Okay well it seems we are at an impasse then. I’ve been playing fine on the 32 bit client. Since I’m playing fine with no issues that means the servers are fine. Now maybe if you are running the 64 client or your client is having issues that is one thing. But it’s not possible as far as I’m aware that one person can have no issues with the servers and another has issues when both people are connecting to the same servers. Its just troubleshooting. If you’re iPod isn’t connecting to your wifi router but your laptop and everything else is, then you don’t try to fix your router right? That’s all I’m pointing out. Anyway good luck.
There’s an option that makes you get stuck on enemies you have targeted. Combat assist I think it is called. Options like that were recently reset due to a bug. They fixed the bug I think but that option may be checked.
I’m not sure exactly if this is the issue but from what you are describing that sounds like this option is checked. Except I don’t think it applies to NPCs but I could be wrong.
Never mind I was just trying to help. People post about this often and I bring up the issue where a server problem results in everyone experiencing problems. So you can rule that out since not everyone is experiencing problems. It could be an issue with your hardware or your settings being too high and having issues like over heating or lots of other things. But if you are set on it being a server issue I won’t try any harder to change your mind and I hope you can figure out what’s wrong. You can also put in a support ticket if you like Though idk how far that will get you.
You can try running a repair. But if there isn’t a huge outcry that there’s issues server side then it is on your end. If it is server side it will affect everybody not just a select few. To be honest I’m not good at advising in these things. But yeah it really can’t be a server side issue. You can google and learn how to test for packet loss like by running a trace route. That can help you determine if it’s a hardware issue
If you’re playing from SEA/OCE, then you’re gonna have a very unstable experience. I’m just gonna keep on commenting and up-voting posts like these till ANet does right by us.
what does SEA/OCE, stand for?
im having bad lag spikes that started a few days ago as well
my connection didnt change
why the sudden start now?
How do you know your connection didn’t change? Internet connection works likes traveling to a distant city. The fastest way can get clogged up sometimes. Your ISP may be having issues or you may be getting routed a different and longer route or through a provider that has issues with packet loss. SEA and OCE refer to regions of the globe so distant players that are connecting to NA or EU servers but since they live so far away they have issues.
Sorry but in order to be able to do that you would have needed to buy the game three years ago. Back when they were called Town Clothes you could have swapped out head gear, gloves, top, pants and boots. Anet decided removing functionality and options to improve clipping was a better thing.
What? You can customize your look through the wardrobe and using transmutation charges. OP seemed to believe that you could customize outfits the same way but you can’t. An outfit does not require any transmutation charges which is a nice benefit especially if you are leveling. On the flip side you can’t customize like you can through the wardrobe with transmutation charges. The only thing you can change for outfits is the color and a toggle option to display certain pieces like head gear.
Town clothing was completly different and was a set you could wear in town or out of combat that you could also customize with settings similliar to the wardrobe function. However that was removed and replaced with tonics that you have no way to customize at all, including color.
You talk to a npc in the FoTM lobby who teleports you to a nearby island with the vender on it.
Can you post a picture of your skill bar? Is there an arrow circling around the boundary of the box for this skill?
Condi engineer is so much worse at VG than condi berserker it’s not remotely close. Condi berserker has slightly less CC so the players in the ranged group have to be much more on their game, but the DPS gain is nearly double.
Engineer has more DPS on first, second, and fourth phase.
lightning has 8 seconds cooldown and 8 seconds lit till explode, napalm has 30 seconds cooldown, firebomb 10, blowtorch 15
So if you stay ALL 8 seconds with the lightning up in range, you will still be able to use all those skills most of time on cooldown.
VG on third phase moves once every 20 seconds, and once every 15 seconds on fifth phase, so its still not a problem.
Berserker is good on big HitBoxes, not on small ones.
Sorry, just not buying it. Even in phase 1, you can keep up a perfect rotation more on a warrior since you need less melee time than an engi.
On phase 2 and 4, you can easily land scorched earths with the connections between fields on top of the guardian for double burn ticks since he’s so stationary.
Rotation is not a problem for engi if you are used to the fight and your rotation. You can use your close ranged attacks on cool down with still doing green circles if you time things right. Granted your engi may not be that good. And your berserker does not need to be that good to pull off DPS that is only a bit under. I don’t think anyone wants to go to the effort to make a vid showing this but if anyone feels so passionate about it they feel moved to do so I’d say go for it.
You can’t turn this into a black and white issue. Maybe it’s because this is a gaming community and the community largely thinks in “black and white.” Simply put you take this on a case by case basis.
