Guild Wars 2

you have a point there davus, I havn’t played for many months but when I last played the TP was very fast and responsive, almost immediate to selling items, for example.
but now there seems to be a few seconds delay on anything I do, always at any time of the day. this must be due to the heavy load of players now on gw2 spending more time on the TP than levling (as most who played many months ago are level 80 by now ).

it would benefit both arena net’s server load AND the playerbase to allow more refined searches.

not being able to search for amor/items your character can use really does seem like an absurd decision, but I’m sure they had their reasons.. at least I hope they did.

still, if arena net really do want people to play with the style and weapon choice they chose, they have to change this so risen DO attack pets, otherwise you are forced to play melee hunter every time you fight the undead (which is a lot in this game).

rangers can play melee perfectly fine if you spec for this type of combat in your traits, but maybe not everybody wants to be forced into a type of spec just because of a broken or otherwise flawed decision of pet mechanics.

same problem for me, nothing popped up.

went to chantry of secrets then it popped. which is odd, since I am order of whispers I must have been there through my personal story at some point.. anyway, strange bug at least there’s a work around!

(http://youtu.be/yHtkhwoMAG4)

I totally agree, an armor type filter would be nice, or just have a tickbox for “show only usable”, either/or would suffice.

I’m amazed they haven’t already done so, but why don’t they enable you to search for gear by armour type?

Add a filter to select light, medium or heavy, or a tick box “show only usable” like they have in almost every other mmo with a marketplace.

Then it would then be much easier to find armour you can actually use.

I know people say go power or con dmg, but surely due to physical damage reductions that stronger armoured enemies have it’s always best (more efficient) to go for condition damage, as this is not mitigated by armour (that I’m aware of)

Cufufalating.8479:

If you want underwater movement try LR. kitten that will send you flying.

Sorry I don’t know all the acronyms, what is “LR”? (left and right mouse button?)
And kitten? do you mean a special ability on one of the cats? You totally lost me here..

I tried travelling with sword + warhorn but seriously.. combat with sword ? yeah its great it keeps moving towards the target automatically, but you cannot dodge roll or move or do anything.. its the worse auto attack I’ve seen with an class in the game!
No, much better for me axe+wh & gs.

this post about 1h and movement helped me: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/1h-Sword-Autoattack-Explained/first#post856805
(basically, say turn off auto attack)

yes, underwater I sometimes quickly turn around for “ink blast”, then spin back for “dart”.

it may seem like what’s the point for travelling, but on some spvp maps it’s a life saver

still, a shame we have to carry these when travelling and thus are forced to use them for day-to-day pve events. still, at least we don’t have to use the shield!

I hoped levelling as a ranger I would be using bows a lot, but I find I am always running around with GS and axe/warhorn.

Because, warhorn for swiftness buff, and GS swoop for the longjump.

Sure, I could run around the world travelling at half the speed of normal going as slow as possible.. but why would anybody want that?

I have already got 100% world completion on my guardian, so seeing the sights again isn’t important to me.

Am I the only one who travels with this weapon combination or is there something better for faster travelling?

that is a good point Electro, take the higher dps and less amoured pets, at least then you can kill them quicker.

you are correct! it works in the mists but not in pve… how stupid is this obvious bug.. surely it can’t take this long to fix it?!

but what are they talking about charges? it’s almost as if arena net have no idea what this skill does, or confused it with another skill somehow..

I use bear type of pet as my primary pet on large groups and cat (lynx) for single target dps. For most mobs it’s fine really, it’s just the risen which ignore pet regardless and just come straight for you and stick to you in melee range with no way to avoid or get out of it.

Thanks for explaining this kaz.

I’m happy to switch to a melee weapon for melee combat, when it’s required, but I don’t really want to have a GS always equipt in case they go for me, also traits tend to go in the direction of one weapon or another, you can’t be equally good at both ranged AND melee, just like guardians can’t be good at dps and survivability, everything with balance.

So with this in mind.. well, I understand they want to keep pets alive, but how about removing that ridiculous speed buff the risen get where it’s impossible to get out of melee range? if you are using a longbow you might as well give up and just die. Sure if it’s 1 mob you can knock it back a bit, but risen rarely travel alone.

Any risen I fight on my ranger (using lynx pet, but happens with all) just ignores my pet and runs to me at super speed (faster than any player can move), so it’s impossible to kite them or stop being physically brutalised in melee range.

Pet attacks them in melee range, as soon as I shoot them, they ignore pet and come for me.

Is it a broken mechanic or is there something I am doing wrong?

“Patch notes:

Guardian: Perfect Inscriptions trait: Recharges can no longer be refreshed."

can somebody please explain what on earth they are talking about? what charges?

