Guild Wars 2

When you got the refundthe did warn you:

‘Note: The refund process includes permanent closure of the Guild Wars 2 account. If you wish to continue to play Guild Wars 2, or if you desire to play in the future, you will need to purchase a new serial code and create a completely new account. Characters, names, items, and other features from the refunded account cannot be transferred to a new or different account. Not all serial code purchases will be eligible for a refund.’

You also look at it from Anet’s perspective.
When you buy a game through a reseller, Arenanet sells the game to the reseller for a significant lower price as you will pay for it. If they refund it now directly to you, you are asking them to loose that difference. A refund through the reseller would mean that the reseller pays you the money back and then get a refund at Arenanet for what they paid Arenanet. This is very common practise in all sale systems.
If you buy a Sony TV at Walmart and it breaks down, you need to contact walmart, they will handle te warranty. If you get refund Walmart will give it to you. Then walmart will get in touch with Sony (afterwards) to settle things between them, but you as a customer don’t have to work with that.

Anet is in a unique situation that they have external resellers AND they are their own reseller through the website. The refund policy only goes when they are the reseller.

’ For purchases made directly from NCSOFT, you should be able to complete the request and receive your refund directly from us.’

This is the information in the support faq warning you bout this. NCsoft is the distributor of the game, so officially you are buying from them, but as recently explained by Gaile Gray the difference between Anet and NCsoft isn’t a sharp line and for you as a customer it is best to see them as the same company.

I do know that many resellers do not offer a refund even where Anet/NCsoft will offer a refund IF purchased by them directly. But this is a consequence you take when using that specific reseller. g2play does have a refund policy, but not for used codes.. I do urge you however to contact you. You are right that it is wrong that you could attach the code to the account, so the code should have been unused. Explain this to g2play.net and provide a full coverage of all your contacts with gw2 support. If it is a decent company they will give you a refund and get their money back at arenanet/ncsoft.

First answer: WvW is not for the faint hearted and there is no easy way to success

Having said that you allready acknowledged the first important thing and that is that you should stick to the zerg. There is no shame in hiding in the zerg and learning!

So from that point I can only share my WvW experience and what I do.
When I play WvW I play my elementalist in a staff. The ele is hard to level, but if you do, I have good results with a staff+sginet build using the ‘written in stone’ trait. You can use the staff for speed to catch up with the zerg when you fall behind. Both fire and earth attunements make you do pretty nice AoE damage when you are trying to kill a gate or a keeplord. When defending you have alos a nice range of AoE damage to make the attackers at you gate flee away for a moment (it takes time to learn the right spots, but it is possible at most keeps to cast the AoE skills from a top of the walls, you jsut need to find them), last off al you can make som very good zerg heals with the water range of skills.

As I said this build works great in a zerg. But keep in mind that you are as an ele very squishy. the written in stone trait and signets helps a lot but you still need to hide in the zerg.

A good WvW player doesn’t stand out in the zerg, he uses the zerg to hide and strike where it is needed the most. The ele does thatbest in my opinion. But prolly many people have different opinions :P

In the end all classes are good in both pvp, pve and wvw, it just takes time to learn them

JBDanger.2603:

try arudon vale in frostgorge sound, theres a small cave with a ooze champ in the southeast corner of the map. My achievement popped when i went in there. I had the same issue as you and this is where i needed to go.

That is a mini dungeon, the op stated he did all jumping puzzles and minidungeons.

I think the issue here is that the OP doesnt need advice on where it popped for you, He has put a lot of effort in it and given the things he has shared he should have the reward. So either he forgot a thing that he thinks he has allready and isnt that difficult or he is bugged. therefor my advice to check, double check, and triple check all methods and most of all not only check the ‘most missed’ parts but also the things you might think you have. If that all has been tripple checked without mistakes im confident the op is bugged and needs support.

Rothschild.8361:

I am stuck at 174/175 and that is the only point in the map not showing I have all others including cragitead. And im already re-enter the cragitead again. And i’v cheak one by one on http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer. Can anyone help me?

Basicly, bluestones list is what you need.

I asume you have full mapcompletion on all area’s, if not, get that first. If you have checked the blöuestone list atleats 3 times (and not leaving anything out cause you asume you got it, like e.g. houlbrak) you can do the alternative method:

1: go to the wiki and look up the page for each shiverpeak map (dont forget houlbrak).
2: eliminate all maps that have explorable things in it (like hearts or poi’s)
3: visit everything else
4: keep repeating this.

