Guild Wars 2

robert.3475:

the game is free why complain its the best of all the free games

No it isn’t. Just because you don’t pay a subscription fee, we still paid $60.

Faranox.4217:

Tajz.9826:

well it’s fun but THERE IS NO REWARD, thus no point to play, WvW is waste of time, i better go dungeon for more gold.

I’m sad to hear that the act of playing the game isn’t fun for them. That seems to be a common problem.

If they added some variety in it then it would remain fun, but doing the same thing EVERY DAY, EVERY WEEK, EVERY MONTH against faceless anonymous people is hardly what I call fun. Look at how many big/hardcore WvW guilds exist now. Boredom gets the better of you sooner or later.

loseridoit.2756:

Samfisher.7942:

loseridoit.2756:

I always wonder about one thing. Does reducing the gpu optimizations increases fps? Optimization sometimes means more code which increases the cpu overhead. I wonder if decreasing the gpu optimization will lower it hereby increasing framerates

Optimizations does not necessarily mean more code, it means using code more efficiently, as well as using code to perform things better. Code complexity unfortunately does not trade 1 to 1 with CPU performance though.

True

I wonder if reducing optimization will make things faster. Things seems to have gotten worse since Mad King

I’ve actually seen an increase in FPS since then, but then that could have been better drivers from nvidia, so who knows.

Nero.4706:

imo LB is more abt burst dps whilst SB is meant more for inflicting conditions (dots) and sustaining dps.

Supposed to be. Is it? Not by a long shot (hehehe) -_-

loseridoit.2756:

I always wonder about one thing. Does reducing the gpu optimizations increases fps? Optimization sometimes means more code which increases the cpu overhead. I wonder if decreasing the gpu optimization will lower it hereby increasing framerates

Optimizations does not necessarily mean more code, it means using code more efficiently, as well as using code to perform things better. Code complexity unfortunately does not trade 1 to 1 with CPU performance though.

Mrowqa.3861:

Samfisher.7942:

Mrowqa.3861:

I don’t want to sound as prick.
But seriously By many freaking Posts out there many ppl were claiming that:

FULL reflections is major hit in FPS ( Some reported that from 100+ fps in no reflections at all to full they lost 50-60 FPS ).
Also Put freaking rendering to Native. You really don’t need SUPERSAMPLE.

Also put kittening LOD distance to low/medium. You don’t need high it just makes Your GPU work to hard for result You don’t even notice. Im sure You don’t even know what LOD means otherwise You wouldn’t put it on Max…

Unfortunately, many people have GPUs more than able to handle everything gW2 can throw at it. It’s the CPU that is the main problem now, and no mainstream CPU can play WvW at max @ 60fps in WvW.

Dear sam.
Many ppl with 2500k + GTX 680 SLi/GTX 690 reported major FPS hit with reflections on max.

That’s also cos reflections are being rendered underneath the world, even when there’s no water anywhere to reflect anything.

You cannot snipe people unless they are completely at a standstil, which doesn’t happen. Barrage is the only useful skill on the LB in WvW.

Bosley.6403:

If you miss your favorite bands one time concert in your town, do you blame the band or do you blame yourself for not finding the time to go?

They do it one time cos they are humans and they need the downtime. Machines don’t. Especially machines that are made to be constantly working 24/7

Parthis.2091:

fishladybot.3675:

Parthis.2091:

fishladybot.3675:

Parthis.2091:

fishladybot.3675:

The latter is to keep the players in the game and restricting a good portion of your playerbase from the only decent rewards is a terrible plan

And that, right there is the difference; I’d have preferred to have experienced the halloween stuff I missed, but it’s OK to me that I missed it… you’re lamenting the fact that you aren’t being given shinnies.

“Rewards” are subjective.

I’m lamenting the fact that it would take me -weeks- to get a few flipping items that you were handed just for being at a specific place and time

Again! I’ve played the game since the kitten beta weekends and i can’t get cool things because cool things are for lucky people

IM pissed that i missed out on that because i had the audacity to, you know, SLEEP

Chill. The. Kitten. Out.

The harpoon that dropped for me wouldn’t have taken -weeks-. Hate to spoil your world view here, but we’re not all walking around with Twilight as a result of this one event. Hate to break this to you too; it wasn’t handed to people. People spent three or four hours of their time playing a game to get an item at the end. Like instances. Like sPvP. Like most things in most games.

