Guild Wars 2

Invite sent, Fluffy/Pinky!
I’m OCX as well , so we may cross paths!
See you in-game

Invite sent, bearshaman!
See you in-game,
Poitus

Thanks. It was the staff Ele build.
I guess I was wondering along the lines of when / where the cool downs are ‘reset’ (client side or server side). If I’m lagging a quarter of a second, and it’s server side, then every 5th attack, as it were, I’ll miss an attack that someone else may be able to pull.
I’ll keep messing around with it.
Thanks again for the reply.
P

Howdy,
This seems like an obvious question, with an obvious answer, but I’m keen to ask it anyway.
With the LA aerodrome available now, I popped in yesterday to try it out.

I’m in Australia (around 220-250 ping), and am an older gamer (reaction times not the best).
With the same gear / skills / boons setup as one of the meta builds on the Reddit thread from a couple of days ago, and “attempted” similar rotations, my DPS output was way below what I saw on the video.

How much of it is ping, and how much is me being a sucky player?

Thanks!
P

Hey Wyrmsfire,
Sorry for the delay. You’ll have the invite in a few minutes.
Re. other guilds, no restrictions from Legion at all. Just rep when you can/want!
See you in-game. I’ll shoot you in in-game mail as well, as it’s been a couple of days.
Poitus

Invite sent! See you in-game!

Hi VitaminJ,
Invite sent, as well as an in-game mail – sorry for the delay.
Feel free to also check out the website in the signature of Helequin, in the post above yours.
In terms of activities: socializing (yes – in peak times, lots of that), dungeons (less so now, but if you want to do a particular path, shout it out in guild chat – you never know), fractals (yes), HoT (yes).
Re. your additional comments, I doubt you will come across any problems with your philosophy (it’s similar to my philosophy, and I’ve stuck it out here for over 2 years). If you have questions, shout them out, and lots of knowledgeable people will reply, but without shoving it down your throat or saying you have to do it this way or that way.
See you in-game!
Poitus

Tetra, I’ll shoot off an invite in the morning, unless someone else gets to it first.

Legion runs a ‘mumble’ server, which (I’m fairly certain) is at it’s most populated around guild missions time, and ‘when needed’ at other times (I’m not much of a VoIPer myself, so again, you may find otherwise when in).

Rep when you can / want! We have no requirements!

See you in game.

Could you make the Minstrel and sell it?

Invite sent, Trerdunth/Durgol

Invite sent, SgtThorr/Chris. See you in game.

Joostyn,
Just shot you an invite! See you in-game,
Poitus

Hey Kamedin and Rio,
Invites sent. I’ll keep an eye out when I’m online, and shout out a quick welcome in guild chat, but I may be in a diff time zone. I’m sure others will keep an eye out, and feel free to wave when you’re on.
Menadena, yep – LoH is still kicking on! If you want an invite anytime, just shout out.
Cya in game,
Poitus

Bump! …………

This will all change with HoT, but for now, check out

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild

…specifically the Upgrades section.

Some say yes, some say no.

If you find yourself with stacks of extra materials in your normal bank / inventory and need bank space, then yes – grab the first expander (500).

If you aren’t a hoarder and sell everything, then it’s probably not worth it.

Invite sent, Menadena.

Arashe, if you change your mind about a guild invite, feel free to shoot out an in-game message/mail, or re-post here. We don’t have repping requirements, so you can “come and go” as you please!

See you in-game!
Poitus

A small bump … come and join us!

Same boat here, but there might be a temp workaround (worked for the last 2 instance-based parties I was in).
BEFORE leaving the party, set yourself to invisible, then exit party, then change back to online.
Has worked twice for me, but would still be good to have this fixed.

Looks like it might have been fixed with this latest patch (1 hour ago). No patch notes yet, but I just ran a dungeon, and didn’t crash on leave party after the dungeon (which I had been doing consistently the last few days).
Note, it only seemed to be in dungeons for me – WvW parties were fine.
Still, will see if it’s mentioned in the patch notes.

…and now once more on a CM run. Click ‘Leave Party’, CTD.

Happened twice for me out of two in AC runs – finish dungeon, back into PoA, exit party – crash to desktop.

Thought it time to give this a bump…

Pretty much everything I’m doing is clearing / wiping guild chat. Yes, I have gone invisible (client crash), then changed back to online.

I’m sure this has been reported ad-nauseum, but just in case…

My chat window is setup as
G/P/W one tab (+ Game messages)
S/T/M the next tab

Change tabs FROM G/P/W – go back TO G/P/W – all ‘Guild’ chat cleared (W still there – not tested P)
WP anywhere? all ‘Guild’ chat cleared

Brad,
I was quoting a post from Pong in the EU latency thread – page 18, currently 5th from the bottom.
Have to see if Pong can come on and maybe send you the direct quote…
Thanks for replying!
Poitus

All good. Thought it was a long shot, but would much rather be wrong than not suggest it!
Have a look at the last 5-10 posts on the ‘merged EU lag’ thread. Very similar, lots of mention of Telia, and pong has posted Telia replied ’a fix by Jan 2’. Sounds promising perhaps?

