Guild Wars 2

its not expensive for new customers, old customers may feel like it, but all other mmos even f2p mmos, force you to pay much more.

Swtor releases 1-2 hour story every month and in order to get it, you must sub, overall over 120 euros or dollars ++ to get it all. Even if Anet brings new living world content, you can actually get it with your game effort/gems. So for those who look for quality mmo and cheapest sollution, this is really good overall.

(small message) fixed for me

The launcher cannot log, is trying to download 1kb and then connection errors and keeps retrying to log…

64 bit launcher

I heard them also but I thought its something players have purchased that cause these sounds… like minipets, funbox, etc.

The sounds are not intensive and loud as in the actual event, that made me believe its a player item, other than a bug.

Here is a video I made today after the fix…

I had the same issue and today I fixed it, by refreshing the cpu cooling paste! From 4-11 fps, now I get 90 fps at high settings.

soon I will upload a video as well (already uploading)… here is my topic also…
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Low-performance-UPDATED-SOLVED

it all started after HOT release as well…!

Hello I solved all the issues…
I formatted pc, I reinstalled the game, I repaired and couldnt fix it.
BUT
today I disassemble all pc parts, clean them up, I also removed the old cpu cooling paste and added a new one… and now I get 60-90 fps at world… and 30-50fps at heavy loads, at high settings.
I used the same old topic, because I created it and I thought its polite to report my new status here. The reality check is, that I cleaned my pc 3-4 months ago, but my cpu was not cleaned and not cpu cooling paste refresh for about 2 years! So I decided to give it a go.

ps: I will also upload a video with the high performance, so I may help some users through youtube.

Are you sure??? about the meaning of “certain”

certain is securus in latin. Also even if latin is very near to ancient hellenic my mother language, the word certain-securus is not originated by us. We have the word Banjo or Bainw and today we have Bebaios in modern greek. (the forum does not support hellenic letters, so I cannot type you the originals, that is why I did in latin form)

Latin is a mixture of arabic, babylonians, ancient hellenic and many more… The word securus entered my language vocabulary during dark ages (as ’sigouros"… We had Benjw or Bainw instead (means, i am certain moving forwrd)… it gives a movement forward…

I search in latin vocabulary what RATA means and it gives me nothing, only relative words like rats…

here is one link https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ratus#Latin

I also stop playing the game, I login and log out, its 4-11 fps at lowest settings, but even if its highest settings its about the same thing…maybe 1 fps loss… lol

the game is not playable.

I formated my pc last night and give it a try with a fresh system, but nothing!
I repaired
I used the 64 bit launcher
I repaired again… nothing

If I try to autodetect the best settings for me, the game chose ultra settings because I run the game in an i7 (4 cores and 8 threads) with 8 gigs of ddr3 and a GTX 780 gpu card.

The game is not playable, because it goes like still pictures and if its a major event, I see cuts of images… In the beta the game run perfect, but after release and lots of patching, the game is unplayable.

in the world other than Maguma jungle, is better about +10 or 15fps some times goes up to 60! but it lost allot since release.

some times I experience a sound with graphics problem, in major events, when the game is SOOOOO slowed down, the sound also slows down(??)… I saw that bug in fallout 4, a conflict with directx d3dsound bug… well it does that… The sound sounds like matrix movie, in slow motion… (bethesda fixed that bug though with a patch…not entirely but they did improved it).

Right now I deleted the guild wars folder (from my other hdd) and redownloading the game… if its not working, its a developer issue.

thank you. (short message)

Hi

I managed to get tir 2 mastery in the precursor legendary weapons, but I have no clue how to and what to do.

I went to lions arch and saw these 2 npcs for legendaries, I also bought for 5 gold a book to unlock a longbow…but whats next? There is no ingame guidance what to do..I cannot find anything in my huntsman profession and all in all, I find it a waste of time..

anybody can give some info how this thing works?

