Guild Wars 2

A quick question too, would CyberGhost be an alright alternative instead of HSS? I can’t seem to get the game working with HSS.

North West England, West Lancs EE customer here. Same issues as you all. Spent all day on the phone to support yesterday to no avail. They just kept on running speed tests and telling me what I already know. Using a VPN works but I don’t want to have to use that as a long term solution…

Basically, a VPN (or Virtual Private Network) can bounce your connection to a different IP address (I believe that’s the basic gist of it) and they are often used to combat lag in various online applications (although I don’t know the technical reason as to why it works, I just know that it generally does).

Your best bet is the one recommended on the other thread, HotSpot Shield. If you install the free version of that it should be straight forward enough to set up. If you’re stuck there are various help sites online to get you started.

Thanks for the heads up about the thread. I was on the phone for almost all of yesterday to them (was meant to be my day off :/) and I spent ages just waiting for them to test my speed and do tests I’d already done. An engineer was meant to come out today (since we’ve been having some issues with our line) but they didn’t show up. I’m just going to use a VPN for the moment I guess…

I’ve been having an issue for the past 2 weeks where I cannot connect to gw2 in the evening after 6pm GMT (I am with EE). I am able to log in and load in on a character however it takes a very long time to load in to the game and even when I do I cannot interact with anything (but I can use the in game chat fine) and then I eventually crash out with a 7:131:191 error after a minute or so.

The only workaround I have found is to use a VPN. However, I do not wish to do this long term and would prefer if a way to allow my game to function normally in an evening could be found. The issue is only for people in my household.

I have tried changing the firewall setting, port forwarding including using the command line arguments on my GW2 executable file but none of these methods worked.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Fyrngarm

I went to log into the game today and upon opening my client it greeted me with a 283k file download, as if my .dat file didn’t exist. I went to check my gw2 folder and everything was there as it usually is. I have tried checking my E: drive for errors, I have tried moving the folder, to somewhere else on my drive and running the .exe as an administrator but to no avail. My internet isn’t great and I don’t want to sit through a huge download just to play the game when I’ve got the files there on my hard drive. Any help on the matter would be much appreciated!

Hi, I’m posting here for a friend as he’s having issues receiving log in verification emails.

Ticket number – 880263
Ticket given on 6th September 2014

He’s had this issue several times before and is wondering how to go about resolving it, as the help link he received in the email is one that he has already read and tried but it did not help him. He has also checked all of his various email boxes and no authentication emails were received and even changing the email dress for his account did not work.

The response in the survey e-mail won’t update his ticket so he can’t write back to them and he doesn’t get the second reply so he’s blocked off.

Hope you guys can help

~Fyrngarm

Liking the toxic theme on the bottom one, 9/10 ^^

Here’s my elementalist Swift Iceclaw, with the limited choice of reasonable Charr light armour I was fairly happy with what I came up with

The second one is more of a closeup, the armour is vigil mantle, inquest top, archon gloves (T2 cultural), vigil leggings and WvW boots.

If you had s/p thieves traited into initiative regen (I know 20 into trickery increases your max ini by 3 or so) and using signet of agility that would have a high stun up time with rather high damage. I’ve hit around 15k in SE with pistol whip at 5 stacks of might ^^

Not sure of the practicalities of that but it’s only a suggestion :p

Again to confirm the point I had this happen during a level 18 fractal today.

At first it was confusing but I normally check the duration of the condition that it puts on him anyway ^^ I find that’s the best way to do it just to be sure I’ve hit the boss.

Isn’t ‘grasping vines’ a Sylvari racial ability, not a guardian ability? .-.

You can just use superior runes of the monk/water to get 15% boon duration from 2 runes. Doesn’t sacrifice much DPS (I use them on warrior) whilst giving a nice 15% boon duration for constant fury and might ^^ Givers armour isn’t really needed :/

My human thief and ranger

My thief is called Serana Darkwinter. I had been tossing a few human first names around in my head and found I liked Serana so chose that. And Darkwinter I thought fitted with thief, shadows dark etc. :p and Darkwinter just gave the surname that fullness. My thief is my main and I am currently working towards Incinerator for her

My ranger is called Arisar. He was my first account and I have map completion on him but he is no longer my main.

Many thanks for the responses ^^ I sort of have a better idea of how to go about getting the mats now

And Rouven, apologies if I made it sound like the orichalcum was the expensive part ^^ I was just considering the best way to go about getting it and yes, the lodestone acquisition will be quite horrendous :p Thank you for the response though

I am currently working towards getting my gift of metal to craft incinerator and have a slight dilemna. I have been contemplating just how to acquire the 500 orichalcum ore required (as well as the lodestones). I am not a fan of running CoF path 1 a gagillion times so that leaves me with doing other dungeons (CoE, SE, TA, AC etc.) or mining the ores and farming the lodestones. For each, which would be the favorable option: doing dungeons for cash and then buying off the TP or farming? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

It’s been a few weeks since I last did CoE but I’ve not heard about any changes. When I last did it (also on my thief ^^) it was really a piece of cake. And that was with a PuG. As long as you have decent ping and you do know how to time the dodges (knowing what to count to for each Alpha) it really is rather easy imo.

