Guild Wars 2

Deemo.6094:

I am glad this has got at least some attention cause this neeeeds to be fixed. Maybe Anet are taking some notice of this now and might be working to fix it in the future. Yeah, a truly “auto” auto loot system would be amazing.

Well at least the players are noticing, however, I have not seen any response from Anet about this in this thread yet.

I thought this issue had been resolved after the last time it raised its ugly head….well, guess it is back. I have always thought it odd loot disappeared before you could reach it. Loot that should be around after a fight so that, once the dust settles, players can go around and loot to their heart’s content.

In any other game I’ve played, I’ve had time to pick up any loot I was rewarded after fighting was finished. This game, however, seems to work differently. I missed out on loot rewards earlier in the year when I experienced going to pick up loot as that loot just disappeared before I finished pressing [F]. Not to mention those small wooden chests that were lying under a dead enemy that disappeared after I left the area because I could not see it. Or as I walked toward it to pick it up, only to see it gone just before getting to it.

Auto loot in this game is ridiculous. It does not work as I’ve seen it work in other games. In other games you click once and “all” the loot that is yours pops into your inventory. In this game it only means that if you have 5 things in that body/bag/chest to loot you can pick all 5 things up at the same time before you move to the next body/bag/chest to loot.

Its bad enough when this happens, but even worse if you miss out on any rare or above item(s). This is obviously not game breaking but is extremely frustrating to folks who enjoy the gratification of receiving loot for their efforts.

Seems like they can actually fix something like this easily. Question is “Why is it not being fixed?” What’s even worse is, if you are defeated by that silly Veteran Karka in Southsun, way point out to run back into the fight knowing you contributed enough to the defeat of that Veteran Karka, only to see the body disappear as you approach it because the thing timed out.

This is as bad as seeing a loot bag at your side during WvWvW fight and you get defeated, unable to pick it up. After way pointing all the way back to your nearest way point and running back is not always an option. Some times I see bags at my feet after I way point but have been told it is because the enemy I was engaged in fighting, was finally defeated by our group…so the loot followed me. However, any loot left before I was downed just stays there and times out because I could not get back to it.

../sigh, this loot inconsistency is really annoying. I do wish it could be fixed so that it works equally well no matter where/what or who you are fighting.

I had more fun in the Winters Day snowball fights than in this crab toss. I was not prepared for a Karka to roll over me as I entered the arena. I did not even have a breath of a chance.

So I rolled and immediately exited the arena. …and ran right into a reef drake. So my excursion got me downed pretty fast and I never even touched the crab. But I did get that small achievement.

10 samples = flower back piece; 11 samples = wild flaying octopus armed back piece.

I got both. I use the flower for my mesmer and am saving the other for my necro.

You may want to post this in the Tech Support area.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech

Check it out here:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lava_Axe

Elementalist conjured axe I do believe.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Conjured_Flame

Personally, I appreciate seeing those icons. I usually join in with the group that is running with that icon because there is a lot going on. However, I think the icon issue will probably solve itself in pve once (if) Anet implements raid sizes for folks instead of these puny 5 person groups.

Don’t get me wrong, 5 person groups are great for just running around. But with a large group of folks doing a run together, without the ability to create raid size groups, the commander icons help immensely.

Unholypenguin.4196:

Trogdor my account WAS compromised and i got it back. Swimsasa is the only one actually ANSWERING my question. I’m not asking for advice on what to do with the leveled character in question. I have already made up my mind im going to keep him, and i will roll an alt. HOWEVER what i want to know is WHERE/WHAT do i start doing to progress my level 80! Only person who even kinda answered my question is Swimsasa

It is much easier in this game to go back to a region where you left off as your character actually gets mentored (leveled) down to the level of the region. I do this occasionally just to reacquaint myself with something in my personal story from earlier or just to learn new skill sets when I change my character traits. Helps a lot because then I can concentrate on the new abilities and how they interact with my setup and weapon choices.

