Guild Wars 2

Thank you, Arenanet!

I thought the flower girl would be enough. But with the Meteor Glider I can finally stop those rebellious kids and their cait sith, once and for all.

https://youtu.be/6T6pMDYeEhI

If you don’t want to use the mounts, you don’t have to.
The expansion is designed with them in mind, however, so… don’t get POF? IDK Man, it’s too late even if they wanted to somehow get rid of them (Which would be a bad idea IMO, as a LOT of us are happy for mounts).

P.S Flying mounts would be a terrible idea IMO.

I want more like this!
Thank you!

If you haven’t tried it, do a BIOS update for your motherboard.
The GTX 780 series is having a lot of issues with some games. Most notably are GW2 and Nier: Automata.
I recently had similar issues as yours, except mine would just randomly freeze and restore itself (Not the driver; the entire Windows OS would do a quick restore).
Upon updating my ASUS motherboard’s BIOS, all the problems went away.

Kashrlyyk.5364:

Yep, I got the same artifacts on the panties of that armor in Verdant Brink. Only zooming as close to the character possible makes it go away. But you can’t play with that zoom.

In Auric Basin I can use the first two zooms without getting the artifact.

In Tangled Root Ogre Camp no artifacts whatsoever.
But at the first waypoint I got the artifacts outside the first two zoom tiers.

No artifacts in Dragon Stand and Bloodstone Fen.

So there seems to be some environment or ambient shader screwing over the depth detection at higher zoom tiers in Tangled Roots and Verdant Brink for that armor.

I feared that to be the case…
Sigh, what are the chances Anet would look into this?

Everything in the Orr area is just plain boring (Layout not too bad to navigate.
Tangled Depths is cool on paper, but annoying as hell to navigate and explore.
Draconis Mons is similar to TD, except at the very least you are spiderman so it’s not as bad.

That’s it for me as far as active maps go.
I also hate the Black Citadel. That place and go to hell, followed by the Grove.

If anyone has the time to do me a small favor, could you test these pants in Verdant Brink and let me know if you encounter this issue in the video below?
I’ve been getting these artifacts in many Heart of Thorn areas, but very rarely in Tyria.

https://youtu.be/fOBydqDSXsg

I’ve done most of everything I can think may resolve the issue, from driver updates, checking for corruption, even replacing the GPU and disabling all overlays/sweetfx/reshade, all third party anything, etc But the problem persists, even with a brand new system and a different OS (Was using Windows 7 in that video, Windows 10 currentlly).

Thank you!

My ISP, after hours of back to back, was able to route me differently. On my end (Cox) they route you through that node if your upload speed is a certain amount (Typically very low), for some reason.
So they pushed my connection just a little higher than usual to get me past that node.
It is a real kitten, though. This node has given me a very difficult time with many games before.

You can read more about this issue here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Major-Lag-Constant-Disconnect/page/2

Submit a support ticket and politely ask for the item to be supplied to you if possible.
I received mine via in-game mail after 3+ days of doing just about everything I could think of to trigger the event without success, by submitting a support ticket.
The GM that answered mentioned there is many users facing this issue at the moment. So be patient with them. It took them about a day and a half to respond.

EKAN.4051:

Isnt that a 3rd party prog? + ive heard it can mess up ur game. Nah, I’l stay with my cuttent settings (screenkitten) and soon enough I got my high resolution screen, that will solve most of it I hope.

Sweetfx/Reshade only looks better and better on larger/newer monitors.
For the best image, that’s the best route. Which is what you asked.
Even though it’s an addon, it doesn’t give you an advantage over anything in-game related besides eye candy.

Anyway, have a good one.

Lord Victor.2174:

I had no trouble doing these events roughly 2 weeks ago, had to wait maybe 30-45 minutes for it but it was definitely working.

