Guild Wars 2

My husband and I have both had this happen at different times over the past month or two. First the sounds goes, then the FPS tanks and the Ping skyrockets. Try to close the game then it freezes completely. We’ve only had it happen in the silverwastes.

I hope they can fix this soon. It’s really frustrating. I guess next time it happens I’ll do an in-game bug report before force-quitting the game. Hopefully that’ll give them some more clues as to what’s going on.

If you want to see closeups of the pods hanging from the tree I have them here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/I-climbed-the-mordrem-tree-spolierish/

The whole event chain around this is really interesting. What the NPCs say after you fight the first Diarmid is quite interesting (don’t remember exactly what it was). I can’t wait for the story to see what all else we find out.

I wanted to see how far up the tree I could get, and I got pretty far before I fell. The pods hanging from the tree are freaky. I love it.

The last picture is the tree from a distance. It’s such a gorgeous map and I can’t wait to be able to explore without getting killed for going past the boundaries. It seems some areas you can just climb up to if you go too high that’s outside the playable area right now too.

Behellagh.1468:

And not everybody has free Txt messaging plans, like older people who prefers to use a phone as a phone, to talk to another person.

Which is why there are non-phone based options. There’s a voice option for your phone and two different non-phone options. The google authentication you can use on your phone or an iPad and there are computer authentication programs too. If you’re too paranoid to be using the good two factor security options they have available then you probably shouldn’t be on the internet in the first place.

You can’t create a beta character until the beta event starts. (Noon pacific, 3pm EST)

It has been 623 days since the bunny ears have last been seen. The natives are becoming restless and weary. Will they ever find reprieve or shall they continue to suffer a bunny earless life?

I also made a free account to see how it works. Here were my thoughts.

• The restrictions in place are good and really don’t hinder gameplay at all. Anet did a stellar job at the restrictions they put in place.

• Not having mapchat was fine as you can find someone in /s range usually. Once you get to lvl 10 you can enter the cities and find a large concentration of players to help if you need it.

• Not being able to send a PM or mail to someone not on your mutual friends list is really good (and we need that as an option for paid accounts). If someone sends you mail or they initiate the conversation though it sometimes happens that you can’t reply to them because not a friend or not in zone. But good restrictions to prevent abuse and not too bad as long as paid account folks know how all the chat restrictions work.

• This is part of the NPE but it bugged me: You can’t do hero challenges until you get to level 11 but as you’re mapping on a fresh character you find them out in the map in lower than lvl 11 areas. The dialogue box you get when you interact doesn’t tell you hey come back at lvl 11. If you want to fully complete the zone you then have to backtrack after you get to a high enough level.

• Dailies: To get daily completionist you need to do 3 daily options. You only get 3 options until (I don’t know what level) sometime later. PvE daily…easy. PvP daily…easy. WvW daily?….not possible until level 60 on a F2P account. So until you get more than 3 options you can’t complete the daily completionist.

Overall, the free account setup is really good. I wish they had 3 character slots rather than 2, so you could make a light, med & heavy class. But keeping it at 2 gives that extra incentive to buy the full game and keeps it so that getting the full game is absolutely worth it.

Someday I’ll upgrade my free account, but I just can’t afford that.

You can’t salvage it, it’s not sellable as junk and you need 3 total clay pots to finish Mawdrey. If you accidentally put it in your bank (and your bank is full like mine) there is a search bar at the top that you can type in “Clay” and it’ll show you where your pot is.

Otherwise you’ll need to contact support like Yargesh suggests.

only on human female….

I checked.

I think it’s hilarious.

Doubloons, Foxfire clusters, Blade Shards and things like Mystic Crystals, Philosophers Stones, Augur Stones (and the like) all need crafting material slots in the storage section of the bank.

Edit: CLAY BRICKS too!

Too bad we can’t buy the package together. I want the roses but have the box of chocolates!

Durzlla.6295:

khani.4786:

The only hint we have stating that there will be 2 beta weekends was from the post about BWE1 that said “Progress earned by beta characters over the course of the weekend will be preserved between BWE1 and BWE2 so that you can continue testing where you left off.” which alludes to there only being 2 weekends.