BlackBeard.2873:

Make sure you protect your account from re-hacking! Change you password, I would turn on 2-step verification, and make sure you lock-down the base email address!

One suggestion I would make here. Go make a new email address just for your GW2 account. Change the email address for your GW1 account if you can and contact Anet and ask to change that email account as well.

I did this when I found out one of my old gaming accounts was compromised at another game. I contacted their Customer Service folks and discussed the problem, explaining I had no desire to keep that account and asked for a way to completely purge and delete that old account. Made a new email address for just my GW2 game and went from there.

It is necessary to contact Anet directly to be able to change your email account as NCSoft is involved somewhere here. Folks were very nice and helped me accomplish this.

Consequently, I have nothing outside GW2 that is connected to my email account for this game, period. I change my password at least once a month and use the double authentication option provided.

If I purchase anything from their gem store, I do not use a credit card. I manage that elsewhere. Usually, I just convert my in game gold to gems for that purpose.

Sorry to hear you had issues. Here’s hoping your journey forward is fun filled and exciting.

These little loot bags I am talking about were only in the Southsun area. And no, I was not connecting them to the little chests which Anet has conveniently changed to pop up on the bottom right of our screens now whenever we get one.

I had no idea there were little loot bags before my encounter during this most recent Southsun event started. Since finding this out, yes I have been using my ctrl key (thank you very much) as I usually do for other things I know are hard to see without that option.

But my point is, not being aware of them ahead of time was a bit disconcerting once I noticed them. The WvWvW loot bags are not hard to see, they drop at your feet and you can use your [F] key as part of your talent rotation just to make sure you don’t miss any.

I do wish when new things of this nature are added to the game, we are actually given a “heads-up” regarding something like this. Before Anet changed those little chests to pop up in our screen I missed several that I know about because a guildie happened to be with me and noticed it after the body disappeared that was hiding it from view.

It is now account bound so only one time per 24 hour period per account.

I think this changed about a week or so ago.

Yes…I found it in my inventory when I went to sell junk. I did not realize you did not have to reacquire it for the next use.

Nice, but it would be better if we had some sort of little hot bar off to the side that these type of things could sit in so that all you would have to do to equip it would be to hit that button, then it would be equipped without you having to open up your inventory and rummage around for it when you need it next time.

Ah…yes..the beach area. I was surprised to see all my gear and weaponry disappear when I went down to the beach. I started around to the side but realized I would not be able to fight this Champion as it would not turn out well.

I tried another tactic, I jumped down from behind the broken building onto the rocks. However, once I hit the deck of that wrecked ship, I was once again in my bathing suit. Fortunately for me that Champion was no where to be seen…but the chest sat there beckoning me with its shine.

I guess someone got him for me before I arrived.

Perhaps a possible fix would be to have a special mail to option within the guild box. This game seems very short on guild tools.

Perhaps this particular problem could be more easily solved if you could use the guild setup to send messages/mail globally to those members you check as selected?

Just a thought.

I only noticed the little loot bags when I happen to run over one and the “search” popped up. I have no idea how many I actually missed before hand as I was not looking for them.

I was pretty disappointed that none of the bodies I “looted” actually gave me anything. If I was to pick up those little loot bags after defeating my adversaries, they need to be more visible.

Imaginos.3756:

Southsun Supply Crate drops: 4 hours + not a single chest. None from everyone else who answered in the zone either.

I ran around Southsun for several hours doing as many of the events as I could. I got all but one of the collection achievements, most of the rest of what was actually available except the crab toss event, and never saw a single chest drop period.

But I did see a lot of little bags similar to the ones in WvW drop. Only problem with that is they are very hard to see and I only noticed them when I ran over one and saw the “search” pop up on my screen.

I just got this back piece last tonight for my activities in Southsun. It is really lovely…I was able to transmute it onto the exotic piece I was using to change the look. I now have a lovely flower on my back.

ryston.7640:

so what your saying is: anet excelled at internal testing / quality assurance?

