Guild Wars 2

Anet, can you turn down the volume for this particular carrier please? The shimmering sound it makes is really loud. Much louder than anything else going on in the game.

Often when you enter the water and come out, the Daydreamer headpiece will be shown despite having helm unchecked. There is also a bug where this red triangle appears on the front and back of my character on top of a white piece that shouldn’t exist. There’s also little red spots on the sleeves. Check screenshots to see what I mean about the red/white thing.

VaLee.5102:

Not sure if this NPC was introduced with the rebuilding of LA, but near the BL NPCs there’s a char who’s smashing some rocks but if you look closely he has no mining pick equipped. Unless he’s pretending he’s working, then I’ll totally understand.

I know it’s a very minor thing to complain about but it drives me crazy every time I see it

I see it all the time. Doesnt seem to change no matter what graphical settings I’m using.

Yes I hope a dev can update us on the situation as where it stands right now. I bought EOTN a couple weeks ago and was hoping to get the goodies, but alas “Content disabled try back later”

I’ve never had this problem before today but I can’t seem to que things properly in the guild upgrades. Yes I have permission. In the screenshot you can see the “Add” function is greyed out on MF and Gathering. Is this a bug?

mercury ranique.2170:

circuitnerd.5863:

mercury ranique.2170:

Hop 7 and 8 are blanked cause that hops firewall is blocking ping commands. This means that it is impossible to trace. When I trace to the same IP. I get blocked after the same level13.net (but not san jose). the hops that are shown are well within limits. Including the final hops (which is inside the datacenter).

@Daywolf.2630 : arin.net is not a registry business. but the official north america IP-distribution service. It often shows up on ip-lookups, cause they keep track of the whois info. If you only get that info, use a different whois service. I did a whois and it came up with a different location and even the company name. Level 3 communication. This is an internet service provider in colorado. In this case it gives a location in Richardson – texas. As this is a different location then that of the datacenter, it is an external party.

To OP…when did these issues started??
Did it started after a gap of playing? or overnight?
between the last time it worked fine and the first time you had issues…did anything change at your end (for example, router, firewall, internet provider). It might be just a matter of decent port forwarding in your router. The trace looks good (74ms on the final hop is well within limits), so the connection is stable and working fine.

Last time I played GW1 was many years ago and I had no problems then. Nothing has really changed in the meantime. My internet has only gotten better since. GW2 runs just fine but GW1 is unplayable. My ping jumps up and down a lot when I look at the little connection icon. Avg ping anywhere between 190-380. In GW2 though avg ping is usually around 80.

190-380 is normal for GW1 and has always been normal. It is not an open world mmo, so the amount of data being exchanged with the server is a lot less. 190-380 doesn’t cause rubberbanding.

Your internet got faster, so I have to asume you got a new router too. that is a big kitten change. Check the manual how to forward ports and make sure you open them for gw1.

Also changing the compatibility mode of the game can solve a lot of issues.
The problem is clearly on your end, so if you want it to be solved, you need to do things.

The ports are forwarded. I even manually did them last night. Also there is no compatibility option for the game. No change in the way it behaves.

mercury ranique.2170:

Hop 7 and 8 are blanked cause that hops firewall is blocking ping commands. This means that it is impossible to trace. When I trace to the same IP. I get blocked after the same level13.net (but not san jose). the hops that are shown are well within limits. Including the final hops (which is inside the datacenter).

@Daywolf.2630 : arin.net is not a registry business. but the official north america IP-distribution service. It often shows up on ip-lookups, cause they keep track of the whois info. If you only get that info, use a different whois service. I did a whois and it came up with a different location and even the company name. Level 3 communication. This is an internet service provider in colorado. In this case it gives a location in Richardson – texas. As this is a different location then that of the datacenter, it is an external party.

To OP…when did these issues started??
Did it started after a gap of playing? or overnight?
between the last time it worked fine and the first time you had issues…did anything change at your end (for example, router, firewall, internet provider). It might be just a matter of decent port forwarding in your router. The trace looks good (74ms on the final hop is well within limits), so the connection is stable and working fine.

Last time I played GW1 was many years ago and I had no problems then. Nothing has really changed in the meantime. My internet has only gotten better since. GW2 runs just fine but GW1 is unplayable. My ping jumps up and down a lot when I look at the little connection icon. Avg ping anywhere between 190-380. In GW2 though avg ping is usually around 80.

Daywolf.2630:

circuitnerd.5863:

This is what it showed for the tracert when I did it. This was in pre-searing Ascalon.

