Guild Wars 2

Yep DC 5 times in last 30 mins :?

I am having the same problem with norn personal story. In particular the “A Trap Foiled” quest crashes everytime I try to play it.

Windsagio.1340:

Dadnir.5038:

Windsagio.1340:

Was deciding which off the many threads to put this in, this wone will do.

DIfferent builds aren’t diverse builds

Adding Bolt to the Heart and Vital striking and stone splinters didn’t change the way you played, they just increased damage (the limitations weren’t meaningful),

Taking all 3 symbol traits in the guardian Honor line, was meaningfully playstyle defining, and it required you downgrade your GM trait to master… So they made it so the ‘play defining trait’ is the grandmaster in the tree. Similarly in the same tree if you wanted to do shouts.

Almost all the ‘diversity’ people are complaining about is minor damage optimizations and nothing that speaks to the real play style.

In fact, that’s my challenge.

Present a play style that’s lost with this change NOT a specific build, but a way of playing.

I honestly can’t think of any.

Ok Let’s see what we got :

An AA tanking gardian lose either heal/defensive symbole for sustain which are in Honor or pure blind defensive power by spamming F1 in radiance or easy boon generation which is in Virtue. Overall it’s a net loss in survivability because you need this minor trait to survive and this is 4 different traitline.

Playing a tanky Necromancer based spectral, WH and siphon. I had a build that needed curse, Death magic, blood magic and soul reaping. A build really effective that didn’t care about bad GM trait. Now, I can stretch it in whatever way I want, I can gain meaning full buff here and there but whatever I do, I still have a net loss in survivability. (I could even say that these changes shut down any hope for necromancer’s siphon to have any usefullness ever, people tried and tried again it’s impossible DS hurt siphons and with these change DS will remain whatever elite specializations they can add)

Lot’s of mesmers builds are shaken to their very core because deceptive evasion is becoming a GM trait which will result in a net loss of dps, survivability and support.

I think it’s already enough for the challenge.

There is one more thing. This system, with the traits as they’ve been presented lock down a lot of prefession into their own weakness without any hope that a specialization may correct any of them.

The most meaningfull exemple being the necromancer which starve to be free from the shackles that come along with DS. DS prevent any buff to siphon and at the same time DS prevent siphon to be effective. DS prevent any new defensives means to appear because DS is supposed to be the defensive mean (with it’s strengh and flaw). DS prevent any new support because it’s also supposed to be the support mean. Each and every trait that are scattered in all necromancer’s traitline are Nails on it’s own coffin preventing him to see the light of an evolution.

And it will be the same for every other profession, this system only allow poor addition like the underwater DS that can’t even work with some of the necromancer’s DS traits.

You’re wrong in the first case, pure tank guardian is fine with these changes, blind isn’t a necessary part of your tank build if you play/are built right and your team plays right

Can’t speak for necros, I know they’re pretty unhappy (beyond normal new change levels), gonna look into it now ><.

Well I know my Mesmer isn’t crying over DE becoming a GM trait. (PvE only so I can’t comment on PvP) but yeah DE is not important to my build and even if it was they are not culling it. Just rearranging it.

I see this a a chance to play new content and old content in a new way which sounds awesome, and yay for not just grinding the same content the exact same way forever. Clearly this system isn’t going to be perfect not even close but everyone raging when they haven’t even tried it is so sad. Like if you want to play a game that NEVER changes go play Legue or something I guess. ????

Windsagio.1340:

And seriously, the discussion should be about the specifics!

Let’s talk about what trees need to be rearranged, or what skills need to be buffed or nerfed, not complaining about a change that is done and done (especially since at least half the people seem to like the change)

Completely agree, atleast Anet is communicating with us, now it’s the community’s turn to be mature and come up with constructive critisim. Not just rage and flame, which accomplishes nothing really.

Agreed! Or at least make it so when you use a hairstyle or makeover kit that you have access to all of the new (exclusive) colors as an option for accessories too. It’s part of the hair style after all, and the original hair accessory colors are really really lacking in options.

Seera.5916:

With the caveat that it will not give you the experience that comes from doing map completion, nor the coins, nor the karma, and you will not get Gifts of Exploration from it.

It also does not include skill points since that is a currency. You’ll have to do those yourself. Even the WvW ones.

I already stated and agree that you should not get the rewards such as experience, karma, etc. Thus making it still an incentive for people to do it normally. Although I do feel like 100,000 gold is a bit much but if this feature was ever implemented then I would be content with whatever the Devs choose to make it cost.

@ jmt: that would be fair. I just feel like I cannot even use alts at this point because I do not have the time to get the map completion for all of them.

