Guild Wars 2

KStudios.2850:

Mastermavrick.2439:

That is what happens when you stick with the same folks for weeks on end. Meanwhile my arrow cart in ARBL Garrison needs more tears to feed it. (nearly a full worldxp level purely by def got to love it)

I do love it actually. I’m sorry, but if you’re dumb enough to stand in three layers of overlayed AC fire I say let natural selection take its course. Especially now that those arrows are digging lil deeper than they used to. Also, the increased cart usage appears to mean that I get Daily Dodger a lot faster than I used to, lol.

Semi-related sidenote: Did we used to get credit for trebbing before? I don’t know if we did, but yesterday during our massive back and forth tug-of-war for Anz I got full credit for the capping despite never leaving the treb I took the walls down with. That new as well?

That’d be great if we did, trebbing can get quite boring quite fast as well as being very unrewarding however I don’t know if they changed anything like this or not. All I do know is you have always been able to get credit for the cap if you are able to hit the npc’s in the lord room of the tower with treb fire as well.

Mastermavrick.2439:

testpig.5018:

Mastermavrick.2439:

3hrs+/- of Occupy Pangloss was glorious but now over

I hope those 5point ticks were worth the 100 points you lost in your homeland.
nom nom.

Considering all the laughs me and folks got out of it i think so. Let alone all the pugs/randoms in map chat that scream and complain but rarely bother to do anything themselves about it… their tears are so sweet

Personally I was happy to see AR take and hold Pangloss as long as they did as well. They cut a lot of supply off and once I finally got some people to go take Speldan we cut their supply off completely which made it all that much easier to kick em out of SM yet again lol.

BP trying to call someone else out for supposedly using an exploit at Hills seems pretty ironic to me lol.

But anyways some awesome fights last night and props to AR for really stepping it up even more recently, has been tons of fun and can’t wait to see you guys doing so even more

BP isn’t really focused because they are a bigger threat, we’ve shown we can deal with both AR and BP well enough that neither is really a huge threat at this point. BP is focused because you asked for it with all the trash talking and exploiting and proving all those trash talkers wrong is just to much fun. AR has its share of em to, as do we, every server does, but theres been far more of it coming from BP. Kinda sad a handful of people gotta ruin everything for an entire server but thats how it goes lately I guess :\

I don’t want to see BP drop a tier myself, killing Kalkz and his buddies is way to much fun. I laugh every time he runs to his keep guards when faced with just a single necromancer, is so much fun lol.

same here, looks like the servers crashed so just have to wait till they get it back up. Glad I had just finished my last world boss and daily lol.

Still wondering why this one particular guild is the one and only one you’ve reported if you guys are so adamant about such ideals and morals as well as the TOS?

All the trolling here is pretty comical. Whatever you guys think of any particular person or guild on EBay or what you think of yourselves as individuals or guilds, the fact remains, even with saboteurs causing us to be siege capped 90% of the time in Eternal and frequently in our own Borderland, we still prevailed with an over 42k point lead.

This is WvWvW not arena, if all you want is 1v1’s and even matched fights your in the wrong place, this is a war zone not a boxing ring.

Kronos Zek.9715:

Alibis.4079:

Kronos Zek.9715:

Hello this is the guild leader of CHAR and through our reports we got SEKZ deleted because what their guild name implies is forceful intercourse which is against our personal beliefs, if need be I can direct you all to literature on jokes that make light of forceful intercourse and how they are harmful to the community and gamers as a whole. Gamers need to rise against this awful stereotypes that we all make crude jokes that hurt other people who are potentially sensitive to those matters. Good riddance I say to Sekz, they broke the ToS and they deserved to be reported.

How does, “Less talkin more [SEKZ]” in ANYWAY promote forced intercourse?

It doesn’t promote, it is implied. Their guild name was crude and they deserved it, end of story.

And using the same logic the entire nature of your guild promotes racism :x

Kinda funny how Sekz is the only guild you guys are reporting to, how about going on a crusade to report the thousands of other guilds out there that ARE actually offensive instead of only the ones you cant beat in PVP.

Yeah my sympathies to the rest of Anvil Rock for having to deal with those guys, you guys have my respect for the way you’ve pulled ahead of BP and the way I’ve seen your overall tactics evolve over the last few weeks, not to mention not giving up as easily as most do. The other night we rolled most all of BPs stuff in EB and they simply bailed letting us eventually take their keep and all. AR on the other hand you guys kept the fight strong and ended up totally denying us from taking Overlook, gj

Macha.9160:

Gigaflare.4290:

rootnode.9546:

Anubbyss.3805:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

coglin.1496:

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

The longer-term problem is that Arenanet is getting a reputation for being unprofessional.

