Guild Wars 2

With my usual graphic setting I have 30-40fps more or less depending on the area.
You will not recognize it much, gw2 feels smooth usually.
In the new area I get under 10 fps regardless where I am, when I set every graphic setting to the lowest possible, I get something between 10-20fps.
Red aoe circles pop up late and are hard to see due to the graphic settings not only because of the background.

When gw2 was released they mentioned something about that players with not highend pcs wont get in trouble…I just see more and more content especially vertical new areas, these areas just let the fps drop very fast…maybe a bit more optimization in the future or what are your experiences?
When I am in the arena I dont really have to know what the zerg under me does….

I dont play any other games currently, thats y I dont really like to buy new hardware just for a mmorpg.

I don’t rez them because I don’t want a competition waiting in the queue, you should blame designers with their bullkitten that you have to teleport to wp instead rez near arena.

These buggy areas are bull crap. I want Queen’s Gauntlet Tickets reimbursed. Either that, or turn them off completely.

There’s no reason why I should instantly lose 6 tickets because the event is buggy. 5 gambits plus the entrance.

Several times, I’ve been forced to drop out of the bottom of the cage, because the player before me took too long. I get warped into the cage before the floor resets. They lost…..so I don’t even get a chance?

Not to mention the queue bug that forces you to lose the tickets because you aren’t allowed to actually join.

…..get your crap together Anet.

Emerald WEAPON was a tape-the-button-down-and-walk-away affair with the right set-up…

I dont like being blunt about things. I like sleeping over things as to not post something I might regret later on. But Im afraid this requires a post and I have to let you know where you have failed and how you could have improved because as it is right now, some people managed to get it and I feel neither admiration nor awe about them and they would complain if you were to change it now.

I have spent over 40 gold in retraits, regearing, buying tickets, repairs, food, 2 classes, ele and guardian since those are my only lvl 80s, over 120 tries.

Before I go on,let me tell you where you failed and how you made a potentially great boss into a total mess.

1 hit KO mechanic: In and by itself it is not a big deal, given proper counterplay and cooldown. P1 phase is beautifully designed. Patterns are easy to follow, kamikazes are slow. Overall well done. Then come the problem. The orbs. people with ranged attacks cant do much about it, they appear as “obstructed” even though there is absolutely nothing in between. These add an element of luck, luck that it will either pull you to safety or (most often than not) your doom. Phase 2 it gets incredibly convoluted, too convoluted, 1 KO mechanics are all over the place, you have little to no room to run to, crippled your dodge dont take you very far, the AoE covers effectively 75% of the map. This offers very little counterplay for classes which cant simply put a couple of clones and run around. If you need to be facing her to deal damage any damage then you have to either choose to run and hit a couple of times or die to kamikazes or AoE. Which brings me to my next point;

Time Limit is usually tied to lazy design: Plain and simple. It diminishes the your options; gear, traits, weapons, playstyle. Surely being a bunker and outlasting her wouldnt be fun, but as it is right now you have to give up damage for some tankines/sustain. When you do that you run out of TIME. A simple fix would be increase the time, whih brings me to my next point;

Why is this not instanced and personal?! Time limit was (hopefully) introduced to prevent people from stalling rooms, but why isnt this instanced like the drinking contest? And if you are going to make it public, at least PLEASE move it to another rom, not everyone runs Nvidia999999 or whatever number it is right now, when you have a zerg below or nearby you the FPS drops are insane. WHich bring sme to the last point;

Camera a nd red circles, FIX IT: The camera is the thing killing me 80%of the time, plain and simple. You cant see more than the back of your head, this makes the already hard to see red circles even harder to see, same for anything approaching you. For the love of God, Allah, Mathematics whatever you workship please make the walls disappear when you are inside (for you only). Also make the circles a little ( A LOT MORE) visible, cant count how many times I cant really tell if Im on the circles or outside of them, that if, I see them.

Overall I think this boss has the potential to be a great fight if something is tuned down a bit, I believe taking away the random fact about orbs and making p2 AoE less often and cover less.

You made GREAT encounters, such as the lady with the book and the quaggan, please bring this kind of design more often, it shows some work, it shows that there was thought put into mechanics and counterplay. The last boss feels convoluted and that just just threw a bunch of stuff together to make it impossible for the average john.

Get this right, 1 hit KO mechanics are not fun when they have less than 3 second CD.

