Guild Wars 2

This V2 is somewhat better though still hardly that good.

It’s good that you got rid of the powercreeped options for condi builds. I still don’t know why you got rid of such sigils as leeching or hydromancy, since the RNG damage this project aims to reduce stems from air/blood/fire. You’re trying to promote on swap sigils but those were OP? Hum. Well they’re not so I’m puzzled.

Battle needs a buff, it’s too weak as it is.

The 18s CD sigils would be too strong on 9s CD and too situational on 18s CD (ie you’d need perfect rotations to make any use of it on a weapon set you hardly use, and luck on your side). That’s hardly practical and a sigil AoE reveal is a terrible idea (I don’t main thief and they’re overdue for a nerf but this is not it). If they’re too strong for 9s and thus get 18s CD, it means you should rework them. And don’t buff the nullification one again unless you wanna see people ripping dozens of boons through sigils alone. You’re trying to make picking sigils simpler too, throwing in some 18s CD would make little sense.

Then I’m puzzled again. Most passive sigils are worthless. 5% damage is useless in PvP as PvP is not about DPS, it’s about landing a few critical skills. Passive sigils are worthless because they only shine if you can land almost all your skills (like in PvE). Force isn’t used at the moment, never was. Those sigils are worse than Force. If you’re trying to make it so there’s no “illusion of diversity” then don’t add pointless sigils. The duration sigils are even worse save for Paralyzation, they’re a waste of a slot in most cases. Those are PvE sigils, yet again. I can think of some exceptions like trying to cap burn duration on a burn build but that’s about it (most other condis get duration capped through traits,runes,amulets).

This project is still lacking and I hope there will be many more versions so that you can improve it.

While I understand the ideas (mainly to reduce power damage output), the execution is far from compelling.

If you want to reduce passive RNG damage, simply dispose of air/blood/fire sigils. If you want to remove useless sigils, you can remove all the damage modifiers and duration modifiers. They’ve never been any use in PvP.

Some of the newly offered sigils are extremely powercreeped and some of the ones that were deleted were hardly problematic.

Air/blood/fire do help bunkers attaining good damage. But hydromancy? It’s been nerfed a few times already, it barely does any damage anymore. And I see leeching is gone too? That was hardly spammable or RNG, and not unlike sigil of Intelligence. It makes very little sense. Power builds will be left with about 5 sigils worth using. That’s pathetic.

The execution of this entire project is lacking and will probably remove yet another layer to theorycrafting just so they devs don’t have to nerf HoT powercreeped damage.

The 4.5% is actually an average on packet losses, upon closer inspection half the packet losses start from the ISP server on the third hop (and then the following hops are affected too). Some even reach 10-20% on the third hop. Soooo I guess you’re correct.

Thank you ! I’ve already tried calling my ISP but the tech guy I had on the phone had no idea what ping is so it’s gonna prove challenging.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Looks like a Tier 3 issue (Telia, etc.), as usual.

You can contact the Tech CS Team via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Submit a Ticket’ for assistance.

That doesn’t add up for a number of reasons, starting with the fact that I tested several VPNs that I’d started using previously to fix, indeed, a Telia-induced Packet Loss problem.

Gator.5729:

It appears that you packet loss is starting just past your modem. Once you have packet loss it carries to each node you connect to. I would start trying to eliminate it at your ISP, that should also clear it up at each node along the way.

Mhm, can’t hurt to whine to my ISP. Thanks !

Hi,

I’ve had ping problems on a regular basis but they mostly (though not entirely) went away once I started using Pingzapper a few months back. However, I am unable to play since Saturday due to :

1) Spikes up to 4k (usually about 300 to 500, rarely 1k) for a few seconds
2) Sometimes, ping averaging at about 100 to 600

Needless to say, it’s unplayable.

On Saturday and Sunday it started at 5 pm up until midnight and on Monday it started at noon which isn’t exactly prime time (and kept going the entire day, though 7am to 11am was roughly ok). Just for the record nobody’s downloading on my network and I was the only one on it this Monday. The problems remain even if I use a VPN. I tested both Pingzapper AND WTFast and tried different settings (automatically close to my country vs manually a bit further away). I used to be in Wi-Fi, now I’m not so that’s ruled out too.