If there’s a BWE3 it sounds like all progress will be wiped out before then.

from here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-first-beta-weekend-event-begins-august-7/

Yeah, but if there were only two BWEs then they would’ve announced the September one as the “final” BWE, and that’d be the dumbest decision they could make since two classes would be released completely untested.

Exactly. I do hope there’ll be a BWE3 (maybe 4) so we can test the other two elites and provide feedback then they make changes based on that and we test one last time.

And they didn’t say this is the final weekend test or say anywhere that it’s only 2 beta weekends. Just that we keep progress between 1 & 2.

I just hate that the class that I play the most we’re still waiting to hear about….and it happens to be the FIRST they told us about.

fluidmonolith.3584:

Would it be better if they delayed the BWE2 by 2 weeks in order to include Ranger and Engi elite specs?

If this is the last beta weekend…yes.

If there’s another beta they haven’t mentioned then it’s fine as is, it doesn’t matter (to me) that other classes had more weekends to try them. I just want to be able to test & provide beta feedback on engie & ranger elites just like we can on every other class.

The only hint we have stating that there will be 2 beta weekends was from the post about BWE1 that said “Progress earned by beta characters over the course of the weekend will be preserved between BWE1 and BWE2 so that you can continue testing where you left off.” which alludes to there only being 2 weekends.

If there’s a BWE3 it sounds like all progress will be wiped out before then.

from here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-first-beta-weekend-event-begins-august-7/

RoseofGilead.8907:

khani.4786:

RoseofGilead.8907:

putting four named exotics in would guarantee a level 80 return.

Nope, 4 lvl 80 exotics does not guarantee you get a lvl 80 back.

I usually wind up getting a lvl 76 or 78 back from 4 lvl 80 exotics.

As Dolphin said, context is key.

“Now, back before they changed the Mystic Forge, the named exotics could give you a better chance at one because they were all level 80; and so, putting four named exotics in would guarantee a level 80 return . . . Regardless of that, since the change to the forge, even putting in four level 80 exotics won’t guarantee a level 80 item return.”

I see that now. Yep, There goes me not reading the whole thing. But yeah it did used to be that way.

RoseofGilead.8907:

putting four named exotics in would guarantee a level 80 return.

Nope, 4 lvl 80 exotics does not guarantee you get a lvl 80 back.

I usually wind up getting a lvl 76 or 78 back from 4 lvl 80 exotics.

Astralporing.1957:

sephiroth.4217:

RoseofGilead.8907:

mashiara.3452:

I read someplace a long time ago , that named exotics would have a better chance , than for example a pearl whatever that is crafted.

That’s not true, as far as I know. A named exotic is still just an exotic.

Actually I read the same thing from a Dev 6-8 months ago, that some exotics have a slightly higher chance than others…

Yes. Level 80 exotics do have a better chance than the <80 ones. That’s the only factor.

More often than not I throw in 4 lvl 80 (named) exotics and I get back a level 76 generic exotic. I cry every time. ;_;

so now I just throw in the rare weapons I get as drops and sell/salvage/save my exotics.

Not worth it.

I was hoping for a giant birthday cake that comes down and splats on them with a big GW2 logo candle. But that’s still pretty.

KevinB.9643:

One of the funniest LFG reads I had a few months ago.

P1 lv 80 zerk, 5k AP+ Type “HODOR!!!” on join.

I will always remember this one

HAHA, if it wasn’t for the “zerk” an AP requirement that might have been one of mine. I always put silly stuff there to see if people do it (to know they can read). Lately I’ve been asking for people to bring cookies (no one has yet brought me cookies, but one person brought cake)

A while back when doing Hodor of the Waves I had put in the LFG to type I’m HODOR on join.

Yep, it is indeed broken. Tried one of my characters and my husband’s character.

I know I spelled the character name correctly and doubled checked. This is the error message.