If you followed both methods many many times you can file a support ticket and you might be bugged. But as far as I have encountered, the response has always been the very gently response that they can’t help you. this means you really are making a user error. But again, you can be bugged, so if you tried everything, do file a ticket!)

Go here and follow instructions: https://account.guildwars2.com/recovery

If that fails file a support ticket.

I asume that with S/T you mean sword torch

The problem is burning imo. The torch depends a lot on fire condition. But investing in condition damage and duration will take stats to do so. On top of that, the issue with conditions is that there is a max amount of stacks a foe can have. If you prefer solloing this isnt a big issue. but with world bosses it is cause he will reach the maximum amount of burning pretty quick. In dungeons it gets ugly too, cause there are professions that burn a lot better then you, by burning too much you actually limit them and bring your party down.

So the good thing to do is to leave the torch if you want a good dps build.
This means the sword has to go as well. The other off-hands are not focused on damage at all but protective. so thats no use for a dps orientated build.

So lets look at the one handed weapons. For your secondary weapon, you really should go with staff and use empower to build up might on you and allies. Then the main the weapon would be either GS or hammer. Both are very dps orientated. where the GS scores higher on the DPS and the hammer scores higher on the crowd control (so lesser misses). This setup would go great with a bezerker build (though see my note) so using power, critical damage and precission in both traits and gear.

(note: some change to critical damage has been anounced, this can make some changes but by the looks of it not much, cause it is the most expensive gear in the game I wanted to warn you bout this)

So bottom line, with G/S no valid dps build is possible and it is considered an oddball.

first off all you need to have a level 10 character in gw1.
This can be done in 60 minutes in factions, 3 hours in nightfall and 6 hours in prophecy’s.

Even then you need the port town. In nightfall thats no problem cause you basicly start there. In factions and prophecy’s it can be an issue. It was allready hard to get runners (and they cost coin) when the game was still very active, but I imagine it is even harder today. If that isn’t the case you need to open it up yourself.

In prophecy’s that means bout two hours of running with a low level character and limited henchman if you don’t get help.

In factions it means you need to do a mission (Zen Daijun) that is pretty hard with only henchman, so count 3 hours for that too.

When you make it to the port town you can do the quest to go to the eye of the north. this is pretty doable with henchman, but it acutally is better in factions where they are level 20 (max level). When at boreal station you can swtch some henchman for the first heroes you just unlocked and it will be a lot easier to get to the eye of the north outpost and the hall of monuments.

So, all in all, factions would be the best place to start, but try to find help with Zen Daijun.

Also make sure that you choose ranger as your primary or secundary character.

From here on, look for good guides on the HoM points. but bottom line is that you can easily make another 3 points in bout 3-4 more hours.
some hints:
use tolkano to get some free zaishen keys you can sell for starter money (once per account, but you get free tournament points by talking to the priest and then to tolkano, trade those points for keysand sell the keys)
Level up to level 20 (90 minutes if you have factions and do quests in the main town), create a pvp ranger, put the level 20 wolf in the zaishen menagery, then pick itup there with your pve characetr and display it in the HoM
If you have all campaigns, put the hero M.O.X. on display.
Use the money you gained from Tolkano to buy mini’s and if needed an extra tapestry.

The best is to have a gw2 guildmember with a gw1 account to help and show you around and get past the difficult points.

I do agree it’s odd that if both tickets are simular, one is resolved and one isn’t. The 3 days or older sticky mentioned by Astral is the place for unresolved tickets, but in this case, cause it seems two simular tickets are handled different, this thread should be enough in my judgement to get a respond.

I know that in these matter one agent can make a different judgement then the other. They arenot machines, but human people. But on the other hand it is an account ownership identification and I would expect them to have a good procedure for that. I’m curious bout what Gaile is gonna say

SandraSolace.7682:

Try revisiting the Chantry of secrets. That has worked for some players with the same issue.

I want to bump this post. This not only works for some players, but it almost seems the thing to do after you get world completion.

The bug described here by others is real, but it would be really helpfull if you say you did revist the chantry or not. Just to rule it out!

