Guild Wars 2

Are you kidding me? 45€ for an expansion and new bugs? No way! I can buy a totally new standalone game for that much money, not some new feature that you should have to include in core game before! In this poor country there is nobody has spare money to pay for a greedy company and for a very overpriced and buggy game! Anet was unable to get rid of general disconnecting, latency and skill bugs since gw2 release, just polished the new expansion to ask more money… its a shame!
It is a correct price for the new players that they can buy both (core+exp) for 1 full price, but the problem is that they are forcing veteran players to buy the game again in full price! *cough *cough… I mean the “expansion”…
If the game will be unplayable without the expansion or most ppl will leave the core game, I’m “kitten” gonna quit….
All of the world’s money won’t be enough for you, altough you get money not just from the game sellings, but from ingame microtransactions!
Maybe Ncsoft and Anet gonna make a similar huge mistake as Blizzard did with the Diablo 3… after 2 legendary Diablo episode that I “kitten” loved it…

coglin.1867:

That is all fine and dandy. The problem is, not related to Glicko. As the devs set the parameters for it.

The problem is your fellow players who spammed the forums with complaint threads and post, over and over and over, complaining anytime they fought a server that they claimed had too strong of a population, and titled it “unfair match ups”.

Thus it is a catch 22. Players rage over stale match ups or players rage over population imbalance in match ups.

I don’t agree to support a system which is keep up the same boring mu-s on every week, even if somebody like to kitten the weaker servers over and over and offense others who doesn’kittens a shame that nowdays nobody allowed to write their opinion, because some guys likes the unfair mu-s, but he doesn’t care others. GG

Glicko system is a crap. Its very boring to stuck in a Tier with same opponents for more weeks, especially when the 3rd server can’t go down to the lower tier (like in EU T1). People bored as hell, but anet just doesn’t care.

Udai.7805:

Hey ! I have the same issue! The patch made my laptop went insane ! ( I think virus attacked my laptop) and MOST other games freezes 1 by 1 . I solve this problem by reformatting my laptop. I downloaded Guild Wars 2 again and give it a try but it’s a NO for me. It freezes my system during loading (after startup). How did you solve your freezing problem? Could you guide me?

Hello! Are you overlocking your CPU in your laptop too? If not, maybe you have a cpu, gpu overheat problem. You should check those temperatures with a monitor program like hwinfo: http://www.hwinfo.com/

Hello!
Do you overclocking you CPU too high? It caused the same symptom for me.

All right, problem is solved!
It revealed that it was a cpu overclocking issue. Firstly, latter I got random insta reboots while I was playing. After that I tried cpu stress test program LinX, and BAAMM, insta rebooted. So I set a slightly lower FSB and since that I haven’t experienced any issue like those I mentioned

Its clean, its not overheating. My system never freeze (especially totally) from other games or GPU, CPU testing, burning program, and I used to monitor temperatures occasionally. All normal.
I did the gw2 repair (unfortunately it doesn’t provide any report…wtf), and the game will be tested soon. Thanks.

After January patches (don’t know exact point), my PC has started to totally freeze randomly when GW2 is running, so when this occurs I have to turn my system power off and turn back on. Very frustrating, and I don’t want my pc to get serious issues caused by the game. I don’t do any particular thing in game when this occurs, it even happens when the game window is not active (I’m playing in window mode). It usually happens after 1-2 or so hours of playing.
I dont know if its sound related bug but I tested the game without sound card and the (only) game froze 1 time, but on an another day I played a lot of hour without any freeze. I’m using Asus Xonar DX card. I updated sound card driver, but my whole system keep freeze after 1-2 hour of gameplay.
Windows 7 64bit

server: desolation
location: hungary

Had terrible lag and it was unplayable around 20-21h CET in eotm.

It has just happened that a player could hit and attack me on spawn in animal form.

I don’t hear that continous pulsing nor muffled sounds that linked in the thread, but a sudden short irony cracking one at maximum volume that independent about the ingame volume settings. Very hurtful.
I have an Asus xonar audio card.

Yeah, it definitely can be dangerous.
I hear that too since the game released. Wondering why they don’t care about serious issues as well.

I used a Boost enchantment powder to get Enchanted reward boost and chose the Killstreak booster, but after that I got nothing, but the Enchanted Reward boosters were deleted! I did it more times, the results ware the same. Already lost more of them.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

Sorry to hear about this, but this does not represent the mindset for the whole of Desolation.Generally we welcome everyone to join no matter the class or level, unless we’re going up against the SFR blob that requires a bit more cohesion and balance of classes.

