Guild Wars 2

Qugi.2653:

No.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Forum-s-search-feature-doesn-t-work-A-tip/first#post4612877

The problem is deep within the technology behind the forum structure itself. Yes, we had a search engine in the beginning, but it was broken by our forum contractor in the course of working on other things. We no longer have a relationship with that contractor or his company, and someone else is not able to step into the system and fix the search engine because (1) our programmers are tasked with other essential work, (2) the forums run on a web framework with which most of our programmers are not familiar and (3) we’re investigating other options for forums and it would not be prudent to pour money into hiring someone to fix this as a short-term solution.

Though Anet (un)official reddit forum has search. Anet devs post there.

But if insist on search the official forum I use this page some person made that make google search for each part of forum.

http://www.palingenesis.webspace.virginmedia.com/Tim/GW2/GW2ForumSearch/GW2ForumSearch.html

Thanks for the link. Works great an I’ll save it. A shame anet didn’t get somebody in house to handle all their web coding

Seriously. Since day one this forum search here hasn’t been very useful. Barely turns up any results (if any) for quite a few terms. Is there something i’ve been not understanding about the search function since the first week? Are there any plans to change it?

This also happened to me after leaving water in EB yesterday. Facets literally wouldn’t stay on for more than 2 seconds. It was like trying to light a damp match.

(Henceforth this bug shall be known as the “damp match bug”)

Issue fixed once I switched stances though

+1 agree with this. If it was an older map with not much going on, it would be different.

My Glint based Revenant

Head: Leystone
Shoulder: Scallywag
Arms: Primevil
Chest: Zodiac
Legs: Mistgaurd
Boots: Flame Legion
Back: Shattered Dragon wings

Sorry in game shots are kinda small due to 21:9 aspect ratio monitor :l

Cool, thanks guys

I’ve been hearing from several sources and a few people on map chats that Anet designed raids in such a way that you’ll need to have at least half ascended gear. I mean obviously exotics aren’t as effective as ascended gear (even if only by a small margin), but is this really true?

I also do a lot of roaming around the maps as well. However I am in a medium sized guild which I’ve been in since the first week of launch. As others have stated, being an MMORPG, there are certain things your going to have to get over if you want to play solo. Being soft locked out of organized group content is one of them. I usually go through the same thing whenever i’m playing a Korean MMO, but mostly because of a language barrier. I live with it.

Also remember the name “Guild” Wars. that oughtta give you an idea at the kinda content they were eventually gonna shoot for. (You stay out of this GvG advocates :P)

Yup. I’m bumping this cause we still haven’t gotten a solid reason why we can’t have this feature or even a gem shop item to let us change guild names.

Pretty much anything with wings should be able to become glider skins if a Jet pack can.

-This was not flammatory…this is what I actually think lol

Now I know the saying “If it ain’t broke….” but does anyone else feel the current patcher is starting to look a little “meh?” I mean it’s not a big thing of course. But I’m starting to get tired of looking at Caithe..as beautiful as the art is.
given the upcoming HoT expansion it might be the perfect time.

(if it’s not already in the works)

I’m generally the kind of guy that get’s turned off by low MMO numbers as well, and I’ve been playing this for the full 3 years.

Frankly I’ve only seen it get more crowded. Plus thanks to “Megaservers” you’ll almost never be on an empty map

Uhhhhh, This is actually a good point. Why aren’t these in game yet o_O?

I’m kinda shocked axe isn’t already a main hand. I mean we have a trait for dual wielding, but we can only dual wield swords? come on..

It was great honestly.
Left a much better taste in my mouth than the last beta. I also went all valk with some zerk and barely had any issues. Also did some dungeons with guildies this morning who were fans of the facets since it meant our guard didn’t have to think about it much

Are you sure you’re trying it in your bottom trait line?

I mean I know these are only beta weekends. And that once HoT goes live there will be balancing and what not, but outside of some Urelenting assault changes, how likely are we to see huge changes to Revenant mechanics between now and release?

I ask because…(I’ll be honest) after the first beta I was pretty decided I would make a revenant, but probably not play it much. This weekend completely change my mind. Have been having a blast with it. Even more so than Reaper which I was almost 100% sure I’d main over revenant.

P.S. Keep up the good stuff Anet 8D Hype is now starting to get real.

Algreg.3629:

do you own a car? If yes, it probably can be bought now for way less than at the time of your purchase. Are you showing up at your car salesman demanding the difference?

Seriously, the sillyness in this forum is simply mind-numbing.

