Hey, my GW2 suffers strange crashes once in a while, not often enough to be more than annoying though.
however after the last few crashes things have started to disappear. i can no longer see portals (doors in PvP, WvW), point zones in PvP, WATER (at all, look like empty air), or any kind of skill effects, burning etc.
any simple solutions to get this fixed? not fun to try escaping into a keep with the enemy zerg behind you and not know on which side of the gate the portal is. :P
this doesn’t happen very often to me but it does occur. i remember once when i was running after our commander and a zerg of ~30 people on our way to the next objective when suddenly poof…the entire enemy army of 60+ people load onto my screen. and i’m in the middle of it.
Friday night Vs was ahead, then you got all map tagged during night (which is fun considering you whine for 2 weeks now cause we do it), then we reduce the gap from 10K to 7K during the day.
Anyway, it is fun, that you whine for ages about capping when other side is busy, and post right away when you are ahead for same reason.
And then we are the one who refuse reasonning :p
i think it’s the third time i mention this in this topic. but FS was steadily pulling ahead in daytime and VS closed the gap at night in the weekend.
proof is in the 10 screenshots in page 1.
nope far from it, and i no game i have played, EVER. has such an alliance system worked unless it’s physically impossible to damage the players of the allied nations. there are ALWAYS people who don’t understand, don’t care or just want to ruin it all attacking allies if it’s possible.
the only thief i had trouble with on my guardian 1v1 was a bleed build who stacked 25 bleeds, disappeared into invisibility, suddenly came flying out with more bleeds and disappeared again etc.
at that time i didn’t have enough condition removals to deal with that more than once or twice.
in organized team pvp it’s different. had an enemy team that stunned and immobilized me while the thief used pistol whip behind me for 12500 dmg through my 3000 armor and then finished me in 1-2 more skills before i was even able to move.
any possibility there could be a feature added that let’s you change the colour of the mouse into something awfully visible like…neon blue?
i find myself spending a lot of time in a WvW zerg trying to find my mouse in that blurry explosion of colours.
for those talking about an alliance between FS and Deso, are you not thinking ahead or are you just ignorant of the facts?
all our servers have long queues…which means the organized guilds have trouble getting in and most of the zergs will consist of completely random people.
now…i assume you all have a lot of gaming experience yourselves and will understand this argument. EVEN IF the FS and Deso formed an alliance, do you really think there is ANY way in beep that you could keep the random zergs of FS and Deso pugs from just running into each other and starting to smack each other to death despite your leaders using caps lock + rage trying to prevent that from happening.
not that i’m doubting you people or anything since i was asleep in the nights…but if you go to page 1 i have a series of 10 screenshots from different times this weekends. and if you follow the timeline there you can see that FS is slowly pulling ahead screenshot for screenshot in daytime, while in nighttime the gap closes by A LOT and VS gains ground.
if as you say, FS nightcapped everything at night, why is it VS that gains ground in the nighttime while FS pulls ahead in the day?
again, check my screenshots in page 1, i’m basing this on them.
despite me not having any screenshots from nighttime that can be disproven quite easily. how? look at my 5th and 6th screenshots. one is 0:41 and the next is 10:45, then look what happens to the score.
that’s right…VS climbs closer in nighttime.
also that SS of yours is irrelevant and one of the first match ups we had. obviously we had 3 times more people than you in that match up.
and then…well you’ve seen what monday morning looked like. 100% VS.
then comes the day and we struggle through an army of upgraded fortresses and siege equipment.
10th picture, monday 13:29
If u are a guardian you should always be standing next to a siege weapon.
I rack up plenty of badges that way.
that would mean i have to hang around at a tower with an arrow cart and hope someone will attack it? not really my style. i like smashing other people’s gates and charge through the enemy army.
actually VS was ahead during nighttime in the weekend as well, just not as much as in the weekdays when all of us sleep. it’s around 10-11 am that the scores started to turn in our favor (FS). i actually took screenshots throughout the day from 11 am when i got up. at 11 VS were ahead in tick points a little but FS still had a couple thousand point lead. maybe from early night? i dunno, i was sleeping. at 12 FS was ahead by a little and by 15 FS owned half the map and held it until night.
i’m using the full knight exotic set myself. quite low hp at 15000 but 3200 defense with a GS is nice in WvW. it also gives power and precision so you get nice dps. i have something like 2850 attack and 39% critical.
works well so far, 900 WvW kills and died maybe 50 times in total. of course you have to be careful and use condition removers though, plus you’re utterly useless in ranged combat.
I don’t feel like I can kill anyone with my scepter or staff, but I have the most fun setting up barriers on bridges. Wait for their entire team to start pushing against you, pop a barrier on the bridge, and watch about 50 people run into it and fall down. SO.MUCH.FUN.
