Guild Wars 2

Agreed. I only have two hours to myself at night. After a 14 hour day at work, I just wanted to play some GW2. I was REALLY looking forward to it tonight since it was a tough day and I come home to this kittenedness. =/

Zero Day.2594:

How was this meme not posted yet…

@OP:

Funny

ArchieD.6972:

Woa, boy. This went on for a while! Let me just clarify a few things:

1) I DO run with zerker gear on my guardian, never said I didn’t!
2) I DO change my weapon sets depending on the fight. I mentioned the staff cause it gives a nice Might buff, heals, and swiftness (WHEN it’s needed.)
3) It WAS understood that the whole party did not have AR.

For those asking for things they said to prove they had a crappy attitude, I haven’t said anything they said cause it sounds childish to repeat it. But if you insist, one instance while doing the last boss in the dredge fractal, the elemental that you have to kite under the lava buckets and dump it on him, they kept attacking from the side when we’d get close to the bucket and pull the boss away from where we needed to chain him to dump the lava on him. After about the third time I finally spoke up and asked them to “Please kite under the bucket” they responded with “kitten” “we know how to play” “^.” So yes, I knew I was not in good company.

I understand people wanting to do things as fast as possible, I do. In that case, a group asking for zerker, I’ll bring my warrior, and we’ll stack and kill stuff fast, and that’ll be that.

That was not this group. They weren’t zerker, at all. On that last boss, I didn’t even know stacking was a strategy people used just because it’s so easy fighting it the normal way. Every group I’ve been in is happy to get that as the last one because it’s short and easy, and not a single one has had a problem with it, until that one.

So yes, you can blame me for not being prepared to do a fight differently than I’ve done it the 20 times before. If I knew from the get go that they were going to do a strategy that would pretty much stack agony on you, I would’ve probably switched characters or not run with them.

I play that character cause I like its style, you can’t fault anyone for playing the way they like to. It’s a game, that’s what it’s meant for. If you’re wanting to be a little elitist and only want people running the meta, that’s your prerogative, but specify beforehand. Hell, people handicap themselves all the time while running content because it’s more of a challenge and is more fun. That’s half the reason I’d run no AR on the 10-19 scale, it makes me pay attention more.

But one last thing. All of you so quick to pass judgement does nothing but reinforce the negativity in the community. I try to stay respectful to everyone, and go out of my way to help others, but it’s disheartening to see such reactions.

If you want to step into a RANDOM group, WITHOUT sufficient AR, DOING A NEW STRAT, don’t get kitten when you can’t adapt to their strategy. There will always be people that will be negative and childish. Don’t let them hamper your play style. Go find a group that would welcome you with open arms.

Also, you are being slightly elitist yourself for constantly posting about how awesome you are without AR in 10-19. Then you bash others that say play the meta, or be a zerker, but yet, here you are complaining about dying over and over because you couldn’t be awesome without AR WHILEE trying a new strat out. So, who is the problem, really..?

JustTrogdor.7892:

Jaymee.1560:

Okay, I’m sorry, I know not all the lingo in this game.

What does RNG stand for?

Randomly generated.

Wrong.

RNG = Random Number Generator

Moshari.8570:

Cerai.9741:

Exactly! In a largely cooperative game like guild wars, our differences are what make us strong as a group. Diversity in both skills and appearance set us aside and make each player feel special. When you release an armor that was a challenge to get for cash you are breaking one of gaming’s golden rules. That rule is:

1. Respect the players time.

By taking what WAS a significant effort and trivializing it you are being outright disrespectful to my efforts. It’s not welcome.

I’m sorry, but where were you guys when all of us Fractal runners started complaining about our time being thown away by them getting rid of our levels. I see a lot of the same people complaining here about T3 that only yesterday were telling us Fractal runners that our time was worthless…it was only a number. Well, looks are meaningless also, they add nothing to your stats, nor do they affect your skill as a player.

Many of us complaining on the fractal number loss were saying exactly this, that it becomes a slippery slope. If they do not believe our time is worth anything, then there is nothing that they cannot change / take away from us…whether it is Fractal level, or T3 cultural, or Legendary.

I have everything for my legendary but the pre-cursor…but have actually been delaying doing anything with it because I fear that even this will go away….that 2 weeks after I buy my pre-cursor and make my legendary they will release the new legendaries that will have better stats, look cooler, and make the one I ground for worth-less.

I think I still have faith in the devs, and I think I still have faith in the game…but things like that make me really wonder…

The legendaries are understandable. They can release a new looking set and that would be fine with me. It just peeves me that RACE EXCLUSIVE armors are being sold on the gem store for ANY race. What happens to people that chose the human race specifically just for the T3 armor but really wanted another race? Can they get a refund on their armor and a free race change? That’s just an enormous amount of effort that is being trampled on by Anet.