The fact that it only happened once is your complaint. Leave the mechanics out of it, you’re confusing the issue.

Hope you had a good night of sleep though. Sleep is important to the rational and emotional well being of a person.

Heaven forbid you get too little sleep and start ranting and raging on the internet over a game.

Chill? Really? You’re the one who was doing the personal attacks up until now
And who, you know, -continues- to do the personal attacks
I had no idea me wanting video game items hurts your feelings so much.

I’ll send you my harpoon later.

Is that what you need to feel better?

Send it to the rangers! They have just had 90% of their change log in the recent patch to ONLY contain underwater skills! Surely they would need an appropriate weapon to test their new prowess!

Whadya know, 3 rangers with the exact same build :P

Mad King Thorn says, “You live in Asia/Australiasia!”

R Pete G.2490:

Well, the Halloween patch did actually add:

30 new events
2 new mini-dungeons (I think?)
3 new jumping puzzles.

And it’s a seasonal event that didn’t stay, hence not what players would traditionally call “content” patches.

Dra Keln.2015:

2nd update. The Halloween one counted

Halloween didn’t add anything permanent to the world, or anything that changed anything. You got a backpack. Yay…?

Dante Dragonhand.2538:

@Samfisher.7942

Yes, called favorable winds. I used it in my dps build in fort aspenwood, but honestly Id rather have a trait like read the wind. Much better, and it would be even better if it added damage. I hope they impliment it tho, would make much more sense than signet of the beastmaster for the MM tree.

And trap trait on the Crit %/Damage line!

Cuchullain.3104:

“Hunters were in a very good place the whole of Cata, most of WotLK, ending of TBC.”

No, they weren’t, certainly not in PVP and they had severe bugs that could make them a liability in PVE as well. I quit WoW because my death knight with crap armor, a tanky build and virtually no experience as a death knight in PVP could faceroll hunters that were way more skilled than my hunter was. I figured if these guys couldn’t beat a crap dk (me) with no idea how to PVP properly as a dk what chance would I as a hunter have against a properly specced dk who did know how to play his class.

The auto target/auto shot bug could cause you to accidentally pull mobs and wipe your group, and there was no way to avoid it. I did a video proving the existence of this bug and showing how it worked, and that the bug could occur within as little as 3 frames of video making it humanly impossible to avoid it. That bug had been around for years and Blizzard did nothing about it other than blame the players for it.

Ranger is severely kittened and poorly designed in this game for both PVP and PVE but it is no where near as horrible as the hunter class in WoW was.

Communication by the devs in this game is poor but nothing close to the clueless arrogance Ghostcrawler was famous for.

WoW is primarily a PvE game, so of course I was talking in that context. Hunters have always been utterly crap in PvP though, one huge reason being the stupid minimum range which has now been removed. And Ghostcrawler has done a lot of good to the hunter class in PvE. I don’t play PvP on my hunter for very very obvious reasons.

I was gonna recommend GW2 to my friends until this.

mcwurth.2081:

SilverWF.4789:

mcwurth.2081:

some people in 3th world countrys would kill you for a few bites of REAL food. geez

How may food and goods you have sent to the 3rd world countries?

i have worked in 3th world countrys to help those people. you?

Maybe that’s why you started talking like them.. 3th indeed…

R Pete G.2490:

I’d be interested to know how much you were expecting for a free, monthly update.

Monthly update….? It’s been 3 months since launch and this is the first update. And just cos I didn’t pay upfront for it doesn’t mean it came free. Their salaries are still paid by the box sets and gems we continue to buy.

People are actually complaining they can see too far? All WvW’rs have been doing is they can’t see far enough! Although a LoD and draw distance slider would be much appreciated. Unfortunately there is no easily accessible config file for GW2. Everything’s saved in a encrypted file for settings.

Aleaf.8174:

Celesica.5790:

I’m not from WoW. I complained because:

1. My timezone. Event is like 4am to me.
2. I was happy that the event repeats in several hours. But when I finally did it, I got disconnected during the last part wherein we’re about to kill the thing. No, I didn’t get any loot, at all.
3. Did it again, but the new build came so… nope, never got another chance again.
4. Actually, I didn’t really want to bother about one time events BUT… They’re giving the chance to get a “PRECURSOR” and sure loot of a 20 slot bag in this One Time Event.

It’s kinda unfair to those who can’t attend due to timezones (work/school/other RL responsibilities). Some got the chest twice in the same account, while most didn’t even have any loot at all.

