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Well then this is the time to join The Avalanche. Our raid team is nearly full and we are about to start. Make sure to message any of the leaders for an invite!

I’ve had this issue for some time, some times it’s happening every time i play, other times it works just fine. I play a lot of games and it only seem to be GW2 that have this issue.

The problem is that the client freezes, well my whole OS freezes. And i have no idea why. An early warning is that almost all text in-game dissapears. If i quickly quit out i can get out of the situation with a 20s wait instead of 2 minutes.

Lets clear some things first:
CPU temperature is <70 degrees.
System temperatures overall is fine.
The HDD that i have GW2 on has been tested and is also working just fine with other games.

Specs:
Windows 10
Intel I5 4690K @4.3GHz
2x Nvidia Geforce 770
16GB DDR3 Memory
1 SSD (OS), 2 HDD’s
850w Corsair psu, 80plus gold.

Take a look on the pictures and tell me what you think is wrong.

Thanks for the suggestion!
Disabling adblock worked

I have the same problem, can’t find a way to fix it..
Any ideas?

Name: The Avalanche Guild [TA]
Gamemodes: Mostly PvE, some PvP
Website: www.TheAvalanche.se
Location: EU
Language: English in Guild Chat and Teamspeak
Active hours: All day, especially 18.00 – 00.00 CEST

The Avalanche is a guild focused around having fun in-game and accomplishing things together. We are a small community. The reason being its easier to get included in a small community, its easier to get to know everyone because there isn’t 400 others.
We enjoy joking around and having fun. We have weekly Guild Missions and daily gathering runs.
If you want to enjoy the game, make new friends while joking around on Teamspeak. This is the guild for you!

Welcome to TA

Whisper leader in-game for an invite
Giseth.9708

The Avalanche is up and running, join now for a friendly and fun guild !

The Avalanche

The Avalanche is a gaming community with its roots set in Scandinavia. We are starting up again, and therefore we need you! Interested in being a leader perhaps or enjoy just playing with fun people? Join The Avalanche! We offer tons of possibilites!
The Avalanche used to be a scandinavian clan with hundreds of members, we now open up for the rest of Europe and world!
We are aiming to have a group in all parts of the game, WvW, PvE and PvP. With WvW and PvE being the biggest. No one is left out!
We recruit from all server, but if you want to join us in WvW, you need to be on Far Shiverpeaks!

Requirements:
- Mature but can still have fun
- Attend 1-2 events per week
- Willing to sign up to, and use forums / website
- Able to use TS3 (no mic required)

Things we can offer:
- Modern website with forums
- Weekly events
- TS3
- Friendly community
- Dedicated leaders

You are all welcome, and hope to see you in TA!
If there is any questions feel free to ask
In-game name: Giseth.9708
Website: www.TheAvalanche.se

How about not putting 3 servers against eachother for weeks? Would rather fight Seafarer’s Rest than Arbor and Drakkar right now..
Why not make one single person sit down and look at WvW mechanics, fix and improve. Work with the pvp team to figure stuff out, whatever takes to get WvW back in the game again! Get some WvW changes back in the patch notes!
You have the servers, you have the tools, create some magic. We know you can ANet!

I agree with Author, make more stowed effects. Maybe make it so the blade doesn’t go away, and make it shorter so it doesn’t go into the ground. Also make some kind of small fire effect, either around the character or just the hand that is when wielded. (Only smaller) A shame to see the so called “Legendaries”. A ton of weapons with great potential but Devs are too lazy to actually work on them.

This is a great idea +1

Dan.2940:

Giseth.9708:

Dan.2940:

Giseth.9708:

The Portal is a destroyer of Jumping Puzzles, why do you get a reward when you haven’t done any of it?

Without portals people would actually work for their stuff, and perhaps better rewards can be given if its incredible hard. Again, this jumping puzzle is permanent. Why stress with a portal is beyond me…

ill agree with you that it does ruin jump puzzles, however, this form of “cheating” does not affect anyone else…

Why should it affect everyone to matter?
As long as its a cheap and wrong way to complete a JP. Of course people are fine with it, they get free loot and they don’t have to do a kitten thing to get it! By removing it, forcing people to actually do what you’re supposed to. What if there was an NPC that would auto-lvl you to 80?
No one would complain, and you don’t have to do it. Does that mean that it isn’t a cheap way to get through the game, and the months/years ANet have been developing the game is just a waste and don’t need to be fixed? They probably used months making all the different jumping puzzles, and using Portals is just like saying “We hate your new content, lets just skip it by using portals”
No one is forced to do it, but it is still wrong and should be looked at by ArenaNet. Jumping Puzzles are supposed to be enjoyed without teleporting.

