Guild Wars 2

not me personally, but my guildy has said in guild chat a number of times recently that while fighting in DS she randomly starts doing zero damage until she weapon swaps. after weapon swap she can damage again.

i thought maybe it was a mechanic like the chak shielder things that buff their allies(cant remember their name!) but the weapon swap thing makes me think no.

does anyone know what this actually is?

the first week we stopped earning at 105, the second week we stopped at 210 in total, so we assumed the weekly cap to be 105.

however, in week three we capped out at 310 in total

wiki says it’s 100, so i thought the first 2 weeks were perhaps 100 cap plus 5 from each boss kill (as i only killed VG those 2 weeks), but this doesn’t make sense as in week 3 i killed both VG and gorseval and earned only 100 in total.

anyone know/ have a theory?

Tapioca.9062:

The Monument of Fellowship is generally more about hero armour than the hero themself. Do you have heroes upgraded with their alternate armour sets? Because that’s what you need, but I’m getting the impression you think you just need the hero by itself to get the points.

They said in their first post they upgraded the armour, see here:

MaStEr.2956:

I have no chance to enter the statues of the allies although I have followed the lead and despite the allies are level 20 and with the armor changed. It also MOX that does not need any armor.

from your screenshot it doesnt look like you have the monumental tapestry needed to unlock the collection. this hangs on the wall behind once you have it.

i think you get one collection unlocked for free, for the rest you get the tapestry from certain parts of the eye of the north story.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Monumental_Tapestry

EDIT: aaah, ninja’d by RoseofGilead

i thought it was me just being useless for some reason!

before the patch i took down the breakbar no problems as all, but fighting him last night there would often be a little bit left and id have to shout to my group for more cc. there was nothing in patch notes about SS change and the tooltip looked the same so figured i was more tired than i realised and was messing up :/

all new legendaries are account bound on acquire. You can’t send them to other people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3v0v77/ninja_changes_to_legendaries_d/

the expletives that came out of my mouth after seeing this would makes the devil’s ears bleed.

i really, really can’t comprehend why we have been ignored when they have the time to do this.

yes i have this, i find it very noticable and it irritates me.

i only saw it happening after the camera updates were introduced (the first person camera from a long time ago, not action camera). i asked people in guild if they saw it and they seemed to think i was imagining things.

we assumed it was part of the achievement for carrying the torch through the spirit woods, as there is a brazier at the end near the bouncing mushroom before gorseval. however despite carrying the torch all the way without dropping it we could not interact with the brazier in any way to light it, i reported it as a bug.

do you have shaders in the graphics options set to high? if so, try setting it to medium. i have seen a few posts the last couple of weeks where people have the same problem only when shaders are set to high.

EDIT: found one of the threads
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/graphic-shaders-high-turns-ground-black

just so people don’t have to search around for it.

in windows search type %temp% to find your temp folder. inside you will see the cache folder is called gw2cache-{lots of numbers} just delete this folder

it also sometimes helps if the TP is playing up

i’m really suprised they made you change your name.

hashbrown is the tastiest most omnoming breakfast food there is, as others said, urban dictionary makes bad words out of everything.but I’m guessing whoever reported you didn’t have any clue what a hashbrown is and in their ignorance saw it as a drug reference.

if i were you op i would just keep appealing to CS until they see sense!

we attempted this last night for both the achievement to not drop the torch and to use with the soul mirror, but when we got there the brazier could not be interacted with in any way, so we could not light it.

guildies who were in a different group had the same problem.

This only seems to happen in HoT maps, but i frequently receive inactivity messages for events that i have already completed and received the reward for.

I was doing a hero point run last night with some guildies and i was getting inactivity messages for the HP’s i had finished a few minutes before. None of the people i was with had them and said they have never had it happen.

i get them with chain events too, so it is not a case of maybe someone reactivated the HP before i WP out

I also get them for events i have not participated in as they are halfway across the map from my position – in verdant brink i will get spammed by the chain event currently happening at every outpost, even though i have been following only 1 outpost chain.

Does anyone else have a problem with this? I haven’t found anyone else who does and it’s driving me a bit nutty.

maddoctor.2738:

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i somehow managed to get through that post.
You are quantifying things that are irrelevant. The fact that a map has a little square that gives me some XP when i happen to walk past does not make it full of content. you are taking every single aspect of a game and adding them up and saying ‘Big number wow!’

i am not trying to make eotn look better than it is, it was a very good expansion. i also love gw2, but they are two different games and i am bored of people whining about people whining about other people whining about gw1 v gw2, qq, blah blah, wah wah, and then putting up ridiculous sums to ‘prove’ their point… so i am having a whine myself.

maddoctor.2738:

I made some rough calculations comparing HoT with the only GW1 expasion (eotn) and really HoT has way more than EotN ever had.