Kalian,
Often (and just speculating while we wait for the support liason to see this, cause she will have much more details then me) this kind of reply from support happens when the provided information is not enough to verify ownership of the account. In situations like this it is often needed you to proof you are the rightfull owner of an account (hackers are trying to steal accounts a lot). The primary way to do so is by giving them your productkey. This was given you by your retailer (often in the box) or by arenanet by email when you bought the game. If someone gifted you an unused account he/she should have gifted you the productkey (it is not allowed to play with an account originally made by someone else).

do not post your product key here

Off course it can happen that you lost your productkey. In that case support will ask you a lot of questions, the exact questions prolly change from time to time, but I have seen it once and it was a lot. After filling in those questions as good as you can support will evaluate. If ownership can not be proven they often sent you this kind of reply.

(hope I’m making sense so far and you recognise this :P )

If this is what is happening to you, you can always review your original questions and update the ticket with better answers. Even when a question seems unimportant to you, it can be vital for the agent to make the needed verification. You can also update the ticket asking what else can be needed to proof you are the valid owner of the account.

If by any change you are not the valid owner of the account it gets more difficult. The valid owner is the person who used the productkey to register the account. If someone else did that and at some point you started using the account you are not the owner and the person who did register it is in violation of the terms of service he/she agreed with. It is however not the end of the road. It really depends on how big the violation is. There is a big difference between someone who played for 3 months, then sold the account to you, or someone who wanted to give you the account, didnt read the rules, created the account for you and gave the login details to you without ever using the account themself.

If you are not the valid owner of the account (the person who used the product key to create an account) I advise you to play it open with support and explain the situation. You can do so here in the open or by updating the support ticket. I know for sure that they do their best to help you. The rule isnt there to punish people who didnt read it properly, but to prevent account ownership issues (I have seen examples of two brothers sharing the account, they got into a fight and both tried to gain exclusive ownership of the account and lock the other out).

Hope this info helps you with support and to solve this. Good luck!

Your welcome, and thanks Donari for fixing my goof up

Step one: go to this website
Step two, check the column called Balthazar for you region (EU or NA)
Step 3 guest to any world that says ‘open’. The enemy’s will be gone and you can easily unlock the skillpoint.

If no temples in your region are open, but one is ‘attacking’ you can guest there and help them out

If all in your region are closed you can check again later.
This tactic works for all temples in Orr, but this temple is the hardest to unlock AND the first you encounter, So I don’t think you get as much problems later on.

You saying that support can’t help you?? So I guess you filed a support ticket. I would recommend posting the support ticket-number here.

I’m not really sure why support can’t help you and suspectthat the support liason has the same question. She doesn’t always react in the weekend, so if I am right it would help here alot to have the ticketnumber when she reads this

This is an issue that happens with a lot more armors, but it is not a bug. There is no feature that demands that items have an amount of colourchannels so the absense is not a bug.

You have more change by making a post starting with ‘Suggestion:’ in the gw2 discussion thread to suggest that they change the amount of channels.

Some tip I have been missing so far in this thread is to change maps.
GW2 is designed in a way that almost everything helps you level up. So not only killing things and doing personal story does that.

To prevent leveling up too easy with the additional things, staying in one map is not enough to keep on track.

If you run out of space to explore in the starter map (with foes of your level), you can always go to another startermap. There are 5 others.

To do so you go to the black citadel. From there you use the pink asura portal to travel to Lion’s arch. You end up at the gate hub plaza. Take any of the other portals on that plaza and you end up in another races starter town. Find the only other exit in that town (see notes!) and you are in another starter map.

notes:
1: the human town divinity’s reach has the portal to the startermap to the south, ther is also another asuraportal to the east, but that leads to a high level map, make sure you get the right one.
2: Rata Sum can difficult to navigate cause there are a lot of asura portals. On arrival there you will see an undiscovered vista at your left hand. follow that path to another set of portals and take the one labeled ‘metrica province’

A bit more boring, but also very helpfull is to explore all the starter towns. This also gives experience and levels, but requires no fighting at all.

Also make sure to buy an axe, a mining pick and a harvesting sickle for the merchant. use the axes to cut down trees (you see a lil tree icon on the minimap), the pick to mine ore (you see those spots on the map as a lil rock) and harvest plants (a small plant on the mini map).

Gathering those things all the time give you experience. Besides that, you can use the items you get from it to craft things. Crafting also gives a nice amount of experience.

Last advise: find a friendly guild, make sure you explain that you are new to the game and have a lot of questions.

neytiri.9105:

Dear devs, no ETA on when this update of Flamekissed will happen at all? The waiting has become too long….

