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The title above is still appearing over the head of my alt, blinking in large white letters on a bright red background. I logged out and back it, still there and blinking. Ported to my Home Instance, still there. How long does it last?? Why is it happening? I'm about to log out for the evening so will see if it's gone tomorrow. Background: She was the standby to my main who was doing the Hive Hopper jumping puzzle in Lowland Shore. On my first time thru a jumping puzzle she follows in chunks of progress so that if I die I don't have to start over. My main tried Combs first, got the massage also, dropped down to the next one, it worked, back to Combs who then worked, on to the last one and done. Chest and master point. I wanted the alt to finish also, so to see if the order was different for each player, she tried combs too. No joy, but the message flamed. she dropped to the correct one, but it would not take the talk either, flashed it's own message, and comb's message stayed put over her head the rest of the way. She never finished as none of them would work for her. A complete logout and a portal to Home and message still there.

I have almost concluded the search. I got back to the problem right now. My main account has 18 characters, most camped in the outback at a top end chest or running a short gathering route for varietal mints, etc and have only have a short time in the days they are played. They also serve as storage for lots of old time stuff or material storage overages. The game has a quaint way of mail showing up to some of them, particularly to the daily return from the results of the previous day's teams' gathering. Sometimes the mail shows up on a player that hasn't played in a few days. I generally gather my home instance daily, using a player that starts duty at level 10 and uses the gathering experience to make it to level 80. It then gets exotic armor, weapons and ascended jewelry to replace the junk it's wearing and finds a job (camping chests, etc) and another junior player starts. No use wasting all the gathering experience by using a level 80. about 3 days gathering to reach a new level, so a few months to reach 80. So 11 years later of intermittent gathering I have 18. Since I'm now several heavy played days since launch of Janthir Wilds, almost every character has played multiple times, albeit short duration for most. I have 3 full ascended meta waving top end characters, one of which has opened both maps and filled all the masteries for the Homestead, and about half the warclaw. I stopped to learn the homestead play, where a now level 41 has done the daily gathering and the experiments on how to play it. I .saw I needed to accelerate the slow gathering needed to ramp the production of the lumber yard and mine. I learned of the Janthir Wilds Expedition Contract and already use the other teams to gather what I need, and change their targets regularly. So it's now a showstopper and as of now gets all the attention other than the minimal daily routine. So I'm patiently checking all bags using the search method to keep me from looking right at it and not seeing. Ugh. I am prepared to send a support ticket. tonight. I've used a couple in the 11 years to solve some sort of screw up with good results. I'm reasonably sure I didn't get the mail, but then when I find it I'll not be so sure. I was looking for it for a few days now, but with the startup needs done, it's now has my full attention. I never delete an email that comes from the game itself, and I don't have it, so I think it didn't arrive. I'm searching for the item anyway, as of course I may have.

I believe I would have noticed, since I use it daily of course, but also pay attention to my selections and I cannot find any evicence of it. It has been a busy period in game, however and it may be in my bags but not searchable. Before I send in a support requenst, I though to ask others if they have Janthir Wilds on their BL teams' board?

Reset in my use = refills the basic store with goods, not SOLD OUT signs.

Answers to all so far: The wizard's vault is to 9th click of the 10 icons at the top left of the game screen. It's labeled Wizard's Vault for the one who asked what the Wizard's Vault is. While the tasks reset daily, weeklies tasks reset weekly, and others seem one time only, the things you can purchase go away as you reach their purchase limit. I do it daily and currently have SOLD OUT signs on about 3 each of every row, some of which aren't likely to be used for a while. They RESET in ~3 months, but this will the 1st time an expansion has come out near the reset date, which I've forgotten when it is anyway. Hence the question. I've played 11 years and there have been different dailies , changing several times. I hope this brings you further along the background curve for the question itself.

Will the Wizard Tower Daily reset the day of the expansion launch, or does it have a different date?

