Guild Wars 2

Ummm simple… ALL base materials that are “CRAFTING MATERIALS” such as glass bottles/aetherblade/etc AND CURRENCIES such as chakk eggs/bloodstone shards/etc at the very least.

This would make a HUGE difference.

I Had to completely remove the game and game directory then reinstall the client to finally solve the issue.

I’ve completed a DDU (display driver uninstall), rebuilt my gw2.dat file, and reinstalled graphics drivers all in safe mode.

Same error, no changes

NVIDIA says it is the game… so what gives?

Thanks for the suggestions everyone…

I am still having problems though It isn’t the new graphics driver. Has something to do with the windows update… I’ve done the reinstall and such…

end result is I still can’t play and I am unsure what to do… even trying to get NVIDIA support…

Can’t uninstall windows update of course… still unable to get past launcher.

Purr.3619:

No that’s what I did. Driver is 369.09 with Direct3D AVI 12

Now wtf mine is 372.90 ??

Have to figure out how to fix this… grrr

abomally.2694:

Download and install the full version of DirectX 9 – get it here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Already done that

Purr.3619:

Solved my problem. I have turned off the stereoscopic rendering at the graphics driver rather than in the GW2 options window.

Mine is already off from R click on desktop, select NVIDIA control panel under stereoscopic 3D in the left navigation menu.

did you do something different?

What driver version are you running now? NVIDIA Experience?

Windows had an update and now I am getting:

“Unable to initialize 3D output. Please verify that you have installed DirectX 9 and an updated video driver.”

I’ve since re-installed a “clean install” of my NVIDIA GTX 970 Graphics drivers, DirectX 12, and I ran the client repair tool for gw2. I then restarted my computer to make sure everything had completely installed and I am still receiving the error. I also managed my 3D settings to “Maximum Performance” for GW2 and Global Settings.

I have not uninstalled the latest windows update yet.

Did the latest windows update break my game client? Or is there something else I should be trying?

for real… I’d of thought there would be more talk about this by now… What is up with the new merchant being disabled already?

Ayrilana.1396:

sinican.9250:

Ayrilana.1396:

Kityn.8247:

Ayrilana.1396:

Kityn.8247:

Extremely horrible pricing model. Paying for something that you already own. I don’t care that GW2 core game comes ‘free’ with HoT. You are basically throwing away an entire account. Current GW2 owners should get something when they purchase HoT other than a throw away account. I would be happy if 2000 Gems came with it.

You’re not paying for something you already own. It’s a free bonus for new accounts/characters.

Then why does it feel like it? And why does so many people agree with me on this?

They don’t understand how sales/promotions work? It’s the same people that would say that a buy one get one 50% off means that each item is 25% off regardless even if you buy only 1. It’s the same people who thing candy single candy bar is half price when you buy only one during a buy 2 get 2 free sale.

Giving the core game is a way to get new players into the game which is important for any MMO. They market the product so that all new accounts from now on will get the core game, plus all previous expansions, by purchasing the latest expansion. Anyone can take advantage of this regardless as to whether they are a new player or veteran so long as they follow the criteria outlined in the promotion.

You also have companies that repackage products together. You often see this with GOTY editions which contain the core game along with all of the expansions. The value that players had when they first bought the game and expansions at their original price is not diminished when someone purchases the GOTY edition at a lower cost.

More like you and folks like you haven’t competent critical thinking skills, or just aren’t educated enough to realize nothing is “free” in business.

Those “free” core games that are included do have a cost. The cost is the value they would have made on the core game hadn’t it been included in the bundle. The bundle’s pricing IS reflective of the costs being passed on to the consumer under the guise as something free. They are manipulating the information in a way that makes the core game appear free to those who may innocently trust ArenaNet a little too much, or who are unable to get beyond the gimmick, hype, anticipation, excitement, etc.

Also, your argument is in response to a position that you made up with your poorly structured straw-man logical fallacy. The way you attempt to explain how stupid “they” are is beautiful irony.

I like the idea of making the core game free… to everyone, via digital download; when it doesn’t need to be packaged together with the expansion, because then we know that cost isn’t affecting the price directly.

