Guild Wars 2

Anyone able to tell me what the problem is? is it Memory? is it the game, itself?

This forum wont let me post the crash in the message body so i attached it.

Your commander can give one of your party members a tag/marker and you all just stay with/near that marker. Bandaid solution.

I have tried -repair, uninstall/reinstall, virtual memory modifications, permissions, and removing programs completely from my computer. I even went on a little registry cleaning adventure while I was at it just because. When I run GW2 it is literally the only thing I run. Not even a webpage in the back ground.

I have nothing left to try according to Google.

Someone please help me. I am sick of crashing and equally sick of seeing “failed to… bone indices.”

I am running 64bit client. My GPU is GTX970. CPU is Phenom II X6 1055T 4.02GHz. RAM is 8Gb.

Any suggestions? I would love to hear something from Anet. Even if its “We are aware but have no clue.”

—> Crash <—
Exception: c0000005
Memory at address ffffffff`ffffffff could not be read
App: Gw2-64.exe
Pid: 9128
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00007FF7B5630000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 65462
When: 2016-08-16T07:13:05Z 2016-08-16T03:13:05-04:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:02:56
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: COOLER-PC
IpAddr:
Processors: 5 [AuthenticAMD:15:10:0]
OSVersion: Windows 10.0 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 4075MB/ 8190MB 49%
Paged: 12243MB/16382MB 74%
Virtual: 134215316MB/134217727MB 3%
Load: 50%
CommitTotal: 4138MB
CommitLimit: 16382MB
CommitPeak: 4143MB
SystemCache: 3553MB
HandleCount: 36894
ProcessCount: 86
ThreadCount: 1680

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 2154MB
WorkingSet: 2022MB
PeakWorkingSet: 2022MB
PageFaults: 2751330

—> Memory Category Usage (Inclusive) <—
[Category] [Size(MB)] [Count]
Root 1008.84 1470671
Programmer Data 654.03 356183
VRAM 406.58 20362
Engine 334.96 188452
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Content 140.20 39713
Collections 101.59 11757
Dictionary 91.15 3770
Gr 86.69 115601
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Text 46.90 4766
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Character Models 38.26 4283
Collide 38.21 22337
Composite Models 37.08 550
Composite Tex 34.06 132
Composite Tex Pool 33.56 124
VRAM – DirectX Geo Buffers 30.56 1520
VRAM – Effect Texture 27.58 561

—> Memory Category Usage (Exclusive) <—
[Category] [Size(MB)] [Count]
Uncategorized 265.24 1077499
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Content 140.20 39713
Dictionary 91.15 3770
VRAM – Character Tex 72.54 1065
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VRAM – World Map Tex 10.81 46
Audio FMOD 10.29 4246
VRAM – Prop Geo 9.13 35

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—> Thread 0×2118 <—

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—> Thread registers <—
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—> Error Logs <—

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I find it annoying to fight thieves with stealth. I usually dont bother. Even though I can kill them usually, they take up too much time. It just isnt enjoyable. As a personal principle I refuse to run any stealth on my Daredevil and it works extremely well!

Ballistic.2570:

Mea.5491:

+25% movement speed, lol. I can dream, right? XD

That’s the one right there <3

It would be overwritten by Swiftness so it would be a useless infusion.

Justine.6351:

No.
That would cause some serious imbalances that the game does NOT need. This is yet another l2p issue.

This is silly. You can spam it for as long as you want and build up days of buffs. Why not just make it easier on the servers and have it all calculated at once?

Can we please get a use all function on the candy corn gobbler? Pretty Please!!!!

p/p with daredevil is fun! or at least im having a blast with it. it isnt great but now i can play 100% without stealth and that makes me happy!

the might on p/p is fine since its irrelevant. everyone blocks, evades, reflects, immunes, obstructs and can easily line of sight the shots. also the damage on p/p with 25 stacks of might isnt great. sure decent opening burst but poor sustained dmg.

i think we need more time to analyze p/p before changing anything.

id like one that gives an additional material when salvaging. or a set of them that has 50% chance to grant X currency when opening bags of any kind. X currency being any currency in the game but only one type can be worn at a time.

Ricochet and Piercing should both be added back. I would prefer them be added in a Gunslinger traitline. P/P is the only thing i enjoy playing on Thief but right now with how easy it is to LoS us anyways and add to that the infinite Blocks, Evades, Invulns, and reflects that everyone gets, its just a silly mess.

