Anets servers are in Seattle. Speed test takes the nearest server. To do an accurate speed test you would need a Seattle speed test server from your location. Honestly you are getting packet loss at your ISP from that picture so I would expect some issues with speed test as well. But it’s hard to tell which hop exactly is giving you issues because the packet loss is like a domino effect working its way down from the top. My guess is another hop on your way to Seattle is also giving you an issue but it’s hard to tell which one since you have problems starting at your ISP from that ping plotter test. Maybe try to run the ping plotter a few times and see if you have different results.
But it’s very normal to have issues with gw2 and not another game like wow. Their servers are in completely different locations in the US. A hop is basically a road your internet is taking to get to a server. If a hop is bad you get issues. A hop to Seattle is most likely having issues but it’s hard to tell which one as I discussed. Hops to something like wow servers (which are not in Seattle) from where your location is are fine.
Your ISP can change the way your route goes to go around hops or pressure them to fix them when there are issues. But usually they just give you the run around and say it’s Anet even tho it isn’t because when it comes down to it they aren’t going to go through the effort to contact the hop owners.
Lastly it’s not Anet’s servers or everyone would be having issues. I could post a ping plot test that shows no issues. If their servers are having packet loss then everyone has to have issues, not just a few people. One person out of 100 people not having an issue means Anet is fine
I’m curious about this legendary team. Just how many people were part of it during HoT’s development…the parts of it that were actually being worked on before they released?
If it has taken 6 people 6 months to produce a single legendary weapon, this can’t be the same team that built the precursor crafting that shipped with HoT and the 3 weapons that came shortly after. It would have taken them taken them about 4 years to complete that task at this pace.
It looks like this team either had a lot more people on it during that time, or a different team was in charge of the original set precursor journey. In either scenario, it would have been obvious to Anet that these 6 people were not going to be able to finish the remaining weapons in any reasonable time frame, and that Anet had the people needed to finish the job and chose to use them elsewhere knowing the job would go unfinished.
The had to fix a bunch of issues relating the all the precursor collections. There had been Dev repainted about this like back in December. My guess is the team did not focus on the short bow development until January. Of course there’s no way to tell but that team was I charge of fixing collections issues and possibly bugged event chains preventing precursor collections. And revamping collections so that they do not rely on events failing.
Oh I see what you mean. I hope not. I was happy to see SAB return and the amusing patch notes but I do miss the antics from the usual April fools activities.
I’ve been experiencing connectivity issues for a couple weeks. I live in the North East United States. I’ve been fine for a whole week, and this morning the issue has returned.
Severe lag followed by a disconnect. The type of lag where you activate an ability and it just flashes but your character does nothing.
I wont bother posting my system specs, because I know that this is an issue outside of my Computer/Wifi. When I use the shared internet on my phone to play GW2 I have no connectivity issues.
Is anyone else in the Northeast United States having this issue? I’m thinking something wrong with a hub or something.
I also have this problem after the patch 03/22/2016, a lot of lag and disconnections , it’s not funny at all :c. I checked in different pcs and different places too , and is only this game that present problem.
This information reveals nothing. You have to run ping plotter as outlined in this thread
As you suggested i made the test , but i don’t understand too much about it. Could you explain me?
On the left you can see packet loss percentages. You have a lot of packet loss starting at your ISP and trickling down through. If this was Anet you would see the packet loss start at ncsoft.com. This is something you will have to take up with your ISP.
I’ve been experiencing connectivity issues for a couple weeks. I live in the North East United States. I’ve been fine for a whole week, and this morning the issue has returned.
Severe lag followed by a disconnect. The type of lag where you activate an ability and it just flashes but your character does nothing.
I wont bother posting my system specs, because I know that this is an issue outside of my Computer/Wifi. When I use the shared internet on my phone to play GW2 I have no connectivity issues.
Is anyone else in the Northeast United States having this issue? I’m thinking something wrong with a hub or something.
I also have this problem after the patch 03/22/2016, a lot of lag and disconnections , it’s not funny at all :c. I checked in different pcs and different places too , and is only this game that present problem.
This information reveals nothing. You have to run ping plotter as outlined in this thread
It’s a bug. If you search through the forums someone else had the same issue and resolved it a couple months ago. I can’t remember what they did exactly but I think they had to replay the part of the story with that egg.
When and if I can get to log in I will try that Thank’s for info
oops sorry
If you can’t login just use: ncsoft.com
Just put that in ping plotter. Right now I don’t see any issues with the servers. However I have some latency issues with some telia.net hops out of the NE US
Take that number and download ping plotter. Put that number in ping plotter. It will show us if it’s Anet or something else. Anet won’t do anything without this evidence.
