Guild Wars 2

With Gw2skills.net down leaving no other build editors for the community has ArenaNet considered hosting their own build calculator? Most games have somewhat of their own build editors on their website. I’m asking this question because I don’t want to begin to put the work into making one using the API if there’s already plans to release one on guildwars2.com.

Well after 82 games in T6/7 diamond; I even dropped down to T5 once, I finally hit legendary. I hit legendary at 3:30 am my time. Talk about last minute. Big thanks to Miaxi and his stream. I learned some neat tricks with necro that really made a some big differences in team fights. What a long day it has been!

First, let me bring you up to date on my history with this season. My name is Dominic. I was late to this season because honestly, I didn’t want to PvP alone. My friends that I know who are great PvP players haven’t been around much. Two weeks ago I decided, heck I’ll give it a shot. Well, that “shot” turned into diamond tier 7 in about 2 weeks of casual play (3-10 games a day depending on the day).

I have been at tier 7/6 diamond for the past 70+ games. I cannot express the amount of disappointment I have for at least one teammate every match let alone Anet’s matchmaking/league system. I don’t think it’s the matchmaking system; I believe that it’s the league system. People that started day one in the season have grinded their way up to diamond/legendary even though they are average to sub-par players. Is legendary meant for average players? I was under the impression it wasn’t. I’m stuck in diamond because I believe my MMR is terrible. Any win streak I get is lost immediately due to someone going afk because of rage quitting after losing mid, or because I’m solo queue and get put against teams of 3 or 4.

I just wanted to write you Anet and express I have never been so irate towards an mmo before. I mean, at least when I used to play ranked PvP in WoW I was getting put against people who are usually my skill level as we make our way to the top. I’m sitting here in diamond playing with people who should be in sapphire or even emerald.

I’ll never step foot in PvP again without announced changes to how the system works. I’ll never waste days of my life again just to play with people I thought I out ranked in the first few hours of my season journey.

If I didn’t have a wife that loved this game I probably wouldn’t even play this game anymore, but it’s not that easy for me. Though, I won’t waste another second of my time in a broken ranked PvP system.

Hopefully, someone can take my account name, look at some statistics of my PvP history and find the flaws in your system for that is the true intention of this post.

Randulf.7614:

You could just email support. They will give you a definitive, official reply.

I would assume support has protocols they follow whereas I’m looking for someone like Gaile Gray or up that would look at this and question the protocols and bring the topic up at the studio.

It’s such a difficult topic for them to reply to and I don’t blame them for not responding or taking their time in doing so.

Khisanth.2948:

Heh … at least in theory shouldn’t this work for videos of GW2 gameplay that also happens to have the relevant data on screen as well?

Yes it will work. As long there is no pixel loss you will have no problems.

Mosferre.1246:

Just a minor note, at least change the opening text on your site so it’s doesn’t completely rip it verbatim from JaxnX :/

I wasn’t aware of this. I let one of the developers that set up the front page of the website know this isn’t acceptable. It will be changed today…

Belzebu.3912:

Your software only read pictures taken from the UI, there in no issue there, the rest of the process (DPS calculation and connection with others for group DPS) doesn’t involve the GW2 client at all, and it doesn’t offer any advantage. so it is all fine.

I wish it was that easy to make everyone understand that truth.

Agreed. It would be nice if someone from ANet not necessarily approve or disapprove of the program but to verify if the information we claim is correct.

I thought I had this linked, apparently I didn’t.
http://gw2dps.com/in-regards-to-recent-concerns

I recently released Gw2DPS.com to the community, and there seems to be a nitch of people who are convinced it violates your terms of service.

As I have had over 30,000 hits on the website in the past 24 hours, I feel that this should have some clarity for the community because I refuse to be responsible for putting others at risk of account closure.

I will remove everything immediately if this is the case because the entire project is focused on being 100% completely legal and acceptable to use.

