Guild Wars 2

Ok, my guild is experiencing this as well. As per Luna’s post, getting an upgrade done will take you to the next level. It appears somewhere along the line, the game thinks your guild starts at level 1 with 0 GXP, not level 0 with 0 GXP. In essence you’ve gotten a freebie level.

I was excited about it! I hope you guys nail the bug down! Not working in my guild either.

YES! Thank you, thank you so much! I was expecting that to be changed months after launch but it’s fixed even before! Yessssssssssssss!

Nike.2631:

HidingCat.4037:

I’m fairly sure that’s a project already in progress. Just not as something that will assuredly arrive by launch day.

No, I’m not counting on that too. I just hope that it’ll happen!

DJSushi.5406:

While the mechanics seem solid and I certainly had a blast playing Daredevil in that respect, I really wish the staff animations had a stronger Martial Arts feel. I realize I may be beating a dead horse here, but for the sake of feedback – I am way less likely to spec daredevil because of the staff animations.

Yes! While everyone seems to be talking about the mechanics, I really want the staff animations to be improved. I still hope to see a change one day.

I really disagree. Open world should be about exploration and minor challenges. For me the nerf to Orr was perfect. No one likes to go through a hundred challenging fights to get to somewhere. After a while it just becomes a drag.

If you want challenges, they’re there in raids.

Necroing my thread – it’s even worse now. Please can we get it changed to something more distinct on the map?

Argh, so I’m back here again. You don’t punish event completion by making a heart near-impossible to do. As of writing the event has gone by twice and I’m still not even 50% into the heart.

It’s nice to know they heard. I’m still mostly let down by the staff animations, so hopefully this means they’ve acknowledged that. Next is that they work on it eventually.

Paulytnz.7619:

They specifically said the level 10 story only. So you should be fine at the other levels. Just don’t do more than 1 char per week for the lvl 10 story. Doing 1 char at lvl 10 should NOT effect doing any of the other levels for PS. Unless they bugged it some how.

Good point. I still have to be careful though!

I have a bunch of characters, once a week really is too drastic. Don’t forget the keys come at chapters 1, 4 and 6. I don’t want to bump into that limit by mistake.

Necroing. First time playing Charr. This heart is dumb. Reasons all stated already. Please fix.

I’m still deciding how much I like the patch, but I would like to request a change to the Hero Point icon back to the Skill Point colour. As it is it’s hard to spot on the compass, and I don’t want to go to the big map to flash the icons every 5 minutes of gameplay. Shouldn’t be too hard to do in the next patch, right?

Returning player here. I picked up a lowbie and was shocked at the changes; why was this allowed? The game should be renamed Gate Wars 2, because of all the gating at low levels. For a game that is meant to offer flexibility in builds and playstyles, locking so much of it away prevents people from learning about it. Eg. locking away Earth attunement for elementalists till 20+ is a good idea why?

Then the extra back-tracking and confusion from things like locking POI (does it make it any easier to understand) and Skill Challenges, especially since these will be there right from the get go. I recall doing the latter as early as level 5!

This is a set of awful awful game design decisions, wrought upon by people who don’t understand what GW2 is about, but were allowed to do so for whatever reasons – I’m going to either blame outside consultants, or a team that managed to gain enough political leverage within the company to force these AWFUL changes. We the players are the ones who suffer for it.

Looks good. It’s much better now. Is there a slight change in angle too? I noticed that when comparing screenshots between a character that has not been moved at all.

Hardware Spec:
- Intel Core i7 920 D0 @ 3.0 GHz OC
– Sapphire Radeon 7950 with CCC 12.8
– Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R
– 12 GB DDR3 1333Mhz
– Windows 7 SP1 64bit

Game setting
2560×1600 Windowed Fullscreen
Everything at Maximum except:
Sampling at Native
FXAA off, SMAA via Injection
Shadows at High (not Ultra)

FPS Value:
PVE 30-50
Cities 20-30
PVP N/A
WvWvW 10-20

GW2 build: 15,880

So many good suggestions here. I hope Anet takes a good look and implement at least some of them. Having been a guild officer before in other MMOs, I feel that many of the suggestions here are worth putting into the game. I mean seriously, no officer chat? X-(

I’m surprised that both TOR and TSW don’t feature chairs you can sit in.

WoW, that old, old game from 2005 has it. So come on Anet, one-up that has been. :P

Though honestly, I don’t think that’ll happen any time soon, if it happens at all. But I’d love to see it, regardless.

A MMO without the full set of tools for command, control and communication? Please add custom chat channels! I feel it’s a very basic requirement in a MMO.

Other nice things if possible: Ability to save chat logs.

Extra special bonus points: XMPP chat connectivity.

Brem.6792:

i was going off early benchamrks that showed the AMD cards perfomaing better than Nvidia in this game+ the fact there seems to be alot more people with Nvidia cards complaneing about perfomance problems on this forum?

Because there are more nVidia cards in the market? Just a hunch.

My experience is totally the opposite – my “upgrade” actually made me not play the game. It’s disheartening to have to spend US$370 and get worse performance.

Oh yea, that was one thing that might be an issue: At least, 16x Anisotropic Filtering (Best Texture Filtering option) may or may not be working with nVidia cards.

What is your monitor’s resolution? I’d bump down on the PSU and upgrade the GPU instead to a 7950 at least.

I will say, as a 7950 user, the performance has been slowly going up since I first bought the card a month or so back.

You will need to wait. There’s nothing much you can do now.

Don’t let the apologists fool you – this game is particularly pants when it comes to optimisation. You will either need to upgrade or just wait for them to spend some time streamlining the game.

My own personal experience bears this out as well. GTX 560 Ti to Radeon 7950, and I actually got a drop in performance.

AshleySegovia.3948:

Hey guys, I know I’ve said this before but hang tight. This is something that we are still currently looking intokitten this is something that is difficult to reproduce in order to narrow down conditions that cause severely low FPS, intermittent or sustained. We are unable to diagnose what is wrong with everybody’s PC and in many cases these can be factors that are out of our control (drivers, hardware issues, not meeting the minimum requirements, etc.).

We are still tracking down common driver issues and hardware problems and weeding out the differences between things that are our problem vs. a system related issue.

Again, thanks for your patience and we continue to look into this issue.

Thanks for the post. I’ll be happy to volunteer in any mass testing if you need data points!

Hey Maken, I just want to check, what did you get with your 560 Ti previously? I personally have some issues with my 7950, which I upgraded from a 560 Ti.

That doesn’t explain why a newer, higher-end GPU is performing worse than the older one. By all accounts, it either should be better or the same, but not worse. And some people were even saying AMD GPUs were performing better…

I’d love an answer on this too!

Oh, one more thing, running at 2560×1600. Not much success in increasing FPS with the in-game settings.

On phone now, so making this short.

CPU is an i7 920, and tried the 7950 on both 12.8 and 12.7 beta drivers. Getting below 30 fps in many places in Queensdale. 560 Ti was getting above 30 fps in similar places. Not sure what is going on. Anyone have any insights?