Here’s a couple plots from Ping Plotter :

Pinging GW2 IPs :

I pinged some of the servers whose IP start with 64 : http://imgur.com/a/oPnpn
zoom on Packet Losses : http://imgur.com/a/cg38O

I pinged some of the servers whose IP start with 206 : http://imgur.com/a/atNQD

I believe this shows that I get some high average latency on NCsoft servers of about 200-400ms. I also get packet loss on those servers as demonstrated on the zooms.

I also pinged the IP address my VPN (Pingzapper only because WTFast provides about 10 IPs and I’ve no idea which one to ping) goes to when I’m using it in “Firewall mode” (ie all traffic goes through it).

PZ : http://imgur.com/a/uXZoi

PZ zoom on Packet Losses : http://imgur.com/a/hhes0

And then I’m confused. It doesn’t look like the NCsoft servers (or Telia to some extent) are the problem anymore. I’m getting high latency and packet loss here too? What the heck?

If anyone can make sense of this and direct me to my ISP or to Anet CS, I would be most grateful.

P.S. : I know Ping Plotter shows that I supposedly have 20ms average but trust me, it’s not quite right ._.

P.S2: The gw2 diagnosis tool used to work a few months back but now it doesn’t show anything past the second hop, dunno if that’s helpful information.

Hum, tooltip is one thing and the skill could be quite another. Anet has a long history of inaccurate tooltips.

Try hitting a few golems (at least 10 with and 10 without the trait) in HoTM. Average the values, see if there’s a bug indeed. I’d pick an amulet without crit to get non-crit values.

Hi,

if you use headbutt with a rune that has a “on-elite use” 6th bonus such as Surging or Krait, you only get the 6th bonus if Headbutt does NOT land on an enemy target. If it lands, nothing happens aside from the skill normally unfolding. I’ve been reporting this for months. Please fix. Just so we’re clear, it has nothing to do with the rune’s ICD.

Hi,

I’ve reported these bugs several times over the past six months using the in-game function to no avail, so here they come again.

1) Volley : it is a channel but it doesn’t follow target if you let go of the camera. This is especially problematic in PvP as you sometimes want to make sure the enemy is tracked by such a skill, especially if they stealth. I believe you used to be able to let go of the camera and movement keys and it would follow, but no longer. If you want to see a channel that is not bugged, look at Rapid Fire.

2) Brutal Shot : this skill’s first problem is that it doesn’t override auto attack. Even if you have auto attack disabled and press Fierce Shot a few times, Brutal Shot will not interrupt it. It will be queued AFTER the Fierce Shots unless you interrupt the auto attacks (by stowing, for instance) THEN use Brutal Shot. Let’s give a quick example : you press Fierce Shot (#1) three times because you’re trigger happy. You see something you need to dodge, you press Brutal Shot (#4). Fierce Shot is fired three times THEN Brutal Shot is fired.
With any other weapon in the game, skills override the auto attack. It isn’t so here. Fix it.

3) Brutal Shot : Same as volley, this skill doesn’t follow target if you let go of the movement keys and the camera. Example : you let go of the keys and press it, the enemy goes in your back, nothing happens because the skill is interrupted. Pleaaaaase fix.

Letting go of the camera for skillshots is part of this game, make it a little more consistent please.

Hi there,

I have 1250 Tomes of Knowledge to give away on EU servers for guild hall upgrades. First to pm me will be first served ! Donations would be appreciated but unnecessary ~

I tested this with Headbutt and the elite Signet and had previously tested it with Rune of Surging. This isn’t tied to the runes, it’s tied to Headbutt.

Basically, if headbutt does not land, then the rune activates. If headbutt does land, the rune doesn’t activate. I reported it months ago.

A few bugs, some of which are not related to the patch but it can’t hurt to report them :

- Overcharged Shot sometimes shows “Immune” on Warriors that use the Last Stand trait though the trait is on CD

-if you try to use magnet right after swapping to the Tool KiT, it sometimes fails

-if you use Whirlwind Attack on warrior GS, then swap and try to use Volley immediately, the character keeps spinning and no hit lands on the enemy (I assume because both skills are channels, some weird bug happens)

-power scaling on elementalist scepter seems very wrong since the patch, phoenix with 3 hits crit hit for 6k without might (on a glassy guardian), 8k with 25 mights. Clearly this isn’t right.

