Guild Wars 2

Negative on that, already have it installed. Issue is reoccurring upon launching the game today, and I’m on an AMD 7970

Well that is very much true, i dont think any driver update has fixed this, ive done multiple since I built this computer, if anyone can point me to a specific version that works I would appreciate it a lot

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No, my graphics card isn’t overheating, temps are fine, this is the only game it happens on and some days it does, some days it doesn’t, happens to almost any textures at random. Goes away if i point my camera a certain angle, sometimes it affects almost everything on the map

Whenever I open the gem store both of my monitors go completely black, I can still see the windows task bar and my mouse, and hovering over windows on the task bar still produces functional “preview” windows (I’m on windows 8.1) But nothing short of either closing gw2, or alt-shift-entering it to full screen, then un-full screening the game will fix the black screen. However, upon fullscreening/unfullscreening gw2, it fixes the gem store issue, only to be replaced by any other game running at the same time to crash. If my league of legends window is open, it will crash, and will not re-open unless I close gw2. If my FFXIV window is open, it will also freeze, and upon relaunching gives me a directx error. Nothing else works along side gw2, gw2 does the same things when launched completely by itself as well. I’m not interested in an anet response trying to get me to run game advisor tests because I’ve gone through it multiple times already, with nothing helpful or anything I’ve not already tried.

im pretty sure theyre random and they’ve always been there, they arent the same as the fractal week meta achievement ones, you can tell by the background

That’s a normal daily category, not a fractal week daily

^no they can’t be sold or mailed

Alright i got on an active overflow, join on me for the party!

If at all possible, invite me to a group! IGN: A cuddly Cat or well my username is right there anyways

If you’re in a decent guild you can have 55% magic find without really sacrificing any of your armor stats, if going full out magic find is the only possible way that you’re looking at this to be effective, then pretend I never commented. The % bonus from armor is so negligible its hardly worth getting, running maybe 1 noble rune on your armor isn’t a huge hit to stats, considering I run orbs instead of rune sets its even less, put exotic opal pieces into your jewelry sets and you have a pretty balanced set with a decent amount of magic find. 90% with guild buffs I believe, or 100% if you use an omnomberry cream instead of bar.

Wasselin.1235:

Gab Superstar.4059:

Wasselin.1235:

Then why are trash mobs there? Is it supposed to be some kind of “strategy” to run through them until they reset? From what you describe Kerrigan a dungeon should just be a run from a start line to a finish line. It might be more efficient that way but is it actually fun?

It’s how it has always been since GW1, and I guess a lot of new people caught on to it after running with GW1 players. When there are no world first achievements and no gear progression the only way to tell how good someone is at doing something is how efficient they are at doing it.

The Speed Clearing community was probably the most disliked and misunderstood community in GW1, and it looks like they already are in GW2 with 20 new threads exactly like this popping up on various forums every week.

But guess what? Don’t like it? Don’t do it!

EDIT: And yes people obviously think it’s fun >.<

I get that speed clearing could be fun— I just disagree that it’s fun to run past mobs. Sneaking past a few mob packs can be fun, without aggroing them, but running through them until they reset just seems completely unintended behavior to me.

A group that knows which packs to avoid and has a strategy for killing the mobs they can’t avoid aggroing should be rewarded. A speed clear should be a measure of skill, not a measure of how fast you can run through mobs until they reset.

It’s called leashing, and there is absolutely no reason to kill most of the trash in the dungeons. No significant drops, they’re just normal enemies with 100x the health wasting your time. If it’s possible to cut down the time of the dungeon, without any negative impact on rewards, please tell me how this is wrong? If it was unintended to run past trash, why is it even possible and why has no dev ever stated that it was wrong or unintended?

Give me a good reason not to skip trash mobs and once that happens I’ll gladly kill trash, and no, getting globs of globby goop and porous bones doesn’t count as a reason. I get my dungeon tokens faster, karma faster, money faster, and once I hit DR I’m free to do whatever the hell else I want for an hour then go back and do more dungeons. spvp is fun, time goes by fast.

Based on the screen, they skipped straight to lupicus, then ran through the 2nd half of the dungeon as normal. My take on it anyways, because brie will still spawn if you skip the beginning you just don’t get any rewards. So, Steele, now you know you can’t skip that stuff. Goodluck on your next run!

At the top of the screen at the right the objective is “Meet Yissa’s scouts” which means you never even went to the first objective, the current objective isn’t brie, either you were being dragged along by someone telling you to skip this, portal here etc, or you’re trolling.

Nice try but it looks like you skipped everything and ran straight to the end boss, then complained it’s bugged. Good job.

Well for path 1, no you don’t have to kill the spiders, we always just run from lupicus straight to the end boss. If the door bugs, as it does pretty much 100% of the time for me, a thief or mesmer or ele or something can get in the door. Stand to the left of the entrance on top of the little curved rock, aim a teleport at your feet (shortbow 5 for thief/shadow step, blink, lightning flash, w/e) Then you’ll be in the rock, mess around a little, rtl around or updraft, roll for iniative, or just run at the walls, do whatever, until you have a bit of room to move around, then go to the wall where the next room is and teleport again at the wall. Run forward, trigger cutscene, bam! There might be an easier way, I just figured that one out myself so, ye. If you manage to get to the end and are having trouble, pm me ingame and I can explain more or come do it for you if necessary.