Personally I ran all 3 paths but I seem to recall one and two were the easiest (not sure though) but if you have good DPS path 3 with the destroyer is easy enough. All three paths are pretty equal from memory.

The only piece of advice I can really think of is use dagger storm on the bit with the laser charging up room for AoE on the mobs but that’s about it. I just watched all of strife’s videos and that was fine for me best of luck getting the armour.

Thanks ^^ so would p/d (basically condition build) be good against a group of people or would it still be viable for taking out bunkers at the capture points?

Ah okay thanks for the advice

Clockwork Bard, the master traits are III and VI in critical strikes, IV VI and XI in shadow arts and II and VII in acro.

I have read into the different types of build i.e. condition thief, burst etc. but having played a more burst oriented thief in pve/wvw I have edged towards that sort of build in sPvP. Would burst be viable for taking out bunkers and such?

I’ve recently started playing sPvP on my thief and have been trying out a few builds. The one I have come to enjoy most is a d/p 0/20/30/20/0 build with a beserker trinket and runes of the eagle. I believe this to be (or at least was not so long ago) a good WvWvW build. But is it viable for sPvP?

Any advice would be appreciated :) I’m not very knowledgeable of all the ‘meta’ builds and such ^^

I’ve had exactly the same issue as have many other people on the forums who have posted threads about it. It seems not be a hardware issue but more an issue on ANet’s end. My game was working fine yesterday (after a large bout of skill lag for several days last week where the game was almost unplayable) but I tried to log in today and I’ve had 3 crashes without even loading into the map.

Mine seems to have resolved partially by itself o.0 I was trying some WvW just before and I managed to heal without having to wait 10 seconds! I’m yet to test dungeons but it’s definitely better than it was yesterday.

When I mentioned SAB I meant after the SAB update (or more specifically the 16th April update as it seems to have escalated since then) not in SAB itself. Sorry for any confusion

It may be something to do with the April update for Guild Wars 2 with the super adventure box as I’ve had exactly the same issue. It’s more skill lag than actual lag but I also get these infinite loading screens which force me to close the game on my windows bar and then restart… Only to have the same infinite loading screen over and over again.

It’s getting quite ridiculous now and it definitely isn’t a hardware or internet issue. My opinion is that it may well be on ArenaNet’s end.

Just doing some fractals to try and get my thief up to level 10 fractals for my pristine fractal relics. I get a team, takes me around 15 minutes as it’s for a low level fractal, and get into the dungeon just fine. First fractal is cliffside which is okay. Get to the first boss and I start lagging. I’m thinking ‘this isn’t right. I had fine connection just before and earlier when I was doing CoF explorable.’ And then the lag persists. For two WHOLE FRACTALS. I am not joking. Checked the internet connection, 1.2Mb/s so not too bad.

I have had the same issue over the past month and it has now gotten to the point where the game is becoming nearly unplayable. I was looking forward to playing on my thief (which I thoroughly enjoyed leveling) and was hoping to get a fractal capacitor for that character. Until I started getting these lag issues…

It’s gone a step too far. Fair enough if I get a bit of lag in Lion’s Arch say because it has a lot to load etc. But I spent A LOT of money on my computer for gaming specifically and I get lag issues not because of internet or hardware, but because of the actual game. This needs to be resolved soon as I have heard of many people with the same issue. If someone could tell me what the issue is and if it could be fixed I would be very happy. But clearly the issue isn’t hardware or internet related on the players’ end.

Hope you can help,

Fyrngarm.

Asra Wolfheart – Guardian

Don’t know how I came up with it :p I just liked the name wolfheart and thought it as quite norn esque and Asra I just came up with off the top of my head. She’s my favourite character because Guardians are just cool and the name suits a Guardian I think.

A waypoint closer to Lupi would help out simply because you don’t really have a challenge to run back to the boss. It’s just using swiftness a lot (I run a guardian so ‘save yourselves’ ‘retreat’ and the staff ability ‘symbol of swiftness’ are used) and running for 4-5 minutes.

For the actual boss I did it for the first time with a PuG last weekend and it went pretty good. As long as you make sure to co-ordinate and have a clear strategy all is good. Admittedly we did wipe 3 times before doing it but it took us about 50minutes to an hour in all. I can understand why people would want to nerf the attacks slightly (especially phase 3, my guardian with toughness/vit spec was really struggling to stay alive) but for me the fun was in the challenge. Once we’d killed the boss all of our team got a real sense of achievement out of it! Besides, there has to be something difficult to do in GW2 outside of level 30+ fractals :p

Personally I use greatsword/staff with power/toughness/vit on both, superior sigil of bloodlust on greatsword.

With this I get around (with 25 stacks of bloodlust) 3.2k attack
10% crit (need to get more really :/)
2.8k armour
and 23k hp

20/0/20/30/0 And I use this generally for dungeons but not so much for fractals (it was good up to level 15 or so but agony outweighs that with only +5 agony resistance).

This works well for me but it does need tweaking slightly. However it is incredibly tanky and since I use the passive virtue of resolve trait and soldier runes which keeps the whole team happy (as well as the 12 stacks of might the staff grants) with ‘hold the line’ ‘save yourselves’ and the signet which grants protection (i forget its name xd).

It isn’t really the MOST effective build out there but I have found it very good for what I like to do in game – dungeons.

Hope this helps

Fyrngarm