Guild Wars 2

bondo.2896:

I guess anet needs to install the 64bit client

best response ever!!..LOL 64 bit client fixes everything you know.

what we have a leaking roof oh just put a bigger bucket underneath it and call it good.

Maladon.5760:

esme.6391:

Kos Luftar.9214:

esme.6391:

Heard reports that guilds are transfering off Sbi over this inanity. Any confirmations?

Yeah they are all leaving and coming to EBay. kitten face.

Ebays yet to be a fairweather server, probably because we’re all so unwelcoming and cold.

Why would anyone transfer to Ebay? You’re YB’s kitten. Who wants to transfer to a kitten server?

AHA I knew he didn’t overdose on turkey! You have failed to troll me again Maladon!

As to the match up:

Good fights, solid strategy from YB and EB to take on the larger server and come out ahead! Some of SBI likes to QQ some of us love this sort of match up. Holding off SM from EB on the south end and Yaks on the north end while splitting off our zerg to defend our upgraded keeps in Eternal Battlegrounds is just awesome. It’s all about the good fights for some of us!

I’d also like to give props to EB for their extreme skills of manipulating Yaks in order to get them to help them take second place. Yaks couldn’t have done it without you and I for one believe you to be the masterminds here, not Yaks. You managed to manipulate YB’s hatred for SBI in order to allowed you to place where you would not have placed before. You, good server, are the true underdog in this matchup!

Thanks for bringing the fights!

Alissah.9281:

Zevlik.8109:

Alissah.9281:

I’m not sure what that means, but it sounds like something awesome.

I can blink anywhere, even to a whole new location thats way over 9000 meters away and i dont have line of sight on, its amazing :o.

I dont think im smart enough to ‘h4x’ anything :/

Was a slight poke at blink not being able to go up, down, or across gaps. I went full nerd on you I apologize…

Alissah.9281:

I didnt know they made purple butterfly underwear for men :P
This discovery has changedmy view of the world.

They don’t make purple butterfly underwear for men and i was jealous of you women because of this…so I made my own!! I just wish I had thought to make them boxers or briefs ;/

Wow, this right here is true Mesmership.

World tells you to not wear purple butterfly underwear? Well, you don’t care and listen to your true feelings, and make it yourself.

/claps/

Well you know being a mesmer is all about shattering misconceptions…

oh soo bad it’s good…

Alissah.9281:

I’m not sure what that means, but it sounds like something awesome.

I can blink anywhere, even to a whole new location thats way over 9000 meters away and i dont have line of sight on, its amazing :o.

I dont think im smart enough to ‘h4x’ anything :/

Was a slight poke at blink not being able to go up, down, or across gaps. I went full nerd on you I apologize…

Alissah.9281:

I didnt know they made purple butterfly underwear for men :P
This discovery has changedmy view of the world.

They don’t make purple butterfly underwear for men and i was jealous of you women because of this…so I made my own!! I just wish I had thought to make them boxers or briefs ;/

Upham.6137:

Taldren.7523:

Yes, because people that don’t agree with you obviously do not have common sense.

Are you seriously comparing any class mobility to gs/s warrior’s mobility? (which should get nerfed in my opinion).

Zevlik.8109:

Correct, stacking with others not itself […] I might be wrong here but I’m pretty sure symbol of swiftness stacks with itself and others which happens to be ground targeted .

You mean temporal curtain should stack swiftness on people who already have swiftness on, and then somehow recognize who already gained switfness from it and don’t provide swiftness to them again? And what if you had different mesmers laying down temporal curtains?

The thing is, I don’t even see the point in temporal curtain stacking with others, if you are running with a zerg you’ll have 1-2 minutes from blasting lightning fields and warriors warhorns anyway. If you are running with 2-4-5 people, only use it when you ran out of swiftness.