In the Star Wars case, if anyone is advertising spoilers on the LFG tool, spamming map chat, or sending random in game mails with spoilers then there should be some action taken.
There is no way to implement an all encompassing “rule.” The ToS has vauge parts in it on purpose just for issues like this. You have to use some common sense and discretion. The “line” or expectation for this changes depending on the situation and a lot of people who are used to set expectations struggle with this. That’s okay but hopefully Anet doesn’t.
Please do that. It helps us immensely in cutting down on RMT spam, and, more importantly, on nailing the people who steal accounts. (It’s often a stolen account being used to advertise, so your report can help on two levels.)
While we are on topic of gold sellers,RMT and similar activities…Can you explain please to me and other players why nothing is done to botters in game?Because I`m in same position as the poster under your post.How many months have to pass before you(Anet) do something like ban them?Why i have to see at my block list every time I have logged in game last few weeks botters(all of them verified with video-recording software before reported) happily jumping between mid-level maps and gathering resources underground?Sure some of them appear offline,but i have seen botters shown offline gathering resources.Support is of no use-wasted my time writing to it.Received typical copy/paste answer and lip-service.Facts remain the same – botters online,nothing done to them.
And I have seen from thread for Star Wars…Really?Your colleagues apparently have no time to ban people in game who actively botting for few weeks,but have time to monitor game chat and ban people who talk about a movie in details.
She kind of already explained this. Botters are likely hacked accounts. So the account is hacked and bots and spams advertisements. Then the player goes through the process to get their account back and the botter is no longer a botter but the actual player who had been hacked.
I haven’t done it since last year. I didn’t get the memo that I have to do it or? Wait what exactly is forcing me to do this? Will I not be allowed to login if I don’t do this first?
There was comment on this a few weeks ago. Basically they have to get all the other bugs out with current ones and then they are focusing on new ones. It seems bugs are much better than they had been at this point so hoping they are focusing on them now.
My only issue with this whole three at a time thing is I might decide to make a current and then a new one comes out that I like a lot more…. Of course I could do it again but I think I’m only doing one at this point. There isn’t enough replay-ability for me to do two.
It’s a personal preference thing. But here is my take on it.
I don’t delete any characters unless they were just name place holders or for key farming. I have 4 or 5 characters that are level 80, that I never log in on, have most waypoints unlocked and also unfortunately have some type of crafting that I will not be re leveling. I used to kind of like norn and asura. But then I really started disliking them so I re rolled but kept the original characters. So I have all the professions at 80 but some duplicates since I couldn’t (crafting leveled on them) delete some of them and the others I just felt attached to even tho I never play them. At least they still get birthday gifts which are nice.
Secondly I have a lot of classes I never play. I have 4 “mains” as in very proficient at all those classes and enjoy them the most now. However!!!! This can change. Right now I play viper engi. Before that my engi sat around for at least 2 years as materials mule. My necro is now my materials mule lol. So even tho you don’t like the class now in the future that can change.
Actually there’s this thing Where you do a support ticket. You could ask for another recipe they would probably send you one. Support is pretty good about this kind of stuff.
I hate it when I accidentally click on another player when using this feature. This usually happens when I am trying to clear the target and I click a player instead and I start throwing my nades at them…… It’s great. OP’s suggestion would help that. So yes please.
It will literally take you all day to do all the paths of all the dungeons. Just a heads up… I used to do this to some extent with doing the fastest and most profitable paths with a static group. I wouldn’t recommend trying to do all the paths everyday you will burn out. I would focus on the fastest paths to do everyday. Then once you max those dungeons out add some longer paths of dungeons remaining. Like do CoF p1 every day and maybe some p2 but not p3. You don’t want to be doing Arah p4 everyday either.
Anyway good luck to you. Unfortunately it’s not as profitable as it used to be so I don’t do it anymore.
Oh my gosh. That’s cool. Where is it at?
I pugged twice this week. Went 1/1 on VG and like 1/10 on gors. Had gors at like .1% health 4 times. But I say that isn’t too bad.
Again this isn’t Anets problem. But if you put a ticket in to support they will help you out and run tests to help determine where you are having the issue in your ISP
I was thinking of posting about this too.
I think the new cool items being added for a large time investment is a neat idea. However if you know you aren’t going to finish something like this but wouldn’t mind getting half way and then picking it up again next year to finish it…. I think this should be nice alternative to needing to do a huge grind right now and it can be something you causally work on over two seasonal events. Yeah it would take a year or longer but in patient
If some players are complaining about equal-access being unfair, then wouldn’t it be an easier solution to give players who (can) go the extra distance better rewards?