Why would ANet put a reward in a Jumping Puzzle if everyone was just going to portal up anyway? Maybe they should stop awarding you for jumping puzzles, and just giving you an Achievement instead.

I’m certain they know that people skip their content, which is why the loot is soulbound and not something you could sell to make profit. Obviously people would complain about an auto leveling NPC, but what sane company would put that in their game?

You’re only thinking about yourself when you say that portals should be removed, people who want to do the jump puzzle normally, will do so, and ENJOY IT, people who don’t will take a portal. This makes everyone happy, except for the 10% of you who continue to whine about it not being fair. Guess what, LIFE is not fair. I don’t like cancer, or poverty, or war, but do i whine about it? I still have not received an answer from any of the people complaining as to what you would gain from them being removed from JP’s. Please, enlighten me.

May i remind you that i hardly ever take portals and i still couldn’t care less? I enjoy the content, with my friends, and to me, thats all that matters. These people skipping the full JP are only hurting themselves.

Why would i be thinking of my self when im saying this? What makes me a ultra jumper? It destroys a part of the game that should be enjoyed in a different way.

Its not about who likes it or not, its wrong that just because you have a mesmer in the Jumping Puzzle you should be able to skip it. And if it was intended, why didn’t they just put a button with big letters saying “SKIP” ?

What would we gain on removing them you ask? Well, if you remove them you can have better loot in the end. You could have stuff you can sell on the TP for money, you could have people actually doing it.
People stuck in the puzzle for days doesn’t bring anything bad, other than crowding. But at least then you can actually get help from players with routes, tips etc. and not a website.
Hard effort should be rewarded respectfully. The harder the puzzle the better loot. Removing portals -> Better rewards at the end.

What would we lose?
People who get stuff just because they were there when a mesmer is there. If ArenaNet keeps making new Jumping Puzzles with more weapons and armor, everyone will have a full set of Exotic just because they can press “F”.
Don’t you see thakittens wrong to exploit game mechanics to skip ahead, and get rewards for it?

Dan.2940:

Giseth.9708:

The Portal is a destroyer of Jumping Puzzles, why do you get a reward when you haven’t done any of it?
Why should you get Exotic Shoulders when you just stood by the entrance, waiting for a portal?
Theres a reason its an award there, to make people excited and actually jump it! Not portal around it!

Just make the Portal skill not usable in all Jumping Puzzles, either that or with a extreme cooldown. So if you want to “Cheat” you have to wait ages. (Also only in JP’s)

“Its optional! Its optional!” you cry more than anything else in the world. Of courses its optional, if it wasnt they would put it at the first area you go through when making a new character, forcing you through it!
But the thing here isn’t about the option to use it or not, to gain an advantage by “Cheating” and still get something at the end is wrong when the players who worked hours or days on a Jumping Puzzles get the same reward?

If you can’t jump the puzzle, don’t do it! Simple as that. If you are not able to finish a Jumping Puzzle the normal way you don’t deserve a reward! Don’t use Portals!

Without portals people would actually work for their stuff, and perhaps better rewards can be given if its incredible hard. Again, this jumping puzzle is permanent. Why stress with a portal is beyond me…

ill agree with you that it does ruin jump puzzles, however, this form of “cheating” does not affect anyone else. Also, it does not ruin the puzzle for you so why should you care? Some people don’t want to spend the time doing the puzzle and just want the reward, others want to enjoy it and want the reward. Either way, explain to me how removing the portals from JP’s would make you happier. Seeing more irritated, annoyed players cluttered in a jump puzzle for hours? I agree that is does seem like a form of cheating, but 90% of the population is fine with it, the cons from removing the portals outweigh the pros.

Why should it affect everyone to matter?
As long as its a cheap and wrong way to complete a JP. Of course people are fine with it, they get free loot and they don’t have to do a kitten thing to get it! By removing it, forcing people to actually do what you’re supposed to. What if there was an NPC that would auto-lvl you to 80?
No one would complain, and you’re not forced to do it. Does that mean that it isn’t a cheap way to get through the game, and the months/years ANet have been developing the game is just a waste and don’t need to be fixed? They probably used months making all the different jumping puzzles, and using Portals is just like saying “We hate your new content, lets just skip it by using portals”
No one is forced to do it, but it is still wrong and should be looked at by ArenaNet. Jumping Puzzles are supposed to be enjoyed without teleporting.

Why would ANet put a reward in a Jumping Puzzle if everyone was just going to portal up anyway? Maybe they should stop awarding you for jumping puzzles, and just giving you an Achievement instead.

