Guild Wars 2

Ohh that kitten point…. ;( You were more persistent than me. I went to try it yesterday and after the third attempt I just sat there waiting for the race to finish. I started the race as 3rd but I couldn’t reach the end….

Wth is that Tethering thing supposed to be? Isn’t it supposed to help us to aim for where we must land, then wth can’t we be put on top of it?!? There are several other similar mechanics in game that works well but this kitten skill seems to be broken for that whole time now.

It was kind of bugged since beginning but it was manageable until the Festival of Four Winds or even when Dry Top was released. Now I have even forgotten when was the last time I could see the shinny chest at the end of that race (long long time ago…) :/

Please, do something with this kitten skill!!! (by the way, I have even sent an in-game bug report with a screenshot while sitting there, and took the screenshot at the right moment which another player were falling off by being overshot… Too bad it didn’t save in my screenshots but devs have received it at least…)

That’s really weird. I have just passed by that area and my weapon didn’t disappear at any time, either transmuted cultural ones as a ascended weapon. Which weapon were you using?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Players-Disapearing-and-teleporting-in-wvw/6208575

It has nothing to do with character slots. I still have 2 free slots from those 5 that we get and I have this mini issue as well.

It seems we have reached a point where long time players, maybe even those from since beginning, are starting to reach the cap. It’s possible we will see reports like this very frequently on next months.

itchyeyebrows.1520:

nottsgman.8206:

you might want to send a ticket to support about the Krait Obelisk Shard not showing in your home instance. the support team will be able to help you better.
https://help.guildwars2.com/anonymous_requests/new

just so you know, submitting a bug report in-game won’t get you a reply, but submitting a ticket via the link above will.

good luck

Thank you for the link, unfortunately, the stone station is a lost cause.

That’s not so lost. You didn’t “waste” that recipe, it’s still tied to that character. If you start crafting that discipline with that character you will have that recipe available. That’s why you can consume recipes related to disciplines that you don’t have currently active, because it will be available to you whenever you active such discipline. In other words, your character have “learned” the recipe and can “remember” it later.

Even though you can have only 2 disciplines active at once (more if you buy “upgrades”), you can craft all disciplines at any time (with a cost for switching though).

Jon Olson.8439:

Evan posted the following on Reddit:

This is a case of normalizing behavior between the mini map and full-screen map. This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff. It wasn’t the intention that it go out at this time, so that’s why there was no patch note.

I don’t know off the top of my head if the input binding system can support meta key and mouse operations, but its something we can look into.

Oops, it seems something slipped off before the time :P

Guardian.2560:

Thanks for reply. Much appreciated.

I felt same in beginning that if its wrong discipline or some filtering. For sure it was not wrong discipline because I have separate characters for every 2 discipline. May be was filtering.

Anyhow, I am happy that i works now. Thanks again.

My first shoot was the filters, the wrong discipline would be the most obvious and surely it wasn’t, but I just thought about mentioning it. And you are welcome, glad to help

Curiously, other areas in the game are suffering the exact opposite, being oddly too bright, like https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Really-Bright-Mansion

The most obvious cause would be opening it related to a discipline you haven’t activated (I believe that’s not the case, but it’s most obvious and can go unnoticed). Another possibility is you have it filtered in a way that it shows no results. The filters and search persist during the session (and are shared between all crafting stations you may use and the Hero panel) and get reseted when logging off.

Anyway, good you got it working again.

Edit: Curiously it just happened to me, but it turned out I had “Gain Experience” checked in filters and since that discipline was maxed I had no recipes fitting with that filter.

It’s understandable that people get afraid due the lack of communication on past about important topics, but also people seems to be used to always demand stuff and complain without thinking first. Take off their candy and they will yell and cry without even asking first why that. Calm down people, issues happen and at times things can slip off. If anyone would stop and analyze ALL fact, the speculations here would make no sense. Being upset and curious about a response is understandable, but rudeness and attacking based on speculations isn’t. If it would take days without a response, then the speculations would make a “bit” more sense.

