Guild Wars 2

Anet, please consider the following changes to a player purchasing the expansion as an upgrade instead of a new player.

Changes in bold.

Standard edition is $50.
You get expansion + character slot.

Deluxe edition is $75
You get expansion + character slot + digital items + 1500 gems.

Ultimate Edition is $100
You get expansion + character slot + digital items + 4000 gems. (no change)

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I reported this issue last year.

1) Ranger
2) Elementalist (too powerful in some instances conjures +AC, useless in others)
3) Necros

no, thank you!

your guide really really helped me understand Champion #3
the bombs were getting me every time haha

this is phenomenal!!!!

GREAT work, I’m sorry you’re not getting the recognition that you deserve because of whine threads >.<

This was super helpful to me

thanks so much!

Actually the easiest fix for condition damage in PvE is to increase stack count for dungeons or separate particular condition stacks to individual rather than party wide (bleeding particularly).

I get where the OP is coming from though. It seems like crit has two multipliers, where as condition damage only has one, but condition damage also has condition duration as stated by Sarrs, which is less noticeable than crit damage but still very prevalent, especially in pvp and wvw.

merging these threads was kinda silly IMO

Many of them were talking about very distinct issues with the upcoming nerf.
Lumping them all into one thread seems to say “qq here, we’re not listening” …

>.<

My main concern wasn’t even w/ the zerker nerf, but w/ the celestial nerf.
People, including myself specifically selected celestial gear for the very reason it’s getting nerfed!

It had mediocre stat spread, but made up for it because of it’s strong crit damage ratio. Because that part of the gear is now normalized, essentially all of my celestial gear is now near useless …

This sounds like a phenomenal idea, however I don’t think it will ever be implemented because of the transmutation system that is in place.

Just think about the havoc this would cause to the current system, and the amount of rework that needs to take place in order for it to be viable. You have normal transmutes, then you have 80 transmutes, then you have transmute splitters, then you have soul bound and soul bound item transferring.

I think an easier system to implement would be just to have multiple armor and trait setups that are available, much like town cloths, in the Hero tab, just click your second armor and weapon setup to switch to it when you’re out of combat. The base system is already in place, all you have to do is add an additional tab to that system.

You can even make this a gem unlock, like 400 gems per extra armor set, up to 3 armor sets per character, etc etc.

confirmed, happened to me as well

had to wp out

I want to confirm that this issue is very prevalent at the CoF Entrance.
Right after opening the gate in explorable mode, looking into the expanse.

Since there is so much smoke in the distance it makes the game chug.
Will edit with screenshots later when I can.

Just to confirm, this is still an issue in 2014

:)

sorry, I guess the title and OP were confusing…

My point is that it’s been more than a year since I’ve reported this bug.
And the event STILL gets stuck every now and then.
I think out of the few times that I’ve stumbled across this event in the zone, I was able to complete it maybe half of the time.

Why bother having a bug reporting system, if you’re just gonna ignore things.

Yes I realize Anet has larger issues, and they have to fix the most glaring exploits first, but c’mon… I figured 1 year + was enough time to have this bug at least looked at haha

This is just one example, but it just shows that Anet still has a looooong way to go to fixing this games many problems.

This dynamic event has been stuck since launch.

Left Image taken 9/15/2012
Right image taken 1/12/2014

>.<
and yes I have reported this bug before…

This issue is still present in the current build.

this is still a problem in the latest patch, confirmed with another guild member

usually getting 110FPS zoomed in on smoke at campfire 35-40FPS

This is on a 460GTX and a 650Ti

check to see if your CPU/GPU is throttling…
this is usually caused by excessive heat

if you alt tab yout CPU/GPU will cooldown and will stop throttling, and so on and so forth just repeating itself.

I saw that there were optimizations for the latest patch…

hopefully that means that Anet is working on this issue also
plz?