My male charr is a mix of dungeon armors mostly….but not at all mesmery (but who says you need to stick to conventions)

Necro wraith mask
Deathly Bull Pauldrons
Ascalon Performer Chest
TA Gloves
Arah Pants
Way of Koda (hotw) shoes
Sclerite backpack

Maybe someday I’ll be able to afford to go to one of these things ;_;

It’s too bad you don’t do anything like this in the Southeast area. Looking forward to hearing the announcements!

Ragnarox.9601:

Finally!

But we could use some 25% moving speed while wielding Longbow.
And Virtues change.

And you almost fixed DH.

Aorin.9168:

Karl

When you get around to traits, can we please; PLEASE, PLEASE, get a 25% movement trait. Dragonhunter needs battlefield mobility and Guardian is the only class to not have access to this or perma swift.

I would like at 25% movement increase when wielding a longbow as well.

I love the velocity increase. It only makes sense to me that as a skilled (dragon)hunter I would be able to target things and actually hit a moving target.

The other comments here about the deflect shot also sound really good too. Looking forward to playing with these changes!

For those wanting ground targeted traps…not going to happen. They took away Ranger’s ground target trap ability and no other traps in the game work that way. I think the place at your feet we have now works and you just have to think ahead.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If you want a pair of pants without a “skirt” there is one dungeon pants that is pants only on a Charr. No skirt at all. It’s called the Ascolonian Performer pants.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascalonian_Performer_armor#Charr

Yeah this is a nice set for Charr too. I use the top on my charr necro (at least I did at one point in time)

BrotherBelial.3094:

thehipone.6812:

GW2 Treasure hunter collection is one of those things that seems alright in concept, but leaves quite a bit to be desired. Run the same world boss event over and over, each day and keep hoping that this super low probability RNG falls your way (and get trolled the whole time by the blue version of the trinket) or shell out a pile of gold to buy the super-rare drop. That is, if the event isn’t bugged (Ogre Wars…looking at you).

I thought you could use the forge to upgrade the champ ones.

I wish. Sadly you cannot, if you could then the blue ones would be more expensive and the exotic ones would be less expensive.

I have a male charr necro and he uses the Arah pants and a mix of other stuff. The Arah pants don’t clip with the tail. Perhaps dyed a more “mesmer-y” color it’ll work for you?

I’d suggest opening up the wardrobe and trying on different pieces to find something that you like. There are only a few options for pants that have accommodations for your tail so I’d start there and when you find one you like move to the chest and find one that works well with what you’ve picked.

If you happen to still know someone who might have you on their friends list they can look and tell you what character name is there on their friends list.

Otherwise I would just try contacting support. Good luck!

CandyHearts.6025:

khani.4786:

From the dye testing I did the first channel doesn’t do anything. The second channel is the bulk of the dress. The third channel dyes the flowers. The fourth channel dyes the inside of the dress and also the flowers.

Would I like a bit more gradient on the dress itself? Perhaps from color channel 1 to 2…that’d be awesome.

As is though I really like the dress and I can’t wait to have it.

I dont’ remember all the colors I used but I think it was Enameled something for the dress and def Electro Yellow for Channel 4.

That is soooo beautiful from that angle. If only you could see that Electro yellow area from the outside I’d be in sooo much love.

Great color choices btw O.O

You can see it glowing a bit thru the layers of petals, but I chose that angle to show off the inside.

Conditioned.2467:

Funny. I don’t desire an individual response, I think this concerns everyone who owns the game why arenenet are helping google to spy on us.

Perhaps Google is helping Anet spy on us?

Healix.5819:

GW2 uses Google’s tag manager, ecommerce and analytics services. Accessing these services (in any browser) will cause the connections to 1e100.net.

When you browse the gem store, they are collecting information on what you’re browsing and also sending your current character’s basic information (profession and level) as well as your available funds (gems, gold and karma). All stores do this.

From the dye testing I did the first channel doesn’t do anything. The second channel is the bulk of the dress. The third channel dyes the flowers. The fourth channel dyes the inside of the dress and also the flowers.

Would I like a bit more gradient on the dress itself? Perhaps from color channel 1 to 2…that’d be awesome.

