Posts by bsoltan

I keep checking names to see if they're online but our times aren't matching up.

I'll bump again as I'll be on this weekend so perfect time to get a bargain / load up on weapons.

If you've bid or see me online drop me a message.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/classi…mes-are-50-off/

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Mercenary Hero Slot Three Pack—40% Off

Mercenary Hero Complete Pack—37.5% Off

S1-9 50e

S2-2 50e

S2-3 50e

Thanks very much for trade!

I don't believe it is a quoted behaviour from the developers, but rather an observed one from many people playing the game.

It is quite apparent that it happens, for example in FoW you don'to receive Spiteful Spirit or Empath if you're weilding a Wand or Staff.

E8 - Spiked Targe q5/13 tac - 90e

'withdrawn' as item already sold.

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The text on this link, just explains that in order to obtain Ritualist and Assassin skills you must own Factions on your account, which you obviously do as you've completed Canthan Skill Hunter.

As mentioned, it is more likely that you've missed two skills from Elona than this being a bug with GW. There has never been a problem with completing this title for anyone else that I'm aware of.

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Hi Izzy,

To start, I already submitted a ticket to tech support, but haven't heard anything back yet after 2 days. Not too surprising on that one, I know they can get pretty busy.

I haven't been able to get the game to launch since early evening on the 12th. All I get is a pop-up from the game saying it can't create a folder. I did a total pc restart, ran another virus check, nothing. My personal tech guy ie: programmer son - says it sounds like an issue from the game end of things.

Have you heard of anyone else that may be having this problem? I don't know anyone that plays so can't ask them.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Have you run the GW.exe as Administrator? If it is installed to your C:\Programme Files directory it could be a permissions issue.

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Runes
-50hp Major runes, all versions
Superior runes with Minor rune icon
Superior runes with Blue color
Superior or Major runeswhich remain unsalvaged on a Blue armor/garb item

These are referring to runes that no longer drop or are available in the game.

Before they were updated Runes dropped differently, in general terms they would only be indicated by their text not by their colour/rarity.

The existing items were not removed when the change was introduced so there are still some of the old stored on accounts and therefore fall into the 'Pre-Nerf' list of items.

They sometimes crop up on Xunlai Sell threads, there is a pre-Nerf rune in this thread.

All Must Go (Perfect Shields/R8's/Demon Shields/Pre-nerf/Staffs/All Factions Swords)Updated Buyouts Added +new R8

Unless you see one up for sale or have an old account you won't find one now. They are only useful for collectors that might want a piece of 'history' as they have the same function when used.

Anything mentioned in the pre-Nerf context no longer drops in the game (they've been "Nerfed") so you'll only see them from other players.

Bumping. Been trying to get in touch with people for the last week or so. If I haven't managed to catch you please try Whispering me if I'm online or send me a message on Legacy.

Open to further offers to clear out inventory. Thanks.

Bump. Sorry for being absent, I went on vacation and didn't get time before hand to contact people.

First post is updated and I can contact people for trading starting tomorrow or drop me a message to arrange a time to trade. I can be on every evening.

Thanks for all offers, still plenty of items available with low s/b.

Midday bump #2. s/b added for everything. Looking for quick sales before Friday.

Grab a bargain; unless stated starting bid is 2k for Greens, 1e Inscribables & 5e for OS! Will trade before Friday 10th May.

Bump #1. Thanks for the offers, some items sold, and new items added.

3x q9 insc Tac Draconic Aegis - 10e for all 3?

Selling some items.

Remember to abide by the Xunlai Market Rules.

I'm in EU, UTC+1 evenings and late weekends. Leave your IGN, send a message on Legacy, or Discord DM bsoltan#1289.