I also agree with you about resetting the fractals to level 30. I suffered long and hard to get it so high. If Anet’s stance is to really disregard the effort and time put in by players, they can really just do anything kittened from here on out. They could be like, oh whoops, we have to reset everyone back to launch day status. Also, what’s the point of having a fractal leaderboard? It does more harm than good.

Feels like Anet has been sold to EA

There are people that specifically chose human race for the T3 armor. Can they have a refund on the armor and a race change?

My topic was deleted as well

I would love a refund to my multiple harvesting tools as well

I forecast revamped legendary skins in the store for 800 gems. Another 400 gems for legendary stats

Kanebrake.6192:

Sorry Anet, but this video wasn’t funny, wasn’t entertaining, and wasn’t cute. Not in the least. Definitely not representative of the game itself. If you honestly believe espousing the fact that it is free to play is the way cause an exodus from other MMO’s to GW2 you are sadly mistaken.

I hope this was just an in-house thing and you had a bit a fun. Because if you paid an advertising agency for that… meh, I’ve said enough.

I agree. How was this funny? Because the people had no idea what was going on? Just saying random things like “Watch out for the centaurs” and seeing a clueless reaction isn’t funny. If it is for you, have fun laughing at “The titan rolled over in that pot hole”.

Who were they targeting? Random strangers that might not even play games at all? Thought it was the “Great MMO Migration”? The target demographic should be people from OTHER MMOs.

I think the trailer is just trash. The idea of generating social media to get GW2 free, is genius though. Creates a buzz, you might get a free game, people check out the social media being posted, etc.

They didn’t do this with the medium nor heavy. Wonder why they chose the light set.

This is just appalling….

Why would Anet do this? The cultural skins should be EXCLUSIVE to their specific race. I’m disappointed in this release. Might as well let me buy the cultural armor from other races. Charr, Asura and Norn heavy armor please!

Edit: Norn with the new human T3

Umm…. doing the room to disable colliders. We wiped, and there is no WP to respawn??

Looks amazing. TAKE A HINT ARENANET. Change it

Thanks for the replies. My computer is watercooled so temps are all nice and low. All drivers are all up to date including BIOS. Have stress tested RAM/CPU a week with no problems.

I did a search and all the threads are pretty old. I’ve deleted the local.dat and used the -repair command. I’ve also changed my pre-rendered frames to 1. It still crashes with the same error.

Have any other suggestions?

I am constantly crashing in WvW after 2-3 hours of play. It is quite frustrating after waiting an hour to get through Q into my chosen BL. Anyone have an idea why I might be crashing?

Below is my crash log

spoj.9672:

Im guessing the rough crunch was with his eviscerate spam build. So you will be spamming killshots which would make rifle higher dps than longbow.

I love the vague claims about things with no explanation as to why. Classic guang.

lol classic guang. That’s funny, actually. But I will have to agree with you. He keeps pulling numbers out with no math and asks us to just trust him based on his numbers. He has thows out arbitrary values left and right and doesn’t back them up. He has been called out a couple of times to show a spreadsheet/math and either refuses to or to just trust him.

Ari Kagura.9182:

Well … lets look at Eternity since you just brought it up.

Eternity has:

• Footfalls: Yes, galaxy paint
• An aura: Yes, faint white glow
• Visibility as a projectile: No— possibly bugged since the two swords before it show their own unique models when thrown.
• Day/Night Cycling Skin: Yes
• General Attack effects: painterly trails
• Unique features: a glowing ball

Let’s talk about a legendary that is not Eternity, Twilight and Sunrise, the two swords required to build Eternity

• Footfalls: Yes, galaxy paint
• An aura: Yes, faint colored glow
• Visibility as a projectile: Yes, present during Whirling Wrath and Bladetrail and others
• Day/Night Cycling Skin: No
• General Attack effects: painterly trails
• Unique features: aura burst when drawn

Really, the only thing remotely different, aside from color, is the Day/Night Cycling Skins. The lack of projectile effects on Eternity could potentially be a bug … but if it’s intended, then all Legendary greatswords have at least five unique effects tied to it. One could say that ArenaNet are biased towards greatswords, but I think that would branch to a totally different and potentially unrelated topic.

Now let’s look at Flameseeker Prophecies:

• Footfalls: No
• Aura: No
• Visibility as a Projectile: No (Shield Toss still throws a wooden shield)
• Day/Night Cycle Skins: No
• General attack effects: Glows when drawn
• Unique effects: Pages turn after every attack.

