Guild Wars 2

Genoshock.2104:

With Monk support at the battlefield we will be able to have team deathmatch and epic duels, in GvG arenas and Heroes’ Ascent and bring back all the playboy titles that go along with it to make it super competitive and fun.

I only disagree with the Monk profession in GW2. There are already people asking for Zerker only. Going back to the GW1 LF1M Monk, wait 20 mins for one Monk to decide to join…yeah no thank you. Then there are some players that become full of themselves as Monks, “You were mean to me? No Heals For you!” But are Monks really needed in GW2? In my opinion they are not because all the content in GW2 can be done without Monks.

However, if you really really want a healer type class I would suggest the Elementalist with the trait Aquatic Benevolence, Cleric gear, full water trait line with reduce recharge of water magic skills, Runes of the Monk. Then use water blast combos for Area Healing and more.

Aomine.5012:

Took me 5 seconds to figure this out…
Next time try it first before you ask something on forum.

Aomine, just because it takes “you” 5 seconds to figure it out doesn’t mean it takes other “5 seconds to figure out.” You should get over yourself and realize you are not a benchmark figure representative of the entire human race of gamers, you’ll be wise to learn this lesson and not just assume people did not try to resolve an issue on their own. Another lesson for you, if a problem was resolve and you have nothing positive to add sometimes its better not to say anything at all. Especially when the issue does not impact you in the least.

Evan Lesh.3295:

The content direction system should not be showing in PvP. This is a bug and we are working on fixing it. For now you can turn it off in the general options panel.

Thank you.

Lol thank you Ellesee

The new event monitor gets in the way of sPvP. It keeps notifying players that a new event is active in the team arena matches. The yellow/white event circle covers up the control point completely on the mini map, throughout the match it keeps notifying us a new event is up. The event circle moves between control points randomly, having an option to disable this new “helpful feature” would be great.

yeah things are working fine for me today

Thanks Dime, glad i’m not the only one. Lot of skills are flashing more than prior to this update.

Been getting skill lag since the minor update AFTER the feature patch, anyone else experiencing the same? Occurs mainly at World Bosses.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Well, don’t rush things and waste a thread.
Didn’t you miss the indicator?

That’s proof that the could be better. More obvious.

For example, a little orange star icon in the corner of those items with skins you haven’t unlocked yet.

I agree, change the color of the white text ‘unlock’ to another color when you preview over it; Like to Cyan or something.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Relshdan.6854:

i’d rather ascended gear earned in fractals be unbound and sellable on the TP

I’m actually surprised they haven’t done this yet. Making ascended gear sellable on the TP would really do wonders for those of us who do not wish to craft at all for this sort of thing (and who are unlucky with the drops). Plus it’d probably lead to a decrease in cost for Legendaries and Precursors considering Legendaries use Ascended stats.

Ascended gear seems to be for something you works towards while legendary is something you have to buy. Sure you can buy the components for an ascended item off the trading post, but you’ll have to craft it for yourself. I like that you can’t buy ascended items on the TP, hopefully they’ll keep it that way.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

DiogoSilva.7089:

All those changes are important because they fix the several flaws that GW2 has early game: the lack of a sense of progression, poor tutorials, directionless, forgottable rewards and jumpy story instances that forced you to level up midway, interrupting the flow of the story.

So far, this feature patch is great for new players, but, what about the veteran players? It doesn’t seems to offer much to make us stick to the game.

More information will be released next week about features that are more suited to veteran players.

So far the minis being account bound is ok, more achievements is ok, adding the spoons to be found is ok too. But without an actual expansion, as in many NEW maps to explore and the temporary living story arc as a filler to the main Personal Story. I feel, Anet will find many vet players that find these updates lacking. There are veteran players out there that want to fully explore the content known as Tyria. These areas include, the Crystal Desert, Fire Island Chain, Blood Legion Homelands, and more.

