I agree although personally I would prefer a border timer like boons and conditions already have or a small progress bar atop the icon, then this could also be used for stealth, banners, auras ect.
For me the content is being blocked by Firefox on this page because of tracking protection. To view the page normally you need to click the shield in the top left and allow just for this session to see the page.
I’m getting this too, worked when I got home 2 hours ago but now I haven’t been able to log in for the past hour and when it did let me log in once it gave me 900 to 4000 ping.
Turns out 10 minutes after I posted this I could log in as normal again so unsure what happened for that hour.
Actually, scratch that – it worked until I waypointed then the client lag returned
Yep, didn’t work for me either. Didn’t have 6600 open but then again even with it open it didn’t help get rid of the lag, disconnections or endless loading screens, logged in fine in Verdant brink and then had extreme skill lag upon transferring to Auric basin.
Still lagging for me too, trying to do ‘Town from the sky’ is a nightmare, the lag at the end is insane. Mission started out fine with a few lag spike here and there but…
When all the mordrem show up it just got worse and worse. Actions update for a second after every 1-2 minutes and then disconnects me when I try and talk to Rytlock, its beyond annoying!
If its any help, I’m also with EE and also on an ADSL line. Everything else seems to be fine although had a bit of trouble earlier getting onto the wiki and also the forums of GW2 too but it was just a delay of about 10 seconds for that.
I temporarily disabled my antivirus software and connectivity seems to be better, will do some more testing and see if its the cause.
…Edit: And after testing it seems it wasn’t, I still can’t connect, must have been a small patch of low activity.
Edit…Actually after more tests and a support ticket from arena net. I’m using AVG by the way. I didn’t realize I didn’t tick the ‘even if file is changed or updated box’ in the exception options and I made sure the other boxes were ticked too and now I’m not disconnecting as much at the moment. Actually it ‘seemed fine’ but heavy lag returned after I entered a third map disconnection followed.
Messaging in guild and party chat seems to work flawlessly but logging in and most actions taken in the game has extreme lag for me, makes me wonder if Guild wars 2 isn’t being categorised by EE (although my line is owned by BT) as a gaming traffic during peak times since last patch?
…Been getting worse and worse since the whole F2P move to the point it’s unplayable at peak times. Fire up at 6am GMT and no issues. Anything beyond 5pm GMT and it dies like a dead thing. Symptoms – skills not firing, lag on talking and interacting to NPC’s to foes not spawning and being able to run around a map with no PoI’s, Waypoints etc. registering…
Log-in OK but when entering a map it would fail at initiation showing the Map progression items (PoI, WP, Hearts) and then hang till it timed out.
I’ve been having the same problems as Kitten Kong. Not sure when they started since I had two weeks break from the game prior to the update on the 29th September but it was fine for me before then.
At 5:00pm GMT (this can be anywhere from 5pm to 6:30pm when it starts,) I frequently get a connection timeout upon logging in with a character, usually when I try and login into a reasonably populated or busy map like Lions arch or the Silverwastes.
In less busy areas I can most of the time log on fine first time, but as soon as I transfer to a new area its really hit and miss whether I encounter a timeout message (after a really long loading screen) or manage to get in only to find my skills don’t activate. Although I can still receive and send chat in party and guild. I hope this can be fixed soon as possible. I’m only doing the dailies during the week at the moment because I can’t do anything else without disconnecting.
In my experience the first person to enter becomes the instance owner (or “leader”). Its when this person leaves the party, everyone will get kicked out of the instance.
Multiple instances get made when a few people go in though the dungeon portal at the same time. Usually can be fixed by switching characters and back again for the player that is in their own instance without the rest of the party.
So if you are in a pug I recommend you make sure you are the first to go into the dungeon to avoid these complications until they are hopefully fixed.
