Guild Wars 2

Beldin.5498:

GW2Spidey is broken … look here :
https://www.gw2tp.com/gems

Spidey may a little borked, potentially, but the massive increase in cost does not tally with previous event increase in gem price. We are talking here about about a 5-8 gold price increase for 100 gems between yesterday and today. There has never, to my knowledge, been any event that has had that sort of gem price increase, and it comes right when they change they layout?

I think ArenaNet has manually changed the average price when they released the patch, potentially to encourage people to buy more gems with rl money, trusting that the change in UI and the lack of detailed graph information would inhibit many players from noticing.

There are a lot of posts, I would say most here, discussing the changes to the UI and the fact that the game now only allows you to purchase a per-determined amount of gems for gold and vice-versa.

What I have not seen mentioned much is the fact that the cost of purchasing gems from the trade have shot up. Unnaturally so.

For the last few months, the price of getting 100 gems was hovering around 12.5-13gold. However after this patch, on the new system it says that 400 gems will cost 83g15s which is an average of 20.78 gold for 100 gems.

This is especially relevant when you look at the external websites (gw2spidy.com/gem) that track the gem buy and sell price, and who have the price listed at 15g20s at the time of this post. That is a disparity of nearly 6 gold difference added on per 100 gems. Are we to believe that this increase is purely from customer demand? I don’t think so. No previous event has made the price of gems rise this sharply and the price stats from external sites do not tally.

I wanted to highlight this here, because not many people seem to have noticed, and the more people that do, the more noise can be made about it.

I have been having the same problem as narosis.6398 for the last couple of days. The website seems pretty broken.

I have tried it both in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Both have the same issue.

Just to update this. I noticed it happening only when I had been looting a lot of objects, such as chopping 5 trees in quick succession. This creates a sort of lagg on the list that shows up on the right hand side of the screen sometimes, and I think it is that which has been potentially messing with the useage of the esc button to bring up the menu.

I have recently been having an issue with the game menu not coming up when I press esc. Sometimes it works fine, but then other times it just doens’t function at all. I can hit esc till the cows come home and nothing happens, and I have to press the button manually with the mouse.

I know that it is a minor inconvenience, but it is faulty, so I figured I would post it up here.

I am also having this issue. Iv been disconnected during boss events, during living world instances, during wood cutting in Orr, and I have been disconnected during general PvE even outside of peak times.

Before these recent patches, I never had this issue. I thought it was maybe my ISP, but after speaking to others in the zone chat, it became clear that many people are experiencing disconnects.

Personally I am getting really angry with the situation because so many times now I have been doing a boss event and had a dc near the end of it, logged back in, boss fight is over, no loot. Or just now, nearly had the boss down in living world instance only to get a disconnect and have to restart the entire instance again. Really irritating!

Is there any news on when this recent spate of disconnects is going to be remedied?

There are two main things I wanted to discuss within the topic of achievement changes in the April Feature patch.

1. This month’s achievement completion
2. Reward for completing achievements

So yeah, this month; April 2014, knowing the patch was going to drop, I did all the relevant PvE monthly achievements. I completed I think, 4 or 5 monthly achievements before the patch, but the monthly did not tick off more than two, and I didn’t get any overall reward. I had thought this was due to the patch drop, where the rest of the monthlies were going to pop, and expected that I would get an instant completed monthly when the patch instigated. However this wasn’t the case. Now I have an entirely uncompleted monthly set that I have to do again just to get the reward, even though I have already completed it this month. Double the work for the same reward.. not good Anet, especially considering the time and effort those things take.

I know this is a one-off situation, but it did annoy me. I spent a good deal of game-time getting the achievements done and other than the basic points rewarded, I got nothing for that time.

That brings me onto the second point. The point reward for doing achievement appears to have been reduced significantly for monthly achievements. Perhaps this is only the way that it is shown, but in the past, monthly achievements used to give over 10 achievement points, while now it only gives 2 per tier. Perhaps this is just how it is shown, and overall the points are the same, but even if this is the case, the perceived point accumulation does seem less, and that will disincline players to bothering with them unless there is a bonus achievement point upon completion of the 4 monthlies. This is the only way I can see it really being worth the time, after all, the difficulty/time/cost of doing a tier of the monthly is certainly worth far more than double that of a daily.

As someone who spends a good amount of time in-game going after achievements, this change has sort of hit me in the nuts a bit. I like finding ways to spend the time in a game I enjoy, but I do need to feel that it is a worthwhile endeavour, rather than a grind without much reward. I have not yet completed the monthly achievements yet, since they were totally reset, so I cannot say whether the overall reward is worth the effort, but looking at the setup now, whether a real or only perceived change, it doesn’t seem nearly as appealing focusing on doing these as it used to.

Thanks for that. Pity there isn’t an extra character slot. Even for 1000 gems, I don’t know that it will be worth it for me. Did you get to choose what legacy armour you got, or was it random?

I was wanting to know whether the digital deluxe upgrade that is currently on sale in the Black Lion Trading Company comes with an additional character slot. The listed contents do not mention it, but a friend who got given it when they started the game said they had an extra character slot compared to other people.

The current listed items are as such:
- One time rank point bonus
- One time influence bonus
- two week banker golem
- a miniature Rytlock
- the Summon Mistfire Wolf elite skill
as well as the items from Heroic Edition:
- a suit of legacy armour
- mithril box: 15 slot inventory bag
- 10 x experience boosters

It has been quite a while since I have had the standard amount of character slots, so I can’t remember how many that was, but if this edition came with an extra one, it would be worth it to me to buy the edition upgrade.

If anyone could let me know what the character slot number is for the standard edition, and what the character slot number is for digital deluxe, that would be super.

I recently made a ticket for support, and while I received confirmation via email that it indeed got submitted, I have been unable to check for updates on the website itself.

When I go to: https://help.guildwars2.com/requests it has another login option, but when I try to login there, it won’t accept my email/password as correct, despite the fact that it is. I have tried on both firefox and on IE but neither will let me log in there to check my ticket status, even though the combination is correct and (clearly) works here fine.

Is there some problem with reviewing the ticket status generally, or some way to get it to work?

I am also having this problem. Ah well, time to shut it down and hope they fix it soon.