Unlocking all the WP’s for character is super time consuming and my suggestion is totally optional. We already have lots of features that allow you to pay for convenience: Home Portal, Airship Pass, Home harvesting nodes, permanent harvesting tools, and straight buying gems to change to gold to buy whatever crafting materials or anything else. If you don’t want the feature don’t use it or up vote my topic. There is no need to be negative, when this would not impact your experience playing the game. Thanks!

So just an idea/suggestion…

I have 2 level 80 humans and one of them has 100% map completion. Completing this was one of the most interesting and time consuming content in GW2 for me. However with the expnastion coming out I have also started characters from all the other races so that I can have options for exploring the new content and such. I have been doing the personal story and everything for these alts too but one thing that has been really hindering me wanting to get these characters up to speed is the map completion component. Like it was awesome the first time but by the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc time it has become really frustrating and makes me almost not want to play these characters knowing that I have so much map completion left or having to do each area like so many times.

So why do you care lol? Well I think it would be a neat feature to have the option once you have completed the 100% map completion on your account with one character, to be able to purchase a complete map for any other character on the account. It could cost gems or 100 gold or whatever and if you do not want to buy it you clearly do not have to. But for those of us who love our alts but are frustrated with the time it takes and the repetitiveness of getting map completion for Alts I think that this would be sweet.

Again, for the people who want to hate, this should just be a option to buy after having unlocked the 100% the regular way first, and you would have to pay for it/miss completion rewards which would still leave incentive to do map completion regularly on alts too if that’s what you want to do.

Thanks,

Wreave I appreciate your long thought out post, however I do have a few issues.

1) I am not a PvP player, I am PvE with a taste of WvW basically I am one of the people who these metrics talk about I guess. Don’t PvE players also perpetuate this us vs them mind set by thinking all PvP players are mean or don’t don’t also do PvE content?

2) I don’t believe it could really be a complete surprise to anyone who made it all the way to 95% that WvW us involved this information is in many sources as stated by debs and quoted in this thread, as well as on the wiki or the forms.

3) you do get a reward for the percentage you complete as you already get a reward from each zone you complete. It’s not like you can get to 95% without getting any rewards.

4)I guess I can’t help but see people making threads about the same thing over and over again complaining, but I voiced my opinion and you have a right to yours good luck with your crusade. Even though the devs said they are never going to change it.

It’s funny cause my whole issue with this thread it’s I’m on the devs side, I don’t see why encouraging players to try new things and experience e this open middle ground as a bad thing. It makes the community more of a connected community with different ways to play and less of different games under the same title.

I Just don’t understand all the anger about this. Okay sure it can be really frustrating to wait a week or two or three until your team has the right color, but hey I want to throw my computer across the room after every 3rd try on a jumping puzzle. And I know others have issue with that as well and you don’t see threads whining about how all the vistas should be able to be reached without jumping. I know I’m only one case but I got my 100% map completion and yes parts of it where difficult or frustrating but that’s part of the deal if it was really easy no one would be composing about this cause no one would care. And about the legendary part if you are going to spend all that time gathering all the other materials but you are going to whine about spending a few hours in WvW? Getting a legendary is hard and you have to do all sorts of things oh and for those who missed it you need badges of honor to make a legendary too. I don’t even love or really like WvW but I just can’t believe how silly this seems.

And by the way it’s not like anyone strips you of your armor or steals all your gold when you die. I’ve died lots of times in PvE and WvW and its no different.

videoboy.4162:

-Angel has stated in semi-recent Interviews that 2014 will include a good deal of Sylvari content.

:/ While I dont hate the sylvari I am super dissapointed about this. Why can’t the other races have some love/attention? Wasn’t Trahnrne and now Scarlett enough of the Sylvari show stealers?

I do really like your theory though! Bring on Mordremoth and the Magumma Wastes

Fungalfoot.7213:

Keiel.7489:

Such audacity! How dare they try to make more money off of their players! They should be giving us free updates and let the people who buy gems get nothing in return! I paid my 50 bux, I should get everything forever!

Not everybody is interested in the whole shelling out dosh for gaudy trinkets to separate oneself from the unwashed masses selling point they’ve got going on right now. Some of us are still holding out for fun content. A VIP status don’t really mean all that much in a dead game now does it?

Yeah but its amazing and terrifying how many people do want to be the king of the world even if its just them being able to beat up on or show off to other people on the internet. Every forum and game is full of these people :/ and they do tend to spend money.

Its that whole turning tokens into gold thing…. Like there must have been an exploit at some point to get lots tokens easily then turn them into invader armor and salvage for ectos or whatever by the truck load.