Sorry but no. The expansion was going to be $50 regardless as to whether the core game was included for free to new accounts or not. How much cost do you think is remaining from the project they had to develop GW2? It’s a rarity that games cost $180-200 million although that has recently started to change. Let’s assume that GW2 cost $180 million to develop.

They also sold 3 million copies of the game by January 2013 at about $60 each ignoring the price from the collectors edition. That’s $180 million in sales having them break even. Now this is not as simple as I’m making it out to be but this gets my point across. They likely have already made back their investment that they had spent developing the game (ignoring capitalization).

In another thread, I have an example where companies take reduced profit, or even a loss, on one product to increase the sales in another. I believe a sale on hot dog buns was the example that I used where it would lead to an increase in sales for hot dogs. Imagine that!

Please do explain how my argument is a strawman and flawed? Are you just saying so because you either don’t understand it or disagree with it yet couldn’t find an argument to counter it? My examples were to point out a flaw in people’s reasonings when they assume any item on sale must be incorporated in the price of another that is part of it or whatever.

Also, if you want to see a flaw in your logic, go to the GW1 game store and compare the price of bundles compared to the individual games.

NO YOU!. None of that matters, you do realize. Keep being a fanboi. You really are lost.

More red herring logical fallacy BS. Dude get a clue. If you don’t understand a straw man yourself wiki has a pretty explanatory page. Reread your nonsense after reviewing logical fallacies and tell me what is still valid after you are done. Just to clarify your red herring is a besides the point distraction.

Ayrilana.1396:

Kityn.8247:

Ayrilana.1396:

Kityn.8247:

Extremely horrible pricing model. Paying for something that you already own. I don’t care that GW2 core game comes ‘free’ with HoT. You are basically throwing away an entire account. Current GW2 owners should get something when they purchase HoT other than a throw away account. I would be happy if 2000 Gems came with it.

You’re not paying for something you already own. It’s a free bonus for new accounts/characters.

Then why does it feel like it? And why does so many people agree with me on this?

They don’t understand how sales/promotions work? It’s the same people that would say that a buy one get one 50% off means that each item is 25% off regardless even if you buy only 1. It’s the same people who thing candy single candy bar is half price when you buy only one during a buy 2 get 2 free sale.

Giving the core game is a way to get new players into the game which is important for any MMO. They market the product so that all new accounts from now on will get the core game, plus all previous expansions, by purchasing the latest expansion. Anyone can take advantage of this regardless as to whether they are a new player or veteran so long as they follow the criteria outlined in the promotion.

You also have companies that repackage products together. You often see this with GOTY editions which contain the core game along with all of the expansions. The value that players had when they first bought the game and expansions at their original price is not diminished when someone purchases the GOTY edition at a lower cost.

More like you and folks like you haven’t competent critical thinking skills, or just aren’t educated enough to realize nothing is “free” in business.

Those “free” core games that are included do have a cost. The cost is the value they would have made on the core game hadn’t it been included in the bundle. The bundle’s pricing IS reflective of the costs being passed on to the consumer under the guise as something free. They are manipulating the information in a way that makes the core game appear free to those who may innocently trust ArenaNet a little too much, or who are unable to get beyond the gimmick, hype, anticipation, excitement, etc.

Also, your argument is in response to a position that you made up with your poorly structured straw-man logical fallacy. The way you attempt to explain how stupid “they” are is beautiful irony.

I like the idea of making the core game free… to everyone, via digital download; when it doesn’t need to be packaged together with the expansion, because then we know that cost isn’t affecting the price directly.

Ashen.2907:

sinican.9250:

So with the core game essentially being included or given away as a bundle with future expansions, I do hope that isn’t increasing the cost they are passing onto us.

Bundling in the way that they have announced means that they will be selling more copies than would otherwise be the case. The copies that they are selling have, essentially, no production cost. This means that they are not increasing cost but are increasing revenue. Win/Win.

What I mean by passing the cost onto us is them placing a value of say $10 base for any expansion because they need to include the core game, despite clever wording to make it sound like you are getting the core game free with each expansion. What is that $50 supposed to actually give us to warrant the price? Like many others have pointed out, it is priced at full retail for a digital download expansion that isn’t a standalone game. The digital downloads has saved companies loads of money on overhead from physical media, shipping, packaging, advertising, etc. They never ever passed any of that savings onto consumers, nor have they increased the amount of content or its quality to compensate.

