Guild Wars 2

Location:
Braunschweig, Germany

Time and date of incident:
Massive lags starting at noon till midnight CET, sometimes later. Lags have been there since almost a year now.

Game World:
Gunnars Hold

Brief description of what you are seeing:
Massive lag followed by insane lagspikes in WvW or Spvp.
Quit the game one year ago because of this and came back a few weeks ago just to see that nothing changed at all. Changed my ISP from an analog Telekom connection into a digital one without any change to lag.
Every other game just runs smooth. Only gw2 is a lagfest.

Personal things i want to tell to the Developers/Publisher:
Most of it would be censored anyway, but it is just sad that a ton of people cant enjoy this beautiful game at all. Definitely not going to buy the expansion and just quit again if things wont change till then.

Best regards
Hexen

… to finish my world completion.

But big thanks to ARENA NET for season 2 and always making my server blue for the 7th week now.
Yet another 2 and a half weeks (at least) to go before i can probably finish this awesome designed map completion?
Seriously is this working as intended. I mean i got everything, Precursor, Laurels, Gifts…. but no map comp.
There is no whatsoever rotation in map cycles. BLUE all the kitten way.
A transfer to Gandara or Seafarers Rest is 2400 gems, LOL (Yes my server sucks at WvW)

So, dear Developer, if you read this, can you maybe answer my question, if this is working as intended?

P.S. close to ragequit this game

Your account will get restored, but you wont get any items back they deleted. It happened to 2 friends recently. They got hacked, got their accounts restored a week later, but anet wasnt able to restore their items. All progression lost, they both quit.

Anyone here who can help me by answering this question?

Can some DEV maybe answer this question, since it doesnt look like any one else can.

There was a loop bug indeed. It was howling none stop even when warhorn was not drawn.

How it should be: Draw the warhorn buy using draw weapon skill/execute warhorn skill and then the wolf should howl a couple of times to the moon before it goes back to normal.

How it is right now’: There is only one animation (which can hardly be seen anyway) when executing the warhorn skill. AND NOTHING ELSE

Definitely a bug, because right now Howler is just pure kitten.

Hey there.

I bought my own arena a few days ago and enabled it already. I am currently playing on EU servers. But since my WvW server goes down the toilet i plan to move to NA servers.
What will happen to the custom arena i bought? will the arena move as well?

Played a couple of spvp matches today and recognized that my Flesh Golem is hardly attacking anymore. If it attacked at all, it was like 1 hit in one minute.
I am not playing Minionmaster, so there are no other pets around.

I consider it to be completely broken in any aspect. 1s internal cd on passive must be an obvious bug.

and here is something to add to the rantlist:
5) a monkey could cc me while trying to actively use the signet. 1.25s casttime is laughable. thanks to our awesome access to stability
5b) your target can even dodge this “censored”

Forstfang also has alot of bugs right now:

-No Sound animation on Necromancer (like on Ranger)
-No frozen animation for your wrist if you equip Frostfang in offhand (the reason why i switched it to my necro)
-No Aura

Congratulations Kodash on finishing as best german server. Personally i think you guys are the surprise of the league. I think no one expected you to be the best ranked german server after this season. Kudos for your organisation and spirit.

regards from Desolation

Congratulations on your victory, Vizunah Square. A well deserved victory after winning every matchup. Keep it going. I am looking forward for any matchup against you.

UnknownRH.4592:

BTW I did not ask you to reveal your source just asked if you know who the so called leaders are on Piken who make all the decisions for WvW guilds on PS. I know the answer is none and if you answer that you will look like a joke here.

I am the leader on Piken Square! Everyone knows it…
I got paid 2000g by Vizunah Square and Arena Net last thursday to organize the double teaming Squad on Piken. 1500g from Arenanet for all the transfers off from Seafarer’s after this matchup and 500g from Vizunah because they get awesome dolyak finisher soon.
Now i am busy writing my Christmas List to Santa. Any one knows the exact adress or might just be Northpole right?

Hexen.2930:

Mighty Ice Arrow.9268:

…
- PS will double team us in any match, they have done it in the past all time we met them.
…

To our opponents:
Nothing to say to PS.
…

It wasnt us resetting their stuff on their BL and it wasnt us resetting T3 hills on our BL.

Oh wait it was us. my bad
I love the spirit Vizunah Square shows. We fought and wiped them alot but they always stood up and came back till they wiped us. Love their mentality right now. Kudos for this guys

milton.1796:

I wish there was a auto kick to INSTANTLY remove pve players from WvW.

i would pay gems for that even!

Situation on Piken is just troll.
30man blob of randoms capping ruins over and over again in SFR border. At least 10 people in the jp. 20man zerg flipping camps. and the other remaining organized 25 people getting facerolled by w/e just passes. No wonder hardly any commander is tagging up atm.