We have already planned to change the name as it shares the same name of another program released by another developer that DOES break TOS. We apologize for this in advance as we weren’t aware of it before hand.

I understand this is notably tough to handle from your point of view and have to be extremely careful about what you say, should you respond. Please consider it and let us know. Thank you.

Lawton Campbell.8517:

I can’t really think of a malicious way to use it.

Would be nice to dump the chat (from all chat contexts) to one file, and the combat log to another file. I can’t make any promises but if nothing else it’s something I’ve personally been wanting for awhile.

Sorry for bumping such an old reply but is this still being considered? Having the combat log go to a text file with timestamps would be amazing.

A few days ago the servers went offline for maybe three minutes total. Ever since this happened, my wife and I have had almost an unplayable experience. We get extreme lag spikes constantly making it difficult to play.

For example, if I use “Burning Retreat” I roll all the way back, teleport forward half way then teleport back to the end of where I rolled.

Until this is resolved am I allowed to run our clients through a purchased VPN service? I currently have a premium membership with hide.me and I was thinking if I connected to a USA VPN we would avoid the connection disruption we are having from our home internet to Anet servers.

My concern is our account standing. I do not want to run our accounts through a VPN and risk being falsely banned because we could be sharing the same IP of anyone else using the same VPN for Guild Wars 2.

A mod/dev response within the next 12 hours would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

When I do a tracert lines 14,15, and 16 drop. I’m assuming thats the cause of the spikes…

I know right… What the heck is going on. I contacted my ISP and there isn’t any issues with my network or surrounding networks with my ISP.

I’ve already done the test every day since it’s happened…

Anyone here still experiencing any spikes or anything of the sort? I’m here in New Brunswick Canada, and I am experiencing spikes of up to 500ms. This all started the other night when the servers went down for roughly 3 minutes. Ever since they came back online, I’ve had these issues and still do.

I’m here in New Brunswick Canada, and I am experiencing spikes of up to 500ms. Any skills that are movement based glitch out. This all started the other night when the servers went down for roughly 3 minutes. Ever since they came back online, I’ve had these issues.

Starting the other night when the servers went offline for a few minutes is when I started experiencing these really bad spikes. It’s so annoying, and I hope it’s resolved soon.

Well, I started to read the thread, but I ran out of time. I hope I’m not overlapping others too much.

Gaile I love where you’re going with this.

As for me, I posted a suggestion earlier. Here it is below.

Guild Hall PvE Dummies
It would be nice if the golems that are in Heart of the Mist could be placed or unlocked in the guild halls. It would be another upgrade to work towards (sink) and it I’m sure the PvE community would be quite attracted to this upgrade.
No sense in making everybody go to PvP to experiment with their builds anymore when we have Guild Halls. The stats aren’t the same in PvP vs. PvE, and it’s truly an inconvenience.

I would also like to add that I strongly dislike having PvP rank symbols next to my name outside of Heart of the Mist. It has actually led to people treating me as if I’m a novice because I do not participate in PvP. Quite annoying!

It would be nice if the golems that are in Heart of the Mist could be placed or unlocked in the guild halls. It would be another upgrade to work towards (sink) and it I’m sure the PvE community would be quite attracted to this upgrade.

No sense in making everybody go to PvP to experiment with their builds anymore when we have Guild Halls. The stats aren’t the same in PvP vs. PvE, and it’s truly an inconvenience.

Is this the best way to make a suggestion? I’ve been watching the Guild Chat stream lately at work, and I noticed you guys take notice to suggestion on Reddit and the forums. Here is mine!

Hi. I just contacted support regarding this issue and I was redirected to here. My team also killed Sabetha last night and none of us was rewarded progress towards our Undefeated achievement.

I have uploaded a video as proof that we didn’t get the achievement and we are all eagerly awaiting to have it rewarded to us…

https://youtu.be/60y8vtaX_rE

Hi. I just contacted support regarding this issue and I was redirected to here. My team also killed Sabetha last night and none of us was rewarded progress towards our Undefeated achievement.