Please fix anet <3

In PvP, air and fire sigils appear to do roughly 30% less damage. They formerly hit for 1k+, they now do around 850 for air and 700 for fire on light golems. I also noticed lower damage overall so wondered if something happened to the power scaling of skills.

Just tested on a friend warrior, could not reproduce it.

The HP bars on the sides are at least twice as thick as usual, I’m willing to bet it’s another patch bug.

pmnt.4067:

I have the same issue but I completely wiped all GW2 data before heading to the forums, so no logs from me. I did send an error report with the crash report tool, though.

Same issue, my alt accounts work but my main account crashes immediately when I enter the character select screen.

Wait, it’s account dependent? Is this the revenge for the HoT portal drop or the free account upgrade after the first HoT stress test?

Doubt it, got two friends on this topic and neither of them had the pass for the first beta test, nor the portal. I had the pass and we all got the bug :>

Goldhamster.1865:

Uhtameit.2413:

I heard a rumor that you can log in fine if you consider Anet staff to be capable.

—> Crash <—
Assertion: hostRole
File: p:\code\gw2\game\portal\PlGroup.h(682)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 6884
Cmdline: -clientport 443 -autologin
BaseAddr: 01120000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 49043
When: 2015-05-19T19:40:29Z 2015-05-19T15:40:29-04:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:30
Flags: 0

Can confirm, I know at least one.

Did you know, that they have a term about “Stalking” in their updated Forum Terms of Conduct?

Also, do you wanna marry me?

Ontopic, same problem here.

I did not know, please send me the link.

Why would I want to? :o

JATRiiX.7046:

how long will they need until this is fixed? ive been sending around 500 bug reports to them in the last 2 hours.

What made you think that sending them the same information over and over about the same bug that dozens or hundreds of players are experiencing (and have reported) would help them?

I could repeat that question around 500 times but I doubt that you could provide a satisfactory answer.

I heard a rumor that you can log in fine if you consider Anet staff to be capable.

• Crash <—*
  Assertion: hostRole
  File: p:\code\gw2\game\portal\PlGroup.h(682)
  App: Gw2.exe
  Pid: 6884
  Cmdline: -clientport 443 -autologin
  BaseAddr: 01120000
  ProgramId: 101
  Build: 49043
  When: 2015-05-19T19:40:29Z 2015-05-19T15:40:29-04:00
  Uptime: 0 days 0:00:30
  Flags: 0

“Soon”

/15chars

There are no minis in sPvP. I see we have knowledgeable peeps here o/

While I’m at it, it’s not about seeing the challenge mote or not seeing it, it’s about whether it spawns or not. And that depends entirely on who opens the instance, as far as I know. If you follow my intructions, it should be alright :>

I did the achievement in this very fashion though I was unable to see the mote if I opened the instance. So yes, it does work.

Here’s some new information that should help players and devs alike :

Yersterday, I started doing the Dragon’s Reach P2 achievements and was, at the time, able to activate the challenge mote. After doing “Untouched by Maw and Claw”, I moved on to my second attempt at “Can’t Knock Me Down” + “Mote Master”. At this point, I got hit by the stomp which removed both “Can’t Knock Me Down” and “Mote Master”. Since then, impossible to get the challenge Mote to appear.

I suppose there is some kind of weird link there, if you fail at CKMD once, then the challenge mote becomes bugged. That much should help the devs.

Now as for the players, the solution is fairly easy : find someone who’s done LS but no achievements, disable your own LS (just in case though I doubt it’d hurt) and make them open the instance. The challenge mote will be there and you will be able to get the achievement

Cheers.

Haha, anet fixing clipping issues. You’re an optimistic one :>

Title says it all, I know where the Challenge Mote is supposed to be thanks to dulfy but it just isn’t here.

Please fix anet <3

You pretty much said what I typed in prettier words so either :

1) You didn’t read it

2) You were being condescending and took the liberty to explain to me something I already knew

I assumed the former but it seems it was the latter.

