Guild Wars 2

Its particularly bad in the evenings(uk time) for me, dragon bash is all but unplayable….but even worse is how the rest of the game is affected, while dragon bash is the worst by far, the lag is enough in the rest of the game to make me give up on trying to finish my daily…

It makes me wonder if anet expects us to pay for gems to fund temporary content which you miss because the lag means you can’t play it within the time window -_-

That means almost all the 2 hand weapon skills get nerfed then since even skill 1 for warrior/guardian GS/hammer effectively does AoE damage, albeit hitting upto 3 targets per swing compared to the normal 5. So its kind of a gray area that they need to clarify.

With the upcoming AoE nerf, how does anet expect us to get through high level fractals with the ever increasing size of the mobs and their health bars? I can only think of more groups skipping given the increase in time, effort and risk to kill these mobs with neutered AoE. Anyone have any idea of what they’re thinking?

If this is not what anet is intending with the upcoming AoE nerf, I think you(anet) should clarify to us(players) because frankly its quite worrying what the state of high end PvE will be in by next month.

First off, let me apologise for the rantish nature of this post, but given anet has acknowledged this issue months ago, and things have not improved but have become worse if anything, I feel its fair to give this its own topic instead of posting in some of the existing related threads to be forgotten and ignored. As this encompasses several main problems together I have listed the main issues seperately for ease of reading

1).Sound bug.

Since launch i have found claw of jormag to trigger a rather annoying sound bug that cannot be rid off without relaunching the gw2 client, it seems to appear for some players, while others may never notice it, this appears to be the same bug previously reported in september here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Annoying-Sound-Bug

2). Disconnections and freezing.

This typically happens after the sound bug has appeared. Lag is to be expected from large scale events like claw of jormag, but the regular disconnection and freezing that takes place really needs to be improved instead of being swept under the rug and ignored as it has been for the past few months. Previously I was able to complete Claw of Jormag without regular freezing and disconnection, albeit with the above annoying sound bug always active whenever I did Claw. Lately however, I find I cannot even get halfway throughout the Claw event without the game freezing, as with the above sound bug, this seems to selectively affect some players more than others. Please sort this out, its ridiculous for this issue to have become worse so long after launch. I struggle to believe that this is a hardware related issue as my PC is fairly recent with a intel i5 2500k and a radeon 6770 graphics card.

3). Selectively DC’ing and kicking off players.

I have found gw2 to kick me off whenever a large amount of players is invloved from the above Claw meta event, to entering EB in WvW after waiting an hour in the queue to be kicked off only a minute after finally entering EB. Given the frequency of being kicked off recently, I can’t come to any other explanation of why this happens than gw2 is selectively kicking players.