All those in favour of having the difficulty reduced on this boss: (post a comment to show your support and your ideas on how to fix the issues)

From the mountain of bugs:
Obstructed cosmic rifts ( a bug which has been there since launch AC burrows I feel they should just be removed (the rift not the burrows))
Camera in circular dome ( smart idea arenanet the camera sucks as it is your just making it worst)
The targeting system ( it sucked kitten launch and it still sucks hard GW1 had a better system)
Previous bosses not despawning ((doesnt happen all the time) wasting tickets and money on repair)

Attacks
The AOE (overpowered I think the pattern should remain the same as phase 1 or either reduce the damage)

• The clones* ( same issue reduce damage)

Clearly designed for hardcore gamers. I wouldn’t mind the one-shot downs so much if it was a group event like in a dungeon but not in a 1vs1 fight, it’s just like quick scoping on CoD, just leaves a bad taste in your mouth

Arenanet need to remember not everyone is a hardcore gamer what happens to the casual games that arenanet are excluding with theses events. Not everyone wants to play a berserk practically all the guides online used a berserker build

I know a lot of people are complaining about this on the forums, and I think with good cause there are many issues that need resolving.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Fancia.3746:

Brother Grimm.5176:

This discussion is laughable (not the build suggestion parts). Nobody ever told you all Achievements would be obtainable by any class using any build. Part of the work for obtaining ALL achievements SHOULD require you to go outside your comfort zone alter your normal game play to ACHIEVE the goal set before you.

You have the entire rest of the game to play with any class you like with any off the wall build you desire. If you want to be an “Achievement Completionist”, suck it up and do the work.

Ummm… Actually Anet did promise that as an original game goal… That your spec was about personal preference and that under no situation would you be required to spec any certain way… That’s one of the reasons why weapons have static skills… Not a very feasable goal really, but it was their original intent and promise… It’s just one of the many promises broken…

The key word here is “required” (and I doubt they ever said nor implied NO SITUATION). This content is NOT required to progress in the game itself. Also, my statement was about obtaining ALL Achievements….those didn’t even exist with the game released.

What a bunch of non-sense.

It is clearly understood that certain achievement rewards those who frequent certain part of the game (i.e. WvW ach. rewards those who frequent WvW) and a lot of the Achievements are required. So in the realm of PvE, Achievement points became a progression at the time Anet introduced the Leaderboard.

Without the Leaderboard and the reward system, sure, it’s nothing to worry about, but as soon as they’ve activated these features, it became a tool to gauge progression.

So stop with your non-sense.

Things I would like to see changed:

-Remove the root from throwing orbs at Liadri
-Make the arena floors solid as to show red circles more clearly
-Be revived at the ringmaster if you lose a fight
-Make using Gambits more profitable. Right now you get 1 extra box per gambit, so the return of tickets to boxes is always 1 to 1.

I am very impressed with the everything else! Keep it up.

Pros:
- Its “hard” and “challenging”

Cons:
- Not instanced makes it lag and delay like mad because 10000000 people are zerg farming 2 inches below your feet.

- Really bad design of arena makes camera being stuck up your kitten 99.9% of the time. Game is out for a year and they still don’t realize that there should be no activities in small rooms because of the god awful camera.

- Making players wait up to 4 times longer than they often fight inside is kittening absurd

- Kicked out dead and make players run from waypoint every single time for 2 minutes to queue up for 10 minutes is messed up. Seriously? Isn’t the broken armor and kittening entry ticket enough?

- It often bugs out with spawning 2 or more foes inside instead of one you chose.

- Fights are timed. Nothing that involves skill should be timed, its either do or die, not some artificial “hard” caused by lame timer. It renders most condition builds useless because they are time dependent.

- Gambits are often stuck in arena making it unplayable.

Now to sum it up:
If it was a player only instance without zerg under you farming, without god kitten lag and delay, and kittening camera up my kitten all the time, this “hard” activity wouldn’t be hard at all.
So far it is worst implemented activity i have taken part in, and I hope, for the sake of everyones nerves, it will never be repeated like this again.
I just don’t understand why Anet forces small tight kittened up rooms for something like this when they know camera is kittening terrible. And why suddenly change activities from instanced to the middle of the kittening lag infested area.
This whole activity just makes people mad, not because its hard, but because its poorly implemented.

Dear Anet, pls be kind and remake this into a single man, deserted island, no walls, no zergs farming under me instance where I can actually enjoy in the content without unnecessary lag, delay, bad camera and kittenload of other issues that just render this potentially good activity kittening awful.

