Guild Wars 2

Actually, I believe that for areas which had items added the total count will regress. I remember when they recently added 2 new hearts to Plains of Ashford that the counter for me regressed to 98% even though I had it completed.

Anyhow, not sure if it’s what you are going to do but check each area with the lists on wiki. The link I posted takes you to the articles related to each map too. I believe the wiki is more up-to-date than the website you were using as reference.

Good luck and let us know if you find what is missing.

P.S.: yeah I can understand that obsessive nature, I also feel bothered to see things uncompleted :P

That bug was fixed though:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug in which an incorrect number of available points of interest were shown on map loading screens.

Also, from what I recall I believe that the list at gw2.mmorpg-life.com is a bit out-dated. I have seen new pois added recently that aren’t in that list. Have you tried checking Wiki, mainly the list of commonly missed ones (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Map_completion#Commonly_missed_areas)? Maybe you can use http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Map_completion/table to check it some further.

Gerrod.4608:

Restore the original, non-level locked way of doing the personal story, that’s a better option.

Yeah, can’t agree more. Before those who wanted to do it in chunks could and those who wanted to do one at time too. Now, everyone is forced to do it in (*cough*stupid*cough*) chunks.

For those who didn’t see it:

BobbyStein.2315:

An update for those near the end of their Personal Story: The Victory or Death fix is undergoing testing currently. I don’t have a release date to share at this time, but I do want to let you know that things are in progress. Thanks for your patience.

And seriously, I can understand the frustration but please don’t overreact and lessen the drama, that instance isn’t the only thing in game. There are a lot of other content in the game that you can do while wait for the fix. If none of the other contents fit your likes, well then there is life out there too :P Just be patient, a fix was done and it’s in testing. Better a long and properly tested fix than a quick “amendment” that can bring up more issues.

Reignier.8506:

Just came back to this game after playing for a week or two at launch, so technically a new player. Anyways, leveled my first character to 80 and now I can’t progress any further because of this bug. Pretty sure Blizzard would have fixed something this broken in a few hours, and now I’m wondering why I moved to a game that is so broken. I should just go back to WoW.

I rely on the little pointer thing at the top to explore zones and now the green personal story won’t go away and I can’t change it. So I literally have nothing else to do but wait for this fix. Three days now.

Please fix this.

I can understand your frustration but I would tell you to not overreact. I know this is a game breaking bug and frustrating but it doesn’t mean the whole game is broken, there are a lot of stuff working normally. Also, this bug has only showed up on past days while that story instance has been working reasonably for around 3 years now. Don’t curse a whole system because a single issue.

Also, you can change the Content Guide (that green arrow at the top) to not show your Personal Story, just choose Disable Personal Story at Options > General > Content Guide.

Nick Danger.6405:

It would be nice if they had a page that simply listed reported bugs, what the status was on fixing them and perhaps an idea of how long they expected to take. It is friggin frustrating to start, restart and start again when it turns out it is a bug. This has been going on long enough and it would be nice to hear something other than “we are aware”. I am aware that the sun will finally burn out but that doesn’t help much.

Good point, I have already mentioned a while back something like that. Forums aren’t a good platform for tracking issues and I had even suggested using a Issue tracker software somehow and leave forums for discussions and stuff. It would help both sides and make reporting bugs a lot easier. Not sure what’s their position about this though.

Bas tian.1309:

at the end of the story, im stuck on the airship because i cant use the canons, tried it many times, also with others, but nothing worked, pls help

That’s an already known issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Victory-or-Death-Bug-merged/

Not sure if it’s the same you mean but it’s a known issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/norn-starting-area-bugged-3

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Map-completion-bugged-1

Yup, several threads about it on past days:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/amazing-2-year-old-bug-still-not-fixed/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Norn-Starting-area-bugged-1/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Norn-Starting-Area-Bugged-2/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Norn-Great-Hunt-bugged/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Norn-Starter-Mission-Bugged/

For sure there is something wrong with PoIs after last patch, see pic. Some people has reported it happening in other maps too:

For sure there is something wrong with PoIs, see pic:

Yes, on past days I have it happening frequently. It keeps throwing a 503 error (Service Unavailable) but I just swap tabs and it gets back working again. I don’t think it would be something at client side since error 503 means something at server side. It seems like TP servers are having some hiccup. Cleaning cache could help but I don’t think repairing the client would solve in this case.

Ok I Did It.2854:

This was posted several pages ago and seems to be overlooked,

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/198757/Guild_Wars_2.png

This bug is still ingame.

Not overlooked, they are very aware about that, just no reply/fix has been given to it yet.

RoseofGilead.8907:

shadow.6174:

Hmm, curiously it doesn’t seem to be merely a visual glitch.. If you see the map in http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Grove it’s showing only 5 pois while the table above says it should have a lot more. It means the API is reflecting exactly what is seen in game.