As is though I really like the dress and I can’t wait to have it.

I dont’ remember all the colors I used but I think it was Enameled something for the dress and def Electro Yellow for Channel 4.

Vesuvius.9874:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Nice. I managed to vendor an ascended axe once, but I never contacted support. (It was days later when I logged back on the char and saw the axe was gone).

Don’t all vendors have a buyback option where you can buy back items you’ve accidentally sold?

That only works if you don’t leave the zone. It’s a temporary buy back. If you log out or change zones all that gets wiped and you can’t buy back anymore.

Wolfey.3407:

khani.4786:

Wolfey.3407:

Nova Stiker.8396:

I believe you cannot use the Mystic Forge Conduit in the mists either.

In my opinion, not a big deal.

Included that in last weeks report

I have to check to see if I’m at liberty to post the status on that or not..

What I have a list of so far,

Bag of Obsidian Shards
Endless Karka Tonic
Mystic Forge Conduit (Both Versions)
Birthday Blaster
Experience Scroll (advance a character to level 20)
Candy Corn Gobbler

Semi related – what’s the point of using transform tonics and doing costume brawl if you can’t make progress on King of the Costume Brawl in the PvP lobby? At least if that worked it’d be something to do while waiting for queues.

To me, I was able to obtain progress. Maybe a glitch? Are you positive you’re able to get a golden crown over your head?

You get the golden crown over your head but the achievement that tracks how many wins (Under General > Community) does not increase when you win in the PvP lobby. I’ve since finished it so I can’t test that anymore, but last I checked a few months back you got no progress on the achievement despite getting the crown over your head when costume brawling in the mists. Doesn’t matter to me anymore, but it’s still a bug (maybe intended?) and someone else might care if they’re trying to do something semi-productive while waiting for queues.

If they haven’t responded to the ticket in 3 days you need to post here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/GW2-Tickets-for-Review-3-days-older-1

Wolfey.3407:

Nova Stiker.8396:

I believe you cannot use the Mystic Forge Conduit in the mists either.

In my opinion, not a big deal.

Included that in last weeks report

I have to check to see if I’m at liberty to post the status on that or not..

What I have a list of so far,

Bag of Obsidian Shards
Endless Karka Tonic
Mystic Forge Conduit (Both Versions)
Birthday Blaster
Experience Scroll (advance a character to level 20)
Candy Corn Gobbler

Semi related – what’s the point of using transform tonics and doing costume brawl if you can’t make progress on King of the Costume Brawl in the PvP lobby? At least if that worked it’d be something to do while waiting for queues.

Yeah, turn light adaptation off and it’ll quit doing that. For me, when I select the automatic settings it keeps turning that back on and I have to turn it back off.

I always do…it’s easier to see the red circles on the ground that way anyways. I just switch to “Best Performance” for Teq and then “Autodetect” back after the fight.

I hate getting these stupid powders. I wish they’d be removed from the chests. I also don’t like the combat boots and wish those were rarer >.< (just because I’m tired of getting them)

RoseofGilead.8907:

khani.4786:

When I was out in the open world and the Hylek started talking…my character SPOKE BACK to them! In the open world!

<3

This is amazing.

Yeah, I thought that was pretty neat . . .

. . . until my character started repeating her dialogue to the hylek when another player walked up to the them to trigger their own conversation with them. And this was after having walked a good ways away from the npcs.

True, I did notice that too, but my character had started the dialogue with them then I walked off and she continued to talk eventhough I’d walked off. Regardless, still really cool and I appreciate that my character is talking…actually talking to NPCs in the live world.

When I was out in the open world and the Hylek started talking…my character SPOKE BACK to them! In the open world!

<3

This is amazing.

solstice.1847:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

We have a fix for this bug ready and it will be included with the next game update. Until that time, please try using the workaround posted above by Gaile. If this workaround is not working for you, the fix in the next game update will hopefully solve the issue.

There was an update released today (11-Aug-2015). I don’t see anything about title or Hall of Monuments fixes in the release notes.

Was it just missed from the release notes, or did this fix not make it into today’s update?