Ecto to Ambrace = 77e:1a (rounded up)

Specials

Celestial Staff q9 Curse HCT 10% s/b 5e c/o 30e Internetuser

OS Non-Inscribable s/b 5e

Hand Axe (Tyrian) q9 15^Stance s/b 5e

Shadow Blade q9 15^Enchanted s/b 5e

Spiked Axe q9 15^50 b/o 4e

Inscribable (all q9) b/o now added

Bramble Recurve Bow q9 b/o 2e

Copper Crusher q9 b/o 2e

Cleaver q9 b/o 2e

Diamond Aegis q9 Tactics (x2) s/b 2

Draconic Scythe q11 b/o 2e

Dragon Spire Staff q9 Inspiration b/o 4e

Dragoncrest Axe q9 b/o 2e

Emerald Edge q9 b/o 2e

Exalted Aegis q9 Motivation b/o 2e

Exalted Aegis q9 Strength b/o 2e

Fire Prism q9 Fire b/o 2e

Fiery Blade Axe q9 b/o 2e

Iridescent Aegis q9 Tactics (x2) s/b 2e

Ivory Bow q9 b/o 2e

Pronged Fan q9 Divine Favour b/o 4e

Salient Daggers q9 (x2) b/o 5e

Straw Effigy q9 Energy Storage b/o 2e

Wayward Wand q9 Inspiration b/o 3e

Zodiac Shield q9 Tactics c/o 2e Wolfreed Spirit

Zodiac Staff q9 Inspiration b/o 2e

Zodiac Axe q9 b/o 3e

Greens (listed alphabetically) b/o now added
Axes

Murakai's Reaver b/o 2k

Totem Axe b/o 3e

Bows

Ahvha's Longbow (q6) b/o 2k

Razortongue's Recurve Bow b/o 2k

Thornbeard's Horned Bow b/o 2k

Zelnehlun's Longbow b/o 5k

Urgoz Flatbow (x11) b/o 1e

Urgoz Shortbow (x3) b/o 1k

Urgoz Longbow (x2) b/o 1e

Daggers

Claws of the Broodmother b/o 1k

Kaya's Daggers b/o 1k

Nihil's Daggers x2 b/o 2k

Shreader's Talons b/o 1k

Focii

Fendi's Focus b/o 2k

Focus of the Master b/o 2k

Galigord's Stone Scroll x2 b/o 2k

Mallyx's Inspiration b/o 5k

Milius' Eye b/o 2k

Oola's Focus b/o 5k

Hammers

Eldritch Maul b/o 2k

Murakai's Maul b/o 2k

Scythes

Shields

Exalted Aegis Tactics b/o 5k

Fenrir's Bastion b/o 2k

Shield of the Kinslayer b/o 5k

Spears

Turep's Spear b/o 2k

The Darksong b/o 2k

Staves

Alem's Remedy x2 b/o 5k

Antiquated Staff b/o 2k

Earthbound Staff b/o 2k

The Mindclouder b/o 5k

Swords

Wands

Flint's Wand b/o 2k

Scepter of the Keeper x2 b/o 10k

Stygian Scepter b/o 2k

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bill_Freist

An ArenaNet developer that works on GW2 and GW.

Ah the reposters from Reddit with ads in their posts are back. Noice.

20e on the q4T Tall Shield

200e - Ornate Shield +45 w/e +10 vs plants

60e - Ornate Shield -2 w/e +10 vs Cold

edit: thanks so much for the trade.

180e - Ornate Shield +45 w/e +10 vs plants

10e - Ornate Shield +60hex -3 Hex

10e - Ornate Shield -2 w/e +10 vs Cold

130e - Ornate Shield +45 w/e +10 Vs plants

As a tip; closing the client is the worst way to prevent a death as the client will try to keep you connected in case it is a network disconnection (as the game allows reconnects).

The best method to leave a zone is to map to an outpost/guild hall, the second best is to log out to character select/switch character.

3 - 7e

16 - 10e

31 - 5e

2. Ornate Shield Q10 Tac. -2wE / +44wE OS - 10e

I'll take this please

edit: Thanks for the quick trade!

