Guild Wars 2

Well, I was more serious than telling a joke!

I think this need to be addressed, either by increasing drop rate of lily or changing the forge recipe to create lily from gemstone.

Or just ask anet to configure their web server with correctly issued certificate!
or remove the en,de,fr or es themselves!

A melee class has trouble separating the vets that one shoots mushrooms at you and other one charging at you and knocking you down!

My point is, the HoT area is not what it was during first months that you could get 20 players to help you with a Hero Point. Anet should reduce them to single vet + 2 normal mobs just like regular areas!

FYI, these HP giving 10 points is not a good excuse to have them as multiple vets or champions with help! those 10 points worth as much as 1 point in Tyria and they are simply 10 points so people cannot use Tyria points to fill up Elite spec.

I already did that story step and material to dissolve the other gates are only drop during story. As I mentioned this gate is different (bigger and have a different message)!

However if it is one of the gates belong to story step, then this is definitely a bug report. The message should say the same thing as other gates do!

While I was posting this thread, I died, right in front of the gate in picture. when I go back another player was reviving me and that gate was open and an escort quest was in progress! I followed them and earned an achievement that I can’t link here. I think it was called regrugicidal or something like that!

Wanna see a good joke? Here it is! Look at picture!

I reach to the end of a tunnel in Tangled Depths and there is an unnamed intractable item which says “you don’t have the materials to open this gate!”

1- what are the materials?
2- what is name of that gate?
3- how can I link it in chat to ask other players? as usual no POI where you need them!

Also this is second gate of this type that I am encountering.
Also this is not the gate from personal story! those gates are saying “The quest Way in required”

Your point is not helping! Please read items 1~4 at the end again specially item 3 which says

3- distance from any POI or chat link-able point in map! when you say mushroom mastery! people assume it is the one …

Reaching mastery point is impossible! I consider it blocking and like it to be fixed!

I’m sorry if my language is blunt and demanding. I’m writing this after trying it over 15 times.

1st: the nearest point to reach here is [Teku Nuhoch Waypoint]. which you need to go up a long ramp that broken and you will stuck in some part of it and you need to back up and jump to be able to pass it. then fly from top to reach 2nd.

2nd: passing the gated area requires killing mushrooms spawning infront of it 4 of them

3rd: you need to do a small crappy Jumping Puzzle which if you fall, you’ll die, even if you deploy glider. because some kitten mushrooms waiting for you down there. also if you fall, you have do 1st and 2nd again.

4th: you reach another bunch of mushrooms. if you die, you need to do 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th again.

5th: pass a path with exploding mushrooms which hopefully you’ll survive!
6th: you’ll reach a 2 veteran mushroom, and (3~4) other mushrooms standing on top of Mastery point. If you die which you will, you have to start over from 1,2,3,4,5

Don’t tell me I need to do it in group, or join HP trains! it is a design flaw from ANET that I have to do it in groups! I am shouting in map for past 2 hours to get a group going to do that kitten MP. I also made a group in LFG for it. a guy much worse than me joined and couldn’t fly to ledge and fell, and quit. I also joined a HP train with a commander who don’t know how to coordinate events but had 300g! he thinks putting markers in a multi story crappy map is enough to get people where you want them to go.

FYI: this is my 7th toon that I’m trying to get map completion on it. so I know how to navigate the crappy map!

So what is actual problem?
1- The crappy map! Why nobody fixing the map? map is just a aesthetic decoration and has nothing to do with actual terrain! there are places that I can walk the path and it is not even in map!
2- The kitten spawn timer. It is almost immediate. when I walk back from WP the 2nd step mushrooms already spawned again.
3- distance from any POI or chat link-able point in map! when you say mushroom mastery! people assume it is the one in rata-ter-ter!
4- The map is already empty, you can barely find people in it and if there are any, they are trying to brute-force their way with killing last boss and get their chests and leave! they don’t care if someone actually doing something else. reduce its kitten difficulty!

In case you also don’t know which mastery point I’m talking about, it is this one!

https://en.support.guildwars2.com/

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You are right, but this is some very strange requirement, given that there is no order for other specializations.