Between 6 and 9, though possibly 9. You would really need to use a tracerout app that will repeat for a duration and draw a better avg of it to put to a log file for sending to your ISP. Hop 9 is not anet, it’s arin.net, a registry business in Colorado.

What program do you recommend I use for it?

I was never really into it that much but a few reasons why is balancing, no commanders around, takes years to run places just to get roflstomped, too much the same thing constantly.

Ive made this suggestion before also as have others in this thread but its gone completely unseen. CTRL as a toggle. Holding down CTRL with ur left pinky gets awkward.

Sarisa.4731:

I spent a good portion of yesterday working on Elonian Skill Hunter without issue.

What I have seen happen is that sometimes, any instance on a specific IP (it shows up in the upper left when you’re zoning in, or by the /ip command once you’re in) is incredibly laggy, while everything on another IP is fine. That usually clears in a few hours.

Otherwise, take that IP and run a traceroute on it from your computer to see whether it’s you, the GW servers, or something in between that’s causing the latency.

This is what it showed for the tracert when I did it. This was in pre-searing Ascalon.

i dont think ppl really know what meta means honestly. not to mention, traits dont change that drastically usually. stuff that was viable at launch is still viable today.

Having this problem right now but only with Lions Arch (so far). Also the connectivity has been kinda shoddy since last night. Random high ping during story instances.

So this happened in Lions Arch….

Has anyone recently purchased EOTN recently for GW1? It says $20 on the website but when you go to actually pay it’s nearly $40.

What would you personally choose for armor if you were to make a tanky Guardian? Soldiers, Knights or Clerics? (Yes I realize most people go more offensive like Zerker)

I got these items as well. The 2 heroic chests and the 4k influence tome. I participated in the first beta test. I have the collectors edition of the game as well. These items were not initially given out to collectors edition people but later added to those who bought the deluxe version several months later. Although considering people are receiving these items with regular accounts and not participating in the beta almost makes it sound like a bug especially since one of the ingame mails says to explore the world with a guild. It makes it sound like an intro to the game. Also I did not get a portal drop and my beta character and it’s slot have been removed as well.

In order to get the HoM points you only need Prophecies and Eye of the North right? Not Factions or Nightfall.

I’d like to see a summary of how much classes are played and what races are used in a percentage. A summary was given at the 1 year anniversary with Charr Mesmer being the rarest and Human Warrior being the most common. I’d like to see an updated version of this.

Yep you see them usually hanging out around hotm or sometimes in a remote part of LA. On rare occasions in open world usually some area that’s devoid of people. I’ve got like 20 in my friends list since launch.

only useful racial skill – norn bear, for getting thru the hot room in fractals

Before and after. Just saying. Boredum at it’s best.

Saw someone earlier advertising drawing portraits of whoevers characters for a fee. Commission type thing. Is this against the terms of service?

GW2 is the only game I have a consistent ping between 85-90 but can go as high as 120 late at night. Why is this? Speedtest, Pingtest and modem signal-to-noise ratios are excellent. Other games real low ping. Did a tracert and it says NCSoft which says Texas on a Whois, which is only a couple states over. It’s gotta be the connect between here and the Anet servers but why only this game?

Speedtest rates my d/l @ 60 mbit/sec, u/l @ 7 mbit/sec
Pingtest rates my ping at 14ms with 0-1ms jitter for a server over 100 miles away. 250 packets received and 0 lost
Modem says my dBmV is -0.57

tramwajarz.2369:

If they dont attack they won’t get loot as far as I’m aware.
Ppl group up for maze balm and do it naked so everyone can get credit.
The armored one was possibly a troll trying to break their farm.

And btw botting requires usage of 3rd party automated script to run your character and skills which you can’t prove.

Yea, the naked ones didn’t even have weapons however and they were all in the same guild. It just seemed very suspicious looking to me.

tramwajarz.2369:

No, this is maze balm farm.

Why would the naked ones not attack the enemies though? They only turned the ambient creatures and then just stood there.

Came across a few people just a bit ago at Grand Barrier Isle in Bloodtide Coast. Couple of them were naked and following a fully armored person. The naked ones were turning the ambient creatures into candy corns and then the armored one would kill and loot. Wherever the armored one went they followed and stopped when he stopped. This sound like botting to anyone else?

Algreg.3629:

circuitnerd.5863:

Ok I definitely see it but it was someone younger. Like mid-20s age. Maybe I’ll just remember later.

well, let´s take out of the equation that Anet at some point apparently confirmed the inspiration for the character… you know, an actress you see today would have been younger in 1986. Just saying.

yea cept ive never seen that actress or heard of her before. jennifer lawrence is more along the lines i think i was thinking of?

Ok I definitely see it but it was someone younger. Like mid-20s age. Maybe I’ll just remember later.