I believe you are the liar. I have yet to see them act unprofessionally not have I seen an evidence they have. You on the other hand have a history of making false accusations and claims, while offering no proof of your claims. Which is unprofessional.

They have continually given us exact times of when content would be released (e.g. with Halloween, the Lost Shores and now with Wintersday) and then failed to meet those deadlines – often putting the content out at the last possible minute and failing to explain whats going on to their userbase. That is what said person meant by unprofessional – and it is based on observable fact.

The fact is however the 14th event launch was scheduled with no specific time other than “when it’s ready” and it’s still the 14th so no deadlines have been passed as of yet. All this QQ that it has is sorely misplaced.

Sorry, my calendar says 15th….and we’re back to square 1.

Since my posts got deleted, I’ll do this one more time.

“As mentioned several times before, the build is still scheduled to arrive today, during Pacific Time hours.

Again: before creating a new topic, please check to see whether there is already an existing thread in which you can post."

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wintersday/No-Wintersday-in-europe-today/first#post997193

As it is said again and again, nowhere on the offical european side it is stated that the patch is pst. Only the events are stated with both, pst and cet.

source :
https://www.guildwars2.com/de/the-game/releases/december-2012/
and
https://www.guildwars2.com/fr/the-game/releases/december-2012/
and
https://www.guildwars2.com/es/the-game/releases/december-2012/

Thing we europeans are complaining is not that we get it on 15th. it is that they haven’t said that it would be.

And to add a little bit more. What do you think was first, your source or mine?

And again. Its about the Patch and not about the events which happen at 15th.

I do agree they Euro players do kinda get shafted a little bit however they should simply release the events at more suitable times for Euro players on the Euro servers specifically.

In general though all events have always happened during PST hours so it should be expected even if not clearly stated by now.

rootnode.9546:

Anubbyss.3805:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

coglin.1496:

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

The longer-term problem is that Arenanet is getting a reputation for being unprofessional.

I believe you are the liar. I have yet to see them act unprofessionally not have I seen an evidence they have. You on the other hand have a history of making false accusations and claims, while offering no proof of your claims. Which is unprofessional.

They have continually given us exact times of when content would be released (e.g. with Halloween, the Lost Shores and now with Wintersday) and then failed to meet those deadlines – often putting the content out at the last possible minute and failing to explain whats going on to their userbase. That is what said person meant by unprofessional – and it is based on observable fact.

The fact is however the 14th event launch was scheduled with no specific time other than “when it’s ready” and it’s still the 14th so no deadlines have been passed as of yet. All this QQ that it has is sorely misplaced.

Sorry, my calendar says 15th….and we’re back to square 1.

And your obviously not in the US PST Timezone on which all official times are based either then.

so much QQ is pretty sad. I could understand if it was one time events being delayed a long time and thus messing with peoples ability to participate in ONE TIME ONLY Events, but thats NOT what is happeneing here. The only thing being delayed is the general festivities which will be available all the way until january 3rd. Some people just seriously need to realize theres more to life than GW2 lol.

I for one am glad its taking awhile to get it all implemented. Last time they launched events right off the bat they were lagged to all hell and so buggy most people couldn’t take part in 3/4 of the events anyways. Once they started taking their time to make sure things are working smoothly the events actually worked alright with far less lag and issues. I’d rather wait for an event that works than have one the doesn’t right away.

So sad what todays gaming community has become. All the crying over having to wait for something they are in no way entitled to to begin with is pretty sickening lol.

cainejw.7142:

Yes, CD zergs. Heck, I just had a mesmer pull me off the wall and then had a nice experience of probably 8-10 people on one.

It’s still a valid tactic. It may not be the most tactical, but it’s a tactic nonetheless.

Interestingly, as of right now CD owns all of EB borderlands. We’re in third place. However, Maguuma owns their borderlands with minimal shifting. I guess CD decided to try to keep EB in third this week.

They know EB can actually be a threat and Maguuma hates us and knows they can’t keep up with CD so of course they are all focusing on us the most. I for one am honored to be so feared and having a blast

Supposed to be a bug yeah but really theres no reason we shouldn’t be able to stomp/revive in DS. Theres numerous other abilities multiple other classes can use to stomp/revive unhindered (mist form, invulnerability, stealth etc) yet spending a full 30 points in soul reaping and shroud stomping is the only way us Necros can pull it off. Not to mention with only 3s of stability you can still be stopped if the enemy times it right anyways though thats not an easy task.

oneking.7396:

just wondering why you put 5 points in blood magic …. would use them in death magic (dark armor I or staff skill 20%) or soul reaping (last gasp) instead.

