Guild Wars 2

Ben K.7329:

Inappropriate analogy. The point of a puzzle is to figure it out, not to have others figure it out for you and just follow their instructions.

But we’re long past the point where you can design puzzles on the assumption that people haven’t been told how to do it, so that’s why Tribulation mode is technically difficult, not intellectually difficult.

Ironically, exams are one of the best techniques for weeding out those who can’t solve problems they haven’t encountered before.

It might not be the right analogy but it was the closes i could found.

I agree that, today, in games, people (me included) reach out more for guides, not all people but most.

Dulfy has been a valuable source for many players in trouble but she just provided the instructions, the skill/practice is on us.
Thus the school analogy, you study the guide, then put it in practice.

But my comment was for people to try to realize that an exploit is an exploit, people shouldn’t get a “Free Pass” for doing, what it actually is, an exploit.

SRoode.7318:

Tribulation mode is earned huh? How many of you did it with a guide?
I see no problem with this at all.

Yea, cause LEARNING how to do stuff to do it YOURSELF its bad.
Like, going to school to LEARN stuff to PRACTICE in the future is bad right?

Yea, lets compare this with school terms.
Learn = learning with a guide
Cheat = exploiting

You have a test, you LEARN the stuff and get an A+.
Friend has the same test, he CHEATS and gets an A+

Tell me how is that fair.

If you were in school the cheat friend would get reprehended by his action, like in a game if you exploit you get suspended or banned.

I’m no saint but I believe that everyone should be treated has equal, if you do X and its bad, and your friend does X and its also bad you two should get the same consequences.

But aren’t people exploiting to sell it?
So they are ok with they exploiting them to sell them?

Before you join it specifically says no one can join after you go in so how are people joining in after the seller is in?

Im confuse, because when people were exploiting dungeons like Arah and AC they were not ok with that and ban people cause of that and now they are OKAY.

I saw it on Reddit how its done.
Basically you can enter other person’s SAB in the end timer.
What tells me it is not intended since in the beginning it clearly says people can’t join you after you enter in the world of SAB.

Yes, its an Anet error code, but I remember that anet banned people for a lot less before.
- The WvW ban wave in the beginning. When people were putting WvW weapons on the Mystic Forge to do money and abusing that.
- The going through/jumping walls to do dungeons to them selling them.
- Bugging mobs/npc’s, like doing AC P1 and P2 at the same time.

For me this is an exploit like any other one I mention and should be treated as equal, not getting special treatment cause its hard content and people are crying cause they cant doing it and can’t have what they what cause of that.

Hell, If it wasn’t for Dulfy (and my patient) I couldn’t do it too.
Now I can speed run Tribulation mode at ease and I have fun.

I know how frustrating it is in the beginning but when you finish it its awesome.
People should experience that.

I understand that this requires a lot a time from new players and that can be one of the reasons people buy the runs.
Maybe they dont have time, or they dont have anyone to do with, but 2 or 3 years ago some people didnt had time too or friends to play with and they did it. Or quit.

The point is, this is an exploit, just because its temporary content and hard shouldn’t have special treatment.

Sorry to say this but its your problem.

I did that to one of my characters and nothing happen.

That Guy.5704:

whiteflower.9425:

Im pretty upset, I did level 50 after reset, did level 38 now and didnt get my daily chest.

This is still a recurrent bug.

Fix it.

well, this is a major necroed thread, but what is your personal reward level. if your level is 35 for instance and you do a level 50, then you only get credit for for doing a 31-40. a 38 also counts as 31-40. If you are level 50 and you do a level 38 then that also counts as a 31-40, but doing a 50 then would count as a 50.

You may understand all that already, but just making sure that your issue doesnt fall under this.

I was level 41 at the time I did 50 and then 38.
So I think I was in the 41-50 space, thus there is no explaining in why I did not received my 38 chest (31-40).

Im pretty upset, I did level 50 after reset, did level 38 now and didnt get my daily chest.

This is still a recurrent bug.

Fix it.

Or you can use a recognition program like shazam to listen to the music you want to know and try to find her.

SE P1 is also bugged.

Right in the beggining, when we go trough the portal, Ferg is suppose to talk to activate the cut scene but well, he doesnt.

