Guild Wars 2

Euryon.9248:

Many people consider it rude and selfish to use MF runes/equipment (other than food) in a dungeon party, since it makes you less effective at killing/healing/helping the party.

I’d stick with the zerk armor for dungeons and save the MF for outside world.

Also consider that Magic find doesn’t work on chests, only on foes so you are sacrificing a lot of damage/protection for a very minor increase in gold cause the most revenue in dungeons comes from chests and bags of wonderous goods. MF doesnt increase that.

Also I disagree with the current popularity of zerker gear in dungeons. I’m not saying that it isn’t good, but it isn’’t as OP as some are claiming and I see a lot of people jumping blindly into zerkergear without knowing and understanding the build they are running. Gear stats, skills and traits should be in a good balance aimed for the profession your playing. Don’t play zerker cause someone is saying you should but cause you know it is good for you and understand why.

There is no profession better in map completion. All classes are balanced enough to do them easy.

A lot of resources have been stated, but I’m missing the best resource for an MMO: Join a guild!

Being in a guild with friendly, experienced and helpfull people helps a lot to understand and learn to play the game. You can use map chat, or go to the looking for guild forum here to find a nice guild that you like.

Diplomat Tarban:

I have done him with 6-7 people. The method is indeed zerging.
Try to get him near (not to close though) a waypoint if the time is available to do so.
Do not rez people, stay focussed on damaging him when the confussion is off. Dead people can go to the nearby waypoint to rejoin the fight.
Keep moving
Stay ranged

The most common mistake is that the party is too busy getting people up the feet.
It takes 30 seconds to get a death player on his feet again. but the player rezzing takes 30 seconds of not fighting as well. In total that means 1 minute of dealing damage lost. Besides that, the ressed person is up with half health. This means he has to use a healing skill and in most situations this means he can’t heal again when needed. so a rezzed person goes down again quicker as well. If he would go to a nearby waypoint and run back it takes no more time, and likely less, has all skills available and full health.

I haven’t done half-baked komali (we never seem to draw him) but hte update actually made him easier. Before that he had stability on him so he couldn’t be knocked out. You first had to remove the stabillity before being able to knock him out.

First off all don’t see the outcome of one support ticket as the outcome of the other. You will have to wait to see what yours is.

In the topic you linked both support and the support liason who reviewed it where abokittenly certain without a doubt that the person did what he claimed he didn’t do. I know the support liason well enough that she only reacts in such ways if she is abokittenly sure. Unfortunally some people think they can get away with anything when they lie hard enough.

Your case is currently in the process of reviewing. So it can be that you are right and the suspension was in error. Please be patient and ignore that other post

go to https://en.support.guildwars2.com/ (ask a question) to file a supportticket.

But before you do please read: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/How-to-Submit-a-Ticket-Account-Issues-2/first#post285416

This will tell you what information you can allready give them to speed up the process (obviously not your serial number)

It doesn’t matter what your personal backstory is to your friends. you are walking in towns and playing on maps with people who don’t know the story.

The (now 15, but then) 13 year old daughter of my cousin (2th degree) lost her virginity in this way and the same person made her work as a prostetute afterwards. After a few weeks my nephew got her out with the help of the police, but she is traumatized. I know this is one of the games she is playing and I know you would remind her of that awefull period in her life. So with no offense against you I’m happy arenanet takes steps to prevent that.

Cause there is an issue with your creditcard preventing the (automatic) system to verfiy they will get their money. Don’t worry this sounds harsher then it is and most likely this is just a problem with the system, meaning a manual action has to be taken by support. Arenanet also recognises this and thats why they ask you in the errormessage to contact support.

You can do so by going to https://en.support.guildwars2.com/ and clicking ‘ask a question’.

Zechmeister.9708:

Thought the game was fun been playing it went to work came home account has been terminated…. I need to get back on so i can play with my friend who just bought the game can someone help me?

An account gets normally terminated cause there is either an issue with your security (you got hacked) or you have been doing things that are against the terms of service.

