Guild Wars 2

Well the way this will end is, they do some tweaks. Nothing changes and they stop replying to this thread. That’s why WvW will always be the same, the most fun clashes ( 3 way wars ), are not playable, skill lag, can’t heal up XD Most times it takes about 10seconds after spamming your heal button for it to go. The Europe servers just seem really bad and unstable, ping jumps from anywhere from 20 to 100+, you notice it alot once a zerg comes up into your screen. where other games atleast got a stable connection.

Well, it’s the coherentui that does this I think. So could be that while the game is using all your cpu/gpu’s power, the coherent isn’t getting any? Still pretty weird that a simple ingame store runs so kitten slow. I added the coherentUI_Host to firewall exceptions, didn’t solve it either.

I’ll just bump this. I got the same issue, the game runs really smooth while the trading post does not. Everything loads fine, it’s just scrolling through it goes horribly slow, or changing the price once you’re into the buy/sell window, that screen feels like it’s running on 1-3 fps, while the game still shows a fps of 65-70 in the options screen. I’ve tried deleting the cache, i’ve tried changing the compability mode since i’m on windows 10, i’ve tried windows updates, updating graphics drivers, nothing. =/ Really hard to buy the gear I need for my new character or selecting the right amount of items I want to sell.

Unparking your cpu cores seems to work for older games like these, especially since GW2 mostly uses your CPU, not GPU.

I hope with the change that happend the Dev didn’t call it “good enough” and moved on. It’s definitely better, but not stable as to how it should be. Mostly 3 way fights, but also when walking in small groups I still see the players around me stutter in a way, not moving smoothly forward.

I personally agree, I like faster style combat, while in combat on GW2 you run really slow, then there’s just way to many CC’s in game that stops you or makes you walk even slower… Even in PvE when you’re working on map exploration you run into alot of mobs that keep slowing you down. If they were just to lower the amount of CC’s mobs used it would already be abit better. To change CC’s in WvW, thats going to be hard, they already messed it up more by stability changes, I doubt they’ll want us to be able to freely run more or faster.

Did Deso/SFR/Jade Sea Eternal BG change aswell ? My ping is actually looking better, but this could also be because the map is really empty. Hoping for the best! Looking at an 29 ping now and never got higher then 80.

The only issue I see on that video are insane FPS drops… Not net lag. You’re talking about 5:36 of the video right?

You’re not being dissconnected on anything else at the same time?

WvW maps have had issues since march, so if it’s just happening on those maps it’s not just you.
And with the port test, do you mean forcing GW2 to run on port 80? If not, try that.

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

I’ve increased the map caps on all of the Borderland maps. I continue to explore why people get disconnected in zergs (as I said, it has never happened to me, even when I visited a zerg where other people told me it happened in that exact zerg).

Might be the people that DC have been in the middle of the fight spamming their skills ?

Talked to soon, lag on Desolation back. Someone said ingame it shows 40ms, and he can’t use his skills, the rest of the guild lagged too.

Something on Desolation definetly has improved, although some do still have some delay, it’s not as bad as it used to be, but also not completly stable yet.

I play a couple of games daily, League of Legends, Tera, GW2, Tales of Pirates ( Old kitten game ), each with a more stable ping then GW2 has though. Right now I got an average MS of 102, I’ve seen numbers all around – 79, 46, 104, 51, 93, 129. How can the MS get as low as in the 40, and then at another time 129? While Tera shows a ms of 34 – 40, never any higher, League of Legends 15 – 18ms.
And server location is in Germany? Something that’s so close, it should be as stable as Tera. 1 upside, I haven’t seen 400+ ms anymore, but you lowered the map limit aswell? So for the cpu to hit 90% then that seems abit to high.

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

Yup, saw that one! I have to go now. Feel free to keep posting your experiences and I’ll catch up on them later. G’night!

Goodnight, thanks for looking at the graphs for hours! I’d get crazy after 15min. Hopefully it’ll all get sorted soon.

DarkSyze.8627:

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

Also … it is sometimes an ISP. Things are rough at peak time in some parts of Europe right now. Amazon and Netflix have expanded their streaming offerings and the intertubes in EU are sometimes a bit clogged up at peak time. This is gross generalization because the EU is a big place and YMMV. The thing with connecting to our game is that there is your ISP, one or more other ISPs in between, and then one of our ISPs (we have three I think). Usually the trouble is with one of the ISPs in the middle. That’s why it is hard to fix; you call your ISP, we call our ISP, but it’s hard to get someone to call the ISP in the middle and then get the ISP in the middle to do something about it when they are just trying to make it through a night of lots of video streaming.

Can us player help in calling the Isp in the middle by our isp internet? or any other way we can help?

