Guild Wars 2

hello!

i have been playing gw2 for a long time.

i do WvW with no problem at all.

i generally dont have a problem with my PCs performance, with the settings i have chosen.

today i log in… and i got 6-to-24 FPS in the middle of nowhere.

rata sum 6 FPS.
event in HoT 6 FPS.
alone in the middle of nowhere 24 FPS.
open map 60 FPS.

any changes i make to the graphics settings dont have any effect on my FPS.

also, drivers are up to date.

and temperatures are low as well.

what could be the problem?
what can i do to fix this?

thanks for any help.

hello.

i noticed that sigil of energy doesnt work.
just to be sure, i tested it on the target dummies and ghost soldiers, and on maguuma, again and again. (to stay in combat).
it gives no stamina at all on swap.

anyone else noticed this?

same here. i just now completed the first HoT map 100%, and i ot no reward.
yes i do have world ccompletion on tyria, with one character (this one).

hi!

since HoT i have been crashing every now and then.

some times the game crashes completely.

some other times it minimizes, shows a crash-log/report but if i dont “send” the report i can continue playing normally. if i click “send”, it closes.

this is really annoying, since it has happened a few times when i was in an hour-long fight with a boss, and got no reward or xp.

(my specs: i5 core2duo e3470 3.2ghz, ati 5770 1gb hd, 8 gb ram, win7 64, on different ssd’s.)

please fix this! i dont like spending all those hours for nothing!

“Pact Airship Wreckage”
and the “you’re not worthy” Frog.

the first, while it shows as incomplete on the map, when i commune with it it tells me i already have it.

the frog one, i just cannot interact with it whatsoever.

both in the first area.

i asked on map chat and everybody has issues with them.

MrFayth.3546:

It froze just once or is doing it repeatedly after 30ish minutes?

If it’s the latter, my first thought would be heat since the parts are kind of dated. Have you ever cleaned it? Or do you at least monitor temperatures? Speccy is a decent program for that.

Those tiny fans dont spin forever on their own.

hi. i thought of that too.
so i put a giant fan (yes a cooling fan for people) on the side of the open pc-case.
everything in there is COLD! trust me

hello!

so i started playing HoT yesterday.
today, during the last 30 minutes my pc has frozen completely.
no tast manager, no reset button, i can only reboot by switching my PSU off/on (or pull the plug).

my specs are:
i5 3470 core2duo
8gb ram
5770 hd 1gb
win7 64bit

any ideas what i can do to fix this? thanks!

Daemonne.5018:

I’ve seen small groups repel many a happy fun ball from towers and keeps.
If you aren’t going to spend the resources to siege up what you own then the happy fun ball deserves to overrun it, leaving you bleeding and twitching on the floor.

Get on a voice chat, gather a group who will listen to commands, set up siege to repel.
It can be done, just don’t expect to turn away the ball with a group of casuals who
1) don’t play alongside each other often enough to work cohesively
2) won’t pay attention to, or follow the commands of the group commander
3) run away at the first sight of the happy fun ball rolling in
4) if you are defending a tower/keep, you HAVE to siege up. Siege is there to help against the enemy. They are valuable tools. They work. Siege operators have to communicate and work together. Focus fire together and work the mob down. Each AC or ballista firing at a separate section of the mob will just scratch the enemy and allow them to heal up and continue. Spam a section together, drop the enemy before they can get out of the focused area, shift fire and repeat.

Out in the open field..run and find a choke point. Get ACs (and Ballista if you are running with enough people for the supply) up and use em to good effect. If you can tear down a mob or even break it down to a manageable size, then the siege cost is worth it. An organized group of 10 can pop 3 ACs in almost an instant and do lots of damage in a choke point.

There are ways to deal with the Happy Fun Ball if we can just get organized.

what you say is great, but my point is not how to kill a “blob” but how to prevent blob-ing in the first place.
a reason for enemies to choose or be forced to be spread and require formations and lines and stuff… warhammer style
much more aesthetically pleasing, more relistic, more individual skill required, and more complex tactics.

ps: i repeat myself, but… collision detection. yup

Ardon.4105:

Trismegistos.3046:

Thrashbarg.9820:

It’s partly a human nature thing. If zerging wasn’t fun for a lot of people, there wouldn’t have been all the wars where masses of humans “won” simply with overwhelming numbers (huns, romans, americans…..).