More “quests” in form of events, more weapon and armor skins (A LOT more), more things to explore/do on the maps, even though HoT has only 4 maps, the things you can do in HoT are way more than in EotN, more new skills and abilities added in the game, more new game-wide systems and so on.

I don’t know what you are on about maybe you should be a bit more specific because EotN was a joke content-wise compared to HoT.

by rough calculations do you actually mean you pulled figures out of the air?

eotn added 41 new armour sets, thats not including all the headgear and gloves. that’s 4 themed sets unique for each profession plus a special one for warrior.

hot added 3(sets)x3(weights)x3(races. norn, human and sylvari are the same)+1 (mistward)=28

if you count male and females then eotn was even further ahead as charr and asura have unisex armour.

it added numerous skills for each profession plus all the faction related skills (norn, ebon vanguard etc)

in terms of new maps i can think of 14 just off the top of my head, not counting the long list of dungeons.

i am against all this gw1, gw2 comparison, but seriously if you’re gonna do, get it right.

I have read that it unlocks in alphabetical order, so it would go druid-scrapper. i think you just have to keep doing it until it reaches the one you want.

i have all collections unlocked except herald, i killed a mushroom on my mesmer and it credited the mushroom to my berserker track, so it does seem to work this way

I tried this achievement yesterday and did not get it, despite never getting hit by the tendrils. I did get killed earlier in the instance by the snipers/ambush, so from what people are saying maybe that is why, but that this should make you ineligible for the reward seems ridiculous and must be a bug…right?

The thing i noticed which i thought was odd was at no point did i have the achievement buff saying i was eligible, which considering the type of achievement it is was quite strange, the prized possessions achievements for example are similar and they all had buffs.

I tried googling but couldn’t find it- there was a thread the other day saying that there’s a certain sword new in HoT (can’t remember the name) that when equipped on revenant acted as an axe. So it looks like it’s a bug not limited to this staff.

I was just doing the event to escort skybreaker through the shrouded ruins. It was just me and one other person, so we were doing a lot of fighting. We got to the end and the laranthir escort was still going, there was nothing we could do but wait, and lo and behold, i got the inactivity message.

I tried killing the enemies that spawned in that area to get my credit back but non counted to the event. I couldn’t leave the other person alone to do the next event solo just to tag the other event, so i missed out on the event credit.

the timer is ridiculous, please make it longer or make the regular mobs that spawn there count. I contributed fully, i didn’t die, but got nothing.

Solid Gold.9310:

ekkue.3754:

Solid Gold.9310:

what about those of us who don’t run off c:\, that makes no sense? I run off my second drive to save my main drive from the constant rewrites

Just do the same on drive d: or whatever.

I wasn’t asking what I should do, I was pointing out that those 2 directories are irrelevant to a lot of people because the 32/64 directories don’t exist where their game is installed

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I don’t see the problem, just create your own directory, l was also running from drive D not to save writes, (that’s a waste of time), just to save space.

But I just moved it to drive C: as it’s an ssd.

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Judging from this reply and the one you made below, I think we are on the same side of the argument!

I’m not saying there is a problem, I’m saying what he says is pointless because those 2 folders are irrelevant.

EDIT: I can’t work out why the quotes are so borked :/

Solid Gold.9310:

what about those of us who don’t run off c:\, that makes no sense? I run off my second drive to save my main drive from the constant rewrites[/quote]

Just do the same on drive d: or whatever.
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I wasn’t asking what I should do, I was pointing out that those 2 directories are irrelevant to a lot of people because the 32/64 directories don’t exist where their game is installed

Ravion Hawk.4736:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I already have the 32-bit client; will I have to completely download the game again?
No. The 64-bit client uses the same data as the 32-bit client. If you already have the game installed, you can follow these instructions to avoid needing to reinstall the game:

• Download the 64-bit client.
• Copy the downloaded program into your Guild Wars 2 game folder.
• Update any shortcuts to the game to point to the new file instead.
  This process will be automatic once we get out of beta.

I would like to remind you that 64bit versions Windows have two “Program Files” folders for a VERY specific reason.

C:\Program Files\ <—————— Programs run from here are run in 64bit
C:\Program Files (x86)\ <—— Programs run from here cause Windows to drop into 32bit

You just told everyone to run a 64bit client from the very same directory that causes Windows to work in 32bit.

Might I suggest that you set the 64bit beta client to do a fresh install to the “C:\Program Files\” folder then just have us advanced users (Desktop Support Tech right here) copy the gw2.dat to the 64bit installation.

