Guild Wars 2

Cheers. 15chars

I have not played the game for pretty much a year and I am not liking the price or what I am seeing from HOT so I have decided to leave the game completely for many reasons I won’t bother going in to now.

When I try to uninstall GW2 the GW2 client starts up and then crashes completely without starting the uninstall process.

So if I just delete the GW2 folder from my documents and program files, then do a ccleaner of any background crap will that uninstall it properly?

TheDaiBish.9735:

The guild hall is claimed when you clear the area of Mordem

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-halls-taken-from-the-enemy/

You need 3 resources to upgrade your hall:

• Crafting mats
• Favor, earned by running guild missions
• aetherium, which is mined in your guild area

Undoubtedly there’ll be some cosmetic stuff in the gem Store, but for the most part your area is upgraded through gameplay.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/building-your-guild-hall/

So basically gems > gold > buy stuff off trading post?

Credit Card>Gems>Gold>Trading Post>Crafting Mats for guild halls?
Credit Card>Gems>Gold>Favor>Guild Hall stuff?
Credit Card>Gems>Gold>Trading Post>Aetherium>Guild Hall stuff?

So basically bought not earned I am guessing…like everything else in the game.

Dynamic credit card gem store driven content with no grind!!1!1! cough

Very scummy. Typical Anet 2.0

Do you think Guild Halls and their upgrades will be earned by playing the game and actually have any depth or meaning?

Or do you think people can just whip out their credit cards, buy gems, turn to gold/influence and just buy their way through everything like most things in GW2?

I am guessing the cosmetic stuff for guild halls with defo be in the gem store, but I am more talking about the actual upgrade systems.

I am guessing Anet will milk it for all it’s worth and anyone with a credit card can max out their guild halls with some kind of time delay lock like with guild upgrades already…

Do you think we will get this level of content addition, new armor skins and im thinking of ones we actually have to earn and play for not just whip out our credit cards and buy them with gems….honestly I don’t think HOT will come even close to the level of content we got from GW1 Expansions…

On top of that HOT will maybe lock stuff that should of been in GW2 launch game behind pay walls?

Eye Of the North for example expansion introduced:
41 new armor sets, including rare, stand-alone pieces
100 new profession-specific skills (10 per profession, none of which are elite)
50 new PvE only skills including 3 elite skills
10 new heroes
18 Dungeons
124 new quests
The Hall of Monuments, a place which allows you to obtain unique titles, companions, weapons, armor, and miniatures in Guild Wars 2 based on your achievements in the original Guild Wars. The Hall of Monuments does not support the transfer of characters or gold.
Actions have more consequences. For example, if you lose NPCs that help you, you can choose to continue without them (and their help) instead of being forced to try again (although you may start over with a clean slate by going back to town). Similarly, if you rescue NPCs, they may join you and help you.
More than the previous campaigns, Eye of the North is full of easter eggs and “hidden” quests, which are not immediately accessible.

Factions and Nightfall were just as great at adding new content and depth with great immersive story campaigns, group content was especially good.

I just have not seen anything from Anet 2.0 and HOT that even comes close to previous GW1 expansions and they are how many years old now?

GW2 was missing a lot of stuff at launch and a lot of the functionality was missing also, now it just feels players are being charged for things that either should of been in the game since launch anyway, or don’t even come close to the level of depth and content in GW1 expansions…

It’s also about lack of content…

Take Eye of The North for example, crap loads of dungeons, zones and content..

The expansion introduces:

41 new armor sets, including rare, stand-alone pieces

100 new profession-specific skills (10 per profession, none of which are elite)

50 new PvE only skills including 3 elite skills

10 new heroes

18 Dungeons

124 new quests

The Hall of Monuments, a place which allows you to obtain unique titles, companions, weapons, armor, and miniatures in Guild Wars 2 based on your achievements in the original Guild Wars. The Hall of Monuments does not support the transfer of characters or gold.

Actions have more consequences. For example, if you lose NPCs that help you, you can choose to continue without them (and their help) instead of being forced to try again (although you may start over with a clean slate by going back to town). Similarly, if you rescue NPCs, they may join you and help you.

More than the previous campaigns, Eye of the North is full of easter eggs and “hidden” quests, which are not immediately accessible.

Are you telling me that HOT will come even close to this kind of content addition? No I very much doubt it.