Love this idea, great way to get people interested in exploration and really great but ignored areas. Plus any armor/skins that are not in the cash shop and are fun and unique are always a good idea.

I do agree that I really miss the factions thing. Luxon for Life!

I think it would be cool like you suggested as long as there where some rules/restrictions maybe like if you had to agree to be dueled like accepting a party invitation. I guess the only thing that holds me back from jumping on the dueling bandwagon is the thought of “super elite macho kittens” Going around and trolling/killing players for no reason or just cause they can. I dont want to have to worry about getting murdered while crafting or gathering etc… Maybe this fear is unfounded..idk

Kaleban.9834:

I had more fun playing WoW, because at least there you had a good chance at high level drops from bosses. I can’t count the number of times I’ve killed World Bosses in this game, or done dungeons and Fractals, and all my characters STILL are wearing either crafted gear or stuff purchased with Laurels.

I can totally agree with this point anyways, I think the last time I equipped something that was “droped” was like lvl 35. And I love having that “omg I found something awesome” moment like once and a while but now the best I can hope for is an ascended ring in fractals. :/ I would kill to have unique and exciting armor drops from hard dungeon paths or high level fractals.

Well I’m not surprised and maybe it could even be good for the game like an optional subscription fee so the people who want the perks can pay for them and the devs can spend more time on content and less time on trying to make appealing gemstore gimmicks. Although I am bothered by the wording and the elitism of it like I’m fine with they selling the membership based on convenience items but having it be about “prestige” and being a “VIP” seems a bit wrong to me.

They are still available with the BLTC tickets and this week they are on sale for only one ticket (normally cost 3) This might have drove the price down a bit. I know I had a ticket in storage and traded it in for the great sword skin just to sell it and !’m sure others have too. As this is the only skin that is available for one one ticket others are 3+ even during this sale.

Thank you for the suggestions. I will look into those things.

Just thought I would add that I was just trying to play again and I was in maybe 10 mins and then I got the Blue Screen and my computer restarted its self. It seems to have recovered. I guess It is just my computer. Silly me thinking that if i spent enough money I could get a laptop that could play GW2 with out any problems.

Hello, so I bought a laptop in May 2012 for two reasons, to play GW2 and use Microsoft Office. The laptop I ended up buying is a Lenovo Ideapad (cant remember the model number) it has the following statistics.

Windows 7 64 bit
Intel i7-3610 QM CPU @ 2.30 GHz
8 GB RAM
GeForce GT 640M LE

First I am going to admit I know very little about computers… but I can follow instructions.

So to my problems

1. the graphics crashing issue- As explained in the sticky I have the problem where randomly but most times with in 20 minutes of launching gw2, the screen will flash to black, and sometimes it stays black for 30 seconds then goes back to gw2 other times it closes gw2 and the "send error report comes up and in the corner of my screen a bubble pops up staying my graphics thing has crashed and successfully recovered.
I have been having this problem since launch. I have followed the instructions on the sticky exactly and it has not helped. (making sure that the aliasing is set to application controlled)

2. I will be playing like normal then suddenly everything will freeze except for the mouse pointer which will freeze about 30 seconds later. And if I have my volume on then that will start freeze too so it makes this awful sound, and I cannot Ctrl/Alt/Delete to get out of it, actually I cant do anything to get out of it except unplug my computer or hold the power button to power it off. (which I know is bad for my PC and since I had to do it like 4 times an hour last night while I was trying to do Jumping Puzzles is pretty annoying) I do not believe this issue is caused by over heating as my computer is rarely ever hot and I usually play with a fan or other so that this is not an issue. This has also been an issue since launch.

On a side note I have that up until last night running my pc on energy balanced mode instead of performance does seem to reduce how often these issues occur but they still happen a lot. Some time like 3 times a day sometimes more than times an hour it seems really random.

Please some one tell me what to do, besides buying a new computer. There must be something I have tried yet.

My drivers are all up to date.

I feel terrible and am so frustrated with this. Like this morning I was doing fractals with a pug group I started and they were nice and we were getting through pretty smooth. Then on the 3rd fractal I got the graphic card crash and everyone got kicked from the dungeon. All I can do is promise not to start any instances until this gets fixed but it’s still not fair for the other group members.

I have the same problem and have since the betas although I have a slightly older card. (640) for a while people where saying to make sure your divers where up to date and stuff but I did that an it never helped me. I have not had this issue on any other game.

