Guild Wars 2

Bill, thanks a lot for the recent improvement!
I haven’t had the chance or misfortune of finding myself in an intense 3-way battle since I wrote my previous post, but generally speaking it does feel better now

As far as skills just not executing (noticed some people claiming utilities are more susceptible to this), its mostly just a race-condition as far as processing on the server.

I am one of those peeps, and it was no “claim”, neither in my own experience nor in my friends’. Our entire TS had the same issue, and many other people in other threads have already mentioned it. My autoattack always works, the remaining weapon skills get delayed but do go off after a (very annoying) while, which makes me think they have some sort of priority? To further clarify, my weapon skills keep flashing when pressed and then do go off eventually; but the utility skills plus the elite do not even flash, no matter how brutally I attack the keys. They just do not get triggered. So, yes, I guess it must be a bug as you explained, and I’m happy you’ll be looking into it

Entioch.6594:

No, after the PoV “fix” you get nothing.

:(

ROFL! +1

Dear Devs, seriously… how many times… already provided… since launch… Apraxas… Tarsius… never got a visit- …oh nevermind. I’m happily regenerating away with my warrior anyway.

Bill, thank you very much for taking the time to create this thread, giving us such detailed information on what you are doing to save us from this horrible skill lag, and replying to our questions. Much appreciated, and I just have to add that you’re the nicest guy I personally have ever seen to interact with us on these forums. A very special thanks for that alone.

Some observations from my own gameplay experience in wvw which might perhaps be helpful to you and your team:

- Skill lag and weird fps drop issues significantly intensified for me with the Teq patch.
- I’m saying “weird” fps drops because normally I don’t experience it to that degree, and I never experience it in any other game I play.
- I get horrible skill lag and weird fps drops ONLY when our group (small or large) is outnumbered by the enemy. Never the other way around. So, it doesn’t seem to matter how many players are currently fighting on a given area, if we are, say, 25-30 and the enemy numbers are higher than that, I experience these two issues to such an extent that hardly any skill goes off.
- The skills that almost never go off are the utility skills in my bar (heal skill in particular), hardly ever my weapon skills.

I don’t know if other players have already mentioned similar observations or not, but these are my experiences in wvw fights. With the introduction of the Leagues, all of the above have gone from terrible to unplayable for me. Finally I had to exit the game last night because I simply wasn’t able to function in my role.

Wish you guys best of luck in identifying and “slaying” the culprits as soon as possible

Banono.4597:

Quick question for people in high pop servers; Am I wasting my time waiting in overflow for a chance to get into TC?

I ask this because I assume there is 100 people partied up with a guildie spamming the join instance button.

If anyone has had any luck getting into a server like BG, TC or SoR by waiting in OF let me know, please and thank you.

Fat lot of good spamming anything did to me and many others on my server, so I wouldn’t know.

@Whimpered: TheGuy said it all so much better than I could possibly do in my anger. My criticism was never directed at players – Sorry if I failed at my attempt to express myself properly above.

I’m angry. My server (Desolation) just beat Teq and I had to be stuck in overflow because 1. of course I had to disconnect, and 2. bazillion guests happened to decide to flood my server so I could never get back in. I was in the attempt right before the success, with my friends, on my HOME server, did not die once, and we had gotten him down to 1/3 or something, can’t remember right now. I wanted to succeed together with my friends and server – we were all sure we’d get him the next time (which we did, and I wasn’t there), we all wanted to be EU’s first. This was going to be a very pleasant memory for me in a game I love (I must love it now that I’m back after 7 months – only to see some things will never change). Thank you very kitten much for ruining it.

I wonder if this is the reason I got kicked out of the game while working on a champ and haven’t been able to log back in since. After the launcher, I keep getting “game client lost its connection to the server etc”, but there’s nothing wrong with my Internet connection?

Edit: Finally the game let me in (I spawned on top of the champ risen giant lmao not underwater where I had been) .. Bloody troll whoever you are. If this is your idea of “funny”..

Stratzvyda.3921:

Jon why are you flat out lying to us? DR in it’s current state cannot possibly affect botters and not affect farmers, let me explain why. Regardless of the strictness of when the DR triggers, the main issue is why the DR triggers not when. The karma DR triggers when a large number of events are done in a short period of time. A farmer will always be able to complete more events faster than a bot. It is impossible for a trigger of this type to affect bots and not legitimate players. Additionally a farmer will be more effective in combat than a bot and will therefore kill more enemies and get more items having the loot DR trigger faster than it would for a bot. Again this entire type of trigger is incapable of punishing a bot more than a player. You need safeguards yes, but they should be a net partway down the building not a shotgun at the door to the roof.

That first sentence may get you into trouble, my friend. A page back, I implied the very same, pointed out that I didn’t buy it, why I didn’t buy it, only to have my post deleted by the moderator, lightning-fast. This is the second time they do this (my first experience of having my post deleted on forums) to me.