Katana q9 x2 5e/ea - 2.5e @ 50%

Shinobi Blade q9 x2 5e/ea - 2.5e @ 50%

Platinum Wand q11 Dom 5e - 2.5e @ 50%

Wooden Chakram q9 Domination x2 5e/ea - 2.5e @ 50%

10e total

Looking for a quick trade

Thanks very much for the trade!

Been a while, but time for a bump!

Skull Shield q5/13 tacs - B/O 30e

B/O please.

edit: Thank you for all the trades! Very kind.

Ornate Shield - 30e

edit: I'll bring back my offer on q12 Strength Ornate.

Guess it was removed from sale.

Not new ones as far as I know.

Plenty of boxes show up on eBay though, 99% of them are with the codes used though but if you just want a load of boxes then that should be a good place.

Thanks to the last two posts, this is now working nicely for me;

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I came to explain how it was working in Messages, but it is exactly as Red Fireball explains. Looks like it hasn't worked but it has sent the message just the screen hasn't refreshed although when you do refresh your message still appears in the box as if you're about to post.

edit: Yep and just like above it happened when replying to this thread for me too. xD

I was looking up something and got to Gaile's wiki page.

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Gaile_Gray

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What's your history with ArenaNet?

I started with ArenaNet in September 2000. Today, I am Employee #2, after Mike O'Brien, our president. I was thrilled when the ArenaNet Co-Founders -- Mike, Pat, and Jeff -- reached out to me to invite me to join the team. The fact that ArenaNet looked at community relations as a critical part of their company, and not as something that could be added just before the release of a game, was refreshingly different. A continued interest in and novel level of community input and engagement remains a cornerstone of ArenaNet to this day. Of course, joining so early means I was answering fan letters and working on communications long before Guild Wars was even announced. All and all, I've been interacting with players, liaising with the dev team, and communicating about the company and the game for 18 years, and I'm still as excited about my job as I was in the early days.

I didn't know she was the second employee. A shame to go out with this 'cloud' over the company.

In case anyone is interested on GW (2) player on Reddit /u/Zarurra has kept a list of those confirmed that have left, (and those that remain).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c…p_this_updated/

Going for an epic Eigth Bump. Saturday 23rd Feb 00:15

I'll try and contact people on Sunday.

(I also deleted the old bumps to clean up the thread)

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Seventh Bump Thursday 21st Feb 12:37

Sixth Bump Tuesday 19th Feb 20:50

Fifth Bump Saturday 16th Feb 18:51.
Fourth bump Friday 15th Feb 16:24.
Third bump Thursday 14th Feb 13:01.
Second bump Wednesday 13th Feb 12:41.

First bump Sunday 10th Feb 12:41.

Made this into a new thread as it is a big enough topic to not be caught up in the other one.

It is a huge shame that a developer has to reduce it's staff, hopefully the people effected by the restructuring manage to find new jobs quickly. I wonder if the new things they were working on were new IPs or more tangents of the GW World.

https://uk.ign.com/articles/2019/…not-be-affected

At least some better news as GW fans in this recent article on IGN where ArenaNet are quoted saying that this restructuring won't affect GW and GW2.

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ArenaNet send IGN the following statement:
"We can confirm that due to the cancellation of unannounced projects, ArenaNet will make staff reductions. This is part of a larger organizational restructuring within NCSOFT in the west, but the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 game services will not be affected, nor is any upcoming game content canceled."

Sadly as companies reach the end of financial years they review the last year's performance and make the business decisions to move the future in the direction they want to go.

I switched to KAOS's GW Launcher a few weeks ago after being sceptical and having used GW MultiLaunch since it came out.

It works flawlessly for using multiple accounts, and has the added benefit that you can setup multiple accounts to run from the same .dat file. I think it has the option to use the same .dat for ALL accounts but that brings with it in-game limitations.

The only issue with it is that it has to launch in Administrator mode for every game which is just extra hassle but I can understand why.

The biggest one though is unlike GW MultiLaunch there isn't a way to setup a client to launch without adding your login information. This is only a concern as you're putting your login information into a 3rd party application. I'm sure the application isn't recording/sending the data but that's what put me off using it initially. I just use it for storage accounts and not my main one.

