful sale, than to risk losing 100% profit from thieves. (and if they are not planning to sale, you still have a chance of selling on the TP, if your price is competitive)

Other than daily RNG or buying from gem store (gold to gems, values them around 40silver per 1x use of the 25 charges) is there ANY way to get these things?

I’ve been doing BLK runs on alts unlocking BLC’s in the hopes to see something valuable for once (been playing since beta, not seen one single valuable thing yet) but without success.

On the wiki it says some map completion can reward the BLSK, but which map? surely not queensdale? does level matter?
Has anybody got a BLSK from a map completion before, and which map was it?

your help is most appreciated,

thanks

drguild.2045:

Also they hit the hard limit within 48 hours of release for number of items listed before having to redo the coding to allow for more items.

It is not possible to place any new buy orders below vendor value any more, so these orders will never change, they can take all the time in the world to do this… as they seem to be doing anyway… 9 months and counting? :/

Not being able to zoom out because of the curved walls in the tournament makes killing these creatures and performing the tactics even harder than anywhere else in the game.

It’s fine to have detailed and complex tactics where you need to be on the move all the time, but forcing players to fight in first person camera mode zoomed right in for the majority of the arena is a bad idea.

I would suggest next time they do this festival they consider removing the roof so people can actually see what’s going on around them and react accordingly.

During the Modniir world boss fight I can easily dance around all the tornado’s because I am able to zoom out and actually see them moving around, unlike in this fight…

This helpful video clearly demonstrates my point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SU-wIkHL0

drguild.2045:

if value field x (buy value) is below value of field y (the vender value) then delete or raise to vender value which would keep all orders placed but raise the cost of them accordingly though that may be a concern for people who placed them having there order buy price raised automatically.

So the solution would be to delete orders

Deleting the buy orders would mean stealing peoples gold, and raising the buy orders to vendor value would be giving people free gold, either way is not a good idea.

Refunding is the only fair option to both parties.

Imperatora.7654:

They still wont make a profit due to the listing fees and sales tax.

Ok maybe not profit, but at least you would be able to sell your unwanted items without having to go to a vendor every time.
As it currently stands, you are unable to sell to the lowest buy orders for items like the one linked as the game doesn’t let you sell lower than vendor value.

The dev’s should really consider clearing out the Trading Post cobwebs since launch which still persist, it’s quite disappointing to see this still here after so long.

The thousands of buy orders such as 1copper, which are below vendor value can never be filled due to the changes made in the game a long time ago (preventing sale to any items to players below the vendor), so these buy orders will be here for eternity unless something is done about it.

Surely the server knows which bid belongs to whom, and I would assume it’s a simple enough process to refund all bids for items under vendor value (you can start with crafting materials as a priority).

I think we can all agree it’s obvious the Trading Post needs some development as it hasn’t changed much (if at all?) since beta. (obvious things like searching armor types, back items filter, etc..).
But before they develop it more they should really fix the impossible buy orders which can never be filled due to the new design of the game.

As it is impossible to fill these orders, why still have them here? There is no need for it.

WHY DOES IT MATTER?
If you are thinking “why does anybody care”, by doing this they will increase the TP sale value of the materials to at LEAST 1 copper above vendor value, so people can actually make some profit by selling to players instead throwing away the materials into the npc vendor abyss.

I tried this, makes no difference for me.
Using an nvidia gtx-570 on windows 7 64bit, using the latest drivers as of this post.

Oxxy.7068:

Finally, the only thing that bugs me about my engi is the RNG factor while throwing pots, i’m not a fan of unreliable stuff.

This is exactly what put me off playing eng shortly after launch, and why I never use staff on my mesmer.

Making some core abilities as “it could do this, or that.. it may help u, might not, good luck, lols!” of course this isn’t going to allow you to build to any style of play as you can’t guarantee your boons will compliment what you are doing, due to the RNG, and therefore makes it hard (as you are all saying) to place where the engineer’s mail role is in groups, what he can bring that other classes can’t already do better.

If you have a class which doesn’t bring any benefit to the group over another class, it makes that class redundant, doesn’t it?

Maybe they need to change engineer’s somewhat, remove this silly RNG and decide (it’s been a year since launch, enough time to decide surely..) what the role of the Engineer should be in group play.

Very skilled players like some random guy I saw once youtube who has many followers, solo’ing champion mobs in wvw, shows you that they “can” be good, but are definitely not an easy class to pickup and play.