And I feel you Galie, and thanks for the update btw.

Edit: This post was written before Gaile wrote the one above, if it matters.

That issue happened to me to just when HoT was released. I thought it had been fixed ages ago.

My first time in that instance was in a party and I wasn’t the instance owner, the exact same thing happened to me. I tried to WP directly to VB but that first WP was locked/hidden.

What worked for me was mapping out that instance (mainly out of Silverwastes) and then coming back and then walking all my way back to past the southwest Post (yellow?) until the portal to Verdant Brink.

That’s nothing new. I have came to a similar situation more than one year ago or so. I had simply replied to a post that got deleted (the thread wasn’t) and I got a similar notification.

It surprised me and then I tried to reply to it via PM, that sent a message to Support that gave me an automate reply. I contacted support that then told me that was because I had quoted a post that got deleted and then my post got deleted as well. If I hadn’t contacted them I would be still wondering what rule I broke (if any).

Also, I believe it gives a link to “Trashcan” because it may not be “deleted” but moved to a restricted thread that we don’t have access, then the system still provides a link (usable only for mods maybe).

Anyhow, given it was already said that they can’t do much with forums due it being from a third party that no longer maintains it, I don’t think such changes would happen any time soon.

If you encounter any stuck events or issues like that it would be more helpful to report it through in-game report tool. That tool provides valuable info for the devs, most of which we are usually unable to provide.

Also, it can happen in a map instance while not in another, then why using that reporting tool would be more useful. Just remember that any report through that tool will not give you any response though.

CaelestiaEmpyrea.2617:

In addition, as of the latest quarterly update, you get credit towards doing an event for providing boons to allies and debuffs to enemies, as well as for healing/reviving allies. This makes it a lot easier to get event credit even if you aren’t high enough level to meaningfully contribute to damaging the enemies.

Just a little remark though: you can get credit through that actions yes but in order to be eligible for it you must do a bit of damage either. It’s just that damage isn’t the only thing required anymore but a little amount is required.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-January-26-2016/ (first post, under BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH > General)

Open world maps are independent of Personal/Living Story instances. As long you have any ability required you are able to reach everything. In this case, the ability required is a Mastery then you just need to have it unlocked to be able to reach that area. If you could unlock that mastery without doing Story, then you could reach that area without even doing Story in any character.

I believe if you had to do Story or any other content in order to reach an area, they wouldn’t have put a map completion item behind it, that would be blocking progress.

Fact is, in open world maps, any area is reachable to any character, as long they have any ability required (mastery, level, etc).

It has been that way since around HoT was launched, I just got used at it and make jokes when it happens :P

Yeah I have came into a similar trouble. Recently I put out some decorations and before I did I noticed we had 3 pumpkins in storage, however after I was done storage showed that all pumpkins had been used but I didn’t use any of them.

I didn’t know about the Clear all feature, but maybe if there would be a way to list all decorations in use it could be more handy. Maybe a list with the locations or a skill that highlight all the decorations out? Having a way to remove all at once is useful, but can be disastrous and dangerous (and a pain) in some cases.

Hmm, curiously I have just realized the issue seems to be less frequent now, although it happened once this week. Also I haven’t filled any support ticket as I said a while back, been lazy about it :P

Well, I had made a thread about it a while back https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Constant-black-screens-and-disconnects/. I have put there some interesting info that could help to track the issue, but so far no official response. However, now I stopped to think about I have realized the issue is a lot less frequent now.

Dara Potocska.8196:

Hail friends! This issue has a fix in the works and once QA has verified it, we’ll push it out in an upcoming release. Thank you for… raising visibility on this issue. =D

It reminds me of a game (link), that makes “jokes” about game development, because at a certain moment there is a “change log” note where a dev says about making a trigger volume “visible” because someone else had misplaced it. xD

Lethokrates.5139:

I did in fact hit that cap. Thank you for the response.

No problem, glad to help

You probably have hit the cap. Check if you have a total of 15,000 AP from daily and (now defunct) monthly. To do so, hover your total AP in Achievements tab of Hero panel.

