Guild Wars 2

khani.4786:

I wish that grey star wasn’t a thing. I don’t care which episode was my most recently played. If I completed it and got the achievements then quit the episode, it should show the completed with achievements icon. If I didn’t finish the achievements…sure grey star away, but if I’m done with the episode, I don’t want to have to play through the entire thing just to get the grey star to go away.

Yup, agreed. That gray star has been bugging me too and worse, at times it shows like I have 2 most recently played chapters (2 chapters with that star).

runeblade.7514:

shadow.6174:

runeblade.7514:

RoseofGilead.8907:

runeblade.7514:

RoseofGilead.8907:

If it was an error or something they intended on changing, a statement about such would have been made at some point. Thus, I have to assume it’s either intended or a case of “eh, we’re not gonna change it anyway”.

I can make the same statement for every other thread in the bugs subforum.

lol, ok. I’m done here.

Good because I need an ANet dev to fix this bug, I don’t need someone unaffiliated with ANet to claim that it isn’t a bug.

If you don’t want any player or “someone unaffiliated with ANet” getting involved with your “issue” or answering your questions, contact support directly instead posting on forums :P Forums are meant for everyone to help everyone. Also, if it’s indeed intended I believe you would hardly get any answer from devs here.

I thought this is the bug subforum. The description of the forum says, “Bug Reports go here.”

Yes, this is the bugs subforum. But if you want a more individualized response, directly from devs, without anyone out of Anet (players and others) interfering then you would be better contacting them directly, that’s what I meant.

And yeah, as stated you cannot use any items which would take you to anywhere in PvE while in PvP or WvW.

runeblade.7514:

RoseofGilead.8907:

runeblade.7514:

RoseofGilead.8907:

If it was an error or something they intended on changing, a statement about such would have been made at some point. Thus, I have to assume it’s either intended or a case of “eh, we’re not gonna change it anyway”.

I can make the same statement for every other thread in the bugs subforum.

lol, ok. I’m done here.

Good because I need an ANet dev to fix this bug, I don’t need someone unaffiliated with ANet to claim that it isn’t a bug.

If you don’t want any player or “someone unaffiliated with ANet” getting involved with your “issue” or answering your questions, contact support directly instead posting on forums :P Forums are meant for everyone to help everyone. Also, if it’s indeed intended I believe you would hardly get any answer from devs here.

Does it happen only when you open map, or does it happen in other moments too? Also, can you tell what are your graphic settings in the game? Maybe it could help somehow. You said no error message or anything? Don’t you get that Error report thing?

If it’s only with map maybe your game files got corrupted. Try to repair the game (https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/28148006-Repairing-the-Game-Client in case you don’t know how)

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

zombiedeadhead.9830:

Well I’m not at all surprised that the first and only reply is someone trying to be clever by talking to me like I’m an idiot.

On the contrary, I was trying to be helpful to someone who had provided very little information on what was going on or what they had tried to do to troubleshoot.

I’m sorry that my reply was upsetting to you.

Yup, they did not try to make you look dumb, idiot or something, it was just a very general and basic troubleshooting for when no much info is available or is vague. Also, what was suggested can happen to everyone, anyone can overlook stuff and later get the “oh how couldn’t I see it” moment. In other hand, your response was somewhat rude and would chase away anyone willing to help. Don’t take me bad, just clarifying stuff. But well, let’s let it be for now. Glad you got it solved.

Yay, the dumb NPE strikes again… :P Oh boy… Yes, those buttons are hidden until you reach certain level, although I thought the hotkeys would still be available. However, yes it’s still accessible through gates and stuff (that was meant for vets to still be able to access them I think).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Level_rewards

Yes, it has been confirmed that search is broken and no one there have the tools to fix it at them moment (forum is a third part software with no support anymore). They have said they are planning to change forums at some point but no date for it yet. Also, as far as I can tell the forums never had any thing related with flash, what you see when searching is just another technology (AJAX for those familiar with it).

@Udai: Don’t get offended by the way as posts may be done here, communicating through forums can be hard and some people indeed doesn’t read all stuff before posting (although others, like me, do for sure).