So we just stayed there waiting and then we noticed Ferg was with us at the turrets instead of being in the beggining of the bridge talking.

We had to relog.

Because its the same.

In the ctrl version the ctrl stops working.
In the alt version the alt stops working.

A restart to gw2 or computer?

Cause I already restart the computer and game and there’s no fix.

Everytime I open the program after gw2 the ctrl key just stops working outside gw2.
Oh well, nvm, its a small thing to get used to it xD

You mean istead of pressing Alt + R to show radar you need to press Ctrl + R? o.o

Ok, thats one thing solved xD

What about the ctrl key not working outside gw2 when I open the program?
I need to close the game for the ctrl key to start working again.

Yes outside the gw2 the ctrl key just stops working.

The dps meter works, i can see all, i click ctrl + h in game it shows the option but when i try to enable/disable the features nothing happens.

And the ctrl key works in game but stops working outside the gw2.

EDIT: I unnistalled the 64bit version and istalled the 86bit, i installed the 3 files you mention and again nothing happens and the ctrl key stops working outside gw2.

I tried the following combos to disable the app:

Alt + B
Alt + R
Alt + Num1
Alt + Num2

None of them worked.

I know that they are to enable and disable features but when I do this to enable/disable features nothing happens.

Disable the UI of your program.

“Q) It’s working properly, but how can I turn features on or off?
A) Press Alt or Ctrl (depending on the version you use) + H. A list of options will appear that lists what is en/disabled and how to dis/enable it.”

And funny thing, my ctrl stops working when the program is running.

Cant ctrl + v or ctrl + c anything when the program is running or anything that needs me to use the ctrl key

I cant disable the numbers.
I click ctrl and it doesnt disable.
I even clicked alt although its not the version i downloaded and still, doesnt disable.

And yes, its lauching as admin.

HELP

Your location : Portugal

Time and date of incident (plus time zone) : Everyday (since patch) in the evening and night time. (GMT +0)

Game World: Seaferest Rest

Brief description of what you’re seeing: In the morning and afternoon its really good but when the evening comes geez.

The best way to describe is this way:
You know when you are in a Skype call and a friend starts streaming a game to you and you see him streaming but laggy? Thats how I see my game when the evening comes.

In dungeons is fine, only happens in the open world.

FPS: 11 when I used to have more than 60 (in good places more than 100).
Ping: 187 and it even goes up to 250.

This FPS and Ping are my currently stats in Queensdale.

EDIT: Using a VPN solved my problem !!! Never have I EVER had a gameplay so smooth as now

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/SweetFX-and-Initializing-SOLVED/first#post4890311

You choose your server in the beggining, before creating a character. Since you choose Yaks Bend you will stay Yaks Bend for every character, even if you delete them.

You can always transfer

Solution here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/SweetFX-and-Initializing/first#post4883312

Another way to log into the game with gemfx/sweetfx on bin is to click on the word “initializing” when youre stuck on that screen.

If you skip the launcher with command line switches you can get the game to launch even with sweetfx d3d9.dll in the bin folder and retain sweetfx functionality

-autologin -nopatchui -email YOUREMAILHERE -password YOURPASSWORDHERE

A guy in other post, posted this

tjuma.3021:

If you skip the launcher with command line switches you can get the game to launch even with sweetfx d3d9.dll in the bin folder and retain sweetfx functionality

-autologin -nopatchui -email YOUREMAILHERE -password YOURPASSWORDHERE

Thank youD

I didnt delete the bin folder, only deleted the injector.ini, d3d9.dll and dxgi.dll.

It happen to me too, after several minutes I entered the game.
After I restart the game and BAMM again, stuck at “initializing” -.-

I removed the SweetFx files from the Bin folder and it worked for me.
So now the SweetFx doesnt work -.-

Before they only let us use SweetFx if we put some files in the gw2 bin folder, now they prevent us from playing if we have those files in the bin folder.

Now SweetFx doesnt work, that means, or you play gw2 without SweetFx or you dont play at all -.-

Zenith.7301:

Welcome to the happy, happy world of rangers and necromancers.

