Guild Wars 2

totally NOT worth it.
not because of lack of content..but because they didn’t fix the main game issue: server performance.
if that point is not addressed with this xpack.. than it is totally NOT worth paying for it.
with the current graphics and content we are already having insane skill lag.
when you add to that the new areas + layers + more players the situation is going to get to a level where it wil lbe impossible to do anything unless you AVOID areas with big ammount of players. and thats not a MMO playstyle: to avoid players.
so ye.. im not purchasing it until the server performance is improved to a level where it gets acceptable and players can actually do wvw and mass events without any server failure.

with the recent patch everyone noticed that the skill lag got a LOT worse.
probrably due to the number of conditions being applied and the fact that you removed the cap for some stuff, so the server is stressed out and can’t handle the ammount of information being exchanged..
is there any sort of project to improve the game performance?
we are now supposed to pre-order a game expansion and right now, not even the core game is working properly.
it is unplayable during mass events such as garrison attacks in WvWvW or even some teq fights in pve.
whenever a huge ammount of players gather and starting using their chars to the max potential the server fails to handle the information and players start to face 3-8 seconds of skill lag.
8 seconds of skill lag is something really disgusting for a MMO game.
the concept of MMO games is based on MASSIVE ammount of players, and right now players must AVOID any massive encounter if they wanna have a descent time playing your game..cause if they don’t.. they gonna have a terrible timple playing the game.
seriously.. just log in any reset night or any night where 2 of the 3 servers decides to actually go and fight for a garrison with 1/2 of each server manpower..
log and just read the chat..
you gonna see it. NOONE, and i mean noone is gonna have a good time. There will be so many ppl cursing and complaining about server performance that you can not imagine.
those type of fights were supposed to be really enjoyable.. lots of wvw players play the game aiming those moments.. preparing their chars for that fight..and then when they get the chance to go for it the server fails to handle it.
its frustrating to a level that is beyong your imagination…

i can deal with $50 dollar price.
i can deal with almost no new features to wvwvw besides that new map that for me looks like EOTM rev2.
i can deal with no new dugeons.
i can deal with not fighting the new dragon end boss…
what i can`t deal with is the fact that in late 2015 im supposed to pay for an update of a mmo game where anytime or anywhere a massive ammount of players encounter, be it on wvw or even sometimes on teq fights or sw or anywhere, the skill lag is so intense that makes you feel disgusted to be there playing.
what i really can`t stand is the fact that 3 years after game release and innumerous ammounts of complaints and reports about game performance. The so called update DOES NOT include any sort of performance improve that is going to actually IMPROVE the quality of the game.

right now wvw is losing players. Even on T1 the queues are not common.
and blob fights are not happening very often.

you expect to bring lots of new players and returning players with the update.. and you didn`t think about the fact that when those players join, the quality time they are going to have is NONE.

this is not LS update.. this is supposed to be an XPACK… The very least that you could do is improve the game performance to a level that is at least acceaptable and playable for your current players..
But instead..you completely ignored your current player base and decided? so what if the game performance is terrible… so what if everyone that is currently playing is having a bad time doing it??? let us skip that part and focus on random stuff..cause everyone is going to forget about it and learn to live with the insane lag in our game..

for real??
this is something i can’t understand..
no DX upgrade, no server upgrade, nothing.. and yet even while LOSING players..the lag is getting worse and worse and worse…

So i came back after a 1-2 month break and all my skills are messed up… my build is disgusting and my skill pts are gone.
Took me some time to figure the new trait system.. but lots of traits were moved and that kinkittened up a lot.
I used to run with hammer/ sword warhorn..with trooper runes and healing shouts to help the zerg.. it was just fine.
But now they placed the trait to reduce warhorn skills cooldown in the same slot as the emppwered that gives %dmg from the boons on you..
That was the key for my build. I run with a sigil to get a random boon on hit just because of that trait.. and now if i use the % dmg adder my warhorn skills are longer cooldown.. thats already bad.. but i don’t know if i noticed wrong but it feels like the number of affected targets is lower…
Another thing i noticed is that cleansig ire is in the same slot as the skill that gives 1000 toughness on stun break.. thats bad in my opinion too since you have to choose between extra defs or extra adrenaline + clear cond on burst..
There were quite a few of these small chqnges and it feels like sword / warhorn is really not that effective anymore.
Am i missing something?
For zerg fights the hammer/ sword warhorn was always great..
But i feel they nerfed this playstyle quite a bit with new trait system…
What you guys think??