Anyhow, I don’t think you offended neither someone meant to offend. The thing is it’s has been hard to understand your issue only with all details you gave, it seems to be more complex than the info you provided then all what we got is suspicions and guessing.

Anyway, as already said your best bet would be contact support for a more proper and direct assistance. Good luck and I hope you can have it solved soon.

Once upon a time a Warden that would think their abilities were simply to look blank waiting something to happen… :P Yeah, iWarden still seems to stand there glancing at mobs without doing anything. Recently I noticed that, I went to gather from a node but there was a mob near it, I spawned my iWarden on the mob and went to gather. iWarden stood there doing nothing and the mob came to me, ignoring my illusion.

Wow, well spotted. Maybe I never noticed that as I usually have that window on center (leaving the “odd” brushes below the achievements list at right).

JediYoda.1275:

Is your McAfee anti-virus settings set to scan when you access files/programs? If so its scanning the 20gb Dat file bogging down your system.

Good point there. If it’s set like that it may be trying to check the GW2 dat file, what would make the hard drive get 100% busy (either with loading as virus scanning). I’m not saying that may be the issue, but this point makes some sense and it’s a possibility.

Also I have recently noted that HD 100% busy causes more freezing than running out of memory or busy CPU.

Oh I see. What you see isn’t the real state of the map (like those huge vines everywhere, invisible walls, etc). At times it’s just a occasional glitch and fixes itself after a while, but if it keeps happening maybe you better repair your game client. Or isn’t it what you meant?

And here we go again…

Once upon a time a sylvari that was happily going to gather some artichokes on Orr, there was a Jungle Grub (yellow) close those nodes but before the sylvari could reach it, just a few steeps away, a Risen Preserver (red) came toward them quickly. Then quickly a skill was triggered, hoping the autotargeting would pick up the Risen about to chomp on their head. But guess what? A grub slime for those who guess it :P Yes, the autotargeting picked up the Grub.

Another case. After climbing up some rocks at Dry Top to reach a Lost Coin, I tried jokingly to target some mobs and even called a target on them. I hit Nearest Enemy and an Arid Devourer was picked up, but I looked around and I only could see skritts and a golem. I was like “wth is this devourer”, I even called target on it and couldn’t see it… then I hit an skill and its effect pointed me where the mob was, it turned out it was very up there above me in another rock, out of range and obstructed. The pic can tell more…

Wethospu.6437:

If installing breaks stuff I would expect a hard drive failure.

Also it makes sense. When the system have some difficult reading/writing on hard disk and it causes too much stress in the system that it can freeze while it’s busy reading/writing. Guild Wars 2 itself does some intensive reading at its loading, then why it could be freezing during loading up.

Oh another thing. you said you cannot access virustotal.com? Do you know why that?

Once I had issues with my comp freezing and I figured out it was due overheating, my CPU was dying due too much heat. At that time, my whole system would freeze within 5 to 10 mins of usage, then yes, even if it freezes with just a few mins of usage it can be due overheating.

As already stated, if it was an issue with GW2.exe itself everyone else here would be complaining (and cursing maybe) too. In this case, it sounds like it’s something on your system, since hardware to software, and not with GW2 itself (maybe GW2 is one victim too).

Anyhow, don’t panic and don’t prejudge or suppose things before having more proper info. At times the issue can be something you would never imagine. Unfortunately, freezing can be caused for several things and the only way to figure out is with troubleshooting and testing stuff. It’s hard to tell at first shoot. (and thanks for changing the title, it avoids some panic and misleading).

Khisanth.2948:

shadow.6174:

Welcome to the club, targeting issues have been a very old issue… https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Targeting-Still-Broken-Please-Fix-It/

That thread seems to have the wrong title for the problem being described here.

Yes, the thread I pointed out isn’t exactly about the issue here, but it’s about general issues with targeting like “Obstructed” when there is nothing in the way, “Out of range” when just a few feet away, etc…

Welcome to the club, targeting issues have been a very old issue… https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Targeting-Still-Broken-Please-Fix-It/

All plaques are working (at least the reachable ones) as far as I can tell. I recently helped a friend to get that achievement and all them worked. Also yes, I had noted this issue and reported it via in-game tool too. So very immersion breaking… Weird one is the first one in your pic Tiscan, the plaque floating underwater and above water was really like “whut?” :P

And… the dum… err… shinny NPE strikes again :P
Yes, it will unlock when you reach a certain level, see http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Level_rewards.

