Guild Wars 2

Vegeta.2563:

Zizz.5703:

After I reset my router, the bug returned, but turning off my antivirus did stop it. So I guess I just need to tweak my antivirus settings. Thanks everyone!

Why not just disable it while playing GW2 ?

Better just put the GW2 folder to the exception list.

Try something like this :
http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/336910-bsod-random-situations-caused-atikmdag-sys.html

or this :
http://windows7themes.net/en-us/fix-atikmpag-sys-atikmdag-sys-blue-screen-errors-bsod/

Torolan.5816:

So what is it now, are the raiders an overwhelming majority or a tiny minority? Are there any reliable numbers given out by respectable sources?

I can give you this at least from Turbine :
http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/03/turbine-raiders-make-up-the-smallest-player-group-in-lotro/#comments

Also in EQ2 that i played for nearly 5 years on our Server there were mostly
just 1 or 2 guilds that ever managed to finish the hardest raid before the
next expansion came out. It were maybe more in Classic where we hat
much smaller Raid Inis and where it was possible to do them with random
raids.

Zizz.5703:

After I reset my router, the bug returned, but turning off my antivirus did stop it. So I guess I just need to tweak my antivirus settings. Thanks everyone!

If you use Kapersky .. get rid of that and try maybe Avast.

Has anybody here tried to delete the local.dat file ?

I remember i had a problem where one setting was always resetting when i logged
in to Timberline Falls. Deleting the local.dat fixed that for me.

What about going back to older drivers that work, and post it at the AMD Forums ?

Menadena.7482:

That brings up and interesting question. Is there a good way to get to a different copy of the same map?

If you play on EU server try guesting to a server of another language. I am on a
german server, and use normaly Desolation and Fort Ranik for example.

Jana.6831:

Linken.6345:

Now were suposed to get shards drop from monsters, but they never stated what monsters can i get it from a level 2 moa? or is it only elites and champions?

I am doing map completion right now and am occassionally in wvw (which was my main mode before this patch) – I think I have completed about 10 maps, I usually kill every mob that’s in my way, and I haven’t gotten a single spirit shard. I got 2 from killing tower lords though (it’s been around 20 I’ve killed). Just to throw in some numbers.

I have gotten shards from spiders in Dredgehaunt Cliffs, Jotun in Timberline Falls
and a Scorpion in Silverwastes .. but they drop very very seldom. All in all i have
gotten maybe 4 or 5 shards from normal mobs since the patch.

All i can say is that Kapersky is the most famous virus scanner to block MMOs
from running.

Driver version 2.87 is a little old for your NVidia GTX 980 and your
Inwin 350W ATX Power Supply is not really good.

Thats all my crystal ball says so far.

You complain about what many people always cry for : GW2 should make more
use of our CPUs .. thats also what some people expect DX12 to do magically that
suddenly the game uses 100% CPU.

If GW2 really uses more CPU now, then they have maybe put some stuff from the
mainthread into other threads for performance optimization.

Else .. just limit your FPS to 60 .. more just makes your fan louder and your GPU
eat more power without any visible benefit.

I took electro blue, next will maybe be electro lemon and enameled sky ..
but have 12, 27, 32 days time to decide o.O

Gaile Gray.6029:

Dinks.2478:

I don’t know, but it would be nice if they would stop harassing me to set up the SMS authenticator every time I try to load the game.

It’s every fifth time. The team will review that frequency in the future, but for now we’ll leave it there, given the proven security advantages of authentication.

Please consider, how strange it may sound for some people today, that there are
still people that don’t even own a cell-phone and also don’t want to have one.
Its really annoying to get that message so often.

Please post the crashlog. Look also if you see maybe something like
LavaSoftTCP.dll or whatever that is cause of the crash.

If they make it skins, than new players would start to cry why the level 5, 10 and so
on armor doesn’t look as good as the starter armor, and we need new cultural
armors for all levels.

Or / and people will start again to complain how greedy ANet is, and that they
only made that because they wanted to milk new players with selling them
transmution charges.

