Guild Wars 2

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Switch.4892, moving to a european server won’t really help you and deleting the characters neither.
The issues are Level3.net servers and we have those in europe as well.

My ping for example goes from 30-40ms (before 1PM) to 400-2000ms (after 1PM) and I can’t even stream to Twitch.TV any more, just because of the Level3.net servers. We have a lot of ‘em here as well plus your connection will be to Austin, Texas none the less because that’s where the servers are.

Anyway, long story short: No need for a change, just contact Level3 or your ISP and tell them about your problem…although I doubt they’ll fix it.

I have to agree with the issue being the Level3 servers. Especialy the one in Frankfurt is a big culprit for me and others as it’s the main hub.

Today I reported this issue to Level3 who were completely surprised that, as a non customer, I found out about that. So they’re apparently on the issue right now but just in case I’d say that everybody with issues just calls their free support hotline and reports this issue.

It’s funny how before 1CET the servers are fine and afterwards the connection goes down the drain. The same thing happens on Twitch.TV as well by the way, just try streaming on a test account. While the Level3 servers are under heavy load you won’t get anywhere…

Anyway, report the issue to Level3 and that’s about it.

I’m experiencing the same problems LanfearShadowflame, it looks like at least our server (Seafearer’s Rest) is being routed to US servers, even though it should be an EU server. So I think they merged some servers for whatever reason, which lags out our server horribly.

Try pressing Win+R → Enter “resmon” (without the quoations) and check out where they route you when you play GW2. Trace the IP and if it gives you a weird location that is FAR away from you then there could be your problem.

I agree with the OP, there’s still a horrible lag going on as of now and it’s getting annoying. I noticed that for some reason, I’m playing on Seafearer’s Rest (EU), I’m getting routed to the US Servers in Austin Texas. I’m not sure if it always was like that, but all I know is that the pings go up from 50ms to 250+ and there appears to be a loss of packages somehow.

I already made sure that it’s not on my end (or my ISP), so I’m actualy upset that there hasn’t been any official announcement about this.
Another thing that bugs me is that this only happens at US prime times.

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Hmm, it was definetly a guardian, not a warrior.
And yeah he lept a lot, tried to dodge it but as soon as I dodged he just followed with a kick that stunned me anyway.

I have been playing a few more games and it seems like these guys are just the majority right now (Guardians that is). I think the best way here is just to run when they approach as they are pretty much impossible to kill due to so many stunlocks.

(Here’s a how the fight went usualy:
-> Leap -> Stunned -> Stunlock -> Dead
-> Leap -> Dodge -> Some Kick -> Stunlock -> Dead
-> Leap -> Dodge -> Some kick -> (50% dodge) -> Some swing -> Stunlock -> Dead

Looks like once they get you with one hit you’re toast. Also tried some blinds but one guy was even faster than I am. Even with sprint and rocket boots he all of a sudden appeared behind me again after a second or so.

Unless I can blind them for pretty much forever, which I doubt I can, there’s no way to get all his stunlocks out of the way.

I guess I have to log onto my Guardian, google the build and see exactly how unfair it is.

Your description of the encounter does NOT sound like a Guardian, they do not have ability to stunlock anyone that I am aware of.

First of all thank you for the answer,

and yes I’m 100% certain that it was a guardian, unless the icon lies of course. Which I doubt. I’m also not sure if there’s a new exploit as I’ve gone through all the skills and people seem to be using skills from other classes, which is odd.

And yes, he was using the hammer leap (which the guardian doesn’t have) as well as the kick from the Warrior. That being said he also (in 1vs1) made me burn blue and used Chains of Light (#3 Scepter on Guardian).

Stunningly this player wiped out one guy after another, even when we ganged him.
Oh and he never used “100 Blades”.

I guess I have to google a bit and see if there’s another exploit that let’s you get wrong skills. If I’m not mistaken they already had something similar with the Necro getting Thief skills on Dagger Dagger with some weird disconnect.

I’ll just mark this as solved due to a possible exploit and thank everybody for trying to solve my issue.

Alrighty guys, something must be definetly wrong with either me or the class.
Just tested a few of my other classes that I haven’t played in so long and I steamroll everybody with ’em.

With the Mesmer I was able to keep up with 1 Hammer Guardian, 1 Hammer Warrior and their Elementalist friend. Killed ’em all.
And the other classes look sort of familiar. Of course not as crazy as the Mesmer but similar none the less.

Meanwhile I’m struggling with the Engineer I played up from 1-80 over the last 2 weeks. Tried a flamethrower survivability build, which is alright but the damage output as a bunker is just so low that everybody survives me or runs away.

EDIT: Sorry for the double post but I feel it’s update worthy

Hmm, it was definetly a guardian, not a warrior.
And yeah he lept a lot, tried to dodge it but as soon as I dodged he just followed with a kick that stunned me anyway.

I have been playing a few more games and it seems like these guys are just the majority right now (Guardians that is). I think the best way here is just to run when they approach as they are pretty much impossible to kill due to so many stunlocks.

(Here’s a how the fight went usualy:
→ Leap → Stunned → Stunlock → Dead
→ Leap → Dodge → Some Kick → Stunlock → Dead
→ Leap → Dodge → Some kick → (50% dodge) → Some swing → Stunlock → Dead

Looks like once they get you with one hit you’re toast. Also tried some blinds but one guy was even faster than I am. Even with sprint and rocket boots he all of a sudden appeared behind me again after a second or so.

Unless I can blind them for pretty much forever, which I doubt I can, there’s no way to get all his stunlocks out of the way.

I guess I have to log onto my Guardian, google the build and see exactly how unfair it is.

Hey guys,

I’ve recently come back to Guild Wars 2 and am pretty much enjoying PvE. Back in the good ol’ days I played all my 6 Level 80 characters in PvP and they seemed pretty balanced.

Now all of a sudden it seems as if Guardians are the most present PvP class and I just can’t handle them at all with my Engineer.
I’m running a 30/10/0/30/0 HGH build with a grenade kit some elixirs and rocket boots for a quick getaway. I’m not doing awfuly bad but against guardians, nope.

Especialy the ones with hammers. My issue with them is that they seem to have several stunlocks in a row which adds up to about 8 seconds of either down or stunned.

Had this one guy who started out with a jump, then some kick, some smash with his hammer again, the jump again…and he kept me in a stunlock.
I switched to Elixir S to see if I can escape with it. No chance whatsoever.

Now I really don’t want to switch to my Guardian and do the same thing, just to enjoy the game, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I know that some comments will be “LOL l2p Engin33r id1ot!11eleven” but that is pretty common in any forum.

Thank you and yours truly.

EDIT:
Playing with a rifle (Sigil of Battle), 2x Fire Strength Lyssa, Rabid Amulet with Rabid Gem. Tried 2 pistols but that just killed be quicker as there was no way to net or knockdown.