Guild Wars 2

I was away for all these changes and rather shocked when i came back a few days ago.

Now I understand the reward for just logging in mitigates some of the change. And frankly I’ve rarely spent the laurels anyway. But I rather enjoyed doing the daily just to do them. But I don’t like being told what parts of the game I must play.

This isn’t a matter of getting outside your comfort zone. I’ve played WvW extensively and find it rather dull and necessitates running with a zerg these days. As for PvP, that’s not even worth queuing up for. Add to it the inability to get enough damage or other participation in to get credit on some pve kills and it’s just no longer worthwhile. Oh and the past few days it was quite impossible for me to finish the dailys without going into WvW. Which I won’t do.

It also seems to me that the total combined rewards for doing the daily, and the new log in reward system is a fair bit lower than just the old daily and monthly system. And at least that system allowed me to get rewards for playing the way i wanted.

The change has just made the game that much less enjoyable for me.

I’ve been gone from the game for a bit over month during the winter holiday season. I used to do the dailies every time I logged in. As someone who really dislikes PvP as it’s in this game (and generally don’t like it much anyway), I find it’s pretty near impossible to complete without PvP. Oddly the inability to complete the dailies is reducing my desire to log in. We’ll see how that, and the changed dailies go.

agrante.2810:

I just chopped down 10 mins worth of elder saplings and got ONE. Any feedback on drop rate? Seems to be awfully low. Boosters help?

Haven’t gotten a single one yet. So offhand I’d say you’re doing good.

I checked the latency while in game several times today: in a crowded area I had latency 3x better than earlier in the game with lag that was unbelievably unplayable. On a high end gaming system with a wired connection. Only in GW2 though no other games and only since the mega server patch.

Been horrid since shortly after the mega server roll out. Unable to play the vast majority of the time.

It’s not just Michigan and it’s not just Comcast (at least not yet anyway). Time-Warner Roadrunner here and it’s been horrid for a couple of weeks. But only for GW2.

Beldin.5498:

Buy a new PC. And this time not a crappy laptop but at least a medium desktop :p

What do you expect as answer if you don’t even post what your current PC has as hardware ?

That’s really not a solution to the lag problems since the megaservers.

For example, I have an i7 processor, 32 gig Ram, an ssd, 2 very large hd, GTX 780ti and a wired connection. Can’t play at all a good deal of the time. Never had trouble before the mega server patch. Have no trouble in other games. And it matters not how the in game graphics are set.

The patch did nothing more than eliminate the tag that told you you were in an overflow server and just dumps the maximum number of people there with no further tweaks or recoding to account for the increase in population.

I’ve had nothing but trouble with fps/lag since the megaserver update. Not an issue before hand. I’m running windows 8.1/32 g ram/ssd/gtx 780 ti everything with the latest non-beta drivers all to no avail.

No trouble with other games and there’s more than a few similar complaints to yours.

Mago.1926:

Starting a few days ago, I began to experience lag. At first I thought it was my connection just being slow, so I stopped playing for a little bit and went to watch tv, but it has yet to go away. Some times I can run around, and play perfectly fine for hours (I did last night), and some times I experience game breaking lag.

My problems include a long delay on my abilities, 10+ seconds, or just flat out disconnects. Again, I assumed it was my own connection, but I have been able to play other games (LoL, sc2, WoW) and watch streams without any connection issues since this started with GW2. I posted on reddit a bit ago, and though others seemed to be having the problem I had, nobody had a fix, so I’m going to try here!

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I also already tried the port 80 thing, it did not help.

Small edit: I also was not actively playing during the megaserver update, so I do not know if it was caused by this. I only started being really active again a week or so ago.

Same thing here. used to run fine all the time. Now it’s unplayable a good deal of the time.

I had no lag issues whatsoever until the last patch. It’s now so bad I can’t do a single in-game event unless it’s by accident.

I have given up trying to complete the personal story. I play at odd hours due to my location and job and frankly i haven’t seen a soul looking for a group there in a very long time. I just wish there was an option to remove it from my game screen.

There are a load of websites out there that have game hacks. You can always send them the link but keep in mind that there’s rarely anything illegal about the websites or the hacks. The use of them violates our TOS as players but there often isn’t much anyone can do about the actual hacking websites or the existence of the programs.

Oh and I’d just about guarantee that Anet knows exactly which websites are offering hacks and what each of those programs do.

