Guild Wars 2

For all 32bit OS there’s probably a solution:
- run Command Prompt as administrator
- run this command: bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072
- restart your computer and play GW2
I was able to play HOT content without any crash after this. And I don’t have to use the lowest graphic settings.

Someone posted that on page 10, and it worked for me.
Since this I can play around 2 hours before crashing, and around 30min in the new HoT areas. It’s not optimal yet, but it’s a huge improvement because I used to crash every 1-5min.

Reviving Thread:
Do you guys see now how those OOM crashes shouldn’t be blamed on the people that have them. At this moment, isn’t it OBVIOUS that ArenaNet is doign something extremely wrong. Look at the amount of people that say the game became unplayable after last patch. It was already a lot after HoT, but now that the raiding patch came around the game really looks dead to me.

After three years I expect development in this. If they still can’t fix it (which I find difficult to understand) they should admit their failure and refund money to those that want. My €150,- per example.

If it has to do with the computer quality, then they should increase the minimum requirements for the game to not fool people around. Since that’s what they’re doing. People get fooled, buy the game, and become unable to even play it properly.

But the crashes are unfurtonately also happening to computers that are way better than minimum.

Why can’t ArenaNet solve this thing, when other MMO’s don’t have problems with it.
GW2 on lowest graphics, should have less difficulties than all the other MMO’s I’ve played on high settings like WoW, Aion, Warhammer Online.

I’m waiting three years for a fix, but instead its getting worse every patch.
Don’t tell me to be patient or anything. They have had enough time by now.

You guys don’t bring me (and the others with issues) any further with saying that you don’t have any problems and telling me about your computers. There are a lot of people that have problems. We are NOT using 3rd party software, we do NOT have any weird issues with computers. A lot of programs run fine (all actually) with the exception of Guild Wars 2.

Take a look at this topic (with like 7 pages already in 3 weeks time): https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Client-Crashing-constantly-1

Now after reading that, tell me again how you are not having any problems.
You guys are saying it as if it must be my own fault. Don’t come to me with this bull. If it is my own fault, and it’s the faulf of all the other people that have the same issues, then how come ArenaNet doesn’t know an answer or solution for us? And how come it became 10 times worse as soon as HoT got released?

I’m very frustrated, and I am NOT in the mood to read how you guys are not having problems. That doesn’t bring us (the people that DO have problems) any further.
ArenaNet is NOT being coöperative, which is causing me to release this frustration in such a way. I first tried to do it nicely for the last three weeks. And actually also did the same thing 3 years ago when the problems occured once every 2 hours or so. (which is manageable. I wish it was still like that).

And come on. “no crashes here, it’s most likely you have to many craptastic programs and apps running in the background.”. I’ve completely erased my entire computer to try the game. I ONLY had GW2 installed and didn’t even run anything like a firewall or even Windows updater in the background. No Dropbox. Nothing. I used a command prompt (forgot what) to detect this stuff and turn it all off. Someone helped me with that, since I’m looking for solutions myself for hours and hours as well.

It’s just sad that a guy like me that has no in depth knowledge of computers, has to go through all this stuff while ArenaNet already had 3 years to see this becoming worse and worse after every update. They had the time to prevent this, but instead punish those that still kept on playing or returned after a long time to try out HoT.

As I said, the game is broken right now. And I’m not in the mood to hear you guys tell me how you are not having any issues, or how I must be doing something wrong. Since I am not. I passed that stadium for ages already, and really came to the conclussion now I’m not doing anything wrong, but the game just has big issues.

Look at your computer specs (in signature). They are above the average of players.
I dont have the money to buy such a computer. But according to the minimun requirements (which I reach easily) that’s not needed. GW2 fooled me with the minimum requirements for sure.

And I don’t care how they fix this. But these crashes have been here ever since the freaking BETA 3 years ago. It’s just that now that HoT came around they’ve multiplied 10 times, and cause crashes every 2-15-min depending on the zone.
I cant even do map completion in a zone like Kessex Hills or something for more than 15min without a crash with settings on LOW.

