Guild Wars 2

I wouldn’t get my hopes up, never seen anet compensate anyone who lost stuff due to rollback

just finished AC P1 and got no reward pop up, we skipped nothing and tried all sorts of tricks (get hodgins killed, bring him out of combat, wping etc) and nothing work, around half an hour wasted.

lol good point, i’ll try zooming all the way out next time

while there a definitely some nice people around, a large chunk of the Arah farmers are jerks. Funny thing is those people have to use every possible glitch and exploit and have to run back about 5 times fighting lupi. The nice puggies I’ve met rarely use glitches and the runs tend to be faster and smoother.

I believe this is what you are talking about:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ash_Legion_Spy_Kit

I’ve been doing a lot of AC lately and this has been bothering me. I can never remember the spawn locations of the burrows in the lover’s crypt in path 3. Sometimes in a relatively inexperienced pug we spend too much time running around trying to find the next burrow. Is there some sort of easy pattern to help me remember or something like a diagram?

I’ve posted this in a couple of other similar threads but just incase people miss them, I got this response from support:

“Thank you for your patience while we investigated this matter. We regret the situation that you wrote about and would like to give you a few details: There was a brief outage with the login server that affected a few of our other servers. As a result, some players may have experienced a minor loss of some character progression. The dev team has taken a look at the issue, and they confirm that the conditions that caused this situation were very rare and that they do not anticipate that such a thing will happen again. They also confirm that due to the nature of the outage, we will be unable to restore any progression or items lost as a result of the issue. I am very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.”

so with regards to our lost progression: nothing will be done about it.

the response i get from support:

“Thank you for your patience while we investigated this matter. We regret the situation that you wrote about and would like to give you a few details: There was a brief outage with the login server that affected a few of our other servers. As a result, some players may have experienced a minor loss of some character progression. The dev team has taken a look at the issue, and they confirm that the conditions that caused this situation were very rare and that they do not anticipate that such a thing will happen again. They also confirm that due to the nature of the outage, we will be unable to restore any progression or items lost as a result of the issue. I am very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.”

Got a response from support:

“Thank you for your patience while we investigated this matter. We regret the situation that you wrote about and would like to give you a few details: There was a brief outage with the login server that affected a few of our other servers. As a result, some players may have experienced a minor loss of some character progression. The dev team has taken a look at the issue, and they confirm that the conditions that caused this situation were very rare and that they do not anticipate that such a thing will happen again. They also confirm that due to the nature of the outage, we will be unable to restore any progression or items lost as a result of the issue. I am very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.”

tldf: Server issues messed up some people’s progression and no, nothing will be done about it

same here, lost everything i got from the last dungeon =/

were we in the same group lol? I have a exact thing happened to me and i was only able to log on just then and looks like there was some sort of rollback, the stuff in my inventory was exactly the same as what I had before i headed into P3. I didn’t get any P3 3 reward and all the loot i got in the run (including 2 rares >__> ) are not there anymore, not to mention the bags wonderous goods

I’m not sure if that is intended but it has been like that for as far as i remember. Its nice that when I want a second set with only the offhand (or mainhand) having a different weapon i don’t need 2 identical weapon to be placed in each set.

eg
set1 scepter/focus, set2 (empty)/dagger
effectively becomes
set1 scepter/focus, set2 scepter/dagger

therefore I don’t need farm 2 scepters.

It does appear to be a problem when you intentionally want the dualwielding skill of a thief with no offhand, looks like an oversight to me

i know that the armor from each order can be transmuted to a white and it will be accountbound instead of soulbound, don’t think it works on dungeon armor though (never heard anyone that tried it)

killing the oozes seems to prevent the bug rather effectively so far, but yes, taking out npcs in most dungeons look like a good idea

just had someone who lagged out (also pugging and AC), we waited and he didn’t return so we finished it with 4. Now I just got booted and couldn’t log back in. Thankfully that’s after i got the tokens and exp lol (feel bad about the dude who lagged out…)

Once me and some random pug decided to stay behind after we finished our Arah P3 and kill those champion risen giants to see what loot we get. Got a few blue pirate armor, doesn’t seem to be worth our time lol

Just my 2c on lodestone: from experience corrupted lodestones (or lower tier equivalents) drop from anything corrupted by jormag so it is probably more likely to get from hotw mobs. Glacial lodestones come from ice elementals i think but I once got a corrupted lodestone from an ice elemental summoned in the grenth event in cursed shore o_O

I don’t think I have ever got any lodestones in Arah though, and I can’t relate any of them to risen

Ah, I remember the first time I did AC explore, my team is full of lvl 50-60’s and none of us has done it before. We wiped almost 10 times by kholer and decided to give up. Now with my guildies we just stand beside a pillar or wall, once we see the wind up animation we just move behind the pillar/wall and continue whatever we were doing after the spin. Always have at least a panic button if you do somehow get pulled, mist form, renewed focus etc allow you to get sloppy every once in a while

I don’t know what is the min lvl to drop lodestone but chances are, higher lvl the better. Each time the melandru temple is cleared, earth elements spawn near grenth statues in Orr and from what I’ve read they should all drop onyx lodestones.

If you haven’t already, you will found out just how ridiculous this is when buying those obsidian shards

I have a glass cannon mesmer which i made purely for fun, and it is indeed very fun to play. With an army of phantasms applying ~20 stacks of bleed, it never gets old for me :P

Thanks to obal, after doing a few runs with him and his friends I am now confident enough to get into pugs. Although in a typical pug, lupi does feel a lot harder. I tend to die exactly once each fight in phase 3 when he spams those knock down bubbles on me (which should go away when i learn to manage my stunbreak cooldowns). Another thing I need to learn is judging when it’s safe to res ppl but hopefully its just pattern recognition.