Can someone tell me how to equip scrapper? It does not show up in specialization selection menu.

I believe there is a wardrobe unlock item in BL chest that is guarantied to unlock a new item in your wardrobe. I haven’t seen that item yet, but I think if you are completionist, your chances of getting the item you want with that would be higher.

Linken.6345:

bobsort.4097:

Linken.6345:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

From the Wiki: ‘Note that for the Hero achievements, a mastery point is only awarded the first time a player completes the personal story arc for that level…’.

Again, only 8 Mastery Points for the Personal Story, as there are 8 and only 8 Level Arcs.

I think bob counting world completion and getting to 80 twice in their calculations since they are both under hero.
And then the second time for them selfs.

No sir,

Please follow this link Core Tyria Mastery points

I put those two in their own group

Yes I have answered you in that one now.

Thank you and I corrected the post

Linken.6345:

Order IV:
Defending History Informing the Future Achievements: 1 Mastery Points
To Know the Unknown Achievements: 1 Mastery Points
Some Must Fight That All May be Free Achievements: 1 Mastery Points

these are one for each of the 3 orders can only be got once

Thank you for pointing that out. I didn’t notice each of those belongs to a different order. however I was expecting someone else point it out.

I corrected the post

Linken.6345:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

From the Wiki: ‘Note that for the Hero achievements, a mastery point is only awarded the first time a player completes the personal story arc for that level…’.

Again, only 8 Mastery Points for the Personal Story, as there are 8 and only 8 Level Arcs.

I think bob counting world completion and getting to 80 twice in their calculations since they are both under hero.
And then the second time for them selfs.

No sir,

Please follow this link Core Tyria Mastery points

I put those two in their own group

Most of your players don’t bother about forums unless they are having trouble.
I rather play the game during the limited time I have than keep reading forum messages.

I don’t make a blog post or youtube video about GW2, so as many other players, however I play the game and so many others.

You have two choices either make your players happy so they suggest the game to their friends and/or spend money on game and its expansions, or make your blog posters and youtube movie makers happy and rely on their advertising power.

You want my money and I won’t give it to you unless you give me something I want. I’m sure every single player in game wants that. I’m not saying you should do this and don’t do that. I might not like JP or hate adventures but there are other players here who love them. Just listen to majority. you’ll get more gold out of players pocket if they are happier.

And Here is the suggestion:
Make an in game pol and every week, just give one gem, gold or something valuable as reward for completing it. in that poll ask 3 random questions. something like do you like to see more scenery like Orr? do you like this or that event? What score you give to Hero UI? What you want to see as festival? What you like to see more in BLTC or such.

And then let players add one comment about one thing they like to be added, improved, or removed from game.

At the end of week publish results in the forum so everyone can see it. This will help people to come to agreement. They can see what majority of players likes and if it is against their liking they can live with it or find another game to play.

OriOri.8724:

So first off, in your list of mastery points it would be helpful if you listed out which mastery points (or rather the achievements that grant them) with each category. Right now its just a big jumbled mess.

I did that just for you, however message didn’t fit in one post anymore so I moved it to other thread.

OriOri.8724:

Secondly – You complain about being “forced” to do masteries in order to continue to gain spirit shards, yet then turn around and say immediately that you don’t want to make any legendaries. So what do you even need spirit shards en masse for? Why do you need these spirit shards?

here is list of items you can buy with *"Spirit Shard":https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spirit_Shard
between these items you can see “Mystic Crystal”, “Philosopher’s Stone”, “Eldritch Scroll” and “Augur’s Stone”, I’m not going to discuss this more, you can look at wiki for their use and I believe Shard are the only currency that you can use to buy them. and by the way I didn’t even know it is required for legendary weapons.

OriOri.8724:

I don’t even understand your complaint about the pact commander mastery line. Do you like auto loot or not? The option to disable it is irrelevant, do you like it or not?

