Guild Wars 2

I have to complete this portion of my lvl 80 story line in order to move on to the Arah dungeon. I met up w/the ghosts and I need a map to get to the source of Orr.

Cannot find the location to the instance. Also, anything I have read regarding this particular quest indicates it is bugged. I’ve also been told I cannot solo it but if it is bugged when a party goes in, how on earth can you finish it?

I am really frustrated about this and cannot find any help. Is there anyone on this forum who can help me with information?

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Guaranteed that anet already knows about this, and this never gets an official acknowledgement. It will simply get snuck into a large batch of game updates, so people will not notice.

It’s called “stealth fix”…happens all the time to things they don’t talk about.

Yes, this is annoying to say the least. I have experienced this on all my characters no matter where I am and it has just started since this last patch.

Please fix.

I finally got to my lvl 80 story quest line “The Steel Tide,” so I decided to see what my hero pane said…it appears there is nothing after the entry “Starving the Beast” anywhere. The Hero Pane goes blank after that entry.

What is wrong with the interface? Why can’t we use the slider to see the rest of our completed entries?

Please fix this problem. I have submitted it in game as a UI bug but thought to add it here on the forums. I’ve attached a screen shot here showing the last entry I am able to see. Next screen shot shows an empty Hero Pane.

Its too bad the drop rate for things and the quality of items dropped from the BLCs are so bad. I have a boatload of those chests in my bank but refuse to spend real life money for the keys. I have gotten only two keys in the past couple of months and neither chest opened gave me another key.

This has got to be the worst offering in the TP in my opinion. Not only way too hard to get keys as drops but when you do get a key the rewards are not worth it…definitely not worth lottery chance for something I “might” get.

Its too bad the drop rate for things and the quality of items dropped from the BLCs are so bad. I have a boatload of those chests in my bank but refuse to spend real life money for the keys. I have gotten only two keys in the past couple of months and neither chest opened gave me another key.

This has got to be the worst offering in the TP in my opinion. Not only way too hard to get keys as drops but when you do get a key the rewards are not worth it…definitely not worth lottery chance for something I “might” get.

You are not alone in your frustration. I love this game and am willing to give Anet the chance to fix things, but it has really been a long-time problem.

I have stopped reporting old issues because their lack of fixing things, and overall ignoring things that should have been fixed over creating new game content, is wearing thin.

A lot of people I know (even from my own guild) have left the game already and moved on. I don’t even see them log in to do dailies and a large portion of them never bothered to log in for this new Flame and Frost special.

So unless issues that we players feel are important are actually addressed, I think a lot of players will just leave. When I asked a few why they are not telling Anet the reasons, they usually reply, “why? Anet doesn’t care about it..so why bother.”

Too bad.

For the “Escort the Pact tanks to the Cathedral of Zephyrs” story line, I noticed that the wiki indicates the mines are bugged and only the owner of the story instance can actually disarm the mines.

Is this still the case? Seems that anyone who helps me in my run should be able to disarm them as well.

Does anyone know?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Armor_Guard#Walkthrough

Crossplay.2067:

Sorry about my delayed response. I’ll go play masochist with karka to see if I can replicate this bug.

Edit: First i have to say, “OMG! THE LIGHTBLOOM! I’m blind, Peg! BLIND!!”

In all seriousness, I can’t seem to replicate the situation you described. I can’t even find any young karka that do stuns. They only cripple and bleed with their raned attack and then do melee attacks until it recharges. The hatchlings do a full array of conditions but I have yet to see a stun.

On the movement side, the best I could do is blink inside certain rocks. While it is way too easy to do so, phase retreat got me out just as easily.

Oh, I thought they did a stun…well maybe that is why it did not work on them. (egg on my face :/)

Interesting…I just watched Dulfy’s video on the final boss fight in the Flame and Frost dungeon. There is a scene where she gets thrown into that stun circle around the center area and I noticed her using this talent there, but it seem to take a bit of time to activate once I saw her circle show up.

