Guild Wars 2

Anybody else having this problem?

Has anybody else been having the issue where massive sections of textures (grass or even entire buildings at times) don’t load properly and just pop in (reload?) as you’re running? Are there any known solutions? I’ve tried playing around with settings and none of them seem to make a difference.

It happens even when playing on best appearance settings (minus post processing and depth blur) LOD distance put on Ultra and character model/limits both bumped up to highest.

I’m running on an SSD (both GW2 and Windows 10 installed on it) with a GTX 980, i5 3570k OCd to 4.6GHz and 16GB DDR3.

Ever since the HoT/Halloween patch my game has been unplayable in windowed modes. As soon as I start moving, the game turns into a slideshow. When I stand still or alt+tab (with a smaller window so I can still see the game running behind it) performance goes back to normal ~70 FPS but as soon as I start moving again, the FPS display in game shows ~13 but it’s closer to 2 seconds per frame. Switching to a full screen specific resolution completely fixes the issue, but I alt+tab often and like being able to see the game with the game window not currently active. Graphic settings don’t affect the issue (best appearance/best performance both are unusable in windowed.

Graphic settings don’t affect the issue (best appearance/best performance both are unusable in windowed).

Are there any known solutions to this?

I’m running on an SSD (both GW2 and Windows 10 installed on it) with a GTX 980, i5 3570k OCd to 4.6GHz and 16GB DDR3.

Is it just me or is the trading post really laggy for everybody else? Each time I click an item to look at the prices, it loads slowly and instead of sliding in and out of view smoothly, the item info screen just kind of stutters onto the screen. I suppose it isn’t a huge problem, but it can get really frustrating when trying to sell lots of items at a time.

If it is my end, any advice on how to fix it?

I like the new UI for the most part (I would like to have the name of each specialization shown without having to mouse over it, but that’s another story), but when reading traits, good god the flashing is really distracting. I get that they’re unselected, I’m trying to solve that issue but I can hardly read the trait description without the flashing of the icons distracting me. Any chance this could be reduced in frequency or changed to a steady glow, just something more subtle?

Leave them as is, make every odd level on it 1% or 2% less damage from/more damage to guards, and every even level +1 maximum stack. It addresses their issue with it and lets us retain proper progression. Thxbye.

The mastery UI could definitely use some changes. It is entirely too big and we can’t close it with escape. I also couldn’t figure out the mushroom mastery thing, I spent a point on it and couldn’t use the mushrooms. For hang gliding, it feels really clunky having such a huge delay on deploying it. I suggest prompting us for deploying it early and put the actual deployment on a delay if you’re for whatever reason insistant on having it deployable on large jumps only.

As for the Revenant, most of the skills were on a very short cooldown, so they had a short duration and few of them felt very impactful because of that (aside from the 0 second CD stun break and such). It doesn’t feel like engineer where you are constantly changing kits and watching cooldowns in order to play well to the point where you feel very involved, it felt more like it was encouraging spamming your skills for the sake of spamming skills.

Also, please address the hammer 3 skill resetting your camera behind your character. It is really jarring losing control of your camera mid combat.

Alright then, how about exotics only? I’m sick of having to throw away level 80 exotic equipment with a rune in it when I get ascended gear to replace my exotic set.

Plus silk and linen could probably use a cut in price. Compared to their metal/leather equivalents they’re over the top in cost.

Really not much else to say aside from the title. I can’t think of a reason that we shouldn’t be able to salvage these.

bump again I suppose

Anyone got any suggestions?

Regarding the Logitech G930 wireless headset:

I play without a headset on for everything except WvW. I have to manually select my headset as the default device for sound to play through (since its wireless), which is fine, but when I select it, more often than not, GW2 sounds are still playing through my speakers. I can hear TeamSpeak, music, and other games just fine through my headset the first time I select default device for everything except GW2. I usually have to select my speakers and reselect my headset as default multiple times before it finally starts playing through my headset.

Again, this is only an issue with GW2, everything else plays fine, so I don’t think its my computer or headset/receiver.

Saw the suggestion the other day on reddit to block whispers from people using a filter list of words you can add to it. Soon as the gold sellers send 1 whisper to you, any and all other sellers can be blocked until they use another variation of your filtered word (use their website as a filter and their options will run out fast).

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

The attack value was meaningless, your damage comes from the power.

