Guild Wars 2

The closest rifle to that is the Wheellock Rifle skin, obtained from Hall of Monuments achievements from Guild Wars 1.

I’m sure they have servers where the chat log is saved as each sentence from each log is typed. It only disappears for players, I’m guessing.

Sonoroho.5093:

Isn’t there a snowball pile already?

Kumion.7580:

Nope, there isn’t.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Decoration/Festivals

There is! The Snow Pile is a platform ledge decoration, but they can be used to make snow makers, which I don’t think is in that list on the wiki.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

And before you pursue this, you better be careful … you can find yourself in lots of trouble if you report someone who isn’t doing anything wrong.

Wrong. They do punish for obvious malicious reporting but honest mistakes are not punished.

I concur. Once when I reported many AFK bots from Dredgehaunt Cliffs I had about 14 lines of ‘Thank You For Your Report’ but I only reported 4 or 5 different characters because it was hard to distinguish the different necromancers. Nothing happened to me about that.

If you suspect there is botting going on, report it and move on. If they are innocent, ArenaNet will know and won’t punish them, or you for being wrong about it. As long as you genuinely thought they were botting (again, they’ll know) then nothing will happen to you.

It happened to me earlier but I got them back after completely restarting my computer. Probably restarting your client will be enough though.

It happened to me earlier but I got them back after completely restarting my computer. Probably restarting your client will be enough though.

Djinn.9245:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Alec B.8905:

225 gold for a stack and you can only get 20 a month talk about a gold sink. These should be more available and not that expensive.

Most of the money is going to another player if you buy them from the Trading Post so it’s hardly a gold sink.

All of the money isn’t a gold sink but a significant amount is. Any Merchant or process where you spend money in-game and that money doesn’t go to another player is a gold sink.

“Gold sink is an economic process by which a video game’s ingame currency (‘gold’), or any item that can be valued against it, is removed. This process is comparable to financial repression in real economies. Most commonly the genres are role-playing game or massively multiplayer online game.

Gold sink – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_sink"

Not sure why you’re explaining this to me because I wasn’t saying anything in contrary to what you told me. 15% of a TP transaction (of anything sold not just Mystic Coins) is absorbed into the system and disappears from the economy. The remaining 85% of the item value is given to another player during the transaction and thus still exists in the world. All I’d say is that 85% is a lot more significant than the 15%.

If you’re on Mac and it happens, go into window mode, click the desktop then back into the game. When you go back to full screen it should fix it. It’s similar to the issue that sometimes happens when camera rotation goes really fast, which happens usually when you log out and back in again.

Alec B.8905:

225 gold for a stack and you can only get 20 a month talk about a gold sink. These should be more available and not that expensive.

Most of the money is going to another player if you buy them from the Trading Post so it’s hardly a gold sink.

Necroposted thread. You might want to be more specific in a new thread about what is going on if you want to try and get help with your specific case.

Fenom.9457:

Hm another reason to hate myself ok

Seriously anyone know a bus I can get in front of?

>hugs<

If you have Postprocessing set to low, you won’t see anything different, but if you have it medium or high, that’s when you see the effect.

Ryou.2398:

It seems kind of like an entitled attitude and nitpicking at this point.

It seems to me you’ve seen someone else on the internet use the term ‘entitled’ and it sounded good, and you’ve been looking for the opportunity to use the term yourself. Nothing wrong with that, except that you need to know what it really means.

The OP isn’t asking for something in an entitled manner. An entitled manner would be “I’ve played 2,000 hours and I still haven’t had a precursor!” or perhaps “Give those players who have earned 30K+ AP a free Legendary Weapon!”

They’ve simply seen something that can be improved upon, and are merely making a suggestion that would benefit all, not the few!

How about adding a de-buff that gives a 30 second cool-down between uses of Tomes of Knowledge? There’d be no spam then, I assure you.

Let’s not have things just because other games have them. GW2 isn’t other games.

No to Duels: Because PvE was exclusively designed to be the co-operative play side of the game. Duels can still be done in Guild Halls, Custom Arenas and to some degree, Costume Brawl.

