Guild Wars 2

also to note. if you have trouble with your GW2 game recognising that you have those points, you will need to play and get to the actual HoM within GW1.

it doesn’t take much to do that, but I thought I’d tell you anyway because it sometimes happens.

you don’t have to do the personal story (Zhaitan storyline). you can skip forward to the HoT story by pressing H and selecting the story journal tab. in there you can click on the HoT story. there should be a button there saying begin the story or something like that. I don’t remember. anyway clicking that will allow you to start the HoT story, which unlocks masteries and the glider.

I was mainly wondering if there was a way to pick a random track from a list, as in if I put 3 tracks on a battle playlist then will it play a random one of the three each time I got into a battle? Or does it just line then up and play one after the other? Also will a track automatically repeat when it ends?

the first song on the playlist is always plays first (during a playthrough), then it randomises. so, if you changed the battle playlist, when you go into battle for the first time, the first song is played. every time after that, the songs will be random.
I’m not so sure about when a song ends, but I think that a new random song gets played after.

also couldn’t find anything about if I can just add in tracks for say battle, but leave the rest as default

you can very much change only one playlist and leave all others as default. for example, right now I only have a custom playlist for the main menu (because I like listening to the SAB login music), but none of the others. all music in game still works perfectly.

I take it there is also no quick way to switch between default and custom music?

nope, there isn’t.

you only get what is listed. I’m very sure level 80 characters don’t get the gear.

if, after reading that, you’re thinking of boosting a character with the intent of giving your necro the grear. think again. it is soulbound to the boosted character.

this is not a bug. story mastery points are awarded once per character/completion, regardless of race.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/central-Tyria-mastery-points-non-HOT/first#post5814303

simple answer…. you can’t. you’re stuck with it I’m afraid.

noticed this too.

while it is true that you can leave party via the party menu thing, I find that way more inconvenient. in fact I have never used the party menu to leave a party.

I wish they’d include these thing in patch notes if it is intended. I will now forever be accidentally blocking or removing people as friends instead of leaving party like I want. yay :/

are they checked in the chat tab options (clicking the little down arrow on the chat tab)? you need to tick the box next to Guild in chat options, then click the arrow next to it and tick all the guilds listed in the panel there, like the attached picture.

have you done that?

personal story 1-80 happens in the past, 1325 AE to be precise. the current year in game 1329. the fixed up version of Lion’s Arch didn’t come until 1328, so it makes sense for it to be the old version

if you’re in a squad or party you can hear the audio target call when others in the squad/party call a target. the audio is always the race/gender of the one who called the target. could it be that?

did you visit the chantry of secrets in bloodtide coast? it’s considered its own map, and is very easy to miss.

is your account older than 7 days? there is an initial 7 day waiting time before you can send attachments (and you have to have a character that is level 6). I’m fairly sure the wait is applied to accounts that were upgraded too (but I could be wrong).

not sure about hosting and stuff, but for VOIP, I prefer discord. its free, easy to set up and has no slot limitations.
you can read about the features here: https://discordapp.com/features

characters stopped screaming while falling a long time ago (at least a year ago), so there isn’t anything wrong with your settings or sound.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/PC-Falling-Cries-No-Longer-Play/5038895

Ashantara.8731:

Actually, they have claws, not hands. They are obviously cricetids.

P.S. My two asuran characters are “brothers” from the same brood.

cricetidae have hands…. so even if they were a type of cricetidae they’d still have hands.

There is a cap of 15,000 for daily and the old monthly achievements combined. did you reach the cap?

not sure what the amount of digits has to do with anything.

personally, I’d say they have hands, because they can manipulate things with them, and are not padded.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

That’s far from the only question people should be asking about that. The bigger one is, why don’t Tixx’s toys appear as spawns from those gift boxes anymore? It’s always Skritt now, when it used to be a mix of Skritt or toys.

because princess dolls are evil, at least the ones in those presents used to be.

is that the event to open COE dungeon?

if it is, make sure the cave troll event is done (it’s not far away). many don’t bother with it, and forget it is part of the event chain. the coil events won’t happen if it is not done.

you might want to download pingplotter and discover where the actual problem is. it might not be a problem with Anet’s servers, but somewhere in between you and them.

other games might run fine, as well as other websites, but it all depends what route you are connecting to them through.

you can only have 2 active crafting disciplines (without the gem store item to add more), but you can learn all of them on one character (and switch between them as needed)

have you tried dulfy? I haven’t played the instance recently, but the last time I played it through dulfy was accurate.
http://dulfy.net/2014/08/14/gw2-dragons-reach-part-2-achievements-guide/#Party_politics

oh, lol, I so didn’t notice that. now it will bother me too, now I’ve seen it XD

what is disturbing you?

sometimes things like your picture are caused by the game’s files going a little screwy. if it is because of that you could try repairing the game client. here’s a link to how:
https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201863008-Repairing-the-Game-Client

if the client seems to do nothing, or stop responding during the repair, just leave it. it does it to some, but will continue after 5 mins or so, so just leave it and do something else.

servers use UTC, not PST or GMT

Feuer Liebt Mich.8524:

Except there is literally a Skritt dressed as a Christian saint in the game. ¯\(?)/¯

interesting…. which skritt and which saint (I’m not here to argue, just 100% curious)?

it’s intended

Fixed a bug that caused Wintersday ornaments to continue dropping from some chests after players had already completed the “For the Children!” achievement.

try changing your chats up. the reason you’re getting suppressed is because of repetition (which can happen when offering portals). if you change some of the wording in your chat messages you’re less likely to be hit by it.

