Guild Wars 2

This is gamebreaking, I’d really want to hear ETA for a fix.

I’d love to hear an official statement about this, because GW2 is the worst optimized game ever and I’m getting tired of it.

loseridoit.2756:

Mooncrosser.7519:

God Of Fissures.8627:

Mooncrosser.7519:

Sossa.1863:

Maybe ur running out of vram after some hours.. have 2 gb aswell and i never seem 2 run out but lately my game doesnt last a few hours cause it will crash in 1 or another way.

Just a wild guess

Increased it to 6 gigs, does not help.

So you replaced your 2GB vRAM card with a 6GB vRAM graphics card?

Sorry about that, though vRam = Virtual memory (so I increased the virtual memory).

Next time when you say v ram it means video ram.

Increasing virtual memory does not increase the available ram that the graphic card can use. Virtual memory is meant to be use in case the main system ram is full

The last thing you want to do is swap with a pagefile. Harddrives and SSD are much slower than onboard ram. Swapping will decrease performance. So, increasing the pagefile will not make a difference

you need to buy a new graphic card to get more vram

Thanks for the comment, I know what’s the difference between video and virtual ram is, just never considered what vRam stands for. Anyway, the innitial issue still stands.

God Of Fissures.8627:

Mooncrosser.7519:

Sossa.1863:

Maybe ur running out of vram after some hours.. have 2 gb aswell and i never seem 2 run out but lately my game doesnt last a few hours cause it will crash in 1 or another way.

Just a wild guess

Increased it to 6 gigs, does not help.

So you replaced your 2GB vRAM card with a 6GB vRAM graphics card?

Sorry about that, though vRam = Virtual memory (so I increased the virtual memory).

Sossa.1863:

Maybe ur running out of vram after some hours.. have 2 gb aswell and i never seem 2 run out but lately my game doesnt last a few hours cause it will crash in 1 or another way.

Just a wild guess

Increased it to 6 gigs, does not help.

Specs:

CPU: AMD Bulldozer 6100 3.3Ghz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series, 2GB Memory, GDDR5
RAM: 12GB
OS: Windows 8
(anything else you might need I’ll post on demand)

The issue:
When I start gw2, I get ~60FPS (on almost highest details). In time (a few hours), it drops bellow 20. Restarting the game does NOT solve the issue, but reseting my PC does help! It’s not an overheating problem, every possible temperature is <50 degrees. My drivers are up to date. Any ideas?

Edit: My power plan is “High-Performance”

Not answering in general means, “Not gonna tell you”, nothing more, nothing less. That way they can decide to make it eventually, but I don’t think it’s being developed ATM.

Guardian: You should be able to outlast him if you’re running a healerbunker build. That like 5min battle or something like that. Don’t count on it in real matches, takes way too much time.
Necro: Hard to nuke in the general case, you most likely would like to outlast him also. Just make sure you got no poison on you when you heal up.
Mesmer: A friend of mine plays mesmer and we’ve been dueling countless times, at first, I could not beat him at all, later, I was able to take ~50% of the victories, now, there’s NO way I can beat him with any build. Depends on the Mesmer, but it’s really hard to play vs them.

Name: Mooncrosser
Account Name: Mooncrosser.7519
Rank: 34

Q: Should we prove our rank “at the time of the sign ups”?

I’d say:
1) Penalty for leavers
2) Fixing (or reverting) the dodge queue
3) Spliting solo from premade queue
4) Reworking some skills (like elementalist focus skills, noone uses it for anything)
5) Nerf ranger’s pet

LunaDeviner.6514:

Hello everyone

i can’t be the only one having this problem but

After watching several pages of how to enter sPVP

i concluded that i just can not… (or something)

How you’re supposed to join sPVP Open the hero tab and click the two swords icon

I do not have the Two Swords icoN !!!

i played this game when it was out 1 week then it was there and i played sPVP ALOT

but when i came bac to guild wars 2 like.. 5 months later the icon was gone ..

It this only happening to me or..?

The 2 sword icons is not in the hero tab… It’s on the upper left corner of the screen where all the menus are listed, it’s the second last, just after WvW one.