Although that could be the case at times, it’s not the main issue right now. Programs like wtfast use tunnelings so they passby the ISP’s on the way to the end ( GW2’s ). But right now even on wtfast you’d run into the same lag/delays as without. I’ve tried it a couple of times since patch, still unplayable.

DarkSyze.8627:

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

Yup, it’s bad for EU tier 1 Eternal Battlegrounds right now. The cool thing I just discovered is another perf counter that correlates better with the lag than total CPU. Y’all in a big fight right now? I guess if you are you’re not posting to the forums.

Giving us player update is not solution at all! Will Arena net fix the lag? Yes? or No?

“Communication without result is not communicating at all”

He’s looking into it, it’s the only thing that could lead to a solution, be happy they finally noticed us after all this time, don’t push them away now. XD

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

… and it’s resolving itself. That one lasted six minutes.

Man first of all, I’m so happy someone of Arenanet finally noticed. XD, I’ve got forum suspended twice posting my complains everywhere a dev might notice it, lol.

Before there used to be some skilllag on 3 way fights in Eternel BG, mostly fighting for the castle. But ever since the stability changes the lag got bad, even 1 on 1 fights if the map was full and I’m no where near the blobs, I would lag, I’d see my enemy warp forward/backward all over the place. But while writing this I’m leveling my alt in Edge of the mist, I saw a one time a 10ms, which would be so sweet if it stayed that way, but i’ve seen 100+ ms, i’ve even seen it jump up to 400+. The connection is just really unstable and that hasn’t been for a few days, and hasn’t dissapeared since the patch. So I think it has to do something with the stability stacks ? Which would actually be great to me if it were to be reverted because the servers couldn’t handle it. I personally hate the changes. =P

Otokomae.9356:

Has anyone here run the TraceRoute as suggested in Anet’s “Lag/Latency” guide?
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/27698133-Connectivity

It seems that players from all over the world, including most NA players, are being routed through the same IP address in France, & seeing the majority of their problems start there. The IP address is 89.149.164.42 , so if you run Anet’s Diagnostic Test, check to see if you are being sent through that IP, especially if you are located in an area (or continent) where there should be no reason that you would be sent through a French IP to get to your servers.

PS – this same IP address was popping up in player complaints on these forums the last time that Skill Lag was unbearable, roughly 1 year ago.

That IP is unreachable for me atm, so if I were to passby there I wouldn’t be able to log at all. They don’t change the routing themselfs, and the rubberbanding and more lag happend after the stability change patch. I’d look at that first, 1: The stability change sucks, 2: The stability patch made me lag more, revert it, it did nothing good for the game.

To bad, I didn’t notice any rubberbandin or skill-lag on OS. Any plans on fixing the real issues?

Same, haven’t played for about 2 weeks now, other then grabbin my daily chest.

I’d gladly test it, but since we got at times about 40-60 players on TS complaining about the lag, there’s really no reason to check it. Also this has been going on for years, we’ve gotten replies, but never any fix to it. also if that were to be the case, the PvE maps i’m in would have the same issues?

The lag has gotten worse right after the patch that added the stability changes, that also came with rubberbanding. Coincidence? No way.

GM Talon.8726:

We’ve recently updated our Knowledge Base with an article specifically for helping to address latency issues. You can find that article here

If you have tried the solutions provided in the article and you’re still experiencing latency issues, please submit a ticket to us. From the drop-down menu on this page, please choose Technical Issue. From here, please include the following in the description of the issue:

- Your ISP
- Which data center you’re connecting to (North American or European)
- Your OS (including if you’re running on 32 bit or 64 bit)
- Whether the lag is intermittent or consistent (include times with time zones that you notice it’s worse, if applicable)
- Where you’re located (state/province)

We may request additional information about your computer after this, such as a Game Advisor report. To speed up our investigation time, I recommend generating a report from the Game Advisor and sending it as an attachment once you have received our auto-reply confirming that we have received your ticket. Doing this in advance will save us a communication step with you so that we may begin troubleshooting the issue with you sooner.

Can’t take this serious, same kitten as always. Rubberbanding is going on since last patch, want to blame that on our hardware or ISP aswell? Our hardware is irrelevant since every player on TS complains about it all day.

Europe WvW is unplayable, not sure if this thread is about the lag going on in WvW, but it’s definetly a problem with your servers, not your customers. Please go look at the WvW sub-forum for the first time in your carreer and you’d know what’s been going on for years.

Hai Josh davis… Fix lag or rito

And there are still queue’s Meaning people are actually trying to play with this after a week of lag/rubberbanding… I’m so confused with this community, they complain alot on TS/Ingame, but yet keep playing… I’m sure if they’d spam forum like crazy they’d notice it.

It’s not ddos, it’s not us… It got alot worse after the last patch. They clearly just don’t give a kitten about WvW… I don’t see PvE maps lag, vinewrath has alot of people running around, no lag? Ddos would lag that too.