Today I tried to group up and play madking, but when they show me as a druid, I got trolled… to pick up a damaging weapon, or else i would be kicked out.
It may not be an actual ingame bug, but its a bug that anet devs got in their heads. So it needs to be fixed , because of their bugs in their heads, we receive a horrible gaming experience.

ps: There is many kind of bugs and we have to report them all, right?

Another bug I encounter is with guild chat. If I represent (eg. G1) but I type in G3 for example, if I try to paste an item in the guild chat for G3 members, it appears in my guild (g1) instead… I tried to make a question for an item yesterday and each time I tried to Shift+left click to appear in the chat window, it appeared only in my guild (chat), not the guild I was talking with…

They have to fix the performance issues with graphics and sound.

Today (it also happened prev days), when the game goes down to 1-2-4 fps, the sound goes down too. Meaning it slows down like stutter effect combine with robotic voice. I mean everything (music, speech, effects). I think the sound conflicts with the graphics…something is wrong with it.

I may not have crash issues, but the game goes like a snail. But I think both are related. (crash with low performance), is a dx conflict maybe… Others people pc express with a crash, my pc express with a constant low performance 2-10 fps, depends the drivers we use. I use a 2014 drivers, very stable without crash issues. Nvidia users mostly, as far as I can read in the forums.

I ve tried everything from my behalf, I have an i7 4 cores/8threads cpu and I also used the tool to unpark all the cpu cores… no gains and the difference between lowest settings with high settings is just 2-4 fps!

we may have to report that in the NVIDIA forums also, to help u fix ur game.

You all have crashes with high settings, but I get extreme low fps…

When I run the game with highest settings I have around 7-15 fps… When I turn it into lowest I have 8-28 fps and its more like 11-12 most of the times (highest or lowest)… In big events with highest settings I get 1-4 fps and with lowest settings 4-8…

I have an i7 with GTX 780. It is an unoptimized game

For those who have crashes in their launcher, is a virus… Check the report for any reference about LAVASOFT.. if u got that, you have to either format ur pc (its a rogue thing) or u have to google for hours and get ur solution.

I know that, because I have some exp first hand. When I bought my game (pre-purchase), before I register it (thank goodness), I couldn’t download or enter the launcher, it always crash.. It gave me a report and a line in this report referred to lavasoft (a dll file)… I searched it and I cleaned my pc (for 2 days), since It runs smooth without any crash.

Here is a video with big events, like Auric Basin lost city event. Anet must see how the game performs with an i7 and nvidia gpu (GTX 780) 3 gigs of vram.

its sad because I have no mood to enter the game, the way it performs. I had a free weekend to play and I make videos to show in ANET forums… pathetic.

Beda Zzle.5281:

After the patch to lower the Hero points needed I reset my skills and trained in Druid… but it doesn’t let me select to BE a druid… the specialization doesn’t even show up as an option. I only need 8 more points to become a full Druid.. am I doing something wrong?

its the last slot u have to click and pick druid…

very low fps with nvidia gpu and intel cpu fix this!

I uploaded a video on youtube, just walking in the open world and killing a couple of mobs.

You will notice my fps in the open world with 1-2-5 people max I encounter, is 9-15fps at low settings!!! (no big events like TEQ or AURIC BASIN city)… I get 2-3+ fps when I turn the game to vertical sync and its recorded also in the video! Its ridicules.

The pc I got may not be an elite system, but it surpasses all modern amd’s. I should have 60-80fps like I did before in the open world and 20-30fps in the events, all that at high settings…

now I have 7-20 fps in the open world and 1 fps in the events, at low settings… I feel so sad trying to play events, because its like I cheat other players, that I am helping them, but I am not, because I see still pictures.

The video will have lots of freezes, its not because of the capture, I used shadowplay and does not eat resources. It is set to capture 60fps, but I am afraid its full of stills.

its up to 1080p!

Hello
the first days of Heart of thorns, the game played smooth but with all these patches, the framerate dropped dramatically and I play most of the events with 1 or 2 fps! If i turn them all down and it looks horrible, like a gameboy game, I get 10 fps, overall 11-12 during the events.
I have an intel i7 cpu (4/8 threads) and GTX 780 OC edition, with 8 gigs ram. Nothing runs in the background.