I open a topic in the engi subforum about a topic in the bug subforum because not everyone reads the bug subforum

I can see you didn’t read the topic I linked, that’s nice. I never claimed it was the only one but that doesn’t mean we can just ignore it. I would also argue that the other skills you named are not as necessary for the mentioned weapons that Net Shot is for rifle. Simple because rifle is clunky and would greatly benefit from having a reliable Net Shot.

In any case, I don’t see the problem in letting anet know that we’d like to know their stand on the matter

You don’t say, you didn’t read the wiki. Wao, so meansies.

Except in this case, it is right. You can’t craft ascended trinkets but you can craft exotic trinkets and since at the moment it is the only reliable way to get nomade trinkets…I was right <3

Unlike you though I don’t spend my time checking this thread nor making a fool out of myself typing lines and lines and lines then pretending I don’t care :>. See if you’re going to try to lie, pick a more convincing one.

Anyhow, that pretty much ends the argument. Thanks for trying, next time try to pick a discussion where you got a shot at being right. Bai bai forum warrior !

Welp I guess engineers don’t care about Net Shot, you just need to post on the topic I linked but I find it funny that nobody cares about a skill being bugged when we only have 3 weapon sets.

Dante.1763:

Uhtameit.2413:

So let me get this straight, the laurel vendors isn’t reliable and is bugged as hell, crafting is reliable. Wao, sounds like I was right after all. The only reliable way to get Nomad is through crafting.

And boohoo, exotic instead of ascended, what a shame :<

AGAIN: YOU CANNOT CRAFT ASCENDED TRINKETS, NECKLACES OR ACCESSORIES which is what the OP is referring to, NOT ARMOR OR WEAPONS, which you CAN Craft. If you COULD craft the Accessories, amulets, and rings i would agree with you. But you CANNOT.

And yes, for now. i do not have Wynnes locket as of yet and thats what she will be getting.

Uhtameit.2413:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

Oops, it says you can only craft it. What a shame, I was right.

THIS is wrong. You CAN craft ARMOR and WEAPONS, but NOT the trinkets, accessories, or amulets, FOR ANYTHING, which is what the OP is looking for, which i can buy through laurels. This is a bug, As some players can buy them, and some cannot. Seriously though, how many times do i have to say that the OP is after the jewelry stuff that Cannot be crafted..PERIOD.

Looks like someone needs a hug. It’s okay, you can re-read the page I sent you and figure out that you were wrong, then you can come back and admit you just wasted your time typing this (even more so since I did not read it ^^ ).

So let me get this straight, the laurel vendors isn’t reliable and is bugged as hell, crafting is reliable. Wao, sounds like I was right after all. The only reliable way to get Nomad is through crafting.

And boohoo, exotic instead of ascended, what a shame :<

Dante.1763:

Uhtameit.2413:

Yeh, I should learn stuff that contradicts the wiki. Right

Did you check the picture? like at all? otherwise i can just say you are trolling. So congrats? The Wiki is not god. The Wiki is not always correct. Nobody knows how to unlock the Nomad Amulets at the laurel merchant. I can buy them, but the OP cannot. Click on the picture, here ill attach it again for you. Those are clearly Nomad stats.

Yeah and the OP can’t so maybe there’s a reason why the wiki says what it says. If nobody knows how to unlock, that further proves my point : the only available way to get them is to craft.

But hey, next time before contradicting someone you can try and see if you got any arguments on your side.

Dante.1763:

Uhtameit.2413:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

Oops, it says you can only craft it. What a shame, I was right.

You are oh so very wrong. You should learn stuff.

TO THE OP: Im sorry, i have no idea why you cant see them T.T I dont even remember unlocking them!

Yeh, I should learn stuff that contradicts the wiki. Right

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

Oops, it says you can only craft it. What a shame, I was right.

I have to say that whether you are serious or not, this is, without a doubt :

It’s not, Nomad gear can only be crafted. Read the wiki, it helps :>

No, I think what you experienced was something quite different :

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Always_Prepared

ie, you stayed in the slick shoes while stomping so your stability stacks melted away. Then he could cc you

Yeh, that’s pretty much the point. Far less often.