About guardians ->Symbol of Swiftness: Applies 8 seconds if you have no swiftness and 1 second if you have swiftness. Devs wanna change it to 4 seconds of swiftness per pulse, and guardians aren’t very happy about it.

For those times that you are not with a zerg but one other person, they blow their warhorn and your TC is worthless. I don’t see why it’s a problem to let it stack if you can already stack all that swiftness is my point. Not everyone always run with a zerg or statics to blast. It would be nice to have some way to make it play nice with other swiftness is all.

In theory we could take symbol of swiftness and try to improve on the mechanics that are similar to this. Like something maybe along the lines of if you have swiftness that is more or equal to what TC would give you it stacks for less (1 second or whatever) but still stacks. If you have less you get TC’s duration added. They already have code for symbol of swiftness to detect this it would just need to be adjusted AND they could use that same code and apply it to symbol of swiftness to improve it as well. I know I don’t care for the pulsing of the symbol can’t count how many times I’ve missed the pulse lol.

I didn’t really consider two TC’s but that’s why I posted so that it can be fine tuned and adjusted! I don’t suppose it needs to recognize the TC’s swiftness just swiftness in general, keeping that in mind making some sort of TC/Symbol hybrid is probably a better direction to go in.

Alissah.9281:

Acidicore.3264:

You go to sleep and have a dream where you are playing your mesmer. Happened two nights ago, I think it might be high time to take a break from the game. Despite that, the content was fun though.

I had a mesmer dream once too :/.

Someone got stuck in deep mud… So I dodged to make clones and then shattered them on a fly to proc shattered conditions… And the person in the mud walked out :P

edit: actually, I tend to be a mesmer more often than not in my dreams, because I use blink to get around ;D
It doesnt have a cooldown though :o

Does your blink transverse the z axis in your dream? If so I call h4x!!!

Summary

1. Detailed template (or format) of posted suggestions easy for devs to read
2. Summaries as suggested every three pages
3. Brief summary of direction looking to go in
4. More responses from devs if possible

Explanation

1. Structure of how you would like suggestions to be or a template, if you will, so that we can get our ideas and concerns into an easy to read acceptable format. This template should be in the first post of the thread. I say this because while I tried to write a summary of the ideas and suggestions, it feels like I ended up with a long post that wouldn’t get read. I also believe a template would allow the devs to easily go through the posts as they will all be standard and if needed for reference find the information they were looking for later.

2. Summaries would be great. Possibly what suggested ideas you are considering and which ones didn’t really fit. This gives people an idea of what you are looking for and what you are not. Maybe even going as far to say which idea the devs haven’t considered until it was mentioned. This would go a long way to help us help you.

3. This sort of goes with 2 but basically a general idea of the direction you’re looking to go in. Even just to say “hey look we don’t really know what we’re going to do yet so we’re looking for some ideas to steer our creativity in some direction.” This touches on a more personal level with your players and helps us understand where you are coming from. This also helps us to stay on course or to try and think within guidelines so we don’t stray too far off the path essentially wasting your time and ours.

4. This is something everyone hopes for but understands it might not be possible. We know you’re working on things (even if we forget sometimes) but communication is what helps make good things into awesome things. The more you can communicate with us the better. I think the above suggestions will help with this one as well.

Reflections (feedback with focus and wardens feedback) are another way to go, they help protect your zerg while doing damage to the enemy zerg. I run with greatsword and feedback mostly for tagging but it also provides decent damage back on the zerg and snaring for the warriors/guards to catch targets easier.

I swap feedback for portal when I need to and always have veil to invis the zerg when charging in. Blink never leaves my bar because I love it that much and I usually run mass invis because I have PU in my build. I like my build because it’s flexible enough that I get most of the things I would want solo or zerg, without having to change specs, and it’s tanky enough to survive most of the time.

While I don’t get massive amount of bags like a warrior/guardian, I do get a tolerable amount while providing enough support and damage to my guild group or zerg (I imagine if I needed more badges for gear it might annoy me more). Bottom line is I feel useful and they always seem happy I’m there because of my support abilities, survival, and damage.