It’s no good having only one new class and lots of new specialization if there is hardly any new content to play them with…

GW2 campaign story is terrible and lackluster compared to the depth of GW1’s and look how old GW1 is now…

HOT is not worth that much money, no where near it…

Give me Eye Of The North kind of expansion, or Nightfall and then maybe it would be worth that kind of money upfront, right now…from what we know…no way.

Eye of The North, Nightfall and Factions were all so much better than what we have been shown in terms of content, preofessions, classes etc etc.

And on top of that they won’t even give people a character slot for the new class without paying more….

Gimme a break WP is completely biased as hell…

penelopehannibal.8947:

I bought a vacuum cleaner when it was first out for £299 or so. Six months later it was on sale at £249 for Easter. It’s probably now only £199 now.

I once bought a CD of one of my favourite bands for £16 back in 1996. That band since released a box set which contained the same CD I bought, plus a CD with unreleased material for only £10.

It’s nothing new that things go cheaper. It’s not a marketing ploy.

Did you pre order those items without actually knowing what you are getting? No I didn’t think so. Did they miss lead consumers with marketing talk and “no grind”, “change the dynamic world with dynamic boss encounters”….instead zerging world boss’s with 100+ players spamming 1 skill for winz!1!! grinding on huge HP bars that take 20+ mins to eat through….while making almost no difference in the actual game world with boss’s spawning again and again….that is not the game we were told we were getting…

So Anet can put up walls of text and marketing talk, posts on websites, video previews as much as they like, I won’t believe any of it until I know exactly what we are getting…

Vayne.8563:

3 months after hot launches, is too long to wait to play it even at half price, for some of us anyway. The 250 people in my guild aren’t going to sit around and wait for a sale to start leveling up masteries or play the new profession, or start working toward our guild hall.

You’re not being suckered in to buy something and get to use it. It’s the same with the electronics. They come out, and go down very shortly after. If you want it for the months before it goes down in price, you pay a premium.

Some people may not think that’s worth it and they can wait. But it’s hardly being a sucker to decide you want to play it sooner.

I agree with what you are saying but I have no issues either waiting or just not even purchasing. After the huge disappointment GW2 was for me compared to GW1 and it’s expansions, I will not be buying HOT until after it has launched and will know exactly what is being given to players and what is not.

Anet lied before and misled it’s loyal vets before with the previous GW2 launch with marketing and “when it’s ready” BS, so a lot of players are very cautious now knowing what to expect from this Anet2.0 company.

Don’t be sucked in by pre orders, GW2 HOT will be cheap sooner than you think, why?

Well just look at GW2, you can pick it up in some places for $20 or less or roughly £12…

Within 3-6 months of GW2 being launched it was pretty much down to half the price it was at pre orders, and then another price drop within 12 months and then finally it was super cheap….

Point is, don’t get suckered in with high cost pre orders. You know they will let people buy the “exclusive one time only pre order items!!111!” with gems / gold eventually and you know the price will be dropped soon enough….

Is pretty obvious. This is not the same Anet that made the original GW1 and imo better game all those years ago, it’s a different company with a large marketing arm getting the money in early and upfront similar to what ESO did with pre orders, in fear of it flopping…

Just don’t fall for such obvious marketing ploys…

Just happend now again, completed the event perfectly, no The Wurm’s Golden Chest reward, loads of players complaining after all the time and effort and do not even get rewards.

GG Anet.

Any chance Anet can remove the champion mobs or make them drop no loot in Jormags claw plz?

Too many players are just farming the champions making the event scale up but doing nothing to actually help take down jormag, not helping with Ice Wall, or the dragon or getting golems through to stun him or taking down the ice spikes.

All they do is kill the champions for loot bags and champ box’s and then get full rewards from jormag as well at the end without actually helping at all.

Even going as far as not even attacking jormag when he is stunned so the meta event lasts even longer, so they can farm more champions, forcing the event to scale higher and also take way way longer for everyone else…

I honestly hate these mega server changes since coming back to Guild Wars 2 and miss my home desolation server because we actually has “Server Community” back then, now it is just leechers, farmers and mindless zergs with no community or organization…., this is just one example of why megaservers are bad, also the orrian temples are always uncontested now 24/7, meaning we can no longer do these events for dragonite or meta orrian temple meta events or use them to get the new traits in the game….is silly.

Plz Anet bring back server community and get rid of this megaserver crap in PVE and plz at least get rid of the champ mobs or champ loot in Jormag.