Well, Rangers don’t have any stealth abilities that I can recall. The game may have considered him as being out of combat after he knocked you back and he just warped, that’s about all I can figure. Unless he just ragequit and logged out, which ANet really can’t do anything about. They can’t glue angry people to their chairs.
well they could make it so you’re not considered “out of combat” while you’re lying on the ground slowly bleeding to death.
yeah, after downing, finish them, dont be outplayed :>
and on side note, this is help forum , not “vent how everything is unfair -to you-” forum :>
so you’re calling logging out to avoid getting finished off “outplaying”? you consider that a valid strategy? really?
so it would be completely fair if everyone you’re about to kill just logged out instead?
also didn’t day it’s unfair “just to me”. it’s akitten mechanic for anyone.
was playing WvW and ran into a ranger from an opposing server in the middle of the map. i defeated him in the 1v1 duel and he was downed, but before i could finish him off…he LOGGED OUT/ teleported away! what the F!!!!
why the heck does the game let you do such a thing? that’s just stupid preventing me from finishing him off and getting my badges.
There really isn’t a good reason for the base health difference between guardian and warrior. Virtue of resolve is purported to be the cause on the wiki (guardians have lower base health but more regen!) but basically what that means is we get an ability we should never use, or we lose that regeneration and then have to play like a lower health warrior for the next minute and a half. If I HAVE to spec into vitality/toughness in order to make up for the survivability that a warrior gets by default, there is an imbalance. A warrior can also grab vitality, and still have more health. Why even have trait options if all the options are fake because I’m too busy grabbing the “necessary” stats?
I made a warrior Lv6 for fun and it heals more per second with their signet (at Lv6) than I do with my guardian at scaled to like 31.. I’m not high enough to whine about hp though, just thought I’d leave that there.
Guardian healing improves greatly with healing power. At 60 my regen per second was somewhere around 400 to 600 depending what skill’s i was using. Average hit on me was like 150. I was takeing out 5 to 7 mobs without dropping below 80% hp. I focus on vit/toughness first. Then power/healing power second.
what the heck are you talking about? i went to mists, used the healing power amulet, healing power runes, virtue strengthening traits and the signet that increases healing power….and i was regenerating just over 200 hp per second so…what are you smoking?
agreed, 4 fps in mass WvW with minimum settings on a laptop far above the requirements. not expecting anything incredible on a laptop but better performance than this…for sure. if i can run bf3 online on medium with no lag whatsoever i should be able to see what direction i’m running in GW2 WvW and events.
either way i’ve ordered a new computer but it will take a few weeks…
to tell the truth…warriors are actually able to heal faster than guardians. their heal has a shorter CD and the other “heals” guardian has are pretty much useless. 1000 hp heals unless you spec full healing power. (which will get them to like 2-2,5k)
it may be true we have more mitigation skills than a warrior but no matter what i spec the warriors are just way way more powerful and the mediocre support of a guardian can’t make up for it.
compared to a warrior guild member with WAY WORSE gear than me in the guild i have less attack, less crit, same armor and way less hp. the warrior’s heal has a lower CD plus he has the rune that heals on criticals, which is every few attacks with his crit rate. basically his survivability is way better than mine.
perhaps it’s different in pvp with an actual team that knows what they’re doing, but while you play with people who have no clue what guardian fields and skills do we’re just useless. i’ve tried using stability fields, healing bubbles and all kinds of support skills but my allies just run off somewhere making it wasted.
no class can easily tanks things in this game. i’m a lvl 80 guardian with maxed toughness and vitality traits, a lvl 80 exotic 2 hander with vitality and a full lvl 80 exotic knight set (toughness).
that gives me about 3200 defense and 16,5k hp. i can now deal with mobs rather easily. i still take some 800-1500 hits but i can at least kill 2-3 mobs at once before they manage to kill me.
if you want to compare the damage you take to my max defense spec guardian, i take 600 dmg from a risen chicken exploding.
bosses are different, they still hit me for 8000-9000 dmg with some of their skills so no matter what i do i can’t stay in melee range with a boss and just tank it, even if i used all my heals it wouldn’t work.
With max vitality trait and vitality gear you should have far and away more HP than that…what are you talking about?
Anyway. OP, If you don’t have access to your traits you’re pretty much out of luck. They’re a huge part of your character, and you are going to be severely handicapped without them no matter what class you play or how well you play.
If you haven’t already checked, as already suggested, find a Trainer. The starting areas have them, so do WvW entrance areas. They have a green book icon on thier heads and on the map. Buy yourself a manual, and open your inventory and use it. The go into the Hero panel, (H) key by default, click on the skills/traits tab, and select traits. Use the plus buttons to assign traits to your preference, and select your new abilities you get for every 10 points invested in a line.
At your level, you’re missing 20 points. That’s roughly 200 points in 2 stats you’re missing (Or 100 in four, etc)… good luck replacing that with just gear. That alone is huge lose… but also missing the effects of the bonus abilities you gain for traits is crushing. This is your problem. Not your class.
