Guild Wars 2

Alright, thanks a lot man, I was planning on contacting them anyways, but now i’ll at least seem like I know what I’m talking about. haha.

Statement says: “Condition – Scratches on casing/bezels – Replaced Video Card.” Here’s my computer. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152266

A month ago my old GPU,560, died, (before that happened the game ran pinned at 30fps on Med graphics all the time). The laptop was still under the warranty that I purchased through a 3rd party program (service net or something) and so I sent it in to be repaired. I assume there were no GTX 560m model GPU’s available anymore so they had to upgrade me to the GTX 670m. If it were a flow issue wouldn’t it have shown in the score on the benchmark testing? How would I have scored 500 points higher than when the computer ran perfectly if there was a flow/seating issue? Could it be that my MB and GPU are, since the change, incompatible now?

On medium graphics (recommended) the FPS is around 5-10 if I’m not moving it’s pinned at 30 (I have it set to not rise above 30). On lowest it’s the same deal if I move around 5-10fps standing still 30. Also it’s not 75c all the time. it fluctuates between high 60’s and low 70’s and then in times of extreme graphics (WvW battles) it doesn’t surpass 75c.

I have done that, GPU/CPU dont rise over 75 ever.

Hey all, after this last update I have been getting some ridiculously low FPS. I’m running i7-2630QM, 2 GHz, 12MB RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M. I just recently had the laptop serviced (due to a bad GPU) and had it upgraded from the 560m to the 670m. On benchmark tests my computer is scoring 500+ points higher than it was with the 560. Could something else have gone wrong with the swap from the 560 to the 670? Or has my computer fallen below the minimum requirements to run this game? Thanks in advance for any help!

Justin ODell.9517:

May I suggest taking a patient, mentoring approach?

I have been a pretty hardcore pvper since release and I feel like this is always Anets suggestion, but, you know, sometimes I want to get on this game and not have to deal with “mentoring” someone on my team every match.

First game in, 5 v 0 it’s not much better when you are able to queue…

It started working for me, I re-logged.

Happening for me also, just logged on. Guess i’ll just log off for the day…

So can we get some kind of update on what is wrong with leaderboard decay? This is literally making the MMR system completely useless for pretty much anyone on the leaderboards. On the solo queue LB I never get a game that’s even close or get matched with people near me on the LBs mostly r900+ or not on the LBs at all. It’s been a month and a half since it’s stopped working, does Anet just not know? Or is it going to stay broken forever? Any kind okittennowledgement of this problem would be nice. Or is this not a LB problem and just a population problem?

This isn’t anything huge, just kind of annoying. You can become suppressed in solo queue which is kind of kittenty because team chat is literally the only way of communicating to your team and if you’re suppressed then you’re kind of SOL when they send 3 to your back point.

Mogar.9216:

if you play pvp you wouldn’t care about class since you can be any class you want. Any one can pick up any class and be pretty good at it after 20-30 matches. The 5% diff between a very well played character and and well played character isn’t meaningful in a 5 v 5 . In WvW mesmer are still very good .

Obviously you haven’t done any high end pvp lol. Everything you said was wrong, save the last bit, and even that’s starting to change. Do you even play this game?

Waffler.1257:

Eviator.9746:

Bah, to you guys a thread is only good if there’s people so mad they genuinely want to fling feces at others. Sorry but I don’t want to wade through pages of trolling to find real reading material.

Don’t lie to yourself. DB sends a shatter mes, BS thief, and a S/D ele to kill me and they still manage to fail. Please explain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtqMOAdqF-0

Good job you killed 3 people from probably the biggest PvE guilds on our server while playing probably the most face roll easy class in the game. Now I’m not saying that you’re bad, because they should have won that, but I think an upscale could have won that fight.

The fights at SE camp in BGBL were by far some of the best I have had on this game, despite our ppt, great reset BG and JQ.

ahuba.6430:

if you had a cast time 5->2->steal->1 is no longer possible. thieves are fine. actually they arent. they suck.

Sure that exact combo doesn’t work, but the damage stays the same it just spreads out when you can do the damage so I can’t two hit people without them making a move.

I don’t see how thief burst is “non-existent” maybe you’re just playing against s/d s/d thieves but I can still two shot any light/med and some heavy classes on my thief.