What? They have a test server? Seems missing to me as a lot of things in the game appear not to have been tested well before launching.

Check out this link as it seems to be the same issue.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Serious-fall-damage-bug

Ah…the infamous Cowpult issue. This has been a problem for a long time now. It gets fixed then breaks again. I think I was able to finally interact with the equipment on the far side from the npc. Right click and get a pop up box offering options. I was able to interact with the cowpult directly and get thrown to the vista.

This has to be most problematic in the area.

I do not think the actual jp is bugged but the character movement mechanics appear to be. I’ve seen my character drop twice in the same placed over and over again in same sequence before actually landing. Sort of in a movement loop.

I know others who have experienced this particular movement bug as well. Seems to be tied to drops as opposed to anything else.

I noticed it last night when I did the jp in South Sun when I dropped down from the building ledge and landed on a pillar…seemed like I did a “double take” of that drop as well as the final drop to the ground from the pillar.

Odd movement bug for sure.

DreamyAbaddon.3265 has a few videos of fights in WvWvW/pvp that are amazing to watch. Once I found out he uses a game controller, I realized how mobile he really was compared to my mouse movement. I am determined to learn to be as fluid a mover in game play now that I found that out.

I don’t know anything about game controllers but have been playing around with mouse + wasd movements to be able to strafe properly.

Currently I am using a new mesmer build that is so much fun in pve. I constantly am able to create clones on dodges and such. Love it.

BTW I really do not pvp. Not particularly interested in that aspect of the game…but that said, I do like the WvWvW in this game. It is so much fun to run with a bunch guildies to take supply camps, towers and such that I do this at least twice a week now.

Have decided to try a new Ranger Beast Master build too. So I should see some more action there too.

… but I digress from title. Have 4 other characters’ personal stories to complete yet and have not decided which direction to take on them. Have done the Whispers so may try the other two. I really like the Whispers story tho.

DreamyAbaddon.3265:

lynspottery.6529 is an awesome player =D Can do Anything and Everything!

Flatterer!! I “try” to do well in anything but not always succeed. However, what’s funny is, when I finally logged on to complete my map portion of the quest, I missed my guild mate by a few moments because I was late logging into the game…that is why I ended up soloing that particular portion of the personal story.

I did watch several videos to get a feel for the fights and apparently what I saw were older versions of what I actually experienced. But due to Anet changing these fights I need not have worried about soloing them.

Falunel.7645:

I believe it’s due to two things-

-The instance is meant for one person to do. Therefore, it would logically follow that two people would be able to kill the Eye in half the time, with significantly less trouble. I would also wager that your friend is geared in full exotics, has a lot of experience playing, and is possibly a high-damaging class, warrior in particular.

Actually, my guild mate had done this before with another guild mate and it was scaled to account for two folks doing the fight then. He also was not wearing exotics in this one with me. He actually had not had time to even make rares so he was really only wearing green armor.

Being a Ranger I was doing the range attack while he was tanking as a D/D elementalist. The last time he did this with a guild mate they had a difficult time of it and they were better geared.

I helped him with his portion of “Find the Map” story and it scaled to double what I experienced since I actually ended up soloing mine. So I do know that map portion did scale with two players.

Well, we did the Arah mid afternoon yesterday and found it was a bit buggy on the air ships portion of the fight. I went into the dungeon with exotics and did not do that badly considering I am not the best dungeon player. Died a couple of times near the end just before the air ship portion but otherwise, those fights were not that difficult either. I died due the red circles I could not see and the poison that I rolled into when I dodged.

Ah well, it is done and I have the achievement now.

Well, it appears this bug from the first air ship has not been fixed. I was knocked off the cannon and ended up mid-air (see screen shots). I was fortunate enough that my guild leader just posted the way point in chat and I was actually able to use it instead of dying.