Was this your first kill (or anyone’s first kill) of Sabetha?
No

Did anyone in your group kill Sabetha earlier in the week before getting this kill?
Yes, we killed her earlier on this week. We went back in to cap shards and killed her with no deaths.

I have uploaded a video as proof that we didn’t get the achievement and we are all eagerly awaiting to have it rewarded to us…

https://youtu.be/60y8vtaX_rE

This is so freaking annoying. When I get home from work tomorrow I really hope this bug is fixed.

I just posted a topic on this exact same thing. I am furious with all the nerfs to the spell/skill animations. Why can’t these changes be optional via an option in our settings?

I have been playing this game almost consistently since the pre-release. I have always wanted more information to be shown when you hold ALT to view the character nameplates around you. Today, you finally add more to the nameplate. Although, it saddens me that you decide to add PVP relevant information across the entire game rather than in the zones that are tied to it.

I love to PVP, and I think these changes are, for the most part, awesome. I hope some consideration goes into revamping the nameplates display.

It would be nice if it changed based on the zones you are in. I think it would be beneficial also to consider allowing us to customize one spot on our nameplate to show what we want? If anything, just put it back to normal please.

I guess while I’m at it I’ll make a mention that I don’t appreciate all the undocumented changes. Please make use of your patch notes.

I also ran into this issue. I purchased a EVGA GTX 980 Ti, and I wanted PrecisionX 16 just to use for fan control. I didn’t like how its current settings let it get so hot. Although when I got PrecisionX up and running my video on Gw2 will freeze.

Anyone find any other solutions to fan control that works as well as PrecisionX without the adverse side effects?

I second this… After all these years, I’m just tired of inventory management. Can we please get an action bar with a few slots to put consumables on. Just to make all the simple people happy, release it with it disabled by default like many of the newest additions to the interface have been released.

Yea and I’m really upset because of this. I come home from a long day at work and see that my mystic forge conduit’s value has gone from 1200g to 400g. Pretty low of Anet considering they announced the mystic forge conduit would not be released back into the game right before they removed it back in 2013.

smfc.4570:

Well i don’’t want to sound mean but what do you expect from company that has managed to break such epic game like Lineage 2 to the point that there are way way more players playing on private servers old chronicles of it than actual players on ncsofts server even bots included. Tell me that’’s not a good argument?

Your so terribly wrong. Lineage 2 is their top grossing game, more then Guild Wars 2. Google it sometime, their earnings are public.

It’s not video card or hardware temps. My wife’s, friend and myself are experiencing this same issue. We all have relatively the same hardware. i7 4790k’s, 16gb of cas 6 1600hz ram, Nvidia gtx 980s with corsair 850 psu. All of our temps are 34-47c max. In the past two weeks we have been experiencing random freezing and its extremely annoying. I’ve tried the client repair and it didn’t do anything. The issue started without any changes being made to our graphic settings, drivers, or any other software updates.

I know exactly what your going through. Have you tried setting the frame limiter/refresh rate to your monitors frame rate/refresh rate. My wife’s computer would hard reset at least once a day and when I limited her frame rate to 60 it stopped crashing. I also enabled v-sync on her PC.

I would kill to see a ANet post explaining condition damage in PvE and why they cap at 25 bleeds. Is there any such post? Please link if so!

Tadz.2870:

Done today, if you know how to use reflects you will be fine with a little DPS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY4eHjc-FKU&feature=youtu.be

It’s pretty easy unless you fail. Our group failed and even with all our reflects the group would get slammed. Drove me insane….I’ve never seen so much damage get dished out threw reflects. I don’t understand why they don’t make the boss reset once the group fails? Send in your tickets!

fellyn.5083:

It didn’t help that what you were asking for was the ability to legally bot in the game.

Atleast I ask…??? I care about mine and others gameplay. I couldnt put my account under risk of termination..So I asked while providing my reasoning…What more could I say?