Looks like they just didn’t’ mention it in the patch notes. I made two key characters and didn’t’ get the letter and my points stayed as they should.

I don’t think AP should be hidden and here’s why.

When someone asks (what I think is) a really dumb question I check their AP…sometimes they’re just new and honestly don’t know. Sometimes though people ask stupid things (like give me mats cause I’m “new” or do this for me) and I like to know that I’m actually helping someone new rather than dealing with older players that should know better.

It’s not foolproof because someone with 6k+ AP might still be new to the game mechanics/area/thing but it helps point out who are the real new players.

I also like giving out unidentified dye to really new players and being able to see “okay they only have a few hundred AP” so they’re probably really new.

out of respect for what?

I think it’s adorable and I can’t wait to get my own mini mimic.

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

What in the actual kitten?
It always seemed like a rip off with the 2 to 1 exchange, but this is just plain kitten. When did this even happen?

Few minutes ago with gemstore update. Could be a bug. Hard to tell with this game.

Yeah, it can be hard to tell, but it seems intentional. So which boosts had their duration shortened? The new, the old, or both? I’ve got at least 60 enchanted reward boosts, and 50 enchanted combat boosts, and if they are all shortened to 20 mins…
I’m getting really sick of kitten like this.

The old ones are the same. The new boosts that you get from the gemstore are 20 minutes from the enchanted reward booster. (2 hrs if you buy from gemstore)

Those kind of remind me of the Pinnacle skins. (kind of but not exact)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pinnacle_weapon_skins

Yeah I never converted my karma boosts since you always traded 2 in to get 1 and that was silly to me.

I’m betting that since part of the pact commander mastery line opens up a karma vendor for old unobtainable recipes they’re limiting and/or trying to control how much karma can be earned.

nottsgman.8206:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Boost_Enchantment_Powder
technically already exists (new boosters, apart from heroic, are in the Enchanted Reward Boost)

I just checked. I’d always traded mine in for these because it saves space (except karma ones)…

The ones you get in the gem store last 2 hours each. The ones you get from the boost enchantment powder are a paltry 20 minutes each.

As with the first beta (that we needed the portal to the heart of Maguuma for) I found a bunch that just killed you. I bug reported them in game when I found them.

Some of them are consistent about killing you others are just sometimes broken.

The one on the lower level of Torching Tendrils usually worked, but once while doing the adventure it bounced me up only to have my glider activate and then I started floating backwards and I couldn’t control where I was going. Makes doing that adventure quite difficult.

The ones I found in the first beta didn’t kill me this time so I’m guessing that the bug reports I sent in helped them find the ones that hurtle you to your death. I probably didn’t find all of them this time, but the ones I did find got a bug report sent in.

Even after the bugs are worked out I assume it’ll be like the lightning pull crystals in Dry top where if you have a terribad ping you might just get dropped to your death anyways.

Re: Auto loot (as opposed to AoE loot that we currently have)

Right now I can kill things at 1500 range on my ranger but I can’t AoE loot that far away and have to run closer before the loot key works.

What’s the range on the real auto looting that we can earn?

Xiahou Mao.9701:

I didn’t have a lot of time, but I peeked at Cursed Shore with a beta character, where the rewards were Ancient Bone/Charged Core/Charged Lodestone/Giant Eye. Completing events made some extra sparkles go towards the top-left of the screen rather than just to my XP bar, and after the second event I finished there, an Ancient Bone was added to my inventory. The map still said that my next reward would be ‘Ancient Bone’ though, so you might need to complete several events to get to the next tier of reward?

I went to Brisbane and did 8-10 events or so. It seems it’s every other event that you get the map reward and just a chance that it gives you one of the “additional rewards” listed. Most of the time I got the standard small scale, but once I got a molten sliver. I don’t know what the chances for getting the additional items listed is as what I did was a very tiny sample. But it was every other event that I got something extra. Might be every other event in the higher tier maps too, but I didn’t try that.

I personally really like this as I don’t send player to player mail very often and enjoy seeing a stream of sylvari seed pods floating off away from me.