Guild Wars 2

Ashen.2907:

Sartharina.3542:

you don’t play Guild Wars 2 for Raids.

You might want to change that, “you,” to an, “I,” if you want to be honest and/or accurate. Perhaps you do not play GW2 for raids, and luckily raids receive only a very tiny portion of the game’s development resources, but others do.

So you think there are people that played GW2 for over 3 year only because of raids ?

Makes me wonder how many people play GW2 only because of its fantastic housing,
open PvP or flying mounts ^^

I wonder how many people really have read the op.

Computer crashes .. is a l2p thing … really ??

I would say those risen are Deadpool in disguise, breaking the 3rd wall

Shylock.4653:

Beldin.5498:

goes back to what it was original instead of becoming just another generic raid MMO.

Raids are your biggest problem with HoT?
Raids are a quite small part of HoT. There are so many other things you can do.

No, its the whole change in direction from “play what you want” to “play what we
tell you fo play” (hello Tyria Mastery points) .. and also the lack of new armor sets since
nearly 2 years now.
Then the HoT maps for me are just annoying, hard to navigate, no time to
orientate, since you have to run like Forrest Gump all the time. Mobs that can
stunlock you forever .. no this is not challenging .. its just stupid annoying.
Gating one of the very few new armor sets then behind raids is only one of
the last nails in the coffin.

Oh also the lack of new content pre HoT launch and now after HoT launch.

Shylock.4653:

Beldin.5498:

Hell no .. HoT made me quit the game.

So, you quit the game but still read the game forum and write in it?
It seems that you haven’t found anything better.

I played 100 € for Hot and have nearly played it, so for that price i have at least
the right to play the forum game i think.

And even if i start to loose hope i still am interested that the game goes back
to what it was original instead of becoming just another generic raid MMO.

And else i play Marvel Heroes now since 3 months.

Raxzor.5946:

After your your experiences with HoT (positive or negative) will you be pre-ordering the next expansion?

Hell no .. HoT made me quit the game.

Not sure what you did there, looks nearly as if you have the default explorer settings
that hides the extension of files, since i also see a GW2 without .exe
In that case your gw2.dat is in reality maybe gw2.dat.dat and not recognized.

Dyroth.5063:

Beldin.5498:

When people cry for “harder” content normally the following things happen :
- mobs get more HPs
- mobs make more damage, often one-shots
- mobs get more CCs so that you are often more often disabled / stunlocked then you could fight.

And that does not only happen in GW2 but in ALL MMOs. Personally i’m not a fan
of one-shots and lying on the floor until i’m dead, thats why i’m always against it
when people cry for “harder” content.

I think one shots can be done right to make content harder without making it cheap. A one shot that just happens because the boss looked at you is bad, but if there is a mechanic to it that makes it avoidable or makes a counter for it is fun. If say you had to ensure a break bar was done every few mins or else the party would wipe, or hiding behind a shield to avoid a massive attack are one shots done more correctly.

One shots are never fun .. especially if you always make builds that re not totally
glascannons, and still are one shotted because mobs deal something like 100 times
more damage than what is possible as health on the most tanky build.

In my eyes at least one shots are just a cheap way of pseudo diffuculty to make
those people happy that never played diablo hardcore, and think a game is just
to easy if they don’t die at least 50 times a day.

IndigoSundown.5419:

So, here’s a question for those who are on about the content “drought” since HoT released. Would GW2 be a better game if they went back to the 2 week release cycle, with “click F 150 times for achievement” play and a couple of events that disappeared two weeks later? It seems to me that there were few who liked that, with many complaints about quality, temporary content and the sheer monotony of the busy-work that made up most of it. What would ANet have to provide?

For me that was at least the best time of the game when we had actually ever
2 week something new to do. The LS2 instances, even if replayable, i have
absolutely no interst in playing more than once, and i often even had to force
myself to do them once.

The problem is that ANet seems to listen to the vocal minority of the forums
all the time and since there is always a vocal part that dislikes something they
change there content style all day long and have totally lost any direction.

In the end now it has changed to the MMO for people that don’t like MMOs
more or less to just another boring raid game .. and i found i better go back
to hack’n’slay.

When people cry for “harder” content normally the following things happen :
- mobs get more HPs
- mobs make more damage, often one-shots
- mobs get more CCs so that you are often more often disabled / stunlocked then you could fight.

And that does not only happen in GW2 but in ALL MMOs. Personally i’m not a fan
of one-shots and lying on the floor until i’m dead, thats why i’m always against it
when people cry for “harder” content.

Zok.4956:

Today I checked a game I played before GW2 (the game is at least 5 years old, MMO, some people say it started a a WOW-clone, went F2P 1-2 years ago) and was surprised that they announced “true multicore support” for their game.

