Guild Wars 2

@Nay of the Ether.8913
Condescendance never started a dialogue. Especialy if you don’t read the entire thread and escape 80% of my post. I already explained the dodge part. I essentialy dodge projectiles, not melee. That’s my role, I have bows for this purpose : being ranged.
Plus, tell me how to dodge something when the pet gets constant aggro. es I could disable it. Do you know what happens when I get a hit ?
For the combo field, maybe you never tried to play a ranged ranger. Please find me a reliable combo finisher in the bows skills.
I don’t want to have to retrait or change a playstyle I enjoy for a daily.
I think after 1000+ hours ingame and ~400 fractals, I know how to dodge and play with fields in the playstyle I adopted.

This is actually really disturbing. This should be considered as a major security flaw.
Servers should be shut off immediatly and re-opened only when fixed.

Ok, I’ll explain it in another way :
I farmed fractals 3 hours a day for maybe 2 months, to have now a bunch of useless stuff in my bank : ascended rings, hundreds of relics, myst fuel components. I’ve even every daily relics I won, since I never had to use one.
This stuff was intended to be difficult to obtain and it was.

Now we have the same stuff available for a non-fractal runner. Let’s assume it’s ok as it is.
Why on earth those non-fractal runners also have ascended amulets available, when there’s not even one available for fractals-runners ?
From my point of view, they gave ‘casuals’ (no offend) our high rewards for almost nothing, and in the other way, we are not given the ascended amulets for doing fractals ? I think I worked in the fractals for that, I have more than enough equivalent components, and I should be able to use them to buy/craft an ascended amulet.

THIS is not fair and this logic is really flawed IMO.

So, in order to complete my ascended stuff and continue leveling up the fractals, I now have to leave the fractals to do some dailies, which require no skills at all, and that I don’t even find randomly fun ?

Is it what you are calling ‘playing the way I want’ ? Isn’t there something missing ?

Mmmm I still have to find the BETA mention on the box I bought.
Because what you describe is a beta test server. Oh, we had 3 BWE…

About my post history, you really realize what you are saying ? Posting, proving, troubleshooting and documenting a still unresolved bug, for you, is complaining…
Are you trying to prove you’re a troll ? You won’t have more food from me ^^

If you release unfinished content, expect people to complain. You’re really fast to juge me, you’d better look at my post count and see if I’m a complainer like you said.
Personal attack is an easy method to dodge the discussion. Nice.

If it’s not done, don’t release it. Simple. Those little bits everywhere without any coherence don’t give a good big picture of what is coming. Especially when there are many original bug unresolved everywhere.

You know what ? If my own piece of software is not finished, I won’t sell it. I don’t have the option to release it unfinished. My customer have many things to do, except trying to imagine the big picture of what is coming juging with my little piece of unfinished code.
My customer paid for something. If he has addons coming with patches, it’s all good. But if I change some mecanics to make it do something differently, my customer will complain. Real world works like this.
Being a entertainment software doesn’t make it different.

So, they shouldn’t add something that is not finished.
Promises are easy to make : Rangers were promised ‘quality of life enhaancements’ for the 15nov patch. Except for an adjusted speed buff and our pets speed boosted (a really poor ‘debugging’ in all honesty), we are still waiting.
We were promised guild addons. Still waiting.
We were promised agony mecanics in open world. Still waiting.
And so on.

So, please don’t juge about what is promised, but about what is really implemented, and how.

About dailies, I think you missed the main point :
Before patch, even if dailies weren’t especially fun, they were not a problem to do while doing the other content.
Now, I HAVE to do my dailies if I want the tokens. I did fractals up to lvl 30 because it was challenging, fun, and rewarding. These dailies, as they are now, are not fun or challenging. At all.
You jump on my exemple about the dodging thing. My only toon is a ranger traited for dodging, so I know a bunch about it. But I rarely dodge melee mobs, so I had to find a ranged mob to actually do it efficiently. Believe me, it was NOT fun.
If the combo part was bugged, why did it passed the testing stage ? There is no excuse here. So they just removed it.

About the fractals
I’m sorry, but if i’m not mistaken, they announced new fractals levels would be part of this patch. They are not.
We hoped something to do with our useless ascended rings, with our relics. There is nothing new about that. It seems broken to me.
If I want 35AR to continue my fractals leveling, I have to farm 1 month of dailies… Really ? And don’t tell to me AR35 is not required at level 40+. In no way we should have to rely on exploits to level up (jade maw agony attack ‘evasion’ methods come to mind).
So, exactly, where is now the progression inside the fractals ?