I tried to force stuff through nvidia control panel and set the ingame settings to low, but its not working…

As you may understand, the game is not playable with 1-2 fps, or 10… Before I have had about 25-30 during the events and in heavy loaded stuff, no less than 19…but it run smooth, enough for me to do stuff and enjoy it… now I cannot.

let me add the bug I found also

I stop playing the last fight, till they patch it for good… I will retry it in a couple of days… https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Final-story-battle-bug/first#post5676853

just do some glidder leveling since then..!

Hello

in the final battle, after I kill the 2 champs (visions) of the comrades I choose to be with…Mondremoth appears and in a point rifts open and I must shut them down..

some rifts are in the air! so I cannot shut them down and here is the proof. I took a picture of it. If I try to go near and close it down, I fall from the cliff!

Xantha.7061:

I can’t seem to be able to equip staff as a ranger. I have unlocked the staff proficiency and all training up to celestial shadow but I still can’t equip the glyphs either

open ur HERO and choose built…. the last of the 3 slots is eligible for druid selection…click it

The last part of the story, would be great if the dragons domain have a repair kit … (near the rotating stairs).

EDIT: sorry it was a misunderstanding. I was in the point that I had to “learn Itzel poison lore” and when I entered with my ranger today, I was able to progress without the need of learning the poison lore… Also the quest line lead me to the beginning of the map, so i got confused… In the beggining it asks us to find clues from Taimi, now it asked me to find clues from ROX and I forgot the names (am dyslexic) I thought it moved me back in the first quest

why this happened, there is no need to learn the poison lore anymore? If this is not a bug, you can remove the topic. (end of edit)

Hello
I am a bit frustrated because yesterday I progress my story with my ranger/druid in a point that asked me to “learn Itzel poison lore, in order to continue your story”, I finished the entire Tangled Depths map. I discovered and repaired power of Rata Novus, etc, I also discovered the data for the dragons…

Today I logged back with my ranger and I am 3-4 episodes behind!!!! In the beginning of “Tangled Depths – MAP”’. And more specifically “Sign Cutting” quest.

Why this happened, shall I raise a ticket?

after I completed the forgotten city event, I am in a perma battle stance and I cannot even use waypoints.. I am like that for about 20 minutes now, I have to force shut down the game?

Not only we are forced to get xp ONLY from magumma, but we cannot even travel.

edit : I logged out and logged in be able continue playing.

I was happy yesterday and early today, till I decided to move into tyria and do so some events also, because after the small quest line, we have to randomly collect xp and I got tired with magumma (luck of players and luck of daily or dungeons). Then I found out that the game is forcing me to stick with magumma ONLY and do nothing else than running in the maps searching for random events… Or else we cannot progress our masteries, the xp bar is locked per area!

2/10

Hello

I got disappointed a bit, the developers/those who took these decisions… removed the essence of open world and if we travel outside magumma, we get no xp for the masteries WE CHOOSE to raise. It forces you to do only 1 thing.

or I got it wrong? Some help here? I tried to get pvp but no xp there, I tried to move into tyria and do some other things than magumma, but the xp goes to things I do not wish and magumma xp bar is locked only for magumma. So I got sick with magumma. There is no dungeons, only travel and events and I got bored a bit.

how to get xp for my masteries?

ps: Whoever took the decission to lock the xp for specific thing and for specific stuff… destroyed it.

for us who posted the bug about ranger staff (we cannot equip it)… it is not a bug, but its a hard way to find how it works. We have to add druid mastery in our specialization and only the last spot (out of 3) is able to turn into druid spec, by click and pick druid icon… lol

I did that and now I have a staff.