So I wonder if there is a small lag involved there? hmmmm.. I’ll keep trying.

Well, I just tried it again in the bank. lol…straight line and I actually moved and pulled my sword out. Nice…So apparently I need to actually use the targeting circle to get the thing to fire off. Now I know what I did not know before.

I thought it was a stun breaker then you used the target..for some reason. I have no idea why I thought that now that I actually saw it work for me.

Thank you very much. I do wish there was a proper tutorial somewhere that explained these little things. So it is a single action activated by the target circle not the other way around.

Thanks… :=)

Pyroatheist.9031:

lynspottery.6529:

Yea, I knew about the karka double blast but for crying out loud, I do wish Anet would just FIX these things so they actually work properly. Having messed up skills/talents just makes the community want to pull its hair out because they don’t work right.

They do work right. Blink works quite fine. I’ve used blink continually for the entire duration of this game, along with all 3 beta weekends. The utility is amazing, it works perfectly the vast majority of the time, and the few instances where it doesn’t work in situations that you would expect it to (the only one I can think of is inner bridge at east keep) are very rare.

I’ll keep trying it then….perhaps once it will work for me, but so far it has not in any situation I’ve used it in. I knew it would not work on uneven terrain or in jp-type situations. I do fairly well in jumping so really do not need that to get over jumps. But on something that stuns it has not worked at all.

Is there a special trick to using it perhaps that I am unaware of? I get stunned I press that talent, I see it fire off and nothing happens. The tool tip says range 900. Does it actually have to be 900 range before it works? Was I using it too close to where I was?

I don’t know. But I appreciate everyone’s comments. I’ll keep trying to see if I can get it to at least break stun for me.

Osicat.4139:

lynspottery.6529:

Osicat, I really enjoyed your videos but cannot hear a word you said through out any of it. I could just barely hear you speaking in the background but the music drowned it all out.

Great music, but too loud to hear what you said.

:=)

Dont supprices me as I dont talk in any of the videos Its guildchat TS in backgroupd I just dont censure it out. Of my 48 gw2 videos I use text as message in 47, only in 1 do I accualy talk.

Music is intended and most often synced to whats happening in the vids.

Sorry if you try to hear my voce, even if my mic is on mute

/Osicat

Oh, ok. That’s ok, the music really does make the video sequence very nice. I don’t play pvp much except when our guild just runs karma xp zergs to help lower level characters gain xp. Usually we do not engage the other worlds unless they catch us by surprise or we have enough folks for a lesson on how to take a keep or supply camp or whatever.

Its really funny most of the time though. I usually am the first to go down in a situation like that since I am not really a good pvp player. I just love the companionship of my guildies and the fun we have since this WvWvW is not setup like most traditional pvp battlegrounds.

But I certainly wish I could move and play my Mesmer as well as you do…/sigh. I might get lucky one of these days and actually accomplish part of that skill.

Yea, I knew about the karka double blast but for crying out loud, I do wish Anet would just FIX these things so they actually work properly. Having messed up skills/talents just makes the community want to pull its hair out because they don’t work right.

Gaidax, that is what I thought too. So when I cast that particular talent when stunned by that karka, I was trying just to get unstunned and hoped that I could just get the two steps away from him that I thought I needed.

As I mentioned this was on a totally flat area and the karka was actually on top of my character. Where I wanted to get to was on the other side of his body but on the same flat surface I was laying on.

But I would have been happy if it had just broken the stun, which it did not.

I want to thank everyone who has responded to my query. I appreciate input from such a great group of veteran mesmers. My character is still new to the profession and I’ll just have to deal with a broken talent.

Perhaps it may even work sometime to break me out of a stun, but I guess I’ll just have to do without that talent. Its too bad. Puts me in mind of the broken pet AI for the Rangers. My pets never did as I asked for the longest time, so maybe Anet will fix the stun portion of this talent.