Oh and welcome to Guild Wars 2

Udai.7805:

[sip]
I did a full virus scan and no scene of it. I suspect it attacks the Window 32 log.file or something , causes windows to completely freeze.
[sip] I think it’s too late because the virus already attacked my Windows 32.log file or whatsoever.

Huh.. not sure if I got it but… what do you mean with “Windows 32.log”? First of all, .log files are merely text files, they do no harm themselves and log files are only that: log. They are used only to make a “history” of what a application did or happened with stuff, etc. Also, I have messed around with system files a lot of times and I can’t recall any file called “Windows 32.log”, then I wonder where did you get it from…

Lastly, try to not cause panic or whatever, not all issues in a system are caused by virus. Sometimes some bad settings in some software or corrupted files can cause some stress on resource usage, what can cause some freezing.

First of all you best bet would test your Gw2.exe on virustotal.com, it will test the file with several anti-virus softwares out there. After all, you can always try to contact the Customer Support as I’m sure they would clarify and help with stuff.

Yup, I have reported it via in-game tool. It usually happens when one of the daily items takes up more than one line, as Khisanth stated. It’s only or mostly noticeable when there is map-wide event thing below (like the Island Control info in your screen). It even gets worse when you have Content Guide enable, what causes it to overlap even those dynamic event info too.

I have been using custom music for Main Menu and it’s still working for me, I don’t think it was disabled. Maybe it’s something at your end?

Can you tell what error is it? Maybe it could help to troubleshooting and know what could it be. I have done that too but it hardly gives me error.

Another annoying issue is it now allows you to set it to sell for 0, there’s no minimum limit anymore. I won’t allow you to sell for less than minimum but you have to put minimum manually now.

There is a sticky thread about issues like these, maybe you better post there too: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Stuck-in-the-map-or-seeing-map-art-issues

I have found some odd thing at LA too. Those Marriner Plaque, I have seen duplicates of them pilled on each other and one floating in the air :P

Vayne.8563:

I think that people who hate it really hate it...but I think their feelings about it make them believe they’re greater in number than they are (just my opinion here). In other words they dislike it so much that they can’t conceive of that not being the most common reaction.

Here we go again... *sighs*

Vayne.8563:

BlueOcean.5380:

NPE was probably the result from NCSoft eyeing China release. Someone probably feverishly measured the minute of stay by new Chinese players, and decided NPE would help the Chinese players who are used to mmorpgs with reward pop-up windows.

But 4th quarter GW2 revenue actually dropped despite China release.

What actually happened in 4th quarter that caused the revenue to drop despite China release?

NPE was introduced near the start of the quarter.

Does NCSoft or ANet really have an idea why revenue dropped?

This is a common misconception. The revenue the dropped has nothing at all to do with the China launch, because on the report, China sales all fall under royalties. [..]

(highlight is mine)

Once again not reading it properly… they weren’t saying that revenue drop has to do with China launch. Read it again: “But 4th quarter GW2 revenue actually dropped despite China release. What actually happened in 4th quarter that caused the revenue to drop despite China release? NPE was introduced near the start of the quarter.” If I did read it right.. despite… in other words they seem to mean “what dropped revenue even though they had China launch” or “what happened at the same time of China launch that caused revenue drop”. BlueOcean, let me know if it was me who misunderstood it.

Guhracie.3419:

I want to be able to play my characters, not grind to get to a level that I can. I really cannot emphasize enough how much of a selling point this was to me, when I bought the game.

You can say it only effects the first twenty levels until you’re blue in the face, but it’s effected way more than that, for me.

+10 to this. I can’t get why we have to level up as fast as we can… I enjoyed my leveling process pre-NPE.

Astral Projections.7320:

Power creep? I must be missing something. How does the New Player Experience cause level 80s to be stronger?

