Guild Wars 2

Turned up to do the Shadow Behemoth this morning 15 minutes before the 30 minute window was due to open and was put into an overflow.

Now I know that a lot of people say that guesting isn’t responsible, maybe it’s not solely responsible, but it’s certainly a contributing factor. I’m on a UK server and the main chat is always in English, however the chat was full of French speaking people.

Just prior to doing this event I had just completed The Frozen Maw and lots of people in chat admitted they were guesting on our server. It may not be the sole problem but it’s certainly a contributing factor! Have a look at the attachment for an example of the main chat on EU Desolation during the Behemoth event, I’ve blurred out names for privacy.

You don’t think people aren’t abusing the guesting system? Okay then

The current rewards are a farmers paradise. Why farm karka shells and the other goodies in Southsun Cove when you can simply server hop and nail all of these chests that give at least a guaranteed rare.

One giveaway that I’ve noticed since guesting arrived is that being on a UK server everyone spoke English even in zones that were mobbed and this is since the games release. Only since the guesting arrived we now have main and overflow chat full of people speaking French, German, etc.

Plus, even though these zones are now heavily populated, you’d never actually know due to the ridiculous amount of culling. Enter a zone, wait a while until it displays characters, move a short distance and watch people fade out of view and more appear.

Surely people cannot be happy playing the game with the state that the events are currently in and the lag that is present?

Got to laugh at the suggestion of ‘show up early’ when these events are being farmed. I thought I’d be safe turning up for Teq almost an hour before his spawn window was due to open and was shoved into an overflow. It’s simply ridiculous.

The buffed loot is causing the issue and everyone wants to farm them, and for those thinking that guesting isn’t adding to population … really? There are bots farming Southsun Cove driving up prices of sigils (+damage to karka) and some here don’t think these events are getting abused by guesting accounts?

Personally, I’d remove guesting all together but I know there are some that are using it honestly and that wouldn’t be fair, but it’s a broken system at the moment and it’s affecting more players than it benefits. ANet need to find some sensible solution to this as you only have to read main chat to get the thoughts of the masses.

Maybe pushing a guesting account to an overflow if someone who resides on the server is trying to get to that zone, but that’s hardly an elegant option either. Maybe keep guests in overflows? Whatever the solution, it needs to happen soon as the forums are flooded with the same type of complaints.

No idea where my other post went, but the lag for me on Desolation is always with the events. Usually stuck in an overflow as those guesting are farming chests for rares .. it’s ridiculous at the moment sadly. Can’t properly play the game I bought.

The dragon encounters especially were never great and always lagged a little, but since the guesting was introduced it’s been at a whole new level. And now that the loot has been buffed, they are getting heavily farmed.

Please keep guesting accounts to overflows. It isn’t right that those whose accounts reside on the server are consta stuck in overflows when these events are about to take place.

Since the guesting has been active and the change to the loot, events are getting farmed to death and it’s kitten near impossible to get into a zone. The amount of times today I’ve been locked in an overflow, even if I arrive up to an hour before the event is a joke.

Surely priority must be given to those who actually reside on the servers they are playing on and move these farming server hoppers to overflows. Better still, removing guesting altogether as it’s breaking the game for the masses. It’s no doubt a massive contributing factor to the lag and culling and zones with events that offer chests are just stupidly busy.

I’m curious too if anyone from the dev team has actually played the game in the EU on an EU server and thought “Yes, this is how we wanted this event to pan out”. Huge amounts of culling, huge delays on abilities cast, it’s simply a joke at the moment.

Hello Devs,

Firstly, I’m a huge fan of the game and since release the other games in my collection haven’t got much of a look in. It’s clear your programmers, artists and designers have crafted a beautiful world full of detail modelled to the nth degree. I play as an Elementalist on the EU server – Desolation, sadly however certain aspects of the game are simply broken due to unplayable lag and culling.

Huge epic events that your teams have crafted are completely broken at the moment as they are simply impossible to enjoy. Take the dragon encounters, these are almost a slide show where frustratingly you are trying to perform an action and nothing will happen due to the lag. You will then have mobs, friendies constantly disappearing and reappearing from view due to the excessive culling and these events that should be epic in scale are just broken moments that people turn up to for loot.

Sadly this has been getting worse and worse and then you read rumours that EU game servers are actually based in Texas and that the cause of all the extra lag recently is due to guesting accounts. It’s certainly not imagination that since the recent patch that any encounter that involves a lot of people are simply unplayable as myself, the rest in our guild and the complaints in the main chat channel all state the same.

Can any developer please clarify what are causing these issues and whether we are going to see the back of them? Are these teething issues based on newly added features? Will encounters of this type be constantly broken, to the point where people will simply get too frustrated and choose not to do them? Should the game suffer for the masses to appease the few people that may choose to guest (if indeed this is part of the problem)?

I’m a huge fan of the game and I really want to enjoy the content you have created as it’s very clear to see a lot of effort has been poured into it, but parts are simply impossible to enjoy at moment as the game can be incredibly frustrating to play due to the reasons above.

Thanks.

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Desolation (EU)

Same issue as everyone else.