Edit: oh, and ADD to that 1/10 of damage is obstructed in open field for some reason. bleh…

While I sit here killing myself to get my mastery point that is hidden behind a silly adventure I am steaming and fuming angry that not only can I not access adventures at night to work on them because of silly events, I cant even try to work on them when I can access them because these enemy frogs keep showing up and murdering me while I am trying to get this accomplished.

All of this on top of other players running and jumping around making aiming more difficult. Adventures need their own instances or the mastery points need to be removed from them. This is asinine.

P.S. I realize not all adventures are this bad. Gold on ‘bugs in the branches’ only took me 3 or 4 tries to get gold.

The problem isn’t surviving against them or killing them. I don’t fight stealthies as a general rule because the fights are long and drawn out to unnecessary and annoying lengths. Well past the point of losing interest and fun. I think its more an issue of how much damage they don’t take in comparison to how much damage they do and all while being invisible and porting around. As well being able to generate an endless supply of projectile blockers to hide behind. I used to play a PU mes and now I completely understand why everyone hated us.

If Mesmers are doing to have silly amounts of stealth and mobility then we need to be able to rally off of their clones.

Give account bonuses for wvw ranks. Give laurels and other currency for wvw rank up rewards.

Something else to keep in mind are spy accounts. Do we know if the data only counts accounts actively attacking enemy and defending against enemy AS active or can a spy account just sit in Citadel and be counted as active?

Unless you spend an insane amount of time with the mystic forge you should have more than enough points upon HoT release to finish out any or all trait lines.

I would much rather get account bonuses like +% to mf, gold, Wexp, Exp, etc… even if its less than 1% per point. Just give players incentive to get into WvW more. Also, bonuses should only be given after maxed in all WvW abilities.

Maybe it should give + WvW Reward points of some kind so that your reward chests for WvW levels have a chance of also spawning laurels or something along those lines in addition to the 2 pitiful green items we get.

The WvW level up reward chests need to be revisited anyways since salvaging items is about to get a reduction in materials obtained.

The problem is the amount of damage a stealthy can do versus the amount of damage they don’t take. So not only can they stealth and port around (looking mainly at thieves/mesmers) but on the occasion that you do land a hit it does nothing. They clear/cleanse or escape to heal if need be and the fight is renewed. Its absolutely silly how often this is the case and even sillier how long this draws out a fight unnecessarily. There aren’t any clean and fun fights anymore.

I would vote to remove stealth entirely from the game. Doubtful. Not even a glimmer of hope in that.

The way I see it is the balance needs to be sorted between Stealth, Mobility, Damage. If stealth and damage must remain the same then reduce the mobility on classes that have it. Stealth should impose a 75% movement penalty once activated and every time that its activated. Likewise for the other two variations.

Stealth needs to be removed from the game entirely. Fights are not fun anymore! Everyone and their grandmother is a stealthy. It stretches fights out well past the point of annoyingly time consuming. It’s too much of a chore to deal with. If Stealth class stats need to be boosted to make up for it then so be it.

In full verata gear I am finding that dual swords is extremely weak. Is this intentional? I may be missing something.

Anyways I just have some thoughts on Dual Swords. Feel free to add or take away.

I feel like dual swords on a warrior could use some tweaks. Starting with 5 and working my way back.

Skill 5. The block is great. The adrenaline from an unsuccessful block is great. However i think the action that needs to follow a successful block should be replaced with the F1 skill from greatsword. Or possibly making the skill take advantage of enemies opening themselves up during their attack in some way. Possibly adding some vuln stacks?

Sword skill 4 should maybe apply 4-6 stacks of bleed instantly while keeping the torment application unchanged. As easy as this skill is to dodge in wvw/pvp it should really mean more on the rare occasion that it lands. Its damage in full veratas, condi runes, and condi primary accessories is the equivalent of throwing a bag of skittles at someone. Not to mention all those stacks of torment dont count for much when they are continuously being cleansed.

If 4 has to remain untouched then possibly have skill 3 apply at least two stacks of bleed or torment.

Skill 2 i think is fine the way it is especially with how we have two talents that directly change the way it behaves.