How is this any different than killing yourself on any type of commune spot? It would be very easy to glide over a lots of commune spots for masteries and fall to die on it. Or have a mob kill you on it. Regardless just find the prompt and commune.
You had to pre purchase actually for free character slots. No gems were awarded as part of prepurchase. If you had pre purchased the regular HoT you would have gotten one free character slot.
That team was not working on new legendaries as planned for quite some time over the past 5-6 months. They were working on fixing the collections bugs and how a lot of collections were tied to events needing to fail. The later should have never been an issue. This was a mistake Anet made before and they should have learned from it. Unfortunately there are a lot of bugs in the game that have been around since launch especially in event chains. Collections were tied to these event chains and these bugged events needed to be fixed.
I think this system would work if Anet had taken care of exsisting bugs in a timely manner, and if they learned the first time that you can’t tie collections to events that need to fail.
I don’t have a link to the post to back this up, but there was a post about why legendary weapons were being delayed in development because the team had to work out exsisting issues with all the new precursor journeys. My guess is they didn’t start putting in full development time toward the new short bow until January.
This is like the easiest thing to get. There are clumps of them in tunnels like rata novus. If you keep changing maps you can farm them over and over very quickly in TD.
This is an individual issue. This will not get fixed in a patch. You can try to get help from support with a ticket but there a lot of things this could be, tho it isn’t on Anets end.
Your friend should keep pressuring support. Also if you send in game mail to each other it help if you explain in The mail message why you are sending the mail and not just leaving it blank. Maybe you were doing that I don’t know. Regardless you shouldn’t get banned for this and it’s a terrible shame they did that.
Well I suspect the intent is that the item is only able to be acquired after killing him so that only people who kill him can get the item instead of ferrying people in by re opening the instance so that anyone could get it. Obviously that would greatly trivialize the collection.
Yeah, no. Personally I find it hard to accept the quality of character of someone who’s been specifically tasked with placating and handling me on an emotional level. What Gaile does isn’t necessarily because she’s a good person. She does what she does because it is her job to manipulate the community into trusting and liking her. There’s a difference between being warmly welcomed, and dealing with someone who’s job is to make it feel like you’re warmly welcomed.
It’s like when you start to think of your psychiatrist as a friend. They’re not your friend, its their job.
Unless of course they like their job and chose the profession for a certain reason.
Here someone had the same problem. Probably just a coincide with the patch. If you run ping plotter (free to download) we can see if it’s your ISP or any nodes along the way to Anet servers that is causing issues.
You’ve all seen them on YouTube. Those builds which have different weapon sigils on, say a Greatsword/Rifle Warrior. Example, a player may have sigil of air and sigil of fire on the GS, then sigil of energy and sigil of leeching on Rifle.
Something bugged me about that, but I didn’t figure out what it was until recently. It was that Elementalists (and Engineers, now that I think about it) can’t swap weapons. That means their access to sigils is more restricted that that of other professions.
I’ve always thought it was silly to restrict professions that way, and now I think it’s even worse. The fix is simple: allow all professions to weapon swap. That will also fix those times when an elementalist is in combat and needs range but can’t use it because they can’t switch out daggers until they leave combat.
Ele probably benefits more than other professions with weapon sigil swap.
You can run ping plotter (free to download) and post the results. If it’s on Anets end you will see packet loss starting at the very end which is their servers. If it isn’t at the very end it’s something else like your ISP or nodes your route takes to Seattle servers.
The ping plotter graph is, well horrible. Nodes 3,8 & 9 have 100% packet loss which is very bad and you have some packet loss and latency issues at node 5. There is no response from nodes 3, 8 and 9 so its hard to determine where they are located. It looks like there may be some service outages or issues. Since you said this only started within the week I would try another run at ping plotter if you are still having the issue. If it produces the same results I would contact your ISP and ask for their help, its not their issue but they have the knowledge and ability to help. You could submit a support ticket to Anet but I don’t think there is much they will be able to do on this.
It did produce the same results.
It’ll try contacting my ISP , though I kinda don’t know what to tell them, I mean, it only happens in-game. My connection is just fine elsewhere :\
Thanks for the help mate
Your connection to any servers to Seattle is not fine. It’s not just the game. Your ISP probably won’t do anything about it unfortunately. They can tell the providers at the nodes to fix or upgrade them but that’s about it as far as I’m aware.
Why would they open a support case for all accounts they ban or suspend? That would be a lot of cases for gold sellers. I agree the support system isn’t anything amazing but it isn’t terrible. 72 hours is not an unreasonable wait time. You will get farther with support faster if you aren’t belligerent toward them.
Yes. Obviously support should check how much an account has spent on the game or in The gem store before reviewing tickets. Only accounts that spent the most get moved to the top of the pile. Everyone else just gets bumped back.
