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Guild Wars 2 |OT| Buy Once, Sub Never, Fun Forever
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what level are you currently? I made 3 gold with my lvl 42 Mesmer just by leveling, saved up on my Karma as well (around 17k right now)
If a hacker knows someones email/password and cant log in the game. Can they simply change the email through the guildwars2 website to bypass that?
If so, that is pretty big.
Hari Seldon
Member
Oh well this is just fucking great
My account is gone as well, fuck this shit.
I got a password request change in my email, but didn't click on the link. I don't even have Guild Wars 2 yet.
Something wrong is happening with the hacked accounts, my account was hacked 02 days ago, no response yet from Anet. Some dude from China messed with my character and was perma banned cause he started trading gold for real money.
My password was strong, I always use a personlized password for each service or game I use, didn't reply or send emails with info of my account.
My Windows Phone also updates me instantly on emails and I NEVER ONCE got an email to change my password or email. Its effecting a lot of people to from what I am seeing so I would say watch out to everyone.
55 right now as a Warrior. The only issue is that I've spent almost all of it on WvW stuff. And not even on siege equipment!
A member down. I'm going to be extra vigilant. Might change my password soon.
chickdigger802
Banned
yeah, i got like 3 or 4 password change requests. Meh.
If you didn't request a password change email or anything of the sort and you get them, it's a smart idea not to click the link or even remotely pay attention. Just saying. I've seen some idiots online actually believe it and lose their accounts. You'd have to be dumb if you think ANet actually sent those out.
I changed my password 3 days before this happened. That might not help, it seems there is a big flaw in NCSoft's systems.
AppleSmack
Banned
I would suggest never clicking on the links they send. EVER. If you want to change your password do it manually from the official website.
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Deleted member 47027
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I won't lie - I want this but the account compromises going on are a little fucking insane. I'm not that comfortable with buying it if it's such a mess at the moment.
That being said, are we sure physical copies can be activated online without issue? Because I'd really rather buy it digitally and this would involve me getting a boxed copy, and I don't want to bring it home and have em say "can't activate right now! try later" so... Yknow.
That being said, are we sure physical copies can be activated online without issue? Because I'd really rather buy it digitally and this would involve me getting a boxed copy, and I don't want to bring it home and have em say "can't activate right now! try later" so... Yknow.
Wait what? Why not buy it digitally?
They made a significant improvement to account security. Now when your account is logged into from a new PC, you get an email asking if this is authorized access. Similar to how Steam handles it.
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Deleted member 47027
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They suspended digital sales, unless they re-opened them. Server load and such, but I can't help but think they also want to nip the security issue they're having in the bud as well, and a ballooning playerbase doesn't help.
That helps. Good.
Goodacre0081
Member
anyone else getting massive lag and connection drops?
The suspension is only for ArenaNet's first party sales... but it looks like they're sold out just about everywhere, so nevermind
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Deleted member 47027
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The suspension is only for ArenaNet's first party sales... but it looks like they're sold out just about everywhere, so nevermind
You had my hopes up! Alas. Maybe I can get the client moving somehow, that'll make me feel like I made some progress, heh.
Yeah too bad it was after I got my account banned cause someone messed with it from China.
The more I think and read about it, the more I suspect that Anet got his database compromised. There is lot of people with this problem to be just a simple guess of password
chickdigger802
Banned
i wish the game was a bit better at the UI stuff and what not. I mean for the events and other group fun.
pretty hard to grasp whats going on and who needs reviving and oh shit! now im dead!
pretty hard to grasp whats going on and who needs reviving and oh shit! now im dead!
flyinpiranha
Member
AAAAH, so I just have to hit it twice assuming they are in range? I thought it meant that it would only pull bound enemies and that I didn't have a bind.
How far is a 600 range anyway? I still have an issue figuring out distances in this game.
Gotcha, so it's more/less having a viable path with all weapons rather than being pigeonholed to one or two to be effective.
I think I might give my warrior another shot as I have more of an understanding of WvW and such now (although it really is just zerg fests at this point). I really dig the Guardian support though.