They didnt fix A THING about this issue in the past 3 years, so I’m sure they wont fix a kitten thing in the upcoming 3 years either.

I’m just saying, my game is ruined unless I spend €600+ on a new computer. And since GW2 would be my only reason to need a new computer, I find that a very kitten expansive game to spend so much money on.

I rather have my money back, or have it used a right way. Cus right now the money that’s coming from me is probably going into development of new content WHICH I CANT EVER SEE ANYWAY.

Suggestion:

ArenaNet, why don’t you use my money and the money of hundreds (if not thousands) of other people to pay an EXPERT to look into the constant crashing issues caused by your game. These Out of Memory things don’t seem to happen in World of Warcraft or any other game I play. And I think that a LOWEST GRAPHIC Gw2 game is less beautiful than a medium graphic WoW.

I don’t want to play WoW. I want to play GW2. I love the game itself, but its UNPLAYABLE cus of the crashes all the time.

Why don’t you use my €45,- spent on the expansion I CAN"T PLAY, together with the money from all those other people that share my problems, to pay an EXPERT to look into FIXING this. Because I have NO HOPE that your current team of people will actually fix this.

I’m feeling TOTALLY left out, and would actually like to get all my spent money on GW2 back, since ever since HoT came around I CANT PLAY ANYMORE. So what’s the point in having leveled all those level 80’s and great gear. It’s al POINTLES as of now.

So:

A) Give me all the money back which is probably (with gems) around €150,-
B) Spend €150,- (and the money of all the others) on a DECENT programmer to find and solve the issue!

I’m sorry guys, I’m no longer gonna keep bumping this thread.
I’m giving up. I won’t suspect a fix coming soon.
A new Hearthstone patch is coming and I’m gonna play that for a while. This game is just done for me. Much money and hours down the drain, but I can’t afford a better computer so it’s game over for me. I lost trust in ArenaNet. Big time…

32-bit player here. Still waiting for a fix or atleast an ArenaNet reply.
Am I really the only one left that’s having issues?…

Thanks for the advice.
I’m not good at building a computer myself, but might find someone that is to help me out. Do you have any advice on good sites to look at? I’m dutch so would need a shop that’s available on holland or ships internationally for (not much)/free.

I’m currently checking at this site: https://www.4launch.nl/subcategorie/61/Desktop-PCs

The only issue is that the €600,- range is very limited, and those choices only have 4GB of RAM.

I like getting 16GB of RAM if I have the choice. I didn’t know it was only a bit more expensive than 8GB of RAM. But I don’t know how it all cooperates with other parts in the computer. I mean… Doesn’t 16gb of RAM mean I need to upgrade other parts as well? Like better cooling or a more expensive PSU?

Hey everyone.

I’m thinking of buying a new computer, since mine is getting a bit outdated and I might have enough money to actually invest into a new one very soon.

I’m just wondering, will I be able to get something good enough to be able to play GW2 with medium graphic settings (even in crowded areas) with a budget around €600?
I’ve been getting constant crashes nowadays, and I’m sick of that.

I would like to know if my budget is something I should be able to get success with.
What I’d like to have is something with 8.00 GB of RAM, a good graphic card and a decent processor. Or would someone actually suggest to not buy a new computer and update this one with a new graphics card and extra RAM (if that’s even possible) instead?

This is what I currently have:
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
Graphic Card: -Something terribly outdated-

Bump.
Still waiting for a fix!

Still no reply from ArenaNet?

kitten you ArenaNet.

Atleast have the kitten*ng balls to reply about this kitten*d up state of the game right now.

Today I played in Verdant Bink for 1 hour. During this hour I had 9 OOM crashes.
I had every graphic option on lowest.

After this I did SW events + Vinewrath for my Kudzu achievement. It took 45 minutes. During this time I had 7 OOM crashes.
I had every graphic option on lowest.