Edit: …. and typically work the kitten out of their employees taking advantage of salaried wage earners.

So with the core game essentially being included or given away as a bundle with future expansions, I do hope that isn’t increasing the cost they are passing onto us.

Additionally, why not just provide the previous clients as a free download with the release of each expansion to not only keep the game heavily populated with new players for the community to interact with, but also to eliminate the need for including previous clients in the cost of any future expansions.

I have not pre-ordered yet primarily because so far the HoT only content im finding sufficient enough to justify the price and I am being generous (i’m not alone) and the current promotions are simply unappealing, price aside.

I hope to see the HoT only content greatly improve over what the core game is already going to be offering, unless they are trying to consider the interface improvements and balance changes to the core game part of HoT—that would be pretty kitten lame and dishonest.

I’ve been playing for 3 years. I have spent more than a few USD on the BLTC and additional accounts for my family members. I am not ungrateful for the now included additional character slot with all versions, but to be honest, that was the least we “expected”. It really isn’t something you are giving to us as much as it is demanded. Considering this, where is the real preorder bonus for players who had already purchased the core and been playing—some of us from launch? Seriously, the marketing team couldn’t have been this incompetent to not already considered different responses from the community even if you are all drinking from the same pitcher of kool aid. There should have already been plans in place, redundancies, preparation, etc. I can’t imagine the marketing team thought the community was that stupid. It is insulting to those of us uninterested in the kool aid compared to the volume and quality of content comparably to what the core game already includes or included when it was sold at full retail.

Anet thinks you all are morons, that is why the price is $50 USD. Are you all morons?

Thanks for clearing that up.

emannyv.3415:

Okay because it doesn’t really specify so I wanted to have others answer.

Hold on, don’t just believe everything just anyone says.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You will not.

Are you an authority on this topic? Why do you say this? Has that been confirmed? Is this a wild guess or an educated guess based on past betas?

I report all the kittens using LFG to trade as abusing the LFG tool, because it is. People are trying to use it to find groups and it is all that much easier trying to sort through all the buying and selling crap.

It is just horrible, so many armor sets junk just because of all the crappy looking pants, especially for charr where apparently the skirts get even shorter.

Please just stop with the skirts and dresses on plate armor, sure sure make a few, but at current there are far more plate dresses than plate legs… is there a reason why?

DrWhom.3105:

Anyone who reported people for that, thinking they’d get banned, is seriously delusional. Just a funny bug that was bound to get fixed quick and it already is, no harm done. Try growing a sense of humor…

keep telling yourself that

You know what they say about people who make uneducated unreasonable assumptions even in the face of the terms of service and past bannings. Keep on regurgitating misinformation, if you didn’t exploit you don’t have to worry either way.

Pleas explain what a sense of humor has to do with people exploiting a glitch? Perhaps you find it humorous because you be the one exploiting?

Sounds pretty serious, maybe you should call 911 to expedite the process, I hear Anet support is rather sluggish.

Yes genius, because 911 isn’t for life threatening emergencies.

Nice stawman logical fallacy!

0/10

Waffler.1257:

Funny, an INC Mesmer was doing the same thing at north bay in CDBL just a little bit ago.

1) i call bullkitten, our members dont need to cheat, and as a guild we are not interested in abusing a glitch and risk getting banned especially seeing as we don’t need to exploit glitches to win.
2) Screenshot or it didn’t happen (just you making wild claims with your nonexistent authority)

Anyway, feel free to go try-hard reporting, Anet won’t be banning anyone.

tell that to all the people over the past year who said the same thing when they exploited glitches similar to this one

Screen Shots or it didn’t happen…

But if it makes you feel better to assume you wont get banned for exploiting go right ahead, doesn’t affect me none.

A heads up to all of you failhard guilds on CD and FA that are exploiting the mesmer’s fall dmg chaos field glitch….

I have been recording your guilds exploiting and reporting you.

CD and FA wont have many players left after I am done.

Have a good day

~Ashook [INC]

P.S. if you catch Mag guilds doing this I encourage you to report them too.

Airstrike [INC] of Crystal Desert has openings for core raiders. Our role in WvW is Zerg Busting.