What a wonder that our tick is this high. deserved to be somewhere <100

TheBob.9863:

Hexen.2930:

TheBob.9863:

Heh vizunah and piken double-teaming against SFR, strong hate boys

payback
12 chars

Payback for getting owned in a fair fight? ))

no, i just wanted to type BS like u did

TheBob.9863:

Heh vizunah and piken double-teaming against SFR, strong hate boys

payback
12 chars

the lag is awesome
it reminds me of my good old Age of Conan siege days, only difference is that the servers doesnt crash (not yet).

same at goldleague

Mya moved from Piken Square to Millersound.

Luthan.5236:

Awesome. With these amount of trebuchets you can kill a lot of enemies. Great for defense. This is not griefing. I mean the guy still needed to buy blueprints and he is free to do with them what he wants. If you want him to stop take supplies first so he can’t use them and keep the supplies at 0 all the time.

are you kittening serious?!

Sometimes a pictures tells more than 1000 words could do.

http://abload.de/img/neuesbildizklq.jpg

I wish i were allowed to name and shame that player, but i think everyone on pikensquare knows who i am talking about.

Right now we can do NOTHING to prevent this. I really hope ArenaNet wakes up before the league starts to not let these things happen again.

Silent Shino.7239:

what the?….
we’re beating blobbadon; what sorcery is this?

Thats silverleague magic!

… listed in the past few hours.

I would like to thank ArenaNet to make all this possible.
39.99s for a Omega.
Hell yeah i gonna buy a whole bunch of them

Nuzt.7894:

So have we ever determined if one server can cause a Que for the others ? As in, the limit is 300 one server could have 200 leaving the other two with only 100 to split between them ?

Funny thing is i was in queue for Etermal Battleground while listening to Commander in TS when he said we have outnumbered buff.
Happened today SFR/Piken/Elona
I am on Piken

Miyu.8137:

XRKUN.1782:

too bad our enemies already get out the white flags before the weekend is over…seems to be another easy and victorious week then. Looking forward to the season…hopefully there wont be just little QQ babies everywhere on the opponents side.

Piken surely didn’t give up anything. If you feel like pvding then it’s because we can’t simply get more numbers in that time. And I don’t think the league will change anything, SFR is a superior wvw server compared to the rest. Most sad thing is, that even more guilds joining SFR just because they are greedy for the comming prizes.

But in the end it’s SFR who will suffer from even longer queues and boring pvds, because they just outnumber the rest besides prime time. If you are bored in match up vs nr2 and nr5 servers then don’t expect to have any challanging matches at all.

You might win the league, but I am sure other servers will enjoy it more as they will have many challanging and equal matches. After all, who will be the winner?

Very well said.

There are alot of Threads where SFR Guilds say they gonna quit/disband right after the League.
However you Seafarers did a great job advertising your server by winning any matchup far ahead of others. Congratulions for winning the gold league already, hopefully you enjoy the golden dolyak finisher.
And congratulations ArenaNet for destroying most servers WvW population, my servers population included.

MuhQ.8012:

Dawdler.8521:

Bah!

Sometimes I wonder if Elona purposely try to confuse their opponents with erratic behaviour. Piken was defending cragtop/dawns/whateveritscalled on Elona border against a force 3x in size and held at the breached sidewall (well Elona did get through to the ramp but was pushed out again). After that it was just a standoff. If all those Elona had pushed through the opening in one fell swoop we would have been crushed like bugs. But no. It was like someone was just tossing random lootbags through the opening. Dont go through, everybody stack behind the wall and send in the scouts! What they died? Send in some more! Wait, fall back, we only outnumber them two to one now! Build an arrowcart!!! Oh nobody got supply? Its not building itself people. Eeep, Piken rushing out of the door, quick scatter, scatter!!!

Sigh… Sorry, just feeling mean because I then crashed in garrison during the epic battle

Unfortunately that is all that is left on Elona. We are not even in sight to being as strong as the last 12 months. A lot of the core wvw-players have changed servers, stopped playing or went fulltime pve. What you see now are the last pieces trying to play. A lot of casual players just getting crushed, often without a commander on the map.

With our current strenght and coverage we don’t even belong in the first 10 servers.
Just to show you a few examples how bad the current situation is:
- 1 hour after reset you can get on 2 BL without queue, rest 5-10min (while we were in T1 you had up to 5hr queues…)
- usually even EB has no queues at all
- instead of splitting the zerg at 10am, we now often have 1 small group jumping maps up to the prime time
-(this one hit me really hard) commanders that led for the last 12 months being straight up honest with sentences like “guys I have really no idea what to do against such forces, we will probably loose everything in the next hour”

It will take a very long time to rebuild the wvw-population on ER again caused by two very bad factors:
1. ER is the biggest german PVE-server so we are on “very high” while successful wvw-servers like SFR are only “high” (transfer to high is a lot cheaper)
2. We will probably stay in league 1 and get stomped most of the matches, further reducing and demotivating wvw-population

Congrats to Piken, you guys really became a server worth of fighting in the top tiers. Good luck on your journey.

Sad to hear this happened to another Server.
Desolation has the same fate right now. Pve wealthy, but not even worth as a silverleague server.
Your position is even worse since you probably wont be able to drop a league in time.
Personally i blame ArenaNet for this.
They know where to leech the last few gems/€ from players. Fells like getting roflstomped by anet over and over again.
Wish you good luck for the next Matchup, keep your heads up :-)

Dawdler.8521:

Bah!

