Guild Wars 2

There were 2 videos at the end of the Living Story. When they played, there was no sound, and I think I figured out why.

The videos do not use the game’s sound output option. They play outside the game, and the sound is output through the Window’s default output option.

I assume this didn’t affect many players, but for me, game sound is on my 5.1 speakers, and Windows sound output is through my gaming headset.

: (

Have you tried adding more LEDs. How many LEDs does “sufficient hardware” mean for you?

I think I found 2 bugs, which are frustrating. In Hidden Arcana, at last boss. I got the first 3 achievements easily, I’m on Malvolent Memory.

I’m a guard so this achievement is a huge pain in the kitten , this achievement is really not at all designed for my profession because my virtues give buffs. But I digress.

Here’s bug #1 Losing the battle or dying doesn’t reset the achievement buff / challenge mote. This means I need to kill the boss, and then retry it. Huge freaking pain in the kitten . Really unnecessary for such a long fight in such a huge instance. : (

Seems like my only option is to kill the boss. A few more fails later, I get him to within 1 crystal of death.

And here’s bug #2 he stopped spawning vortex crystals. If I die he won’t reset because he stays permanently in combat with Marjorie who won’t die.

These huge, long instances, with long battles and difficult achievements are epic. Unless they don’t work, in which case it’s really a bummer.

Hello internet friends.

I play a lot. I mostly play in WvW because I like bags. They make me feel all cuddly and warm inside.

Due to my bag addiction, I have hoarded 3 currencies. I’m sitting quite pretty when it comes to karma, WvW badges, and skill points. I believe I would instead be much happier with more gold, or more gems, or another legendary. I would like to convert my excess karma, WvW badges, and skill points into something more useful.

What would you guys recommend as efficient ways of turning karma/badges/skill points into gold (or another liquid or trade-able currency)?

Thanks friends!

I can’t imagine this is a feature because it makes the gaming experience less fluid.

But yeah, my launcher doesn’t automatically log me in, started about a month ago.

I have tried with auto-play enabled and disabled.

I am now trying to get the Chalice of Rhendak collectible. I went though the mini dungeon with a level 46 thief, killed Rhendak, got the chest but no chalice.
Logged in the next day, killed Rhendak, got the chest but no chalice.
Logged in the day after that, killed Rhendak, no chest.
Logged in today, killed Rhendak, no chest.

I imagine I can no longer just keep a toon parked there and log in to kill the boss for the chest. I remember way back, maybe a year ago, I could leave an 80 at a world event, for example Claw of Jormag, and just log in every few days, kill it, get the chest.

How do I ‘reset’ this thief now so I actually have a chance to get the chest and possible the chalice?

Thanks!

WhimsicalWalrus.9760:

the lag is gone in regular maps but in wvw it is still atrocious for me at least

It’s been like this for me for 3-4 days. utterly awful. can’t play wvw. : (

I’ve read the multiple complaints about client crashes, and inability to auto login, but the font on the client also looks godawful since the patch. : (

I’m so totally bummed out that I tried to do the On Swift Wings like 4 times before checking the forums to find out it’s bugged and they’re not going to fix it until they release even more content.

: (

I think it would be great if, when checking the wardrobe, I would be able to sort by sets.

For example, I would like to sort so I can see all the piece I have for the Masquerade set, or the lawless set.

Currently this is accomplished through the search feature, which is kind of a pain.

Some people seemed to have forgotten we are the Master Race. You know, because we are cute, tiny geniuses, with floppy ears. Oh and fangs. We have amazing fangs. Bite Bite Bite!

We need to remind the other inferior races of our awesomeness, and to punish them for forgetting. I propose we invade the Black Citadel. And maybe later, Poland.

Belzebu.3912:

Want to blow your mind?
I’m a Brazilian that answered a German post about a Chinese pack in the English forum

Yeah but you did it in English.

Had you (as a Brazilian) answered his German post about a Chinese pack in the English forum, in Swahili, my mind may have figuratively exploded. : P

I had the same thing happen. Landed it perfectly on my first try, credit.

Even better, my second try I died, landed on the edge of the pool. But I got the achievement.

Funny thing is, after figuring out the jumping puzzle, it’s much easier getting to the goggles the second time around. (And the third if you do the story achievements)

My Personal Story was done. The new “Living Story” I’ve completed once, and then finished the associated achievements.

But to get the new story achievements you have to restart the new “Living Story”. My dilemma is that I can’t disable it now that I’ve gotten the achievements.

I basically don’t want it always telling me (top right quest text) to complete the new “Living Story” again. And I would prefer to not have to run all the new “Living Story” instances yet again just to get the quest text to disappear. This is why I’m wondering if I can just turn it off.

Sorry if I’m not making a lot of sense, I’m foreign and all.

I finished the new Personal Story stuff which unlocked the achievement side. I then finished the achievements, but not in order.

So now my living story is stuck mid way, and there’s that persistent green quest in the top right of my screen. I really don’t want to redo all the instances a third time.