Yeah, probably thats why you didn’t welcome upleveled mesmers (like me) at all in wvw, because its useless against zergs as you said… very interesting…

I mostly play in wvw since GW2 started and have made a level 80 mesmer lately (have almost all of the other classes already), but every class insta kill me. I’m using gs, sword/focus with PVT setup. For me, mesmer is means only a utility class, which is lacks of effective fighting abilities. Yeah, its possibly that I still sucks in pvp and don’t know the class enough, but I think a class couldn’t be that weak. However seeing d/d ele that doesn’t get any damage at all and besides that deals a huge amount of damage! I think class balance is still very bad in GW2 and I don’t expect that it will change in the future.

Yeah, the personal story is very boring and ridiculously long, and now we even forced to do and finish it for the traits unlock if we don’t want to pay for it a lot of money and skill points. This is my obvious opinion after I almost finished leveling up my 6th character, and neither of them has the full personal story! I started to do it with every char but bored as hell after some progression. Why we forced to done that?
After doing the story, every single high level missions will take a huge amount of time! Why? And we have bunch of those missions.
And we forced to press the skip button as well at beginning of every low quality cut scene conversations that is annoying as hell too. Nobody thought that so many pl don’t want to see them at all? Why doesn’t have an option to skip all at least if somebody want it?
GW2 would be a good game but has too many and significant annoying parts that will never change, but we always getting more annoying fences and bugs with every patch. This is the way how can ruin a very good base idea. /sad

Point Blanc.3105:

I just think its funny that SFR is blamed for double teaming every time against Deso. Do you want to see real double teaming? In the week of April 25th – May 2nd, Blackgate’s score was 100 thousand lower than the second placing Tarnished Coast and it’s happening again this week. That is quite obviously double teaming.

If SFR really did have an “alliance” with either BB or Jade Sea, Deso’s score would be the same. That is the answer which is so clear in front of your faces. But you are too ignorant to see it, so you blame us for double teaming instead.

For some reason you expect SFR to just let you win? Of course we aren’t going to do that. We want to win and to do that that we will keep our points up and yours down.

This was obvious fact for us, despite you didn’t want to see it for some reason, what your server calls it as whining instead to admit it..
Most of the times both of sfr and bb were started to attacking us in the exactly same time both end of our area on eb, and always(!) came for us while we were fought one of your servers. Most of the time both of you are only attacked us, that the score couldn’t show. I shouldn’t be proud to win in that way and state that we are the best server, and beyond that abuse the other..
But guys, do it!

Gensokyo.1528:

well look at what happened to deso today cause they golem rushed all our stuff at 5am and we were slacking so we 100% focus them now and keep everything they have paper all morning, prime and night deso say we double team them in previous matchups but we only had 50% focus on them but now they made us seriously focus them

A golem rush at 5am? Seriously? Sfr don’t use golems, its not acceptable..! You just want to give some fake reason for the public about your obvious double teaming are you doing.
Take short term advantage about the situation is okay in a 3 way match, but do that in a coordinated way all the time is a shame for that server. The server who states itself being the best, like playing it dirty. Or their guildies, doesn’t matter.

Confirmed. Its not doable now. Im stuck at 13/15 overall achievement.
Why am I not surprised..? Thanks for this great event…

Kincaidia.3192:

It’s really a case of certain classes being strong or weak vs other specific classes.

I’ve played a ranger and a then a thief .. after I got tired of dying to “OP thieves”. So my thief is named Tired of OP = )

Probably 75% of all stomp interrupts are negated by stability. No one complains when a warrior or guardian pops stability and stomps through the ranger thunderclap, necro fear, guardian bubble crap, engineer blast, or warrior hammer.

The squishies – mesmer, ele, and thief – get an evasion based stomp interrupt. Mesmer invis/shadowstep, ele mist or vapor form, can’t remember which is which, and thief shadowsteps. Stability doesn’t help on these, and additionally a stealthed opponent has no benefit to stomping one of these classes.