Happened a long time ago when they’ve removed the free tournaments. It would be nice if there was a way to get some gems in PvP, but I don’t find it game breaking if there is not. None of the features of gems are really changing the experience of a PvP match so I find the topic name out of place. And if you want these things that badly, just spend some real money for them or do some PvE…

Stealth.9324:

Lordrosicky.5813:

To be honest the differences between the bunker ele (pre patch) and the bunker ranger are vast:

1, The bunker ele was more mobile and had more escape possibilities so it could run away when it became 3 on 1. The ranger dies.
2, The ranger gives up alot to be survivable/unkillable 1 on 1. It sucks in team fights. Lacks AOE. The ele gave up nothing for survivability. It was still a beast in team fights. A beast 1 on 1. Super mobile. And the best in team fights.

The BM ranger spec could maybe use some minor nerfs but this must be compensated with maybe some buffs to longbow or something.

Ranger might be slightly OP but its very minor if it even is OP. Doesnt deserve the QQ it gets imo.

I disagree with your point.

The ability to run away means we already lose, in PvP, sure you lost 5 point for not being able to kill him but you win the point he is capping,means much more point. Ranger has more mobile than Eles though. Ranger can get access to Swiftness too and at the same time, has the skill similar to RtL which is Whoosh.Sure it can be affected by cripple,chill or whatever but besides Whoosh, you also have Leap from Sword 2 and 3, if used correctly, you can dodge forward. Not to mention with Pet ability too. Ranger can get away if he knows how.

Same with Rnger, Eles also gives up a lot to keep survive. Claiming Eles gives up nothing for survive is just an outright lie. But unlike Ranger, you have pet to do your binding with not really affected by your power scale.The reason why BM is good, not Op at the moment is because they can build as Bunker while their pet hit like a Warrior. Simply put, a fight with RAnger is a fight of 2 players, not one.

I confirm. A bunker Elementalist must put ~40 trait points in defensive trait lines (Earth and Water) and at least 20 in Arcane. That leaves him with mostly 10 points for an offensive trait line and most of the players just put them in Arcane. In the end, bunker Elementalists gives up every trait point for it. Besides that, most of Elementalists are forced to play such builds, because the lack of other viable options.

As for rangers, I really dislike that I can circle around a PvP map twice an the freaking pet will still chew my leg.

IMO browsing the PvP browser is such a pain. I’d love to see a “Join Matched Game” button that puts you and 9 more waiting players in a single-round game on a random map. It would save me so much time looking for a game that is 8-9/10 players. Or just make a non-ranked tPvP. What’s your opinion?

Never. I expect more changes on RtL but it won’t be a reverting. Deal with it.

You should create one for Focus also, pretty good job.

Well, a pretty decent bunker guardian (not me) was being destroyed by being stun locked. It might be the insane damage of the engineers that might be the problem (another topic, another time), but in WoW it’s hard for you to die in just a few seconds. GW2 has dodges and the moving on the battlefield is really important part of your defense and when you’re stun locked , you can’t perform it.

Edit: We’re not talking about a single class, we’re talking about what a team of 5 can do if anyone missed the point.

A global CC reductions should be applied as in other games, for instance:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Diminishing_returns

That way “stunlock” builds can be prevented for happening.

Bunch of things actually. Firstly, my bunker build is not hit by the changes AT ALL, because I am not using 30 in water anyway. The one that was hit the hardest was my nuke D/D build, firstly, because when my opponent dodges RtL, I’m not able to engage properly for 40 seconds. Secondly, I can’t heal in mist form, that means I must give up the stomp/healing a downed ally by changing to Lightning Flash or I must give up healing myself at all. So I tried a 30/20/0/0/20 staff elementalist. I found the damage output quite satisfying, got down 4 people at once at a time or two, but when someone was on me, it did not matter if I’m resisting or not. Even a “heartseaker” thief has able chase up to me and kill me (not mentioning a guardian with teleport). The only times I was able to escape when someone was on me, it was when I prevented them from reaching me by slowing/stunning and running away -.- Maybe it’s about time AN question themselves why nobody plays a focus in both PvE and PvP, ‘cus let’s be honest, staff was never meant for sPvP.

Naurgalen.2374:

I can see that Warriors “Endure Pain” doesn’t have that kind of limitations and both skills have the same role. It could be argued that having less armor and life elementalist´s variant should be more strong… but NOW it´s in fact worse.

I believe in Endure Pain you can be cc’ed.

I think block, dodges, blinds and invulnerability activate the long cooldown (tested the last 2 myself). So, my decision to the problem is:
1. Play a bunker build, the changes did not affect my build AT ALL and RTL was an important part of my nuke build.
2 Use RTL only to escape, because, why the hell should I risk a 40 sec cooldown when I engage…

Personally, think that’s not what was intended…

sorrow.2364:

No? The thief needs some buff in condition removals.