How do people feel about Steal, for thieves, having an instant activation time? I feel that if they added even the slightest activation time to steal it would fix a lot of the gripe and complaints about thieves. The idea behind adding a cast time would spread out the speed at which a thief can burst someone, so not the damage, but the speed. This would give people at least a few seconds to block or counter the thief’s dps. Ex: any good backstab thief knows the combo for their particular weapon set. If they run d/p they use 5->2->steal->1, if you add a cast time to the steal it would make it so the thief’s heartseeker skill would have to finish completely and then they could use steal. Or if they play d/d the usually do 5->Steal->1, the same thing goes for this weapon set, the steal would interrupt the number 5 skill (cloak and dagger) so that they can’t do the damage from C&D + Steal dmg + BS completely in stealth. Those are just my thoughts take it or leave it

How do people feel about Illusionary Leap on sword I feel like the immobilize doesn’t work correctly half the time. ex. I leap to the target right when he is dodging/evading and he ends up three body lengths away from me (out of the cleave range) immobilized from the skill. Either he shouldn’t be immobilized at all ( because he evaded the immobilize) or he shouldn’t be 3 body lengths away from me, it doesn’t make sense. I don’t think this has been an issue since the begging of the game I think it just recently came up about a month ago or so.

McFribble.2349:

Lyndis.2584:

McFribble.2349:

Pendragon.8735:

Hit and run need not be dependent on stealth. DD Ele’s, especially prior the last few patches, were amazing at hit and run, and had no stealth.

It’s simply lack of creativity to claim that this is the only way to skin the cat for a thief type character.

But yes, moving the reveal timer back down to 3s for WvW was a mistake.

There is literally NOTHING wrong with the Thief’s design other than a few number tweaks. Most MMOs have stealth-based classes in infinite stealth until hit or attacking, with methods to re-stealth in combat. If anything, I’d say stealth is GW2 is very restrictive in more ways than not, especially when a single skill only allows a max of 10 seconds of it (not taking D/P thieves into account).

Complaining about Thieves is like complaining about Mesmer clones, is like complaining about Guardian boons. There was a point in time where people learned to adapt to the game, and not cry about the game conforming to them. Those days are obviously long past.

Thieves are a solid class that have a purpose (as much as Thief players would like to say otherwise). While they can be annoying, it is what they are designed to do (and as much as non-thief players want to admit, that is okay). SOME tweaks do have to be made, but the outcry from both Thieves and Thief haters has gone to insane proportions that make both ends of the spectrum look like idiots (is it against the forum rules to call a non-specific person an idiot? Sorry if it is mods, I’ll edit if need be).

Yeah, that was a terrible comparison. You can rip boons and kill clones. No class in this game has stealth detection on hand.

Stealth isn’t a buff. It isn’t a second body attacking for you and causing Conditions (other than maybe 1 second of blindness if you are dry humping the thief). It is a state of transparency that offers some offensive abilities and a little health regan (if traited).

A stealthed thief is either doing one of two things: Closing distance to attack, or running away. AoE your position. Just because you don’t see him dying doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

Really, roll an upleveled Thief in tPvP for a week and get used to his mechanics. They are strong, but very predictable once you have handled the class yourself.

I do play thief quite a bit actually and I can tell you any good thief isn’t terribly predictable and that I can insta kill almost everyone besides some guards, also what about the classes with very little aoe i.e mesmers what do we do, just swing wildly in the air?

I think the thing that makes the thief’s damage crazy is the fact that steal is an instant skill, if it had a small cast timer I think it would fix a lot of the insta-kill bullkitten. that cast timer would make them have to use steal and then C+D and then BS which would give people at least 1 second or more of reaction time. As it is now the good thieves use C+D then Steal and BS since the Steal has no cast time it doesn’t interrupt C+D allowing the 20k damage w/o ever being out of stealth.

Kincaidia.3192:

Haru Kane.4623:

http://i.imgur.com/jA1wo5h.jpg I don’t think there is a single class that could survive this — how can it be allowed? The steal, cloak, and back stab happened while he was in stealth which means the only way I could stop it at all is if I preemptively dodged. Why is this amount of damage acceptable in WvW and not in Spvp? It’s still player versus player, this makes small scale WvW almost unbearable.