About the daily rewards
I’m not complaining about someone having the same item. I’m complaining that from the start, ascended stuff was supposed to be HARD to acquire. The first part was that way, farming the fractals was really time consuming and challenging (and fun).
2 Months later you can have the same stuff just DODGING and CRAFTING. Where are the skills required to have the best stuff ingame, like promised 2 months ago ?
We are still waiting for the promised agony in the open world, so I could have been lazy and could have my ascended stuff the lazy way, dodging and crafting wood planks… Stupid me…

I’m complaining about the same thing other complain about their legendary : it is not about skills. At all. Even if 2 months ago, it was advertised to be. And it was, at that time. It is no more.

Pre-patch, I had fun almost +1000 hours according to /age. 2 hours post-patch and I didn’t have any fun, feeled bored and forced to do some things I didn’t want to. And finaly logged off, without having fun.
I see a problem there.

(Edit : First, I saw the combo part as a good thing, forcing people to practise their skills with each other. Now, even it was really broken, too much people complained and were right. It won’t come back)

Hi,
While reading the patch notes, I felt happy. Then I tried it. Here are my observations :

Fractals

1- With the new fractals rules and the new ascended stuff ‘for everyone’, nothing prevents my daily 30 party to kick me at the last stage of the Jade Maw to invite a guildie of them for the loots. I think it’s happening already.

2- Because we can’t see the infusion installed on a linked item, someone could come in fractals 20 saying he has 10 Agony Reduction when in reality he has +40% MF and 0 AR in his ascended rings, making the whole run a real pain, in a presumed experienced team.

3- I farmed the fractals for months to acquire the best stuff ingame, or it was said so. Fractals is not a easy farm, it requires time, patience, and at least a few skills. Now, someone could acquire the same stuff just dodging and crafting wood planks. Ok, it needs one month to buy a ring, but a fractal ring needs a lot of time too. The argument saying ‘you could loot 4 rings a day in fractals’ is a wrong one, because being able to open 4 dailies a day requires a few hundreds of grind hours beforehand… I worked hard to be able to open 3 chests a day, and they still require 4/5h a day at best…

4- Could you please explain what is now the point of the fractals ? I couldn’t find one anymore, except maybe the (ugly) fractals skins…

New dailies

5- First, why changing one of the only things that worked well, where there were absolutly NO complaints ? I really cannot understand.

6- Before the patch, I was doing my dailies while playing, and it was ok. If one day I missed something, I never felt punished for it. I was happy to unlock my daily while playing. And I really don’t know if i’ve even done one monthly (played this game since the first beta, I’m not a new player)

7- Trying to do the new dailies for yesterday and today was a real pain. One hour trying to combo with a friend, the second one trying to find the right mob to dodge him perfectly. After patch, I feel dailies is a punishment more of a fun task to do.

8- Everywhere we can now see aggressive players yelling on everyone else to cast fields, to revive, etc. Really, really not fun. The community certainly didn’t need that. Bots were silent at least !

9- The required skills for the dailies are stupid : dodging for professions that never need to, crafting for people that don’t want to, and I only saw the 2 firsts dailies… I fear what is coming in the next days…

After the patch, I feel I now HAVE to do my daily / monthly without a miss, because of the new stuff. I HAVE to do my dailies every day one month long to be able to buy this kitten amulet and complete my stuff.
And what will be next ? Will I have to /dance naked one hour long while playing the bell to unlock a token a day and with 330 tokens I will be able to buy a pair of ascended boots ?
So, in order to gear myself the best I can, before patch I was forced to play the fractals everyday, and after patch, Fractals are worthless and I’m FORCED to do the dailies without a miss to complete my stuff.
Something is terribly wrong here.

You say all the time that you don’t want your players (= customers, this is said) feel forced to do something they don’t want to.
You say all the time you never introduced a gear treadmill.
You announce ‘quality of life enhancements’ for every patch.
I think it is now the time to apply what you advertise. 6 months old is a moment you have to choose a direction, it will be the last before the game lives or dies. Read the forums everywhere, agony is about the game, not inside it.

It is not the game I waited, it’s not the game I wanted, it’s certainly not the game i’ve been advertised months after months, it’s not the game you promise since the release, and it’s definitly not the game I bought.

Please, Anet, do something for (y)our game. I really like it, but this patch and what I saw make me really hesitant to log in again.

Hi,
seeing this item , I think the possibility of name change exists.

How, when, I don’t know

Before 15nov patch :
Farming events in orr gave me around 1g/h (selling white/blue/green to the npc, keeping eveything else)
My wealth was growing, slowly, but was growing, even with TP / repairs costs.

After 15 nov patch :
Same farming conditions : Now, I’m LOSING money in the long term (losing ~50s a day with TP / repairs).