Besides the unique skin, FSP has only two defining features. Three if you count “Lore” but when you’re comparing that to everything else that seems “hip”, Lore doesn’t carry much weight except maybe to other Lore buffs … and how many people play this game for the Lore? Lore isn’t something the average joe can see with the naked eye. Instead, Lore is something that is often sought after looking to become more knowledgeable in the world around them. For the average joe, they just want to play the god dang game! If they want knowledge, they’ll probably read a book or attend a training class.

Let’s look at a recently updated Legendary: Meteorlogicus

• Footfalls: Yes, clouds and lightning
• Aura: No
• Visibility as a Projectile: ??
• Day/Night Cycle Skins: Yes
• General attack effects: Trails created when running and attacking
• Unique effects: Orbiting planets and clouds with intricate floating stars.

Meteorlogicus has 4 defining features. By using your definition of “tier” of legendaries, that would mean that Meteorlogicus would technically be in the same tier as every other Legendary that has at least four defining features the separates it from your typical exotic weapons. Now why does Meteorlogicus have four defining features while FSP has two? And no, “FSP is an off-hand only weapon” doesn’t count. After all, The Minstrel has three noticeably defining features: purple aura, musical notes, and harp sound effects.

Ideally, all first-tier Legendary weapons should be upgraded to have the same amount of noticeably defining features amongst each other. The only second-tier Legendary that could have more should be Eternity … in reality, even Eternity still faults itself with the other legendaries released at launch.

I believe that most, if not all, my suggestions a few posts back are within reason and would still maintain the same tier of cosmetic display as non-Eternity legendary weapons. I know I didn’t ask for a Day/Night Cycle Skin that’s for sure, but it would be nice to have.

Perfectly said. UPDATE THEM ANET. PLEASE!

Messing around on Tarnished Coast with other players in game =D

stylo.4506:

Go to his youtube channel and watch, I’m not gonna take credit for the build ^^

https://www.youtube.com/user/TurboDzan/videos

The videos on his Youtube only show the 30/0/0/10/30 build. Do you know where I can find build info on his 30/25/0/10/5 that’s shown in his twitch video?

stylo.4506:

http://www.twitch.tv/nike_dnt/c/2533835

Check out this 17sec clip of what you can do with a GS.

Current patch.

Do you have any more info on his build? Which traits? What skills did he pick?

I missed out on it. Bring it back for a short period. I want.

Thanks!

=D

Overunity.4273:

Patch times are generally seattle midnight . (seems to be scheduled patch time )
Midnight Seattle = 7am 23/10 Europe
8am 23/10 UK .

I don’t even…

loll

firehawk.8067:

Alcubierre.7538:

firehawk.8067:

If I’ve read everything, and done the proper conversions, Mad King should be going live in about 30 mins.

It’s 22:31 GMT. Off by an hour

Maybe I’m confused. According to http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/central-time/convert/ 22:31 was an hour and a half ago.

We observe DST times. So we are ahead by an hour. Have to -1 for living in the states.

firehawk.8067:

If I’ve read everything, and done the proper conversions, Mad King should be going live in about 30 mins.

It’s 22:31 GMT. Off by an hour

Hello!

Thank you for being so generous with this =)

Here is my submission!

Another 2 bugs.

Phantasmal haste doesn’t seem to do anything with Chaotic Dampening/Blade Training + Illusionists Celerity.

The CD for the phantasms don’t change when you take all three of those trait skills.
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Inspiration trait Vengeful Images has a little bug with it that buffs Phantasms up a bit. With Vengeful Images, your Phantasms attack immediately upon cast. Where as if you don’t use the trait, there is a slight delay in the attack.

@Loafers – Can you please include this in your list of bugs?

Ok. So be mad at the week long items/events that stay bugged broken vs having them broken for a day or two.

The Praetorian Legion [SPQR]
http://praetorian-legion.com/

Are you friendly, slightly eccentric but in a good way, drink hemlock at the sight of drama? Sounds like we’re the beast to your beauty.

About Us:
Praetorian Legion is a Guild Wars 2 guild on the Henge of Denravi server. A mature and friendly bunch, we aim for mutual respect, support and patience to create a tight knit community that can grow together. Taking an active part in WvWvW, our goal is to build influence and get our name out there. We do not aspire to be a hardcore raiding guild by any means, but we do our best to accommodate those who do.

Praetorian Legion are MMO veterans, with a long game history dating as far back as 1997 – bringing with them their experience from MMO’s such as Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron’s Call, DAOC, Star Wars Galaxies, WoW, Rift, and many more. This is who we are, this is what we do, and these are the folks we’re looking for.