Hey, I didn’t expect to get a spotlight Don’t make me regret partying with enemies to talk.

And for the record, I’m playing an all-out glass canon here. 25 stacks of +10 power, scholar runes, all ‘zerker exotics or ascended (missing 2 pieces of ascended jewelry), +power sigil, etc. This isn’t my normal build, but for yak-slaying and speed solo camp taking, it works the best that I’ve found.

The trade off is that I can die by being sneezed on. You got the jump on me seconds before and dropped me to half in 5 seconds. I had to skedaddle, get out of combat, and reengage on my own terms.

And the character name is “Tired of OP”, because I was tired of this happening to my ranger… I won’t go GC for long because it’s…. you know, a bit OP. But FA was not doing well, so I had to put my game face on.

I hope there aren’t hard feelings – I didn’t join your group and say “POWNED MF’ER!”. I hope you found me courteous at least.

Tired of OP
FA roamer
quick edit after actually reading more than the first post

The mesmer was downed after the first burst, so there was no reaction time – after the initial engagement and his damage, I C&D’d him, healed, and then appeared long enough to get steal+C&D+BS combo.

The spec I was running was 25/30/0/0/15. Hidden killer, +10% damage from runes of the scholar, +5% dagger damage.

Yeah you were very courteous, I was just astounded by the amount of damage you did to me because I have never been hit that hard by anyone so I felt the need to fill the daily thief QQ post quota.

BossFi.6917:

Haru Kane.4623:

http://i.imgur.com/jA1wo5h.jpg I don’t think there is a single class that could survive this

Looking at the skills the thief used you obviously just stood there and did nothing. You deserved it.

I’m a Mesmer too and I don’t die to thief’s.

Well if you knew how to play a thief you would understand that he did the 20k damage (steal, cloak and backstab) within the time it took him to press the steal button. If you want I can show you how quickly it can be done.

ChroNoS.6978:

Like I said in the other “omgthiefsostronknerfplzorelseiwillcry” thread.. I giggle every time I see one of these. Honestly, you should be banned from wvw for thinking you can run the same gear here as in PvP. Sure in some cases it might be fine, but this is a completely different game style, with completely different specs/balances. Just because you think you’re Oh So Pro in sPvP don’t think for one second that most WvW roamers(even guardian/warriors) can’t kick your kitten . Since we’re built for the big bad world out here, so stop crying.

I’ve honestly never been hit by a thief for more than 5k a backstab, and I have 3.1k armor, which is only 700 more than you. That’s why I dunno wtf you’re saying >.>

Anyhow! Invite some of your elitist friends over :p We want more meat!

I wasn’t making a statement about the difference in player skill between spvp and wvw I was saying that the fact that he could do that much damage to me was bullkitten and that I haven’t seen that from any players even in the spvp spectrum of the game. Basically I play a lot of wvw and a lot of spvp, and I assumed that most people here don’t care for spvp as much so I tried to tie both aspects of pvp into the same thread so my title would make sense. I can’t talk about balancing a class the same as it is in spvp and only talk about wvw, and if you didn’t know how attuned into the spvp community I am i.e. telling you my tourney amount and rank etc then why would you ever trust what I have to say about it?

EdotMP.1835:

Haru Kane.4623:

thiagoperne.7340:

Thiefs are already balanced both WvW and spvp. Stop this thief spam threads, getting old and boring.

You got 7k and 11k, what are you? A mosquito?

If they are balanced then why isn’t every thief in spvp running 25-0-0-30-15 ( the build that thief and most 1 shot wonder thieves run) I am r43 and have played in almost 3k tournaments vs the best thieves in NA and none of them can do that much damage. So I do not believe that they are balanced equally. I run the exact build in spvp that I do in wvw.

I don’t know what I find funnier, the fact you inflated your ego and spout tourney stats like we care, or the fact that a Thief spanked someone “so elite” as you to the point you made a forum topic.

Well done, OP. I coat myself in your tears and roam the map for more silly Akitten people.

Looking back it does look like I’m swinging my kitten, which I was a bit, but what I was trying to get across was the fact that I have played against a lot of good players and I have a pretty good grasp on the balance ( or lack there of) of the game especially in small scale pvp.

