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Dropped Item/Party resigned with item still on ground

Is there a way to undo the resign command? My party is dead but still have drops on the ground that i need to pick up, is there a command or anything i can do to pick up the item or get back alive? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.75.165.67 (talk).

No. -- Wyn talk 18:42, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Heroes

How do i create a hero, in prophecies

Heroes aren't available in Prophecies, only Nightfall and Eye of the North. -- Wyn talk 18:57, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

If you have a Proph character and have those expansions on your account you can access them after meeting the requirements and reaching Lions Arch, after that you have to play thru those games to do the quest or mission that Unlocks the hero for your character MrPaladin talk 19:02, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Runes

hello anyone? I have some runes that say I get +15 armor while affected by a condition and one that says +10 armor vs. elemental damage/ physical damage. What does it mean by that? and how does affect does it mean by affected by me or I have a condition? 173.33.143.42 21:57, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

It means that the piece of armor that rune/insignia is on gains that bonus while you are fighting. If you are suffering from a condition, you would automatically get a +15 armor buff, or if your foes are using elemental damage or physical damage (whichever is appropriate for that rune/insignia) the specific piece of armor gets a +10 buff. When the bonus is active, you will see the damage you are taking is less. The bonuses are specific to the piece of armor that you have them on. -- Wyn talk 22:09, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Also see the Insignia article. --Silver Edge 22:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Zaishen quest requires expansion that I ain't got...

I don't understand this... I got a Zaishen quest that requires access to Vlox's Excavation... but all I own is Prophecies... so how am I supposed to get up there??

Why would the game give quests that cannot be completed on the current account? And how would I be able to tell I don't have the needed expansion to complete a quest?

I thought maybe if I could get to Vlox's Falls I could get there somehow... but now I'm reading about Vlox's Falls *also* being exclusive to Eye of the North...

65.32.224.146 23:08, 1 September 2009 (UTC)Death Stalker Ben

You can't do the Zquests for areas you can't access. Sorry. -- Wyn talk 23:11, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

The quests are global (i.e., everyone gets the same ones at the same time), so there's really no way they can control if players get quests they can do or not.

ArenaNet's probably not too worried about the players who only own some of the games, at least in this particular case. Logic being, if you only own one game, missing out on a Zquest or two is really a minor deal compared to the rest of the content you can't access. I'd imagine it's also a bit of incentive to buy all the games; if you play Guild Wars enough that the Zquests matter to you, they figure you'll go ahead and pick up one of the other campaigns. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 23:51, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the information! *Greatly* appreciate the response!

65.32.224.146 16:01, 2 September 2009 (UTC)Death Stalker Ben

Trading between multiple accounts

Hi i had a question, i have 2 Guild wars accounts and i would like to trade some stuff from one account to another and then maybe try and lvl up my other account using my lvl 20 account and i was wondering if it's legal to do so and if my account will get banned or not, if so for how many days? thank you--X-o-b-b-i-t 21:31, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

No, trading between multiple accounts you own should not result in a ban, Gaile has stated this many times. -- Wyn talk 21:34, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Charming a pet from a monster.

Okay so ive read tons of things on wiki and one that caught my eye was that you can capture a monsters pet through a special procedure. What do i have to do? илья 00:22, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

You can't. ~Shard 00:23, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Locations

   * Istan
         o Lahtenda Bog 
   * Kourna and Vabbi (Note: Hekets will have charmed them, so they will be tamable by the player only by special manoeuver.)
   * The Battle Isles
         o Zaishen Menagerie Grounds (levels 5, 12, 15, and 20, depending on unlock progress) 

See. илья 00:33, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Charming pets already charmed by an enemy is impossible. It is possible however to trick monsters into charming something different or to engage them in battle before they charm.

You must know, that a monster used Charm Animal is cast almost instantly. Monsters do not spawn with an already charmed pet, but they spawn at the same location as one, and charm them as soon as they do. You must also know, that monsters don't spawn when you enter the map, but when you're at about double the radar range. Finally, note that this range applies only to players. Heroes don't trigger this spawn.

The trick is to know where the groups with the pet you're looking for spawn, and use the "U" map to flag your heroes and henchmen to that location before entering the range that will make the monsters spawn. After that, when you do enter the range, the monsters will start fighting your heroes and often won't charm the nearby pet.

This isn't that easy to do. Most monsters have some randomness to the place they spawn at, so it may be difficult to place your heroes in the right place. Also, during the battle the pet may get hit by an AoE spell, causing it to become aggressive and it will be killed by someone. That said, I used that trick in a few places to save myself some time while I was filling up my Menagerie. Didn't use it on Hekets though.