Also theres nothing wrong with my ego as said in a different post. When doing something that probably isn’t intended and jumping past everyone doing it the legit, its not weird that some feel like its wrong.

Would be interesting to get a devs/forum moderators thoughts on this.

The Portal is a destroyer of Jumping Puzzles, why do you get a reward when you haven’t done any of it?
Why should you get Exotic Shoulders when you just stood by the entrance, waiting for a portal?
Theres a reason its an award there, to make people excited and actually jump it! Not portal around it!

Just make the Portal skill not usable in all Jumping Puzzles, either that or with a extreme cooldown. So if you want to “Cheat” you have to wait ages. (Also only in JP’s) But whatever you change, don’t let it affect WvW.

“Its optional! Its optional!” you cry more than anything else in the world. Of courses its optional, if it wasnt they would put it at the first area you go through when making a new character, forcing you through it!
But the thing here isn’t about the option to use it or not, to gain an advantage by “Cheating” and still get something at the end is wrong when the players who worked hours or days on a Jumping Puzzles get the same reward?

If you can’t jump the puzzle, don’t do it! Simple as that. If you are not able to finish a Jumping Puzzle the normal way you don’t deserve a reward! Don’t use Portals!

Without portals people would actually work for their stuff, and perhaps better rewards can be given if its incredible hard. Again, this jumping puzzle is permanent. Why stress with a portal is beyond me…

Wiped 4 to 6 times with 4 different groups. I hope ArenaNet dont want this to be an Elite Dungeon where people who trained to watch everything at once can thrive.

This needs fixing, less life, less damage something. Alot have problems with this dungeon just because you have to be aware of everything at once. The boss fights show that, keep up with 4 Walls, two Champions while cannons are shooting at you, and get 40 mobs thrown on you while the one shot cannons blaze the whole area.

If you get uplvled to 80 because ANet thinks that everyone should be able to participate, then i think ANet should fix it so that everyone can at least make it past the first boss.

Its fine that it should be a challenge, but at least make it a challenge that you can actually finish and have fun at the same time.

As of this date, we need more dagger drops. (Probably other weapons too) The cheapest Lvl 80 Rare Dagger sell for 35 Silver on the TP compared to other weapons this is expensive.

This makes it so hard to make Legendaries (Incinerator), because you have to have a Exotic dagger. That you either have to use 500G on, buy a crap-ton of daggers and hope that the Mystic Forge has a good day. Or wait 3-4 years for drops.

It would be nice for another way of optaining these pre-cursors, as mentioned in many other posts.

The Avalanche Guild (TAG)..

..is the complete Guild Wars 2 and Neverwinter guild for Nordmenn and Svenskar.

We gladly welcome newbies (and veterans) both in their teenage and middle-age in order to together learn to play the game in their own pace, while the veterans are welcome to share their vast knowledges with a guild that truly appreciates it! We care about the fun social part of being the member of a guild just as much as we care about experiencing everything that the games has to offer. The greatest joy with games is to be good at them, and to know your guild-mates well and to thereby be able to co-operate well with them is exactly what TAG is here for.

We want you to feel that you fit in well with us and that your unique role and game-play is both appreciated and needed. The very serious guilds and clans rarely have any interest in teaching newcomers, whereas most gamers have to join some second-hand guild that doesn’t have much to offer and where even the managers are novices at what they’re doing. This is where our good-as unique and highly appreciated formula, which works in the way of simply mixing pedagogical and helpful experts with total newbies, enters. To get to know newcomers and to help them reach a potential higher than your own is truly rewarding! That’s why we welcome newbies to join the guild where they’ll feel well taken care of and why we welcome veterans who expect their high-quality standards to still be satisfied.

To further show our members how important they are to us we’ve incorporated two different points-systems based on activity with which you can use to exchange for real games, free of charge!

Most gamers play in the evenings, so it would probably be best if you could play from 19:00 and onwards!

So whether you’re Norsk or Svensk and you’re completely new to Guild Wars 2 and need a good guild to start off with, or if you’re a seasoned veteran looking for a proud Scandinavian guild to put your talents and ambition into, you’re welcome to join us!

Server: Far Shiverpeaks [EU]
Contact me in-game: Giseth.9708

Theres a couple of reasons its not free.

1. To not crowd servers. If you add a fee, people will normally stick where they are. As of this date, most servers are balanced with users, there are some exceptions of course.
In the Beta and just after release i remember several EU servers which was full. Maybe 4-5 was full and the rest was Medium or Low. This makes the Low/medium servers, after time die, and no users want to play on them because there are so little users.
Wasn’t this the main reason why it was free in the start, before people started abusing it…

2. WvW got so unbalanced when it was free. People was switching servers just to “Spy” or to get an easy win. This made WvW pointless, and it was no longer fun when everyone crowded on the server that was best and made all other servers hate WvW. On the other hand, what has happened now is that all the huge WvW guilds switched to the good WvW server when it was free. And now they just can’t switch back without paying.
That makes for 3-4 superior servers that’s impossible to beat, you can clearly see this on the leaderboards.