I really really really don’t understand the complains about the character models obstructing your view, like 1/4th of the way into the puzzle (exaggerating probably) kittening everyone has already fallen. People really need to stop coming up with excuses to make up for their own faults. Took me under an hour my first try, yes I had banner warriors spamming swiftness random times, engineers dropping stim packs, norns spamming chat (turn off ui), huge models, didn’t take long to get the first couple jumps down then hey guess what nobody makes it past that because they’re too slow. Unless people are magically getting better at this somewhere, there is no zerg of fat norn or charr “clogging” your view as you attempt to continue in the puzzle. Tbh all these mad king clocktower hate threads turn into charr and norn are the cause of all our problems thread, I hope we don’t resort to holocaust-like behavior.

I always loot the second chest after the jump down for the 5 tot bags If you’re fast you have time for it, plus i do that puzzle to farm the bags.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

Chalice, have you yet ran into a group of norn spamming gibberish in blocks in /say to block the view of everyone in the puzzle?
How about a bored warrior who waits, and speed buffs people mid-jump to watch them die?
Or actually had a serious camera issue, since day one of the game?

All of these things happen to people, and it destroys what would otherwise be good content. I’m usually the guy who tells people to suck it up and get better at the game, but this is just absolutely poor design on A-nets part.

There are a number of ways a bored person can make an alt, and in ten minutes, cause grief to whoever he happens to run in to on the puzzle. The basic, competitive nature of the green fog, joined with the fact that one group of people is simply designed 25% faster than anyone else not using an exploit is bad.

If this wasn’t just a holiday event, people would be far more upset, but they have a right to be upset now. The basic design philosophy has been thrown away, and this limited time content has been put together in such a way that it is simply exclusive, barring a vast majority of players.

Join a different overflow? Or, turn off your game UI as you REALLY don’t need it for the jump puzzle.
Also yeah I’ve had people randomly speed buff me and I really never died from it because it was so early in the puzzle that it didn’t matter.

Well I’ve done the puzzle on all of my characters, including a norn, a charr, an asura, sylvari and human. Yes I have all races, took me about 40mins to an hour my first try I’ll admit, and this was back when people spammed banner swiftnesses, engineers using med kit, it wasn’t even annoying because they’d all fall down and die before 1/4th of the way into the puzzle honestly. It’s not hard, learn the jumps, trial and error. Some of my friends took between 3 and 5 hours to do this puzzle AFTER they fixed the banners, medkit, etc. It’s just a difficult puzzle and takes a slight amount of skill, make up all the excuses you want. Btw I play fully zoomed out at all times, no serious camera issues, I’m not understanding the complaints.

Some people are just ignorant sometimes, I was on my lv40 alt that had a full set of TA armor and AC weps transmuted, trying to pug AC, got kicked, pm’d them and they said they wanted experienced people. Not to mention to even go to vote kick me from the party they’d mouse over my name and see 2,600+ achievement points.

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YAY

I never get to do AC on my lv40 mesmer simply because every group kicks me, even though I have over 2.5k achievement points (5 lv80’s so far, sup) and complains they want 80s only. I even offer to reroll to an 80 but they refuse to accept me. I’d also guarantee I can do ac faster than them.

Well I feel kinda stupid now, I thought it was my graphics randomly screwing up. Guess that explains why my guardian has it 24/7…..

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shows up randomly, usually during combat always on the left hand. Happens on all my characters, and sometimes other people’s characters as well. first I thought it meant something, but now I have no idea, and it is bothering me

Yukisho.5381:

So you played for a total of 31.5 days on your characters over the last 56 days and have had only 24.5 days worth of not playing. Guessing you got 8 hours of sleep each day, you spent 196 hours asleep when not playing. That leaves only 392 hours of work/school/not playing. While you had spent 756 hours of the time in 56 days playing the game. In 56 days there is only 1,344 hours. That is a seriously bad addiction.

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Sadly I don’t have a legendary, or even 1/1000th of the gold to buy one, I do have 5 lv80’s though!

High level gear has 3 different stat bonuses while low level gear has only 2, until a certain point. Your lv80 gear does scale down to equivalent but you do have that 3rd stat. At least in AC, the lv35 vs lv80 (or to whatever point you get the 3rd gear stat, lv55 you can get blue gear with 3 stats i believe) that’s a difference. I personally started doing the level appropriate dungeons as soon as I hit the level and took my chances with pugs (They just cant see my 2.5k achievement points and assume I have a basic understanding of the game I suppose) and hope I don’t get kicked. I don’t have any problems at low levels. Higher levels has advantages but it all just comes down to player skill in the end.