If you want a good way to level up pets at the Menagerie, get a hero with a Mending and Flesh of My Flesh. Go spawn a monster in the fenced of area, flag your hero in spell range behind the fence and let the pet kill you over and over. You can use a PvP character. Here's and example. — Poki#3 (talk) 00:51, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

I have reason to believe it is possible to capture a pet Devourer with some mad skills and broken PvE shit during Christmas season. I'm going to bug somebody on their feedback page about that, actually. And then tell them to let us capture them without doing all that work, and not just during Wintersday, ffs. —Jette 22:34, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

You can charm a pet that has been charmed by a foe. The trick is you have to kill the foe without killing the charmed pet, which, if you have heroes with you is virtually impossible. Once the foe is dead Charm animal can be used to charm the pet. (I have done it to get an elder white tiger in Factions. -- Wyn talk 00:44, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

You sure, Wyn? I've tried it on Spiderfiend's Black Widow and just got an error message. ··· Danny Pew Pew 19:04, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I think Spiderfriend might be a special case, since her pet shouldn't be charmable outside of the UW. I'll go test the theory now in a minute later when I get to it. —Jette 20:39, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Putting my Guild Wars on different Computer

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I bought a new computer and would like to know if you could give me instructions on how to transfer my game onto the new computer. I have all 4 campains and would like to continue playing them.Thank you.74.229.228.95 03:15, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

All you have to do is install (and download) Guild Wars onto the new computer. Once it's fully installed, all you have to do is log in and your game will be just how it was on your previous computer. You may want to copy your whole GW folder from your previous computer to your new one to save time downloading/installing and to take your templates with you. Mystical Celestia 03:18, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

LAGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have had enough of every day going on the computer and there being that stupid fucking lagg its driving me fucking crazy can u plz help me with wot i need to do to STOP this fucking anoying shit happening!!!!!!!!!!!! --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.10.193.152 (talk).

No. -- Armond Warblade{{Bacon}} 22:20, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Sure. Talk to your internet service provider. They can work with you to determine where the lag is occurring.

• It could be on your end (in which case, it can be fixed by adjusting your computer, router, or cabling).
• It could be on Arena Net's end (in which case, you can open a support ticket with the evidence from the ISP and ANet is more likely to act).
• It could be an ISP issue (in which case, the ISP is responsible for fixing it).
• It could be somewhere in the wide world of the internet, which would be harder to address.

Regardless, ANet will (with good reason) assume that they are not responsible for the lag... until you take the first step of contacting your ISP. Not much anyone can do until the source of the problem is narrowed down.   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 23:53, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

ty very much

ISSUES WITH JADE QUARRY

I have noticed that during most matches, the purple and/or yellow juggernaut get stuck inside the Lurzick base. Many matches have been lost due to the lack of points that COULD have been posted were it not for the stuck juggs. Can something be done to correct this?

68.2.155.190 03:41, 7 September 2009 (UTC)Mab

This is a known bug ArenaNet_talk:AI_bugs#NPC_--_Turtles_and_Juggernauts. Btw... what's a Lurzick? -- Wyn talk 03:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

A Kurzick dedicated to pulling perhaps? Tidas 07:20, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Or perhaps a Lurzick is what resulted when Dalos Ekarus and Meika Ulrikar had a kid... --Dragon Nataku

Dropping customized items

How do I drop customized items from my inventory (e.g. original armor, beginner bow, etc)? I can't sell them, and they're taking up too much space in the pack. --98.172.16.130 00:59, 8 September 2009 (UTC)Falco P.

Drag them into the trash that's next to your bag. -- Wyn talk 01:31, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Bosses

Need Help!!!! How do I look up on guildwikw where allthe bosses are located? And the elite skills, where they are in twhat mission?

Thanks

List of elite skills by capture location -- Wyn talk 01:31, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

I GOT SUSPENDED FOR NO REASON

i got suspended because someone (redwave the reaper) who should be banned) reported me for something random cause i was asking people for some gp and he told other people to report me and they did and now im super pissed!!!!! >=( my account should be unlocked because i didnt do anything !!!!!!!!!!! SO HE SHOULD BE BANNED I PAID MONEY FOR THIS GAME AND I WANT TO PLAY IT SO UNLOCK IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:173.60.52.40 (talk).