What does that mean?

• 100% representation
• Specific Builds (you will likely need to change yours)
• Raids every evening beginning at 5PM server (we need you at least 4 nights a week)
• TeamSpeak

We understand that our style of play is not for everyone, we are only looking for more like minded individuals to join us.

Please visit http://airstrike.shivtr.com/ to apply and you may expect a prompt response.

BULK.8367:

Hey FYI for breh and pancakes, no one thinks differently when you write and essay long forum post pouring your little hearts and souls into your baffling arguments. With that said I would like to take this time to golf clap to you guys for having nothing better to do with your time than write forum post all day.

Cheers mates

You don’t say LOL… How does it feel to be a complete moron?

Hypocrite much… /facepalm

I find it impressively disturbing that the folks in BS appear to be proud of the shenanigans they pulled (killing afk’ers, false starts, full stacks, etc.) by having the audacity to not only dismiss the agreed upon standard practices in arranged GVGs but also by fabricating the events that occurred that evening.

Fortunately, the folks in VS appear to be level headed and mature when it comes to not calling BS out on the “BS” that was pulled.

By the way, ROFL at the SS of the afk’ers BS killed as though it was a legit matchup. Are you for real?

While I can understand the mentality of no rules, the whole “match-ups” and arranged GVGs are for a measure of competence in a spvp-like setting. I guess I really don’t understand the whole point in disregarding the “structured” part of the match-ups and then claiming victory… when it is literally a failure to even competently participate in arranged GvGs and be successful. In reality the only success BS had that evening was showing us spectators how bad they are at arranged match-ups.

GL HF TC

supergica.8652:

“i spent a milion goldz trying to get the mesmer to kill a moa, but after the last patch, i die to rabbits, please hold me so we can cry together”

Seriously, this thread is laughable, most of the whiners here probably have no idea how to play. Mesmer is still at the top when it comes to PVP and in PVE is more then decent, second only to guardian as usefulness. A small nerf to might stacking and the world ended…

Just play an alt, mesmers are not for most of you here obviously.

Another fully educated and reasonable assumption. Let’s just build up more straw men and torch them down… TLDR: Your post is laughable.

GoZero.9708:

I’d love to see what you babies would do if you were Engineers. You probably would have jumped off a building after the December patch.

But we’re not… and we didn’t, so how is it reasonable to come to that conclusion… oh well… Sure we would.

It is asinine that illusions are negated by blinds…. If you want to make our summons not be able to be summoned (or miss) because of los/dodge/block/blind/evade/invuln then our summons should be immune UNTIL WE replace or shatter then, they should be non physical and there attacks should not be able to be blocked/evaded/dodged/blinded/invuln. It is a double standard… not only is our cast of our summons (skill) negated by these effects so are all of the attacks (including shatters) that the illusions do.

I propose you simply stop this bullkitten of negating our ability to use our kitten skills and have the effects only affect the illusions as they recently included as yet another nerf… aka now they need los of sight of the target not only to be summoned but for the summoned illusion to actual land a hit is subject to all the same rules….

It would be like being able to dodge the ranger’s “attacks” to cause his pet to not even react to our presence.

And comparing the shatter CD to the elemental is BS the elemental attunements are equivalent to weapon swaps that is why they have a CD between swaps, all their offensive/defensive abilities don’t go on global with them.

The entire mechanics of illusions should work either like DoT’s as in you hit or miss with the skill cast, not each “tic” and subsequent effects of the DoT has to hit or miss continuously or the “tics” do not land. Either that or they should work like summons…. I don’t care which but it should NOT be both.

Sure, fix scepters… and give us pistol mainhand with conditions too please. I’d like to see poison or burning and confusion support…

Sorry, I don’t consider any of my conditions from the staff any more important than the others, sure burn does the most damage/sec, poison next, and then bleeds, invulnerable increases all damage against the foe. As a condition spec I want ALL the conditions on my target not just one or 2 stacked really high so they can be stripped easily. My damage comes from 5 sources other than direct damage, those sources cannot be mitigated by anything other than high health pools. Having more than 1 stack of burning and poison doesn’t increase damage, only duration, who needs poison to last a minute and burning to last 10 seconds when your target will be dead in 2-3. With 1 tic of poison/burning/bleeding I am pumping off upwards of 1800 damage a second from conditions, then on top of that I have confusion, retaliation, illusions, direct damage, etc.

