My horrible luck

Ok first off im not sure if this has been covered anywhere in the forum but i really doubt it. I have a prophecies guild wars account with all skills 100% unlocked. This is not recent and i did it many months ago. So before anyone goes back to this and try to find fault in my arguement those details have been established. So once again 100% Unlocked every prophecies skill and mod.

Exit me as i stop playing for a little while until factions comes out. A little while later..AKA yesterday. I login and decide i want to roll a character for randoms. I roll a warrior to break up some of that rustyness ive been accumulating. Down to loading the mods on my weapon and i notice something very strange. The sundering mod on my axe is locked. HMM? Now mind you im not talking about the new 20% mods. Im talking even the old 10% mod is locked again. Im like ok whatever maybe i missed one without noticing. The warrior is a failure naturally so i decide to roll a more tried and true character as i get back into the game. Here is where i notice something even more strange. ALL the sundering mods for all weapons are locked again. Now i know for sure 100% that my account was unlocked and i was willing to let go of the axe being just a coincidence..even though axe wars are the best and i would have surely unlocked the sundering mod. But for all my weapons to have sundering mods locked is just ridiculous.

Now i have emailed GW customer support. They told me that they would not be able to fix my account and that they would send it to quality assurance so this could be analyzed and so the next shmuck can benefit from my hard work.

Point of this thread? Im wondering if this has happened to anyone else. With any other mods repeatable with more than 1 character and maybe under the same situations as me?

Criteria for my account is about 508 000 or so faction with everyting unlocked (or at least used to be). Age of account is 12 months old without expansion upgrade. If you have the same problem as me or have anything else locked please post it here. Post your stats also (like i did above) so that i know what could possibly be causing this.

Since there is a new 20/20 sundering mod, you should unlock the 10%, than the 20% one in order to have one. But it does seem strange to me! If you already had the 10%, it must have cost you only the 20% one to unlock. Not both...

I believe I spent the 10k faction unlocking sundering (tsk tsk) when it was updated. I should have waited, young grasshopper me.

Yeah, I had my sundering mods locked as well after the big Factions update. I wonder what the deal is..

Well after all they are NEW... Although the green weapons update should have been made earlier. There is no "fair" in this world, you know?

It's a not uncommon bug that has been seen before in previous updates. It was fixed then, and it will likely be fixed again. Don't spend faction to re-unlock just yet.

In any event, sundering is a relatively crappy modifier anyhow - it certainly won't make or break a warrior by any stretch.

TBH i would accept it if it happened to everyone. But my friend who also has this game and with similar account stats as mine has his unlocked. I spent the faction to unlock the 10% already and should at least have that. I'm not asking for the 20% version just for the previous one that was unlocked already. As for it not being the one of the best mods..it sure is one of the more desirable ones. Im talking pre faction here but this account doesnt have factions so its not a moot arguement.

After ranting some more with customer support another GM has taken the flag and is asking me more specific questions. Maybe they will actually replace what i lost? Probably not but ill keep you guys informed.

You're so lucky Savio or Jr- haven't seen this yet...

Quick, edit out the parts where you were remotely positive about the Sundering mod while you still have testicles.

Its desirability in PVE has no bearing on how effective it actually is. It's not like you can sell your unlocked 20% and make profit from it. From a damage perspective, vampiric offers better average damage, while an elemental weapon does far more against high armor targets (read, other warriors) than vampiric or sundering. For pure utility, the net boost in energy you get from zealous is far more useful than sporadic damage boosts from sundering. It's a usable option for hammers, but even there, I would be inclined to take a furious weapon and an ebon weapon for warriors and rangers.

As I already said, it's a bug that has been seen before, my account included. The unlocks were restored without issue, so lighten up.

If your playing W/E in random arenas you have nothing to counter the health loss of vampric besides your healing signet. Relying on healing signet with 10 hexes on me + my vampiric mod eating me to death is not a healthy alternative (and no i dont find the micromanagment of weapon switching to be a viable solution). To be honest i dont need any mods so the sundering is purely a damage bonus with no - to it. As for lightening up, im not pissed or worked up over this. I just simply want what i already worked for. Im not in a guild and most of my friends stopped playing too which leaves me with only randoms to save up faction. AKA 3-4 hours to save up enough faction to buy all this extra crap. Maybe you like wasting your time but i dont.

Oh and please dont say team arenas or boring HoH/HA. I find i get worse teams there than in randoms. Playing with friends > all.

No need to make a thread about it when 3000 faction fixes your problem. You can get that in like 10 minutes.

Everyone I know had to unlock the new sundering mods. The old 10% ones were removed from the game entirely.

Peace,
-CxE

Twice today I have been beaten to the punch of explaining something.

Although, since this time it's Ensign who beat me to it, I guess I can let it slide...

Leave them locked, you will be better off for that.

The same thing happened to me, except with about 100 skills including elites, instead of unlocked items. Quit GW for about 10 months, came back and all gone.

It's a bit funny that you're taking this so seriously...

In any case, I had to unlock sundering completely again. I am sure everyone else did also.

You should probably learn how to play a warrior.

It's 4000 faction just for the basic 10% mods on all my weapons not including the daggers. Then i have to spend another bit to unlock the "Gold" 20%. Did any of you actually read what i wrote before you posted your elitist crap? I did'nt ask for your opinion on the mod or the "get over it im your dad" attitude. This is a bug not a common occurence. I dont care how many of your friends have so and so. My friend who is also my roomate has his unlocked so quite obviously its a bug. All i wanted is for other people to come forward and give me their (hopefully similar) story. If you want to spend the faction to unlock it again then great all the power to you tiger.

Response (GM Jabberwocky) 06/21/2006 04:00 PM
Greetings -----,

Thank you for getting back to us. Could you please let us know specifically what items were "relocked" for you? Please be aware that several levels of various upgrades were added some time ago, and also quite a few new skill were added to the core professions as a result of the release of Factions (both of these happened several months ago). If you had unlocked everything prior to these updates, then when the update was downloaded, the new items would display as unlocked.

Please do let us know the specific locked items you are now seeing, and we will be happy to let you know if these were included in those updates.

Regards,
The Guild Wars Support Team

The statement in bold cant be any more explanatory. I'll probably buy the damn mods again but it definitly is a bug.

For those who dont seem to get it..

it was worse for me, i unlocked everything (except those new sunderings and stuff) and like 10+ thigns got relocked like runes, mods, but skills were still fine =/ (these things that were relocked were the nomal things like 30 fortitude, 10 furious 5/1 vamp etc..)

Before factions was released you had a 10/10 sundering mod unlocked. ALL 10/X mods were removed and they DO NOT exist anymore.

in your screenshot, you still need to unlock a 20/10, and then the maximum version of the mod 20/20. You DID NOT have 20/10 unlocked previously as it DID NOT EXIST.

please tell me it isn't this hard to understand. and read carefuly next time before yelling back calling us "elitist" because we can tell the difference between 10/10 and 20/10.