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Yeah this game has already broke one mouse for me with the sheer number of clicks. I made the mistake of buying a lot of orrian chests with karma and got a boatload of karma items back. By the time I clicked em all my mouses left click had become unsprung. And it wasn’t a cheap mouse either.
The game desperately needs a “use all” option for stacks of consumables. The fact that the devs keep ignoring this is one of the reasons people are dismayed at Anet’s approach to so called “quality of life” updates.
Right this minute is a prime example of what’s wrong with these types of event. I have not been in my main server for the marionette event for 2 days now. I joined Lorner at 3:20 pm and I am thrown in to an overflow. That’s 40 mins before the event even starts outside of prime time and I cant get in. On top of that no-one in my guild of 500 people is in either.
Its frankly ridiculous especially as it has a 2 hour timer. Atrocious design.
Already did it on my first attempt, but thanks anyway.
No because as I said we already have the same effect with life steal. Life stealing as a skill is essentially necromancers ability, not a rangers.
To me GW2 feels like a game that’s still not finished yet.
I would think that an MMO that felt like it was finished would be a bad thing.
Thats a content issue you talking about. Im talking about a perception one. The UI layout and recycled icons, the “missing” emotes, the rather pathetic amount of skills available to the classes (compared to gw1 proph at same age), and all the needed QoL changes are the kinds of things Im talking about. Oh and all the clipping problems, performance troubles, server issues etc.
It gives the perception that the game has only just come out of beta and core “features” are still to be implemented (lfg took how long?).
Would be nice to know what suggestions people made in the last CDI actually got paid attention to and are being looked at for implementation.
Its because you are guesting Ill bet.
Good to know, had not got that updated news yet on Gigabyte. To be clear here, the 280x is a good card when it working. Sent out 2 working ones myself, but had 3 failed ones from 3 vendors (MSI/Sapphire/VTX) within a month. Plumped for a 270x myself though, just because it was cheaper. 290x are nice but are very loud when pushed, and the Nvidia lineup in the same price range is the better option, particularly with GTX Titan black and 790 ready to drop, causing price slashes.
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Only if its optional. I do not want the game changing settings mid-play without me telling it to do so. Contrary to popular belief not everyone is having performance issues that impact gameplay.
Various vendor support forums with numerous failed 280x gpu’s. Several vendors have problem cores, its believed to be an issue with fabbing process on the early units shipped. Oh Gigabyte has also stopped production on windforce 290x cards due to a manufacturing defect.
You missed my point: I have a midrange pc and very bad internet connection BUT no lags or fps issues at all.
Er no I didnt, Its just nothing to do with my point whatsoever. The game has issues on AMD cpu’s, well documented ones that the devs are well aware of.
And AMD FX cpu and 7870 gpu with 8gb ram is a mid-range gaming system. Extremely similar to the hardware in the Xb1 and PS4, which are certainly not high end PC’s.
A high end PC features SLI/Crossfire with triple monitor setups running in 4k resolutions with an Intel CPU (or two cpu’s / board dependent).
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Big events that require a big group of players should never have a timer, especially when said event last 20 mins and the timer is 2 fraking hours. A quest chain that opens the event, ala CoF dungeon would suffice without needing people to sit around for hours at time to get in an event.
An hour and a half wait for 20 mins of fun is something that should be frowned upon in game, let alone and MMO. Its honestly as if the devs in this game have OCD, and cannot envisage any other way of doing it. And to change it would make them freak out.
Developers need to realise that not every idea is a good one, and just because they spend hours doing something doesn’t make it a good idea. That’s why its called development, not production. You are supposed to try new things, and mix it up till you find a good blend of options. Not copy paste the same trite event methods all across the game.
Development leaders really need to start using the word “No” more often to force them to go back to the design table
If graphical anomalies appear in any other title, its a sure fire bet its an issue with the system. I have the 270x myself and I am very happy with it. But its never shown me any artifacting or anomolies. Even on high stress games like Crysis 3 with maxed settings.
It really does sound like its a GPU issue to me. Personally I would rather just have it replaced asap, as I have had similar issues in the past with defective hardware. Troubleshooting parts that are defective from the factory is a nightmare, and I dont envy your current situation.
RMA it and then at least you will know its not the card in future. Remember that when RMA’ing you do not have to provide evidence of the issue. The vendor is legally bound to give you an identical replacement at no charge for a suspected defective product.
