Guild Wars 2

It really seems that only the fireworks were available for a few days only. So I thinks you should be fine on friday. They don’t really explicitly say it will, but if it weren’t the case then they would definitely have been clearer on that.

I feel sorry for you, but these things can happen. Even if the wiki was managed by ANet it can still contain faulty info incidentally, a few of the latest patch notes pretty much proved that. The wiki has some really dedicated contributors, for what I can see this was definitely not done on purpose by someone just to mess with people.
I’d suggest you make a ticket and clearly explain where it went wrong (linking the correct history page might be a good idea). I’ve found Support to be very supportive (which is rare in games), but of course there is a chance that they won’t help you out here, because they are not responsible for typos/errors on the wiki.
Also it’s good that you mention this, because maybe we all needed a little wake-up call to double check dates and times with the original source just to be sure.

Hope it works out for you

Hmm I really wasn’t bothered at all by these things. For your first point, you were told to meet her at the scene of the crime in LA and since you’ve already visited that instance I actually automatically talked to Kiel when I didn’t see a new NPC. And for your second point, you were guided by the mail in your inbox which only spoke of 3 suspects that were found and actually pointed you to almost the exact location they were at. If that wasn’t enough there was always the big event star on the mini-map that told you the exact location.
I actually felt like the guidance here was too much which made it way too easy. But in the end that’s just my opinion/experience of course.

echo.2053:

the way the dragon helm was given was such a troll way :/, I thought itd be like the fused gaunlets instead now 3 bank spaces are taken up. good play anet lol

Or you could have just not opened the box, then it still only takes up one inventory slot until you are ready to use them all.

I love the Dragon Ball activity It saddens me that we will be stuck with the Moa Racing activity, which is not really an activity and Dragon Ball will go away. But I don’t think this thread will change that

RainbowSyrup.4130:

I dont know why they are avoiding this question, seems like every other question gets answered.

Here’s a response: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dragon-Bash-Experience-achievement-bugged/page/2#post2215764

There has been a response in the Bug forum: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dragon-Bash-Experience-achievement-bugged/page/2#post2215764

Pretty late to join the discussion, but better late than never I guess. It would be a bummer if Cantha would never make it into GW2. It’s just part of the world and lore. Plus is there anyone here that doesn’t think the first two expansions will add the GW1 Factions and Nightfall regions? I already think GW2 has lost too many connections to GW1. Entirely new is great and also something the game needs to develop further, but for us GW1 veterans it’s also important to improve the connections to GW1.

Mortifer.2946:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sea_of_Sorrows_%28book%29
BTW. where did you read that Sea of Sorrows is final novel??? As far as I understood, story is from time when Zhaitan destroyed old LA, so it is not like some trilogy

Well I remember it being announced that way officially, but I think that announcement disappeared from the website when the game was released and the lay-out changed. But on the GW2Wiki pages on all three books (Ghosts of Ascalon, Edge of Destiny and Sea of Sorrows) it’s stated that three novels will be released to serve as a bridge between the GW1 story and the GW2 story. The aim was to release all of them before GW2’s release, but the third novel got postponed. So (at least for now) only three GW2 novels.

Well I guess they still haven’t decided when they will be releasing Sea of Sorrows then…

Hi there!

I’ve been wondering if there are any updates on the release date of Sea of Sorrows, the final novel. According to an e-mail from Ree Soesbee, posted on the wiki’s talk page, a good estimate of the release was June 2013. Since it’s June now I was hoping to find out a bit more as I haven’t been able to find any news on the release for a while.

Thanks in advance

As mentioned before, you really don’t need stability or stun breakers. Just find a nice spot with a trap you can easily disarm and close to a wall or at least away from other traps. I’d say any class should be able to tank his damage.

It won’t.

Source:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/southsun/Crab-Tossing-A-new-mini-game/first#post1990613

Well I assume it’s supposed to be the 4th, because that’s mentioned more often (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community-news/a-guide-to-last-stand-at-southsun-cove/ and https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/last-stand-at-southsun/), while I can only find one article stating the 5th.