Before HoT, I could do SW events + Vinewrath for hours without a single crash. Even with my graphic options on medium.

HoT kittened up my gaming experience in GW2. I’ve spent money on this piece of cr*p and I can’t do anything with it. I’m very, very, very p*ssed.
I demand a refund, because I can’t do kitten with the game anyway, and can’t even decide to play without the expansion. Guild Wars 2 was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better before HoT even launched… But now the normal Guild Wars 2 has also been taken away from me.

Seriously ArenaNet… Do something, or admit your stupidity and give people refunds.

6 Pages already without a dev’s answer.
This really feels like a ‘kitten you’ against the costumer…
Oh, and now I’ll probably face an infraction for saying the f*** word… Just like I’ve been warned for not ‘spamming’ the same message twice in a row with the text: “ARENANET RESPOND TO THIS THREAD”.

It kittenes me off A LOT to know that this is being read by ArenaNET but despite the many requests they refuse to answer or tell us what they’re working on. I have a feeling we’re being ignored, and I’m already trying to slow down with GW2. I think I’ll have to quit this game since I don’t have the money for a new hyper-tech computer… And even If I had the money for that, I doubt if it’ll help much since people that have those computers are also experiencing these issues. Less frequently, but they still excist…

So yeah… I’m super disappointed by ArenaNet. And especially their customer support…

A few hours ago I posted (4 times in a row):
“ARENANET PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS THREAD”…

Now that I come back to check again, ArenaNet removed my 4 posts ordering them to respond, WITHOUT RESPONDING… So they’re reading this, but not taking a stand to answer or atleast ask for our patience.

I find this very customer-unfriendly…
I’m really on the edge of giving up on this game… Today I crashed 5 times during 1 Tequatl fight, where before HoT I didn’t crash at all with the same graphic settings (everything on lowest possible).

ARENANET REPLY TO THIS THREAD PLEASE!

ARENANET COME ON!
WRITE SOMETHING!
I KNOW YOU’RE READING THIS!

Just to stay on topic:
This is about the constant crashes and has nothing to do with the server being down. I hope the people that had issues with the server can play again. But there are still a lot of people that can’t properly play GW2 even when the servers act normal again.
Those OOM crashes keep appearing minutes after logging in, and it would be really great to see ArenaNet replying to this post.

I created a second post about this issue, and today ArenaNet merged that post with this one (without saying anything to me). So I know that it’s being read, but why is nobody from the company communicating with us. A small ‘sorry, we’re looking into it’ would be so great already.

Yesterday I was on the edge of buying a new (64bit) OS, but now I have doubts again if this will actually solve anything… I’m full with doubts, and I need an expert, PREFERABLY from ArenaNet to come with a REAL solution.

Still waiting for an answer from ANet…

This morning I read:
ANet: “It’s been about five days since the launch of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™, and it’s been a really exciting time for all of us at ArenaNet and for the game. We’ve had an incredibly smooth launch with very few major game issues, despite the huge surge of players back into Guild Wars 2 to play all of the new content and features of the expansion! This will go down as the smoothest launch we’ve had in the history of the Guild Wars® franchise.”

It would be good to know if you’re working on our issues. I’d also like to check out all the cool new content, but right now I can’t do anything. And then it’s very frustrating to read you speak about barely finding major issues. Well… Here is one!!!!!!! Please look into it, and keep up the communication. We want to know if you’re reading all this and trying to find a solution… Just like 3 years ago I feel very left out and ignored by the company.

“It’s been about five days since the launch of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™, and it’s been a really exciting time for all of us at ArenaNet and for the game. We’ve had an incredibly smooth launch with very few major game issues, despite the huge surge of players back into Guild Wars 2 to play all of the new content and features of the expansion! This will go down as the smoothest launch we’ve had in the history of the Guild Wars® franchise.”

This bothers me… I see no good ANet post here that shows us some answers, and in the meantime you’re talking about having a smooth launch with barely major issues. Well we’re still here, waiting for this to be fixed. I personally haven’t done any new content yet because of this problem… Still waiting, but not even a forum post saying “we’re looking into it”. Come on ANet… keep up the communication, this is frustrating!