I swear I’ve seen a celebrity that looks just like Jora but I can’t put my finger on it. Anyone help?

http://www.gamewallpapers.us/wallpapers/guild-wars-eye-of-the-north/jora.jpg

So a guildy of mine says they make 200g per day with flipping items on the tp. I simply dont get it though. I can’t even get 1 buy order filled, much less 1 thing sold. Let’s say “greatsword” buy order is 5 gold. I put in an offer that’s 5 gold 5 silver. Then multiple people make it 5 gold 5 silver 1 copper, then 2, then 3 copper. Same thing happens when I try to sell. I always sell it a few silver less yet people match my price and the copper thing happens again. No matter what I try it doesn’t work. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. I’ve tried random rares, dyes, named exotics (entropy, bonetti’s rapier, etc).

Gotejjeken.1267:

They won’t do it, or you could maintain at least 12+ stacks of bleed constantly.

SB needs range increase, direct damage increase, and some way to get you in/out of dodge (the #3 skill doesn’t cut it).

The problem with it right now is it is a skirmishing weapon that can’t skirmish very well. Smart people know to pop reflect, retaliation, or stealth and you are SOL. If you DO manage to hurt them they run and you simply cannot chase them. They will pop block or something and there goes the crippling and daze shot.

AOE might be nice since it seems all the other bows have it.

Other classes have weapons that can maintain bleeding and poison at the same time without having to be at the side or behind someone. And I’m talking about pve anyhow.

Please remove the “only bleed when standing to the side or behind” a target on shortbow. Alot of enemies wont even aggro to your pet so then you’re just doing wimpy direct damage and can’t do the bleeds. I really like shortbow and think it’s a viable weapon for ranger but the “from the side thing” is just really meh.

Camping home point isn’t a bad idea really. But when it comes to spawn camping, that’s just horrible.

I’ve seen this a couple times now in pvp where people are perma crippled. It’s not due to other putting cripple on the player. It’s like a permanent debuff. Why is this? Check the screenshot to see what I mean.

What are you talking about? They are all really close to the tp. It takes like an extra 5 seconds to run.

This seems a bit strange to me. Maybe I’m missing something. But the healing signet passive on the warrior is way stronger than the passive for virtue of resolve on the guardian. Does this seem odd to anyone else?

it seems my characters dont yell when they fall from a large height anymore. im not sure if its just me though.

It’s supposed to turn red but it doesn’t. It’s been broken for a long time

So there seems to be some random numbers showing up in the pvp panel. They are showing up as such like ((41394857)). See the screenshot to check what I mean. Others are having the same cause I asked in map chat.

Maybe someone can explain something to me cause I don’t really get it. Ok so a match has just ended with decent scores. Next match starts and it starts out 2v1 and stays that way for a long time despite there being 7-8 in the spectate. This happens almost every match and have to find a new server after every battle. I don’t get it?

This has been around since as long as I can remember and it’s not a big deal at all but it is a bug however. The character select screen gives you a different % at map completion than it does on the map. Check the screenshot to see what I mean.

Here’s a couple others actually during the first 5 minutes when it started

Faereilos.5106:

When Anet released free, bi-weekly content people complained there was too much to do. Now Anet is working on the expansion that a lot of players wanted (and willing to pay for), people complain there’s no new content. It’s impossible to please everyone…

People will complain about anything they can under the sun. It’s a thrill for them or something I guess.

Anet, can you remove the 30 minute cooldown on the watchknight tonic please? I dont see any purpose to it.

EDIT: Also can you make it last until I use the tonic again to leave transformation? It currently only lasts 5 minutes.

Welp here’s mine although I gotta say the other peoples are much better.

Yes I’ve noticed this as well. Definitely a bug with the post processing effect from the sepia thing.

DarkWasp.7291:

I’m pretty sure pets do not count as activity. If you see anyone who has been in the same place for more than an hour or two, you could report them for botting.

After that, just leave the situation up to ANet. They’ll make the call whether the player is intentionally AFKing for profit or just away for normal reasons.

Ok I’ll report them then. They have been there actually for 3 days.

so it’s not a big of a problem as it used to be but it’s still there. i thought of something that might cull it. so the thing is that rangers afk in front of red fortress and their pets attack enemies, it counts toward credit for defending and they get loot. and when the player dies, the npcs outside and sometimes other players rez the afk ranger. so it seems that pets also count toward avoiding the “kick due to inactivity” also. my suggestion is changing that so that players have to actually press a button to not get kicked and that pets dont count toward “activity”

143 times, 28,600 items, 5,248 hours played with a 9 month break in between.