1. This is an NA Server. It was advertised as NA. It kinda sucks don’t it? At any rate you could have woken up early or slept late.
2. The repeats should have never happened in the first place.
3. Read 2.
4. You weren’t at the event. You did not complete it like everyone else. Why should they accommodate you?

And while it’s unfair to those would can’t attend, it also sucks for those who couldn’t but made time to.

Hell look at Halloween. It happened during a major storm that affected most of the east coast of US. Did you hear them moaning as hard as people are now? Nope. And they had a legitimate reason to complain.

GW1 servers were also labelled NA/KR/International and yet all events repeated every 3 hours. Any explanation? This is the same developers who made the game!

Neilos Tyrhanos.5427:

Samfisher.7942:

Huh? The whole game had bugged DE’s at one point or another. Halloween had bugged events that couldn’t be completed. You’d think after almost 3 months since release and countless hour-long tests, BWE’s etc etc they’d figure out a way to unbreak their DE system.

So bugged DEs in the game in general are the reason to warn people not to play it?

That’s not what the OP suggests. Besides, the vast majority of DEs in the game proper work fine.

The reason to warn people not to play this game is cos ANet doesn’t know what their community wants OR needs. Want a better look? Go back 1-2 months on the Ranger forums, then look at it now. JonP has no idea at all what is wrong with the profession, and they have TWO people working on professions. WTF? In a game bought by MILLIONS, you have TWO people working on ALL the professions?? REALLY?

Owningtheair.8493:

Sorry but the info was out there that the one time event was on the 18th and because of that its pretty obvious that the real reward was going to be after you complete that.

It’s not about whether it was informed in advance, it’s the mentality that only certain people can play your event cos of where they live. GW1 was never like this, and since people like to compare how GW2 was “just like” GW1 in almost every heated argument about ANet’s decisions, let’s see them do one for this too.

Neilos Tyrhanos.5427:

“Warning people off the game” because a one-time event had bugged DEs?

Even though the dungeon & map, which they gave us (though they didn’t have to) were great and worked fine?

Huh? The whole game had bugged DE’s at one point or another. Halloween had bugged events that couldn’t be completed. You’d think after almost 3 months since release and countless hour-long tests, BWE’s etc etc they’d figure out a way to unbreak their DE system.

Just because you didn’t pay upfront for it doesn’t make it free.

My review of the Lost Shores event :

Phase 1, Broke at Noll for the longest time, went to bed.

Phase 2, Noll unbrokenified, went to island. No events happening AT ALL. Sat at waypoints for an hour each. Logged out.

Phase 3, 4am Local time, hooray!

I’ve got an i5 OC’d 1GHz above stock, a GTX 670, 8GB of RAM, a fast SSD and a decent internet line (everything was stress tested stable with 72 hours of Prime95 and Intel Burn Test each) so no it’s not a PC issue. Heck, my sound card probably costs more than most people’s GPUs.

It made me rich cos I was sleeping at 4am when the event started and kept my job and got paid REAL MONEY!

Aleaf.8174:

Samfisher.7942:

Aleaf.8174:

The Deviant One.9278:

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I’m gonna go with no. Why should Anet schedule events around everyone? If you got tickets to a free concert and you can’t make it because of your schedule, would you complain about not getting to see it?

And I have no idea how fail your group was but the event ended for me by 2:30 PST. And they never said it was a “1 hour Event.” If you actually READ the post, it’s a “Multi Hour Event.” Multi generally means 2+ hours.

And lastly, you made your choice over doing something IRL or playing the game. Everything has an opportunity cost. You made your choice.

A concert involves REAL LIVING PEOPLE. NPCS aren’t that! Events are automated! How do people even consciously compare this to real life without comparing every other aspect like automation and actual life?

I think you’re missing the point. They had a scheduled time event that was announced plenty for everyone. I had no questions as what to do. If I did, I just checked the 1 of 900 posts on the internet. It was announced ahead of time so those who wanted to participate can plan around it. If you can’t, then you made your choice. You chose your work, girlfriend/boyfriend, father, son, etc over doing the event that was emphasized to be only 1 time.

Everything has an opportunity cost and you are NOT entitled to anything.

It’s not so much about whether I got to do this event or not, it’s about the direction ANet is going with their game decisions. If this continues, then every single ONE TIME event EVER, will be at 4am local time. Why should I care about anything else they say if they don’t care now? Heck, they haven’t cared about Rangers since launch!