Kasteros.9847:

BassHunteR.7246:

I am a warrior from TC. Therefore i am in the melee train in the frontline… and all i can say is…i LOVED the update until now.
I tested yesterday in EB and we had a few fights against TWL with really big numbers…and we won some..and lost some…but we won quite a few with less numbers…
The best part about this update is now i can see how a stun hammer really matters when properly landed…
Before update you could land right over the stack and noone would get stunned or downed.. and today if you land it properly at least a few will get stunned and then downed…
So it feels a lot better to be there stunning when you get to see the result of it..
Ok so the stacks vanishes in secs..but it is up to you and your group to use them wisely..
Before update fights would go on and on with multiple bombs with only the ppl not in ts/mumble or not coordinated getting downed until eventually one side messed up and got stomped…
With this new patch things are faster..any miss step you take and ablot of downs.. you can see downs on 1st and 2nd push already and lots of stun and interrupt..
That makes fight more interesting.. you gotta stay more focused and every move REALLY matters now..
So what if meta gonna change..
Melee train gonna stkll be kitten in my opinion..why?? 1stunhammer in the stack and all those ele trying to generate might stacks will be gone before they can even see whats going on…
All it takes now is for you to take care and engage carefully…
Glass cannon frontline builds for sure gonna fail…gonna need to be tanky…but since i am already tanky…34k hp 3.1k armor…I LIKE IT..
I m not there to hit 10k…im there to BOMB and help the backline do their thing…

Just my toughts

Yeah, but how this warrior can strike eles when he get 20 ccs on his face? The point is that u can’t reach papers with ur meele train. That is 1. argument. 2. as u typed u had really big numbers against really big numbers( 40 vs 50?) What I talk about is 20 vs 60( u can;t do this anymore) and 60 vs 60 – pugs( u just insta die).

I would say it was 25-35 on our side kitten on their side and eventually even sides…
And sorry to say but if you cant find out how to hit the backline reroll cause you are a bad frontline anyway…or get a descent commander… one that doenat just yell push right jnto them and bomb… cause that will make you die…but there are ways around that strategy..
And yesterday on most fights i had…they had a lot of ranged dps and our frontline still managed to get right where we needed to get and BOMB the kitten out of them… just likevthey did to us some time later on the next fight…
It is a matter of who stay focused and does everything more coordinated..but with one basic difference..
Every bomb from the frontline now REALLY matters and you MUST avoid them if you are ranged…and you MUST land them if you are melee…
Quite simple

I am a warrior from TC. Therefore i am in the melee train in the frontline… and all i can say is…i LOVED the update until now.
I tested yesterday in EB and we had a few fights against TWL with really big numbers…and we won some..and lost some…but we won quite a few with less numbers…
The best part about this update is now i can see how a stun hammer really matters when properly landed…
Before update you could land right over the stack and noone would get stunned or downed.. and today if you land it properly at least a few will get stunned and then downed…
So it feels a lot better to be there stunning when you get to see the result of it..
Ok so the stacks vanishes in secs..but it is up to you and your group to use them wisely..
Before update fights would go on and on with multiple bombs with only the ppl not in ts/mumble or not coordinated getting downed until eventually one side messed up and got stomped…
With this new patch things are faster..any miss step you take and ablot of downs.. you can see downs on 1st and 2nd push already and lots of stun and interrupt..
That makes fight more interesting.. you gotta stay more focused and every move REALLY matters now..
So what if meta gonna change..
Melee train gonna stkll be kitten in my opinion..why?? 1stunhammer in the stack and all those ele trying to generate might stacks will be gone before they can even see whats going on…
All it takes now is for you to take care and engage carefully…
Glass cannon frontline builds for sure gonna fail…gonna need to be tanky…but since i am already tanky…34k hp 3.1k armor…I LIKE IT..
I m not there to hit 10k…im there to BOMB and help the backline do their thing…

Just my toughts

Its disturbing to see how anet completely ignores their players bug report.
I have sent more than 20 pms to gms/devs.
Created 02 topics..
Got 05 infractions for bumping threads (meaning someone actually came and read the topics)
And not a single answer from any of them..
They have time to discuss anything that leads to a gemstore update, anything thatbis not related to a game bug or problem..
But aside from those subjects… gl getting any attention.
Completely disapointed with the Anet customer support.

Its disturbing to see how anet completely ignores their players bug report.
I have sent more than 20 pms to gms/devs.
Created 02 topics..
Got 05 infractions for bumping threads (meaning someone actually came and read the topics)
And not a single answer from any of them..
They have time to discuss anything that leads to a gemstore update, anything thatbis not related to a game bug or problem..
But aside from those subjects… gl getting any attention.
Completely disgusted with the Anet customer support.

now i trully belive they don’t give a kitten about us…
i received infractions on forum… and posts i did were deleted..
that means they came into the topics and read it..cause if they knew i was bumping the thread and knew which posts to delete..they read them…and still…
they didn’t care enough to give us a reply or anything at all..
so that is a clear sign that they dont care about us…

nice screenshot man…

we will not give up ^^

it would be AWESOME…and we will keep going until that day comes.