Beldin.5498:

Oh .. i just see you still have 32-Bit OS .. that is the real problem.

A bit weird that a big game like GW2 doesn’t support 32-Bit operating systems, but hmm… If you’re really sure of that, then do you know of any ways to ‘solve’ this without getting myself a new operating system? I don’t have the money to buy myself a new OS atm.
Aren’t there smart ways around it somehow? Because everything works fine apart from GW2. So HoT would become a bit expensive if I’d only buy a new OS just for that.

WarhawkXF.1426:

I made a thread here with my information and crash logs, but wanted to chime in and say that my crashes have been constant during heavy events, like boss battles, bUT only since HoT. I can’t make it through a single event without crashing at least once…

Below is the thread with all my information and logs.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Constantly-crashing-during-bosses-since-HoT/first#post5659489

I suppose we have the same issue then. Even though it’s kitten for you, it comforts me that I’m not the only one. I hope this will make ANet find a fix faster.
Altough I would really like to get some response from ANet to atleast know if they’re looking into this at the moment or not.

Beldin.5498:

Sephalo.5407:

Wow, this time I was able to play over 1 minute in Verdant Brink. Improvement!
But here’s a log… one out of many.

—> Crash <—
OOM: Heap, bytes=3478188,

Have you all your graphics set to max ? Try to set character model limit and
quality to medium.

Nope. As I said, I have every graphic or apperearance setting set to the lowest possible.
I basically set the game graphic settings to “Best Performance”, rather than “Auto” or “Best Appearance”.

Wow, this time I was able to play over 1 minute in Verdant Brink. Improvement!
But here’s a log… one out of many.

• Crash <—*
  OOM: Heap, bytes=3478188,
  App: Gw2.exe
  Pid: 4848
  Cmdline:
  BaseAddr: 01310000
  ProgramId: 101
  Build: 54566
  When: 2015-10-26T10:14:11Z 2015-10-26T11:14:11+01:00
  Uptime: 0 days 0:05:21
  Flags: 0

• System <—*
  Name: GEBRUIK-W3O9G5F
  IpAddr: 192.168.2.9
  Processors: 4 [GenuineIntel:6:15:11]
  OSVersion: Windows 6.0 (32 bit)

• System Memory <—*
  Physical: 724MB/ 3582MB 20%
  Paged: 3936MB/ 7395MB 53%
  Virtual: 87MB/ 2047MB 4%
  Load: 79%
  CommitTotal: 3459MB
  CommitLimit: 7395MB
  CommitPeak: 3463MB
  SystemCache: 1079MB
  HandleCount: 28665
  ProcessCount: 50
  ThreadCount: 925

• Process Memory <—*
  Private: 1556MB
  WorkingSet: 1416MB
  PeakWorkingSet: 1416MB
  PageFaults: 3754605

• Memory Category Usage (Inclusive) <—*
  [Category] [Size(MB)] [Count]
  Root 853.23 1129929
  Art Assets 371.48 12561
  Programmer Data 366.78 420146
  VRAM 256.76 22877
  Anim Import Packfile 175.57 388
  Anim Import Models 175.57 388
  Engine 149.65 251273
  Game 138.94 112543
  Map Assets 105.14 9658
  Prop Models 96.73 6154
  Content 96.49 37301
  Gr 94.28 148963
  Prop Packfile 92.22 625
  Character Models 84.66 1430
  Uncategorized 79.04 649440
  Collections 54.96 7983
  Dictionary 53.03 1653
  Composite Models 50.32 756
  VRAM – Gr Postproc 36.85 17
  Collide 35.92 47782
  Character Packfile 33.88 119
  Composite Tex 32.14 132
  Composite Tex Pool 32.14 132
  VRAM – Prop Tex 31.62 1500