I do wish it had broken the stun, but unfortunately, it did nothing. The talent looked like it fired off but my character was still stunned and, as I mentioned, the blink did not move me to the intended target circle. Which, incidentally, was not up, down or over a gap, it was just to the other side of the young karka that had stunned me….and on a flat surface to boot.

I actually was using it when a young karka stunned me on Owen’s Retreat (south western islet in South Sun). I was on the flat ledge behind the turned over boat that you see on the right as you approach the karka egg area. That particular spot has no holes in it or rocks on it. I was just trying to break the stun and get to the other side of him.

Obviously it did not work. I ended up defeated because the stun portion of that talent borked out on me and I was unable to recover.

I do wish the talents for this profession worked as intended. I’ve bounced from one character to another because I really like the different play styles. But I have struggled with my Necro and now struggling with my mesmer, although I still love my mesmer.

While I have to learn to move fluidly forward, sideways and backwards while casting, now I have to contend with broken talents.

I am so used to mouse movement and key tapping my talents that it will take some effort to change. But it certainly would help if all the talents we are given actually work as intended.

I feel like we have half a character setup with this problem.

Blink did not even work on small gaps that I would normally just bound over. I tried to see if it would work from one spot to another with a gap in between, but I ended up where I started and nothing worked.

I think it is bugged and not working as intended. Pretty dismal if you ask me since I just got my Mesmer to 80 a week ago and want to really utilize these skills.

Can’t use a broken stick for anything. This blink talent obviously is a broken stick.

Osicat, I really enjoyed your videos but cannot hear a word you said through out any of it. I could just barely hear you speaking in the background but the music drowned it all out.

Great music, but too loud to hear what you said.

:=)

I reported this in game and again in the bug forums. However, I’ve never gotten this particular talent to work…period.

I can be standing on level ground anywhere, but when I attempt to use it to break a stun and blink away to where my green target circle is located, I do not move and end up trying to rally.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Because I think it is bugged. I thought it might have been fixed this week with the updates, but when I used it this evening it did not work.

Unfortunately, when I used this talent today, on even terrain, it did not work as the tool tip says.

It also did NOT break the stun either. Useless talent as it is currently designed…if in fact it is supposed to work as the tool tip says. I think it is bugged. It never worked for me when I first tried it and I thought it had been fixed, but it is still broken.

Audio Log Collectors still missing on Yak’s Bend server…all locations I could see were missing these.

I think it would be a great idea if we could trade in currencies for other currencies. I have more of one that I won’t use and wish I could trade those in for ones that I want to use.

I do wish Karma gear and weapons were not soul bound on acquire. It would make more sense if they were Account bound. At least that way anything one character picks up can be used on another character. I have no problem with them setup that way.

Some of my characters just have more karma than others and since we cannot share karma between characters, it would help if gear and weapons were at least account bound instead of soul bound on acquire.

Missing the Audio Log collectors. Seems to be a bug.

I am standing in Wayfarer Foothills near Snowloard’s Gate in front of the missing items npc, usually the collector npc is just across from this one.

Yak’s Bend server
Collector npc missing: see screen shot.

pzyonix.1645:

I am very sorry for your loss…

I am sure you used the preview button but accidently clicked on destroy which is right under it. In your adrenaline rush that you got the precursor you misread the warning about destroying your item.

Reading all the posts, looking at your weak evidence, I come to the conclusion that this is most likely what happened, whether you know it or like it or not.

Sad this can happen. It seems to me there should be a pop up whenever you go to destroy anything, asking you if this is what you really want to do. That might have helped if he did, indeed, hit the wrong button.

I’ve never destroyed anything so do not know if this mechanic is even in the game. I do know that Anet has put into place other pop up boxes to make the player verify that the action they are trying to do, is truly the one they want.