Once upon a time there was a great warhorn legendary weapon called The Howler..
Then it got bugged.
And since then everyone who uses it and decided to craft one came to find out that it is a huge disapointment to have a weapon that has almost no special effect and is still called legendary..
Everyone who has the so called weapon hopes foe the day that it will get fixed by anet and they will once again be proud of using it in combat.
Help us ANET

Just in time to rescue thread from 3rd page…
ANET??
Still time to give us a position in february… wouldnt that be awesome???

we hope for the best ^^

I HOPE they will post something soon ^^

the more ppl join the cause…the more chance we have to get their attention…thank you very much for the support guys!

Good to see more ppl joining the cause…

At least you had hope… lol..
I’m expecting a positing on forum stating something like “will be fixed on HoT”.
Not a hotfix.. cause that would be to good to be true…

3rd page?? Cant let that happen.

ANET?? anything to say??

Still no answer…
Still not ready to give up.

Still nothing from ANET.
Sent several PMs again this weekend to anet staff members who are actively responding to other topics…but they refuse to answer about this subject…not sure why…
Not ready to give up…
Btw finished mh howler…and i am deeply disappointed with the result..only thing nice avout it is that i can switch from soldier to zerk whenever i feel like it…

now that would be a top 3 new feature for me in the xpac lol

i didn’t hear any bug in a while on other legendaries..last one i have heard was hotfixed in incinerator. lasted for 3-5 days or something..
I really don’t understand why so much hate for the howler

bumping for the weekend…ANET SAVE US

it is an easy fix..or at least an easy thing to do to come here and say there is nothing they can do about it or whatever..we are just asking for a position

i will continue my crusade for an answer ^^

yep..i know..several threads about this were already made…but..i will try again..and as i said.. i am willing to continue this until one of 2 things happen
1-i get an infraction..and if so.. at lest they read the topic… and if they have any sense of respect with their customers (us players) they will give us a response
2-we get a position from ANET..and being that positive or negative..at least will be something oficial from the devs representatives…
and until one of those happens..this thread and the one on the bug section shall remain on front page being bumped…and i ask whoever cares with this and with any bugs in this game..to help..cause this subject is not about a simple weapon bug..its about customer support..if a topic about a bug report thats going on for 1 year with more then 2000 views gets 0 answers…what you think will happen if you report a new bug right now ??

Paffus Piffus.9430:

It will be fixed eventually, I’m confident enough in this to continue making this legendary. BassHunteR, you post obsessively about this, maybe bump your posts once a week or so?

yes i am bumping obsessively. Why?
This is the bug section..
not only the topic has no answer from anet, but i got no infraction from obssessively bumping it… and that means that no gm or dev is reading this section.. i have kept this topic in 1st page the entire time and pmed every gm about it…there is another topic created on general discussion about same subject.. and also no response…also kept in first page…that one there is more ppl helping to bump… so if you stop for a bit and think…you would be worried about it…cause that means they are not reading bug section… and bug reports…
I decided that i will keep the topics in first page until a position comes or an infraction…cause at least the infraction will mean that they read the topic…till now they didn’t even read it…and thats what bothers me most..
And i really worked hard for this legendary…didnt purchase it or the prec or anything….so i really care.

There are so many things they could do with the howl sound…but it should totally be unique in the crowd…
Come on ANET…cant be that hard to give us a position….

10 days of topic..no answer…we won’t give up!!!!
ANET..plz help us

any news ANET????

Toramino.4381:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Worth playing?

Just ask yourself what you’d rather. One stacked server stomping two other servers with no presence, or three servers who’re all topped up with presence for people to play with and against at as good to all hours of the day? There is nothing inherently wrong with “stacking”.

Its time to be more pragmatic and reasonable about this. If players want a fulfilling game mode then they’ve all got to collate in a single tier for a more well rounded fight. Server imbalance still occurs due to people/guilds overstacking into a single server, usually pre-seasons. But to take the picture as you’ve painted it is just plain ignorance.

Uhhh…..you must come from Tier 2. Cause in T1, BG is dead as a doornail in WvW. JQ and TC zergs are MASSIVE. And then there’s us. Effing tiny with no presence. It’s not 3 servers “topped off” up here. It’s a total mess. And why you ask? Because of the issue addressed here in this thread.

It’s not good for the Gw2 (WVW) community at large. And it needs to get curbed. Hard.

