Guild Wars 2

My ping to the server is about 50-60, when i cast skills it some times goes through on the moment i push the button, other times where there are many characters around, the skill some times goes through but the “effect” has a 10-30 seconds delay. It even happens when I roll, as a thief you see a short effect when you dodge but usually the effect triggers 20-30 seconds after i dodged for some reason (sound as well).

And in WvW some times skills will take more than 10 seconds to cast, some times even 30 seconds to 1 minute.

I have played gw2 since the first beta, it’s getting worse and worse every time.

have had this issue since forever now with a 20 mbps connection. Yay for 1 minute to cast skills…

Confirmed, you can get pre-legendaries at a very low rate, if you like wvw then you won’t find it a hastle and will get it sooner or later!

Mumu.6203:

I kinda like underwater combat but I hate the “dead but still able to move” and the “no stomp” downed mode.

Basically my same issue with underwater combat.

Endgame is:

For PVE: Legendaries, fractals, shiny stuff.
For Story/PVE: Kill the hell outa Zhaitan.
For sPVP: Reach rank <insert idk what number here>
For WvW: Rule everything.

Yep, I looove it <3

McSlappy.1372:

lordhelmos.7623:

As the topic states, if you no longer WvW what keeps you from logging in? Just interested in what drives people away from this feature.

Because there is no sense of server community and rivalry. If you work on a server and make it awesome like HoD and BG back at launch then you’ll just be swapped with band-wagoners. So it’s actually better for your server to not do as well. Also with unlimited server transfers you can move servers every week depending on what your looking for.

In better games such as those made by Blizzard your servers have an identity. Some good some bad. Tichondrius is probably one of the best PvP servers out there. And you will get a sense of rivalry on the forums etc. Between Darkspear, Tich, KT, Illidan etc. You don’t have people flipping back and forth every other week.

In GW2 the whole sense of server identity is kind of meh. Honestly the forums provide more entertainment then the game itself.

I heard transfers are still free just because they are working on the “guest system”, where you can play with other servers PVE. Until that is done it is supposed to go for payments. Though, it wont be much of an issue to keep transfering even with paid methods, with the gold to gems exchange, but atleast it will be controlled and won’t be changing servers every week.

Lmao, seriously? you complain of bells? next thing will be, “I don’t like my toon’s hair, but i dont want to spend gems…, FIX IT ANET!”.

Really, stop complaining of nonsense things… simply mute the game and you’re good to go. Don’t want to mute it? then deal with it?…

I agree with the commander thing though, commanders should be earned not bought.

sostronk.8167:

Guid Wars 2 is my first fully fledged MMO. There is a reason why MMO’s never appealed to me and why I came to this one. I have strong conviction towards PvP. If I am to be involved in PvP whatsoever, I never want to die to an opponent because they brought 20 people with them. I want balance in PvP. I can’t see WvW providing that, ever.

World vs World is open pvp, meaning it’s 3 servers fighting for the maps. You won’t find much 1v1 or even 1v2 fights here, you’d probably like to look for sPVP where it’s small groups fights.

I think it depends on what you find as “best”.

I like elementalist because of it pew pew and all the roles it can do.

I like thief, because it’s like hide and seek.

I like mesmer, because it’s like “where’s waldo?”.

I like ranger, because it has pets! pokemanz!

I like necro, because it has many pets! moar pokemanz!

And so on

Lordrosicky.5813:

Yamiino.1827:

People that look for rewards in WvW should be doing PVE or sPVP…

WvW is about winning and nothing else.

@Korsbaek: HillbilliesRule is correct, there are camps that allow people to be immune if they stand on the corners, I won’t mention which ones because it could become overused, though it’s not meant to work like that so it would be fine to simply report the exploiters.

- Badges?, I get atleast 100 badges per day :/ don’t know what tier you’re in, that could probably be the issue, not enough people to kill.

- Items?, I get atleast 2 gold per day worth of items (without mentioning rares and exotic drops per day, which I mostly break for ecto.)

- Thief/Mesmer culling?, go into a zerg of 40+ people, fight other zerg of 40+ people, you will find warriors, rangers, mesmers, thiefs, necros, etc. hidden everywhere. Culling is a GW2 issue, don’t blame Thiefs and Mesmers about it, the classes work the way they are, culling might give these two a little advantage, but don’t make drama about it because most of the time, a mesmer or thief that goes to kill 1v1 or 1v2 won’t be affected by culling, that means you suck with your character, better check up that PVE full berserker build, because it makes you explode in WvW.