I too had a wonderful time during the last event. I was sleeping on my bed cos it was 4am on a Monday morning.

Aleaf.8174:

The Deviant One.9278:

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I’m gonna go with no. Why should Anet schedule events around everyone? If you got tickets to a free concert and you can’t make it because of your schedule, would you complain about not getting to see it?

And I have no idea how fail your group was but the event ended for me by 2:30 PST. And they never said it was a “1 hour Event.” If you actually READ the post, it’s a “Multi Hour Event.” Multi generally means 2+ hours.

And lastly, you made your choice over doing something IRL or playing the game. Everything has an opportunity cost. You made your choice.

A concert involves REAL LIVING PEOPLE. NPCS aren’t that! Events are automated! How do people even consciously compare this to real life without comparing every other aspect like automation and actual life?

Vez Willrage.8163:

Just a thought: Does other Giant MMO titles ever put oceania players into consideration?

Titles like WoW, Rift, SWTOR etc.

WoW does, cos they have servers labelled as “Oceanic” where server times are Australian, and events start around 8-9pm.

@OP, More like 4am MONDAY morning, not Sunday.. >.>

Paranormal Bear.2539:

Sarmach.1547:

Anet should mail out the 2 items that everyone was guaranteed after killing the ancient karka. I don’t think it is fair for Anet to expect the majority of their player base to sit through 2-3 hours worth of slow, unengaging combat. Yes, some people have found repeatable overflows but again you have to wait another 2-3 hours with a lot less back up than when it first started making it much more annoying. Limit the chest to 1 per account, NOT one per character on that account.

If anyone has any other or different suggestions please toss them in.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lostshores/Feeling-left-out-on-Phase-3-READ/first#
You were saying?

I disagree that ArenaNet should cater individuals like you who sat out of it. The only compensation if any should be made to players who faced REAL issues that I could understand like network disconnection at final phase/chest.

I did it in 3 different characters of mine, and received chest rewards PER character. Meaning the final event is account bound but the rewards are only character bound.

Instead of complain pew pews at devs because you didn’t find it challenging enough to participate, you should get a move on while you still can and follow the linked steps! Nothing of this nor last holiday event was guaranteed. It was optional and you had the “choice” to do it. So choose wisely if you still WILL do it before the event closes!

So how about having some form of compensation, or event extension for those whose event time would put them at 4am on a MONDAY morning?

What event? Everything happened at 4am for me, and the DE’s at Southsun were bugged the whole weekend, so the only thing I did the whole of Lost Shores was scream at Noll cos he was bugged.

Australia would have had the event start at 7am(?), it was 4am for SEA’s… so yeah, we have it worse than you guys.

Cuchullain.3104:

This like being in WoW all over again. I think they hired Ghostcrawler to balance the “hunter” class and communicate with the community. OP classes are made more OP; weak classes get nerfed.

I haven’t played my ranger for a while but I couldn’t believe how weak she is compared to my warrior going against the karka. I can take on 3 karka or drakes easily with my warrior. Anything more than 1 on my ranger and my pet gets insta-gibbed.

At the very least they need to reduce the CDs on our abilities.

Hunters were in a very good place the whole of Cata, most of WotLK, ending of TBC..

Tracker.6483:

aeroh.8930:

I don’t have 10, but how about

Marksmanship

• Signet of the Beastmaster has been removed. Active signet effects will now affect rangers and their pet by default.
• NEW Read the Wind – Increases the projectile speed of all arrows by 50%.

I like this, but I think the Read the Wind at 50% would be too much; perhaps 20%, but they should also buff longbow auto attack speed by 15% in the patch.

In GW1 we had a spirit that doubled our projectile speed

You’re only got the first “fact” right.

YES THERE IS QUAD CORE SUPPORT. It uses all 4 cores, just not as evenly as you’d like.
YES THERE IS NVIDIA GPU SUPPORT. Honestly there’s nothing else to support to make the game smoother, cos it’s a CPU issue.
YES THERE IS AMD GPU SUPPORT. Honestly there’s nothing else to support to make the game smoother, cos it’s a CPU issue.

So your little disclaimer at the bottom of your post does not discount the fact you’re spouting nonsense IN ALL CAPS.

ALso the new 310.54 beta drivers improve performance quite a bit too.

I like how you turned this into Q&A so the latest score is always the 2nd reply. I APPROVE!

