Guild Wars 2

If I’m not wrong when choosing stats of any item it’ll warn you that it will become soulbound after choosing stats.

Achievements marked as “Infinite” never counted, it has been that way with past releases too (Festival of Four Winds, Dragon Bash, Halloween stuff, etc..).

That’s a very known issue, among a long list of issues regarding mesmers: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmer-Bugs-33-Updated-October-22nd/4203262

frifox.5283:

05. Temporal Curtain

• If skill is clicked right after a weapon-swap, the curtain field will be placed at the location where the character was during the weapon swap and not where your mouse was actually pointing.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Oh, here’s a tip: You should click on the item outside of PvP in order to enable it. (It may now — due to the bug fix — be clickable in PvP, as well as outside of PvP, but I thought I’d share that bit just in case it helps.

Yes, I have seen several other PvE related items not being able to be clicked while in PvP or WvW, that makes sense. However, if the item is supposed to be openable only while in PvE it shouldn’t do anything while on other modes or at least a warning should be given (can this about warning be a hint for other items, as some of them simply does nothing?). Well, I take this fact as a bug so why it could be opened out of PvE. Thanks Gaile for the reminder anyhow.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Toypocalypse-sucks-you-right-back-in

Kuulpb.5412:

(( all this is GMT), in PDT I am unsure the times but I assume 4 hours behind? 4 pm ther eis 8pm here? anyway)

PDT (more properly PST) is 8 hours behind GMT, see this for more info: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20141216T16&p1=137&p2=0

Rayti.6531:

But maybe that’t just my logic…?

What’s this thing called “logic”? Logic has been denied lately :P

Dhalis.8297:

If so players like me who have logged in before and after 18:00 on the 16th are being punished for playing more, and that seems a bit unfair to me while the whole point of this system is rewarding loyalty. If not, then all is fine by me.

^ This, it doesn’t make much sense.

Ok let’s analyze things a bit…

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Players logged in after 4:00 p.m. PDT [should say PST] on December 15 will receive their first daily log-in reward chest after 4:00 p.m. PDT [should say PST] on December 16.
Players last logged out before 4:00 p.m. PDT [should say PST] on December 15 will receive their first daily log-in reward chest immediately after the update.

First of all I want to take my case in account. I was logged on since early on 16th, hours before the patch came live. They the patch hit and I was wondering about the log-in reward. Then someone said about that on patch notes and from my calculations I saw I was expected to receive it at 4pm PDT on 16th (12am GMT, in fact, when reset hit). At that moment I got the reward and it said day 1. HOWEVER, hours later I heard about people saying they were on day 2. It has puzzled me as a lot others here.

Ok, back to analyze… (for conversion: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20141216T16&p1=137&p2=0)

Players logged in after 4:00 p.m. PDT (12am GMT) on December 15 will receive their first daily log-in reward chest after 4:00 p.m. PDT (12am GMT) on December 16.

Alright, that was my case and it happened, saying I’m on day 1…

Players last logged out before 4:00 p.m. PDT (12am GMT) on December 15 will receive their first daily log-in reward chest immediately after the update.

Now this is confusing… does it mean that it applies to someone who haven’t been in game between before 4pm on 15th and after 4pm on 16th? What if they logged in before 4pm on 16th but AFTER the patch came out (10am PDT/5pm GMT)? Would they get the reward?

Ok, let’s create a few situations to analyze this:

1) Someone was in game but logged out BEFORE 4pm PDT on 15th and only logged in until AFTER 4pm PDT on 16th. Would they receive it AFTER 4pm PDT on 16th or immediately and what day would it be?

2) Someone was in game but logged out BEFORE 4pm PDT on 15th then logged in AFTER patch at 10am PDT but BEFORE 4pm PDT on 16th. Would they receive it AFTER 4pm PDT on 16th or immediately and what day would it be?

3) Someone logged out anytime AFTER 4pm PDT on 15th and then logged in on 16th BEFORE the patch (10am PDT), relogged after patch and stayed in game until AFTER 4pm PDT on 16th? Would they receive it AFTER 4pm PDT on 16th or immediately and what day would it be? (<— my case)

I hope I can clarify something with these situations.