That’s a weird pathping result. Looks like it hasn’t worked at all or made it past your own modem/router???

Interesting to see it’s happening elsewhere in the world…

Brad and all,
The 3 of us did some testing this arvo (Stup, Xe and I). They both had latency issues (skill lag etc), whilst I was fine. We tested in HotM, and within an instance of AC story. Same results in both.
I’ve taken some trace routes, but I noticed one thing when looking at the info.
When both Stup and Xe and working fine (based on graphic dumps in this post), the x.×.40.117 IP address is one of their connected addresses (today, mine was .40.117). While they were having issues today, theirs were (.40.116 and .40.121). In their ‘bad times’ from graphic s/shots above, they also don’t have .117. Might be not related at all, but I mention it anyway.
Anything more we can do our end to give you more data to check-in with Telia?
Thanks,
Poitus

…as Pong has mentioned though, Telia have conceded some fault, but I guess the more data we can collect (or Anet can collect from us), the quicker the resolution.

cool. just tried a pm in-game, but you were offline, so sent you a mail. I’ll be on and off all day today. I also suggested to XeRaus to try the Whirpool TPG forums as TPG reps frequent there a lot, and seem to reply very quickly. Would be interesting if the 3 of us got on a map together (or a dungeon) to compare to try and knock out the problem.

(http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/90)

Wonder if we could meet up in-map and compare the differences??? Might send you an in-game msg…

Hey Stupendous,
This is interesting – we’re both TPG – are you NBN? I’m on the Riverstone exchange with NBN, and my latency times (matched to your s/shot above) are;
410
410
235

Apart from the TP error currently going on, I’m playing fine. Our pathpings divert pretty early on though (the first TPG skip).

Hmmm….

Hey XeRauS & Brad,
Not sure if this will help or hinder, but it’s just more data for you both. I’m from East coast Australia, playing on NA. I’m also with TPG with the NBN (guessing you are based on the naming in the traceroute)? Could be wrong though. My NBN is the 100down/40up. Modem and router also one unit. [Edit: sorry – was 9am in the morning local time – if I’m on between 11 and 5pm I’ll run it again just out of interest].

I ran this pathping WHILE playing – absolutely no lag at all while playing; did some heart quests in frostgorge etc. No skill lag, no movement lag at all.

I post it because I got NO lag while playing BUT had the same packet losses that you have.

Interesting?

cya
Poitus

C:\Users\User>pathping -w 500 -q 100 -4 64.25.39.1

Tracing route to 64.25.33-1.ncsoft.com [64.25.39.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 YumCha [192.168.1.5]
1 192-168-1-1.tpgi.com.au [192.168.1.1]
2 10.20.22-121.tpgi.com.au [10.20.22.121]
3 syd-gls-har-int2-be-20.tpgi.com.au [203.29.129.196]
4 te0-4-0-2.ccr21.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com [38.122.147.213]
5 * be2019.ccr21.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.88.9]
6 be2180.ccr23.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.41.58]
7 telia.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.10.10]
8 * dls-b21-link.telia.net [62.115.139.4]
9 ncsoft-ic-307708-dls-b21.c.telia.net.10.115.62.in-addr.arpa [62.115.10.106]

10 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]
11 * 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.26]
12 * 64.25.33-1.ncsoft.com [64.25.39.1]

Computing statistics for 300 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 YumCha [192.168.1.5]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192-168-1-1.tpgi.com.au [192.168.1
.1]
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 2ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10.20.22-121.tpgi.com.au [10.20.22
.121]
1/ 100 = 1% |
3 4ms 1/ 100 = 1% 0/ 100 = 0% syd-gls-har-int2-be-20.tpgi.com.au
[203.29.129.196]
34/ 100 = 34% |
4 188ms 38/ 100 = 38% 3/ 100 = 3% te0-4-0-2.ccr21.lax04.atlas.cogent
co.com [38.122.147.213]
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 188ms 38/ 100 = 38% 3/ 100 = 3% be2019.ccr21.lax01.atlas.cogentco.
com [154.54.88.9]
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 175ms 35/ 100 = 35% 0/ 100 = 0% be2180.ccr23.lax05.atlas.cogentco.
com [154.54.41.58]
1/ 100 = 1% |
7 189ms 36/ 100 = 36% 0/ 100 = 0% telia.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com [15
4.54.10.10]
8/ 100 = 8% |
8 226ms 44/ 100 = 44% 0/ 100 = 0% dls-b21-link.telia.net [62.115.139
.4]
2/ 100 = 2% |
9 —- 100/ 100 =100% 54/ 100 = 54% ncsoft-ic-307708-dls-b21.c.telia.n
et.10.115.62.in-addr.arpa [62.115.10.106]
0/ 100 = 0% |
10 227ms 46/ 100 = 46% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]

3/ 100 = 3% |
11 —- 100/ 100 =100% 51/ 100 = 51% 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.2
6]
0/ 100 = 0% |
12 230ms 49/ 100 = 49% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.25.33-1.ncsoft.com [64.25.39.1]

Trace complete.