3. This is why they added Guesting. For all of those who can’t afford, or don’t want to pay for switching but still want to play with their friends and/or guilds. Im not sure how long you actually can guest on a server, i think its like 24 hours(?). And for most of us thats plenty of time with friends and/or guild.
After this time it resets, and you can guest again. But im not sure about this.

A suggestion is that if you switch from a “Very High” or “Full” server to a Medium/Low density server, you’ll get In-game items like buffs, titles, karma, or materials etc.
This would equalize the servers, so that all the low and medium servers gets about equal users to the larger servers. Therefore maybe makes WvW more fun and balanced.

I also like the idea of one free transfer over time. But i would like to raise that 1 month to 4, 5 or 6 months because of WvW and general balance/abusing.

Any EU Servers with it open?

There could be mounts, but they would have no skills at all, just a speedboon. To not destroy the rest of game mechanics which is tailored for actual players fighting. Mounts should be used as a transportation and nothing else!
More speedboon than normal ofcourse. Like 66, or 100% more instead of 33%. No flying mounts, as this will change too much of the core game.

Mounts should be in line with Legendary. So, takes a long time to gather recources for it, and craft it.

These weapons should have more to them just because its so hard to make.. Legendary should be the ultimate weapon. Not just a normal weapon with some fx.

A skill dropdown menu is a cool idea, i saw on another topic.
Like 4-5 stats which you can switch between. Either one super powerful one, 3 medium ones. Or 5 weak ones. Something like that.

Also The Incinerator Dagger needs some work when “Idle” or in your belt. It has no fx at all when not drawn. When drawn it looks amazing, but does need some work..

I really want some redesign on the Incinerator aswell, its kitten hard to optain. And when you get it, no one can actually see that you have it!
When you put so many hours into one item, it should be really special. And i think Legendaries should be a priority. Just because it takes so long.

Im actually trying to get this now, but im thinking of making the shortbow instead. Just because its so much cooler!
Make it so that theres fx when you its on the belt. Currently it just look like, either part of the armor (If you have dark colour on it), or just a weird scepter, focus or warhorn…

Please don’t add more fx on the legendaries that already are cool.
It should be like this, if its harder to make, it should be cooler/have more fx to pay for those endless hours of grinding..

If you are in any huge battle, you get low FPS. Mainly, this is because of all the fx that the spells use.
There should be a way to hide Effects, to minimize FPS drop.
This will greatly increase the fun in huge battles, such as WvW and world events!

Yes Needed very much, have to pay 3 silver to go check if an area is 100% … :|

Some people doesn’t play the game for fun, they just want better stuff…
Horrible..

Connection doesn’t have anything to do with this, i run GW2 and Mumble at once all the time, probably 3-4 hours a day.. Only during this event it crashes and can’t login ? .. Weird..
Its Anets fault, and they should come up with a way to make us happy with spending 2 hour and getting nothing..

CET stands for Central Europe Time, thats GMT +1. So if you live in England, just remove 1 hour

They should just use GMT instead of CET. Since many is confused by it.

I vote for Hoelbrak getting Christmas Decorations

I agree with the above, and i also would like to add Opacity for Mini Map.

Agree 200%, make them more powerful. But remove all CC from orr!

I hate that WvW is part of the World Completion.. It takes ages just getting POI and Vistas. And now server change got a 7 day cooldown instead of 24.. So thats not really and option..
So everyone just have to wait for new servers, and beg that your server gets put in the spot where your 1 unexplored POI is..

This is a growing problem, people want items for 1 Copper. When people can’t sell them since they can’t be sold under “Normal” value..
So that item is now stuck, and the Buyer have to remove it to fix it..

I would want this too, but you had to choose it in Options or something..
Either that, or buying 50 or more items at once will give you a “Do You Want To Buy?”

At least i think they should remove the Vistas and POI requirements for 100% world completion from WvW.. Its just a pain in the kitten and now since you can’t switch server every 24 hour, you either have to wait a week to get the other sides POI and Vistas. Or wait for the servers to switch..
Remove POI, Vistas and Skill Challenges from WvW!

I missed this so much!
We need this!

I agree with this, i like to see whats been changed even if its just a Maintenance.

So i’ve explored every area on the map, but i still have Hearts, Waypoints, POI, Vistas and Skill Points left.

