Erik.8593

I was really looking forward to the 9th anniversary sale this year and finally maxing my storage and bank tabs but it's been nothing but a disappointment. Started way later in the month then usual and other then the Supply Drop Requisition the sale prices have been awful. I just saw the Storage Expander was on "sale" today no actual discount listed on the Discount tab, but its actually only 20% off, the lowest it's been since 2017. Hopefully the rest wont be that bad, but I have a feeling they will be. I think the anniversary should have the best deals of the year not the worst.

While I'm sure some people really do enjoy the new content, the sentiment between most all of my friends and myself is that it just seems far inferior compared to Living World Season 3 and 4. The main issue is with all the instanced content replacing normal explorable zones. Season 3 and 4 had 6 full zones which even now are still very active compared the just the 3 we got from the Ice brood saga. The instanced stuff already feels dead, I tried several times on multiple days to find some other people to play through Steel and Fire and there literally was not a single person in the instance every time I went in. I ended up just slogging through it solo to finish the story part and have no intention to sever set foot in it again. The Dragon Response missions are a little easier to find groups for but if it's not a daily they are just as dead as Steel and Fire. The second thing we noticed is how a lot of the new stuff just feels overly long. Drakkar is a 35+ minute fight counting the pre's and Drizzlewood is between 1 to 2 hours depending if you do half or the full run. The time to fun ratio just isn't there compared to other stuff we could be doing, and most of the rewards you get from doing them are crafting materials that have completely tanked in value due to the sheer amount you get. The Icebrood Saga mastery points are another issue of annoyance. There is just not enough of them and you are almost forced to do almost all of the ones available to max them out, which in turn forces you to complete annoying achievements that does not fit your play style. As a personal example I don't like wasting gold collecting ugly weapon skins just for achievements, I don't care for challenge missions, or replaying story missions over and over just for an achievement. In either of the other 3 masteries this is not an issue because there are more then enough to fit everyone's play style and not force you to do content that you find annoying. Another hit to Steel and Fire is how there isn't a single mastery point in there, it wouldn't help much with it being dead but at least it would be something. Now that its over it just feels like it was half done, the climax battle just felt meh. So now I'm just curious how other people feel, Did you like it? or feel most of it was a step in the wrong direction?

Yes Healix.5819 you are correct, they are different regions, I live in the US but waaay back when I first started playing I was on vacation in Norway and my original account is registered in Europe. I never even though about this or noticed until now after you said to check for it and the account without any problems is the North American one. Both the accounts are on the North American home though, but I am assuming there is no way to change the region code assigned to the main account?

Ok this, is go be a bit of a read, but to start I have 2 Guild Wars 2 accounts, one is an older account that is close to it's 7th birthday and the other is newer just approaching it's 2nd birthday. Through my extensive troubleshooting I though I read in a post somewhere that older accounts are having problems and it' seems to definitely be happening in my case. Up until the first Icebrood saga expansion came out I never had a single problem with either account, but after the large update my older account almost immediately started getting the in game popup error "The game client is unable to gain access server, blah firewall blah blah." and other then having to click the annoying popup window closed on occasion nothing in game seemed to be affected. But over time it got much worse, the popups came more frequently, and now it't to the point that the account will not even log in half the time, and when it does, everything in the game is completely broken, including parties, the store, and everything except simple movement and combat which is somewhat bizarre since I can play normally but the game won't register a party invite or trying to open the store for 5 to 10 minutes after. The game frequently will just disconnect after about 5 minutes and I am hit with waves of those error popup windows making the account pretty much unplayable. The connection issue is apparent the second I type my account name and password in and hit login on the client screen. The newer account will got to play almost instantly while the older one will take almost 10 times longer to get to the play screen, but lately It just keeps saying the client lost connection to the login server and won't even log in. Through all of these problems I have never had a single issue on the newer account, it still plays perfectly and has no connection issues at all. For troubleshooting purposes I have tested the game on at least 5 different computers and 3 different internet connections and the older account experiences the same problems on all of them. Other then the age of the accounts the only other difference between them is the home world server, which I have no idea if that is related, but I don't have mountains of diamonds to test it by switching them around. I tried to get help first by contacting Arenanet for help, but after several weeks of emailing back and forth I was getting no where and they just kept telling me it was a router or computer issue or connection issue on my end, and the final reply consisted of them telling me to stop playing on a campus network which make me completely lose my cool, because It was pretty apparent they were just going down the list of copy paste troubleshooting and not bothering to read any of my actual replies. After several months of this I am getting to the point I don't even want to play anymore, my newer account has become my main now because of the issues with the older one, and every single thing points to this being a server side issue which I can't do anything to fix. I am just wondering now if anyone has experienced something like this and if they were able to get it resolved?