So sad :c

Imagine if i entered a party and was in my 1.5ka account WITH a necro or ranger?
They would kicked me faster xD

And I use a warrior in my 2nd account, forgot to say that.

OMG that happens to me too!!!

- Today I went a a Full Run CM, I said I knew my stuff. (REMEMBER: I never got kicked in my 14k+ account)

We were at P2 path, the part were we needed to kill those mobs to get to Briggete.
Before that I said I had stuff in my oven and it was only 1sc, I ran to see my nutella croissants and ran again to the pc, it took like 10sc.
They went ahead and were killing the mobs before Briggete and they die. (NOTE: I was not there)

One guy, after that, said that he asked for exp people.
After that my pc freeze and I had to restart and since I have a Disk SSD it took me less than 1min to restart my pc and enter gw2 again.

To my surprise I enter gw2 WITHOUT a party.

So I never got kicked in my main account, In the 10sc I went to check on my croissants they die and I get kicked? o.o

On my main account, even if I dc I NEVER got kicked! Even if i say brb and take 10sc, I NEVER get kicked.

:c

Recently I’ve been making an experience.

I have 2 accounts, one with 14k+ AP and with almost 1.5k+ AP and I pug on both.

About my 14k+ AP account:

PROS:

- I have the achievement points required to enter any party.

- I have all the classes to enter any party and know how to play them decently (some better others worse but I play at a decent level on the worse ones).
Example:
They need a warrior, I have one.
They need a guardian, I have one.
Etc.

-I have all my classes equipped and pretty xD

- I never been kicked because im a bad player (been kicked like 2 or 3 times in the end of dungeons by people that were in the same guild).

- Pugs never said I played bad (without counting when I was learning xD)

CONS:

-Cant remember.

About my 1.5k+ AP:

PROS:

- I have all the things to do again, what for me its kinda fun.

CONS:

- I dont have the achievement points required to enter any party therefore I dont enter the partys that ask for 5k+AP cause I respect them. (Even though i do have a 14k+ AP account)
I do, however, whisper the person in the party asking if i can enter and explain its a 2nd account.
Some answer, some dont.

- EVEN when I enter party’s that dont ask for the AP requirement I get kicked when i enter-.-

- Today I went a a Full Run CM, I said I knew my stuff. (REMEMBER: I never got kicked in my 14k+ account)

We were at P2 path, the part were we needed to kill those mobs to get to Briggete.

Before that I said I had stuff in my oven and it was only 1sc, I ran to see my nutella croissants and ran again to the pc, it took like 10sc.
They went ahead and were killing the mobs before Briggete and they die. (NOTE: I was not there)

One guy, after that, said that he asked for exp people.
After that my pc freeze and I had to restart and since I have a Disk SSD it took me less than 1min to restart my pc and enter gw2 again.

To my surprise I enter gw2 WITHOUT a party.

So I never got kicked in my main account, In the 10sc I went to check on my croissants they die and I get kicked? o.o

On my main account, even if I dc I NEVER got kicked! Even if i say brb and take 10sc, I NEVER get kicked.

- Another CON, have to wait to get my ascend trinkets xD My main has loads of trinkets when I create a new character, this has none.

What do we get from here:

-Even if you are experience and have a 14k+AP account you will get kicked if you are in a 1.5k+AP account.

Doesn’t matter if you say your exp in your 1.5k AP account. Doesnt matter if you know more than the people that are in your party when you are at your 1.5k AP account. If something goes wrong its your fault unfortunately (when you are at your 1.5 AP account).

TL:DR: I have a 14k AP account and a 1.5k AP account. Never got kicked from the 14k but within a month I got kicked a lot because of my AP in the 1.5k AP account.
Doesnt matter if you play well, if you have low ap, you’re kitten.

Dunno why but the pic doesnt show to me.

http://i.imgur.com/prUItPI.jpg

I play gw2 a lot and for diferent stuff I have diferent sets of gear or diferent traits.

An example is my mesmer.

Currently I have:
- Soldier set with Centaur runes.
- Assassins set.
- Berserker set.
- Knight set.

AND I use diferent Traits for diferent situations:
- 6 4 0 4 0 for reflect
- 6 6 0 0 2
- 6 4 0 0 4

Well, I know im not the only one that has this so I wanna give a sugestion to make our lives easier.