They explained that when they started, there was the DX9-API and that was developed only with “single core” CPUs in mind. But DX9 is showing its age and technology improved dramatically since then and “multicore computers” are the norm.

So they changed the game engine to have “true multicore support” which will result in a much better frame rate and better response time. And of course they have to switch from the DX9-API to some newer DX-API (but they don’t tell which one).

“That Company” does not (like A-Net) have unlimited money, but thinks, that changing a several years old game to multicore-support is a good business decision.

Maybe Mike O’Brian and Scott Hartsman could have a chat about this between president and CEO? And maybe Scott could Mike lent/rent some developers that have experience with this matter?

Why do you think ANet has unlimeted money ? Also in “that” game i never had
more than 40-50 FPS no matter where i was, even staring at the sky will not
give me more.

Oh an in another game with DX11and Unreal Engine i play at the moment i already
had some fights where the FPS went down to 0.5 or whatever.

echo.2053:

Beldin.5498:

And don’t tell me legendary is not better than ascended .. heck in the actual
drought of bew armor sets even just an exclusive armor set skin for raids
would make me angry .. as long as it isn’t ugly in my eyes ^^

Legendary is not better than ascended…. its exactly the same stat level with more required energy to make. Before you hyperventilate and pass out, just want to point out a itty bitty tiny weeny detail that you kinda glazed over- legendary armor hasn’t even been released and based on previous legendary craft requirements its going to take most months for each piece. By the time they are finished you’ll already have multipe sets of asc armor.

most likely will be more butt capes

I said : DON’T TELL ME. You should maybe read before you answer.

The QoL to not have to carry other armor sets with you is what still makes it
“better” in some way.

What happened with the legendary armor was exactly what i suspected when
the whole raid discussion here started. Its always like that.

1. When you say that people only want hard content to get better stuff to show off
everybody just says : noooo .. we only want the challenge, not interested in better
stuff.

2. When it came to talk about the raids here in the forums, more or less every
second or third post was about “exclusive rewards”.

3. somewhere in the future (happened in other games) : if you dare to ask if
those exclusive rewards can’t be earned in other game modes, suddenly a lot
of raiders say : why the hell should we then play this kitten if we don’t get
that stuff ? Then we can also just play the easier content.

And that is the point where the toxity starts .. when raiders always think they
are entitled to get better stuff .. just because they do raids.

And don’t tell me legendary is not better than ascended .. heck in the actual
drought of bew armor sets even just an exclusive armor set skin for raids
would make me angry .. as long as it isn’t ugly in my eyes ^^

Harper.4173:

Healix.5819:

Harper.4173:

But now “they are focusing on raids over other things” – sure.

People are going to think that because that’s the illusion ArenaNet’s currently creating. Every week they seem to talk about raiding, the upcoming wings or whatnot. Even HoT itself was marketed with a spotlight on raiding, which was obviously meant to attract the WoW players that quit back at launch, and being in a WoW raiding guild, it did work for a bit, but it was a major turn off for everyone that wanted an MMO that was different. Now after the AMA, knowing that the regular releases are so far away, it’ll be nearly a year of only having raids as new content. GW2’s current release schedule is mimicking that of every other generic MMO, which for everyone that hated it, is going to feel it.

They could at least put out one of the major reoccurring events as a distraction for everyone else, because this is going to be one long stretch of nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised to see SAB next month or the Queen’s Gauntlet, considering those two have been hinted at.

From what I understood LS is coming back relatively recently. Yes – I understand people might hate this current format.
People also hated the LS format – when we got new stuff every 2 weeks ( back during LS season 1) – and people hated and complained and said it wasn’t enough time to play through it.

Personally LS1 with the 2 weekly updates was the best time of the game for me.

What I would like to see in the next expansion:
- The removal of HoT and Raids
- The return of armor sets

In the end continue what we had in the first 1.5 years.

Use “save as” and don’t start directly from your temp folder.

Mishoo.5918:

Highness.9061:

Yes , the maps are empty and its very difficult to solo events . i mean on my warrior its not that bad but when i change to mesmer omg its like playing on hard mode . So when i started HOT it was fun at first getting the glider and all then BOOM i kept dying and dying and dying to the mobs . then i realised even with my legendary weapon and full ascended gear its pointless . HoT is against solo players , it was made that way .

i mean in other games when they add new content and more powerful mobs and events they raise the level cap ? here im still lvl 80 fighting lvl 83 mobs who 3 shot me .

It’s doable , but it’s annoying , please ANET do something about this . i log in the game to have fun not to be frustrated .

Sorry, fat chance. Group (read zerg) content. Learn to… skip. Skipping is an art. Skipping is life. Skipping is saving time. Skipping is fun. A lot of fun. Catch me if you can, you pesky hyena!

Yeah .. thats what i did .. i just skipped the whole HoT content after trying it maybe
3-4 hours .. and after a while i skipped the whole game completly.