Thanks for clearing up my attempt at describing it!!! Couldn’t think how to describe the word bubbles, but that’s exactly right!

I have my game set to censor – I’ve never been fond of kittens. :-)

map/guild/team (etc) chat is properly censored (“——”) however the HUD displays shows the uncensored chat.

Hi,
Apologies if this has been posted already. I’ve scanned 5 or 6 pages of this forum but couldn’t see it.

In either the last update or the one before that, the crafting level / tier information on some materials has gone missing from the text displayed when you hover the mouse pointer on the item in your inventory.
Eg when I loot something, i could hover over it to see, for example, “artificer (325)…” To know what tier the material was. Now, some materials show it, while others don’t (I can’t give you specific items as I’m away from the game, but I think soft wood logs DO and large bones DON’T – the T5 ones).

Thanks,
Poitus.

What time is that Aus east cost time?
I’m part of two guilds – the EDGE which you can find a couple of posts down, I think? The main recruit person may find this post anyway. Lots of ppl on night time Aus EST.
When I’m on during the day, there’s another guild I run with – very friendly and does all the stuff you listed, but they’re US, so good for daytime Aus EST.
Catch ya,
Poitus

You could try a couple of options;

1. I’ve been a part of the Legion guild for about 9 months, and they are brilliant. Not a lot of Oceanic people, but you usually get some cross over with the non-oceanic members (I’m oceanic so the more that join the better). It’s cross-server so WvW prob won’t suit. Link below:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Operation-Union-Bringing-Players-Together-2

2. I came across these guys a week or so back (oceanic, SoS)…
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/EDGE-Sea-of-Sorrows-Casual-Oceanic-guild

Also feel free to add me in-game. Always nice to meet other Oceanics.

See you in game!
Poitus

From Sydney here. On NA, NSP server. Been there for 13 months. Had maybe 2 bad lags the whole time, so I’m happy there.

My internet connection is rock steady though (TPG, ADSL2+, about 300m from the exchange).

Now I know it doesn’t quite fit with the whole lute, no electricity deal, but…

How good would it be if F1-F4 were mapped as effects pedals eg. F1-overdrive / distortion, F2-delay, etc etc.

Just putting it out there.

Am I missing something Malediktus?

You’ve been playing for weeks now (let’s assume 6 weeks, 42 days), and you’ve got 9100 AP from dailies? (that means 214 AP per day from dailies)???

Are you sure? (Are you hovering over the AP and it’s telling you 9000 dailies???)

let’s assume you could get 25 daily APs – to get 9000 from daily that would be 360 days…

…confused.

Another Aussie!!! Woohoo!!!
Welcome, although you’ll get a more proper welcome from the guild leaders. I also do what you do and rep with some RL mates, but when they aren’t on, I’m with these guys & gals.
They’re great – you’ll be made to feel welcome, and they are very helpful!!!
Cya in game,
Pete

80
(Filler filler filler)

Hey mercury,

Fair point & good call. I didn’t mean to troll, but I can see it being taken that way, so apologies to the OP!

I agree totally with you, mercury, and I was less eloquently trying to say what you are saying. I’m an “older” gamer, so time = money for me!

If you are going to spend 600 hours making 2000g, the best parts of the game will be missed. If you are dead set on getting sunrise, maybe spend 40 hrs in RL making $400, then 560 hrs in-game enjoying the journey of the game. To make the gold, I assume you would be champ training, and speed running, and losing out on the community aspect of it.

E.g yesterday I pug’d into a AC P1 that didn’t stack, and did Kohler, and ended up loving it and making two more contacts for future runs.

Later!
Pete

Well, in all seriousness, according to :

http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem

1 gold will set you back 20cents.

If you can get yourself $400 real dollars (which should take much less than 5 months), you could get it much sooner?

…but of course it might be more fun to grind for 5 months… ;-)

Pretty sure it’s an elite skill that you can unlock when you get to level 30.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_norn_racial_skills

Depending on what you want to do with your laurels, you can turn 1 laurel into 3(?) T6 materials. It’s a bit of a lottery, but if you don’t get the ones you want, TP the rest for the gold..
….but, as I mentioned, you might be saving your laurels for something else.

Thanks Aerinndis. I got the 176 the other day with the wiki map, but the list is great for he others.
Catch you in game..
Poitus

Thanks Donari! Will load up the wiki ones on my iPad!
Cheers.

Hi all,
Am I correct in assuming that I could have 100% map completion for a map, but still miss a section of the map which counts towards an ‘explorer’ achievement (if that section doesn’t contain a POI, WP etc?

e.g I’m 1 short in Ascalon explorer, and need to decide if I can eliminate the 100% map completion areas or not – Fireheart is the only map left, but I’ve only got Vistas and Skills to go)

Thanks,
Poitus