Thanks.

sirsquishy.8531:

TRON.1085:

My trace route.

http://imageshack.com/a/img268/8063/kfqm.jpg

FRA23, that’s the hop that is causing you Lag. and France is under a heavy DoS attack the last i checked. Nothing to do but call your ISP open a ticket and tell them to trace it down to France and work the issue out with them.

You are at the mercy of whoever is doing the DoS.

These issues only started when the new patch hit a few days ago.

Co incidence? I don’t think so.

My trace route.

http://imageshack.com/a/img268/8063/kfqm.jpg

Same here happend on deso borderlands.

Tsaerid.5084:

Much the same problems here as what ginganinja described, ever since the EotM patch i started to have trouble with any populated zone from about 5-6pm gmt onwards. If i am already in the zone it will be extremely laggy, big delays on using any skills or interacting with npcs and often some rubber banding. If i am in another zone and try to enter a populated zone (Lion’s Arch, Rata Sum etc) I will get stuck on a seemingly endless loading screen.

Exact same issues I am having ^^ Completely unplayable.

Same here, the stability of Gw2 has been getting worse on every single living story update…

Each month it gets worse and worse with more bugs, crashes lag and other issues.

gg.

Currently locked out of my main character, perma stuck on loading screen, cant even get into game…

TRON.1085:

- Constantly perma stuck on loading screens when changing maps or even trying to log into your character

- If you do manage to actually get into game it is nothing but lag and desync with more loading screen bugs

- Constantly having to restart client, client crashes and still may not even work

- Login server error messages, unable to use guild window functions and lists

- Constant disconnects and desync even if you manage to get into game

- Unable to use waypoints, chat systems, guild systems or majority of game functions

- Barely able to get a few mins of game time in before these issues come up

- Even if it manages to be playable, as soon as you change maps it starts all over again

This only started since yesterday and I have tripple checked everything on my end.

When is this going to be fixed?

All the same issues still, game is completely unplayable, nothing but bugs and other issues especially when going through loading screens. Including a new bug that teleports everyone in WvW back to waypoints in middle of fights….

gg anet your game is broken.

Living story FTW!

Feydiir.2609:

Astro.7318:

same issue, doubt it will as its only effecting a small amount of people i think

its currently affect all Mac players.. there is a problem with the graphics causing performance to drop to 4 or 5 FPS .. rendering the game unplayable.

It’s not just Mac users, I am using Window 7 and I know plenty of others with the issues I have listed and more with different types of operating system, they must of done something causing all these issues in the last patch.

Also done full gw2 client file verification / repair.

Still having the same issues.

- Constantly perma stuck on loading screens when changing maps or even trying to log into your character

- If you do manage to actually get into game it is nothing but lag and desync with more loading screen bugs

- Constantly having to restart client, client crashes and still may not even work

- Login server error messages, unable to use guild window functions and lists

- Constant disconnects and desync even if you manage to get into game

- Unable to use waypoints, chat systems, guild systems or majority of game functions

- Barely able to get a few mins of game time in before these issues come up

- Even if it manages to be playable, as soon as you change maps it starts all over again

This only started since yesterday and I have tripple checked everything on my end.

When is this going to be fixed?

Finally able to log in, but huge lag on skills and other things. Plus keep getting stuck on loading screens, checked everything on my end, no issues.

Try to log in just now after new patch and now I am locked out of all my characters.

Just gets stuck on map loading screens, can not log in on any character.

This is getting silly.

Seems only way to fix it is to log out to another character and switch back again. Then it loads properly without getting stuck.

And perma stuck again….can’t login, same problem.

Seems to of fixed itself after like the 10th try.

Can’t get into game, login, click on character and game just gets perma stuck on DR loading screen.

Happens every time I try to log in.

Subdue.5479:

TRON.1085:

Subdue.5479:

This is such a selfish view to take. You lucked out and ended up on a high population server. I guarantee the vast majority of players on Desolation didn’t plan it that way, it just happened. If you think waiting is so tough, why don’t YOU guest to a low pop server? Oh wait, because low pop servers are already disadvantaged.

It’s not selfish at all. Also it is not just on desolation, black gate and other servers have the same problem. Being blocked from doing content on your own server is a complete and utter joke.

What is selfish is how other servers can’t be bothered to work together on their own server to complete the content and instead decide to server hop and exploit the guesting system to leech off other servers that try to work together but can’t because they are stuck in overflows on their home servers 24/7 being blocked from doing any of the content.