Conclusion : the drop quality has been hardly nerfed, as I couldn’t stabilize my wealth anymore since 15 nov., when I doing the same things before and after. True, this is a perception of things…

On a side notes :
- I never had a rare / exo drop from a vet / champ, and I’ve over 1000 hours of play. My exceptional yellow drops come from trash mobs.
- Since 2 months, I do ~2 dongeons runs a day with my guild, and NEVER had a rare / exo drop. The best drop I had was a SINGLE lvl 400 lodestone. And I’ve 2 exo dongeons full armours, and over 3000 spare dungeons tokens in my bank. Please do the maths to find the total number of runs.

Is it REALLY working has intended ? nothing suspicious, REALLY ?
Finally, could you please tell me how to provide accurate observations, when the drop mecanics is unknown to us, and can only be seen with a perception ? YOU are the one owning the databases, game code and scripts, not US.
Please stop making fun with your customers, this is really insulting. Especially when some of your customers are professional game developers themselves.

Hi,
In a desperate attempt, I tried this method : http://www.redferret.net/?p=31008
Well, the issue seems to be almost gone in my case, and it’s really more enjoyable now. I also learned how to fix a micro-switch, which is really helpfull :p
Maybe you could try that also ?

I was afraid of this.
So I bought nothing. I won’t waste more money in this game until this bug is fixed.
For the moment, it is only getting worse, and I’m afraid it will be the same with every gaming mouse.
Thank you for your input, however.

Hi,
No, I’m not. Profiles are stored in mouse memory, and since Logitech Setpoint software is crap, I don’t use it anymore. But I used to, and still had the problem. I didn’t had the problem in BWE and in the first month. This bug is maybe a month old now.

I tried offical logitech drivers, beta drivers, and windows stock ones. It is still the same.
Running completely wired : the same
changing usb port : the same
disassembling and contacts cleaning : the same
OS is very clean, everything is updated, and the hardware is more than capable of running this game. I have zero problem everywhere else.

In my more recent gaming sessions, I noticed that things (npc, players, etc) tend to highlight themselves more frequently when my supposed mouse position is over them. It is a little difficult to explain.
Losing the target’s focus and selecting something else is also more frequent (almost everytime I use a skill on a enemy, so, a few times by enemy).

Anet, If you are unable to find the exact problem quickly, give us the possibility to disable the right click selection function, it will be a major improvement.

Still no news about this Anet ?
It is getting worse with every patch, and tonight, trying to donjon and WvW was very frustrating.
No comment from dev team about this kind of bug in this kind of videogame is really unacceptable.

Any news on this Anet ?
I was tempted today to buy a Naga or a Logitech G600 to replace my (not failing) G700, and I being afraid of the problem occuring even with a new mouse, I bought nothing.
Tonight, I tried to do some wvw, but camera failing everytime is extemely frustrating.
It is really getting worse with each patch, and even pve becomes unplayable.

Why on earth cannot we play this MMO with MMO mouses ? What is the problem Anet ?
Maybe we should consider posting this in Logitech and Razer support forums, to spread the word, and eventually have an answer ?

This is a highly questionnable stance, as it has been the same in every multiplayer game :
you gain an advantage with additionnal mouse buttons,
you gain an advantage with a laser mouse vs a ball/optic one
you gain an advantage when you have a 16/9 monitor and your opponent only has a 4/3
you gain an advantage when you play in 1920*1024 and your opponent plays in 1024*768
you gain an advantage when you play on your gaming rig and your opponent plays on an obsolete computer
you gain an advantage playing in the night when others have to play facing the sun,

And on, and on, and on.

Come on, we are playing on computers, and we all have different hardware.
If Anet wanted us to play on the same hardware and have no advantages, they should have released this game on playstation/xbox (something tells me it was planned then abandonned).

Saving profiles in mouse ram is a feature of my mouse, it’s very possible you don’t have this feature on yours.
However, it was just an example to show you how complicated it could be.
In your case, just binding keys in your mouse software and re-bind them ingame should work. I have to kill setpoint because of an incompatibility between setpoint/gw2/keyboard

Hi,

Since a few weeks, i’m trying to track and resolve this very annoying issue, as there is really no support from the team about this bug.
Like I said before, this kind of bug is extremely annoying, and should have been patched ages ago.

So, here is a short video I just made, using a tool I coded. It shows the REAL right mouse button state, and tries to detect fake double right clicks the game sends (watch in HD).

4+ forum pages full of people with this bug, and the same amount of players unable to do the clock tower, for an example.
WvWvW is also totally unplayable. You are dead trying to turn your camera.

Please, Anet, it is really time to patch this one.

Logitech G700 here.

Direct binding ingame doesn’t work.
Alt-tab and coming back ingame while the logitech crap is in memory makes the keyboard unresponsive (have to reboot game).
The solution in my case is to bind the keys inside the logitech software, save the profile in the mouse internal ram, kill the logitech process, and finally bind again my keys ingame from the mouse.