@replect: yep, seems very very similar although I think you might been coming across several different issues all at the same time

@cptbadger: I agree that the game is not well optimized, but that doesn’t mean it can’t improve. I will still hold out hope hehe. BUt my play time has dropped significantly, in part due to performance issues…

thanks for the additional reports guys

hope anet resolves this soon fingers crossed

I will also add my +1 for this.

Please please PLEEEASE add Cantha.

Absolutely loved the PVP aspect of that expansion

This problem is highlighted during the dynamic events of the Living Story as well.

Specifically when you are in close proximity to the explosions during the personnel carrier events [http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Drive_out_the_invaders,_and_destroy_their_personnel_carrier]

more reports of this is being spread out on the forums, if a mod could step in and merge some of the smaller threads, that’d be great

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Fighting-Engineers-Brings-Heavy-Lag/first#post1946594

see this thread…

known issue
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Low-FPS-for-Smoke-Effects/page/2#post1906896

well… at least I hope its known…

okay, I guess it finished…

now gives “Connection error(s) detected. Retrying…”

same issue here… stuck on last file…

no info from Anet on this issue?

An official response as to whether or not they can reproduce this in house would be greatly appreciated

Thanks for the additional reports guys!
Lets drum up more attention for this issue!

I’ve been getting it really badly in sPVP of late, espeically when playing against/with engineers and on Kyhlo during the treb shots.

Tried performance, tried quality, tried turning AA completely off :-P

None of it worked, but thanks for the suggestion.
If you are using nV control center could you detail some more of your settings (if you were able to fix this bug)?

Of that we can agree!

GW2 is indeed very much a system hog. But my system is again well within the bounds of the recommended system requirements which is why I believe this is an issue that should be resolved through either an settings option (to remove all smoke effects) or an optimization of the code.

Besides my system I would have you check some of the other system specs in here. There is a system MUCH more powerful than mine (GTX680) that was going from 75FPS to 35FPS from zooming in on the smoke. I don’t consider this acceptable.

Okay so you are stating that the problem is with my system. That’s fair enough, however the two points which you’ve provided to support that statment are:
1) my CPU clock isn’t high enough
2) I don’t have SLI

I don’t think either of these two arguments are very convincing because
1) I shouldn’t have to OC my CPU to prevent a ~66% drop in FPS for just one situation in one game.
2) I shouldn’t have to have SLI to prevent a 66% drop in FPS for just one situation in one game.

My system is well within appropriate guidelines for the system requirements of GW2, and this performance issue happens in such specific instances that it makes me believe that it’s a problem w/ the code rather than with any given system.

Would you give the same advice to all of the people that have reported this problem? I think not…

new mini story instance in the vein of the previous update

if your Win7 install is 32bits, then it won’t matter if you have 4GB mem or 8GB of memory, it will only be able to address 3.25GB~

my suggestion is to install Win7 64bit

Thanks for the report Caedmon, I’m truly baffled by the performance decrease on all these systems… :-P

The only thing that I see that is remarkable about your system is the SLI system, the rest of it is pretty standard high end gaming PC stuff.

Perhaps others can chime in on their system specs?

Yes, but not very well.

@Caedmon

Thanks for the screenshots. I questioned the accuracy of your post simply because it was the only decenting post as I stated above. Clearly, you have demonstrated that you system has no issues of the sort.

And as you can see from other posters, a plethora of graphics cards and systems are affected by this issue. If you could provide system specs and your driver version, perhaps it will help solve this issue for others as well.

Anet log would be most helpful.

@wauwi

Although some people have been having this issue since beta, I acknowledge that this is not an issue that happens to everyone.

Specifically, NCSoft/Anet tech support said that they don’t see this performance problem on any of their systems for some odd reasons, and that the # of reports of this issue are not numerous. Also, if you look in page 1 you’ll see that there is at least one person for which the campfire test actually had increase in FPS. Although, that person has not responded to my post back to him, so I’m not sure about the accuracy of his post. Since he is the decenting opinion here, a few screenshots should be useful.

