Guild Wars 2

Unhelpful. Occam’s Razor would agree. That isn’t to say there couldn’t be underlying hardware issues or to have a debate over how software can overheat hardware, only to say that it is not coincidental that so many people suddenly flood these forums with the same issue after the patch. It is extremely frustrating to install a patch and suddenly experience these issues only to be told by some person on the Internet that it is a hardware issue.

Aridia,
Please re-read the last sentence of my original post.

Kyllaa,
I submitted the output of Game Advisor and ArenaNet.log to support with all the details because it is clearly a game patch issue. I do not find it coincidental that people posting here with the same problem all have an Nvidia card. Every time there is a patch with a graphics change, Nvidia card owners seem to get screwed. Game ran fine for me since release on auto-detect graphics settings until culling was removed. That was the first time I had to lower my graphics settings WAY down and from then on I have always monitored temperature and fps. This patch is now the second time, which is what makes it so frustrating.

For reference for people reading this, my laptop is an Origin PC 15-S Pro, only 1 year old. The CPU is Intel i7-3720QM, 16G of RAM, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I am sad to report that after about 20-30 minutes of play tonight, the system shutdown. I monitored the temperature while I could. It was 102-103C the whole time. I took video of my gameplay experience with the graphics options ui open and will post it later. Seven FPS just from standing still. That ain’t right. Ain’t right at all.

I may try with the Nvidia beta driver tomorrow.

Reading through other similar topics, the common thread seems to be Nvidia cards. Why you have no love for Nvidia, Anet?

How do you run a repair?

SolarNova,

Your post is extremely unhelpful. Do not disrespect the facts that are being reported to you by the original poster. GW2 cannot alter fan speeds, but it can place greater demands on the hardware than it did before.

I’m also noticing that the game is running 4-6 degrees hotter on the graphics card than before.

I have Nvidia 675M on a laptop that is only 1 year old. On lowest settings I am used to getting around 30-40 fps in WvWvW.

Tonight I basically cannot play. Framerate is averaging 12 fps just from standing still. And yes, I already reset the graphics options back to low.

This is gonna be so kittenolololololo…..

Does necro lose stability while in Lich form?

Somehow I don’t think it is supposed to be stripped either considering the fact that it isn’t a normal boon. It is not affected by boon duration since it only lasts as long as the transform. Would love there to be a dev answer on this.

Maiden England.3491:

there most definitely are organized zergs. maybe not in fort aspenwood, but its not even debated whether there actually are or not.

Hard to take sweeping statements without well-reasoned explanations seriously. I don’t believe the other guy making a distinction, Deniara Devious, is on Fort Aspenwood either.

What Soryuju just wrote is very honest, explains a great deal why engineer is hard to play in larger fights, and echos my own observations.

P.S. I’ve been using Elixir X. It is the only really good and reliable access to stability that the engineer has. The least Anet can do is prevent that stability from being stripped while transformed.

Hehe, I play some alts, but I would never give up the engineer!

I don’t think it happens with Mortar though.

Is the stability granted by Rampage form supposed to be susceptible to boon stripping?

There is movement in that department at NERF… We’re slow, but there is movement.

They are in the gem store.

Maiden England.3491:

Chaba.5410:

I think it is important to make that distinction, because when someone writes “organized zerg” I just have to laugh.

you must’ve never seen one then

Because there aren’t any. As size increases, the frequency of undisciplined actions increase. Zergs can be semi-organized in that a commander calls for fields and blasts, but they usually are a mess. Someone always manages to drop the wrong field and just forget trying to drop the right field in the middle of a battle. A zerg always manages to become amorphous on a field. Maybe some in the zerg are using VOIP which gives the appearance of organized play. Most in a zerg are not and, given enough numbers, do not need to be.

Compare with organized groups who strive to remain disciplined and coordinate on VOIP. Wrong fields and formation issues are mistakes in these kinds of groups rather than a feature.

Another distinguishing feature is that in a zerg, people don’t know what builds others are running while in an organized group, members should know each others builds. I’m talking about beyond just a zerg field commander calling for all warriors to run battle standard, etc.

Let’s see who can activate a single skill the best.

I think it is important to make that distinction, because when someone writes “organized zerg” I just have to laugh.

