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I see now. I'm coming back from the archives and I'm afraid we are going to get bugged panda pets in a year or two.

Then, if the Cantha expansion is very successful, maybe the issue will be looked into eventually...

I'll have a closer look at it when I run my ranger. Thank you for raising awareness, Johnny.

I was considering playing ranger again lately. If I understand correctly, I should stick to spiders and scorpions? Delightful...

Did ArenaNet ever acknowledge the issue, at least once? I cannot see this in the list of known issues.

Thank you for this interesting analysis.

To reach ANet you can send a ticket with a link to your posts, because I'm not sure they read the forum.

Here is the thread that Inculpatus mentions: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/28354/storyline-disconnects-merged

It may contain the solution for some - not for my disconnects a few minutes into character creation though.

> @"Evga.2471" said:

> That's a very big wish for Santa Charr. He won't be able to do that alone.

I will train hard to help - if I find the secret workshop.

My pleasure, your Grace. Here is some more - unfortunately I missed some of the events due to being so slow and lost.

That is a beautiful video!


> @"The Boz.2038" said:

> How was this playtested? Was it, at all?

It looks as if it was devised for one particular path through the game, not the "play as you want" paths.

You can try a support ticket although someone reported (in the old forums IIRC) that one ANet support person wrote that even the staff was annoyed by the "logic" of it.

You can also try the Players helping players forum section in case someone found a way to adjust the mastery system to their gameplay.

> @"Ashen.2907" said:

> The gold we receive from a mob might be the 'after tax' amount.

You must be right. How else could the Tyrian overlords maintain all these NPCs that idle around all day long, and these guards that do one dps?

Let's take the pitchforks to their castles!

That must be corset armor, as painful as helmets to the asuran ears.

This is probably a long dash that means a long pause, but the font is really off.

Here is some more :)


If you close it, the mastery popup will come back every time you gain experience, that is, every time you walk to a new spot, kill a bug, craft a sock, etc. While fighting a mob of mobs, don't even try to close it, because you are gaining experience every second. The popup sprawls over the chat and, on smaller screens, over the first skill icons when you would like to watch your cooldowns.

When my character finally reached level 80, I went on doing events, crafting, etc. and did not rush to binge chapter 8 of the personal story. Big mistake! The popup invited itself , determined to stay. Doing the big fights of chapter 8 with the popup stuck onto my screen was very annoying, so I did what people suggested: I abandoned the core story and jumped straight into the expansion to spend those mastery points. Except my computer at the time was too potato for the expansion, so I quit and came back when I had a better computer. I never finished the core story though, it seemed pointless.

Fun fact: When I entered the Saga, the mastery popup came back.

Here is some background information about the bug: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/8524/mastery-popup-will-not-go-away

Good luck everyone.

Dear Santa Charr,

Here is a crazy idea: How about you drown the elder dragons in your gifts to keep them happy busy and bring peace to Tyria?

This will give us time to restore the devastated lands and launch a vast campaign of exploration into the Mists and find new worlds.

Life got in the way but here is my first "screenshot story" of Horrorween. If I posted it on discord it would probably display too small to read.


**Cuilghaiste** (Véineas) is the (Venus) flytrap in Irish Gaelic: https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuilghaiste_V%C3%A9ineas

Not sure how to pronounce it accurately.

Thank you all for the fun! (And the hard work behind it.)

I have hundreds of screenshots to sort and prepare, it will take some time.

Here are a few of them meanwhile, the start of one of the beetle boosts:


Something doesn't add up: ANet wants the game to run OK on old computers, so they keep the old inefficient DirectX version(*), but the same ANet keeps adding particle effects, which require a recent version of DirectX and a better computer...

(*) Not the only reason, I know.

Much appreciated, Your Majesty.

You guys are so fast. I am still flexing my fingers. I shall post my studies and research in a desperate attempt to push myself to finish in time - and hopefully motivate some participants.

 

I moved the story [there](https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/116667/comedy-the-legend-of-gnash-gnarlsson). More room for short cartoons.


I started posting this in the [Fun with screenshots](https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/92651/fun-with-screenshots#latest) thread but it was taking too much room and I made this thread for it.

Here are the first sixteen scrolls of the tragic legend of Gnash the Icebred, his family and friends.

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That's weird. I would first try rebinding the keys just to check if anything changes.

Do you have auto-run bound to any key? Auto-run works only forward I think but one never knows.

I get this error code almost every time a few minutes into character creation (I have been creating/deleting a lot recently), generally when reaching the last screen (enter name).

During character creation, several connections are established with the servers, exchanging data when flipping to the next screen, also pinging the server twice a minute. My wild guess is that this error may happen when a ping is lost or delayed, either on transit or within the server's load balancing system.

Things are probably way more complex when in a story instance or other game modes - but I don't disconnect in these expect some particular episodes.

I haven't played the latest maps yet, where people experience different issues, map-wide skill lag that might be caused by server logic rather than lost pings.

No clue really :(

> @"Mortifera.6138" said:

> Is your character you? Is it filling the role of being the virtual you while you game? Or does your character have nothing to do with you?

My characters are resolutely independent and make their own decisions without asking for my advice. All I can do is to take screenshots for my ethnographic studies. When stifled within the narrow confines of the game logic, they tend to escape to better places.

> @"Palador.2170" said:

> Depending on my mood, this makes some of them really easy to play, but others near impossible to get into.

Kudos for the colorful list (which I snipped out of the quote for brevity).

> @"Yggranya.5201" said:

> > @"necromaniac.7629" said:

> > just an alter ego roleplay

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> If i understand what alter ego means, then if someone insults your characters appearance, you will just roleplay how your character would react to that. Huh. How you can take that personally is beyond me.

You are mixing up two people. True that we all have the same avatar since we can't customize it.

Your Grace, may we ask for close-ups of the faces, weapons, backpack, ornaments, for the works to be more true to your magnificence?

I feel like I'm spamming the topic with my "comicbook." Should I move it to another topic?

I was meaning to post the image below when everybody had lost hope about a third expansion, but it makes even more sense now.

The shot is unedited. Can you guess where/how it was done?