Guild Wars 2

As stated above, Guard and DH are pretty good counters to thieves. Scrappers can give them a hard time too. It’s pretty easy to understand if you make the thief blow cooldowns/run away, you’ve won the fight. You don’t always have to kill something to win.

Not to mention if you play properly you can force the thief into very awkward positions and rotations, but nah too much work amirite?

Ranked is 100% trash atm, I only play to stop the decay because the game feels like a chore. Not to mention playing against laggy players constantly is really off putting and infuriating

I don’t get why it’s so hard to understand lmao. Nerfing our main meta set isn’t suddenly going to make the other sets viable. Just because I said “Sindrener said” doesn’t make the argument any less valid. The weapon sets are sub par for a reason, that’s a confirmed fact. Nerfing our true meta beta isn’t just going to magically make all the other sets good. I’ll say it again, when you have 1 true meta build and then nerf it, 1-1 = 0, that means we’re just left with kitten builds, idk why people can’t understand that.

Jana.6831:

TehHobNob.4687:

Yeah that is what I was guessing/ same answer from my friends. Begs the question….Why the aco pvp nerf if it really wasn’t even used?

Does “aco” mean hard to catch? You can also use that trait with D/P, although the split between wvw/pve and pvp doesn’t make any sense anyway – I don’t get why anet is going this route.
This looks like their admitted “we have no idea what to do with thief” and some shifting from here to there while the ‘main problem’ = D/P still is untouched.

ETA: Haven’t read through all classes but am overjoyed that warrior got some more buffs – really necessary!

You do realize nerfing D/P wouldn’t make other weapon sets viable, correct? You take away our meta build and we’re left with sub par builds, 1-1 = 0 just wanna point that out real quick. As Sindrener pointed out multiple times there would need to be major overhauls to the other weapon sets or the other HoT specs to make them viable. Nerfing D/P won’t do that at all.

I hope Sind is just trolling a bit but yeah worried too. Nerfing D/P isn’t going to make any of the hipster weapons better at all. We’ll just be left with kitten choices all around.

I would just be worried about the queue times for people playing certain popular classes. Especially if they go with the class limits per team, guards and warrs would have insane queue times then. Yeah you can say lul time to learn a new class, but tbh I’d rather have them play what they’re good at, than queue on something they’re sub par at to get better queue times.

I personally enjoy class switching myself, it lets you adapt as others have said and adjust to the enemy team comp.

sirloin.9145:

7th best class, hmm don´t agree. One skill won´t effect the guardians overall dmg that much. If something popular gets a nerf, it always get the same response.

Except, Guardian wasn’t that popular? Rofl. It’s been kinda mediocre in all areas of the game really. So lets just nerf it, and leave rev and mes alone basically? Ok yeah, brilliant, I hope they hire you on ASAP.

sinject.4607:

1. fight dh
2. dh pops Hunter’s Ward or Dragons Maw
3. try to teleport out
4. cant dodge + teleport because the tight AoE perimeter knocks you down on dodge roll start up
5. cant damage, cc or otherwise interact with dh thanks to Shield of Courage/1000 sources of Aegis/trap daze/Heavy Light/Spear of Justice/trap blind
6. teleport out because it’s only option
7. knocked down
8. teleport out also hit you for 2/5 of your HP thanks to Test of Faith
9. eat True Shot while still knocked down
10. enter downstate or wait approx. half a second to get auto’d once and die.

dh had too many ridiculously “kitten ed if you do kitten ed if you dont” situations for too many professions, especially in conquest due to the value it creates in on-point pressure.

La mao serious? Because DH were all over dominating everything.

I know engis need to be looked at by holy kitten his changes seem so ridiculous lmao

If you’re somewhat new to the game I’d get your feet wet in unranked for the time being. Learn your build and the builds of other classes before trying ranked.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

Is a good place to start looking for a build, as for not understanding what’s going on with the game and abilities coming at you, that comes with time and playing games. There are also plenty of video guides on the internet to help you and try to get you acclimated.

Learning the game is rough in pvp, it takes awhile to really get semi decent at but that’s dedication. Also matchmaking is kinda sketchy in ranked at the moment too, depending on if you constantly lose in a row your mmr goes into the toilet and it’s hard to recover :/ Best of luck.

Welp hotfix rolled out just a bit ago. Seems the logout issue was fixed but upon logging back in the stuttering character animations are still there

Still going on today. No ping/fps issues. Anet pleaseee.

Adding my name to the list as well. Stuttering character when moving, everything else seems fluid though.

