Guild Wars 2

Alright, thanks for your suggestion, I’m currently on EE (previously Orange/T-Mobile), so we may very much share the same experience, I’ll try it out! Do you have any recomendations for VPNs? There’s generally so many conflicting reviews out there that it’s annoying to find a good one. I’m fairly lacking in money however, so a free one would be ideal.

You’re complaining about the new player experience? If you were a regular mmorpg fan you’d be complaining about the deplorable lack of endgame content we’ve recieved since the start of living world s2. The most catered group in gw2 would be roleplayers in my opinion, which was some of the most fun I have had in gw2. If you wanna try out the game how it seems to be designed by the devs, I’d try finding a roleplay guild that has the right kind of atmostphere that you want

I was suggesting in /g a day or so ago that similar to the purple trophies for legendary crafting that you get from dungeon tokens (gift of ascalon, baelfire etc) you could have improved customisability for legendary armour according to dungeon rewards, such as HotW giving you a blizzard around your character or something… It’d make world bosses run so smoothly amiriteguise

I might, but only for 2 reasons – fashion (Inquest weapons look so sexy) and challenge runs (e.g. if I want to learn how to solo lupi or aetherpath sometime).

They’re doing it for inflation. If they wanted to drive people away from dungeons they could just as easily over-incentivise other content. The issue is that dungeons give gold magically, as if it just grew on an underground, spectral tree with graveling burrows under it. If you want your precious 100g to stay valuable you need this gold nerf, as otherwise the f2p players and their farming will make everything skyrocket. This is a bit of an extreme irl example of hyperinflation but… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_Hyperinflation.svg

Say what you like about the delay’s impact on how content is played, I’m not too happy about it myself, but you can’t seriously say that them not meeting production schedules is something we should be happy about. If we pay for the expansion before hand, which I did out of percieved trust and respect between me and the company, it should be expected that they deliver on their end. Just because they’ve made a good product it doesn’t neccesarily mean that’s what some people paid for.

As an engi player of about 100 ranked games I feel like engi is more of a style of play than about mechanical skill. I got the hang of it quite quickly yet I can’t seem to play warrior, mesmer or ele for the life of me.

Was a fun watch, I was suprised at the comeback towards the end

Hey, first time posting here, so I might make some cardinal sins of formatting or similar. My issue here is that during prime times (roughly 6:30 to midnight GMT) I get unplayable lag, including but not limited to disconnects, skill lag lasting 3 minutes or so, not being able to interact with npcs, pm’s not working but guild chat is working and more. To give you some kind of idea imagine using a mobility skill and seeing it’s icon pulse for a few minutes as if it was queued, autoattacking out of boredom, and then 5 minutes later have the entire game fast forward, making you run into a wall before getting put in the character select screen. This is not just in LA, World Bosses etc, this is in niche jumping puzzles like the one in Fields of Ruin and Diessa Plateau. I’m not sure if this is regular with the influx of free to play players but it certainly isn’t fun, especially when I study late into the evening and return to an unplayable gw2. People say that 1-3 second lag is ‘unplayable’, welcome to my world.

Does anyone else experience this? I’ve tried playing on clientport 80, 443 and have run a -diag test, but the diag seems normal and the ports change little in the grand scheme of things, making 20s skill lag go to about 5s. I’ve closed all my additional programs and flushed my DNS (tried everything on the gw2 website basically) but it’s not working that well. Anyway, tl;dr – I have lots of lag and despite lots of attempts I can’t seem to fix it. Any wonderful e-citizens who are willing to help me would be greatly appreciated, thanks a bunch!

Thanks all for your responses, I suppose the fact I am trying too hard to level up quickly to get into the good bit has meant that I avoid the good part of the game. Thanks all for your suggestions.

So I played Guild Wars 2 for the first time today and it just seems very meh and a bit dull so far, I have been trying to level up and get into the good part of the game but it really just seems slow and irritating. Granted, I only have a level 3 thief (a class I found boring and redundant) and a level 5 engineer (a class I like) right now but I just feel a bit disappointed with my purchase and that if you want to progress with the story (the only enjoyable part as of yet) you need to grind to the next level for an hour to be able to stand a chance against the ridiculously powerful opponents I am facing. Should I just give up on the game and go back to Dark Souls or is there something worth working for in this game?