I was literally about to reply something along the same lines. Anything you bought 3 years ago will have depreciated in value. I was going to use cellphones, but cars are probably a better example since those are actually sold anywhere from 5-10 years before getting a revamp

So with all the HoT content and new players starting to swarm, it seems like a decent time to ask this again….are there still no plans for being able to change a guilds name via gem shop item or something? Yes people could just roll a new guild, but that involves building up merit and influence again. Not the greatest of choices :/

Neither Anet nor Nvidia Seem to have an answer now. Only thing that will get your FPS back up is a workaround. Just uninstall the windows 10 Nvidia Drivers and install 347.88 Drivers for windows 8.1. They work still, but obviously you won’t have DX12

Healer Destiny xD.8427:

Think I found the problem. Today I installed very old drivers 347.88 and my fps is back to normal. Unfortunately it’s WDDM 1.3 driver so no DX12 for now Hope nvidia fix it soon. Just to be sure send a suport ticket to nvidia via their site.

I can also confirm that this workaround works. Went back to 347.88 from 353.62 and my FPS have gotten a boost. Mind you, still not what it was back on 8.1, but at least the game is playable at about 30-55fps now with my 970. Obviously this issue is driver related, but I have no Idea what they did that breaks guild wars for the windows 10 drivers…..

Ya so…pretty much at my wits end at this point. Have tried uninstalling and re-installing Nvidia drivers multiple times using a graphic driver wiper. Tried Updating my Bios. Tried putting a bunch of my OC settings back to default and still having the same issue. All I guess I can do is wait and see if tmr’s patch (assuming there is one) addresses anything or wait for a new nvidia driver…

You guys should request to get them restored like doddbox :P I mean I’ve kinda enjoyed how rare they are to see (as in I’ve never seen them worn) but I’d be happy to see some floating around again

P.S. then maybe they’ll finally fix the balding issue ~_~

awesome. Glad that worked out for ya! Only issue I’ve ever had with it is that it technically makes your character bald (females included). Can’t say I place Anet since not enough people use it to even complain about it ._.

I know I am :P

Small update. I noticed while monitoring my GPU usage while playing with this issue is at a constant 98-99%

Thought I’d add to this since I’m experiencing the exact same issue. I’ve got a i5 3570 overclocked at 4.5ghz and a GTX 970 and while before updating to 10 my setup was way more than adequate for GW2 (about 80-100fps without vsync), now I’m getting between 10-25 MAYBE, on the same settings. What’s funny is that basically every other game and MMO (Like black desert online) I’ve used has actually gotten a performance bump since upgrading.

Today while I was in LA, everything randomly disappeared. by which I mean all NPC’s and Players were gone. My weapon skills were all gone and I was stuck holding my underwater weapon. I thought it was just me, but then the same thing happened to a guildy…and then later that night, multiple reports for guild members in LA. If we’re in party we can see each other, but besides that, nothing. Oh and we can still see and hear other player skill effects happening

oh, one more side effect of this was that I took no fall damage. I literally jumped from the top of the light house to some rocks on the ground and walked away with full health.

P.S. Spears looks awesome on land.

Same for me. In my case it actually started a little while back, but only once or twice every few weeks or days so I barely noticed. Just now I got the message in gave 6 times before just quitting.

Process went like this.
Login to game
Commence chatting with guild mates
Suddenly I can’t type in guild chat
Port to different map and get Login server error message on load
Rinse and repeat.

+1, I can’t think of any reason why guilds shouldn’t be allowed to rename besides hurting their own reputation.

Okay I get it. It was entire city that was blown up and a crazy sylvari. I also get that story wise, everyone is devoting resources to fighting the new dragon….but come on…I mean I came back after a 2 month break and Lions arch is still a hot mess with npc’s that have been pick axing the same pile of rubble for almost a year now.

It really hit home with me today when it came to my attention that I have a few guild members that have actually never known the “real” lions arch.

Yes, there are better hub cities…but I really kinda miss good ol’ Lion’s arch

any word on when attention will finally be returned to rebuilding it?

Hope my late entry makes it…. The server issues today made it almost impossible to get things done _
Head: Duellist
Chest: Assassin’s
Shoulder: Island Should Skin
Arms: Assassin
Legs: Assassin
Feet: Zodiac

Colour Pallet: Silver, Maroon, Midnight Ice

Ya I was wondering what was going to be happening with this as well. Obviously it’s not the most festive of times in LA but I think it should be mentioned in game. Even in passing…like “doesn’t look like we’ll be hosting dragon bash this year…”

I also understand that the event may not be happening in light of a new dragon looming :/

Ya having played this game since launch I can still agree with you. This is probably the most wholesome MMO experience for me out there so far. I had actually taken a recent break to give some other MMO’s a go since I was feeling a little burned out of gw2 after the last WvW tourney. The ones I tried were Wildstar, FFXIV and Archeage. Of those, the only one I could see myself staying interested in is archeage which also does a lot of things right. But hell that’s gonna be F2P as well so I can just play both :P Anyway I decided to delete an unused character o make a new one just so I can experience the leveling post april patch. I find myself having a surprising amount of fun again, especially with the now populated maps

now I haven’t played my ranger for about a month. But when I went to try out some of the updates, I noticed disengaging your pet (hitting f3) now has a delayed response of about 1 to 1.5 seconds before they actually start running back towards you. During that 1 -1.5 secs, pets can easily be taking more damage than they need to be just standing frozen. Did they have to do this to fix other responsiveness issues?

lol, so glad I kept my Primeval boots holding on to the sliver of hope something like this would happen

sweet! a single piece is all I have left XD

for some reason the search function is useless for me.