Ranger bug? I learned with 60 hero points, to wear a staff, but I cannot…

the story quest : The jungle provides – speak with the hylek scouts

the frog that speaks to us, does not move his mouth… Its a graphical/animation bug, not a major one.. but I report anything that looks odd.

edit : all the frogs who speak in that quest, dont have animation in their mouth… you just see the chat bubble and hear the voice. They have a big head and mouth so its very noticable..

I made my pre-purchase back in August (late August), do I get a free chara slot also? Havent yet though… lol The only offer in August was the beta events, nothing else.

The free chara slot came after as an offer. But I did purchase with gems 1 chara slot…because 5 are a bit limited.

In the story content – like prologue instance, you have to improve the AI of our allies. Normally they dont attack, but only if the enemy attacks them or they get some damage from AOE. The enemy most of the times points at us (the players), so we may end up dead and our allies just watching us die…

the trick is to lure the enemy in our allies, in order for the to start supporting us… Or else they are not very responsive.

its the same play style but more challenging. Right now there are not hundreds of people in a single event, so in most cases I also played an event as solo… but I managed it (A bit hard). Tomorrow logically will have more people, because right now people still at work, etc. I am also out for a few hours, I have other stuff to do, will play again later.. lol

if you gathered xp tokens and tomes of knowledge, are not working in magumma… u have to get the xp as legit… They do work in the vanilla map, so u can unlock world achievement stuff… but not for masteries.

I already got my gliding lvl 1 and half way the mushroom thing.. I havent experienced bugs, the only thing they must improve maybe, is the AI of our allies… they dont attack str8 forwrd the enemy, the enemy must attack them first… lol The problem with that is, the enemy points at u most of the times and our allies supposed to help us, watching you die (in the story content)… lol The trick here is to lure the enemy in our allies, so they get hit by AOE and start attacking.

I had this 2 days ago, yesterday and today. Right now I have 1700-3000 ping and many time outs.

I ping networks such as Google, Yahoo, etc… I get 35-55 ping but when I ping your website I get time outs and some success for 1000
the game is unplayable. From 2 up to 10 seconds delay.

It fix’s in some points but it gets worse after. Yesterday I couldnt even login in the webiste and I couldnt play ingame. Right now I have huge delays and it says 2000 ping.

Any downloads? Or we allready got it via a beta patch…

I like pvp but I dont like wvw… You have to travel long distances by feet and in most cases, there is no waypoints for me to travel “from-to” so even if I follow a group of people, they just vanish and I abandon it. I find it a bit boring for me.. lol And I cannot spend allot of time into it… I prefer pve with some excitement, than a world that I have to run run run run run run and do only that…

PvP arenas are good though… I like them very much.

I love open world pvp, but mostly in the main world, the problem is, gw2 does not have enemy race… (a kind of WoW horde vs alliance races).

Sylvari could be a potential enemy race, if they add 2 more as an extra

It worked for me after the fix, but I read in the main chat that many still have the issue.

Hello

Tried to sell some stuff and I get the same thing like 2 days ago. An error message… I tried several times before I make this post, it looks like freaked out.

I actually farmed allot, bought some ingame gems and bought my harvesting tools from gemstore with unlimited use… And I kept my laurel’s for other use.

Guild halls are inside Maguuma jungle… The new expansion is Maguuma jungle…

WoW raids failed because of meters and you ask for meters?

Its simple enough, 3 types of people/gamers .

1) Those who feel when they play and have fast brains and reflexives, even if they have weak gears, they ascribe to their cause, without issues.

2) people who actually do exactly what you tell them, but nothing more and nothing less, this is a very stress thing, if you lead and fail… WoW is known for their vocal and screaming raids… They actually dont feel, they act like robots… lol (thats a proof that even if you qualify in the dps meters, you dont qualify for the rest of the thing).

3) those who actually cannot get the thing working…

dps meters refer to category number 2 and number 3.

so the answer is a clear NO, or else it will fail one more time.

I believe if your passion is to show off your thing, your thing is not my thing… lol But you could request from players, to link their gear. This is more than enough.

