Guild Wars 2

It is rather annoying how every other character is female wearing less clothing than a stripper.

Since the last patch, I’ve been having trouble playing any instanced content. Roaming the world is fine, but connecting to an instanced map causes massive lag spikes, which for some reason don’t affect chat. These usually end in my game disconnecting or soft freezing in a load screen while I can still hear the game in the background.

My computer is hardwired into my modem and has been for some time. My internet connection is just fine, and I don’t encounter chronic lag or disconnects in any of the Xbox or other PC games I play, and again, the problems only occur when I load into an instance.

This has pretty much halted my progress in the game, and would love some help in getting past this problem. I attached a picture of the client after I get the disconnect message. If there is any other information I can provide, please let me know.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I read every response and appreciate your feedback. Still not exactly feeling the same joy I did playing Alliance Battles in GW1. I don’t expect I’ll ever pick up this game’s PvP in the same manner. Seems like the barrier to entry is just a bit too high for me.

But I will probably start playing my few games I do engage in on my ranger instead of engineer. Will also probably stop playing Stronghold because it seems to be mostly pubstompers.

Whenever I log onto to play PvP these days, it’s just a blowout. Match after match of getting just shredded by coordinated teams of players using the most meta of meta builds they can find. Even when I win, I don’t get that feeling of satisfaction. I generally don’t know why we won, and usually didn’t contribute to the win.

Basically, I love Guild Wars 2. I’m not a fanatical player. I play when I have time, and I tend to stick with PvE, but in most other games, I love PvP, and tend to be able to hold my own. However, I feel like this game’s PvP was hard to understand before Heart of the Thorns, and now it’s just completely beyond me. Nowadays, I log in, and spend most of my time dead. I don’t even get time to figure out my mistakes because most fights end with me blowing up in half second, and I don’t even have time to decipher which of the 10 ridiculous particle effects killed me. Readability is a big issue for me.

I’m willing to invest time into a game, but generally that game has to be fun on some level first. I keep giving this game’s multiplayer a shot, because my friend and I were big fans of Guild Wars 1’s PvP, but we both feel there is no place for the casual player anymore. The point of entry is too high. There’s a mountain of mechanics to go through. The game is blinding fast, and requires incredible reflexes and precise dexterity to hit combos.

If I could log on, and have an even match where I felt my opponents and teammates were at a similar level of experience, I could slowly get into this. Did anybody else really love GW1 PvP, but hasn’t found any enjoyment from 2’s?

I know this is whining, but honestly, I just miss having a Guild Wars like game to play PvP in, and it sorta feels like all of the people of average video game ability have been sorta waysided in favor of this small, dedicated fanbase. Great if you are one of those people, but I wish for the days when Guild Wars was more inclusive, and I feel there is room for both audiences to exist without sacrificing in quality for either group.

Also, advice is always fine. My friend nor I never last long enough to ever figure out anything beyond how to wait for the death timer to come back up.

I love the starting goggles. Still use the skin.