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10% would be seriously OP. Thats much higher effectiveness than healing sig for warriors, which is already a problem. A barrage and rapid fire attack would give you way more healing than the standard healing skills on a much shorter cooldown.
And we already have a feature in the game for that with life steal, which can be added to any weapon.
No it wont because a good thief with CC, re-stealth and either gtfo or circle around and backstab you. And Fyi your pet at this time is dead and on cooldown so there is no way to use it. Stone Sig doesnt do that much to help, it adds a minor toughness bonus. A good thief will never allow himself to be trapped, because with shadowstep skills its extremely easy to disengage or reposition.
But lets be clear here, the pets are nothing but a liability. Players like myself already know how to game without a pet in tow with rangers from GW1 were a pet was entirely optional. Touch Rangers in GW1 went down a storm in PvP, Running Rangers were called on just as much as warrior runners for Droks runs.
We at the mercy of our Pet AI for damage potential in combat.
But were are all in instances already in dungeons, fractals, LS zones etc. Even the world zones are instances in themselves, due to game design of portaling between zones. Its not a true “open world”, in that sense. The issue isn’t due to the instances themselves, but the lacklustre nature of the map zones. Many of them are simply a PITA to navigate, or feature silly invisible walls or have designs that are off putting. Those kinds of things make a map zone highly unappealing to the wider playerbase. But that is a separate issue with MMO’s of all kinds, where lower level zones are low population once the game has been out for a while.
It still doesn’t preclude instancing for special event bosses like Teq or Marionette for dedicated teams or guilds.
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I mapped all of Orr pretty much solo. The only thing that gave me trouble is a buggy Champ that does life drain for 30+ seconds at a skill point in CS. Even that I worked around by asking a guild member to kite it away from the point while I capped it. Everything else I did on my own, and it wasn’t that hard at all.
Have you tried any benchmarking software for the GPU to see if thats affected? You could give the Unigene “Valley Benchmark” a whirl a few times and see how that goes visually.
GW1 wasnt every good at informing players HOW they moved across game worlds. Countless times players would be asking how to get to Tyria or Cantha. But yeah Proph had a much reduced population with factions and nightfall releases. However even when those were not released yet, the instanced nature of the game made it feel like it was emptier than it really was.
Its why Camadan became known as Spamadan, because so many people flocked there to chat and team up. Along with the usual suspects of sellers, bots and guild recruiters.
That would not happen here because we have open world maps. Even with the additon of instanced zones for special events it would not make the other events “empty”. We can see this with Teq currently. Numerous players who do Teq battles have moved on to the triple trouble event. However Teq still has plenty of people available to take it down in certain servers. Ofc some servers will have issues due to low populations but they have that now anyway, even with open world bosses.
It would give Anet a great excuse to merge some lower pop servers together, and provide those servers with the numbers of players they want.
May well be a defective card. Yes even though its new, it can still be broken. I would advise RMA’ing it to the vendor for a replacement.
My bad forgot about active. Even so, that’s crappy damage. One barrage does more. And its a waste of a slot.
No its because some ISP’s are having problems atm. In the EU there is a major issue between france and germany causing major connectivity issues for all traffic coming through there. And in the US, numerous ISP’s are under the cosh atm with several sites being hacked and DDoS attacked.
Me? Not much if any lag on my end atm thanks tot he fact the UK doesn’t route all internet data through france anymore.
To me GW2 feels like a game that’s still not finished yet.
I agree. Open and instanced events would be a great idea. One for the masses, one for a co-ordinated team. Win/win.
Probably something to do with the daft argument of “splitting the playerbase” , when the entire game biult around splitting up the playerbase between servers, map zones, guilds etc etc.
Storm spirit doesn’t provide or aid DPS at all. What are you guys smoking? It procs swiftness, that is all.
Hate to break this to you folks but the real “farmers” are not in the champ trains, they are in SE p1 farming the crap out of it. Those people in the trains are in fact, normal players who just want to get stuffs without faffing around for 6 hours and getting jack.
All I keep hearing is is jealousy and envy that some players are having fun and getting rewarded for doing so. There is no real reason to break up the players in QD other than spite.
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Advice? General gaming: I’d go for a AMD R9 280X, it’s one model down from the flagship 290X but half the price..
