Guild Wars 2

Frankly the community is tired of lip service “Anet saying we know we need to communicate more with the community” We would like to see results of such acknowledgement and it will go a long way in easing the salt on the forums. For too long we’ve been ignored on too many hot button issues while lesser important topics get a Dev to respond.

Behellagh.1468:

JediYoda.1275:

Behellagh.1468:

Dx12 isn’t backwards compatible, Win 10 simply comes with the Dx9 dlls as well (along with Dx8/Dx10/Dx11). And of course the video card drivers still support all the entry points those older Dx standards use.

Just search for d3d*. * in your windows directory and you’ll find all the Dx 3D dlls, not just Dx12. That’s why the game works in Windows 10.

Your post is contradicting

For DX12 to be backwards compatible it has to have all Dx9 dlls along with Dx8/Dx10/Dx11 which you pointed out. Which proves DX12 is backwards compatible same for video card drives to recognizes which DX standard to use.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/65778-directx-12-detailed-dx11-gpu-compatibility-more.html

Thanks for proving my point

No I didn’t.

Yes you did, and you are the only person I’ve seen say dx12 isn’t backwards compatible when many articles on the web say different.

Behellagh.1468:

Dx12 isn’t backwards compatible, Win 10 simply comes with the Dx9 dlls as well (along with Dx8/Dx10/Dx11). And of course the video card drivers still support all the entry points those older Dx standards use.

Just search for d3d*. * in your windows directory and you’ll find all the Dx 3D dlls, not just Dx12. That’s why the game works in Windows 10.

Your post is contradicting

For DX12 to be backwards compatible it has to have all Dx9 dlls along with Dx8/Dx10/Dx11 which you pointed out. Which proves DX12 is backwards compatible same for video card drives to recognizes which DX standard to use.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/65778-directx-12-detailed-dx11-gpu-compatibility-more.html

Thanks for proving my point

deltaconnected.4859:

JediYoda.1275:

But what really is required to update a games DX version? Just update the DX API’s or the game engine itself as a whole,? I want links to said information not speculation, Because few game are set to get DX12 in patches.

Seems you’ve forgotten one of the most important links on your crusade about DX12’s glorious performance…

Ayrilana.1396:

From someone with knowledge about the game engine and what it can and can’t do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ajnso/bad_optimalization_in_gw2/csdnn3n

Or just read that if you have no understanding of what I typed out above.

DX 12 is backwards compatible with each version has many fixes and tweaks to them so it would benefit everyone regardless if they don’t have DX 12 video card. Anet upgraded GW1 to DX9 and that was sub free game.

I didn’t miss any links, my crusade? that’s funny what about the crusade some of you are on trying to make me think because an dev/expert said X that they are 100% correct and I should just go along with them because they are a dev/expert? Because I give an argument that you don’t agree with so of couple of you try to insult with cleaver insults.

Ansau.7326:

JediYoda, you need to learn what exactly is an API, what it does, what parts of the rendering it affects. Instead of linking such amount of links claiming what they say is more accurate than the words of a dev that has worked on this game, you could spend the time reading Microsoft DX12 articles, explaining exactly which are the features.

I mean, it is easier for all of us you learn why the api has that little effect in gw2 performance issues, and not try to explain you it…

PD: The second link you use to “prove” dx upgrade bring better performance is actually showing a decrease in dx11 over dx9.
At least, make sure all your arguments are consistent

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Look Mod 2 off topic post where is their forum infractions?

Note: Mod is on war path today, and do I get another one for this post too?

Ayrilana.1396:

JediYoda.1275:

Ayrilana.1396:

GW2 is not the same as GW1. It’s more complicated so will take many more resources than its predecessor. And all this for minimal mprovements.

You also need to realize that not all games are designed the same. When games have upgraded to a higher DX version, have they all received the EXACT same percentage boost in performance? No, they did not as evidenced by the numerous benchmarks in the past. What may boost performance greatly in one game may barely do so in another. It comes down to how it was designed (remember that GW2 is CPU intensive). And as the dev stated in the Reddit thread, going to DX12 will provide minimal improvements as the issue people are experience resides outside of the render thread.