Floofs.3574:

The best solution I can offer you is to find a good thief on another server and duel the poop out of him until you really get the hang of timing his stealths. Also remember that they can’t stay stealthed forever, if you think ones around sit in aoe and keep your finger on f4 (I’m assuming you’re running illusionary persona) or something similar. And the advice about running tangier builds is always good, you’d be surprised how much mesmers can do even in a defensive spec

While I respect and understand your dissection of my ability to play mesmer, I know how to play my class, even if I was able to mitigate some of that damage from the thief he can just run away, and even I do get a few skills on him he can just blinding powder and run away or cloak and dagger off of me or if it’s a d/p thief he can just stealth for days. That build has a 45 second recharge (or less) for the full damage and a 3 second recharge for more than 70% of the damage. There is a lot to learning the opposite class mechanics, but, I don’t feel like it can hold 100% of the blame, the damage output + amount of stealths that a thief can have on his bar at the same time is overkill in my opinion.

Floofs.3574:

Staff 2, sword 2, sword 4, scepter 2 and f4 can all be used to avoid or mitigate the burst. Learning and predicting the timing of the different stealth combos is the majority of learning how to beat thieves. If you aren’t going to put time and effort into learning the abilities of each class, or at least how to counter them, don’t expect to win any duels.

it wasn’t a duel, he got the jump on me I had an idea he was around but not exact coordinates.

The reason I wasn’t able to respond with damage or distortion/evade before I died was because of how the build is able to be played. The thief stealths using either blinding powder, his heal skill or some other stealth. Once he has done that if you use steal and hit cloak and dagger at the same time you will do the steal damage and then immediately go into stealth. So he gets 3 seconds of stealth from his heal then he steals and hits cloak, now what should happen is the steal should pull him out of stealth and make him “revealed” for x amount of time but it doesn’t. Instead of the steal pulling him out of stealth the cloak and dagger stealths him skipping the debuff which allows him to get his backstab off without me ever being able to see him. I don’t know how it works exactly or if it’s a bug, but, almost every thief uses it in spvp (mainly with d/p)

John Widdin.9618:

Haru Kane.4623:

John Widdin.9618:

honestly, all you need is bare minimum Knights armor. Maintain 2k armor, and you won’t fold instantly.

I have 2.3k armor right now and 18k health

Then you can’t be helped. You have the tools as a mesmer to deal with that. What build are you running?

I’m running a standard shatter build 20-0-0-20-30, like I said in my original post, my only defense is to preemptively guess when he is going to jump me? The 20k damage spike hit me all at once while he was in stealth he didn’t come out until I was downed.

thiagoperne.7340:

Thiefs are already balanced both WvW and spvp. Stop this thief spam threads, getting old and boring.

You got 7k and 11k, what are you? A mosquito?

If they are balanced then why isn’t every thief in spvp running 25-0-0-30-15 ( the build that thief and most 1 shot wonder thieves run) I am r43 and have played in almost 3k tournaments vs the best thieves in NA and none of them can do that much damage. So I do not believe that they are balanced equally. I run the exact build in spvp that I do in wvw.

John Widdin.9618:

honestly, all you need is bare minimum Knights armor. Maintain 2k armor, and you won’t fold instantly.

I have 2.3k armor right now and 18k health

http://i.imgur.com/jA1wo5h.jpg I don’t think there is a single class that could survive this — how can it be allowed? The steal, cloak, and back stab happened while he was in stealth which means the only way I could stop it at all is if I preemptively dodged. Why is this amount of damage acceptable in WvW and not in Spvp? It’s still player versus player, this makes small scale WvW almost unbearable.

I have the same problem, but mine is a bit weird, ever since the last patch once i load into a map its fine, but then 10/15 mins later the game starts lagging uncontrollably until i switch maps again. I play on a laptop so I am able to move between connections and I have tried multiple connections with different speeds and such and it is the same across the board. My ping in TS is fine while gw2 is lagging uncontrollably which leads me to believe it’s client side.

I have the same problem, but mine is a bit weird, ever since the last patch once i load into a map its fine, but then 10/15 mins later the game starts lagging uncontrollably until i switch maps again. I play on a laptop so I am able to move between connections and I have tried multiple connections with different speeds and such and it is the same across the board. My ping in TS is fine while gw2 is lagging uncontrollably which leads me to believe it’s client side.