Currectly if we want to change to a diferent set or trait we need to do 1 by 1 and it takes time. Not long but time.

So my sugestion is to have buttons/tabs with numbers and a plus(+) sign so if we want to add another one we can.

We can also have a edit button if we want to name it, but i think that takes too much space.

PS: This is gonna be lazy af, Im gonna do this with paint xD but i want you guys to get the idea.

This is a case of miss understanding between 2 parts.

I though you said, you failed 1 event and you got your first one at the 5 run or the 4 succeeded run.

EDIT: No need to be stupid about it -.- I misunderstood so what? The english language its a strange thing that when a person says A another might understood B.
English its not the main language for most of us so, geez, give me a break -.-

Ardenwolfe.8590 Thats impossible cause you receive 1 box from the achievement of killing the guys.

http://dulfy.net/2015/01/15/gw2-point-of-no-return-vinewrath-silverwastes-achievements-guide/

“Vinewrath Vanquisher

This achievement is only rewarded once all 3 champions (Beekeeper, Mangler, Dark Wing) are killed. The reward is 10 AP pts and a Carapace Coat Box. To get additional coats for the Luminescent coat collection you can loot them from the chests once all 3 champions are defeated (not a common drop)"

An example:

A Clump of Mithril.
You salvage it only gives you a Mithril, so its 1 piece=1slot.

Before If it was full I could savage the Clump of Mithril, the mithril would replace the spot of the Clump , deposit and I would have 1 new free spot.

Now I cant do that.

Some have luck with percursors, others with carapace.

Look at me.

- I got the 1st from achiv, so far so good.
- I got the 2nd right after, nice.
- 5 (more or less) runs later, at freaking 5 am, the 3rd one. YEYYYY!!!
- Day after that, 1st run of the day ANOTHER???? What the hell do I do to this one? I wish I could offer her to you or trade this box for another piece that I need but I guess savage is the answer.

Funny thing is I was hesitating to go on that run but my bf taught me into it.

Another funny thing is, on the Dry Top time, that fossil stuff you get from chests, I opened more than 150 chest, in those days, to get 2 freaking fossils.
Day before yesterday, after months of not being there, I open 5 and 2 fossils just like that.

Other funny thing/example. I was doing some stuff on Queensdale and I saw Behe up, and I though “ohhh I dont do Behe for months now, lets just do that for fun”. BAMMM, he offers me Tooth of Frostfang.

Ladies and Gentleman, theres 2 lessons here.

1)- Things happen/drop when you less expect it.
2)- The less you do one thing the more anet/gw2 rewards you on that thing.

I have a guy that doesnt really play the game and precursors fall from the sky for him.
Its like anet likes to reward those who dont do anything.

I dont have any reason to complain, in the topic carapace box stuff, but we have to recognize that the less you do in game the more you get.

Gw2 its for casuals so it makes sense to reward the “casuals”.

Before this update, if my inventory got full what did i did? I would salvage items and deposit the materials that would come from the items to regain the space.

Now I simply cant do that.

If my inventory gets full i cant salvage anything to gain space, i need to go to a merchant to sell and then i can salvage -.-

Is this intended? If it its its simply stupid.
Its was fine, you didnt need to change it.

“Liar liar pants on fire!”

Hahahahaha xD Never heard that before xD

Lord Kuru.3685:

Labjax.2465:

whiteflower.9425:

I cant tell you when it was up cause i cant see my log from 2 days ago but i can tell you for sure that immediately when i saw that the build was available i restart gw2 and start downloading the patch.

It took me 1 to 2 minutes to download and get in (to be noted that my internet speed its 125mb/s). And under a minute to get in in-game and see the gem stuff (Load screen is a pain when a new build comes up)

So like i said, cant give an exact hour but i can tell you the time i waited to download + get in (3min so and so).

Well it certainly sounds like an unbelievable spike, but I don’t think it’s at all impossible. Considering the number of people who play, all it would take is for a significant chunk with higher download speeds to have logged in before anyone else and made large exchanges. Or even a small handful making gigantic exchanges.

Without the data of who makes what exchanges and for how much (something that Anet happens to have) it’s hard to see the specifics of how it could have played out.