I don’t understand the hurry or the desire to have a quick solution.
The current situation is that you obviously like the current set. You are fully allowed to use it and enjoy it. When the updated skin is introduced you can get a FULL refund of your gems. This means that all this time you can enjoy the flamekissed set totally free.

Development of a set takes time and this one is no exception. They obviously made a mistake with this skin and they want to make sure they don’t screw the new thing up. Besides that, they likely want a set that is really really awesome. They did screw up and owe that to the people who bought the set.

So the more time they take, the more awesome the new set is going to be. And if you don’t like the new set, then it will have been longer that you have enjoyed the current one for free. So win-win in my opinion.

I think the appropiate thing to do here is to make a support ticket. I personally miss any reason why it could be inapropiate. But then again, Anet can have their reasons (for example: it might be a copyright violation I don’t know about).

Support can check the reason why it is recognised as an inapropiate and provide a solution when it is a mistake.

The game is up and running so the servers are running. Also I’m not seeing a lot more simular posts so I suspect it is at your clients side. Looking at your post history on the forum I suspect you are using the mac client. So instead of following IC’s advice I would recommend going to the mac beta client tech support.

Besides posting there, the asnwer might allreadybe there. Specially this thread looks interesting

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/mac/Game-won-t-start-Try-this/page/2

If this trick doesnt help and the game doesnt run, post in that part of the forum and as IC said, add as many details as possible.

Goodluck!

hmmmm, just got new computercomponents a few weeks ago.

I do understand the topic and do see its the reflection/lighting. In my old setup I had many settings on low or medium. it caused less reflection. This is what I think is the real cause:

Anet is superb in ‘hiding’ bad graphics. The way they do it is by using art. the water-inkt style is awesome to hide the lack of graphics. The shadows and reflecting they use are however using real life effects. So, the reflection of the sun on a metal plated roof is shown as a real sun relflection in world that is painted. This makes it show a lil bit out of place.

Having said that, to me it is no problem, it looks awesome. For the OP it is an issue, but keep in mind it is result of keeping the gamet open for everyone.!!

I think the posts so far has been right. Basicly, the server capacity depends on the amount of people being online on the server. So what Anet does is to keep the ‘old’ virtual servers running with the old build, but forcing people to get the new build (with an announced kick). they keep running till the last person is out, but the capacity is brought down with the amount of people leaving. the new build is running on ‘new’ virtual servers and that capacity is increased when mor epeople get the new build. The update server is separate and get the hard hits during the update times.

Off course this all uses a lot more resources then regular gameplay. but they have the cloud to get more resources during update times.

You need to go to ‘support’ (on the top of this page) and then to ‘submit a request’ (top right corner of that page). If you done that and done all the steps to file a support ticket it is a waiting game. They work 24/7 but there is a queue.

Looking at your post it seems that you made mistake once to transfer server instead of guesting. If that is the case (support can see that) it is up to them to decide to grant you a refund of gems and a feee transfer back. If it is, as your saying a glitch is it is more likely they will do so.

Personally I think that the world transfer and the guesting option are too simular. So to make a small suggestion….

—suggestion of fictional solution starts here—
Do not change the guesting option and keep it as it is.
To make a server change (besides when you got all characters deleted) you need to be in the game and buy a ‘server change token’. Once you got this token you can double click it in game to select your new home world.
—-end of suggestion of a fictional solution—-

Just my two cents.

To add on to this. It is not a big issue and mostly supports problem, but as I said in my first post, the policy is that an individual who got a refund is not to get a new account. Off course, you are right that this would be hard to check if you use a different emailadress, but maybe it is better this way to put things right now instead of hitting bumps later on.

And as you discovered, support works 24/7 so weekend is not an issue :P

You posted a ticket and that is the correct thing to do. posting here wont make a difference. The standard policy is that Anet only gives refunds if you are never going to play again. This cause there are no monthly fees, you can put your account away for as long as you want. Given the reason you are here stating support might decide to drop the standard policy, so wait for the support ticket to be handled and you will get your answer :P

Good luck!

I tend to disagree. Only 4 classes can wield GS.
Guardian has the choice off several melee weapons. Bout 40% (I estimate) choose Greatsword. This is highly depending on build and roll. Keep in mind the guardian often plays ranged

Same goes for Warrior. It might be a lil bit more favoured, but not very much.

On the ranger the greatsword is one of the best melee weapons, but then again, many rangers hardly ever go melee (although they should try it more imo)

Mesmer, Yip you might have a point here, but it is not as if all mesmers choose greatsword.

