1) So thankful for the queues.. means people are playing wvw again.
2) Reduce graphics settings or you will get lag in large scale fights. We’ve all known this since like 2013.
3) ???
4) Profit.
If the query in the thread is about skill lag, you’re not going to get that profit. Sorry.
it blows. it really seriously blows. It is very, very, boring. Trend in this game mode is currently that the meta will be worse than the previous meta it replaced. It’s beyond me how they let this direction take place and how they will let this go on for around a year or more particularly that they admitted that some condition skills particularly from necro bringing so much stress on their servers. I’m willing to bet it’s with all the additional timers and processes the condis add. It’s really, really ugly. Disgusting. Very disgusting.
I use it. Even on small scales. If it works for you, it works for you. Meta is whatever you make of it.
It’s not lacking anything. Imo it’s good, and could have been one of those things that would give a thief that decision making if he should take it or go for a more defensive utility, therefore pushing build variety a little bit specially when you’ve got interrupt traits and sigils. It does it’s job…until you compare it to headshot, which alot of you above did. If I write more, I would probably go in a direction most of you don’t and won’t like so I won’t. If it matters, just try to use your imagination on what i’m trying to convey, if it doesn’t, just ignore.
Is any dev/tech following this topic? It seems to be rather serious..
As with every other ping related post, you guys need to run pingplotter and determine where the problem is. I wouldn’t recommend waiting for Anet to fix something that probably isn’t broke. Once you run pingplotter you will more than likely see that the problem is one of the many nodes your connection passes through. If its any of the nodes in-between then there is nothing Anet can do to fix it. The routing of “your” connection to the Anet server is controlled by “your” ISP.
Also, the reason “other” games and stuff works is because those servers are located in different areas and your connection takes a different route.
Arenanet’s router nodes are a possible point of failure too. This is possible in every ping related post. Anyhow yes, been tracing for a couple of hours now, Anet nodes are spiking.
It’s been mentioned over and over but, really unless buffs are insane like over 50% increase to aa (it’s slooooow, dagger can keep up, no problemo, and if it can, what’s 10% going to do? suddenly another viable weapon set on the same level? d/p lives on aa. It’s such an ini saver), a gap closer with considerable damage and spammability and extras (did I say extras?) compared to shadow shot, or on demand stealth (sitting!) (did I say sitting?) or even the ability to stealth stack with CnD (mind you, even if that was allowed, it would still be under par to d/p stealth sitting as you still need to hit, now if it had a range of 600-900, all is fair) anet will really have to look over why d/p is meta and why meta is meta for majority of thieves to even take a glance at s/d. And majority of what I said are crazy and the playerbase probably won’t like. Heck, I don’t like it, even if I main s/d.
Anet a long time ago (a very very long time ago.) (Did i say long time ago?) had a proposition to lower the scores earned on off peak. I mean, wvw has to be a 24/7 thing, you really can’t shut it off or dictate a time for it but this would somewhat help a bit.
Really not enjoying what I’m assuming is the last fight.
Stick a mesmer in an arena the size of a shoebox, add a ton of mobs that do nothing but knockback. Really really not fun. At all.
The zone’s fine. Takes forever to get anywhere compared to previous LS3 zones, but it’s fine.
Same with this guy. I really didn’t like the last fight either. The place was a bit small for classes that require alot of moving. Amazingly the barrels didn’t help since they sometimes even blocked you from going around. And…quite frankly you fell in love with cc too much. Some of them undodgeable. Alot of them.
1. Skill Balance
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6. Get rid of this linking system. While it did make other servers useful, it’s a magnet for transfer galore since there are no penalties for it. Heck, you can even get away with a transfer without shelling out cash. Either make the transfers heftier as a penalty or outright put penalties and make the time table for relinking faster, in that way, you make the transferrer think carefully since it might all go away the next week.
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Honestly, it’s been a long time since your last skill balance patch and the last one was focused on pvp.
Queen Jennah kinky scenes pls.