Is this a joke??
BG complaining about zerg?? and about guilds recruitment in a single post??
Are you kittened or you just purchased an account into BG or something??
BG started this whole giild recruiting thing..
And still bg zergs as much as jq and tc in t1…it just lost coverage in off hours…but in prime time…its blob festival up here..you dont need to lie… tc and bg are at same place right now….they blob in prime time and lose coverage in oce hours and thats when jq is stomping jq has more coverage and also blobs on prime…
We would have great fights if the server would allow it..but whenever the 3 servers meet… skill lag comes into place and its 4-8 seconds to cast something…like last reset on TC garry when we had 3 servers in lords room… jq had their blob there…bg had their blob thee and tc had their blob there.. skill lag for all 3 servers and in the end BG took it..

So again…plz don’t come here now after all BG did saying that TC AND JQ zergs and that guild recruitment is bad…that makes you look silly..

Anything from anet at this point would be nice…
Even a: “we dont care..we are working on new lrgendary warhorn…move on…”
I would accept that..
But saying nothing is really disappointing

till now it i did 6 pm to gms…2 of them to gaile… 2 topic in different forum sections …both being kept in 1st page… and still noone from ANET even bothers to give us a reply..
Starting to think they dont care.
But i will keep trying..
Any news ANET???

on the trailer they did mention new legendaries.. but i doubt it is accessories or armor since they did mention no new gear level.. now gear level increase i mean.. so ascended will still be top gear. By that i think it will be new weapons.

so i decided to create a thief…
condition damage one..
and i was looking for a few tips.
whats the best weapon set?? duo dagger?? for death blossom spam??
dagger + pistol?? or pistol + dagger??
can anyone share any builds??
condition damage builds are any effective into wvw roaming??
thanks for the help

actually not just 7 days..
Bug is here for 11 months already as you can see on the link for older posts..
It directs you to a post from march 2014..
And since that…nothing has been said about the subject by ANET.
But we will not give up.
:P

any news ANET?? can we at least expect that on HOT this will be already fixed??

Nightwin.6423:

BassHunteR.7246:

and the night / day effect too..
anet?? anything?

Hopefully we’ll hear something when hot comes out

my hope is that on hot it is already fixed

and the night / day effect too..
anet?? anything?

bumping for the cause…
someone from ANET plz..help us

we care… plz ANET help us…someone..plz..anyone from ANET say something
“we are working on it”
“it will be fixed on HoT realease”
even a simple
“we don’t really care about The Howler”
would be ok.. cause then i would just sell the prec and move on…

What really bothers me is the 0 replies from ANET..
They reply to other topic in same section… i hqve sent gaile a pm..
I have created a topic on bugs section and i will keep bumping these whenever they go to second page… i will get an infraction…but that means they came to the topic and read it at least…
If they care enough to add a reply…will be totally worth it…
Seriously.
11 months of a legendary weapon completely bugged..
Nothing done?? I know you guys can fix this…..

Not yet… recently all that us warriors get instantly…are nerfs after other classes cry.
I have same issue but i dropped the prec and am about to finish the craft…but then…finishing a legendary just to find out that most effects and animations on it are bugged… what is the point on crafting it then???
Really disappointing….
Worst part is…
If it ever happens with a staff boom…insta hot fix in 15 mins cause ele/guards cant be let down…
Come on ANET at least give us an E.T.A. on this or say that it is being worked on..thats all we want to hear

Ppl complain they arebnot being heard..
Anet chooses someone to filter information and send them reports…all this guy needs to do is write a report of the most common topics or most important information according to the ppl he is representing.
Yet ppl complain about that person not being relevant enogh to write reports.
What we learn today?? HATERS GONNA HATE!!!

Just remember..anet could always just say..ok..in that case..lets just NOT have a wvw specialist…and bam..noone will be writing those reports… and then you are back to the same spot where you were complaining about not being heard…
so why not just ignore the guy stats and give him a kitten chance…all he needs to do is know how to read and how to write…. you guys can explain the issue to him.. you want a miracle?? Be the miracle my son… dont sit back praying for it….
start helping…stop hating…
Just my 50 cent..
Never heard of the guy but still…better then noone from abet here with us

Come on ANET..help us out.

need some hekp from anet with the legendary weapon “The Howler”.

As this topic:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Howler-fix/first#post4789116

The night effect is gone…the wolf is lasting animation is not lasting as long as before…neither the moon animation…the sound is not there too..
Legendary weapons are the only real end game goal in gw2 and when you finish crafting it…finding out it is bugged…its kinda really disappointing….
Please someone from anet take a look at this seriously…

Really? I play this game for 2 years.. i get the enormous luck to drop a precursor and decide…ok lets craft it.. and guess what.. the RNG gods decide that droping the prec wasn’t hard enough…lets give you the buged legendary one…
YaY…
Can someone from anet plz give us an eta on this subject?
Anyone working on this fix??
Im pretty sure if this was a staff of the beloved guards or a twilight it would take 2 days to get fixed due to the crowds crying..
show some love for the warriors pleaseeeee….