Guild Wars 2

WvsWvsW is unplayable at the moment in the week-end, in any realm…. so i suggest to ANet to quick fix this problem … so many players have this one too, soo no swearing yet and i know is freee too pls fix it thank u§!!!!!!

Describe how it’s “unplayable”, i’ve spent many hours on WvWvW on fryday resets and during the weekend. I don’t see a issue there.

There’s some pretty ridiculous lag. I usually don’t have problems with lag, but i can’t even roam solo without it at the moment.

I hardly log in for WvW anymore this past week. Yesterday i was stuck fighting a mob outside of our spawn long after it was already DEAD.

These several seconds of skill delay are frustrating. And im sick and tired of watching my health go down by random AoE, while hammering my Heal button. Knowing full well that it will never ever cast and i am simply going to die.

Monsoon.2589:

I am afraid that Anet will lose ALL its wvw players to ESO when it comes out if ESO is acutally able to have 200 people in the same area fighting.

I doubt they can.

Blizzard tried it and failed. GW2 has tried it, did a better job, but i can safely say so far theyve failed. Planetside 2, all about large scale battle (no pve or anything), also riddled with delay, culling and performance issues.
I dont think the technology is there yet (economically speaking) to have modern gameplay and graphics work with such large scale fights.

I have also noticed since this last patch that its more common to have skill lag and stuttering.

I hardly ever got it before but now it seems pretty common and its making WvW extremely difficult. With the combat all about being quick paced and quick reaction its hard to react when you cast a skill it goes all the way to the top nothing, cast a skill progress bar goes 100% and nothing then repeat 3/4 times and suddenly it kicks in.

As I said it is something that has happened recently as I rarely ever got this before in WvW, last time I seen something this bad was when the Karka event in Lions Arch kicked off. But it is happening with far less people in the map.

I’m curious as to what’s causing this. I run an old non-upgraded machine where my graphics have to stay on medium and low, but I don’t have any of the problems anyone is describing here except when there’s tons of spell auras and things like that going on. I run a consistent 20fps otherwise. Is it possible it’s a problem with how better machines are dealing with something in the game?

The lag has been totally horrible this weekend. Perhaps it is because there is too many players? During morning to noon (GMT time) in Eternal Battlegrounds, when both Visunah Square (VS) and Elona Reach (ER) were trying to capture the Stonemist castle held by Desolation. Both had constant zerg waves attacing Deso at same time. ER finally won the castle after many failed raids. I had 5-30 seconds delay in activating skills, frame rate dropped to 1 frame per 2-3 seconds. Despite the lack I scored over 100 kills so I guess the lag was horrible for the enemy as well.

The culling has been worse after the update. Now it is very common that you cannot even see your own team mates if there is more than 20 people in the area. And if you are roaming alone enemy zergs can pop out of nowhere. Then the super lag kicks in. You hit your escape skill(s) button, but it takes like >5 seconds to activate even if you are not stunned. Then you see your character dying.

Arenanet please revert back to the original culling! The culling hasn’t been fixed nor improved, it got much worse.

*Logically big enemy teams cannot move silently. Introduce a visual cue or text warning on screen: Big enemy team coming/nearby. * Now even with the current broken culling one would have some indicator that

Make the outmanned buff do useful stuff:
- improved health based how badly you are outnumbered by enemy e.g. 10/25/50% total health increase (outmanned 2x, 3x, 4x or more)
- improved thoughness based how badly you are outnumbered, toughness 100/250/+500
- same bonuses for NPCs, siege weapons and structures on the outmanned side (this would make nightcapping a bit more difficult, but still very easy)

The current outmanned buff is pretty much useless and isn’t helping to outnumbered world to gain balance. Most people like even fights. Those even fights are the ones cherished afterwards even when you were the losing side. Almost all my WvWvW experience has been with outmanned buff visible on my screen. Sometimes it seems buffed as my team mates have the buff, but I don’t.

Last night I was killing lots of enemies with my warrior in ER Borderlands. I died myself 5 times and the breakdown of my death:
- 4 times super lag prevented me to activate skills
- 1 time I was alone against 5

Any sort of fair duel between enemy was a win. And yes, I was many times running away. I am not stupid to fight alone against much larger numbers (as long as I can see them).

Ayna Merciful / warrior 80

This weekend has been fine lag wise for me and I am getting high fps since installing the new beta catalysts even in large fights. The only real issue aside from the horrible culling is in big three sided fights, but that is all the game server choking up.

Ah Anet, I bet all you see now is this:

This Friday after reset was the first time I have ever experienced skill lag since the big PvE one time event just outside of LA. It was pretty bad for a while on Friday, skills appeared active for a while without doing anything. but on Saturday, I did not experience it.

The only time I got any lag in WvW was when there was a three server meeting in the SMC LR. 2-3 second delay before your skill activated. Move and the skill reset. I’ve since lowered all my graphic and sound settings and haven’t had any serious lag issues or sound bugs.

Next time this skill lag happens I will be frapsing it.

Btw, I only notice skill lag when there is some HUGE HUGE scale battle occcuring on that map. Example being all three servers in the SM lords room. That will cause the entire map to lag even when you’re not by it.