Hi. For years we know that your game has capability to use a custom playlist for music played. Is there a way maybe that you can add basic control over this through maybe a chat command. Maybe a simple skip, or a play order randomize, or no randomize, or even repeat. I’m sure the functions already exist in the client. Should be no biggie, right? tnx.
PS. Please announce something about the next balance patch release date pl0x. Cannot wait. Current iteration is still absolutely horrid.
i am still getting this issue. i’m not going to post tracerts since it seems that i’m not exactly alone and a number of people are also getting it. random spikes here and there. tolerable to a certain extent although extremely felt specially on blinks. what’s funny though is it guaranteed to pump up to as high somewhere to an unplayable 1-3k when you meet a zerg in wvw and goes away when you’re far from them. this isn’t exactly a norm for me even if it is wvw. anyway, yes sea region too so probably a common node somewhere. just letting you know just in case it isn’t.
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like post above. also make sure all your drivers are updated from chipset manufacturers as much as possible. also make sure your windows isn’t updating. 10 is rather controversial for it’s forced automatic updates, and it’s possible that you’re downloading/installing updates from time to time. you can disable the updates via services.msc. if you’re not familiar with this particular tool, it should be simple enough in most common google results.
They added WvW guild missions.
In my opinion, if the +5 aspect you could apply to a depot will make or break your guild, then your guild wasn’t a good one to begin with.
When you make a comment like that with no real basis to justify it, then the counter argument is a simple “es tee ef you – no”.
I laughed on this one. You win my interwebs for the day brah.
best post of the day.
Thanks for your input! I’ll send this information to a few of the developers personally so I can make sure it gets the proper review it deserves. I’d say if they use your constructive feedback as a guideline for fixing thief, we’d see thief emerge from the darkness and find themselves in a great spot!
Keep up the good work!
How about some pepper to go with that salt?
salt 2 high quality bruh.
honey, sometimes you have to make some noise to be heard and there’s nothing immature about it.
… and mesmers at the moment are well balanced.
lol…………………………………………………..wut?
been awhile since i’ve read something as daring as this. bruhs, this is gold.
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the necro is strong in this one
HAHAHAHA. if some of the new skills aren’t changed from the current beta, then yes, we might be headed in that direction in a certain subtle sense that some failed to catch. but seriously since it’s beta i would expect them to make changes afterwards. don’t keep your hopes up that high though. you know how they are. :P
And speaking of devs, a certain dev already confirmed that there are no WvW players, only PvE players that happen to play WvW sometimes^^
OOOOH u get my +1. :>
“WvW is not and was never intended to be balanced.”
I’ve heard this line so many times. I believe this was mentioned by a dev years ago? Why not demand. You’re swallowing the words of someone. What’s worse is you paid him. You have a flight of stairs. Your goal is the top. You can’t reach that unless you start climbing the flight of stairs and stop listening when he’s shouting it’s too high when he could’ve held your hand to make the climb even easier. i’m sorry i don’t buy it. they can start by looking at some of their conditions, food, armors, but then again this shouldn’t be new to them. it’s been complained over and over and over and ignored over and over and over and will be ignored over and over and over.
Horrible analogy. You cannot climb the stairs of WvW alone. It takes group play to win a week. The mode is balanced for group play, not on a one to one direct scale.
I think damage as a whole could use about a 25% reduction across the board personally. But to say anyone is swallowing words, strike me as absurd. In my opinion, it is very reasonable to understand that you cannot balance professions in various gear on a one to one comparison system in large scale combat.
are you saying they shouldn’t try?
stairs are something else btw.
“WvW is not and was never intended to be balanced.”
I’ve heard this line so many times. I believe this was mentioned by a dev years ago? Why not demand. You’re swallowing the words of someone. What’s worse is you paid for his product. You have a flight of stairs. Your goal is the top. You can’t reach that unless you start climbing the flight of stairs and stop listening when he’s shouting it’s too high when he could’ve held your hand to make the climb even easier. i’m sorry i don’t buy it. they can start by looking at some of their conditions, food, armors, but then again this shouldn’t be new to them. it’s been complained over and over and over and ignored over and over and over and will be ignored over and over and over.
