Guild Wars 2

Behellagh.1468:

What’s not clear, and this just occurred to me, is this a one time thing because of the beta weekend or is this a permanent change?

Sounds like permanent, not 100% sure though.

Anet dev said they buffed it:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Since-the-Scrapper-Reveal/first#post5521871

Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365:

Your allies have to be within a radius of 150 of the enemy being hit by your proj. finisher :/ It’s rly bad imho

So it isn’t bugged, just the radius is extremely tiny? Odd, I was firing directly on them but will try again. Thank you.

Are.1326:

Projectile finishers have to hit their target directly to apply their effect (AoE effect from landing does not count).
Water and Light projectiles apply their effect to allies in 150 radius around their target.

In a dungeon earlier, everyone was stacked. I was firing at enemies and allies with the combo field. I didn’t see anyone receive the regeneration buff. But thank you for your message will try again.

I did multiple trials and ask around in Heart of the Mists but none were able to get the combo Regeneration to work with the Mortar kit. We tried using #5 then fire at an ally and ourselves. No one received the health regeneration boon, is there something we’re doing incorrectly or is it bugged?

Kumion.7580:

These town clothes pants didn’t have buttflaps! So sad they’re gone. ;_;

town clothes are still around with the tonics

Lord Trejgon.2809:

reapex.8546:

There are at least two medium armors that don’t have butt flaps. Glorious armor is one of them.

add krytan, sneakthief(female only) and strider(for sure for fems dunno hwo it looks on males) – already four mediums without them

Awesome, ty

There are at least two medium armors that don’t have butt flaps. Glorious armor is one of them.

The smokescales welcome you

We had a similar issue 1-2 months ago. We reported it to Anet and they said their was no way to verify our claim for missing guild merit points. They said we could post on the forum, so to back up your message about missing rewards I’m replying to your topic.

This is our original message to them:

We had the Quaggan Guild Rush in Frostgorge Sound. Another guild was there but agreed to let us help them. We succeeded with the guild rush and several guildies received the pop up message to accept credit for the guild mission reward. They clicked yes and we did not receive the Merit points.

So two issues:
1) All guildies received the prompt to accept credit.
Members do not have mission control permissions, yet they can accept credit for the entire guild mission.
2) We did not receive credit for the guild mission.
Several guildies told me they clicked yes but I do not know if one of them clicked no. If they did maybe that is why we didn’t receive merit points. The guild rush mission took place on 8/29.

If your able to use a friends wifi or your phone, that may let you download the remaining file to your comp.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Are you all fine with grinding now? Because this event is absolutely atrocious.

Don’t do the event then o.O

WuGzaGenius.5684:

What I do not love is the fact that you have to sit inside of heart of the mists and jerk ur self off till queue pops. (there’s nothing to do there)
Also, why can’t we duel outside in the real open world? I can’t even do it in the heart of the mists (this would actually be decent!) If me and someone else want to duel each other we have to coordinate servers to go in and fight each other. That means the following: Finding the correct server, making sure no ones in it, (no possible servers? gotta buy a server? )making sure you both get into said server and then you are able to fight.

Don’t wait, do hot join or custom browser. To answer your original question, people do what they find fun. I’m a PvX player, so I find all of the game modes fun and I rarely ever get bored because there is so much that can be done.

Scarlet invasion was map wide effort. Either people choose to do all the events and fight Scarlet at the end OR they decided to farm. The Mordrem Invasion is, kill one enemy and then waypoint to the next location. Kill one enemy, then waypoint again. Was Scarlet Invasion so bad that a map teamwork event is no longer encourage for invasions? If it was unforseen players would act this way, then I understand. But the event seems to encourage individual gain versus team play.

I Hit Things.

Purple Miku.7032:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

The pugs don’t actually have to be that good unless they’re specifically built for lots of might stacking and no DPS (like having multiple staff guardians spamming Empower). If you can actually add the full 25 stacks to the party the actual required break-even DPS for each individual party member is actually really low. Like full knights, no DPS spec bearbow low.

