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I'm on the lookout for a social, vibrant and friendly environment where people come together spontaneously, not just for instanced content. My experience with PvE guilds wasn't the best as most recruit numbers (to achieve their goals), not people. I'm looking for an environment that has very active and friendly folks in the game, open to e.g. exploring together and chatting while at it. Of course this entails activities like dungeons and other instanced content, but what I don't want (and really dislike) are (the majority of) guilds who only recruit people for certain types of content, like raids or strikes, and can't come together besides that at all, posing as social, but in reality it quickly becomes dull and lifeless. I'm looking for the good ol' fashioned let's help each other out with gathering, explore the zone together, do dynamic events, hearts, map exploration for gifts, or the collect achievements type of content. Then we can also include strikes and raids, or any of the vast amount of content the game offers.

I thought it’s because I had more powerful food prior to interacting with this tray, but it seems this is indeed bugged.

This bug is present ever since AC is in the game (since 2015). AFFECTS Every class Every game mode HOW TO REPRODUCE Have a character with a shadow-stepping ability try to shadow-step with AC ON while not directly facing an opponent but still having them in your line of sight. Abilities will fail. The same will happen anytime the terrain is slightly narrower. Affects every class that has a shadow-stepping ability (video footage: https://share.cleanshot.com/Q2TM7Ch6 ) DESIRED OUTCOME Players using AC should be able to shadow-step no matter which direction they're facing, same as players not using it. Skills work without issues for players not using AC at any range, so this should extend to AC users as well. Reason is it's often not possible to target/view opponents with AC ON as with it OFF. Take higher ground e.g., when looking from bottom up is impossible to target, one must look down to see above, in which scenario shadow-step won't work. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS When fighting close-ranged opponents with AC ON, skills often activate but immediately interrupt, thus their cool-down is activated, but no outgoing effect is achieved, even if the opponent is faced directly/followed with the crosshair precisely.

One thing this game needs is a Public Test Environment (PTS) that could help collect feedback on changes before they are implemented. The folks over at ESO have this, and it appears to work well for them, from what I observed. I'm not sure why this isn't a thing with GW2 @Josh Davis.7865 . Could you clarify? Also, what's with all this secrecy before releases? Are you afraid of something? Perhaps that people will not like the changes? As you can see, people clearly don't like these unpleasant surprises that are a result of lack of testing and the absence of a more open environment for doing so. I work as a UX Researcher, so I know considering user feedback early and often is crucial. It feels like this game has had a good UX investment when it came to the UI, but what happened to everything else? What happened to CX? What happened to testing? On a more general note, while I understand that many changes don't make much (in some cases any) sense, and I understand people's frustration, resorting to death threats and similar nonsense is way off the charts, and I think some people need to detach from the game. It's not real, it's pixels, it means nothing. Literally, nothing.

Not sure is this because I play via GFN, but I just crashed twice in a row porting to the guild hall and talking to the Treasurer.

Same here. Bought a 2k gem card, can't redeem it. Had I spotted this thread earlier wouldn't create another one.

I've read the help articles and I know that GFN users can't buy stuff in game directly now, but we can't even redeem codes, as I just learned. Can someone have a look why this isn't working?

Whenever I want to submit a ticket and it asks me to log in to submit the page redirects me to my account page, i.e., I cannot submit a ticket the normal way, only anonymously.

You know, for the first time in a long time I feel good about my decision to purchase, and I went with the Ultimate Edition. I've been a strong ArenaNet critic (and rightfully so, for all the wrong decisions they have made in the past, and the neglect they have demonstrated, mainly towards the competitive user base + their parent company has a very bad reputation overall). I like the new (or perhaps not as new? - correct me on this, please) direction they are taking, considering community feedback, adding new stuff, especially the WvW part I'm looking forward to, tweaking, the new elite specs are very nice, so overall I'm very much looking forward to this. What I'd like to see is more open Beta testing, like ESO does with their PTS. Please don't disappoint us again.

Purchased Friday evening, it's been over 2 days and still nothing. Trying to log in to the support page with my account fails. Can someone help?

They responded to me too, exactly after one day, but requiring further verification (asking me to send them an email from my email, because the request was sent anonymously since I did not have access to my support account). I will certainly not avoid GFN as I'm on Mac, and GFN is a very good thing. Instead of spending thousands on computers that become obsolete in 2-3 years I can rent one for 5x that amount of time and enjoy games at the best details on even low end hardware. If their system keeps being more sensitive than some people on the internet they might start losing customers, because for some (like myself) GFN is the only way how to play the game.

The thing about this is that it really shouldn't happen. There should be a unique identifier for people who stream the game. Also, gaming via VPN is becoming more a thing, see the following https://us.norton.com/products/norton-360-for-gamers Often using a VPN for gaming is a must as grieving is a thing, and the amount of sore losers who'd hijack your IP just because you downed them in an online game is quite astonishing. At the same time I don't understand using a VPN for cheating? You're still logged in to an account that can be traced.

More than 14 hours and counting. Any updates?

I already created a topic about it here and there's a Reddit thread too. Many users are impacted. It's because we use GeForce NOW, but why it triggered all of a sudden is a mystery.

Could you link to it, please?