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we have almost the same kind of system specs. my advice, save your money. when you get enough, buy a new system. you do not have alot of upgrade paths presented to you as you will really need to touch that processor as priority. your mobo is old. most likely ddr 2. and even if your slot’s compatible with some upgraded models that are still most likely old, issues will arise such as the last updated compatibility allowed by the motherboard. is there such a thing? tada. surprise. there is. it tends to be forgotten in today’s age of mainstream but the 90s boiz should remember it well. in other words, you’ll be most likely forced to change this as well.
you’ll probably have no problems with graphic card changes as long as your power supply can handle it as systems as yours was already in the age of pci-e x16 (double check or it’ll be forced for backwards compatibility), which is still ok by today’s standards but i doubt you’d see much of an effect since…you know, that processor.
i have a bit more info about this. more for isolation and coffee. the trigger is the camera. you go underwater with the camera still above the water surface, it will not happen. the moment your camera dips under the surface though, you’ll get the black.
after the current aug 25 patch, anybody else having short (a few seconds) of black screen everytime you go underwater from the surface? it’s not the blackscreen crash unplayable kind of thing, it’s like the black screen when your client re renders your game when you change your graphic settings. anyone else or just me?
just want to raise information that i encountered a situation where audio controls in the game were not responsive and not working and battle audio bgm was playing even if i was out of combat to no ends, seemingly resulting in a weird significant drop of fps to unplayable levels that i could only describe as like playing the latest battlefield release on an intel 486. ok that description was a bit extreme but it was very unplayable. if i remember right, this bug is old and has somewhat dissapeared from the scene in a long time but i encountered it again.
possible triggers that i remembered was a huge wvw zerg fight, a huge lag spike that felt like a dc before said bug happening, windows 10, lots of kodash acs, and if i remember right, behind them were more kodash acs.
If a condi mesmer is really killing you in a total of 2 attacks, you might want to look at your build/what you are doing. I’m not saying condi mes isn’t strong, it’s just not as strong as the hyperbole in this thread.
The balance isn’t perfect, but it’s not as end of the world, gloom n doom bad as you are attempting to make it sound.
oh they are very very strong. there’s a reason why the mesmer forums are in fiesta mode right now and some their own want a nerf in their own class. You don’t see that everyday in a class subforum. Also why 80% of roamers you’ll ever meet are pretty much their class nowadays. I won’t expound more to escape potential drama and that i find the official forums quite unnecessarily toxic as of the moment.
it’s certainly not doom and gloom but the gigantic class bandwagon towards the meta is very very real. As to why no action has been taken, my guess is as good as my pet dog’s. and he’s usually right and very negative.
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most likely driver issue as most have pointed above. ran into it too on my first try only to realize the geforce drivers i had didn’t support windows 10 and windows 10 didn’t have default nvidia drivers in it and i was running on mssoft’s most basic primary display driver. so i had to uninstall the old nvidia driver and get the proper one from the nvidia website and it worked from that point. game’s pretty compatible enough to run on windows 10. arguably even faster. slower computers should be able to notice the promised less overhead and less stress on their processors. if you’re coming from windows 7, you’ll notice less random ram hogs too.
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it was actually a question directed to anet. but it’s ok haha.
I remember back when people complained like mad about them releasing stuff in the gem store every other week.
