Guild Wars 2

Bloodclot.4896:

I didn’t even realise people still played with the staff, Learn something new everyday. Handy for tagging in WvW eh, I’ll dust it off and get it ready, oh wait, it WAS good for tagging in WvW, back it goes into the loft.

You either absolutely clueless or trolling very hard.

The staff provided great group support.

1) There is the symbol of swiftness. Not only does it offer swiftness, it could assist with marking walls (damage support + fire damage when used with virtue of justice). One can never have enough wall pressure whilst the siege does its job. It also offers cleansing within the area. Perfect to cast on friendly siege.

2) There is the empower that gives might. A key thing in WvW for as long as we can remember. Not only does it empower, it offers reasonable healing when activated. Rank 3000 and I have seen how Empower in a middle of a zerg fight saved fellow players low on HP.

3) Line of Warding. Another extremely viable support skill both offensive and defensive. I cannot recall how many times I saved a friendly player running towards a tower/keep portal away from someone where my line of warding gave them the last needed seconds.

For all that, the guard got skill 1 in return to get his/her fair loot bags whilst those 3 skills above was recharging.

Anet did not take away the Guardians loot bag skill, they simply took away group support. So, next time a squishy runs low on health next to me, no cleansing/no healing/no might and no line of warding for the defense. Instead I am forced to use a weapon that does damage but not nowhere near enough group support.

Need some advice from the wise.

I am on SFR and yes, I am a mindless zombie who loves running in big fat massive gigantic no effort blobs.

Sadly EOTM in SFR is as dead as, well, a dead something after a lot of mind like zombie horde leaders decided to bail from the sinking ship.

Any ideas which servers would satisfy my greedy, effortless, mindless zombie horde running?

I understand Desolation may be ideal.

Anyone want to share some input? I promise I will appreciate it more then my sloppy, greedy, horde stacking may suggest

I can also confirm.

Telkom South Africa is back up and running.

Don’t know what was wrong or who to thank, just know something was wrong and now it is fixed.

Whoever you are, thank you.

Still not possible to log into GW2 from South Africa with ISP Telkom.

Vodacom ISP works fine.

My tracert for Telkom:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Users\SlapTjip>tracert www.guildwars2.com

Tracing route to www.guildwars2.com [64.25.47.51]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

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3 255 ms 379 ms 249 ms 172.17.48.13
4 28 ms 39 ms 30 ms 172.17.48.21
5 46 ms 25 ms 47 ms 8ta-150-179-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.150.179.1]
6 31 ms 29 ms 29 ms 196.25.188.73
7 195 ms 193 ms 207 ms 196.43.9.86
8 205 ms 206 ms 200 ms ldn-b5-link.telia.net [62.115.35.89]
9 211 ms 194 ms 192 ms ldn-bb3-link.telia.net [80.91.246.144]
10 199 ms 201 ms 203 ms prs-bb3-link.telia.net [62.115.134.100]
11 215 ms 211 ms 211 ms ffm-bb4-link.telia.net [62.115.143.194]
12 237 ms 214 ms 212 ms ffm-b1-link.telia.net [62.115.121.11]
13 459 ms 558 ms 879 ms ncsoft-ic-306349-ffm-b11.c.telia.net [62.115.43.
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TwistedTam.8310:

Slaptjip.4895:

I am also from South Africa.

My ISP is Telkom.

Cannot log into the game or the forums since yesterday afternoon.

“The game client is unable to gain access to the log-in server at this time. This is most commonly caused by firewall or router settings, security applications, or connecting through a campus network. For additional support, please visit http://support.guildwars2.com. "

There is something seriously wrong where certain ISP’s no longer allow playing Guildwars2.

I did contact Telkom, they say the matter must be taken up with Anet after all, every other online game and facility does work with Telkom.

I am currently using an alternative (Vodacom) ISP to play as all the suggestions in this post does not work.

Anyone at Anet what is going on?

Was told the same by Telkom call center.that it’s not their issue and it must be on the game servers side.also lol @ ur id.if by any chance u do manage to get online through Telkom or it gets fixed please let me know.relieved to know its not just me

I still cannot get into the game with Telkom. I posted some info on this on MyBroadband forums, seems like we are not alone. Pretty much everyone using Telkom as an ISP would not be able to access GW2 servers.

I am currently using Vodacom 3G to play, works well.

