Guild Wars 2 - Lootbox stuff: Belgium is launching an investigation of whether lootboxes should be classified as 18+ Gambling


Lootbox stuff: Belgium is launching an investigation of whether lootboxes should be classified as 18+ Gambling

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 09:38 AM PST

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7d70fg/belgiums_gambling_regulators_are_investigating/

Very very interesting read.

This does not exclusively involve Battlefront II's lootboxes, but they are also investigating Blizzard's Overwatch lootboxes, which have a 'progressive mechanic' much like GW2's have.

Curious how this will develop.

Depending on the final ruling in this situation, games like Guild Wars 2 could be directly affected for having RNG lootboxes.

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Ancestor Art commission

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 01:25 PM PST

WvW meltdowns

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 03:50 PM PST

Hello, My wife and I are 2-3 months new into GW2, this game honestly have the nicest people we met. Generally everyone is very friendly and helpful.

However when it comes to WvW, we notice some "elite" people tend to have a mental meltdowns quite often...

Take for example we joined a squad wvw, leader asks PUGs to join teamspeak, fine that makes perfect sense so we hop on. After 3 or 4 failed fights someone starts to have a mental breakdown and yelling at the pugs (which 90% of them are not on teamspeak so I don't know why yell on there). Then the squad leader joins the meltdown and start kicking pugs who are not on TS and calling them useless and stupid.

I tell him I'm on TS along with my wife and he starts going OFF on how she's useless and kicks her. I mean yea I agree cause we are so bad we don't even realize he was yelling at her after someone pm us telling us he's talking about her lol.

Then some pug just said in map chat we are losing cause the leader is running us into arrow carts, which was true. And holy mo the "elite" guildies went OFF on him, berating him and stuff. All the while my wife thought it was hilarious hearing men-children blows up and literally spits into their mic talking so angrily.

I'm sure it's old news but just want to say that this is why not many people like to wvw, they want to join squad and contribute, learn along the way... but first failed fight you have all these "elite" people calling everyone trash. I mean for god's sake we are on a T4 server... you want some real competent wvw people then go to a T1 server, but I guess those "elite" people would become the "useless pugs" over there :O

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Quick Maths - 3+3 is 6 minus 2 that's 4

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 09:25 AM PST

ANet still has not commented on Sand Shade obstructed bug

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 07:47 AM PST

Ever since the balance patch on 7th Sand Shade on Scourge has required necromancer to have LoS on targets. As a result of this whenever there is a small difference in height or if there is a smalle pebble between necro and the target, Sand Shade wont hit those targets even though they are within Shade's AoE. This obviously massively affects Scourge in WvW as placing shades on walls no longer does anything. Sand Shade is the only AoE ability that has this kind of behavior

There have been multiple threads on both forums and Reddit regarding this, but there has been no answer from ANet whether this is intended behavior or a bug. If it is intended, then it should be extended to all AoE abilities and not single-out necromancer just because. Consistent rules for all. And if it not intended it should be atleast commented on otherwise it is starting to seem that the devs are singling out necromancer once again in terms of balance, especially after the Path of Corruption bug got near instant responses and even a hotfix and this bug has not gotten a single response from ANet

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If you feel like the game has lost performance recently, delete local.dat

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 03:01 PM PST

You can find it in SystemDrive(usually C):\Users[Your username]\App Data\Roaming\Guild Wars2

I had been having performance issues for weeks in game. I thought it was part of the stuttering issues that Nvidia and MS have been having with FCU, but yesterday Nvidia released a driver that eliminated a lot of those issues, and I'm on a fast ring build that has MS's fix for DirectX9 games losing performance in place.

I was tearing my hair out. I'd tried new drivers, old drivers, middle-aged drivers. I'd tried playing on my 1440p screen instead of my 4K screen, I'd tried removing the GPU overclock, underclocking, removing CPU overclock.

Nope, it was as simple as deleting local.dat and running the game again.

I went from 42FPS in the Desolation right back into the 90s where it used to be. Playing with vsync on no longer gives me a stuttering or hitching experience.

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UGO 5v5 returns SUNDAY! - Jebro

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 12:43 PM PST

Hey all!!