I was kinda up in the air on this one but I think I’m going to switch it over to Last Gasp in Soul Reaping. The added LF Pool I can see being more helpful than the 50 Vit/Healing and we have a few sources of regen already that the protection from dark armor could be more useful. I never have a problem generating enough LF really but the extra gain from dark armor surely doesn’t hurt either.

Kardiamond.6952:

Nice build!

I tried something similar with Axe,dagger and minion not long ago. Interresting build!

tho, I think Axe vuln stacking is a bit slow and weak. For a near melee weapon, I rarely used #1 auto attack, I used #4 focus to stack to vuln, then #2 for damage and switched to dagger(or #3). But since you use staff, it’s different.

But with all those vuln buff, I bet a dagger over a staff would do crazy damage. But you have to sacrifice your range, and not everybody want to do that.

Oh And what do you think of Death shiver trait? AoE vuln staking in DS?

Personnally I didn’t like it at all. The vuln stacking is really slow and only stack 1 vuln charge each 3 sec. I didn’t think it was worth it.

Good job<!

I have yet to mess with Dagger much more as I’ve never been a big fan of close range melee style combat in any game over the years really, though I admit what little I did mess with it here on the Necro was kinda fun. I’ll have to play with it some more at some point.

I’ve found with a combination of #4 Focus and Axe #1 I can usually maintain a vulnerability stack around 14-17 which isn’t to bad.

Concerning the Death Shiver trait I am kinda up in the air about that one to. As you mentioned it does stack rather slow and sometimes it’s hard to tell that its even working at all lol. I may switch to protection from wells for a little added support in dungeons but in wvw and general open world pve I use the Staff Mastery anyways since those involve a lot more aoe.

Been playing around with this build a lot tweaking it here and there and I’ve finally come up with something a good bit better that I have been enjoying a ton so far

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQUQNAndWjMap7VaibMcKCZGP7XzCge8+cVLqCrD;TMALLGJMhA

Basically going for all power using axe/focus and deathshroud as primary damage source with staff secondary for aoe/utility when needed. Also focuses heavily on stacking vulnerability for increasing everyones damage on the target still. The 5 Points in Blood Magic for Full of Life could also be useful in a few other places but a matter of personal preference on that one really.

Utilities:
1 – Blood is Power for Might Stacking along with the Death Shroud trait
2 – Well of Suffering for AoE Damage and more importantly Vulnerability stacking
3 – Spectral Walk for Stun break + Swiftness + Life Force regen while being attacked.
Elite – Lich Form for Bosses / single target and Plague for any tougher aoe encounters.

As always some of these are switched around as the encounter/situations demands but this is what I been using in general.

Armor:
Helm, Shoulders, Chest, and gloves are all Power/Toughness/Vitality exotics bought with karma from Orr Temple vendors.

Leggings and Boots are both Knights crafted gear (Toughness/Power/Precision) atm threw in to add at least a little more crit to boost the dps a little bit.

ALL Armor pieces have Crest of the Soldier on them atm for a good boost to all 3 Power/Toughness/Vitality.

Jewelry is all Emerald Orichalcum crafted jewelry with the exception of the Ancient Karka Shell from the Lost Shores event. All gems on the jewelry have been replaced with Crest of the Soldier as well. Backpiece is still the Mad Kings Memories until can afford to craft an ascended Power/Tough/Vitality piece but it also has a Crest of the Soldier in it. Also working on getting Nightmare Coils to replace rings and Emerald Pendant for the Amulet. Ascended Jewelry obviously great as well if can get a hold of Lost Seal of Usoko and/or Royal Signet of Doric.

Weapons:
Primary: Ghastly Axe (Power/Toughness/Vitality) from AC Vendor with Superior Sigil of Peril in it for increased Vulnerability duration
Offhand: Knight’s Pearl Focus which is crafted with Toughess/Power/Precision and using a sigil of bloodlust for power boost

Secondary: Knight’s Pearl Quarterstaff also crafted and using Superior Sigil of Fire atm.

*Worth noting is that all Power/Toughness/Vitality gear can also be found on AC, SE or HotW Dungeon Vendors – WvW Vendors for Badges of Honor and Order of the Vigil vendor if your a member. For a great site to find locations of all the gear with the stat combo you want this site is amazing: http://wiki.guildwar...m_nomenclature.