WvWvW is meant to be a massive war game. Massive armies crashing into each other, that was the plan. “Zerging” is actually what this game mode was MEANT to be. That doesn’t mean there is no room for small groups and roamers to have fun, it just means we’re roaming in a “zerging” game.

The WXP patch seems to have encouraged zergs, but also it seems to have brought lots of new people into WvWvW. It might not be my favorite way to play, but it’s also not really my place to say that no one should do it if they enjoy it (which, obvoiusly, they do).

this is all good, but irrelevant, u missed the point.

which is, BLOBS. zergs arent the problem, but BLOBS are.
ie: blob is when everyone hugs each other and all you see is letters.

I fail to see your point in the difference between blobs and zergs, in many tiers they are the same thing. When every “zerg” is a 50 man group where everyone hugs each other and all you see are letters.

As thrasbarg said the game is designed for zergs, and while the practice of zerging could be changed, you seem to be of a mind that zerging is fine. How do you intend to discourage the so called “blob”, and not the zerg.

imo collision detection would solve pretty much everything.
zergers could still zerg, but they wouldnt be able to form a blob anymore.
you could pick out enemies from the zerg and fight them then.
with collision detection on, there would be a maximum of say 7 people where there is now 50.

Thrashbarg.9820:

It’s partly a human nature thing. If zerging wasn’t fun for a lot of people, there wouldn’t have been all the wars where masses of humans “won” simply with overwhelming numbers (huns, romans, americans…..).

WvWvW is meant to be a massive war game. Massive armies crashing into each other, that was the plan. “Zerging” is actually what this game mode was MEANT to be. That doesn’t mean there is no room for small groups and roamers to have fun, it just means we’re roaming in a “zerging” game.

The WXP patch seems to have encouraged zergs, but also it seems to have brought lots of new people into WvWvW. It might not be my favorite way to play, but it’s also not really my place to say that no one should do it if they enjoy it (which, obvoiusly, they do).

this is all good, but irrelevant, u missed the point.

which is, BLOBS. zergs arent the problem, but BLOBS are.
ie: blob is when everyone hugs each other and all you see is letters.

kylia.4813:

Jahiliyya.7095:

I wonder what the affect would be on WvW if you couldn’t pass through another player. I’d consider restricting player movement through opponents and friendlies alike.

Might not be good to implement for friendlies because of trolls, though you can see immediately that for people to zerg, they’d effectively be trapping themselves / losing mobility options. That may discourage mass zerging somewhat.

By making it impossible to move through an opponent might eliminate or restrict the zergs ability to roll over opponents w/o killing them first. There is never a “300” moment in this game where a smaller force could at least prevent a larger from moving through an area. The big zergs don’t even operate on the notion of killing you as an individual. It’s more about owning a plot of ground than killing.

If zergs were no longer able to physically pass through each other, I think you’d see much better battles w/ impromptu battle lines. The geography would be much more important. Think of the implications for portal-bombs. I’d really like ANet to consider this idea. It’s a game changer.

This was done with Warhammer Online, nothing like making a human door and then trying to hold them off

ahh… WAR did actually have epic zerg battles, even though the foundations for sieges were not good at all.
body blocking (collision detection) first and foremost, and skills like guard and hold the line were what made it awesome.

my point is that there should be big battles, just not blob vs blob.

i just want ot ask the community for it’s opinion.

do you guys like the way organised WvW is?
where everybody hugs (literaly hugs) the commander or guild leader because it is the more efficient tactic?

or would you preffer battles to be more aesthetically pleasing and realistic
where you can pick out enemies among the zerg and actually fight instead of “melee-train” each other?

if u like it the way it is, fine.
if you dont, how could this be improved?

remove aoe cap?
add collision detection? or “soft” collision detection?
something else?

since tonight i’ve been having lots of lag in WvW.
skills delay a couple seconds and there is rubberbanding.

so i left WvW, and went for some pve.
after a while i got a d/c while questing. Error:7:11[…]

now i log in as far as character selection,
but when i click play i get an Error:58[…] and d/c.

sword/dagger no3 skill. highly unreliable, ruins your game.

shadowstep across gaps and elevations fails 95% of the time.