I don’t think they meant exactly that 80s are too strong or something, but about giving it in chunks that makes you feel “a lot stronger” than 1 level below would be.

Ashendale.2165:

Cherine.3184:

Fine, hold some hands and show people how to play, but test it out first so it’s done/designed/implemented properly, and include an opt in/out

Yes, please, thank you.

It’s just want most of us want (at least what appears to be the case in this thread). Cater who wants to be catered, and leave the rest of us to play as it was.

Yes devs, please? Is it that hard? This all could have been avoided if such thing was implemented from start. Again.. not everyone is equal then don’t put everyone on same plate.

Ashendale.2165:

Ashen.2907:

Actually the NPE was made for new players and ceterans alike. Perhaps it was originally inspired by a desire for new player retention but a decision was made for it to target veterans as well.

Had an option to toggle it off for vets been included this would be a different matter but, as it stands now, the only option to avoid it is to skip the early levels..

If it was fueled by a desire of player retention, then it was a very poor job. No consideration whatsoever for anyone that bought the game.

Instead of implementing a sorry excuse of a lunar festival (I say this for two reasons: almost nothing was added; the dragon ball arena is soooo laggy) they would have spent time and resources in a much better and efficiently patching this as soon as possible.

Preferably before the expansion…

What can I say more… and yeah I agree with the thing about the festival.. it seemed just a “filler” for some lack of content (having LS chapter for 2 months would be too long huh?)

At the moment, the threads have a Subscribe button but it doesn’t seem to work. I tried it once and it just redirected me to the same page. I don’t think there is any notification system functional at the moment.

MilanaMill.9342:

I have spoken.

And spoken very well…. +10 to it

Vayne.8563:

shadow.6174:

Vayne, please, stop. Enough with that. Please focus on the subject of this thread and not in how people express their opinion.

I hope you see the irony in this post.

Irony? Well, it’s the first time I say about how someone express their opinion. In other hand, several of your posts criticized how people based their opinion or how they expressed it. I’m just annoyed that whenever someone brings up some negative aspect you reply with critique about where they based their opinion instead with positive aspects about the subject. Anyway, I won’t take it to a personal discussion. Let’s keep it on track.

Cherine.3184:

I can’t help but feel that this could have all been avoided if it was all optional.

I can’t agree more…

Cherine.3184:

Lol/oops – double post

Triple now lol

Vayne, please, stop. Enough with that. Please focus on the subject of this thread and not in how people express their opinion.

Khisanth.2948:

Fireheart.5629:

I want to craft Mighty Green Wood Trident as described on this page: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Green_Wood_Trident but the Discovery panel refuses to show my Mighty Green Inscriptions.

You can no longer discover those because of NPE changes.

Yay, **** NPE strikes again :P

Yay.. NPE strikes again… :P

Teratus.2859:

Oh one more good one lol

targetting system… this has been a bane on this game since launch
the game does a horrible job at selecting a target for you

I can be getting gankked by 6 enemies at close range and I hit my standard skill 1 attack and what happens

auto targets a moa bird or skale way off in the distance.. ignores the enemies currently giving me a facelift with hammers entirely..

target nearest enemy hotkey helps get around this somewhat but even with that this problem gets me killed sometimes..

Oh yeah, I know right? Poor moas… by the way, there is a long thread about it that has been somewhat dead: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Targeting-Still-Broken-Please-Fix-It and some of the issues mentioned here can be related to those targeting issues.

*yaws* Hey, still no changes for these issues and still waiting....

Shaaba.5672:

I’ve come to realize that I hate the pop-up windows. Not just the NPE leveling windows, but all of them by association. There are too many and why do I have to click ‘accept’ on a screen when I earn a bouncy chest if there is no choice for me to make? It seems pointless and they just become an obstacle for me.

I get it when there is a choice to be made, sure, fine. Heart rewards? OK, but they are so big and annoying, but OK. Silverwastes? yeah yeah, I got a shovel and crests. Again. It just gets annoying.

btw – is there a keyboard shortcut I don’t know about to shut down these windows without clicking?