• Memory Category Usage (Exclusive) <—*
  [Category] [Size(MB)] [Count]
  Anim Import Packfile 175.57 388
  Content 96.49 37301
  Prop Packfile 92.22 625
  Uncategorized 79.04 649440
  Dictionary 53.03 1653
  Gr 38.80 7485
  VRAM – Gr Postproc 36.85 17
  Character Packfile 33.88 119
  Composite Tex Pool 32.14 132
  VRAM – Prop Tex 31.62 1500
  VRAM – DirectX Geo Buffers 30.56 1520
  Text 30.40 4757
  VRAM – DDI Shader 23.13 18165
  VRAM – Gr Geometry 22.18 151
  Composite Packfile 18.15 566
  Gr Cloud 18.10 23696
  VRAM – Composite Tex 17.85 66
  VRAM – UI Textures 17.13 414
  Collide Havok 16.84 38166
  Model Granny 14.07 17763
  Collide 12.79 8878
  Audio FMOD 12.46 9618
  Archive 11.48 98
  Audio 10.84 1828

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.0.6001.18000 (64/32-bit compatible)]

• ClientContextThreadProc Thread 0xf60 <—*

• Trace <—*
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  Pc:01f1f110 Fr:05acfb78 Rt:01f1fe67 Arg:00000000 04587410 00000034 00000034
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  Pc:017cb352 Fr:05acfd98 Rt:017c9921 Arg:043f2d30 00429fa8 0161ef58 00000000
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  Pc:761f4911 Fr:05acfe08 Rt:7704e1c6 Arg:00429fa8 72bc705b 00000000 00000000
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  Pc:7704e199 Fr:05acfe60 Rt:00000000 Arg:0177048c 00429fa8 00000000 00000000

• Thread registers <—*
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Endless Truth.3074:

The game just released it can be assumed they they are working on a variety of issues. Some of us still can’t get into the game period. Patience is a virtue.

I’ve been having frequent crashes (if graphics are not on ‘low’) ever since GW2 beta, 3 years ago. They were like every 15min in busy zones and every hour in empty zones.
Now the problem is that the frequency became every 30seconds in busy zones (or even in the map loading screen already), but luckily still every hour in the empty zones.

So it became worse with HoT, but the problem has always been there already.
My patience has been going on for years already, since I’ve been reporting all my crashes immediatelly, but never found something like a fix online before.

It worries me that all other games I play or have played, work very smooth on my computer, but GW2 is having serious issues. It worries me the most, that during all those years, and now at it’s peak right after HoT I have no indication that they’re working on the problem or even getting close to fixing it. I’m not confident that this will be over soon, even though I love GW2 and the expansion content.

I’d wish I could start playing again soon, but I really have no hope left because I feel like the crash reports aren’t even being read at all.

Well. The game is just unplayable for me right now. And I’m wondering, I’ve had (I think) over 300 of crashes in the past and always sent the report away. It has never been fixed, and I learned to live with it to just play on the lowest graphics in ‘danger zones’. But ever since HoT it just became 100 times worse, and I have a crash every minute. (I usually stop playing after my 10th crash)…

I don’t have the logs here, but I’ll post one as soon as it happens again (currently at work so can’t play). But it surprises me that ANet still didn’t fix the issue itself. My computer could run World of Warcraft, Age of Wonders III, Aion, Warhammer Online, Heroes of Newerth, Hearthstone and Diablo III all without issues in medium/high graphic settings. It’s a shame, and quite a problematic thing that the game I like the most (GW2) is unplayable for me EVEN with graphics on LOW. IT shocks me that ANet still didn’t fix this issue after my 300 crash reports already… And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one with this problem.

Still waiting for real solutions to come up in this post.
I see a lot of people posting that have the same issues as I do:
- Crashing 4min after logging in.
- Sometimes even crashing when in my loading screen.
- Unable to do anything with more than 4 people attending cus it causes me to crash.