Anyhow, no matter what times people logged in, if someone is on day 1 and logged on at the same time with others on day 2, it sounds like something is wrong huh?

An option is to get in through the NPC instead the portal, this way you will be put back near the NPC instead near the portal. Just a workaround, I know.

SHM.7628:

I wanna be able to enjoy the journey not rush to 80. Some of us do like leveling toons, Ya know?

That’s a good point… leveling doesn’t feel like a teaching moment with some enjoyable exploration anymore, now it feels like a rush to get your character “mature” enough (aka level cap) plus a huge, long and boring tutorial (why still teaching people about basic stuff when reaching lvl 80, that’s usually days or weeks later after their first login?).

Maybe not, I got that message just on my very first attempt to open the chest. In fact, it kept poping up even after I opened the chest but stayed around there for a little.

As I said before somewhere… logic has been denied :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Toypocalypse-and-Parties/4629419

The same happened to me but with Bell Choir, I spawned back just on the portal to it and entered the instance again. Luckily it didn’t happened again on the 2nd attempt.

I also got this the first time I did it and from what I noted it seems the last milestone isn’t counted properly, but not sure about that though.

Ashendale.2165:

This one being older has quite a lot of interesting views. As most of the things I agree with have already been said, I’m left with asking: where is the feedback from Anet? Where is the correction to this... Problem?

That’s what I have been wondering too....

Ashendale.2165:

Most of the additions granted (regarding gameplay) are disliked and counterproductive for new and old players alike.

*just nods at this*

Ashendale.2165:

In this case ([..] I don’t like being served in large batches, and then starved so the next batch seems yummier; let me have the wonderful game you made 2 years ago) everybody can win.

This made me think of a thing... it’s like someone that’s not used to eat much and in an attempt to make them eat more you prevent them from having breakfast and lunch and then they will feel starve and will eat dinner with more will and appreciation. Not a good move at all.

Yay for the user friendly NPE…. “fixing” what wasn’t broken… >.> (sarcasm mode off)

Well, wiki is opened for anyone to edit it, feel free to contribute with it by adding this info there.

Yeah, it’s a very known issue https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/forum/Search-feature-not-working/ (now archived)

Also, here is a response of a dev about the issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Forum-s-search-feature-doesn-t-work-A-tip/4612877

Well, seriously… does anyone think that after seeing threads like https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Missing-Map-Completion-Tracker/ or https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Missing-Zone-completion-box (that has been frequent since NPE came out) the NPE really feels more user friendly and easier than the game was before? Once again, c’mon, streamlining stuff doesn’t mean locking or hiding info from people… Also, almost 3 months has passed, where’s the promised changes? I hope they will be really changes and not just amendments in an attempt to make things get “some sense” instead. Stop dumbing down stuff. In fact, I’m really afraid about what’s coming with those changes on dailies and such… Not holding my breath…

The shinny and user friendly NPE attacks again… :P Good luck with leveling btw and enjoy

Yes, let’s give credits to what’s due, the issue has been fixed indeed.
Oh and it seems we will never know it was intended or not…

Bellizare.5816:

Easiest way to get bank and trading post is to just go to the PvP lobby.

Also it is absolutely at no charge.

I can’t recall if a lvl 12 already gets access to PvP (button on top is hidden at that stage I think), but yes, that’s a good suggestion.

Gaile Gray.6029:

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Well, I had been following the now archieved thread (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/forum/Search-feature-not-working) about this issue for sometime now and, although I admit I haven’t read the whole of it, it’s the first time I see a reasonable explanation about why it is in this situation. However, I still fail to understand why it has taken so long to find some way to fix a crucial feature, but it’s understandable now. Thanks Gaile for explaining it.

On that old thread I had even given some suggestions about where to start digging up after the bug, but seeing it’s a third party software and none of the devs there knows about it and none of its creators are there to give some support, I can understand how hard it is.

I was even going to open a new thread about this as the old one is now closed, but I’m going to give some suggestions even here for now. To avoid mistakes, confusion and frustrations, why not removing/hiding the search bar until a solution is provided? Better having no search bar at all than a faulty and misleading feature that causes nothing but frustrations. I believe it would be just a small change on layout and done.