Is there any way to “stop” or discontinue the new Personal Story so it doesn’t always tell me I have to go meet my friends?

Haha this is my favorite. Posting about a Chinese language pack, in German, in the English forums.

Especially when leveling, it’s important to have good gear of the same level. If you’re level 16, and all of your stuff is green and level 13-16, you’ll have an easy time.

If you’re still rocking those level 8 blues, you need to either play really well, or die a lot.

It’s been a while since I’ve done any jumping puzzles. Are all chests equally rewarding or are some “better” / bigger than others? If so, which puzzles have the most rewarding chests?

I remember most chests being Grand, but some being of lesser value like the ones in LA. Thanks!

If I complete the Living Story on one character, will I be able to run it on another character in say 6 months? Or will I have to purchase the unlock for that character?

The patch notes state doing the living story unlocks it, but is it an account unlock, or a per character unlock?

I’m trying to kill Liadri on my engi. I’m running pistol pistol with mostly Rabid gear.

I’m having trouble picking traits, what would you guys recommend?

Thanks!

Up until the April 14th patch I played a boon duration Guardian in WvW. Gear is all Knight’s and Berserker, Staff and Greatsword with Altruistic Healing and Pure of Voice. Shouts for boons, cure conditions, boons last forever, might on critical hits, stability for days, was great times.

Now boon duration is not viable and I need a new set of runes. It also seems a lot of the runes have changed drastically.

What would you guys recommend for playing in a 10-15 man WvW? What runes do you guys use?

Now that the event is over can I still spend the Found Belongings I have left?

I’m getting really tired of all these temporary currecies.

From karka attack I had like 3k of the Lyns donation tokens. I have 4 stacks of Found Belongings. Basically if I can’t play the last few days of the current temporary content, I lose out on cashing in the currency. : /

Immensus.9732:

Do you guys even check the blog posts? :P https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/release-notes-for-a-very-merry-wintersday/ Here you are!
Edit: Also the page https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/december-10-2013/

Neither of those has a date, unless I’m just missing it…

When is Wintersday over? I’ve been procrastinating with my achievements and I want to know how much longer I have please.

Is SAB ending tomorrow or in 2 weeks? Thanks!

I just logged on after patch, read a bit, got to 450.

I know there’s daily items I need for my ascended axe. Items I can only craft once per day.

In the interest of getting the one from today done, which items are these?

Why why why why why?

I hate that if I want to use my warrior for the gauntlet, I need to play a lot with him and get Tickets. I like doing WvW with my necro, who now has lots of Tickets. I finished my ogre slayer in the new Pavilion with Engineer who also now has tons of tickets. I only really like running dungeons with my warrior, who has so few Tickets.

I’m not great at the gauntlet, but I’m alright. Got most achievements, still need Liadri and 5 gambit tier 3, both of which will probably take 20+ tickets.

I recently over-purchased 1 bank tab from the gem store. There appeared to still be room when I scrolled down in my bank so I thought I could get more bank tabs. Once I bought it off the gem store, I can’t use it since I’m at maximum bank tabs.

I submitted a bug report in game (asking for a gem refund for the unusable item), but I don’t know if that was the right thing to do.

I have two questions:
• Is it a bug? Bank tabs are purchasable in 2 places, within your bank and on the gem store. Especially since there appears to be room for additional tabs when you scroll down in the bank, it’s easy to interpret that as potential extra bank tabs you could buy from the gem store.
• Will I be able to get a refund? If so how should I go about it? Submit a web ticket or wait for the in-game bug report I already submitted?

Thanks!

This is my first real attempt at a power necro. I’ve played a hybrid build for several months and lately condition-mancer and I love it.

I mostly use my necro for WvW, but I am starting to use it in dungeons as well. I played around with a 30/30/10 build, and also nemesis’ 30/0/10/0/30 build ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG5fqtiP2x0 ).

The 30/30/10 seems to suck by comparison, yet everyone is raving about it. Am I doing it wrong? The damage from Terror doesn’t seem to be that amazing.

What do you guys prefer, and why?

Wow there’s a lot of hatred for warriors.

Some people just love telling others they suck for how they choose to entertain themselves. : (

This has been bugged for days.

It’s freaking terrible. I have to win 3 or 4 times some days to get the achievement. Today, I had 3 wins, none gave me the achievement. It’s quite dumb.

(I’m not quite sure I fully expressed my displaeasure about this.)

What is this awful skill queue and how do I turn it off?

It turned this game’s awesome combat into something terrible and frustrating.

Miss a dodge and get rooted? Well you’re going to waste a dodge when the root is over.
Dodge jump into water? Well, if you go below the surface you’re going to dodge.

It’s especially frustrating in the new crab grab event, since the sprint is a channel and most skills have inductions.

It seems especially worse after this last patch. If an action in the skill queue cannot execute it prevents any other actions, such as attacking.

I think it would be swell if at some point in the future another calamity would befall Lion’s Arch and Lyns, or one of her comrades in arms, would accept donations and offer items for trade in exchange for commendations.