I got a copy of Orphan Laine’s letter in my mail, even though I have already done the quest.

had the same happen last year too (had completed it last year as well).

if I’m going to get this every year, can you guys at least make it possible to delete without having to type it’s name in a box first (please, please, please)?

same reason we couldn’t play in the clocktower with a party?

I have no idea what that reason is, but would like to see all festival activities able to be done with friends who you’re partied with. activities with friends is way more fun.

Randulf.7614:

Ah, I remember this bug from a previous year. Thanks for the heads up!

so do I. such fondness!

good to know it’s still around though

type /age into chat and press enter. this will tell you how old your character is in days.

gifts come in this many days:
1 year gift – 365
2 year gift – 730
3 year gift – 1095
4 year gift – 1460

it’s in the canopy and is called Ascendant’s ring (by your description anyways).
here’s a vid of how to get there if you don’t want to wait until night for the choppers.
https://youtu.be/w29PrAo-5NU

the pop up queue above the mini map are items already added to your inventory. you do not receive items in the queue as they drop off the end, they are already added, regardless of if you leave map, leave game or whatever. anything in that list is already in your inventory.

edit: also if you exit out of the crafting UI (without cancelling the craft process), crafting still continues until you move away from the crafting station (or you run out of mats). so, if you esc out of the UI and waypoint away, or exit the map, the craft is cancelled. up until the exit, you’re still technically crafting, which is why you see your crafted things still increasing. it has nothing to do with the list above the mini map.

you don’t need it to complete the map (only waypoints, hero challenges, vistas, points of interest and heart completions are needed to complete the map, of which there are none in Agrak Kraal), and it gets uncovered when you run near the gate if you haven’t been there with the story.

the links in this thread are still active (the top 2 under fonts), and might be of interest

http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/forum/m/2737230/viewthread/5147207-fonts-tools-to-mimic-gw2-style

what about cursed shore? it isn’t on your screenie. is that 100% too?

can you define ‘bad fps’? what is it exactly that you’re seeing (actual fps numbers and when they happen)?

I completely agree. I’m fine with (repeatable) heart quests in the maps, and them being required for map completion, but with the last 2 episodes it felt like the laziest story created. we got more ‘go do heart quest here for reasons’ than actual story, and I disliked it both times, to the point I probably won’t be going back to the areas. by the time I’d finished the story I’d seen all things in the map, there was nothing left to explore, which is another disappointment to me.

I don’t know the answer to your first part, so I’ll leave that for someone in the know.

On the other hand, if you don’t have a second character, how much time you need to go and do other map to reset dimishing return? And by having an alt and using it on the map where your main has dimishing return, when the alt gets it too, if you return to your main his dimishing return will be gone?

to reset DR you need to spend 15-20 mins playing in another zone.
DR is character based, so if your alt gets DR in the same map, then both of your characters will have DR and will both need to go elsewhere for their own 15-20 mins of play.

if you are a new player and are under level 14 then map completion information won’t show up.

I have never experienced this before today and I only tried it out because of your post (the things you discover after 4 years). I can see how this would be annoying to people.

looks great. glad to help

it looks like they used a colour that closely matched their character’s skin tone, so try a few flesh tones. like pastel peach or peach ice, they sometimes work for skin colours. it depends on the armor and your character’s skin tone.

helmet: Carapace (with selfless potion)
top: Armor of the Lich (Arah armor)
legs: Profane (gemstore)
boots: Illustrious (ascended)
gloves: Carapace (maybe)
shoulders: Masquerade

no idea what dyes were used though

are you doing day or night events when you notice this?

only completing day events awards them. map progression in night awards them at the ‘checkpoints’, so it works a little different at night.

I don’t have anything against anything like this, but I don’t think that the alts that use it should be allowed to receive any map completion rewards, including gift of exploration.

I haven’t noticed any increased loading times. it usually takes my game between 5-10 seconds to load, sometimes 30 (in LA only), and it hasn’t changed. I don’t have missing textures when I load either, and I don’t have an ssd.

that is odd. I’d say try again after reset, just to see if whatever it is fixes itself (it’s only a couple of hours to wait out), and if not contact support.
https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new