No to Inspections: As I said, GW2 isn’t other games. It’s meant to have been designed as a community friendly game. Raids being introduced has already caused some sense of division. Gear inspection where someone gets kicked for have 10 less power than what someone is “supposed” to have will increase division. It also should never be forced.

No to ‘Vehicles’: A bit trickier to say no to, but I’m still against it for two reasons. First of all, int he world of Tyria, things are genuinely added to the game to still make sense from a lore/immersion perspective. We already have Waypoints and Asura gates that are faster travel than a car, so from a backline perspective it wouldn’t make sense.

Secondly, I believe the toys are a nice compromise. The ‘mounts’ shouldn’t be a combat aid in my opinion, and I think getting forced off a broom or carpet when you’re engaged is a good thing, and they are pretty much the closest things to mounts we’re going to get.

I wish this was said during the UK Brexit vote as well. It was a nightmare to play Guild Wars 2 the days following June 23.

Flakkenmarsh.6573:

Happened last night and again just now: Placed a heroes banner, told people about it, then it was gone. Didn’t even last a minute, although the banquet was still there. I thought maybe I had miss-clicked, but no, it was still on cool-down in the guild panel. I’m basically the only one that got to use it (and maybe one or two others).

The hero banner bug is even worse when it’s from Guild Storage and not inventory. It’s bad enough wasting a commendation or two on a banner, but a scribed hero banner that costs (when I last checked a couple of months back) 15 gold??!!

Neurion.4086:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Neurion.4086:

penelopehannibal.8947:

This can be frustrating for some players, especially new players, or ones who haven’t done the achievements yet. So I recommend demoting a few of the ‘event’ champs down to Elite or perhaps Veteran status now, in-line with the lower demand to complete them.

New players should band together and defeat champions as older players did when these events first appeared; or ask their guild-mates, or their friends, or even other people using the map chat. For the bandit champions, in particular, I see people everyday doing them.

I don’t endorse scaling these events down, they should stay as they are. What ANet could do though, to help the situation, is to include these champions more often in the dailies.

How are new players meant to band together when they don’t know each other?

I’ve already told you how: use the map chat.

I understand map chat. The point is, how many people actually respond nowadays to Virh the Undying or whoever they’re called?

Player A: “Virh up at [X Waypoint]”
Rest of Map Chat: “__________”

This is the entire point of this topic!

There are fewer and fewer responses to calls for the tougher champs. Bandit champs that once used to get attack as soon as they spawned, are now left to their own devices and survive sometimes for hours on end. The morden champ is almost always avoided in Iron Marches now.

Also, not all new players (as well as players who maybe not new, but new to the champ-tied achievements) are in the same map at the same time, so still, how are new players meant to band together?

shalywen.9548:

(look what happened to the starter zones when anet did that to those champs…maps once full for the champ trains became instantly empty).

The trouble with the champ trains was that map chat was full of people bickering and arguing about who ‘owns’ what champions and who isn’t allowed to kill a champ on their own because a train is entitled to kill them. This being in a starter zone was very toxic for players who first started the game. It’s not a good impression, so sorry, but the Queensdale champ train being taken away was a welcome change from me.

shalywen.9548:

They should maybe increase the reward to motivate people to do them more often

If they increased the reward for said champs, I would endorse it if it did guarantee that it’d increase participation. But I doubt it would happen given that there are better ways to gain loot these days than killing the champs we’re discussing here. (Especially the AB chest farm thingy that I’m hearing so much about).

shalywen.9548:

I can’t understand why people always wants easier content in pve.

I’m not asking for easier content. I’m asking for content to be scaled for more probable participation. The difficulty can remain the same, just doable for fewer people.

It’d probably be more difficult, given that a champ with 50 people turning up, all you need is to repeatedly press 111111111111 (like in your ‘challenging’ Queensdale champ train). A scaled down champ with 3 or 4 people turning up there’d actually be some skill involved with a few dodges.

Neurion.4086:

penelopehannibal.8947:

This can be frustrating for some players, especially new players, or ones who haven’t done the achievements yet. So I recommend demoting a few of the ‘event’ champs down to Elite or perhaps Veteran status now, in-line with the lower demand to complete them.