Crab Toss was only temporary (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/southsun/Crab-Tossing-A-new-mini-game/first#post1990613).
The Enraged Karka Queen meta-event is a permanent addition and the rewards will also stay the same after the 12th. According to the guide you won’t be able to complete any of the achievements after the 11th, so I’d advise you to complete it before that just to be sure.

TL;DR: Imo no single achievement should be purely based on luck as it’s supposed to be an achievement. I don’t see how being the luckiest person in the entire game is something you’ve achieved.

If it’s permanent content you can at least keep trying to get it forever until you finally are that lucky, but since this acitivty won’t be around for that long I’d say it should be changed. There’s probably only one point in the match when it’s remotely possible to get the achievement and that is when the three karka’s are up. If you are by far first in the match but happen to loose the crab during that part of the match you’re still left without a chance. Today I managed to get everyone down except for 1 and that already felt difficult enough. It’s just too easy to dodge/completely avoid them. A big part of that is also the overload of crates. These usually cause at least one player to entirely focus on the crates for a while to get something good (Fishing Pole) meaning that player isn’t following you or near you. Also some players just wait around in the middle with that thing until they see an opportunity.

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but Crab Toss is not going to be a new permanent Activity like Keg Brawl. It’s just another temporary thing while the Southsun Cove Living Story stuff is active. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/southsun/Crab-Tossing-A-new-mini-game/first#post1990613

I just wanted to show my support for this thread. I also dislike the current MF system. In my opinion it should be as others have mentioned here before, an additional gear upgrade that you have to work for to get. I’d prefer a system where these upgrades have to be earned and not simply bought from a Merchant or something like that.
It has been stated earlier that you didn’t want people to have to swap to MF gear before looting a corpse or chest, but at the moment a system like that actually seems better than having people walk around during a fight with a (to the party) worthless MF stat where they should have another stat that supports their build to increase their usefulness. If most of the games content was solo-based than it wouldn’t be a big problem and would be totally up to a single player, but the game mostly consists of team play (whether you are actually in a team or not).

Hi,

I just noticed that if you stand on top of the cloud (and possibly the rainbow road as well) in W1/Z2 after you’ve defeated the cage boss when the timer runs out, the cloud will disappear just before the map transfer cinematics and you’ll hear yourself dying because of the green water. You will then enter W1/Z3 with one life less. I only had 1 life left myself and entered the zone with 0 lives, my guess is that if you had no lives left before the zoning, you will be brought to the continue zone with virtual Moto. This was probably not intended so I wanted to report the bug and warn others

Regards

Would also like to add my thanks to ANet for SAB in this thread. It’s just great how you manage to make an 8bit world like this work within a beautiful MMO. You really have something special here. For what I’ve read, only a small team has been assigned to this project, so I’d suggest you at least double that team to make the future worlds even better! Also thanks for the awesome commercial and for putting the soundtrack on SoundCloud My girlfriend isn’t into MMO’s, but when she saw this she actually said she would like to at least try SAB because it looked like something she would enjoy too.

I know that underwater combat isn’t high priority because most people don’t like it. But one of the biggest reasons for that is the lack of power when fighting underwater in general. Problem is people avoid it now as much as possible, making it a very low priority and this is basically vicious circle.
But mostly my problem here is that the skill is obviously meant as the underwater equivalent of the mainhand dagger skill Magnetic Graps→Magnetic Leap, but it’s a really underpowered version. I didn’t even notice the self-stun, but if that’s accurate this skill is even worse than I thought…

I personally love D/D, but it really saddens me that I’m being pushed into using a Staff in so many cases (World Events, FotM etc. all require range if you are a Light armor class). I like it that you should occasionally and situationally swap weapon sets but it really feels like I’m not allowed to use D/D as my main weapons and have a Staff as the occasional one.

