Guild Wars 2

Pretty much as title says. I am randomly changing direction and even dropping glide.

It’s so bad that I just now cast Ride the Leyline in Lake Doric, stopped gliding for no apparent reason, and rode the lightning straight into the ground. I never pressed the jump key, nor was my hand anywhere near my spacebar.

It feels as though there’s some bug with gliding and action queuing. Seemingly the only way to fix it is to press that key again.

It’s incredibly annoying, and it makes doing dailies in Bloodstone Fen and Lake Doric tedious.

Huh. Interesting. FWIW, I’ve experience no such issues myself in that time.

I’d suggest trying a -repair of the client, and/or grabbing a new copy of the executable. (Also, if you have DPS meters or something, disable them and ensure it still happens.)

-repair is one of the first things I try out of habit. No luck there.

I just now randomly fell out of a leyline in Ember bay, once more for no discernable reason.

A guildie of mine with the same issue mentioned that it’s like constantly trying to glide with a 5k ping since the patch, and I’d say that seems fairly accurate.

Halcyon.7352:

-repair is one of the first things I try out of habit. No luck there.

I just now randomly fell out of a leyline in Ember bay, once more for no discernable reason.

A guildie of mine with the same issue mentioned that it’s like constantly trying to glide with a 5k ping since the patch, and I’d say that seems fairly accurate.

I can’t replicate your experience. Anything else you can tell us about what was going before or after that would give others a chance to check?

Be sure to also use the in-game /bug reporting tool when it happens (as often as as you can manage). It provides additional details that you might not notice.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I can’t replicate your experience. Anything else you can tell us about what was going before or after that would give others a chance to check?

Be sure to also use the in-game /bug reporting tool when it happens (as often as as you can manage). It provides additional details that you might not notice.

Not really no. Gliding just feels very different, everything feels sluggish now, there’s almost a rubberband-lag like effect. I prefer to do dailies in BF and LD while gliding, because I find it’s easier. Or it used to be, before I started randomly falling out of the sky and getting stuck moving foward/back.

I notice it seems more likely to happen when using Bloodstone Fen skills, either actually there or in Lake Doric after interacting with a Leyline to get the skills. Likely because you’re going to be performing a lot of actions while gliding.

But obviously, you can’t use those skills in Ember Bay, where my last major incident occurred. I’d just completed the renown Heart near the Molten Dominator, hopped into the leyline off a rock. I glided normally up the leyline, when just out of the blue, I dropped glide. Barely recovered in time before hitting a lava pool. I took no damage, so I wasn’t knocked out of the sky by a mob, nor did I press jump or any key that I’m aware of.

And yes, I’ve monitored my ping when I’m having issues, it’s quite reasonably low most of the time, below 90 ms.

I’ve reported this ingame once already.

If it feels like a 5k ping, that might be exactly what it is – a number of people have been experiencing occasional lag over the last few weeks on the European servers (don’t know if NA has had the the same). I’ve had my ping shoot up into four figures for a minute or two a couple of times, and seen people describing similar in map chat on several occasions.

Stitch.1794:

If it feels like a 5k ping, that might be exactly what it is – a number of people have been experiencing occasional lag over the last few weeks on the European servers (don’t know if NA has had the the same). I’ve had my ping shoot up into four figures for a minute or two a couple of times, and seen people describing similar in map chat on several occasions.

This is entirely possible, and it could be that the client is compensating well enough that you don’t notice other times. https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network has good instructions for figuring out if this is the case, and where the problem lies.

It could also be that you have a hardware problem. I had an issue where my left mouse button became … intermittent. It was only notable when trying to drag something from the inventory to the bank, where it would swap to a different item.

I only noticed it eventually because, well, I actually watched closely enough to notice it drop something and instantly pick up what was next to it, because the button “un-held” for a fraction of a second.

Gliding is handled client-side, which can be very dangerous. When a zerg is taking on Hablion for example and causing the server to lag, if I don’t let it land naturally, I always die to falling damage. Likewise, if you’re gliding towards land and the server thinks you landed, it’s going to disable your glider.

The ping shown under the options is a better indicator, since it’s your ping and the server’s processing time. Packet loss is also going to cause problems, which you can try to diagnose using the pathping command or a program like pingplotter.

Halcyon.7352:

I’ve reported this ingame once already.

Keep doing that — the more reports you send in, the more data they have, increasing the odds they can triangulate back to a root cause.
(And yeah, it’s a pain to fill out reports when you’re trying to play, so I can well understand not wanting to do it more than once — just file as many as you feel like; even one more is better.)

Again, I’m sorry your experiencing something that ruins one of the best parts of HoT.

Glidling is handled client side … but ley line gliding isn’t. :/

I’ve checked my ping during and after the gliding issues via the ingame options. Again, it rarely goes above 100 (ms I assume), and stays pretty close to this average most of the time. Seems pretty stable.

I’ll look into other methods of gauging this though, like perhaps the one suggested by Slippy, as I know I’ve had issues with packet loss in the past.

@illconceived: I’ll have to make it a habit to report directly after having issues when possible. When I’d reported it, I’d already logged out and came back to test a few things in BF to see if I could reliably replicate it, and then decided to report.

@Slippy: I’ve had the same mouse issue and also figured out it was my hardware – The parts eventually do wear out, usually hastened by spills and such. Drove me nuts til I did figure it out though.

I have a backlit keyboard and the current lighting scheme I use causes keys to light up after being pressed, so I’d be quite aware of false keystrokes or sticking keys. This isn’t the case. Also, I’m not having random keystrokes anywhere else.