Unbuffed Stats with above gear and build setup:
Power: 2,236
Precision: 1,295
Toughness: 2,046
Vitality: 1,375

Attack: 3,201
Critical Chance: 22%
Armor: 2,996
HP: 22,962

Base Unbuffed Noncrit Damage on test dummies in LA:
Axe #1 Autoattack: 700-900 Damage
Axe #2 Ghastly Claws Ability: 3k Damage on a 6.5s Cooldown
Axe #3 Unholy Feast: 900 AoE + Cripple + Retaliation per target hit
Deathshroud #1 Autoattack: 800+ increasing as might stacks
Deathshroud Life Transfer: 2400 AoE
Lich Form #1 Attack: 1600

All of these numbers are base with no might stacks and no other boons or consumables used. Obviously when using it the numbers get higher with the use of Blood is Power and Deathshroud might stacking paired up with the vulnerability stacking. Master Maintenance Oils are amazing with this build as you have a high toughness/vitality both of which are converted to Power with the Oil active.

For WvW and Event Farming I’ll switch out the IX Death Shivers Major Trait in Death Magic for the V Staff Mastery Trait since they are more aoe intense and thus use the staff more for those but otherwise this build has worked out great for doing everything pretty well so far. Any questions just hit me up and any tips or suggestions are always most appreciated

You can also get this stat combo from AC – SE – HotW – Order of the Vigil if your a member – WvW Badges and Orr Temple Vendors. For Orr Temples you’ll have to visit different vendors to get em for different slots but note they do not have one for leggings for some reason.

This site is amazing for finding all the gear with the stat combos you want:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature

Cempa.5619:

The stats on the gear you recommend are only obtainable from dungeons and not crafting? Karma?

Power/Tough/Vit gear can also be obtained from the temple karma vendors in Orr, all except the legs for some reason. If your with the Order of the Vigil all their stuff is also Power/Tough/Vit as well as WvW gear. Ebon Vanguard weapons sold by cultural vendors in Ebonhawke are also Power/Tough/Vit though they aer only rare not exotic.

Great link for finding all the gear out there with the best stat combos your looking for here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature

So far everyone I’ve run dungeons with has loved my combo fields, the aoe protection i give, the aoe regen I give, the condition control I can give when needed via condition removal well and/or plague signet, the mass aoe blind cc from well of darkness and plague, vulnerability stacking on mobs etc etc etc. Can’t say as I have ever had a complaint from anyone I’ve done a dungeon run with as a Necro.

The build I am currently working with and enjoying quite a bit actually is: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mVVzMm9cmMGxomMGxoa0pGfoMmcRo08khy7kiH70z

I’ve recently switched to a nearly full Power/Vit/Toughness gear setup for this build with Power/Precision/Toughness Emerald Jewelry and Crest of the Soldier on all armor/jewelry. Build is a little bit of a spinoff from the one discussed in this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Update-28k-HP-3k-Armor-3-4k-Attack-Necro. I however switched a few talents and use axe/focus instead of daggers for a lot more vulnerability stacking. Keeping high stacks of vulnerability not only increases your own damage but the damage of your entire group and has actually made our already fast dungeon runs even faster yet.

In addition to vulnerability you bring 2 sources of regen for your group, and aoe protection from your wells not to mention whatever needed support from the particular well being used atm. I always try to keep suffering in there but switch the other 2 utilities as the situation demands such as switching well of darkness to plague signet in condition heavy fights/dungeons such as TA.

As it stands atm I am using all Power/Toughness/Vitality armor bought with karma from the temples in Orr except for legs which dont have this stat setup anywhere for some reason. You can buy a rare 80 pair of legs with this setup for a small amount of karma from the wvw armor vendors but I crafted the exotic knights exalted pants myself. Crest of the Soldier currently on all armor pieces.

For Jewelry I have my Ancient Karka Shell but I am in the process of switching all of jewelry to lvl80 exotic crafted emerald jewelry. Only my ring and amulet are emerald so far while the other ring and earring are chryso pieces from my previous build. My backpiece is still the Mad Kings Memories book sadly until I can craft an ascended backpiece. Crest of the Soldier on all my jewelry.

My weapons atm are all only rare lvl80 power/toughness/vitality weapons bought with karma from the ebon vanguard in Ebonhawke until I can get 80 exotic versions from dungeon runs or wvw. May also just got ahead and use crafted Knights weapons instead though. For sigils I use Peril for increased vulnerability duration and bloodlust for stacking up more power.