Possible answers: 1. Nothing. Quickness lowers the cast time only. The after cast remains the same. 2. Quickness modifies both the cast time and the after cast by the same amount. 3. Quickness removes after cast completely. You get the cast time reduced and the aftercast is gone. I'm sorry but my eyes are not calibrated even to the nearest second, never mind to the nearest .1 of a second.

Is there any deliverable now (extra character, lever 80 gain token, etc ) for pre ordering now? or is everything delivered Aug 20?

Is masterework food not really masterwork? Blackberry pear compote, which I make 420 times weekly to plant stuff in my garden doesn't work. Bug? No, I don't have anywhere near 1300 AA either, so it's not that.

Thanks for the link. How much I'll use it I can not say, but it was an interesting browse for sure.

Thanks to all who replied. I'll just wait, noting again the awkwardness of the Arenanet's marketing scheme. I'll not buy it when it comes out, as it was for my grandson who just finished his grandmaster chef. Months from now the event will be lost in the history of our game play. I've played 11 years as of earlier this year and moments are common in the game. Little knick knack rewards are nice, but not essential. He can make food in his armor just as well as a chef's outfit. Most of Arenanet's income comes from that store, but they deny access to many of of their products for most of the year. It has to cost then a lot of income and I don't buy for a minute the argument that by waiting my desire will only grow so overwhelming that I'll watch the market hourly for months waiting to see it. I know zero major real world merchandisers who use the Arenanet method of keeping merchandise away from their buyers. Is there a real argument for that?

I would like one, have googled services that provide schedules for TP, and no joy. Is it still available in game?

All of you are correct. Just a brain spasm, which is why I asked publicly. One can keep spasming and may eventually break through, but asking online gets expert answers quickly . that save half a day of struggle at the risk of being called stupid. Incupaltus cedo here too! It was the Computer Demons that made me do it, not me. I was following a prudent plan (follow the Wiki exactly, step by step) while being intertupted by hourly phone calls from my sister 700 miles away about problems with her bees. She raises hives for the honey. Ack...can't I just play my game? Anyway, the recipe I was making was AUTOMATIC, but I was sure I was on the last rstep ecipe, with is Discovery and I certainly had never done it on that account. However that final recipe is a multi-side trip recipe to make several components, and I my set up tray was for oneof those and my guidance screen was looking at the last one. Anyway, thanks to several folks who all got me moving. I finished the first 4 of the 5 visits the final quest requires, and will be totally done in a few minutes.

I have all 8 crafters at max and have played the game for 10 years. I thought I'd seen it all, but..... Today I am running up a Master Chef on an alt account, at the point where I'm doing the Gourmet Training, the last achievement before I'm done. I have all 4 ingredients in my inventory, conveniently in the first 4 positions. I switch to the cooking screen, select the discover method, and the tarragon has DISAPPEARED. Nada. Can't put it into the cook pot. The other 3 items are there, and of course the umpteen dozen other possible food choices for the discovery are there. The place where the tarragon should have been was filled with the next item down the inventory page. I switch back to inventory-only screen, and there sits the tarragon. I log out completely, shut down the computer, and log back in. Same situation. Tarragon visible in the inventory, not visible in the inventory when on the cooking screen. I have my main account send tarragon to the poor waif who is trying to become a Master Chef. She tries it, same situation. She buys fresh market tarragon, same situation. I go back to my main Master Chef (On a different computer altogether), open the screen, select Discover, and try to put tarragon up. He DOES'NT see the tarragon either. Of course he sees it in his inventory, just not on the cooking screen. Two computers, 4 different sources of the tarragon, always visible in inventory but not visible on the cooking screen. Can't make the item. Stuck. What now?

