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After this post, I hope HTCM will be added to special tab in the future.

How about alternative ways to obtain gift of battle? 2.000 magnetite shards, 2.000 UFE, or 1.000 green prophet shards or 10.000 fractal relicts for example? Even a boring 500g per gift would be fine. Or maybe make both gift of battle and gift of exploration tradable? I don't mind how. But any way that not include forcing players into an game-mode they absolutely hate. WvW in my case. This helps neither the people that get forced into it, nor the people actual like the game-mode and complaining about the PvE'ers in their game-mode.

You're part of Wingmans statistics in that moment you are part of the raid/strike/fractal group of ANY wingman-contributor. You dont have to connect your account to anything to be part of wingmans statistics. If you raid in lfg (or raid in general), there could be logs including you on wingman already.

Mai Trin. It was literally the first time in gw2 i had tears in my eyes. Neither Tybalt nor Aurenes fake-death got me. I would trade Aurenes life for Mais in no-time.

Some mentioned it the other way around - that the problem would happen more often with lower settings lol Also I play always with unlimited FPS, still running into the problem all the time.

Windows 10.

They are working on it, but a problem like this is really hard to debug, test, and reconstruct in a development environment. "Rollback" / "Stop SAB" won't help much - even it started with the same patch as SAB - I'm 100% sure it's not related to SAB itself. It is just some code that was shipped to the customer clients within the same patch. As I mentioned before - most likely some kind of engine "optimization" that should happen on the fly and not be recognized. With no direct effect on the behavior of the game. But something went entirely wrong and bugged. So It HAD a direct effect on the behavior of the game. They ARE working on it - and I'm pretty sure it is a top priority for the responsible team right now. I know it is really bad, I know it is annoying - I get into this bug every time I want to switch characters, and as a raider used to be the "filler" for every role/class within a group - I swap A LOT for raiding purposes. (Thanks to the commanders trying to let me switch characters as few as possible.) As a player I know this is frustrating as f**k - but I am also a developer on my own, and I feel that this kind of bug is horrible to fix. "Sadly" the game is not even crashing - so there are not even crash logs to work with to identify the problem. They most likely have to guess - because it is kinda hard to reproduce this scenario in a development environment. But I agree: They "could" (or tbh should) communicate better about this. Clearing things up, about what and why it happened. I wish they wouldn't let us tap into the darkness, bring some light to the problem - so people understand what's happening and why it would not help to just turn SAB off.

I neither have any willbender, nor an outfit. Still running into the problem every time I switch character, no matter where the characters are, no matter what class they are. Its an problem within the code, with not "trigger" on your account/character. You would also run into that problem if all of your characters where naked with no elite spec.

Something I noticed: loading times are greatly improved/optimized (if we don't run into the "infinite loading screens") - I never loaded in the world that fast when running 6 clients at once (also it runs overall smoother?). I think they added some kind of optimization, (maybe better caching of stuff? Maybe better usage of threading?) and something broke within that optimization. Maybe clearing of cache to aggressive - and game "thinks" some stuff is still loaded/cached and don't load that again - resulting in missing things as we see after the loading screens. Maybe I'm totally wrong - but that's what I think.

That is intended behavior. Welcome to tribulation mode.

To summarize: It happen most of the time when you try to switch your character. It wont happen on normal map-changes when still playing the "first" character you logged into. It is not related to any map or region. It happens in wvw, pvp, Hot, pof, eod, central tyria. It is not related to your account-type, so it happens to both, accounts with EoD and accounts without. It is not related to either Dx9 or Dx11, it happens in both DirectX Versions It is not related to third-party stuff, it happens with arcdps installed or not, it also happens stuff like GeForce Experience installed or not. It is not GPU/CPU related, since its reporded from users from all manufactures. (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) Loading Times seems "infinite" - but are "just" about 10 Times as long as usually (so instead of ~20sec its now ~200sec) Some Textures corrupt or don't get loaded at all when it happens. Some Models don't get loaded at all when it happens. UI Elements don't get loaded at all when it happens. There no "specific" Textures/Models/UI Elements - it vary on what gets loaded or not. Sometimes you still have Backgrounds on your Loadingscreen/Char Screen, sometimes its just black. Same goes for Map-Objects, Skyboxes etc. In most cases: were entire "Ground"/Map not loaded - Most Models were loaded - Own Player Character not loaded, UI not loaded, Map/Minimap is black, Skyboxes are chess-pattern textures (color vary) , Camera is "stuck" (because no player character loaded) but you see yourself moving on map It "seems" that the chance for this is increased the more characters an account has? (Even when I don't see any logical reason why the character amount should have any impact on this?) edit: https://imgur.com/a/0ffrsng

But what about the person with that problem on an alt account not owning EoD?

I wonder if its the amount of characters on an account. Most people here stated they have a decent amount of characters. Sure some say its caused by EoD, cause alt-accounts without work fine - but I bet the alt-accounts don't have more characters than fit on the char-screen? @mezuzel.4987May I ask how many characters your alt accounts have? (The alt account, that run in this issue as well)

Same problem here. First character everything is fine - but when I try to switch to another character, I have loading screens for up to 5 minutes (usual I load maps in less than 20sec). Yesterday there were still backgound arts for loading screens, today the screens became just black. IF it manages to get out of the loading screen: camera is stuck, i see my charakter moving on minimap. Entire terrain is not loaded, also most of the structures. Some smaller objects (boxes etc) are loaded, also NPC's/players Worldmap is just black, but i see still waypoints, POIs, Names (but minimap works fine - kinda weird) UI is "normal" as far as i have seen it yet. edit: I use dx9

Found some bugs: You won't get any blight from your elixirs when you hit an invulnerable enemy with it. Some mechanics broke when they apply on you while in harbinger shroud. For Example: - Raid Wing 1 Gorseval Eggs, or Aquatic Runs Fractal when you get eaten by the jellyfish. You "just" drop out of your shroud, but don't get eaten/egged. Even worse: Fraenir of Jormag Strike Mission, when it tries to freeze you while in shroud, you drop out of shroud and don't get frozen, but can't move anymore - you can still use all abilities of weapons/utility, but cant dodge or move - but you can't also get freed (until downstate)