I played wow from 2004 first day, till 2009 and I quitted. I played raids ordinarily… but the story didnt appeal that much, it was more the “wow addiction”, that kept me up… The problem with WoW, is the UIs like dps meter, etc. Made raids like a robot thing. Thats the problem, it is not built for humans, but robots/hybrids instead. Swtor didnt allowed these things like dps meters… and raids are more successful.

1) WoW failed to deliver succesfull raids because of their 3rd party Uis and addons. It become guild exclusive thing and guilds kicked many players, because of their dps or other things.

Swtor in the other hand, has beautiful story and nice raids, but thats that… Swtor is the only mmo I played 3-4-10 raids per week.

1) Swtor didnt allowed these things and you could play raids with pugs, also guilds.
2) WoW you where doomed if not good in raids and you should beg guild masters and officers to play….

GW2 raids are reminding me swtor 1 boss raids. Instead of 1 boss, they added 4 in the raw and its not that good. GW2 has amazing worlds, maps, much better engine that swtor, less bugs, originallity in crafting and greeding and exploring… But they luck in raids and stuff allot.

What I didnt liked in the beta raid is :
1) all bosses have the same looks with different colors
2) 4 bosses but not trash mobs
3) I experience no loot in the first 3 bosses.
4) it is very gear demanding
5) all bosses are very near each other, you dont have to do anything to get into them…
all these 5 elements bind together, made me give it like 2/10 score.. lol

But it was beta and as they stated, raids will come in a later date and I am sure, they will change them allot.

As a suggestion, I wish it to be…:

1) for that instance size, I experienced in the beta, make it 2 boss raid
2) add some trash mobs
3) you could also fit a puzzle.

I like gw2, i am 2 and a half months customer, never played it before, only beta…
I find no reason why dungeons or raids shouldn’t exist in gw2. But at the same time I love the way high tir item are implemented to date (crafting and world drop). I mean, when and if raids enter the game, devs must NOT ditch crafting, or world drops… They should give something different to the raids, not to conflict with the rest of the world.
In the other hand, I played lots of raids in other mmos and these ones I dont like… it was beta and it will take some time before Anet will add them into the game, but from what I ve seen, I exclude my self from raids HAHAHA. Not raids will exclude ME… lol

I told them that in the feedback survey, that I didnt liked the way the raid was given to us… the bosses, etc…

Anet is a very talanted studio making beautiful worlds and maps… but why they so greatly fail in raids and dungeons.. hehehehe Maybe its the founding, or they dont care much about raids and dugeons. Fractals are away to much better than the raid I played.

I could tell you what I didnt liked in the raid I played…

I tried to lvl up my tailoring also, buying some supplies…but fail. I entered just now to check if i could and it says : down for maintenance.

I would love to keep him, even naked and lvl 1… he was a spot on (character creator) for my likes.. lol

they have to expand chest farm, not ditch it… SW is the only map I haven’t bored at all playing for hours.. lol

The red circle on the map is the equivalent of “ding” with jordan rings, during the 90s age (in diablo 1). Its so addictive. When u open a chest, you see a horde of players running into u.

With HOT they can give us alternative choices, not to nerf it. They could add some chests in the points of interest, where they want us to be. Also consider ascended requirement, or legendary for hot content. How people will do that, if they nerf farming… It will end up a sluggish greed world and people will abandon any effort for gearing up. Its not 1 or 2 or 5 items, it is chest, legs, shoulders, head, feet, 3-5 weapons and rings and stuff. If they nerf farming, people will need more than a half year to achieve it at a none stop rate and I dont think this is realistic, with a nerfed farm.

as for raids, people think raids is for farm, it is, if they give plenty of loot inside it. In the beta I ve experienced none and I didnt liked the way it is… Its beta though, they will improve it. Raids is definitely not my first priority in HOT, or goal at the momment.

When u see it coming is funny…. Keep it that way. You cannot miss it.

I only played as a ranger, because thats my main character and I can only say, I was expecting it to be much much worse, but I was a kinda satisfied!

