Guild Wars 2

kind of besides the point, the character slot was included in the price of the expansion, the expansion launched today and no character slot. I feel it is right for us to complain, everyone would do so if they bought something like lets say gems and then got told that sorry we are busy you will get them in a week or two.

As one of the Event Coordinators and Commanders in GW2Community, I totally support and agree with the issues raised in this thread. We have put some real time and effort into this thread and discussed the issue to come up with solutions to this problem that at least our community could live with without this being a game breaker for those of us only interested in the big boss content.

For me using a VPN fixed the issue, for me this is a temporary solution only and you need to make sure to use a VPN with bandwith for gaming. FlyVPN works for me (connecting to a server in germany).
Basically without the VPN I have massive lags and constant disconnects, with it everything works smoothly. (Living in norway).

FYI, using a VPN is a temporary solution. I did try this today and my connection does seem to be stable when using a different route to reach the game servers.

All I can say is that the patch did not fix anything related to the lag, rubberbanding and disconnection issues.

Talked to Telenors customer support today. They were not interested in helping, it seems that they are not willing to even look at the problem as it is related to a game and everything else seems to be working fine.

Would be awesome if we could get some sort of reply here, just so that we know that someone is actually taking this problem seriously. I mean it cannot be so hard to write a 2 line answer that Anet is actually aware of this problem and looking into it.

Tbh, it seems more like a routing problem from several of Telenor’s nodes.
A possible workaround might be the use of a VPN, though I dont really have a good one that I can recommend and then there is the issue of payment for such a VPN.

I guess the easiest solution would be if ANET would tell us what information they need from the players with issues and for them to contact Telenor, that is in control of the routers so that a solution can be found quickly.

Seems there is something wrong with Telenor’s routers, now the question is what we can do about it, since this does seem to be a problem only related to guildwars.

Same problem here, major rubber band issues. Been really bad since yesterday. The funny thing is its mostly okay during the morning and early afternoon. Then it gets bad to a point where it is not playable.

Ran a diag on the GW2 client and it seems that there are connection issues with 80% packet loss to 6 of the first nodes. According to Telenor (my ISP) nothing is wrong shocking, but the funny thing is, I only have problems with GW2. No other game or internet related application has any of the same problems.

2 65ms 3/ 25 = 12% 0/ 25 = 0% ti0090a400-gw.ti.telenor.net [88.91.204.1]
2/ 25 = 8% |
3 —- 25/ 25 =100% 20/ 25 = 80% ti0033c400-ae8-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.99.29]
0/ 25 = 0% |
4 —- 25/ 25 =100% 20/ 25 = 80% ti0030c400-ae4-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.101.137]
0/ 25 = 0% |
5 —- 25/ 25 =100% 20/ 25 = 80% ti0001c360-ae4-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.100.129]
0/ 25 = 0% |
6 —- 25/ 25 =100% 20/ 25 = 80% ti3004c400-ae5-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.100.38]
0/ 25 = 0% |
7 —- 25/ 25 =100% 20/ 25 = 80% ti6000b400-ae0-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.105.2]
0/ 25 = 0% |
8 111ms 5/ 25 = 20% 0/ 25 = 0% ae51.bar1.Copenhagen1.Level3.net [213.242.108.13]

Norway @ Far Shiverpeaks

Get some AR and you will be fine, if you think you are above AR, HF dying at the third fractal boss.

Honestly, getting the required amount of AR is not that hard, if you prefer to fill your infusion slots with +goldfind and stats get yourself a second set or stop complaining.

Astralporing.1957 what you are saying is true in a way. However take also into consideration that people have had over half a year to get ascended trinkets. Even a casual gamer has had good time to get at least one set of ascended weapons even with just 5-6 hours of play a week it is more then possible to get it in the time since the weapons were released.

When it comes to infusions I would believe that it will take at least another couple of months until they are introduced and in that time most players will have had a chance to at least craft most of a set of ascended armor.

Yes, in the beginning silk prices will increase. Then they will go down again. Mithril is still more expensive then silk. If silk prices get to high, just salvage the cloth items you find.. also it is not like you need to craft a bolt of damask every day, just take your time.