The issue is imo not that the GS is OP (besides maybe on warrior, but thats more cause the whole class is OP), but that 4 classes use this weapontype.

The answer is no.
According to the user agreement it is not allowed to share accounts. So what you and your brother have been doing the last year is actually against the user agreement. The reason thats account sharing is not allowed is cause one person is responsable for everything going on. This also cause it often leads to ownership disputes. (like you actually allready have, you admit that it is your brothers account, but you claim to own atleast one character.

So your best bet is to start all over yourself, but strike a deal with your brother to help you on the way.

Gandrik.4751:

So i logged out of the support section, now that requires authentication lol…never had this much trouble with a game before, might just call it a day if they cant fix whatever has happened. if i log out of here I may not be able to log back in so emails await.

Hiya, as stated you really need to wait. Updating the post her will have zero influence on the process. You can always update your original ticket by replaying to the auto confiirmation message.

If I understand you right you do get in but have to authenticate you every day again?

First off all make sure you only authenticate yourself if the mail was sent as a response to your action (trying to log in yourself). If not it might be that you are hacked.

If thats out of the way then the explaination for this is that your internet provider gives you a new internet adress everyday again. This is not very common practise but can happen. You can solve this by using the google authenticator. This app for your smartphone generates a unique code to authenticate yourself. Due to the separation between two devices this is actually safer and also more convenient cause its quicker.

If this is not an option for you, you might want to contact support to look into your personal situation and see if there is a better solution to be found.

Formal answer: No.
This is the players helping players thread, and there are not tools available for players that can do this. You could sent a support ticket to Arenanet (top off this page). Keep in mind that their tools are also limited, they can’t make item appear on the live servers but they might have a way to help you anyway.

Your message didn’t clearly indicated this, but have you filed a support ticket?

Support has tasked themselves to answer you within 3 days. Many times they do so sooner. If you haven’t heard from them in 3 days then something went wrong. Please post your ticketnumber in the designated sticky thread.

I find it kinda strange why an hacker would put up a mobile authenticator up. But as said, support will help you.

I dont think its Anets fault. I was in online and on Teamspeak. The teamspeak server and gw2 started dc-ing at the same time. This happened several times. in the mean time facebook and youtube kept working. So prolly a routing issue with one off the major routers in the web.

please also note your server name

Just an important remark bout making any bug report: Be very very precise. I think you don’t mean Southsun Cove map, but you mean Southsun Survival map.

I know it is the same map. But as I was reading things I couldnt make heads or tails out if untill I realised your talking bout the activity.

Pariah.8506:

Celestial is garbage anyway

Depends on the class. It’s pretty common among ele’s. It actually makes sense, due to the squishyness and the different atttunements Ele’s can use all stats. Celestial gives a surprisingly good balance for ele’s.

Thanx for the announced off the new ls-update.
I am missing one thing. Ever since Shadow of the Mad King I have used the wallpaper made for the release as my background for my desktop. Unfortunally to my horror the release page doesn’t contain a wallpaper (though there are nice pictures, no official wallpaper). Hope this is not on purpose, but just forgotten en quickly repaired

Not everything can be bought with money. When you buy all things needed to get your legendary (any) you spent almost the same as just buying it directly.

I’m not going for Quip but am working on sunrise (only need the precursor).
My first advise is to plan ahead and to not focus on one thing at a time.
Try to use your resources and your money and time things right.

The first things I would recommend are getting the obsidian shards, the T6 materials and the globs off ectoplasm. You need 250 off each T6 materials (so 8 times 250), 480 obsidian shards and 480 ecto’s (on average, can be more depending on your luck when making the clovers.

The shards are not for sale, so make sure that for every shard you can get you also get 1 ectoplasm and 4 t6 mats. Use all available resources, not only money for this (so also buying t6 bags with laurels, salvaging yellows, buying yellows with laurels/guildrecommendations (gearboxes), and using laurels to get shards and. Also make sure that in the process you need a lot off wood (4 highest tiers, gosammer and orichalcum. So dont sell them but let them pile up.

When your down with the ecto’s/shards/t6 mats complete the mats needed for your gift off wood and gift off entertainment. If needed you might need to buy some mystic coins as well, but they are not very expensive.,

After that you need to collect enough gold to buy the icy runestones, and perhaps tet the gems for the 5 boxes off fun.