First off: we're players like you, not Arenanet. If you want to appeal the ban, your best bet is to contact support. As far as I know, support reviews all cases very carefully when making decisions like this. If there was indeed an error in blocking your account, it should be reinstated fairly quickly. This is all assuming that there was an error, however. -- Wandering Traveler 02:38, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

In case you weren't aware of it, there are rules against spam on the "all chat" channel, specially those related with trading (and begging). Chances are this is why you were banned. If it is because of this, your ban was 72 hours tops, and will be over before they even review any appeal you can make.--Fighterdoken 02:43, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

"many exclamation marks"

You got banned for being 8 years old, and acting like it. It's past 9:30, so you should be in bed now. We'll unlock your account in the morning. Honest. —Jette 02:45, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

One wonders how much you really want to play the game if you got your account suspended for begging for money (i.e., leeching off of other people instead of, you know, actually playing the game). --Dragon Nataku

It's over nine thousand... degrees

My graphics card. It overheats playing GW, but only when I'm using TexMod. Without TexMod, average RAM consumption is 200MB; with it, it's about 400MB. Which is bad. Obviously, the card gets overheated. Is there a way to make texmod not suck up so much memory? I'm contemplating burglarizing my neighbor's place of business (he's a jerk anyway) and getting one of these, which would solve the problem once and for all, but if it's possible, I'd much rather spend my ill-gotten gains on hookers and blow. Any advice? Obviously, the default suggestions of "stop using texmod," "stop using such a huge-ass mod," and "turn down your graphics settings" will not help me here. —Jette 02:12, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

What mod/mods are you using? Just wondering. I'm not a computer person so to answer your question, POUR COLD WATER ON YOUR COMPUTER! THAT'LL DEFINITELY COOL IT DOWN WITHOUT DAMAGING IT AT ALL!(if you or anyone else follows that suggestion I will facepalm myself to death) personn5 02:19, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm using my skill icons mod, glazed UI mod, some clothing and skin mods, and some animation mods. All in all 1,366 textures changed, in the main mod. I'd say at most 50 more in the smaller ones, which simply haven't gotten stuck into the big one yet. —Jette 02:35, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Don't you think that almost a 1,500 textures is... a lot? Considering also that the program isn't that subtle I'd say that increased texture memory consumption is very much normal. I also wouldn't be surprised if those textures are always loaded into the memory, and not just "when you need them", but I'm not the person who made that program. Unload the stuff you don't really need, or don't use TextMod altogether. You can also increase the speed of your GPU fan or underclock you memory (if you have an Nvidia card, you can do that easily in the Nvidia Control Panel, though you may need to install Nvidia System Tools first, but I'm not sure. No idea what ATI has in that department). My Graphics card is giving out also (at least I think it's the Graphics card, with computers today you can never be too sure -_-) and underclocking by a few % and increasing the cooling is preventing freezes. — Poki#3 (talk) 01:31, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I might end up trying that. The textures are only 128x128 though. Meh, I'll see what ends up happening, I might have to make a dozen or so mods with nothing but one or two professions that I intend to play and the UI mod in them. —Jette 01:43, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

pets not entering with you or your heroes in RA/ZEICHEN CHALENGES

untill about two weeks ago i could enter RA , HERO BATTLES & ZEICHEN CHALLENGES WITH MY PETS now i CANNOT, myself and my heroes have comfort animal skill loaded i use my pve lvl 20 caracter--my pvp caracter also does not allow my pet.??? THANKS 41.19.26.134 06:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

ups. You need to use Charm Animal in PvP, because ANet hates beastmasters. Vili 点 06:08, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

*can't balance them correctly —Jette 06:51, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Upgrade for Fiery Dragon Sword

Hi. Can anyone know what upgrade is good for Fiery Dragon Sword? And to make Fiery Dragon Sword get more health and more powerful hits?

Thanks --71.247.237.31 11:09, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

See Category:Weapon modifiers -- Wyn talk 11:11, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, more health would be an of Fortitude sword pommel, but you're pretty much screwed on the "more powerful hits", because Fiery Dragon Swords have an inherent sword hilt (Fiery, of course) that cannot be replaced. About the only thing you can do is customize it, if you haven't done so already. -- FreedomBound 12:17, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

You can only add a pommel to a FDS, but to make it more powerful you can count on the fact your doing elemental damage instead of physical damage, this will automaticaly hurt classes with high armor against physical (but may reduce your damage against elemental resistant classes like rangers)... Consider taking Enchantments that increase fire damage, or Hexes that cause much pain for fire damage... MrPaladin talk 12:23, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Your choice of skills and attributes is going to make a far greater difference on damage than the modifiers on your weapon. :-) Biscuits

attribute bug

I have played guild wars for quite some time, no matter what character I play when I enter the eye of the north map, my skill attributes go crazy. . . example. . .

With an elementalist/monk character, his attribute in fire spells is maxed out at 14 with the use of runes, I enter eye of the north map and his attributes are modified to a red 0 even in an outpost, other attributes stats are also effected similarly. . . Attributes gone crazy!

This has to be a bug!

Is there a fix? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 78.145.220.219 (talk).