Ignore these other random rants about elementalist this, elementalist that. “Oh, poor me, I like guardian skills better but am going to keep playing this class I don’t like, just to spite myself. Oh I’m a martyr, aren’t I cool” Bah. Play what you enjoy, easy concept. You can play any of them…. But in your case Lightning Lock… you just needs you some traits and you’ll be fine me thinks.
it’s toughness gear + some vitality. both traits maxed. but guardians actually have pretty low hp, lower than warriors.
I have salvaged every piece of gear I have found from level one (currently 52). You will not be crafting anything for the character until the end. Everything I can craft is still way below my character level, and always has been.
You don’t find enough materials to use crafting for anything on your first character. I guess, it would be more for any of your alts.
Maybe cooking is different? I stopped doing cooking due to the extreme costs.
you’re wrong, i was crafting better armor than i found from drops all the way. greens all the way pretty much, once i hit lvl 80 i had a full green set and after i earned some money i used it to make my lvl 80 full exotic set.
no class can easily tanks things in this game. i’m a lvl 80 guardian with maxed toughness and vitality traits, a lvl 80 exotic 2 hander with vitality and a full lvl 80 exotic knight set (toughness).
that gives me about 3200 defense and 16,5k hp. i can now deal with mobs rather easily. i still take some 800-1500 hits but i can at least kill 2-3 mobs at once before they manage to kill me.
if you want to compare the damage you take to my max defense spec guardian, i take 600 dmg from a risen chicken exploding.
bosses are different, they still hit me for 8000-9000 dmg with some of their skills so no matter what i do i can’t stay in melee range with a boss and just tank it, even if i used all my heals it wouldn’t work.
my laptop runs freaking hot…dunno why asus built it like this. >.< hit 96 degrees celsius sometimes. never above that but when i play WvW or zerg events it hits 96 degrees within minutes.
This doesn’t increase FPS one bit if you are running any decent GPU. GW2 uses between 400-600mb video memory even on max settings. ‘’Forcing" the game to use some RAM as extra video memory won’t do anything for most people.
my computer (laptop) should easily be able to handle it. (Asus aspire 5750g)
That’s where you’re wrong. I’m not sure what processor you have (probably i3-2350M or Core i5-2450M, neither are very good), but your graphics card (GT 610m or 630m) are probematic too. These have 64bit and 128bit memory bandwidth respectively. Yes that is low and that´s probably your bottleneck.
I did this and noticed no change in performance.
Specs: 12GB ram, Nvidia GTX 560m 3gb, i7 2.2 GHz
Problem is your CPU. Quad core is nice but there´s 99.99% chance hyperthreading doesn´t work with GW2, and 2.2Ghz is slow. The game probably doesn´t even use 20% of either your ram or video memory so the problem definitely isn´t there.
no i have neither of those. my processor is …ah well i’ll just write down all it says here.
The difference is that the pvp knight set has vit while the pve has toughness. If your 100% knight your missing a TON of vit. I personally am going to go cleric for my armor, knight for weapon, and Emerald for everything else most likely. I know cleric yuck it gives healing power but i have a ton of healing abilities in my tanky role i have set my self up with. While im not sure as to the crit rating ill have should be decent and my guess is 18k to 20k hp. But i’ve yet to be able to test it as sadly im only 51.
there is no “pvp knight set”, at least i don’t have any. it’s just heavy and i have dolyak runes on it. the real difference is the knight amulet that gives a TON of vitality.
i tried to see how much of a difference healing would make. (by going to mists and wear a +500 healing amulet)
the result was disappointing, the lower heals increased maybe 50% (1500 to 2200 etc), the main heal just went from 8000 to 9000.
+500 healing power is about what you can get from your gear at lvl 80.
@Rock
mitigation and regeneration doesn’t do too much in pvp, i’d much rather have the extra hp the warriors do. only running signets is a bad idea too, the bonuses are not worth it, you’ll still just be a bad warrior.
personally i run GS with healing signet, the skill that changes conditions to boons, “save yourselves” and the swiftness skill. i don’t really use my elite skills at all…
my gear is more or less…superb and i still feel weak.
lvl 76 exotic GS (buying a valkyrie pearl lvl 80 today for more vitality and power at the cost of critical chance)
full lvl 80 exotic set with 6 superior runes of the dolyak. that set alone is worth 20g+ in materials.
I’ve been lvl 80 for a while now and reset my traits quite a few times. basically i’m not TOO happy with the class atm, i expected them to be very tanky while dealing little damage…like a paladin.
however at lvl 80 and in full exotic armor my lvl 80 guild mate (warrior) has the same attack as me, MORE crit, MORE armor and MORE hp with way worse gear.
my latest reset was to full defense. i’m running a greatsword with knight exotic set and superior rune of the dolyak which gives me these stats:
2600 atk
38% crit
3200 armor
15250 hp
the 3 first are good but i completely lack hp….in pvp with my gear there i have about the same attack and crit but 2800 armor and 23000 hp. that works really well and i can sometimes beat enemies 1v2 with my greatsword.
