I haven’t read this thread recently beside the last few posts. But anyone find it ironic that the last raid boss “Sab” has unique jumping mechanics. I remember when raids first came out and I saw posts “LF SAB”. I panicked a little.
This just in. You can sit on ascended chairs. Regular chairs you have to stand on. But ascended actually let you sit in them. This is really going to put the ascended chairs into the meta. I thought this game was play how you want to play. But obviously having chairs you can sit in gives such a large advantage. Everyone will have to start linking them in party chat before you can go to any events where you may need to sit in a chair. That much covers most of PvE. Seriously game breaking.
I would but that is a lot to summarize in one post. If I were you I would check out dulfy. Browse through there with skipping like skins and collections posts. Or just check out the wiki. You’re right it is a lot different now in a lot of aspects so I would treat it like starting over. Maybe make a new character and start over literally.
So please enlighten me on how nerfing the burn coefficient damage would make the necromancer stronger.
Lets say burn is nerfed in 99%, necro has if not the highest, one of the highest cond DPS without burning.
But then condi will be out of the meta again.
it was a exaggerated example…
I know but It doesn’t matter. If you nerf burning overall so that burnzerker is balanced with a majority of DPS classes then all you are doing is nerfing engi out of the meta. This opens the door for condi necro but it’s DPS is still lackluster. Then engi will have no place in PvE.
Anet won’t do it. It would just be more work for things like raids to have multiple armor sets for each boss based on element. That and slaying potions are not too far from your suggestion. They nerfed those to some extent as they are not applicable in all of PvE such as raids. It was annoying to carry all those potions around. This would be worse because you would carry so many armor sets around. Inventory would be a huge problem. Not to mention crafting more ascended armor and how pricy that would be. Yes you could say it is optional but it would have the potential to move into the Mets and end up like the current exotic vs ascended debacle.
You should really have posted in tech support but this will probably get moved there. So this issue could be so many things. Check out this link. You should run a test on your packet loss to rule out some hardware and ISP issues. Click on the connectivity link on the following page to learn how to do that.
Edit: just going to add that gw2 servers are located in Seattle. If you want to compare Gw2 connectivity that is fine but whatever online game you compare this to, their servers also have to be located in Seattle. I highly doubt that is the case but who knows.
If they asked for a charge back, it’s really likely his account is gone, but only support can really say for sure.
Never never never do a charge back unless it’s a fraud charge on your card. It will cause you so many issues that you have no idea.
That’s incredibly unfortunate. Especially because there was no malicious intent on his end, or anyone’s for that matter. Just a misunderstanding.
I’m definitely never going to purchase anything from ANet unless absolutely sure. I’ve also read of people wanting refund for gems during server latency (purchasing multiple times due to the gems arriving in a delayed fashion and such), so I’m even more wary of any future purchases and how to handle them.
Thanks for your help!
If you purchase something from somewhere (not just Anet) and you do exactly what you said, you don’t call your credit card company and demand a charge back. You should call the company you dealt with and they are usually really good about refunds and such. Anet has always been with that. A charge back isn’t asking for a refund, it’s actually really bad, and costs everyone so much money.
Your friend didn’t ask for a refund, he didn’t even speak to Anet. Instead, your friend caused them a lot of extra work, and they lose quite a bit of money. That isn’t anything to do with a refund, nor their policy.
Anet has a really good refund policy IF you speak to them. Doing a charge back is not the way.
Hi, I’m the person that is being discussed in this post. Sorry this reply is so late, i wasn’t aware that my friend posted this for me. I would just like to point out that the reason my friend is even asking people for help and advice is because they know i didn’t do anything to cause this, that’s something that hasn’t been brought up here yet. I in no way requested any kind of charge back or refund at any point in time. I bought HoT, played it happily for a week and then my PC died. I went 6 weeks without playing Guild Wars 2 at all and was anxious to get back to it because i was very much enjoying it. That’s when i got my new PC, logged in and found out i was banned. When i opened a support ticket, it was the very first time i had ever heard of a charge back (i literally didn’t even know what a charge back was prior to this. That is why my friend has been trying to help me out. I just thought i should let you know since you seemed to be under the impression that i asked for a charge back and that i deserved what i got.
Then maybe you had a fraudulent key? This was an issue at HoT release back in October and there are a lot of threads about it. You might want to go look those up. Basically you bought the key from a third party seller who stole credit card information to buy the key. This results in a chargeback that you did not do yourself. The person who had their card stolen will initiate the chargeback. If that is the case support has been able to help back then. They may still be able too. Explain the situation and where you bought the key.
