Guild Wars 2

I am running an Elementalist in WvW after yesterdays patch.

I have 18484 health.
Jump into Deso borderland.
Fight a mesmer at the north camp.

I die very quickly.
I look through the combat log (none was lost as something from before the fight was there) and add up the damage.

Total damage 4643. No where near what it should be to kill me. Indeed it is almost exactly a quarter of my health pool – just a little over, enough to down me.

What is going on? Why am I taking 4x the damage?

LJMaster.6214:

What am I supposed to do? Turn some guildies away and tell our friends to stop following us?

What you are supposed to do is do what is necessary for Deso to win.
If that means tag up and blob then tag up.
If that means run as a tight group and wipe enemy guild groups, fine.
If that means siege up a tower or keep and hold it against larger forces – do that too.

(and ofc have fun)

and if that means coming on the forum and posting about blobs so the opposing servers run smaller groups that can be mopped up by our blob – well, we see people doing that all the time.

Basically, we are Deso – WE define how we play.
And if opposing servers dont like dieing to us I suggest they drop down the ranking a bit and fight somebody else.

At prime times (when there are large numbers of players on) I have great difficulty loading some maps with some characters.

If I log my Elementalist or Warrior and try to go to Lions arch or any of the WvW maps, I get stuck on the loading screen for about 5mins till it times out and disconnects me.

If I log my Guardian, however, the game loads instantly every time.

This is perplexing and means I cannot play my ele at prime time (my main).
Is there any solution to this? Or any reason it only happens with particular chars?

Since the last patch (26th March) the lag when large numbers of players meet is totally over the top.
The culling fix is very good and looks great. But when large numbers meet somewhere on the map my skills become unusable.
Even auto attack does not work. 10-15s after I press a key (other than movement) the action might occur.
Even with movement there is significant rubberbanding and going through gates is a nightmare.
This happens even with the new culling settings down on low.

This means that in any serious conflict my char is unusable. This is not good for anyone, but trying to command in EB is now impossible.

This is unlikely to be my PC (i7-3770k @ 4.2, SSD, 660ti, 16gb Ram) or my connection (fibre currently at about 40Mbs).
I am in the UK and on Desolation in the EU.

Is there any fix for this? WvW is the biggest part of what I do so it is seriously curtailing my enjoyment.

Since the ‘’culling improvements’’ patch the lag in WvW has been substantial when ever any two zergs meet. At first it was manageable, annoying, but playable. But esp over the last week or two it has been getting worse and worse.
Tonight in Eternal Battleground, if any two zergs met there was a delay of at least 10s before any ability went off (if you were not dead from invisible opponents).

Yes, I am sure we all know about it, but now it has become game breaking. This is not just me and my PC btw (somebody will say it) or my connection, as just about everybody was cheesed off about it tonight.

If the servers cannot handle this number of people in EB at once – then can we limit it please – less players may mean less people getting to experience it, but at least the ones who do will get a reasonable experience. At the minute it is just unplayable.

Oh – EU server Desolation, in case it makes a difference :-)

So – shall we have a bet on how quick somebody will blame either my pc, my connection, or say that I have just been steamrollered by somebody. (well, I have been many times today, its rather the nature of the place, but a death is only a death – respawn and kill, FTW!)