New players should band together and defeat champions as older players did when these events first appeared; or ask their guild-mates, or their friends, or even other people using the map chat. For the bandit champions, in particular, I see people everyday doing them.

I don’t endorse scaling these events down, they should stay as they are. What ANet could do though, to help the situation, is to include these champions more often in the dailies.

How are new players meant to band together when they don’t know each other? The older players didn’t band together when the content first came out. They just turned up and managed randomly because it was new and interesting content at the time.

Behellagh.1468:

I haven’t finished the bandit ones yet. Nor any of the the other “current events” that have been introduced since March? Don’t remember. Got a lot partially done but not any one event fully, yet.

As for the Mordrem in the Iron Marches. As long as LWS2 has portions of the episodes in the open world, they have to be there.

As OriOri said, I’m not saying get rid of them, I’m saying make them doable with fewer numbers that are interested. To Demote, not delete!

X T D.6458:

Malediktus.3740:

-1 they should stay as they are

If this stuff remains in the game they need to be scaled down because there will be fewer and fewer people doing it. This is not like doing hero points in HoT that you do on different toons and thus can repeat over and over, some of these events are a one time thing for many players just to finish the achievement and never bother with it again.

Being scaled down is something I can live with (and is essentially the same thing I’m proposing anyway) so they can be achievable to an ever decreasing population of those with interest in those areas.

They don’t necessarily have to be demoted from Champ to Elite in name for example (especially when loot bags are involved!) but some of them are far tougher than your average solo-able champ.

The cap of 15,000 AP is combined with monthlies as well. Have you looked at monthlies too?

Hi,

Certain champs that spawn in the world are tied to the Living World storyline and achievements. Theses champions are fun to play in groups in the beginning when they are first introduced, when many players are enthusiastic to attack them and earn achievement points or progress the story.

However, as time goes on, players who have already done them a few times (in some cases just once!), they grow weary of the difficulty of them, and many of them are now being skipped.

The best example is probably the Mordrem champion in Iron Marches, which is nowadays seldom done as a group to fight it is hard to ask for. Bandit champions across Kryta are also starting to be skipped.

This can be frustrating for some players, especially new players, or ones who haven’t done the achievements yet. So I recommend demoting a few of the ‘event’ champs down to Elite or perhaps Veteran status now, in-line with the lower demand to complete them.

I think this will help new players complete the achievements, and it might also perk some new interest for those who have already experienced them to defeat them again, given that fewer players would be needed.

Thanks.

Today I put a guild gold banner out from storage again and noticed it no longer had a blue outline around it as if it were a party member like before. I had highly hoped it was a fixed bug, but alas when I changed characters….

It’s still ongoing disappearing.

It’s not a competition.

Aeon.4127:

Topic says it all 28 black lion chest keys not ONE uncommon item or better…

Topic title actually says the opposite. :s

It’s too difficult. Changing race would have to change story and any cultural outfits you have. And also, considering the price of such a thing in gems of a total makeover kit + name change contract (in case you want to keep name lore-friendly) + extra for changing actual race, it’d probably end up cheaper just to buy a new character slot.

I’ve had 36 overall, but used about 12 of them on Legendary Weapons and Globe decorations over the years. I’ve sold a couple to other guilds for decorating their guild halls.

It’s possible they are not online because they are invisible. Though that being said, just use the in-game report system and choose ‘Botting’ if you suspect any form of botting. If they are innocent the GMs will determine that and no action will be taken against them (or you for suspecting).

I must point out though that naming them is against the rule on these forums, so you might want to edit your post and take out the names you put there, to avoid any redaction to your post and/or account.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I didn’t know about the Banquet, but I’ve seen persistent MF & XP banners in the Lab and non-persistent Hero’s Banners. So maybe it’s something to do with the source, whether from a consumable or from Guild Storage.

Hmm.. that’s interesting then. I’ve not tried those myself yet. But I can say that:

•Guild Banquet from Guild Storage remains 1 hour as normal.