Sometimes I wonder if Elona purposely try to confuse their opponents with erratic behaviour. Piken was defending cragtop/dawns/whateveritscalled on Elona border against a force 3x in size and held at the breached sidewall (well Elona did get through to the ramp but was pushed out again). After that it was just a standoff. If all those Elona had pushed through the opening in one fell swoop we would have been crushed like bugs. But no. It was like someone was just tossing random lootbags through the opening. Dont go through, everybody stack behind the wall and send in the scouts! What they died? Send in some more! Wait, fall back, we only outnumber them two to one now! Build an arrowcart!!! Oh nobody got supply? Its not building itself people. Eeep, Piken rushing out of the door, quick scatter, scatter!!!

Sigh… Sorry, just feeling mean because I then crashed in garrison during the epic battle

I saw that on twitch.tv
It was really funny to watch how they tried to get that tower back.
For how long was that wall broken? at least an hour i think
well done, guys

… does (unintended) high damage on Askalion Bastion gates.
I just figured out that my Deathshroud Lifetranfer skill (skill 4) did hit outer gate for 3000 dmg with its last hit, i had 25 stacks of might up.
On the Innergate i still hit for 800 dmg with the last hit without any might stacks up.
Thats makes up to 10.000 dmg with mightstacks and like 2000-3000 without.

Checked on Greenlake tower and there was the dmg as low as usual. Numbers about 30-150.

The amont of hate these days is extreme.

Everyone knows that you need a decent coverage to successfully participate at higher tier WvWvW. The problem Desolation has, it is a sPvP/Pve server.
Personally i played sPvP only, before i got bored of it, and i know the meaning of alot sPvP player. They cant be kitten d to play skilless zergs, where it is very easy to hide baddies. Rewards doesnt mean alot to them, so they keep playing sPvP or get bored and quit. thats like 50% of Desolation Population atm. A ton of inactive accounts.

The other like 49.99999…% of Desolation is Pve players. The reward for playing an hour pve can reach up to 10g without any dropluck. thats just impossible at WvWvW. So why bother with this less rewards? For fun factor? For Badges when you have multiple dungeon armors or badges from AP Chests?

Another big issue on Desolation is that hardly any Commanders can be attracted to tag up at EB for the pugs. If they do, they have mostly all the time way less numbers, and hey its pugs without any real knowledge about strategy and so on. Furthermore these people blame the commanders for beeing “idiots”, “slowpokes”, “slackers”.
Would you bother to tag up at EB?

“Ins for the Wagh” and “Divine Leaf” do an outstanding job at organizing and leading pug raids sometimes. But Desolation unfortunately doesnt have enough Ins’ or Leaf’s.

DVG was some kind of gapcloser here. Even though i totally dislike any mass guilds, i totally respect what they did for Desolation. And it makes me sad to see Desolation without them now. I wish you guys all the best on your journey.

I really think Arenanet Devs can learn alot by reading this thread. So i decided to post in here as well.

1. (most annoying by far) No rewards at all. There is no way a sPvP player can earn money or Achievementpoints in this game.

2. Only one game mode.

3. No build diversity at tPvP at all

4. Too many brainless builds like Sword/Dagger Thief.

5. No observe mode for tournaments. I would like to see the Gw1 observe mode back. it is/was boss!

6. Soloqueueing takes too long till a match pops up. Out of the 19 Games i played to test, either me or my enemies ended up 17 times with a 4vs5. Horrible.

P.S What i do like:
1. The Fighting system overall.
2. The Combosystem with fields and finishers is really nice. I enjoy it alot.

I got the same problem.
100% including all new points but no gift.
What we have to do now? Any Dev with an answer?

Edit: reentering Chantry of Secrets helped me.

you can play any game at maximum settings with this pc.
At WvW you will get about 16-20fps with max settings if there is real zergaction. which isnt that bad at all. but keep in mind that there is server lag too. so it feels like
having less fps than you actually have

SSD just improves loading time.
I installed Gw2 on my Samsumg 840 SSD, i hardly see any difference between HDD and SDD, but the response time when i do other things firefox or whatever is really nice. boot and shutdown takes no time basically.

Same Problem.
ISP: Deutsche Telekom
Server: Desolation

I was lagging at 17gmt +1 and logged out because it was unplayable.
While i am typing this, i am stuck in loading screen to LA. Probably since 5mins…
I assume i laggs still there

I just recognized that i miss 2 Waypoints (509/511).
It seems they just removed these 2 accidently, since i traveled to every area and still got all points possible.
My 2nd thought was it might be the new pvp map, so i played that kitten pvp, but nope, it wasnt the pvp map either, still 509/511. any info whats wrong there?

I played more than 30 Paids when the matchmaking hit live. Our Group met 5 different teams. We played for more than 8hours.
I read something funny yesterday which made me smile, it was on mapchat:" r11 131QP LFG" → Good job anet