The celestial avatar makes some strong heals, but 2 of the spells are not that mobile, in the first one you have to be still and in the second you must run and actually hunt down the players to give them some heal. The blossom flower it doesnt look like flower, but ectoplasm instead..

I was expecting celestial avatar a bit better. But overall I like ranger and the built. I would prefer celestial avatar also with yellowish or golden colors, not blue! The color of the stars/sun and what nature and flora needs to survive.

Raids are a bit strange for me. I play raids in other mmos for many years and I found it a bit linear. Maybe raids in gw2 represent something different from what is known. I also found out that druids are highly needed in raids. Thats good and bad, because I am not sure if ranger without druid spec will be accepted (lol).

I didnt like at all, the need of ascended gear as a default. How many months players need to built their gear, be able to play a raid? I hope raids won’t end up forgotten, it will be developers fault.

I also didnt liked the way raid was represented in beta, 1 boss after another, without anything else and all of them looked like celestial aliens (same looks). I was expecting some trash mobs, some traveling, some big bosses… But its not that, maybe raids is a kind of fast mission to do something.

I played raid till last boss, I played with 2 groups and we didnt finished it, we made up to phase 2 (with many bosses appear at the same time and with a timer). It needs allot of focus, but also there is dozen of things going on at the same time, in a point I forget healing, just waiting for the orange circle to appear.

Anyway its beta I dont know how raids will be when they get released… Thats my opinion.

I also created 2 other topics about beta, one was about a bug with character creator…

Suggestion :

1) I allready pointed out the celestial avatar coloring. Yellowish or white-yellow like devined, the color of the stars.
2) If you wish raids in that style, I would suggest you to limit the bosses into 2, instead of 4 and add a puzzle as well… A difficult one, that if we fail, we cannot move into the last boss. That would be more interesting! Not just 4 bosses with the same looks and different colors. I know its a beta, it was an idea and I liked the raid room, very well designed, but for a solo boss and a puzzle, not for 4 bosses.
3) As for the celestial avatar spells, what if we have a more versityle group UI, be able to sellect the desired player and spam the heal/spell in that area of effect.

Overall I like the expansion, I am not complaining much, very well designed, I noticed an improvement into how characters move? A slightly faster and more weight into character model… Well, my beta ranger moves and runs faster and better than my actuall ranger and without boons.

I cannot wait to see the major city of this expansion and all other areas!

Hello,

something I noticed first time in beta character creator. When we modify brows density, 2 polygons, one each side popped out from the head lol

I could make a small video for it, cant explain it differently. Its like the skull distorted and the hair clip with the skull…

I used male human

I noticed inside Magumma – intro quest/instance, when we must find the crew, some npcs have huge area of effect… Didnt noticed that in the first beta experience.

Some NPC small bosses can be killed easy and we get the same loot with bosses we kill so much harder! This must be tweaked maybe?

I liked druid, but still trying to understand the spells. I will play more after sleep

The gliding (menu) and masteries, is much harder to achieve?

Hello
I have finished all my episodes, but I dont have any of the special achievements for the rewards. I decided to begin with it and I believe I need to form a party for that.
How this thing works? If I make a party (eg. EPISODE 1 achievements), if people who don’t own season 2, can join me? Do I have to do something for them to join me and help me, or its automatic.

While ago I tried to join episode 8 for someone else party and he told me, I cannot do it, because I havent finished the achievements from all other episodes. So I decided to "do it yourself ", with my own party.

I use 344.75 without gw2 issues… I dont trust other drivers also…

I may have a crash every 2-5 days… but its not the driver that crash, the game instead.

You need a tool to total erase ur display drivers… Use this one bellow and then rollback

GURU driver sweeper tool

it is especially designed for ATI and NVIDIA driver removal, nothing else. It is created by the moderators of 3dguru forums and its free.

10 people raids require some strategy, that means, everybody must know what to do. Or else is going to be 10 people gangs… lol

I also believe the UI needs lots of changes, not only for the commanders.. But for all the required roles.

those who heal also need a versatile UI