Major bug and not pleasant. We had several other folks in our mumble channel running this very same story at the same time who were not only knocked off the first ship, but also the second ship as well. Two out of the 3 or 4 that went flying died while one actually got disconnected entirely from the game at that point.

Bugs like this are a royal pain and need to be fixed instead of allowed to linger.

I have never been happy with any results using the BL harvesting tools. It did not matter if I was in combat or not. Occasionally, I would get ruined ore/herbs/wood. So I changed and started using the Ori tools and have not experienced that problem since.

I recently got the new Molten Alliance Mining Pick and love it. Of course I can only afford one so I saved all my ori picks for my alt characters to use.

But back to the point at hand, the BL harvesting tools are not what they are all cracked up to be. I’ve never been very happy with a tool that costs more than it offers.

I noticed my Sylvari Ranger’s glow and my mesmer’s glow have gotten very pronounced. Thank you for fixing it….I had decided that if it continued to be diminished, I would just cover both up with different armor to hide the missing glowiness.

What a disappointment! I completed the final personal story quest “The Source of Orr” where I traveled to the Artesian Waters. The interaction leading into the vault where you are confronted by the Eye was, meh, not memorable and way too easy.

But, the actual fight with the Eye was ridiculously easy. Way too easy. I was prepared for a long, challenging fight and had brought along a guild mate who had done it before. We had discussed tactics and decided on a plan of action, only to be totally disappointed in what we experienced.

I don’t like impossible fights solo or in groups, but impossibly easy is worse in my opinion and this fell into that category. What changed? I have no idea but we managed to defeat him so quickly that only two of his fights actually triggered. We never once broke a sweat over this.

Apparently, this is a case of going from the sublime to the ridiculous in two easy steps. It seemed this last fight was just a prelude to a cinematic to end our personal line and lead us to the dungeon.

Not a challenge any longer judging by what I witnessed in person versus what I actually saw via other folks’ videos of this fight.

I agree the targeting setup in this game is a mess.

Dreamy, thank you so much for your help the other day. As a noob player and one new to the MMO genre of gaming, it was very kind of you to take the time to show me some things.

Thanks again…good luck in Film School.

I have traited into the longer distance for my long bow and have not experienced any issues with it. In fact a few guild mates of mine have retraited to include that extra distance for the long bow once they saw how far I could shoot mine.

Don’t see how it works for off hand items. I use a War Horn and Axe for my second weapon set…works great for mid-range for me.

One more step to go….got the map portion done now on to the Artesian Waters for the last step before the Arah dungeon. I tell you, Trahearne certainly could be a better hero companion. I kept having to rez him during my fights and got pretty tired of it. The only place I did not have to rez him was in the water killing the undead around the map casket.

I do wish Anet would make these NPC heros much tougher than they are. It is pointless to have them along to “help” when they don’t help at all …just die.

Would rather run through all this stuff with guild mates and not worry about Trahearne.

If it is not providing sufficient reward for taking it down, I would just pass it by. The only good it might be for is so folks can practice their skills on it.

Its too bad rewards for most champions I’ve ever been involved with taking down are so poor. Some vet rewards are a bit better than a lot of the champion rewards, but that is just my observation. I certainly do not run around trying all the champions in the game nor do I bother with vets unless they are all included in the dailies.

Sorta on par with the icky rewards for any of the BL Chests I have opened. I am really disappointed in the poor reward system in GW2 but, hey, its only a game.

Subby.2583:

lynspottery.6529:

I really would like to be able to solo my personal story more but in some cases after dying several times, I end up asking for help. I really hate to ask other folks help me do a small instance for my story.

Currently I have the last personal story “Romke’s Final Voyage” ::SPOILER:: where I have to find a map to locate the source of Orr.

I can’t solo this one. No one wants to help either. I have asked a few folks and no one wants to do this. Most of them have done it before and refuse to repeat it for any reason.