It was also based on your weapon damage IIRC, which is different between 2h weapons and 2 1h weapons as well as different tiers of equipment. Having it back would be nice at the very least for a frame of reference for builds. I liked to ensure I had at least 3k attack at all times and that could change between weapon sets.

Upgrade extractor from the gem shop. Currently only worthwhile if your item that you want to remove is worth more than 24g. Which is virtually nothing.

Is there any particular reason that this is missing? We have the Toughness/Armor, Vitality/Health, and Precision/Crit chance pairs still up, but only Power and no Attack? Seems very odd to have that one missing while the others remain.

The trait UI screen is very clunky. There is a confirmation box if you want to invest multiple points in a line but not if you use the +/- arrows. Selecting a trait then having to move over to the side of the UI every time you want to replace a trait or select the adept/master/grandmaster of that tier is annoying. The dropdown box was much more efficient. I select where I want to put the points and my cursor is still right where I go to select the trait that I want.

• What kind of issue are you specifically having that could be related to lag?

Skill lag and rubber-banding

• What server are you on?

Blackgate

• Has there ever been a time when you or a friend are experiencing lag, while others in your party are not?

Very rarely

• Has there ever been a time where one party in a map is experiencing lag, while other parties in that same map are not?

Happens map-wide

• Do you experience the lag at very specific times?

Whenever there is a decent-sized fight on the map

• If so, can you estimate how many players are in each zerg?

Seen it in as little as ~80 people fighting, 40 vs 40, 50 vs 30, doesn’t matter how many on each side. Also the delay gets worse the more people are fighting past that.

Out of the ones I’m familiar with, they’re the same. Once you spend points on a trait line, it shows how many more you need to get to the next tier. Say you want Defense Against Guards, 115 points to max. Drop 25 points into it, and it will show 90 points for maxed rank. That’s probably where the confusion is coming from.

SoR since week 2 of the season.

I believe this was last year, but since there was no “player of the year” then, I nominate Lord Yolo Swagister. Picture explains it best.

Slomo.1029:

I thought you are called ‘Buygate’.

Also, yes. We have many names.

I would like to request an official change of name of the Blackgate server to “Believegate” as an additional reward for winning WvW Season 1. I don’t think its asking too much, as it is a simple, fun change and it also gives no monetary/in-game benefit to us. Please support this petition to get ArenaNet’s attention! I BELIEVE that together, we can make this happen!

SoR – Sanctum Sprinters (ANet made the title especially for them)
BG – Believegate/ #tequatlgate
JQ – JQQ
TC – Garnished Toast
Mag – #magswag

Faithless.3519:

Vash.9183:

Sooo. Dat BG zerg in EB?

Sorry we got the real sailormoon!

I’d say BG has the right to that claim.

#BlackgateSmallOps

Drigan.7382:

Honestly I’m pretty happy to see this matchup so long that you guys realize you can afford to run smaller than 1 map zerg/map and get much better fights. Looking forward to fighting KnT and LotD if they are still around and not doing the blob.

The LotD GW2 chapter has disbanded. Also, KnT is still around, though they’ve had a split-off JINX who you’ll see a good bit. They’ve got ~30 on their roster.

Thank you to all the Blackgate members who followed me around BGBL for the past few hours. I’m still learning the ins and outs of commanding so thanks for bearing with me. To those from Sanctum of Rall and Dragonbrand that showed up to fight, nice work keeping the fights going and tensions high. The continuous pressure made for lots of fun! Looking forward to more commanding in the future.

/salute

A big thank you to all Blackgate players who ran with me on BGBL for the past 4 hours or so! It was my first night commanding and I had a blast! Great fights, JQ and SoR alike! Looking forward to more in the future!

Aurust.8961:

DeWolfe.2174:

^Rude Much???? And, sorry if it bruises your ego but, SoR has the greatest number of players presently playing. To think anything else is to be naive.

SOR is at a very high population, JQ and BG are full……

Man, i just love slamming that one down lol. That is the hardest evidence we have of player population, and it greatly outweighs any subjective observations.

Because WvW population and overall population are the same thing, right?

More heavily restricted AC placement. Toss down 4-5 and you can melt a golem or rams so quickly that you can’t get paper gates down past 75% without having to rebuild siege again and again and regrouping with all the folks that die trying to man siege for more than a few seconds. ACvACvAC is not fun with this high of a siege cap.

sostronk.8167:

scootshoot.6583:

Not lookin good. JQ has always had a strong reset night / weekend force and as such if they get buried going into Monday their server will be demoralized and will turn into a 2 horse race early.