I am afraid it appears to be a very small number of people affected so I doubt Anet will take this very seriously.

I am just hoping that which ever part of the infrastructure is responsible for this gets sorted out one day or another.

Yes, It is most certainly NOT resolved. What I do not understand is why Anet would revert to Reddit and say nothing here?

I am also from South Africa.

My ISP is Telkom.

Cannot log into the game or the forums since yesterday afternoon.

“The game client is unable to gain access to the log-in server at this time. This is most commonly caused by firewall or router settings, security applications, or connecting through a campus network. For additional support, please visit http://support.guildwars2.com. "

There is something seriously wrong where certain ISP’s no longer allow playing Guildwars2.

I did contact Telkom, they say the matter must be taken up with Anet after all, every other online game and facility does work with Telkom.

I am currently using an alternative (Vodacom) ISP to play as all the suggestions in this post does not work.

Anyone at Anet what is going on?

Ready to make my 3rd legendary namely Bifrost.

Now the question is, which is the easiest and fastest way.

1) Should I just farm gold and buy “The Legend” from the trading post.

OR

2) Should I craft “The Legend”. I already unlocked the mastery’s.

Thanking any helpers in advance!!!

I’d hate them adding face to face trading in GW2.

The trading post is just fine. Can still be used to purchase and sell for profit.

Sadly, with face-face trading comes scamming. Common methods would be to scam newbies who does not have a guide on hand what certain items may be worth.

Face-Face trading also brings item (with similar avatar/substantially less in price) flipping. If you think someone cannot flip you after an accept, then try 10 years in a MMO with face-face trading. Some people are almost majestic in the art of flipping items on final trade.

Face-Face trade is an open invite for bots. Face-Face grant bots a personalized market. They can now sell their product to a specific person who paid for such item via a website. Sadly, you end up having lots of account holders who try to buy from these sites attacked by means of keyloggers creating a security nightmare to Anet.

With bots come keyloggers, meaning bots use legit players stolen credit cards to pay for their bots scrutinizing Anet’s ability to log gem purchases. Also imagine all the bots buying gems with stolen credit card information. Banks would ban/restrict Anet access to credit card deductions.

With bots comes the crash of in game economy.

Now as you can see, too many negatives for the sake of you or anyone saving a few extra coin going via the trading post. The trading post is there for a very good reason.

A brilliant posting by a clearly educated individual.

I relate, office most of the day, traffic and family evenings.

I use the little game play at night, when the house go quite and sleep does not settle in, to run some WVW/EOTM.

Sadly the new content does not suit my time deprived schedule however, I respect that there are indeed individuals with all the time in the world that wanted this. Al I am saying is, provide multiple opportunities to obtain the mastery’s.

They could have perhaps even reduced the time obtaining mastery’s in WVW/EOTM by a great amount.

I would not have felt such MAYOR buyers remorse if running WVW/EOTM unlocked the mastery’s because I would have had great fun doing what I like AND unlock them, which I believe was Anet’s philosophy at some point.

They had to do it. This is NOT a proper expansion. It is additional content like all along.

They needed to add the “new” time gated grind to complete the story line and map exploration to make it “feel” like an expansion in terms of time.

Buyers remorse so far :/

The new maps look fantastic, but yes, I wanted a fun journey, this, this is so far very difficult to like.

The whole “train” to use mushrooms and updrafts etc, hard to believe the team accepted the concept at the design table.

I will spend some more time doing stuff to see if it captures my attention for what I paid for it. Otherwise it will be back to "old"content suffering buyers remorse.

300 ping? I play on Telkom Mobile (3G USB dongle) and max 200 ping. My dongle is not even connected to an antenna. I mostly do WVW/EOTM and have no issues (Running Ultra graphics and maximum character display).

You may want to consider a new ISP.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, when someone raises a reasonable opinion and another reply with negative replies such as some of the above you make yourself look obnoxious.

When someone posts a opinion deemed reasonable and you have nothing good to say or agree, at least have the decency to be well mannered in your reply.

Merlott & Wildkitten, really, just because you do not agree with someones opinion you have to belittle or be rude to them? You are just downright obnoxious.

I have done exactly as JustTrogdor said, I logged in, hated what I saw, went into WvW to see if it was all over, got confirmation, logged out and loaded up another game.

Will be back when this graphical abomination fades back into the mists and at least respect those who enjoy the joke.

Running GW2 on absolutely max settings, only Vsync turned off.