Certainly not working now.
Spent all of last night doing all the events in the area (Every single one) hoping it would trigger it. But nothing.
The escort the northern quaggan refugees quest is stuck, so the emissary escort doesn’t trigger either. Ramsy escort is also bugged, but that’s an entirely different issue.
Overall there is at least three events completely broken in this zone at the moment.

After two long hours of back and forth with my ISP, we were able to resolve the issue.
Apparently there was two major issues on my end, one is still unresolved (The noted node above; which still has a ridiculous packet loss , currently sitting at 91! See image below). But also my connection was not uploading as it normally would.
So the data received from the other connection would be delayed, as my uploads were lagging behind. This was fixed by fully resetting my router and by having one of my ISP folks stop by to also replace some hardware on the physical line outdoors. The weather conditions (winter is coming?) are causing some things to go bonkers.

Anyway, I can now play mostly “normally” without disconnects or lag spikes, though my normal 30-40 ping is now 80-90 ping, due to the faulty node.
For now, the game is playable at the very least, but I can see why others whom’s ping may have been 100 or so, is now likely double or triple that due to the faulty node.

As noted above, game bloat is not the primary problem. If anything it’s the least of the issues.
The problem is a level3 node in TX that’s currently causing anywhere from 50-80% packet loss and it sometimes returns 100% packet loss.
Why this issue began taking place after the Wintersday patch is beyond me. I can only hope Arenanet is actually reading this stuff. They have not responded here, nor in the other threads, nor on their Facebook feed.

You’re in the wrong forums mate. You need to visit Nvidia Experience forums or support pages.
I use Nvidia Experience primarily for Shadowplay. The way I use it is by enabling Desktop Capture. You may want to enable the capture at the lowest quality if recording locally. Or if streaming, keep it at 720P or less. Anything higher and Shadowplay freaks out.

Did another test, hop 6 (Which is the level3 node mentioned above) will often drop completely off and list a 100% packet loss.
Hop 10 (64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com) has done the same, but re-connects and returns around 30-40% packet loss as well.
Right now I am showing 11 hops and an average of 32% packet loss.

For those of you not familiar with level3 and gaming companies, here’s what most gamers end up going through: https://www.reddit.com/r/bladeandsoul/comments/4aaqu2/just_got_off_the_phone_with_my_isp_about_bns_lag/

ae-25-0.ear1.Dallas1.Level3.net

The above seems to be the culprit. For me at least.
I am getting a whooping 81% packet loss from this guy. Every other is at 8-11%.
No surprise there, though. It’s level3; just ask any FFXIV player about level3 and they’ll throw you a 2 hour long rant. Sigh, just when I thought we were safe in GW2.

Been having this issue since the Wintersday patch.
It’s a nightmare to do any fractal dungeon with this in T4.

Just reported this in-game via support. Same issue. Stuck for about two days now.

Don’t bother with NVIDIA controls, download Sweetfx or Reshade and tweak the templates to your taste, done.

I should note, this happens far more frequently while in instances, like dungeons and fractals.

This is happening to me starting last night. Massive lag input delay on skills and getting hit when I’m nearly 50 steps away from red circles.
I have been resetting my router in hopes to get it fixed, but no results yet.
I suspect it may be ISP related or maybe a bad node somewhere between me and Anet’s servers.
I am in Arizona, Phoenix area if that helps.

Please fix this bug.
Putting the Royal Guard Outfit and Selfless Potion on an Asura makes it clip completely with their head.

No, those are event triggered weathers. I am talking about actual dynamic weather effects, such as the ones seen in games like FFXI, Witcher III and FFXIV ( http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Weather ). Those are real dynamic weather that are independent of events or triggers. They just work as weather would work in specific regions (IE Northern areas or colder areas get snow and snow storms, Southern areas or warmer areas get tropical storms and windy conditions).

See this FFXIV example (Night time + Cloudy + Thunderstorm).

https://youtu.be/VeOe86rDhmQ

Maybe make it a side project. But this game would be so much more awesome if there was dynamic weather.
You already have small patches of “static” weather in certain spots, those are nice but on a larger scale would be even more amazing. Specially in towns!

