Guild Wars 2

Oh, i tried to delete the thread since there were already open threads about it.. looks like i only deleted my own post…

3,000+ hours : zero precursors.
I do have eternity, but i bought dawn from TP and crafted dusk just a week ago.

Happy to see a feedback thread, it’s good to hear what the community has to say.
So here’s my two cents on the subject:

The good:

• Really high quility of content. the overall addition of a new pve map, LS, new fractal and old fractals tweaks, pvp map and more were done with a keen eye for details and quility.

• The LS episode went in a good pace. i really appreciate the animated cutscenes that were first introduced in HoT story, it shows a great deal of devotion to the quility of the story. it’s not that the in-game engine cutscenes are horrible, but they don’t deliver the story in the best way.

• QoL updates that were MUCH needed finally came. the “salvage all” and health bar precentage are things that i personally wished to happen for a long time, and it was a pleasent surprise. also, the new fractal interface – amazing! great job!

The bad:

• The length of the overall update and aditions is reletively short for a 3 month time span untill the next episode. i understand the entire update takes a great deal of time to make, so i don’t expect an episode with the length of HoT story to be released each couple of months. what i do think could be done is to do the same thing that has been done in the silverwastes. a great map that has just a bit more content than the new bloodstone fen, but what kept it alive for so long after release is the massive collections and achievment hunting for the luminate armor. (and further more the map farming, but that’s a whole different issue)

• The balance update was a bit harsh. as a main ranger i understood the need of my nerfs in pvp, but as a raiding elementalist i was really disappointed. raid and high skill level content were hard enough as it is, and now my ele can hardly heal himself let alone deal the amount of damege needed in raids. were elementalist nerfs needed? probably. but i think the nerfs went too far. (i didn’t really checked other proffesions updates since i don’t play with them so much, so i won’t talk about that. also, side note – much thanks to the ranger pet love! hope to see more in the future)

Overall im really happy about this update, and i hope to see more updates with the high quility this one had, thanks again for hearing the community!

If i compare it to my setup i would say you would mostly have a smooth game experience.. i have a GTX680 which i believe is slightly worst than the RX 480, and i usually have great fps, though as mentioned here above i do get massive frame drops on crowded areas and mild frame drops on major areas, i.e Lion’s Arch and Heart Of The Mists.
In HoT areas though i get lower fps. Guess they’re much more graphicly demanding…

Not to sound too out of context, but did the patch brought new events? I did see some weird patch note but there was nothing saying anything about it in-game

TexZero.7910:

shaythan.1398:

i sent a ticket to Anet explaining the situation and referring them to this thread (and another one about the same issue)
so far they told me to send a report created by a diagnostic software of theirs and i am still waiting for a follow up..
i’ll update here if anything usefull comes out of it..

Don’t worry all that will happen is they will notice something odd and ask you to run something else. Then if that doesnt work they’ll ask you to open command prompt and use netsh winsock reset. Which will do nothing.

At this point either you’re a much nicer person than me or you will give up with their support as its just a joke.

so far i just ran a diagnostic software and they still need to respond… but i assume the tech support guy sitting somewhere behind a screen on the other side of the planet can’t really understand where the problem is at. they probably have scripted flow charts to go through in situations like this…

Spindelhalla.2139:

I contacted support and they responded very quickly and are trying their best to help me but we haven’t found a solution yet. The problem is that we are trying to find a software or service that somehow interferes with Gw2 but the way the ping behaves I doubt the problems are on my end. For example I noticed that I never experience this problem in the new WvWvW maps but I do experience it 95% of the time when I’m in Verdant Brink. If it was a software conflicting with Gw2 I think the ping should go crazy no matter on which map I’m playing, right?

i have these laggs on two diffrent computers, i doubt it has anything to do with a software interfering with the game client…
i think i should try connecting one of them to a diffrent ISP and check if the aggs persist… problem is it’s not as easy as it sounds when both are desktops…

i sent a ticket to Anet explaining the situation and referring them to this thread (and another one about the same issue)
so far they told me to send a report created by a diagnostic software of theirs and i am still waiting for a follow up..
i’ll update here if anything usefull comes out of it..

also here!
laggs started at friday about 4 days ago and ever since the game is practicly unplayable…
anyone saw any comment about the issue from Anet?

I won’t say it’s pointless to play this now.. That’s a bit overstating the problem. I did got crashed couple of times. Once when exploring and once a minute before successfully completing dragon’s stand. Very frustrating. But I’m pretty sure Anet are working hard on those issues, just keep sending then the reports.

UnknownFreak.2805:

you could try the -assetsrv command line in the shortcut

-assetsrv 151.249.89.19:80

worked for me.

