Guild Wars 2

This issue has happened on and off since I started playing a couple of weeks ago. Sometimes when first entering a zone or entering a personal story quest, I’ll get insanely slow loading of assets. For example, I’ll take a waypoint somewhere. The game will go to it’s usual loading screen. I appear at the waypoint, but things are very slow to load. Things such as skill sounds, music, some graphics, etc. I can be walking around, hit something like my ranger’s number 5 skill while using axe/warhorn, the actual effect will happen immediately (which is gaining swiftness, might, etc), but the actual art, sound, etc. for the skill doesn’t happen for quite some time after using it (the wolf howling sound and graphic animation). Other things that are related are things like achievement graphics not showing up correctly or the UI itself loading very slow at times. This also happens sometimes when I first start the game. Nothing but a black screen for a minute or so, and then slowly the assets will load. All the graphics load slowly on the character select screen, and then finally the music. Doesn’t happen every time. 90% of the time, the game runs perfectly.

Khisanth.2948:

NeoPhoenix.9403:

As a new player, I actually welcome loot on dragons. Not because of the loot itself, but because there will actually be people around when I’m high enough level to do these events. As a veteran mmo player, nothing sucks worse than being “late to the party” when you join an mmo that has been around for a while and you can’t do half the content available because nobody is running it anymore. There is incentive for older GW2 players to do these events now which opens up more open world content for us newer players to take part in. They may be running it for the “wrong reasons”, but I think you’ll find there are a lot of new players that are grateful for these people keeping these events doable that don’t really care what people’s reasons for doing them are.

For the <80 level zones. You can pretty much do everything with 2 people. Most are soloable on any profession although the effort might not be worth it depending on what you are after. This includes Group Events. So “Can’t do because of lack of people around.” is not a very big concern here.

I was specifically talking about the open world dragons/events that give chests like the Shatterer and Frozen Maw, not the regular group events you find around the world.

As a new player, I actually welcome loot on dragons. Not because of the loot itself, but because there will actually be people around when I’m high enough level to do these events. As a veteran mmo player, nothing sucks worse than being “late to the party” when you join an mmo that has been around for a while and you can’t do half the content available because nobody is running it anymore. There is incentive for older GW2 players to do these events now which opens up more open world content for us newer players to take part in. They may be running it for the “wrong reasons”, but I think you’ll find there are a lot of new players that are grateful for these people keeping these events doable that don’t really care what people’s reasons for doing them are.

Getting this bug as well. Exactly as the image posted above in the thread.