[How big (MHz) is today's download?]

11 minutes ago, Joseph.6578 said:

Sorry, typo.   Meant Mbytes,  not Mhz.      Too late to edit original.

 

For me it were about 880MB (one audio language i think) 

I forgot to check the number of files at the start, think it were about 30k files.

[I would recommend doing that again in the future!]

The items you mention are both exotic items, not common, so one of the higher rarities?

Here cou can see the list of rarities - https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item#Rarity

If you want more information on items, one of the fastest way is to enter the chat-code /wiki + shift click on the item or just/wiki and the term / topic you are looking for.

 

[Rift Mastery]

38 minutes ago, Randulf.7614 said:

The tooltip for this mastery line says this:

Receive more Kryptis essences when closing rifts. Kryptis essences are powerful crafting materials used in baits, weapons, armors, and legendary armors.

I'm a bit confused by the bait line though. Bait refers to fishing bait in the game's lexicon, but I can't find any refence on the wiki to bait and essences together. Is this just inconsistent nomenclature about bait for tier2 and tier 3 rift bosses or is there actually fishing bait that uses essences?

I think that it just refers to motivations, as they are used as a bait for the higher tier bosses. 

[I DEMAND to be able to see who joins the party]

3 hours ago, DanAlcedo.3281 said:

Huh? They can't? 

I thought they could to snack some EZ trib coins. Atleast I heard/read others talking about it. 

 

It worked some years ago, that you could join in a very short time window after the kill, but that was an exploit that was fixed.

[account name chance]

You can find how to change your account name here: https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000728148-I-Want-to-Change-My-Display-Name

[Salvaging rares/exotics]

Do you have any droprates of your tries to back up this suspicion, because it's hard to see if anything has changed without the numbers?

I did a quick test with 1000 random rares I got from unids and at least this test didn't show any nerf, I even got about 50 ectos more than expected.

[Thoughts about GW3 [Merged]]

29 minutes ago, SoftPup.3048 said:

EotN really should have been the strikes hub. Instead we have 3 or 4 different places to enter strikes from.

It should just have been made like e.g. mistlock and lionsarch, so everyone can hang out in the hub they want, but can join the same instance from this hubs.

[Please Quit Making Random Changes]

3 minutes ago, RoseofGilead.8907 said:

For what it's worth, mine isn't doing that at all. It stays on whatever chat I used last.

Same for me, so I instead of random change, I think it's a bug?

[my shield used to appear on my back?]

3 minutes ago, RoseofGilead.8907 said:

Good lord. I never even noticed that before. How?!

Don't know, the feature isn't really new (Dec 2019).

[my shield used to appear on my back?]

5 minutes ago, Duke Nukem.6783 said:

when my weapons are sheathed my shield used to be on my back you could see it

 

now that isn't the case. is that an option i can turn on or something? when did that change

Yes there is an option, it's a box you can tick in the top right corner of every weapon in you inventory.

[New /unleash emote - trailer appreciation!]

52 minutes ago, Gazrul.3086 said:

Can I just ask why this emote is locked behind gambling? At least put it on the statuette vendor if nothing else. I honestly don't think it's acceptable to lock emotes behind gambling without offering some alternate, guaranteed way to obtain them. And I honestly hope that this won't become a regular thing for the emotes. 

All the exclusive items in the BLCs are available for statuettes, as soon, as they are removed from the BLCs. The older they get, the cheaper they will be, they start in the "New"-Tab and then move to "Recent" -> "Vintage" 

[The 5th extension and the picture inside the news.]

48 minutes ago, Randulf.7614 said:

Perhaps us humans will finally take back our lands

FOR GWEN AND THE KING!

Your land? *insert angry grawl noises here*

[Why can't my chef craft food items for the Wizard daily??]

5 minutes ago, Michael.9403 said:

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.

Masterwork is green rarity (or higher), the compote is only fine, or do you mean the tray?

[Why are some dyes not available with the guaranteed unlock?]