But history says that in the past, holidays have not had such a dramatic effect. So why this time?

The real interesting thing this all tells us (whether or not the gem exchange was fiddled with) is that players no longer trust Anet at all. Anet should really think hard about how they got into this situation.

Anet never did any harm to me. The support was always awesome (sometimes i had to repeat several times what i wanted but they would give me what i wanted at the end).

I dunno how to feel about Anet.
Sometimes I feel they do the stuff on purpose to see how we react and then change it so players will think they are “listening to us”.

In the 2nd year of anniversary it was that mistake about the pack prices, the Transmutation Stones Original price error and the way they did the calculations to sell the pack of TC was different from the pack of Dyes, and this is still not answer cause, well, it just passed.

The thing they put in the gem store recently (not counting the halloween) it sound like a rip off to me and several other players including Dulfy. Items like the Zephyrite Dyes, the Silver o Matic and that thing that puts logs and ores in your home instance.

And now this?

Im not mad im sad. I like this game, several stuff happen here and it makes me sad this things are happening.

I want to play a game and trust the company thats doing the game. Better, I want to feel like the company that makes the game listen to the player and its happy making the game for ALL the players, not just “New players”.

I feel, and i bet many of us feel left out, kinda insulted that Anet says they want our opinion and then they not listening to us (most of the times).

Even with this post. It had to be this bunch of people complaining so we could call their attention and it actually made a difference.

We are customers, we have the right to complain. I agree some, don’t complain the right way but saying we are “ranting” its not the best way to calm an “angry mob”.

We always have that person that says “we need to go out sometime” and then you never do go out with that person and I feel this is the best comparison to Anet. It’s like “Say in this post what you think about x or what you want in the future and we will listen to you” but they dont (most time).

People that are running the forum may listen, like Gaile and other, but thats a long way to Anet, the company, ear us out.

So the people running the forum might listen but the company doesnt.

aerial.7021:

Price Spike, your missing a some information I think.

In the rush to get the “new build” and play the festive content available staved for content (for long term players) they’ll jump on anything, however when a new build comes out you can go get the new build or wait around for an hour before being forced off and into the new build, goodness knows what people might have been doing from Personal Story to WvW, the list is long a large chunk of the population may have decided at that moment before logging to the new build to buy some gems, that’s a whole hour you’re missing not just 3 minutes between build adoptions.

Not to mention those buying gems on the old system would have been unaware that the new build changed how the gem shop worked, people on TS may have communicated to those in the old build what was going on and people on impulse and fear decided to buy now and wait out the storm as it where.

Thats a thing I did not though of actually.
Dunno if it would increase this much but that is the most reasonable answer i’ve seen so far so thanks

Still unsure if that would justify this drastic increase but, like i said, thats the thing that makes more sense.

But i have a question. If the build is up, when you wp to another city you get disconnected to do the build right?
Well, if it was an update to the Black Lion, shouldn’t the Black Lion “disconnect” too after the build is available?

Like couldn’t load properly or something like that?

This seems like a dumb question but I dont remind using the TP after it says a build is available.
I might have used it but cant remember.

Labjax.2465:

whiteflower.9425:

I cant tell you when it was up cause i cant see my log from 2 days ago but i can tell you for sure that immediately when i saw that the build was available i restart gw2 and start downloading the patch.

It took me 1 to 2 minutes to download and get in (to be noted that my internet speed its 125mb/s). And under a minute to get in in-game and see the gem stuff (Load screen is a pain when a new build comes up)

So like i said, cant give an exact hour but i can tell you the time i waited to download + get in (3min so and so).

Well it certainly sounds like an unbelievable spike, but I don’t think it’s at all impossible. Considering the number of people who play, all it would take is for a significant chunk with higher download speeds to have logged in before anyone else and made large exchanges. Or even a small handful making gigantic exchanges.

Without the data of who makes what exchanges and for how much (something that Anet happens to have) it’s hard to see the specifics of how it could have played out.

Like i said before, its not just me thinking this way.
Its not like a conspiracy theory against Anet.

Me (and I assume the other ones) play this game for a long time and, for our experienced and for what we witness among this few years, everytime a build comes up the prices go up. No doubt in that.