Still if you get 5 or even 6% more damage this should in the end not matter. It is not like you get denied in parties for not having fully ascended gear, you will not be denied WvW because of your lack of WvW infusions. Sure if you are purely roaming in WvW then ascended armor might help, but overall this is so little of an increase that it will not matter unless you keep on believing that you are kitten.
Also you need to keep in mind that you cannot have it both ways, you cannot have the AR boost and get the same increase in stats at the same time, for a lot of fractal players this means we need to sacrifice damage for AR. I still do not see a lot of whining about serious fractal players being denied the 11 infusion slots where they are “forced to use AR rather then damage upgrades”, in the end that little stats difference will not matter. And even if you feel yourself underpowered, just use food and oil/sharpening stones in WvW and you will have a stats advantage over 80% of the players you meet as most people dont bother with it.

I believe what it comes down to in the end is this, anet had the choice of either introducing the ascended armor and maybe loose a casual player and a WvW player because of their belief that this update will require them to farm iron nodes for hours every day in the year or not do anything and loose many of the fractal players and overall PvE orientated players that want some sort of goal to work towards.

Seriously, everyone has plenty of time to get gear and it will take time for anyone who has not got hundreds of gold to burn.

Firstly, it will take 99% of the players a long time to get the armor.
Secondly, ascended armor boxes can already be found at the same locations as the weapon boxes, you can find that bit of information in the patch notes.
Thirdly ascended armor should not matter to you unless you do fractals lvl 50+ because there simply is no need for it and no noticable upgrade. Weapons give you much more of a damage increase then the full armor set will ever give.

Today Far Shiverpeaks is celebrating Tequatl kill nr100.

Since the update we have gathered up and organized the kill at least once a day and we’ve had lots of mini teqs, weapon chests and other loot.

It has been a lot of work for those of us who have been organizing the kills but it has been really fun as well, and in honesty I would say that this fight has really brought our server more together and I would like to also extend a special thanks to the developers for this awesome content!

The problem for Far Shiverpeaks is the following. We have been doing the event on our server with everyone who wants to join and it has worked out. However now we see more and more people that just show up to be either AFK or that are there to just do their own thing. This makes the event even harder for everyone who is actually trying to get the event done. Honestly if this keeps up I do not see another way but to purely do tequatl on overflows or by having everyone serious about the encounter guest another server. Honestly I dont think this was intended, but it is kind of too bad that a few people can destroy the whole event for everyone else. The turret fix has been an improvement but as the event is right now people just wont bother anymore.

Today we attempted to kill tequatl twice. We failed both times after not having failed the event for about 30 attempts. We had bad skill lag, animation lag and timers were completely wrong.

We are also seeing a big issue of people just entering Sparkfly Fen and then standing around the eastern turrets refusing to cooperate with the few of us actually attempting to organize.

I would rather welcome it if they made the essences like vail of mists essence available through badges of honor. But outright giving you acended items would be a bit much. I mean all you really get for “free” in the fractals is rings. And even the rings require you to either be lucky to actually get a useful one or to do at least 10 daylies at lvl 10 or above.

SilverWF.4789:

Metixo.5086:

This question is total spam. I would say that most people that I know are quiet happy with this new system, WvW works a lot better than before now after the patch. If you however are having technical difficulties, check out the support forum and address your problems there. That way you might actually get help and you just might find a solution to your problem.

What is your server and guild?

I’m from the Nugos guild, Disorder League alliance (GreenFire, DalZone, ZaDrots (at FarSh)) we was in the 1st tier servers many times (at Far Shiverpeaks, Blacktide servers), we have fights against very good and numbered enemies (Vizunah, Seafarer, Desolation, Elona, Riverside) day by day, week by week, all of us servers always got nearly 1 hour queues at the WWW maps.
So if I’m talking about WWW – I know what I’m talking about

And who are you and why we must trust you and your friends from the nowhere?

That would be DW, and as you might know we are right now one of the biggest and most active guilds in WvW on our server.

transfer to another server with a lower WvW population and you’ll get in right away. Easy fix to your problem.