If you do some digging on this you’ll find slot of information and honestly it seems more work than it’s worth. But from what I gather your ISP negotiates with other ISP’s around the world to determine how you are going to get access to Anet’s servers. If the packet loss is not on Anet’s servers themselves then it’s not their fault. The ISP might tell you otherwise to give you the “run around”. It’s only their fault in that their servers are located in Seattle and your ISP is taking s crappy route to get there. So to blame Anet (if packet loss is not on their server) you have to have this line of thinking: If they had more servers or if they were not in Seattle then you wouldn’t have a problem.
So at the end of the day you can complain to your ISP but I’m sure they have some type of business contract with the route they take. Maybe if there are enough complaints you can get some where. Otherwise you can look for a different ISP and hope they take a different route or try forcing your route to change with some other options, though that usually results in the same issues.
After some testing using a VPN client, I found I can solve my problems doing that. So I seem to be one of the victims of being routed over flawed data centers.
Which if I understood it right, is neither the fault of my ISP nor Arenanet (nor Ncsoft). So it seems using a VPN is the only option for me right now, if I want to play GW2.
Only good thing is, there are free VPN access options around these days.
Sadly though, I experience more game crashes since I started using the VPN client. Still more crashes beats totally unplayable. It isn’t great though.
Yeah I’m trying to think of a good metaphor for how this works but nothing sticks. You’re right in that it isn’t really the ISP’s fault. But I think if someone has to take the “blame” for it I would look more toward the ISP over Anet. You could change your ISP (unless you live somewhere where there are no options) and that could end up changing the route and fix it. I guess you could say you could change games as well which would change the route and also “fix” it. Honestly I don’t know a lot about this topic. I’m not sure but I think you can get your ISP to take a different route. They most likely aren’t going to but I think it is possible.
Edit: I did some digging and from what I gather ISP’s all “work” together and negotiate how your route to a specific location is going to happen. So it is possible for an ISP to change their route to something better if there is a better option. But one person complaining is unlikely to get you anywhere.
all I’m saying is Anet didn’t have to make winter’s presence a shoulder armor piece and make players to choose between shoulder skin or snow effect. That is just too wrong.
Also this isn’t about their budget. if it is they are doing this wrong.
We don’t know why they chose to go this route with this item and the Halloween item. It seems that they simply are adding in these aura effects with shoulder pieces for festive events. If you want an aura an other way you can look at raids. Right now we only have one aura from raids but I am sure there will be a new one with each wing through infusions. It isn’t about being wrong or right really. But I can understand how you would be upset if you didn’t look into it before putting all those resources into it. But as you pointed out in your first post that is not Anet’s fault. Anet did what they did. You don’t have to like it. Of course if you don’t like it then you don’t make it which is why checking it out throughly is always the best.
What could he actually do? If he goes off in map chat everyone is going to ignore him and block him. Nobody cares in map chat about guild drama or issues. Unless maybe if you are recruiting in map chat. Then I would suggest keeping an eye on him and not advertising in a map he is in. Other than that you won’t have a problem besides continues personal harassment. In that case you can put in a ticket or report in game.
Most likely the skin would clash with whatever most people would wear. Then you would get a lot of QQ about clipping with “everything” and with an item that costs so much it shouldn’t clip with “everything”. Plus it would take more Dev time and more money to implement. I’m not sure what their reasoning was. It might have been a budget thing or they weighed the cons and decided the QQ would be worse if they had a skin that clipped and people decided they didn’t like how it looked.
Hey OP I had the same issue like after my first 6-12 months of playing. I really enjoy ele and had been playing as an asura. He had all the waypoints unlocked but I did full map completion on other characters. I just got tired of how asura looked basically. For me it was fun at first bur after awhile it just got old.
I ended up keeping my asura ele and use him for storage currently. As others pointed out the birthday gifts are nice. Plus I spent a lot of time playing him. I know it sounds strange but I would feel bad deleting it lol. But I have a human ele now that I play and enjoy it a lot more. If you end up getting ascended armor you can switch between the two as you feel like it just be aware that you can’t do that if you like to use cultural armor. But yeah that’s my take on it. I would not delete it.
try typing /ip in game chat and hit enter take that number and put it in a program called pingplotter. Its free, it provides way more info than ANET tracing. I found out my problem area which is a server in Dallas called DAllas1.Level3 yada yada. Called ISP they confirmed my trace as well and told me they cant reroute that because its Anet who chooses to use it to route to their server…. so ANET needs to reroute us so hopefully they will cause I have had this crap happen for weeks now and found out the issue of 80-100% packet loss 2000+ ping/lag spikes and its not on my end.