Thats not true at all. The leader of the weekend has changed regularly. The problem is, BG is already playing for second.

And JQ is hardly playing at all. Sorry we’re going for the easy points right now, but if we don’t SoR does. We have a solid score so far, nobody is playing for second.

Esoteric.5490:

When your server is in the PPT lead, it’s not really playing for second.

We have received no guilds that were not already here. The most recent transfers were our friends from Kaineng: WM, RISE, KO, Meow

We never bought guilds. I don’t know how else to spell this out. We donated gold that was completely voluntary to guilds that needed help to get the rest of their members over. We’re a community and these guild are part of our family. We love having them here.

You should know as well as anyone that no server, especially Blackgate, is in extreme risk of falling to Tier 2, therefore there is nothing to play for other than first place. JQ has the players still; they just need to show up. You all insult yourselves and the legacy of your server by not playing your hearts out.

Good fights in EB tonight. It’s been fun so far.

See you all on the field.

/salute

To clarify, they were strictly donations. There was no monetary profit made by any guild transferring. Blackgate aren’t the only ones to have made donations either, I remember recently SoR mention donating to IRON to transfer them as well. I’m sure JQ has done the same. This is getting old.

Zikory.6871:

Dr Zoidberg.2046:

Arkanfel.8403:

Few things are quite so savory to me as thief tears.

There’s finally a hard counter to stealth and now they are going to lose their kitten. Oh, your core gameplay mechanic has a counter now? How bad that must feel. I main guardian—my core gameplay mechanic is boons and I have a low health pool. You know what counters my core gameplay? Boon stripping and conditions.

So welcome to the club of the rest of us. We meet in the gym after AA on Wednesdays. Bring donuts and paper plates.

We now have virtually no condition removal around those traps. 1 reliable source that removes 1, 1 that is our heal which only removes specific conditions, 1 utility that is meant to be used as a teleport, and 1 on an underwhelming weapon that costs 5/12 initiative to remove 1 condition. So much for trying to allow a variety of builds. If you don’t have condition removal in WvW, you’re dead, especially with thief’s low HP pool.

Meh, that’s a bad argument to try and make your point. Getting a 30s revealed you’re dead is more on point. CD removal is just one thing, there is healing, int regain, blind…(traited of course ) The trap is to make thieves have to pick there battles better. Were not going to be able to just do anything we want, which is fine.

The only thing I might disagree with because of the tra kitten olo taking a camp. If I get a 30s revealed it will effectively reduce my damage making taking a camp much slower. Then again who knows, haven’t seen it in action yet. Either way, good luck non thieves! Hope this trap helps you save some tears for other classes.

We still have dodges and shadowstepping and such to prevent physical damage and bail on a fight if we need to. 1 necro or 2 enemies of virtually any class can put a hell of a lot of conditions on you pretty quickly. Our low HP pool and poor condition removal ensures death since you can’t dodge out of conditions.

Daecollo.9578:

Of course the problem is it takes 4 seconds to place those traps, so once you see a veil it will be too late.

They last for an hour. It can be placed beforehand with proper scouting.

Meglobob.8620:

Is it me or is the supply removal one awesome?

I mean -5 supply from 20 people in a zerg, that’s potentially -100 supply gone like that…

Yeah for each person, too. 10 supply to remove 100. Ridiculous.

Arkanfel.8403:

Few things are quite so savory to me as thief tears.

There’s finally a hard counter to stealth and now they are going to lose their kitten. Oh, your core gameplay mechanic has a counter now? How bad that must feel. I main guardian—my core gameplay mechanic is boons and I have a low health pool. You know what counters my core gameplay? Boon stripping and conditions.

So welcome to the club of the rest of us. We meet in the gym after AA on Wednesdays. Bring donuts and paper plates.

We now have virtually no condition removal around those traps. 1 reliable source that removes 1, 1 that is our heal which only removes specific conditions, 1 utility that is meant to be used as a teleport, and 1 on an underwhelming weapon that costs 5/12 initiative to remove 1 condition. So much for trying to allow a variety of builds. If you don’t have condition removal in WvW, you’re dead, especially with thief’s low HP pool.

Sigmoid.7082:

so 15 badges and 525 karma to buy a trap that takes 4s to place costing 10 supply to do so that will reveal 20 targets for 30s…
I thought it was going to be worse. It doesn’t seem to usable on a small scale unless you spend a while waiting to ambush someone.