You can avoid some bugs right there without having to hunt down the cause.

what about those of us who don’t run off c:\, that makes no sense? I run off my second drive to save my main drive from the constant rewrites

SOS! I am also stuck in Diviinty’s Reach

I left my main in the royal terrace and I cannot log in to her. I get the loading screen but with no map completion info like POI’s, vistas, then I get an error code and the game client logs out.

I tried using both the 64 it and 32 bit client and it happens with both. All my other characters on different maps are fine.

A new nvidia driver update just popped up for me… seeing as people are also linking the problems with nvidia, I can’t decide if i should wait til after the 64 bit client to update the driver, as if there are further problems I won’t know if it’s the driver or the client :/

I very frequently receive inactivity messages for events that have already completed and for which I received participation reward for.

Example – just now I completed the first itzel chain event to clear the village of mordrem, then completed the 2nd event in the chain to fill the food baskets. About 30 seconds later I received an inactivity message for the first event. I have only noticed this in the new HoT maps

The description for these says “Rewarded through PvP reward tracks and PvP dailies.”

I thought maybe they were occasional rewards likes tomes/transmutation charges, as I couldn’t see any listed on the tracks themselves, but so far I have only got these from dailies, is the description wrong? Or has anyone found a track that rewards these?

Akrasia.5469:

[….]
My personal suggestions are:
-Fix the Sound. Increase the wolf volume so its louder then the main horn.
-Fix the problem with the fog and footfalls disappearing to soon. (According to the wiki the fog has been bugged since the beginning) Make the footfalls and fog stand out more by increasing the fog volume.
-Make the wolf image bigger so its not covered by the regular skill animation (Try Howler on a necro and you’ll see what I mean)[….]

Personally I am most eager to see the night animation fixed. The weapon itself has absolutely no effects and that to me is by far the biggest disappointment.

The footsteps are very hit and miss, it also depends on the terrain as sometimes they seem to clip with the ground and are covered by it, but I can kind of live with it.

The mist aura does disappear but I think that’s a problem with other legendary auras too, i believe it was said this was due to the setting that limits particle effects(can’t remember the in-game name), so the game was culling the effect. I have found in some maps, especially darker ones, the mist aura is very visible (while it is actually there!)

Jaken.6801:

Why not do it like it was before?
you know, an arrow on the side, to show of different information.
That way we can have everything.

I mean they did it before.

This^
the old way no one who dislikes the medals has to see them if they don’t want to.

I also liked being able to see if i had finished my daily.

xvalkyrie.6742:

I’m getting this same crash. I have 8GB RAM though so I have a little bit longer between OOM crashes. lol

I’m on 64bit Win7, i5-3570K at 3.4Ghz, GTX 670 with the 358.50 driver from NVIDIA. My cpu and gpu temps never go above 55C. My computer itself isn’t under stress. And I play other pc games without the hitching, memory leak, and crashing. This is unique to the GW2 client. I haven’t tried dropping the graphics into the “I play on a work laptop” level because I want to see the gorgeous HoT surroundings and textures. Hopefully they can nail down the cause of the leak soon.

My system is very close to yours, in fact it was identical when i first got the game, but i now have a GTX770. I have been crashing roughly every hour since the HoT patch. I have lowered my settings as a temporary attempt to improve it but it hasn’t made a difference.

A guildy who was also crashing as much as me said that as of yesterday he started playing in windowed mode and hadn’t crashed. It’s not an acceptable solution, but maybe its something to try while Anet works on fixing this.

We just did this and had a similar problem

We had 5 teams doing matches simultaneously.
Each team was created in the guild missions panel
All team members were in a party together
When clicking play unranked, we selected guild team.

The first team who won got their rewards immediately. No other team received reward whether they won their match or not.

EDIT: the team panel updated to correctly to show wins/losses, so we did set it up correctly

I have discovered the pattern for mine

I have 6 characters with 100% WORLD completion, and 2 without.

The 6 with world completion did not receive rewards, the 2 without received rewards both for SW/DT/SSC maps already completed and once completed which i did to test.

So it seems if you already have world completion you will not receive it, but if you haven’t you will.

Same, I am also 64 bit, running high settings. Before the HoT patch all was fine and dandy, now OOM errors constantly.

Yesterday i had 9 crashes, today (so far) in about 2 and a half hours of play i have had 2.

I reduced my settings but has not helped, and frankly even if it did, when my machine is perfectly capable of running high, lowering it is not an acceptable solution.