Edit: http://www.gw2status.de/ , you can get a list of all the servers, you want a asset server that is up and running.

many thanks!

milo.5693:

Ok that’s good to know that im not alone with this problem, did you guys get this problem today?

just tried first time today 10 minutes ago… guess it’s something rather new since this post was written 20 minutes ago

also here.
my internet connection is fine, as i do have access to any other internet requiring media. there’s something wrong with the game…

they specificly said no spirit shards from lvling after 80, so i guess that is not the case.
thanks for number 2 though

hey guys, i got some questions about the new changes that happened.

1. you can still level after 80. so, does it bring anything? i checked and it dosent bring hero points or anything else i noticed.

2. i got about 200+ spare hero points after buying all the possible traits and skills. is there anything to do with them or are they just going to stay there?

thanks to whoever answer!

Farming Flats.5370:

shaythan.1398:

after the new blogpost (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/updating-your-wallet/) i had a thought about something. it says that pristine fractal relics will get into the new wallet, which is great and all, but does that mean we won’t be abble to convert them to 15 fractal relics?

EDIT – i intended to put in in the general discussion forum, put it here by mistake, sorry… if it’s possible please move it there.

in the blog they say :
Hover your mouse over a currency to display its details—some of which you can click for extra functionality

so i guess if you mouse over your pristine you will be able to interact and break one into 15 just like before.

Fractal Relics are already in the wallet .. so .. interact with a pristine in the wallet to add 15 to fractals relics ..

the extra functionality they mentioned was the direction to the way to aquire the said currency. but maybe they didn’t mentioned that you could also convert it… guess we’ll wait and see…

Mireles Lore.5942:

I think an easy fix would be to put a line item in the fractal merchant that gaverelics for 1 prestine.

that is a pretty good solution… didn’t thought about that.

after the new blogpost (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/updating-your-wallet/) i had a thought about something. it says that pristine fractal relics will get into the new wallet, which is great and all, but does that mean we won’t be abble to convert them to 15 fractal relics?

EDIT – i intended to put in in the general discussion forum, put it here by mistake, sorry… if it’s possible please move it there.

i got to tell you, i didn’t know so many people were expension obbsessed in GW community… so far a LS every two weeks was much more then enough, it was the main reason i bought this game. it saddens me to hear that people perfer an expension just because the name it holds.
don’t get me wrong though. an expension can justify it’s name if it is worth much. but as far as i can see up untill now, HOT dosent seem to bring much for a paid expension. (it will ofcourse be worth it’s price considering the price is fair enough, which none of us can tell at the moment since in the FAQ they say pricing wasn’t determined yet. lets hope Anet, or more precisly NCsoft, is not greedy as other MMO’s developers)

i get what you are all saying, but my concern is that the LS won’t be as huge as it was up untill now. what if they will give us about 10 episodes of LS and then they will make us buy the next expension? how much time will HOT content survive untill the next expension? that is my real fear – the never ending expensions

i have a major concern about this expension.

GW2 is going to be 3 years old at august, which means the 50$ i payed for it were worth 3 years of playing a constantly improving and changing game, resulting in a great money value, more then any other game i ever bought so far.

my concern is that once i buy this expension, will i keep getting constant updates of living story and world changing events? (up untill now there has been about 30 contant updates + balance updates and such) because according to the PAX south revealed content, it does NOT worth a full priced PC game. im certian that the new content will include many sub-features not mentioned yet, but if all the major features were the ones introduced in the event they held (and i believe those are going to be the only major feature) it just dosent worth it.

so, will the new expension supply the players with constant updates for the next couple of years? if it does, then there is a reason to buy it for a full price. but if not, and they are just going to develop only the magumma jungle throughout the entire period of this expension without any changes to the original world, then for my opinion it does not worth it…

I was wrong about the infusion restriction, but there should still be a notice for wearing the same ring…

Garambola.2461:

This same thing has happened to plenty of people, most have been recompensated with the ring that has the same stats but different infusion slot. Contact support. (Or use the ring on another character.)

where can i turn to support for this issue?

Hey all,
I encountered today a problem i found to be extremely frustrating. I just finished a 10’th round of fractals and wanted to buy my second accended ring, only to find out i can’t use it because it’s also an offensive infusion ring. Now, I dont say change the system, but do mention this restriction to players, like in sigils. in every sigil there is a notice that you cant use the same sigil twice on the same weapon, do a similier notice on accended rings (and any other item that may has the same restriction).

and issue #2:
after a hour of playing most of us players have much bags/luck/consumeables that we want to open. its all nice and easy, but i find myself clicking like crazy just to consume a stack of 30 luck. i know there is a solution like a double click script and auto clicker, but let me suggest an easier solution. when a player hit the right mouse button on a consumeable he has the option to “consume all”. it will make my life and many other players much better…

thank you for the attention, and do reply (even if you don’t agree, so i’ll know why)