I’ve been playing since beta, and I can honestly say I rarely ever see engineer’s when pve’ing or when dungeon’ing, why doesn’t anybody play them? are they really so bad, and if so why is this?
I remember post launch there were lots of them around doing dungeons etc, but now they seem almost extinct..

are there some severe imbalance issues or something vs other classes? if so what are these? why are they so unpopular?

I ask because they have always interested me as a class, though mine is only level 20 something and so far it’s not really bad, though not so great in melee vs multiple mobs.

also, (off topic) is there any point of an engineer getting a legendary weapon if most (or maybe all?) of their most powerful attacks are from summoned weapons? (FF, nades etc..)

I found this vid, shows you how to do it in 25 mins, tested, worked a treat. follow it to the letter. don’t deviate from what is shown and you will be farming keys most efficiently.

Has there been any official response from this bug yet? I’ve googled around (as the search function of this forum doesn’t work properly) but not found anything other than tons of players reporting it, without any official response.

The bug was reported over 10 months ago where item names were appearing as random asian symbols (mostly a mix of chinese and korean), and yet 10 months on we are still having this problem.

It’s happens mostly for new items relating to the current content patch, but it also has happened with older items like iron ore.

During the course of one day, the bug has happened, then fixed itself, then happened, then fixed itself again some hours later, without any patches or bug fixes being applied during this period, so the problem may be server side more than client side, who knows.

If anybody can shed some light on why this is happening it would be most appreciated,

thank you.

I only really noticed this change recently, but why did they remove the ability to finish an achievement of a finished event if you still have the ability to complete it? (like, killing aetherblades, supporting one of the candidates while doing dailies etc..)

I like the new achievements UI and rewards, but why stop us from completing a past event if we have the items required to do so?

it makes no sense.

if anybody can shed some light on why on earth this might be considered a good idea please let me know, because I’m struggling to find a good reason for doing it this way.

thanks

Gilburt.9146:

Def Pinoy.7029:

Why not just click them? Problem solved.

If you wait to open them until you have every possible Karma boost you can get 95% more karma. That’s why I save up on them and open them in bulk.

this.

karma like all currencies in gw2 can (with some luck) be used to make gold though the jewellery boxes, amongst other things.

and now that karma is account bound it means you can pretty much buy any karma gear on any of your alts without worrying of low karma supply on that character, so this makes the currency even more valuable in my opinion.

So yeah, I hoard them until I see a karma bonfire, then use the other more readily available bonuses (banners/food etc) all stacked up and burn through all the pots for maximum profit.

were arena net trying to purposely troll players by creating drip’s of karma (+100 karma) where some players will attempt to stack similar sounding (and identical icon) items only to fail?

some players say in the german client it doesn’t even have a different name, they are both identical named items with the same icon, that dont stack and offer different karma amounts.

what genius thought of this, seriously guys… you might wanna re-think this item name or icon.

Hamfast.8719:

Please tell me how you could institute account bound dyes without making a lot of people feel cheated.

Keep in mind: I do not have space in my inventory to be “refunded” all of my duplicate dyes. And even if I did, I could not sell them for anywhere close to what I paid for them (since people would only need ONE of each dye, and the demand would be lower.)

refund duplicate dyes with an “unidentified (color) dye” relating to that dye.
(ie, if you had a red type of dye, get a unidentified red dye back)
this way it would have less of an impact to the value of dyes on the trading post if/when this is ever implemented, as some dyes will be more popular than others and this would stop them being over supplied (value decrease)

the bug where it says (and believes) “you are not in a guild” has been happening since beta, and has been reported hundreds of times in the forums, either it’s extremely hard to fix this bug or arena net don’t see it as a high priority for some reason.

what I call a good player, one who is serious about efficiency, is not one who expects this from other players, but “leads by example”.
ie, using the best available gear, pots, and small things like using the waypoints form the minimap for faster traversing the dungeon.
NOTE: waypoints used from the minimap (at full zoom in) are instant, no loading time.

I try my best to maximize my personal performance, but don’t start whining at other players who don’t do the same. This way if my personal performance is higher than some players in the group, overall performance is not less than par. (if that makes any sense, picking up the slack as it were)

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

There’s even a gambit system wherein you can increase the difficulty for a better reward.