Recent thread on the subject: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Daily-Completionist-10-Point-Achievement/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Daily-Achievement-Points-not-accumulating/

The issue isn’t scaling in low level maps, but that champ specifically. It’s a special event that got added recently and it’s supposed to be done in group (that’s why soloing it may be a pain). However, it feels like its damage is too high for its level and area. Curiously, the event info says it’s level 8, but the mob is level 10.

TheHeretic.3529:

you mean… like this?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Video-Death-by-walking/first#post5961524

yup, I believe it was that one or similar.

Hmm, it sounds like something else yes, it doesn’t seem having to do with Content Guide. The Content Guide will just point you to where your next step is at. If you quit a chapter and then it comes back, that’s a different issue it seems.

I have seen another report of it at a similar map (it was Snowden Drifts if I recall right), but thanks to the broken search I can’t find the link.

ananda.5946:

It is not just that it doesn’t direct properly, but the personal story is never suppressed even if you have chosen to suppress it or to turn the content guide off completely.

Also, any chapter you are playing in the Living World gets displayed after a relog, even if you Quit This Episide. It becomes re-enabled each time you come back.

If you mean that info about your next Personal Story step that shows up above Achievement section, that one isn’t affected by Content Guide and will never go away until you finish PS and LS. What the Content Guide affects is that area with a compass and the option about Personal Story is if it should point you the direction where the green star (PS marker) is at or not.

More about it: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Graphical_user_interface#Content_guide

nicknamenick.2437:

Zaxares.5419:

If the textures are a weird pink and purple combination, or if everything looks like it has a plaid pattern, it is either a clash with your graphic driver software (in which case update your drivers), or corrupted textures (in which case run a -repair build for your gw2.dat file).

yeah it is, but i only have this in the obsidian Sanctum map (since they changed the waypoints).. nowhere else.

So you guys dont have weird bright/pink/purple textures?

If it happens at a specific places then it’s possible to be corrupted textures, like Zaxares said. Try to repairing the game and see if it helps. Also I got curious, if you could provide a screenshoot it would be easier to know what you are seeing.

Yeah, it’s a pain to measure how far you can place it as there is not any visual feedback or indicator to tell so. Maybe a buff/boon/booster like thing (I don’t know how those icons above skill bar are called) that’s available only while you can place a portal and then vanishes when out of range? Also, why does it play the visual effect when it can’t be used? Why not just making the skill go into cooldown with no effect when triggering it out of range, or maybe denying it to be triggered if out of range? Having it to play the visual effect when out of range and unusable just fools us and leads to things like OP: first guess is it’s bugged instead that it was used at the wrong place.

Celine.6857:

There is a big general issue outside of this (and inclusive) – since the elite specs have made everyone super killing machines, a lot of champion event chains, event farms like Frostgorge Sound are becoming so frustrating especially for people loading on slower computers because once you get there the things are dead and you get no credit (and believe me, I know about this because I was running on a very slow pc for the game until recently). People say things like “keep up” or “know the waypoint rotation” but I’m sorry, since when should wanting to take part in a few random champs while you level or map complete require this kind of prior knowledge? It just seems pretty unfair. They need to raise champs’ HP IMO.

I know the feeling. It surprises me that those champs haven’t been demoted to vets too like several other were. Champs nowadays worth almost nothing, easy kill (with a reasonable yet small group) with cheap loot.

Oh and glad to hear it was patched. Gonna give it a try soon.

Welcome to Guild Wars 2 Sandbox, Test Subject! lol And yeah, I haven’t tried it yet but hearing about this type of competitive thing in PvE makes me want to avoid it for now. Please, no more of this. I sticked with GW2 for a reason that’s not competitive stuff in PvE.

Rose Solane.1027:

Can I be very cynical about this? This event should have never been designed this way. What was the intention from ArenaNet for this event? It let players compete with other players in PvE over resources/nodes. The fact that GW2 does NOT let players compete in PvE over resources is one of the most important features of the game! It is the reason a lot of players like GW2 that do not like other MMO’s. How is it possible that an event that promotes competition in PvE even made it into the game?

