Guild Wars 2

Nebilim.5127:

There were so many complaints about dredge, for months before this update, and yet, it was turned even worse, i just don’t understand what reasoning was used for these decisions.

Totally agree. There is broad agreement that this fractal is not fun, and it stands out among the other fractals in length.

Its like it was opposite day at Anet, let’s make the fractal everyone complains about even more painful.

Calae.1738:

Horizontal progression assumes that the player achieves something and is rewarded with something that changes the physical appearance of their character/s.

Regardless of what that something is, I personally think the biggest issue here is the definition of an achievement. Is an achievement doing something difficult and overcoming a challenge or repeating an easy task for weeks/months?

Meaningful, challenging content with character build diversity and an alt friendly environment is what will build a passionate GW2 community.

Grinding, meaningless, easy repetitive tasks will chase everyone away.

I came here to make this exact same point, thank you for articulating it so well.

I just want to mention it doesn’t necessarily have to be a visual change. New skills like in GW1 would be awesome. But as you say there needs to be something valuable to attain.

Everquest has Legends of Norrath
World of Warcraft has Hearthstone
It’s only a matter of time before ANet jumps on the band wagon and creates a GW2TCG (I hope). It goes great with the whole free-to-play model and if they do it like Everquest we could even play in game.

What say you ANet?

Ok I Did It.2854:

I know you said you googled it, but what did you google,

The error you want to be looking into is this one
WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR

And if you look into it, a lot of places are saying its linked to a Fatal Hardware Error, and in some they say its the motherboard that is dying,

http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/161461-bsod-whea_uncorrectable_error-124-a.html

Sadly the only way to really test the MB is to test your hardware in another system, either way something in your system is failing and will fail completely, so if you haven’t, back everything up now to an external drive. (just to be safe)

Thank you for the reply. WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR is what I’ve been spending my time on, and most of what I have read says its a low level system issue (like the MB as you mention). PSU is another common suggestion or possibly a dying CPU. The PSU tester is in the mail.

I still find it odd this only happens with GW2 but maybe its because the game is so CPU intensive.

Reborn.2934:

the CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error Microsoft says that there is something wrong in your pc*

in this Microsoft link you can read the reasons why you have bsod ( blue screen of death ) : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557211(v=VS.85).aspx

in this ms link Microsoft says that the operating system " has shut down abruptly to protect itself from data loss "

and as solution it gives these actions :
"
These actions might prevent an error like this from happening again:

1.Download and install updates and device drivers for your computer from Windows Update.
2.Scan your computer for computer viruses.
3.Check your hard disk for errors.

"

• ( I hope you understand that if the client’s software was wrong nobody should be playing the game , but it happens the opposite and a very small minority still have problems )

I’m looking for a little more than googling the error messaging and pasting in the first response. I’ve already done quite a bit of googling, hence the temperature monitoring, memory checking, etc.

Just to add a little more detail: My CPU and GPU are both around 73C while playing. I know that’s a bit high but I see the same thing is Skyrim with no blue screens. CPU load is always below 50%.

I saw another forum user mention a possible issue with wireless so I switched to LAN. I also dusted off the inside of my machine just in case.

Has anyone else had the GW2-only blue screens?

I played GW2 regularly from September 2012 to April 2013. During that time I would get BSOD about once or twice a month. I tried the following to address the issue:

Fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit
Update graphics card drivers to the latest (AMD Radeon HD 6700)
Monitor CPU and GPU temperature at time of blue screen (all normal)
Memtest (normal)

I quit for a while and played modded Skyrim on max settings regularly from April to August and during that time I did not have one blue screen.

I recently came back to GW2 and I get 1 – 2 blue screens per day now. They are all WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR. This evening I also got a CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT for the first time. I still have the latest drivers and I am monitoring GPU and CPU temperature and I don’t see anything out of the ordinary.

Why would I only get blue screens with GW2? What could be the root cause?

Thanks.

I have seen several posts mentioning players getting huge heals, up to 20k, from “WA” which I assume means Whirling Axe.

How is this possible? Are people getting heals this big from Sigil of Blood and Omnomberry Ghosts alone?

I am getting the following error:

Exception: c0000005
Memory at address ffff8008 could not be written
…

You’ll notice in the attached log file there is no Module listed.

The only programs running at the time of the crash were all in the background: Steam, Norton, Dropbox and Google Drive, so I am unaware of any overlays.

If this is a RAM or GPU hardware issue as mentioned in other threads, how would I determine which is the culprit? The graphics card is only 3 months old, but I guess you never know.

Thanks in advance.

Why not patch in some code to record information about drops and look at the data for yourself? Why on earth are you asking players to provide you data about a game you are running?

This is like a bank asking its clients to check how much money is their accounts and report it back to them. You have got to be kidding me.

April 1st is a while away so I guess this post is not a prank, but the company running the game requesting that the players provide them data is so absurd I feel like we’re being trolled.

To get players more spread out through the world, randomly assign each player a set of daily zones (maybe 5). When a zone is one of your dailies the rewards you get for completing events in that zone are slightly greater than level 80 events.

If you group with someone who has a certain zone as his or her daily, you receive their bonus while grouped with them.

I completely agree Anthony. Make the rewards from dynamic events in lower level zones on par with or different but equal to the rewards in high levels zones. All of the zones in this game are amazing, and I would love a compelling reason to go back.

@marianitten I think they are slightly helpful in that they demonstrate that this person did not get what they wanted or expected from the endgame.

Lance and Jestunhi I think you are pointing out something very important that I neglected to mention. Not all feedback is created equal.

However I would also say it is ultimately the software developer’s responsibility to sort out the valid feedback from the nonsense.

I would like to address the multitude of forum posters who respond to any post where the OP talks about something they would change about the game with something like: “You should have researched GW2 before buying it.”

Head over to the dungeons forum and you’ll find a post by Jon Peters that ends with this line:

“Thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate your desire to help us keep improving on the game.”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Updates

And another from Ron Hrouda:

“we’re very aware that our reward system is not up to par for dungeons. It is something we are actively working on right now, to try and find a solution for. I’m not going to talk about what our plans are because I don’t want us to be trapped in promises, but I will say this: We know, and are actively working on updating the system.”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeons-and-Dungeon-Reward-System-Overhaul-Needed

The devs read the forums and take the player opinions seriously. Feedback improves the game.

Developers create software for users. Any supported software, but especially games, and especially an MMO is not static. That means it is constantly evolving. Players talking about their experience is useful for those who want to improve the game. The developers themselves have said an MMO is a service.

Jon Peters is absolutely right that these posters have a desire to make the game better. If we didn’t love GW2 we wouldn’t be posting on these forums, we’d be playing another game. Some players love GW2 so much they want to play it 40 hours a week, every week. That says something about how much they love this game!

What is not useful, to anybody, is posting in threads that offers feedback these canned responses about how people should research the games they buy. These posts do not help make the game better. They are also misleading because they imply that the game will always be exactly as it is now, which is incorrect.