When we see that a build comes up we know that the conversion will suffer an increase and that’s fine (well i dont like it but its a player base system right?)
But by this much? I, as a “veteran player” or whatever, never seen the prices go up this high and that got me suspicious.

From what we can have seen in this thread and in blogs of fellow mates of Tyria, we can see that im not alone in this.

You had many other events that had this amount of items in gem store. The previous Halloween you had phantom hood, grenth hood, witch outfit and so on.

I think the raffle stuff would not affect the game so quickly cause people will need to go to the skrit, read all the stuff and understand that it was indeed a raffle.

I will talk for me now. When i enter the game i visit all the merchants to see what was new and i only knew the collector after i got the Shiny and that took me a few hours xD

So i do not think the first thing people would go after the launch would be going to a rat xD But hey, cant talk for all the people.

About the data you are asking for, you can have it.
Go here: https://www.gw2tp.com/gems select All

You cant see the 2012 stuff and most of the 2013 but you can compare this year to last here and whatever you want within a year i guess.

Labjax.2465:

whiteflower.9425:

I agree that the launch of the items you mention would make the market go up but go up to 20g? I think its too much and, just like you, I was surprised to see this drastic increase.

Like Tulki said before:

“Immediately before this patch: 10g = 70 gems.
Immediately after this patch: 10g = 57 gems (going off the 400 gem exchange rate)”

The key word here is “Immediately”.

Like i said to chemiclord.
How is it possible you log in and out of the game to download the patch and, suddenly, theres an increase of 5g+?

Even if you and many other players have an SDD and the best internet ever i think its impossible to change the market that much right after the patch goes live.
Right after
I found it hard to believe that in under 1 min after patch is launch the price goes up by this much.

How is it possible? People cant buy stuff when they are downloading the patch.

Sticking to the facts though, when was the actual time that it went up in relation to the patch? (Or can anyone even confirm when?) Keep in mind that some people have better download speeds and such.

I cant tell you when it was up cause i cant see my log from 2 days ago but i can tell you for sure that immediately when i saw that the build was available i restart gw2 and start downloading the patch.

It took me 1 to 2 minutes to download and get in (to be noted that my internet speed its 125mb/s). And under a minute to get in in-game and see the gem stuff (Load screen is a pain when a new build comes up)

So like i said, cant give an exact hour but i can tell you the time i waited to download + get in (3min so and so).

Zaxares.5419:

EDIT: Although, I just checked gw2tp, and wow, it actually shot up to 20g! That IS pretty remarkable, and could indeed be attributed to the currency exchange change.

I agree that the launch of the items you mention would make the market go up but go up to 20g? I think its too much and, just like you, I was surprised to see this drastic increase.

Like Tulki said before:

“Immediately before this patch: 10g = 70 gems.
Immediately after this patch: 10g = 57 gems (going off the 400 gem exchange rate)”

The key word here is “Immediately”.

Like i said to chemiclord.
How is it possible you log in and out of the game to download the patch and, suddenly, theres an increase of 5g+?

Even if you and many other players have an SDD and the best internet ever i think its impossible to change the market that much right after the patch goes live.
Right after
I found it hard to believe that in under 1 min after patch is launch the price goes up by this much.

How is it possible? People cant buy stuff when they are downloading the patch.

Southern.8973:

whiteflower.9425:

They also decided to hide the past exchange rates which makes this REALLY, REALLY suspect. And for anyone who’s curious, they also shut off the web service that provides gem price data as soon as they released the patch, so the price spike is hidden on gw2spidy as well. That never happened for any patch in the past, and judging by the fact that every other market API call is working perfectly fine, I’m almost certain they deliberately shut off that service to hide the exchange rate switch."

As I think has been posted before, the API is fine — Spidy is broke. He’s BEEN broke for months. I don’t think he even plays anymore to update it – it took over 2 weeks to get the Chaos Weapons added to the tracking database.

http://www.gw2tp.com/gems is working correctly if you need a graph.

This was a quote from someone else that i took from reddit.

I already knew that website and got there today and have seen the graph and what i concluded is that its similar, if not equal, to the one I posted from Ton’s Website.