Hi there,

I was just wondering why Magnetic Leap is considered a leap finisher and Magnetic Current isn’t. Now I know Magnetic Leap has leap in it’s name, but if you look at the effect, discription and attunement+weapon slot they seem pretty identical.

If Magnetic Current becomes a leap finisher, the skill would actually become of use. So far I’ve mostly played Elementalist and never found a good use for it. Almost all trident skills have a range of 1200 and the few ones that don’t still have at least some range so there really is no need to pull yourself next to your foe. For a main hand dagger wielder you need to be within in near melee range for almost all skills so there it makes sense to have that skill even without the leap finisher. But using Magnetic Current seems more like a great suicide attempt. And why does Magnetic Current have a range of 600 and can Magnetic Leap be cast from a range of 900. With a dagger you are mainly near your foes and with a trident you are almost fully ranged (as if wielding a staff).

To sum it up, Magnetic Current as it is now just doesn’t make sense compared to Magnetic Leap and feels very useless (unless you like dying) and underpowered.

Regards

1st case:
That’s pretty much an example of sketchy stuff. Getting an Achievement with someone else’s money is of course not the right way to go.

2nd case:
Well that is rather odd, of course something like that shouldn’t trigger an account suspension. Was that the only thing he did or did he maybe also sent stuff to other people around the same time?

Hi,

Please change the way dungeon parties work. At the moment if the person who entered the dungeon leaves the party everybody get’s kicked. Today I finally was able to do my first Fractals lvl 10 run (with Personal Reward Level on 10 as well) and we ran the whole dungeon. Then when Jade Maw died just after we were able to loot the boss chest the person who entered the dungeon left the party and we all got kicked back to LA. Now I didn’t receive my Daily chest for level 10 and I’m still stuck at Personal Reward Level 10. Just wasted over an hour for nothing. I don’t think the person did it intentional because why would you do that on purpose, but that doesn’t make it less annoying.

Regards

Not much they can do about it now. So just be patient and keep retrying if you get the connection error. Hopefully for future patches they will be able to do something to avoid these issues after a patch has launched.

Don’t we already have Monthlies for this? I don’t like the idea. Mostly because I believe not every piece of the game has to be fitting for every single player. If you don’t have enough time to finish the Dailies the way you do it, either speed things up or accept that Dailies just aren’t your thing (because all Dailies can be achieved way faster than in 2-3 hours).

It’s like saying: “I don’t have time to complete all dungeons everyday, so could I continue them from the point where I left it on a later time?”

Game elements have to demand something of players for them to mean something.

Ari Kagura.9182:

I do agree that there should be some sort of differentiation between a Guest and an actual “foreigner” in the guild.

In guilds: yes. But this topic wasn’t about guilds but about while guesting during regular PvE. Guilds need much improvement and being able to see someone’s Home server is definitely on that list as well.

I don’t really see the point in being able to see if someone’s guesting or not. It doesn’t impair your gaming experience if you encounter someone in PvE who is guesting, without you knowing it. So why do you think this is needed?

Regards

BrotherBelial.3094:

How about some middle ground? Once you are in a zone it is free to waypoint as long as your not dead.

Then you might as well remove all WP costs, because this will be exploited by everyone (entering zone, use WP to other side of zone, leave zone, etc.).

I suggest removing WP costs from city WP’s only, because atm we all use the workaround by entering the Mists and using the Asura Gate to get to LA and if needed after that WP to the Asura Gates and use it to get to another city. That way the Mists is reserved for players actually wanting to do PvP (as it should be) and PvE players are spared extra loading screens (no need to load all the PvP stuff if you just want to go back to LA).