I really don’t understand why everyone feels that I don’t care about GW2 at all because theirs no heros? I still love this game, just think it would be way better if I could play more content by myself. The point here isn’t to judge me because I didn’t read more on the game. Have you ever played a game without knowing anything about it? Its amazing, if its a good game. I didn’t learn any lesson here. I’m just voicing my opinions and hoping for a respected answer. Everyone is entitled to voicing opinions but keep it on subject and not about me or how I run my life. I like going into games knowing little to nothing. Same with movies. Its who I am, really, the whole its your fault is getting so annoying. I bought this game for myself, my wife, and my younger brother. I spent 180 pre-release and I would do it again. Stick to the subject. Goodnight fellow activist

I never demanded a developers response. I stated I dont care about anyone’s neck cutting responses to bash me…If there is a dev response then I will care. I didn’t waste 60 bucks either. I have 3 level 80’s I love this game. I took vacation time to play this game at release… I defiantly got my money of out it and will continue to play it. I dont waste money, if I bought it and hated it, I’m still going to get my moneys worth out of it. 60 bucks could mean a lot more to you then it does to me though. This thread is consisted of way to much hostility. It should of been locked or removed by now because this is not going anywhere now.

ravinhood.3981:

I dont spend my time researching new games, I spend my free time playing them.

Then that’s YOUR problem not the problem of the designers. It’s like saying you don’t read current events and don’t know there’s salmanilla poisoning in JIF peanut butter (this is an analogy not a reality right now but there has been other peanut butter brands recently with this outbreak) and buy it anyways expecting the FDA to take care of you 24/7 lol

If you don’t READ then you have no right to complain.

I watch the news..I live by the news its all associated with my job. I followed the emails supplied to me by ArenaNet. If everyone wants to keep attacking me in this thread go right ahead, I am going to sleep. I wanted heros, and I’m sure others do too. I honestly think you, ravenhood, in this entire thread come off as the most ignorant one here..I’m not trying to offend you but everything you have said has literally done nothing productive towards the point. Age some more and that will probably go away…

edit, ravenhood I am currently ignoring your post, gl with it though.

A video game isn’t a product to me, its an escape. I have hundreds apon hundreds of games…I played them, moved on. A game is 60 bucks, a car 30k+. I research a car, of course, a game not so much… I’m not an addictive gamer that follows trains of games. I’m simply a very busy man with to much stress in his life. Video games take my mind of all of that, and that’s my story. ArenaNet specifically pointed out that they care about their players and there opinions, I am voicing mine.

I don’t need explanations on why there isn’t this or that from the average player. I only want it from one, ArenaNet. Voice your opinions as you will…My soul purpose with this thread is to have an honest answer from a game developer. That is all.

Korrigan.4837:

DoM.8396:

I have two manned a few dungeon bosses with my wife though.

And I’m Chuck Norris. When I enter a dungeon, all mobs die and I only have to loot.

;-)

I didn’t say we clear dungeons! I’m just stating, some bosses are do-able as of right now. I guess I should of pointed out that I just wanted it for dungeons and instanced zones. I don’t want to run open world multiboxing…Since this game is not like WoW, that requires monthly payments, there would be way to many people running around multiboxing. I just waned heros so I could do a dungeon for 2 hours without having to deal with countless deaths or ugly dps because I don’t know enough people that I can play with..yet alone people that arent completely horrible or bail out halfway through a dungeon..

This thread just boomed and I lost track of the point here. I never really stated what I did above. I’m not trying to win over the right to have 15 Chinese named characters running around and clearing the map…I just wanted to be able to do dungeons without the use of human interference.

Korrigan.4837:

Smells like under bridge dweller now, but I’ll bite once more…

If you hope to be able to solo dungeons with 5 characters you control yourself, well, you’re in for a bad surprise. This game isn’t like WoW, LOTRO or GW1, notably because dodging is essential to survive, specially in dungeons.

