Guild Wars 2

same issue!!! it has made the game unplayable, from running perfectly 100+ fps everywhere, to it SAYING it’s 40-60 fps, but it feels more like 15-20 fps.

Kiff Bridger.3748:

I wanted to mention that the update notes that patched Continuum Shift for chronomancer broke it- we no longer get the additional duration from illusions- its a flat 1.5 seconds now.

I was unaware that merely uploading update notes to the forums can break things… Perhaps we should use another delivery method for these patch notes?

Tarasicodissa.7084:

All of this would be easily solved if you were to have a reserved spot on the map for 1 minute after DC’ing so that you can log back in. Too much to ask I guess.

that is a bit much to ask, especially in very popular maps where people are trying to taxi their guild in… it’s already hard to get into certain maps with friends/guildies, but this would make it exponentially harder, if you lose your slot… it’s gone.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Tspatula.9086:

The first personal story once you get into VB gives you the first tier of gliding. Easy peasy

Funny. Only got me half a bar. Not that it’s not easy, but disinformation serves no one.

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If the story did not give you gliding, run north from the initial waypoint and try to do events around the Itzel village in the trees. It’s possible to run there without gliding or mushroom jumping. Once cycle should get you enough XP to get gliding, then you should work on Gliding 2 (Updrafts) and then mushroom jumping.

Good luck and have fun.

and who are you to say that’s disinformation? I almost always have celebration and xp booster and laurel xp boosters active… what gives you half a bar of exp will give me 1.5 full bars to 2.25 full bars.

Derigar.7810:

Sandpit that’s a good alternative! However, what if I’m in my typical city hub and want to find a good party for, let’s say, DS?

then TP to DS beforehand since you plan to go there anyways? just having it for the zone you’re in would be enough.

idk what requirement is, but dredge commissar’s special item is a VERY low % drop rate.

Vulcan.7035:

Yes, I have a set of almost all could-be raid required armor sets + weapons. Yet no one will take me because I’m a “Guardian.” The only one I can get into is VG as a tank.

Also, I get “you might have been invited but you’ve never beaten it, let alone tried it.” But how is someone supposed to try it or beat it when no one will let you in?

lots of people don’t like wasting time, events like this every single player is important… if people don’t want guardian, join a bigger guild with a mumble server or something so you can VoIP, some classes will be flawed without good communication.

Randulf.7614:

Useful thread. Still a shame the official forums are no longer relevant, but thanks for posting these links/quotes.

the forums here are definitely relevant… that aside, don’t forget, f2p players can’t use these forums, so the only mediums they have are reddit and fan-made forums, so it’s good dev’s communicate on more than one channel.

Riku.4821:

I hadn’t touched WvW for a bit. But the way I see it, they are now how it was suppose to be.
They let you get your elite spec, they are soul bound, same as PvE. Play and gear the character you want to play. Why have an alt if you don’t play it.

+1.

people seem to want to progress everything on their other chars in order to make alts better… they should need to play their alts.

Starfall.6425:

Was just reading the patchnotes and instantly had to confirm IGM.. and my thoughts “Why?”

With HoT came the item proof of heroics that was a small consolidation für WvW-players to be able to play the new elite specs without going for map-completion in the new maps.

It was a content of the chests of the mists, which was account-bound but not stackable.

After you finished skilling your main it was best to have the proof of heroics on your other chars. There was only one way to get that (and one buggy way): You keep all chests closed and give them to your toon, but because they were not stackable they completely filled bank and inventary space.

So people asked Anet to make them stackable (which would only be logic anyway) so they can transfer stacked chests to other toons.

Now a Anet “granted our wish” and made them stackable.. but wait… now we make them souldbound. Beside that we also fix the one bug that allowed us to skill other toons with the souldbound proof of heroics.

With things like this I just have to shake my head and ask “Why?”

Why “fix” something we wanted into something that makes our life harder while we still wait for our “PvE farmed buggy WvW-Auras” that did not even get a mention in the patchnotes?

earn them on the character you want… nobody’s forcing you to grind your main to get stuff for other chars, I find that boring personally, play all my chars individually, no sharing of anything.

HakunaMataBaby.2734:

Xbon.9086:

Play the trading post… if you need tips contact me in game and I can tell you how to play it to perfection…. few days ago I turned 40silver into 450gold in the course of about 20 hours… but wasted it all on keys like I always end up doing.

if you’re good at self-learning, you can try to figure out https://www.gw2shinies.com/smart.php yourself, but you’ll have to make sure you know how to check item histories/know it’s an item that has a decent supply/etc.