Very smooth, PVE/Dungeons 100FPS.

It is only in Eotm/wvw where FPS vary. Haven’t had it below 30FPS in massive 3 way zergs (lowest i saw was 30 fps in SM with all 3 servers fighting in the middle).

My setup:

Mobo:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128709

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117369&cm_re=I7_4790k-_-19-117-369-_-Product

Using Coolermaster v6gt cooler, You don’t want to use stock cooler on a proper CPU.

Memory:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233284

GPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684&cm_re=Gigabyte_GTX970_g1-_-14-125-684-_-Product

HDD: This is a remarkable hard drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236624&cm_re=Western_Digital_2TB_black-_-22-236-624-_-Product

PSU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139051&cm_re=Corsair_TX750W-_-17-139-051-_-Product

Monitor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824022019&cm_re=Samsung_24_inch-_-24-022-019-_-Product

Last but least, that mobo has some epic on board sound
with its own dedicated processor so you may want to get a nice head set. I use the

Headset:

http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/products/audio/sirus_s/

Goodluck with the build.

Can someone confirm if this is working right now?

I cannot seem to conclude the trade from gems to gold.

When I select “set max gold” and click on buy it just keeps hanging.

I cannot recall that I ever complained about something on the forums, if I did excuse me…

BUT

After 3257 hours of game play this is by far the most ridiculous update I have ever seen.

What happened to NO GRIND concept?

Having to enjoy completing your daily doing things you like doing.

Having to drop what I am doing to engage in a activity I do not like doing just because Anet wants me to do it.

I have 4 characters of 3 with 100% world completion & story completion.

I tried everything but after 3000 hours I do what I like doing.

Pfft why do I bother, they do as they not say and say as they do not do….

Slaptjip.4895:

Jessica Boettiger.2563:

Basically removing the achievement requirement during a tournament is an experimental step we took to reduce the incentive for achievement grinding. We want people to play WvW, and not focus too heavily on satisfying achievement requirements.

If we find that players prefer having numerous things to check off a list, then we would certainly take that feedback into account and consider it for future tournaments.

I can never recall reading large numbers of posts where wvw/eotm players complained about how the AP’s were structured.

I can certainly recall large number of posts over time where wvw/eotm players complained about the rewards received after completing all the objectives.

If any change (experimental or not) was required it was only to buff the rewards.

If we got a few blues and greens for completing previous comprehensive objectives I cannot phantom what reward we would get for completing 5 wvw objectives each week.

With 3000 game hours & 1100+ Rank (wvw/eotm) I cannot recall complaining much on forums I can assure you the new change serves no purpose other then to display ( my opinion) an element of laziness to do something properly for the players.

No Sir/Mam, I am afraid this implementation is a farce and in my profession, it would have been said around the planning table once the idea popped up.

This is the most disappointing element of GW2 of all time for me. I was hyped for over a week wanting to see what list of objectives was waiting for me and you managed to let me down & I am sure many others.

:/

I cannot understand why players complain about precursor prices. They are needed to make a legendary weapon, the weapon of all weapons.

They are suppose to be rare, they are suppose to be extremely difficult to get.

To retain their epic legendary status few players must have one because if Anet had to heed to every QQ’ers demands precursors would be worthless and everyone would be running around with a legendary to the point where legendary will not even be worth a transmutation stone.

To be very honest, buying a precursor from TP for 1200 gold is not all that difficult either.

To buy mine I did only what I liked.

1) I run AC p1,2,3 & CoF P1 &2 daily.
2) I enjoy EOTM and BL wvw.

Doing the above I made a fair amount of money in a short time.

I have also (every time I had 10 globs banked) dumped them into the mystic forge using the 10x clover recipe.

That alone (considering T6 mat prices) made a massive fortune. That is also how I got the bulk of T6 mats for gift of fortune. The rest came from drops and putting in lower the instant buy offers in the TP.

The fact of the matter is 99% of the QQ comes from people who wants a easy legendary whilst they expect it to remain at legendary status. This is impossible.

The other 1% QQ comes from people who lacks the ability to think out of the box on methods of making money in a game where making money is already extremely easy.

So, be bold, think out of the box, choose an activity you like that provide some gold and you will over time get a real legendary and when you get it, it will feel better then a random blue drop.

I main a Guardian with the following setup.

I have a full set of knight’s armor (Ascended). I have added Trooper runes (soldier runes) to the set.

