Kraggy.4169

The 'may take up to' never happens, it ALWAYS takes 72 hours in my experience.

Standard F2P marketing: design the game with explicit pain points then sell the ointment to ease the pain in the Store .. GW2 only differs from that kind of F2P in that it's B2P which makes it an even more egregious design philosophy here.

Yesterday a friend of mine DCed when the game client tried to start the second CS at the end of "To Kill A God". Today I went along to help him try again and the same thing happened TWICE more at exactly the same point: I saw the first video, the black screen and the second CS .. he saw the first CS and the black screen but then all he saw was a "Skip To End" button over the black screen, pressing it he DCed .. I saw the second CS start then his character disappeared and I got the "Instance owner has left". This is such a REPEATED error for large numbers of people it's clear ANet are either incapable of diagnosing or simply DON'T CARE, 4 years of these things happening has given them plenty of time to fix it and the total lack of meaningful posts from them in this thread is clearly proof they have nothing to say, due to ignorance of the cause or because they can't be bothrered!

I presume the patch today has broken things, at least 2 of the Hero Challenges in Verdant Brink are no longer marked on the map: the one with the Vampire mobs in the NE canopy on the wrecked airship, the other being the 'golem' one on the metal platform in the far west (the character I'm on has only just hit the zone so I can't give POI names for reference.

So why is it even shown to other characters if they can't do it? Simply pointlessly misleading, especially when the in-game text makes no mention of this gating?

Actually no, it isn't and never was .. that time is simply the addition of all the fatuous time-gates ANet put in to drag it out .. only no-lifers who can play 24/7 to activate the next step after the numerous 2-hour time-gates could do it in that time ... .. AND given the numerous world group events you HAVE to do it'll take longer now than when the content was current due to less players still needing to do one.

Except that in one of the EoD vids ANet seemed to imply to me that Skyscales will be REQUIRED to navigate the new zones.

Went to log out to character selection, got black screen. After a minute or so ALT-F4, now clicking 'Login' just hangs .. happening on two PCs on 2 ISPs.

One guy in the squad who was one of the half of the squad who crashed in the Thunderkeep North meta said he had 3 crashes back-to-back as soon as he got back into the event. ANet, admit it' this patch is game-breakingly (literally) broken, roll it back!

2 last night and one just now EU .. all members of squad crashed each time .. one just now right on the last boss North., kind of a race to beat it before the timer ran out. 😞

Yes . and no, Mesmers were very busy when this was the 'replay' event, their portals don't cause a loading screen (or certainly didn't when I was running that JP). That said, Runaround wasn't very hard when it was current content, except for the Skritt tunnels which of course were entirely unrelated to the jumping part, I completed it and I'm pretty dreadful at JPs.

I started "Spiritual Renewal" on the first character to be able to do so but took it no further than just 'ticking' the first step. Yesterday I decided to do it on a different character .. obviously on the same account .. and went to the Snowden Drifts location for the next step. She found the bowl in the ground but the NPC wasn't there! I tried on a second character, same thing .. only the original character could see the NPC at that location. I don't recall ANY achievement in this game that only the unlocker could do. Has this always been a 'thing' I just never stumbled across before? To be clear, the other PCs could SEE the achievement with the first step ticked, but just couldn't actually do anything with it!

Just did the same thing .. I posted somewhere else suggesting to ANet they do what all other MMOs that I play do: have a HARD border to instances. ANet have proved very adept at putting invisiwalls all over the map when they want to STOP players doing something, yet when such a mechanic to prevent players being punished Anet couldn't give a kitten it seems.

Mounts are OPTIONAL, be my guest not using them .. oh, and there's nothing special about the masteries, it's simply 'time played' on whatever content you like to get XP to complete the tracks.

Bombs that don't detonate, waves that become a continuous mass .. ANet should feel embarrassed with the state of this but clearly they don't GAD.