Though it could be they are just pretending to be nice…

I run with parts of celestial because I like to have tanky like stats in WvW. I can get good defensive with some decent damage output. The downside to using celestial is you lose out on power, I make up for that in my build with food and oil. With two stacks of might from bountiful interruption I end up with 3400 ish power.

I don’t run the hyrbid condition build anymore in favor of power/crit (just like the direct damage better) but my builds were inspired by BlackDevil’s and I appreciate him posting his build!

Here’s what I was running for hybrid if you want to see the stats I had.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsaRlwzipXVTsGb9IipHBnvBckKUalewbXYuB-j0DBINERjEEQkFgEGJjIAI5TQMBSZtMsIasqaCyKGYqYJ1cWo2gGxiGydATKAmUGB-w

Pyroatheist.9031:

Own the purple. Become the purple. Live and breath the purple.

I concur with Pyro…

Wow human male I feel so special and unique!

I tried to play a sylvari…man that lasted about 5 minutes and I have a difficult time playing a female character even if they have better armor options and animations.

Just wish the weapon drawn idle animation was a little better for human males. It just looks odd like the foot is to far back or something and the height the weapons are held at just seems stiff and boring. Like they are planning to run a marathon or something lol I dunno hard to describe I guess.

It’s cool though I love my mesmer…and pink butterflies rock!

You carry around two small purple coasters and throw them down yelling. “PORTAL UP!!”

Jubei.4015:

When about 15 of us flipped CD’s hills last night, no less then 80 SBI showed up to flip it themselves. Enough for a huge blob to roll into the lowlands camp and another huge blob to skip it and get straight for the hills gate.

I’m actually genuinely curious, what are SBI’s ques like in the evening? If you can que a map to get a single lone capture point (even if it is a keep) from 15 people, SBI’s players must be spending a whole ton of time twiddling their thumbs waiting to get onto a map. ANY map apparently.
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Honestly the queues haven’t been too bad, We have a lot of wvw committed transfers, not just guys that came to sbi for an opportunity, but all these guilds play wvw, primary. this has accelerated the interest in the server of the older wvw guys and new ones. so your going to get a lot of under-equipped kittens for a bit until they get their legs. The “blobs” are the result of “single commander” and the usage of TeamSpeak making it easier to function. everyone gravitates to the easy way.

I dont know how this guy queues but I’m still sitting in the EB queue from last friday

In all seriousness they are very bad on the weekend sometimes 4 hour queues, I suspect it has more to do with the queue system though. We’ve gotten far too many people over the past weeks, this week hasn’t been that bad but I suspect it’s partially due to the event.

Taldren.7523:

Upham.6137:

Only skills that stack swiftness are those that don’t use ground targeting. Why? For the extremely simple reason that you could use your own TC running back and forth and stack 1 min of swift or more.
No idea what it has to do with lightning combo. But if you are running with a zerg you don’t even need a focus for switfness.

Sigh, that isn’t what he asked for. He said he wants it to stack with OTHER swiftness buffs. Not itself.

Correct, stacking with others not itself. They changed this in beta because people were using it to stack with itself and having extreme amounts of speed. Since then it seems they are adding more speed and doesn’t seem to be such an issue anymore that people have long periods of swiftness. I might be wrong here but I’m pretty sure symbol of swiftness stacks with itself and others which happens to be ground targeted .

As for the combo, I was referring to people can get massive amounts of swiftness by blasting static fields already so I don’t see why it’s an issue to stack our swiftness with others.

And with reflection…sure you can get this with a trait, I was talking about removing the swiftness and snare effect and making it a wall instead without using a trait. Or change the trait to make it a wall and give TC and warden natural reflection.

Alissah.9281:

Well i dont have that one… but atleast 40% of my underwear/nightwear is purplish colored :/. Theres even a few with butterflies on them xD.