“I really hoped for more underwater content”…So rangers can test out their new awesome underwater changes from the recent patch! Right? RIGHT??

Define SEA language? The only languages in SEA that do not use the Latin Alphabets are Thai, Vietnamese (?) and Burmese (as far as I remember). Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, English (the 3 most used languages arguably) are all written in Latin Alphabets.

trapline.8541:

3. Pets take less damage from aoe attacks based on how many points in beast master a player allocates.

4.long bow shots travel 10% faster.

3. Would be unfair to rangers who spec out of BM, cos the pet damage is STILL accounted for in the total ranger DPS. So this basically limits rangers in WvW/PvE (basically anything that’s NOT sPvP) to spec BM… Which is horrible, unless speccing out of BM gives an equivalent boost in my personal damage which is made up by having a dead pet at all times.

4. 10% is hardly fast enough, more like 50%. And I’m not even kidding.

QZ hasn’t been on my bars since the “fix”.

Tijo.9857:

well I disagree. These jumping puzzles do nothing for me, and the time the devs spend doing them could have been spent doing something else.

jumping puzzles, as you said, are not necessary. So it only bothers me to the extent that resources were diverted to develop something that I don’t like. now we can argue about how many people do them or don’t of course… and nobody can win this argument.

In the meantime, I’d like to know when the Wvw (one of the unique features of this game) will get some attention… incentivisation, gear progression, new maps, new objectvies etc…

Have you not heard that not everyone is skilled in every single thing in game development? Maybe there’s a guy hired specifically for JP’s? He wouldn’t be any help in the other departments if that’s his skill set. In fact, he might actually be a hindrance if he tried anything out of his capabilities! People should stop talking about “diverting resources” as if every single employee is able to do each other’s job equally well.

On the other hand, why is there only TWO profession designers on ANet’s team?? How is this acceptable?? Look at the replies on the Ranger forum, it’s ridiculous the excuses you guys give out for practically doing nothing for the ranger since launch.

Also fix your kitten dynamic events. Every new thing that pops out as new content has failed incredibly in the consistency of the events actually working at all.

loseridoit.2756:

guild wars 2 is a 32 bit application and can only address up to 3.2 in accordance to Microsoft specs.

Limiting the amount of ram an application to use is a very bad idea. Essentially you are telling the computer that you are better at managing ram than the developers who design and maintain the OS.

Guild wars 2 I believe uses at least 2.5-3 GB of ram. Anything less will cause massive slowdowns due to swapping. I believe it is not running because the program crashed due too much swapping

GW2 has never used more than 2GB even in WvW.

Be careful now, the last “constructive” thread got locked after a couple hundred replies

Post processing only applies bloom and MAYBE colour correction.

Mrowqa.3861:

I don’t want to sound as prick.
But seriously By many freaking Posts out there many ppl were claiming that:

FULL reflections is major hit in FPS ( Some reported that from 100+ fps in no reflections at all to full they lost 50-60 FPS ).
Also Put freaking rendering to Native. You really don’t need SUPERSAMPLE.

Also put kittening LOD distance to low/medium. You don’t need high it just makes Your GPU work to hard for result You don’t even notice. Im sure You don’t even know what LOD means otherwise You wouldn’t put it on Max…

Unfortunately, many people have GPUs more than able to handle everything gW2 can throw at it. It’s the CPU that is the main problem now, and no mainstream CPU can play WvW at max @ 60fps in WvW.

faeral.7120:

a) the distance you can apply regeneration with a combo finisher is the distance your arrow can travel so long as the arrow touches your field at some point on its journey.

b) regeneration stacks in duration, not effectiveness. so you can get “stacks” of regen, but it will only increase the duration; you won’t see a stack number on the tooltip. so, the axe 2 gives you a 5 × 20% chance to apply regen & each successful application will extend the duration.

c) i am unsure about other players using my combo field, as to whether it uses my healing power or theirs. but i know that if there are 2 regenerations applied of varying strengths, the strongest one will run out its duration first before the weaker one takes effect.

@samfisher, if you take +33% regen duration then the Healing Spring ticks will overlap & each application will further extend your regen timer. this does not account for additional combo finishers that can extend it further. it is not difficult to have 15 seconds of regen up when your healing spring finishes, effectively giving 100% regen uptime.

hope this helps.

It does give 100% regen time but in PvP you need big heals and not slow heal over time. If only regeneration stacks in intensity and not duration.