Perfect Inscriptions
Perfect Inscriptions: Signet passive effects are improved.

It is still broken, it does nothing. Either this is a completely messed up tooltip or can somebody please explain?

The guardian ability “perfect inscriptions” has no affect on my stats (power, or condition damage) which are altered by signets. there should be 20% increase, but there is not. it has no affect at all.

either this is a seriously obvious bug which has been overlooked or I am misunderstanding what the tooltip says, if so please can somebody explain to me.

See for yourself:
Bane Signet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0NbXjq39lk
Signet of Wrath: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-_2wCmCvt4

thanks, that explains it totally clearly. Now I understand why anet keep saying to people “forget about single DPS, gw2 is different mechanics to other mmos”

so how does that work in practical terms?

if you apply a higher damage per tick burn, then overwrite with VOJ, will it extend the time and during this extended time only be ticking for less?

it’s really hard to see when playing because it comes up so fast and the duration is so short.

I started using more burning utilities like Judge’s Intervention etc, but I noticed that virtue of justice is being applied while the target is already burning..

and since burning only stacks in duration and not amount, won’t the higher burning attack be removed by virtue of justice?

and if so, doesn’t this make every single burning ability guardians have useless if they are all being overwritten by a lower burn value of VOJ?

or am i missing something?

vendor costs for bulk items has changed, so for those interested, the new cost (TP prices as of today) :

4g 34s 75c

not exactly 1g 50s but still handy to have a guide for this to save wasting any money, much appreciated Kate Soulguard for updating it.

thanks for fixing the bug not allowing us to re-enter [Caer Aval] to collect our Pact reward, but if you didn’t notice you cannot exit the area by walking to the same door you entered.

sure we can use enter the mists and portal out of there for free, but come on, please test these “fixes” before launching them, it only takes a minute

excuse my cynicism but when are the dynamic events in cursed shore NOT bugged? I stopped going there ages ago when I realised i’m wasting my time running to an event only to find out almost every time, there are no npc’s and nothing happening.

maybe one day they will fix all the issues with cursed shore dymanic events, but I wouldn’t count on it being any day soon since many people are still not 80 yet.

hello arena net.. why do you state that your game supports windows XP and yet it crashes 80% of the time when zoning or during a large scale dymanic event?

I am sure I’m not the only person with these problems..

I have formatted my entire computer, installed windows xp fresh, did all the automatic updates and driver updates, and still this happens, ONLY with gw2, no other game.

and before you accuse my hardware, i have installed windows 7 on a seperate HDD and guess what? no crashes ever…

so yes, your game does NOT fully support windows xp, either change the statement on your sales page or please fix the stability issues, i’ve been patient since beta this has been happening and would have thought by now you would not leave such major issues unresolved.

(and no, i dont have license for w7 so i can’t use it long term, only the trial, and no i’m not spending all that money to buy it just because you can’t fix your game).

that is all.

as the title suggests, it’s been broken since beta, you can right click and buy more on materials from your crafting window, but not the result window, so you can’t see if an item is worth creating or not, making the whole point of having that option in the right click kinda useless.

please fix this obvious bug,

thanks

I agree, what’s the point of having clones in pvp if there is a star, like a big flag over the REAL player saying “here I am, this one here, over here, please kill me”

It’s been this way since beta, and I’m surprised its taken this long to be fixed, as it’s quite an obvious bug…

When you walk in to a new zone and discover the waypoint (a), you get no exp for discovering it.

But, if you enter that zone from a different entrance elsewhere, and walk to this same waypoint (a), you WILL get exp for that waypoint. (test this on an alt) so it’s not the waypoints that are bugged, it’s that u don’t get exp for the first one you discover in a new zone.

please fix this as the game is cheating people out of exp that they should be getting.

thanks

thanks devs for taking on-board our feedback and now changing the system to now not allow orders less than vendor value, much appreciated

now all you need to do is return to the players their orders currently pending which are less than vendor value (as it’s now impossible to make these orders), and then we will finally get a true value of buy orders for items on the trading post.

where do I begin?

do I start with the fact when you arrange by price, then click on the cheapest, it changes to the REAL current price which is noway near the cheapest, making the search filter useless?

or do I mention the search results showing zero availbale, then when u go into it, it takes u directly to the “place order” mode, but then u click “buy instantly” and sure enough there actually ARE many available to buy? again.. useless search results.

or when you click “only show available” it shows items that are not available

the list goes on… why have a search function if all it does is link you to the item you want to buy/sell? we can access this directly without a search by right clicking an item and clicking “sell on trading post” or “buy more at trading post”.