HEY MINE TOO!!

LOL awesome I love these I’ll add one…

- playing borderlands 2 tried to dodge a red circle and wondered what happen to your clone….

/facepalm

A couple things here I wanted to mention…

1. I love traveler’s runes, I use them in my build and they fit perfectly best rune set I could get at the moment. For my condi spec I’d rather have something else, these still work because I get some stats out of it but they really are not optimal for it. It’s odd there’s no speed with condi rune set, there might be a reason for it but just odd. I don’t consider runes the answer to the mesmer speed problem, it helps to have options but I feel like I have limited choices in WvW if I want to keep up with the pack, even with 25% all the time I fall behind if I miss swiftness from group members or if I’m running back myself.

2. Temp Curtain there’s no reason this shouldn’t stack with other swiftness period. You can already blast stack statics to infinite speed duration. My TC is practically worthless in these situations and I drop it down for people that might have missed stacks and that’s it. If you don’t want it to stack with other swiftness I’d rather you just remove it and give it something else (line of warding maybe…please? how cool would that be line of warding with a pull option! =D)

3. Signet of Inspiration is decent where it is, it would be nice if it added swiftness all the time with a random boon, or make a trait that adds this to it, 25% would work too. I use this in PVE and would be tempted to use it all the time if I already didn’t have hard decisions to make in regards to utilities (I wants them all!! muahahahaha). I would have to agree though changing this signet entirely would hurt builds that are using it already in the current form, but separating out the speed buff and adding it as an addition wouldn’t but might be OP (why I suggested a trait instead).

This actually gave me an idea on one thing that could be done with confusions, you can use them to power up your shatters depending on the stack amount.

Depending on the amount of confusion stacks you have on someone you could get more damage out our mind wrack, longer lasting dazes, or longer lasting distortion. Of course frustration wouldn’t really work though would it lol, but something along those lines. It would be like the mesmer is using the mind tricks against his opponent to better fuel his illusions.

Another thing is clones could do damage against someone with stacks of confusion on them and phantasms could get a damage buff or turn those confusion stacks into random conditions. This would make for some interesting builds around clone generation and confusion stacking.

Yet another idea since we lack aoe, possibly shattering on someone with confusion stacks could cause a large radius AOE direct damage. You’d be burning the confusion stacks to cause burst in a large area possible at a cost like half damage than if you let it tick or something.

Just a few ideas to spark some discussion and brainstorming.

I’d have to agree that Ele’s aren’t on par with others. I agree that it takes more skill to not only properly put out damage but to even build one. I spend several hours just tweaking my builds trying to squeeze out a little extra in every area. I feel like when I did something with success on my Ele it wasn’t because the class was buffed to the gills with extra things or damage. I have to say overall I like playing one I think the abilities are pretty cool and the concept is a good one. It just requires some tweaks as there’s definitely a problem when I have to hit 20 buttons to do the same thing a warrior can do in 3-4 (exaggeration).

Now having said that I’d fully accept having combat weapon swapping for extra utility (and more button pressing) to make up for our lack of damage in favor of more combo’s =). If they have no intention of fixing our issues this might be a nice bone to throw us…

Yeah I opened that can alright…

Maladon.5760:

Fey.9036:

Buffy.9246:

I have a quick question to sbi server. Why do you guys always try for sm or defend it with basically all your forces when bp tends to always own your borderlands? Having sm gains you 35 points but if you don’t own your own borderland then you lose like 100+ points. I don’t see your guys’ logic.

If you hold it long enough a champion icecream vendor spawns in top floor. At least so we’ve been told, still trying to get him to spawn.

And the last structural upgrade is a swimming pool on the roof

You can upgrade SM? I just go there because I like the name better than the others.

Maladon.5760:

Anyone else getting disconnected constantly?