What game are you playing where tank axe shield outdamages a power ranger? I’d LOVE to play that game. Iunno but if you think hambow is doing “tons of damage” and you play a ranger, I just don’t even know what to say to that.

Also how are you getting hit by those massively long telegraphed skills? MFW.

Kuju.2153:

Perhaps the title of the thread needs to be edited to, “Can we get an appropriate response about the Lag?”. These copy/paste Tier 1 Help Desk responses are getting to be so zzzzzzzzz. Anet, you guys have to have employees that are experiencing what we have been seeing in WvW since the stability patch, and even seen on some PvE maps such as Southsun during KQ. I believe it’s going on in PvP as well.

If it’s not on your end you must have the worst luck in the world as a company from a lot of different service providers.

Yep it’s happening in all sorts of areas, not just WvW, it’s been affecting me doing my pve stuff for the past weekish, and in spvp. My findings are that it had something to do with zoning in and out, as I posted above. It’s really strange that no other game I play is having ping issues at all… so I doubt it’s our ISP’s fault.

Something I’ve figured out when testing this issue with my girlfriend. I log in on Tarnished Coast in Divinity’s Reach, the ip being 64.25.38.113, and my ping is normal 78-80 which is good.

I goto Orr ip being 64.25.38.192 for example and my ping is high, average ~150. Port back to Divinity’s Reach ip (64.25.38.113) and it’s average of 150 still. Ported back to Orr, same IP (64.25.38.192) ping is fine now, average of 80.

So now I port back to Divinity’s Reach, ip of 64.25.38.113, and voila ping is fine. It has something to do with porting and such for me and my girlfriend, we both tested it, both have different ISP’s and we got the same outcomes. Something changed in the past week and I really hope it gets fixed.

I’m from the Michigan area and have Frontier as my ISP, my girlfriend who has Comcast has been laggy really bad at night the past few days too, also lives in Michigan.

I can’t imagine how laggy wvw must be right now. Even in the spvp lobby and in Divinity my ping is bouncing between 125-300, kitten fix whatever is going on already.

Edit: ping is now back to normal, very strange.

It’s so odd too, it was fine last night, sort of and the night before, but the night before that it was high ping for hours. This really needs to be addressed and you’re like the only person who’s posted anything about it. I’ve checked reddit and other places and no one else has posted about the pings.

Are you playing the US region? I too am experiencing high ping tonight but only in GW2. Every other game my ping is normal, BF4, D3, etc. But I agree it’s ridiculous. Funny thing is some of my friends aren’t lagging and I am.

Yes I have played a thief before, and it’s ridiculous lol. Just so we’re clear on some things, Withdraw is a 15 second cd, pindown is 25. Infiltrator’s signet is also only a 30 second cd. Backbreaker 30 seconds as well. Earthshaker is the only one with a 10 second cd and is sorta reliable. I appreciate the advice though. I just don’t understand how you get to the long fight duration with their ability to reset fights on a whim.

It just feels like auto’ing off the blinds while he’s unloading stupid damage into you takes too much time but I do auto them off as I stated above. When I go to do earthshaker as well he’s usually in lolblack powder and I get blinded before it lands. Ugh it’s the most frustrating thing in the world.

Edit: I have tried pre zerker stancing the blind when I go to earthshaker, but he just shadowsteps out of the stun if it does land.

Alright, so I’ve posted here before asking for help against thieves. I was pretty bad back then but I’ve gotten a lot better at least in my opinion, ~600 games played, containing ranked/unranked/hotjoin etc.

I mostly play axebow/hambow and I dunno what I can do against thieves. I cleansing ire/auto blinds off etc. Problem is I can’t even seem to land hammer skills on them. When I DO land a pindown he just presses lolwithdraw, or if I somehow land a hammer skill after his two dodges he just shadowsteps/shadowreturns.

I feel like I’m perma blinded against d/p thieves and taking completely autistic damage. Honestly 2 stun breaks on one skill is ridiculous. Against S/D thieves I literally never hit them 90% of the time.

As axebow the d/p thief destroys me in the opener unless I pop an early endure pain, so I dunno what I’m supposed to do against d/p at all. Anymore advice would be appreciated, thanks.

Yep, 99% of my games have been against premades still, why is this a thing?

Done 5 matches so far soloQing, all 5 were against premades. This is pretty fun, jk.

So, I can do alright against most other classes 1v1, or I feel like I can. I just don’t know what to do against thieves. It feels like I get them low, they just keep resetting and running etc.

I’ve played s/s longbow, hambow, axebow etc. I’m probably just garbage but I really don’t know what to do against that class when they’re constantly resetting. The thieves I’m talking about are d/p and s/d. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

Can confirm, queueing into premades solo. This is pretty kittened and I hope it ends soon.