Well, the main map on the wiki only shows the third level of The Grove (the one that has the LA Asura Gate and exit to Caledon Forest), which shows you only 5 of the 19 POIs found across all four of the levels. If you click on the images for the other levels (at the bottom of the page), you’ll see the POIs for the other three levels.

I meant that interactive map, that one is supposed to show all landmarks available in the map, no matter what level. That interactive map fetches info directly from API that reflects what’s in the servers. The images you mention were screenshots from the game taken a while back and each image shows one level, as we always have seen them.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ok, guys. This is a bug, and it has been entered into the fix list.

Thanks for the reports!

Lol, good job killing theories. :P Joke aside, yes I was expecting it was a bug, even if it would really have to do with elite specializations and such I’m sure it would not be supposed to happen anyhow. Let’s hope it gets fixed quickly, my OCD is twitching already :P

Gaile Gray.6029:

I’ve asked our QA Team leads about this, as I know you’d like to know more. Is it a bug? Is it a feature? Time will tell and we’ll post an update when we have more info.

Maybe I’m mistaken but with that sentence you may have just confirmed some suspects :P

Vanadis.6284:

I’m going to pull out my tin foil hat for this one and say that all the classes where the exclamation show up are ones that have their elite specializations announced, so maybe there is a hidden elite specialization trait line that the game thinks we haven’t spent points in. Elite Specialization in next beta confirmed?!

Hmm… https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-first-beta-weekend-event-begins-august-7/ :P

EKAN.4051:

Hiz Father.5186:

I don’t see the SMAA options in my graphics settings, I don’t think they were properly added to the game.

Same here, no option to turn it on.

It’s not a separated option, it’s one of the choices for Anti-aliasing.

RoseofGilead.8907:

The map UI for some of the cities is broken/wrong. It’s showing that there are only 5 pois for The Grove, 8 for Rata Sum, 16 for DR, and 22 for Hoelbrak.

Hmm, curiously it doesn’t seem to be merely a visual glitch.. If you see the map in http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Grove it’s showing only 5 pois while the table above says it should have a lot more. It means the API is reflecting exactly what is seen in game.

Same happens to me, It’s the only tab that doesn’t highlight when there are new messages. I kept losing chats and complaints about ignoring due that.

Neeja.4579:

I think that all the people who logged in during the infamous patch is having this.
It’s probably caused by the fact that training was reset and now is full again.

I also have this by the way.

Not actually, I have only logged in after the patch which fixed the reset issue and i’m getting this exclamation mark every time I waypoint.

Pretty annoying indeed. It happens whenever I waypoint, either same map or not.

Edit: Title changed to show the focus of this thread: constant sudden black screens.

On past weeks I have been constantly getting random disconnects, no lag and all but out of nowhere my screen goes black and my only resort is closing the client. Curiously I can open Options window but not else, no Log Out or anything else.

And just now I got even more angry. I have constantly been unable to complete Mark Golem as I kept being disconnected right when the even finished. For twice in a row I have lost credit completely, with no chest due this kitten disconnect. A few days ago I was playing it fine but so soon it reached 2%, poof I went. When I came back I was put in a different server instance and then no chest at all. I’m not sure it’s my connection only as everything else is fine (no skill lag or unresponsiveness, in-game ping looking usual).

And today (to help with the frustration we just had a patch pending) so soon the golem spawned my skills got unresponsive. And to my amusement even though I had golem clearly selected as target my Combat log kept showing I was hitting a Scale Drake >.< And then, out of nowhere (at least from my view) the completion song played and people in chat talked as it was done, but I got NO event credit, not even that ground chest. And to add the cherry on top, just after that… poof, black screen and then game started patching.

Luckily, I got a second chance today at least… After the game patched I logged in back and I was put in a map with the event still running (I was luck to not die as I was standing almost in the middle on it) and at 50%. At least I could complete it on this second chance and got some reward. But guess what? Around 2 min after it was completed, poof I went again with that kitten black screen….

Again, I don’t think it’s on my side only. I had been fine on these events before the patch before this last. There must be something wrong somewhere.

uh-oh, someone used a previous version of code for the latest patch? :P Boy I hate when accidental rollbacks happens with code :P

Joseto.4509:

start the game and have graphic problems, then i restart the game and fix it, but when start again the game have the same problem

Huh, back to 2D 16 bits era? :P

Chasind.3128:

I have my accounts linked, gw1 & gw2 with Hall of Monuments, the titles I did earn have been taken away along with my AP. 1k ap gone lol wow. Way to go anet.