1 hour ago, Gop.8713 said:

FWIW you an preview the unlock in the gem store to see what dyes are available. And while it's not guaranteed it's likely that the unlock will be updated over time so that it will eventually unlock something you do not yet have. So they're not a total waste, they're just not useful to you yet . . .

An addition to this, as it may look like a bug because there is no additional message etc., if the preview-window doesn't open for someone, it usually means that everything is already unlocked.

[How to determine ping without trying each server?]

6 minutes ago, Gins.6840 said:

Hi Guys,

Im from South Asia and i've been playing in a American server which has a latency of 300 ms. Im looking to lower my Latency for a smoother Gameplay. My idea was logging into each server and check my ping there but since its only applicable twice within 24 i'd have to spend roughly a month switching between 50~ servers.

The game uses a megaserver-system (except for WvW until the reconstruction), so all servers of one region are in one datacenter, so all you have to test is, if EU or NA is better for you. You can just make a free acount on the other region and test it, no need to pay for a switch. It should also be more realistic than just some ping tests.

[Achievs that deserve a Title]

We currently have about 300 titles in the game, so how about a "Too many titles to choose from"-title, if you reach lets say 200 of them?

[Sliding mechanic in GW2]

9 minutes ago, uberkingkong.8041 said:

Yes but sliding doesn't exist in PvP or WvW. It would be a good addition to the game overall.

Sliding mechanics would be nothing new in GW2, they already exist since at least SAB W2. Sliding even existed as an instability in fractals, but it was removed within 3 months because many people didn't liked it.

[No EoD Ultimate version on 50% discount this sale?]

As far as I remember the ultimate versions never were part of sales, as a big part of the price is for the 4k gems.

[I don't mind the grind but...]

1 hour ago, kiroho.4738 said:

Obsidian armor currently cost 500-650g per piece (including the ectos at the current price).

That's a good price for legendary armor.
It's a bit more expensive than the raid, sPvP and WvW armor (which cost 450-500g per piece), but therefore you don't have to deal with raids and competitive game modes.

Spending 50-150g more is a good trade off.

If you craft multiple weights, it's actually much closer to the other sets or even somewhere between them, as the price on efficiency includes the price for the collections, which are only needed once for all three weights,.

[I don't mind the grind but...]

Why should it be cheaper? If you consider, that the "precursors" are only needed once for the three weights, the price is already lower than for some of the other sets.

[WEAPON MASTER TRAINING IS BUSTED AND NOT WORKING.]

4 minutes ago, Padra.1678 said:

Okay Schimmi if then why cant I equip my weapon or even see the mastery? because clearly if it was ment to be account wide it is not functioning. It is not account wide.

 

It's not a mastery, it's an achievment listed under Horn of Maguuma, if this one is unlocked, you should be able to use the elite weapons? Which weapon did you try to use? 

[WEAPON MASTER TRAINING IS BUSTED AND NOT WORKING.]

9 minutes ago, Padra.1678 said:

Weapon master training is busted and not unlocking for characters just now playing through the story. I have played through it and unlocked weapon master no problem dureing mother of stars in an eariler patch. I am playing through the story on a different character after this last patch and i am far past the unlock point and still IT IS NOT UNLOCKING. This is extreamly annoying and really dissipointing. fix it.

The Weaponmaster Training is an account-wide unlock, so you won't get and need it a second time

[Game closes after trying to enter from character screen.]

Just to be sure, do you use arcdps, if yes, have you tried to remove it?

[Combo Fields are lacking in Engineer weapons]

If you only look at weapons, yes there is only one field on hammer, but with kits, utility-skills and toolbelt, the engineer has about 30 skills with combo-fields. Together with ranger it's even the class with the biggest variety of combo-fields and also has a lot of finishers (especially more different blast-finishers than every other class).

[Impostor guilds, what can be done?]

1 minute ago, Tinker.6924 said:

EU and NA are different regions and guild names, unlike character names, may be allowed to be duplicates, but I’m inclined to think that they are actually different text strings that look the same either by using non-displayable characters or difficult to spot differences (characters that look the same but have different Unicode values). 

Guilds including chat , storage etc. are also shared between EU and NA.