Yeah i've been getting alot of login attempts and so on. Gold sellers really need to chill out, or just make their own accounts instead of stealing others. Has Arenanet commented on this yet?
Should I just change my password to something else?
There's icons on the mini-map for people on the ground dying, or actually dead. Events go "HERE I AM" when they pop up too... I don't understand your complaint.
Fleshfeast
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Got up and started the client, it patched just fine, and now I've been getting connection errors for about 2.5 hours now. Anyone else having trouble connecting?
I doubt my account has been compromised, or I would be getting invalid info errors, not "unable to gain access to the log-in server". Also I can still log in to my account on the website. I can't help but be paranoid anyway though.
EDIT: Of course! After 2.5 hours of being unable to log in, I post and get in within 5 minutes.
I doubt my account has been compromised, or I would be getting invalid info errors, not "unable to gain access to the log-in server". Also I can still log in to my account on the website. I can't help but be paranoid anyway though.
EDIT: Of course! After 2.5 hours of being unable to log in, I post and get in within 5 minutes.
My guess is he wants to see party/raid member frames like in other MMOs, so you can see who to heal and rez, etc
BattleMonkey
Member
Well in stuff like Rift and Warhammer you were automatically grouped up in areas with others for the dynamic content so you could see whose who, their status, and could help them out. Since there is no actual healers in this and such though it's not all that helpful, though it would have been nice to help sort out the chaos.
Got this email yesterday:
Somebody (hopefully you!) asked to reset the password on your Guild Wars account.
To change your password, click the link below.
If you did not request to reset your password, you can ignore this email and no changes will be made to your account.
Need help or have questions about your Guild Wars account? Visit our support site
Thanks!
--The ArenaNet Team
And while i've never clicked on the link to reset my password, i've still had several "log on attempts" from
Address: 115.173.39.235
City: Kuanchengchen
Region: 30
Country: CN
Instead of messing with PSN, Anonymous should go try to take down Chinese gold sellers
600 range isn't much. Probably half what you'd need for your wall idea (real range weapons are 900-1200).
Got a question about people who use bows and defended keeps. Does anyone's else attacks hit the tiny lip on the wall? My thief's 4th skill on shortbow just smacks into the wall... even though my graphic is WAAAAY above that tiny wall. My other attacks work fine... but it's really crappy that my 4th (and probably best) can't.
Thanks for the guild invite Hawk!
Running around questing along with my wife and we run into a random gaffer and party up!
Really fun escorting that bull to the city. Love my jacket too, I hope I don't lose that look anytime soon. Party chat was bugged though, couldn't type in that channel.
Question for my ranger. What setup should I use if I want to use my pet as a tank? I'm a ranger and my wife is an elementalist, so I was thinking the pet could tank while we hit from a safe distance. What traits should I go for? Strait down the beastmaster path or wilderness survival? Which one would make my pet into a badass?
Running around questing along with my wife and we run into a random gaffer and party up!
Really fun escorting that bull to the city. Love my jacket too, I hope I don't lose that look anytime soon. Party chat was bugged though, couldn't type in that channel.
Question for my ranger. What setup should I use if I want to use my pet as a tank? I'm a ranger and my wife is an elementalist, so I was thinking the pet could tank while we hit from a safe distance. What traits should I go for? Strait down the beastmaster path or wilderness survival? Which one would make my pet into a badass?
My guardian:
With how fast you level in this game and no TP up it's really hard to both save karma and keep a relatively current set. I'm level 62 and most of my stuff is 50ish. I think I have one lvl 40 piece. Only 2 yellows too, every yellow drop I get is medium/light armor, bows, etc.
With how fast you level in this game and no TP up it's really hard to both save karma and keep a relatively current set. I'm level 62 and most of my stuff is 50ish. I think I have one lvl 40 piece. Only 2 yellows too, every yellow drop I get is medium/light armor, bows, etc.
broz0rs
Member
oh man I royally screwed up in armorcrafting.