Oh yea? You dropped so much loot I had to buy a second account just to store it all. My daddy can beat up your daddy! I’m not inviting you to my birthday party either!

Pitch and lead look real good on the metal parts. I used spitfire and another red that I can’t remember atm. The yellow is harvest gold.

I like this match-up for nothing else than to be witness to JQ’s first-time experience with Maguuma forum warriors.

P.S. Zoel is god emperor of FA

Hockey.2417:

Score update, almost as pathetic as FA and Mag forum trolling

Maybe you shouldn’t post pics of an FA guild running “skured” from a “few” asura? Just a suggestion.

Jhawk.1360:

oh no FA has 25 at ruin trebbing, wall is like 10% :O Better call in 60 JQ, patheitc XD LOL
like TC’s older brother :P But i find it funny. With their strength in numbers and coverage it’s hard to tell if they have skill or they’re just karma zerging zombies

You forgot the bit about calling in their 60 after the two failed portal bomb attempts. Yep… portal bomb TWICE right in the middle of us. We wouldn’t see that coming. Hurr hurr hurr…

Look here, now. It’s Ironman armor. It has to be engineer.

I feel as though it was always meant for the engineer.

Jazzpaws.2675:

starylight.9540:

it’s a disater for this match-up and horrible to get fun in WVW.
Why did arena make a stupid match-up roll?That calls WVW to die.

^ this. But in a way, FA brings it on themselves by trash talking so much in the forums. IMO it fuels the SEA players even more. People may think they don’t read these but they do.

^ This is one of those perception-based posts. The first page of this topic was filled with trash-talking by everyone but FA members. An FA member finally chimes in on the second page with a negative opinion about this match-up in general and not trash-talking. With a bias like this, I’m not going to change this person’s mind, but at least I can show that it is a bias and nothing rooted in actual facts.

FA began a coordinated rally and push by major guilds Tuesday during NA timezone that continued to gain momentum for the rest of the match. DB didn’t.

I play a lot of WvWvW and not so much s/tPvP and I can tell you that you still need some amount of toughness in your build, whether through gear or through the traitline, because your mitigation skills like blinds and cc will all be on cooldown eventually (Thank you Anet for giving engineer an escape via Rocket Boots!). You are NOT going against onesies-twosies opponents like in PvP. You WILL blow all the tools at your disposal at the optimum times and STILL have to deal with more. That little extra toughness, extra vitality, that Stabilized Armor or Leg Mods, will save you while you wait 1-2 more seconds for your FT #5 blind or static shield to be off cooldown.

I want a proton pack; maybe a slime blower too.

http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content07/backpack-laser-proton-pack.jpg

I feel the same way a lot of times and it is due to our lack of good access to stability. We have to mitigate by toughing it out and constantly healing up.

I read Taugrim’s keybinding guide and made my own utilizing the principles he outlines: http://taugrim.com/2011/04/07/guide-to-strafing-movement-and-keybindings/ Basically the idea is to be able to move and activate skills at the same time. I use my thumb a lot more. Lay healing turret by double-tapping with thumb then quickly detonate with the pinky all while moving forward with the middle finger.

Green is movement: fwd, back, strafing (Taugrim doesn’t backpedal but uses that for dodge. I never got used to using a dodge key.)
Purple are class mechanic skills (F2-F4 are arranged right to left!)
Yellow is utility slot skills (also ordered right to left, you can see it on my videos!)
Red are weapon skills.
Orange is elite.
Bright blue is healing.
Tab is swap weapons and the other dull blue keys are related to targeting and interaction.

All camera related movement is done on the mouse. About face is bound to a mouse button.

Tested on engineer, mesmer, necro, guardian, and warrior.

We at NERF have been holding weekly WvWvW nights now. Here are some recent videos from our escapades. I apologize to those in Germany and Japan who may not be able to see the first video due to music content owner restrictions.

For some reason it seems cut off. Supposed to be longer than 5 mins?

I find it ironic that the zephyr sanctum pack is popular amongst, especially, non-engineers! The first time I saw it, a ranger was sporting it and I had to do a double-take because I thought he was an engineer. Some people like the hobosack look and skins like the zephyr sanctum sack would still meet that look.

