Guild Wars 2

I also experienced unusual sudden spike in ping response since the PoF preview weekend. I would guess a large number of new players got on the server but Anet might not have effectively accounted for the population increase with sufficient server bandwidth. This shouldn’t be anything critical but I hope Anet addresses this issue asap.

About living world stories, I noticed not a lot of people are willing enough to party up for these quests. Possibly due to how these quests are designed. Honestly up till now I forced myself to do the living world stories that I didn’t really enjoy doing them because they badly lacked in group fun. But with the Self Doubt quest I have decided to completely put a stop in doing these stories from now on. Its not entirely about how difficult or easy they might be, but because of their design that ignore group quest theme. A good example I can draw on this is the Scarlet event some years ago, and how exciting they were with open world group events. Sorry Anet I have no appreciations for solo theme.

Well the patch update went smoothly. I logged in and completed the new fractal at 25 without issues, but as I went in and entered the first instance for the living world story, the npc dialog went on for few seconds then the client crashed. Now although I can log in but I’m getting a message ‘Network Error’ each time I try to load up game screen regardless of any characters. My net connection is fine. This bug is affecting the entire game play, not just the living world instance.

Edit: After about 10 mins I can finally load up the game screen. But I’m absolutely not doing the instance now until there is a bug fix.