Good point. Some of those popup windows are useless and obtrusive. What’s the point of having a popup showing you got 1 item with only Accept? Can you even not accept it? No, if you ignore it a chest will keep blinking in the corner asking you to accept it or accept it. Oh some of them can’t even be ignored though (e.g. Silverwastes event completion). Why not giving those as normal loot (directly in the inventory) and just showing a text telling you that you got a reward? Also doesn’t the right side of screen show you the items you got, clearly notable? If no choices to make then no reasons for a popup with just an accept.

Ok you could say: what if inventory is full and I can’t get the items yet? Well then make it as a chest like now but when clicking it the items go directly to inventory, if it’s full then the chest stays on the screen.

And afaik there’s no shortcut to accept it, but you can hit Esc to close some of them (chest will stay in screen if you do so).

Malediktus.3740:

Yes its a cosmetic issue, but still annoying.

Hehe, I know, just saying. Curiously I did a test and searched for “Halloween”, only the one I’m tracking showed up though.

Yay NPE... once again... :P *sighs* Well, about the chest maybe you better try contacting Customer Support yes, as already said.

Anyway yes, the proper way is to report exploits is through that address. Reporting exploits and such through forums isn’t allowed.

Maybe something got corrupted in your game files. Try to repair the game. Instructions for it can be found here: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/28148006-Repairing-the-Game-Client

You know what? My achievements tracker (top-right list thing) still shows Halloween Costume Brawl daily as I had it being watched. I left it that way on purpose lol. It seems the achievements aren’t really “removed” from the game, just made inaccessible and hidden.

Also, it’s merely a cosmetic issue maybe, the achievements cannot be completed anyway.

Well, even in the english forum there have been a lot of threads about people suspecting that their map completion might be “broken”…

Anyway, I would like to ask you guys to take this discussion about NPE to its proper thread please, this way we can gather more feedback on this subject: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/NPE-Feedback-Merged-Please-read-1st-post/

Oh and agreed too Pixel..

Rinhara.6450:

[sip]

I can’t agree even more, + 10 to them.

Rinhara.6450:

Essentially, I liked the old system. The new NPE has done little to correct the lack information contained in the old one. Heck, the information needed could be better more thoroughly delivered by a mandatory NPC dialogue (akin to talking to the scout like after the first PS instance) or by more mails from “Your Herald” giving information than by what the NPE does.

After seeing a video where a player goes from lvl 1 to 80 using scrolls to test the NPE I pondered about a thing: the new system just gives out information about features using a popup and sometimes an arrow too, but that arrow is even useless at times (like when talking about Vistas, it just point out the minimap, even when there’s not any Vista icon in it). So the thing is: what’s the difference between giving out these poupups as it is now and a panel with all needed info and occasional popups pointing you to it as it was before? None, both lack stuff (although I thought the old better and intuitive).

Rinhara.6450:

-Do not level-gate POIs, Vistas, and Skill Points. The current level gate leads to backtracking for new players (which I believe GW2 wanted to eliminate) and denies new players sources of experience early on.

This was what I meant when I said about backtracking previously. Although the citation I used was talking about quests (Renown Hearts as we know them) it applies to these things too, seeking vistas or skill points feels like a quest too. And yeah, I believe Anet wanted to get rid of the concept of backtracking when developing the events and hearts, then why bringing that feeling back when going after world completion…

Allumno.4601:

I was not sure if this was an exploit or something known around (neither i found out a better way to report it) so i made this post.
I also tried to search the foruns for posts related to this but since i didn’t find any report i assumed it was something somehow it went by unnoticed or was already burried in the forums.
Thank you for the tip anyway

I also don’t know if it’s a bug, exploit or whatever, I just took the opportunity to remind the proper way to report those. Also, search in this forum is broken as the most already know, no wonder why you couldn’t find it :P

Beldin.5498:

Maybe it is somewhere out of you visible window.
Rename or delete the file local.dat in your user directory under
AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2
That resets all your settings to default.

Hmm, that’s weird as the game has a mechanic to prevent that (try to move a window out of view, close and reopen it through shortcuts. Most likely it will be back in your view or even shrunken). But well, it doesn’t hurt to try that suggestion indeed, weird stuff can happen.