Guild Wars 2

agree in all points with the OP apart from the very last paragraph

I am currently avoiding LA and hope for a fix for some of the issues.

yes i agree, i dont like the spider leg look either.

I was in group, lvl 80 full berserker gear 30/25/x/x/x warrior, in a group, there from the start, stayed alive and didnt get loot twice in a row. If this is because I didnt do enough damage, this is messed up!
People needing to be grouped in order to tag mobs is just bad design in a game that is all about not having to group for open world content in the first place. Seriously.

Fix it so it drops loot for everyone!

I have been in an airship event instance with 2 other people and even alone. Obviously, no chance to succeed. I guess this is a bug?

Since the patch a few minutes ago, the assault knights do not seem to drop loot for everyone anymore. I killed two, did not get any loot out of it. I even stayed until everyone had left to see if i see a corpse or chest but nothing. A lot of people in map chat said the same.

So how do we get into Lion’s arch main now, now that not everyone gets kicked out of the instance every 40 minutes or so? And how do i get out of an underpopulated overflow? Why do we not get moved to the next better overflow once there is space?

This is more worse than Teq, worse than Lornar’s Pass and worse than the last part of living story where the overflows just wouldnt reach 1200 rescues.

After patch i was lucky enough to be in LA main. In the middle of the scarlet fight I crashed to desktop, only to end up in overflow when i logged in shortly after.
I we tried to get the coloured bosses down but we were not even close to being enough people in the zone to get them down in time.
I just logged off at that point.
During whole last week i did not manage to get into LA main even once and I played a lot during the period.
I love the idea of these kind of events, but they really do not work well with the current overflow mechanic.

it happened two times this afternoon that i crashed to desktop. The 2nd time was especially annoying as it happened during the scarlet event in the airship. It is really annoying because I spent some time getting access to the airship and then some more time fighting her.

Is it really not possible to allow us to return to our instance if logging in again instantly?

I think it needs to be scaled up, too. Zoomed out i cant even see it.

the overflow situation is really ruining my enjoyment.
For one, all evening I did not manage to get into one zone with my fiance. Second, for 7 hours I was rescuing citizens but not once were the overflows able to manage to rescue 1200.
No matter if it is Teq or LA., once players are in overflow, most of them do not even seem to try. They are just used to it failing no matter how much they personally invest.
When I asked in map chat why nobody seems to try to rescue, I got responses like “because it is overflow” and “it does not help that we don’t have commanders”.

Seriously, something has to change! Overflows need to be better managed, guesting better controlled (priority for players on their home server), events where possible need to scale better. Distribute the players evenly to different overflows and then scale or something.

Events should always awards attempts and events like LA should reward players better for rescuing citizens. At the moment it is more rewarding to go champ hunting in LA and hope that other people will reach the goal of 1200!

When I returned to the game in january, i could not understand people who complained about the overflow because i think in theory it is a kitten good idea and serves a really good purpose. Over the last weeks though, I grew really really tired of this.
Something has to change.

the overflow management, guesting and the queueing is annoying as hell. I think overflows and guesting are a good idea in general but how is it handled at the moment is just not working well. Guests flood servers like Deso, then desos can not play on their home server and end up in an overflow that has too little players to succeed.
I dont feel like the probabiliy for good loot from Teq (as example) is high enough to justify daily camping of 1 to 2 hours.

Either guesting / overflow management needs to change or events like Teq need to scale down when there are less players around.

I would really appreciate some kind of official statement to the fact that for a few days now so many people are suddenly getting throttled by different providers.

If it exists, could someboy please point me to it?

1. Mesmer
2. Ele
3. Necro

Warriors need a good look at too> High DPS paired with high mobility, high heals every tick and heavy armor?

sirsquishy.8531:

I doubt the game maker can do anything to fix your issue. You need to poll all the users affected by this together and contact BT to get it resolved.

If they are infact rate limiting the packets for GW2, the data stream is so small they should be able to see that their rate limit is unnecessary (as opposed to Bit Torrent). They simply need to look at the queued CoS buckets they are rate-limiting by to see the tail-drops vs the red-drops to see that its not needed.