No you can’t. This would make perfect sense and is definitely the solution. BUT that is exactly what is going on and look at all the Issues. Winter Presence IS a reward for people that go the “extra distance”. There’s plenty of other things to do or get with Winters day. This isn’t the only thing. It is definitely one of the coolest things but not the only thing. And since it is one of the coolest things it is harder to get and therefore players that go the extra distance get it.
This sounds like a reasonable response, in reality it’s just not true. Paying to get something is not “going the extra mile” and anyone who pays can get the item, most other people will not be able to. People shouldn’t be punished for not being able to play thegame 24 hours a day and they shouldn’t be punished for not paying, especially since this game is B2P. If anet want to put the shoulders behind a paywall, then they could and should do that.
Please don’t pretend that the imbimber achievement requires any effort. It doesn’t. It just requires money and/or no job because parent’s credit card. Everyone else is excluded.
Of course that’s how a lot of things are in this game. It’s Anets model. Just like legendary weapons. So you want this behind something like a raid then? People are upset about doing the JP three times. Putting it behind a raid would be worse. I never said it takes skill. It takes lots of grind or money. And some JP skill. In this case and like at Halloween, people who go the extra distance are just grinding a lot or spending real life money.
And this isn’t a punishment. It’s just a flashy item. Unless of course you are a snowman.
If some players are complaining about equal-access being unfair, then wouldn’t it be an easier solution to give players who (can) go the extra distance better rewards?
No you can’t. This would make perfect sense and is definitely the solution. BUT that is exactly what is going on and look at all the Issues. Winter Presence IS a reward for people that go the “extra distance”. There’s plenty of other things to do or get with Winters day. This isn’t the only thing. It is definitely one of the coolest things but not the only thing. And since it is one of the coolest things it is harder to get and therefore players that go the extra distance get it.
Here is my experience.
1) checked out the item. I thought it was pretty cool looking.
2) looked up how to achieve it on Dulfy
3) quickly realized it would be a grind and rather frustrating with the JP stuff. I have no problem doing JP but it does take me awhile.
4) weighed the pros and cons
5) Decided my gaming time would be more enjoyable spent doing something else because even tho this is a cool item, the grind would be too boring. The time investment and grind did not seem worth it to me so I am passing on this item.
Now if you happen to be a snowman I can see your point. You really need this item so you don’t melt in the jungle. In that case maybe I would advocate for some nerf.
Just turn off map chat until you watch it. Its better than real life. You can’t stop people from telling you in real life.
You can put a ticket into support they will show you where your packet loss is coming from. But it isn’t Anet’s servers or this would be consistently a problem for EVERYONE. Not just some people. If an example would help, Anet is like a power supply plant except they are “supplying the game” with servers and data etc. If a power plant stops producing power it’s not just some people that lose electricity. It’s everyone connected to that power plant.
It’s not a Mesmer right? Lol. Idk I feel like if this was as common as you make it out to be a lot more people would be reporting it. But that is my take on it.
Also yeah that makes sense if their team can Rez then it probably isn’t lag. However there’s no way to be 90% sure it isn’t lag unless you see them rezzing. Which is why I commented that it probably was lag since you didn’t mention in the OP that these downed were being rezzed.
I don’t think so. Tho I also wouldn’t do that. You never know when you may want to use dual pistol for like engi or use another class that has pistol making it more convient not to have to move your quip around.
Actually this issue is very common if your enemy is lagging. It rarely has anything to do with ileap and more with lag. That enemy’s team mates also won’t be able to Rez them if it is lag.
Theres just no way Anet can put resources into SEA servers. That and the player base would be so small on those servers that it wouldn’t work.
Likely because the ring doesn’t actually ‘exist’ anymore. Because the ring was removed from the circulation a while back, it would make sense that there is no attuned ring for it.
Doesn’t matter, the patch notes stated: “Fixed a bug that prevented older versions of some Infused rings from being Attuned in the Mystic Forge. These rings can now correctly be upgraded to Attuned Infused Rings”. So by that logic he should be able to attune it.
If you are going to be like that. The patch notes say “SOME infused rings”. So there ya go, these aren’t part of the “some”
Letter has always done nothing. It really confused people. You could have never opened your mail and did the whole quest. But yeah can’t do it twice. Everyone gets a letter tho.
Blurred frenzy can be interrupted. It’s also an evade. What you want is an invulnerable.