And thats why we can’t have nice things.

Its simply wasted work to create special armor that you will mostly replace
after 1 hour of gameplay.

https://de.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3i6z28/20k_emboroidered_bandit_purses_the_aftermath/

2837g/20k purses equals roughly 14s18c/purse.

So to make 14g / hour you need to get an average of 100 bags each hour.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Dragonfeu.4356:

Thanks all

So it’s pretty much lemongrass and passion flowers that are worth gathering? Pretty much, what are the ingredients that are worth 6+ silver.

Easy ones to farm are the basic rarity; Start here and work your way down the list.

Top 5 above 6s
Chilli
Lemongrass
Sesame Seed
Snow Truffle
Seaweed

Poultry meat is usually ~9 silver.

But it can’t be harvestet .. else we could also post prices of powerful blood or whatever
we can get from killing mobs.

These respawn bugs exist as long as i play the game.

11 years old ? Better to build a complete new one, there is nothing that is
in any form usable today. Maybe the case .. but even that is questionable.

Lineage 1 and 2 were the most succesfull MMOs before WoW. I remember when
i played L2 that we were happy to have 64.000 players while in Korea both had
around 2 Millons at that time.
The most sucessfull western MMOs at that time had aroun 200.000-300.000 player
i think.
I think John Smedley from SOE at that time also said that an MMO with 60k
players is a successfull MMO.

Only after WoW people suddenly startet to think that everything under x Millions
is doomed.

The numbers are from Memory .. so don’t shoot me if they are not 100% correct.

Vic.5108:

It shuts my PC down during or right after the loading screen and the whole thing reboots…

Disable automatic reboot on system errors so that you may see the blue screen.

If your PC shuts down that could be a problem of your power supply.

Most problems with Win 10 as far as i have read, seem to be from people
with NVidia cards. Haven’t seen much problems from ATI user.

cupcakesandcatnomz.3924:

gw2 has been slowly dying since 2013, its not a secret, yeah the expansion has hype and stuff but after 2 days people will have seen everything it has to offer and leave again.
some will stay just to troll and kitten, but once wildstar goes free to play a lot will jump over, leaving just a sour, salty little group of players that’ll ruin it for everyone else :p

Mostly every MMO released in the last years had started dying after the first 30 days.
And even WoW is dying since release of Cataclysm.

And really .. Wildstar the second try ? Bot sure if you are sarcastic ^^

Paulytnz.7619:

This game has always been a care bear game lol. You want it to change now all of a sudden? Btw making a game more challenging doesn’t make it any less care bear. It just makes it more fun for the care bears who play. Pssst I am a care beer and proud!

Wait .. is this a hidden “Open PvP will save the game” thread ? o.O

If you have NVidia drivers .. i have read that some people had to go back
for 10-20 versions to find one that was stable on Win 10.

Else for the LA crash i would first try a repair on the client.

Nilkemia.8507:

Doesn’t leveling up after 80 give you spirit shards?

No longer since the trait system patch

Mace .. never used it. Hammer also not really.
Rifle i only used on my engi, howver at the moment she uses again pistols.
Shortbow only now and then on my thief.

FGS isn’t worth it since a long time. I have stopped it when Ori went under 6s
because the IPs start changing a while before Clawmag event and also a while
after it and most of the time the entries were wrong and i had to made the
entries on gw2nodes.
But .. if you are in FGS .. look for snow truffels.

At some point i just decided it isn’t worth it and i can just better go harvest
iron, platin, seasoned and hard wood.

Don’t forget “Geargrinder 4711” will be release not to soon and that will finally
kill this game. And a month later we will also see “Age of Geargrind 42” that will
again kill it.

You can harvest the herbs aroun Fort Trinity every hour for a chance of
Lemongrass. However its a little RNG.