All of the above EVEN when putting every graphic option on the lowest possible. (When before HoT I had everything on medium and it was running smooth)

@Healix,
I’m actually crashing a few seconds in, especially when I’m in a crowded area. It also often occurs during loading screens.

@Beldin,
I’ve no idea how I can upgrade to 64 bit. I suppose that means I need a new operating system? And I don’t imply that someone from ANet should come to my house and solve all my issues, I just need some more simple language explaining to me what to do. I often have people explaining stuff with terms that are like chinese to me. Just a bit more basic step-by-step information and I’m sure I can pretty well handle things on my own.

My client is crashing constantly ever since HoT and ever since I started going to the new zone Verdant Brink or any other crowded zone like Lion’s Arch.
I’ve had this problem for a while now, but putting all graphics from ‘auto’ to ‘best performance’ helped me get through those areas without crashes.
I’ve been doing Silverwastes vinewrath stuff, and even dungeons without issues, but ever since HoT is live I can’t do anything anymore apart from walking in non-crowded areas doing some leveling on my Revenant.

When I login to my Ranger (stationed in Verdant Brink) I disconnect by just turning my camera 180 degrees around. Even with every graphic on low.
My computer is really fine, and can run any other game very smooth, but for some reason it’s causing huge troubles with this game.

I heard someone say that it has to do with 32bit and 64bit, and something about memory being full after a short amount of time. I’m not a computer expert, but this sounds very reasonable to me.

Is there any GW2 employee that can help me find a fix for this issue? I’m 99% sure this 32bit/64bit stuff is what I’m looking for, but since I’m not so experienced with computers and digging in stuff like this, I’d like really a step-by-step guide to get me through this difficult stuff.

I don’t know how to post info about my system/computer, but I can tell that I run a 32bit system, have 4gb quadcore RAM, Windows Vista Ultimate, processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz 2.40.
Probably not so good compared to many gamer computers, but it should definately be good enough to play GW2 without crashing every minute. (even with all possible graphics on low)

So once again my question:
Does anyone have an answer on what to do with the 32bit/64bit issue that causes my memory to reach full after seconds of playing in a busy area?

For some reason, this started a week ago.
I’m having this like once every 2 hours or something.
When I type a message, my screen suddenly freezes and it doesn’t come up with a GW2 crash popup, but it just turns black if I Alt+Tab. Then I get the normal windows error saying that GW2 isn’t responding anymore.

I’m mainly pvping and only had this in pvp so far.

Things I type are just whispers or stuff in map/party chat. Halfway writing the message this sometimes happens which caused me lots of rage during sPvP games.

Pretty annoying bug. So I hope you can fix this asap.

In pubs Elementalists aren’t having much troubles, since killing noobs isn’t hard.
My thoughts about Elementalist (And I played up to rank 35 with just an Elementalist)…

a) Going offensive:
It’s quite impossible to go offensive and do good. Staff isn’t good for offensive builds so you will have to run S/D or D/D. The burst Elementalists have is dodgeable or interruptable (Dragon Tooth, Phoenix, Churning Earth). And the Dagger 5 skill is on very short range and hard to aim. Therefor any skilled played can easily dodge the damage output from an Elementalist.

b) Supportive:
Elementalists can be great supports in groups when speaking about condition cleansing. But that’s about it. They can stay alive long if ppl let them dodgeroll into (water) combofields. But any decent player knows that if you immobilize/stun them, they’re dead in no time. Even when in supportive water spec.

c) Defensive.
D/D condition toughness build is populair and can do good in pubs. But for tournament play it’s really kitten. There’s always a cleanser in a good team. And if you know that the only thing a Defensive elementalist can kill you with is bleeding/burning damage, you will deffo try to cleanse those. And once again the high damage skills are pretty easy to dodge. I mean Churning Earth 3sec cast time, and it goes on a full cooldown when casted…

In my opinion Elementalist is forced to go for Water Staff supportive mode in tournaments for now. A damage elementalist can still do decent versus bad players, but since paid tournaments are comming I would rather pvp on one of my other characters then my Elementalist since versus a smart player an elementalist can’t do kitten even if he’s smarter.:-)

Blazer Hellsing.9184:

Stop whining little kiddos, patience is key.