For the chaos gun (precursor). Anet announced that soon you can craft your own. But the exact date is unknown as well as the process. After you get the gathering materials, You can start using all your crafting materials you gather (not buying) to make exotic pistols. Also do dungeons to get pistols. Use those to throw into the mystic forge when you got 4.

Darkfusion.1728:

yes thats it, scepter and focus, my bad im still getting the hang of this game

The reason I’m asking is indeed that both are very protecting and you might lack the damage.

My personal favourite when leveling is scepter/dagger. Important for you is to study something called a rotation. Mine with scepter/dagger would be:

earth atunement
skill 2 Rockbarrier
skill 4 Earthquake
skill 5 chruning earth
Go to fire atunement
skill 4 Ring of fire
skill 5 fire grab
If you made it throught this cycle you dodge away from the foe(s) and use:
skill 3 phoenix
skill 2 dragon’s tooth
Skill 1 Flamstrike (keep spamming these 3 while moving round).

If during the first 5 skills the damage gets too high skip the dodge away and start doing phoenix and dragon’s tooth earlier

After roughly 30 seconds from the start you can repeat this whole sequence. If you use signet off healing and didnt need to heal up quickly you will have likely healed all damage cause using skills heals you too.

Best is to practise this cycle on foes that do lil damage, but have a lot off health. a good example would be ettins.

Also remember to read the fight and anticipate. If you have to do with a lot off damage, you can stun your foes or blind them using several air and earth skills not mentioned. You can also use some water skills to heal yourself or others round you.

More
shorter
compacter
clear boundery’s
pro-active.

Looking at the Living story thread, I see several issues.
The first is that it was too late. Too many people where too angry allready. This resulted in a lot off offtopic things pulled with it.

Also some elements went on for too long (e.g. the scarlet part off the discussion).
This can possibly be solved by making a subforum for each CD. Disallow for members to make topics there and start with a sticky to get the different elements together. Then for these a thread is being made (after a few days you should have an overall idea, but it can stay open for longer if people find hot elements nobody thought off). For those a new thread would be made (one each) After a short introduction people can start. Any dev-comments that are sumerizing, asking questions or answering the common fear will also be put in the opening post (besides in the separate comments).

Also it should be important to sumerize things more. Something like’
When reading through your posts I see that many people of you dislike Scarlet cause she is hard to identify with, slowly introduced and has not enough to do with the main story line off the elder dragons’ This helps a lot, cause the walls off text where massive, and many people just skipped to the red comments made by Anet. By using them to summerize the common things you are distracting you save us a lot off time reading through all.

As for the subelements to be discussed. Within the living story it could be
- Scarlet and how to tell a story
- Rewards and release pace of the chapters
- temporary vs permanent content
- etc (just wanted to give some very common examples)

Also it should be important to give more direct guidelines of the borders off the discussion. In the living story thread it happened that many things that are just slightly connected to the living story where discussed. Off course in making such a thing as a game, all is related to each others. So all things have in some way to do with the living story. But you should make the boundery’s clear. An example would be the RNG-skins. Yes the skins are often released to match the living story chapter. But the tickets and the actually issue is with the RNG-factor. Those tickets drop from BL-chests and drop all year long. So this subject does not belong in a Living story discussion, but in a Black lion trading post discussions.

I also think that it dragged too long. The general view was visable after a few days and after that a lot of repeating went on.

The last recommendation I have is to do this earlier. Two examples why are the:
- coming skill/traits update: people receive this very well. Although not all changes are welcomed by all, it is very welcomed to be be involved in the discussion early.
- Bringing people with a 30+ factal level down to level 30. I think this is another example. I know you have your reasons to do this, and I know you feel you had no other choice. But announcing it a week! ahead of time is experienced as a slap in the face. Better would have been to discuss this early on with the community. Explain what the issue is your running into and what your idea’s of solving it are. Explaining you don’t see other options, but are open for suggestions or idea’s.

Darkfusion.1728:

I use a staff in my main hand and a talisman in my off hand.

Staff is a 2 handed weapon, and there is not a weapon called talisman. Considering your an ele I guess you mean scepter in the main hand and focus in the offhand?

VitalSuit.1980:

mercury ranique.2170:

I do think that they should have discussed it better to all off us They should have said that they where planning on this several (2?) weeks ago. Maybe someone had a better solution? atleast discussing it openly with us like the skillchanges for december instead off just giving us an announcement one week ahead off time is indeed a slap i nthe face.