@OP
Don’t bother with a 280x, there are major manufacturing flaws with those cards in circulation atm. It will take at least 6 months for those “bad” cards to be taken off the market and replaced. If you are going to get a card, either buy a 270x (which doesnt have the manufacturing flaw) or buy an Nvidia card. Either way 280x atm are an extremely bad choice.
“high end pc”
I run the game on a 400 € machine and with a very bad inet connection. Still I have never had any drastic fps (constantly below 24-30fps) or lag issues (position resets, disconnects etc).Everything else you’ve said may be true but this particular point is BS.
It’s not BS, GW2 is not optimized for use with multi core PC’s, especially AMD processors. I have a brand new system just built, FX-8320 oc’ed to 4.4ghz, and a 7870ghz edition graphics card with 8 gigs of crucial ballistix elite ram. Any other game on maximum resolution with supersampling and AA enabled, over 60fps, this game in an open world raid…8..maybe 10fps at best, on 50/15 internet. The game is very poorly optimized for any PC not running an intel processor, and the reason being is intels single threaded performance is 20-30% better then any AMD on the market right now, but that should not be a reason why a user cannot play this game, its laziness on the part of the devs to actually program the game for better usage of multi core processors and optimization for use with AMD processor technology.
Hate to break this to you. but that aint a high end pc. Its mid range at best. In point of fact its nearly the same as the Xbox 1 or PS4, neither of which are “high end”. My i7 rig is better than yours by a fair margin and even it aint “high end”.
But you are correct in that GW2 has horrible performance on AMD cpu based systems.
I have a feeling we will probably get a recipe to turn a stack in to a consumable for extra MF.
Ok so now champ training equates skill level does it? LOL.
That’s the point Traveller, those who dont “train” or even hang out in QD are complaining about those who do. People keep posting that its somehow detrimental to new players, without showing any actual downside. Toxic players are everywhere in the game, that’s why we have an ignore function and a report system. Its not limited to or because of the people in a train, its just toxic players in general. There are plenty of them at event like Teq.
Sorry but its unlikley to happen. Its seems apparent that Anet are looking to add in Legendary armors with stat switching at a later date.
I think the problem is a huge percent of people training isn’t even level 80.
Many people use it to level up.
How is that a problem when players like myself have multiple alts? Are we all supposed to be forced to play content we don’t like? Just because a character is not a level 80 does not mean they are a new player.
Im in the same boat, leveling is getting to be frustrating. Im on my 6th time through the “story” and would really like it if I could level up without feeling having to constantly grind for it. The arena in DR was great while it lasted, as I could run around getting xp fairly quickly and leveled my ele that way.
I would love to have combat XP increased.
The reason no-one does the invasions is simple; Anet nerfed extremely hard. They enforced staggered waves, which makes a fair bit harder than it was at release. That combined with the loot nerf makes it less appealing. Plus Scarlet has the hots for my characters and wont stop gimping me to death every time I do an invasion so I dont bother anymore.
And I don’t do Orr because its frankly ugly as hell. Its kitten brown tone is a real turn off for a game that has some really nice zones.
Neither of which is to do with the QD champ train. So your “evidence” is false.
Have you tried switching weapons from the hero panel? This is an old issue that’s not limited to the hammer, it can strike any weapon set.
When activating stealth with a ranger character, quivers and weapons are not made invisible to the player. Unknown at this time if its a local effect or if the enemy also see;s the equipment.
Reproducibility – Very high
Steps to reproduce;
Equip an ascended quiver backpiece and/or ascended longbow on a Ranger
Activate LB3 (Hunters Shot)
Bug is now viewable.
Thanks for the prompt replies chaps, much appreciated. Ill post this one up in the bugs section.
Funny thing is all the old emotes are still in the game engine. You can try /flex and the others like it and the game registers the input as a valid emote but nothing happens. Which means they need to create the animations for the races.
Maybe in time it will happen, who knows.
Hey guys just want to check here if anyone else is having an issue with stealth invisibility? Specifically when I activate stealth via LB3 my quiver and my bow are not made invisible. I’m wondering if its just a graphics glitch on my end or if anyone else has seen the same behaviour. As an FYI its a rox quiver and ascended bow I have, which may or may not be relevant idk.
Yeah, don’t even try to defend the pet. Really. Just don’t. It only makes you look worse.
“don’t argue against me or I’ll look bad” – You
Every class has its place and you need to learn yours!