The error message when you try to log in should give you a good indication what the reason was. If it was cause of an issue with your security. You need to contact support. After verification that you are the account owner they can help you get full control back and then likely get you back in the game playing.

If it is because yourself acted against the ToS, it is highly unlikely the decission will be reversed. The most common reasons are:
- Botting
- Hacking
- Selling gold/buying gold outside the official gemmarket
- using an exploit
- being unrespectfull against others (normally your first offense is only a temporary suspension).
- names that are not allowed (normally your first offense is only a temporary suspension).

If you don’t recognize yourself in the things that you have done wrong you can appeal the decision by filling a support ticket. If you did do what they are claiming it is very unlikely they will re-instate your account.

When you started playing the game you agreed to not make inappropiate names. As far as I know everytime one of your characters get ‘caught’ you get a punishment and a free name change (normally these cost 800 gems, wich equals almost 27 gold atm).

However you leave your account with an increasing number of account marks and increasing suspensions.

There is no way to get all your names changed for free. You can either wait till suspended and get a free name change for each or do the decent thing to stop breaking the ToS right now. To do the last you have two options.

a: buy a name change contract for each of the characters
b: delete the characters

Name change isn’t a free thing and you did break the TOS. If you go on the route of getting a suspension for each inapropiate names to get free name-changes; Well I guess you are likely now on a 72 hour ban?
the next will be 1 week
The one after that 1 month
the one after that ???? (i think this is the lifefetime allready, but im not sure)
Also keep in mind that this is just past experience on this forum.

You shouldn’t break the rules and you can delete the characters to get different names. all but soulbound valuables could go into the bank.

So my advise: delete all characters that might be bad. you get a headstart through the items in the bank and more important you have something to do in a wonderfull game :P. If one or more characters are too close to your heart you can always get a name change contract for 26 gold.

This is prolly not going to help you a lot, but given that you are on a NA server; The most active servers are the one showing ‘full’ (wich also means you cant go in).

Gaile Gray.6028:

Astral Projections.7320:

From Gaile Gray, another thread:
“Be aware that if one gets a refund, the account is permanently closed AND the credit card associated with it is disabled and may not be used in the future in any purchases related to Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2 (or any other NCsoft game). This means that it may not be possible to simply get a refund and start a new account”.

Thank you. That is correct.

mercury ranique.2170:

A refund can not be undone. So the account you had is lost forever. To see what else can be done for you, you should contact support.

No. Nothing can be done to reverse this situation and suggesting that someone contact support is pointless (and a waste of resources). The account and related credit cards are not accepted in the future, for what I hope are obvious reasons. A refund is permanent and irreversible, and we communicate that before we process the request.

This issue is owned by the person who requests/asks for/demands a refund, and no one else. Those who chose to come back to the game may do so on a new account, but we are not able to relink a GW account to a new GW2 account, nor re-enable the first GW2 account.

Hi Gaile,
Sorry it wasnt my intention to get more unneeded tickets. I was saying it cause of these two parts of his message:

i bought another serial and linked it to my old account

and i can’t use the new serial to create an account.

Maybe I’m reading it wrong but he paid again for the game, used the productkey (serial) on his old account, discovered as you are saying that thats not possible, and now can’t use that newly bought productkey anymore to create a new account.

But off course you have more info then me and I might be reading it wrong

Just to add, when I said:before the end of the year, I was talking bout a business update by ncsoft, talking bout an expansion in the 2th half of 2013.

RedCobra.7693:

yes this seems an interesting post, firstly id suggest running a virtualisation, using a virtualpc should give different paths and allow both instances to run, dont hold me to this but in theory i cant think of any reason it wont work,
well maybe one xD
create a second virtual pc and configure it as a router then use its ip as the default gateway for both your physical pc and your 1st virtual pc.

hope this gives you a push in the right direction

RedCobra

That reminds me, someone was claiming some time ago that virtual pc ‘s can’t run this game due to the lack of drivers. I know from a few years ago that this issue was going to be solved. But I dont have any decent enough hardware to test it.