Is it possible that the new area is put in so it affects the stats, or is it in fact Hearts, Waypoints and vistas in Dungeons ? ..

Thanks in advance!

From Norway?
Try reading below, if that doesn’t work for you. Visit www.TheAvalanche.se and read it in Norwegian

Welcome!

Swedish:
www.TheAvalanche.se

The Avalanche är egentligen en grupp Svenska och Norska vänner som hållit igång en klan som växlat mellan olika spel på olika plattformar i många år, varav vi planerar att gå från Battlefield på PS3 till Guild Wars på PC denna gång. Under BFBC, BFBC2 och BF3 tiden hade vi medlemmar varav några var bland Skandinaviens bästa, varav resten var totala nybörjare i både tonåren och medelåldern som långsant tränades upp och njöt stort utav att faktiskt vara potenta delar under segrande klanmatcher. Vår manager är veteran vad gäller klanlir och har spelat FPS på elitnivå, och resten av gänget är både knas och kalas.

Denna Newbie + Veteran mix har fungerat väl och har varit mycket uppskattad av båda parter, så nu vill vi göra det igen!
Det finns redan ett flertal Svenska guilds med flera hundra medlemmar som säkerligen kan ge er allt ni behöver, så vad kan vi egentligen erbjuda nybörjare som de andra inte kan? Jo; oerfarenhet! Trots att vi självfallet vet hur en klan skall styras så har vi till skillnad från alla andra guilder alltså knappt någon erfarenhet av MMO eftersom nästan alla våra nuvarande medlemmar endast spelat på PS3. Detta kommer det självfallet bli ändringar på när GW2 väl släpps och vi börjar spela, men en utav lockelserna med denna rekryteringstråd är alltså att gå med i en guild som vet lika lite som du som nybörjare gör!

Vissa människor tycker nämligen inte om att hoppa in i en redan väletablerad klan eftersom de känner sig små och oviktiga pga sin brist på erfarenhet och kan känna både prestationsångest och att det är svårt att platsa in. Och det är för er som vi erbjuder att bli en del av ett gäng riktigt goa Svennar och Norrisar som tillsammans bygger en helt ny guild från början, utan några som helst krav, för att stolt kunna titta tillbaka på denna dag när det gått några år och du sitter där som grundare till ett imperium som till stora delar som bär ditt namn! Inget är bättre än att vara en originell del utav sin klan! Och här har ni chansen att faktiskt slippa hoppa in i en guild som ni redan från början vet har många medlemmar som besitter skills som ni aldrig kommer att komma i närheten av.

En specifik nisch som vi alltid haft oavsett spel och plattform är Member Of The Week omröstningar med riktiga vinster till favoritmedlemmarna, som spel bland annat, samt en sorts valuta som vi kallar Victorious Event Point eller VEP som går till den medlem som är ensam vinnare under FunWar events med speciella regler (i de spel som det är möjligt att ha sådana) som vid en ansamling av 5 stycken förvandlas till €5. Jepp, vi betalar medlemmar för att utföra sitt bästa! Många tusenlappar har gått åt till dessa vinster under årens lopp men vi har aldrig och kommer aldrig att ha några kostnader för att vara med i The Avalanche.

För att komma till de mer tekniska detaljerna så vill vi i princip skapa en guild som fokuserar på allt som GW2 har att erbjuda; både casual och hardcore, PvE, PvP, WvW, etc. Vi kommer förmodligen att spela på Far Shiverpeaks som de flesta andra Nordiska guilder. Men inte för att vi kände till att det var den inofficiella Nordiska servern, utan för att Far Shiverpeaks låter som det perfekta stället för snöskred!

Vi är en guild som blir vänner först, har kul efter det, och vinner sist. Att vinna är inte speciellt viktigt för oss. Men det är tyvärr jävligt kul att vinna, så vi kommer att försöka vinna någon gång också ändå.
Som ni kommer att se (och förmodligen skratta över) om ni besöker vår hemsida så har vi en mycket modigare presentation om guilden synlig för gäster för ögonblicket. Men låt er ej luras; denna presentation är egentligen menad för den närmsta framtiden när vi faktiskt vet en hel del om GW2.
Alltså är både nybörjare som inte vet ett smack och super-veteraner som älskar (eller precis har insett hur kul och meningsfullt det skulle kunna vara) att lära andra och därmed förhöja deras nöjen avsevärt på ett socialt nära sätt varmt välkomna till det udda alternativet till väletablerade super-guilds som faktiskt behöver er för att ni är ni, och inte för att ni bara är en i mängden!
The clean slate guild hittar hos TAG!

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