This question is total spam. I would say that most people that I know are quiet happy with this new system, WvW works a lot better than before now after the patch. If you however are having technical difficulties, check out the support forum and address your problems there. That way you might actually get help and you just might find a solution to your problem.

In case you had not noticed, server population is rather quantifiable as well. Some servers will have a lot of WvW players others wont. With your suggestion servers with a good morning or night force would draw the short straw as they get to higher tiers and get increased transfer costs and at the same time they will lack the players to make prime time play enjoyable.

Oh yes, there is still a lot of server pride on Far Shiverpeaks! We are like the phoenix rising out of its ashes. Once we were a tier 1 server and then people started leaving. But we stayed, we have a solid community which we have put a lot of work into creating and it has payed off! We are rising again in the WvW ladder and we are having fun.

Reann, I am not saying it is your fault people flooded your server. But if you want less queues the easy way is transferring to another server, raging on the forums will not make others go away.

And to use your analogy it is more like a cafeteria, where you have your set table, and one day when you go to get food someone else sits down there with his group of friends. You can ask him to leave but if he refuses you can either sit down together with him and his friends or find yourself a new table.

You are a bad person maloki, only someone cruel would kick kittens!

Tbh, world transfer fees are fine how they are. It is after all not Arena.nets fault that there are a lot of bandwagon guilds going to just a few servers for WvW.

I for one am glad we stayed at Far Shiverpeaks, yes we did drop a lot of tiers and yes we have gotten some people back now and are rising again, but most of all we are having fun and so far I have not seen anything more than a 10 minute queue on any of the 3 borderlands (I dont play EB) even during prime time.

Honestly those that get punished the most with the payed transfers are those that attempted to make WvW super servers and those that were stuck on those servers people chose to mass transfer to for WvW.

If you are not happy with your current server, and you want less WvW queues you just might have to transfer, and since the free transfers are closed you’ll have to pay the price for it.

Transfers are also not there to balance out WvW but they are there to balance out the server load, making it cheap to go to lower populated servers will make it more attractive for someone thinking of migrating to choose a low populated server over one that is highly populated, it just makes sense.

I disagree, the three paths that I have seen from the dungeon are so far part of the BEST PvE dungeon content I have seen in GW2. So far I love the new dungeon and I hope to be able to run a few more paths tomorrow.

It has been a good week, one of the best matchups we have had in ages! Good fighting from both Kodash and Augury Rock, kitten it was hard to beat you french folk when you turtled up with 50+ players!

Catastrophin.3928:

lol^^ Complainig about our night crew on Kodash while you just made 20k points more over the night than we did.
Anyway. I’m still really enjoing this matchup. Most fun i had in WvW in a while.

Yes, I think most of FSP feels the same. We have had a lot of fun in this matchup. And I guess the dude complaining did have a point somehow as this is how it used to be. The past 2-3 nights have been different though. Also I think it is mainly the evenings from about 10:30 to 12:00 that are worst right now.

This past week we have shown that we can still get organized! We do however no longer have the numbers to keep up with the higher tiers anymore but I believe that most FSP players have not had this much fun in WvWvW in weeks! Right now we have a night crew running and we have been doing good.
I am as many other players also glad to see our server stabilizing again after some free fall of the last matchups.

We are right now working actively on becoming a strong server not only in peak hours but at all hours of the day. The last week we have had some great improvements and this guild is one step in that direction.

Does not have to be disabled, just extended so that you can write more and at the same time not spam the chat. But the idea is good!

However it should probably only work that way in WvWvW as we dont want to get spammed by gold seller bots that simply buy a commander icon to be able to spam more effectively.

Please just stop the insults.
It is a fact that the encounter is not working as it should. Give yourself a clap on the back if you can still take the boss down even if you have to use specific professions and builds to have a chance. It is okay that you are telling people that the encounter can be taken down but this does not change the FACT that it is broken.
I would also say that the boss should not be nerfed, rather it should be buffed, but at the same time the bugs have to be fixed.

