Guild Wars 2

I did search in this forum before creating this thread but could not find any official statement.

I searched again right now but either got 19+ pages as a result of searching in this forum for ‘fear’ or no result at all when being more specific.
I have also read until the 4th page of google search results for the terms ‘fear’ and ‘interrupt’ narrowed only in this forum but could not find any official statement.
I searched in the release notes but the search function in this forum brought up 0 (zero) results for the word ‘fear’.
I even tried to find and read all the posts around August 19th manually.

I have spent about an hour to find this official statement which seems not to be part of the release notes.

I curious about this change as well

btw link to existing thread
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-Fear-no-longer-interrupting-skills/first#post2644578

So was interrupt removed from fear skills by intention?
Because this was possibly the most important ‘side-effect’ of those skills.
Now they are kind of useless except for few occasions :/

I was exploring Dredgehaunt Cliffs with my lvl 80 warrior and do not face much of a challenge getting around. 3-4 normal mob can’t even damage me more than my HoT can’t heal.

So I was going to get me the vista in Dostoev Sky Peak, passed some Dredgehaunts, killed some, easy going. But when I was running up the wooden ramp to get to the vista I was insta killed by something. It was 2-3 turns after the closed gate.
I didn’t pay much attention to what that might have been and just tried again. I had a look at the combat log but couldn’t find anything. Nevertheless my armor was damaged.
I tried again and was instantly killed right after the first turn past the closed gate on
the wooden ramp again. This time I kept my combat log open but it didn’t show any
serious damage except for the 200’s I got when running there.

I was experiencing smaller lags but this didn’t even kill my during fights with 3-4 enemies.

While I was writing this report someone revived me. I was not killed anymore and also he did not experience those instant kills.

I have been playing for a quite a long time and experience lags every now and then but I was never instantly killed though. Especially in an area where I can’t be harmed anyway.

I came back to GW2 a couple of weeks ago after one year break.

First thing I noticed when running dungeons and fractals is fear does not work as interrupt anymore.

I have searched the forum but only got discussion about perplexity rune OP.
So is this a bug or did they remove the interrupt from fear by purpose?

Thanks for the replies. ^^

I tried to reproduce the issue but couldn’t so far.
Sometimes I can’t certain other players to group or I can’t join other groups. The specific option simply does not exist. I could not figure out why. In some occasions this option does not show up for one player but seconds later I can invite another one.
I haven’t tried to type in names to invite someone since some names contain characters I am not sure how to type. So I only use the pop-up menu in the chat window.

Is there some mechanic behind? Or is it just a bug?

Thanks in advance

Any ideas why some systems out perform others in GW2 by the factor of 3 and more?
Is it really just the AMD vs Intel architecture?

At least I could get much better performance in WvW when having C’n’Q disabled.
I also have run with 3D Mark with and without C’n’Q and it makes a huge difference.
Is there a way to enable/disable C’n’Q in Windows without restarting my PC?
I got a tool from Asus but it says my CPU does not support C’n’Q!
AMD seems to focus on GPU’s only since all download links for CPU drivers point to CCC. As far as I know there is a performance tab in CCC but tbh I don’t want to have this app installed on my PC.

There was no limitation on 30 FPS. It just happend to never go above this value in LA.

I OC’ed my system that seem to run amazingly stable until now. I kept the core speed at 4GHz and set the memory speed from 1066 to 1600(!). I also turned of Cool’n’Quiet.
20% plus in CPU speed + 50% plus in ram speed.
That in total gave me additional ~8-9 FPS.

I tested in LA with following result:
FPS 15-25
CPU % 80-90 (most utilized core)
GPU % ~25%

Queensdale:
FPS 50-60
CPU % 70-80 (most utilized core)
GPU % ~25%

So this result is what I may expect from my rig anyway?
Because I have seen some posts mentioning FPS values from 100+ in PVE and 30 in WvW (with better HW of course; and I would not ask if they got CPUs with double the GHz of mine but apparently they don’t so it’s not the pure power of CPU that matters.).

When I am in the middle of zerg battle in WvW the FPS drops to about 0.3-1 FPS
But I there was a time when my system gave me ~10 FPS in big WvW battles. So something changed and I am pretty sure I didn’t change any HW settings on my rig.
The only changes I can remember were Nvidia driver update and GW2 updates.
One thing or the other really destroyed my game experience.

After reading some threads about performance in GW2 I still can’t figure out why some people get FPS of 100+ and others are stuck with ~30.

First of all I would like your comments on my current PC and if my FPS is in normal range what I can expect:
CPU: AMD FX-6100
MoBo: ASUS M5A78L-M
GPU: Frozr GTX-760
RAM: 16GB 1066mhz
Resolution: 1920×1080
… and max of 30 FPS in GW2 with setting on all low!

I bought me the GTX-760 recently because of the low FPS and tbh I can’t see any difference to the GT-650 I owned before.
I now tried to OC the FX-6100 from 3,3 GHz to 4 GHz which should give me a boost of 20%… in theory. But still max 30 FPS and 25 FPS average.

I am kind of clueless since my GPU should be good mid-range as well as my CPU. I don’t expect to play at ultra-settings but at least med or lower setting with acceptable FPS. I appreciate any hints what the bootle neck might be.

Thanks in advance