Guild Wars 2

For me, I always had really bad lagging issues, but the frames per second (fps) dropped drastically to the point where it is unplayable. All my settings are set on the lowest possible and have not changed since I started playing the game. I never had the highest fps to begin with, averaging around 8-10 frames per second or 5-7 depending on high activity in the PvE area. Now, after this recent update, I tried different areas to test the frame rates.
Kessex Hills used to be around 8 fps, now it’s 2-4, average 3 fps.
Sparkfly Fen, usually 7 fps, now it is 2 fps.
Lornar’s Pass, was 8 frames per second, now it is 2 fps.
Straights of Devastation was around 6 fps, now it is 2 fps and finally,
Wayfarer Foothills was around 10 frames per second, and it is now 2 fps.

I also tried hiding the User Interface (UI) to see if there was any changes and the result is that I gained 1 fps at the most, if any. The Field of View (FoV) has not changed either.

As for a ‘solution’ to the problem, I have none, except to give Anet some time to work on it and see what the result is. Hopefully, the frame rates will go back to what they were before the update.

I was able to do the previous dailies in about an hour or so, no matter what character I was on, no matter where I was on the map, and felt a sense of accomplishment considering I’m not a hard core player. I miss the old dailies, and the monthly objectives.

Now, it feels as if I am forced to go to certain maps, kill certain creatures and track down four events in an area, which takes me up to ten to twenty minutes to try to find. Once they are found, I’m either lucky and had made it in time or, more often than not, I end up just missing it and would have to wait or hunt down another event, taking more time to finish, where I could be working on other aspects in the game of my interest. Which result in being frustrated to the point of wanting to quit trying. True, I don’t have to do the dailies, but there should be no reason why I should not want to do them.

I do not PvP, nor do WvW, or any type of dungeons, but I end up finding myself to trying to complete these new objectives by going into an area I don’t like just to complete. In addition, some objectives are already done on the characters, for example: Visa Viewer in Kessex Hills, and I would have go to a PvP area to finish two of the three dailies.

Some would say that the new rewards are worth putting up with this, but for me, the fact that I could complete the old tasks is a reward and not have to deal with this. Over all, I never finish the objectives, being only 2/3 of them.

In looking at the whole list of them, it seems that it caters heavily to the PvP, WvW players and limited for PvE players, being unbalanced. I’m not coming down on anyone who likes that part of the game, but not everybody has the same interest or play style.

As a final note, I do not have the highest end computer, so going into certain areas is taxing on it, because of the drop in frame rates, making them more difficult to compete.