Also, I wanted to take advantage and make a suggestion, not directly related but still linked. What about using a separated system for bugs sub-forum, like a issue tracker, and leaving forums only for discussions, news and stuff? Issue trackers provide more tools for reporting bugs, requesting features and mainly tracking the progress on these things. It makes easier to know what’s a known issue, if it’s even an issue or not, etc.

There are several systems out there that have proved to be very helpful and several big companies use them. The most are easy to implement and use and more powerful than forums (they even have a internal forum system itself). There are paid ones like JIRA, or even open-source ones like Bugzilla, Bugenie and others, just to mention a few.

Well, there was a long thread on this issue, even with dev responses, that’s now buried in the Archive sub-forum: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/forum/Search-feature-not-working

Cosmolu.7639:

when I travel to the Altar Brook Trading post, the Black Lion Merchant there cannot be interacted with. (…) I cannot access any of my earned gold or purchased items from the Black Lion. I am currently running a lvl 12 Human Engineer

Yay, the user friendly NPE attacks again… :/ Well, as others have mentioned you can try accessing Trading Post on any racial city, since Trading Post on low level areas has became rare or locked.

Yeah, what can be worse is getting to a fight when enemy is at 20% or so and get even no credit for it, no medal poping up, no loot dropped… that’s frustrating.

It happened to me with a legendary on Silverwastes, when I got close to it there was a reasonably big group and its health was above 20 or 25%, I didn’t get any credit for it.

The argument about damage makes sense but doesn’t seem to be the real case here. I DID enough damage on that fight as far as I’m aware of and no credit or loot given. Lately fighting champs hardly worth it.

Here we go, a better view about what NPE is about: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-fresh-start-the-new-player-experience-in-guild-wars-2/

NPE stands for New Players Experience. It’s a new (and dumb) system that went live with September Feature Pack.

Also, YES it IS a bug as even level 80 characters get that dialog if the player doesn’t create a new character and go through the leveling process again.

In short, NPE was a system designed to streamline things for “new” players. But the system is very fault at the current stage and need a lot of tweaking and fixes. Some info about it can be found here http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Leveling_rewards I’ll update it so soon I grab more links.

Yes, it already has been reported:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Sell-window-in-TP-no-autoclose-after-sale/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Seeds-of-Truth-Patch-Trading-Post-bug/

Still no official word about if it’s intended or not.

Ignore what I said in my previous post.. I see the issue back….

Shadey Dancer.2907:

Its not a bug, its members of your own party. First indication, the writing is in blue (they are colour coded) second indication the start of the lines begin with a P for Party.

I would agree with you, since I see it blueish colored and as well [P] in chat, but the last pic shows a player targeting and you can clearly see that player in the center with greenish nameplate, then not in their party… Even more weird…

Another thing, to OP. Reporting individuals about spam, exploit or anything else isn’t allowed in forums. Also I don’t believe it’s exactly a bug (that’s the purpose of this thread). Maybe you better using the in-game report tool (if possible, as I know emotes and stuff doesn’t allow you to get that menu. A suggestion here?) or if you maybe sending a mail to exploits@arena.net (since it may sound like some type of exploit or stuff as well).

I believe you can apply only dyes that you own. If you “copy” a dye by using the dropper tool and it’s a dye not in your unlocked set you won’t be able to use that dye.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/LFG-bug-3

Well, the issue doesn’t seem to be fully fixed yet but there are some good things to mention. The inventory window, as well others like Hero panel, doesn’t seem to open automatically on log in anymore. Also, it seems the issue has lessened. At least for me it’s no so frequent now, but it still happens.

There is a long thread on this issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Inventory-Window-changing-size-alone (although it hasn’t get updates in a while)

A curious fact has happened: while exploring the skritt area on Silverwastes I followed a path that leads to a badge. I got very close to the badge and there wasn’t anything around me but walls and those planks and sticks used for accessing the badge. Then I tried to call target on the badge, to show it to a friend, and guess what happened? A pile of sand for those who guess it :P Yeah, it targeted a Dust Mite on the surface, a few meter above me and completely out of my field of view (even unreachable). :P

Despite seeing my clones stand still a few times it seems like the issues with clones/illusions doing nothing has subsided. At least I haven’t been so much annoyed anymore by my clones glancing at enemies waiting for me to defeat them lol

However, possible not related to mesmer skills but I have had hard time with my skills, mainly the ones with cast time. Lately, whenever I try to cast one like iWarden and then I hit the skill #1 or some faster skill, the iWarden is canceled as if I hadn’t even pressed it. It happens with several casted skills or ones which require ground targeting. One can say it’s lag, but it happens even when I’m not experiencing any lag.