The question is, why have they even created new maps for HoT since in reality
skipping 3-4 maps isn’t really that different than skipping 1 map

Daroon.1736:

Beldin.5498:

Next expansion will have ONE map with 6 different layers (and even more lag).
All mobs are elite or champions, because of challenging content ofc. And we
will get 1 new armor set that is only available through the new raid.

All that for the nice price of 100 bucks.

Thas more or less what i actually expect

I think the recent ‘departures’ signal quite clearly that lessons have been learnt from HOT, so actually I would expect a lot more maps and a sub $50 price point.

What do you mean with “departures” ? There are no official number of current
players .. and if you mean Colin .. wasn’t he not “very exited” about how “awesome”
raids and “challenging group content” would be for the game ?

So the only signal could be if Colin in fact has been fired because he lost the vision
and not that he has left because he didn’t liked the direction of the game. Or he
was simply lying to us all the time.

But all in all when i hear only new content we get in the next 6 months is more
raid stuff .. i don’t see there has been learned anything.

DGraves.3720:

SkyShroud.2865:

it is subjective
it really all depends on the overall game design

In what game design are raids good for games? Curious.

In games like Wildstar maybe where everybody knows from the start that
the game is all about raids

On the other hand .. how can raiders show off their stuff if everyone else
is also a raider and has maybe the same .. so … no .. even that isn’t really good.

Next expansion will have ONE map with 6 different layers (and even more lag).
All mobs are elite or champions, because of challenging content ofc. And we
will get 1 new armor set that is only available through the new raid.

All that for the nice price of 100 bucks.

Thas more or less what i actually expect

Raids are the cancer of MMOs.

They are content created for a small minority that feels entitled to get always
better, more exclusive stuff than everyone else, just because they do raids.

And with every new raid the power creep between raiders and non raiders
gets bigger and bigger. (this point ofc is not directly related to GW2)

Also raids are soo much about drama. The drama of people trying to organize
raids and all the drama in our guild also mostly killed it.

Oh and yes .. seeing all the great stuff that raiders get and knowing you will never
ever get, makes some people frustrated after some time and makes them leave the
game. The announcement of legendary armor raid-only was already one of the
last nails in the coffin for me.

On the left or right side of the BLTP there is an NPC where you can exchange it.
The pick must be in your inventory for that.

I can’t say how exicted i am .. this is sooo AWESOME !!!

ohh … wait .. thats what HE normally says

Mostly a driver problem. Download the newest drivers, if you already have them
or they make problems try older.

Standard NVidia problem, that why i use ATI / AMD cards.

Let me guess .. you have an NVidia GPU ?

Arlee.7038:

One of the nice things I am really enjoying about Mastery Points is how I can just wander around maps and explore and stumble on them. It’s always a nice surprise when I randomly get them/find them around. Makes exploring feel more rewarding.

Yeah .. wander around Tyria and suddenly find ALL Ambrite Weapons is always nice.

Oh … wait ..

Empress Alexandria.9126:

Unfortunately, now it keeps downloading the game over and over again. And it changed the file location on the shortcut to temp again. Any way to fix that?

You have not first saved the GW2.exe but directly started it after the download.
In that case the files has been downloaded to your TEMP direectory and installs
the game there.

So .. use “save as” when downloading the file and save it where you want the game
to be installed. Like c:\gw2\games.
Then start the GW2.exe from there manually.

General Health.9678:

You know those “big wait long times”?
We call them “pre-events”
You should do them.
Makes the event more fun.

Best pre-events for me has still Maw Shaman .. it directly leeds from the start to
the boss, and no overlong wait time. While Fire Elemental is just endlos long and
then there is even a stupid waiting time for 2-3 minutes after the pre is done.

Claw of Jormag pre-events are also good btw.

Call the Führer just a “Historical person” ? Wow .. just wow.
Well deserved ban i would say.

The reason when gold disappears magically is normally that the gold was
bought from RMT farmers.

I guess the problem is more that you had a virus on your PC and that has
messed something up with your system.

And then other people always complain GW2 would only use 1 core.

You have Win10 already since 2 years ? o.O

Its maybe a Win10 “feature” ^^

Let me guess ..you have an NVidia GPU ? Those guys throw out unstable
drivers like crazy and maybe 1 of 10 or 20 versions is really stable on most
systems.

So either try older ones until you find a stable one, or google for what version
at the moment is the most stable,

The expansion and the whole change in direction the game took drove me
away from the game. Haven’t played now since 20th december beside logging in
for the daily bonus.

My guild also has more or less died it seems.

As long as you don’t make a server transfer from EU to US or otherwise, you
can still play with the same people. Its in the end all bound to the server you
play on.

Zephyra.4709:

Beldin.5498:

Just rename gw2-64.exe to gw2.exe

Ok I’ll try this out.