I admit I exaggerated a bit with the remark about breaking even, yeah.

The point I was ultimately trying to make is that the gain isn’t nearly as substantial as it’s frequently made out to be and the loss the warrior has to take for it is obnoxiously higher than made out to be. If an ele, which provides both fury AND longer-lasting might does the job, the gain is substantially higher.

pdavis.8031:

While I agree that good pug groups would be better of with an ele stacking might for the party, I don’t run speed runs, and generally run with a pug group that isn’t good. (maybe it’s just my luck). In any case it is circumstancial, and I don’t run it always.

However, just for kicks and giggles, this is what I generally run:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJAnXjMd09ZnHWewJagggycBEAR/1i+E0VGA-TVSGABA8AAMTPggq/MqSwEOBAEp84j9HmRJGWm4AA-w

If I’m doing a PS build I will run:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJARTjMd03ZtHWewJagjgyUAceC2gFIdPsDLPA-TVSGABA8AAEU9nRVCmwFAgIlHfs/AF6CmRJGWm4AA-w

With the stacks of might I can provide on myself, I have a bit more attack power then what I normally run. Of course DPS is greatly diminished without any stacks of might. And again, it’s circumstancial at best. Either way I like it.

Erm… hmm, nevermind. There are way, way, way too many things that I disagree with in your two build editor links for me to give proper insight on

I understand that you aren’t trying to optimize your combat efficacy, which is fine.

You should do what pleases you— I just posted because I didn’t like reading things like “you should be running PS” spread around, that’s all. It’s fine if someone wants to use it, but I don’t find it fine to tell people that in any circumstance people should be using it.

It reminds me of when everybody was making a huge deal about how warriors should always be bringing EA, when the reality was that the trait was crippling more than it was beneficial in every circumstance besides FGSing a boss down (which is now nerfed).

Either way, glad to have shared opinions here with you guys!

Thanks for this message, I was in Arah for 2 mins and was removed because I wasn’t a PS Warrior. The person told me, they could spend several hours explaining how PS is better than all other warrior builds and he would make me look like a fool. I countered explaining how PS isn’t always the best. He then said, “forget this, I’m not running with this guy!” and kicked me lol.

Kravick.4906:

No one likes underwater combat in this game because its horribly, horribly unbalanced.

Its been neglected so much that when ANet redid the trait system, they completely removed all the traits that affected underwater weapons and skills.

Forceful Greatsword Warrior Trait:
Gain might on a critical hit with a greatsword or spear. Greatsword and spear skills deal more damage and recharge faster.

Spear is an underwater weapon, other underwater traits still exist.

Tasao.4623:

I was also disappointed in Daredevil’s poor area abilities. I’d really like to try giving up Shortbow for Pistol but because Thieves have no area option aside from Shortbow, that’s impossible. I was hoping Daredevil would bring in like an AoE knockdown leg sweep and broad staff swing attacks so you could use Staff for AoE and pull out Pistol/Pistol for ranged damage but that doesn’t look like it’s happening.

I agree, I was hoping staff would be an alternative aoe solution to Shortbow. Now I’m caught between deciding whether I want D\D or the staff. D\D has the same range and the ability to stealth. Staff is slower speed, can blind and have vulnerability with evades. I guess staff is good for a thief that doesn’t rely heavily on stealth. I don’t know, will think about it more before BWE3.

DareDevil
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Staff range and number of targets it can hit are the same as D\D. It would make sense if the Staff range was longer, like 180 instead of 130.
Staff #2 does not face an enemy that is targeted.

Berserker
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Berserker was the only elite specialization that I could not initially figure out how to activate. Is it possible to put F1 and F2 next to each other? It was hard to see F2 behind F1 and making F2 transparent did not help matters. However, the elite specialization is incredible.