Since you can progress champion titles for a class in unranked arena, it seems a bit odd that on the achievement it says wins in rated arenas. Is this intended? Will it be going back to rated only once Dec 16th hits and the leaderboard comes back?

Thanks.

Yeah I guess I should of clarified that I meant with the patch haha. Thank you for the answer

Was it nerfed or not? I can’t seem to find a legit answer to the question So if anyone knows I’d appreciate it before I spend gold, thank you.

Still nothing huh? Welp time to keep this issue alive, bump.

It’s pretty sad how they’re ignoring this post. I personally play on Tarnished Coast for the fact that the community is amazing at least imo compared to other servers. Always able to find a friendly face around, which is good for the new players too. Now with this change and people being separated everywhere, it’s really disheartening to see that people can’t do what they enjoy without a huge hassle. Hopefully ArenaNet listens, even though it doesn’t look like they are.

Well thanks for quelling my worries guys haha, someone even suggested the CPU could be a bottleneck, and it pretty much never stays a straight line across the usage in any game. My frames still seem fine though in other games, so meh. Thanks again!

Alright so I’m running the game on medium-high, 1440 × 900 res and my specs are:

GTX 660 non ti 2 GB
I7-2600 non K, 3.4 ghz turboed to 3.8 ghz
8 GB of Ram
NZXT 650W Psu
Windows 7 64 bit

Anyways with msi afterburner I’ve been measuring gpu usage in game, and I’ll attach the screenies below. It just seems like the gpu usage spikes a lot, even though my fps normally sits at 60 until I get into huge fights, like champ train zergs where it can get as low as 25-30ish. The pic I’m uploading is from a loop on the frostgorge champ train. What I’m wondering is, is this normal or should I be worried?

Sex and Race: Human Female
Armor: Full Medium Tier 3
Problem, looks like my character has an incision in her side when she stretches and such, as seen in the pic attached. Can see it when walking sometimes too.

Right that’s what I was figuring too, so I ordered a 650W PSU a few days ago, need to replace the 500W anyway, like you said it’s never gonna push 500 and it’s a little low by today’s standards. I just don’t have any idea why it’s not happening in any other game, really strange. Maybe it’s related to the amount of GPU usage and what not, though I sat on BF4 for a good 6 hours last night, really strange. Appreciate the input none the less though!

Alright so I recently got a Vapor-x 7770 factory OC’d gpu, and anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours I get a crash that looks like this: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/dsc00537yc.jpg/

That’s not my pic but what I’m experiencing happens just like that, except the color changes to whatever was most prominent on the screen at the time. When it happens I can still hear my skype call/sounds, but I have to hard restart my pc to get my screen back. It’s only happened in GW2 and none of my other games. (I play BF4, Saints Row 4, Skyrim, etc) Never had the problem in any of those.

I’m currently using the 13.12 drivers for my gpu, and my specs are as follows:

500W PSU
Vapor-x 7770
I7-2600 3.4 ghz
8 GB of ram 1333 mhz
1.5 TB HDD

Never had this problem with my old gpu, I just don’t know what could be causing it, maybe the card is failing? Anyways input would be appreciated, thanks guys.

Edit: forgot to add temps too, GPU sits at ~50c and the CPU sits at ~60-62c when there’s a ton of stuff going on, and 57cish when I’m just out in the world doing things. (Stock cooler ftl.) I know those temps are more than fine so I know this isn’t a heat issue.

So I’ve been getting into spvp recently, only rank 13, and yes I play a hammer warrior, yes I know I’m not good etc. I’m just curious because no matter what just about every game I join someone ends up whispering me insults and or just being a complete jerk for lack of better words (obscenities etc)

Well today I got raged at for not being able to get a stomp by one of my teammates, guy was down, I didn’t have stability up and I got knocked down and my teammate got finished and the enemy got back up. Was just curious if it’s bad luck or what, cause I can see how it would discourage newer players. Like I said, I’m aware I’m not very good, but I’m trying to improve, just seems like every game there’s some kitten who is calling someone out.

Araushnee.1852:

This only appeared after the patch. An invisible stomach line has appeared with my armor set, just like the winged armor invisible stomach line.

Armor:
Assassin’s Coat
Vigil Leggings
Noble Mask
Noble Gloves
Duelist Pauldrons
Rawhide Boots

All are transmuted.

Same issue as this person, the recent patch a few minutes ago did not fix it, human female, assassin’s coat and vigil leggings, transmuted. For some reason I can’t upload screenshots because my internet is being terrible atm.