Even if you multibox 5 accounts, you will never pass even the first boss in AC story mode. Hell, I doubt you will even survive the trash.

All the other content can be played solo (aka never having to have a verbal or group contact with any other player) even without multiboxing.

Oh, and by the way, GW1 is still up and running if you really need to multibox to feel happy. Or you can play a solo game like the excellent Skyrim, where you will never meet another player to annoy you, satisfying your antisocial needs.

Well said. I have two manned a few dungeon bosses with my wife though. I defiantly think I can do content with 5 guardians/rangers/necros/eles. There all sufficient enough..Though, it still doesn’t answer my question on why you make a sequel game and remove something PvE heavy from the PvE side of the game. I’m just waiting for an Anet reply now.

I just read the entire Guild wars 2 wiki main page and didnt find one thing stating any change in removal of heros in GW2.

Also, Guild wars has never been the “traditional MMO”. It is its own genre of games. Thats what made guild wars different. It is a Massive mulitplayer online game just like GW1. Except our perception of MMO has changed since GW1 came out. Also, why the hell do I want to deal with pesky people…I have to deal with enough of them in my job…Just because GW1 had heros didn’t mean you had to use them. You could still form party’s of people and do stuff. So I dont quite understand how it ruined PvE for you. I really have nothing more to say.

fellyn.5083:

DoM.8396:

It’s your own fault for not doing about 30 seconds worth of research about the game to see that the mechanics behind it are absolutely 100% different than GW1.

I preordered this game way before there was anything to research yet alone it was still in the making. So how am I supposed to know if they were going to add heros in or not throughout its production.

Because they said they wouldn’t? I and most other people I know who play the game found that out months and months ago. Long before they allowed us to pre order.

Well all I kept up on was the emails they sent me. I never read an email of “THINGS WERE NOT PUTTING IN GW2”. I dont spend my time researching new games, I spend my free time playing them. I dont care that I spent the money and lost out on heros, I’m just upset that I cant enjoy it as much as I did in GW1. There are all different types of players, not everyone agrees with me, or with you. But taking something away from the game will only upset more people then make people happy. If you didn’t play GW1 then it doesn’t affect you, if you played GW1 and didn’t give a kitten about heros, it still doesn’t affect you, if you played GW1 and liked heros, it affects you. That equals negative feedback and possible loss of revenue. I just want to grind my dungeon armor by myself instead with 4 other people who are wasting my time. Why is that so complicated to understand?

It’s your own fault for not doing about 30 seconds worth of research about the game to see that the mechanics behind it are absolutely 100% different than GW1.

I preordered this game way before there was anything to research yet alone it was still in the making. So how am I supposed to know if they were going to add heros in or not throughout its production.

fellyn.5083:

The Lord of the ring comparison doesn’t even make any sense. GW2 was never billed as being the same as GW1. Only misinformed people who got it based on name alone thought it would be.

It has a continued storyline, same races seen throughout the game…How is it not taking after GW1?

PS: All I was trying to imply with the Lord of the ring comparison is you dont take something you are working on and change it. You might or already have lost people who had interest in it because of what you removed…Never take something away…

ravinhood.3981:

DoM.8396:

Adine.2184:

Yes because you are not only endorsing somthing tha destroys game economies but also saying “i want to play a Massively Sigleplayer Online Game”

Excuess me you are incorrect. It does not destroy the game economy. What destroys the economy is gold sellers and bots. A bot does all its actions alone without any human contact needed. What I am saying in my post is why cant I purchase 3 more guild wars 2 accounts and have 4 character’s logged into the game at the same time while I have a program that repeats all my keystrokes and mouse movement/clicks to all other game clients. It takes a human to do it, it also takes real life cash. Something I would rather do then deal with 85%+ of people that I just do not want to know.

