Guild Wars 2

Tornupto.2304:

Crinn.7864:

(why on earth would you store log data in memory?)

Writing to the harddisk is very slow.
If the combatlog would write everything to a log even things from other players (which i’m not sure if the client has even access to…) and you have big groups fighting it would be incredibly slow to call the harddisk on every entry in the log. It takes very little time to write in RAM but it takes ~10,000 times longer to write on the harddisk. There is a reason why operating systems try to buffer data in different locations which are faster to access while a process is running.
But if you store the logs in RAM first and then write it to the harddisk in a bigger bulk it would be much more efficient because there is much less overhead.
Maybe you understand why things get stored in RAM first after reading this…

thats why every other successful MMO with a combat log system (basically all of them) wrote directly to hard disk?
stop pretending its that complicated, the same methods have been done for half a decade easily with no issues.

@crinn.7864
sounds like a l2p issue

this is going to NUKE raid composition diversity.

these nerfs, if they go through are basically going to FORCE people to run a mirror comp of

Subgroup1: Commanders Chrono – druid – PS – dps – dps
Subgroup2: Commanders Chrono – druid – PS – dps – dps

-or-
Subgroup1: Chrono (with some boon duration gear) – druid – PS – Rev – dps
Subgroup2: Chrono (with some boon duration gear) – druid – PS – Rev – dps

this is cancer, this demolishes the flexibility and diversity of the current raid meta. if you want to nerf boons for WvW you guys should split it form the other PVE metagame like you guys did for PvP. otherwise youre going to ruin the diversity of raids in favor of catering to the zerg meta in WvW. and frankly these changes wont change anything at all in WvW zerging

can one of you guys shoot me a mail in game, been looking for a new raid guild. cleared wing 1 with my eyes closed.

progression raider from other games so i know the prog lifestyle.
i had numerous world top 5 kills in other games as well as top 3 in several classes worldwide.

hit me up.