Guild Wars 2

Thank you for reply, I wasn’t aware output_upgrade_id is added to recipe json. As my program does not concern about guild items, I can safely ignore all such items.

As for items that are removed, isn’t it easier to just replace them with a similar item in all inventories? Wow is changing removed items to value less dust and not ashamed of doing that either.

Turamarth, are you a programmer? what you see there is called a text box!
when you see it in html it is an element named textarea and in a development IDE you will see it as textbox component.

Why would I need to post an answer to my own message while I’m editing my own message?

As for the faq that you linked, it seems it is copy pasted from a document that was prepared very long ago, and after that some items are scratched and some are added. Most of the items specified in faq does not apply anymore.

- first thank you for the update today! I never had so much crash during my play in any game in one day whole my life (except WOW while playing their beta client).

- 64 bit client makes my graphic card so hot that even my OS become unresponsive to the point that I had to hard reset.

- Load screen time become 10 times higher than yesterday. because you are trying to load all the 25gig game folder into my 16 gig memory.

- Latency go sky high such a way that I hit world boss once and next thing I saw was the chest after about 5 minutes.

- game client crashed during the other 2 world boss events that I tried.

- Chat delay is so bad that I see my own message after 5 minutes while the conversation that I was trying to involve already finished and another non-related started.

- Why on earth your forum login need page referer? do you really rely on an information that I am sending you from my client to verify that page is posted from your forum?

- Why your forum shows two edit boxes when I want to edit my post and why when I press edit, again I get a message that says message body cannot be blank, while I just edited it and add more details?

- Why your game diagnostic includes all the information about applications I installed in my system including their physical path?

- Why your game need to download a 20 meg downloader and put it in temp folder everytime there is an update and then delete it later? why can’t you just like every other game in the world create a downloader program and leave it in game folder and run that for each update. I am sick and tired of opening ports in my firewall 8 to 10 times everytime you have an update. My firewall have 12 entries just for a single game of yours.

My system is 64bit but I want to disable new 64bit client that you are so proud of it, how can I do that?

Please fix these issues before adding new features!

Isn’t get request supposed to work like following on characters end point?

I’m trying

https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/characters/?access_token=[InsertMyKey]

and it returns

{"text":“endpoint requires authentication”}

It seems last “/” causes a redirect which removes the key from request.

A while back I posted about recipes that create items which item cannot be retrieved from items end point. Here I have 3 more which is happening since last week

Item 72307 Recipe 10940 GuildConsumable
Item 76527 Recipe 10638 GuildConsumableWvw
Item 70982 Recipe 11695 GuildConsumable

The above 3 items does reports 404 (no such id)

Also Item 63366 does not have a name however description says it is an exotic level 60 upgrade component “Double-click to apply to a piece of armor.”

Regards.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I bought the set of 5 and put my permanent bank access, copper fed, and 3 permanent harvesting tools in it. Now each of my chars has access to my bank no matter where they are, a copper fed salvage kit of their very own and (If I remember to switch out the tools) they have a set of permanent tools.

I thought it was well worth it for a convenience item and only wished to have another one for my Royal Terrace pass. I never thought we could get this much, certainly not a whole set of 20.

Ty ANet.

You have a permanent bank access and you bought set of 5? Seriously? can’t you access your bank which I assume already has lots of shared slots!

and normally people put their gathering tools in gathering tool slots, you don’t keep them in shared slot! you forget to put it back, you login again!

Anyway 700gem for a single slot, shared or not, No thank you!

by the way, I would like to see a number instead of a single +1 button to see how many others think this is mad!

I was not sure if this is a bug or by design. Thank you for clarifying. I appreciate forwarding this matter to right person in your design team

I’m not sure if this is mentioned somewhere before. I was poking around the data received from Recipe API and found out there are some recipes that create same item. I put them in 3 groups.

1 – Recipes that belong to same Discipline, but with different creating level (eg. 75 and 175) and different material.