So the real overpowered ability here is stability.
Thieves have 8 seconds of stability every 2 minutes – and that’s if you start and cancel daggerstorm. That’s it. So naturally, thieves get creative.
Our options are:
A) Blind
B) Shadowstep away/back
C) Stealth

A is extremely hard to time on some (guardian bubble) or easy (necro, warrior, ranger)
B is cheesetastic, and in my mind, is a horrible waste of a get out of jail free card
C is only a problem for timing on Necro/Guard/Ranger. Having no target, the abilities still do their job just fine. Warriors have a tougher time there – hammer is single target. And maybe that’s the thing to fix.

And Ele’s getting into portals is dumb.

Just dumb.

I agree with part that necro fear downed skill is totally useless as well, because nearly all of the times it will be blocked by the enemy players for some reason (stability?) or due skill mechanic, I don’t know..

zacharias.5437:

I know I’m going to get grief for saying this but I hate thieves. They really are overpowered even as they argue about how fragile and limited they are. I’ve learned to deal with the stealth every few seconds to some extent but someone explain how it is fair that when you are downed, thieves can just stealth on top of you and finish you off? You can’t target them and no one can revive you in time. So the downed state is basically pointless against thieves.

I have the same opinion. This is the one of the most annoying imbalanced thing in gw2. They are got immunity against all downed skills easily. All of them doing that.

HAHAHA, this (intentional?) bug has been still exists?!
I’m sure that they already seen that they don’t get any feedback for a while..
I suppose they don’t want to receive that so many negative feedback about their support lately, due they can’t handle the constant disconnecting bug still for example, but they are just blaming players ISP instead.
I already mentioned that support rating issue to them in my support ticket as well in January 02..

lately I’m experiencing very hard skill lags in EU server. my favorite is when Im unable to use particular skill at all.

Sir Kaboomski.1508:

Ironic that there’s a ton of other posts within the past 30 minutes talking of the disconnect as well. Must be my ISP’s fault lol.

Sorry, I cant say anything about their support quality and how they take care for paying users and how they are blame us despite that the clear evidences. The funniest thing is that other players try to blame us too.
But anyway they are professionals, aren’t they? Or just should be?

Feirlista Xv.1425:

Looks like you are getting packet loss threw Level3 this is a internet backbone company that handle most of the internet traffic for the southwest especially threw Texas where the servers are located. There is no fix for this some have contacted there ISP to see if they could put some pressure on Level3 to fix the problem. Not sure if Anet has anything they can do to get level3 to look into the problem but I’m thinking that anyone having this issues may want to email their pink path logs direct to Level3.

There is no packet loss issue in this screen. Its normal that intermediate hops drop packets if the further hops not, due they can be configured to handle echo packets low priority (dropping them). You can read it in pingplotter FAQ as well: http://www.pingplotter.com/manual/faq.html#Anchor1
And its obvious that the last target game server is configured to drop all the echo request packets.
I attached a screen with real packet loss that makeing only the plaync servers when we are experiencing dc.

Its ridiculous that they state that all lag and disconnect issues are occurred by user connection, despite if its related to just particular class.

I filed a support ticket about our issue, but Anet has been still stating that the problem is in our side, despite the fact we don’t experience connection issues in other games, and its ridiculous statement that all of us internet connection have broken in the same time just only in Guild Wars 2..
While the support procedure, I had to do continuous trace routes to the game server, and it clearly showed me that plaync servers have packet loss issues at certain times which results that so many disconnects in game, but the support still don’t want to admit that they have problems nor solve it.
Sorry about the bad news guys.

local.dat deletion isn’t solve the problem to me at all either, it could be a false suggestion.

—> There is still exists topic for this dc number issue <—

To be honest its very ridiculous and incompetent explanation that the problem is on user side if almost all issues appeared after a certain patch and people haven’t had any internet issues in other games still.

And almost nobody spended his ton of points. ROTFL
It seems its worth to farm WXP in that way, so you can show it how big is your e-p..is (rank), at least

I agree, the patch is very good, despite that we cant use any skills at all in big fights, coz the terrible skill lag.

Ohliufff.8160:

Q: How many blobs from Viz and Deso at the same time on different gates does it take to get into Garnison with 20 Sfr defending?
A: Trick question. No such number tonight.

Thank you for the +400 bags for 3 hours….it has been nice farming you and i hope you come back tomorrow

We are so sorry about that! You have to prepare for that 24/7
We are enjoy more to seeing your zerg to defend and man the ton of your sieges

I playing a lot in wvw, but in my experience, I can’t kill too many enemies with condition build. Probably it does damage too slowly, and enemies easily get rid of conditions. Despite that, it’s probably more suitable to small fights, 1v1, or taking camps tho.