Ori ? Its down to 3 s nearly .. not worth seeking the spots of it anymore.
T3 wood was nearly as much worth a while ago, and you can find masses
of that.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

maddoctor.2738:

Beldin.5498:

Oh .. is there a game where i get the best rewards hanging around in Town and
RP’ing with my friends and show them my new outfits ? Please tell me the name.

I think there is one called Second Life that does that.

Real Life has that also. But you need to make sure you have rich parents first. It’s totally pay to win.

No matter how hard i grind in real life .. i will never get my Ferrari
And i’m not sure if open PvP there really would be a good choice o.O

Jerus.4350:

It is the best money for the effort I know of, and up there on money to time ratios. You’d have to have a pretty darn good group to beat it(or even match it) through dungeons for example.

There are other ways to make the same money without beeing dependant on other
players ^^

Also there was just a thread about this :
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Silverwastes-80g-a-day-you-say-Uhhh

latinkuro.7304:

Beldin.5498:

Am i wrong when my crystal ball tells me you have an NVidia card ?

completely wrong.

r9 270x

Love the sig
SG-O so much feels……

Ok .. first make sure your GPU is in the slot next to your CPU .. also just remove
and reseat it. If that doesn’t help post a screenshot from CPU-Z and GPU-Z
with GW2 running in the back.

Important is that you see the x16 2.0 and not a lower value, and your CPU
should run at max Speed also of course.

Am i wrong when my crystal ball tells me you have an NVidia card ?

ninjazombie.2937:

in dungeons or high end game do people just speed run everything ?

every video i watch or stream is just run through everything and sit in a corner and snipe, kind of puts me off the game a bit ;/

The players that don’t want to brag how fantastic they are normally simply don’t
post videos or streams. In alle the guilds i have been so far i have met maybe
3-4 people that did speedruns before but either they didn’t wanted to do that
anymore or they left after short time.

From my personal experience they are simply a minority that are only overrepresented
on forums .. very much like raiders in other MMOs.

John Sheppard ? I would take Jack O’Neill

maddoctor.2738:

Khalisto.5780:

pve is not meant to be played as a fun thing, it’s a gold farm tool, everybody is bored from day 1

A good reward system puts the most efficient way to earn rewards behind the most exciting and fun content possible. And in lots of MMORPGs that’s true but in GW2 is the complete opposite, the more boring and un-interesting an activity is, the more efficient it is for rewards… You can be excited about PVE if the reward system isn’t horrible and based on endless grind.

Oh .. is there a game where i get the best rewards hanging around in Town and
RP’ing with my friends and show them my new outfits ? Please tell me the name.

Disclaimer : not for everyone is something like raiding really fun, for many its
just a necessary evil you have to deal with in other games if you want rewards.

Could be a problem with an unreadable sector on your harddisk. Look in the
windows system logs if you find something there.
And try to copy your GW2 folder to somewhere else on your disk and see if
you have already problems while copying .. and start GW2 from that folder.

Shen Slayer.3058:

Equilibriator.8741:

Shen Slayer.3058:

Equilibriator.8741:

Shen Slayer.3058:

This game is getting stale, no new contents since they killed the living story. And Anet is stringing us along till HoT, happily collecting our prepaid money with nothing to show for it.

dont preorder, wait till its out. Im just as concerned as you but ill hold my judgement till its released and the first skeptics get a chance to review it.

I would suggest people not to preorder also, especially if they might release HoT at the same time as the release of Fallout 4.

dont preorder fallout 4 either :P. Seriously. pre-ordering should be illegal with the amount of glitchy/unfinished/bad games that get released these days. Fallout 4 is going to be amazing, im super hyped for it, but i doubt their ability to release a finished, polished game given the game breaking glitches that have plagued my attempts to complete the previous games (skyrim too, thank god for console commands and pc in general, altho it took like a year+ for the game to go from low settings at launch, to ultra high with hd texture mods, etc. on the same computer).

At least Fallout gives you a release date for the preorder, you will know when you will be playing it. Has Anet given any date…. but yet they want your money?

And i can already seen now that masses of people after release complain that
it is a bugged messed and never should have been released that early.