As usual Anet did not think this through, less open world content and more instanced content please and fix the overflow and guesting so they can’t be mass abused like this.

This was not the intended use of the guesting system.

Your server doesn’t “try to work together” any more so than any other server. The difference is that your server just has more people. If you think otherwise, I’d like to see you try to organize a tequatl run every day for a week on a low population server, and see if you can get it to happen even once. There’s just not enough people on those servers to do it.

We use a server community teamspeak, we use multiple commanders and organize pretty well between guilds and non guild members of the server through voice communication and forums plus in game chat.

People can pretend all they like this is not an issue but it is.

Why don’t lower population and medium population servers transfer then instead of abusing the guesting system everytime for a world event? Why don’t they organize there own community teamspeak and advertise it? Why don’t they get organized and work together to do the events weekly or daily at a specific time?

They don’t do it but it takes effort, time and why would they bother like WE DO, when they can just jump through guesting to a server that has everything done for them?

The whole overflow / guesting system is flawed and does not encourage the servers need to learn how to organize and work together, it just encourages them to jump to more active and organized servers and just tag events to get rewards quickly and easily without transferring or participating with the growth of the server or the community.

Log on today….

Overflow, overflow, overflow, overflow, overflow…

Teq, karka queen, wurm, living story events, all at the same time….overflow….overflow…overflow…

Rather play a game where I can actually play the content and not be negatively hindered and blocked from content by other players from other servers with my only choices being to stand there for over an hour “hoping” to get lucky enough to maybe get into the main server instance or constantly right click someone in party hoping to get lucky.

This is not even in primetime and still no reply from Anet on this issue just silence as usual. I guess this is the intended use of the guesting system right?

zMajc.4659:

The situation is gettins seriously out of hand on desolation server where many in EU seem to guest for WB’s, We’re getting into overflow for SB, golem. fire shaman and similar.

And i tryed to zone in litteraly less then a minute the boss poped on timer.

They should limit guesting on another servers to a limited number of days per week at least if nothing else.

Agreed, guesting system is being totally abused and is having a pretty big impact on a lot of servers for a lot of the open world content in the game. Something needs to be done, I have friends who have just stopped playing because of being blocked from doing content and having to wait hours just to play. not just living story content but any of the main open world events.

9am in the UK on a thursday morning and still can’t do the content the past 24 hours because of being perma stuck in overflows 24/7.

Yeah im done gg.

Subdue.5479:

This is such a selfish view to take. You lucked out and ended up on a high population server. I guarantee the vast majority of players on Desolation didn’t plan it that way, it just happened. If you think waiting is so tough, why don’t YOU guest to a low pop server? Oh wait, because low pop servers are already disadvantaged.

It’s not selfish at all. Also it is not just on desolation, black gate and other servers have the same problem. Being blocked from doing content on your own server is a complete and utter joke.

What is selfish is how other servers can’t be bothered to work together on their own server to complete the content and instead decide to server hop and exploit the guesting system to leech off other servers that try to work together but can’t because they are stuck in overflows on their home servers 24/7 being blocked from doing any of the content.

As usual Anet did not think this through, less open world content and more instanced content please and fix the overflow and guesting so they can’t be mass abused like this.

This was not the intended use of the guesting system.

2700 hours here and still no pre cursor…

Tried mystic forge, try’ed farming gold, try’ed everything and anything that would increase chances of getting one and not a single one.

But I am sure if I whip out my credit card to buy gems, turn them into gold and buy one off the trading post then I would probably have 4+ legendary’s by now…which is what I think Anet has had planned all along and what they want people to do.

GG Anet, never buying any of thier products again. Same goes for NCSoft. RNG Wars 2, please use gem store don’t actually play the game….

So yeah made this topic before even knew about the update, now I see these issues are even worse with the new content…

They need to do something because waiting around for hours just to do content because of others that are not even from your server is complete and utter bull****.

It encourages everyone to just jump to active servers to do the content rather then actually working together on their own server to do that content. Which causes overflows like crazy.

Why don’t people stay on their own server and work together to actually do this content? Rather than server hopping?

Why should we have to move servers because of guesters not doing it on their own servers? maybe they should stay on their own servers and work together instead of server hopping to do content?

Loads of players time is wasted because of this and because of guesters not willing to do the content on their own server.