In other words, stop QQing about WvW, it’s fine as it is, just fix the culling and you’re ready to go, guild ranks would be good though not necessary.

If you make gold in WvW then you aren’t helping your server because you are not buying siege or upgrades enough.

Wrong, I use the badges and yet I have enough badges, you can use badges for more than gear you knew this I guess. Also, I believe you know siege also drops from kills. I don’t need to use all my siege since all my guild / server contributes at different points of the battle. So yes I have enough siege without spending a dime.

When it is needed, I use it, when it’s not needed I save it, as simple as that.

And just for your information, everyone in my guild gives 2 gold weekly to the guild bank as a tax to upgrade things and build more siege.

Yes, it is something called team work.

We already have trinity in here, it’s called: Support, tank, dps.

Support: Every class can do it, elementalist has the best support/healing.
Tank: Every class can do it, guardian has the best tank/defensive skills.
DPS: Every class can do it, I believe elementalist has the best dps, or prolly mesmer hmmm or warrior? don’t really know lol.

Asking to bring something that is already here? lol wut? o.O

The only diference with other games is that GW2 allows EVERY class to do those jobs in diferent ways, which I love.
I don’t like a healer to stand on the back and press 5…5….5….5….5….5….5…. change target… 5….5….5… pff…

I believe people have a wrong view of WvW.

Open PvP (WvW) is simply that, you go in, get in a group and massive kill everything in your way.

I find it fun, it’s what I do all day, I don’t complain of objectives, I don’t complain of money (would be great to get more though), I don’t complain of badges or gear, I don’t complain of fighting an enemy zerg of 50+ people, why?

Because that’s what WvW is about.

WvW is not about PVE, it’s not about small groups (which can do something productive, get camps, they give points and supply to the keeps and towers, you know?), it’s not even about getting that shiny pretty legendary weapon, or puzzles…

WvW is about points, you keep the points by protecting stuff, by protecting and attacking you get to kill massive amount of players, by killing massive amount of players you get massive amount of badges (100 a day is more than enough in WvW I believe, since it’s main objective IS NOT to give you gear… or complete a daily/monthly quest…).

PvPers enjoy killing, and more when you can go inside and play with your whole guild, gets you the feel of belonging to an army, if you do not do your job, the map will be affected / points.

WvW achieves that feeling of “ok I want to forget everything and simply, break some heads”.

Don’t mess with it, do not make it for PvErs, it’s fine as it is, it is fun as it is, if some people that post in here do not like it is because they want to achieve something, such as “puzzle master”, “rat killer”, “you did your monthly, great, now leave because there’s people that want to contribute more than just killing or doing events or farming karma” achievements.

I love WvW, I know about 300 people that LOVE WvW, could be even more (just counting people I have seen doing WvW every day in my server :>).

Now, don’t come here and ask to give you achievements in WvW or quests, because WvW is not PVE.

You’ve got a lot of maps and quests and shiny stuff to do in PVE and even sPVP, go there.

Only technical issues I can see are:

- Culling
- Immune to attacks at certain points of the map (camps)

How can you say “it’s boring” when you can get this from WvW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsUeRL0Yifk

Jesus!

People that look for rewards in WvW should be doing PVE or sPVP…

WvW is about winning and nothing else.

@Korsbaek: HillbilliesRule is correct, there are camps that allow people to be immune if they stand on the corners, I won’t mention which ones because it could become overused, though it’s not meant to work like that so it would be fine to simply report the exploiters.

- Badges?, I get atleast 100 badges per day :/ don’t know what tier you’re in, that could probably be the issue, not enough people to kill.

- Items?, I get atleast 2 gold per day worth of items (without mentioning rares and exotic drops per day, which I mostly break for ecto.)

- Thief/Mesmer culling?, go into a zerg of 40+ people, fight other zerg of 40+ people, you will find warriors, rangers, mesmers, thiefs, necros, etc. hidden everywhere. Culling is a GW2 issue, don’t blame Thiefs and Mesmers about it, the classes work the way they are, culling might give these two a little advantage, but don’t make drama about it because most of the time, a mesmer or thief that goes to kill 1v1 or 1v2 won’t be affected by culling, that means you suck with your character, better check up that PVE full berserker build, because it makes you explode in WvW.

In other words, stop QQing about WvW, it’s fine as it is, just fix the culling and you’re ready to go, guild ranks would be good though not necessary.

Esrever.8613:

Yamiino.1827:

I have seen like 3 or 4 pre-legendary weapons drop in about a month, and that’s just my guild.