Considering that they had done this to dungeons long ago… we had all already assumed they would do so for fractals as well. Besides they did actually tell us they would do this. After they changed the dungeon rewards they said they would eventually make it so Fractals also give you gold just like dungeons (which also meant we could expect the dungeon changes to leak into Fractals too).

The OP was clearly talking bout the fractals level debate. This debate afaik is the today announced system of dropping the personal factal level reward to 30 for all 30+ players. The dungeon reward system changes had imo nothing to do with elitism, but actually promoted a lot off good for elitism.

As someone who considers himself as not an elite, I also want to point out that the elitist have had a lot of love from Arenanet. Us lesser talented footfolk, condemmed to farming Cursed shore, frostgorge sound, crused shores again, Malchor’s leap, karma, champ lootboxes are allready used by it. This update the elitsts are getting a lot off love. A long wished for revamp off the agony-resitance, a revamps off fractals, better rewards for fractals, leaderboards. There is one minor point wich I actually understand (although in both the communication and the execution it could have been done better).

I do think that they should have discussed it better to all off us They should have said that they where planning on this several (2?) weeks ago. Maybe someone had a better solution? atleast discussing it openly with us like the skillchanges for december instead off just giving us an announcement one week ahead off time is indeed a slap i nthe face.

Fortus.6175:

mercury ranique.2170:

Duelling in open world?
No please not. I have played games that have this and I left those games just for that. It is childish and totally boring games played by lil boys that try to have a peeing contest. Yes I know you can decline, but that results in them chasing you around and shouting in mapchat/local chat what a chicken you are. even if you have it unticked, they do that.

I know that there are very adult people who like to duel and do it in a respectfull way, but those lil kids have 100% ruined it too many times to have any trust it will be better in GW2. The day it would be implemented I would leave the game I love a lot.

If you are want to have an option to duel amongst guildmates in a guildhall. Then my answer would be why not.

Well man, Im sorry to say this but, I think you just had some really bad experiences and are just generalizing. I have played plenty of MMOs that have had duels and never did I have this issue. They are bothering you in all-chat? Report and move on. They wont stop? Report them, just like you would report a gold-digger asking for money in all chat and saying all those stuff you are saying.

Childish? I dont know, man, thats like….your opinion. I find duels just another integral part of an MMO with interacting players, like I seriously cant find anything childish in a duel, if anything, back then, duels were something “real tough men” would do to settle their issues, I dont know how it evolve as childish to you. I recommend you surround yourself with better friends because I have not seen that kind of behavior in this community.

And please, dont “threat” us all by saying you will be leaving. You are in fact (i bet to say) a minority that doesnt want this implemented, and we know we cant catter to everyone no matter what we do. It is just a matter to getting used to it. If the implementation of a much-needed social function is enough to make you quit the game, then perhaps you are already staying for the wrong reasons

This goes to all the LFG tool hater before it was implemented: “not necessary, will lead to trolling, kills immersion….blabla [insert another non-factual excuse here]”

Like I said, I seriously can see a drawback to this

How dare you call me a minority. This has been suggested several times in the suggestion forum (where this actually belongs). These threads had bout 2-3 loves, and 100’s of hates!
And all for the reasons I sad. No it is not just bad luck. And your persistence is actually proving my point. I also stated that I am for duelling, but not in the open world, but in GH’s.

Duelling in open world?
No please not. I have played games that have this and I left those games just for that. It is childish and totally boring games played by lil boys that try to have a peeing contest. Yes I know you can decline, but that results in them chasing you around and shouting in mapchat/local chat what a chicken you are. even if you have it unticked, they do that.

I know that there are very adult people who like to duel and do it in a respectfull way, but those lil kids have 100% ruined it too many times to have any trust it will be better in GW2. The day it would be implemented I would leave the game I love a lot.

If you are want to have an option to duel amongst guildmates in a guildhall. Then my answer would be why not.

Well to answer your question:
No
Or to a better extend: There are no indications Anet has plans to implement this.The feature has been requested some times but it doesn’t seems to be a huge amount off people who wants this. It also poses some issues with rewards (even the amount off experience you get from just killing all foes again and the fact that some stories can be akitten/botted without any decent report way of monitoring this.

So if Anet would consider doing this, it would take a lot off time to develop and it is not considered something you could expect in e.g. the next 6 months.