Guesting and overflows system sucks and needs to be looked at by Anet asap. Forcing players to wait for hours to do content because of overflows and other silly problems with poor game design is a joke.

Better off not even doing the content or playing the game at that point while going off to play something you don’t have to wait for, are not locked out of content by others and is actually fun.

Fror.2163:

If you’re on an overflow while not guesting, you’re normally able to join your own server’s map by being in a party with people there and right-click them then select “join on <your-server-name>”.

Yeah sure you enjoy standing there doing nothing right clicking people in your party for the slim chance of getting into the main server from an overflow….over and over again…

45 mins later….still not in…

You enjoy that while I go play a game where I can actually play the content and have fun with friends.

They are not listening, the overflow system sucks especially with everyone guesting to one active server.

Is why I will not even look at that content, overflow overflow overflow….

Waste of time.

Same goes for UBER HEALTH BAR WARS 2!

Enemies with health bars that last forever also does not encourage players to move away from full damage and try to tank…especially with almost all the game encounters only require AFK SPAM1 = WIN kind of brain power.

It’s something that I would not expect to have such poor game design in a AAA MMO…

I really hope they deal with these issues especially with the game being over a year old now.

Karizee.8076:

Home server players are prioritized over guests already. Your server is just full, it’s generating it’s own overflows.

No they are not…its whoever gets in first.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

psa: players guesting do not have priority in joining a zone, everyone has the same chance to get in.

Your stating the obvious and already known. Well done.

I have been checking past few weeks to see if any other EU servers are bothering to do world boss events or just all jumping / guesting over to desolation to do them and it seems the majority are all jumping over to desolation just to do world boss events.

What does this mean? Well it means actual players on the desolation server are being given a backseat in overflows with sometimes priority going to guesters instead of actual deso server players.

Lately it’s getting more and more common to be stuck on overflows on most of the world boss events including teq, shatter, jormag, golem mk 2 and even the lower level one’s and the temples….

It’s getting kind of silly, when is Anet going to address this issue that causes content to be completely unplayable to players WHO ACTUALLY ARE ON THIS SERVER because of the silly guesting and overflow systems not giving priority to the players who actually live on that server…

It’s been an issue for a long time now since launch but it’s becoming increasingly annoying and blocking a lot of people from playing the actual game content. Even joining someones party to play with friends does not work.

TLDR: Guesting forcing players on desolation into overflows blocking them from doing content on their own server because it gives priority to guesters or whoever gets in first instead of giving it to players who actually live on the server…

It also means other servers dont work together to do these events, they all just jump to desolation so they can afk spam 1 to do them.

Is there any other way of getting these without RNG Wars salvaging high lvl exotics?

My luck must suck because 10+ exotics and still no globs of dark matter….

gg.

Why are they removing mini set one pets?

The prices of the exotics shot up by a few hundred gold and some are not even on the market any more…

Who of you have managed to complete all of your set 1 mini pets?

Megis.9264:

Hope they hand out more Sparkles at the eurogamer expo.

Don’t bet on it, when we went in 2012 I think it was, all the european and american expo’s or conventions got loads of game swag and free stuff including charr plushes.

Anet got to eurogamer and handed out water and ncsoft note pads and pens….they had nothing left from all the other game shows, they didn’t really like answering any questions by that point either, they looked fed up and just wanted to get eurogamer over with. Probably was their last convention before flying back to america.

It’s fake. Phishing scam to catch out the dummies of the internet. If you click on the email link (NEVER click on links from emails) and you will probably get an infected computer and or be asked to give way your own details so your account can be hacked and used for RMT ( real money trading ) and or botting.

Also sometimes the emails can look very realistic and official looking, even to the point of thee mail saying the sender is : noreplygw2, or noreplyarenanet etc etc

Never believe the sender address is probably faked or altered even if it looks like it came from an official part of gw2 support or something.

I would activate the extra security on your account that only allows people to access your account from IP addresses you accept, I would check your computer for spyware and change your password on a regular basis.

Also they have your email address now which is one part of your login. So if you can changing your email address to a new email address and having that email specifically only for guild wars 2 and nothing else. never use it or share the new email address with anyone or any site.

Same goes for a new password only for use with gw2 and never use that password anywhere or for anything else.

So will there be any actual performance increases or just more “here are settings to turn stuff down?” Sorry we forgot to put them in the game…