Guild Wars 2

I would like to add to this as well, normally I ping around 200 through to 250, recently however the ping spikes to 1000+ making the game unplayable.

I suspect the issue is in the data center gw2 is hosted in as I believe they share it with secretworld legends and the ping in SWL has also gone to hell.

No other on line games I play are affected (BDO, B.Net).

I have posted about this 8 months ago as have many other people. After this period of time nothing has been done to affect a solution for people playing on high pings so suffice it to say that is they do not give a rats. In fact what prompted me to post 8 months ago was that insidious bullkitten fungus among us which incidentally is also todatys daily adventure and it is still a major pain in the kitten to get silver or gold on because of the problems with how adventure skill usage is communicated with high pings.

You have to wonder who thought this would be a fun mechanic getting pelted by heat seeking rocks from eagle eyed WM knights who can see you from massive distances.

Sure you can shoot them down with your skills but the problem for a player vs AI is that we are not omnipresent and will most likely take lethal or critical damage and die.

Considering the density of knights in some areas this is just a pain.

I went through a significant amount of troubleshooting with their support team a while back and NONE of their suggestions worked to solve this. Now many months later with a new system and new windows and new GW2 install I come back for LS3 and this is still happening. No other game has this issue, everything on steam or BNet (or any other downloader) max my connection, and here is the update for GW2 crawling down at 1-10 KB/s.

You know considering how long I have played GW1 and GW2 I should care more but honestly at this point I just don’t give a kitten anymore.

It is worth updating my thread one month on.

I am waiting so long in LFG now that the kitten lfg times out.
No one replies in map chat. It is just by pure luck that other people show up to do the HP now.

How the hell am I going to get the rest of my characters through HoT at this rate, this is to be plain kittening stupid and is a major annoyance.

Why isn’t scaling implemented on these HP so single players can do them instead of wasting their time waiting for a few people to never show up?

I would be curious to know if anyone from ANet tested all silver/gold achieves on adventure with 250+ ping.

There are several adventures (eg, fungus amongst us, the floor is lava) that are highly dependent on your skills activating instantaneously.

With 250+ ping this obviously does not happen and so the accumulation in skill activation delay adds up over time adding several seconds to your overall time, enough to ensure an additional level of problems to get gold rank.

A lot of adventures are forgiving in this regard, however ones that utilise heavy movement skill / activation are particularly broken.

I am ANet gather stats on every player, I hope they are examining the completion times for everyone over 250 ping and will adjust the silver/gold thresholds accordingly, they should still be difficult but not impossible because of addition of skill delay.

You guys should try having 300 + ping when doing this, you can only barely get silver because of all the skill delays.

Sigh…

This HP of the 10 odd people joining 2 stayed. One who left sent this:

this is bullkitten.

I am trying to get groups of people together to do the points, no one is joining or cares to join mapchat or otherwise. I have waited up to twenty minutes spamming mapchat and LFGtool to get one or two people to join.

I should clarify these are usually the harder group HP left on maps, all the soloalble and communing ones are done
How will this be even remotely viable once people get sick of HoT?

LFG in map chat multiple times, no one shows up.
LFG using LFG tool, no one joins.

Actually scrap that, people do join the LFG but they are using me as a godkitten taxi into the instance and leave instantly causing me to relist over and over and over.

This is becoming increasingly frustrating as I am stuck waiting over and over to get these kitten points done.

I cannot imaging what it is going to be like on my other characters when I get around to them.

Example: silverwastes close to breach LFG’s

If a player attempts to join a party but it fills to quickly, they are denied access to party and don’t join.

For some reason this is counted as a join/leave for whatever reason and the end result of attempting to unsuccesfully join parties to get taxied in is that you end up getting blocked from joining parties, even though you have technically not joined any in the first place.

This behaviour should be adjusted to if you don’t get in it doesn;t count it as a join/leave and place a strike against you so you can;t join parties.

I have gone through an immense amount of back and forth troubleshooting with the ANet support guys and still this issue persists.
It is really odd as the patcher itself will patch at full speed but once in the launcher dialogue forget downloading anything in any reasonable amount of time.

I have tried every single alternate download asset server and none of them work.

Jon Olson.8439:

We believe we’ve resolved the issue that caused this. Please try again.

Nope, it is back again with this recent patch for me.

Well with this new patch the issue has returned.

I am firstly downloading at 1-5 kb/s
Secondly it stalls at 1MB and stops downloading completely.

Attempting to patch from NSW, Australia.

I am getting max 5 kb/s

This is a repeat of the last patch where exactly the same thing happened.

Now I am having the same issue as other players where I hit a particular file and it drops to 0 kb/s.

A mod can archive these posts or merge them if they want into an existing thread.

Trying to patch and the download speed is in the realm of 10-20 kb/s, this is a significant difference from the several hundred kb/s in the past.

There are no issues with any other overseas servers that I have ran speed / download tests on at the moment.

Seconded. This skill has been broken for the very longest time.

All I can think of is that the skill is so ping dependent that if you ever so slightly fall outside the threshold it completely stuffs up.

It is 100% a replicable bug for me with 250-300 ping, however – it never used to be like this and back when sanctum sprint first came out it was never an issue for me to complete it.