I don’t think those are lame items?

I get rares and exotics often, you prolly are just not lucky?

Guess it’s just the objective, I play because I like to break some heads, some play for the loot.

I don’t think people even drop precursors in WvW.

Who said people did?

NPCs do drop pre-legendaries, and I have seen them, lords mostly.

@The person that asked me to define often: probably 3-4 a day.

I have geared two of my characters mostly from wvw fights :o

I got over 700 badges in less than a month.

I believe the badges drop more to the party that did more damage to the objective, atleast that’s what I heard.

OOOH this sounds like dramalama.

Not a suggestion, not a comment, just QQ.

Check please!

Stealth is not the problem, culling is.

Every time i go into a zerg I face with stealthed warriors, rangers, guardians, etc. they should nerf them :x

ijs.

I have seen like 3 or 4 pre-legendary weapons drop in about a month, and that’s just my guild.

I don’t think those are lame items?

I get rares and exotics often, you prolly are just not lucky?

Guess it’s just the objective, I play because I like to break some heads, some play for the loot.

One word:

No.

Air.6452:

Is anyone else getting tired of this “blame the victim” mob mentality that the people against stealth portray?

Get rid of stealth because I die to much from it. How about you just learn how to adapt…. Having to fight illusions is really annoying, getting portal bombed is really annoying, 15k crit warriors with 20k+ life is annoying, but we all just deal with it.

Agreed.

Grovskie.4238:

Yamiino.1827:

Think the main problem is that new maps would mean a whole new planning for them, more than what sPVP maps need.

Which would mean we would also need to research deeply these maps in order to find:

- Best attack locations.
- Best defense locations.
- Best places to hide mesmers/thiefs.
etc.

There was a time I thought this could be a good idea, but I think it would be pretty messy too.

thats the fun part tho its predictable to know where and how they are going to attack. keeps things alive.

Don’t know what tier you’re in but in my tier it already feels pretty much very I’d say alive with queues at all time.

I’m fine with the current maps, I’d agree with you if you would have suggested new stuff to do in WvW (incentives) like fractal items or cool gear for the badges, etc.

Maps, meh, I’m good with them, what they need to change is REMOVE PVE from WvW. Yep~

Eh? This is everything but buy to win lol. If TP and repairs are “expensive”, then you’re doing something wrong.

I stay 90% of my playtime in WvW and I assure you I die way more than you and it still won’t make me bankrupt.

Money making is fine in this game… I don’t see why you’d need to go to the bank every hour or even every day when you can get large bags (10+ slots each).

I got both of my characters with 15 slot bags with just grind… all my gear as well.

As Fred says, I have never used bank access, I have like 5 or 6 in my bank sitting there looking pretty.

Without any troubles, counting teleports, repairs, etc. I still make around two golds every day (and that is very little compared to people that make over 10 gold every day).

Think the main problem is that new maps would mean a whole new planning for them, more than what sPVP maps need.

Which would mean we would also need to research deeply these maps in order to find:

- Best attack locations.
- Best defense locations.
- Best places to hide mesmers/thiefs.
etc.

There was a time I thought this could be a good idea, but I think it would be pretty messy too.

I agree wings as cosmetic, probably with a little float / fly / ground-offset though not a complete flight mechanic. I’d not mind if they could be used to fly lets say 30 cms. off the floor, but not a “zoom i by pass all content” kind of flight.

Caedmon.6798:

Yamiino.1827:

The problem with the thief class is that there is no problem with it, the thiefs that 1-3 hits kill you go pretty much for crit damage, precision and power, aka, no life, no defense, they can go down as fast too, just most people like to QQ before testing other builds or improving their gaming leading to frustration = quit game.

I think you dont seem to understand what the problem is at all.

I do, simply, people want to remove the hiding from the thief, which is, the core thing of this class, they have cooldowns, it costs some times a lot of initiative to remain hidden, removing this from the thief would mean destroying the class itself.

Most people think when a thief hides they can’t deal damage, which is wrong, if you keep hitting the thief will most likely die. Use aoes, use control skills.

Note that you are comparing thief with mesmer, which is the first thing you did wrong, you are just comparing the hiding habilities, what about the clones? in WvW, mesmers, are a pain to kill as well… ijs.

The problem with the thief class is that there is no problem with it, the thiefs that 1-3 hits kill you go pretty much for crit damage, precision and power, aka, no life, no defense, they can go down as fast too, just most people like to QQ before testing other builds or improving their gaming leading to frustration = quit game.