Item                                     Recipe                       Recipe
---------------------------------------- ---------------------------- ----------------------------
24742 Minor Rune of the Earth            489,Armorsmith( 75)          1106,Armorsmith(175)
24743 Major Rune of the Earth            495,Armorsmith(275)          1114,Armorsmith(375)
24745 Minor Rune of the Fire             490,Armorsmith( 75)          1107,Armorsmith(175)
24746 Major Rune of the Fire             496,Armorsmith(275)          1115,Armorsmith(375)
24760 Minor Rune of the Krait            487,Armorsmith( 50)          1104,Armorsmith(150)
24761 Major Rune of the Krait            497,Armorsmith(250)          1112,Armorsmith(350)
24792 Minor Rune of Svanir               488,Armorsmith( 50)          1105,Armorsmith(150)
24793 Major Rune of Svanir               498,Armorsmith(250)          1113,Armorsmith(350)
24819 Minor Rune of the Warrior          485,Armorsmith(  0)          1101,Armorsmith(100)
24820 Major Rune of the Warrior          494,Armorsmith(200)          1109,Armorsmith(300)
24822 Minor Rune of the Guardian         483,Armorsmith(  0)          1100,Armorsmith(100)
24823 Major Rune of the Guardian         492,Armorsmith(200)          1108,Armorsmith(300)
24825 Minor Rune of the Trooper          484,Armorsmith( 25)          1103,Armorsmith(125)
24826 Major Rune of the Trooper          493,Armorsmith(225)          1111,Armorsmith(325)
24831 Minor Rune of the Brawler          486,Armorsmith( 25)          1102,Armorsmith(125)
24832 Major Rune of the Brawler          491,Armorsmith(225)          1110,Armorsmith(325)
                                                                       
24861 Minor Sigil of Luck               3876,Artificer( 75)           4447,Artificer(175)
24866 Minor Sigil of Impact             3874,Artificer( 25)           4445,Artificer(125)
24867 Major Sigil of Impact             3878,Artificer(225)           4449,Artificer(325)
24565 Minor Sigil of Frailty            3875,Artificer(  0)           4446,Artificer(100)
24566 Major Sigil of Frailty            3879,Artificer(200)           4448,Artificer(300)
24662 Major Sigil of Elemental Slaying  3877,Artificer(250)           4450,Artificer(350)
24663 Minor Sigil of Elemental Slaying  3873,Artificer( 50)           4444,Artificer(150)
                                                                       
12482 Bowl of Orrian Truffle Soup       3020,Chef(400)                9909,Chef(400)
38215 Bowl of Chocolate Chip Ice Cream  6802,Chef( 25)                6808,Chef( 25)
                                                                       
24587 Minor Sigil of Speed              4758,Huntsman(  0)            5314,Huntsman(100)
24588 Major Sigil of Speed              4762,Huntsman(200)            5316,Huntsman(300)
24637 Minor Sigil of Paralyzation       4760,Huntsman( 25)            5312,Huntsman(125)
24638 Major Sigil of Paralyzation       4764,Huntsman(225)            5317,Huntsman(325)
24649 Minor Sigil of Icebrood Slaying   4759,Huntsman( 50)            5313,Huntsman(150)
24650 Major Sigil of Icebrood Slaying   4763,Huntsman(250)            5318,Huntsman(350)
24863 Minor Sigil of Celerity           4757,Huntsman( 75)            5315,Huntsman(175)
24864 Major Sigil of Celerity           4761,Huntsman(275)            5319,Huntsman(375)
                                                                       
24718 Minor Rune of Speed               1361,Leatherworker( 75)       1968,Leatherworker(175)
24719 Major Rune of Speed               1367,Leatherworker(275)       1975,Leatherworker(375)
24751 Minor Rune of the Ice             1360,Leatherworker( 75)       1967,Leatherworker(175)
24752 Major Rune of the Ice             1365,Leatherworker(275)       1973,Leatherworker(375)
24754 Minor Rune of the Ogre            1358,Leatherworker( 50)       1965,Leatherworker(150)
24755 Major Rune of the Ogre            1366,Leatherworker(250)       1974,Leatherworker(350)
24789 Minor Rune of the Wurm            1359,Leatherworker( 50)       1966,Leatherworker(150)
24790 Major Rune of the Wurm            1368,Leatherworker(250)       1976,Leatherworker(350)
24810 Minor Rune of the Engineer        1354,Leatherworker(  0)       1961,Leatherworker(100)
24811 Major Rune of the Engineer        1362,Leatherworker(200)       1970,Leatherworker(300)
24813 Minor Rune of the Ranger          1355,Leatherworker( 25)       1962,Leatherworker(125)
24814 Major Rune of the Ranger          1363,Leatherworker(225)       1971,Leatherworker(325)
24816 Minor Rune of the Thief           1356,Leatherworker(  0)       1963,Leatherworker(100)
24817 Major Rune of the Thief           1364,Leatherworker(200)       1972,Leatherworker(300)
24828 Minor Rune of the Adventurer      1357,Leatherworker( 25)       1964,Leatherworker(125)
                                                                    