why would i wanna knock my target and myself back?
makes no sense as an autoattack skill since its gonna be unreliable and will often ruin your game.

nevertheless, i support a melee-staff thief, with cone and 360 attacks.

one skill could be an aoe knockdown. as as leg sweep.
another could be an aoe that reflects attacks. twirling it around.
another one could be the one you have for autoattack, just not on autoattack.

healing? really?
how will that help?
for the passive regen utility?

hi. im planning on doing WvW with my ranger.

i like playing with a shortbow and greatsword.
(longbow annoys me, its too slow. and swoop saves my kitten constantly)

so, what kind of gear should i go for?
i was thinking Power/Cond/Vit if the bleeds are good,
or maybe Power/Tough/Vit? berserker seems too squishy.

thanks.

LFk.1408:

What Tondrin said.

The gem exchange already essentially does this.

To be a little more specific, Leatherworking, Armorsmithing, Weaponsmithing, Tailoring, and Huntsman…ing… are the ‘expensive’ to max professions. Right now, with some careful planning, you can expect to have each cost a little less than 10g to max, whilst buying ALL of your materials. (This also factors in what you recover from crafting).

Cooking, Artificing, and Jewelcrafting are the ‘cheap’ to max professions. Cooking in particular can be maxed for between 1 – 3g of net cost, depending on your access to karma and hearts, Jewelcrafting and Artificing from 2-4g.

When all is said and done, this will get you from level 1 to 80, expending about 3 hours worth of effort (if you follow a guide). A bit more if you want to plot your own course.

The total net cost will be approximately ~60g, even if you spend generously, and probably a good deal less if you a) have any of your own materials already, or b) have items such as crafting boosters.

This is about 3.5k gems. Even cheaper than you wanted it

thx, i started doing this.

leveled jewelcrafting 0-380 for around a gold (!)
and artificing 0-380 for less than 5g.
got my alt from 2 to 25. no boosters.

not sure i wanna try cooking, cause i hear u gotta travel around getting karma ingredients with your main and thats annoying :P

i dunno about you, but i would buy it.
say… 6k gems for 1->80 for one char. that’s around 75€/100$.

awww… no replies? =(

i like it. its very good in pvp.
pve? i dont care :P

Skrittball !! (as in huttball)

i dont think these are the reasons why it cant be a successful esport.

downed state/finishing is annoying in structured pvp yes.. but not the end of the world.

in my opinion the problem is with the design of the skills.
instead of having damage skills and seperate cc/debuff skills, we have 5 weapon skills dealing damage plus a bunch of conditions each.
which will be a) confusing to the observer, and b) noob friendly, a button-masher’s paradise.

so a friend told me u can level a toon from zero to max level through crafting,
with a maximum cost of 60 gold.

i found some “guides” of people claiming it costs 30 or 40 gold.

is it possible? how long would it take? and around how much would it cost?

thanks for any help.

can we pelase have the option to customize what is shown on our allies’ and enemies’ nameplates?

i find it extremelly annoying how those giant nameplates cover everything in WvW.

if u target someone they would show everything.
but some customization options would be great.

for example, i would just have guild [tags] showing and keep everything clean.
while titles and names would be hidden, unless targeted.

ill just write a ticket,
thanks for your time everybody.

yes i got the medal on the char select screen,
and 100% shown on the left part of the screen (301/301, 509/509, 719/719, 202/202, 266/266),
and yes, ive done the WvW.

thanks but i found out about the Chantry of Secrets on google, and i tried it, but it didnt work.

hi, i just explored 100% of the map.
and my friends tell me that the game should offer me a crafting mat reward or something..
but i didnt get any rewards for completing it.
i just wanted to make sure there is a reward, and it is a bug, before i open a ticket.

a burst build thief, full berserker can be 2-shot if not careful. so i think its about right.

i basically want Ride the Lightning to become a utility skill
so i can play with a staff, but always have it on my skillbar.

and for the huge casting times to be gone
or at least the root effect when u cast them.

should i bump this thread so it gets more attention? if not, no problem.