If you were unfairly affected try to contact Customer Support, they will help you to sort stuff out.

brently.7946:

I got a letter saying I was one of the recipients of GWAMM unrightfully. Thing is… I NEVER had that unlocked in gw1 or gw2 so I dont even know why I would be getting this letter. Top it off, you decided to remove all of my achievements from HoM. What the actual kitten is anyone at anet ever doing. Does anyone EVER test kitten before releasing it? Or is your goal always to break kitten worse than it is?

Well, they had been very thorough with removing undeserved things from people affected by that bug, but things aren’t always perfect despite all. As I stated above, if you were wrongly affected try to contact Customer Support.

Yup, I saw in another thread that it happens when using German, changing to English seems to get it back to normal.

Kidel.2057:

ScribeTheMad.7614:

My MF is down from 94 to 86%, is that the permanent boosts from achievement points not being applied?

oh crap. I hope that the real mf bonus is the full one and that’s just a UI problem.

Possibly, I have heard about a similar issue on past: UI showed a value but the real value applied was different.

No problem. I just recalled this thread when I saw it in the patch notes.

Kidel.2057:

Nightbringer Tenchi.5794:

So, Scholor Alti stole my HoM Titles. having spent the 7 years in gw1 AND having my accounts linked since launch of GW2 and now not getting my titles, is this part of the bugs or am i missing something?

My opinion? The HoM fix is what caused the achievement bug.

I suspect the same too…

Edit: No, it seems it’s not related and looks to be a visual bug, data is intact…

Just to quote a dev:

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Today’s problems are unrelated to the HOM fix.

[..] For now it looks to be display only and character specific. My live character is affected and I can’t change my traits, but they are still active. It is extremely wonky and counterintuitive to look at.

Simcha.5697:

Also, what happened to the skill scrolls from before skill revamp, did they get in any way refunded?

If no one answered. Your Scrolls of Knowledge were turned into Spirit Shards. Check your wallet to see your amount.

BaronSolace.6831:

I thought you guys said the dude working on resetting the GWAMM reset wanted everything to be perfect, this is far from perfect and in fact a straight nightmare. all my progress is reset, including my actual earned gw1 rewards.

Well, "wanting" not always mean "getting". Despite they being very thorough things can go wrong, even more in a system with this dimension. If this mess happened with them being cautious, what would happen if it was done in hurry? *shivers*

Therserion.2798:

shadow.6174:

Therserion.2798:

LunarNacht.8913:

Check if you have season 2 unlocked if you already had them.

Season 2: Not only Progress is set back, it´s locked and i could buy it.

PLEASE: Everyone send in a bug report ingame, as it seems forums aren´t thaaaat frequented by the devs… Should get us a response the quickest.

It is very frequented by them, just it’s not very “replied” by them :P

Nevertheless, it is easier for them to get the important information from bugreports than from forum posts.

Hehe of course, I was just teasing. Yes, in-game bug reports can provide a lot more info to them than forums would do. However, just to recall, don’t expect direct response from in-game reports.

Koybe.5708:

It seems that one of my friend that did not pre-buy the extension doesn’t get these bugs.

I don’t think it would have anything to do. I heard from a friend who didn’t buy the pre-purchase for xpac and was also affected.

Therserion.2798:

LunarNacht.8913:

Check if you have season 2 unlocked if you already had them.

Season 2: Not only Progress is set back, it´s locked and i could buy it.

PLEASE: Everyone send in a bug report ingame, as it seems forums aren´t thaaaat frequented by the devs… Should get us a response the quickest.

It is very frequented by them, just it’s not very “replied” by them :P

Miki Zu Heltzer.4018:

Well, I just made a new character for pvp only purposes and my 50/50 + gwamm got stripped.

Extremely incompetent job, guess it is time to contact support.

I wouldn’t say “incompetent”, they have been very thorough exactly to avoid such things, but well, there’s no perfect system and crap happens (even more in a system with these dimensions). Just contact support if you were unfairly affected, I’m sure they were already expecting it could occur.

P.S.: lol for the in-game message, funny despite unfortunate.

If you have lost legit points due the fix maybe you better contact Customer Support, they can help you to sort out stuff.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General

• Fixed a bug in which a cryptobotanist gave too many bandit crests in exchange for a Mordrem heart.

Maybe they are giving some time to make sure no one got stuff removed by mistake.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General

• Fixed a bug in which achievement points and titles for Hall of Monuments were incorrectly given to some players. The points and titles have been removed. Any achievement chests that were received as a result of this bug were kept intact but will not be given out a second time.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
General

• Fixed a bug in which achievement points and titles for Hall of Monuments were incorrectly given to some players. The points and titles have been removed. Any achievement chests that were received as a result of this bug were kept intact but will not be given out a second time.