The dev is an expert in their field with years of experience. They do not need to cite a source and especially since they were talking about GW2 specifically which there will not be a source for. Well not unless they released the source code but good luck with that.

Because he is an expert or have experience it doesn’t mean he is 100% right!

He does with how this game was built which is what I was getting at. I was not talking about just his experience with the subject matter alone. Not all games receive the same boost in performance when upgrading to a higher DX version.

I never once claimed all games will get the same performance increase I proofed with those links that games will benefit from newer DX versions as the links clearly show. No matter how much of an expert or how much experience you claim the Dev is with the game engine etc always 50/50 chance he could be wrong. I don’t believe everything someone tells me even less so without anything to back it up over the internet. Believe what you want!

Please ignore any of my post and I will ignore any of yours.

Ayrilana.1396:

GW2 is not the same as GW1. It’s more complicated so will take many more resources than its predecessor. And all this for minimal mprovements.

You also need to realize that not all games are designed the same. When games have upgraded to a higher DX version, have they all received the EXACT same percentage boost in performance? No, they did not as evidenced by the numerous benchmarks in the past. What may boost performance greatly in one game may barely do so in another. It comes down to how it was designed (remember that GW2 is CPU intensive). And as the dev stated in the Reddit thread, going to DX12 will provide minimal improvements as the issue people are experience resides outside of the render thread.

The dev is an expert in their field with years of experience. They do not need to cite a source and especially since they were talking about GW2 specifically which there will not be a source for. Well not unless they released the source code but good luck with that.

Because he is an expert or have experience it doesn’t mean he is 100% right! and nothing to back his claims, no benchmarks that can be collaborated.

This is what we need someone to step up and do this, so thank you

Absconditus.6804:

They have the metrics we don’t. How many of us are on Windows 10? How many of us have a DX12-ready GPU? These things would need to be factored into the pros and cons of performing a engine upgrade. Would it be worth it in the current market?

Better yet, they could perhaps offload more graphical things to where it belongs, the GPU. And not be so overly reliant on CPU overloading. That is where the game has “problems”. Not the lack of DX12.

If DX12 delivers on everything Microsoft says it can do then I would say it would be worth it, plus DX12 is backwards compatible.

Right here address your concern of CPU overloading.

The first half involves a big reduction in CPU overheads when running games, with Microsoft insisting DX12 will cut CPU loads by 50 per cent, which is frankly an epic number.

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/pc/how-directx-12-is-set-to-supercharge-pc-gaming-1235819

http://www.vg247.com/2015/02/09/directx-12-early-tests-0-performance-increase-on-amd-gpus-0-on-nvidia/

According to the report, the demo manages those impressive results on DirectX 12 because the API eliminates the CPU bottleneck by scaling very well with all available CPU cores, something which most APIs have been struggling to do on PC for years. As a result, the load is balanced across all CPU cores, increasing the performance and utilising up to four cores..

They did upgrade GW1 to DX 9 from DX8 so it’s not like they haven’t done it before and back then I don’t know if it was worth it at that time or not.

When Arenanet announced Guild Wars 2 they said GW2 DX10 will be supported but not required. http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2648228&postcount=194 No evidence that GW2 is using DX10 that I have seen.

Yes they have metrics of every players systems and at some point they have to stop catering to players with really low end specs if they want longevity out of their game. The Dev’s mind set of wanting players to play on really low systems so they can get a larger player base is holding Arenanet & game back from its full potential.

All sorts of articles all over the internet on DX12 and some with benchmarks to back up what Microsoft is saying and some of you are rather believe what some Dev said on Reddit without anything to back up his claim. SMH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO

But what really is required to update a games DX version? Just update the DX API’s or the game engine itself as a whole,? I want links to said information not speculation, Because few game are set to get DX12 in patches.

edit: bonus links to those that claim no performance increase in any game from new DX version etc.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-directx-11-performance,2793-7.html
http://www.techspot.com/review/537-max-payne-3-performance/page6.html

use google if you want more

I brought this up long time ago and it went ignored by the dev’s

Well it never really takes long for someone to figured out an exploit/loop hole before it spreads like wild fire.