Also worth noting is that Power/Toughness/Vitality gear can be obtained for all armor and weapon slots from AC, SE, HotW, WvW, and Order of the Vigil vendors for the proper type of currency. Jewelry is also included with the WvW vendor and some weapons can be made in the Mystic Forge with the setup. Emerald Pendant is also excellent for this build if you can manage to craft it.

With all of the above in mind my unbuffed states currently look like this:
HP: 25,922
Armor: 2,777
Crit: 15%
Attack: 2,891

Vit: 1,671
Toughness: 1,857
Precision: 1,144
Power: 2,036

For food atm I have been using Mango Pies as they are incredibly cheap to make but still pretty useful. On top of that use Master Maintenance Oils which work great for this build. The oils convert a % of your toughness and vitality both into power which is great obviously since this is a high tough/vit setup.

Luckily a few bad apples don’t make the entire tree rotten. I don’t care what server your on, when you make a much stronger show of force than your enemy and push them back real well your going to have people with the mentality of “crush their morale so they don’t even want to play” and the like. It is, sad to say, simply human nature, but luckily not all of us are like that and just because a few are doesn’t mean the entire server is bad or else every server in the game would be bad I can guarantee.

On one note I can see the spawn camping and complete and utter destruction of your enemy in any way possible a fully legit strategy anyone would use to win, for such is the way of war. That being said however I can’t agree at all with the extended use of such tactics. Secure your server a good lead, sure, but using it beyond that so that other servers literally can’t even do anything all week really makes wvw compeletely and utterly worthless. Whats the point in WvW if there is no one to fight all week? Winning is a total bore and doesn’t mean kitten if you can do it without ever fighting anyone.

I’m have to disagree on the part of the Lost Shores “story” at least. I’ve enjoyed the dungeon immensely and many other storylines within the game a lot but the whole Lost Shores “story” wasn’t very well implemented imo.

It was interesting at first as we learn the Consortium people are working on some kind of crazy secret project and somehow linked to the karka but from there we get absolutely nothing else in the terms of story. Sure we go to the island the karka came from where the Consortium were supposedly doing something, but then what? We go retake the island from the karka but yeah.. What exactly are the karka? Where did they come from? What do they want? Who are these Consortium people? What was this project they were working on? Whats their connection to the karka? We have the beginning of a story here that is interesting but it seems to simply end with that beginning :x

tigirius.9014:

I;m sorry what?

You’re saying “well it’s okay that they screwed up the looting system on such a massive event because we didn’t REALLY have to play it in the first place”

uhm no.

First of all they attracted players like me with their manifesto that there would be closer to horizontal progression, over the past month they have completely destroyed horizontal progression.

Secondly, I had guildies in full MF armor and some who were not who were level 80’s btw get level 39,50,62,76 Rares and 0 exotics. Who in there right mind thinks that level 80’s need rares? Go ahead, I’ll wait……..

Yeah didn’t think so. Everything that dropped for level 80 toons should have been level 80. Even if a few drops were rares. and there should have been 1 level 80 exotic weapon per person that dropped appropriate to the class of the player, without question. I can use two weapons as an engineer wtham sandwich am I going to do with a torch??? Seriously?

One thing to remember in regards to this is they have clearly stated time and time again that Magic Find stat has no effect whatsoever on chests, ONLY loot obtained from the corpses of things you kill.

Only thing that sucks really bad is the people who took part in the entire event from the beginning, all 2hrs+, only to DC before the boss died and thus not get access to the chest at all when they made it back in :\

If it hasn’t been mentioned yet just wanted to mention that Pastkeeper Saballa is currently still bugged. The event starts to rescue her but her path is out of whack and she just gets stuck on a cage and thus event can not be completed at this time.

Well of Blood + Putrid Mark = Area Retaliation which can really rock in wvw.

Just want to say I feel for and fully respect and salute the Eredon guys that are still out there fighting, props to them.