Please tell me this is just some sort of horrific bug and that you didn’t actually change a perfectly fine voice for this.

Change the voice back please.

Agreed, the new one is so bad compared to the original.

Ultra Turbo Super Adventure Box: Hyper Fighting Edition!

It appears the latest client update (Just happened now) fixed it.
Thanks guys! Happy gaming!

Only 64 BIT client is having this issue.
My 32 BIT client patched in less than 10 seconds.

Hello.

As of tonight, the 64 BIT client is patching at 3kbs.
Out of curiousity, I attempted the 32 BIT client and patched at 6mbs, very quickly.

This began occuring a few moments ago, after the client update.

Using -assetsrv 62.154.232.187:80 has not worked.
Thought I’d leave it here.

Thanks!

So I am not sure if I am the only one or what exactly is happening. So I’ll start from the beginning.
This is not something that happened previously. It only began happening today after I logged on at around 7 PM PST.
I am seeing artifacts on my Reaper’s chest and pant armors and only in those specific areas for some odd reason. Additionally, this only happens in HoT areas. Old Tyria never has this issue.
Here are some videos of what it looks like.

Verdant Brink (Although this happens in ALL HoT areas)
Pay attention to chest armor area, arms and pants. You’ll notice the artifacts as I zoom out. When zoomed ALL the way on my character, the artifacts disappear.
https://youtu.be/fOBydqDSXsg

Character select.
No artifacts.
https://youtu.be/-WRPgU5JvIk

Old Tyria zones (Divinity’s Reach in this case).
No artifacts.
https://youtu.be/gRQOJ_RQe_8

My system.
OS: Windows 7 (64 BIT)
Client: Tested on both GW2 64 and 32 BIT clients.
RAM: 8 GB
HDD: Hybrid Solid State (500 GB)
CPU: Phenom II 555 BE (4x Cores Unlocked and OC to 3.8 GHZ … I’ve downclocked to 3.5 GHZ to test; same result)
GPU: GTX 780 (I’ve done multiple down and overclocks with the same results); also ran FurMark to test GPU as I feared it might be dying; but no, it passed with flying colors and did not go over 70 C temperature when stressed to the max)

Things I’ve done.
All of the above, I also tried all of my characters but this only affects my Female Human Reaper, oddly enough.
Removed completely all addons (Gemfx/Sweetfx suite); no change.
I cleaned my GPU and all PC components with compressed air just to be safe dust wasn’t the culprit.
Re-connected PSU as I feared GPU was not getting enough power (FurMark proved this wrong; it is getting sufficient power).

Anyway, thought I’d leave it here.
I’ll test on one of my other machines tomorrow and will let you know how that goes.

That’s all we need in our life!
Thank you in advance ‘cause you know it’s gotta happen!
<3

My thoughts?
That’s people being people. Nothing you nor anyone can do about it but ignore and move on with your life.
We all have different play styles. No point in trying to tell others to play by your rules, when you’re not playing by theirs anyway. It just creates an endless cycle of arguments and silly endless threads.

P.S I hate the word toxic.
I see it on these forums almost daily and it does more harm than good to use it.

Bishop.7140:

Please stick to your original game design with no trinity.

No.
Get out.
PVE content/dungeons is broken as kitten. Comparing it to other similar MMO reveals that instantly.
This game needs to keep what it has and also evolve beyond that. If that requires that we have a form of holy trinity, what’s to hate?
Besides, changing your build/gear is easy and I hear they plan to add gear sets; so it’ll be even easier.

Stop hating on the holy trinity.
It’s great.

They do need some toning down, but not really a drastic one.
When they can be in a near perma stealth state while continueosly spawning phantasm and shatter/daze/stun/fill you with conditions and teleport 1200 away in the slightest sense of danger and escape with no problems, you know something isn’t right.