Well, I bought the game about 1 or 2 months before HoT and that option was there and I was using it. I’m not sure if it was intended to be like that or it was a bug that it was available. When HoT came, that option become disabled and I could enable it after completing Pact commander. is this enough explanation? Also please note that, same option doesn’t work in WvW until you put 16 points in Provision mastery (correct me if I’m wrong).

OriOri.8724:

You don’t have to do all of the LWS2 achievements. Even just completing the story is 8 points that you are just given. If they are too hard, don’t do them.

This is what I mentioned in my post, however you have to pay 2000 gems to buy it first. am I right?

OriOri.8724:

For the fossilized insects, you get a guaranteed one at the end of a repeatable PvP/WvW reward track.

I attached a screenshot of my WvW. It has been like this for weeks. This week our server is joined with 2 other servers and our rank for today is 1100 against 1850 and 2300. How long would you think it is going to takes to finish the reward track 16 times?

OriOri.8724:

TT does not require you to have TS or Discord. There are organized groups that kill TT every day in both the NA and EU servers. Just look for them in LFG ahead of time (30-45 min to guarantee a spot, though you will usually be fine if you show up 5-10 minutes before it starts).

I am playing this game for almost 2 years, I had no success killing even single head. that map is my mat grinding area and if someone says they are grouping for TT i would see it. I get all wurm achievements after I met TTS guild just a 2~3 months back. they do TT at least 3~5 times a week. I still need to join TS3 to hear the instructions of the group leaders, they change strategy depending who is leading which head.

OriOri.8724:

But still, this all comes back to you wanting spirit shards yet not wanting legendary weapons and you also claim to not care about having ascended stats. So what on earth do you even need spirit shards en mass for?

I believe I answered this a few lines above.

You are welcome to choose the 49 easiest Tyria mastery points possible for OP and others who are frustrated with amount of work needed to do them.

Anyway, all the above reply and reply to reply is off topic IMO. the important thing is I need the mastery points lock down removed. I still think if someone need the reward from mastery track it is their choice and they can do it, but making me do it because I want and need something else is so wrong!

What I am trying to say is, I hate JP to the bone! My PVP rank is rabbit (does this explains how much I like PVP?) and I do WvW if our world is active and there are at least 30 people are in map. I enjoy crafting, selling and buying in TP and gathering resources.

I have about half an hour to 1 hour a day to play (except weekend) which I rather relieve stress from work and not do something like JP that everytime I fall mid way I get more angry!

• 1 point – Requires you to have LWS2 and Complete 36 achievements on 4 LWS2 episodes of Seeds of Truth, Tangled Paths, Echoes of the Past, Point of No Return, Pay 20 gold and grind 2000 geodes in Dry Top.

• 1 point – Requires you to do Fractal, WvW and kill Tequatl and spend 10 silver, lots of Karma and combination of 50 ecto, 40 laurel, 5 gold and 12 guild Commendation).

• 1 point – Requires you to spend about 645gold or 323gold and 16120 Badges of Honor.

• 1 point – Requires you to max crafting level in 3 skills, grind resources or buy them from Trade post , buy 16 recipes for 54 gold and 90 laurel, and craft 16 pieces of Ascended armor, not counting the recipe for insignia which costs 21000 Karma assuming you will use same insignia for all the armor pieces.

• 14 points – Requires you to do fractals hoping you have a great team that don’t mind you not helping them and help you get the achievement.

• 2 Points – Requires you to do Fractals for rest of your life until you get all the weapons drop for you.

• 1 Point – Requires you to stay in Dry top for rest of your life and battle diminishing return and get 16 Unidentified Fossilized Insect random drops or complete reward track of PVP or WvW 16 times, then craft 16 weapons which also requires you to max out 3 crafting skills.

• 1 Point – Requires you to complete 8 dungeons killing all bosses at least in one path.

Here I’m listing the 67 mastery points of Tyria.
This is the list from player’s perspective and things they supposed to do to complete them. Correct me if I’m wrong:
List in detail is here Mastery Points

• 1 point – Have a level 80 character.

• 8 points – Complete all Core Tyria personal story steps.

• 1 point – Map completion of 100% on all Tyria maps.