ZilentNight.5089:

Well I will explain the logic behind this addition, it is simply to provide you with exotic max dmg weapons with new set of stats which you can transmute.

They want you to buy lvl 80 transmutaion stones if you want these stats at the same time making you waste your gold at the vendor.

It is simply another money sink which ties in with spending gems.

That doesn’t explain why it isn’t salvagable nor forge-able (mystic forge). Both methods result in destroying the stats.

Vick.6805:

The issue with bouncing skills seems to be affecting the Elementalist’s staff Air auto-attack as well.

Last night I was in Southsun, and the air auto attack would hit my target, and then a secondary target nearby (like it’s supposed to). However, for the third bounce, if there was no third target nearby, instead of bouncing back to hit the original target like it always has, it rocketed off into space (usually completely off the screen to who knows where).

It’s a good thing I don’t auto-attack in Air Attunement much, but seeing the third bounce shoot off in random directions was annoying (albeit somewhat humorous at the same time).

That is correct,
It seems to do with all skills that bounce. A full list can be found here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bounce

Roybe.5896:

Started getting requests to verify my account today..now having trouble getting into game..e-mails appear to be very slow to arrive. Ticket #130605-001227

Wait, when you got these mails you had normal access to the game, but now it is a bit later you have trouble getting??

So not the other way around?? You don’t have trouble getting into the game cause the verification emails are not getting through??

If the first is true, you had no problem untill you recieved such an email out of nothing?? then please go to my account here a.s.a.p. and change your password. if having trouble make a support ticket. I suspect you might be hacked then.

It would not fall into the same category as the gw2 overlay, cause that uses api’s wich are getting a new policy. This is falling under the old policy. Using these programs are at your own risk. On itself the program is harmless so you shouldnt get into trouble. You are however not allowed to use it for multiboxing as you stated. Besides that you acknowledge you use them at your own risk. Arenanet can not be hold responsable for any problem or damage caused by this third-party program. This includes when your account triggers anti-bot detection software. If that happens and support is not able to see it is secure they wont believe you on your word you where not acting against the TOS.

In this case I always wait some time before I use these kind of programs and see what experience others have with it.

Rama.6439:

More like bad taste on Anets part, they keep adding in crap that players dont want why dont they add in stuff that players actually want instead of letting NcSoft telling them what to do all the time they should try and think for themselves for a change.

Try and remember what it was that made GW1 such a good game Anet. I think you have lost your way. Scratch that, I know you have.

Please dont use the bug report for something that belongs in general discussions. This is here to report bugs. Your not reporting. My response in general discussion would be that if you dont like to play this game nobody is forcing you. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

As for the topic: I indeed believe this is a bug. I have never heard of a weapon that can’t be put into the forge. So im certain this will be repaired soon.

Noince.7364:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Silence is not the same as “no”; it is not the same as “we didn’t read it” or “we don’t care”.

First the izerker issue, and now Mesmers gets another slap with bouncing. Furthermore, apparently izerker is starting to go stoning-mode on certain monsters now (bloomhunger spirits) and randomly fail summoning (I have personally experienced this) even without the “obstructed/out of range” message (while in LoS and range) coming out.

I hope you are right, but even if they do genuinely care, if they take are gonna take over 4months to fix something, its essentially the same thing: Mechanics/things are being changed without any documentation and players just have to take it.

Another thing Noince, I’ve been going through your history. You keep putting a huge bunch of energy in certain bugs and you are always saying the same things. You are also always saying that your bug being fixed is much more important then any other.

A bug gettin g fixed isnt a popularity call. Each bug gets a priority-label when registered (and as stated all bugs here get registered).

The next step is verifying the bug. This means a dev is going to check if a bug is really a bug. This is also the last moment generally a bug priority gets changed.

The priority given to the bug depends on the severness off the bug and is a decission by arenanet wich is never ever communicated with us. You can not influence that either.

The izerker bug is a single skill bug and will likely have less priority then this one wich is a multi-skill bug.

This doesnt mean this is faster solved. It also depends on how difficult it is to fix it.