When I play my Mesmer, I follow a rotation of skills depending on the situation; but it typically ends the same unless I seriously mess up. You can recover easily from small mistakes.

Still, I hope when they do review them, which quite frankly, is inevitable — you have to admit it’s a pretty darn strong class ATM — I do hope they don’t overdo it.

I just want to know if we can salvage all this kittenty Dragonite Ore/Stars/Dust, etc.
I don’t think putting some random gimmick toy to eat it is a solution.

Please re-consider bringing this trait back or at least add a trait to trigger “Piercing” for Pistol.
I am sure everyone will agree, P/P build was already crippled. The removal of “Ricochet” only made it worse.

Thank you for your time.

Yes. It really does.
But not massive ones. Perhaps 10-15 man ones.
Also, the party UI needs to be re-touched as well, to accomodate this.

I am aware we can disable dialogue all together, but I think the only truly exessive/repetitive dialogue comes from your own character.
“I can outrun a centaur” comes to mind very quickly, when playing my Mesmer.

Please make it so we can toggle on/off dialogue sounds from characters only, rather than globally.
Dialogue in cutscenes can stay as they are.

Nyx.7342:

Tashigi.3159:

This is an incredibly subjective topic.
I personally really liked the “heavy” armor types in GW2. Particularly those for Norn and Humans.
Here’s an attachment with all my classes. Two of them are “heavy” armor wearers.

U have some nice looking chars, mind if i ask what armor you’re using on your sylvari?

It’s a mix of Inquest gear (Skirt) and the Phoenix set (Gem Store).
The blinders are a rare skin, you can find them on the Trade Post easily.
The shoulder piece is the Shoulder Scarf (Gem Store).

The Dyes are what will kill you (Price wise) funny enough.
I am sure you’ll figure it out from there. Just keep in mind I use Gemfx and my colors may not look the same in your game.

This is an incredibly subjective topic.
I personally really liked the “heavy” armor types in GW2. Particularly those for Norn and Humans.
Here’s an attachment with all my classes. Two of them are “heavy” armor wearers.

Thief: Ricochet.
Not even sure how they felt this needed be removed… really bummed about it.

What boss are you referring to, in specific? Because most of the big “OW bosses” count as “objects” so you don’t actually crit them. You can do bigger damage every now and then, though, last I checked. Unless this also changed.

Edit: Well, there is that.
As noted below, that did change. Maybe it’s a bug, then.

No, it’s not. It’s way more kitten.

Please tell me you have plans to add this as a skin or obtainable weapon in the future or have already.
Probably the first Rifle skin that I like.

I don’t normally come to the forums. When I do, is usually to read news. So this is one of those times I am taking the time to post.

The P/P build I’ve used and gotten accoustomed to is essentially destroyed without Ricochet.
I really hope this was an oversight or the trait is now passive or something along those lines. Because without it, I really don’t see any point to use this build.

I welcome change. But if it’s change that essentially makes you want to stop playing a certain build/class, not so much.
Please reconsider.

Thanks again.
(P.S: Keep up the good work!)

Sorry, but none.
Skins haven’t been good for a while, IMO.
If I had to choose one, with no option to not choose one, I’d probably do Longbow.
Otherwise, I’d save that claim ticket/gold.

To give you the short answer: Nope.

Long answer: I haven’t “clicked” on any skills or used “click” to target since uh… 2005? I only did that up until Lv 20 or so in WoW, then rebinded all my keys, used tab to target, etc. since.
I did have to click when healing in WoW, but in combat or tanking; never.

This kind of stayed with me since, with every MMO I played.
Except the isometric kind like Ragnarok Online and (soonish) Tree of Savior.

I am sure it has been suggested or maybe crossed Arenanet’s mind, but it would be great if you had skins available for gliders in the future.

I’d go ahead and even suggest adding them the wardrobe, including some existing items, like the Black Wings.

Thank you for reading!