I’m sorry but the search function of the trading post is so very broken. You guys should seriously look at the functionality of this trading post as it’s a vital part of any mmo.
Maybe you need to set up more searching bots to update the search database tables, I dunno, but it doesn’t work properly so I’m reporting it here.

It’s been a long time now since the game was launch and I know there have been many issues with the trading post, I just hope you guys are working to fix them all, including this one.

I didn’t play necro in beta, but i heard their pets auto-healed out of combat, which makes sense, since u are not in combat any more there is absolutely zero advantage this gives you over any other class, and all it does is give you the annoyance of having to change the utility skill, wait for cooldown, then change it back, THEN summon the pet again.

Clearly this is not exactly “fluid” gameplay, nor is it fun or enjoyable, AND in dungeons it makes having a minion focused build simply non feasible since the time it takes to do this every time after a fight is simply ridiculous.

I can’t imagine why this was changed for launch, when other classes with pets have them auto healing while out of combat, why make it different for necromancer?

If anybody can come up with even one example where this would be seen as imbalanced or overpowered please let me know, otherwise they should really change this.

Just stop this, seriously.. just because you take damage it doesn’t mean you should enter combat, are you combating the floor? No, it’s not combat, so please just stop making us enter combat every time a tiny bit of health is lost due to jumping a bit too far.

it’s annoying to fall just a tiny amount, then have your movement slowed, wasting swiftness duration etc just because you lost a tiny bit of health.

and while we’re at it, why does attacking a critter not enter you combat, but if you have pets out, you WILL be entered into combat? So many inconsistencies in the mechanics of this game need to be fixed.

thanks

fixing this obvious oversight in the TP system would be nice, but also they should give some thoughts to not allowing people to place items for 1 copper more than vendor value.
Or more specifically, not allow them to post an item for a value that would profit them more for selling to the vendor. Or, at least make it more clear to players that THEY WILL LOSE 15% FROM OVERALL SALE value.. and that posting lower than a vendor value not only makes them lose money for nothing, but also makes it harder for other people to make a profit from items.

Creating new mystic forge recipe’s to help drive the cost up of unwanted items is fine, but I think my suggestion would have a longer-lasting resolution to the issue.

also it annoys me that this reflects the top items (most demanded etc) as this info is based from buy orders, not actual sales. AND the search results value is often based on buy orders, not sure if this is a bug or not but ye.. the whole thing needs a bit of a logical re-think imo.

the only way around this is to add scaling % based on overall value, the higher the value, the less you pay out, but I doubt they will do this.

Some items like tomato’s, bananas etc are searchable on the trading post and people can place buy orders for them, but these items are account bound on pick up so they are not tradeable.

Why allow buy orders for items that can never be bought?

Another broken mechanic of the TP which needs fixing please

thanks

If nobody can sell to a buy order lower than vendor value, why do you allow people to make buy orders lower than vendor value?

This makes no sense.. please fix this obviously broken system.

thanks

thanks dev’s for fixing this button, as of today it now works

however, the search results with this ticked still display items with 0 available, as you can see in the attached screenshot

some follow up info, one person I spoke to recently is using an ATI graphics card with vista 64 bit.. the only link here is that they are both 64bit versions of windows, but I can’t see how this would cause a problem, as I checked with my hardware on windows xp 32 bit and the same problem remains.

maybe it’s just some selected graphics cards that have this rendering fault with this button? or maybe it’s not graphics card related at all.. but some or any info from other people would be nice so we can collectively help resolve this issue..

if you are reading this and think i’m blowing this out of proportion, just say in general chat in lions arch “who cannot use the show available feature of the TP”, i guarantee you will get some replies, i do ever time from different people, and friends I know have this problem.

This has been the way since beta, I have never seen it working. Some people say it works for them, and others are like me and it does not work.
The button is there, but nothing happens when you click it, even if you select various filters for items, it simply doesn’t work.

I read a forum post the devs made with issue on macs not rendering the button properly, but it’s not just macs that have this issue.

see example pic: http://i47.tinypic.com/nxlzl1.jpg

if you have this problem please reply to this post so hopefully we can bring the attention to the devs to fix this, because it is happening with a lot more people than they realize and really needs to be fixed asap, as it’s a vital feature of the trading post.

Or, if you have a suggestion to try and fix this please let me know and I’ll try this and pass on the details to other people I know who also have this issue.

thank you

(oh and I’m using windows 7 64bit with nvidia gtx 570 with latest graphics drivers, always updated. if you have this issue please state your operating system and graphics card, it will help the devs identify the cause, thanks)