•Hero Banner source is from Guild Commendations and remains in Lab for 5 minutes, disappears anywhere else on character swap or map change.

•Guild Gold Banner from guild storage, lasts persistent in Divinity’s Reach as long as character remains, but disappears on character swap or map change.

I suppose I could try other sources, but that would be rather an expensive thing for me to do when ArenaNet should be the ones testing this!

This bug will be gone on Tuesday. This continued debate isn’t really worth it I don’t think.

Really shiny place at Unseen Scratch. No wonder the Skritt love it there so much!

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

penelopehannibal.8947:

gert.7698:

I placed a heroes banner in mad kings lab en after 5 min it was gone. Happend twice. Didn’t left the instance. Is this intended or a bug?

Yep, that happened to me as well. You don’t even get to travel clockwise round the labyrinth before your expensive banner has disappeared.

Sometimes banners persist and sometimes not. I haven’t yet figured out if there’s a pattern, as some banners have remained up despite being close to a mob door.

I know specifically that Guild Banquet will stay indefinitely.

I also spotted that the Guild Gold Banner doesn’t ever disappear as long as the character is still in the same zone, or at least when I placed one in Divinity’s Reach and went AFK for a couple of hours, it was still there when I came back. Maybe it’s just that zone I don’t know not tried anywhere else.

Hirasaki.6208:

Why not let players check other players gear. Also allow players to examine other players builds as well.

Hirasaki.6208:

to prevent elitism or something.

You shouldn’t be allowed to snoop on other people’s gear without the other player’s permission. The way we have it now is fine, you can request to link gear and the player and shift+click in chat tab.

I say no to forced inspection, and you already answered your question in the first sentence!

Are melee staves not enough? Also, who would get to use land spears? Just warrior? What about the other classes, and what about the other two underwater weapons?

Personally, I don’t see the point (no pun intended) of land spears when ArenaNet can give a certain class melee or throwable staves.

gert.7698:

I placed a heroes banner in mad kings lab en after 5 min it was gone. Happend twice. Didn’t left the instance. Is this intended or a bug?

Yep, that happened to me as well. You don’t even get to travel clockwise round the labyrinth before your expensive banner has disappeared.

friggarn.2906:

It seems like there’s been a huge uptick in bots, although perhaps I hadn’t noticed, since I rarely go out into these zones.

I sat on one node for about 30 minutes, and have reported over 20 accounts. All have around 150 APs

Could all be the same person with some elaborate set-up though.

It’s really terrible too, it warps on top of the node and then has a seizure on top while gathering.

It’s definitely different accounts? If so, then it seems you’re able to right-click and report these bots, which is a good thing as usually gathering bots are hidden under terrain and you tend to have to submit a ticket instead, noting the /ip of the map you were in, the time you saw the bots, and the approximate location of the nodes so the GMs can do a trace.

iHeartbound.3074:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Every man and his dog on these forums is an expert at computer coding. It doesn’t mean they know how ArenaNet do it. Just wait two weeks or so. Maybe next year it’ll get sorted! ^ ^

Is that sarcasm? I’m sorry, but an actual programmer understands how collision works. And people like you seem to think we just want to be know it alls and defend the company to death.. We aren’t attacking them.. But.. It’s literally just changing code on that entity. They can make anything have collision. All they have to do is select it, and change the code to allow collision. It’s literally that simple, I promise you. And as others said.. Just waiting isn’t a big deal since it wont be long. It’s just kind of silly that this bug still exists for this halloween & how much of an easy fix it is. It’s like they don’t care/know..

It’s not sarcasm, it’s just that it’s always one of two things when the “I’m a computer programmer” card is played on these forums. Either that someone has done a little bit of coding as a hobby and is a know it all and says they are an expert at programming but are actually out of their depth. Or they are genuine a programmer to a high level, and assume because it’s a seemingly simple thing to do, it must be simple. But that’s not necessarily so. I’m not saying nor assuming you are one or the other.