I have seen rangers, mesmers, necros, guardians, warriors, elementalists, engineers take down more than one thief due to the control skills they own.

/plane PLEASE http://youtu.be/_CunHb3TJsg

New dances / a dance vendor /dance1 – 10 or something to do something else.

/kiss /slap /embrace /eat /drink

I’m just going to say the next:

Tank / Control / Support

The key to success.

I see as many thieves as elementalists, rangers, mesmers, guardians, warriors, necros and engineers. Don’t know about your server or what tier you’re in, but where I play it is very mixed.

I wouldn’t go 2v10 of any class though and then whine on the forums, you just QQ about thieves because you got literally ganked with them and they are right now because of stealth on aim of being OP, when a mesmer can pretty much faceroll most thieves. ijs.

Bet if you found a group of 10 rangers spamming arrows on your little group you would ask for a nerf over the changes they did to them. Lol.

More pver complains please.

Lol, nice xD you must have a lot of free time xP

No complains here, cosmetic is cosmetic, I just made the one I liked, the golem, and thats it and I’m happy with it ^^

Hmm I liked the event, I want the outfit, but I don’t feel like spending money since I don’t like it very much, I could get it with gold, but meh there goes my savings… better keep doing WvW and sPVP <3

I liked the mini golem btw – ty.

I don’t know why people complain about this event most of it is simply cosmetic, nothing you need to play, yes cool stuff is expensive, so save, and then get it later on, you don’t need it to play.

Hey they did some improvement by letting us remake our toons more costumes shouldn’t be a problem. Thumbs up.

I stopped reading when i saw “How about letting us buy a voucher through gems to make us 80?”

Rofl.

If you want you can level up to 80 in less than two weeks, being lazy and not want to do anything the game is about, well, then this aint your type of game. Leveling is extremelly easy and fun, I leveled my elementalist all in personal story and pve, my thief in some pve and wvw.

If you don’t want to do wvw, craft, do pve, events, dungeons, personal story, then sorry o.O

Set up this achievement: complete the world.

You will be lvl 80 before you explore and complete 50% of the map…

What I find funny about this is that they said they didn’t want people to be LFG and play however they wanted.

Uhhh complaining of pulls? what about the mesmer one? can bring down a whole party from a tower :> no complains there. Or the new commander pulls you too, should be nerfed, oh and the ranger skill that knocks you back too, and the hammer skill that pushes you back too, everything should be nerfed and should be named Kitty Wars Online.

asperbianca.3196:

Yamiino.1827:

Please don’t mention Perfect World, that is the worse pay to win example you can bring up. I agree with the costumes, I like them, but there’s no enough costumes, it would be awesome to be able to fight with our costumes on.

They weren’t using PWI as a pay to win example; they were using the variety of things that can be purchased from the cash shop to entice players to buy things from it. As it stands now, aside from the skins, everything that’s in the GW2 ‘cash shop’ can be obtained in game through various means; there is nothing currently in the shop that is all that enticing.

What did I say? – I agree with the costumes – o.O I know how PWI is because I played it for 4 years, I know they have a lot of costumes and that’s what I pointed out. I just don’t want ANet to start selling gear (comment as a reminder only) – that’s all.

Look at a “zerg” as an army, you don’t go into battle against your enemy with two people swinging their shiny weapons. You need a full-power-human-blood-thirsty army to rip some heads off. Else, good luck escaping their zerg.

Like this! http://youtu.be/dahUNuuAwfc

Oh boy, fun!

He did 12k on you because you have full berserker and 0 toughnes, ijs.

KryoKore.3281:

If it’s not about leveling then why have levels at all? In fact, the areas and difficulty is still based on your level – a level 2 will not survive very long in Orr. I realize though leveling is not the main focus.

I know I don’t have to finish the storyline – but I want to. Why wouldn’t you?

I know there are tokens, I’m talking about bosses dropping gear in addition to tokens. Grinding for tokens can be tedious if you have no other “middle” rewards to keep you going along the way. Make it “fun”, not a “job”.

I know about the points you made, and know the facts about the game. That doesn’t seem to help my opinion though. Please understand, I’m not ranting, and not hating on the game. It’s just my opinion.

I did finish the storyline on my first character, just to know what it’s about, I might finish it later on my 2nd and 3rd but it’s not my priority, probably just for the skins of vigil, whispers, etc.

As said, levels are there just to feel progress, there are areas with different difficulty because you cannot stay in one same area in the story or quests (hearts) you’d remain in hoelbrak, citadel, rata sum, etc from 1-80 o.o; in fact in GW1 it was up to level 20 if I recall correctly, and yet it was a freaking awesome game.