Updated edit 12th June - Today I was told that you don't actually h ave to put any login details in. If you just link it to an executable then it will launch the client with out any login information. This is good news!

It is a shame that a lot of the information and discussion from ArenaNet has been lost over the years what with guildwars.com being streamlined and links removed, and GWGuru going down. They used to post there and discuss things. I'm sure some things can be picked out of the wiki but it is a bit of a pain to trawl through to find things.

I've considered doing a regular look-back at certain updates in GW's history and pull together the info such as updates, balance changes etc. so that players these days have a form of reference for the history of the game and how things have changed. It is just rather time consuming to start!

I saw your reddit post, I replied there too but it was a rather long reply.

OSRS was splintered off from RuneScape 2/3 due to the falling population in the game, a game still financed by monthly fees and adverts from what I understand. Since Guild Wars was planned in to be in maintenance mode whether 100'000 people or 100 people play I don't see how that would make any difference, that's not to say it wouldn't be nice but the business decision was probably made 10years ago.

There is also the risk that as GW doesn't bring in income from ads/subs that ArenaNet could just cut their losses and close it (as RuneScape Classic), or even NCSoft's other titles like City of Heroes which HAD a monthly fee and they still shut it down.

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Because GW2 was a big graphical, gameplay, and content update from GW1, but Arenanet barely supports their old game. RuneScape 3 was also a big graphical, gameplay, and content update, but they went back and supported OSRS and just had a $50k tournament--the game is played in a browser with very simple graphics. People have told me that it's the fault of GW's community that GW1 is in maintenance mode right now, and I can understand that.

My understanding is that Oldschool RuneScape is just a previous version of RuneScape 3, (a game they change the name of when the do major updates). Their old game is RuneScape Classic, which imo would make it a better comparison.

Which people have said that it's the fault of GW's community that GW1 is in maintenance mode? I would have thought maintenance mode was planned in during the development (and future) of GW2? Implemented nearly six years ago, but must have been planned way before that.

I dug out some articles about the maintenance mode news, these are from May 2013.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/05/21/gui…lted-automated/

https://www.engadget.com/2013/05/17/are…automates-game/

http://mmofallout.com/guild-wars-is-in-maintenance-mode/

Here's the post from guildwars.com I found on the internet archive

Quote from Saxazax

It is a fact that Arenanet has all but walked out on GW1. Jagex, on the other hand, just had a $20k prize for first place in a PvP tournament in Oldschool, yes, you read right, Oldschool RuneScape. They still release content for that game, fix bugs, and police it. Now, it is true that there are just as many botters and cheater in OSRS as there are in GW. It is true that every game has them, whether the company is supporting the game or not. I mean, I can live without big ol' content updates and still play GW1, because it's a challenging game, intricate, and I've invested so much time and know so much about it. But as far as making an art of theorycrafting builds like I used to do on PvX, somehow learning something I could take with me in a career as a game designer; or as far as taking pride in in-game achievements--these things I am caring about less and less.

This is not really related, but I think we would better spend thousands of hours learning, playing, and mastering games that we know will be around forever, and hold some real-world prestige beyond the stories we tell about the game to friends and family.

Is there a reason why you compare Guild Wars to Oldschool RuneScape rather than RuneScape Classic?

I don't know any online based games that are guaranteed to be around forever. Many have disappered over the last few years.

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But we never get an official answer if they have even thought about it or if it`s posible. There`s still people working in Anet that worked on GW1. And i guess they have some sort of guides for things they develop, because you never know when a guy is gonna leave the company.

It feels like a dream. Just post this kind of stuff in reddit and quote Bill and company.

Sure we do, the official answer is: there is no development for Guild Wars.

Why would they make guides for a game they no longer support?? Most of the people have left the company and the few that remain that did some work on GW don't know enough.

Yes it is a dream. You're right about that.

Yeah I was going to say same as Looney, why not transfer your bags to a new character??