 

We are excited about our next EU/NA tournaments, with 2 new rulings!

 

1, Class stacking is LEGAL! Only one elite and core spec from classes are allowed e.g. Core Warrior, Berserker, Spell breaker.

 

2, Players may play in BOTH regions, with the understanding that PING is a THING!

 

Finally, we have the signups below. Please join our discord when signing up as this will be the staging area for all team comms!

 

NA - 19th November (SOON) - https://goo.gl/CHpL7y

 

EU - 3rd DEC - https://goo.gl/vghBTF

 

Matcherino Donation pages are up! Donating a free $ will occur on the day of the tournament with a code shown on stream!

 

https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8770/description - NA

https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8771/description - EU

 

Our 500g prizing is still present for 3rd place in both regions. If you would like to contribute, please send gold to jebro.6370 or jebb.6819.

 

We are very excited about the change this time round!

 

Let us know your thoughts or concerns below.

 

Thanks

 

Jebro - UGO

UGO DISCORD: https://discord.gg/yxUgDVW

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Maws of Torment bugging out sometimes (west NPC falls into the ground, event fails when timer runs out).

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 11:31 AM PST

The Commander Squared

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 12:22 AM PST

Been asked a lot, so here is a Tutorial on how to greenscreen in Gw2 for machinima videos

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 05:38 AM PST

Still no Design-A-Weapon contest results?

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 04:19 AM PST

Are they trying to fix the issues to make a new poll considering the labelled "sword" which was really a dagger losing a crap ton of votes because people thought it was a weirdly sized sword. And also fixing the fact you can vote multiple times which is crazy.

The event runner for this seems to be utterly ignorant and has gone full radio silent on the issues people have brought up about the contest.

What is happening?

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When your parents find out you skipped school

Posted: 15 Nov 2017 11:27 PM PST

A new graphical glitch with [Triumphant Legplates] ?

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 05:57 AM PST

So I just today discovered [Triumphant Legplates] are glitching when you enter combat stance : https://i.imgur.com/7mzdMZq.jpg

Some wild triangle appears. Is this new with the latest patch ? Was this here all along and I just didn't notice with boots on ?

Sent a bug report btw.

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Finally clicked for me ! The Heart and Minds mission went from days of dying to Garm's first life, to almost finishing it in a single go.

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 03:53 AM PST

I've been trying for days to finish the Hearts and Minds mission. I thought it was my Ele being a complete glass cannon with minimal defensive gear. Or that this may be a group mission (Yes, I also first tried doing dungeons by myself until I learnt the message telling me to group wasn't just a 'suggested option', but pretty much required).

Died over and over again to Garm, only to find out once I killed it, my reward was a few seconds to attack Eir worth a few health percentage points.

At this point I didn't even know that fight was simply the beginning.

But tonight something clicked. No idea what it is... I finally started kiting around and juuust barely avoid attacks; balancing healing, damage and using elementals to tank for breathing space.

After days of dying to Garm's first life... Tonight I ended up killing it multiple times, finishing off Eir, then Canach and completing the whole mission only dying once to Mordremoth - and that's only because I didn't realise I had to glide and avoid the floor during that sequence.

Feels great !

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Do we need more festivals per year?

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 05:46 PM PST

Currently we're seeing at a Living world rotation of 2-3 months between releases. This means that generally, in between releases, we'll see a festival as additional content when waiting for a living world release. Allow me to demonstrate:

September 20: Rising Flames October 18: Halloween

November 21: A Crack in the Ice December 13: Wintersday

February 8: Head of the Snake March 30: Super Adventure Box

May 2: Flashpoint

This is where the pattern stops.

In between Flashpoint and Path of Fire, we saw no festivals, whilst there could of have been room for 2 more (in between Flashpoint and One Path Ends, and in between One Path Ends and Path of Fire).

I suggest we return the Queen's Jubilee and Dragon Bash back as filler festival content in between content patches. Does anyone wish to see others?

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Gunnar's Hold (EU) - The Grove is broken

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 11:46 AM PST

Looks like The Grove is broken somehow. I moved a few characters into the Grove and it's impossible to teleport out of it. Waypoints don't work. Story chapters ditto. Calling a mount takes 15 seconds. Walking past a locked waypoint takes 20 seconds for it to unlock.