:trollface:

i didnt go as far as to suggest to remove nameplates completely
because i dont think anet would do it.

but i must say it would be really awesome if they did remove them.

healthbars on the other hand… no. no way.

besides, u need a way to tell which one is ally or foe
red healthbar, or green healthbar :P

it annoys me a lot, and ive asked like 20 people from my guild, and they all agree on this.

the nametags in WvW are gigantic, and annoying.

it would be a great addition to implement an option
to show a compact version of “Serverserverserverserver Invader [Guild]”

in fact, the server isnt even really needed, since u can tell by the color of their armor.
but u could just make a short version of each server, like initials and such, and use that,
or just “red/green/blue invader”.

i hope you read this.

mesmer by far.

thieves dont have much to do in a group situation, compared to other classes.

if u like roaming and small grop fights, then either one is fine.

i like my thief tho.

it does make sense. i think its a good idea.

hi. my guild and several zerglings were defending keeps today.

everybody was complaining about not being able to deal damage to the enemy zerg below the keep.
we read the team/map chat where randoms were discussing the issue
and we also discussed it on ventrilo with my guildies.

the conclusion was that people’s combat logs were showing 0 (zero) or 3 damage done
while recieving damage normally.
and no combat text was popping up showing block or miss and such.

there was about 50 zerglings from dozens pf various guilds below the gates
and everyone was AoEing on multiple areas from multiple different angles and positions.

everyone reported that for the whole duration of the siege
the enemy zerg was being hit for zero or three damage.

we think it might be a combo field bug, or other kind of bug
that people were probably unknowingly exploiting.

me and a couple friends use logitech g9 (wired). and a lot more of my guildies use razer naga.

both have the exact same problem.

ranger is harder you say? rofl.

ranger is the easiest class in gw2.
maaaybe alongside warriors.

u want hard? play elementalist. big difference from all the others.
followed by engineer and mesmer.

i hope so. more income, better game.

if an arm has no pauldrons that is usually the sword arm, and not the shield arm.
take a look in medieval armors. the giant shoulderguard is always on the left side, while the tiny one on the right.
i guess it is because you raise and swing your sword arm all the time and the shoulderguard would get in the way of your movements.
the sword arm usually has more protection on the part of your wrist and elbow.

AshleySegovia.3948:

Hi Soccerspeed – Do you encounter this issue at all using a wired mouse?

i can confirm that it happens with wired mice as well.

tl;dr

pve player should shelf GW2 altogether.
and install it when he becomes a pvp player.

:P

everyone was experiencing the worst FPS, and im talking about people with monster PCs.
i myself had 40-50 fps in big sieges with maxed graphics until today, when they dropped at 18-22.

same for many of my guildies, who had bad fps, and several crashes/disconnects throughout our playing session.

also, id like to point out, for the 100th time, about the issue logitech and razer mice have with the right click not responding ocasionally.
which is the most annoying thing ever and the cause of many deaths in pvp.
it was gone the last week or so, now, since today, it’s back.

myself, my friends and guildies with logitech/razer gaming mice have the exact same problem.

ive started or replied on several threads about this issue, but there was no official response in any of them.

which means, they probably have no idea how to fix it?
or they’re just ignoring us.

title says it all.

this is an issue for low/med-pop servers, or generally non-peak-hours for all.

cowards that log out when they realise they cant beat you.

i dont think the exploitation of such a mechanic is intended, so fix it.

ZiN.9742:

They say it could be related to the high polling rate of the Razer Naga and other Logitech mice also with high polling rates.

hmm…. is there any way we can tweak this “polling rate” to fix it?

cause there is no official response yet on this,
so i just assume they are ignoring this issue.

is there anything we can do on our end?

spacemayu.4817:

• Proposal 2: My second proposal is to force the thief to be revealed if a certain threshold of damage is taken.

• Proposal 3: My next proposal is a change to the backstab. As of now, a backstab is considered to have come from the back so long as you enter the 180 degree radius behind the player. This means you can technically be standing at what seems more to be the side of the player than the back itself in order to get the full damage. Because of this (and because mobs/players tend to stand still ), it is too easy to score successful backstabs both in PvE and PvP.

2. no kitten way. u crazy?

3. you obviously have never played a backstabing class, and u dont know how weird such a mechanic is.
very often, even with the lowest ms you get error message (or in this case, no bonus damage)
even though your client shows that you are completely behind your target.

pve = it’s great
wvw = it’s ok.
spvp = remove it!