Also as others have stated regarding TS3 mine always disconnects literally every 1-2 minutes and I hope it’s not anything to do with Overwolf but that is another problem entirely.

It helped me at least for the fact that it didn’t stayed in front with ge2-64.exe.
After renaming it stayed in front.

Must say i never else used Overwolf but TS3 Overlay .. however that crashes the
client, and since i never had OOM crashes i went back to the 32-bit exe for that
reason.

Swagger.1459:

Behellagh.1468:

It’s death of a thousand paper cuts. Gliding isn’t enough to justify so many core changes that it feels like a different game. I got the expansion just before it went live. I’m running a daredevil now. I’ve unlocked Gliding I. But that’s it. I can no longer play the way I enjoy playing in core Tyria, it’s too abusive. When you don’t bat an eye fighting vets in core Tyria and get repeatedly owned by them in HoT, it’s a distasteful shift in terms of play.

We need CoH 2… That will solve many problems.

Have tried CoH only for some hours and never got in it, but i played CO before
and as an old Diablo 2 player actually i really like Marvel Heroes. Haven’t tried
Daredevil however since i heared he is not that great.

And hey .. if ANet only gives us costumes here anymore, that can i have also there

What did they expected when turning the game from a casual into a hardcore game
and removed everything that so much people loved .. like play the way you want
and no raids .. especially when replacing visual outfits / armor skins with costumes and
more useless armor stats ?

My guild has mostly died since HoT and myself i only login for daily rewards
now since 45 days

I wonder really if ANet has ever heared of the fact that people in the forums don’t
represent the ingame population.

Just rename gw2-64.exe to gw2.exe

GPU drivers of course.

Check with GPU-z if your GPU runs @16x .. if not, reseat GPU.
If that is not the problem, delete your local.dat file.

Check with GPU-z if your GPU runs @16x .. if not, reseat GPU.

IcePhantom.1068:

Note: I totally agree, that it sounds like a hardware problem, but it only occurs with GW2. I can play other hardware demanding games like e.g. City Skylines without running into any problems. What makes me most curious is that GW2 crashes (with blue screen) about 30-40 minutes after starting the game. And although I only tested that once: the 32bit version seemed to crash faster.

Other programs maybe simply don’t use as much memory .. so if your new RAM
is maybe bad in a region that isn’t used by other programs. Thats why i said i
would simply test the old RAM.

Oh and btw. what does the bluescreen message show ? That could also be helpful.

Bluescreens are always related to hardware or driver problems, so i would first
simply go back to your old RAM and look what happens.

At the moment i play a game that runs on Unreal Engine with DX11 and in some
fights with more players it went down do 0.5 FPS .. so much that a higher DX Version
will magically give you endless FPS everywhere and all time.

And even when i port alone fast through some dungeons it sometimes a little laggy.

maddoctor.2738:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Cyninja.2954:

I’d say, give it a week or 2 and see if people addapt or if it is an actual problem.

This. People just need to learn the mechanics. Instead, folks look on ways to bug things out or just complain it is too difficult because they cannot faceroll the content.

Rather sad.

The problem with many encounters in this game is that many people do NOT want to learn the mechanics. Instead they want the mechanics to be about them and their build of choice, instead of them adapting to the mechanics. Which of course doesn’t make any sense. The player adapts to the content, not the content to the player…

Thats maybe what happens if people only hearsince 3 years :
go zerker, use metabattle build, DPS is king, nothing else matters ^^

And if he is beatable without breaking the bar, i have my doubts that people will learn, since most still don’t even know the double damage spot at Clawmag .. even after years and i posted it in chat hundred times. So far in all those years i have only
twice seen it that we got to phase 2 after 1 icewall.

Torture.9156:

I would like to see a mass destruction function to easily destroy all the useless crap, which is about 99% of the loot and bag items imo.

Haha .. in the game i currently play you can set option sliders up to which grade
items are directly either feeded to your pet, if you are leveling one, or else you simply get the NPC price for them.

Wouldn’t work here however, since mostly you salvage all the stuff. So it must be a slider up to wich grade stuff is salvaged, then it must take care of the correct salvage kit and so on .. not soo easy.

Teaniel.9052:

The coat is an RNG drop, the rest is purchased with bandit crests.

You always get one coat when you do Vinewrath the first time. The others are RNG and only available from Vinewrath.

Problem with MAC is, that Cider is a 32-bit windows emulation and so GW2
crashes as soon as it wants more than maybe 1.6 – 1.7 GB ram. And if you
don’t play on minimum settings this happens really fast.

Goatjugsoup.8637:

i feel like someone merged topics incorrectly, isnt this two separate issues (one about instanced content like personal story or living story instances, another about open world maps)?

Or people simply can’t read and just post their complains wildly in rendom threads.