• 9 points – require you to complete 24 world boss achievements.

• 5 Points – Requires you to kill 4 legendries that spawn in Silver wastes.

• 5 Points – Requires you to do Jumping puzzles.

• 8 points – Requires you to have LWS2 and just complete all episodes and steps once. (8 Seasons, 8 achievements)

• 8 points – Requires you have LWS2 and complete 60 achievements. This requires you to do each season once then unlock the achievements. you will need to run episodes with achievements at least once to get the achievements.

because OriOri asked me to include names of achievements and more detail, post become longer and didn’t fit in one message.

To aovid chunked message I had to move mastery points list to another thread in here Core Tyria Mastery points

Full detail of these master points are in wiki here Mastery Points

Some of these are easy like if you can do personal story alone or get help from guild-mates. LFG is seriously useless in this matter! To do a single one of LWS2 achievement, I was in LFG for whole day until someone from guild helped me to complete 3 of them. A new player will have trouble finding someone to help them complete all these achievements and doing it with some classes are near impossible and for some other classes are very hard. I hope you are not expecting people to create a different class toon, max it to 80 and do all the LWS2 season twice.

Some of Fractal mastery points are easy too, if others don’t mind you not helping them and drag you to get the achievement, however some of them are very near to impossible!

And by the way good luck with mastery points in Rare collection. I have been doing dry-top events for almost 6 months and only had 4 Fossilized Insect drop. Try Fractal weapons!

Completing a dungeon will take you a day or two and dying 1000 times with a group from LFG, if you are able to find a group.

For the Dive Master how much luck do you need to find two Mesmer who has nothing to do other than porting you up “not so secret” for over 1000 times so you fall to your death because of lag or hitting some random object hidden behind smoke and fog while you are free falling.

For world bosses if you get lucky and fall into a well-organized map that people are using 3rd-party programs like teamspeak or discord or such then you might get all 4 Triple-Trouble achievements in 3 runs. For Tequatl you are going to run for a while like 20 or more times?!

Fashion even for me that bought 5 character slots with gold, looks expensive.

Azareal, it is not just you and me and a few.

There are other posts here from Europe and US too, and as it is mentioned in other threads they are having problem from Orange ISP (France) and Telia (Sweden) and few more. here are links to other threads complaining about same thing

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Login-server-down-for-anyone-else
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/DDoS-again-Unplayable-game-regardless
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Lag-spikes-packet-loss

and according to arkin.1367 in other thread, french threads are full of complains too.

Healix.5819, that command does not change the path it makes a link to it in drive D.

Files are still saved in drive C and occupy space in there. It becomes a problem when you have a document folder that is specific for your office work and suddenly game stuff appears in it!

xAcid, the person who started the thread is from Midwest US and the other one below him is from Arizona, Phoenix, so No, it is not something TM related.

How are you pinging from your phone? did you hotspot it for game?

Malaysia too having same problem exactly on 14th Dec, right after I downloaded the last patch (fix 70372) which announced on 3rd comment on update December 13, 2016(no date on post, no version number on post).

I am getting 53% packet loss. However I talk to TM support and they confirmed there is NO issue connecting to US servers.

I’m only having packet loss on NCSoft IP range (64.25.32., 64.25.46., ).

From EvilReaperZ.7920 ping image I can see the ping drops in connection between telia and TM servers. It might be a faulty router on the way, but why are we connecting to a Sweden IP instead of USA?

Is it a DDos attack again?

Emm! I thought this is support forum. I’ll contact support email. Thanks

I’m trying to not jump to conclusion yet.
here is what happened,

I changed armor colors of one toon a few months back to red and purple. I did change leg and chest and boot colors. here is the original colors of those items

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magician_armor

Colors that I used marked in picture.

After a while I found new boots and they were brownish (I believe original color) so tried to change their color match the rest. however the lipstick color which I used for the other two piece is locked!

I don’t exactly remember how did I create the character 120 days ago and what colors I used so here are two scenarios that I think happened.