Right now i’m 1 run away from the last piece I really want. Without OP I would probably still be sitting on single digit tokens XD

Thanks again for those patient walkthroughs. If you ever run out of ppl to do arah (or even other dungeons) I’m always happy to be in your party

btw, for those ppl looking to pug, I always do:
“<profession> with some lupi experience looking for a friendly group to do path <insert number>”
generally the people are nice and laugh at my lame jokes

Shiren.9532:

This another of those bugs which is stupidly common. I have never been dead or out of combat when the boss died (if I die I wp and run back) but I have had the WP bug rob me of my loot. I truly hope this is on their radar for a fix. It’s incredibly lame that you can DPS the boss for 90% of the fight, die and WP to get back only to find you don’t get any loot (robbing you of around 14 silver, 3 tokens and drops).

ew this is lame. Considering their huge list of bugs they need to attend to I guess I just have to be a bit more discrete about running back in the future =/

I don’t pug often and even when i do i have a couple of guildies with me. our unwritten and unspoken rule is if we feel like skipping we should be prepared to escort those who died trying to skip mobs.

As for ppl that rage at their teammates, thankfully I haven’t met one of those yet. It achieves absolutely nothing and it makes a run painful. Personally kicking (sometimes one man down is easier than having someone ruining the team atmosphere) or blocking (where kicking is not possible) is probably the best idea rather then sitting through all the garbage they type on your screen

It’s not a big deal but I’m curious to know:

I was just doing Arah with a pug and killed Lupi, towards the end of the fight I got myself killed and figured the best thing to do is wp and run back. The rest of the team managed to kill him as I was running back. I could loot the chest but not the body. I did not get the experience for killing him so I assumed I did not get credit for killing him.

So what I want to know is: is this an anomaly or being far away from the mob always prevent me from being recognized as one of its killers (despite being in the same instance, part of the same team, and repeatedly bashed its head throughout 95% of the fight)?

did my first ever arah exp run with obal the other day and it was indeed pleasant, many thanks!
other than me being a bit thick and got myself killed a few times in the beginning most of it is really enjoyable especially the lupi fight.

always happy to do more if you will have me

I think for my case it happens alot in valley keep and bravost.

Awesome! For weeks I’ve been searching for a friendly tour guide to introduce me to this dungeon.
My main dungeon toon is a AH hammer guardian with full exotic knights set. I use scepter+focus for ranged fights.
Unfortunately your times coincide with my meal times but hopefully I can get a few runs under my belt and eventually be good enough to start guiding other arah newbies

seriously, I don’t expect an instant fix but can we at least get someone from anet to acknowledge that this problem exists?

Vlawde.1895:

^^^^^
You mean you ARE interested and want an invite, or you aren’t interested and DON’T want an invite??

lol i’m have idea where the ‘not’ came from. I AM interested

after a bit of reading on your website I’m reeeally interested, can I haz invites? :P

info posted above: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/OPERATION-UNION-Bringing-Players-Together/page/28#post1148162

Main Character: Zaraqel – Guardian – tankish, hammer wielding, wearing knights set
Alts:
- Zeraqel – Ele – Focuses on healing
- Lux Candela – Mesmer – Glass cannon, mainly for fun, a little too squishy for dungeons
- Zapherie – Thief – built on blind and poison/weakness spamming.

Current Server: Dragonbrand
Interested Activities: Socialising, Dungeons, Meta-events (especially those temples in Orr), and occasionally WvW.
Active: will be playing lots in January and then becomes less active when RL stuff heats up.
Additional Comments: happy to help people with their story quests, explorations. Did Arah story for all my toons so I’m fairly familiar with it. I’m quite interested in Arah exp mode and am looking for some tour guides. Could be interested in other dungeons to slowly build up my ecto stockpile. Not touching FotM until they allow people to rejoin after d/c but I’m actually starting to like it with an organized group.

Are you willing to participate in Operation: UNION’S project, Y/N?: Yes
Although I’m already in a nice guild with a lovely community and I would prefer to represent my current guild most of the time.

I knew i missed out on something. I’m on Dragonbrand (US), if necessary i’m willing to park a character on the inside of arah gate to ensure dungeon access all the time.

I’ve recently looked at the arah armor and I’m thinking about getting the chestplate and legging on my guardian (ie 630 tokens). But I have 0 experience with arah EM. I did a little research on them and came to the conclusion that it is not something I want to start learning with a pug, given how scary lupicus appears to be.

Path 3 appears to be the least troublesome path to those who know it inside out so I’m thinking about learning this path and hopefully do a daily run of it for about 10 days.

So I’m wondering if there are any kind souls who won’t mind carrying a newbie on a few Arah P3 trips. I promise I will in turn patiently teach anyone else who wishes to learn to spread the wisdom

I have lots of time to play in January before rl stuff start to catch up to me so I should be online a lot of the times. But my connection is the smoothest generally about after 1am server time.

happened again when taking a garrison, the images are before and after capture, notice how my exp bar did not move

This is starting to get very annoying. Happened to me 3 more times today, twice for a tower and once on a keep.

Being doing a bit of WvW lately, in the past week or so, sometimes me and some other people running with us, have participated in capturing the keep, stayed inside our colored circle the whole time but we did not get credit, ie no exp, karma, or coin. It just happened to me again when we captured stonemist.

I apologize if this has already been posted. I did not see an identical post after a quick glimpse at the first couple of pages.