Ayrilana.1396:

JediYoda.1275:

Ayrilana.1396:

JediYoda.1275:

Ayrilana.1396:

JediYoda.1275:

Ayrilana.1396:

It’s not about people being against it. It’s that it will not have as much of an impact as some people here are claiming and not worth the resources when there’s many more important issues to resolve.

Give us proof of your unsubstantiated claim and don’t post/refer to Dev’s comment on Reddit, I want some real proof.

Also DX 12 isn’t just about performance increase, it offers bug fixes, tweaks that enables the Dev’s to do more ticks, lower power consumption, more efficient cleaner code, higher draw calls, use more of our hardware etc etc.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/08/13/directx-12-high-performance-and-high-power-savings.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/

Truth is the Dev’s nor any of us here on the forums knows exactly how much better GW2 would perform with DX12 until Anet adds it. Like others have in other DX12 threads when other games upgrade to newer DX versions there was an performance increase to said game/s.

From someone with knowledge about the game engine and what it can and can’t do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ajnso/bad_optimalization_in_gw2/csdnn3n

You can link all of the developer’s blogs about what DX12 can do but have we see it actually out to the test? I don’t recall any games currently using DX12. You also need to remember that not all games are built the same so while other games may experience reported improvements, others may not.

HAHAHA huge fail and nice try with your spin once again and ignoring what one says. Like I asked give me some real prove and not what some Dev said on Reddit. Even the said Dev truly doesn’t know how it will perform until they add it also DX 12 removes some of those bottleneck’s he is talking about.

If it evidence as the dev is one in a position to know the GW2 engine. They know it’s structure and what the issues are as they stated in their post. You also claim that same dev also said in the post that they wouldn’t know how it will perform until they add it. I don’t see that so did you make it up?

Listen I didn’t make up anything, just more of your spin tactics, Did the Dev post any benchmarks to back up any of their claims? Nope, not one benchmark posted to compare the performance difference between DX 9 to DX12 on gw2 engine. One last time no one will truly know how it will perfume till they try it, till then talk is cheap without bench marks to back any of it up.

If you didn’t make it up then point to where they stated that instead of doing your spin tactics.

My spin tactics? looooooooooooooooooool what ever I’m done with you and your nonsense.

Ayrilana.1396:

JediYoda.1275:

Ayrilana.1396:

JediYoda.1275:

Ayrilana.1396:

It’s not about people being against it. It’s that it will not have as much of an impact as some people here are claiming and not worth the resources when there’s many more important issues to resolve.

Give us proof of your unsubstantiated claim and don’t post/refer to Dev’s comment on Reddit, I want some real proof.

Also DX 12 isn’t just about performance increase, it offers bug fixes, tweaks that enables the Dev’s to do more ticks, lower power consumption, more efficient cleaner code, higher draw calls, use more of our hardware etc etc.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/08/13/directx-12-high-performance-and-high-power-savings.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/

Truth is the Dev’s nor any of us here on the forums knows exactly how much better GW2 would perform with DX12 until Anet adds it. Like others have in other DX12 threads when other games upgrade to newer DX versions there was an performance increase to said game/s.

From someone with knowledge about the game engine and what it can and can’t do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ajnso/bad_optimalization_in_gw2/csdnn3n

You can link all of the developer’s blogs about what DX12 can do but have we see it actually out to the test? I don’t recall any games currently using DX12. You also need to remember that not all games are built the same so while other games may experience reported improvements, others may not.

HAHAHA huge fail and nice try with your spin once again and ignoring what one says. Like I asked give me some real prove and not what some Dev said on Reddit. Even the said Dev truly doesn’t know how it will perform until they add it also DX 12 removes some of those bottleneck’s he is talking about.

If it evidence as the dev is one in a position to know the GW2 engine. They know it’s structure and what the issues are as they stated in their post. You also claim that same dev also said in the post that they wouldn’t know how it will perform until they add it. I don’t see that so did you make it up?