Anet doesn’t choose the route your ISP is taking you to get to their servers. Your ISP is saying that to get you off their back. Technically you could say it’s Anets fault because their servers are in Seattle and that is the route your ISP goes to access servers in Seattle. In an upside down sort of way they can blame Anet for it but Anet can’t do anything about it. Yes Anet chose to put their servers in Seattle. So have a lot of other companies I’m sure. So Basically they are giving you the run around.
There really isn’t anything good out there. Had they actually done something lien guild chat on your phone through and app then yeah but there’s nothing actually useful.
Welcome to statistics. Your results have no validity. You can not say that your tests are actually measuring server population. You are unable to rule out other variables. There are too many confounding variables. If this was an actual experiment for research purposes it would be thrown out.
So you can go on and on if you like but posting when emotionally charged often leads to cognitive distortions such as magnifying and catastrophizing. This just means you dig the hole deeper and deeper for yourself. So it’s best to take a break, step back, and post later after thinking things through with your head rather than your emotions. Good luck.
Run a trace route to show the packet loss is on their end. Then submit a support ticket with the data. I just ran one and I’m not having packet loss from their servers. It might be just some servers that are having an issue. But you have to prove it isn’t your ISP or other issues by running a trace route.
It’s NCsoft servers that are to blame, look at that 54% packet loss when it gets to them… I keep getting dc in game, not gonna get my 30 rounds of Snowball Mayhem done at this rate lol
Ok make a support ticket including this. It will take a 1-3 days or maybe longer with the holiday to hear back tho. Hopefully they can get it worked out but since it does seem to be their servers you definitely should do a support ticket.
It drops these items in alphabetical order by the elites you have unlocked. So if you have chronomancer that would come next. Reaper would be closer to the end with temptest.
The reward you get is from a daily side chest. It would have been wiggling on the side when you opened it. Side chests are almost always daily which means you have to wait until reset to get another. Now there are more treasure measures in the other zones. They also have a daily side chest. So you can do a few treasure mushrooms per day then do them again for the side chest after reset.
What? No offense but don’t you think there would be a huge thread on this if it was true? I haven’t had any issues with any of what you discussed except I don’t use traveler runes anymore so I can’t speak to that. Everything else is fine. Maybe you are just in combat? Now they did change (a long while ago) how skills such as warrior GS 5 are affected by movement speed increase such as swiftness. When having swiftness in you went further with skills like warriors Rush than if you did not have swiftness on. But it now goes the same distance no matter what the circumstance. Including cripple and chill not affecting the distance. Maybe that is what you are noticing?
Then people would be less inclined to help others do the hero points. I haven’t seen this being an issue. In fact the other day I was taxi’d into a AB meta map that was also apparently farming Hero Points. There were like 5 commander’s leading HPs. They started yelling at people taxing in people for the meta because their HP train was being interrupted. We ended up winning the meta with no problems except a few trolls were trying to purposefully break East early to reset it before South could get their bar down. And people got their hero point at the end of the meta.
This has just been my experience. What map were you doing that this was an issue?
If it’s not the perfect environment like an immobile boss or a dummy then its dps drops off significantly which is why it’s not even a suggestably viable build in pvp.
I wouldn’t call it “meta” since most other metas work in many scenarios whereas this one is completely shut down by simple movement.
Talking about Raids here as in the title, and the forum sub section. But yes its pretty crappy for pvp.
This link might be helpful. Go to the middle of the page and read the connectivity info then click the link in that section to learn how to test packet loss. I used to have major issues this time of year at the place I lived before because all the college kids would be home for break and my ISP there was horrible. So everyone’s Internet would be slow in my neighborhood until the college kids went back.
Really can count the number of times I died from Moa on one hand. Dodge, use the Moa skills, LoS, etc. I think I’ve killed people as a Moa more times than I’ve died from people using Moa on me. But hey maybe it’s just me and I am just lucky.
Yeah yoh can already work in the collections. Such as killing Gorseval 5 times and then taking the item he drops to do TD meta 5 times which transforms the item into something else. Then you take those 5 transformed items and double click them to turn them into a new item which is a part of the legendary armor collection. So I’m sure it’s a lot of work I hope it will be worth it.
I never noticed this being an issue and I did map completion for all the maps pretty easily. It takes longer than a normal map but it takes way less time than normal world completion.
The first thing you are describing is a common bug. If you change weapons or armor while dead it can glitch your AR and your AR goes down. That happens under or above water. The boss thing idk.
Use commander markers to identify the correct pillars on the map, also they always spawn at the same position (colourblind people can look for NE instead of Blue).
While it might be a nice addition the current system really isn’t going to hold anyone back (anyone who isn’t looking for an excuse for a mistake anyway).