I personally wasn’t aware that the personal story missions were even considered challenging, blew my way through it on all 4 of my 80’s :/ including an ele and thief neither of which I ever faced any type of difficulty at all. I played most of my personal stories while watching tv shows, hardly paying attention, generally without deaths. I just don’t see the need to tone them down.

I’m having the same problem, no other window causes lag like this.

Have you played gw1? You could get your max stat Armor, weapons, stats, max level, all within a couple hours of playtime. People wanted the best skins, and they took time to get. Obsidian Armor was the most expensive and required the most work aka “hardest” set to get. same freaking stats. took ages to farm the mats. You want the best skins, they take work. It’s how this game works. Especially the dungeon sets, can’t just sit around making money on the tp for that, takes a little bit of skill and a brain.

I do like this guide, might actually attempt to pug Arah now, and I agree…Simin is just….awful. We had a pretty good, fully geared, all on ts, guild group. Made it past lupicus alright, did everything else perfectly, got to simin and it was just horrible. Once we got the sparks mechanic down, we started actually making progress, got her to 25% then the sparks just would NOT go in, and as a result, almost an hour of trial and error whittling a boss down with our not so dps centric team, she fully healed. This continued for another 2 kittening hours then we went to bed. Usually when randoms complain about a boss being too hard, we shrug it off, because they’re usually bad at the game. But this one is actually hard and takes some actual effort and rediculous coordination to pull off. I’d put it at completely undoable in a pug, unless you managed to get matched up with some pve legends which hardly happens.

I can stay in melee on alpha on all my ele quite easily, almost ALL of his attacks are easily dodge-able and for everything else there’s heals. One pug run I was the only one alive at alpha for the entire fight, took like 20mins on the final fight, but I never died once.

another annoying thing that you just can’t help in pugs is in CoF path 3, the little bomb dodging path, since I don’t have a mesmer at 80 yet I cant portal people, and they just seem entirely incompetent at making it past no matter how detailed i explain it. I’ve actually had to solo gaheron’s drake just to pop the waypoint for them before…

^Same happening for me, tried restarting a few times, still broken. Very depressing…

I’ve solo’d cof…but I’m sure hrouda already knows all about it.

The bombs in the cave seem to be spawning like, endlessly, which is why I think the lag is there. There’s literally hundreds of them stacked on eachother, probably more, can’t seem to put a dent in the pile ever.

To be honest, GW1 dungeons we’re hard when they first came out, yes. But, after a while, most people could do a dungeon by themselves with heroes. Or, a team could speedclear any dungeon very quickly. The rewards weren’t really on par with what GW2 rewards for a dungeon, in gw1 you got 1 or 2 drops depending on whether it was Hard Mode or Normal, then the drops only had a very small chance to be the dungeon’s unique item. I did like GW1 dungeons, but it’s almost wrong to compare the two. The similarities are pretty much stuck at the name “dungeon” and having things to kill.

^same here, sigh

So, during the personal story quest Ships of the Line, I accidentally fell off the boat at first, which lead to me getting teleported back onto the boat. However, soon after the quest updated to Assist Merri with the ooze problem below decks. And now, whenever I attempt to go down the stairs to plug the holes, I just get teleported back to the top. I can’t progress with the quest

Was looking forward to the new loot bags on my alt. le sigh.

I’ve never shown pugs anything that I have done, I’ve explored all over CoF in explorable mode. Finding hidden rooms, figuring out how the dungeon works, etc etc. Was pretty fun really Then pugs figured it out eventually.

I’m no stranger to the wall jumping, however when I managed to get over the wall, the destroy the eternal flame event did not trigger, no acolytes spawned. The flame was killable, I killed it, however no chest spawned. Perhaps it had to do with the fact that I did not touch a single other event in the entire dungeon. Zoned in, ran straight there, and he didn’t trigger. (He would before the update btw) Perhaps it’s different when you actually progress up to that point with magg, I’ll do some other testing later.

Personally I went on an all pug AC storymode dungeon on my lv36 guardian, the minimal traits I had put into honor and valor, then virtues. I was able to take a few hits without dying, obviously cant sit there and tank, but buffed as I could, and did damage. That’s really unavoidable, I would switch out of mace/shield to greatsword to do damage, pull mobs into a nice ball for aoe’ing, get down the symbol of wrath, then back to mace and shield before I died. Can’t really just set out to do a single thing the whole dungeon aka support with the same skillset the entire time. There’s a reason why you can swap your traits, skills, weapons, etc in the middle of the dungeon. Can’t honestly perfectly remember the rest of the team, I knew there was a warrior and another guardian. All in all, none of the boss fights were hard. Relena and Vassar wen’t rather smoothly really, we just kept knocking Relena back with the boulders then killing her first. Back in the 3rd beta weekend, my friends hit AC story as soon as we were all lv30 and didn’t even find the dungeon all too hard then either. Guardian, warrior, necro, 2x ele then.

Massive fps drops during fighting/most events. WvW is practically unplayable regardless of graphics settings.