Hey, a friend and I are in the exact same situation I am a r42 shatter mesmer or trap ranger — He is r39 Necro/hgh engi pm me if you want to talk or play.

Serebus.7314:

Good fight vs PYRO today in that out of the blue GvG :P ME from Mag is next, Maybe next week TG can have a date with the guilds from Mag <3 wear something nice.

Someone better be buying me dinner…

So I have recently been playing an alt character in WvW, who isn’t level 80, and I have noticed that because of that green arrow I am instantly targeted in small roaming groups and some times in larger groups. What are everyone’s thoughts on possibly removing the green arrow? I feel it serves no purpose to the game other than discouraging low levels from WvW.

magikfox.9658:

Haru Kane.4623:

magikfox.9658:

Haru Kane.4623:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65ub4W1_PI

Our loot bags couldn’t cull fast enough, take care SoS, lol.

Can you upload that one where you guys snuck into the back of bay in the water and got wiped, I like that one a lot, lol.

And that golem rush was completely hillarious. Hopefully someone fraps that! haha

Yeah, I remember all of those, we had 15 vs your 25+. I’m glad you think so highly of [TG], I mean if the enemy expects us to win with those odds it must say something about us — good fights though, we had a blast fighting SoS.

Haha, you guys don’t have the reputation you think ,or hope, you do. But you guys are pretty good. If anything the fights are a ball, and you guys don’t back down from a challenge. It’s one thing being able to wipe someone over and over, but it’s being wiped and having the guts to get back on the field. Keep up the good work, lads.

Sure, you may be right, but I feel like leaving it here is probably best, we’re starting to become those two kids fighting for first in a race that doesn’t matter. Good luck on your new server

magikfox.9658:

Haru Kane.4623:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65ub4W1_PI

Our loot bags couldn’t cull fast enough, take care SoS, lol.

Can you upload that one where you guys snuck into the back of bay in the water and got wiped, I like that one a lot, lol.

And that golem rush was completely hillarious. Hopefully someone fraps that! haha

Yeah, I remember all of those, we had 15 vs your 25+. I’m glad you think so highly of [TG], I mean if the enemy expects us to win with those odds it must say something about us — good fights though, we had a blast fighting SoS.

Our loot bags couldn’t cull fast enough, take care SoS, lol.

Pretty Pixie.8603:

I’m going to ignore above negativity, and instead say props to [TG]. Ran a couple of times into you guys in YBBL, and had some good fights. Sorry about that stealth ambush South of Arah’s; opportunity was too good to let slip!

Yeah that was a lot of fun last night, especially that final battle!

coronbale.3894:

TSYM a fun target?

In the first 5 days we were in T3 I wracked up an amazing 8300 kills. Both YB and DB threw everything they had at us. It was fun, it was exciting, and it was definitely challenging.

In the last 7 days we wracked up about 430 kills. Rather than face the first challenge your tier gets in who knows how long, you chose to avoid us, and hit our homeland whenever we left it. Any time we took the field you scattered like roaches with the kitchen light turned on, and hit us where we weren’t. The ONLY decent challenge we had last match week was when BP was hammering us with everything they had while YB hit our hills the instant crossed swords showed. It was about 3 hours of run, wiping golems, defending massively one sided fights, and seeing great combat movements. The instant they took bay they moved, and joined in with the “dodge TSYM like we owe them money” initiative.

You had a solid chance to improve your team by facing mine. So yes, you can go back to your talentless ZvZ brawls, and BP I’m sure can go back to farming uncoordinated masses like its zombie land. Well go in search of a higher caliber of competition, one that might actually stay and fight!

Hey anyone in TSYM would you guys be interested in an evenly matched GvG verses Terror [TG]? We love to be humbled, and would post the results for everyone to see on the forums . Think about it and talk to me in game if you want to show your prowess!

Why do you use Healing Spring if you’re not going to stay in the spring? Troll Unguent is by far the best ranger heal, but, it takes time to get used to.

Hey guys, me and my guild want to try and set up some GvG’s in wvw, if anyone from yaks/SoS is interested in fighting us throw me a message in game and maybe we can set something up!