24748 Minor Rune of the Air             2199,Tailor( 75)              2812,Tailor(175)
24749 Major Rune of the Air             2205,Tailor(275)              2825,Tailor(375)
24798 Minor Rune of the Elementalist    2193,Tailor(  0)              2818,Tailor(100)
24799 Major Rune of the Elementalist    2201,Tailor(200)              2819,Tailor(300)
24801 Minor Rune of the Mesmer          2194,Tailor(  0)              2817,Tailor(100)
24802 Major Rune of the Mesmer          2202,Tailor(200)              2820,Tailor(300)
24804 Minor Rune of the Necromancer     2195,Tailor( 25)              2816,Tailor(125)
24805 Major Rune of the Necromancer     2203,Tailor(225)              2821,Tailor(325)
24780 Minor Rune of the Privateer       2196,Tailor( 50)              2814,Tailor(150)
24781 Major Rune of the Privateer       2206,Tailor(250)              2823,Tailor(350)
24834 Minor Rune of the Scholar         2197,Tailor( 25)              2815,Tailor(125)
24835 Major Rune of the Scholar         2204,Tailor(225)              2822,Tailor(325)
24758 Major Rune of the Undead          2207,Tailor(250)              2824,Tailor(350)
24759 Minor Rune of the Undead          2198,Tailor( 50)              2813,Tailor(150)
24837 Minor Rune of the Water           2200,Tailor( 75)              2811,Tailor(175)
24838 Major Rune of the Water           2208,Tailor(275)              2826,Tailor(375)
                                                                       
24585 Minor Sigil of Benevolence        5714,Weaponsmith( 25)         6302,Weaponsmith(125)
24586 Major Sigil of Benevolence        5717,Weaponsmith(225)         6305,Weaponsmith(325)
24652 Minor Sigil of Destroyer Slaying  5715,Weaponsmith( 50)         6301,Weaponsmith(150)
24653 Major Sigil of Destroyer Slaying  5719,Weaponsmith(250)         6306,Weaponsmith(350)
24608 Major Sigil of Doom               5720,Weaponsmith(275)         6307,Weaponsmith(375)
24862 Minor Sigil of Doom               5716,Weaponsmith( 75)         6300,Weaponsmith(175)
24563 Major Sigil of Strength           5718,Weaponsmith(200)         6304,Weaponsmith(300)
24564 Minor Sigil of Strength           5713,Weaponsmith(  0)         6303,Weaponsmith(100)

2 – recipes to create same item from 3 different disciplines and different material.

Item                                     Recipe                       Recipe                 Recipe
---------------------------------------- ---------------------------- ---------------------- -------------------------
24869 Rune of Life                       541,Armorsmith( 10)          2263,Tailor( 10)        1399,Leatherworker( 10)
38204 Minor Rune of Altruism            6799,Armorsmith(100)          6846,Tailor(100)        6885,Leatherworker(100)
38205 Major Rune of Altruism            6800,Armorsmith(300)          6847,Tailor(300)        6886,Leatherworker(300)
38206 Superior Rune of Altruism         6801,Armorsmith(400)          6848,Tailor(400)        6887,Leatherworker(400)
48907 Superior Rune of Antitoxin        7834,Armorsmith(400)          7833,Tailor(400)        7835,Leatherworker(400)
36042 Minor Rune of the Mad King        6467,Armorsmith( 75)          6461,Tailor( 75)        6464,Leatherworker( 75)
36043 Major Rune of the Mad King        6468,Armorsmith(275)          6462,Tailor(275)        6465,Leatherworker(275)
36044 Superior Rune of the Mad King     6469,Armorsmith(400)          6463,Tailor(400)        6466,Leatherworker(400)
50065 Gift of Blades                    8455,Armorsmith(500)          8460,Tailor(500)        8459,Leatherworker(500)
74525 20-Slot Equipment Pact Box       11666,Armorsmith(400)         10702,Tailor(400)       11553,Leatherworker(400) 
36055 Minor    Sigil of the Night       6498,Artificer( 75)           6501,Huntsman( 75)      6504,Weaponsmith( 75)
36054 Major    Sigil of the Night       6499,Artificer(275)           6502,Huntsman(275)      6505,Weaponsmith(275)
36053 Superior Sigil of the Night       6500,Artificer(400)           6503,Huntsman(400)      6506,Weaponsmith(400)
48911 Superior Sigil of Torment         7838,Artificer(400)           7837,Huntsman(400)      7836,Weaponsmith(400)

3 – And this item has two recipe just with different material.