1- I choose lipstick during creation of character, however the two pieces of armor that I am wearing are magician armor and there is noway that I had them during creation. so I can assume when I changed the armor, color of previous armor applied to new one. In this case bug is, why the color of hand, head and feet did not apply to the new armor?

2- I changed the color of the armor after replacing them and then used lipstick dye to paint the armor and now the dye is gone from my account! which then it is an obvious bug.

Please note:
1- I don’t have empty character slot at the moment to create a new character and see if the colors are inherited from when character is created.

2- I am assuming the colors shown in wiki is the original colors of the armor. (a wiki error?)

3- I cannot check the color of armor from Trade post as when I preview them, they show as the same color that I painted my current armor. (another bug?)

Emm! how would exactly forum flooded if people couldn’t even login to forum?
My mail carrier is live.com, to be sure it is not interrupted or slow down, I send an email to it from my yahoo account and received it instantly even before I come here to complain.

Thank you for reminding me of

https://help.guildwars2.com/anonymous_requests/new

Isn’t that the link which takes 72 hours to reply?

I made it easier to see! you know OCD! it was perfect a few years back, it is messed up now!

an asuran does not create an structure mis-aligned like that ever! It only happens when a big hand careless norn tries to make something that delicate!

for tank pet F1 ignores my command no matter how many time I press it. it keeps attacking an imaginary target, (invisible?) until I switch pet which is not available very often specially when my other pet (dps) does not survive very long!

Djinn.9245:

If you read the OP carefully, he says that the mobs weren’t attacking the NPCs and the NPCs weren’t doing anything, therefore they weren’t even “meatshields”.

Exactly my point! It was bugged, and I was trying to be polite and don’t curse every employee of the a.net for the bug that caused me to die enough so my armor turn all red before even reaching last boss. exit and restart wasn’t an option and I’m sure people don’t need me to explain why!

onevstheworld.2419:

If you are zerk, you are better off with LB/S+A. If you are condi, A+T has better condi than SB. SB is a better pvp weapon because of the evades, which you don’t need as much of in pve.

I’m having trouble understanding your formulas. What “Acceleration + Time” has to do with weight in “lb” divide by “Speed+ Acceleration”? how you get “Speed Boost”, is it a utility buff? Could you please use usual x and y as variables and a,b,c as constants, like y=ax+b?

Dadnir.5038:

they are legendarily useless :
- they do no damage
- They can’t take a hit.
- It’s like they are in berserker gear with the health pool of an elementalist but the damage of a wet noodle.

My point. Legendary has some respect! when I see one, I look around me to see if there are at least 10 other players in area willing to attack them. put them in town clothes and give them foam sword and make them normal NPCs and I’ll be happy to defend them!

Ayrilana.1396:

They are not meant to compensate for lower player skill. A buff would just increase the likelihood of players simply letting the NPC’s do the work for them.

Ayrilana.1396:

NPC’s are part of the story which is why they are there. They’re not going to be made strong enough to be able to carry players through the instance and trivialize the content.

Ayrilana, stop it! do you think I’m enjoying doing those stories?! I’m forced to do them otherwise I won’t get backpack, item, Mastery points, etc. which I need to be able to jump high in open world! or open a chest or grab an stupid mushroom! or walk in an area that they put poison! People are forced to do things they don’t like to do! a.net forget about their primary goal where players can play their own way! Now I have to do stuff that I hate to the bone to get that mastery points that I need to unlock getting shards for XP that I was getting before HoT.

If there was a slight chance that I could be carried by NPCs, I would take it! it is not like story have very impressive loot! I can loot same amount of item by killing centaurs in Queensdale for 10 minutes!

Malediktus.3740:

shadow.6174:

That’s something I still don’t get: why there is a cap for dailies? I wonder why stopping people from getting more points through that way. That’s an incentive to try other achievements? No idea… shrugs

Because daily AP cheapen real achievements. Why do the 3 AP collection costing 500g if thats only 30% of a daily which takes 5min of effort?

Your argument is wrong IMO. spending 500g is not a real achievement. you should say why 3AP costs 500g!