The only effect you are creating by complaining in 100 different threads and reposting and bumping is that you create a cloud. It actually took me 15 minutes of reading to find a post that told me what the izerker bug was again. If it works that way for me, it will definitly also work that way for support.

You have to trust the devs they take every bug serious. If you don’t trust them you should play a game where you do trust the devs.

Arenanet is a special company that gives more bout their players then bout their imago, but there is no experience with this, except how other games react.

1: Closing down (or merging) a server is often labelled as defeat and a sign the game is not doing well. So marketing departments are often against it. They rather let the few remaining loyal players die before admitting defeat. There have been games with low populated servers that where actually deserted servers.

2: Merging with a different server means you are forcing people to play in a different community.

I would make an alternative to your suggestion. It is called ‘underflow’
Basicly when a specifick map has a low population when you enter it you will be placed on an underflow map where people from all servers with low populations on that map are being placed. As soon as the udnerflow map has enough population from your server again you get a message telling you this and asking if you want to stay on this or go back to your own server.

There are basicly two DR systems
The first is the DR on chests, like world events and dungeon rewards. These reset with the daily every day.

The other (the one you are talking bout) is the anti-farming effect. When you kill the same spawns in the same area too often you will recieve a decreasing amount of loot.

The exact mechanism of the second one is unknown and Arenanet keeps that hidden on purpose. This system is to prevent bots from being too profitable to run. Explaining the exact effects would make it for bot-programmers too easy to program around them.

DR is accountbound and not serverbound.

If you keep killing in the same area for too long you wil get a reduced amount of drops. If you change area this effect will go away and drop again.

This effect might be mob related (but it is hard to tell cause an area often has many of the same type of enemy’s).
This effect is certainly not across multiple maps.

The best thing to do is to not be to afraid of DR. It is not intended for regular players (except dungeons) and regular players hardly ever getkitten by it. If you do get hit by it you will notice it and all you have to do is go somewhere else to get it away. You have to stay and fight in a different area for a good amount of time to get really rid of it.

Hope this helps.

Demigott.4150:

People want their items back and sell it cheaper…Then they cant, because they are 2 low at money….now they have to save their money to get back an item which is worth much more…They cant get it back, they get mad, after 2 days they have enough money to get it back, but the price is only 10% of it was before… qq much

U cant react fast, you are depended on your money in your pocket all the time when you sell something…

Same with your precursor example….imagine the dawnseller choses a very bad day to sell a precursor, after him 20 new precursors appear with a lower price, it would take probably very long to sell it but he doesnt want to wait, he rather would pick a buyorder than wait months….but he cant…he cant list it cheaper and cant get it back …
a poor player with a precursor and he cant sell it, yeaa, nothing new

But I really want something like a warning system, if the fee gets really big more than 10g or something it should ask you again, if u are sure to pay so much….sometimes people missclick silver and gold or wrong numbers or wrong buyorders and then they lose a lot

Please read again what I’m saying. This only goes for people who dont have money to list things. If you can’t take it off when listing you will get a warning. It replaces the listing fee. So those who could list it before can still unlist it and relist it.

I would also like to point out that this is only a real problem with very valuable items.
I think that for most characters, having 1 gold isnt a problem. This means you can list and unlist things up to 20 gold (both in the current situation and the suggested situation). I have never been lucky on drops myself and the most valuable thing I have ever sold was 15 gold.

So?? what purpose would this new thread be?? The old one is still there and a dev has explained it is hard to reproduce.

So far 8 players have reported this (and that isn’t much). One person has tried to answer the question of the dev (but in a bit unconvential way, leaving room for interpetation).

Why not help him the devs in the old threat by answering Jeffrey’s question??

KokoroPixie.3786:

I thought the world chest only shows up once a ‘day’ on boss kills. Is it supposed to show up every time on the Karka Queen?

As far as I know the world chest on the floor is once a day per character. The pop-up is once per account per day.

So just as normal.

As I said it worked fine for me the first time yesterday and I havent gotten around to do it today yet.

Noince.7364:

I guess this is it then. Anet doesn’t care.