75703 Guild Insignia                   11202,Leatherworker;Armorsmith;Tailor(400)  11270,Leatherworker;Armorsmith;Tailor(400)

(sorry for the formatting mess, pre tag does not work as expected)

I believe in the game, players only see one recipe per item which makes me wonder which one of those recipes are current or obsolete. I don’t think an application can identify which one to use which makes the application ineffective (in case of these recipes). For example if an application supposed to calculate the cost of making or create a shopping list, most probably it will be wrong.

As for group 2, I had trouble calculating the final cost of material for each Discipline is different and for example an item created by a tailor will be more expensive than the same item created by Armorsmith. I haven’t been able to find a way to implement an option for this in my UI yet.
I suggest using the same recipes shared between disciplines (same recipe ID for all of them) just like most of other recipes in game which also makes it consistent.

I’m not sure if this is a bug or by design. however if this is by design, there should be a way to tell applications, a recipe is obsolete either by deleting it from list or adding a property.

I’m not sure if this is pointed out somewhere. I was poking around with data extracted from API and noticed there are some recipes that their output item does not exists in Items API. Here are the list.

RecipeId ItemId Disipline Type                ChatLink
-------- ------ --------- ------------------- -----------
10060     72198 Scribe    GuildDecoration     [&CkwnAAA=]
10510     76707 Scribe    GuildDecoration     [&Cg4pAAA=]
10940     72307 Scribe    GuildConsumable     [&CrwqAAA=]
11125     76657 Scribe    GuildConsumableWvw  [&CnUrAAA=]
11196     75761 Scribe    GuildConsumableWvw  [&CrwrAAA=]
11530     71964 Scribe    GuildDecoration     [&CgotAAA=]
11695     70982 Scribe    GuildConsumable     [&Cq8tAAA=]

(I tried pre tag but as the whole text is formated with variable width font, columns are messed up)

Although I can validate and ignore these recipes from list in my own program,
It would be great if you could somehow check existence of the items before sending the recipe id in list.

Also I would like to know, How you guys handle deleting items or recipes in GW2?
This is specifically important when applications cache your item data and there is no way of knowing if they are updated/deleted. There was a suggestion earlier to add an API method to return ID of Items that are updated or deleted which can be determined internally via an Create/Modify Date tag on your data.

A sample of this data would be like

{  
    added:[1,2,3,4], 
    deleted:[6,7,8,9],
    updated:[11,12,13,14]
}

Well, if having snowball in hand is true, then event skritts are not holding snowball either. they are obviously holding a gun!

I’m having same problem! is it by design or supposed to be a torture for players?

Why on earth nothing in this game have a proper description!

Even Wiki is vague, just repeating what is written in game description of the achievement!

In Shiverpeak Explorer there are two “Tribulation Caverns”. I have one but not the other one. I took a screenshot of the map, where I am standing (beside chest inside cavern) and the path that I moved to reach there is visible in map too.

Is this a bug? any fix for it

Or are there two of them in the map? where is the other one?

I was testing some API and needed to check the item price in game.
I opened trade post and selected Sell My Items and clicked on a stack of copper ingot that I had in my bag (104). In the window opened, I selected 1 for quantity and min price 6 coin.

I think system handles the Listing and exchange fees and warns me accordingly.
vendor price for copper ingot is 4 coin, listing and exchange fee will be 1+1 coin which totals to 6 coins. if I select any value less than 6, trade post will warn me with a red message.

Here is the problem, The total price and listing, exchange fee values does not update in window. it still shows the same values selected from list of orders. 151 coin (price), 8 (listing) and 15 (exchange)

Is this mean I cannot sell the item for less than the price ordered?
Is it selling all the stack regardless of amount I selected to sale?
Is it a bug that does not update the values?