DBR.9876:

I personally restarted the client about 35-40 times and after long last, just logged in and left the client open when I went for dinner discouraged. I came back 30 minutes later and I had gotten the file.

30 minutes for 1 file to download? Sounds like Anet has a problem then. Should not take that long. Seems like something might be stuck somewhere on launcher.

See my edit above, just got in.

fmttm.1623:

I had the same type of issues, patch got to 1 file to go and stopped with connection error and the request to retry. I entered my credentials and logged in, the game completed the install and logged me in. Try it and see if it works for you too.

I tried that but it did not work for me. So I am effectively unable to log into the game at this time. I certainly hope they fix this as I had a group to join up with at 8pm EST…its now 8:39pm EST..so I am late.

EDIT: Just got the screen to finally load. It is now 8:54pm EST so it apparently takes the launcher a lot longer to think about that last file to download than normal.

DBR, thanks for the pointer. :=)

I am experiencing the same thing. I got download to start then all of a sudden it stopped. See screen shot.

Please fix so I can play.

I have attempted several restarts without success. It always stops at exactly the same place every time.

I have been trying for several days to get this to work without success. The last “email” I got from support told me to use the reset password function on the support ticket webpage, but I never get that email to reset my password.

THAT is the problem…therefore I cannot update or submit any support tickets for help.

Thank you VowWoefist. I wanted to participate in the guild rushes and was extremely disappointed this occurred. We not only had to kick off a different guild rush, but lost the influence we used for the one that failed.

It is extremely disappointing that this is bugged.

For crying out loud, why do we get a guild rush failed when we had not even started working on ours just because another guild kicks theirs off before we started…after we were provided it.

This is the second one we have had messed up because of the cross over for guild rush mechanics. Please fix this problem so that when we get one, we can actually do it regardless if another guild is given the same one only to kick theirs off earlier than ours.

Pain in the tooshee….Anet please fix this issue.
Yak’s Bend Server

Can someone please look into this?

Jason, please check on this. I still see those squares whenever my shatters occur.

Jason King.2647:

gabinglagim.4531:

Just got this for the first time last night. I upgraded my system and updated some firmwares but it seemed fine before did any of that. I tried almost everything I can think of to fix it. Lowered the volume, selected different audio sources, changed video drivers, rebooted and reloaded the game countless times.

Was this before or after the update? We tried another potential fix for this issue with the update, so the timing makes a difference.

The only time I’ve had this issue is when I turned all my dials up to high or max. I have had to move all my graphics and stuff down to medium or low settings just to NOT get this sound bug.

Its a shame really. I would love to play the game on something higher than low or medium settings because there are just so many cool details in it. I know, because before I turned everything down, I would run around the world and just oogle everything because of its beauty.

Yes, and that is a shame because I so wanted my necro to be effective in play. However, after several months of frustration, I do much better on my elementalist or mesmer. My poor necro just does not cut it.

I see a lot of folks saying the necro is great while others say the opposite, but from personal experience, I find it not so great. It is a shame because I love the necro class but it just does not jell quite right even if you can pull all the goodness out on your talents.

I do wish the devs would revisit the necro setup and adjust it to be a more playable profession. As of today, my necro will be collecting dust, just crafting and maybe harvesting in low level areas to at least pay her way.

I discovered this issue a bit ago too. What I found out was I way pointed to the event, only to be placed into an overflow map where the event was not up.

I do wish they would fix this so that if you do get thrown into overflow, the same event is happening there too.

Jason King.2647:

Thank you for the information, everyone! We believe we’ve found the issue and are looking to implement a fix in an upcoming update.

Noticed comment was 27 days ago. We’ve had a server update since then but I still see this problem.

It appears whatever “fix” you implemented did not work. Attached is a screen shot of my mesmer shatter checkered square graphics.

Please revisit this “fix” because it did not work.
Yak’s Bend server:

No that is not what happened. I was standing right there and saw the other guild come running up to the flag point.