I have also added 3x +5 toughness infusions and 3x +5 vitality infusions to the entire set.

My back piece is ascended (Knights) and I also added a +5 precision infusion to that.

The rest of all my ascended trinkets (Amulet, 2x rings and 2x earrings) are Zerk stats each fitted with a +5 precision/toughness infusion.

I run a Zerk stat great sword fitted with a +5 Precision and +5 power infusion. Sigil of perception and sigil of fire.

Secondary weapon is my staff, stats power, toughness and healing power. Both slots infused with +5 power and +5 precision. Sigil of energy and Sigil accuracy.

Using Top end oils. I use MF food, I survive long enough and kill easy enough with gear, no need to hyper inflate, I rather increase my MF.

So yes, you gonna wonder why my 23k HP (5 stacks of WvW power/vitality buffs) does not go down and your HP melts away.

Hopefully no nerfs inbound, you can imagine the coin and laurels used to get the above completed.

Some stats, oiled, excluding wvw mastery buffs:

Power: 2041 (Raw value without power +5 stack from wvw mastery)
Precision 1781
Toughness: 1756 ( Jumps to 1890 when I switch to staff mode. Gives me added padding before the 580 healing pops up)
Crit chance: 45%
Armour: 3161
HP: 20500 (goes to just over 23k with vitality buff)
Healing power: 330 when wielding GS, goes to 580 when switching to staff. I heal in staff mode.

Lastly, lots of practice and the correct use of your skills at the appropriate time becomes the most important part and that no amount of awesome armor or effective build will be any good without the first mentioned knowledge.

Good luck XD

Flytrap.8075:

DevonCarver.5370:

I’ve said it before, and I will repeat it here. We are aware of the problems with the WvW achievements and will be doing more to address them in the near future. Currently it is more complicated to solve the problems than I would like, which means we need to have a fully comprehensive solution before doing anything.

Still waiting babycakes.

Performance management does not seem to exist in this organisation but then again, I don’t pay subs so it does not really matter to me.

I have a total wvw lvl of 432 accross 3 toons and can say the wvw achievements (main) are nothing short of a joke.

I have long forgotten about them, Anet may as well remove them completely since their commitment to amend (8 months and nothing) is about as pathetic as the work put into research before creating them.

When my Guardian does not heal you, it will beat you up and stick your head onto one of them many spikey’s.

(Aurora Glade)

Well I cannot say my Guard Norn looks noble but he sure does look a little unfriendly

Autumn Frazee.3158:

Thank you for the reports, we are currently looking in to the issue of the Dynamic, Synergetic, and Static Attunement Pools not spawning after defeating the Assault Knights.

Multiple reports on people (incl me) who does not get chest drops every time from a knight kill. This also seems to be a prominent problem.

I stand correctly but you DON’T need to kill them all at the same time.

I have been on 3x overflows where players create one gigantic zerk and co-ordinate strike points, kill one & move to the next.

It worked minus the lack of attunements and loot chests.

Killing them all means nothing if the event does not give chests and/or bug out…

Same here, we killed red, went to blue, blue never popped attunements.

We head over to green, killed green, no chest for killing green and no attunement.

Buggy as hell…..

Was planning a few runs but cannot play broken content, I am off…

More mounts? No.

What we need is LESS lazy people in EOTM…..

I am on Aurora Glade and love WvW. Sadly the server only rocks in WvW for an hour or 3 after reset. The rest of the week the server sucks very badly at WvW.

I almost considered a server switch however, with Eotm this will no longer be required.

Eotm to me is a nice mix of decent pve and WvW.

The overflow idea is nothing short of genuis. No longer do I have to play on a server where it is almost impossible to get a small group of 10 together.

I no longer play on AG WvW because it died and Eotm gave me a replacement far more superior anyway.

I have had this on both my Desktop & Laptop.

The game just locks up, Stops responding completely.

Only since yesterday’s patch.

Extremely frustrating in WvW.

I ran with a large group discussing the issue, seems to be widespread.

Please fix it. It is extremely frustrating to be bombed out during wvw.

PS 1: A WHOLE zerk in AG just crashed…something seriously wrong.

PS 2: It happens every few minutes, game unplayable, world chat buzzing with people talking about constant crashing. Something seriously wrong here.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Yeah, they better fix these issues fast, with the changes to upscaling and other issues that popped with the last patch. Word of mouth travels fast, and areas and events die out fast when players see how kittened up things are atm.
Unless that’s actually what they want? It would be interesting to hear the reasoning behind the decisions taken recently.