There is a sticky about this issue too.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Black-Screen-Issue-Nvidia/first#post3964

Well I haven’t read the whole thread but I feel like most of what I would like has already been requested. But here they are anyway

1. I want Scarlet to disappear. Like really. I’m not hating on anyone or anything but I just am personally pretty disappointed with her and her story in general. I love GW for the lore and I feel like she just doesn’t live up to or feel like she is connected to any of the lore. I am pretty neutral on LS I just want LS to be connected to dragons or GW lore or even pre GW1 stuff like Giants and the Forgotten and Murssat I mean I feel like there is sooooo much potential for ancient tombs or something we could explore and discover more clues to things that were left vague in GW.

2. Access to Crystal Desert and Magumma Wastes. Please Please Please,

3. New weapons options for professions or access to other weapons. Like I think a Mesmer with an ax could be really cool (iwarden looks like it has a lot of fun with it)

4. Medium armor that isn’t revealing tons or skin or a trench/duster coat!!! I can’t even count how many long coats we have for medium armor and the few other options are all like showing the stomach or really short skirts. (I realize this is a personal opinion but I just really wish we had more variety here)

Also thanks again for the Wallet and LFG those have been great and very helpful.

+1 for Cantha and Elona, I personally always found Tyria in GW1 to be quite plain and boring in comparison and too much like ever other fantasy genre game/story. I am glad that they removed the dwarves and went with more unique and GW specific lore races but I just don’t feel like the game is complete without Elona and Cantha and Vabbi/Orr (being the land of the undead doesn’t count in my book for cultural diversity). One of the things I loved most about GW1 was that it felt like you where exploring a real world filled with different cultures styles and themes, and while I do believe that that GW2 overall is a great game, it doesn’t hold my attention like GW1 did because at least to me it feels very one dimensional now like original GW1 before all the expansions.

There are a lot of topics about this and I have yet to see one that has a dev response I really want to see this fixed but to start it would be nice to just get a reply, is this something that is going to be addressed or not? Fractals is my favorite dungeon and I don’t want to be locked out of it because I am having other GW related crashing issues (posted in tech problems forum still no help there either) :/

I think we do need to keep bring it up, I posted about this too and no one seems to be listening but we have to keep trying. Every time I have done fractals (at least 9 times) someone has gotten dc for one reason or another, different people almost every time too. This is a really frustrating issue and I hope it gets some attention.

@Holy Shadows

Thanks if I can’t keep myself away I will deffinately try lowest settings, and sorry you are having the same problem. I should really take a break from GW anyway but it is pretty lame. I just hope that if arena net can do something about it that they will. But like you I have had these issues since BWE2 and its been months and nothing has been done so I geuss I shouldn’t hold my breath.

Thanks, yeah I knew it was bad but I guess I just got into the habit of it. Maybe I should just give up GW2 for awhile. Since I have no clue what else to do about it. And my pc is only 6 months old too.

Hey, so I have been having these problems all along although the first one has gotten much worse since imminently after the Halloween event. I have finally been motivated to post these since I want to do fractals and this is making it near impossible, since there is no “join your team” feature…

1. The game screen freezes, the computer starts making a horrifying sound, keyboard and mouse are nonreactive, and the only way to do anything is to hold the power button down until the computer shuts off and then restart it. It used to happen maybe once a day or every other day but since Halloween its been 3-4 times a day. Also this ONLY happens on GW2 and it happens at random. Sometimes 2 twice in an hour sometimes not for 4 hours. No I do not think it is my PC over heating, which is what I originally thought, but it runs fine for hours at and then other times it happens right 5 minutes after I turn on the game.

2. The Nividia problem, but I have done exactly what the sticky thread said to do and that was what my setting were already set to. Screen randomly goes black and then GW2 closes and message pops up saying something like “graphics card has crashed and has successfully recovered” I what I believe is the latest Nividia card and I just updated my drivers like two or three weeks ago and it has not helped.

If anyone can help me please that would be awesome. Or just put a “join my party” option for fractals. I don’t mind having to restart GW every other hour or so, its deffinaty annoying but its not a big deal in every other part of the game. Well except personal story, but I can live with that I just do them really fast.

Thanks

Ok, so I love GW and I don’t want to whine but, this is getting pretty ridiculous. I have my self been kicked out of fractals and the game in general a lot for random things. Normally as I know other players have said this is not a major issue. I understand that GW is still new and there are bound to be bugs and things. Which is why we need the “join your team” feature in this dungeon. I have completed like 8 fractals now and I am still on level one because either I or someone else in my team always ends up DC for one reason or another. I feel like I can’t even play this dungeon anymore because I am a liability to my group members because I might get the log in error or the my graphics card crashed and has recovered thing. And this is happening to a lot of people. About 25% of the time it was me but ever single time it has happened to someone. Please someone address this.

Thanks