Our guild leader was right next to me and was as surprised as I was and was dismayed because he purposely made the announcement in mumble to our group that we needed to get started since our timer just got triggered by the other guild starting their run.

Can a dev or moderator please look into this issue?

We had the exact same thing happen on ours the other night. We did the chicken run and about 1/2 hour prior to our own kickoff, another guild came by and kicked theirs off. This started our timer as well.

No one understood what was happening so we rushed to complete it as well as we could. A lot of our members missed out because of the timing so did not get to participate.

I do not understand why there is this “Global” kick off. Does not help us and because of lack of adequate information about this particular action cross over, we were totally unprepared for it.

So what happens if a few click that accept and a others do not? What happens then? I personally did not even notice I was being offered the option since I ran it and just accepted it when it popped.

Our guild events leader happened to mention this possibility but we were totally unsure and unprepared for this odd occurrence.

Question is: what happens if we don’t accept it and try to kick it off later? Will it actually work or will it be unresponsive due to another guild completing it before us?

I am not sure if this is a bug or not, but the other night our guild started our weekly Guild Rush. About 1/2 hour before actually kicking it off, another guild came by and started the very same one, which started the countdown counter on ours as well.

We did not have everyone assembled so had to scramble to get as many folks there as possible in order to complete it within the time frame allotted. We got it done with a few moments to spare.

But my question is this: Why if another guild kicks of the very same guild rush that we have chosen, does it start our own countdown timer?

BTW we were doing the chicken run…hilarious and fun but because of the scramble not everyone who wanted to participate made it in time. Do not understand why their kick off started our timer.

Yak’s Bend server

I agree w/Talentless that “this thread is so serious,” however, as new player to the profession, I find it very difficult to get my head around even the simplest talents available to the Necro.

I have 4 level 80 characters (Ranger, Guardian, Mesmer, Elementalist). I so wanted to bring my necro up as well but I find it is not as fun to play no matter what trait setup I use, as any of my other characters. In fact I am seriously thinking of discarding my necro completely.

Considering I am not necessarily a melee player, I still did try the dagger/dagger and the dagger/focus with my staff as my ranged weapon. It still feels ‘meh’ to me. I can see now why no group wants a necro when running dungeons. My ranger does better than the necro in dungeons (even without a pet).

I have been searching Frostgorge for the ori/ancient wood nodes to no avail. Cannot find any no matter where I look. They just disappeared after this last update/patch.

Anyone else having this problem?

My mesmer just wears leaves…lol

Interesting conversation going on here. I’ve a few thoughts in all this, I also am a casual gamer. However, I refuse to be pulled into “I have to get the legendary” frame of mind, and I refuse to be pushed into having to do dungeons just to get a weapon or look on my gear.

What I see is that the legendary is really not that much better than exotic. Mostly wanted for the look. I personally am not perusing the legendary because I don’t like the grind attached to it. Exotic is just fine by me.

As for dungeons, well, the only way I’ll do dungeons is if I run with guildies. I really am not a dungeon crawler by any stretch of the imagination.

Because my guild understands that many members are not skilled enough, they actually went out of their way to slow down and explain the how/why/wherefore of the dungeon being worked on. That is what made it fun for me. Patience and understanding to help someone like me goes a long way.

It is obvious to me that GW2 is not necessarily a solo game. I have never enjoyed soloing…its boring. I much prefer to run with friends/guild mates in this game. Companionship and shared laughter is what makes this game fun to me.

But I have to say this, as poor a player as I was, I have learned from my groups a lot about how to play my characters. That is what I have gained as I travel though this game…knowledge and ability for my characters has definitely improved.

Unfortunately, by the time your prtscr key gets pressed, the target has disappeared and you lose it. I know, I’ve tried.

The miliseconds it takes to id a botter and hit the key is more than the miliseconds it takes for them to appear/harvest/disappear.

Something better is needed.