People actually did that? -_- Lame…
Yes
this old song sums up the forums
Well, old Mike O’Brien has this game called Guild Wars 2, ee-i-ee-i-o
And in his game he has a Gem Store, ee-i-ee-i-o
With a QQ-QQ here, and a QQ-QQ there
Here a QQ, there a QQ, everywhere a QQ-QQ
Old Mike O’Brien has this game called Guild Wars 2, ee-i-ee-i-oOld, Mike O’Brien has this game called Guild Wars 2 ee-i-ee-i-o
And in his game he has WvWvW, ee-i-ee-i-o
With a QQ here and a QQ-QQ there
Here a QQ there a QQ, everywhere a QQ-QQ
Old Mike O’Brien has this game called Guild Wars 2, ee-i-ee-i-oWell, Mike O’Brien has this game called Guild Wars 2 , ee-i-ee-i-o
And in his game he has PVP , ee-i-ee-i-o
With a QQ here, and a QQ-QQ there
Here a QQ, there a QQ, everywhere a QQ-QQ
Old, Mike O’Brien has this game called Guild Wars 2, ee-i-ee-i-oOld Mike O’Brien has this game called Guild Wars 2, ee-i-ee-i-o
And in his game he has PVE, ee-i-ee-i-o
With an QQ here, and an QQ-QQ there
Here a QQ, there a QQ everywhere an QQ-QQ
Old Mike O’Brien has this game called Guild Wars 2 , ee-i-ee-i-o
you get my interwebs for the day brah. \o/
some of us have been expecting this since the last feature patch release. it’s kinda surprising that weeks have already passed without …anything. not even the usual gemstore, though i don’t mind that since i’m kinda low on gems right now.
can we expect something?
you don’t really think the last feature patch was so perfect,
…or do you?
i’m sorry. i stopped watching a quarter of the way. they have to rebuild trust first. as for my part, i just can’t take videos like this from arenanet seriously anymore. no. they can start with a balance hotfix(keyword: clones) from the last patch. then i’ll consider giving a quarter of my trust back then. acknowledge golem event problems before week has ended and i might give half.
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i’m not enjoying your golem event. i’m not enjoying your golem buff. i know there’s alot of threads out there basically saying the same thing but you know what, here’s another one off the bat.
this exact subject was the talk of the town specially when profession balance was still part of the forums. maybe more than a year ago. nada happened. zilch.
in my opinion it does somewhat add a bit of variety specially to those classes with a lot of stability. however, the way it stacks and increases in duration where in sometimes it would already reach double digit numbers is…hm. anyway, since the heavens are blind and incapable of doing anything, i’d say just accept it and fight cheese with equal cheese.
builds. wat builds. buy a lot of siege disabler. pew pew bomb afterwards.
wait for private whisper qq telling u how u wasted all his gold and also things involving your family particularly and most often your mother.
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i actually expected more from the patch. admittedly nerfs here and there. i expected them to touch burning and particularly the mesmer class and maybe a glint of a change in something in our acro line but…cheers to what is in my opinion the most inept mmo company holding an a+ title.
d/p’s probably won’t love this idea and will most likely get the smash later on.
ssssh. don’t let #1 server read dis. dey already jelly :P
so many legendary forum warriorz.
power level liek grenade barrage.
2 stronk.
much much.
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but what if we thieves get ‘reroll war’ as specialization instead? qq.
goodbye to my favorite weapon set for more than a year. it maybe not have been the ultimate to win weapon specially compared to stealth stacks but dodging through all the attacks after a short hit and run via blink on this weapon was quite the rush. arenanet…y u so out of touch?
nice troll from a lazy class with a lazy build. huehuehuehuehue
flanking strikes has put our old beloved s/d back into the map. although nothing is stopping other sets from having it too, it kinda is somewhat innate with us since acro. kinda wished the cd was 20ish though but hey i’m not complaining much
however
the cancer weapon set out there is still cancer weapon set and is on the way to becoming super ultra duper cancer weapon set.
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out of curiosity, this will be distributed in a physical copy, right? made available through various game retailers? because considering my internet connection, that would be my best option in where i live.
i have a warrior running a hybrid rabid on armor and her old stat trinkets of knights. currently with some rune and sigil help, she can get near or a little over a thousand on condition so…yeah, it’s going to be easy if 700 is the judgement line. ofc if i remember right, i believe they’ll be changing stats on armors since they’ll be taking out stats on traits so, it might be best to wait for that and see how it turns out.
i have forgotten his name but there is a condition s/d – sb thief running around. if i remember his videos right, it revolves around caltrops, crit/hit condi and switch weapon procs.