Guild Wars 2

Thank you both for your input. I appreciate your time and assistance.

I just cleaned out my computer fans and case, however did not use a can of compressed air. I will do so tomorrow when I can get that can of air.

My only concern, if you will, is that I have had no problems since I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro and installed the 64 bit game client. Everything was running smoothly. I have cleared Verdent Brink map on 2 characters and got 1 character down to Dragon Stand. This also includes 9 other characters farming Flax on the initial portion of Verdent Brink. The fan issue started right after the Dec 1st patch was downloaded.

Thanks again for you input.

I am running Windows 10 Pro and the GW2 64 bit game client. I have an Intel I7 2700K processor running at 3.5 GHz and overclocked to 4.5 GHz, 16G RAM, Asus Sabertooth Motherboard, AMD Radeon R9 200 / HD 7900 Series video card with 2G of RAM, and a full tower case.

When HoT was released I went thru a series of constant crashes. I upgraded from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro and installed the 64 bit game client. This took care of the crashing problems and the game seemed to play without issues.

The patch of December 1st was installed and now the CPU fan constantly cycles. I haven’t exactly timed the cycles, but I would say 5 seconds on and 10 seconds off. I am not a computer expert by any means, but I would guess that this is not a healthy situation for my CPU. I went to the control panel (F11) and selected “Best Performance” on the video window, which set all selections to “Low.” This did not stop the constant cycling of the fan.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to remedy this problem. Again, this did not happen prior to the Dec 1st patch and remember, you are talking to an elder citizen who does not know a lot about computers, but does understand some of the technical aspects of the computer.

Thanking everyone in advance for your time and assistance with this problem.

Thank you for explaining that situation. I will look at the traits, which I have selected, and make the change.

I appreciate your time to help me in this matter.

I created this Necromancer initially as a mule, back when the bank was too small for junk collectors like me. Since I had a Conditionmancer, if you will, I made this Necro into a Minion Master, or am attempting to do so, as he is only level 65 atm.

I recently started playing this character and have noticed that the minions just stop in the middle of the road and all the minion skills reset. I am in the Fields of Ruin and am at the Ogre Road WP. I am attempting to work on the reknown heart: Harass the ogres of Foulbear. I enable all of my minions and cross the bridge and engage the first ogre and his pet, but my pets/minions are not with me. Why? Because they stopped in the middle of the bridge, except for the Flesh Golem, who is running in place, and all of the minion skills are in the process of recharging. WHY??? A Minion Master is not much of a Minion Master if he/she doesn’t have any minions to master.

I have called out in Map Chat asking if anyone else is having the problem and I got one response saying that his minions seem to disappear in certain areas of the map. It doesn’t seem to matter where I am when the issue happens. When talking to this person, I was located in Diessa Plateau, just north of the Blasted Moores, and was about to attack a ghost infested stairway in an attempt to get to the POI. I set up my minions at the bottom of the stairs, went up the stairs to attack, and again, found myself without any minions and all of my minion skills were recharging.

I am 65 years old and have been playing GW for 8 1/2 years. I play it simply for relaxation from work and now that I am retired, for something to do during the day. I am not into “why the AI doesn’t work” and other types of problems. I do not know what the “pathing” issues mean, though reading the posts seems to lead me to believe they are talking about how the minions get back to me if I jump off of a bridge and the minions have to find a path to get back to me. Simply put, I just know that the minions should at least last the length of a bridge or a stairway or there is no sense to being a Minion Master.