Guild Wars 2

TPMN.1483:

It does seem disappointing that the endless toy Tonic shouldn’t automatically grant this collection.

I’m guessing that one doesn’t because it can be sold even after using it.

Yes, thank you so very much for this. I am forever grateful.

Maybe Mordremoth will give us something that eats dragonite.

I don’t mind at all that you make the wallet larger, or redesign it. I know many many people who would be very happy to see new currencies added to the wallet. It is nice to be able to spend things like the snowflakes and candy corn directly from our bank, but geodes and crests are nothing more than currency.

Please, I hope there are any of you devs out there that can see if from our side of the situation.

My money and ability to expand my bank is limited. I’m getting close to having max bank tabs and they are all FULL. I am overflowing with currencies I want more room to store the tonics, toys and other things I’d like to get but I can’t because I don’t have room.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

khani.4786:

They’ve stated they’re not fixing the broken event.

Where did they say this?

This would really suck. It’s the only one I have left.

Really in relation to the party….or lack of letting us party up for it " The change was necessary and as much as we regret any dissatisfaction that you may feel in relation to it, according to the designers it must remain in this state for this year’s release."
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Toypocalypse-and-Parties/first#post4629767

But I still have huge doubts that they’ll fix the mini-game so that we’re not dumped into an completed instance. I have no confidence in them anymore….take that as you will. It is still possible to get the meta, but you’re going to encounter bugs, problems, completed instances, and unless you like waiting around for 20-30 minutes and keep your game active so you don’t get kicked out for being idle, you won’t get to start it from the beginning either.

Yes, you can salvage, vendor, forge or otherwise trash these items. Some of these options may not be available for the items depending on how they were acquired…way to go consistency.

xvalkyrie.6742:

Toypocalypse waves aren’t that bad though because it’s not five games of ten rounds each, there are multiple waves of enemies per the ten rounds, each group of toys that spawns together is one wave. I played two games and finished the fifty waves halfway through the second game.

If you can find an instance that isn’t bugged/over.

Wildkitten.3872:

While it is stupid that Toypacolypse is bugged, you do not need it for meta. You can do the Bell Choir and puzzle jumping ones. There’s 15 achievements, only 11 of which are needed for meta.

The repeatable ones (jumping puzzle included) do not count towards the meta. You MUST do the bugged content to get the title and meta.

Good news for you is that the jumping puzzle doesn’t count towards the meta and the title.

http://dulfy.net/2014/12/17/gw2-a-very-merry-wintersday-achievements-guide/

Bad news for you is that you have to survive 50 waves of the bugged Toypocalypse.

Sicarine.3985:

Refer to this post. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Toypocalypse-bugged/first#post4630104. It’s a bug in the already-contentious system.

They still won’t fix the fact that we can’t join with our friends.

And I doubt they’ll even fix the problem that we’re joining an in-progress game.

I don’t want activities to be hot-join and dump me in an instance that I can’t start from the beginning.

Khisanth.2948:

Gaile Gray.6029:

khani.4786:

Don’t forget that Howler has no nighttime effects anymore and has been broken forever. Getting that fixed would be great.

Khani — do you have any idea when that started? I’d like to report, but if I had a tad more info, it’d be wonderful.

Since the April 15 2014 patch.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-April-15-2014

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Howler-night-effects-gone
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Howler-Night-time-animation
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Howler-Effects
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Howler-night-effect-gone
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Howler-Effects-Bug
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Howler-Day-Night-Cycle
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Howler-bug

It was apparently removed while fixing the endless howl sound bug.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Howler-Soundbug

Thanks for finding those. I was just getting ready to pull up those exact same threads.

Here’s another I found:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Howler-s-missing-moon-and-wolf-effects

That is the final solution. There is no other way to store gold. Sorry.

Ayrilana.1396:

Keep going in and out of the instance. If you don’t see the event in the top right, leave and re-enter.

Not wasting my time doing that. They should have had a working event in place or be willing to fix it. They’ve stated they’re not fixing the broken event.

Why should I have to wade through their broken content to find an instance that just started? Nope. Boycotting Toypocalypse.

I wouldn’t mind the randoms as much if I could at least join at the beginning.

What the heck Anet? Did you even think about what you were doing?

It’s almost like this is their job and can’t meet deadlines. Or you know remember what we liked last year and keep that.