When it comes to Maguuma on the other hand I have nothing against the server as a whole, rather I feel sorry for them having to deal with Goon Squad who always lives up to the bad reputation they’ve earned across numerous games for many years now :\

Either way the fighting has been a blast so far, regardless of scores, its just to bad we can’t keep the fighting ingame

I had the exact same issue myself and after everything support had me do (some of which made no sense at all) they simply say its a hardware issue and nothing they can do about it at all. Working on getting a new GPU to try out but with all the problems everyone else is having as well I’m scared to even try GW2 anymore as it seems it has some kind of incompatibility issue that is causing more serious problems, not to mention new bugs and errors keep appearing with every patch they release… Hopefully they get it together soon and start worrying more about fixing current major issues rather than releasing stuff that only causes more issues :x

Well after everything I did with support they are fully convinced its a hardware issue, even though the only thing that has any issues is GW2 and the Unigine Heaven program they had me use to test it out. Doesn’t make a lot of sense since other intense online games still work perfectly smooth under intense situations as well but I guess as far as they are concerned I’m just screwed :\

Tried the 310.33 and options toggle like you suggested to no effect. Still crash within 5 seconds loading into the game if not instantly.

Your not the only one having this issue. Theres tons of us having the same issue with NVidia and AMD cards alike and multiple versions of drivers. I’ve reformatted and reinstalled windows 7 completely myself with no luck at all as well. From all the digging through forums and fix attempts I’ve done over the past 3 days I’m led to believe it has more to do with the GW2 graphics engine than anything on our end specifically.

Actually for me it seems to kinda vary. As I have worked with support trying numerous fixes it has changed slightly. At first the game would lock up then flip back and forth between black screen – desktop – frozen game for 5-10 min before finally it would blue screen, crashing the computer altogether. While trying things to resolve the issue now it usually freezes – black screens – goes back to game for a few seconds – freezes – black screens – and then the grame will crash and give a pop up saying “GW2 has suffered from an irrecoverable graphics error, pelase see the site below” with a link to support site, no error codes.

@Washac I’ve tried numerous video settings both ingame and in nvidia control panel and none of them have remotely helped with GW2 though I am in the same boat as no other intense games have any issues whatsoever.

All the reading of all the threads of all the people having this issue and all the things they and myself have done to try and fix it, I am also convinced this is an issue on ArenaNets end, not ours or NVidias as people with AMD cards are experiencing the exact same issues as well.

New NVidia beta drivers out today but they did NOT address this issue at all.

Patch definitely did not improve this issue at all. New beta drivers for Nvidia came out today but they also have not fixed the problem. I have even done a completely fresh clean install of windows, GW2, and video drivers, and the problem still persists.

Based on my own findings and all the hundreds of other threads on this issue I’ve dug through in the past 16 hrs trying to fix it, that the issue is not on our end but something on ArenaNet/Nvidias side and we’re just kinda screwed until they can fix it :\

As of yesterday every tiem I attempt to log in to the game I have been having the black screen video adapter failure crashes within 2 seconds making the game literally unplayable at all. I’ve tried many fixes and nothing has worked yet.

Sadly these new beta drivers have not fixed my problem. Thats not to say by any means that these drivers are bad as my problem isn’t related to these drivers specifically, but if your one of the many having the same issue it doesn’t appear to fix it :\

It sounds like most of it will be done via repeating activities and a halloween specific story for you to progress through just like your personal story. I hope this is how it is at least seeing as how many of us can’t even log in at all right now due to the video adapter crashing issue. Can only hope to god this patch addresses that and we’ll be able to finally play again heh :x

Very excited for the update and waiting patiently as I’d rather have it go live late and work right than early or even on time and be bugged out and such.

I only pray to god I’ll even be able to login after the patch goes live since as of about 3pm cst this afternoon I’ve been getting the constant black screen video adapter failure crash literally within 2 seconds of logging in no matter what I try to do

Having the same issue here as well though slightly different. I never fully blue screen but GW2 completely locks up and doesn’t come out of it.

In addition, my black screen lock up with video adapter failure happens within 2 seconds of logging in every single time now.

I’ve been playing for almost 3 weeks now with graphics settings most all set to max and have had no issues whatsoever. This constant crashing started happening today around 2pm CST. I can only hope its related to implementation of the halloween patch and when it’s finally deployed the issue will be fixed.

I’ve tried multiple fixes from other threads including rolling back to earlier drivers with fresh installs, running all lowest settings, tweaking nvidia control panel settings and nothing has worked as of yet. All drivers are up to date and nothing is overheating.

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
System RAM: 4095 MB
CPU Name: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
CPU Speeds: 3166
Physical CPUs: 1
Virtual CPUs: 2
Video Card Description: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
VRAM: 512 MB
Primary Display Resolution: 1600×900
Multi-Monitor Desktop Resolution: 1600×900
Microphone: True
Language: English (United States)
Free Hard Drive Space: 291342 MB
Total Hard Drive Space: 476837 MB
Windows Experience Index Rating: 5.9