Great tip,. Should I follow the buy/sell of the site? Then I’m assuming i’ll gain the knowledge what does well on tp in time. Or should I do it differently? Thanks!

You should first check any item you want to start investing in by going to its page and checking atleast 3 months back worth of data, then decide whether it’ll sell if you get it. once you do that, set buy orders up for a few items at a time, since people will probably try to get the same items you’re getting, and continuously bid over you, more items you have, more chance you get an item before that happens, then once you get it, undercut significantly so that your item will sell and people think twice about undercutting you, for starters.

Play the trading post… if you need tips contact me in game and I can tell you how to play it to perfection…. few days ago I turned 40silver into 450gold in the course of about 20 hours… but wasted it all on keys like I always end up doing.

if you’re good at self-learning, you can try to figure out https://www.gw2shinies.com/smart.php yourself, but you’ll have to make sure you know how to check item histories/know it’s an item that has a decent supply/etc.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I find the aesthetics of having a red or green outline around everyone especially annoying. It’s also a little insulting, as if ANet didn’t think that we can figure out friends from enemies without that feature.

except in areas with tons of enemy mobs that are the same type of mobs are the people in your party… you really can’t.

also @OP it’s spelled aesthetics.

PopeUrban.2578:

Xbon.9086:

PopeUrban.2578:

The watchwork pick was a massive mistake. Its functionality should honestly be rolled out to all L80 picks avaliable in and out of game, or a decent amount of sprocket nodes should be added to the world to make its ability a strictly QoL advantage rather than a literal pay-to-win one. It is a gem store only item that is superior in function

This is a huge departure from how the gem store works. It’s supposed to be a place to get convenience and aesthetic upgrades, not a place to buy actual permanent economic power you can’t get any other way. Even boosters are available without gems now.

well, considering the amount sprockets are used in recipes, and the number of people with watchwork pick bringing all the sprockets in, it’s also a good thing… It’s an investment of gold… you put 200 gold in, you get it back in a couple months of running ore gathering routes.

Right, the point is that it is functionally “the best pick” and it can only be acquired through the gem store. That’s a problem. it would be like if ascended could only be bought from the gem store, there was no way to reskin it, and all the ingame methods could only get you exotics.

Infinite picks in general are fine. They do the same thing as normal picks, and really just save you the hassly of buying picks. Watchwork is an anomaly because it does something other picks can’t rather than just being more convenient.

they admitted their mistake, and won’t do it again. however, they won’t strip away the function for the people who paid real money for this item FOR the sprocket generation, nor will they give other picks any extra generation since that’d be going against what they said… it’s fine the way it is, some people enjoy skins, some people enjoy utility, I use watchwork pick and won’t use any other infinite gathering tool; it’s the only one that’s proved its worth to me so far.

these are supposed to be an adventure… as you go along on these adventures you get closer to your legendary, if they were easy then there’d be no reason to buy legendaries anymore except for core players.

Erick Alastor.3917:

Simeonus.9237:

Experience you receive is based on your character lvl. Full map gives me about 600-750k experience on my 80 Revenant(lvled with tomes).

Wait, less than what I estimated? O_o
It should be at least 3kk.

he obviously means per map, which means you’re getting tens of millions of exp for doing map completion on an 80 rev leveled by tomes. this is correct.

Mortifer.2946:

Yes, it is very good. However, crafting 250 staffs which require around 7000 elder wood (plus, you need 11 000 elder wood logs for 53 spirit wood planks) is a bit stupid… I refuse to buy it through TP, so now I am going to park all my characters to Malchor’s Leap, guest german and spanish server, and farm the kitten out of those trees.

Dear Linsey, my bank is full of all the kinds of materials which I was saving up for years. You had a chance to give them a purpose…now they will stay there collecting dust… farming 18 000 elder wood logs + other thousands of lower tier logs is not fun at all.

I could have built a wooden castle from such amount of wood planks… not one stick with few glowy crystals.

they needed to give a reason for crafting mats that were diminishing in value… now they just need to do that for silver ore, maybe when the new legends drop.

New ascended recipe for the new ascended backpiece, will fetch you a lot of gold. as for the stuff you already have, sell it on the TP, if abound, delete it.

