Amurond.4590

Since this bug was fixed, I've noticed my CPU usage is higher for Gw2. Still, its a price I'm willing to pay.

Working for me now thankfully. I was getting it almost every character select prior to the patch. The portrait load times do seem slower than previously, but at least they do actually load. But to be honest, that doesn't really matter - they don't need to load for me to log into a character now.

Not even in the slightest. You realise they've already said in this thread they nearly have a fix ready, right? Aka it has nothing to do with SAB unless you literally think them turning off SAB is their fix they've been working on? Tomorrow's patch isnt just turning off SAB. Its adding a strike CM and LS1 episode 1, along with what I assume will be a lot of fixes, including one for this bug I hope.

I expect it to go back to normal because they will have fixed the bug (hopefully), not because SAB has ended. Tell me, all the people who think SAB somehow caused this, why didn't it happen the last few years with SAB. Actually, don't. I don't think I can handle the mental gymnastics, lol. In the end, assuming it does get fixed with tomorrow's patch, I'm still quite disappointed that this issue persisted for 3 weeks. I've played gw2 since launch and this is probably the worst experience I've had with the game in 9 years.

Yeah, I think they actually stealth fixed it with the SAB patch and I hadn't previewed it since then. It shows up for me now. Before last patch, it was not in the preview.

People thinking SAB "caused" this have some very strange axe to grind, or just have very little understanding of software. And I say that as someone who is very highly impacted by this bug and is being driven crazy by it.

Yes, and those are the same "bags" that drop from the meta itself. Bounty of Echovald Forest. When I preview it, the backpack isnt in there as a possible drop for me.

When I preview that item ingame, the backpack isn't there, even though I've never had it as a drop.

In a few hours, it will be 2 weeks since this bug started. Any update?

Done the meta 19 times here and no drop. Has anyone else got it when it hasn't been their first meta?

I'm in the same boat. It's great others don't get the bug as much, but for some of us it is seriously awful. Its genuinely a 80 - 90% chance I get this bug every character select, except the initial one upon login, which is more like 5 - 10%. I have 49 characters and I've logged in a total of 9 of them since this bug appeared. It's really ruining the game experience for me. I can only assume that it is not a simple fix. I prefer to believe that over it not being a high priority. Another update on this at the very least would be nice.

I'd like to know also. Up to 16 attempts here, I know people who got it on their first kill, which makes me wonder if it is indeed bugged.

So basically your solution is to do what everyone else is doing anyway and hope that it magically works?

Seemed to resolve with daily reset.

Both unranked and ranked pvp are bugged right now and can't queue up, getting the error message "Guild Wars 2 has been updated. Please exit and relaunch it".