Hello!
Is anybody experiencing character movement bug, since the last “maintenance patch”?
I play in wvw a lot, and most of the time I pressing forward and strafe buttons in same time, but since the patch my character often doesn’t move in to the right direction, or not moving at all. Not just in huge fights. This is probable different than the basic skill lags in wvw.

ultranawak.7183:

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/4345/gw068b.jpg kthxbye

Why didn’t you tell us how many soldier were in your zerg as well? We just want to honor your skills. Seriously.

fact 1.: Fractals act as a chain of dungeons.
fact 2.: Achievement description doesn’t mention that this means all of the dungeons, except fractal.
fact 3.: The List of dungeons of the official Guild Wars 2 wiki contains Fractals as well.
fact 4.: It clearly seems to me, arena.net wouldn’t take any responsibility for any missed achievements reward occured by that issue.

Fractal doesnt count on Monthly achievement!

I had to hurry to do 2 more dungeon in the last hours till monthly resets, and coz Fractal doesnt counted in the monthly, I lost the whole achievement!
As fast as possible, I did an other one dungeon after the long fractal run, and we successfully finished it in the same minute as monthly achievement resetted, so I lost all of my efforts about monthly!
I missed only 1 more dungeon!
Thank you… (angry smile)

Pabo.6958:

I love the loot increase, I just hate how it’s dropped. PvP is too intense to be searching the ground for loot from someone i just killed. I really think the loot bags should automatically be stacked in your inv, and you can open them when you feel fit.

+1, its a good idea!
That annoys me as well. I always have to interrupt fights to pick up the bags. Nobody knows whats its expiring time, or I just die and lose that bags.

Btw: a topic for complaining about a good changes is reprehensible.

Deepcuts.9740:

I am more of a PvE player myself and moved to Desolation recently for WvW reasons.
To get things done, I have joined a Team Speak server provided by one of the guilds. Nice of them
Now, the part when people follow crazy, repetitive, swearing and undecided “Commanders” is beyond me.
While on Team Speak, there was a Commander, my God, 3 out of 2 word were "kitten " and 2 out of 3 were “I kill you”. All this in the worst english I ever heard.
Joining a TS server is a very good way of doing things, but if some people think that 100 gold buys them something other than a blue sign above their name…

Its true, hard to understand his voice first (I hardly understand many others too, Im not native also), but Im sure, he is one of the best our commander, not in just knowledge, his brilliant organization skills, but he is a funny and keen person who inspired us all the time. If you dont have any experience about him, dont criticize. Go and check how many player follow him, and think about it why…

I don’t care the ranks and who win, it seems this week is more balanced imo, so it is more enjoyable, till enemy hordes blob and outnumbers us greatly.
Everybody prepare the golems army!

It seems vz (and his friend elona) started to do everything to win this round. (foreign legion mobilized too?!) Their horde’s invasion just began, beware! Guys it will be shame if you don’t win a round! Seriously! You can do this!

Qwixx.5923:

We took your Longview, Cliffside and Garrison on ER BR with 5 ppl, while 15 of you tried to take our Bay against 5 defenders during 2 hours, without success.
Maybe you should reconsider your priorities ? But anyway, you had an upper income until 6am.

We dont talk about the same place at same time I guess, if you see 15 of us. We were 3-4, and you defended the keep with around 2 then 3 pl, until your 15-20 of your roaming zerg is arrived, which cover all bls and blobs when and where is needed.
Keep up that, and the organized camping in eternal jp like obsidian overlord (oogg) guys of you and a lot of others. The invasion began..
I really hope we will get other opponents today. Cheers.

Thanks for the fight at deso bl for the defender bunker necro and ranger vz players who obsessively defended bay, and the zerg who came help at bay for them. I loved their instant res also at bay. After the fight it seems the dancing VSS guilded vz pl was so proud for himself about that achievement. I have to congrats for him also. It was a fair fight, gj.
Very interesting point that vz can rule most of the maps with only few players and able to cap towers one by one easily at night while our almost all players are occupied on eternal. That was one factor why vz can win. Not just because the numbers they have.

—
one from deso

Too hard quest. I died a lot with a downleveled level 70 elementalist!