What We Are Looking For:
- We are looking for like-minded individuals for PvE and WvW. We believe in providing a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere where players of all backgrounds and playstyles can feel at home.
- No age limit, since it’s just a number. What we want is maturity.
- The use of TeamSpeak for everything. Daily banters, events, guild groupings.
- Common sense as well as a good sense of humor. It’s just a game! Lighten up, life is already too serious.
- No cheating and or the use of any exploits, period!
- The ability to take and or give constructive criticism. We can’t get stronger as players or a group, unless we are willing to accept our weaknesses.
- The understanding that real life comes first before any game. Stuff happens. We know real life comes first, as it should be. And we expect our members to understand this as well.

Contact Information:
Alcubierre.7538
Kalveitt.8567
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Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

I agree that 1-hit ko’s have to go, but why stick to melee? You have 2 weapon slots and weapon swap for a reason. The game isn’t designed to be played 100% melee. If you have trouble dodging certain things, swap to ranged for a while. Then again if you “go down in 1 hit every meta event or dungeon”, you should look into upgrading your armor/traits and build more defensively because then it’s not only the games fault.

Melee is harder but also more rewarding. (More damage and AoE)

You completely missed the point lol.

A good example is the first boss in CM story. He spins, does his fire stuff. Run away. Now there is a choice of range/melee. However, you come back into melee range and he is shooting his missiles which you have to dodge. There is no animation for it. He just spins around 180 instantly and shoots the missiles at you point blank range. If you’re the first target of the missiles, you die. Zero chance to switch out to ranged or dodge since there is no animation for the missiles.

We are talking about things that don’t give melee a chance to run away. At this point, skill isn’t even a factor.

The next mob (door guard) hurts a lot. He 3 hits you roughly. But it gives you a chance to run away and you have the option to heal up and jump back in or go range.

Caedmon.6798:

I’m unparking the cores since the release of Win7 actually,and yes it can improve overall performance.For people that dont like messing with registry there’s an app that will tell the status if any cores are parked and will unpark them with a click. http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

Yup. I already linked it in my first post.

I hope this post helps someone!

iselin.8253:

Not a bad solution but there s a much easier way to disable CPU core parking without a registry edit: just choose the “Performance Power Plan” under power settings. That disables core parking.

I believe you have to enable a registry edit so the core parking options show up in the Performance Power Plan options.
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The problem with core parking is that the OS determines during low load in GW2, not all CPUs are needed – thus it “parks” a CPU core. When GW demands more power, it “unparks” a core. There should be at most a microstutter in performance.

However, when I had core parking enabled, that wasn’t the case. It was just a choppy and slow experience. Once it was disabled, I was able to enjoy a smooth frame rate.

Brazensage.1328:

How do you check parked status?

Hit CTRL + Shift + Esc

Go to Performance

Go to Resource Monitor

Go to CPU

On the right hand side you should see graphs. There it will say if the CPU is parked or not.

Hello. I can see that many players on the forum are having trouble with their FPS in this game – especially multicore CPU users.
What I did for myself was disable CORE PARKING.
There are two ways to do it. One is with an application. The other is through a registry edit.
Application:
http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility
Regedit method:
PLEASE PLEASE BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT THIS. I am not responsible if your computer blows up when you try the method below.
SOURCE: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1861804
- Go to run (windows key + r)
- Type in regedit and run

- CTRL + F and find this key:- " 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 "

- Within this key, there is a value called: " ValueMax "

- This value represents the % number of cores the system will park – the default 100% ie: all Cores are potentially park-able

- Change the value from 64 to 0 so the " ValueMin " and " ValueMax " are both zero

- You will have to find the key a few times and repeat the process for each time it is found – the number of instances will depend on the number of power profiles in your system [ in my DAW it was only found twice ]

- Do a full shutdown and power-off and cold-re-start
This worked for me perfectly. I went from low 30s to high 50s. Hope this works as well for you as it did for me!
Good day!

I can out run a centaur!

Hello. I can see that many players on the forum are having trouble with their FPS in this game – especially multicore CPU users.

What I did for myself was disable CORE PARKING.

There are two ways to do it. One is with an application. The other is through a registry edit.

Application:
http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

Regedit method:
PLEASE PLEASE BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT THIS. I am not responsible if your computer blows up when you try the method below.

SOURCE: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1861804

- Go to run (windows key + r)

- Type in regedit and run

- CTRL + F and find this key:- " 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 "

- Within this key, there is a value called: " ValueMax "

- This value represents the % number of cores the system will park – the default 100% ie: all Cores are potentially park-able

- Change the value from 64 to 0 so the " ValueMin " and " ValueMax " are both zero

- You will have to find the key a few times and repeat the process for each time it is found – the number of instances will depend on the number of power profiles in your system [ in my DAW it was only found twice ]

- Do a full shutdown and power-off and cold-re-start

This worked for me perfectly. I went from low 30s to high 50s. Hope this works as well for you as it did for me!

Good day!