An update to whether the Beta Weekend achievements apply to the main account would be nice.

Any updated news on the warhorn whoopie cushion?

Misguided.5139:

You can buy multiples at that price from the inventory of individual characters.

Wow thank you

As far as I remember, in previous years the bag slot was on sale and it could be bought multiple times. The sale on 9/1, only allows us to buy the bag once at the reduced price. Is this really intentional? Been holding out for the bag slot sell for months. Thank you.

FrizzFreston.5290:

Vayne.8563:

But the portion of the people who post on forums are going to be the most dedicated people, because it takes effort outside the game. Most casual players aren’t going to post here and those are going to be the ones most affected.

Players who post on forums aren’t always the most dedicated. Casual players aren’t always the ones who are giving up the easiest.

“Casual players aren’t always the ones who are giving up the easiest. " I agree.

BondageBill.4021:

Galen Grey.4709:

BondageBill.4021:

On the topic of clearly defining what you get for the $50 HoT price tag, I want to know if purchasing HoT will guarantee access to the full LS releases post HoT. Many people are assuming HoT will entitle them to all future content (until the next xpac), but ANet has already shown us that they are willing to charge existing customers for LS content.

didnt they also show us they’re willing to give it to us for free?

though to add to this, we unfortunately also showed them that when they give us stuff for free we use it against them so…..

Frankly, unless otherwise stated by ANet, I can only assume their current LS pricing policy remains intact. I certainly do not want to buy HoT, then get charged for LS content that is likely going to round out the main HoT storyline.

Living Story comes out after the main story line stuff has been done for awhile. If you login during the 2 week window, you’ll get Living Story for free.

Sariel V.7024:

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Tomorrow is tuesday yeeh???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6A6pMO_WKM

hang on I am furiously knocking on wood now.

But now all I can think about is this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c

Could be far worse

Lol xD

August 25th Update:
Fields of Ruin:
Fixed several bugs in the Ogre Wars meta-event that could cause the event chain to stall or lock.

Thanks Anet!!

In the Waypoint Conundrum Mission, Taimi’s audio line “Everyone stand back,…” is silent. In Rallying the Call mission, Kasmeer first conversation with the Sylvari warden was silent. Audio quality is set to medium, i’ll try moving it to faster for future missions.

In all honesty, this event chain has been bugged for years. A better solution would probably be to recreate the chain from the ground up. Or make a new simpler event chain but everyone is mostly working on HoT now ><.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

reapex.8546:

mrstealth.6701:

Fractal Exotic Equipment boxes, like any other special box/bag, will accept any item. The only special feature they have is pulling the specific item type to them. If the Fractal box is the first available free slot in your inventory, it will be used for the next item you obtain no matter what that item is. They will never refuse an item that doesn’t match their item type.

To effectively use these boxes, they need to be farther down in your inventory. Leave standard boxes/bags in the first slots, and allow the special boxes to drag items down to them.

That’s totally strange and in my opinion, should be redesigned. Intuitively, people would think the inventory would look at items from top to bottom not bottom to top. Also, I feel the behavior of the bag should be change to: Use an exotic equipment bag for normal items when all other non exotic bags are filled. But I know this is up to ArenaNet to implement this.

Thank you for the useful insight, I’m not sure about reordering the bags of each of my characters after 2+ years but I may have to work with this backward design.

Regardless, this isn’t a bug so much as the design not match expectations for a significant portion of the community (even as it does match expectations for a different subset of players).

Yup, thank you for the added information.

This bug existed since 2014, several people have reported the Mordem Thrasher Champion does not attack in Iron Marches, at Monger’s Sink. Several in-game reports have been made.

Also, the flame thrower event to kill the vines is not functioning normally. The flame thrower that is suppose to be really effective at killing is weak and normal weapons do more damage than the flamethrower. My autoattack does above 350 damage, while the flame thrower does 85 damage.