They’ve finally had enough of your crap Maladon! I’ve been informed they are finished with infractions and moving on to more drastic measures…

Exitius.1605:

Evilzara.6378:

Exitius.1605:

Noodica.5428:

Borlis 1st.
Now that’s what i’m talking about.

I think there are a number of very delusional people (on all three servers, but more on BP per this thread).

Lets just clear something up.

All three of our servers suck at WvW, we have a horrible rank. Having an ego in 13th or 14th place is hilarious.

So take a step back, realize whichever server even wins this match is still a poor WvW server and put your ego away. I’m trying not to be super specific and point fingers at anyone so nobody has to get super defensive but seriously, come on guys.

Lets have a good fight and maybe show a little more respect all around. I know it’s possible, there was a ton of that when SBI was at the top with HoD and JQ and I’d argue servers in 1, 2 and 3 have a far more difficult time maintaining tact and not letting ego’s get out of hand than people in 12, 13, 14.

This logic makes no sense. Why are you comparing our servers to those that have much more population than us? All our ranking tells us is how much people we have. You’re just being a baby about it.

Most people (not so much you evil) completely missed my point. Except the baby part. I don’t care if BP wins, I really don’t as long as we gave it our best. The kitteny, arrogant little trash talking however isn’t necessary.

Regardless of whatever reasoning/excuse people want to make for being in in 12, 13, 14 etc we still are there and there are many other servers that would crush any of our servers.

I’m not saying anything positive about SBI for the record, I’m not claiming we are great etc like a ton of other people on this forum because I try to maintain humility. I prefer the win that comes after not talking trash and I have no problem telling someone who won GG.

What I’ve been getting at the entire time is there are quite a few very disrespectful people (i would argue a majority on one of the three servers playing right now) who like to boast a ton.

I simply said I think it’s poor sportsmanship for 1 and for 2 it’s also pretty silly to me because again no matter what excuse you feel like making -there are over 10 other servers that would utterly crush any of our servers in this match.

Also stop with the excuses. Want to start using population as an excuse why your server isn’t in the top 10? Ok, that’s why BP is winning, because they have more people… See how that works? Excuses are stupid (population, location, “hacks”, etc) just leave it out and play the game. When BP win’s I’ll be the first to say they were the better server, not “they had more people, it wasn’t, fair blah blah blah”

Wishful thinking I suppose but I’d prefer to win with class any day of the week than the alternative.

WAIT…this isn’t the game? I’m doing it wrong again!!! I was fooled by that rotten Maladon AAARRRGGGHH!! Next time Maladon….NEXT TIME!!!

Maladon.5760:

Aeros.2046:

Maladon.5760:

Aeros.2046:

Raven.9603:

Fraeg.9837:

I think of it as college divisions. We might be doing ok in our division but would have no business going up against a Division I team because we are just a small New England liberal arts college with only about 3,000 students. Or something like that.

as long as you’re admitting that BP is a liberal arts college full of future starving artists and SBI students are actually studying something useful at tech university.

I guess that makes NSP some random high school team thats making us all look bad by not losing hard enough.

Server ranking is very much based on how many people on the server play WvW. It does not matter how much skill you have if an opponent can fill all the maps 24/7 and you can’t do the same, which is generally what occurs with the tiers above 4 from what I understand. It also sucks hard if you don’t have a large Australian/Asian player base but your opponent does, because this means at 3 AM all your stuff is getting PvDoored and made wood overnight, forcing you to spend the morning clawing back, and the evening upgrading only to have it happen all over again after you go to bed.

Incidentally, there is still no reason for SBI to be losing this match. Yet they still insist on sending 70 Man zombie hordes against the 10-15 people we got in Eternal while their Borderlands is left to the tender mercies of our skill groups.

You just illustrated the reason why SBI is now losing the match. We have a lot of primetime and weekend players. We did very well over the weekend and now our coverage gaps are coming into play. Right now you’re ticking 360 to our 135 because you have more people playing right now than we do. It’s not a knock against you guys or even an excuse for us, it’s just the way the game is played.