It’s not quite like anything we’ve ever done before. I think some of you are really going to have fun with it.

erm.. fractals? :s

theecho.2065:

Are skill points considered a core currency? If not, could this possibly be added for all skill points after a character is level 80? I hate having to buy crystals on separate characters and it takes up a lot of bank space since they will not stack if they are soul bound to individual characters. I do love the wallet idea though!

skill points are not considered a currency, neither are crystals (which should be, imo), or at LEAST make them account bound -.-

True, they would make more money from the gem store by having this, but they would prefer people buy a character expansion slot and level another toon instead.

Almost everything you do in GW2 is account bound. And in a few days all major currencies (including gold) will be account bound, and achievements are already account bound, so there isn’t really so much bound to your individual character which you won’t get from making another toon, if you really want to change your character.

Or perhaps a 20,000 achievement points reward in a new “super massive awesome chest”
(you already get a free level 20 character boost from 5000 points chest, so why not I guess..)

DracosBlackwing.3174:

shouldn’t there be some sort of algorithm in place to reduce the chances of getting the same color again and again combined with increasing the chance per level of finding rare or higher level dyes?

applying a permanent DR to getting the same dyes again sounds like a brilliant suggestion, and would definitely promote more players to buy gems to get dye packs, or would it?

more money for anet, more happy players feeling real progression, everyone’s a winner.. aren’t they?

Sadly the answer is no, because of people who will exploit this for financial gain.

if you have unlocked all the crappy cheap dyes, the odds of you getting higher level dyes increases, and so do your profits, from selling them instead of using them.

but definitely having them account bound is a good idea, can’t see a single downside to this at all.

I log on to gw2lfg.com and look at the cof p1 posts just for entertainment reading peoples posts!
I find it hilarious the amount of hoops people expect random pugs to do, as if the group leader can single handedly kick somebody who doesn’t perform to their perfect expectations.

for example (and this is no exaggeration):

1. warrior or mesmer only
2. full ascended gear (I think they mean accessories)
3. full exotic armor/waepons
4. full zerker gear
5. zerker spec
6. if warrior, dual axes or greatsword only
7. must have flame legion sigil
8. omnomberry food (why is this a requirement?)
9. must have flame legion potion (you notice they don’t even use the powerful 10% ones..)
10. die even once on any trash and kicked from party (finding another player is longer than ressing..)
11. must have 2x available guesting servers to find an open map to start for us cos we are too uber leet to do storymode
12. experienced only
13. must farm for 2h+ without breaks (they don’t understand what DR does?)

hmm.. did i miss anything off?

so ye.. these players I won’t enjoy doing other dungeons with.. but we don’t have a choice :/

Cavendish.2168:

move your map the top right corner.

I won’t wish to have my map in the top right corner because of a bug, but I appreciate your suggestion as a work around to the (hopefully) temporary problem.

jwaz.1908:

They already know about this problem and have a fix for it in the next patch (so I’ve heard). It wasn’t intentional so there’s no reason to rage about it :p

thanks, I’m glad to hear this! I hope it’s fixed in the upcoming patch, it’s a pretty obvious bug…

with the new account wallet streamlining and promoting gameplay of alts, this seems like the next logical step.

this is also the main reason I’ve never invested in expensive/rare dyes, even if i like them, because I swap between my level 80 chars often, depending on what gameplay style I want.

also I would suggest (a small thing but still), once you have unlocked dyes, allow these in the new character creation/makeover. (not sure if they appear in makeover kit currently, never used it)

thank you for streamlining gameplay between alts, adding yet another new approach to a feature of mmo gaming, instead of the old stale way of previous mmo’s.

Don’t know what anet were thinking with this recent change, intended or not, it exists and needs to be fixed.

Forcing people to wait for the loot list to dissapear from the screen before you can exit the dungeon.. (covering up the exit button, look in corner)

seriously…?!

(and yes, I know leaving party exits dungeon but when you want to do another path this is a bit stupid to design this way)

I know what changed, it was me.. I used to do several runs before switching characters, during that time I guess the DR for the next character resets.

At least I think this is what it is… I’m sure a few times some months back I could do a run or two with 1 or 2 lv80’s back to back and get 60x tokens each time.. so maybe they did change something.

I used to do CoF Path1 each day on 3x of my level 80 characters, getting 60 tokens for each run daily.

Now it seems ALL characters share the same reset and that even with more levle 80’s, you still get the DR for the consecutive runs, even if that character hasn’t done the dungeon yet.

AND not only that, but it used to be 60, 20, 10, etc.. now it’s 60, 30… wtf?