Murmaider.1805:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It looks like you are in the Vault in LA. Have you tried going to a different BLTC NPC? I’ve noticed not all the NPCs in the Vault offer the same services.

Good luck.

Thank you! I just went into EBG and was able to pick it up.. So is this a bug or working as intended? I was using the Black Lion Merchants in LA

The one at the vault doesn’t work to pick up items, however I feel it should.

mrstealth.6701:

Fractal Exotic Equipment boxes, like any other special box/bag, will accept any item. The only special feature they have is pulling the specific item type to them. If the Fractal box is the first available free slot in your inventory, it will be used for the next item you obtain no matter what that item is. They will never refuse an item that doesn’t match their item type.

To effectively use these boxes, they need to be farther down in your inventory. Leave standard boxes/bags in the first slots, and allow the special boxes to drag items down to them.

That’s totally strange and in my opinion, should be redesigned. Intuitively, people would think the inventory would look at items from top to bottom not bottom to top. Also, I feel the behavior of the bag should be change to: Use an exotic equipment bag for normal items when all other non exotic bags are filled. But I know this is up to ArenaNet to implement this.

Thank you for the useful insight, I’m not sure about reordering the bags of each of my characters after 2+ years but I may have to work with this backward design.

Solution: Restart Game Client
Weird, I restarted the game and the fog is gone now. I restarted because I was getting skill lag.

When I logged in today, there was a noticeable increase in fog at a distance in the game. I went through all the graphics settings and could barely reduce it. I thought it was just me but another person stated my character’s armor was brighter than what it normally is. My extremely dark blue is now a lighter shade of blue on my character. I haven’t changed his dye in years lol. The world map looks normal, its just the environment that is different. Has anyone notice a graphics change for their client on 8/19?

I wasn’t able to narrow down the problem with my inventory sorting until recently. The issue is, the Fractal Exotic Equipment Box accepts all items. I made a new character that has one Fractal Exotic Equipment box and 4 Fractal Uncommon Equipment boxes. Blue and Green armor\weapons, crafting materials, and runes are automatically being put in the Exotic Equipment bag (despite having 3 empty uncommon boxes available). GW2 is treating the Exotic Equipment Box as a generic box to put any item in. The exotic box is the first box used in my inventory.

I believe, I submitted an in-game bug report 1 month ago about the issue. Wanted to create a forum post in case anyone has any additional thoughts to this problem.

Since, last week update ranger pets are a bit more timid when it comes to fighting the world boss Golem Mark II. They would rather stay by the player than go out there to fight. If you go into melee range they’ll attack sometimes.

acheymonkey.4397:

I agree, I have always wanted a follow button. The game play ends up being better and I am able to go afk and take a break for a second. Follow button is needed. Follow Button Master Race. Why is there not a follow button?

Easier to bot farm with several accounts.

Rukral.2870:

I’ve got a concern about the ascended rebreathers coming up in Heart of Thorns. I spent most of Wintersday grinding in PvP to snag myself one of these fine looking Rime-Rimmed Mariner’s Rebreather. The problem with it is, the visual effect on the rebreather is specific to the item itself. It doesn’t act as a skin, meaning that it can’t be reskinned onto other rebreathers.

I’d hope that when Heart of Thorns comes out, Arenanet addresses this and makes the Rime-Rimmed a proper wardrobe skin so that I can upgrade my rebeather without losing such a wonderful looking skin. If not that, create a method of upgrading the Rime-Rimmed to Ascended status, some form of compromise that allows us to keep the visual effect without having to give up an ascended slot.

I thought it was a part of the wardrobe, if it isn’t it definitely should be imo.

Zaklex.6308:

Hmm, Norn…known hunters and are prone to just rush headlong into danger without thinking…I’d almost think it was normal for them to rush ahead like Braham did, do it wouldn’t be something that would register as urgent to a Norn Pact Commander, whether female or male…at least that’s how I’d see it, but then I’ll have to hear myself to really decide.