Why is this thing so hard?

No one wants to help because they are completely doable solo. Just keep practicing with your character. Gear him up from the trading post if you need to.

I know you are correct but I’ve found some guildies who did not know I had not completed this portion of the mission and have offered their help. As I mentioned, I really hate to ask for help but in this case I have to.

Thanks everyone for your input. Once I complete this today I’ll be ready for the Arah guild dungeon run this coming weekend.

A potential problem with the Logitech G13 is I do not think they make it for someone who can only use their right hand. If most tech companies would only make their products to be changed from left to right use, this would not cause an issue.

I have tried this G13 and, although it is way too big for my hand, it was designed for me to use it with only my left hand if I needed to use the joy stick.

I found one of these NPCs in Diessa Plateau just near the momento collector. The NPC did not have an orange icon over his head but had a destroyed sonic periscope at his feet. Was able to right click on him and turn my audio logs into him a few days ago.

Yak’s Bend Server

Kodesh, my hat’s off to you. BTW, you mentioned foot pedals…so I thought you might be interested in what I found today. I was looking into a set for myself and found “Stinkyboard” start up.

Here is the webpage: http://www.stinkyboard.com/products/stinkyboard

I have actually contacted them asking about this product and it appears a lot of gamers have actually tried this product out. Maybe it might be of interest to you if your current foot pedals don’t work as you need them to.

You have given me hope that I can eventually use my feet for my straffing and such in game freeing up my need to use my mouse all the time for movement.

Oh my word….this “Deceptive Evasion” is amazing. I did not know about it before, but am very glad kazi mentioned it. I redid my traits to include this and tried it out on my run earlier this evening while harvesting in Frostgorge.

Thank you very much.

Three months ago and apparently this is still bugged. I did this segment of the story a few days ago and every time I used the turret I got kicked out of the tank. Tank fired and the fight went on, but I had to constantly get back into the tank and activate the firing sequence. Did not know about the mortars when I did it, but it finally finished.

It took so long to complete this. I was getting frustrated with this bug…but I was determined to finish this. If I had known about using the mortars I would have used them, but what I did in between firing the tank, was to use my long bow barrage and send my bear into the fray.

Can’t believe this is not fixed after all this time.

Try opening a support ticket on this issue. CS can’t really help you with stuff like this.

I suspect they are on a timer in order to prevent botting on them.

ISPs are notorious for saying “it must be on your end or in your equipment” instead of checking their own lines, etc. We have Comcast (affectionately known as Comcrash) and I finally got hold of a supervisor who had been with them since the dinosaurs. I explained our problem of fluctuating internet connectivity, and the very next morning a bucket truck showed up. Sure enough not only was the line from their pole replaced (nothing wrong with it) but later they found 2 or 3 of their boxes along the route to our house were bad to one degree or another. Once replaced, no more problems.

It is sad you have to fight just to get them to provide the service they charge you for. Even harder to find a knowledgeable individual who can understand your problem and actually fix it.

What might have happened to you happened to me a few weeks ago. We had just finished the majority of Straits of Devastation all the way up to the way into Malchor’s Leap. Got dumped to my desktop and when I finally reentered the game, I was all the way back to the Cathedral and none of the map I just opened was available to me any longer.

What I found out was I got rolled back due to a server glitch and lost not only all that ground, but xp, boss fight w/chest rewards, a few vets and some harvesting nodes. Others in my party also had similar problems.

We had to replay the entire area but never regained lost rewards or the xp for the daily until completed the route again. Was extremely frustrating for us. Server glitches have caused a lot of folks some great gear, weapons and in some cases, even gold and exotics.

I wonder if you fell into a small glitch where you were rolled back to just prior to obtaining your ticket for the gloves? Only way to tell that if you are on the Fire and Frost runs, is check to see if they are completed or not. If not you will have to repeat them as I don’t think Anet will give anything back to you that you had earned.

qewqew you have just provided a great “light in the tunnel” moment for me. How entertaining to realize that I can easily defeat the silly npc enemies…had not thought about using my surroundings for blocks and evasions.