Just because it is possible, does not mean the boss isnt totally bugged.
Also a fight that requires you to bring a thief or any other specific class in order to become beatable is in my opinion broken.

nop, the seer path is broken, last boss cannot be killed at the moment.

I am just pissed that this path is still available. We just wasted 3 hours in this dungeon, half that time on this boss.
I would understand it if we were not able to kill the boss if we were undergeared (which we were not) or simply to stupid, but right now the sparks are just bugged.
Also we got 1 player in our party that got 95% of the petrifications, he was basically unable to play even though we used the sparks constantly.

I am sorry, but this has just been a great dissapointment for both me and the others in my party.

Thanks Intigo!
I can also say that most of the FSP wvwvw community will stay. There are 2-3 people that left and made some drama but really the important guilds are staying and we welcome any new players that want to take up the fight with us.
Also having seen you guys from Red Guard fight I was amazed. You were organized and when you rushed it was skillfully done. Blacktide should be proud to have you on their server!

Far Shiverpeaks would welcome more active WvWvW players and guilds.

I want to thank you guys from Elona Reach and Blacktide for some awesome battles in the FSP borderlands this evening. Lots of good battles and lots of fun.

Good to see you again Elona Reach, I hope you will again be the worthy opponents you were last we met you.
I would also like to welcome all of you from Blacktide, I hope you will give us a good and fair fight as well.

Lets keep this thread spam and whine free and have fun bashing in heads in WvWvW.

-DW Kaladin Stormlight // Far Shiverpeaks

Indeed this thread should be locked, I am ashamed to see that most people here cannot do anything but throw insults at each other!

Yes, we are not happy with how things are at the moment, but give it another reset tops and desolation will be in T1 and we others will have a more fair matchup that will hopefully be more fun and get people interested in wvwvw again.

There is no need in blaming RUIN or IRON or ANYONE. Things are as they are for now and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

So Desolation I wish you lots of fun in T1, I guess you will be dissapointed but that will be your loss and not mine.

I also want to thank Kodash for giving us some good battles, you folks have done great with the resources you have at your disposal!

And again if this thread is to stay open, please at least keep it civil and dont start throwing insults and accusations at each other, there is just no point besides starting a flame war. Thank you!

Metixo – Far Shiverpeaks

SkeletalLlama.5381 in case you had not noticed, there have been no big wvw battles at all today. And we were playing on monday, but ofcourse if you didnt log inbefore 02:00 you would not see any big battles because that is when you start outnumbering us 20 to 1.
It is not like Desolation has this huge presence in wvw today either as most people are busy with the PvE event.

suprNovae.5410 I see your point and honestly I would love to see FS raise to the T1 bracket again with only european players! Most of us had a lot of fun fighting ER in the last matchup.

However, it is hard to find any good european based wvw guilds that play at night and that would even think about transfering to FS, thus the easy option is to find a NA guild or two to cover our bases there. This does not mean that we are not looking for night active europeans, because we do!

Honestly I think that what most FS players want is to be an even match at night so that we dont wake up in the morning to owning one or two supply camps (if we are lucky) and our towers being upgraded and defended by 30+ enemies. Realy I would say that we are not looking for a gigantic superpower that will own everything at night, we just want to be able to hold our own, or parts of it in any case.

Paljas.2581:

Couple days ago I transferred to FS to check it out and it was terrible. I actually thought there was a problem with chat. Literally NOBODY would talk or give info even though there were tons of players around.

Maybe they were all on voicechat but looking at the scoreboard and how much we got owned this didn’t work out too well. Worst server ever.

I was glad to be back on good ole’ Sanctum of Rall.

As has been stated before, we did not actively play the last few days before the reset. We knew we were going to get bumped down and we were taking some time off to recharge our batteries.
However now after the reset we are there again in force!

When you say that the chat was empty, I would guess that you are talking about sometime after 2am CET, because that is when most of us have gone to bed.

This is the reason for why we would want a few NA guilds to come join us.

Another thing is that most of us feel its pointless to play at night with a group of 15 people vs 40 man zergs so most people dont even try. So if we were to get a few active NA guilds you would also get our night crews active again.