Listen I didn’t make up anything, just more of your spin tactics, Did the Dev post any benchmarks to back up any of their claims? Nope, not one benchmark posted to compare the performance difference between DX 9 to DX12 on gw2 engine. One last time no one will truly know how it will perfume till they try it, till then talk is cheap without bench marks to back any of it up.

Ayrilana.1396:

JediYoda.1275:

Ayrilana.1396:

It’s not about people being against it. It’s that it will not have as much of an impact as some people here are claiming and not worth the resources when there’s many more important issues to resolve.

Give us proof of your unsubstantiated claim and don’t post/refer to Dev’s comment on Reddit, I want some real proof.

Also DX 12 isn’t just about performance increase, it offers bug fixes, tweaks that enables the Dev’s to do more ticks, lower power consumption, more efficient cleaner code, higher draw calls, use more of our hardware etc etc.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/08/13/directx-12-high-performance-and-high-power-savings.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/

Truth is the Dev’s nor any of us here on the forums knows exactly how much better GW2 would perform with DX12 until Anet adds it. Like others have in other DX12 threads when other games upgrade to newer DX versions there was an performance increase to said game/s.

From someone with knowledge about the game engine and what it can and can’t do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ajnso/bad_optimalization_in_gw2/csdnn3n

You can link all of the developer’s blogs about what DX12 can do but have we see it actually out to the test? I don’t recall any games currently using DX12. You also need to remember that not all games are built the same so while other games may experience reported improvements, others may not.

HAHAHA huge fail and nice try with your spin once again and ignoring what one says. Like I asked give me some real prove and not what some Dev said on Reddit. Even the said Dev truly doesn’t know how it will perform until they add it also DX 12 removes some of those bottleneck’s he is talking about. Because a Dev a said X it must be the gospel lol give me a break!! Without any bench marks etc to back anything up its all talk by said Dev.

Ayrilana.1396:

It’s not about people being against it. It’s that it will not have as much of an impact as some people here are claiming and not worth the resources when there’s many more important issues to resolve.

Give us proof of your unsubstantiated claim and don’t post/refer to Dev’s comment on Reddit, I want some real proof.

Also DX 12 isn’t just about performance increase, it offers bug fixes, tweaks that enables the Dev’s to do more ticks, lower power consumption, more efficient cleaner code, higher draw calls, use more of our hardware etc etc.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/08/13/directx-12-high-performance-and-high-power-savings.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/

Truth is the Dev’s nor any of us here on the forums knows exactly how much better GW2 would perform with DX12 until Anet adds it. Like others have in other DX12 threads when other games upgrade to newer DX versions there was an performance increase to said game/s.

Grim West.3194:

DX12 would take a lot of resources (money) to be implemented into GW’s ancient tech.

Since HoT was a failure, there isn’t any money. Buy more gems and maybe they will get to DX12 after hell freezes over.

Maybe but since they use Havok engine they can get allot of help from Havok support engineers.

Ayrilana.1396:

JediYoda.1275:

Ayrilana.1396:

Edit: Direct link to article failed. Try this.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/14853-eric-flannum-and-john-peters-answers-your-questions-gamereactor/

The two that were interviewed were specifically talking about themselves and not Anet as a whole.

I didn’t catch this yesterday but yes they did specifically talked about Anet as a whole and its pretty clear in the interview.

Maybe. Maybe not. It’s up to interpretation.

Actually no it isn’t open to interpretation, its quite clear what he meant.

A. I’m not quite sure, it is not within any of our disciplines. We do not require DirectX 11 to run the game – we try to keep the system relatively low.

Ayrilana.1396:

Edit: Direct link to article failed. Try this.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/14853-eric-flannum-and-john-peters-answers-your-questions-gamereactor/

The two that were interviewed were specifically talking about themselves and not Anet as a whole.

I didn’t catch this yesterday but yes they did specifically talked about Anet as a whole and its pretty clear in the interview.

Q. Will Guild Wars 2 support DirectX 11, either by publication or by a later update? .

A. I’m not quite sure, it is not within any of our disciplines. We do not require DirectX 11 to run the game – we try to keep the system relatively low.