@Asrial :
I thought the same at the start. But like I said previously, I even coded a software to track true and false button releases.
Guess what ? the mouse has no problem, it is really the game that sends false releases (13-200ms “double clicks”, impossible for a human).
I however did your little test, and noticed no problem. I even disassembled my mouse to apply some contact cleaner.

I have logs and everything, but Anet doesn’t seem interested in this prioritary problem (camera problem with gaming grade mouses is a really bad bug).
I even proposed some theories, to no avail (i’m an IT support technician myself).

I guess I will have to wait until next year to do the clock tower jumping puzzle… Oh wait I’ll be somewhere else, if this bug stays too long time… Playing like this, is really not pleasant.

A little bump to update what I found :
Yesterday, I modified my troubleshooter software to make it remplace the normal right click with a switch :
I press right click, it enables the camera move,
I press right click again, it disables the camera move.

Guess what ? The issue seems gone.
So there’s something about GW2 thinking and acting like the mouse button has been hardware released, when it is not.
If the button is triggered via software, there is no problem.
So, It may be something to do with the high CPU usage of the game and USB polling rate. If GW2 is too CPU intensive, then maybe USB polling goes on a less prioritary task, and then we encounter fake micro button releases.

I’d really like to see that I’m not the only one working on this, and that Anet gives a little interest about this issue…
I have to code some software to troubleshoot/fix something the developers should be working on already, it’s not fair…

Hi,
Since a few weeks, mentality on my server is becoming really bad, with people insulting each other, etc.
Now, since a few days, it is not even possible to do some events. I’ll let you watch this small video I just made : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECrsSnkj404

Do these people know their gameplay is equal to zero ?
Do these people understand that the way they play, they just loot half of the possible loots ? (there’s 2 waves, joining at the village doors, so you just have to wait to tag a maximum mobs)
Do these people understand that they can not tag a mob if it is not on the map yet ?
And on top of that :
Do these people understand they are ruining the event and the fun for everyone else ?
I know I could win the event even without killing a mob, or I could even do the same and spam traps/LB*5, but how is it meant to be fun to play like that ?

When I tried to explain that to them, they just said : “I’m taking some loots so where’s the matter ?” I just didn’t find anything to answer to that, except quit the zone.

So here are the questions :
Do you have the same type of people on your server ? I’m on a french one, and I know it could make a difference. French people (I’m one of them) seem to disrespect everyone else. But maybe it is a common problem.
Isn’t there a kind of event abuse report system ? Is it normal I couldn’t play some events and have some fun, just because some people decided to ruin it ?

Thanks for reading/watching, I accept everything constructive.

Hi,
I’m also having this exact camera mouse problem with my Logitech G700 (wired mode).
Yesterday I tried to troubleshoot/fix it myself, and here’s what I found :
- Using a software I coded for the matter, I found that GW2 sends fakes double clicks, on a delay no human can achieve (double clicks of 13-200 ms). Trying to filter or negate these fake double clicks is still under work. A log of my software can be provided for further investigation.
- It happens in wired and wireless modes
- It happens with and without the mouse software in memory

I noticed another thing, I don’t know if it’s linked :
When you have nothing selected and you turn your camera, if you directly face a pnj (without selecting it), it highlights itself. It’s like a semi-selection, and maybe it bypasses the focus function ? Juste a thought.

I confirm this bug is extremely annoying, and could become a game breaker if it is not fixed quickly.
To me (a developer myself), a main component of the game is currently broken : the camera.
Please fix it ASAP.

@Caedmon
Thanks for the reply, it’s working the way I want to.
By the way, do you have some nVidia Inspector advanced settings to share, to improve my GW2 experience ?
I’m on a core i7-2630QM with Geforce 460mGT and 8Go ram, everything on medium with 1980*1050 resolution, FXAA enabled.

My ears and my fans thank you very much

Hi,

My problem is very simple :
I use to have 50-60 fps, but my system generates too much heat, making my fans very loud (i’m on a gaming laptop).
I’m aware of the 30-60 FPS limiter but it’s not what I want : 60 is too much, and 30 is too low (in reality, on my system 60 = 50 and 30 = 25, and 25 fps is way too low.)

So I’m trying to use the -FPS <amount> cmd line switch, to have a fix 40 fps.
The problem is, the -FPS cmd seems to only work in character selection screen. Ingame, the switch seems to be bypassed by the optional frame limiter. Setting it to “unlimited” (to disable it) doesn’t work.

So, is there a way to limit the FPS to 40, via ingame command, or via cmd line switch ?
If not, this option should really be (re)implemented.
I noticed also that -perf cmd line switch is not working anymore. It was very usefull to set the options ingame for a smooth gameplay. Is it planned to make it work again ?

Thank you.