Yeah I was just going to say this. Honestly the colored pillars are not that brightly colored. First couple times I did this I would get turned around on second split phase. So I just put a personal marker on my mini map of where I need to go for the split phase it’s a lot easier and I’m not color blind.
With that being said I think they need this color blind mode. It’s been requested so much and Gaile even commented awhile back of trying to make the game more friendly in cases like this. Idk what happened to that thread or those ideas but it needs to happen.
I think it’s a temptest that only plays in dragon stand (DS). Obviously these other replies are from corrupted slyvari mordrem trying to figure out how to kill temptests. Poor mouth of Mordy keeps dying. All the temptests in the pre events wreak through the mordrem hoardes with all those aoe. The actual trick is retal. Corrupted Mordy posters you need more retal for those meteor showers.
More than likely this is more of an individual issue. Check out the link above it is a troubleshooting page Anet made last year and may be helpful in helping you figure it out.
I only say this is an individual issue because if it was a server side issue everyone would have problems. Please don’t flame me for saying this…. It’s just how things work….
So I guess I’m crazy cause I don’t see how more bag slots helps. All it does is help me procrastinate my inventory sorting. Clicking on a WP to a vender takes like a second. If I do that once per two hours or once per five hours it really doesn’t add more time. If I go once per two hours I have less to sort out. Once per five hours I have more than twice as much to sort out. The actual sorting out is what takes forever not traveling to the vendor. Or maybe that’s just me?
More bag slots don’t help. All it does is reduce the amount of times you go to a npc to sell junk. Actually going to the npc is literally a click of a WP. More bags = more time standing there salvaging and selling junk. That’s the time consuming part.
Honestly I’m tired of it. I started throwing out those green bags with 3 pieces of crappy gear in them plus a small chance for a rare. I just threw out 40 of those bags the other day. It’s also annoying to get a bag inside a bag inside a bag. I mean seriously that is rediculious.
Instead of these exotic bags that have bags inside of bags, I would much prefer those exotic bags have like a 5-10% increase in dropping something good. This wouldn’t fix everything but it would help. What do you guys think?
Did you come from NA? I think they need to manually transfer you if you did but it’s usually quick. That might explain some human error though or oversight. But yeah follow up with the ticket.
I don’t think you will get a Dev response but if you compare this to something like razor synapse it is pretty much the same thing. And everyone uses that. If it was an issue there would be a Dev saying so. They are likely to go over what is not allowed Rather quickly than allowed. But if you want that response I can respect that.
Can we get a mod or dev to weigh in on this? the TOS states that we’re not allowed to use third-party applications or macros that can give us an edge over players that don’t use em, but since this is just a controller mod, then what’s ANet’s stance on it?
There is no advantage. It’s no different than changing key bindings to different buttons on your keyboard but your keyboard is a controller. No macros tho.
Here you go. Check this out and read the high ping section. Then click on the connectivity link. If you actually want to figure out what the problem is this is how you do it. If you want to keep complaining then I encourage you to take five minutes and the same amount of effort you take with your complaints to actually figure out what is wrong.
If you are getting packet loss from Anet servers please post pics of that packet loss. Then you have evidence that Anet is the issue and it’s not just “a hunch” or “personal experience” or “a feeling”
I would like to request this page to be stickied. It is a great resource and people often come to this forum who do not understand how these concepts work. Often this leads to long threads about people complaining that Anet is doing nothing when in fact Anet can’t do anything in most cases such as with ISP issues. This won’t fix posters who are dead set on remaining ignorant on the topic and only point the finger at Anet while refusing to understand how things work. But I think who ever created this page did a good job and it should be highlighted here.
Anyone who is having these issues I encourage you to check it out. It has links to other pages that show you how to run tests to determine issues like packet loss.
I was just trying to help but you don’t want any help so it’s fine. The only person that loses here is yourself. It could still be several things as I explained and as others have explained. Also college kids are on break so I know in my area internet is always slow even in the off hours because college kids staying up late. Just in the future if you don’t want help and just want to complain that’s alright but I would make that clear as your intent.
You couldn’t be more wrong. There are more than 2 sides to this. You have your computer, the Anet servers and countless other node points between them. We already know that it is not a problem with the Anet server (every single player would have an issue) and you seem pretty sure its not your computer, so the issues is somewhere between them. You cant say every other game works fine, because they use different routes.
As it has been said many times, use traceroute or ping plotter and determine where the problem is.
i havent had any issues today so far and it seems things are back to normal
guess the magical problem along the way resolved itself
If it happens again during the evening hours when most people are on then I’m sure it’s your ISP.
lol