IF it is an MMO .. i have no clue if it is since i totally have no interest in that game
however since you post it here as it were a competitor to GW2 i at least expect
it would be an MMO .. else the next one posts that GW2 is dead because of
the next football game from EA coming out or whatever.

Shen Slayer.3058:

especially if they might release HoT at the same time as the release of Fallout 4.

Wow .. no new next better fantasy MMO on the horizon ?

I mean there is still Black Desert .. and don’t forget that Wildstar gets F2P .. this time
all the people that seek “challenging content” will really go there .. i really believe that

Most people complain that the game is NOT maxing out their processors, because
that in the end will bring the best performance if 100% could be used. However
du to how multithreaded programming works that is not really possible to achieve.

Btw.; if you really can’t do anything that is maybe related to read-errors on your
harddisk or stuff like that.

We still havr ONLY DX9 for Windows .. and you really think they will make
a special renderer for the minority of Mac players or Linux users or C-64 user
or whatever ?

BrooksP.4318:

Beldin.5498:

BrooksP.4318:

Open world PVE wouldn’t be as bad if 80-90% of the zones where not scaled down. Boring when you just run around 2-3 shotting everything.

Have you even played in low level zones since the trait system revamp ?
The downscaling now works so that in low zones a level 80 in full exotic has
LESS stats than a newbie in blue or green stuff.

Admittedly I have not, only been doing Orr and SW since update, but will give it a shot. However that still doesn’t take away from the 2nd point, in that levels are a unnecessary and redundant feature.

Removing levels would crash the whole economy since we no longer would need
kitten in crafting beside T2-T4 stuff that is needed in ascended crafting.
So if we only have now mithril and orichalcum in all zones, ascended crafting
also must be changed to mithril / ori only.

BrooksP.4318:

Open world PVE wouldn’t be as bad if 80-90% of the zones where not scaled down. Boring when you just run around 2-3 shotting everything.

Have you even played in low level zones since the trait system revamp ?
The downscaling now works so that in low zones a level 80 in full exotic has
LESS stats than a newbie in blue or green stuff.

Torolan.5816:

Tired of doing several world bosses because I have done them over and over? Yes.
Tired of the concept in general? No.
And as this is the logical consequence of this thread:
Tired of asking for raids or raids in general? Y E S

+1 to this

Sandpit.3467:

ping is ping, there should be no server processing in the calculation (other than echo request/reply) or it’s not a ping. If your cmd ping is significantly different from the game ping then ANet implemented ping wrong.

There is a reason for that, and ANet also told us why it is that way. Its so they can
see if problems are server side or not.

So if the windows ping says 30 but the ingame ping shows 1000 you know that
the servers have a problem while ping 2000 and ingame 2010 shows you that
it is the internet.

Nymeria.5930:

All started after an update for my Nvidia gefore 750M…..

So .. that is the answer mostly. Go back to older drivers. NVidia is famous for
releasing crappy drivers that give maybe better FPS to the new FOTM Game
but give a lot people problems.

Yashuoa.9527:

Everyone thanks for the posts.
It helps in making my Asura.

Donari.5237:

What you can do is make the Asura the way you want, screenshot the sliders to make it easy to replicate, then go into game and head for the nearest bank or crafting station (likely that means hopping into Rata Sum and trotting down one level to the Accountancy waypoint).

There you can bring up the Wardrobe and preview every piece of medium armor to your heart’s content.

If you don’t like how it looks, delete, remake with any tweaks, and btw try to use the name you want on the test character because then you have it for 24 hours after any character deletion.

Thanks.
That is the type of stuff that I had in mind.

Thats what i also normally do, however mostly just to look if the face looks ingame
like i wanted it to look. The bad thing is you can’t test that with faces that are only
available in makover kits

snowgim.6327:

I just realised, I’m not sure I’ve ever applied a rune to my breather. It never occurred to me that I needed to!

I mostly put in a ruby shard at some point .. Orbs don’t even work in my Orisippus Breathers .. lol