Ramiah.5648:

I almost wish they would add a weapon to Mesmer, maybe rifle, that ONLY did conditions, and then had staff prefer player targets and let that be our boon spreader.

Join the club… most of us would like to see dual pistols… we already have pistol as a off hand option, really weird we can’t use it as a main hand weapon as well.

Still, I chose Mesmer because they are not a single condition dependent build/class. I like the fact that we don’t specialize in one con or one boon. Having more sources of damage on the target and multiple boons is really what stomps them, not high stacks of a single condition that can be easily stripped. Confusion also happens to be one the most powerful conditions in the game.

DavyMcB.1603:

Regardless of how pretty and stylish condition build may seem, not only specific to mesmer, if you want an effective build, go for direct DPS. Because, obviously, hitting one key and bam! 10k is more effective than trying to waste 5 seconds stacking condition and wait for the number to tick.

Only works on glassy builds… any decent player and anyone with decent effective health/ defense will withstand or bust your burst, then what…

Conditions ignore armor/toughness leaving only large health pools the only remaining viable defense against condition builds… Let people kill themselves with my illusions/conditions while I play stay away from the dude with the big stick in his hands.

Chakuna.6325:

sinican.9250:

Chakuna.6325:

If builds aren’t even remotely balanced in a 1v1, how is it going to be balanced in a 5v5?

The most used builds in tPvP are extremely strong in 1v1’s.

shadowes.1640 :

It’s not a 1v1 game and there is a reason for tournament to be 5v5 and that is there will never be a balance in 1v1

You can’t use that as an argument.

Are you suggesting that every class should have a counter for every other class? that is what is necessary to balance 1v1v1v1v1v1… The reason it can be used as an argument is because you can balance 3-5 player groups around team balance so that every class doesn’t have the exact same skills, same stats, same weapons, etc.

My point is: If your build is complete kitten in a 1v1, chances are, they’re going to be even worse in a 5v5.

Everyone is worse in a 5v5 that is why it is team oriented. You aren’t supposed to be able to 1v5 without the support of other classes.

Maybe you need to sit down and think about what you are really asking for because asking for every class/build to be able to 1v1 every class/build isn’t balance.

I also think the AI is coded poorly in that they get boons/specials but confusion only appears to apply when they attack, not when they activate skills… well pretty much because it appears their skills are auto-activated without triggering confusion.

However, if you use confusion more like blocking/dodging, and applying it just before they swing and your able to stack it fairly high (6-9 stacks ideally), it can tic twice before falling off. This is even more so effective for aoe encounter so you get to see clouds of purple all around you.

Ummm wut? Bouncing attacks with Staff = 2x conditions applied per 1 attack, each staff clone applies conditions, chaos storm applies aoe conditions, chaos armor applies aoe conditions, field combos with light and staff(2) give you retaliation, traits give illusions retaliation, traits cause clones to apply aoe conditions when killed/replaced, traits give illusions fury/bleed on crits, shatters trait cause confusion with all shatters, traits to turn glamour skills into blinds and blinds into confusion, sigil weapon swap aoe conditions, rune aoe conditions, arcane thievery, and quite a few others I’ve not bothered to go over.

Loving my condition Mesmer… I think you iz crazy!

In order to stack confusion on a spamming warrior/guardian/thief/hunter I often shatter my first set of 3 with confusion for 6 stacks of confusion and then shatter 2 for max damage on wrack plus 3 more confusion stacks then shatter 1 for the daze and 2 more stacks of confusion and then I shatter myself for blur and 1 more stack of confusion. There is no CD between the different shatters so it’s possible to be summoning your next set of illusions as you shatter the first and so on. Additionally when the illusions are at varying ranges, as often happens with staff Mesmers, they will detonate separately.

yvesbeaumont.3291:

Ok, so now i can ask my crazy question.lol.
Will enemies receive conditions if they use projectiles while you’re CA’d?

Yup
I use chaos storm/shield as an “Oh Crap” button when escaping… that phase retreat to pop a clone and teleport me that much further away.