The missing question is…what did you think of Mordremoths voice, or did you not notice it?

Yeah, I’m thinking female norn were like…I have to pretend to act concern since I’m the Pact Commander but really I’m ok with him running ahead. lol

About Mordremoth:
I didn’t play on my Sylvari that weekend so I missed it, I will have to make a Sylvari for next time ><. Thank you for the heads up!

The Wizland.8435:

Shiro doesn’t sound nice to me. He doesn’t insult you or make great boasts, but he has that tone of contempt and a couple lines where he makes demands (such as releasing him). The way he talks makes it sound like he feels insulted by this. I haven’t played GW1, but I think I like how he acts now.

Interesting, thank you for your thoughts

Taellan.3654:

Inimicus.7162:

The basic story of the “Dragon Hunter” is that of a religious/judicial (or vigilante) individual or organization who “… believes justice is the eradication of dragons and their minions.”

This makes sense, but I agree that “dragonhunter” is still a bit off. If they insist on keeping dragon in the name, I think “dragonbane” is more accurate and rolls off the tongue better.

Dragonborne!

jweez.7214:

Last night I came to the realization that for the first time in my 10 years of playing MMOs. I am not excited about the potential story paths that an expansion has to offer. Upon further thinking I found out why I am uninterested; HOT (and gw2 as a whole) has IMO the worst villains ever for an MMO franchise.

The dragons don’t have anything to make them interesting and because anet won’t definitively take them out of the “dragons are a force of nature” category they remain a flat dry and boring part of the story (a rather large part at that).

Please anet at least create some cool champions of mordremoth who have a background and a cunning plot deeper than I must consume then go take a nappy nap.

So what do you guys think? Do you find the dragons to be a good villain in gw2? Why or why not? Is it not a big deal that they are boring? To me the villain is a huge amount of the story and I play mmos in a large part for the story.

Sounds like you want Scarlet to return

Vigorous Raven.1826:

Loved all the PC voices, except female norn.
Female norn are ascetically my favourite but I’ve always been substantially disappointed with her voice actor who permanently sounds bored.
I had high hopes for her voice work in HoT, I thought “yeah hopefully Anet had time to redirect her performance this time?”
Oh, how wrong was I?
She’s somehow gotten worse and I am not really sure.
I cannot describe how low my voice dropped when the Braham thing happened and she said her lines as if it was nothing.
The female charr is amazing but my days, what the heck is wrong with the female norn?! She’s literally terrible.
There is no point playing a blame game but her dialogue needs to be revoiced if possible (obviously by her).
All the other PCs sound really great and emotionally involved…she sounds like just reading off the page and not that interested.

I agree about the Female Norn sounding completely bored in the story, I have no idea if the Male Norn sounds the same.

anduriell.6280:

So there are two dailies that are Fractals. So if you want to get the daily reward you have to do Fractals YES or YES, or go to WvW or PvP..

I don’t do Fractals, i hate the toxicity in the community that plays that content, simply because i roll a ranger and those are speed runs mostly that kick out any player that don’t fit the meta.
I’m not in a guild that do fractals often neither. Anyway somehow after doing some of them because of mawdrey i learn to dislike that content because of the poor experience the random LFG there.

I’d like them to fix that, i should have the choice to be able to do dailies without have to suffer some content i actually don’t find fun.

You don’t have to do fractals to finish your daily, you have a ton of options out there. For example there is a custom pvp room for dailies, you stand still do nothing and you get credit for the daily. You said, your server is deserted for WvW. So cap a ruin on your home borderland instead. You have the outnumbered buff going for you too. When it comes to fractals, you can do a level 1 fractal very easily. Also, level 1 fractals aren’t competitive since you said you dislike being competitive. A level 30, character can do fractals scale 1 rather easily and its just one out of four maps required. So, you join a group get the daily and leave within 18 mins.

