Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029:

Just to confirm:

“Breaking news! We’re releasing future items early for one day only!”

So yes, the items will return.

It’s cool to hear, thanks for confirming that, but why do it in the first place? And any hint as of when they might return? (Like a week/month/year, so I know whether or not to get gems in advance x:?)

lordkrall.7241:

What should the timer be?
What if I am away for a week? Should everything stay for a week?
What if my computer dies and it will take me a month to get all the parts needed to fix it?

There will always be people that misses out.

Yes but it’s far less likely for people to complain if something is available for 1 week than 1 day. The percentage of people that can’t log in for a day or maybe 2 is far bigger than those that can’t play for a week. I think it’s less reasonable to complain about a time frame of 1 week.

Same here, I’ve been looking forward to them since they were datamined. Missed it by a few hours and I’, really disappointed that they’ve been there for only a day, when our developers know very well that a lot of their playerbase doesn’t play the game 24/7.
They will be back? In half a year? Why not simply have them on the gemstore for 3 days or a week? ._.

Same here, can’t log in every day and missed it by a few hours. Please make them available for a few days if not a week. I mean, the game has always been catering towards players that can’t play 24/7, so why suddenly pull off something like that? Why not take my money >_>?

[quote=4025422;Brother Grimm.5176:]

It’s less about the question if or if not to make them sell able, but about the fact that the back piece was trade able and then got account bound. I don’t know why you wouldn’t unlock the skin once you completed the reward track, or at least give an option to repeat the reward track, because right now I’m here with a completed reward track but no skin, I’d be more than happy to loose the 20g I made from selling the back piece when it was trade able, because I wouldn’t have done it if I would’ve known that it would get changed/fixed.

Do you see any problem with the option of unlocking the backpiece for the account, if they reward track is completed ?

Can anyone else state his or her opinion ? Would be really happy to hear your thoughts.

Casmurro.9046:

I heard that it was a bug, that the skin was never intended to be sellable, so they removed then from the TP and refunded the gold. But i find it weird that they didnt refund the skin too. Did you check your wardrobe if its there? If not is there a way to you to pick it again from the reward track?

I had no idea they refunded the gold.
I checked if I could do something with the reward track, but there`s no option there as far as I’m concerned.
Yeah, I checked my wardrobe, sadly it’s not in there.
I don’t know if the implementation would be difficult, but as a refund A-net could just unlock the skin if the account has completed the reward track.

Hey everyone. I just made a thread in the “Black Lion Trading Post” section, where I got the suggestion to bring that topic here, in order to get any advice or answer. I’ll just quote really quick what I wrote there -

“Good day everyone.
What’s my problem? Well, as many of you know with the Feature Pack Update, reward tracks have been introduced. The first “unique” reward track was the one for the Balthazar Back Piece. I completed that one within the first couple days and got the back piece skin, which I thought was really cool.
However, I noticed that it was a trade able thing and so I watched the prices for the item on the TP and I realized that it sunk every day – when I first checked it was at over 60 gold, then 40, 20… my plan now was to sell the pack piece as early as possible, before the price sunk too much, and then in a couple of days/weeks re-buy it, when it was cheaper, in order to make a few gold.
Not a big deal, I sold it, and was pretty happy about the plan until the next day when I checked on the price again and the Balthazar Back Piece skin wasn’t found by my TP anymore – I relogged a few times, it surely had to be a bug on my end here, but no – the skin was removed entirely from the TP.
Now my problem is, that if I would have known in before hand that the skin would be account bound one day, I never would have sold it in the first place, as I find the skin to be really neat, and as far as I’m concerned, there haven’t been any posts or indications of the item being removed in the near future (?).
I asked the support about this and they told me that they don’t have the tools to refund items, that are sold on the TP, which is fair enough and I won’t complain about that.
But still, do I miss something here ? Is there still a way to acquire the skin somehow ? Was it announced that the skin would be removed from the TP later on ? Is there anything I can do ?
Thanks for your patience and for reading the comment. If there have been any similar posts about this, sorry, but I didn’t find anything when I was searching the forum for the tag “Balthazar”, so..”

So would it perhaps be possible to repeat the reward track ? Or is it, and as much as I hate pointing the finger at someone, since it was a simple bug and it got fixed, possible to re-send the item?
Any thoughts on that ? Thanks a lot for taking the time to read this.
Greetings

Thanks everyone for your advice.
I’ll put up a thread on the discussion forum and see how it’ll go from there.