And if you are referring to Cultural armor it costs over 800g! I’m not going to pay real money to get that achievement ever and no, I rather buy gems and character slot with that gold instead!

I was trying to login to game when out of blue the two factor login requirement came out and told me to type in the code that I received in email. The problem was I didn’t receive any.
So I was sitting in front of computer for almost twenty minutes and refreshing my mail box and still nothing and then I decided to fill in a support ticket.

I clicked the link which sends me here https://help.guildwars2.com/home, and yes I had trouble loging in and it wasn’t any of those you imagined here

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/27697643-Trouble-Logging-In

I didn’t receive any email. And then I tried to come to forum and leave a message about issue! Guess what! even login to forum need the same authentication code! Meaning I cannot even leave message! then I thought OK, A.net replied to one of my requests via email, let me go and send an email to that! and you know, it was noreply email!

Anyway, I recieved 3 emails with Auth message after about 40 minutes.

So here is my question! if my problem is that I’m not receiving the Authorize login email, how can I contact you and tell you about the issue? should I wait indefinitely until someone from A.net realize their mail server is not responding and fix the issue or there is an alternate email like support that I’m not aware of it?

I opened my [Ley-Energy Matter Converter] and in last tab I saw something that made me think for a while, which one I should buy a large bag of obsidian or a medium bag of obsidian.

Are those shards in large bag made in china and have a lower quality?
May be I’m being conned and the large bag is empty!
Where is that vendor anyway, why is it not coming out of shadows!
if I buy large bag of obsidian, I’ll get 5 more obsidian shard for free. A while back, Anet banned some players because of doing a similar thing with [Glob of Ectoplasm].
Will I get banned for buying a large bag for same price as medium bag?

Well, I was being sarcastic. However I still like to know what is Anet’s thinking behind making this?

In that video they are actually attacking and moving around! in mine they just stood there and did absolutely nothing!!

and by the way, in that video, I only see 3 mobs other than veteran, in mine I have 5~6 mobs at each time! I had to fight all the mobs myself. my pet wasn’t a help either, keep moving to a mob and standing there, like it didn’t exists and mob would run to me and pet was standing there.

I assume this is one the bugs that haven’t fixed yet!

I finished it too, after dying well may be 200 times?!! but I would be happy if they were meatshields, but they aren’t even that!

didn’t move, didn’t pull aggro and didn’t even get attacked!

I always knew ancient sapling is precious resource.
Looks like A.net thinks it is more precious! they added guards to it!

They would show pictures of ram walking on walls of a dam. I couldn’t believe it until I saw it by my own eyes in drytop!

This might not be a bug but definitely it is not an architecture work of an Asuran. It is at best a work of a Norn or a feathered kitten (Charr)

Please fix it!

by the way, if you don’t know where is it, it is the Asura potato farm!

Today, I was doing the personal story Confessor’s stronghold.

I had 3 Legendary companion with me, Rytlock, Canach, Marjory.

The mob attacking me was a Veteran Justiciar Adrienne which strangely has a health pool of more than Lich King or Deathwing! and 5~6 other normal mobs which respawn right after killing them.

I am a ranger with a bear which is a tanking pet.

While I was fighting this guy and other mobs that constantly keep shooting at me. my 3 legendary companion were standing right there and my pet get busy with grass.

In any normal situation, my pet keeps the mobs away from me while I pick them up one by one and occasionally heal the pet (because I can’t do it more than once in every 1:20 minutes?).

Anyway no matter what I did, all the mobs were attacking me instead of my pet and those other 3 Legendary companions where standing there watching me get beaten and may be making jokes like, “Oooh, that is gonna hurt!”, “That hit him right between legs!”, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

Funny thing those legendary companions from what I saw in the past have worst dps ever and health pool less than a rabbit. If the Legendary sand giant had their DPS or health, I would be killing him every 50 minutes.

I would love to know what is the point of having those 3 in there if they are not going to help me at all?

Ok, they are required for story telling and bla bla bla! at least don’t make them legendary so I don’t rely on them!

And, why all the mobs in personal story unlike open world attack player instead of their pet. isn’t purpose of having pet diverting the attack to them?