Also DX is backwards compatible and no reason why they can’t list DX9/10/11/12 in the requirements.

Ayrilana.1396:

Edit: Direct link to article failed. Try this.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/14853-eric-flannum-and-john-peters-answers-your-questions-gamereactor/

The two that were interviewed were specifically talking about themselves and not Andt as a whole.

That’s the one, I’ve tried looking for it before with no luck thus why I wasn’t going to waste time looking for it again, thanks for finding it.

Berelious.3290:

JediYoda, please cite your sources as to why the dev in question isn’t up to date, and the interview in question as to DX isn’t in their skill set. Also, if you can get another dev to chime in on this issue it’d be greatly appreciated.

Nope, I’m not going to waste my time going to Guildwars2.guru and other fan sites for a link to an Q/A interview from over 3 years ago. The main reason why I know this because it was my question the interviewer asked the Dev during the Q/A session.
I don’t have any connections to any of the Dev’s, Anet’s job posting list opening for graphic/api programmer.

No scribing station at the Guild Initiative

Qugi.2653:

Do not think I have seen another thread with so many “experts” on psychology, market, advertise, sociology, public relation, internet dynamic, business practice. Most people in this thread talking about not what they know but pretend to. So many “expert” because they read wikipedia page. Funny.

Well to be honest its all not that hard from vast different life experiences we all have and knowing history of a Anet if you followed them since GW1 like many have. You get a pretty good sense of a company from all various interviews they give, interactions with community etc. Then you have the OP review site and former employee social media post on their personal accounts affirming what we already suspected/knew. Martin Kirstein a former community even said that people don’t listen so its right on par with the review site.

paintpixie.7398:

JediYoda.1275:

I have to ask how much is Anet paying you to do damage control for their PR/HR department?

It wouldn’t be the first time a company paid people to defend X company on forums or post positive reviews of X company on review sites.

If this is actually the case, they should really think about hiring somebody who is better at making a convincing argument. It would have been cheaper and more effective to just lock the thread.

Anet already locks/deletes allot of threads, some disappeared in the WvW section just few days ago.

Dreamslayer.7659:

JediYoda.1275:

Dreamslayer.7659:

I think it’s very presumptuous of everyone to constantly say GW2 is “poorly optimized”.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but what evidence do we have?

From my observations, I think the network is the real bottleneck – the game has no trouble rendering large numbers of entities, but the network traffic for 70 people to play together is kind of insane.

Maybe a graphics overhaul would make sense in 4-5 more years, but not at this point.

Well one could argue that the out of memory issues that plagued the 32 bit client is poorly optimized to handle 32 bit client memory restrictions. 64 Bit client is just a band aid fix/workaround to the out of memory issue that they haven’t been able to fix for over 3 years.

32 bit systems can only address 4GB of RAM and if you need more than that, you have to use all sorts of tricks. Don’t blame Anet, blame binary.

You act like I don’t already know that the 32 bit has memory limitations? lmao read my post. Also I can blame Anet since clearly they didn’t program something correctly in the first place regardless of 32 bit system/4GB limit. If they program everything correctly the 32 bit client wouldn’t have had out of memory issues like it does. You can try to defend Anet all you want or you can polish a kitten so many ways, it doesn’t change the fact that there is something wrong in the code.

Dreamslayer.7659:

I think it’s very presumptuous of everyone to constantly say GW2 is “poorly optimized”.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but what evidence do we have?

From my observations, I think the network is the real bottleneck – the game has no trouble rendering large numbers of entities, but the network traffic for 70 people to play together is kind of insane.

Maybe a graphics overhaul would make sense in 4-5 more years, but not at this point.

Well one could argue that the out of memory issues that plagued the 32 bit client is poorly optimized to handle 32 bit client memory restrictions. 64 Bit client is just a band aid fix/workaround to the out of memory issue that they haven’t been able to fix for over 3 years.

Randulf.7614:

And they already stated on Reddit a while backwhy dx12 wont give the game the big boost ppl believe it would.