Sword skill 1 i dont really care one way or another about. I think the bleed applications from 1 are extremely slow and its made even more painful by the 4 skill being the easiest of skills to dodge. Even when taking the talents for increased 1h wpn speed and bleeds on crit its still painfully slow. I think the base attack speed for 1h wpns could stand to be increased slightly. This would allow anet to alter the 1h wpn attack speed talent to increase animation speed slightly for all 1h skills or change the talent to only increase attack speed animation when dual wielding.

The F1 skill i think is fine except i feel like it could be sped up just a tad. Not too much but some. Although i would prefer the animation perform something along the lines of stabbing your opponent in the neck and doing the dmg and bleed applications RATHER than the current kittened child furiously washing windows animation.

In my alternate timeline Traeherne gives his life in the final battle against the Pale Tree’s avatar in order to give Caith and the remaining Nightmare Court that has allied with her some time to deliver the final blows.

The higher Tier servers have a much higher concentration of less-than-skilled players than lower tier servers. However, OP, you shouldn’t pay to transfer unless you don’t like the current numbers game on your tier. Playing against more highly skilled players will help you train yourself that much faster. Its like saying you arent smart enough to watch an educational program so you will just go watch reality TV instead. You will learn more and better yourself much faster from playing against people that have skill. Just don’t take it personally. Learn from each loss/ encounter.

I feel like all these postings always end up skirting the actual issue that human nature is what causes a lot of upsets.

Griefers only grief when they are untouchable. The moment you touch them, they disappear.

I have seen this time and time again in game with friends and guildies. I have known people that would get ascended box drops every other week consistantly. Meanwhile since ascended items were released I have picked up 2.

You’re doing it wrong. Of all the MMO’s this one is the most unique by far. This one makes me feel like I matter more than any other. More importantly it allows me to follow my own path.

Every other game forces you to follow a series of quests and its generally just a bunch of jerk NPC’s handing out jobs left and right to whomever comes along. After you are done with his tasks, you have to talk with the guy next to him and do it all over again.

Make a boom-boom warrior and build a real cool jazz healing set and equip all your flags and trait hardcore for all party flags all the party time. Then go into WvW and make it rain.

I fail to see how a location in the game, which you are never required to go to after the first few quests, is an inconvenience to you. That’s like saying that the hospital you were born in should be demolished because its an inconvenience.

for jumping puzzle just do the jp in the southeastern corner of southsun cove. you can port right to it and it takes all of 12 seconds.

Same. I have no clue. I was just letting you know others have seen it too and that it doesn’t seem to be limited to GW2.

Not sure if it is a “hack” but probably more of an exploit. This happens quite a bit in GW2 but i have also noticed it in other MMO’s as well. 90% of the time in GW2 its when the other is losing. In other games I have seen people exhibit this behavior when they need to get around or through me and my allies.

Not unless the Way Point System is taken out.

This happens in every mmo ever. Not only that but it happens outside of games as well. You can see this behavior in politics, news, sports, entertainment. This is part of human nature. Has nothing to do with gw2 specifically.

I’m not super familiar with mesmer but i would say if talking GvG then soldiers. If general wvw then anything goes depending on the situation. the situation and your personal tastes will dictate what you should wear. Although, in GvG your leader will hopefully have a a solid idea of what he wants or needs you to wear and what build he needs you to be in to contribute the most to the GvG group composition. So if you are doing GvG then you should ask whoever is setting up your matches. If you are just trying to get into the GvG scene then hit up OS during prime time and ask around.

Darko.5873:

MailMail.6534:

I wonder what the devs think about this…

I’m not a dev but I’ll give it a shot:

“Hey all, we really appreciate your interest in the new reward tracks. This is something we feel strongly about and we absolutely intend to expand this system even more. We will talk about this topic when we have more things to show you and when we are closer to releasing them”.

Love it. Darko for president.

It will be rare to pick up exotics. I know you are just asking about the loot results in general but if you wanted to up your chances of getting exotics then fractals have a definite advantage over the rest of the game. I usually get 1-3 exotics per run whereas i could not get an exotic drop for days in WvW, PvE, World Bosses, or other special events combined.

I know the feels. Since the beta weekends, this has bothered me. I actually voiced this exact thought in a few of their feedback prompts during the beta. I have to say that so far i have leveled at least one of every profession to max and the mesmer is the one where it really kills me. You lose a ton of immersion and excitement while playing through these stories on a mesmer. Much more so than the other classes.