Dry Top was a good start but I have a feeling that area was chosen because in GW1 there was barely anything there. Which gave the Living Story team a chance to expand on the area without having strong ties to the original Dry Top in GW1. Which means less work but a new map. I understand creating new map areas will take time for GW2. Yet, I hope Anet understands that many MMOs including GW1 would have release several new maps (in a pack or expansion) all at once. However, this week isn’t over so hopefully Anet is saving the best update announcement for veteran players for last.

Grats, I use to use the wiimote in GW1 and L4D2. Thanks for the post

DarcShriek.5829:

Stiofan.6720:

Only in the title I’m afraid, Guild wars 2 is nothing like guild wars 1. Why do you think all the guild wars 1 vets are depressed these days, They’ve realised what guild wars 2 really is.

Not all the GW1 vets are depressed. Some of us actually enjoy this game. Please don’t lump me into your negative fantasy.

I’m not depressed, I like both games but I do like the content in GW1 more but I prefer GW2 combat.

Dayra.7405:

Relshdan.6854:

probably not worth the developer effort.
…but i do miss the old days of 3-5 manning world bosses during off hours

Me too.

Can still 3 – 5 man Fire Shaman, Ogre, not to mention Dredge, oh and the new Mordrem champion, and more

Spira.4578:

Don’t get me wrong, the leveling experience IS important, however most of the upcoming features from this feature pack should have already been introduced to the game at least a year ago,
when many players were still leveling up their characters.

TL;DR: Please ANET, listen to us.

I found your post mirror several of my thoughts but I’ll wait to see what the update is next week. An actual announcement of an expansion and not a living story “filler” for the main story would be most welcome. Although, LS2 is great in my opinion.

Anet said, Tequatl was buffed because Zhaitan was killed. If Shatterer is buffed, then he’ll have to become 2x as strong when Kralkattorrik is killed some years later.

Otaur.9268:

As a WvW player I envy your “ascended bank tab” as I would love to see these ascended drops. Even exotics are super rare for me though.

I think exotic rings are harder to obtain than ascended rings in fractals.

Why not have them salvage into materials required for 500 jeweler, like Xunlai Ingots? Anything really, just want space back and I can stop avoiding fractals due to the high ring drop rate.

We choose, salvage ascended gear option coming this year? It was being worked on December last year, I thought.
- also -
Any insight on a full campaign of new maps next year to expand Tyria? Right now living story is like a filler for a tv series.

For people that run fractals a lot, we have over 2 bank panes full of ascended rings. If a way to salvage these rings doesn’t come soon we will run out of bank space. Should we just sell them to the merchant? Because if a patch change that doesn’t allow us to do this soon, I’ll be forced to get rid of them before the next year.

Aerinndis.2730:

I have been wondering if those Foxfire clusters will need to be used for the Cultivated Seed in the next step for the back piece. Wiki says, “The first seed cultivated and produced by your own hand. To cultivate this specimen to be even better than the last, perhaps another type of magically infused clay pot is necessary.” If so we really should have space in the crafting bank for those. I am saving the ones I have found so far after crafting the back piece just in case.

You were right, its being used for the exotic and ascended ><

J Eberle.9312:

I got bored so yeh.

Didn’t Dancia warn about images like these?

Jerus.4350:

reapex.8546:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

stachekiller.2591:

The easy and obvious fix that would “fix” this and perhaps to a lesser degree FGS would be to make it so he doesn’t get stuck in the wall. No need for negating reflect on another boss. That would be a reasonable fix and would make him slightly harder.

But doing this is so much fun!

I don’t think FGS should be fix, Lupi just shouldn’t be able to kill himself by reflecting his own damage back at him. The Jungle Wurm was like that and ArenaNet fixed it 2 weeks later.

So FGS is ok, but reflects aren’t, care to elaborate as to why?

I never said reflects weren’t ok. I said Lupi should not be able to reflect himsself to death (as withing 10 seconds). Look at the great jungle wurm, mesmers use to kill it within 3 seconds with one feedback, now they can’t. But feedback works just fine.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

stachekiller.2591:

The easy and obvious fix that would “fix” this and perhaps to a lesser degree FGS would be to make it so he doesn’t get stuck in the wall. No need for negating reflect on another boss. That would be a reasonable fix and would make him slightly harder.