I don't think it's a bug, I think you're less than lvl 20 and feeling the effects of Journey to the North... -- FreedomBound 18:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I just checked and attributes are fine. You are definately not Level20 and affected by the Eotn Buff Freedom mentioned. --SilentStorm 18:49, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

How to unlock collectables in pvp

I've seen alot of people wondering around in PvP areas with things like dragon gauntlets and chaos gloves, i was wondering if this is them on a pve character or if they are unlocking these items in pvp some how. 86.22.147.52 15:52, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

They are using PvE Characters to PvP with --SilentStorm 16:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Tolkano can provide some PvE stuffz for PvP players (I think) but not all of it's there AND the Tourny Point dispenser be broken. --Alex Eternal 19:26, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Not to mention it would take years to unlock the decent skins, one of the ways to get those points is disappearing soon, you can't keep the weapons if you change PvP characters (lol), and they must be customized to a PvP character. PvE characters aren't even allowed to get them. Like everything else ANet has made, it was terribly, terribly designed. —Jette 21:30, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Except, you know, the graphics engine and gameplay mechanics of the whole game. :-P Biscuits 22:59, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

ANet didn't design those, they were stolen from some sort of mad scientist. Like Tesla. Have you ever heard of him? Holy fuck he is awesome. Go look him up. —Jette 05:22, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Tesla, you say? :op --Dragon Nataku 16:03, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

How do I sell or get rid of things I pick up????

How do I sell or get rid of things I pick up???? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 98.74.29.215 (talk • contribs) at 02:25, 12 September 2009 (UTC).

Talk to a merchant or weaponsmith and click the Sell tab at the top. Select the item you want to sell and double-click or press sell. Alternatively drag the item into the bin icon (see #9 on the image) in the Inventory, bare in mind you won't get money for deleting them. Mystical Celestia 02:39, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) It's really pretty easy, almost every outpost and some Exploreable Areas have an NPC called Merchant. These NPCs buy almost everything beside Quest items and some Special Items like Storybooks etc. You can also sell items to other Players but of course players only buy rare items or items which have a high demand. --SilentStorm 02:41, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

reusing a character name

Can I delete a character -- and then reuse the name in a new character creation? I'm running out of creative name ideas....thanks!--98.26.105.18 01:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes you can. personn5 01:55, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

(thank you for the speedy response) can I reuse the name immediately (or do I have to log out or wait a period?...I tried reusing once....and got 'name in use') thanks again!--98.26.105.18 01:59, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

It should work immediately. If i remember right, If you delete a character, that name is reserved for your account for 24 hour. I remember reading that somewhere. basically only your account should be able to re-use the character name that you just deleted, until a day passes. So you should be able to use the same name(for the same account anyway). personn5 02:02, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't know you....but I ADORE YOU! thanks!!!!--98.26.105.18 02:04, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Flagging Henchmen

How does one flag henchmen to a location, while leaving Heores "free" to move about with the party?? There is a reference to this type activity in the "Bloodstone Fen" Primary quest WIKI data (where the Henchmen are "flagged" and the Heroes are set to "evade" for the bonus), but to my knowledge (and I don't know much), flagging only affects individual HEROES and or the ENTIRE party (of both Heroes & henchmen), and NOT just henchmen alone. So, my question is---- can Henchmen (alone) be flagged without affecting Heroes?68.59.44.132 14:59, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Sure.

1. Flag all henchies and heroes to the location you want your henchies to stay.
2. Flag your hero somewhere else.
3. Double-click on the hero flag to remove it. The hero will come back to you.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all your heroes.

-- Hong 15:06, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

You can speed this up by creating keyboard shortcuts for setting/releasing flags. Press [F11] to bring up the options window and switch to the [controls] tab. Look under the Action: section for the relevant hero commands.   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 17:49, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

DOH!!!! (headslap)-- thanks-- I said I didn't know much--- now we all know how little that is!!68.59.44.132 17:36, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Not d'oh-ish at all; it's not at all intuitive that it requires 13 clicks to flag henchies while allowing heroes to follow you.   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 19:05, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

If you count each of the doubleclicks as two seperate clicks yes, but its really pretty easy and not nearly as complicated or unintuitive as you make it up to be imho. --SilentStorm 19:14, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

...how is 10 clicks for a single task (not separating doubles) intuitive? – Emmett 20:05, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Traveling with party members

I am trying to travel to consulate docks with friend but it wont allow me to do this is there a to have them travel there i have both quests already have completed one and not the other so how if i want to bring someone to constulate how do i do this.

You can only ferry someone to the docks if you have the quest The Time is Nigh active. If you have already completed it, and accepted the reward for it, it is too late. -- Wyn talk 20:22, 14 September 2009 (UTC)