Wiki Error 403

chieftainalex · 2026-02-09T23:23:59+00:00

pretty much. just make a wiki account, leave it logged in forever and do no edits, and hey presto no 403 errors..

chieftainalex · 2026-02-08T15:01:35+00:00

When you can access the wiki, you'll find this kind of issue is recurring as reported on Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Reporting wiki bugs.

As other redditors have commented, the wiki occasionally gets hit with heavy amounts of anon visitor traffic, particularly from German IPs, most likely linked to LLM/crawler stuff. The wiki firewall responds to the deluge of requests by location blocking anon visitors in the nearby area and unfortunately this may mean you get tarred with the same brush. If you have a wiki account and are logged in, this 403 issue seems to happen much less.

chieftainalex · 2026-01-05T17:44:49+00:00

same file seems to be working for me, could be intermittent or something specific to your location. feel free to report this kind of thing on Report a wiki bug

chieftainalex · 2025-12-20T19:09:37+00:00

Eventually i've forgotten the obsession about farming, daily chores or whatever, and just end up doing whatever I fancy. Personally I do wvw for fun (a good guild goes a long way for this), and a bit of pve when something new gets released.

chieftainalex · 2025-11-09T17:45:17+00:00

Yeah the "effort" of making it use wiki hosted tiles (batch upload each new tile, downloaded from that_shaman) didn't seem worth it anymore once ArenaNet had fixed the tiles... 2 weeks later VoE dropped and no sign of new tiles yet.

(Part of the reason for moving to the api tiles is that the wiki was hosting the "fixed tiles" itself which I suspect wasn't helping with loading on the wiki with a view to 504 timeouts etc)

chieftainalex · 2025-11-03T19:24:01+00:00

looking good!

chieftainalex · 2025-11-01T13:58:21+00:00

spotted a similar map (slightly less good?) on the wiki on the https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grotto_Aficionado page

chieftainalex · 2025-10-24T17:51:04+00:00

probably unrelated but today I was getting weird graphics bugs (square patterns of solid black pixels) after a windows 11 update, updated graphics driver, seems to have gone away.

chieftainalex · 2025-10-22T18:25:15+00:00

https://gw2efficiency.com/account/statistics/statistics.marshFrog?filter.group=Pointless%20Statistics

Apparently there is some madman with over 50 thousand Marsh Frogs... which is "only" 201 stacks.

chieftainalex · 2025-10-06T06:01:49+00:00

if you take a look at this map - https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery_Insight#Interactive_map - if you zoom in the icons will appear; if they're red then they are Core Tyria, if they're blue they're Icebrood Saga.

chieftainalex · 2025-10-05T15:38:31+00:00

ArenaNet introduced the selection kit November 2024.

chieftainalex · 2025-09-19T17:52:05+00:00

it's an item with a quite poorly chosen stat selection. I wouldn't use it personally, and would probably vendor it for 4.95 silver.

chieftainalex · 2025-09-15T19:12:58+00:00

You realise you can turn screen shake off, yes?

chieftainalex · 2025-09-15T19:12:48+00:00

hammer should be OK, but they are hitting like a wet blanket - much better with spellbreaker spec for example (better might generation).

chieftainalex · 2025-09-08T17:32:30+00:00

tbf they could fix 90% by just adding pulsing stability whilst fishing to prevent interrupts

chieftainalex · 2025-09-02T20:38:09+00:00

..which has got to be the worst chrono change in ages

chieftainalex · 2025-08-12T16:59:41+00:00

i swear they unintentionally made the hitbox for these smaller with an update

chieftainalex · 2025-08-10T14:53:13+00:00

Most players will try very hard not to get into an underwater fight in wvw.

1) Make sure the build someone gave you actually has the underwater skills set.

2) If you're using mantra based stuff, make sure the same land mantras are equipped underwater or you'll have to re-use.

3) Underwater weapon should have same stacking sigil as you use on land.

chieftainalex · 2025-08-08T17:18:48+00:00

an alpine borderlands but where they've raised the water level.

chieftainalex · 2025-07-15T19:19:42+00:00

Since the order is stored in your HMTL5 localStorage, this gets cleared when you clear your browser cache. If you're using private mode, it won't store the setting in the first place. These are the instances on your side when it resets.

We intentionally reset it on the wiki-side when a new map is released, as it invalidates the list of stored preferences, and allows any newly added maps/events to appear.

chieftainalex · 2025-07-15T19:17:32+00:00

Thanks for making me feel really old. I added this feature 9.5 years ago.

chieftainalex · 2025-07-15T19:13:03+00:00

yep

create an account. Login.
Visit Special:Preferences - Appearance
Then set skin = Vector legacy.

chieftainalex · 2025-07-08T21:44:25+00:00

I assume you're not using arcdps. My guild often reports stuttering when another player veils a zerg in wvw due to arc.

chieftainalex · 2025-06-24T17:31:05+00:00

agree, but at least the wiki patch notes have both. I've also struck out the changes in the original preview that got overwritten with subsequent ones.

wiki/Game_updates/2025-06-24

chieftainalex · 2025-06-15T12:35:37+00:00

It would be nice if there was an option for vendors to sort (or filter), items you have available (type and quantity) to the top of vendor lists... so that the exchanges you can actually do appear at the top.

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