1: shatterer, two pre-events and one main. Just watch your favourite time if preparations have started
2: ogre wars (fields of ruin)
3: the ogre area in plains off ashford
4: baradin’s vault

Hi Kai,

What your saying is totally not right.
If you need to prove account ownership and you don’t have your serial anymore, then Support do ask you a lot off difficult questions. The exact questions are not always the same and change and shift over time. There are also questions that matter and some bogus ones that don’t matter at all. The reason behind this is to prevent bad people from misusing this system.

Off course it isn’t a pretty system or nice to go through. But you are the one that lost the serial and in some cases it does happen that your account ownership can’t be verified . But that is needed to prevent account stealing.

But what IC is mostly saying is that there is no need to resupply the serial code. Cause no matter what happens. If such a process exists. The person claiming to be the account owner will still need to prove ownership without the serial code. So instead off providing a new serialcode, they safe themself and you a lot off trouble to not go through ‘what if’ situations, but let you proof ownership only when it is needed to example log in to the game.

Specially cause people loosing their code often loose it again and again and again. The current system is both fair, effective and good.

When zoning, as well as other mechanics (like cinematics, vista’s, waypointing, etc) that get your character out of your own control, the game make you invulnerable untill control is back in your hands and you are able to move again.

I have had situations where I went to the desktop while loading and ended up dead but never ever when I kept watching the loading screen. I hardly believe that you kept watching that screen in this situation and ended up death. It just not works that way.

To prevent situations like this happening, always zone to a place you know is safe or don’t go afk at all when zoning.

Nike.2631:

BobbyStein.2315:

Part of the reason we’ve been including Scarlet in multiple releases is so we can build on her character. It’s kind of funny that we routinely get two types of feedback on the Living World story. From some people it’s, “Stuff feels random. I don’t know these characters.” From others it’s, “Stop using X character. I don’t like them.”

Hello Bobby,

Let me ask a question (in several parts ):

Without revealing future plot twists, do you think it’s possible to comment on the writing process that created Scarlet?

Is the a specific reason the central menace of the current Living Storyline is a she, a Sylvari, or an Engineer? Should we be looking for greater meaning in these choices or was it more of a dartboards and dice process? Do you have inspirations you want to call out? Is there a good story lurking behind how she got her unique ‘hair’?

Is there anything you can tell us that would help us relate to your motives for this character? Something that will let us set better expectations and maybe give better feedback?

A lot off info bout the writing process/meaning/ideas bout scarlet can be found in this interview:
http://www.wartower.de/artikel/artikel.php?id=740

This podcast starts in german but changes to english very soon.
(keep in mind this is taped early after Scarlets real introduction and before the big storm off criticism started off). But it helped me a lot in actually liking Scarlet. It also shows that the writers had a very clear idea bout the how and why she is who she is.

Kitiara.2706:

Multiple times lately I have tried to mail supplies to guild mates (dyes, food, etc.) and after sending just 1 mail, I will be suppressed for upwards of 5 minutes.

I wouldn’t say it is bugged, but it certainly seems to have changed and have been noticing the same thing (though not always).

It seems to be tied to map chat supression and thats new to me. When im commanding the champtrain in Queensdale I always say in mapchat where we are going, when i end up at the boar and clean my invetory and have some things for friends, I get supressed after one message. But when I recently got out off some champfarming in FS (I let others lead there, cause im a slow loader) I never have this issue.

Never the less. It is good to see that Anet is fighting spammers, but this is not the right way. Keep puzzling though

As Gaile said in the linked thread, some issues need investigation. So please also share some of the following information:

1: how do you consult Gmail? browser on pc, phone app (wich mobile os and whats the name off the app), or do you use a dedicated mail program (name)?? are you using imap or pop3 access then?

2: have you ever marked guildwars 2mails as junk/spam or actually done the opposite to mark is as not junk/not spam?

Lucky Shot.8740:

The assault on Foulbear Kraal seems to bug regularly on the Blackgate server. It seems to happen from both the Seraph side as well as the Charr side. There are several points at which this even can become stuck including Sappers Delve where an npc may not show up to right in front of Foulbear Kraal where either the human side’s NPC’s may not show up or the Charr side npc’s may disappear.

This event has bugged regularly for close to two months. It will run normally for a couple days and then at some point breakdown.

This should belong in the bugsection, along with more details. I agree that it is fairly buggy, specially when there are not a lot of people doing it.

The best practise is to post this in the bugsection and update that post anytime the bug happens again and in what way.