ArenaNet intended tokens to be the reward in order to get whatever you want and not to make a treadmill like in fractals, where you have to do the dungeon over and over and over and over and with some luck you will get the item you want on your 50 run (at fractal level 10+). That’s what GW2 was trying to avoid but guess they forgot and this is why people were complaining about fractals in the forums, not being the same as the other dungeons.

I ain’t saying you are ranting or hating, I am just trying to clarify some points you did there.

Please don’t mention Perfect World, that is the worse pay to win example you can bring up. I agree with the costumes, I like them, but there’s no enough costumes, it would be awesome to be able to fight with our costumes on.

1. GW2 is not about leveling, as in GW1, leveling is just there “to feel” progress, it is easy because it is meant to be easy, GW2’s main thing is PVP and WvW no doubt.

2. I leveled to 80 without doing my storyline, it is completly optional, if you complete Zhaitan’s you will unlock the explorable mode, but the reward itself from the dungeon is not that awesome. I believe 26 silver and a totem so you can exchange it for a fort trinity weapon – which skins are poor.

3. You get the gear in different ways, the gear you need for PVE is the blues, greens, yellows you get from drops, and that’s pretty much usefull, however if you want to get exotic or ascended or cool skins, then yes, you need to craft or be lucky and get exotics with drops. Note that dungeons (bosses) do give you gear, the “tokens” each dungeon/route gives, you can exchange them for the gear from that dungeon the one you want and not a random one. Better research about this before saying bosses are useless lol.

4. We need more cool looking skins, and costumes, agreed. Not temporal ones, but fixed ones. One thing I would love to see is to be able to fight with our costumes on x3 which I don’t see happening u.u

I respect your opinion but I do think you need to research more about these topics (1-3) before posting something of this nature.

Zergs cannot be stopped. They even added a commander npc to gather people and own a tower, 90% of the time it’s more than 20 people with the commander, some times even 50… note that the commander does a lot of damage, has a lot of HP and defense… gives you supply, gives you an army and gathers a zerg most of the time.

So… I believe zergs are intended by ANet. No, it’s not pretty, yes they do work.

Funny, yesterday I was using BattlePing and guess what, I did notice a little lag (not as bad as I had before but still).

Seems not to be my connection, even people that had no lag before complained yesterday about it in my guild.

I get the whole idea of helping people taking over a tower, I get why you added it and I like the idea. But I do think some tweaks are needed…

When you are fighting 5 vs 40 of other servers + commanders every 20 minutes, it’s more than a disadvantage to the server it’s attacking.

Personally, we like having our map locked as long as possible, but it is very hard to do so if two raids of 40 people each are attacking two different places every 20 minutes.

I suggest that…

1. Lower the attack and defense of the commander, I have seen people fighting the commander for over 10 minutes when all the other people are gone and/or dead.

2. Increase the time spawn to 1 hour and not every 20 minutes… else we will simply have a breach and will have to babysit these towers ALL the time.

Everything else is ok imo.

I posted a couple of hours ago two videos showing horrible lag, well I found a fix for myself though it is not free.

http://youtu.be/QeAz-XaM3WI
Hope there’s no problem mentioning it, but it’s called BattlePing, it did wonders, no joke, try it for free and see if it helps you out with the 1 week tryal.

It’s all the effects they added, fog included.

Raukin.5932:

I’m sick of it. I got huge lag spikes… I tried every freaking thing ! Still I have lags, but only on GW 2. With new patch it become unplayable and since I’m pvp player, I can not play at all. I did everything too fix in on my side, even contact my internet provider. Guess what? It is not on my side! It’s AN who screw things up. We can post here about lag spikes, but AN do not realy care. They did not post any solutions for a long time. They are not even brave enofe to tell us, “He we do not care about you. You purches the game, and since there is no montly fee we do not care can you or can you not play the game!.” AN tell me am I wrong.?

Check these out, from Baruch Bay a couple of minutes ago…

http://youtu.be/l1NT0Q9VHwY
http://youtu.be/odUf0s4-8hM

GW2 is supa-trolling me.

:O http://youtu.be/eWp8Oaba3xY

Contacted support, asked for ping plotter reports, hijackthis reports, winsock restart, blamed ts3, and finally blamed my ISP. I contacted today my ISP to see if it’s the problem… lets see what happens.

With pingplotter… 100% PL? o.O

Today, a couple of minutes ago: http://youtu.be/eWp8Oaba3xY

Baruch Bay [SP]