Before the patch Orr was really very busy with large volumes clearing temples by the hour.

Sadly a few wanna-be elitists claimed these event’s were too easy.

Well those few elitists got what they wanted however, I don’t see them clearing temples hence the statement wanna-be.

Then there is the drop/chest issue. Let us face it, the drop before patch was already not enough reason to attempt these events. At least there was the Karma and few silver.

These event’s now had their difficulty amplified and the drops are the same old junk.

I fail to see the logic in this. Apparently there is logic in it from Anet.

But logic aside, the proof is in the pudding.

They turned Orr into an empty map compared to pre-patch.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

As Colin mentioned in another thread, we’re investigating a bug that’s causing scaled up creatures to deal more damage than intended. (Originally they were capped to scale for 10 players, we’ve been boosting the scale caps on some events to handle many more players, but this is boosting their damage way too much.) I don’t have an ETA for that. I’m also looking at Jonez in particular, right now he’s using default creature stats, so I’d like to make him a lot tougher. Again, I don’t have an ETA yet, sorry!

Not only is the scaling a problem across Orr. The rewards from chests are an abomination. The biggest joke I have ever seen in an MMO.

Since you guys are so good with investigating, just maybe you could do an investigation to determine the obvious namely an alienated Orr.

In simple terms, your extreme over scaling and chest rewards are making people NOT want to hang in Orr.

Orr since the last few updates aren’t nearly as busy as before the update.

Something like your changes to AC….but then again, it would require investigation to realize you guys alienated AC too.

It has to be server side.

Servers unable to deliver maximum performance on load.

I have a grade A line, have no problems with any other online game. I have consisitent download speeds, upload speeds and ping. I have no packet loss.

I have noticed it depends on time. GW2 are slowly turning into a lag festival at certain times indicating heavily loaded servers. Regardless of the strenth of my connection, I will suffer because THEIR servers pulling heavy.

I also noticed it depends on WHERE. Cursed shore lately is very busy and lags very much. I am not even going into wvw, that place is a framerate festival at times.

There is also WHEN. Some times of the day are uber smooth, a clear indication THEIR servers are low on load.

Once again, regardless of the quality of my line, their servers pull heavy in certain area’s and I suffer.

The fact of the matter is, the concept of having lots of people in an area will effect everyone regardless of quality of line.

It is when those with A+ quality lines start to experinece skill, attack, music lag when you ahve to worry becuas ethen it means the game becomes unplayable for the masses.

Fact is, a bad ISP will ahve consistent problems, most people suffer lag at certain periods indicating serious issues server side.

Since the patch released 26th of March this game lags like a monster.

Can not be my connection:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2634055879.png

Any other online game plays smooth.

Such a pitty, I really want to play Guildwars 2 & not guildlag 2 :/

I recently got myself a new headset because I had issues with my Logitec G35.

http://www.cmstorm.com/en/products/audio/sirus/

The headset came highly recommended from gamer friends. The reviews also speak very highly of it for gaming.

It is solid and of good quality. It has true surround sound (when you remove the ear cups each side has 4 speakers). This headset sounds much better then my thrown out G35 with it’s crappy virtual surround sound gimmick.

BlackWing.7415:

Never thought I’l have to post here but yeah since Thursday evening I started to get serious lags spikes and disconnects, and they been recurring ever since (late noon, evening time).
I first though it was my ISP, but now I doubt that since every other game/program i run that requires stable connection seems to work just fine.

I highly doubt anet will do anything about that, but seeing as I have had no such problems since launch makes me worry a bit.

Edit.
New patch and lags gone instantly, guess it really was a problem on Anets side.

Edit2.
My bad… lags are much better but tried daily brawl… what can i say… unplayable.

Edit3.
OK lags are back in full power, guess people logged in again…

I downloaded the patch at over 2mb/s and got in-game very quickly.

Same as you, it was super smooth, ran 3 dungeon runs (cof p1 x 2 and once p2) and it was a joy.

Sadly at the end of my p2 run I noticed the lag return slowly but surely.

At this point it is back to the laggy and jerky state it was before the update.

It does appear that Arenanet’s servers aren’t of the best.

I am having a 10mb line, run BF3, WoW & PWI without any problems for prolonged time frames.