Vayne.8563:

SnowHawk.3615:

Make story more personal and about us, I could care less about commander trahearne or destiny’s edge when really we are just a stand in and not even a supporting actor in our own story line.
Make norn spirits more personal and somehow involved in their beginning story.
make sylvari birth times more significant.
Asura colleges – make it almost like a competition between them
Charr legions are the only ones that feel complete
Human origin – somewhat complete but as a noble we should have a title and a claim to things, even a large house not just be a rich aristocrat. as commoner – we should live in a mediocre house that’s cozy. a street rat- let us take shelter in the sewers or a shack.
When I picked Raven for my norn mesmer – I was excited to see what my story held – and it was a real underwhelming feeling that I experienced knowing that spirits did not matter to the core of your norn or their story.

All valid comments, but nothing at all to do with this thread, which is about a very specific change to the game called the New Player Experience.

It’s not just generally how new players see the game, it’s about specific changes to the game that occurred on a specific date.

What you’re talking about has not changed at all, and been in the game since launch, which means it will get lost in this thread. I highly recommend you make a seperate thread for it, and label it something like Make the Personal story More Personal.

Yup, while I agree that would be good to make a separated thread for that subject since it has no much to do with the topic here, I wanted to take advantage and point out a few things. I also feel that some aspects could play a better role in the story indeed. When I made my first char, a sylvari mesmer, I picked up Cycle of Night and I saw it being relevant nowhere in game but first page of Story Journal. It would make stuff interesting if these aspects would affect something, even if minor. The same applies to now defunct Personality (Charisma, Dignity and Ferocity?) that are still in-game but plays no role and never have done at all.

Anyway, making a suggestion thread about this subject would be good.

Yes, you better reporting it to exploits@arena.net as others mentioned. Give the most info you can. By the way, forum isn’t the best place to report these things, in fact it’s not allowed. Also, naming and shaming is frowned upon here. Actually, according with a red post a while back, that email is for reporting exploits per se. To report specific players you better using the in-game tools (when possible).

Off topic: was you who made that vid? If so can you tell what songs were used? I got curious hehe.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Except the Laurel cost of Unidentified dyes. Sigh.

lol yeah, too much for a blind purchase. This item was used to cost less before. :/

OrangePanda.5086:

Also bugged for Maguuma. It’s my first time playing Guild Wars 2 and I started as a Norn in Sorrow’s Furnance 2 days ago and after an hour of it being bugged I stopped. Today I tried guesting to Maguuma and it was bugged there too.

That’s sad to hear you had to face this bug in your first playtime. If I could suggest I would tell you to not give up the game yet, if you feel doing so try to make another char of another race and you will be able to explore the game some more. There are a lot to see past that “gate”.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/amazing-2-year-old-bug-still-not-fixed/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Norn-Starting-area-bugged-1/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Norn-Starting-Area-Bugged-2/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Norn-Great-Hunt-bugged/

Wake up devs, or you are going to lose a few players from what seems. Not a good way to welcome new players.

Rose Solane.1027:

I could not find a post about this on the first three pages of the bug forum. As the search functionality of the forum doesn’t work I have no idea if this issue wasn’t posted before. Could you please change to better forum software? What you use now is crap.

Off topic but I couldn’t avoid commenting this. Yeah I don’t blame you for not finding it but from what I can’t recall I haven’t seen anyone reporting this issue on past weeks at least, so you are fine. About the forum software, the problem with search and why it hasn’t been fixed was explained by a dev a while back, they also know this one is bad and said they are looking for an alternative. The issue with search has been a pain for them as well. If you want to see that explanation let me know and I’ll try to retrieve the link.

Yeah, usually I get only 2 or 3 chests (usually blue and orange) but I’m not used to do all phases (at least not all in time) and I’m more focused on a specific area during battery phase, so I never worried about that so much because I thought it could be related to me not doing all stuff needed. But now I’m sure what’s required to get those chests. Oh at times I even get only 1 chest.

Thanks.6859:

In the Narthex region of Cursed shore Karma vender Benson sells “Armageddon gear soldiers version” Now vender Warmaster benson sells Armageddon gear Berserkers version EXCEPT THE PAULDRONS there wrong he has the soldiers need fixed and who do I contact about getting the ones I bought replaced for this bug?

If you feel you were affected by a non-common bug or glitch or need some more individualized response you can try to contact Customer Support. Just click the Support link at the top of any forum page.

Yeah, get rid of that crap autofocus thing please. It helps nothing. Who on Earth would be lazy enough to not click on the boxes? That autofocus feature is unneeded and causes more trouble than help. Also, as others stated before, there is the issue where clicking on a box triggers the arrow buttons of the box at left (clicking silver field changes gold value), that’s pretty annoying and can lead to fatal mistakes if one doesn’t pay full attention.

Oh btw, please bring back that low value limit. It sux having to put the exact value when you just want to sell for the lowest possible value. I know that way was buggy before, but it’s better than being allowed to put 0 in all fields.

Yeah that’s a very recurring issue. It sux to try daily events at that area with this event regularly getting stuck :S