Anet has banned characters relatively recently for falling through the world when they missed part of a puzzle jump. It’s possible there’s something else going on. Think back on what was done prior to the night you got banned and if anything odd happened let them know. On the other hand, if you were using a 3rd party program, even some of the more ‘benign features,’ count yourself lucky and stop using it.

MacDarra.6534:

Hello, I just went to log into GW about an hour ago and I see that I have been temp banned because of inappropriate language, which baffled me because I barely chat outside my party. I come to find out my younger brother logged in to my account (I keep my username and password remembered so I just have to click a button) and played. I asked him if he said anything in chat and he laughed and told me all about it. Needless to say, I went off on him and he is no longer allowed on my computer which I now lock. I was wondering if there was any way possible to lift the ban with the promise it won’t happen again as I will not allow anyone else to access my account?? I would be grateful. Hope to hear from you soon.

File an appeal and explain it anyway so it’s in your account record. Next, change your password and uncheck the remember password box.

If you’re a Chrome user click on the menu type icon and then settings. The down at the bottom find “advanced settings”, under privacy you’ll see a clicky for manage saved passwords. Click on that. In the pop up window search guildwars, highlight the one with the login as part of the url and click show. There’s your password for these forums and hence the one for the game.

And truth be told, half the time that’s the only way i can remember what mine is as well.

Personally, I’ll not do another jumping puzzle in the game. And you really need to change your form letters. You’ve lost a fair number of customers among those who were wrongly accused.

Nearly everyone our characters interact seems to die. Well everyone except the walking tree that a great many would like to see die. Seems a shame that the personal story didn’t show some of the side effects of that. Mistrust of the troops, new nicknames besides the long forgotten “Hero of Shaemoor” like butcher of <insert random personal story location here>.

lordkrall.7241:

It is actually quite funny with people complaining about no-one wanting to do the dungeon.
Based on the number of such comment on this forums alone there would be enough people for over 10 groups.

It would be ironic if we were all on the same servers at the same time and all had the time to devout to Arah in story+ mode. Personally I live in a time zone that is closer to Eastern Australia’s time (albeit a day earlier) than it is to the US east coast time. And I play at some rather odd hours… I can hear the undead crickets chirping in Orr.

Aeonblade.8709:

Trahearne is the Jar Jar Binks of the guild wars universe.

Best answer yet!

No.

They’re happy with the way they did it so far or they’d have changed it. Leaves those of us who play at odd hours out in the cold. I just wish they’d let me take that stupid quest reminder off my screen.

I finally saw this particular personal story mission on one of my characters and to say the least I was quite appalled. I ended up with 100% broken gear for exactly the same reason. I ended up having to get help from a guild mate who died and burned just as fast as well but too enough heat of my engineer that I was able to heal up and survive the stupidity. After that it was somewhat easier though this particular missions seems to be unduly slow loading while the programming is allowing the mobs to quite literally kill your toon.

It needs a fix asap.

mercury ranique.2170:

Thisd isn’t an issue that NEEDS fixing and I’m very happy with Anet making temporary content. This has been discussed over and over and over. Bottom line is that this is an MMO. In other words it is ment to be played together. So you might want to join a guild. use some social skills to get them to know you and you to know them and then ask for their help.

We are all just people like you and don’t bite, so show us your happy face and make some friends

It is an issue that needs fixing. If you didn’t have such a knee jerk reaction you’d have realized that the op was complaining because he can’t find a group to get his/her final quest done. That’s far more prevalent than you might think. I for one have 3 level 80’s in the same boat for the same reason.

My personal opinion is that stuns in any way shape or form are a bad thing when applied to any human player for any reason. Taking away peoples ability to play their toon annoys them.

Pelopidas.2140:

There really is enough space for everything, u have to get very very far to get ’’You’re leaving the instance area’’ message. You can make a circle around your enemy, or even die, since u continue the quest almost where u left off…
and it warns you that you’re leaving the instance u dont get kicked right when the message appears

Btw im playing necro and your argument is invalid.

That’s not been my experience either. There are a few of the missions where the mobs have knock back casts and they have literally knovked me out of the instance — repeatedly. The timing on the message is almost simultaneous with being kicked.

My favorite npc in the personal story line? The dead one.

Based upon the guild I’m in the complaints about the voice acting and Trahearn in particular, is even more negative that that expressed here. Ditto for the forced grouping for the final chapter.

lordkrall.7241:

Well, keep in mind that there are quite a few people that does play RPG games for the story, not rewards. And F&F does reward us with quite a bit of story.

I understand that. In this case my opinion is that the story line and writing is quite substandard even by MMO standards. The only part that seemed thought out was the up-leveling for under level 80 characters.