TL;DR: Anet can change any mechanics at any time without documentation whatsoever and players just have to take it. Cross your fingers and pray your class isn’t affected, that’s all.

Arenanet does read the bug section but hardly ever comments on it.
They do take them serious. As for a single arenanetemployee saying on a vid they didn’t know bout a bug, well that doesnt mean they dont read this or take serious.

In this case it was Jonathan Sharp who is a systems designer. He has little to do with skills and skill polishing.

So don’t asume that the lack of reaction here means they dont take it serious. There are however many other bugs.

I personally use some bounce skills but dont see this as a serious issue that is game-breaking for me. I rather see other bugs and things getting fixed, most important the over-balancing off Orr :P

So it is very personal if this is important for you.

curtegg.5216:

Sorry Anet, but your fix today did not work for my overflow. The chest is still invisible even though I contributed to the Karka’s queen death. Back to the drawing board.

The fix did work, but was not a fix for the chest:
‘Fixed a bug that would cause players to not get the achievement when defeating the Karka Queen.’

So it wasn’t a fix for the chest but for the achievement.

The chest bug (if it is a bug) still exists.
And I’m saying it’s not sure if it is a bug. There has been some critism bout other world events. This ranges from people saying it isnt fair that people who put one arrow in the shadow behemoth, to those saying that melee characters don’t have enough time to deal one hit at the final boss for the maw. So it might very well be that Arenanet has implemented a different reward trigger for this.

Having said that it, reading on the reports of players (I did the event once yesterday and got my chest the first time) it does seems to be pretty buggy.

I would love some more info from people on how much they actually contributed and when on the entire meta.

So:
- Did you do any of the prequests (defend settllements) to help the queen spawn?
- Was she allready up when you arrived?
- Did you fight her in both fases?? (once she has reached zero health she goes back to 50% of her health, starting fase 2).

I think this info would help the dev’s a lot if this means we can pinpoint the problem.

A refund can not be undone. So the account you had is lost forever. To see what else can be done for you, you should contact support.

zengara.8301:

I got like 400k Karma, any good places I can use them on?
(full geared, basecly only need a back item)

First off all: Are you absolutly certain you are never ever ever going to get yourself a legendary weapon. The reason I’m asking is that for a legendary weapon you need 1 million karma. It isn’t running away at the moment and you will never know if later on other uses for karma will be added (or even other legendary’s you will like).

I’m also saying this cause it doesnt looks like the karma system is going to go, and there are some very solid rumours bout an expansion before the end of the year.

As for the rest if your not using it for cooking or for gathering recipes, you can always change them to money with the orian boxes. The karma-money ratio is rather low, but it makes some nice gold.

Dangerkips.6035:

Rather than making another whine post (I have made a few the last 24 hours) I’ll just stick to saying not much at all has changed. Most classes still excel in one aspect of the game and suck in others.

edit: in terms of dungeons going full dps berzerker is still the optimal choice.

So many false assumptions in one post.
Most classes can excell in all aspects of the game, but off course it is a matter of learn to play.

Berserker gear in dungeon is only nice on a few classes. But its also prolly why you only succeeed i nthem with a few classes.

To the OP. CoF is still the most popular dungeon, but the gate exploit has been fixed. A good amount of people expect it to be nerfed soon, to be more in line with other dungeons.

There hasn’t been many permanent change added to the game so this list is rather small.
2 new pvp-arena’s
1 new map (southsun cove, keep in mind there is an event going on there right now, so current activity’s dont represent how it will be later this month when the focus switches to Lions arch for the festival).
1 new dungeon: Fractals of the Mists. This one is special cause you do 3-4 fractals in one run wich are smaller and shorter then the average dungeon with smaller rewards each. The difficult.level however goes up if you do this more often, making it evermore challenging
WvW: though basicly the same, many mechanics has been changed. The orbs have been removed cause there was too much griefing done with them and there has been many mechanics that have been altered or changed. Basic goals however are still the same.

Orr had a major overhaul making it more popular, wich is partly made undone making it lesser popular again.