The following are my general experience in BWE1:

Shiro Voiceover
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The voice for Shiro is awesome but when switching to him as a human he says, “I have returned to fight at your side.” I guess 250 years of torture made him nice? Or he’s probably just happy to do something else than be tortured. What I’m really saying is, I would expect character to say something like…“I have RETURNED!!!!!”. He said a similar line when being resurrected in GW1. It would be a great throwback to have him use the same or similar line.

Story Mode Thoughts
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My female Norn’s voice when Braham ran away was very calm. Almost like, no big deal he’s just running into enemy territory. While my male and female human, were very upset and was talking very forcefully to Braham about his actions. I’m not sure the Norn are suppose to act relaxed or not.
Laranthir of the Wild first voice over does not play (when you first meet him).
Thought we had to fight he worm in story mode when it appears in the first story instance cinema but could not find it anywhere.

Verdant Brink Pocket Raptors
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I like how the Pocket Raptors are actually dangerous, earlier I would just run by them.

Stronghold Overtime Thoughts
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Stronghold is very fun now, thanks! However, I don’t fully understand the conditions for the overtime mechanic to occur. It would be helpful there was a pop up window at the start of the match that explained this. Like the same window that appears during Conquest matches.

Tempest
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Ele Torch
Cyclone Air – Pull range is very limited (180 range), like magnetic earth shield. Would be nice if the range was 240.

Mastery System
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The explanation on how to use mastery points is a lot better than the closed betas, imo. After completing one track, I realized its just like the PvP Rewards Track system.

Guildies also reported they cannot continue Victory or Death due to the cannon bug at the beginning.

femalehumanmeta.8351:

Based on previous anniversary sales, I doubt we’ll be seeing any eyewear or bunny ears. Here’s a list of the previous anniversary sales items for people interested.

http://dulfy.net/2013/08/24/gw2-ten-days-of-anniversary-sale-items-revealed/
http://dulfy.net/2014/08/22/gw2-2nd-anniversary-10-day-gemstore-sale/

anet said the bunny ears are coming back

Same, since personal story was restored…I thought dialogue wouldn’t be missing. But I guess it could have been taken out for a reason.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

reapex.8546:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

reapex.8546:

We completed Guild Bounty tier 1 today, for the first time this week, and received 0 merit points and no reward chest. The guild history says the Bounty Hunt was completed.

I recommend taking a screen shot of the guild’s history tab, filtered on “missions” and showing that no bounty was completed in the last 5 days. Submit a ticket to Customer Service to see what they can do.

I haven’t seen other guilds reporting the same issue, which means there’s a relatively narrow scope to the problem and the CS should be able to help troubleshoot.

Good luck and let us know what you find out.

No problem, on the day the incident occurred. Myself and others took a screenshot of the guild mission, in the G panel, showing it was completed. It also showed 0 merit points were rewarded and we did an ingame report via the game interface, with the screenshot. Also, Guild bounties are suppose to reset every 7 days according to wiki. Are you saying they change it to reset ever 5 days?

I just checked the Guild History, it believes we did a guild bounty 5 days ago but we didn’t. We only do Guild Bounties once every seven days. We never do Guild Missions on Mondays, so its like the guild history we have is false. Very odd but thank you.

“Once a week” isn’t quite the same as “once every seven days” or the strictly accurate “once until the next reset,” which takes place on Sunday midnight (server time).

Regarding the guild bounty on Monday…could someone have triggered it? It’s possible to “solo” bounties (esp if some other guild is ‘capturing’ the relevant target at the same time). Some guilds have officers who do a “make up” session mid-week and maybe one of yours took initiative without notifying anyone.

Anyhow, regardless of the circumstances, you have the right documentation to present to support. Hopefully, they can figure out what’s going on.

Good luck and please let us know what you find out.

We just figured it out, there was a rare exception that we did one guild bounty on Saturday. We forgot about it throughout the week, so the error was on my part. My mistake and thank you for your help.