You might understand me wrong.
I really want to do the ranked stuff, but I’m willing to wait for it.
It’s just that 90% of the good players I used to pvp with can’t wait and left for WoW again.

I’ve bought GW2 with some of the best pvp players from our WoW guild (Bruce Lee. Rank #1 PvP guild on Arenajunkies’ rankings). We were kinda ready to start rocking in here only to find out there’s no ranked system up (yet).
I’m not planning to return to WoW, but if ArenaNet doesn’t get this Ranked system up before MoP’s first pvp season starts, I’m afraid I won’t be able to play with my best friends because they will get sucked into wow again, which makes me a very sad and lonely man.:-)

I don’t want to start talking about OP classes cus it frustrates people.
I personally think 3 classes are overpowered in their own ways but I won’t mention them.

The thing that makes me sad is that for tournament games 2 classes are more or less required to do well in the Trebuchet map. The protective knockback Guardian to camp the Clocktower and the Portal Mesmer to control the Treb and quickly repair it.
It’s sad that a good tournament group basically always has both of these combined with some burst, roaming and maybe one more point holder.

So when are these things coming to the game?
I’m dying to finally get some competition instead of playing an endless farm game to get ranks that only show how much time you invested instead of showing how good a player is.

In my opinion it’s too late already.

Let’s be honest here. GW2 and WoW are competing to get the RPG players to play their game. When the new WoW expansion released 90% of my friends that played GW2 with me left to play WoW again. Why? There’s no competition in GW2.
Why didn’t you just bring ladders/rankings up before this ‘great migration’ started.

It makes me sad that my 30man PvP guild only counts 2 active players now. And I’m not exaggerating. These are the numbers unfortunately.

Exactly!
Fix the bugs would be step one to balance the class.
I’m afraid we still need more, because all (high) damage is still reliable on the stupidity of your enemy.(Churning Earth, Dragon Tooth) however I would have no idea how to balance this properly. Maybe reduce the landing time of Dragon Tooth by 25% or reduce the casting time of it so that it’s isntant (think currently the animation takes like 0.5second to trigger the cast)…

…but yeah first things first.
Fix the bugs and it might be enough already.
Cus seriously ArenaNet…
Aren’t you ashamed that there’s a buglist counting 70 (I counted) bugs for Elementalists? Is this the way to compete with Mists of Pandaria?
All my friends already left Guild Wars 2 because it can’t compete. Which makes me very sad.:(

My opinion:
Let ² interrupt/pushback/drag.
If that makes ³ too overpowered as a second skill, then just reduce the duration of it by 50%.
If it comes to using Vapor while downed, it’s usually so that you won the fight already anyway. Seeing that a downed elementalist is usually the first focus of enemies, cus they know it’s a quick and easy kill.:-)

Why is everyone coming with WvWvW examples?
Those numbers can actually show your damage when playing 15 vs 5 all the time. Giving you the advantage to actually do high damage cus you’re in glass-cannon build without being attacked.

Come with some tournament high damage screenshots and see if it matches up against your amount of deaths cus you got 1-shot again by a backstab thief or died in a stun by a pistol mesmer.

Seriously. The problem is not that Elementalists can’t do damage. It’s just that they have to sacrifice so much for it that they’re no match for other classes. And the fact all their high damage skills can easily be dodged. And if you seriously think Signet of Earth is the key to win, then you must be a sad panda when they trigger it with one out of thousand ways to trigger a simple immobilise.