Good day everyone.
First of all, I don`t know if this is the right section to post this in to, so my apologizes if it isn’t.
So what’s my problem? Well, as many of you know with the Feature Pack Update, reward tracks have been introduced. The first “unique” reward track was the one for the Balthazar Back Piece. I completed that one within the first couple days and got the back piece skin, which I thought was really cool.
However, I noticed that it was a trade able thing and so I watched the prices for the item on the TP and I realized that it sunk every day – when I first checked it was at over 60 gold, then 40, 20… my plan now was to sell the pack piece as early as possible, before the price sunk too much, and then in a couple of days/weeks re-buy it, when it was cheaper, in order to make a few gold.
Not a big deal, I sold it, and was pretty happy about the plan until the next day when I checked on the price again and the Balthazar Back Piece skin wasn’t found by my TP anymore – I relogged a few times, it surely had to be a bug on my end here, but no – the skin was removed entirely from the TP.
Now my problem is, that if I would have known in before hand that the skin would be account bound one day, I never would have sold it in the first place, as I find the skin to be really neat, and as far as I’m concerned, there haven’t been any posts or indications of the item being removed in the near future (?).
I asked the support about this and they told me that they don’t have the tools to refund items, that are sold on the TP, which is fair enough and I won’t complain about that.
But still, do I miss something here ? Is there still a way to acquire the skin somehow ? Was it announced that the skin would be removed from the TP later on ? Is there anything I can do ?
Thanks for your patience and for reading the comment. If there have been any similar posts about this, sorry, but I didn’t find anything when I was searching the forum for the tag “Balthazar”, so..
Greetings.

Fully agreed on that one.

I know these threads have been here quite frequently, but this just shows how urgent the matter is.
I have to agree that this map is a pain to play on, I’m not one of the haters demanding for completely removing the map from PvP, but I find myself sighing a lot lately, whenever this map pops for SoloQ.
I think the post offers some good solutions to the map, I am against removing it from PvP (what is what a lot of people ask for), but I think just giving the player an option on either
a.) The maps he/she wants to be listed in for SoloQ
b.) Whether or not he wants to be listed for Skyhammer
would be a step into the right direction.
I also think that the hammer should be downed down a bit. I mean, you can dodge trebuchés, which have a smaller area of effect, so why wouldn’t you be able to dodge this one?

Any news on that ? Looking for a good way to use my spare PVP mats as well!

Very cool changes overall, I can’t wait for the 15th.

I want to add another question, will Gemstore-Skins that we bought but applied in PvP instead of PvE be available in the Wardrobe-Locker?
If this is one of the things being answered in the upcoming RUs, then sorry wasting your precious time. I’m really hyped about this.

I just farmed the first stage of the item because I really wanted it as a skin for my PVP chars – I was thinking it would be a normal skin that can be applied to both PVE and PVP.
I’m really sad that that’s not possible. Can’t that be changed ?

Cleansing Wave and Elemental Attunement in Master traitline , this kittened it up for me, sadly.

It’s horrible the way it is now.

They achieved the exact opposite of what they wanted to.
Want me to take points from Arcane and spend them on Fire/Air ? Then why in the world do you take the only skill from Arcane that I don’t find it enjoyable to play without and move it to the Master trait-line ? Elemental Attunement was such a great skill and now I have to spend extra 10 points in order to use it ? Why ?
Plus taking the condition removal from the Water line and put it on the Master one was also unnecessary. These 2 changes kind of destroyed my build and now I’ll have to spend additional 10 points in Arcane and Water in order to get them.
If there’s still room for changes when it comes down to the Ele traits please undo the applied changes and do something else. Because what you did yesterday was utterly pointless in my opinion.

@ kirito, have the utilization-numbers that I gave you shown you anything ?

Predator.1398:

It’s the game engine problem.
It can be fixed by ANet’s game engine programmers
You can do nothing here. Just wait for the fix.

Are you sure ? Then how does it come only a few people are experiencing it ? I mean, there must be something in our specs or OS or whatever, so this problem is caused. Maybe you’re right and it’s something from ANets side, but then why are only certain people “punished” with it ?

Yours sincerely, Raiga.

Alright!
So in CPUZ there’s window called ‘Memory’
General →
Type: DDR3
Size: 8192 MBytes
Channels#: Dual
NB Frequency: 2200.0MHz (this changes sometimes)

Timings →
DRAM Frequency: 666.6 MHz
FSB:DRAM 3:10 | 9-9-9-24-33(tRC)

if you need anything else, just shoot.
Cya tomorrow, thanks everyone for your support.
Yours sincerely, Raiga.

Great, so you have an Intel and still experience the problem.
Not sure where to check the RAM speeds and timings, Solar.
In BIOS its set to 1333MHz..could that be ?
Still, to be sure, can you tell me where/how I can check that ? I have CPU-Z, GPU-Z and a few other programms to check the PC, if I could doit with any of those.
Yours sincerely, Raiga.

Hi supremo and fireworkmuffins, it’s so nice to know that other (active) GW2 Members are also reporting this problem. Could you give me/us your exact specs ? Might help to find the connection, if there is one from our side.
If it’s really on ANet’s side, then why aren’t all the players experiencing it ? Not even all with an AMD Processor or GTX Cards ? Even though alot of the people with this problem seem to have GTX ones.. Strange.