As the OP said, RIFT had the same problem and iirc BT didnt do anthing until they were contacted by Trion back then. The only difference is that for Trion it happened at launch, so the amount of upset users was probably bigger.

One of the annoying aspects is that the [insert any ISP] support is so bad. They try to blame it on a local problem with the clients hardware, software etc and offer you to send out a support guy that they will charge you for. They can do that because most customers can not argue their case well because they are lacking the technical knowledge / language.
I know how throttling of an MMO feels but I have no clue what CoS is.

according to BT themselves, they do not trottle infinity option 2 if your contract is younger than a year. That explains why not every single BT infinity user might have the same issue. It is still a problem for many players though.
Today after camping Teq on my home server deso for 2 hours, the fight started and the latency kicked in. You can imagine the frustration. I did long before I could see any combat happening and couldnt do anything but exiting the game.

I do think it would be good if more BT users with latency problems responded to the threat at https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity-Speed-Connection/BT-throttling-online-games-guild-wars-2-all-the-sudden/m-p/1167366#M127329

We also called BT and spoke to a supervisor. Apparently they have now knowledge of changing anything and are wondering if GW2 / anet have changed anything that could result in throttling, they also said they might have to be in touch with anet (took much convincing though that this is not only a problem of ONE client). I havent been on the phone myself, so I do not know all the details.

I would love to be able to store my builds.
And if not, please give us a separate build for WVW (just as we have a separate one for spvp)

skills that unsummon your pets / illusions do not make sense to me.
Phantasmal Mastermind? Would a mastermind of phantasms really delete his offense first?
Probably depends on the damage output of (possibly) new elite but it sounds like another useless spell to me.

no

I really do not want to see mounts in gw2

BT users, please check this out https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity-Speed-Connection/BT-throttling-online-games-guild-wars-2-all-the-sudden/m-p/1167348/highlight/false#M127326

We have 2 internet lines, BT and Sky. Game is unplayable with BT (9pm uk time), Sky works fine. We are going to complain to BT

I only like the underwater water one

now im even more concerned about thieves

How can it be justified that objectivs like walls or trebuchets are immune to condition damage?
I run a high condition damage build atm and it takes me really long to take down objectives. I can understand that a trebuchet can not bleed but why can’t it burn?
So many of our skills are either condition damage or have condition damage attached to it.

I think it gets even worse when we meet mobs that are immune to burning.
(And dont get me started with burning in public events..)

you guys are crazy, this is one of the best auction house systems if not the b est system.
Its awesome that you can sale stuff from everywhere.

People put up trash? really? maybe they havent understood the broker costs yet.

The broker isnt broken!

Nex.1984:

He isn’t talking about selling a full set of the dungeon gear for gems. He is only asking if they could just sell the SKIN of the armor. Selling the real set of armor or only the skin and a VERY big difference. You people need to read the OP post and not just the title.

yes he is asking for the skin but in this game it seems you farm for the skins rather than the stats, since the stats you can easily get from crafted gear.

I think some people chose elementalist because they wanted a damage dealing mage but didnt want to role a pet class or a mesmer (havent played one yet but seems very supporty and CC-y to me).

I have the same problem as you. I was told its because the events bug out. I believe that is true because I came across a lot of bugged ones during the last days

Broken events is what bothers me most atm, especially in the top level zones without hearts. I hope we hear something about this soon.

It would be nice if the mobs had more hitpoints / scale up better, would make it more fun as well.

its been a few days since i even found the last big event in Orr! Mostly i see broken events in the high level zones which makes lvl 80 PVE really boring.
Is that a server problem rather than a general one? I am on Desolation.

edit: just when i wanted to give up and jumped in front of the NPCs in pure frustration, I noticed that a lot of jumping made them move and i could advance my quest.
This worked several times. Almost as if they couldnt see me unless i jumped.

They are stuck for me too, restarting the instance, relogging etc wont fix it.