Mist Form Flagging
Any Combo: Requires Mist Form only

Sitation: PvP

Explanation: Many people already know this, but I just write it down for those that don’t. Got a kill in pvp in a group fight? Is it one of those annoying interrupting classes (cough… which means every class apart from Elementalist/Thief/Mesmer) but you feel like you have to finish him now because else he will get revived? Just press F to finish him and while doing so press mistform. This will guarantee you to finish your flag. Nothing can make sure you fail finishing him unless they teleport away or get revived before you finish the cast.
I basically use this whenever I can in groupfights against (supportive) Guardians or enemy keyplayers. Very useful for 4v4 fights at Graveyard per example.:-)

Elementalists are awesome. The way they have been ‘invented’ is very cool and how they can play around in various elements is very very cool.
It’s just that in my opinion the class is a bit broken in pvp against non-brainless players.

Pubstomping is still possible because for 70% you will only face noobs.
This post is about playing the game with and against good players.

I’ve got around 100 hours of played time on my Elementalist in either level 80 PvE or sPvP. Did around 300 pubs and 200 tournament matches in total. I’ve got lots of pvp experience back from WoW and have always played with top-pvpers worldwide in there getting various glad(+) titles. Not trying to say wow is the same as gw2, but I’m trying to illustrate that I’m a player that really cares about pvp and does it a lot and always tries to get to the top.
This post will be about PvP.

I’ve played around in 0/0/10/30/30 supportive staff build (gear: Tough/Power/Heal). Various S/D builds where my favorite was 0/20/0/20/30 (Power/Tough/Vit or Power/Crit/Prec/Vit). And some D/D builds like the condition dmg build with 0/0/30/20/20 (Cond/Heal/Tough).

- Something that in my opinion psychologically gives Elementalists a disadvantage is because of their downed skills. If I play PvP and meet up against an other Elementalist I always instantly think; ‘Oh nice! That’s my target. Once I get him down he won’t be able to interrupt my finish.’ Many people think like this, so you’re often ‘the easy target’ as an elementalist. It’s just a bit unfair compared to other classes in my opinion. The mist form (while downed) is really good ofc, but it takes long before you can actually use it. I rather have an interrupter ² skill then the ³ mist form skill while downed.

The S/D build was one of my favorites because I always liked being to kill someone in an 1v1 situation (which was possible, but took ages in supportive staff builds). The thing that REALLY frustrates me is that the keyspells of this build are BUGGED!!!!
Ride the Lightning bugs so much! And if it does, you basically ‘stun’ yourself for ~2 seconds, giving the opponent so many possibilities. I even died at places like the trebuchet in Khylo where it bugged and charged me in a 180degrees WRONG direction; causing me to die from falling damage.
The Dragon Tooth spell is one of the key burst spells, but if you go in mist form and the Dragon Tooth still has to land, it will deal NO damage. Pretty kitten against a burst warrior where you have to mist to survive his first burst and try to get him hit by the tooth at the same time.
Sometimes in a teamfight I used the resurrection Glyph and it just bugged and didn’t resurrect at all. Or spells that have 1200 range that actually appear to only have 900 range cause you to waste them. Or combo finishers that happen at the start of a cast (like dragon tooth) and on your own position instead of on the target.
Most of the buffs given by spells like Phoenix also last much shorter then the actual tooltip say. (5s instead of 10s).
The thing that irritates me is that Elementalists only have burst that can easily be avoided.

I’m not good at making a structured post. But I’ve got so many complaints about either bugs or just mechanics (like downed spells) that cause this class to have so much problems in pvp. I could talk about this for hours.
I played 50 games on my Ranger, Thief and Necromancer and already noticed that it’s so much easier to do your job right as those classes.
Go ahead and troll that I’m just too bad to play Elementalist. But keep in mind, I’m not talking about the pub games or tournament games where you meet bad teams. I’m talking about structured good guild teams that battle against eachother. In my opinion Elementalists are forced into a corner and can only do decent in a group. If the group doesn’t want to zerg you down because you can’t interrupt when downed anyway.;-)

So PLEASE…. ArenaNet. Fix those bugged spells because Elementalist is so kitten frustrating if you’re playing with broken spells! And after that let’s see how Elementalists do, but please keep a close watch on them cus in my opinion we’re one of the weakest (but still the coolest) classes in sPvP.