It would not make sense to me if like the flamethrower or elixir gun were a fanny pack. There’s no reason why such kit backpacks have to look like a hobosack. A proton pack does not look like a hobosack.

Fuzzion.2504:

Chaba.5410:

PoweredByRice.3517:

We accept cookies as bribes. =)

Chaba.5410:

Remember JQ, the outcome of this match is decided by you.

My mother-in-law makes the best cookies. Chocolate chip and a variety of traditional Hungarian goodies. Where do I send?

Send the cookies to me but keep you mum in law

Gladly. She’s one of those mother-in-laws you’d actually want!

PoweredByRice.3517:

We accept cookies as bribes. =)

Chaba.5410:

Remember JQ, the outcome of this match is decided by you.

My mother-in-law makes the best cookies. Chocolate chip and a variety of traditional Hungarian goodies. Where do I send?

Remember JQ, the outcome of this match is decided by you.

1. Grab a deck of index cards.
2. Write an engineer skill on a card, one per card, and sort them by healing, utility, and elite.
3. Shuffle one pile of cards then spread them out
4. Flip over three utility cards and slot the skills.
5. Flip over one healing card and slot the skill.
6. Flip over one elite card and slot the skill.

That should be pretty quirky.

For extra RNG, do the same with traits.

Wotah.2975:

Essence Snow.3194:

Wotah.2975:

Essence Snow.3194:

Lighten up on the zoom hacks…it’s getting excessive.

Many “zoom hacks” are merely the way you can place siege and look into holes of doors. Some use Eyefinity, and some are legitimate.

Not knowing where you’re from, who you’re talking about, or what instance you’re talking about really put a dampener on trying to find out which it is.

The rules of this forum prevent me from saying too much. There are definite ac zoom hacks being used. For example: hitting lords room of Cliffside from in front of gate outside of range of ac above gate…….or….hitting poi at bay from outsideof nw inner gate

I could possibly see the Cliffside one, but the Bay one doesn’t seem right at all.

There’s some sort of map problem at Bay that allows AC fire through from a point at nw inner gate into the Lord’s room. Whenever FA has fought TC, we’ve typically lost Bay due to that AC fire at that location.

Wotah.2975:

eithinan.9841:

yesfourme.8906:

FA is not even trying. And when they try, I feel they team with JQ to beat on DB

hmmmmm…Nope, I dont know what you are talking about.

I was there during that. Why would we fight each other at that point? We just wanted to knock on the door and give fierce snuggles to you on DB.

And hey if the WP collapsed during the process oopsy!

I was there during that too (it was fun!). Was more JQ wanting to team with FA, not FA wanting to team with JQ.

Engineer is the clutch profession. It also specializes in combos.

I used gadgets a lot months ago then started using kits and elixirs. I use either rocket boots or slick shoes now since they started rocking with that patch.

Why are people so obsessed over charr or asura for engineer? It is so cliche. Roll sylvari! We have plant turrets!

Engineers are the clutch profession.

I’d love to use the Mortar more. This is why I can’t.

Penguin.5197:

The thing chabs is we usually just focus on wvw. I dont think theres any harm to get spvp players from any server since we all end up in the same place

I don’t mind either TBH. You know some of the non-FA members join us on guild bounties too.

NERF has been around since January, started as an all-sever engineer guild, then about two months ago we restricted new membership to FA only. Why? Realistically, only the FA chapter worked to grow the guild. Other servers only have like one or two members.

If you are interested in coming to FA, we’d be happy to help with that. If not, I see no harm in adding you as one of the non-FA members. You just won’t receive any guild benefits since Anet’s all-server guild support is annoying.

zhonnika.1784:

I know I generally only see one big ol group. Have your main group off doing X, and your second group doing Y. It requires both groups to tighten up their play, as obviously you have less numbers, but you can get more accomplished than when you’re confined to one large group. You’re essentially hitting multiple objectives at once, and forcing the opposing team to choose which they wanna save. Pretty much being a pain in the butt.

Respectfully,
Mother Superior, her Grace, Zhonnika
(I love my guildies, I love my guildies… maybe if I keep repeating it…)

Yea, that’s pretty much how FA gave TC a very hard time on TCBL last matchup’s reset. The TC presence there just ran around in one big blob. TC has “natural clumping” as my guild used to call it.