By the way, if you are no a ranger and never had a ranger, let me tell you that, even in full zerk ascended armor, without their pet, ranger DPS is as low as chickens in Queensdale.

I thought it is just me that couldn’t finish this thing.

In video I clearly saw the updrafts but in my instance I didn’t see anything. Shield wasn’t working either. so I died twice and gave up. might try it in 2~3 years again if I’m still playing this game and see if they fixed this thing, or may be as someone in forums keep advising players

… designed as group events, therefore, working as intended.

This forum is designed so bad that it is impossible to know who is Anet staff, dev and who is pretending to be one. Also even if someone is a dev or staff, you still won’t know if they have the authority/ability to fix the bug or they just love to comment or player posts here.

@Styxx, I didn’t provide enough information, did I? I’m sure it is more than what Anet provides for the content of the game.

@Illconceived, I have seen this event so many times in the past and completed it with 3 to 10 people and never seen Elites spawn. That is the problem, I thought I took a clear screenshot, but it seems I could only capture 3 out of 6 elites and only 1 veteran out of 5. This is caused by adding the new Legendary ley-line creature to the zone. in past 3 days I have seen Toxic events 3 times

Once completed with 3 people. Once Toxic event was in progress that Legendary walked past the area followed by hundreds of players which caused all the new spawns of toxic events become Elites and Veterans. 4 people who were trying to complete including me died instantly and event failed. Another time, I was in the area mining. Toxic event started. 2 other players joined me and we started killing the mobs. out of sudden all the new spawns came as Elites.

Normally in these kind of situations if you kill the Elite, no more elites will spawn but this wasn’t the case, like hydra, killing one spawned two more elites.

That is not the only problem. It seems their range is twice range of my staff. they could hit me while I couldn’t hit them.

One more thing is the OBSTRUCTED issue! you are hitting the mob and walking around and sand grains on the ground is obstructing the target, however mob can hit me from any angle and direction. Note the hill on right side of the picture, I couldn’t hit them from there, however they could hit me right from inside the ground.

@RoseofGilead, yes event is failed, I opened my armor to show how many times me and other 2 died in there before give up. hitting one Elite would pull the other 2~3 elites and a few other mobs. sometimes for no reason Moas behind me would run to me and attack me too.

@Inculpatus cedo, Yes there wasn’t any reason for elites to spawn there. I’m sure if there were may be over 10 players in an event, new spawns might become Champion too, but in this case there were only 3 players in that area.

A.net are you kidding me!!!

I read all the text here and it is like every single one of them trying to sell a product and telling you all the benefits you’ll get by buying it.

I re-started playing game about a year ago (few days more or less) and get my only toon to level 80. I played Trade post very well and now I have 10 character slot which I didn’t pay money for it. I could use that gold to BUY ascended but right now I only have 2 ascended pieces which I bought half their material from TP. Here is Pay Wall if you want to go fast you need to pay, buy gem, change to gold, buy material. If you don’t you’ll have a year to make your ascended gear.

Solo means solo, you enter a zone, there is an event going on, nobody is there and you can do the event by yourself. because you are not in a group doesn’t mean you are soloing the content.

many of comments saying it is possible to solo events. if there aren’t champions. legendary in there. how about a group of 3 mobs, one stun/tangle you and the other one bombard you with poison and next one who slam you so hard that before you be able to move, you are downed? if you ask me, it is possible to solo the content in some extent if you are wielding Legendary weapons, and full Ascended armor. Which exotic armor and weapon or below, forget about it. And by the way the events that doesn’t involve a legendary or champion or (at least two veteran) in some stage are very rare, may be in Verdant brink.

People commenting above might be from a server full of people. I am from Anvil Rock server. Most of the time my server is empty, Even in Auric Basin. Sometimes we can find a group of 5~10 people to do the some of event which most of the time at the end fails. If we get lucky and find an LFG we can move to other server and it is IF MAP in that SERVER is not already FULL. In past few weeks I go to dragon stand at least 3 times a day on start of events and even on the day that is was part of daily there weren’t enough people to activate the 3 posts (13 players). On that day there were 6 LFG groups at each start and every single one of those maps were full. I managed to get in a group at night and reach the dragon’s gate. As soon as we pass the gate, game crashed, I re-logged in and I was in a different map and my squad map was full so I couldn’t join them again until they finished the event.