Because THAT ^ is not the way THIS game was INTENDED to be played. You get ONE account and you play ONE character at a time….period endo mundo. If you want to play by yourself with henchies/heroes they made a game like that for you it’s called Guild Wars 1, why do you think THIS game must be like that game? This game is for DIFFERENT types of people and players.

So when you expand upon something, you take away from the original source? That makes sense…Like, Diablo →(upgrade)→ Diablo 2 →(major additions and removal changes) → Diablo 3 = Horrible Failure. Thats what happens when you take away something significant away.. How about this one too…Lord of the rings trilogy, except in the 3rd movie froto is a human and there is no ring anymore, its a bracelet. Do you think everyone would still enjoy and love Lord of the rings? Think before you speak man..

I could solo underworld with my hero team… I didnt play guild wars as much as I get to play the new one because I wasnt in the country much but when I could I did..

Esya.3427:

DoM.8396:

while I have a program that repeats all my keystrokes and mouse movement/clicks to all other game clients.

This is why it is not allowed. One keystroke would copy to 4/5 actions in the game, which is considered botting.

Whats so messed up about that is I could buy an adapter for my keyboard and have 4 computers which were all controlled by my one keyboard and mouse. That isn’t botting anymore, but I would be accused as one. I dont see why I cant have my actions repeated to my characters if they are MY ACTIONS, not some AI BOT.

Korrigan.4837:

Last time I’ve read about it, multiboxing is perfectly possible, but if you run several clients on the same computer, you need to have separate installations of the game, and of course you need two separate accounts.

On a side note, it always boggles my mind when people play a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer) to NOT play with other people… o_O

Guild wars has always been known as an MMO that allowed players to not have to meet people, make friends, and kiss kitten to get anywhere in the game to enjoy yourself. That’s what I liked about it.

Adine.2184:

Yes because you are not only endorsing somthing tha destroys game economies but also saying “i want to play a Massively Sigleplayer Online Game”

Excuess me you are incorrect. It does not destroy the game economy. What destroys the economy is gold sellers and bots. A bot does all its actions alone without any human contact needed. What I am saying in my post is why cant I purchase 3 more guild wars 2 accounts and have 4 character’s logged into the game at the same time while I have a program that repeats all my keystrokes and mouse movement/clicks to all other game clients. It takes a human to do it, it also takes real life cash. Something I would rather do then deal with 85%+ of people that I just do not want to know.

I started playing guild wars in 2006. I fell in love with the game. The story was just amazing and between all the expansions I was able to keep with the game until guild wars 2 came out. The NUMBER 1 thing I enjoyed with guild wars 1 was the henchmen/heros. ArenaNet, you have taken them away from Guild wars 2 but will not promote or allow players to multibox clients? I liked guild wars because I was able to do almost anything without having to deal with people that were either not as focused on the goal as me, or just not as experienced. I work way to many hours a week to get on and do a dungeon with people that might or might not be able to complete it, and if we do complete it it takes way longer then it should. I don’t prefer to be able to multibox in guild wars 2, but seeing as there are no longer heros or henchmen I would rather multibox then have to play with other people…Am I wrong for wanting this?

EDIT:

I guess I should of pointed out that I just wanted it for dungeons and instanced zones. I don’t want to run open world multiboxing…Since this game is not like WoW, that requires monthly payments, there would be way to many people running around multiboxing. I just waned heros so I could do a dungeon for 2 hours without having to deal with countless deaths or ugly dps because I don’t know enough people that I can play with..yet alone people that arent completely horrible or bail out halfway through a dungeon..

This thread just boomed and I lost track of the point here. I never really stated what I did above. I’m not trying to win over the right to have 15 Chinese named characters running around and clearing the map…I just wanted to be able to do dungeons without the use of human interference.

Recently I’ve been noticing people multi-boxing 5+ chars. Its quite obvious when you see 5 warriors run by wearing the same gear, same run path and same skills at the same time. I know that some MMO’s allow this while others strictly do not. What is Anet’s views on this?

If no, its time to start reporting :O