For the rest we had a good amount of temporary content that was a lot of fun (specially the molten alliance dungeon) but now has been removed. So you basicly have missed that. The first new chapter will be the dragon bash festival wich starts at june 11.

slender.1482:

I’m thinking about transmuting the sclerite karka shell stats http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sclerite_Karka_Shell
onto my Prototype capacitor skin.
My question is.. once I transmute, will I still be able to upgrade the capacitor in the mystic forge and maintain the sclerite shell’s stats? Will the sclerite capacitor stats also be correctly increased and given an infusion slot? Note; the stat set on sclerite is not normally available to capacitors.
The farthest I’ve tested is looking at the transmutation crystal interface – the item retains the pink name “Prototype Fractal Capacitor”

If you transmutate the the karka shell stats to the skin of the capacitor you can only use it in the recipe to make the karka shell ascended. This recipe will take a transmuted item, but will return you the old skin (so unb-doing the transmuating).

Best is to wait with transmutating till you have done the upgrade. If you dislike the karka shell skin (as I do) just hide it (so you will have no visiable back pack at all).

Bethryn.4087:

No, I did not do any of my personal story with anybody else. It’s a bug.

Then it is an accountbug and you should contact support. They can tell you what has happened.

No they can’t, they have said so often. This isn’t a bug either I’m afraid. You very likely did Battle for Fort trinity with someone doing the Apatia storyline. After the battle for Fort trinity you have been asked wether you wanted to continue your story to ‘Liberating Apatia’ or stay on this storystep. If you had stayed on this storystep and then done the battle for Fort Trinity again with you as the instance owner you would have gotten the option to continue with the Tonn storyline.

Bottom line this is not a bug and works as intended. If you disagree with the way this works please feel free to discuss this in the personal story section of this forum.

rizzo.1079:

Time of day is a big factor during the week also. Once the 5-6 o’clock hour hits on the East Coast, you’ll start to get more people logging on as they get out of work.

If you play on an east coast server on NA-district ye.

(there is part of me thinking jeez, typical for Americans to only talk and act from their own perspective. Luckely I know from personal experience this is only a portion of the americans)

The thing is that your order has merged with the others into the pact now. I also think that adding (more) order limited content now would make a lot of people annoyed cause they never had a change to use that info in their decission.

The mystic forge can be used for two things.
a: garanteed recipes. You through in a bunch of items in a certain combination and you know what your going to get.
b: Gamble

I never recommend b unless you are making a precursor. The amount of times you get something good out of the forge isnt worth the amount of things your wasting.

(small note, there is one mix form that is eaaceptablew, and that is when making the mystic clovers for a legendary. it is a gamble, but a very solid one).

I can only say so for my ex her account. She got banned cause her son changed the password on accident and she changed it back again. I’m not sure how she managed but she didnt have access to the emailadres she used for registering (she had not used it for years and it got expired). So cause it seemed as if her security was breached it was a precaution ban, wich is off course permanent till you contact support and get the ownership dispute out of the way.

Astral Projections.7320:

If nothing else, you can always post your character names here and let people tell you if they think it breaks TOS. ^^

This, If your names are very obvious in breaking the ToS you will be mocked. But if, like your saying it somewhat more obscure we also can help you. Often people are unknowing that their name is offensive to another part of the community. Maybe even in a foreign language.

I would suggest you change to title of this post however. Naming it unacceptable when you dont know the reason is a bit pre-mature. If you hear the reasons you might react ‘I didn’t know that ment that in french!!’

Goodluck

Having played all classes and as well an healer in some of the other games. The only class that made me look at the partylist to see if people need my help is the guardian. Though the support is lesser then the traditional healer and, also the fact that being melee draws your attention away, the guardian is the class that can really make a difference for your party. You could go ranged. specially the staff has some additional healing capability’s that are very nice, But I still consider it a waste off potential if the group doesnt really need it. Simply cause the damage output on melee is so much higher.