Vizier.3164:

Thx, I feel like an idiot now. :@

It would be great if it functioned the way you thought. If you could throw chaos storms and shields for haste chance it would be another improvement possibly to the move speed issue we have out of combat.

Nice thing is though, that chaos armor/storm can apply bleeding/fire/poison/confusion…. as a condition build this is king.

Zid.4196:

sinican.9250:

I also go with pure force sigils so that my condition damage gets a boost as well.

Sigil of Force doesn’t affect condition damage. Nor does +3% damage per clone. Nor Vulnerability.

Umm wut… since when… please link to official statement…

Otherwise “Damage” includes Direct Damage, Condition Damage, and Falling Damage.

I use Carrion as well because I run high condition damage and conditions are unable to critical so precision is not as important to me. I also go with pure force sigils so that my condition damage gets a boost as well. I have run 0/15/25/0/20 , 0/0/30/10/30 , and 0/0/25/15/30. While the first setup gives a bit more direct damage from the criticals, and a few extra bleed stacks, what I’m seeing is an overall drop in base and condition damage as a result.

Obviously if I were running 0/20/20/0/30 or something similar that pewps clones and farts butterflies out every time you somersault, then critical chance(precision)/damage would be a more desirable stat for dealing a bit more burst.

Anyhow, carrion with the 0/0/25-30/10-15/30 builds was nice because of the extra investment in vitality traits that allowed for condition removal on heal and for my illusion to regenerate nearby allies and spawn with retaliation—so at least they did some damage those times they get one-shot shortly after spawning. This made using tuning crystals and power/vitality/toughness foods that much better because of the toughness/vitality synergy all the way around giving 14% of toughness and 6% of vitality as condition damage. Overall, I am thinking I like the higher base and condition damage as well as added survivability and support of these builds. They may be more appealing to those that don’t get off on huge numbers and instead strive for efficiency through survival and pressure.

My guess would have been conditions/confusion damage because they are DoTs. I realize you said you looked, but aside from server lag, that is the only way I see it happening. Because as far as I have noticed, if our target dodges, evades, blocks, or goes invulnerable, I have not seen the secondary/traited conditions still being applied.

Vitality is the best form of mitigation against condition damage; other than stripping, seeing as how condition damage bypasses toughness/armor. High vitality also allows you to live through bursts and ambushing.

Confusion and AoE… Remember they are still there, just invisible so get creative.

RuneValkyrie.3672:

I rather see a Bow&Arrows for mainhand than a pistol mainhand. It suits the class better (shooting magical arrows) rather than a pistol. Also I cant wait for AN to finally fix the scepter and turn i into a condition weapon.

Sorry wutt…. a bow… ick no not Mesmer like at all… Besides, we already have 2 two-handed weapons (staff/GS). We need another MH seeing as how Scepter sucks, leaving us with only sword as MH. Additionally, we can already use Pistol OH why not MH?

Cares Less.9631:

I’d like to see M/H Pistol brInging some older GW1 skills back so you can build a more interrupt/disrupt style build. Another interrupt like the old p

Thank you, I agree with this also. Something I loved about Mes from GW1… people were so annoyed by Mesmers… “Crap, it’s a Mesmer”… “hold up, there is a Mesmer in that group”… "Help I can’t move, I’m going down, heal heal, I’m dead "… “F’n Mesmers”

I’m in for MH Pistol as well… get rid of the scepter for all I care

What I am gathering is set A is better than Set B… B is giving better average direct damage by 10-30% but you are losing upwards to 55% con damage and taking 3% more damage. Additionally, direct damage is mitigated by defense, whereas con damage is not. On the other hand conditions cannot crit so they do not benefit from precision/crit while direct damage does.

For those reasons, I chose to forgo focusing my build any other way than through the synergies of the con damage, toughness, and vitality trait trees and carrion gear with Chrysocolla gems and undead runes for a total of 14% toughness converted to con damage

Advent.6193:

sinican.9250:

Still rolling a condition build… and still pwning… I am starting to think most players aren’t capable of building their own Viable Mesmers without a guide.

25K HP, 2.7k attack, 2k + con, 2.1k defense….

Those are some luscious specs. Let me guess, you’re heavy into Chaos/Inspiration/Illusions?

And… Loving it!