I suspect not, but the game said we did. We took the wipe do to a learning curve issue, and came back for a do over, but the only mob left was the one who was trying to kill our NPC. That was about a 8 sec fight and it gave us the win, a chest reward, a new WP formed in the areaand the story advanced in the text. I'd hate the think that a wipe killed the chances at finishing the instance. I expected a full replay, but got a gimme. The boss wasn't tough and we got rewarded like a standard win. I sent the post because we searched hard for both door opening methods, as either would work. I could take the heckling that should naturally come when the answer was given about how easy it was to find the switch/chain/key/pressure plate, /flower/etc I have heard the dungeon is bugged in several places and there was a warning in the writeup of several of them about bugs not allowing the zones to be completed. When I asked

Thank you very much for taking the time to try to help us. However, this is not the door to get into Hall of Stairs. This is the door to leave the Hall of Stairs and get into the Hall of Champions, where the last fight is. Like the soloist in this photo, we were coming from the lower right corner of the map but had killed Koheler in Forfire Heart so used the New WP and headed straight north to a closed door that we could not find how to get into. We then took the path up the east side (the one in the video you used to show us how. ) However, you ran straight through an open door that was not open to us . At time 3:53 you are in the center of it the door, having just turned left into it. Several videos and write ups with photos show the door at 3:57 and the chain to open it, and we knew how to do that one, we just could not get to it. However, when we watch the moments when they get in, all the videos show both of those doors open when they get to them.

How to get into Hall of Stairs using either the north road from Foefire's Heart (south center entrance to Hall of Stairs) ,or from the Eastern Chambers (western door to the Hall of Stairs.) I have the Dungeon Master achievement from about 8? years ago but have forgotten all the tiny details of individual door openings. Somebody doing them today please give a quick answer. My two grandsons (early teens) and myself have taken on the task of completing all the dungeon paths in all 8 dungeons for the Dungeon Master achievement for them. To that end we started Ascalonian Catacomb last night and did story mode, then path 1 and were trying to stretch our allotted time to finish path 2. They have a strict daily and weekly time allowance and I don't abuse it. We were headed to the final Boss in the Hall of Champions, needing to go through the Hall of Stairs (fastest way) and got hung up on the simple item of finding how to open the gates, either one. We wasted our time searching for how to get in. Searches for keys, chains to pull, gatekeepers to kill, pressure plates, etc. Nada. We searched the internet, watched a few videos, all of which ran through the gate which was already open. We regret not running around to the west gate of Hall of Champions, the ultimate destination, which we'd done it earlier in the night. Sheesh. Killed the bosses routinely and got stuck on a gate. So, one of you who have played more recently, and who remembers the way in either gate, please tell me. We'll go at in again tonight EST but I'd like not to spend 2 hours as badly as we did the last 15 of last night. Wade edited out the typo

It somehow is now too thin and I mix it with the background. My 30 second scan of all the settings under options did not yield the answer but someone reading this will know and it's a quick answer.

I have 3 accounts, 1 that I play and two other smaller ones that carry along my grand kids and other family members. Some time ago I got glyphs for harvesting tools for all 3. I'm now doing a rework on the two smaller accounts and cannot remember how to obtain glyphs. Nor can I search for it. I understand there are purchased from the gem store, but can not find any of them listed for sale and search also does not find them. I searched the forums with the title of this post, and several variations, but got a lot of posts on how to use them and move them around, etc, and one post that said they were obtained by combination purchases as a package, but none of those were available either. I am sure I didn't buy all of them as combos, because they are attached to tools that can be used up (common tools bought for 4s per 100. Please tell me that is a simple answer and I just forgot it and then missed it in my search.