It doesn’t really matter what happens in primetime, there are more off-peak hours in the day. We could literally run the table before midnight every night but be unable to defend anything an hour or two later. Most of us go to bed then go to work the next day. You’ve got good coverage, enjoy it.

This is simply not true. BP does not have better coverage then NSP. We are just better at managing our forces.

Sorry, I stopped reading right there and shook my head. It’s like trying to teach long division to a socket wrench…

I must have been the exception to the rule!

~ Zev
Master Socket Wrench

I can’t speak for everyone obviously but I can tell you why I skip every aspect of dungeons I can. I’m there for tokens and that’s it, I’m not interested in the 3 wimpy tokens I get for a boss that I could have skipped, saving even a few minutes to get that big 60 amount at the end. I have to run these dungeons A LOT in order to get the gear I want, it’s repetitive and tedious…it’s a grind period. Anything I can do to cut down on that grind is good enough for me and that includes skipping content if available. Heck I’d run in to the last boss kill it for my daily tokens and leave if i was able.

Now don’t get me wrong, I like the dungeons a ton I believe they are not too long and not too short (well minus a few). I absolutely loved running through them the first time and seeing everything in all it’s glory. I dont even mind killing everything in the dungeon here and there, but after that first run I feel like I have so many runs to go for the gear that I’m just not interested in killing every single thing ten billion times over.

Let me give you an example. I have 6 80’s I run dungeons on all these characters because I like the skins on most (specifically AC). Lets say I want all the weapon types (in case I decided to change specs and experiment later) and at least two sets of armor (condition and power). Can you imagine how many tokens I need to collect to get all this gear for each character? That’s quite a bit of dungeon running, granted my choice and if I couldn’t skip things I probably wouldn’t bother so much, that’s just too much of a time sink.

So I’m not saying the dungeons are horrible because I think they’re some of the best I’ve seen in a game and I’m not saying give me free stuff, because I’m willing to put the effort in to get it. What I am saying is that from my point of view I’ve been there done that no reason to see it again if don’t have to. I’m getting what I want (still slowly I feel) while not feeling like I have to go through a lot of useless, and stale (or static) extra encounters (my opinion only).

I like having the option of skipping the encounter or not, but I’m a big fan of player options for different playstyles.

Just a different view point on the question.

EDIT: I wanted to add that Trash is just lame, honestly I’d prefer a dungeon that gives you multiple boss fights that were interesting and perhaps a little random to provide variety. Like say you have a dungeon with 5 boss fights, each fight takes like I dunno 3 minutes roughly but the dungeon is capable of spawning from a pool for 10 possible bosses so each time you go into the dungeon you have no idea which boss is going to spawn. This to me sounds much better than kill 5 useless trash mobs (reason they are called trash mobs) then 5 more than 5 more then a boss then 5 more, etc. If you’re going for effect and environment it can be accomplished in other ways than trash mobs.

I understand it’s a pacing mechanic, but is it really a necessary and fun one? You’ve broken out the box with a lot of different things in this game, why not shoot for breaking out of this one too =)

Wow such hostility for some poor person that just had a suggestion. I wasnt going to post but with all the defensive bullcrap in here I thought I’d say I like where you were going with the idea you have here. However, while I like the idea I dont think that redesigning a class is probably the best of things to do after release unless it’s completely neccessary.

Having said that I think your idea is creative and a decent idea to build on. Don’t let the other posters in here discourage you from offering more suggestions, just keep in mind that not everyone sees things objectively or on the same level.

I have both an elementalist and a mesmer at 80 so hopefully I can give you some decent feedback. I leveled and geared out the elementalist first D/D spec but I play the mesmer more kittentercat spec. I still have to try a condition build but the main reason I rolled a mesmer was my guild had one and about 5 ele’s heh so I figured we needed more mesmers.