As for elite specialization, I just needed two or 3 hero points in HoT to fully unlock it (only available if you buy HoT). If you have map completion (both PVE and WvW), you should be able to unlock it. I have 364 unused Hero Points after fully unlocking all the tracks.

Conclusion:
1- if you don’t have Ascended armor and weapons, don’t buy the expansion yet, the will have discount in future again.
2- However, Glider makes your life a little easier in old world. if you are interested buy HoT.
3- Season 3 is here and if you have HoT you can unlock it for free (I’m not sure if you need to have it to unlock it others might comment on this)
4- Some of Hero challenges will spawn a freaky Champion and you will need a group of 3~4 people to complete it. The later you buy the expansion, people will get tired of HoT areas and move on to new areas, so you won’t be able to find enough people and will take longer to complete maps.

I’m seriously impressed this time! all the time I was downloading about 200meg files and then patch notes were like few lines that we changed damage from i to j and I was like wow! it needed 200 meg download for that?

Haven’t tried the update yet to see how good or bad it is, but I love the new communication style.

Keep it up, you’ll make more of your angry users happy.

Thank you.

I would re-phrase it, I don’t like HoT expansion!

I like to apologize for my very long post. In case you don’t like to read all of it, just go to the end and read what I like to see in game.

For starter, I bought the game on its first few days, and only played it for a week or so before I encountered an issue that ANet’s support couldn’t offer a solution other than full refund because they didn’t have the system required to correct the error implemented yet!

When they said they are having an expansion, I thought to myself that for sure the game is improved in past 3 years or so. It would be a win-win situation, I will get some fun hours and devs can get small support to encourage them do better. I bought HoT before release date. To my disappointment, the support is still as bad as the first days.
and some of the bugs that existed in first days are still there. If You guys haven’t contact ANet or WOW support before, I can include some messages from both of them to compare here.

I rarely go to HoT areas and even sometimes ignore the dailies that are falling there and instead do WvW although I hate to even be in WvW maps!

Here are is why HoT didn’t interest me:

What I like to see in game instead:

Gator, May be people tired of complaining about crashes and don’t care anymore! this is happening every time there is a new patch. How is it that the problem solved the next day and I didn’t have any issue, until new patch came up and I’m waiting on load screen for past 3 hours and what I am getting is “lost connection”, “Character select screen” and “Load screen”

BTW, I am pinging the same IPs that my firewall shows as used by game client. it is not a random server address.

if you are still not sure what is wrong, please have a look at 24 page topic in support forum under

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Connection-error-7-11-3-191-101-merged/

Gator, Thank you for enlightening me, I was always thinking it is a direct wifi connection to A.net

The timeout that you see in random on two different A.net network is because the server is busy and not responding! it is not a problem with network.

I put two different network from A.net which is very possible to be in same physical location too. if they are failing in random (not same time) it means it is not even the network equipment on their side. it is that just packets are dropped by a QoS or the busy server itself.

The other two networks are to show ping is not failing from equipment on my side, which previously support multiple time asked me to restart my modem, router and ask my network provider to reset their equipment.

Problem is not from your side

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Unresponsive-server/

Here is the error.

tonight I played the game for 3 hours and enjoyed it very much.

from this 3 hours I stared at
20 minutes loading the screen,
10 minutes character select,
10 minutes to Game client lost connection error
20 minutes to my toon standing there and doing nothing
and the most enjoyable part 2 hours staring at drytop load screen.

Please don’t ask me again to send you the diagnostic and then come to the result that my graphic card driver is one version below.

Following screenshot explains the problem clearly and it is not from my side!
This is happening since last update 3 days ago and been like this for few days after every single update in past year.

If for every time your server crashed or was unresponsive you gave me a gem I would be the richest player in your game.