Not usable in small scale? It takes 1 person to place each trap and everybody can use 1.

Grimwolf.7163:

I’m assuming that is the effect of the new anti-stealth trap?

Yeah, 10 supply to remove up to 20 people from stealth for 30 seconds.

I like the idea of it, but with its cooldown and the fact that I can get 2 extra initiative every 10 seconds, I have to pass it up.

Zodiac.7413:

I have a pure, 100% confusion build
…
So by halving the damage, unskilled players are rewarded and skilled players are punished

Wait, you consider yourself a skilled player for applying a single condition to people over and over and waiting for themselves to attack themselves to death? Sounds to me like unskilled players are now being punished. I’d get your point about “1 condition removal and you’re good to go” if we could choose which condition to remove, but in WvW, you’re likely to have many conditions on you at once, and AFAIK, only necro, warrior, and guardian can remove all conditions at once. I just don’t get your argument.

Ash, dusk, and iron. Great combo for heavy armor.

As the title implies, I’m looking for advice on how I should build up my guardian for wvw. I enjoy staff/hammer the most, but obviously will switch out when the situation calls for it, and my traits are set up at 0/0/10/30/30.

Major traits:

-Strength in Numbers
-Writ of Exaltation
-Two-Handed Mastery
-Battle Presence
-Master of Consecrations
-Absolute Resolution
-Elite Focus

Looking through traits, these are what I thought would be most beneficial for what I’m looking for, though am willing to be flexible on trait allocation.

So at this point, I’m pretty much just looking for where to put my stats from armor/weapons/jewellery into, if I should go P/V/T Soldier’s gear, or maybe a mix of that and Berserker’s for a bit of precision as well. I just don’t want to end up putting too much into defense, since my trait allocation is already biased towards that, and end up not being able to attack worth a kitten but I do like the support my traits offer, and I don’t want to go full berserker in WvW and end up getting steamrolled before I can do much anyway.

I have enough badges of honor for any armor set offered by the WvW vendor, and gold isn’t really an issue, so no need to recommend a budget setup (though I wouldn’t be all that thrilled about spending 54g on a divinity rune set if there is a decent alternative, if you are going to recommend them anyway).

I was only on for a couple hours tonight, but hell of a show in BGBL so far. Keep it up, ICoa!

Title pretty much says it all. You can’t lure him to the traps and he just kind of chills in one spot for a few minutes at a time. I’m really hoping this isn’t intentional, so I’m posting here in hopes it gets checked out before the next patch.

While under the effects of stealth, I’ll sometimes use shortbow 5 or the Shadowstep utility to get away from enemies in WvW, Doing so removes the see-through effect on my character model (at the very least, on my screen, unsure how enemies see it, if at all). On the boons/conditions area of the UI, it still shows that I’m under the effects of stealth, so I guess it isn’t a major bug, but it would be nice to be able to be able to see the effect of stealth without having to take my eyes off my character or cursor.

ComeAndSee.1356:

So I ended up going Sigil of Force + Sigil of Fire for my Daggers. I really hate stack on-kill sigils and much rather have just a passive 5% bonus.

Still debating what to do with my Shortbow. I have Sigil of Strength on it and procs very often when you’re AOEing, but I can probably go air.

I have a Sigil of Fire on my shortbow. The whole point of the bow is long-range multi-target attacks, even with the autoattack. Its a nice additional AOE damage added to it.

Just make a human and save up 119g. Looks epic.

Liquid.9672:

Sam.3645:

There’s no Lord inside Red Lake Tower @ BGBL atm… can’t cap it because of bugged lord. =/

Maybe he’s out back having a smoke? Even Lord’s have their vices ya know.

A few nights ago, the Woodhaven Lord was doing just that.

nekos.2584:

First off i just wanted to say, told you all paid server transfers would not work and do nothing to stop people from stacking servers…

That being said, i can’t wait for BG to make it up into T1 with the SoS transfers. I have a ton of respect for those on BG who fought their hearts out last time they were in T1 but fell short mostly due to lack of coverage. I’m sure this time around things will be much different and a hell of a lot more fun for every one. I can say basically the same about SoS. When they had the numbers they were as good as it get’s. Sad to see that server fall but it is what it is.

Also, any one have any idea how long will it take for BG to make it back into T1 after all the guild transfers ?

If SoS gets as bad a score next week as they currently have (comparatively), it’ll be the week after that we move up.