But whatever. I’ll have abandoned Wintersday before the weekend except to do the dailies.

I will never understand why I have to join an instance in progress. This is the hot-join of wintersday and needs to be fixed.

“I’m sure if you look at this objectively, it makes sense to set a short-time event for single enters in order to stabilize all of PvP, which is a permanent element of the game.”

How about we look at this logically?
There is an instance for a PERMANENT holiday that occurs once a year. That occurs at a time that is a surprise to no one. With various activities and instances that many people love…and do with their friends and guildmates. While it is only here for a short time shouldn’t you make every effort to make sure people can enjoy this time limited content as a group. The same way we were able to enjoy it last year.

Instead we get PvP is here all the time so we’re not going to bother with fixing this limited time content. Enjoy your bugs, we’re not fixing it.

Toroxus.9256:

Well, I definately don’t agree with some people here in this thread about the severity of the issue and it’s relation to the game overall. I think the game, overall, is very good.

However, by removing all party-based activities from Wintersday, it really goes against Guild Wars 2’s ideals of playing with your friends and making new ones. And, because of that, there is nothing for my friends and I to do together this Wintersday.

The game (GW2) is good overall yes.

The mini-game Toypocalypse…is not. It is buggy beyond imagination. You join in-progress matches or an instance that is completed and nothing is happening.

Why can’t we queue up in order to ensure we start a match (1) together and (2) from the very beginning. Oh I know why…because the person who does the code for this is gone on vacation and no one will bother fixing this.

And I must once again echo what several others (including our French friend) above have said. “The excuse found by developers is so bogus that one wonders why, with a goal of stability, we are left with such a buggy activity.”

Apparently they just teased us with that image. You only see it when the blue daily reward chest pops up then it goes away until the next day.

The fact that the new daily screen only appears once then goes away is silly IMO.

Otherwise, I do like the new dailies…well dailies.

How about you move it from being an “activity” to being a “dungeon” so we can party up with a group and perhaps actually start at the very beginning rather than join an in-progress instance with random people who may or may not be saving dolyaks?

Why does Toypacolypse have to be an “activity”. Put it on the dungeon side of things like the Infinarium.

I do not accept the “reason” for this change.
I am angry that they’ve ruined this part of Wintersday.

I DO NOT want to join an in-progress match with people who are jumping in and out that I dont’ even know.

This is Stupid. SO very stupid.

Additionally, for Halloween we got tons of candy corn, and the other candies that are crafting materials and wintersday… want snowflakes? Nope got to wade through the trash. Anything without a vendor value of even 1c is trash…recipes, tonics, major/minor runes & sigils…all trash.

I dont’ mind recycled content. I do mind downgraded recycled content. At least give us what we had last year.

Zomaarwat.3912:

Wanze.8410:

You can trade them on the tp.

The mayor ones actually give a couple of silver because you can forge them into regular rare and exotic runes and sigils. The minor and superior ones are hovering around copper value.

I wonder who is even buying these things, since they drop like rain.

Someone who just tosses them into the forge to get ones that do sell for more than 1c (or 4c since you need 4 to make 1)

Bubi.7942:

Azhure.1857:

Anything that you can sell and/or salvage is loot. Argue that all you like, I don’t care.

Too bad you can’t sell/salvage the recipes.

You can’t vendor the runes/sigils either (and most are not even selling on the TP for 2c)

Talyn.3295:

Worst part of it is getting the Major and Minor runes etc. Mostly because I don’t think there are very many people out there who are gonna be like “WOW A MINOR RUNE OF …whatever” I don’t have anything but 80s left at this point.

I’ve been tossing them in the forge to get something I can at least vendor for a few copper.

I just love getting minor rune/sigil of no vendor value.

Don’t forget that Howler has no nighttime effects anymore and has been broken forever. Getting that fixed would be great.

Pixels.6532:

I don’t understand the reasoning behind this decision at all…

The grinch infiltrated Anet and wanted to find a way to at least partially ruin Wintersday.

For reals though…sounds like someone screwed up and is now on vacation for the holidays and no one is willing to fix it.

" The consensus is that AP Chests are often not even as good as World Boss rewards. "

I still have my last two AP chests sitting in my bank unopened…why? Because the rewards in them don’t excite me now that I don’t get free skins to unlock.

