Guild Wars 2

I would like to point out that I was “infracted” for expressing my dissatisfaction with this service and my follow up post was removed. Allow me to re-iterate my issues in a more “delicate” manner:

This game is not new, the company is not inexperienced. Why are these simple, baseline, connectivity issues still happening. It’s a simple contact list/group management system which exists in almost every modern web app & game at this point. This has happened to me many times before, and the issue persists for hours. (Let’s not forget that skill lag is still present).

Why is there still no particle adjustment system that works. It’s been over a year. This has been requested since BWE1. “Limit Particle LOD” is bullkitten. There’s plenty of evidence & feedback on this forum to support this.

Bots are still a big deal. I still see the same bots after months. I get direct messages from gold sellers now, at least 3 times a week. Wow.

Now, that’s polite as it gets. I’m just a regularly paying customer looking for answers about my favorite game which I share with my friends, and these game breaking “issues” sure can put a dampener on our game time.

GOSU.9574:

The issue is with you being “hosted” to someone else’s server while doing a dungeon with players from other servers.

Discovered these types of issues many months ago when a friend would do guild missions with a guild on another server. We could not send item links and I noticed she was not displayed as online in my friends list.

No, we were all from the same server. We all rolled on the same server, and we guest very rarely.

That is not the issue. This is just more broken kitten.

Yet again, I’m trying to do a dungeon and suddenly out of nowhere I’m booted. I log back in, the guild roster is empty, I can’t see any of my friends online (but they can see me), I can’t join parties (I get the invite, there is no name, I accept it, nothing happens), and I can’t join dungeons.

I tried two separate computers on two separate internet connections.

This happens every so often, and it’s pretty silly for a year old MMO from an experienced company.

Check it out Anet, there’s plenty of interest in this. Just take a look through your own forums.

Please, just throw it in there. If someone on your team thinks we’ll be shooting ourselves in the foot, they’re wrong. Let it be our own responsibility to make our own choices like this.

Thank you.

I agree entirely. I very much want the ability to straight up remove spell effects in this game. They ware way too obnoxious, and I’m not okay with screwing up gameplay for the sake of some pretty bs we’ve all seen thousands of times before.

People have been asking for this for a long time. What’s the hold up, here. It’s a simple slider/option.

The “Limit Effect LOD” does NOTHING.

Hey,

I’m bumping an old(ish) thread but limiting particles needs to be revisited. Bad.

Right now, it’s affecting our runs quite a bit as our melee members are getting screwed over by some serious flashiness that doesn’t need to be there. It’s impossible to watch for telegraphed attacks, and if you happen to have a Guardian/Ele/Engineer in your party well good luck. You’re gonna need it in melee.

Thing is, the effects are pretty and all but we need the option to disable/remove/tone them down further. What’s in there now does not work. At all.

Why can’t we just have a slider? High, medium, none or something. I mean, there’s gotta be a way to just turn them off altogether.

sobe.4157:

Obviously there are some things going on with the game and certain peoples’ setups, but at the same time 120ms is not a good local average, that number should be cut in half.

Btw, when you are checking the latency, are you checking the GAME server or are you looking at the LOGIN server latency? For instance, my game server latency to Jade Quarry is jumping between 47 – 60. You can type /ip ingame and check it against the Remote Address you are checking.

Yes Sobe.

I am sure it’s a problem with the game, and not with me.

sobe.4157:

Arky.1938:

Hi there,

Recently I’ve been noticing climbing latency, with it now peaking out at about 380ms. I live reasonably close to Anet, and no other application is reporting above 120ms latency. I’d like to point out, that this time last year I was in Europe playing GW2, and was experiencing about 150ms. Seems like something is slipping or going on.

Could someone please let me know what this is, or when a fix is coming? It’s really affecting some of our runs where we cut things to the wire.

Thanks.

What server provider do you have? What is your location in the states? 120ms is a bit high if you live in the states and have apps reporting that, so what are your downstream and upstream speeds?

Service provider is fine. 120ms is average for anyone. Upstream & downstream speeds are more than capable of handling GW2 (Bandwidth of 20Mbps down, 5Mbps up).

If you spend any time whatsoever reading around this forum, you’ll see others reporting the same latency issues. Either in-game, on skills and utilities, or otherwise.