I love both classes but the reason I play the mesmer more (aside from my guild not having any) is bigger numbers and more challenging game play. The elementalist while not as easy as most classes is easier to play for me than the mesmer. I can run into a group of enemies and tank them all day long even killed one or two and bug out if I need to. On the mesmer I have to be a lot more careful but I can drop someone faster than I can on my ele. Both classes have great versatility, but the ele cannot swap weapons easily this leaves you stuck in combat to short, long, or medium range till you can get out of combat. Now take into consideration this is two different styles, mt mesmer mostly glass cannon and my ele mostly tank.

The mesmer has portal and I’ll admit it’s one of the main reasons I like to play it, I feel portal brings much more utility than my elementalist can, this is WvW and PVE I’m talking about (I just recently started doing Spvp so I’m still learning about that). The ele is not without it’s merits curing conditions and group healing along with buffs is amazing but no other class can portal. I dont feel as though the mesmer would be as tanky as the tank ele and the ele would never do as much damage as the glass mesmer but I could be wrong on that.

In terms of gameplay the mesmer is much more twitchy because it’s all active defenses, the ele is mostly just swapping attunements and using combo abilities which still need timing and twitch just not as much as the mesmer. Both have a coolness factor and both shouldnt have problems doing PVE at all. I run mostly in pugs and guild groups either one is usually welcome.

As for you connection the elementalist is probably more forgiving due to regens and condition removals where as the mesmer is more about avoiding getting hit altogether, there’s really not alot of viable healing going on with the mesmer IMO. On the ele I hardly ever use my actually heal and just swap to water for healing on the mesmer it’s constantly on CD lol.

I guess you really would just have to play around with both to determine which one fits your style better I actually started as an engi who is 80 and just sits around collecting dust.

If you have an specific questions about the classes or differences between them, I’d be happy to answer those.

Love my G13 I still tweak it constantly though as it’s not “perfect” I have rather small hands myself though I’m not a girl so maybe this setup would be helpful. I kind of grip my g13 with a claw resting position pinky on g9, ring finger on g3, middle on g4, index on g5, and my thumb resting on the analog stick.

I use stick for movement and the button press is b for scoreboards
g1 = auto run
g2 = 6 for heal
g3 – g5 = 1 – 3
g6 = F
g7 = T
g8 = G
g9 = 4
g10 = 5
g11 – g13 = 7-9
g14 = h
g15 = space or jump
g16 = e for camera flip
g17 = 0 for elite
g18 = m for map
g19 = i for inventory
g20 = esc
g22 = f5 dont normally use in game

I’ve tried to move my keybindings around after playing with this for awhile but I always end up back on this setup. one thing I did find is that if you used home keys g10-g13 this puts the hand closer together and can be more comfortable. Meaning if you rest pinky on g10 and index on g13, but doing this kind of wastes the far left buttons but if you put some shortcuts back there such as guild or hero tab probably wouldnt be so bad.

EDIT: forgot to mention that I use a g9x mouse I have tab targeting on middle mouse button, dodge on scroll right, weapon swap on scroll left, ctrl on thumb button and vent mute on dpi down. Class abilities are Ctrl g3-g6 found these the easiest to hit. So I hold control with my right hand thumb on the mouse and hit those keys for shatters.

I was able to get this to load, I turned my sound settings down to fastest on the slider bar not sure if this is what was causing the issue or not but it let me in the area.

Having this same issue, tried lower settings as well nothing just hangs there. This is very annoying as can’t continue personal story.

I’ve had this exact same issue, twice now since headstart. I too came to the conclusion it was the game causing it after I closed everything down but the game and it was still present, I didnt want to log out as I was in WvWvW and knew I wouldnt get back in for another three hours lol.

I finally closed the game out after trying to disable sound and re enable and mess with different settings, it only stopped after restarting the game.

Just figured it would be nice to know it wasnt only you with the same issue =)