As if 23:30 in UT-5 time zone on JULY 26, it is NOT fixed. I'm about to try a link I found above after trying all the original YouTube videos. With launch of the 5th expansion in less that a month and several things worse broken than this will not be looked at until early next year at the best. Why did they block the passage in the first place should be the question asked. Why even screw around with this tough but working Collection event? UPDATE: I forgot one thing, and added a new one. The new: I got #4 using the Golden badge #4 new route posted by several above. Much thanks for the posters and even more thanks for the one who discovered and posted the route. This is the first time I've deliberately gotten in to a map fault, but the first time I ever got into one was only last week. I logged out at a way point in Malchor's Leap on the dry surface, nowhere near any water. Hours later I logged back in underwater with the ground over my head. I ran all over the place down there in what was certainly was a broken map. I've played for over 10 years and note that every expansion is prequeled by a host of things that have worked for a long time suddenly broken, and this is one of many. The forgot: I was using Ayin Maiden's guide when I arrived at the top of the black tower (on the map I was slightly below the letter N in the Northwestern Silverwastes), and supposedly headed for #30, which I had, but she doesn't follow numeric order so to stay with her I followed. That required a swan dive gliding off the top, past the timber crossbar and down into the passage that we've now learned is blocked. I switched to Dulfy who does things in numeric order, so I got to number 4, which I did not have, and arrived at the same black roofed tower. She claimed the gold badge off the roof! No gliding off the roof at all to the blocked passage. I logged out, reloaded, etc, etc but NO JOY. #4 was not on that roof, but her video scored it there. I then went to the GW2 Wiki post (here) and found success. As I said, things that once worked, stop working when expansions (of LW's) are trying to be born.

Thanks very much. I got your post shortly after you posted it, and was chagrined that I'd not seen those lines on that very page. "Read the fine print" is a rule I skip more times than I should. An hour later I had two Mordent weapons, having chased down a missing Awakened skin and then did just normal crafting. I then started to mail it to an alt account but that failed. The weapons are account bound! WHAT? EXOTIC weapons gear is account bound!? What a breakage of their operating game theory. Crafting is generally built around the fact that you can't craft and sell ASCENDED but can for Exotic. (No pay to win for the best stuff) This time there is no fine print to read telling me they are account bound. Just a sudden surprise. I'm not raising a weaponsmith just to craft two pieces of gear for an account.

I've googled, searched websites, etc and no joy. Can someone point me to the recipe for harrier weapons? or a how-to guide? I have had all crafters at max level, most for 10 years, so have a basic understanding of crafting. I've crafted a lot of different weapons and armor. Can someone help ?

I've read the announcement from ANET, but can't find the release announcement in the hundreds of arguments about why not needed because it's only 8s54cu max to pay for it each time. I also have an item labeled one use that will teleport me there, which may be the new item, but is more likely a leftover from multiple characters earning one in the past but already having WP access. Has the item been released, and what is it called?

"Make sure you turn your sound quality all the way up, " Yes, it has been. Also, sounds enabled by the pulldowns are set to ALL. The sound is either really good, or completely silent when the voice messages go onscreen. I believe it's a system conflict issue of which there are several in the game. I just didn't know sound was affected by it. In fights, for instance, you won't miss a sound that you didn't know was going to happen, but in this case the voice being printed on the screen cues you that something is missing sound wise. The player's character is constantly chats away when gathering, and I thought perhaps it was just conflicting with the r-Trons, but I've never seen an instance of that. None of the missing r-Tron's chats occur when the player itself is chatting away about what just got gathered.

Having purchased the Reap-r-Tron, Log-r-Tron, and Mine-r-Tron, the next step is to get them working. Not as easy as you'd think. (Background: I've played 10 years, have 3 accounts, 20 something characters, mostly level 80, and a good working knowledge of the game). I set them up with whatever my glyph du jour was, and went to work on gathering runs. I didn't expect to get a comment each gather, so that was not the problem. The quip would appear over the characters head, in an oval ring with a curved arrow pointing to the r-Tron, like a comic book. So I knew when it should have spoken it's sayings, but about half the time sound worked fine and half the time it did not play. I checked all sound settings and all were set to 75%. I even turned the music on, just to see if it had any effect. Nope, as I expected. In two different character's gathering runs through Lake Doric, I got 11 spoken sayings per 21 written "talks" on the screen, and 9 for 20 the 2nd pass. Enough to know something was amiss with the sound. However, running through my Home Instance, using all 3 r-Trons, I got 100%, (visible sayings were also spoken all of the time. Ditto for the run down my guild's major league harvesting run. Does anyone have any ideas as to why some runs miss about 1/2 the sounds per the r-Tron's visibly talking? I'm guessing the game has a lag problem on sounds, vs my connectivity having a problem but am unsure. I'll collect more data until I have we get a better idea