Anyway, just wondering. Will the feature pack unlock every armor skin previously purchased on the gem store to use? Because I’ve deleted a few (by accident!) a while back. it’d be pretty cool to get them again.

If not, well…I’ll live :/

I think the stance Anet has taken in terms of discussing Megaservers at this point is “Let’s wait until you’ve actually tried it, and THEN talk about how we can fix it.” is it the best stance to take? probably not. Is it unreasonable? Don’t think so. It’s one more day. I wanna see with my own eyes how it plays out before I make any more suggestions.

So I’ve only read 1 page of this. And admittedly skipped through a bit of the megaserver stuff…so forgive me if this was mentioned, but couldn’t this be solved if there were separate chat channels for your home server? would be like map chat but only seen by people on your specific server.

At first I rolled my eyes at this, but it actually makes a fair amount of sense. The price gap between a full exotic set and a full ascended set is WAY high atm. This isn’t even accounting for the cost of reaching 500 mastery in any given crafting discipline

If this will work as a way to also test builds (besides using useless dummies in LA) then count me in. Actually count me in either way

The only reason I don’t care for mini’s in because they always freaking despawn when changing zones so I have to keep clicking them to show them off. That and because I “deposit collectable” often, without a locked inventory bag means that they just end up in my bank :/

I haven’t tried using one in a bit though….did they fix the despawning yet?

Tom Gore.4035:

Since we don’t currently have any moving platforms players can stand on, I’d say the engine probably can’t handle them. Unless they were first pushed into place and only then players would climb into them.

If that particular problem was solved, extremely cool idea.

Yea, that could probably be the main problem. I think the only instance of a moving platform in the game (that I’ve experienced) is in the Arah’s story mode on that air ship.

You can check that bit out here BTW (Possible Story spoilers?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-sLjUGz5E

Perhaps they could build off of that?

Heads up, Since the search function is wonky, I can’t really check if this has been suggested before.

Would it be possible to have a Siege towers as a siege weapon? If you don’t know what one is here’s a very rudimentary one from LoTR. http://cf.shacknews.com/shack_images/sshots/lotr_battle/Siege_Tower_in_Action_ea.jpg

Basically, they’re built and then pushed to a tower/castle wall to allow soldiers to tactically penetrate defenses.

Obviously there are a lot of if’s and but’s for something like this, but hear me out.

Yes this has the potential to be extremely unfair, however the opposite can also be said. If, for instance, we were allowed to build Siege towers anywhere, it would definitely be a problem.

However if siege tower building was limited to keeps or camps, and had the travel speed of say…a dolyak, then I think it really would provide some dynamic game play experiences. yes, it will be easy to penetrate defenses with, but that’s only IF it makes it to the desired destination. The same as how supplies are only delivered IF the dolyaks make it without being killed. These obviously wouldn’t be the easiest things to hide either.

As to how they would be scaled by players….I have no idea….really steep stairs? warp to the top?

Overall, I just feel Siege towers would be something that could greatly enhance the feeling that you’re actually in “Warfare”. It’s really something I’d like to see explored post season 1

Okay, We’ll do that :I

Swapped the Ol’ T3 Armor for something I haven’t worn since I was level 50 or so :P Simply for the sake of my new rapier!

Introducing Zorro Beard :P

Rapier’s were always at the top of my list, but that was recently rectified :P

so
-crossbows,
-Knuckle Dusters or some other kind of Fist Based melee option.
-LAND BASED SPEAR
-Purple Lightsaber

I would say whips if I didn’t already have a strong feeling they already have plans for them. Seeing kitten many NPC’s use them already and all.

This is an interesting prospect actually. Unfortunately it sounds like it would require endless hours of work playing with the NPC AI. Not that I’m against it at all.

One area they COULD theoretically start is the circumstantial NPC dialog. For example – If X player is standing at Y vista while Z NPC is passing by, said NPC will say something like “I hope that one doesn’t slip now…” or so.

granted there are much simpler, generalized ways of doing it, like just having an NPC say “you have a nice look about you” whenever a player passes a few feet from it. Like you’ve said, we’ve seen this kind of behaviour already in certain NPC’s. Even those random event NPC’s that request help for an event.

Anyway, before I go on and on about this……Yes I DO think we can get a certain degree of the immersion you’re seeking. But I think there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye.

I believe that eventually we’ll start seeing mmo’s with NPC AI closer to that of a standard open world video game, but for now it’s still a lofty dream for us.

I’ve also been having this happen to be this morning on Struger and Chomper. I try to activate spirits with NO gambits on, and I get KD everytime.