In Mother Russia, class doesn’t want youThere are a lot of people who play Ranger if the class was as broken as some of you claim no one would play it.
Wrong.
I play my ranger because I like pew pew’ing stuff from range for a change. The class is still broken, and I know it from nearly a years worth of play with a ranger. Added to that is that most players who created a ranger didn’t know how bad the class is, and subsequently changed classes.
Class is broken, those who disagree with that are in denial. Devs already admitted pets are busted and wont be fixed, what else do you need?
roll berserkers then! broken gear for a broken class! maybe you’ll realize there’s minimal issues at best and maybe you have to trait to make pet efficient but it’s definitely not useless, definitely a mobster, and defs gonna eat your face whiel ur downed
Im in zerker gear and have been for months, Rangers are still inferior. Miminal issues my sweet aunt petunia. Devs have already state our class mechanic is broken and they wont fix it. That is not minimal, thats a major problem.
That’s America for you. For some reason that particular word is considered an expletive in the US.
it’s not about how they play but where, they should go to lvl 40+ places where they can’t ruin the beginner experience.
Wrong. You do not get to dictate where anyone plays. Neither do you get to dictate how they play.
And how exactly is it ruining the experience for new players? That’s a ludicrous argument already proven false by the fact that new players join in the train and have fun. Or don’t and have fun doing something else.
and how do you know that new players are having fun, any evidence to support that.
oh wait, you don’t….
Actually yes I do know that new players find it fun, because I actually talk to new players. Our guild is always open and welcomes new players almost every single day. Plus I have gone on the QD champ train numerous times and chatted with new players in the train. They are new and have the whole game to explore and play. If they didn’t find it fun, they would not be there.
if chasing a train is fun in your world then it’s probably a boring world you’re living in, i would like to play the game in a more fun and immersive way.
but if the train is more important then having fun then go ahead, make the game nothing more then grind and grind some more.
you say it your self, no one can dictate how you play, that you’re among the masses that will bring the game down is not your concern, you are to stubborn to realize the problem but i can’t dictate how you play no matter how much it’s a problem.
First of all what someone else finds fun not for you to say. Some people like taking the numbers of trains or plains and find it fun. Its not my idea of fun but they like it so thats all that matters.
The champ train is not a problem and you are the stubborn one for refusing to accept that someone likes something you don’t.
And I laugh whole heartedly at the notion of the “masses” bringing down the game. Total hyperbole and failed reasoning. If the “masses” are doing it, the game aint getting brought down because its got a playerbase playing content. What would bring the game down is elitist cliques trying to ruin parts of the game for other players because they (the elitists) object to it.
Again for those who don’t get it;
You, I and any other player does not get to dictate how, when or where another player plays the game no matter how, when or where they do it. As long as they are not breaking the TOS, its none of your, mines or anyone elses business, period.
You don’t like it? Tough.
Clean boot is a procedure for windows to remove extra programs that are not essential to the running of the PC temporarily. It allows you to test if a program is causing interference with another thereby causing crashes. However your last bit of info on “blue and green textures on NPC’s” to me indicates an issue with your graphics card.
Please do not take this the wrong way, but you are not very skilled with computers yes? If so I would strongly advise you take the system to a qualified repair store and have them take a look at it, showing them the crash issue with GW2 if possible.
I know exactly what you mean. Ran in to this exact issue myself. Veteran with a life siphon that just didn’t end until I was dead, and I had 24k HP and healed for another 5k+ while it was going on.
Broken skill timer I reckon. Someone put a zero on the end of a 3 second or so cast time methinx
queensdale is empty most of the time because the trains make it so, remove them and you see it fill up with the players that are suppose to be there.
Any evidence about this?
Queensdale is always empty (along with other starters). The train is actually the one making it “populated”.
Indeed. The starter areas in most MMO games are empty because, (shock horror!) people have moved on with the character to other areas. The fact that people are in QD farming means that new players are able to meet up with and play along with higher level players and get a look at how they might want to play, or not as the case may be.
I guarantee, nerf the champ train and QD will be dead overnight.
There was one a while ago, which resulted in the devs changing CS to stop champ farming exploits. People were deliberately failing event chains to restart them and farm the champs that spawned.
For about a fornight you could barely get in CS main and when you did it was full of people screaming at one another for completing the event and making other people wait. Horribad times that was.
You sure it wasn’t just his daily chest and he is yanking your chain?