Guild Wars 2

As an Australian I admit to being dissapointed by the detail of this post

It’s very common, so always forge in batches of two or more.
The forge is pseudorandom.

Hey Stefan,

Yes it was still stuck, for me at 34MB.
Adding the one time argument -assetsrv drwkwiejruot6.cloudfront.net fixed it, with only a 3MB or so download required.
Subsequent start up of the client worked fine, no extra text required.
Thanks mate.

An oldy but a goody. Don’t expect this will ever get fixed.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Black-Screen-of-Death-1/first#post5630481

Still borked, so that’s the whole weekend now.
Stuck at 34MB, Australia.
VPN is not an acceptable solution. Disappointing.

Not at $50 US for some living story + gimicks. Since it isn’t released in a box there is no chance of getting it on discount in my local currency either.
Would have preferred a solid map expansion with basic content in Elona or Cantha.
Have gone back to playing GW1 for a while. So much content left to do…

Norn Female, Ranger
Luminescent armour skin (full set over emblazoned armour) with holographic shattered dragon wings.

Character becomes translucent and leaves a glowing trail. Observed in Malchors Leap and Cursed Shore, but especially around Lights Waypoint.
Viewable on my game client and by others. Ends on its own and not a show stopper.

“Escort Magister Izzmek to the site of the second signal beacon” event in Cursed Shore has been stuck at the first beacon for days now.
Please help the little guy out.

Bumping this up.
This black screen problem happens lot. It’s really annoying.
I’ve had it on three different graphics cards over two systems with multiple driver versions etc etc. The only solution is to shutdown GW2 from windows and restart.
10 months and no fix yet?

Never mind, it is only in Heart of the Mists / PVP Lobby.
Outside of that it works OK.

Gathering tools not appearing in the Hero: Equipment panel.
Tools can only be changed or equipped by dragging directly from the inventory window onto the tool slot. Tools cannot be dragged from the tool slot into the Equipment panel either.
Broken only recently.

I’m with Optus cable. Others were reporting similar issues with latency and packet loss across the board from the Asia Pacific region to the US and Europe, whether on ADSL, NBN or whatever. Definitely an upstream routing issue.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2449561
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2449259

My mate on Internode was playing OK last night, so must be routed through a different path.

GW2 seems to be working normally now, with average pings around 240ms.

Well good morning.
It’s still flaky. Had multiple failed attempts to log in but managed to get in finally.
Game is reporting average pings above 500 ms, although for Aus that is not unusual

Managed to log in to Lions Arch, but the screen went black except for the options menu. Get this:
FPS: 642
Ping 1793 (Avg 1325)

Best FPS ever!

Something is having issues, here is the trace route:

Tracing route to 64.25.40-116.ncsoft.com [64.25.40.116]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 10 ms 8 ms 12 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
3 27 ms 24 ms 14 ms rdl1-ge6-0-4.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.165.65]

4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * 27 ms 198.142.139.116
8 28 ms 25 ms 27 ms 198.142.250.245
9 174 ms 175 ms 179 ms 203.208.174.189
10 182 ms 37 ms 27 ms 198.142.139.132
11 253 ms 248 ms 248 ms 213.155.134.125
12 * 194 ms 184 ms las-bb1-link.telia.net [80.239.130.13]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 223 ms 216 ms * 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 225 ms 218 ms 219 ms 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
18 215 ms 219 ms 219 ms 64.25.40-116.ncsoft.com [64.25.40.116]

Trace complete.

Australia again and still no joy.
Being prime time on Saturday night maybe it’s the Netflix effect.

The latest update forces the user to a page to check the user agreement.
The “I Agree” button is greyed out – until the user checks the box to receive marketing and communications from ANet. The greyed out “I Agree” button can be clicked on to proceed, but that is not obvious.
It’s clear that this page is intended to be misleading and to trick users into signing up for marketing.
There is no way of unsubscribing from communications in the user account profile.
Anet is being incredibly disrespectful to your customers by engaging in such deceitful marketing practices.
Note that in Australia at least this is probably illegal under the Spam act. Anet legal needs to look at this.

And still bugged….