PopeUrban.2578:

The watchwork pick was a massive mistake. Its functionality should honestly be rolled out to all L80 picks avaliable in and out of game, or a decent amount of sprocket nodes should be added to the world to make its ability a strictly QoL advantage rather than a literal pay-to-win one. It is a gem store only item that is superior in function

This is a huge departure from how the gem store works. It’s supposed to be a place to get convenience and aesthetic upgrades, not a place to buy actual permanent economic power you can’t get any other way. Even boosters are available without gems now.

well, considering the amount sprockets are used in recipes, and the number of people with watchwork pick bringing all the sprockets in, it’s also a good thing… It’s an investment of gold… you put 200 gold in, you get it back in a couple months of running ore gathering routes.

bump, if you join a party in lfg and they’ve already hosted the fractal map instance, it seems to consistently show the wrong level.

you don’t get credit for helping other guilds in their missions… you never have.

yes, you can get a kitten with sylvaris, check zuzu.

Neyjour.3921:

TPMN.1483:

Don’t think so – or I have not discovered it so far

Okay, thanks.

I’ve been scrimping and scrounging for every copper I can, listing absolutely everything I can’t use for my character or her crafting, and it’s… a LOT. I’ve never played an MMO before, that allowed you to list so many items (and with no indication of a limit), and it’s got me very curious.

other than the botting limit, no limits. I used to use TP as bank by storing hundreds of stacks of things on TP, then getting it back later when price raises/or having it sold at some higher price.

Eddie Mo.7169:

Tl;dr -

If you purchase the digital deluxe upgrade with a F2P account, do you officially own Core and have no more F2P restrictions? Or do you just get the mail items but still have restrictions?

Long version -

My friend says she is interested in trying GW2, but she doesn’t like the restrictions when I showed it to her.

Basically she says she wants to play, but without restrictions. So pretty much she wants to play Core even if she has to buy it. Then she’ll decide from there if she wants HoT or not.

She pretty much does not want to buy HoT no matter how much logic I throw at her even though I told her it comes with the Core game and if she buys Core and plays HoT. I also tried telling her that if she does this, she’s going to be paying like 75 dollars rather than just 50 dollars. She’s okay with that.

So I was wondering, if she signs up for the F2P version, then buys Core for 2000 gems (around 25 bucks), can she now play without restrictions?

you need to buy the core game before you can get digital deluxe.

Athena.3579:

Hey Matthew, now that the secret is out, would you please consider having the drop frequency on these adjusted?

I know making knee-jerk reactions isn’t a great thing, but these seem to be the rarest drop in Heart of Thorns (if not the entirety of Guild Wars 2), by far. My guild and I (~5 people farming/day) have been killing at least three treasure mushrooms (usually at least four, and more recently five) a day for the past two weeks and have had no luck in obtaining a single pair.

It just seems a real shame that we were given a toggle for helmet, gloves and shoulders and that these invisible boots do the same thing, but are behind such an extremely and dismally low drop rate. I don’t think invisible shoes should remotely be among the most expensive and rarest items in the game.

TL;DR Can we please have the drop rate tweaked on these to be a lot more reasonable? Could these be fully made account bound and have their drop rate adjusted to provide more incentive to train this mastery and provide more of a reward for using this mastery?

It makes sense to me that the people that want these can farm them every day for a few days to a week to get a pair — while the rich/lucky will not be able to exploit these like they currently are.

give it time, in a few months it’ll be 300g or so. rare drops are supposed to be rare, just like dusk. you don’t find dusks from endlessly slaying mobs all day, you find it by raw luck.

happening to me when I tried to enter Fractals of the mist, then couldn’t log onto char for 10 mins

actually now I can’t login at all.

i keep getting kicked when trying to enter FoTM (64-bit client) no problems anywhere else.

It shows the wrong scale/difficulty very often on the screen after you join a party to enter instance

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Uncle Melty.4297:

edit: Merch back up and I was wrong.

What was changed?

7 reagents 8 agonies

dutchiez.7502:

I’m just glad they aren’t banning people for abusing obviously unintended prices on merchants.

obviously unintended how? I didn’t even try to count how many agony +1’s it would take to make said things, I just did it because I had +1’s and wanted to convert for gold.

Uncle Melty.4297:

edit: Merch back up and I was wrong.

it’s back up now? good news then.

Errant.1509:

Thanks for update, sorry for terse responses but it’s been frustrating not to be able to progress when I’ve got 3 stacks of +1s sitting in storage!

hey man, I got 10 stacks. more i do fracs more stacks :\

Vendor is still disabled after latest patch which fixed the bug! what’s up?!!?

dutchiez.7502:

Xbon.9086:

thrag.9740:

Xbon.9086:

now have 9 full stacks of +1’s… starting a 10th stack… taking a ton of my bp space hostage while I wait for it to work again

I’m betting that the merchant was not suppose to be cheaper than artificer. There was a thread on reddit the night it got disabled talking about how you should never use artificer once you unlock the merchant. They probably saw that and realized it was a bug.

you have to EVENTUALLY artifice again, you’re using a mastery point to get these bonuses in the first place, after +21, it’s back to using artificer, and that comes sooner than you think. something like 184,300 +1’s, can be farmed pretty easily or bought from tp.