But doing this is so much fun!

I don’t think FGS should be fix, Lupi just shouldn’t be able to kill himself by reflecting his own damage back at him. The Jungle Wurm was like that and ArenaNet fixed it 2 weeks later.

Protoavis.9107:

I imagine they will eventually, I think right now (and whenever new mats are released) it’s better (for the economy) for them to not be bankable since it “encourages” more people to put them on the TP which causes their price to settle far more quickly. If they were bankable people would just deposit to bank with all the other mats and not really think about it.

If Anet, was really thinking along those lines I would be very impressed by the out of the box thinking.

Taygus.4571:

Devilsmack.5736:

Also, will it be permanent? Cuz I just moved and have no Internet access, so I wanna know if I will be able to catch up to gathering them by next week when I get my Internet service back.

yes, all LS2 will be permanent.

It’s a perm. drop, like blade shards, only, can trade it this time! Great for those who no long have a use for it.

Yup, definitely works if you only want to make one backpack and sell the other materials

np and that would be awesome

Craft through discovery or use recipes from karma vendors to gain more experience. You don’t have to use the TP to level.

Great job with the armor!

Foxfire is a crafting material but we can’t deposit it into our collectibles pane. Its not a trophy item, so why can’t we deposit it? Can Foxfire be changed to a crafting material item?

Today, I was able to login immediately no delay so I guess whatever the issue was has been resolved…. I didn’t think of winsock fix thanks.

Yup needed to close the game out and when I returned back to Connection Error(s) detected retrying. I guess its something on Anet’s end like maybe a server isn’t responding fast enough so it gives the timeout message.

Update:
Try #3. I left the window up and it tried connecting about 6 times. The login screen then appeared and I was able to login just fine.

After the game advisor log I tried one more time (21st try) and I was able to login. No change was made on my end.

Yup, I know the feeling. An update was just released today and back to getting connection error, no error code. Can’t get 7/30 update. Downloading 0KB, Connection errors detected, retrying . Today update said it fixed a server crash. No client fixes.

Update:
10th try. Was able to start downloading (in admin mode with firewall on). When attempting to reach the login screen, client showed: Connection errors detected, retrying.

After 20th time, ran game advisor. Had timeout problems after my packet reached ncsoft. Its like I never got the packet back from ncsoft.

GAME ADVISOR:
============
auth1.101.arenanetworks.com
64.25.38.72:6112 – connect succeeded
64.25.38.51:6112 – connect succeeded
64.25.38.171:6112 – connect succeeded
64.25.38.172:6112 – connect succeeded
64.25.38.54:6112 – connect succeeded

auth2.101.arenanetworks.com
206.127.159.107:80 – connect succeeded
206.127.159.109:80 – connect succeeded
206.127.146.74:80 – connect succeeded
206.127.146.73:80 – connect succeeded
206.127.159.77:80 – connect succeeded
206.127.159.108:80 – connect succeeded
206.127.159.107:6112 – connect succeeded
206.127.159.109:6112 – connect succeeded
206.127.146.74:6112 – connect succeeded
206.127.146.73:6112 – connect succeeded
206.127.159.77:6112 – connect succeeded
206.127.159.108:6112 – connect succeeded

auth1.101.arenanetworks.com
64.25.38.72:80 – connect succeeded
64.25.38.51:80 – connect succeeded
64.25.38.171:80 – connect succeeded
64.25.38.172:80 – connect succeeded
64.25.38.54:80 – connect succeeded

File1.ArenaNetworks.com
64.25.39.21:6112 – connect succeeded
64.25.39.21:80 – connect succeeded