Sadly I cannot say the same of the game I would really like to play for prolonged periods :/

Since the 26/03/2013 patch I started experiencing huge lag.

When I click on a skill it does not execute like it use to. It starts with a few second delay.

I cannot run dungeons anymore, the lag effect prevents me from dodging major attacks.

Whilst running in a squad or with multiple players in a major event, they teleport, they run, stop and shoot in all different directions. It is tormenting.

No it is not my PC. I have not made any hardware changes, I also made not software changes.

I before the recent patch ran GW2 on max setting without any problems.

It is not my ISP, Battlefield 3 works fine. WoW work fine, Perfect world works fine. I tested my pings, download, upload speeds & packet losses. They are all superior.

A phone call to my ISP also delivered no problems.

My PC specs:

Coolermaster Storm Enforcer Chassis/ Corsair TX750W PSU/ Gigabyte Ga-990fxa Mobo/ AMD Phenom X4 965 BE 3.4Ghz C3/Coolermaster V6GT CPU air cooler/ 8GB RAM Corsair DDR3 2000Mhz/ Gigabyte GTX570 Overclocked Edition GPU/ Windows 7 Prem 64bit/ 750Gb & 150Gb Sata’s/ 23" Samsung BX2331 LED / Logitec S510 Wireless keyboard & Mouse. Logitec Force 3D Pro Joystick. CM Storm Sirrus S Headset 5.1 True Surround Sound

Looking at some posts it seems to be a general problem but your lack of response clearly indicate ignorance or a lack of taking ownership

OR

is it a matter of, only a tiny few players complain about the issue VS the amount not complaining?

My GW2 is currently shelved.

I am at a point where I can no longer run in dungeons because of lag.

I at first thought there was problems with my ISP, which is not the case cause BF3, WoW & Far Cry 3 multiplayer gave me normal performances.

Various tests on my line showed consistence, it is only when I start playing GW2 since recent patch where other players teleport all over the show.

Skill delay is aprox 2-3 seconds.

I attempted guesting in a last attempt after I ensure everything on my side is clean

Sadly the lag continues.

GW2 has found a space on my shelf, I will check once a month for an improvement.

In the meantime I will play BF3 and wow, at least those 2 work without any issues.

I have serious latency issues post patch (26 March) to the point where it has become impossible to do any event/dungeon with my zerk warrior.

I can still get away with my Guardian.

Players teleport, when running they skip-jerk forward. I never had this issue. It is impossible to time boss fights and skills take 2-3 seconds to execute.

I never had this problem since launch.

I have had no hardware/software changes.

I manually download applicable drivers especially to maintain a stable compatibility between my software & hardware.

I have a powerful machine but that is not the point. I had no hardware changes & everything worked very well before patch.

I have tried going from high graphics to low.

I have down scaled sound quality, disconnected my 5.1 headset and problem still persist.

Only thing I have not tried was a less empty server (I am on Aurora Glade) but I should not have to jump server to make things less jerky.

I have a very stable 10meg connection.

Arenanet, something seriously went wrong in you latest patch.

It is almost expected of a warrior to be a full zerker.

Once you group up and people hear you are anything other then a zerker you will likely be treated like someone with disease.

Sad part is, even if you are full zerker you will be treated badly by the group for “downing” much, if the squad gets wiped and you still alive (all that V &T) you will be cursed for not killing the mobs quickly enough.

We are in trouble either way.

You make a very valid point however, expect to be trolled by a select elite few who believe if you play game it is elite or out.

There is a very fine line between a good challange and been outright dull/boring/over-done.

I do believe ArenaNet struggles in creating a proper balance.

They believe adding inflated HP values to mobs & 2/3 shot kill’s add to the challange, which in my opinion only adds to the frustration. This then leads to avoidance.

AC is a perfect example of this.

You will find the odd few who would claim dungeons and the entire GW2 is already extremely easy. Make no mistake, no one gamer is the same.

You need to create an environment that would suit different play styles or you risk allienating players.

Once again the AC change was an perfect example of this.

Aksamitna.9680:

Slaptjip.4895:

CoF p1 and to some extend p2 are so popular because the majority of players want the opposite given by arenanet.

