Guild Wars 2

I get it too..sounds a bit like a trade event (sort of like money dropping into a box to me). I could be on my own in the wilderness with nothing trading and it happens.
Also, it’s GW2 specific,

I’m in the UK on Piken Square just doing low level PvE, and wow, lag is as bad as it ever was.
Started for me about SSCove content and has never gotten better.
Yes, i’ve done all the testing and moaning, coming and going between ANet, ISP and hardware, kept up to date with latest patches and forum chatter, but been lagged out of game for months now. So i went back to other games.
I return every few weeks to patch, repair and play. Within 2 mins i’m attacking fireflys or some other low level enemy and bam!

skill lag, skill fail, rubber-banding, fps drop <10-20, DC and eventually have to quit.
I don’t mind a bit of lag etc, i’m not daft, but i’ve seriously been unable to play guild wars 2 in 6 months.

I hope more fixes are in the works, as sadly the Nov update didn’t fix anything for this PvE thief. But i’m glad others are getting a boost.

Peace

Here are a couple of screens to illustrate.

just a standard set here. took about 30 mins to put together in 3 layers. I don’t like tight painting or drawing as i’m far too left handed to be an ‘artist’, so making things out of a bit of a mess appeals to me :P

here’s a troll too

here be a dragon!

I draw what I like and do my best with painting, but the GW2 style is worth having a bakitten (no pun intended)

I’d like the option to remove the UI text from the top right. or at least be able to collapse it to the edge it like the chat-box into it’s respective icons.

At the moment it takes up a chunk of the screen at lower resolutions even with small UI.
Collapses upwards with text remaining.
And infuriatingly re-opens ever time you die, change location or come across a random happening, but generally just whenever it feels like it.

As stated, I’d like it to be removable as it ruins the aesthetic and immersion element for me.

I’d be happy with the respective icons stacked in the top right that glowed when triggered and could drop down or open as the UI from top left does.
I accept that many people will be happy with it as it is, but i’d like to have the option of a smaller sleeker top-right UI with all the functionality it possesses anyway.

I can’t imagine this would be very difficult to do at all.

It’s time for some action ArenaNet.

As paid-up and active residents of Tyria, this issue has literally become a game changer and demands developer involvement and a community statement of intent.

Whilst ‘lag’ will always be an ever-recurring issue intermittently, since after Southsun ended, Guild Wars 2 has had a serious issue.

From Amsterdam to Australia, players have a had a trace routed, -debug’d, ticket and post-fest that has ended in (to the poster’s mind) some kind of ArenaNet server/client problem being treated as a player-end technical issue.

Some transparency is required here. And a direct line from the support and technical staff to the development team should be shown in what is now a dire issue in terms of gameplay.

Rubber-banding, skill-stall/fail and damage engagement lag are simply unacceptable now.
It’s a core issue. not some bug. Players systems and connections are varied, but when a wealth of people from all over the world are having the same issues AFTER your updates, it’s time to hold your hands up and fix the problem yourselves.
We’ll help, just ask!

We should not have to:

Turn off firewalls
Turn off antivirus
Edit registry
Purchase Tunnelling or VPN
Trace (do your jobs for you)
Update/remove updates from OS
Post/rant in vain
Quit playing for weeks/months till it’s fixed
Quit Guild wars 2 altogether (it certainly wouldn’t be rage quitting)
Live in hope that the next update will change things

As of last night’s update, and with the problem persisting it’s time to engage and get this sorted out.

Give us:

Recognition it exists
Assurances it’s being looked at as a priority outwith monthly updates
Updates on this specific issue
Respect for our knowledge of our systems
Staff to engage on the forum more than once every 3 weeks on the issue
A forum board on connectivity?

We appreciate your work, and workpace, we love the game.
It’s time to use some of that 3 million copies sold at around $50 a pop and store cash to sort things out.

Regards…

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