Almost 3 months has passed, a few shinny new patches has been released… and nothing, or at least no much, has been done to Personal Story, NPE and stuff so far… I have put my Personal Story in all chars in hold, as well not leveling up new chars until something is done about it…

BlkPrince.2854:

where is the ??? build diversity!! and freedom for the player to choose how they play that made this game so fun

Almost 3 months has passed, a few shinny new patches has been released… and nothing, or at least no much, has been done to Personal Story so far… I have put my Personal Story in all chars in hold until something is done about it…

Dirdyy.1648:

By the way, i nominate this patch for the “most bugged patch 2014” trophy.

No, September Feature Pack with its “shinny” NPE still wins it. :P

Another thing, if it was intended to auto refresh whenever a change occurs, why then the Refresh button was left there? lol As other suggested, refresh only what changed and leave the whole list as it is. And please, the sliding effect is unneeded. It was useless before, even more now.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

How do we know this new behavior is the intended one? It seemed like a bug (appearing like all the other bugs with the TP in this patch) when the window acted differently than it did before. Did I miss the patch note explaining this? I might have.

None of the official sources have stated if it’s intended or not, just someone in this thread has said so and there wasn’t any entry on patch notes or somewhere else telling that.

If it’s an intended behavior (even though I also can’t think why someone would want to stay on that window, but anyway), the buttons would need to be better worded. It seems the way it’s now is misleading and people aren’t realizing the Close button.

Maybe wording the OK as Continue or something could be more clear. “Ok” gives idea of confirmation and also it’s expected to mean like something is done, over. It makes sense in the general context of that popup (confirming the item has been sold), but it doesn’t make clear what will happen next.

Another way then is getting rid of the Close button, letting only the Ok in that popup what implicitly will lead ppl to seek the “X” button on top in order to close it. Annoying, I know, but less misleading.

Another thing would be dimming the Sell Instantly/List Item when you don’t have the item. This way it would make clear that window is there just for informational purposes now and you can’t do anything with that item at that moment.

Anyhow, despite that I have noted TP is somewhat faster than before when selling. The confirmation popup seems to be showing up faster now. Same with that warning when you choose the lowest allowed value, no more a gradual blink but an instant flash now.

A similar thing has been happening to threads, I have seen ones showing as read but I have never opened those. But that’s a different issue.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug in which water splashes appeared on terrain in the Silverwastes.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue in which players became locked out of their guild banks.

hmm, based on the color of it I would say they used emotes and not the normal targeting hotkey (those shows up in yellow if I’m right), not sure though.

Yeah, last night I noted that after selling an item and clicking OK on the confirmation popup the sell panel keeps opened, if I try to sell again it says I don’t have that item. The issue here isn’t the Error panel but the Sell panel remaining opened after selling.

bascotie.1635:

I could not find the map icons eye for the life of me until I found this, thank you!

Took me 22 levels to find the bank/lion trader. NCSoft, please look into this as it got to the point where I didn’t want to play because my bags were always full!

And this is the one proof of how good the "shinny" NPE is working well... *sarcasm mode off*

Gilosean.3805:

So now rangers don’t even find out about a big part of their class until they leave the beginning areas?

Yeah, that’s the purpose of the dum… err… shinny NPE: “you are not supposed to learn about taming pets that early because we think it’s too overwhelming for you and you aren’t ready for it yet.” :P

Yeah, there is a long thread about this issue that has been around since April’s patch: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Inventory-Window-changing-size-alone The thread hasn’t received posts for a while btw :S

Teratus.2859:

it makes no sense and without redesigning these missions to fit it just breaks the personal story

Noooo, no redesign, no for using amendments in order to get it to make some sense but better reverting it to what it was before while no better idea comes up…