I refrained from using guides because I prefer to find things on my own. I levelled armorcrafting the same way I had wow and swtor. I found out the hard way that discovery is the best (if not only) way to substantially level crafting.
But isn't anybody else annoyed with this this type of levelling? The problem is that you have to pre-make all your components in the correct order in order to be efficient. For armor crafting, from levels 1-75 the order is:
1. refine 300 ores
2. refine 100 cloth scraps
3. craft 6x6 insignias
4. craft components
5. put everything of each into discovery tab
I did not do this, so I basically wasted most of my mats. However, I'm more annoyed that by the time I gather all the mats to level, I'd have outlevel the usefulness of the crafted items. There just isn't a natural progression in crafting, where I can craft a useful item as I level my character.
Oh yeah, I haven't even started jewelcrafting yet because I had already burned through all my ores from armorcrafting. /sigh
I refrained from using guides because I prefer to find things on my own. I levelled armorcrafting the same way I had wow and swtor. I found out the hard way that discovery is the best (if not only) way to substantially level crafting.
But isn't anybody else annoyed with this this type of levelling? The problem is that you have to pre-make all your components in the correct order in order to be efficient. For armor crafting, from levels 1-75 the order is:
1. refine 300 ores
2. refine 100 cloth scraps
3. craft 6x6 insignias
4. craft components
5. put everything of each into discovery tab
I did not do this, so I basically wasted most of my mats. However, I'm more annoyed that by the time I gather all the mats to level, I'd have outlevel the usefulness of the crafted items. There just isn't a natural progression in crafting, where I can craft a useful item as I level my character.
Oh yeah, I haven't even started jewelcrafting yet because I had already burned through all my ores from armorcrafting. /sigh
Actually you can. You do not have to refine 300 ore first before making items.
Is for me, I think it's open for some ATM and gradually rolling out to everyone else.
BattleMonkey
Member
It's a kinda interesting system even though it's just a way of adding an extra step to making new items, while you can have fun trying to discover new items, it's not really random so it's just hidden recipes. The crappy way they handle the storing of mats and components with the very limited bank space (so they can sell you gems) makes it annoying.
thetrin
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Yes, you can. I was making gear for my Guardian as I was leveling.
I kind of like how GW2 is inherently trolling people that come from standard MMO backgrounds. While it may end up turning some people off from the game at face value, it's proving to be far deeper than some are prone to dealing with from the genre, and as such they assume shit's just not working correctly.
Oddly enough to password reset emails yet.(Knock on wood) However, I tried to log into the Blizzard forums today and my account once again was attempted to be jacked, or was jacked for either D3, WoW, or SC2.
I give not a shit about my D3 loot or WoW loot, but play even a single game on my SC2 account, or somehow make it so I can't get my SC2 account back and...well...
I give not a shit about my D3 loot or WoW loot, but play even a single game on my SC2 account, or somehow make it so I can't get my SC2 account back and...well...
The engineers for the lack of weapon variety have some awesome utility things. I love dropping supply crates in the middle of a battle to heal all of the melee players while sitting back with either a rifle or elixir gun pumping rounds into the fray.
BattleMonkey
Member
Bow Warrior is pretty fun, with other utility skills and such, you are a AOE machine
Or they are right and not everything in the game is perfect.
Or they are right and not everything in the game is perfect.
Psychoward
Banned
This is what I did, and boy did I screw up.
jono51
Banned
Not played much of either yet. From what I played of BWE3 & some stress tests though, most WvWvW success for me at least came from picking off stragglers, taking supply stations etc. Battles at gates generally turn into a mess due to the AoE everywhere and its hard to add much of value when several eles etc are AoEing the gate. sPVp wise they were pretty solid. Never felt useless for any situation really, and being able to swap from ranged to melee easily was fairly useful.
Game is definitely far from perfect, and like I stated before if it wasn't F2P I doubt I'd be on board with it. Luckily it is, and I'm enjoying myself immensely with the story and PvE content I can dip into for a few hours a week.
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