Being that 3 members of our run reported almost identical latency to GW2, it’s clear Guild Wars 2 is lagging bad for certain people rendering certain elements of the game unplayable. It’s up to us to notice, and up to Arenanet to fix it.

Just to let you know, I’m getting comparable latency. I’ve actually made a post regarding this, and I’m awaiting feedback. I’m nowhere near as far away from Anet as yourself, so I think there’s something pretty bad going on their end. There’s a lot of shocking things going on. I’m getting about 20ms latency less than you, setting me at about 380ms ping.

This pretty much confirms it’s not a user issue, and I hope they get it fixed soon as it’s really starting to get under my skin. It’s been going on and off for a while now, at least for me.

Yeah, pretty much Redekitten googled it, found this thread, and bumped it for that reason.

It’d be excellent to hide numbers. Weapons I’m not concerned about. I don’t think numbers should be hidden by default, but I think it’d be a nice option.

I know what my numbers are, they don’t really change. I don’t need to see them over and over.

PS, the second part of your name shows up as “Kitten” when I type it. Weird.

Hi there,

Recently I’ve been noticing climbing latency, with it now peaking out at about 380ms. I live reasonably close to Anet, and no other application is reporting above 120ms latency. I’d like to point out, that this time last year I was in Europe playing GW2, and was experiencing about 150ms. Seems like something is slipping or going on.

Could someone please let me know what this is, or when a fix is coming? It’s really affecting some of our runs where we cut things to the wire.

Thanks.

I’d also like to add a request for customization on battle text, as I find my crits end up blocking my view on smaller bosses. When watching for telegraphs is so important here, I’m surprised it’s so obnoxious.

Specifically, I’d like to be able to all battle text in combat. No numbers please.

Also, maybe a recount feature? Please?

This might be an old thread, but I think this is worth revisiting.

After time in spent in GW2, I think these options would be very nice. I often find that when I’m waiting to watch for a boss’ telegraph for an attack, the crits and big numbers get right in my face and block my view.

I don’t know about you guys, but the update this year seems super empty, and it just feels like they took out a bunch of stuff with no real reason to. The kicker for me was the chest at the end of the Clocktower, after all that effort in “competitive jumping”, was a single once-per-account-forever chest. Not to mention you can no longer mystic forge chests to get sweet stuff. (Like the Mad King chests in 2012).

It feels like there’s nothing to work towards, and nothing to look forward to. And I know I’m not the only one who thought the mini-dungeon with Tessa was kind of bad. It was interesting at first, but it takes 5 minutes, there’s not a lot to get out of it, and the instance itself is tiny and devoid of challenge. And the achievements don’t help pad it out very much.

The PvP minigame is interesting, but it has the same problem as all PvP related things in GW2: you can’t play with your friends unless you get lucky enough to end up in the same instance. Or better yet, you end up in the same instance but on opposite teams (boo).

Farming 10,000 candy corns doesn’t really count as an activity.

Here’s hoping they’re working on some real content, and that there’s more to come. This is lame.

Hey there,

Is there a way to get Tassi’s relay golem on another toon? I went in on an alt out of curiosity.

If I delete it, can I re-do the event? or is there another way to do it?

Then why even have the button in the game if no one responds and nothing gets done. Is it to give off the illusion that someone gives a “kitten”.

Hi there,

I’ve been reporting issues & providing feedback via the in-game tools since release, and I have yet to receive a single response. In addition to this, my server is overcome with bots (particularly in the Cursed Shore map but they’re blatantly common elsewhere), and though I have reported the same bots multiple times over the course of about two months, they’re still active on the same toons, same accounts, with only their guild changing. I have yet to receive feedback on a single matter bot, account, glitch, or error related.

Is Anet so backed up on forms that they can’t respond a single time over the course of an entire year?

What’s going on? Or is the feedback form a placebo? Because it sure feels like it.

Hi there,

I’d like to add to this listing of art issues. This is something I haven’t noticed before, but recently my Charr Guardian’s shields have been clipping through his arm. It looks more like the shield is a sleeve than, well, a shield. This happens regardless of shield type, it glitches no matter the shape, size, or model.

This happens when it’s on his back, too.

Just to say, I’m doing this quest now and the tank is still broken. I believe I’ll choose to attack the giants head-on as was described in this thread.

I love this game, but there’s numerous bugs/glitches that are getting more frustrating as time goes on.