Guild Wars 2

Excuse me if this is better discussed elsewhere, but I couldn’t find something along the same lines.

One of the things that bugs me the most about the necro, is Death Shroud. Why?

It completely changes your character UI. Was this done so it purposefully looks like the downed state? Being the necro’s special tool, I don’t understand why it removes the following crucial functionality:

- Knowing when my heal is off CD
- Knowing when my skills are off CD
- Knowing exactly how much health I will leave with
- Knowing how much endurance I have. I can still dodge in DS, so why can’t I see this vital information?
- Boons and conditions?

Why is all this important? Well, I may want to heal my group and do some condition/boon control. I shouldn’t have to remember whether this skills are likely to be off CD or not. I should be able to see.

Also, the life force of DS has no quantifiable value. How do I know how fast it’s going to go down when I get hit?

I’d be much happier if it just removed the functionality of 6-0 when in DS, and swapped the 1-5 action bar over to the DS skills (a fifth one would be nice also…) and used the existing DS life force bar, greying out the health orb whilst in DS.

Thoughts?

The quest reward ring from the story quest prior to the Battle For Claw Island quest is bugged – the 3 stat socket gem disappears from the ring after leaving the instanced quest area.

This happened to myself and a friend, nobody else I play with was at the same level to notice if it’s a common problem, but 2 out of 2 is bad enough.

Seemingly since this morning I have been having some game breaking lag spikes and experiencing disconnects.

Sometimes I can play ok for a few minutes, but after a while lag seems to just exponentionally build up.

For example, if I press a skill hotkey, the icon will pulse as if to ready for next cast, but nothing will happen for anything between a couple of seconds and up to a minute. Lots of character warping, interaction delay etc. This has been going on all day and is infuriating and makes the game totally unplayable. After a while of this behaviour I just get booted off the server with a network error message.

I have already been in contact with my ISP, had line checks run etc.
I have super-double-checked all my drivers, and I am getting no visual lag.
I am having no similar networking issues with any other games.

What gives?

EDIT: Tried the “-repair” suffix to launch string, made no difference.
EDIT: I’m from England, on BT internet, and WhitesideRidge EU server.

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Another EDIT:
I’ve tried running GW2 in a window so I can do a speed test while the problem occurs. Turns out my speed plummets down to about 50kbps (usually 7mb), although my ping stays the same and my netbook reports usual topspeeds at the same time.
Not sure what’s going on.

In the personal quest chit-chat cutscenes, my Asura character’s eyelids go way over the bottom of the eye when he blinks. In world, this doesn’t happen.

Also, he’s a necromancer and his skull face-mark has disappeared completely.

The attached screenshot shows the eyelid overlap problem (and lack of face markings). It was tricky to screencap at the exact moment, and the eyelid actually goes a bit futher down even than shown in the screen shot.