Guild Wars 2

Fay.2357:

The mesmer role is to provide teamfight utility and damage, while the thief role is to eliminate high-priority targets. You can fight a thief 1v1…you just can’t fight them while succeeding in your role, and that means the thief is succeeding in theirs.

How could you guess that thieves won’t be able to succeed in that role if this change is implemented? I know it makes it easier to prepare shatters for when they get out of stealth, but what else?

Fay.2357:

Your entire post is literally just aimless complaining about thief mechanics and wishing for drastic mechanic changes that will obviously never happen.

Fay.2357:

we should get big changes so that we can beat them all the time’

Oh, please show us how drastic this change would be before saying that. If the only thing you can say is that this change would make it so that mesmers can beat thieves all the time… well, it’s not just the mesmers that need to L2P then.

There’s a ton of skills I should probably use, but here we go:

Ether Feast (should probably use)
Mirror

Mirror Images (should probably use)
Null Field (should probably use)
Illusion of life (never really found out how it worked)
Mimic
Phantasmal Disenchanter (should probably use in a support spec)
Mantra of Distraction (should probably use)
Arcane Thievery
Signet of Midnight (the blindness part sounds average, but I never noticed before that it also breaks stun, maybe useful as an escape tool, but otherwise…)
Signet of Illusion (not big on shatters in general, also big cooldown)

Polymorph moa (sounds cool, but it only helps against 1 person, and Mass Invisibility has half the cooldown)

DarkILICI.5738:

Do you have an AMD/ATI video card? If yes, does your screen flicker or go totally black requiring to restart game (while other applications work fine)? This happens to me and a some other people and i don’t know yet if it’s patch (arenanet) related or due to last AMD driver update which pretty much was in the same time frame

My video card is AMD, but I don’t get any flicker or black screen. It just does lag spikes and lost connections. It seems like there’s always a lag spike occuring before I get booted to the character selection screen, but I’m always able to get back into the game without any loading issue.

It seems like every 5-15 minutes or so, I get a lag spike for 1 minute. All the other players and monsters move around normally, but I can’t cast any spell and my character is treated like it is staying at the place when the lag spike began (so if I move away from the area, the monster’s aoes still affect me). After the lag spike is finished, I don’t normally get teleported back to the place I was, but it happened a few times.

Makes the game completely unplayable. The lag spikes are so bad that everytime I get into a fight and they happen, I am FORCED to die. I also didn’t have those kinds of lag spikes before today, which makes me think it has something to do with the patch. Anyone else is affected by this?

EDIT: I also get booted back to the character selection screen every hour or so apparently.