There, let it off my chest. Feel free to discuss, like, share, subscribe, leave a comment, add to favorites and keep it civil.

Cheers!

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Divinity’s Reach

you all know the good old gw1 times?u could do everything at 2 ways:
1. you got a farm build with a special group/way/solo.
2. you did it without any farm build (slower) but u did it.
both ways were able to finish. both worked very fine.

now:
1. there is a glitch at the first 1-2 days (50-90% will do it at this way)
2. there is the one op class with the one item build that can do it (50-70% play it)

there are some people without this class who want to do it without any bug using, who want to do this at a normal and working but hard way…with a good group…and chances….imbusibru

About time too.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Greetings, Matthew Medina has asked me to pass on some explanations/clarifications:
Difficulty – From the beginning, we wanted to create an event that would truly test player’s abilities to survive, whether solo or in groups.
we stand by the decision to include content for those players.

And I have no problem with hard, difficult, even near impossible content.

That is, if it is permanent content that I can spend months practicing and learning.

You have made the hardest content available in game fit into a two week window, that I assume will never be achievable again.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

There was also an unfortunate bug which was fixed earlier today involving an issue where some of the Aetherblade waves would not spawn. The first bug made the achievements hard to understand, while the second made the achievements easier to attain. I deeply apologize on behalf of our team that these issues led to a less-than-optimal player experience. With these issues fixed, our hope would be that the achievements for the Candidate Trials are clearer and better balanced for their intended difficulty.

Don’t apologize, fix it. If you’re not prepared to take away the rewards and achievements gained by people who benefited from the bug, then let the rest of us have an equal chance.

Think about this long-term. You are encouraging people to rush through new content to take advantage of bugs on the chance that they get fixed and it becomes harder.

Why do people like to overthink such a simple plot line?

go Evon, more BL Keys and more RNG’s; gotta pay for this guy’s new car

How about this ? Remove the last skill “Return”, replace it with “Pause.” And to unequip the flute: Switch Weapon button. I think my idea is perfect.

With the upcoming introduction of new legendary weapons and “trinkets”, this is Anet’s chance to get them right. Here is a list of differences I would like to see to make this set much better:

1. Account Bound. Legendary weapons should of never been on the TP. It is too late for the first set, but please correct this for the new weapons.

2. Less buying, more playing. You can buy almost everything you need for a legendary on the TP. You only need badges (currently thrown at us in obsene numbers), karma, SP’s, Map exploration, and a few dungeon tokens. Everything else can just be bought. I suggest vastly increasing the dungeon tokens, add in laurels and other account bound items, and decrease the buyable items.

3. Less sparkle, more awesomeness. Most of the first legendary weapons are pretty silly… the pistol, the SB, and the mace in particular. That’s fine for the people who want that sort of thing, but please diversify. Necros just look silly with their selection of legendary weapons.

4. Fix the engineer legendary problem. This has been well dicussed and acknowledged, but make sure there is a solution before adding in more.

If you have more please post them so the devs know what we want in terms of the next gen legendary weapons.

Surprised nobody’s mentioned the cheapest, simplest method yet.

1. Go to any Master Chef in a city.
2. Buy Rice in Bulk for 49 karma.
3. Eat all 25 Rice Balls inside.
4. Achievement done!

There has been a lot of discussion surrounding Sanctum Sprint and people stopping to let others have first place. Is it just good sportsmanship, or is it ruining the fun of those who want to play the race as intended and earn their first place?

Today, for the first time in a long time, I stopped by keg brawl, which happens to be included in the dailies. When trying to play the game as intended, I was told not to try and stop the other team scoring, because everyone was trying to get their assists. I was supposed to “play on my own side” and make the score come out even between the teams.

Clearly there’s a problem here with the way achievements and mini-games intersect. It divides the player base between those who actually want to play the mini-game and hope to get their achievements/dailies along the way, and those who just want to exploit their way to achievement completion.

Kneejerk reaction would be to remove minigames from achievements altogether. Achievement hunters can go off and get their points in other parts of the games, leaving people who actually want to play the minigames to enjoy them. The consequence of this, though, would probably make it so that it’d be hard to find anyone ever doing mini-games, outside of the current living story one. Would people be regularly playing keg brawl if there was no daily tie in?

Is there a solution to this that would keep people playing the mini-games as intended?

really misleading title