I have had 6 serious error crashes today. As well as my trading post and character model in the hero panel turning blue and green twice. Because of that i tried repair twice, but still crash.

obviously i sent the full log report in, but to post the short version here they seem to be out of memory crashes

• Crash <—*
  Exception: c0000005
  Memory at address 00000000 could not be written

• Crash <—*
  OOM: Heap, bytes=8388728,

• Crash <—*
  OOM: Heap, bytes=8389088,

• Crash <—*
  Exception: c0000005
  Memory at address 00000000 could not be written

• Crash <—*
  OOM: Heap, bytes=8388728,

• Crash <—*
  OOM: Heap, bytes=1048624,

same here. spent my hero points for scrapper in heart of the mists and did not receive/unlock my weapon

Patch notes say:
“Map completion rewards have been added to Dry Top, the Silverwastes, and Southsun Cove.”

I had 100% on all 3 of these maps before today and I did not receive any map completion rewards for them. Guildies are saying they just zoned in and got the reward automatically if they already had 100%

Oh sure, yeah I agree people should be able to choose those if they want, personally I favour norn female, I find them more attractive in both figure and face and relate to them easier (apart from the rather huge boobs but at least it fits their frame) , so what people want for human female doesn’t bother me, I just don’t play them.
I’m not complaining, just wanted to point out those figures are just a bit crazy and it would be nice to have toned down versions.

Except those hourglass bodies aren’t just ‘a little too perfect’ they are hugely unrealistic. That waist size is something a woman could only obtain through corset waist training…

Revolutionen.5693:

kitten no, there’s enough sexualization of human females as there is

I seem to have understood something different from others here as to what the OP is saying.

It sounds to me like she is saying she wants slimmer hips and thighs to balance out the rest of the body? that the models as they are create extremes that are unrealistic.

This is not sexualising, in fact quite the opposite. It is reducing the waist to hip ratio so you don’t get the insane ‘barbie’ figures (or very bottom heavy).

Did I misunderstand?

Are you in heart of the mists? Some containers you can’t open in pvp, if you leave the lobby you should be able to open it.

Have you checked they didn’t move to an empty slot in your bank?

There’s an odd bug at the moment that frequently causes the kits to move to your bank if you salvage with the bank panel open. It was introduced with the patch that gave the ability to keep salvaging rares without reactivating the kit.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Salvage-o-Matic-Moving

Ah right, well I’m still hoping that now they have been deleted completely it will make difference. I will check again tomorrow and if not will send a ticket, will post here to say what happens.

Really? That’s odd, for me they just disappeared into the ether :/

Were your slots just empty or gone completely?

Ok my lovelies, there has been a bit of a change in the situation.

The beta slots have been removed completely, now when you add your desired name to your friends list the error does pop up and it tells you the name does not exist (also tested with Andraus’ name from above). However, I am still unable to make a character as it says it is in use.

Now, I am really hoping this means that with the complete removal of the beta slots and error working that the game now realises those chars are deleted and are in the 24 hr reservation period.

Fingers crossed they become available tomorrow.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Speaking of the beta wipe, has anyone considered the implications for name reservation?
For those who used the actual names they want will those be reserved till HoT or was the usual 24hr timer in effect despite people not being given warning that toons were getting wiped?
I didn’t use my name, as I was concerned about potentially losing it, but a number of guildies used names they want and had not noticed the beta wipe and are scrambling to reserve names.

Beta names are currently borked, they seem to be still stuck in the system despite it being over 24 hrs since the wipe and people can’t get their names

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Beta-name-still-taken

penelopehannibal.8947:

Lucentfir.7430:

Hmmm…pretty old..have about 18 characters too.

Well dang. Not sure whether to be upset or relieved I’ve finally found someone with more hours than me!

That is a lot of hours, but I’m even more intrigued by the conversation going on above it.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I found this. It’s old so it may not be accurate but it’s what they said was the unlocks as of March 2014 for their Royal Title (the VIP program).

KongZhong Announces Guild Wars 2

“make like worth living”? Certainly haven’t been using the extra money from sign ups on proof readers.

I tried again just now and nothing has changed. I think I will give it until Monday evening and if they are still locked out will send a ticket to support (unless a dev replies here).

EDIT:

I can’t login now to check. But try this name: Vaelin Mistborn

Out of curiosity I tried adding your name to my friends list. it does the same as my own, it does not add you to my list but there is no error

There’s another thread in the bugs section about this, seems everyone is having the same problem

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Beta-name-still-taken

I just tried to create new characters with 2 of my beta names and it said they were already taken.

I also tried adding them to my friends list to check that a different person hadn’t snaffled them. It didn’t add anyone to my friends list, but there was no error to say they didn’t exist, which is the same thing that happens if you try to add an existing character of your own.

I really hope this is just a temporary glitch, I will be so disappointed if I can’t use the name I wanted for my revenant

This has been driving me nutty trying to work out what exactly triggers it, I watch intently every time I salvage rares. Today, to add another layer to the mystery, my mystic kit jumped to my bank on my 2nd salvage and back to my bag again on the 3rd!