The only good thing about this event so far was the short and very cynical discussion in guild chat I had 15 minutes ago. Where two other members showed their appreciation for this event

Well, it looks like someone went the opposite way and liked it, even suggesting more of it: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/PVE-not-competitive-enough O.o

Gaile Gray.6029:

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue in which the content guide caused periodic frame hitches for some players while in a squad.

jedles.2908:

Hidden Arcana story quest

lol, the dialog captured there made it funny. It’s like “oops, someone removed the ground, sorry for the inconvenience” xD

I found a thread about it: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Soothsayer-Jacinda-Bug-Merged/

If I heard right it seems she was removed from the game. She was bugged and causing spam to a few players, also even sending mails to players not affected by the issue she was supposed to fix. I would advice you to contact Customer Support if it’s still broken for you, they can assist you better.

Oh ok sorry, I couldn’t tell by the title (it has been ages I did that story step). Thanks for providing another screenshoot, it helped more as pointed by RoseofGilead.

Hmm, maybe if you can provide more info it could be more helpful. What mission was it? Also, couldn’t you take a full screen screenshoot? You can simply hit Print Screen key and it will capture the whole game screen (I see you took a picture of your screen with another device, and hard to see whit it rotated). It would be helpful as we could see the mission progress and stuff as showed at the top right of screen.

Nice theory and stuff, fun to read and it gives a lot to think. But well, putting lore and speculations aside, I think some patch notes, the blog article about LW S3 (as pointed here) and parts of HoT (I admit I still don’t get what Glint’s egg had to do with it all) has given pretty clues about the next one. xD

Silverwing.8750:

I have tested and I am not returned to my original location in Tyria if I enter the guild hall while in HOTM, then exit the guild hall back to HOTM.
i.e.
Tyria -> HOTM -> returns me to Tyria
Tyria -> HOTM -> guild hall -> HOTM -> sends me to Lion’s Arch not my original location in Tyria

Yup, that’s what I suspected and I saw it happening before. It’s like said above, it remembers only your previous location, no more than that and as your previous was an instance it puts you at a “default” place (if you notice the place where you end is “almost” exactly the absolute center of Tyria map).

What was your original location before entering HoM? And yes, possibly a bug.

It may be a dumb question but, are you trying to join someone in a different region? Players in NA servers cannot join players in EU servers, etc. If you right-click someone’s name and they are in a different region you won’t see that option.

@OP: Firstly, calm down. There is not a perfect system, all them can suffer with bugs and either fixing bugs or adding features can cause bugs. It’s even worse with complex systems like a MMO. And issues mainly related to OS can become hard to track and fix as it depends on countless items. If you are a programmer you might understand it pretty well.

Also, what Turamarth meant is that there is only one box meant for editing your post. The second box you see is meant for a new reply and that one is always visible (it was there even before you hit Edit). And if you noticed what happens when you hit Edit is that an edit box replaces your post to allow you to edit it while everything else on the page remains the same. It would be way worse if it would take you to another page just to edit a post, huh?

By the way, since they used a third party software for this forum that’s no longer maintained and supported by its creator, I wouldn’t hold my breath expecting any big changes to the forums.

bobsort.4097:

- Load screen time become 10 times higher than yesterday. because you are trying to load all the 25gig game folder into my 16 gig memory.

There must be some misunderstanding here. It’s impossible for any game to do that and I have never seen any doing that. The game won’t put the whole 25 Gb file into your memory since it won’t use all that data at once, it only loads what it needs and unloads when it’s not needed anymore. Usually the game uses between 2.5 Gb up to around 4 or 5 Gb of memory and I’m pretty sure it hardly hits more than 10 Gb.

Actually, from my own experience, what can cause increased loading times after an update is disk fragmentation. If the game’s data file is too fragmented the loading times will increase greatly. Try to defragment your disk, better yet if you can use a tool that can defragment specific files and use it on the game’s data file (Gw2.dat).