TYVM for this wonderful idea. :=)

Never mind, I finally found the entrance to the instance. I had been told is was under water but I think whoever told me that thought I was doing the other path to this story.

Here is the video I found that showed how to get there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWlOjW0W7GI

kazi.6438:

You NEED the “Deceptive Evasion” trait from the dueling trait line. It makes playing a mesmer like 30x easier. The extra clones on dodge give you a massive increase in survivability and DPS.

Thanks for the tip…I’ll check it out.

:=)

Isaac.6041:

I finished Romke’s Final Voyage by myself on my Mesmer with exotics. I don’t remember it being that hard.

I thank you very much for your vote of confidence. I shall try it tomorrow and see how I do. Besides, I can always do it over if I fail, right?

BTW I just outfitted my Mesmer in Exotic armor and weapons. Went with Chest/legs Rampager and the rest were Carrion. But I am actually rethinking some of my setup. I am trying out this build here: (am thinking of changing that out tho)
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15 – Phantasmal Fury (II)
20 – Debilitating Dissipation (V) and Chaotic Dampening (X)
15 – Persisting Images (V)
20 – Compounding Power (III) and Illusionary Elasticity (VII)

Hamfast.8719:

This is players helping players, Dreamy… insinuating that he doesn’t know how to play doesn’t help. But it is nice that you offered physical assistance assuming you’re on the same server.

First, make sure your GEAR is as good as you can afford. That helps. After you hit level 80 you should be thinking about your final, main set of EXOTIC armor and weapons. Also check online resources for hints and tips for your specific storyline. You’d be surprised how much is even on VIDEO at YouTube. And keep asking for help in Map Chat. Eventually someone will join you. Even then, some storylines are harder than others, and some professions may be more suited than others. ( I have noticed in some instances that the bad guys relentlessly charge the player, ignoring the NPCs. That can make it difficult for the non-melee squishy types if they have to continually fight on the run.)

Post your server. Maybe someone here is in your world and will offer to help.

Actually, I really am not a very good player. I am very new to this type of gaming because my son got me involved. Hence the issue with trying to learn stuff.

But Dreamy was very helpful. I just spent a little time guesting w/Dreamy and was shown a lot of useful tips. Even might be able to learn to play without just using a mouse for movement.

LOL… :/

But plan to contact my guild leader this week and see about getting help for my story line. I am in a very good guild, but I just hate to ask for help. Most everyone else has been gaming for a long time…much longer than I have and are more effective at it.

I have a lot to learn yet…this old lady is not quite decrepit but a bit slow that’s all.

BTW, my guild is called Old Timers Guild on Yak’s Bend. We have a lot of fun for a bunch of ole farts…hehehe.

I really would like to be able to solo my personal story more but in some cases after dying several times, I end up asking for help. I really hate to ask other folks help me do a small instance for my story.

Currently I have the last personal story “Romke’s Final Voyage” ::SPOILER:: where I have to find a map to locate the source of Orr.

I can’t solo this one. No one wants to help either. I have asked a few folks and no one wants to do this. Most of them have done it before and refuse to repeat it for any reason.

Why is this thing so hard?

Regarding the NPC AI issue: I totally agree with the majority of folks who have been complaining about how bad the AI is in this game for NPCs, pets, and your personal story Heros vs your enemy’s AI action.

I really would like to be able to solo my personal story more but in some cases after dying several times, I end up asking for help. I really hate to ask other folks help me do a small instance for my story.

Currently I have the last personal story “Romke’s Final Voyage” ::SPOILER:: where I have to find a map to locate the source of Orr.

I can’t solo this one. No one wants to help either. I have asked a few folks and no one wants to do this. Most of them have done it before and refuse to repeat it for any reason.

Why is this thing so hard?