It’s all depending on projectile speed and Net Shot is probably the slowest projectile in-game. Hence the problem. Hence my asking for a change

Hai Hai !

We all (or at least most of us, I do hope) know that Net Shot get randomly obstructed. If you’re sick of it you can help me raise awareness and tell anet how much of a pain it is on this topic :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Fixing-Net-Shot-How-To/

Bai frands :>

Given that you’re the guy that was complaining about Healing Turret being bugged( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Healing-Turret-Engi/first#post5027665 ) while it never was, then assumed it was fixed because you finally used it right… By the way if Anet had fixed it, they wouldn’t have changed your settings, they’d have changed the whole game.

Anyhow, just stop inviting people that are already in a party and you’ll stop experiencing non-existing bugs.

While I’m at it, I find puzzling that you imagine that your character’s race, gender and class would have anything to do with the bug itself.

Could be, I don’t care enough to check out all the topics. What I do know though is that at the time you first posted on this topic, it was monday (checked time stamp, you lied son <3).

Now if you have something to say regarding Net Shot you can go ahead, if not I suggest you leave it at that

Meh, I’ve seen some topics get red on the day I posted this so the week-end argument isn’t all that convincing.

No, it’s bugged.

I still wish for some red around here, as this is very srs bsnss ;>

Lel. It was just you all along, I’m afraid. The healing turret is all about timing, guess you found the right one.

It is.

/15 char

Hai there,

Back in 2012, projectiles would get randomly obstructed all the time. Then they got fixed. I’m here to talk about the sad little puppy that was left out, ie Net Shot. To make a long story short, it gets “Obstructed” randomly.

I think the problem at stake here is due to the fact that when your opponent move while you fire a projectile, the game calculates a trajectory for that projectile. If your opponent stop moving or changes direction, you might then get “Obstructed” because the trajectory proves to be ineffective (I think the 2012 problem was about the same thing). Now of course, the projectile speed and the range at which you fire it matter.

This is where my little video barges in : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd9yPQ1xRe0

It’s in 6 parts :

1) My opponent strafes quickly while I fire my rifle auto-attack (AA)
->everything lands
2) Quick strafing while I use Net Shot 5 times
->1 success out of 5 attempts
3) Slower strafing that is much more likely to happen in actual PvP
->1 success out of 5 attempts
4) my guardian friend AAs me with scepter while I strafe quickly
->almost everything gets obstructed
5) my thief friend AAs me with shortbow while I strafe quickly
->almost everything gets obstructed
6) my thief friend AAs me with shortbow while I strafe slowly
-> quite a few of the hits land, I just noticed we got a few “Out of Range” though but you can still see my point, 50% of the hits get obstructed and the rest lands.

Quick strafing can’t really happen in PvP because you need to move around, the point of 1), 2), 4)and 5) is to show you that the projectile reaching his target depends highly on the projectile speed. Indeed, all the Hip Shots land while any slower projectile fails to reach the target most of the time.

Now 3) and 6) are more interesting because people strafing then changing direction or just not moving anymore are much more likely to happen in PvP. And the video is quite compelling there, Net Shot fails almost every time while the shortbow AA is much more reliable simply because it is quicker. Not a whole lot quicker, mind you, but a bit.

I’m not claiming this is all there is to Net Shot getting obstructed all the time because it just gets randomly obstructed even on targets you just cc-d with Overcharged Shot, but it should be a start.

I also would like to mention that I understand the need for Net Shot to be relatively slow because it is strong and needs to be dodgeable, so how about you make it a tad quicker and in exchange increase its CD? You could also give it a cast animation and make it much quicker, like pin down.

I would love to get a little red around here :>

While I’m at it, I’d like to thank Salty Pepe for the recording and Xephania Pureheart for participating.

I also found out that

1) I’m still hearing rangers addressing their pets when I’m in PvP

2) the Llama finisher no longer plays the SAB music

While I’m at it, I’d like to report that the engineer skill Net Shot gets obstructed 50% of the time for no reason

1) Still getting stuck when entering a map

2) on Legacy of the Foefire, there is no water on the ground near the waterfall

3) on Battle of Kyhlo, the NPC archers are outside of the base