Not to mention the fact that ArenaNet have a rather large plate, and a large banquet on top of it. It doesn’t matter how much you do or don’t know about programming at the end of the day. You don’t work for ArenaNet, so you don’t know fully what procedures they have to adhere to.

iHeartbound.3074:

And people like you

What do you mean by “People like me”? You don’t know me, so how do you know which people are like me?

Every man and his dog on these forums is an expert at computer coding. It doesn’t mean they know how ArenaNet do it. Just wait two weeks or so. Maybe next year it’ll get sorted! ^ ^

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Maybe they will one day but it won’t be an easy or fast undertaking as it will require redoing all the armor in the game and redoing the part of the game that says which professions wears what and both the bank wardrobe and the hero panel wardrobe.

Of course more choices are always good, so we can hope it will be done one day. I have a feeling though such a restructure of this basic feature would introduce a lot of bugs as well as taking many dev hours to do.

Thanks to a forum poster for this depiction of possible mixed armors.

Hey, that’s my character!

And yes, other than the visual effects that picture shows, there would also undoubtedly be a lot of clipping issues when mixing and matching armour weights, such as heavy scale or light cloth skirts clipping through medium trench coats.

It’d be too many resources dedicated to solving the clipping issues when we already have a way of making your class look like a different class, namely the outfit system. But most people complain about that too.

This bug is still ongoing. I can today confirm that the Guild Gold Banner also disappears on changing of maps, just like the Hero Banners. Both the hero banner and the guild gold banner has a blue outline instead of a green one now, as if they are a party member. Thus, they disappear when the player who is ‘in party’ with them leaves the map.

It’s nearly three months now. A fix is way over due on this.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

We need a microtransaction store with items that can only be purchased with real money.

Why do you think we need it? Do you have access to ArenaNet’s or NCSoft’s accounts or something? We as players certainly don’t need it at all. Only the company would need something like this, and I don’t think you actually know if they need it or not.

I’m sure your suggestion is out of the question anyway, as far as ANet are concerned. Lets leave the financial decisions to, well you know, the actual staff?

Haha, thank you guys.

I did also want to kind of get what other people feel about the account-bound BL skins too. When they were first released, there was a bit of an uproar about them being Account Bound at first, but I think since there has been a few non-Account Bound collections added, a second set probably won’t cause as much a stir. I’d love to complete another set.

Hi,

I’m pleased with my most recent achievement, completing the Privateer Weapon Collection, which are the Black Lion weapon skins that are account bound on acquire, and never cost more than one ticket each.

It was (strangely) really enjoyable collecting these weapons, and was wondering if there’ll be another black lion weapon set that will be account bound and only cost one ticket no matter how long the weapon skins are available.

I know account bound weapon skins are not to everyone’s taste, so keeping the other system should still be in place too, but I think it’s about time for a second set of this newer single ticket weapon set.

[Suggestion]
Also, I think those who complete the BL sets should get title! ‘Privateer’ in my case.

Thanks!

I agree, was thinking the same thing myself this morning, the stickies could do with a clean up.

Make Rye Known.6273:

penelopehannibal.8947:

If DR hits after 1 hour, isn’t that a good thing considering we’re actually meant to be taking a 5-10 minute break from computer games for every hour we play? All you kind of have to do to reset DR is log off and back on again really, or change character. It’s not that big a deal.

I should have the abillity to decide when I want to spend my time playing, the game shouldn’t dictate my game time e.e

and DR doesn’t get removed by going offline, you have to be ingame for it to go off.

Of course, I agree it’s up to you if and when you take a break. I’m not saying the DR should be there to take that decision away from you or dictate, just that it’s a positive coincidence that it also coincides with when one should take a quick break from the game, for the sake of one’s health.

And regarding DR – it’s very simple to reset it. You don’t even have to go offline even if that did reset it. A simple map change or character change for 1 or 2 minutes is enough.

Seriously?

If DR hits after 1 hour, isn’t that a good thing considering we’re actually meant to be taking a 5-10 minute break from computer games for every hour we play? All you kind of have to do to reset DR is log off and back on again really, or change character. It’s not that big a deal.

A Separate, underwater traitline (and possibly add some underwater-only utility skills to boot) to improve underwater combat.