What that Dev said isn’t the gospel as you and others making it out to be as clearly the Dev isn’t up to date on his info. Before core game was release Anet was asked if GW2 will have DX11 the Dev’s response was “DX isn’t in any of our skill sets”. Besides Anet is looking for someone with current DX12/Mantel API skill set so who knows what that will bring if anything.

Ayrilana.1396:

The communication Anet has given in the past may or may not have changed. Regardless as to whether it has or hasn’t, this has no relevance as to whether the reviews are legit or not. There’s zero correlation.

Recent earnings report gave no indication of what you seem to be saying. What bigger picture? Where’s your source to the bigger picture? I can use exactly what you said against you and tell you that you need to look at the bigger picture to see the same thing as me.

I never claimed Anets communication past or current had relevance to the reviews you are twisting and trying to put words in my mouth. Like I said I’m just making an obvious observation of how things have changed within Anet on communication over the years which is fact.

When someone says see the Bigger Picture they mean: a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/big-picture

Either you truly don’t know this or you are clearly being a troll/white knight as clearly you can’t see the big picture here regarding the discussion and hostile complaints on the forums which all relevant to the reviews. Since you just want to argue with me, I’m done so have a nice day/evening

Ayrilana.1396:

Anet’s alleged lack of communixation on the forums has no relevance as to whether the reviews are legit (whether negative or positive).

I never claimed it did as I’m just making an obvious observation of how things have changed within Anet over the years.

Ayrilana.1396:

What earnings report are you even reading? The one that was recently released gave no indication about what you seem to be implying.

If you read my post you would clearly see that I said the new one. If you look at the larger picture instead being just looking at the reviews or earnings report you would see the same thing as I am. (comprehension goes a long way in life)

Also read my edited post: Even comments from former employees have said some of the same things on their own personal Twitter/Facebook etc accounts.

Well giving the GW2 History of bad decision making on several things plus lack of communication with community on important issues unlike with GW1 Anet was on
top of every issue. I have no doubt that these review are from legit current/former employees. The new Quarterly earnings report backups what reviewers are saying and the game is headed in the wrong direction which we already know from how H.OT was done.

Even comments from former employees have said some of the same things on their own personal Twitter/Facebook etc accounts.

They won’t learn till even more players walk away from the game as they are already hurting from lack luster sales from free to play to paid account conversation rate. I don’t even want to get started on the huge failure H.O.T is. It’s like they are testing how far they can alienate us before we say F-U.

PVE Placement restrictions needed near merchants/banks:

Box of fun
Bobblehead Laboratory
Banker Golem (2 weeks)
Costume Brawl cauldron
probably few others I didn’t listed

Players putting down these items preventing/interfering with other players from using merchants/banks and even some Vista’s I’ve came across. It’s getting worse ad worse in 3 very popular maps which I won’t name so it won’t get worse.

Use Reddit if you want to be heard since the Dev’s post allot more over there than here.

mcwurth.2081:

JediYoda.1275:

mcwurth.2081:

JediYoda.1275:

Sounds like the OP has more than enough evidence to go the local police and let them contact Anet with warrants for the stalkers info.

except that it seems to be online (dunno bout RL) and they should just get the dude banned or a new account.

So? it doesn’t matter if its online just like in real life there are laws against this type of behavior, Cyberstalking and Cyberharassment Laws vary from to state to state and country.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/cyberstalking-and-cyberharassment-laws.aspx

American laws…. there are many european laws as well. still should get the dude banned and/or get a new account. what they do real life I do not care about that. thats up to them.

Like I said the laws vary from state to state and country and I gave the link as proof that their are laws against this type of behavior since your post above came across, you’re not aware of such laws.

mcwurth.2081:

JediYoda.1275:

Sounds like the OP has more than enough evidence to go the local police and let them contact Anet with warrants for the stalkers info.

except that it seems to be online (dunno bout RL) and they should just get the dude banned or a new account.