Is this stress test stressing the current WvW servers we got?

No idea, I know Aion private servers with a 2-3 man team that spend more on their servers, I got big zerg fights there and never any delay/lag. Arenanet must be cheap as hell, from rewards to servers. How can you say you need to spend resources on the 3 gamemodes you got atm, and have WvW laggin out for years ? 1 update in years ? much resource, wow.

Haha, someday it’ll happen with a precursor though. It’s a sucky loot system anyway, you can’t expect people to spam a loot button in a fight because you got the chance of dying and losing it, who ever came up with that should be fired.

Not queit sure what changed, but when I open my inventory I don’t drop 9-10 FPS anymore, also just draggin UI screens like invent/guild around move way more smooth then before.

Right now my only issue is that I get random freezes where I go from 60fps to 0 for about 4-5 seconds, screen freezes but the sound acts like it’s working fine? If i’m jumping around and my screen freezes in mid-air, after abit the sound will play as if i just jumped off a rly high cliff and about to die. So basically the game still see’s me as falling just because I froze while in the air. And although I run a pretty old card ( GTX 260 ) I shouldn’t get random freezes with all settings low, specially since it’s stable at 60 most of the time. To me it seems more of a memory leak that freezes it?

Might not be related as the same issues others got here, but thought i’d share either way, who knows it get solved. XD

It’s a shame all the bugs, and then to top it off they made such changes to stability that really ruined WvW for me, I can’t move an inch, even after using my own stability skill it’s gone in a sec. =/

So yeah, i’ll be taking a break aswell, sucks cause I play this game everyday for 6-12 hours XD But since WvW is all I do, the game got totally ruined for me.

People still confuse net lag with fsp issues?

Arenanet servers aren’t able to keep up in WvW, the player from Gandara saying he doesn’t lag? I’ve played there for years and see tons of people complain about it.

When i’m on wtfast connecting to a german server I reach about 13-15 stable MS, but even on that I get skilldelays and see people rubberband, is that my net? is that an routing issue from my country to Germany? Ofcourse not, if so wtfast would see the delay and lag aswell. Anet like’s the blame it on our ISP, goodluck doing that when I don’t get dissconnected on games located in NA. The only online game i’ve ever had so many dissconnects on and lag is guildwars 2.

Also in the time i’ve played Guildwars 2, i’ve had router upgrades, modem upgrades, provider has upgraded their speed, but all in all the issues remain. If you’re active on TS while you’re in big WvW fights you’ll hear everyone at the same time complain about the lag, although everyones country/location is different? It can’t be blamed on the players, the amount of players having this issue is just way to high on Guildwars2 compared to any other online game out there.

Also keep in mind that I haven’t lagged once while doing PvE on GW2. If it were to be my net giving these issues i’d have the same problem there.

PPT, bleh. It’s hard to care for when the only difference is 1 – 2 – 3 bonus chests. I mean, first place = an extra 60ish silver after 3 rank ups ( 6 blue or greens ), last place is an extra 20ish silver for the first rank up with 2 blues or greens. It’s just not rewarding. Guilds doing GvG got the only interest in being in a server with a certain ranking.

There are some servers that got meetings to try and better organize for this, and at some points they do, but in the end they all notice it’s just not worth it and go back to slacking after 1-2 months.

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Terrahero.9358:

If you only play WvW and are entirely satisfied with the professions and playstyles you currently have then there is very little reason to get HoT.

Except those with HoT will be able to use their specializations and new class IN WvW and on those new WvW maps which will be easier to play on if you have the xpac as those maps will incorporate things that can only be used with masteries, which you can only get by getting the xpac.

So there’s that.

Essentially those with the xpac WILL have an advantage on those new WvW maps over those that don’t.

If that’s the case then that’s totally messed up. XD You already got upscaled people giving you a disadvantage on every WvW maps, having no specializations or masteries on a map where it’s needed to compete would be another disadvantage, more rage from commanders and other players who will blame the loss on the ones not having expansions.

Missing a new class in WvW battle might not be such a big deal, but considering some specialization might have a certain CC that will change the outcome of a battle would be.

To the other comments about the map, you can see on the trailer that it has alot of climbin points, cliffs, edges to fall of from. while in WvW the surroundings of a battle do make an impact, necro fears to drop people off wouldn’t be a fair way to win and far from fun. Open field fights can give you an upperhand against a strong melee train.

I mean, either the map is huge and they’ve only shown the bad parts, or it really is all that bad. XD Look at the high stairs, the fights near the edge off the cliffs, or the bridges far up in the sky… how’s it not looking like EoTM?

To bad, considering i’m about 99% just at WvW, I don’t see this expansion adding anything for me but 1 class. The new BL? It’s horrible, really nothing people want to pay for, I mean I can go to EoTM and have about the same kind of map to fight on.