Healix,

If you don’t know what certificate is missing, how do you want to install it? and you call this one, wall of text? I had a 7 page message in WOW forums.

Healix, Beldin, Thanks for help,

Last answer from support is this:

1- Make sure that “Gw2Setup.exe” is added as an exception in your antivirus and firewall.
2- Run the installer as an administrator.

And I haven’t get an answer from them about the certificate that need to be installed.

By the way, for anyone else who might have the same issue (exactly same issue from event viewer) and cannot trust GW2 to touch your ROOT CA, you can download following file and run under administrator privilages (don’t forget to unblock it first)
download is from microsoft website, so I trust it myself, although the exe file itself is not signed.

http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/rootsupd.exe

BTW Healix, I think wireshark installs WinPcap which allows remote monitoring SND/RCV packets from your computer. if this is the case you might want to remove it.

Healix.5819,

Unfortunately I didn’t know who was the issuer of the certificate. I haven’t received a reply from support on who was the issuer of the certificate. As you can see I don’t have it in my root authorities. I don’t have Internet explorer in my computer and that website does not open in my Firefox either (Although I have godaddy certificate in my root CA of firefox)

sirsquishy.8531,
Before accusing people on lack of experience make your facts straight. From what you wrote here, I understand that your knowledge of Certificates does not go further than what you studied in may be highschool IT lab or University computer science subject. As I mentioned earlier, I am working in a Finance/Banking compnay which is under 24 hours tight audit and we have to ensure nothing gets stolen from our customer accounts via any means including impersonating.

I’m not here to lecture you about certificates and how they work. Those who actually work with certificates, already know how dangerous they can be in wrong hands.

If you are interested to learn more about certificates and why shouldn’t allow installing certificate issued by unreputable sources in your root CA I included some links below. There are reasons certificates are grouped under categories in all operating systems including mobiles. For certificate attacks read two article below on DigiNotar and GlobalSign. Also please have a look at image I posted here under column “Intended purpose”

http://superuser.com/questions/734110
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalSign
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/02/distrusting-new-cnnic-certificates/

Since few weeks ago that Arena.net announced their game will be available to play for free, I never could see content of the Black Lion Trading Company window with error

"net::ERR_ABORTED"

At first I thought it is because my game is in free mode, but then later when I upgraded my account to paid and still couldn’t open the window, I contacted support.

They told me "they noticed some discrepancies in the report" and ask me to follow these steps:

- Click the "Start" button to bring up the Start Menu.
- Type in CMD into the "Search programs and files" field but do not hit enter. Doing this will change your start menu to show the program "cmd.exe."
- Right-click on "cmd.exe" and select "Run as Administrator."
- Once complete, type "netsh winsock reset" without the quotes. When the command is completed successfully, a confirmation appears, followed by a new command prompt line.
- Try connecting to the game again.

Which I did and issue still exists. Then I checked game folder for a log or something to find the root cause of the issue and there was none. Then I hopelessly checked event viewer to see if there is any entries related to game in there, apparently there was none. However I noticed about 100 entries for some unknown application trying to add a certificate to ROOT or my certificate store!

Now I know the cause of this error and I’m glad that my windows refused to install the certificate. Dear game developers either:

1- Find another alternative way to secure your communications
2- Use another cert store to keep your certificates.
3- Get permission from your users to install it.
4- Hire someone who knows how to program properly, without causing issues like this.
5- Hire someone who can advise you on legal maters in software development

I am working in Finance/Banking industry as software engineer for 25 years and yet haven’t seen such a careless act come out of software development lab, pass code-review, beta-test and audit and find its way to user’s computer.

1- I believe it is SO WRONG to install a certificate in root authority of your client without them knowing (if it is not illegal) which gives whoever creating an active-x and signing with same certificate, free pass to access player’s computer.
2- If you need a certificate to connect to your market, you better get a derived certificate from already known certificate authorities. If your certificate issuer was reputable, their root certificate was already installed in there.
3- As for personnel from support team who are reading this, please make sure to send this to your next board meeting, I believe your management already know the concerns regarding this matter.

Note: To access your certificate store, you need to run MSC.exe in administrator mode and from File Menu select Add/Remove Snap-in and then in opened window from list of available snap-ins select certificate and press add button and select my account.