Diag.ArenaNetworks.com
64.25.39.21:6112 – connect succeeded
206.127.158.31:6112 – connect succeeded
64.25.39.21:80 – connect succeeded
206.127.158.31:80 – connect succeeded

origincdn.101.arenanetworks.com
64.25.41.2:80 – connect succeeded
=========

However, I get timeout errors:
———————————————————————
Route for [GW2 Auth Gate:US/EU] (64.25.38.171)
———————————————————————
….
9 12.122.117.97
10 192.205.33.42
11 dls-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.246.72]
12 ncsoft [213.248.102.146]
13 64.25.32.26
14 64.25.32.82
15 * * *
Computing statistics for 350 seconds…

→ canceled by GameAdvisor due to timeout(500 sec)

Fuin.8361:

Dry Top doesn’t have the big zergs we had last year.. and were quite fun imo.
I also find it a pity, but I’ll just keep doing events in Dry Top.

Ton of people hate big zerg only content too XD

Hi Gaile,

I’m getting the errors again today. There is no error code. Only that is stated is “Connection error(s) detected. Retrying…” Running in admin mode and deleted GW2.tmp. Firewall also disabled, GW1 loads just fine.

Update:
5th try. Ran in admin mode with firewall disabled and the login screen appeared this time. Had the fire wall disable for 3 other attempts, so I’m not sure what the issue is but this started on 7/29.

6th try. I exited out of the login because I wanted to run the game without admin rights. Since running the game in admin mode interferes with push to talk. However, I started receiving the same connection errors detected message.

7th try. Went back to admin mode but connection errors detected. Can’t login again.

8th try. Was able to login this time via admin. I’ll just run the push to talk program as admin. That way I can at least play and talk again lol. Oh and my firewall was enabled when I was able to connect this time. So doesn’t seem like the firewall is the issue either.

I deleted GW2.tmp and now I am able to login could have been a coincidence.

I deleted GW2.tmp and now I am able to login could have been a coincidence.

I didn’t have this problem until the 2nd build update that was released about 30 mins ago. Now I cannot login.

After the 2nd game build, I am unable to login with the GW2 Client. I get to the username / password area. But receive the following error when logging in: Connection failed. Please try again. Is this happening with anyone else after the second update?

Marcos.3690:

1) pvp is dead
2) hotjoin is bad

1) pvp is alive, stop spreading false rumors
2) hotjoin is good for trying out new builds, imo

Thank you cheese.

She’s still bug as of 7/23/2014.
Wiki’s solution:
Detha Tremblebones will occasionally not trigger the flooded temple event required to progress the dungeon. As a workaround, players can lure Gravelings into the room and have them kill her. Upon revival, Detha will proceed with the event as intended.

sazberryftw.3809:

No I just didn’t personally interpret it as a dragon. I saw it more as the orbs crashed together (to me, representing Zhaitan being destroyed, or Mordremoth attacking) and corruption spreading. I just wondered if I’d missed something completely obvious. I just felt like, as I am the player, she came out saying “I SAW THE DRAGON!” and that isn’t what the real me sat here saw.

I also don’t see how every character in the game see the middle as the Pale Tree. I look at it and that’s FAR from what I would have thought first. I just found it really weird to have my character/the NPCs interpret something a way that seemed odd to me.

I understand your pov, it was really abstract which is what they were going for. Probably not to give spoilers to what the dragons look like and lock them into a personal design of them.

To boldy go where no moose has gone before.

Wolf.5816:

Thank you for nerfing the bird.

Woot lol

Can there be an option to report players that leech? Or do we report them another an exist category like verbal abuse, even though its not verbal abuse?

In GW1, we had an option to report players that refused to play and would barely move at the home base. This option is missing in GW2.

TylerWolff.7186:

The meta is berserker DPS and when it comes to …
If the game welcomed builds other than berserkers then the other professions would be worth playing, but ATM everyone should just play a warrior.

Why do people make posts like these and feel their perspective is more valid than others?

ah, thank you Aidan

Type in Nomad on the trading post. You’ll see several recipes that gold. Click on a recipe and you’ll see that it actually cost silver. The trading post has been inaccurate for about a month on particular items. I hope this will be resolved soon.

Note: Wasn’t sure whether to post this here or game bugs. I reported it last month with an in game bug report.