Open world PvP is already in the game. It’s WvW. It serves that purpose well. Open world PvP in other games was only fun on very rare occasions. It was a major headache and annoyance. Events and quests could not be completed or completion was slowed.

99% of the time it is one person just running around griefing people and not really fighting in any honorable fashion. Either by exploit or a cheesy build or cowardly tactics (utilizing fears and knockbacks on unsuspecting adventurers at high altitudes is a great example). Don’t get me wrong these things happen in WvW but the great thing about WvW is that it is separate from the rest of the game. So when you feel like putting up with these types of shenanigans then you can just jump right in. When you have had your fill you can jump right out. However, if a level 80 Ranger with fully ascended zerker gear has set up camp on a cliff killing you from halfway across a map every time you try to get to a personal story quest long before you can reach the quest entrance then you are going to start to have some pretty high stress levels.

Just hang out in Obsidian Sanctum for a while to see what i mean. I was showing a new player Obsidian Sanctum a month or two ago. Just letting him try to figure out the puzzle. In the puzzle arena an enemy ranger sat up on a ledge that was too far out of reach for anyone but another ranger (which neither of us were). He just shot and shot and shot and shot. Killed my friend a few times but he couldn’t kill me. Even though he couldn’t kill me i had no chance of making it to him to do anything about it because of being in combat constantly.

This is what open world pvp on pve maps is. It isn’t fun. It just puts a sour taste in players mouths.

Other games don’t generally force open world pvp on players. They generally set up specific servers for pvp and others for pve and then clearly label them.

Ya know…. similar to how wvw and pve are separated….

I truly enjoyed your post. It is very well written. The one thing i would like to offer is that WvW can be very enjoyable outside of PPT. The score can be seen as important or it can be ignored completely. Nothing wrong with either view. If a server wins 12 weeks in a row but now one is having any fun then I would consider that a loss. I think this is an excellent chance for guilds to start even more cross-server communications to coordinate more GvG. GvG or WvW Olympics could be a fun idea. Sentry Ring KO duels where stability isn’t allowed to be used. Same could be done with the JP area. Not just fights but coordinating events like timed assaults where 1 guild defends a keep while another tries to break in. The guild that does this in the shortest amount of time wins. Restrictions on food and utility buffs and player counts and supply runs and whether or not anyone from the assaulting team is allowed to kill a defender or defending siege could make this extremely entertaining. These may all be silly ideas but the point is the framework, foundations, etc… is already set up to play in numerous ways outside of PPT only.

We could look to Anet for fixes or we could just fix it ourselves by designing our own events.

Reverence.6915:

lordkrall.7241:

The commander changes ARE meaningful and they are a direct result of the CDIs.

I suggest you go back and skim through the Commander CDI. Hundreds of valid suggestions were brought forward that would’ve made commanding drastically easier, including macro commands and better commander tools (something more than /squadinfo or /supplyinfo). Instead of those really good suggestions, we got commander colour tags, a watered down version of what was suggested, which was guild commander tags using the guild emblem as the icon and such… It’s a kick in the gut basically, for long term WvW players.

I’m a fan of ANet’s game, but the lack of dev support for WvW is making me look elsewhere for my go-to MMO.

They are still there for reference and no Dev in any game will ever throw away good ideas. Some changes interfere with other items and mechanics and aspects that are already in place. Some increase server load beyond what anyone would consider acceptable. Some ideas may have been accepted and are being prepared as we speak but haven’t been implemented yet because they will be easier to implement at a later date with changes that were already being planned.

These are just possibilities. None of these may be true but for some tasks there are nearly countless variables to consider when planning changes to even the smallest of details.

Vortok.6975:

I have 3 suggestions. 1: In the chat they can put the ’’server’’ tab so everybody from that server can respond to the call to arms.

A server wide chat option would be amazing but many would just turn it off and never bother with it because of trolls, negativity, etc… So something would have to be implemented alongside it to entice people into staying in that chat even while in PvE or sPvP or where ever they may be. Something like a Call to Arms buff that can be granted to people that answer that call. It could be similar to the weekend PvP buffs. Only functional in WvW.

Imagine, while doing a jumping puzzle with a friend, you get a prompt similar to the Map Closing prompt we get currently as player numbers drop in the maps you are on. This prompt allows you to answer a Call to Arms for your server in WvW. This can be initiated for different reasons. Maybe in one instance it could initiate based on low server presence in WvW or it could be initiated based on your servers PPT dropping down below a certain threshold or maybe losing so many nodes within a certain amount of time.