I finished the whole arc recently with the Lost and Found series. You didn’t miss a thing, you get absolutely nothing for finishing the series anyway. Just something to do and frankly I’d have had more fun leveling an alt.

Use the crafting buffs while crafting. Plan carefully and never craft without a buff. And have only 1 character get all the crafting professions (he’ll only be able to have 2 active at a time but you won’t lose levels on the inactive levels).

If it’s any consolation, your missions will soon all be the same anyway. Just roll an alt and play it as vigil

My favorites are the dead ones.

Actually I’d say Trahearne serves the exact purpose Anet wanted him to serve. This thread is 10 pages+ long now and people are talking about him — good and bad. Mission accomplished.

Oh and in the FWIW department, as I understood it the voice actor for Trahearne is actually quite accomplished. Might be a lack of other voices to play off of or no real script when his stuff was recorded.

I want the ability to hide the personal story from my screen. I no longer want a thing to do with Anets personal stories.

Throughout much of the personal story I really wanted some SW:TOR like options. B. Kill her. C. Leave her to her own Devices… etc.

I haven’t bothered with it at all. It’s far too vague and uninspiring. I’d rather go level another alt. Nothing in the story line grabs my attention and makes me want to go try it out.

Content developers and bug squishers are different teams and different types of programmers. You probably don’t want them to put content developers and artists into bug squishing,

From the looks of things, they seem to have broken a lot including changing mesmers into active pacifists!

It’s not just the highest end tool that has a problem all of the tools that are appropriate for whatever the resource node is Frostgorge are returning “Ruined …”

I’d save the whole darn personal story by giving it an early burial

Bother with them up to the point you get the back piece armor, then they’re optional.

Ellisande.5218:

GuzziHero.2467:

SPOILERS AHEAD

blinkblink ALITD isn’t even difficult if you have any kind of ranged weapon and are prepared to back off rather than facetank.

And that is why boss design fails. It needs to be melee friendly and not just ranged friendly.

Equip your warrior with a rifle and your guardian with a scepter or staff. Thieves have pistols.

As long as it’s limited in areas and there’s an option which be default is turned that will block all duel requests I’d be fine with it. Otherwise there are people who will spam duel requests to the point of harassing players.

Just don’t do them if you don’t like them. You’re not required to complete a single dungeon for anything. not monthly quests, not daily quests not personal quests. It won’t amount to a hill of beans in the game. I don’t like dungeons in general so i don’t do them and yet I’m still having fun.

If I’m in a long fight with a bunch of other players and I think it’s going poorly due to lack of heals, I just switch attachments on my elementalist, or switch tactics on my guardian and lend a hand. It’s pretty much fine the way it is.

Nobody misled you about the personal story. If you don’t want to do it, that’s fine — I’ve given up on mine completely and it annoys me that the personal story is still on the screen — but we weren’t misled. I do think anet would’ve been better served to make this a huge npc assisted battle and a grouping similar to the intro mission we all played.

As for grouping with folks on another server — that actually hadn’t occurred to me. but at this point I no longer care.

I have 3 80’s Shimond all at the last part of the story (arah). Not all of us play during prime hours nor are we able to. I haven’t personally seen Arah opened in ages and haven’t been able to get a 5 man together for it when it was.

i agree it sucks, I hate dungeons, etc etc…. eas(ier) solution to this whole debate? let us remove the quest listing from our screens. Can’t see it, it won’t annoy me. :P

Shimond.2478:

I’d hate to be in Arena’s shoes. Half the forum hates the idea of grouping for a personal story quest, the other half wants the dungeon harder.

Personal story conclusions don’t need to be in a dungeon. That would’ve solved the whole problem.

The personal story line missions can vary quite a bit depending upon your class. I personally found the story line to be insanely easy on my guardian and rather difficult (to say the least) on my elementalist. I think most of the quests are designed around a melee class. Some missions (very few tbh) actually have the final battle after the dialog start with my characters already dead or about to die. I found that by carefully placing the squishy characters so that they were barely within the area triggering the dialog that longevity was radically increased. Otherwise a rez rush works.

I got all my 80’s to the final mission which does require a group solo. Squishy or not (2/2). Haven’t bothered with the final mission as I missed the big rush, play at odd hours usually and hate dungeons. But that’s another thread altogether.

Well i did finally get through it after numerous attempts and exiting to the desktop and trying again the next day. The advice for the pillars did work but considering how hard it was to get there initially, I’d say there were a few bugs with the instance. Thanks for the advice.