But thank you anyway for the website

chemiclord.3978:

There’s nothing strange about the gem conversion increase.

A holiday event coupled with people being required to convert 400 gems at a time. There ya go.

Right after the patch?
Right when you update the game?

Patch comes out, 1min later prices go up this much and its cause of people converted gold → gems 1min after the patch from the new system?

Yea, right.

Lets not forget these guys.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Tulki.1458:

Immediately before this patch: 10g = 70 gems.

Immediately after this patch: 10g = 57 gems (going off the 400 gem exchange rate).

They tampered with prices to make gems more expensive at exactly the same time as they removed the price history and made 400 gems the lowest increment you can buy in. Did anyone else see this? No other holiday event has had that big a fluctuation before.

Hey Tulki,

I wanted you to know I went immediately to see if I could get an answer on this, and don’t worry, there was no “stealth nerfing” of gem costs. What happened is a common occurrence with new builds: A whole lot of people made exchanges when the new build went live. And as you know the conversions are market driven.

So that’s why you saw the seeming discrepancy in the exchange rate. All is well, and it will continue to ebb and flow according to the volume of exchanges, as always.

I know its answered but im sincerely not buying it.
Never, EVER, in another patch the increase of the gem->gold conversion was this high.

Tulki also said on reddit this:

“Gem prices suspiciously increased 22% immediately after the patch was applied, despite it becoming much more difficult to exchange gold for gems.

Right before the patch, it was 10g for 70 gems. Now, it’s 75g for 400 gems. 400 / 70 = 5.7143 * 10g => Given prior prices, it would have been 57g to get 400 gems. Yeah, sorry but I’m calling foul play on this one.

Something kitteny happened to the exchange rate along with this change. This is way bigger than any holiday patch has done to exchange rates in this past, and that’s without factoring in the interface that discourages gold -> gem trade.

They also decided to hide the past exchange rates which makes this REALLY, REALLY suspect. And for anyone who’s curious, they also shut off the web service that provides gem price data as soon as they released the patch, so the price spike is hidden on gw2spidy as well. That never happened for any patch in the past, and judging by the fact that every other market API call is working perfectly fine, I’m almost certain they deliberately shut off that service to hide the exchange rate switch."

If you wanna see the discussion go to here :http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2jxnrk/they_changed_the_way_you_buy_gems_with_gold/ and look for Tulki.

EDIT: Another person saying this is rather strange is Ten Ton Hammer. He says and I quote:

“On top of all this, Tracking data on the Gem shows a huge spike due to this change. While some of it could be attributed to Halloween, what we’ve always seen pre-holiday season is a slow increase. This however, was a huge spike. Perhaps I’m misinterpreting the data, but it looks to me as though they’ve artificially bumped up the cost of exchanging Gold for Gems.”

Heres the graph and the website: http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-gemgate

Well this happen to me before and after patch so its not a patch bug its a recurrent bug.

This is whats happening.

Before patch:
I was in arah with some pugs, and we had a ranger who was doing absolutely nothing so we kicked him but strange thing happen, he STAYED in the dungeon instead of being kicked out from the dungeon.

Then the other player that enter our party (after we kicked the ranger) couldn’t enter the dungeon cause it said the world was full (the same thing it says when you try to enter a full server in world bosses like 3 wurm and teco) -.-
Well of course it was, the ranger was still inside the dungeon even though we kicked him out.

We knew he was not in the party cause his name was green, not blue (being blue, a guy that is in your party, and green being just a guy that’s NOT in your party).

The solution was asking, nicely, for him to leave the dungeon and he left.

After patch:
I join a group for CoF yesterday and couldn’t enter the dungeon cause it said world full.
The guys in my party were inside the dungeon and were saying that they kicked a guy (before i enter the party) and the guy was still in the dungeon wondering around inside.
But, like the arah time, the guy was NOT in the party.

Solution was, everyone in the party leave the dungeon so I could enter.

Please fix this.

PS: I posted this in the bug section too cause this is clearly a bug, but im posting here so people will be aware.

Well this happen to me before and after patch so its not a patch bug its a recurrent bug.

This is whats happening.