Other world areas seem to work fine.

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[Koss] Soulbeast Benchmark 34.399 After Patch 07/10/17

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 07:26 AM PST

Hi I have a new Benchmark video after the changes from the 07/10/17 Patch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV7pzwo9398&feature=youtu.be

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[NA][RAID TRAINING][DISCORD COMMUNITY] Guild Wars 2 Raid Academy Wants YOU: Calling All Raid Trainers and Trainees!

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 04:56 PM PST

The all-star staff at Guild Wars 2 Raid Academy is excited to announce that we need more active trainers to provide exceptional training to those new or inexperienced with raiding! Our Discord community recently hit the 2,600 member mark and we have noticed an increased demand for instruction that coincided with this growth.

We realized that we need many more among our ranks that are willing to train our members and lead all sorts of runs! All of our trainers follow and emphasize our core values of Growth, Unity, and Respect with the members that they train or interact with inside of the Discord. We prefer that trainers lead runs twice a week at their convenience, either spontaneously or with our raid sign up system.The trainers and other staff are a huge family and we would love to have more amongst our ranks!

For new members that are looking to get into the raiding scene, do not despair! There are plenty of members within the Discord that can lead a training raid without the title as well as resources available to help you get better even outside of a raid. Check out the class-specific chat channels for help on gearing and rotations or swing on over the fractal channels for information on more end-game content!

Information on how to get started with us and apply for the rank of Instructor (Trainer) can be found in the Welcome and Rules chat here: https://discord.gg/VYTEbrj

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I don't think that's how it works...

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 12:18 PM PST

https://imgur.com/a/9nvJb

I was fire/air attuned but still had the fire offhand skills. Happened after a pvp match but at the moment I don't know how I could reproduce the bug. All skills worked fine and after switching everything was normal again. Anyone else seen that bug?

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LF Chronomancer Guide for Raids/Fracs

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 11:21 AM PST

Title says it, im looking for like a "How to" chronomancer guide in the instances. I've seen the gear tutorials etc but im more interested in rotations in the certain situations. I'm also wondering if I can get away with exo commanders gear while i build up an ascended set, I understand the agony restraints but im building to T4 anyway so I have some time to build my ascended set. Much love and thank you!!!

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What sort of guild events do you do?

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 01:13 PM PST

Hello everyone, I want to host a Wintersday Event for the guild I belong to but falling short on ideas for activities. I did one event in the past and I had races, hide & seek, halloween trivia and riddles.

So wanted to reach out to the community to ask for some inspiration. What sort of activities have you seen or been a part of?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Guild API Question

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 12:18 PM PST

So I was poking around in the API today, in fact the first API I ever worked with and I was kinda getting along but when I looked at the guild section there was a problem for me.
If you look at the wiki page http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:2/guild/:id in the example output there is a whole bunch of stuff beeing displayed, like influence, aetherium and shit but if you visit the link directly or punch in your own guild id you only get: id, name, tag and emblem.
Was there any change in the way this works? I didnt find anything on this matter. Or am I just missing something. Thanks in advance folks.

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How to Elementalist for dummies?

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 08:46 AM PST

Ok, trying to be humble here. I have never played elementalist. It's the only class that intimidates me as far as mechanical requirements to get the most out of the class. I don't want to be part of the statement "A bad ele does less damage than a bad thief". I play a bit of everything. I've played everything from Condi Rev/Heal Rev even Power Herald back in the day, to Chronotank, Power and Condi DD, Every variation of Necro, basically every class and role besides Engie (because I find the class wholly uninteresting me and I already have different dps classes that do the same thing) and Ele for the previously mentioned reason.

-My question is is there a guide out there for beginner Eles I'm starting from zero class knowledge here so something like the qT guide is really overwhelming and I'd like to get a wholesome understanding of the class not just "click these traits and press these skills in this order for good damage" (Which honestly is my current state of soul beast embarrassingly.)

I want to be able to play the best dps class so I'm not lagging behind my raid group. It's especially feelsbadman on KC when my strongest dps classes are condi.

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