I never remember hearing this in patch notes, can anybody shed some light on this please?

if you want fun while profiting, it is more fun (though slightly less profitable) to farm world boss events, using gw2stuff.com and the guesting feature on 2 other servers to maximize kills per hour (or just wait for the spawns on your home server).

not only a 1x rare guaranteed (and sometimes exotic) per boss per day, but also good chance of rares (and sometimes exotics) on each chest.
I’ve seen a guy get a precursor (zap) from the daily bonus chest from an event before, so there can be money made, and it’s more fun, and you get karma, exp and stuff which can be used to make gold in various ways.

like somebody else here, I also leveled up my warrior, got exotic zerker armor / waepons etc and did some CoF P1 runs just to see how much faster it is with 4x zerk war and 1x mesmer.

And you know what? its complete nonsense.

I’ve done parties with 3x guardians (probably zerker, didn’t ask) a ranger and an engineer, and other combinations, and the dungeon completes in the same amount of time.

Maybe the so-called “uber leet” groups I joined are not so leet after all, and the random pug groups with my guardian are better players, who knows.

My best advice is just to make your own groups, that’s what I do with my guardian and have no shortage people joining fast, and we complete it with ease

I’d love for there to be a definitive way to measure pure dps from a class.. I’m not saying zerker guardian do more than warrior (though I have no idea, and I don’t believe there are any conclusive tests available) but I think people would be quite surprised at the small difference there really is, at least from what I see killing mobs.

And don’t forget to use Zealot’s Fervor (from tome of wrath) on boss fights. If you cast it as soon as the tome is summoned, you can cast it again before it runs out, giving yourself and the party 6sec of quickness. Sure doesn’t sound like much, but in boss fights 6x seconds faster per person helps a lot.
Maybe not as great as mesmer’s time warp as you have to attack with the tome while you wait for the second cooldown, but it’s still a nice party buff.

Oh and yes, the fastest way to make gold is grinding the TP, unfortunately

thanks this is helpful info, but how long does each one take? if we are to pick some dungeons to do daily after the new changes, which ones should it be ?

With the new upcoming changes announced where you will no longer get gold drop from bosses in dungeons, arena net want players to do different dungeons each day rather than the same one so this question arises..

“What are the fastest paths on each explorable dungeon?”

Most people know CoF P1 can be done between 8-14 minutes depending on the party, what about other dungeons?

I’ve done most explorable dungeon paths, but not all, and the ones I have done are usually just done once for the achievement, so I have no basis for gauging how long they can/should take with an efficient party.

There was an old post about this many months back, but with all the changes to the game since this post, this information is probably out of date.

So if you know which dungeon paths (explorable) are the fastest, please say here and give the estimated time to completion in minutes.

thanks

Beta.. was good times.. why did they change the login screen it to something so basic, simple, unimpressive and well a bit shoddy compared to the rest of the game?

I for one thought the original (beta) intro was fantastic! really got me excited to play gw2!

See beta login:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh2qLcZAUfY

But now its like.. meh :/

people seriously complain about getting free stuff? wow.. there’s really no pleasing some people.

ah thanks for the info, I didn’t notice gems and gold not showing from bottom of the window.

but why do we have to logout and login again to regain full functionality of the game, if we are still logged in and playing?
hopefully arena net will one day look into this problem and provide a solution.

if you are in the game playing it, and have not logged out, you should be able to buy and sell things, this is really poor quality from anet.

correction, even if dungeon has completed it still seems to kick people out when the instance starter leaves. seriously guys, sort this out.

after using the trading post for a while, it will sometimes become disabled.
as in, the buy button becomes greyed out as soon as you click on an item you wish to buy, and if you right click to sell anything (or just click the sell tab) the page appears blank.

logging out and back in does not resolve the problem, I have to exit the entire game and reload it again, to get TP functionality back.

this has happened more than once so this is why I’m reporting it.

oh .. that’s completely different, I’ll adjust my play-style accordingly, thanks.

As you can clearly see from this video, the engineer flame-thrower weapon ability “air blast” should apply 2 seconds of burning (according to the tooltip) but it does not work.

Given these figures, it calculates also that a mystic forge stones values around 1.5gold, so using as a wildcard for exotics in the mystic forge is NOT a good value for money, since some exotic weapons or armor (as stones are a wildcard) cost far less than 1.5gold.

So the most economical use for the mystic forge stones (free ones) is using for the salvage kits, as the vendor bought equivalent would be 6x more expensive per use.