No idea, no point to still wonder about what’s going on, it’s been going on for years and they’ll probably never upgrade their crappy servers. Should be having about 13-16ms to Germany, yet Anet servers are unplayable.

Really need more of these, probably my first positive forum post this year, awesome, reminds me of Aion. Now we need more colors <3

Sorel.4870:

Zaruna, I’m not saying you’re wrong, but there are already countless threads about the whole “solo vs premade” complain, and all of those in which Justin checked the match history showed a HUGE difference between the player’s subjective experience and the actual match-making data. It’s been a horrible couple of weeks for premades, because the devs listened to these (mostly) unfounded complains, which Justin just stated was probably a mistake.

Justin ODell.9517:

On Friday I lowered the inflated MMR parties receive from +5% per member to +2% per member. I believe the initial value of +5% was too high, and we were aiming to overshoot due to the bad perception of solo vs pre-made. The drop to 2% was based on data from the beta ladder.

Sometimes, good players tend to be so organized it looks like they teamed up, sometimes you are matched up with a 4-man party, and is it really difficult to imagine that sore losers would blame the MM to deny their own failure? I’m not at all saying it is what you have experienced, but a good portion of this kind of threads fall into that category. I hope they add a tool to see who teamed up with who in the end of the game, so that we finally get over this non-sense.

In my case, they were all in the same guild, even 1 of the same guild I had in my team, they even straight out said they were premade. And considering it’s a PvP guild and it having 1 of their mates on my team, i’d say he was solo aswell. So at most it was either 3-1-1 vs 5, or the others were solo too. either way best case, I would still be solo, and that’s already a fail. If they do megaservers to increase population and they still can’t make a decent matchup, ranked or not. What else should I be doing then to call them out for it? The queue times are always around 2min, I don’t even feel like anything is happening to look for a better suited matchup. premades straight out vote for courtyard if it’s available, and if not, it’s really not hard to win this kind of mode with a good team setup making it useless to even try to compete, sadly for some reason I can’t even seem to be able to leave a map I don’t want to play anymore, so again, what else can I do?

All I see are Engi’s that put 10 stacks of condi’s on me. Remove them already.

Sounds the exact same as unranked, you either get to fight a premade team or a team you’ll easily beat.

I don’t care if they were, I was solo. Meaning at max 4 players on my team could have been, but from chat it was pretty clear they were not. But even if it would be the case, I would still be a solo player teamed against a 5 premade team, that can use skype and whatnot and build the way and plan everything the way they want to play. in chat it’s not that easy.

Also, snowball effects don’t happen in games where it’s obvious that both sides are equal as in 5 random’s running around trying to do their thing.

Owell ontop of the kitten matchmaking after all these years, I get why PvP is still so dead. Stacks of condi’s on your kitten at all times, players roll engi’s to camp. Goodluck with your esports anet, hilarious.

Fighting whole guilds on unranked ???? How bad is this player base that you can’t matchup solo queue’d people against other solo queue’d ?
I ended up fighting 5 guildies, with another 1 of their guildies on my team, how fair is that? He was just running around their guildmates not even attacking them.

I don’t really care for an answer. I just wanted to share that if you can’t even get matchmaking right, ranked or not. How would it be entertaining to play ? WvW you guys don’t work on and ignore, PvP you guys work on alot and still sucks, enjoy your day.

It’s usually only overgrowth doing this. They outnumber easily and SFR which is usually green has commanders playing EoTM about 24/7. They seem to prefer hunting upscaled players. So it’s not really about defending the point, more to kill an easy 10-15 players with a blob of 40-50ish. I guess if you hit a full map on either blue/red side it’ll be alright and you can wipe them 1-2 times they won’t try again.

Common sense? In a store I can see what I buy, so atleast on the website it should say when certain content is not included. It’s an MMO of 3-4 years old ? with a price of 40$ and you’re missing quests on a MMO unless you pay more?! Sorry, but i’ve never run into this before on any other.

If a story part is about 15min-1hour content considered a DLC, then that’s horrible. But any other game that had DLC’s, it would atleast show which would be included and which would not be, name and all.

Where is that written? Why is that not mentioned when I buy the game that it’s just a base with missing content?

Why is this not included when you buy the game? It seems i’m missing out on content after paying 40$ for a game? Now I know I can get it for free when I log in when it’s released, but for people who didn’t have the game before? This should atleast be mentioned when you buy the game or be included. The way it’s now, i’ll either have to saveup gold to buy gems, or spend cash ontop of the 40, so i’ll still be paying 60$ to play the content the game has to offer at this stage, or 80$ for the deluxe edition.

If you pay for the game without subscriptions, you should have it all. If not, what’s the difference? With monthly fee’s I know what i’m paying for, now I bought half a game. I’d threathen with a lawyer, but after buying and unlocking all the game has the offer I can’t afford him anymore, thanks.