Several times running dungeons / fractals you will inevitable run into some giant norn or char with those obnoxious black wings obstructing everything you can see. they take up more than half of the visible screen estate in the game space and are not subject to the same occlusion the world is subject to through the camera update meaning they are just big black masses with no transparency.

A toggle in options to hide all player back pieces except your own would be great to counter this issue.

I don;t mind seeing them in the open world but when you need to stack or employ specific tactics these wings are just horrible.

If you check reela’s post history security lead Chris Cleary states that his gold was removed because of RMT not because of a bug or any BS he spun on this forum.

Take note, gold does not just suddenly vanish from your account, nor does it suddenly appear in mysterious circumstance.

- World is full

OR

Joins, but disconnected and kicked back to desktop with network error.

+1 please, I really hope someone at ANet considers this.

You don;t have to even add an option to mute mini’s – just make ho-ho tron like other mini’s so he uses his bell occasionally and not 100 percent all the time.

Ever done a fractal with someone who has the ho-ho tron mini? I was going insane with the constant non stop ringing sound all the time. This is really not neccessary at all – If I got my infinite choir bell out and followed people around ringing the one note constantly I would get banned for harassment.

I have not done it in a while and decided to start doing sw again, all recent attempts I have participated in the majority have been failures, both in defending keeps, the breach and also vinewrath.

When I last did it was a few weeks after the end of season 2 when I was looking for my carapace chest piece and everyone seemed to know what was going on and majority of maps were wins, now it’s pretty hit and miss and seemingly a waste of time especially if I put in time to bring keeps to beach from 60% to have the whole thing fail.

How has your recent SW experience been?

This would be fantastic. The hohotron mini is especially annoying in this regard with the constant ding-ding-ding-ding-ding that never stops.

Over the past few weeks I have observed that even with movement, avoiding the lava pools and shamans attacks after a certain period of time you will start burning regardless of movement counter to the special conditions of this area.

You can cleanse this burning off with conditional removal but it returns in a short period.

just finished the NPE endgame mission today and can confirm that this odd reward is somehow still present.

A level 18 exotic for a level 80 mission?

Is this intended? Is there some way of turning it off?

On the third attempt at restarting the instance Gixx finally appeared and was able to progress to next quest.

Additional bug when in Molent Summit.

After freeing the imprisoned priory researches the next section of the quest does not trigger.

Norn – Durmand Priory Path.

Dredging Up the Past – travel to the priory archive in lions arch

Activate quest star, loading screen says “meeting my mentor”

Get cut scene between PC and Sieran, says she wants to investigate ruin.

Get a in-game mail about Ascalon Catacombs dungeon.

Cannot exit instance or talk to kekt or sieran, no progress.

Underwater, the spear throw animation when the spear respawn starts above the hand and clips through the player character to re-appear in the pc’s hand for the next throw.

Comparatively the human guardian spear starts below the hand and moves upwards to be caught by the player character.

Whatever the NPE did to him, you cannot catch his kegs now at all, the old way whilst hard had a small chance of catching his absurdly bad throws.

Stand directly in the aoe prompt and the barrel passes straight through the PC and breaks on the ground consistently.

This instance is the most obvious case of this.
The ice elemental’s which spawn are affected by the players doing maw but do not despawn and are extremely troublesome for players leveled to 11 in the area to deal with.

In the attached screenshot there are at least a dozen level 15 elemental’s who all behave as a single unit (all unified agro)

Playing through the entirety of season 2 and encountering a bug where the volume of spoken dialogue from NPC’s ranges from completely silent (still get text bubble above their heads) to normal volume. On occasion it will cut off mid speech and go form normal volume to none.

Only I am not inactive, I am sitting in the wardrobe previewing different bits of armour.

Also confirming this behaviour.

TP defaults to selecting buy orders at highest current price with 100% of your item.
User switches to highest sell of item, and amount changes to one item only at that price forcing a manual change to maximum.

Elitism in choir bells.. that’s a new one.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I seem to recall that progressing the wintersday daily also should add 1 to the overall festival track. However, this is not happening anymore.

Is not giving the respective orrian unlock for the for the children collection. Instead it is spawning an Asuran chest.

map transition to inside glints lair did not reload the character model.

After stepping through the fireplace my character went invisible.

Good luck with that request ANet still have not fixed the backwards paw prints since launch…

Actually even with the reset motes the content has little to no replay value. Once done with the achievements there is zero reason to redo it unless progressing story. The only content introduced this latter half of the season is silvewastes and that is wearing thin too.

Faolain’s accent was terrible, the actor now portraying her was not able to maintain a consistent quality to her voice, it was all over the place with some moments where the actor just dropped the pretense at maintaining the original va’s style of speech leaving to some incredibly jarring moments in the dialogue.

Got 9 milestones, got to end of puzzle, grabbed 3 keys, tried to open chest, removed keys + milestones, got no loot.

i hardly ever comment / visit these forum but the recent LW has caused me to seek out other commentary on season 2.

OP is right on the money. This season has just left me frustrated and that is breeding resentment.

Seems to be mostly deserted, I have been wandering around for an hour and have seen one other person. Is it affected by megaserver? or does no one care about it now?

.. is stalled again.

Maybri is just hanging about with the final phase dialogue and nothing is triggering.

If you die during the Alphard fight the bone wall does not reset keeping you outside his area unable to finish the boss fight.