The thing is the trinity is gone in this game. So even if the guardian is the designated support class, you are still very capable of dealing a good punch. So you still need to find a balance between killing quick or healing you and your party.

mesmer can be better in wvw then ranger.
A mesmer is also good at farming specially in farm trains. The downside is that the mesmer is harder to level then the ranger.

So bottom line, Ranger: easier to play, Mesmer, easier to excel.

Valin.4527:

Dub.1273:

You can solo it.

Successfully?

Post the vid, would love to see it…

Edit: This would include the initial run through dungeon TO the story section.

Actually it is impossible to solo arah story mode.
The reason is that you have those two pressure plates at the beginning. Both have to be used on the same time. So it isn’t possible solo.

FallenCro.8074:

@Gaile Gray
Incident: 130530-002006
After taking a look at your account, I found that you’ve recently received an account restoration for a previous account hacking. Due to the liability to security your account might impose, we will be unable to offer you another restoration. Please understand we cannot provide more items for the gold sellers to steal and sell. If you require assistance with anything else, please let us know

They are blaming you that you are not being reasonable with your own online security. In the end that is the reason you got hacked and with the first hack (and lucky escape in the form of an account restoration) you should have been warned enough to be more carefull with your online security.

Myself and others have been giving you a lot of tips on how to improve your online security as well as linking Mike ‘o Brien’s article on account security (Mike is the founder and president of Arenanet, the fact that he writes an article to help you himself shows how much Arenanet cares bout those things).

The biggest mistake when being hacked you can make is to blame anyone else but you. Off course the hacker is a bad man and a cyber criminal. Hackers are the lowest low life on the internet. But bad people exist, unfortunally we don’t live in a world without them. It is Arenanet’s job to advise you as much as possible on security and help you as much as possible. But something cant be prevented by Arenanet. this includes careless behaviour with whom you share your account details yet and third party malware on your computer.

My advise is to do the following:
1: except your loss and drop the request for a second account restoration. The formal answer has been given. You don’t get one.
2: review your computer security and make sure this or any other hacker will ever get access to your account. Even if your never going to play gw2 again, you will hit a problem with other games as well if you dont take action.
3: then come back to this forum and explain to Gaile what you have done to make sure it wont happen a third time. Also explain to her that you totally missed the message the first time. Ask her friendly and humble to reconsider the decision for not giving the 2th account restoration.

Keep in mind that even doing so might result in a no. This might be cause the system isnt capable of doing it twice on the same account (and with a policy for not doing it twice why built the option in??).

I’m not saying this to bug you or to make you more angry. I’m saying this to sincerely help you. What happened to you isn’t only something that happens to Arenanet customers. It happens to Blizzard customers, SWtor customers and any other MMO customer. So I’m trying to help you to be able to enjoy and play MMO’s again without fear of hackers.

-edit: to respond on your last post. No it never happened to me, and I think it is very very unlikely it will happen to me. I have several degrees on computer security and can actually manually check for mallware better then those tools can (and remove them better as well). I have heard many claims that Arenanet was hacked. Also by people close to me. For those people I have helped them looking for the source and always found it. It always turned out to be a problem at the user’s site and NEVER at arenanets site.

Blizzard and Sony entertainment are the two biggest company’s that got a security breach on their site. The first thing they did was come into the open with it and explain. Sony even took their entire network down. Arenanet has always declared they would do so if it would happen to them. I’m happy to help you find the cause at your site if and when your willing to drop they idea it isn’t your own fault.
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Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Do you mean a Guild Wars 1 account? Because that is the only kind of account you can link to Guild Wars2.

The NCsoft account can be linked to a GW1 account and cause that can be linked to GW2 that might cause a problem.

The OP should make more clear what the real issue is. The only problem that might arise (as far as I can think of) is an account ownership dispute. If this happens then support does the best they can to find the true owner and give that person full access to an account. If account ownership cant be determined then there has to have been something happening called accountsharing. This is against the ToS of both GW1 and GW2 and so will mean the account will be shut down cause the owner is unknown.

Off course Support will do their best to prevent this and they are aware of the big consequences.

