Guild Wars 2

I was curious, will ANet be offering the same bonuses as last year? I remember when you bought $25 in gems, you would receive the Green Quaggan Backpack Skin, and at $50 in gems, you could get a Mr. Sparkles mini.

Are there plans to have this return this year? And will they be the same items or different ones this year? I’d love to know!

Bumping this topic to the forefront, even if it’s older.

Melody has summed up the exact issues that are hitting the game now and rendering it unplayable for many, many players across the servers, myself included.

Xerca;

Many, many people, including those I am in contact with through the game, have been experiencing horrible lag spikes and latency issues. There’s a thread several pages back that started 5 months ago, when ANet was collecting data to investigate the issue. Where that data went…I have no idea.

Teleporting characters, skill lag, frozen screens; all of those have been occurring to more and more users and we’re yet to get a response. It rendered WvW nearly unplayable for me recently (goodbye, Season 1 chances), but now it’s also crept into PvE.

I would love to know why people even with updated systems, new as of this year, with stable internet, are having such tremendous issues.

I am a NA player on a NA server, btw.

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

You all have 2 weeks to get the achievement done for every Living Story. You can get 6 of them done in one sitting without trying. This leaves the last 4. Those were to participate (not win) a dragon event. That is 4 days out of 14. If you all really wanted this, get it done asap. If you have other excuses like work, internet, etc….you can’t blame Anet. If you did not have the time, you did not have the time. Everyone knows how long they have with the living story achievements. I would never wait that long for a reward I wanted, and if real world got in the way, I would not place the blame on Anet.

The ONLY excuse you all can use is that Tequatl did not show up at all last night due to a glitch, but it looks like the monthlies had already reset by then.

Have..you honestly not been reading these threads? People are angry because if they didn’t have time or the ability to get the last daily until last night, they were absolutely cheated of it, because ANet’s devs chose to not give one more daily DESPITE it still being September across much of their playerbase. Not everyone has a schedule that allows them to play the game often and more than a few people on here had to wait until last night for that final daily to pop.

Not providing one last daily before new patch content THE FOLLOWING DAY cheats your players and is just plain sloppy.

Just checking here, what planet are you guys on that only a day shift exists? The vast majority of companies now, gaming ones especially, have round-the-clock staff to troubleshoot and do support. Putting everyone on a daylight shift would essentially promise a vastly ineffective experience.

I’ve sent them a support request highlighting the issues everyone has brought up, but I won’t be surprised if it goes unanswered until more iffy content has been railroaded into the game tomorrow :/

Reminiscent Valkyrie.3109:

Same, at 8/9…..

Really wished they’d let the 30th be the last day, was expecting the patch to remove it this Wednesday, not on the 30th

Same here, since we won’t get the full update patch until tomorrow :/ Nothing like a night of void content and broken dragons!

Dizza.8104:

Sorry, didn’t mean exactly that, since the boss week meta is obviously still active. I think that as the active daily corresponds to the new month (which won’t have this boss week) there are no achievements related to the previous content.

I think this just PROVES that ANet needs to ditch dailies as part of Living World achievement content. I was leery of the 2 week limits on half the content to begin with, and this tears it. Casual players are being absolutely alienated from good rewards in the game simply because they can’t come in every single day and wait around for 1.5 hours for a single event. I don’t know who they are trying to target as a playerbase anymore, but I’m feeling more and more shoved away by their obsession with poorly tested, fickle Living World content. Give me a SOLID monthly update any day!

Echoing this, as I’m in the 8/9 boat, too, and didn’t have this issue with Scarlet.

Okay, so, since WHEN are the Living Story events over before the bi-monthly patch? I was relying on the boss daily tonight to get my Teq wings because I finally had TIME to do so, and I feel like I’ve just been slapped in the face because I didn’t have time to play every single day for completion.

Scarlet lasted through the following day’s patch. WHY is this event different?

Nasher.6874:

Don’t know why your getting problems. I’m using a 2600k i7 and a 670gtx (lower spec than you) and the game runs just as smooth as it did before. Except now I can see people in towns more than 6 feet away, which is MUCH better.

But they do need to switch to 64bit, there is no reason to code for 32bit any more. 32bit PC hardware on went obsolete over half a decade ago.

Exceeeept many, many users are still using 32 bit systems and may not have the funds to upgrade to 64 bit at the drop of a hat. GW2 allows for a player base that may not be able to afford other MMOs due to monthly costs, and devving more and more for 64 bit alone would alienate a huge chunk of the population.

Just bought $10 in gems using my debit. Thank you, ANet!