And when you give him to him, you screw all the Necromancers, because, in our perfect world the Necromancers and the Thiefs would have been balanced before that change. Anyway, we’re going off topic so I won’t answer any following posts.

sorrow.2364:

Mooncrosser.7519:

Dueling will not be balanced EVER. But that does not make it useless. In my guild, we’ve done plenty of duels just to test our builds or practice playing versus an opponent of a specific class. I don’t see a feature for duels in a competitive play, but I see great opportunity for a training one.

Actually, balancing around 1vs1 is way, way easier than balancing in teamplay.
Simply because when balancing around teamplay, you have to consider a massive amount of possible skill combinations and interations with other professions, making balancing way, way harder.
It is just math, not opinions.

They can be equally hard because of the different mechanics. I’ll give you an example:

Let’s say we got a Mesmer and a Necromancer that are well balanced to fight each other and on the other hand, a Thief and a Necromancer. Hypothetically the Mesmer is running a confusion build. This build (theoretically) might be really good for fighting a Thief, so good that we can say, Mesmer>Thief. So we nerf the confusion so Mesmer=Thief. But that will hit the Mesmer/Necromancer balance and if we nerf the Necromancer, the Thief/Necromancer balance will be broken, so we nerf the Thief and we’re back to the starting point.

My point is, easier said than done :/

There may be multiple reasons why GW2 is not an e-sport, but one of them is there is no spectating yet (it will be introduced in the next patch) and what’s a sport without the audience!

Dueling will not be balanced EVER. But that does not make it useless. In my guild, we’ve done plenty of duels just to test our builds or practice playing versus an opponent of a specific class. I don’t see a feature for duels in a competitive play, but I see great opportunity for a training one.

Firstly, I’d like to say I play an elementalist and I’ve tried almost every build I though viable. As such, I can confirm, that a cantrip build is best when playing point-defense build. The thing is it’s best because you don’t really have any other viable choice when playing an elementalist specializing in survival, the condition builds simply does not work. Even as it it, there are other profession builds that can blow through a bunker elementalist (like condition ranger, for instance). I’d like more viable options for elementalist, make it a bit more flexible, buff staff/focus, solve the cantri kitten ues, but make sure the class can still compete with mesmers in longer combats, maybe think about how to make more offensive builds more attractive. It’s like elementalist is the jack of all trades and master of none in GW2.

P.S. ATM I’m playing a glass-cannon build and I’m having a blast how everyone ignores me because they think I’m a bunker XD

I agree on this or at least “split” the free queue to solo-pair teams and 5 man ones. It’s really annoying when you end up with 3 people playing the same class as you vs. a full premade team.

P.S. Is the PvP improvement patch, with the custom rooms and stuff, that you’ve promised a while ago ever coming, because I’m a bit tired of waiting. Besides, you’d wanted to make it to the competitive games list, but you’re not even close for now. Do something about it.

Hello,

I’m pretty sure someone had this idea before, but I couldn’t find the topic.
I’m talking about making common messages like “I need backup at X”, “Clear”, etc. selectable by shortcuts, because typing in battle is not the best idea.

Thanks,
Mooncrosser

I wasn’t expecting much of the Winterday PvP, after what I’ve seen in the previous events, but I was pleasantly surprised. Snowball Mayhem is really fun (even if there are some edges to be polished), I’d love to see you keep working on and release a permanent “Capture the Flag” mode. Good Job!

Congrats on Gamespot RPG Game of the Year Award, you deserve it.

If anyone notices any other award, please post it bellow.

Conjure Frost Bow increases healing power by 1.

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From patch notes:
Evasive Arcana: This trait no longer creates unintended blast finishers.

Soothing Wave trait (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Soothing_Wave) does not grant regeneration when you use Conjure Frost Bow (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Conjure_Frost_Bow).

GPU: AMD 7850, 2GB GDDR5
CPU: AMD Bulldozer 6100 (6 cores, 3.3gh)
12 GB of RAM
Latest BETA drivers of AMD Catalyst

FPS: on “Best Performance” – barely 20-30, on “Auto-Detect”-less than 20

Which dungeon: Sorrow’s Embrace
If you are joining through the pop-up dialogue or by walking up to the entry point: Tried both, both did not work
How many people in the party tried creating the instance: 5
Any other details you can provide: The only way I was able to enter was when I was alone.

Can anyone confirm that Evasive Arcana trait is bugged? It does not seem to work for me… (XI in Arcane traits).