I’ve had a ranger for a while, but it never really fascinated me. Recently I’ve decided to give it another try, and I need some gear & build recommendations.I will use it for PvE exclusively.

I love the short bow. I want to use that for sure. I like the greatsword but I’m open to other melee options.

For gear, especially to complement the short bow, should I go berserker, or condition/power/precision, or something else?

What about the build? What would you guys recommend for a high DPS build? I read a few but it’s hard to get an idea of what works well without spending a lot of time comparing builds.

Are you saying that people camp events and it’s not fun? I agree, that’s why I don’t camp events. I do things that are fun for me. You should do things which you consider to be fun, and I hope that doesn’t mean running the same events over and over each day.

Also, I understand doing Tequatl and Shatterer for a rare, since they are quick and have nearby WayPoints. I do not understand Claw of Jormag at all. It takes 15 minutes for a rare and a chest. On FA, it’s the only world boss that gets full enough to hit overflow. There’s no way it’s worth it. Tequatl for example, if someone in guild chat says it’s up, I spend the 2-3 silver to waypoint there, it dies in 1 minute, I get at least a rare and some junk.

uberkingkong.8041:

Yup, games especially MMORPGS now these days, you have to use outside source to even have a clue about any type of meaning or how to use something or do some quest. Like mystic forge, if you never did it before you wouldn’t even have a clue how to use it.

EQ has allakhazam to tell you everything, GW2 has gw2wiki. You just don’t learn stuff ingame anymore, these games are terrible at teaching you stuff.

I think most people are horrible at reading comprehension. Talk to Maylani, she explains the Mystic Forge quite well. The unique rings are labelled “unique.” It’s really not that hard.

How awesome Are these exotic jewelry recipes considering ascended pieces are available?

I really like HotW p1. Even after they fixed the hole in wall, it’s still a 10 minute run with warriors, guard and Mesmer, provided everyone is experienced with the final boss.

I have to admit, I only run high level dungeons so I can trade the tokens in for high level rares for MF or ecto salvage.

Hey. It sounds like you don’t like this zone and/or are terrible at it.

I don’t mind it, it’s nice. I liked the Karka event. I think it’s swell that Fire&Frost refugees are endin up there. I like the extra orichalcum and ancient wood nodes. I really enjoyed the Rich Orichalcum Node. I hated the “roll to win” mob tactics. New passionflower nodes are awesome, more crafting options are great. I also enjoyed finding the guild bounty there with my guild.

Why all the complaining?

Is that a picture of you holding your kitten?

I firmly believe that yelling KARKAROOOOOOOL! is an integral part of this achievement. Simply dodging onto other players to kill them is not enough.

Unfortunately, at this time, there is no adequate way to track whether your karka yell was loud enough to give you achievement credit.

feuna.1749:

I didn’t know this too! I would have purchase two of the same like you..

Just to be clear, you can’t use two Ring of Red Death?

Correct, unless one is infused and one is not.
There are two rings for each stat distribution, so get a RRoD and a Crystalline Band ( I think that’s what it’s called)

Seriously though… unique … It’s quite self explanatory. It’s unique, you can’t have another.

Israel.7056:

Qori.9671:

it’s a unique item in the items description.

Yes but I had no idea what that meant until today.

You had no idea what the word “unique” meant? Dictionaries are usually awesome tools for understanding words.

I love reading threads about players soloing Lupicus, and then right below that, a thread about how he’s impossible for a 5 man team.

CoF isn’t the problem really. The elitist people won’t disappear; you can’t solve clunky problems with content updates.

The meta for just about any dungeon is 3 warriors, Mesmer, Guardian. Warriors have ridiculous sustained DPS, not to mention group buffs (banners and FGJ). Mesmers have great DPS, Time Warp, and Guards save lives (reflect shields, regen, blocks).

If CoF p1 gets significantly longer, another dungeon will be farmed, probably CoE or HotW. They both have paths that are quick for a good group, and provide tokens traceable for high level yellows.

I don’t think that is the case. ArenaNet did not provide the exact specification for MF, but they did say each item type is in a different table, which is MF independent.

What I interpret this to mean, is that the game decides whether a drop is a weapon, fine material, cash, or whatever before MF determines “what” it is. If this is the case, you get a blood fine material, and MF increases the chance it’s tier 6 instead of tier 5. But High MF won’t convert that blood fine material into a rare axe.

This is my understanding of it, which might be completely flawed.

40+ to get rare chest, since minimum level rares are 39.

I wish I had permanent swiftness as a necro staff skill, but instead I have to swap utility skills from run signet to Rez signet or well which is a huge pain in WvW.

There’s a rune set and the 6th bonus is enter most form at 10% or 20%

E;FB

The commander tag is intended for a quick map glance of where WvW leaders are. It’s amazing for knowing where you should be, and where to stack.

Please don’t use it like 75% of the commanders, who use it as some sort of badge in PvE to show off that they had 100g. If you’re not in WvW, and even if you are but you’re not leading a group, turn that tag off.

Being a good commander is hard. Know strategy, know your guild, be in voice chat, and kitten kitten up.