A native client would be amazing. In my opinion, too, having a stable client that reaches Mac users would draw more people to the game. It worked for WoW (I played solely because I could only run a Mac back then, in pre-Boot Camp days) and I think it would work for GW2.

Also, glad to know I’m not the only one with the hawk-on-a-stick issue.

Updating, using the gem card seems to be the only way for Mac users to obtain the gems for the moment (got one over the weekend). Otherwise….still nothing. I’m hoping we see a fix before the Dragon Bash ends at the very least!

Reporting back, finally!

The issue…well, this is shameful. It was the heat! I elevated my laptop, purchased an under-system cooling fan that runs off my USB port and poof! No more lag!

Thank you for all of the help and suggestions, though! Admins, unless others have this issue, this thread can be locked and concluded!

I’ve been having the very same issue (Mac client user here) any time I attempt to purchase gems via my bank account. The issue only began after the BLTC downtime and has not been resolved. It’s very frustrating as there gem store items I would like to have, but I don’t want to have to go out across town for a full $25 gem card, either.

Which centaur event? There are plenty of them, haha. If you mean the one in Harathi Hinterlands to get the POI/Skill Point, good luck, my friend.

Is this event not bugged on ANY US server? It’s all well and good that it works on Vabbi, but not everyone can access the EU servers :\

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Defend-Mad-Mardine-s-cows-event-bug

This has been going on for nearly a week, and I reported it back then, too. The harpies spawn continually and Mardine never terminates the event.

Still testing, but here’s some additional data:

Ping: 44ms
Download speed: 21.15 Mbps
Upload speed: 4.36 Mbps

Alright, I’ve run some tests, and I’m thinking that it’s not a cleaning/cooling issue. Last night, I was running between 15/18 FPS during a Molten Facility run using my Mac client. I rubberbanded a bit, but it was much more playable versus my usual 8 FPS.

Today? I get online (had to sign in through our network, this may be important), log into GW2…and I’m running at 4 FPS steady. I have a sinking feeling that there’s something going on with a firewall or connection that’s allowing me to play, but not very well at all.

Not sure if this requires a ticket or not, all I ask is for 15 FPS steady and nothing more! The lag is so bad that it takes spamming keps over and over to launch an attack or heal, and even then it takes a good 3 seconds just to activate

Haha, I tend to take things a little too literally, I think!

Are you ready for something horrifying? This system has never been cracked and cleaned, partly because I didn’t want to violate the original AppleCare (long expired) and partly because I would stare at the unibody design and try to figure out how to open it with little success. So my system has been running mostly in carpeted or semi-dusty areas since June 2009, Whoops!

I’ll be grabbing some canned air later and hopefully cleaning everything out and not losing vital components like teeny-tiny screws. If that doesn’t work, I think Belkin makes a USB-based cooling pad for around $20 that could help, too. Thank you for the suggestions so far!

Alright, I ran some tests and here are the results. This is after the latest software updates, running in Windowed Mode with a Skype call active. Testing took place in Rata Sum (idle) and Metrica Province (active):

Graphics settings:

Animation: Low
Anti-Aliasing: None
Environment: Low
LOD Distance: Low
Reflections: None
Textures: Low
Render Sampling: Native
Shadows: Low
Shaders: Low
Post-Processing: None
WvW Character Limit: Lowest
WvW Character Quality: Lowest
No bottom boxes checked

Temperatures (measured using iStat Pro, Fahrenheit):

GPU:
Idle: 34
Active: 34
CPU:
Idle: 96
Active: 88

While playing in Metrica, I had spikes of 15 FPS that would last 2+ minutes.

Hope this data helps!

Thanks to a major malfunction last night, I’ve been forced to download the GW2 Mac client onto my laptop following a sudden loss of my Windows 7 partition. I figured, hey, it’s the same laptop, the same resources, there should be no difference!

Oh, was I wrong. I cannot get my FPS above 15. It’s playable, but certainly not optimal. I’ve had FPS issues in the past (mostly due to a buggy connection, thank you ISP That Shall Not Be Named), but they have never been this bad.

Is the GW2 client being run via wrapper versus native at the heart of this issue? Because I was running way smoother in Windows 7 even for having what’s considered an ancient laptop by game standards. Specs are as follow:

MacBook (13 inch, Late 2008)
10.8.2 OS
2 GHz Intel Core Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB

Echoing what the others have said above, as the lack of a name change is problematic. You can easily spend several gold upping your influence to get off the ground, only to realize that your tag could be better or that there are 23 [ASDF]s on the server, 22 of which are not your guild members! So having the option to switch the name, even if there’s a small fee attached, would be a great improvement.