From my standpoint, I don’t see a way to do anything for wintersday repeatedly like we did for Halloween.

Guess I’ll spend my week off doing normal things once I finish the achievements.

Oh but blah blah blah PvP so important.
Edit: Locked thread showing that it’s because of PvP: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Toypocalypse-and-Parties

Why is Toypocolapaypse even related to PvP? Why?

We can queue PvP as a team, what went wrong here to mess this up this badly?

If they’re using the same system as PvP (which is dumb) for Toypocolypse, why can’t we queue up and join together as a group? Why must I be forced to play with randoms and dropped into a half-finished or nearly over game?

This sucks. It is stupid.

Also… I’m very unimpressed with Wintersday. Once I get my achievements, I’m done. There is nothing fun to me that’s worth me repeating for the sake of it. I enjoyed doing Toypocalypse with friends for the rewards, but not anymore!

So you decided that despite the fact that we were begging for you to free up room in our inventories & banks with this CURRENCY that you’d go ahead with your idea of spending them from the bank and not add this CURRENCY to our WALLET that holds currencies.

I guess a half-thought out solution is better than nothing. I would still prefer you to take the wonderful ideas presented here in this thread and implement those in game.

http://swalsh81.github.io/gw2improvedwallet/

That. Do something like that. I don’t have room in my bank to store excess currency items that you keep inundating us with.

Infernia.9847:

GuzziHero.5104:

Ambient Killer?

1. Choose Vigil as your Order.
2. Play this mission. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Forewarned_is_Forearmed
3. On entering the sewer, stop.
4. Press #1 continuously.
5. ??
6. Profit!

I thought there was no loot from anything in the personal story instances any longer?
If this works it certainly would solve the issue. I have only used the maize balm once to complete the achievement and still have a stack in the bank.
I have refrained from using it because of the issues it causes on both sides.

I have a character at that mission and it does NOT work with the maize balm.

I do use it for weapon master achievements though.

There’s a tonic collection?? How do you unlock it?

So things like the forever bugged events in Bloodtide….why do we bother submitting bug reports for those?

Despite having seen this event nearly every time I"m on the map, it is always broken. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Save_the_merchants_from_the_Bloody_Buccaneer_kidnappers

Despite having put in a bug report on this several times (including several very close to launch)…this event remains broken. Why does this event even exist if you can’t fix it?

jokke.6239:

oshilator.4681:

I never farmed this, myself… but I honestly don’t see why it needed to be fixed/nerfed.

It wasn’t hurting anything.

It’s obv you haven’t farmed it then. I’ve never seen so much drama in one place.
New players who came to the instance got yelled at just for going near the spawns. People even threatened with reporting them.
Then you had the trolls who loved to come and make the 30 people standing there angry.
Then you had the people farming there getting angry at eachother, since people rolled guardian/war to get tag, then the rest of the people didn’t get loot.
Swear words, report threats.. That happened every second at that place lol.
And I could go on ..

And just in general. Making 30 g in one hour clicking 1 on candy is absurd. When you earn 40-50 g a day running dungeons etc.

The few times I was there I only ever saw 4-5 people and there wasn’t anything you described above. But then again, different times of day & different crowds.

Nabrok.9023:

Electro.4173:

Nabrok.9023:

Electro.4173:

So I just checked the “calendar” in-game.

How?

Can’t figure out how to get to it separately (though I assume there is a way, at least I would think so), but I looked at it when I was awarded my daily. Once you click the chest it shows you the whole calendar until you finish claiming the reward.

I did not get that. Did you get a daily reward as soon as you logged in? I did not.

If you’re like me and played the game after reset, you don’t get a daily reward until next reset. We got gypped.

Nabrok.9023:

Odd loyalty reward that puts people who played on the 15th a day behind everybody else.

Very odd indeed. Punish people who play every day by putting them a day behind those that may or may not play but check out new stuff on patch day.

It isn’t fair that those of us that play at reset can’t get the daily login rewards too. And is there no way to at least LOOK at the login rewards?

And where is this pretty new screen they showed in the preview? All I see is the same version with everything mashed together in my hero panel.

Can you pull up the daily login screen somehow? Since I actually play the game daily, I don’t get a login reward until reset (very stupid IMO).

Also, where are these fancy new daily interfaces? All I saw was the same old version in my hero panel with everything lumped together.