And it might be better to relocate the Asura Gates leading to Fort Trinity to the cities, because nobody uses them now. Atm they don’t save you anything and traveling to Orr is expensive. I only WP to Orr when I’m sure I can stay there for at least an hour. This would promote Orr, leading to less contested WP’s. Adding more WP’s doesn’t really solve the issue there, it’s just another workaround. Adding a few more Asura Gates to different corners of the world might help though. Could even add different ones to different cities to promote other cities a bit as well. And please add Asura Gate destinations on the mini and world map when hovering over them, instead of just Asura Gate. Especially annoying in Rata Sum for new players, where you are overwhelmed with Asura Gates. Would also be nice if you could see the name from a longer distance. By the time I can read the destination I’m almost already in it.

Regards

How would this help exactly? It seems like the gold spammers will still be able to sent bulk pm’s, but they just have to wait 3 days before they are able to do it :P

Using FF 18.0.1 here as well and I have no problems logging in, so it’s not a browser issue I’d say

The forum is sadly still lacking a number of basic features as of yet. I haven’t noticed any new features since release so it seems like they don’t have anyone working on improving the forum atm. I wouldn’t mind seeing less double posts merged if that frees employees up to give the forum the basic features that it should have.

No way to disable it as of yet, sorry!

Hi,

I just received Porous Bones froma number of Oozes and I’d say it’s a weird drop for a liquid mob :P Not a real problem of course.

Regards

Hi,

It would be great if you could change the way Activities work. If Activities would just use the sPvP system we would be able to do Keg Brawl (only Activity in the game atm) with a group.
Your exp bar already changes to the Rank bar and the Daily Achievement on top right to Daily PvP Achievement, so why not just let it use the same system so it can be used to the fullest?

Situation now:

• People who want to play together have to rely on luck to be able to get on the same team. Therefore it’s basically impossible to go in with a trained team from for example your guild to have quality matches.
• A lot of people on the losing side leave the game before it’s over, leading to the losing side to be outnumbered and have even more trouble until the Auto-balance occurs. Sadly because this is random it could force the best scoring player to transfer to the other team. This is of course a real pain because you know you just made it very difficult for yourself, while you were just owning the match. However if people can enter with a party they wouldn’t leave the game that fast once they start losing, because they are in it with their party and not just a randomly formed team.

The first point was also the problem with Toypocalypse during Wintersday and would have been solved this way.

If these changes are made, Activities can actually become part of the game. Now most people don’t even bother Keg Brawl because they want to be able to group up and work together. Especially since it’s basically a special PvP mode.
I’ve heard a lot of the players that do play Keg Brawl say that this system annoys them more than the many bugs in Keg Brawl. It would become a fun activity for guilds or maybe even something guilds will actually train teams for. Sadly atm you must count yourself lucky if you are randomly placed in a team with at least one other player that knows how the game works.

Regards

Saving it for now. Would be nice to have an ingame house so I can hang it on a wall for display though…

Well it’s still optional it just gives you an extra reward. Don’t think that should be a reason to only let normal daily and monthly count for Laurels. But I don’t get the point in adding Laurels anyway, since we already have the Achievement points that are useless. Why not just let us buy stuff with that :P Or at least give us a few Laurels for completing a tab of Achievements or something like that. Just daily will get boring pretty fast.

I thought I might get the achievement easily by dodging in Keg Brawl, but even though the Evade message pops up it doesn’t count. So I just kept dodging a low lvl ranged mob.

Just a tip, it might be better to just clearify the releases a bit more. Like this: January 28 (before 23:59h PST), instead of just: January 28. Though it would be great if you could either give us an expected time (you can probably tell if it’s a morning release or an evening release up front) or at least keep us a little bit more up to date. Either on the forum through announcements or some sort of newsletter that’s sent out an hour before release to notify everybody instead of just rolling it out at a random time (for us). You can use social media as well, but please use all of them then and not only 1 or 2 because not everyone has everything :P

Lot of negativity here, let’s see how the first half of the year goes first. Then see if there are reasons to complain…

Wobbles.6408:

How does the Achievement system work. Does this count for daily achievements? I mean do u get tokens for doing the dailies cause if we don’t, at some point we are going to run out of achievements lol to get them

Sorry i am new so I don’t know the in’s and out’s of the game yet.