Before patch:
I was in arah with some pugs, and we had a ranger who was doing absolutely nothing so we kicked him but strange thing happen, he STAYED in the dungeon instead of being kicked out from the dungeon.

Then the other player that enter our party (after we kicked the ranger) couldn’t enter the dungeon cause it said the world was full (the same thing it says when you try to enter a full server in world bosses like 3 wurm and teco) -.-
Well of course it was, the ranger was still inside the dungeon even though we kicked him out.

We knew he was not in the party cause his name was green, not blue (being blue, a guy that is in your party, and green being just a guy that’s NOT in your party).

The solution was asking, nicely, for him to leave the dungeon and he left.

After patch:
I join a group for CoF yesterday and couldn’t enter the dungeon cause it said world full.

The guys in my party were inside the dungeon and were saying that they kicked a guy (before i enter the party) and the guy was still in the dungeon wondering around inside.
But, like the arah time, the guy was NOT in the party.

Solution was, everyone in the party leave the dungeon so I could enter.

Please fix this.

Brother Grimm.5176:

whiteflower.9425:

Brother Grimm.5176:

Lil Puppy.5216:

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Unlike the Dye pack on the same image which all of the price packs are 40% off their original prices.

Your own words kind of PROVE it’s a mistake….if they were out to rip EVERYONE off, why is one calculated correctly and another incorrectly? Your obsession to paint ANet as evil just makes them human (potentially incompetent).

Now the solution they put up IS incompetent…..whoever oked THAT as the solution needs a time out.

Its not a mistake, they just did the calculation a diferent way……

So assuming they MEANT for the 2 to be the same discount, isn’t ONE of them a mistake? They did one right and one wrong (again, assmuing that 30% off should mean the same thing for different items.). Where I come from if you do something wrong and it’s NOT intentional, you can safely call it a “mistake”.

Moot point as they “fixed” it in the most idiotic way possible….perma-egg-face.

I was saying the 30% off (that is not really 30% off on the packs(10/25)) were not a mistake since they didnt change the prices yet.
They put the 30% off per price of transmutation not per pack get it?

Like I said previously, if you had read it all.
1TC = 30 gems, 30% of 30 gems = 21 gems.
So they just multply the 21 for the number of TC and get the final price.

But its stupid since they did 40% off per pack in the Dyes and not on the Transmutations -.-

The increased of the original price was a mistake like the comment of SevenBitBrian.8413 said.
Since they had the time to change that mistake (the increase the original price) but did not put the packs(10/25 TC) on 30% we can assume its intended and not a mistake.

I dont think Anet will gonna change it, now that the sale its going to end.
And I think they will not give the diference back to people.

So, untill we know from Anet, we need to say its intended, I guess.
We just need clearence from them.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Lil Puppy.5216:

…..
Unlike the Dye pack on the same image which all of the price packs are 40% off their original prices.

Your own words kind of PROVE it’s a mistake….if they were out to rip EVERYONE off, why is one calculated correctly and another incorrectly? Your obsession to paint ANet as evil just makes them human (potentially incompetent).

Now the solution they put up IS incompetent…..whoever oked THAT as the solution needs a time out.

Its not a mistake, they just did the calculation a diferent way.
Instead of being 30% of the original price its 30% per transmutation.

1TC = 30 gems, 30% of 30 gems = 21 gems.
So they just multply the 21 for the number of TC and get the final price.

BTW they changed it again to the original Maybe it was an error of them or they saw the forum and decide to change it.

@ShadowDragoonFTW Follow my thinking.
They have all the information of who buys what right?
So they go to that info and select people who bought 10/25 transmutation stones in the sale.
They select those people and send them the diference thats 105 on the 25 pack and 21 on the 10 pack gems.

Yes they may have bough something else but they sure bought the TC.
So every person who bought TC since it is on sale would get that diference.

I’m not a programmer or something but isnt it easy to go to the system and see who bought what and select the people that bought x stuff?

Like Person A bought X then Person A gets Y.
Person B bought XX then Person B gets Z.

X= transmutation charges 10 pack
XX= transmutation charges 25 pack
Y= 21gems (diference of 10pack)
Z=105gems (diference of 25pack)

Something like this xD

Why does Anet speaks about this? SPEAK ANET, SPEAK.