You own an account if you got an unused productkey (you either bought it or got it as a present) and used it to create an account. This means you are the one who agreed to the ToS and therefor are the one who owns the account.

Rabit.3802:

I just recently bought this game. The weekend was quite fun – there were lots of people around to do events with and such. Tonight, there is literally no one in zone chat. Every event I see is a ‘clear these guys out because the own the place’ aka, they’ve been there for a while and no one contested them. Is this normal? Do people pretty much only play on weekends?

I dont think it has to do much with the weekend or the week but with the daily achievement. I suspect you are in a starter zone. Many high level players come to starter zones to complete daily achievements. The reason is that events and kills in a starting zone are easier (specially for a high levelcharacter even if they are downleveled). the achievements are regional bound. So one day it can be in Ascalon (charr-territory), the other day in Kryta (human-territory). When it comes to general things like events and kills people favor the human starter area (Queensdale) cause of the easyness and the event chains.

So bottom line it has nothing to do with the time of the week. On one hand people have more time to play on the weekend. On the other hand many people who play all evenings, go out on saturday eve.

@Kisanth,

The problem is that this is the Players helping Players section. Someone is asking a genuine question and someone else uses it to complain how bad the game is. The bug section is for reporting bugs and the general discussion is for opinions bout the game in general.

To answer the OP’s question: At the moment the best place to farm is Southsun Cove.

Frostfang.5109:

My Evarlasting Flame and Frost mining pick usually ruins oricalicum ore…. I thought i was supposed to be able to mina all minerals?

Anyone else having the same experience?

This is not a bug with the molten alliance mining pick but a bug with all gathering tools. If you use a gathering tool on a node while being attacked you have a small change to recieve ruined ore/fiber/log even if your tool is supposed to be able to gather from that node.

Mungrul.9358:

Oh sure, but it would help those guys out by notifying them they don’t have to bother.

The amount of time it takes to read that is bout the same time they need to realise it wasnt a bot. Bersides even if they see it they prolly double check anyway. My dad was a cop and he always would check even if the person who reported cancelled the report. Better safe then sorry.

Keep in mind that GW1 lore was created 250 years ago and ask yourself wich moment in history you know that happened round 1750 AD?? Do you think it is important to know the details bout the 1763 Treaty of Paris?? or that there was a treaty??

Some historical facts do matter but you dont have to know details.

Narcemus.1348:

I can tell you now, like 80% of those videos were from people egging it on in order to get a vid of them being killed by Dhuum. Just saying. Other than those types of circumstances I never saw anyone get Dhuumed in game.

I did,

It was my (now ex-) girlfriend, she turned out to be innocent and it was rather shocking.

Don’t buy new hardware.
With the current hardwar you should be more be able to play the game.

I do believe that keybinding is more important though. The most important one would be the dodge key. My suggestion would be to make the scrollwheel the dodge key (scroll forward is dodge forward, scroll backwards is dodge backwards. This means all movement can be done with your mouse.

Also remember that your mouse can also click on the skill icon’s. I mostly use that for my f-skills in the head of battle.

Guardian, thief and warrior are very movement depended. So not the best go imo.

Ranger is very nice, but asks you to use the function keys a lot for pet management. This can be difficult for you

Mesmer is nice cause of the CC, but the way the skills work it is rather dissorientating and need actually a lot of mid battle movement (more then usual)

Ele: lots of use of F-skills

Necromancer: The use of minions means you have some good CC wich means you can be less mobile. You can use several skills that doesn’t ask you to move too much early on and you only use F1 to enter and leave deathshroud. This might be a very good option for you

Engineer: The engineer can be the least mobile profession off all. With the rifle you can keep a single enemy away from you forever. The utility skills (7, 8 and 9) can be used for turrets (press once in battle) and to activate a kit. Kit’S replaces your 1-5 skills with a totally different set. Specially the flamethrower would be a good balance for you in combination with the rifle. Rifle very good at CC but kills one enemy at a time. Flamethrower, still some nice CC, but also very great AoE and condition dealing (burnging). The F-keys are only used to blow up your turrets witch you mostly do outside of battles.