279,936 +1 infusions if my math is correct.

aight, so after that many you use artificer again. what’s the problem?

the final pieces of recipe ascended gear is all buyable on the TP… go farm some recipes, get ur craft to 500, and each piece cost about 100g to craft using the final pieces from the TP.

thrag.9740:

Xbon.9086:

now have 9 full stacks of +1’s… starting a 10th stack… taking a ton of my bp space hostage while I wait for it to work again

I’m betting that the merchant was not suppose to be cheaper than artificer. There was a thread on reddit the night it got disabled talking about how you should never use artificer once you unlock the merchant. They probably saw that and realized it was a bug.

you have to EVENTUALLY artifice again, you’re using a mastery point to get these bonuses in the first place, after +21, it’s back to using artificer, and that comes sooner than you think. something like 184,300 +1’s, can be farmed pretty easily or bought from tp.

now have 9 full stacks of +1’s… starting a 10th stack… taking a ton of my bp space hostage while I wait for it to work again

so uhm… any further update? what kinda bug was it anyways

thanks for finally updating us… still wish it’d be online sooner… I think I have to stop doing fracs for now, 9 full stacks of +1 agony infusions that’ll just keep accumulating more stacks.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

We will bring the servers down for maintenance in 20 minutes. Estimated downtime will be 30 minutes. Thank you for your patience.

will this maintenance perhaps… bring the fractal vendor back up?

their goal was to deincentivize, sounds like i worked. and with fractal tier 3, encryptions earn you A LOT more than you pay to open (which is 10s by the way, use matrices, not 20s keys)

of course it does; most likely from 51-100 daily chests.

morrolan.9608:

Xbon.9086:

morrolan.9608:

Xbon.9086:

you have the ENTIRE core game for casual play….

So casual players shouldn’t buy HOT? Yes I’m sure anet would just love that given how badly Wildstar tanked by catering too much to the 1%ers.

What’s your vision of expansion content that happens AT the end game to progress more? If it says the same as the rest of the game, what the hell is the point of the expansion? Everything you do leads up to the expansion, and the expansion is where your skills are tried and tested to the maximum of their capacity.

Thats end/elder game content. An xpac isn’t end game its further progression. In a normal mmo an xpac will have additional levels. End game is stuff like world bosses, raids, high end fractals, PvP, high level WvW. Endgame content can be added to with an xpac but the xpac itself isn’t end game content.

And if level was increased, gear that cost hundreds of dollars is invalidated, they took the right route by making it end game hard PvE content for hardcore playerbase to USE that gear that cost hundreds of $.

Trock Bronze.9625:

Xbon.9086:

Pimsley.3045:

No solution has been found yet, nor have we heard from Anet officially about the problem.

we have on reddit… go watch gw2 reddit

post or link it here then, and redditt is not a good place, facebook, twitter or here is where they need to post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3qnd6w/what_did_they_break_cant_log_in_since_patch/cwgtdwx

6mins ago, they’re replying very actively in the topic.

and no, reddit is a very easy place for developers to get and push forward information, they use it very actively. much more convenient than even these forums.

Pimsley.3045:

No solution has been found yet, nor have we heard from Anet officially about the problem.

we have on reddit… go watch gw2 reddit

same error… just want to play some fracs :\

morrolan.9608:

Xbon.9086:

you have the ENTIRE core game for casual play….

So casual players shouldn’t buy HOT? Yes I’m sure anet would just love that given how badly Wildstar tanked by catering too much to the 1%ers.

What’s your vision of expansion content that happens AT the end game to progress more? If it says the same as the rest of the game, what the hell is the point of the expansion? Everything you do leads up to the expansion, and the expansion is where your skills are tried and tested to the maximum of their capacity.

Drath.9702:

So if I read this correctly, even if you “farm” all the matrices instead of buying them you would make more money selling them instead of opening boxes?

From my own experienced, when I opened 100 boxes I bought and also bought 50 matrices, I profited about 25g.

Zui.9245:

Which would mean that if the boxes were farmed solely from game play, we’d have an average value of 14 silver and 20 copper per box.

Thanks for the data!

Using stabilizing matrices for keys, you can cut the cost in half for keys, about, adding another 8s!