I feel the same pain, fireworkmuffins, especially because the PC is only a few weeks old and I bought it 70% because I wanted to play GW2 on high settings. I mean, I actually can, but these stutters need to be fixable somehow.

Any new ideas would be really appreciated, thanks already!
-Raiga.

Hi Solar, thanks for your reply.
As you said, it’s not a cheap solution.
Yeah, I get your point, but you know what’s strange? A friend of mine has also a GTX graphic card and an AMD processor, both 1-2 years older than mine and he can play the game better than I do. Well, from the IG framerate I have a slightly better framerate, but he doesn’t have the stutters after a loading screen.I purchased mine like 2 weeks ago in order to play GW2 properly (Had 15FPS on my laptop before) and as I said, the overall performance is very satisfying, just the “after-load-lags” don’t seem like they want to go away!
So you think it’s got something to do with my hard drive ?
I’m slowly running low on options, since I really tried out every “fix” that was mentioned on the forums I guess.
ADD: I also have the energy-options on “High Performance”, I set all Nvidia-Options to default though. Some of them might have changed the IG-experience in some way, but didn’t solve the problem.
Is there by the way a way to increase the speed of my HDD, if this causes the stutters?

Thanks already, Raiga.

Alright, I tried to check the utilizations as good as I could:
CPU: Stutter: 23-29% ; After: 30-40~%
GPU (wasn’t sure wether to check the GPU Load or memory Controller Load) :
GPU Load: Stutter: 8-16%; After: 50-55%
Memory Controller Load: Stutter: 7-14%; After: ~21%

So: When moving the camera aka stuttering all the utilization…drops? Didn’t see that coming nor do I know what it means. As I said, only after a Loading Screen or when I minimize the game and open it up again, it kinda feels like the PC is re-loading everything that isn’t visible from my point of view, it starts doing that when I move around or something like that. Speculations of a noob, only.

I used drivesweeper, however it removed most of the entries but said for the rest of the entries it wants me to get the Premium Version <_<..
-I reinstalled driver 310.90 and I can’t notice much of a difference to before I think.
- I set reflections to none and it seems like the game runs more fluent after the stutters (which sadly remain). It helps the framerate but doesn’t remove the entire problem. Thanks though!
Any new thoughts, Sirs?
Thanks already.

Thanks for the replies, guys.
- I’ll check that ASAP.
- I`ll try drivesweeper ASAP.
- Yes, forgot to say that. With GPU-Z it tells me that it runs on 16×.

Okay, I think I already tested that, but I’ll try it out.
Thakns again.

Hello, friends.
I’m sure some of you are tired of reading this matter through, but I’ll have to ask about it once again.
To summarize the problem: After leaving a loading screen, moving my camera or looking around reduces the frame rate from 40-60 to 1-20 for a few seconds, until I turned around about 360°. Then the frames go up again.
I’m sure there have been many posts about it and I looked through the forum for hours and hours, and I still don’t know wether there is a solution or not, and what causes the problem.
Specs:
AMD FX8120 CPU, OCed from 3,1GHz to 4,2(!) GHz.
Nvidia GTX660 TI
8GB RAM
Ask me if I need to add anything. But let me get a few things straight:

I know that GW2 performs better on an Intel than on an AMD, but before you start complaining about that: I don’t have any ingame performance issues – the FPS is between 40-60 (35 in LA, 70+ in several PVE areas, but the average is 50~), I don`t see any frame-related problems in PvP either. I am as satisfied as I could be.
My only concern is the framedrop when turning the camera after a loading screen until I turned around 360°.

So – What causes the problem ? How can it be fixed ? What can you do about that ?

I already tried out the following things, all with no or really almost none noticeable effect.
- Overclock the CPU ( I don’t want to go over 4,2GHz)
- Update all the drivers (Everything updated, except for BIOS, I am using F6 not F7, if this causes the problem ima laugh.)
- Rolled back to 306.23 and the other 306.xx Nvidia driver ( Might have increased the IG performance, didn’t check that, the camera-issue wasn’t fixed)
- Turned Shadows from Ultra to High, Reflections on Water&Terrain (increased the FPS noticeable, however didn’t fix the issue)
-Tried out ALOT of changes in the Nvidia controll planel
-Disabled core parking in my CPU
-Ran GW2 as admin
-Defragmented both of my hard drives (GW2 is installed on D with 2TB space)
- tried out different things with the ingame graphic settings

I might add something later. Also I installed a new FAN (watercooling :-] ), the CPU temps never go beyond 40-45° while playing GW2 24/7.

We’re almost done, friends. Have I forgot to try out anything ? If so, please tell me, I appreciate your help so much (since I wasted hours&days trying to find a fix).
Thanks for any clues or solutions that you might offer, I`ll check out this post regularely from now on.

Yours sincerely, Raiga.