So? it doesn’t matter if its online just like in real life there are laws against this type of behavior, Cyberstalking and Cyberharassment Laws vary from to state to state and country.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/cyberstalking-and-cyberharassment-laws.aspx

Sounds like the OP has more than enough evidence to go the local police and let them contact Anet with warrants for the stalkers info.

saturn.4810:

Because they are character bound?

Also they are used to buy siege so yes these should be account bound added to wallet, and while tomes also give hero points plus they are account bound so moot point IMHO. They should be added to wallet since they will just stack up in our bank slots if we don’t buy siege with them while not everyone has the need to buy siege so yes this an issue

WvW post H.O.T https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo1pVvm5Lxg

the controls for this one sucks hard and by the grace of the force I was somehow to get silver after several tries.

I still can’t buy this at the merchant, please fix

Berelious.3290:

There was a developer response on Reddit in which they explained why they would not be upgrading to dx12. It basically boils down to the fact they would have to re-code the entire client for a very minimal increase in performance. You can read the full explanation here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ajnso/bad_optimalization_in_gw2/csdnn3n

Take what they say with grain of salt as the Dev isn’t clearly up to date on DX12 improvements and some of the bottle necks it removes. Because one Dev said X it isn’t the gospel after all.

Anet is looking for Sr. Graphics Programmer with
?Expert knowledge of current-gen graphics APIs (DirectX 9/10/11/OpenGL 4.X and DirectX12/Metal/Vulkan).

So who knows what happen!

The camera is too low making hard to see over the grass and other objects, and can’t adjust in options. The adventure is locked way too long with too short of play time along with fast event timers with mobs interfering with players.

PopeUrban.2578:

JediYoda.1275:

Focus on Vinetenders so bring plenty of CC

You don’t need any cc to kill vinetenders. You need at least three people who don’t die instantly to the surrounding mordrem and are capable of attacking a called target.

There’s actually nothing mechanically complex about it. The vinetenders spawn 3 per head and do not respawn. Bring damage, don’t die, ignore anything that’s not a vinetender, kill the head, then disengage and move on to the next, cross your fingers for the next head to spawn close by.

Bringing up to 8 people lessens the chance of failure, but that failure is only ever due to how far the head spawns from the last one, and the mission allows you to fail a few anyway. With a few retries you can do it all with 3 good players if the heads all spawn close.

Oh great another lecture I didn’t ask for and yes CC does and will help to speed things up.

PS. Please don’t reply to anymore of my post thanks.

Focus on Vinetenders so bring plenty of CC

It’s not a bug, but rather a suggestion

Yeah just like the 5 mini games promised in Core game on release, don’t hold your breath, they have our money and laughing at us.

No credit toward achievement and no mastery point giving, I have tried on different alts.

try this and reboot after doing both in DOS command prompt in admin mode, can copy and paste bold part.

netsh winsock reset catalog (reset winsock entries)
netsh int ip reset reset.log hit (reset TCP/IP stack)

We’re almost 2 months after launch? ERR more like one month today

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is the first expansion pack for Guild Wars 2 and was released on October 23, 2015

Celtic Lady.3729:

SirBlunticus.4258:

Not to mention collections being hidden behind them.
Seriously!?
Anet says “can’t have your weapon unless you play pin the tail on the donkey. Can’t have your mastery point unless you make a ring around the bottle.”

Do you need to get gold for these weapon collections?

No, have to get silver to unlock collection items

I agree with OP

So much on “We don’t want to force players too play content they don’t want to play”

Here we are I’m being forced to play adventures to get the last 23 MP’s I need to max out the Nuhoch Lore and Itzel Lore since I have too have with items are locked from me unless I have all masteries maxed out. Plus for collection items are gated behind this silliness for forcing players to play thing they don’t’t to be forced into playing. I don’t really cared much for mini games nor do I ever play them at Carnivals or else where in real life.

Ask in game on the down low any viable farms mentioned here on the forum will get nerfed..

I’ve wondered what are the true motives behind some of these nerf threads, clearly some of these people don’t understand or see the picture here of what’s really the issue/s are with the game.

Sarcasm > Should Anet nerf the adventures next? since people are doing them and taking people away from doing X map meta events!