I am not sure how we could tie the prompt and buff to encouraging people to keep the chat turned on but maybe someone else could figure that part out.:D

Bubi.5237:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Please list your top three priorities for raiding (Challenging, Instanced, Cooperative, Content)

Challenging, Instanced, Cooperative Content?

1.: PvP-based (not sPvP, PvP )
2.: for 15-20 players vs 15-20 players
3.: and name it “GvG”

That’s the raid I want.

This is actually how you give players the most challenging of encounters. NPC’s will never be as challenging as fighting another team of players that can adapt and change tactics based on the tactics your team is displaying. I think the Raid encounters need to be designed with this in mind to give it as real a challenge as possible.

Caudecus’s Manor is actually an excellent example of another item to keep in mind when designing a Raid or dungeon instance of any kind. Comfort vs Awkward. Caudecus’s Manor is my all time favorite dungeon in this game(the mansion bit, not the outside bits). The narrow halls and low ceilings make for some very awkward camera angles and it throws off the general feel of the dungeon and the fights.

Not all rooms and halls need a mile of space in every direction. Sometimes weak encounters can be enhanced into fun encounters, without the need to modify mechanics, simply by narrowing or shrinking the space players have to work with. It is a solid option at times. This is all fine and dandy.

It’s an example of what a difference just a few feet added to(or subtracted from) the width and height of halls and rooms can do to improve enjoyment ten-fold.

Same for me. Someone got one every run i did and one person that only had like lvl 8 (we were carrying through higher levels) personal lvl got one. It took me about 10 full clears to get one. However, this is similar to Fractal Weapons and Ascended gear. Some people end up with stacks of those things while some of us will never see them.

A lot of JPs have ambient critters. I can’t think of any off the top of my head that has an extraordinary amount. For some reason Queensdale puzzle comes to mind but i have no idea if it actually contains critters and i cant log in to check right now. The Ascalonian Tombs where the Charr do their first boss event in their personal story i think has a decent amount of rats. If you are just looking to kill lots of critters then I think the best spot for that would be the shack behind Shadow Behemoth spawn in Queensdale.

Make a full set of ascended Nomad armor for maximum troll points.

Gaile Gray.6029:

If on the forums, just hit the little flag in the lower right and we’ll take a look at the post.

Aww, and here I have been using it to claim people as personal possessions.

Welcome OP. If you have any questions feel free to hit me up in game.

1. Unforgiving NPC fights. Bosses and other enemy NPC’s should come just as well equipped and skilled as the players engaging them. The NPC’s primary goal should be to kill and finish players. NPC’s should work together and synergize extremely well in order to defend themselves and wipe groups of players.
2. Puzzles. Raids should be designed as puzzles that must be figured out. This includes both small scale puzzles per boss, section, area, etc… as well as an overall puzzle theme for the entire instance.
3. Knowledge

Conski Deshan.2057:

Ohoni.6057:

So by that notion, dungeon and fractal skins should be attainable through every single activity in the GW2 universe?

Ideally, yes. I know that it isn’t that way currently, but it really should be. Not that every activity should directly reward every type of thing, because that would be chaos, but there should always be alternate means of earning the stuff you want if you don’t like a specific activity. Laurels or Mystic Coins could be a good alternate currency, something like how Mystic Stones can be used as a universal substitution in several types of recipes. Or maybe crafting recipes that use alternate currencies, like if you don’t want to run Arah to get Arah armor, you could collect stacks of Putrid Essence and Ancient Bone or something and use them in a forge recipe with exotic armor.

But yeah, having more options is always a good idea.

I’m going to keep this polite as Chris requested,
I’m having trouble articulating my points exactly but:
Frankly that is not a game I’d want to play, it sounds like a single player game. In single player you’re always going to succeed so the rewards are always yours, in an MMO that doesn’t hold true if you’re not as skilled at the game it doesn’t hand hold and you’ll quickly realize not all the rewards are yours.

I think you may be missing an important aspect of PvE whether it be small party dungeons, world bosses, or even raids. If a dev designs a fight, its designed for the player to win. The raid boss you fight in a raid is designed to lose and it is designed to lose 100% of the time. That is its sole purpose. It will be designed with specific criteria in mind for accomplishing this but in the end there isn’t anything that will change that fact.