As for the rest of your post, most people have been trying to tell the same; seems it’s just being ignored by some. So don’t even bother posting, really. Some people even believe and state, in a very patronising and holier than thou style, that we are not entitled to our opinions. Just check this out:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/PSA-Opinions-vs-Constructive-Criticism/first#post341266

That’s what I meant in the first part of my (deleted) post: fanboyism and “yes man” style are obviously OK on this forum. They certainly have an interesting idea of a “forum”.

Wow…
I was called a “15 year old kid”, one “who’s mad he cannot bot”.
Apparently by someone my age, too.

I thought I was one of many on here trying to communicate my opinion and feelings on this matter.

Thank you for clearing that up for me. Really, thank you; I’m no longer on the wrong side of 30, yay !

I think you meant sigils (or I haven’t experienced such a rune bug myself yet, though I know from experience that certain runes aren’t working at all).

If I remember correctly, I had a sigil for burning duration increase on my longbow; but it didn’t do a thing. Maybe the UI just isn’t updating properly. Otherwise, yes, the sigil really is bugged.

@Devoulin: Analogy spot-on.

I wonder, does Anet believe we’ll continue playing no matter what, since they haven’t even acknowledged the issue yet?

I sure as hell won’t. And I also know I won’t be the only one.

Oh wait… This isn’t a subscription-based game.
Have been neglecting my vegetables.

Bye bye to my shinies, I guess.

I too get this very annoying bug from time to time, and this isn’t the only thread about it. It doesn’t at all look like an animation delay or a connection issue.

One of them is below, for those who for some reason need to be convinced and demand further explanation:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Skill-activation-doesn-t-seem-to-work-every-time-especially-in-WvW-Lag-or-bug/first#post245412

So, OP, I hear you.

Pie Formation.8196:

You can only have stacks from one of the stacking sigils at a time.

In that case, I’d like to be informed about this before I purchase my upgrades; i.e. in the form of an in-game tooltip explanation or something. Nobody has to go on a hunt for information online to dig up some basic information like this. I’m beginning to get real tired of it.

Confirmed. I encountered the same bug and did the same as you did. Once I was dead and my precision stacks fell off, I was able to see the luck icon.

@Noctred:
Wait… You “have played WoW for long, long years” and you are saying “the camera functionality, behaviour etc are the same in both games” ?

I’m… speechless.

+n ………… Well, you get the idea.

Aestru is so right; we are NOT a minority.
So, what, we purchased the game and have to live with this now?
Is that why this issue is still being ignored?

Many bugs in the game are annoying me; but THIS is an enormous issue that has to be fixed with a priority. There are simply no excuses for this. Period.

I get constant headaches, eye aches, a weird sense of dizziness, keep losing my sense of direction etc etc….. seemingly for no reason, and within a short period of time. What’s more, I began to feel like I was the clumsiest person on earth… lol

I enjoy and love this game. I can live with those numerous bugs at the moment because I know they have been acknowledged and will be fixed eventually. But THIS hasn’t even been acknowledged as a priority issue yet.

Keep this thread alive, people.

@OP: I too can confirm this. All my toons have the same issue, lag or not. I find myself repeatedly hitting the same key, hoping to finally get it activated, only to realise I’ve lost several precious seconds in the while, all over one single ability. It is beyond annoying.

@Shaolin: I’d be SO happy if it were 0.5 sec for me

Same. I reported it in-game, came here and posted a thread about it as well (“Tooltip and Text bugs”), still nothing. I don’t even know if it does update the stats correctly and the text just isn’t showing it, or if it’s totally bugged and not doing anything at all.

Warrior-specific bugs are too many to count anyway, which is easily noticeable on Warrior subforum.

I am one (heart) broken warrior.

Hello guys,

First of all, thank you for this wonderful game; I’m loving every second of it.
Well, except for the below

I’m making this thread hoping for a fix sometime real soon because the tooltip and text bugs in the game are about to drive me insane. Sometimes I have no idea about how long an ability’s effect will actually last, or an upgrade I just applied on my gear/weapon even does what it says.

I’m talking about examples such as certain trait bonuses not updating correctly (e.g. warrior Discipline trait line Burst Damage bonus remaining at 1%, no matter how many points you spend there), certain sigils/runes etc bonuses not updating your stats correctly (especially the crit damage/chance increases), certain abilities having their respective tooltip displayed inaccurately (e.g. warrior’s Endure Pain showing a 5 second duration whereas it actually lasts 3 seconds), and many others; the list is long.

I enjoy creating a build, investing time and funds into it, and I’d like to be sure of my results. I must simply see them as they update.

I reported one such bug in-game through Support, attached a screenshot, and still haven’t received an answer. I hope this thread gets noticed.

And yes, I have a warrior .. lol