That’s the point.
At the evening, after work, tired and wanting some entertainment, the “uber hard pro” dungeon is the last thing I’d be willing to do.
I want to do:
1) something together with my guildmates, who are not necesserily the hardcore players (many casuals, many over 40 yo)
2) something requireing a group play, some comminication, some coordination
3) something that takes not to much time (30-45 minutes is ok)
4) something that is not frustrating but fun and realtively not hard

The old AC, COF p1, and maybe TA p1 was the only content in the whole game that fulfilled all the criteria for me.

This does not mean I do not like challenges. Sure I do, but only once-twice a week, appointed with other good players, as a real challenge, taking more time and effort. And of course giving something worth doing it – even just a feeling we did something epic, but most of the dungeons do not give that feeling, it’s rather “thanks god its over, it was so long, boring, frustrating and not rewarding, won’t ever do it again”… But this is another story.

I get your point exactly.

I honestly believe GW2 does have a very large base of older players.

Despite contrary believe many of these older players are business owners, hard working employees, parents and generally very busy people.

I too come home from a hard day running a financial practice, been a husband and a daddy wanting to relax having fun late evenings (game time)

Last thing I need is 4 hours of hardcore grinding.

I use to when I was younger and had little responsibilities, but it is not on anymore.

There will always be those who seek challenge in a game, fair, have very hard dungeons but have some for us less hardcore gamers.

Leave CoF alone, there are many more to provide ample challenge to those who seek such.

I believe completely removing the somewhat easier dungeons will merely alienate large numbers of players from all dungeons.

You only need to be aware of the before & after “LFG” @ AC now to understand the statement.

OP is trolling.

CoF is the last dungeon that can be enjoyed with reasonable reward.

Why ask for CoF to be made harder when there are so many more nerf grinding alternatives.

I can bet my whole bank the OP does not even have “Dungeon Master” title…

The proof is in the pudding.

CoF p1 and to some extend p2 are so popular because the majority of players want the opposite given by arenanet.

The majority of players prefer fairly easy but fun (FUN) (FUN) runs.

The majority does not want to spend 2+ hours in one dungeon grinding like zombies.

The majority does not want to spend 2+ hours getting half an inventory of purples.

Really, the toughest dungeons gives “not worth the effort” awards.

That is why the easier dungeons attract so many players.

The results speaks for it self, a few minority shout for longer/tougher dungeons and when implimented, turns those very dungeons in ghost towns.

Messing up CoF like they messed up AC, well, who cares, luckily dungeons aren’t the only activity in game as much as GW2 is not the only MMO.

Malediktus.9250:

This is why an inspect feature needs to be added. People like those deserve to be kicked.

I fully agree, cannot understand why this feature was not build into the game.

I ran my very first dungeon at lvl 80 after I had a basic full set of exotics. I only later got much more expensive armour/runes and weapons from dungeon runs.

Anyone with less then basic lvl 80 exotics deserve to be kicked.

Thank you for the tip Oglaf, gonna try it out for sure.

Oglaf.1074:

Soldier Runes have the same stats as Dolyak (if you like it as much as you say) but a way better 6th bonus.

I like this suggestion, I may then even use the “shake it off” slot for something else a little more valuable since I won’t need it anymore, based on the 6th bonus.

Beefcake.9032:

You’re running full zerk gear with Dolyak Runes? Doesn’t make sense imo. 115 Toughness and 50 Vitality is negligble. You’ll get similar stats just by wearing a Soldier’s chest-piece…
There’s Runes that complement a full zerk build better.

I did not want to go 100% zerk as I spend lots of time in dungeons. I do not pvp (incl wvw) at all.

I added the Doylak rune to further compliment my foods stuffs generating health. I don’t die very easilly but still do a considerable amount of damage. Not as much as a full zerk but I last much longer then a full zerk.

I guess I tried very hard to find a balance.

Any suggestions on better type of runes for the armour?

Opynn & Daoshi:

Thank you very much for the kind words.

Much appreciated

Runeblade: Yes I agree with your sentiment, those tokens are extremely easy to come by, the armour is very common but if there were so many other armour skins better then CoF why aren’t we seeing variety. I am afraid Arenanet slacked big time with the craftable armour skins and almost all other dung armours.

The only viable armour skin (crafted) would be dragonic ( I believe that is what it is called), and that is far more common then cof. Also imo the armour replaced the fastest by cof by.

I am an avid dung runner (I only PVE & Dung) and could choose to have any dung armour of my choice, I chose to go with CoF because it is the best looking armour (my liking) for a Charr.
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