I still maintain that this problem affects a very significant portion of the player base.

@OwnusMaximus

Yup, dropping animation quality to low fixes some instances of this drop because it removes the smoke effect all together. However this also affects other parts of the game. I have resorted to playing the game on low animations and just dealing with the lower quality visual detail as a trade off for performance. One of the most noticeable areas where this is affect are the portal animations… go to Lion’s Arch at the Asuran gate hub and try switching from low to high animations, the change is … a bit jarring.

Thanks for the reports guys!

Okay…. soooooo I did a FULL reinstall of gw2. Deleted the old GW2 dat file all 16 gigs and redownloaded the whole game again. Problem still persists…

So we know it’s probably not linked to the patcher :-P

back, WITH roll back …

Game froze during area transition.

Now when I try to log in it says

“transaction in progress. please wait a few minutes and try again”

help?

@dandamanno

curious about the “no longer dropped when zooming in”
I think your system is powerful enough that you won’t notice the drop, unless your settings are high enough.

don’t limit your frame rate and try checking again, see rentalcaps screens as an example.

He has settings the same as mine and got 110FPS down to 80FPS which means if you have vsync and/or frame limiter turned on with a powerful enough system you will remain at 60FPS

thanks for the report!

This is absolutely not related to network lag, that’s a seperate issue all together.

I guess for some (leadfoot) this is a brand new issue, but it has been occuring in game for a long while now for a decent portion of the player base (since beta). I’m wondering if a clean install of gw2 will fix this, if that’s the case then we can assume that it’s a problem w/ the patching process.

I will give that a shot tonight.

@Leadfoot

Looking at your specs you have a fairly powerful machine, further you mostly just sPVP, unless you are rolling consistently with grenade engis or playing center for Khylo, there are virtually no smoke effects that are large enough to really dent your system.

That may explain why you haven’t noticed it since recently.

Another explaination would be that you have your settings tuned to be at a particular level, but Anet decided to push smoke effects to a certain tier that was included in your tuned settings.

Also, if you look at rentalcaps multitude of screenshots, you’ll see that because his card is so powerful, sometimes this issue can go completely unnoticed. But, for an average machine well within the recommended specs of the game, playing at “auto detect” level will tank your FPS in certain scenarios.

???

I’m not sure if this is a recent problem. This seems to vary from person to person actually.

As you can see from my early posts as well as few other threads that were linked, this issue has been around since beta, however other reports are that it hasn’t occured since very recently. From the evidence being presented though, I just don’t know…

All I know is that this is a problem with the game right now, and I would very much like to see this addressed.

Dev response would be great! *hint hint

Thanks for all the updates guys. Hopefully they add some kind of slider for this…

I really don’t care too much about the actual smoke visual effect, I just want to have consistent frame rate when I’m playing the game.

IMO, just let me get rid of all the smoke in the game and I’ll be happy haha

@Zao: great explaination, thanks for that!

the best way to get a dev response is to continue to bring attention to this performance issue.

Once they’ve seen that its not an isolated event and that is actually very much wide spread, hopefully they will bump it up in the q of things to fix.

Thanks for the confirmations guys! Really helps bring exposure to this issue.

@EtonMessy My reflections are set to none, try either my test or the fire elemental spawn with animations set to high and see if its still a problem. I know this is clearly not just a problem with nV cards, as people using ATI cards have also reported this problem.

Please don’t OC your CPU for just one game. I ran the game fine (for the most part) on my old AMD CPU, as well as my new Intel CPU without any overclocking.

4.5GHZ is absolutely not needed and not a “sweet spot” for gw2. There are of course some optimization issues under the hood that needs to be tightened up for gw2, but OCing your CPU won’t get you anywhere to try to solve this particular issue.

Others have reported this in dungeons as well, with heavy use of smoke effects, specifically CoF and SE as well as some fractals.

Also note that turning animations down to low removes many of the cool effects that have minimal effect frame rates, so I don’t consider this a “fix”, even for campfires.