Also, if you want to switch to the 32 bits client you can do as Turamarth pointed out and it might be possible that most of the issues you reported had to do with it since you said the 64 bits client doesn’t work well for you. Give it a try, switch to 32 bits one and see if those issues will go away.

Last but not least, crashes and latency are tightly related to each machine, it’s not always game’s fault only (although both combined can cause issues). If it was something caused exclusively by the game only everyone else would suffer from the exact same issues. Would you mind sharing some of your specs? Maybe it helps to troubleshoot what’s going on.

And if you need some more individualized assistance you might try to contact Customer Support, some of your questions can be answered only by them.

Gaile Gray.6029:

It is an alternative to the 32-bit client currently used to play the game. Aside from some technical details, the two are identical in functionality

If it is “alternative”, why then it’s forced on us?

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

I particularly do not like the idea of any program deciding on it’s own to change my settings.

Taking a clue from Microsoft re unwanted “upgrades” isn’t a great Idea. Consumers should have a choice. The 32 bit was working fine for me.

I can’t agree more. Even though I liked they made a 64 bits version and it has been running well for me, I’m still all up for having choices (looking at you Win 10 o.~). Don’t force stuff on us. Also, why defaulting to 64 bits? If someone has been using the 32 bits client on a 64 bits system it’s most likely they must have a very valid reason for that. Why not doing the opposite where a param would be required to run the 64 bits version and it defaulting to 32?

Also, I haven’t tested it myself as I had already been using the 64 bits client, but as far as I know an executable cannot contain both 32 and 64 bits code in it, what leads me to think that the command line switch causes it to rebuild/replace itself. If so, why that? Isn’t it easier to have two clients as we already had if, technically, this way they are also two different clients?

Well, after the “awesome” NPE that they seem to be stubborn about revising, I’m not going to hold my breath neither surprises me such kind of decision :/

Well, some people complained about the Share Slot mixing with other Inventory Slots when they gave that slot for free to everyone, possibly it was an attempt to address that maybe. Cannot please everyone though…

archiebub.4089:

This may have something to do with a change I noticed with the shared slots. The shared inventory slots are taking up their own row now. Before the patch I had a nice 11 slot by 15 slot rectangle that included the shared slots and left no empty spaces. Now the 5 shared slots are on top in their own row which leaves 5 empty spaces at the bottom plus the 6 that are empty in the new shared slot row. I hate wasted screen space.

Possibly it was a change to address some complaints from when they gave one Share Slot to everyone, people complained that it messed with their inventory. Hard to please everyone I see… O.o

circuitnerd.5863:

shadow.6174:

I have never had any issues with Content Guide causing that and I can’t imagine how it could happen. There are a lot of other screen items that could mostly cause that with blinks and stuff. What does tell you that it’s the Content Guide causing issues? Also, what option did you set it to?

Turning the content guide to “off” fixes it. For many players this resolves their problem. Why this option is bugged and causing visual problems, I don’t know. The lag affects the entire UI as well. You can open up your map and you’ll see it gets stuck then resumes every half second.

Yup I got it. But what I meant is I can’t see how it could cause troubles because, if I recall right, the only “fancy” thing it does is scrolling sideways when it changes, no blinking and stuff (that’s know to cause FPS drops, like particles). I have had no issues with it, or it was too low that I couldn’t realize anything.

Does it matter what item you set it to, like Disable Personal Story, etc? Or does it happen with any option other than Off?

Also, if you don’t mind, what are your specs? It helps to troubleshoot things.

I have never had any issues with Content Guide causing that and I can’t imagine how it could happen. There are a lot of other screen items that could mostly cause that with blinks and stuff. What does tell you that it’s the Content Guide causing issues? Also, what option did you set it to?

I had noticed that while doing the big event at Auric Basin. I had died and someone revived me and when I went to an anvil repair it said I had no armor to be repaired. I have Pact Commander mastery completed.