It’s also annoying because I when they make me type it out to delete I think it’s something I should not be deleting. So then I double check myself and run a search to make sure it is indeed junk I need to trash. I would be happy with having them just change it so that junk items for collections can be trashed without typing it out.
Maybe it’s just me but: having to type out the item to delete = item is important and should not get rid of it without careful consideration.
This is not as black and white as you make it out to be.
It tells you that you may lose progress. However this is slightly bugged. Here is my rather not helpful story about this. If you fly near that camp you trigger the dialogue. Then you lose prompts on what to do next. Then I remember running around trying to figure out what to do and eventually I figured it out… Then I felt dumb because it was rather evident after I figured it out. But I can’t remember what it was that seemed bugged and where you had to go.
“Our ‘next’ major balance update will be released at the end of January”
So.. this is the one of the major balance updates, right?
LOL thats it, im done, cya until you get better.
It will never gonna happen tho
It’s not. They were not planning to do any balance until after leagues. But they are making these adjustments because of these issues being too game breaking.
This is quickly de railing. Tho I think the pertinent points were already made a few times. Not that I’m too optimistic that it matters.
Getting ascended for necro or mesmer should not be dependant on boonstrip. Both of those classes (especially mesmer/chronomancer) get taken along for other things besides boonstrip. You should instead consider if you enjoy playing the class.
I respectfully disagree. I already have 3 characters fully geared up for high level fractals which I pug usually. I use whichever one I think is going to be most beneficial, and right now I consider my account weakest against the boon instabilities. So I am looking to improve that one specific aspect of my account.
Well, based on how tomorrow goes, maybe I will instead invest in a condi class. I’m thinking either engie or necro. I’ve heard burnzerker is good too, but I don’t want two wars.
Make sure you’re alright with the super complex and rapid button pushing for condi engi. I kind of like it as its definilty the most challenging class to pull off for rotations. But the button spam can get a bit old. And it’s easy to get caught up in your rotation and miss something like a dodge you need to time right for raids.
You aren’t going to make the game worse for your paying customers just to appease a minority of players, who don’t want to learn how to play the game, when you can easily split the changes right?
Huhuhu, good try
Why should this skill be nerfed in PvE?
I’m sure you’re not refering to the Chrono bunker’s shield 4 skill are you? Only somebody lacking common sense and reasoning would be using that in PVE.
I look forward to personally kicking the first chronomancer I see using shield in pve just like I would do if they’re using scepter.
But of course you weren’t referencing the shield’s 4 skill because that would be insane for somebody to actually be worried about pve balance in relationship to that particular skill which is entirely useless for pve.
Chronotank says hello.
Viper condi engi
As a mesmer, I will say that block is literally the least broken of all mesmer damage mitigation. Just a simple switch of “blurred targets do not contribute to point capture” would fix almost every issue people currently have with them in pvp. As far as pve, I didn’t see it making any gamebreaking changes. I guess I’m no authority on the subject, but I just really want to understand why this is the change being made.
No you’re right. They just never understood Mesmer well. Seems Chrono is the same.
Why complain with the… hmmm… little “mesmer nerf”? Seriously. I’m a mesmer and the elite spec is totally OP in PvE.
Stop complaining for thing that need to be nerfed. And I even think mesmer need MUCH more nerf… Whenever I play or play with a mesmer, I’m like “oh nice, the combat will be fast and sweet, because MOAR skillspeed thanks to mesmer.”
Nobody is saying Mesmer shouldn’t be nerfed……
This is pretty trivial to worry about. I don’t think Anet really cares. I haven’t heard of anyone being actions against for using the LFG as a sale/buy tool. Just my two cents.
Chrono with null field, shatter boon strip, sword auto and GS 3 is your best bet.
You won’t keep the boons off 100% of the time. It works well for bosses tho especially if you are boon striping while time warping you can not expect 100% boon removal tho and to dedicate a build to complete boon removal is probably not worth it and it would be better to just do as I outlined in the first sentence.
This seems more like a PvE nerf than a PvP nerf for Mesmer. The block has counter play to it so I would have nerfed that last. Oh well. Thanks I suppose……
I would put a ticket in to support explaining what happened. They might fix it for you.
This won’t fix itself. You have to try and get into another shard by guesting. And hope you don’t end up in the same map. This happens when people level to 80 ish inside the instance and instant kill the wurm
If a map is about to close it should give some type of error when you try to join it through a party. That could potentially create issues for people already on the map. But it seems to create more issues the other way around.
But having a list to choose from would be awesome.