Daily Achievement so yeah it’s an Achievement and this new system will give you tokens for completing Achievements and later on Achievement paths so it counts. It’s all in the blog post though.

Regards

Guild missions and the Custom Arenas (for GvG etc.) are great, but still it’s sad to see Guild Halls not being mentioned. Someone claimed that it’s not something they are actively working on, no idea if that’s true but that would be a bummer. especially with features like these being added a place to gather with your guild is necessary.

Still all the upcoming content sounds amazing and I’m looking forward to it!

Regards

Well they did purchase two accounts and anyone can purchase two accounts so as long as you don’t exploit it (with botting for example) there’s no harm in it. Someone could also use two different pc’s to multi-client of which the results would be the same.

Aha, only thought “inappropriate” names were not allowed, so I guess all accounts with characters referencing to Chuck Norris can expect the ban-hammer any time now? :P

This gives it a lot more value yes, although that last reason is kinda on the edge I believe. But how would you accomplish multi-clienting GW2 if I might ask? I only have one account, but I had more GW1 accounts and for that I used: Guild Wars Multi-Launch. Is there a similar program for GW2 out already?

Regards

Btw you guys do know you are all getting infractions for these reports since you are circumventing the word filter here xD

CoC

Do not circumvent the word filter. The Support Forum, like the game, is filtered for appropriate language. Any attempt to circumvent this filter will not be tolerated including the use of “creative spelling” or of forum names or signatures that contain a word that is censored by the prohibited words filter.

Why would you think it would not be allowed?

No idea, just got my first one for my first topic bump right after I bumped it again :P Still no answer to my question ofcourse…

But I have no idea how those work. For as far as I know you can only check your current total by counting the number of private messages you receive – the gold spams. Their is definitely no counter on your account or forum profile page.

Awesome, that ban they gave you after 4 on the same day, was that a forum ban or a ingame ban aswell?

EDIT: Nvm, just found this post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/A-Message-About-the-Infraction-System/first#post503827.
They don’t want to tell us how many points for what consequence. And apparently my infraction total is still 0 since they didn’t specify a number in the message. Hope this helps.

GraynX.8947:

I asked this awhile back through the support desk. They said I could run two clients at the same time (if my computer could handle it).

Maybe you could add a screenshot of that response, instead of bothering them again with the question. I don’t see any harm in it as long as you use it in the “Alt+Tab”-way only and don’t abuse it by for instance being afk on one account during an event and active on the other to get double rewards.

But then again, why would you need it if you’re not using it for that. Only thing I can think of is party searching in two places at once but you can use GW2LFG.com for that.

Regards

EDIT: I see Leablo already got you the verification you need, if Gaile says so you should have no worries They should however really get their team on the same line when it comes to these answers though…

Btw I’ve read the 25/09/12 patch notes, but those don’t really specifiy any of the changes made to the BLC. Does someone else happen to know any previous posts or blog messages or something where these changes were clarified by ANet?

My general reason for asking these questions is because I’ve been working on updating the GW2W information about tonics and transformations and the wiki-info on questions 2 and 3 is atm pretty vague and seems to be based on general assumptions rather than facts. And according to the wiki there is no way of obtaining some tonics and the potions in questions 1 and 4, while I would find it odd, unnecessary and disappointing if these items were completely removed from the game for no reason.

Also if some items of these items are now completely unobtainable, are there any plans for changing that?

SolarNova.1052:

kirito.4138:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus . h t m l

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpukittenml

“s.h” is being replaced by kitten

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For the love of everything fix this !!

Nothing more annoying than trying to ‘prove’ something that shouldnt need proving and having ur links ..those specificaly… borked by the filter.

Hmm annoying, but if it helps you can always use something like http://bitly.com/ to create a shortened URL (always better actually than the whole link) and to bypass the kitten filter