Gobble D Goop.4081:

Nomad Amulet seems likely

I know a few people who really want a Nomad’s amulet. So let’s hope it is this.

Anti.9156:

Cigar.4807:

So, it has been a week. Any ETA on the llama handout?

the question is what we should do with these llamas. its time for new minis. i already deleted 2 from the Tog/tol and still have 3 codes from gamescom. Maybe give them hats and each time a new color or something like that

I wish I had your problems. I want a llama, but I don’t see myself getting anywhere near the top 250 to get one.

I didn’t mind being Caithe.

However…

I did mind the instant death and no downed skills. That sucked for challenge mode.

I still really want bandit crests moved to the wallet along with geodes.

I have 3000 crests in my bank and nearly 5000 crests sitting in my inventory.

That is all I really want for Wintersday. Pretty please?

Yodi.8231:

well i also had 2 time where they ended my party search before leaving. with players wont do if they got the wrong one

If you’re the last one to join the lfg automatically goes away. and what one person said before with how broken the lfg is right now there’s no telling if them joining at any point is making the lfg go away or not.

Last time I tried to use it I wound up in several parties that I didn’t mean to join because where I clicked wasn’t the group anymore. >.<

Also even without it bugging out I’ve seen the LFG just mysteriously disappear a couple times for no reason.

wasted.6817:

While i appreciate the thought i will have to turn it off, it’s too strong and became very annoying to me, imo it should be more subtle, softer.

Same. I had to turn it off because it obscured the items and lasted way too long.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Currencies-The-Wallet/page/3#post4580558

Completely agree. Feel free to post in that thread there. There are some great suggestions there on what the wallet could do.

Darnis.4056:

khani.4786:

Brunners.7251:

The leaderboards aren’t active until the 16th Dec.

So right now…there is absolutely no difference between Ranked and Unranked? And after the 16th the only difference will be one is for the leaderboards that can’t even be seen in game, and the other doesn’t affect those leaderboards? So for someone who doesn’t visit the forums or know about the leaderboards there will be absolutely no difference besides the name?

Am I understanding that right?

Probably.. why? Does that matter?

It matters for those who want to understand what the difference is…where should I or would I want to spend my time. I play very little PvP and want to know what the options are so I can spend my time wisely. That is done by making informed decisions.

Surely there is something more than one has a leaderboard and the other doesn’t. That doesn’t make sense to me. Does the leaderboard do anything the current one doesn’t? Will I get better rewards later if I somehow manage to progress up in ranking on it?

Darnis.4056:

On top of the buttons it says " PLAY!" (Unranked) “COMPETE!” "(Ranked)

Both of those things mean the same thing to me as you’re in PvP and Playing is competition.

Brunners.7251:

The leaderboards aren’t active until the 16th Dec.

So right now…there is absolutely no difference between Ranked and Unranked? And after the 16th the only difference will be one is for the leaderboards that can’t even be seen in game, and the other doesn’t affect those leaderboards? So for someone who doesn’t visit the forums or know about the leaderboards there will be absolutely no difference besides the name?

Am I understanding that right?

This leaderboard?

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/pvp/friends

Still shows solo/team and makes no sense. Why isn’t there anything in game to explain the difference. (and what’s the point of the leaderboard? I guess just to say “I’m better than you”?)

What is the difference between Ranked & Unranked.

There isn’t anything on the wiki to explain the difference and looking in game I can’t see the difference either besides the name.

The rewards for winning/losing are the same. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spvp#Rewards

Hot-join is now “practice”.
Solo & Team queue are now “ranked”

What’s the point of Unranked and how is it different than Ranked (Besides the name)? I really don’t get it.

Mjgander.1905:

Every single stupid match on this map is 500-0 it’s just flat out horrible.

Not true. My second game tonight (and first time on this map ever), final score was 475-500.

Happened to me on the very first game I played after this last patch…and it happened to be the very first game I’d played since you changed things.

Wasn’t any fun for me being matched against someone several ranks higher than me and I’m sure the other ranger was bored killing me over and over.

Despite me losing pitifully, I didn’t give up and I managed to down the other person a few times. For being a PvP scrub I don’t think I did badly but if that becomes a regular thing, ugh. Why would I bother?

Played 3 matches total tonight, only the first was a 1v1.