Dayra.7405:

Shure there is one: Deso get 12 pts from SFR (was only 9 during the day where Deso was better than now). If Deso gets +12 and SFR -12 then the result will be
1. Vizu, 2. Elona, 3. Deso, 4. SFR
and not as now
1. Vizu, 2. Elona, 3. SFR, 4. Deso

And opposed to the Elona-ticker: this possibility is in your hands

If I see it right, atm the overall ratings are:
VZ: 2 068.883
Elona: 2 007.154
SFR: 2 007.104
Deso: 1 982.813

So, I see 25.000 points major difference atm between SFR and Deso ratings.

Scryar.2954:

I Really hope that we (Elona) will play against Desolation next matchup instead of SFR. And from what i have read in our german forum und heard in our ts, most of us hope that. The thread will be much more civilized without sfr players insulting other servers and players and being arrogant. This is what most of your forum warriors are doing.
( we also have a sfr forum warrior in the german forum, who is doing exactly the same there)
You really should take a example out of desolation players, whos posts are mainly respectful and friendly.

Gogo Deso, only 18 points to stay in t1:)

There is no other scenario. Coz Elona generates that high score at whole day, and Deso don’t (huge difference in final points), so its fact that we will exchange our positions in T1 and T2. Maybe in 1-2 week we exchange our places again. I do my best in Deso also, but I don’t regret we will move down to T2 as more other feel either… We don’t have enough player numbers for T1, despite that we did heroic fights at nights and got many successes at that period of the day.

Valtrex.2895:

You’ve entered this thread believing this is a complain thread. But be amazed it isn’t!!!

Sooooo I’ve noticed a huge decrease in thieves in the past 2 weeks and a new surge of D/D bunker Ele’s, and I’m wondering if this is happening to any other Tiers.

TBH I’m quite happy with this change, fighting a enemy using the same old skill rotation that can be dodged with ease is great. I’ll take a skill-less copy/paste D/D Ele over a equally bad thief any day. ^.^

Nice new whining topic, we need it definitely!
Thieves are far worst than eles. Thieves instant kill and execute quite all classes from perma stealth, and cant do anything. They easily fight in 1v3 also and they win. I see a lot more OP thieves than D/D eles in T1, and didn’t see any change. Thats my experience.

I published my firefox stylish addon style: http://userstyles.org/styles/81252/more-gray-plain-font-style

Fishbait.6723:

Having to lower your brightness just to use these forums is silly don`t you think?
Second you use anything else, have to reset it again.

Solution:
If you use Firefox, grab the addon Stylish.
Then install the colour scheme from here: http://userstyles.org/styles/76247/dark-gw2-forums

If don`t want to click the link (it`s safe, i use it) once Stylish installed, bottom left of Firefox, click the Stylish icon & setting “Find more styles for this site” with the forum page open.

Enjoy!

That’s what I would say also!
I’m using this style also, and working an improved style based this one. eg. using other, shadowless font, gray divider lines at topic lists instead of the white ones.
I don’t understand disinterests about that important question, I hate the white and very bright backgrounds on monitor for reading ever, coz its very annoying. I think using white and very bright backgrounds is a totally misconception from the webpage builders, either forcing all to use it as the only option. They just using it coz thats the modern style nowadays. Shame.
If you want, I publish that style.

Get same error messages a lot of times, and forum is terrible slow either. Whats wrong here?

Lizerunn.9072:

TheHaldir.6598:

So first night of the second match and I have to say it was the most boring first night of a WvW matchup ever.

Still had one or two good fights – Seems Blacktide and Arbor are slacking.

Absolutly boring… indeed…

What’s the name for a bunch of 60 people fighting vs 20 people inside AS garrison for 2 hours, spending tons of sieges weapons and still loose ?

Oh wait ! It’s a Zerg ! \o/

For slacking considerations, see Trueban. ’s message

I don’t know why necessary to use such words (slacking) on other servers those who are competitive opponents still!

That more hour of hard fight wasn’t boring to me as attacker at garrison. You defended it well, and killed a lot of us, and wiped us at longview too, don’t forget! You were probably more than 20. And I don’t forget the epic fights before that, at other areas of the map, where you killed and wiped us more times with your zerg, what was absolutely comparable in player numbers than ours, if was not more at that time.
Hope the good fights will continue!

Ps.: I liked an ele of you, who remains below textures at Bay, and shooting me from there, and the uber superior catapult at garrison vista, and the super defending small party on the innen gate wall at the south west corner of garrison. I enjoyed them very much ^^

- one from Deso