Is that better customer service? That’s obviously not good ethics. Your upset, idk what time it is there but get some sleep and come back to this in a day or two. You aren’t thinking very clearly.
Why would you do a chargeback. You could just get a refund. Tickets are reviewed by support in the order they are submitted. I understand you are upset but there’s no reason to do a chargeback and throw away your account like that. It’s silly to let your anger control you so into such brash decisions.
There are other MMOs. I haven’t found much that I like about them. But if you have the resources if I were you I’d try some of them out. Maybe you’ll find something you enjoy more.
Sorry, there is no such thing. You don’t need the change runes as long as you don’t switch the role. Like DPS to Condi. Besides Strength and Perplexity, the other runes are cheap or not so performant. I have already a spare ascended armor set with condi stats. But, you know, in wvw, you may face different encounters: you’re roaming, need burst, you may equip Assassin, you’re in the zerg frontline, you may need Soldier or whatever. You don’t have to change runes.
But do you know which is the main, the largest, the only reason why you need to change your stats?
It is the eternal mess created by the so called “balance”.
If you aren’t worried about optimal builds by changing runes out then why don’t you just use an exotic set. When you have berserker ascended and want to frontline in WvW, use an exotic set with the right runes and you’re going to be better off than in a legendary set with the wrong runes. When it comes down to it your argument is going to come down to bag space. Which is a silly thing to quit a game over.
OP I understand what you are saying but you have to admit you are very much In the minority. Very few people transmute their legendary weapons to something else, and acquire a legendary weapon just for the QoL features that come with it. A majority seeks legendaries not for this QoL feature (which is still very much undermined by the lack of sigil saving ability) but for the actual skin.
Unfortunately the QoL feature with legendary armor will be vastly undermined because of the rune issue. Rune effects are even more important to a build than sigil effects. And it would be much more cost effective to create multiple sets of ascended and transmute it to the legendary skin, rather than using the stat change feature on legendary armor and buying/switching runes out constantly. I’m trying to understand the logic behind throwing away gold constantly on runes to switch them out.
You’re argument is based on your strong desire for the QoL feature legendary armor brings but this rune issue is rather a strong argument against this QoL feature being viable. I don’t want to say this feature is useless. But outside changing your build, armor stats, and runes like once or twice a year is a waste of money. If you are going to be constantly changing these out like on a weekly basis, your best bet is to go with another set.
You can move your AR gear from one character to another. The only issue is if you only have one set of ascended armor or weapons that don’t fit the other class you want to play. But most of your AR is on trinkets. All the other AR slots such as amor and weapons are bought with just fractal relics.
You can always change the stats of your armor. You can make multiple sets.
In fact I have multiple legendaries but guess what? I never change the stats because of the sigils. I just make ascended if I want a different stat that I will be switching to often
The QoL feature of legendary armor is nearly worthless without an ability to save runes. .
Problem still there, after playing 3 and half years almost I cant play this game no more.
Tried everything, ISP saying nothing wrong, arenanet saying nothing wrong, even went far and did format(among other reasons) and still unplayable. it is so frustrating. Im on middle east-Israel.
Download and run ping plotter. Post results here. It’s not Anet or everyone would have the same issue. It’s probably a node on the way to Anets servers or just a latency issue given your location. So that’s why your ISP will tell you nothing is wrong.
I’m having ridiculous ping tonight, over 1000. I downloaded a program called pingplotter and the problem seems to be with an NCSOFT ip at 65.25.32.82.ncsoft.com. I have no idea if there’s anything I can do on my end to remedy this except bring it to the attention of anet so here I am. Hopefully this is resolved quickly as it is making playing impossible.
You need to post screenshots. First you need to show your game is using that ip. So in game type /ip and post a screen shot. Then type that ip in ping plotter.
I tested that ip and it is showing 100% packet loss. I doubt that server is actually running. Where did you get that ip from?
When I run pingplotter it shows my signal going through 4 ncsoft ips every time. The ip I mentioned wasn’t the map I was in at the time it was the 3rd of 4. No matter what map I’m in that ip always seems to be there right above my current ip. On a side note today my pings are sub 300 so all good.
You are definitely not in that ip right now because it is not working. You can only be in one ip at a time.
Next time you have problems:
1) in game type /ip
2) write down that ip or take a screenshot
3) put that ip in ping plotter.
This is really an issue somewhere with your ISP or a hop on the way there. It probably experiences high traffic at some point which is when you get the lag. Either way it isn’t Anets servers. Feel free to follow the directions I posted next time you have an issue and post results here.
It’s a problem in all MMOs that is easily solved with blocking. This doesn’t make it right of course and is not an excuse for the behavior. But there’s no reason a player can’t simply block toxic players like this and move on. Negative attention seeking is served best with ignoring anyway. Fortunately this is much easier to do in game than real life.
