No – big zergs mean more information coming through your connection. Your PC might not be able to handle all the data coming though.
This still has nothing to do with skill lag unless you are using a 56k modem from the moon or something (and DX9 or your CPU has nothing to do with it either btw).
The server skill queue get clogged by client requests and take longer to send out responses, hence your skill activation lags. Nothing more to it.
It does make a difference. If you think it doesn’t you are kidding yourself.
Turn down your graphics also. That really lowers lag. The more information that comes in, the more lag you get.
People like to blame the servers but it is also 50% their machine.
I’m worried this is just another form of power creep so anyone could instantly switch to the best build for a given situation. I also play several different professions and the amount of gear grind would be insane to keep up with players who only play one profession/character.
As I said, in PvP, GvG, HoH, FA, JQ you couldn’t switch unless you where in the lobby. I think if they put this in place the same rules should apply.
Oh does it not have as many players as a 4 link again?
I was on BG and no it does not. Mag, JQ, and TC have more players than BG, playing REAL WvW. If you count EotM, which the server population does, then they are equal.
People don’t factor in their connections and the servers in between A.Net and themselves. I know for a fact there are US players on that server who have less lag then their EU counterparts but we in the US usually have faster connections. People need to check what is going on between the game servers and their PC before they blame A.Net. When I was having lag, I found a server in between, one of my ISP servers was dropping 50% of the packets. That needs to be looked at first.
A.Net has done a lot to lower lag in the game. BUT, they could do better.
Also this game is not multithreaded as it uses one core on a CPU and will hog that, so if that CPU core is at 100% usage, that will also cause lag.
I agree. Its easy to blame Anet.
I know ppl won’t believe this but mine is fine… only get some lag occasionally in very big fights like in SMC and I live in Australia which is apparently crap….. so yep I think its ur ISP, computer or something in between.
The same easy as blaming their ISPs and that’s getting old.
You are ignoring a simple fact: when all the lag, disconnects and kittens only happens when there is other zerg (and mostly condition based) around there is no logical explanation that can justify your argument.
Fortunately I’m a guy that professionally works with this things and i know the difference between a crappy wifi in a 90’s copper pair DSL to an cabled fiber optic.
i have a ping of 32 (optical fiber) and even then i get skill lag of up 3 seconds. Anet needs to upgrade their bottom tier servers and\or improve how the game handle communications with the players.
Obviously the actual system doesn’t work and it’s only getting worse because the aspects that aggravate them only are growing exponentially.
No – big zergs mean more information coming through your connection. Your PC might not be able to handle all the data coming though.
My connection has 12 jumps to just the A.Net account server. That is 15 points where anything can fail and it is not under mine or A.Net’s control.
Just because you have fiber to your house, doesn’t mean the rest of the cable to your house is that. I have had fiber before and it still has issues as it depends how good the equipment is to back it up.
Granted, this game engine is outdated and needs to be optimized better. The other issue is this game only uses one CPU core, period. If the core it is using is maxed out, you will get lag. Also, this game uses DX 9.0C, so it really doesn’t use much power of the GPU, mostly it uses CPU and can get bound up pretty quickly.
I remember when they brought this into gw1. It was a massive QoL improvement that was popular with everyone. No idea why it wasn’t carried over to gw2 from the beginning.
Because you could not use it in PvP/Gvg/HoH/AB/FA at all unless you were in the lobby. That is why ALL builds have some area where they are vulnerable. It was only allowed in PvE towns, not in the instances unless you leveled up.
Maguuma built its army from BG drops. our server has more fully ascended geared players and owners of precursors than any other server ty to BG.
Who cares. All y’all know how to do is blob. They should change the name of your server to BLOBUUMA . Y’all blob down even one to 5 players, pretty hysterical really. And, you have to have spies or you can’t win.
Nope, the lag is real. Especially over the last couple of weeks we’ve noticed a lot more lag, and skill lag, even when you arent near a zerg fight. The number of players getting disconnects, the number of players getting stuck on the loading screen when they use a waypoint, and now players who get disconnected and cannot log back into the game, just a black screen!
Things are definitely getting really bad now! And where is anet with their “awesome” communication?! “WvW has been given unprecedented levels of communication, interaction, and engagement in recent months.” Well, where is this communication?! Surely you werent just talking about the silly polls!!! 90% of the threads on the first page are complaints, all of which have not had a reply from a dev or mod!
Check your connection seriously. I do. Remember you do not have a direct connection to game server, you have to be directed there.
People don’t factor in their connections and the servers in between A.Net and themselves. I know for a fact there are US players on that server who have less lag then their EU counterparts but we in the US usually have faster connections. People need to check what is going on between the game servers and their PC before they blame A.Net. When I was having lag, I found a server in between, one of my ISP servers was dropping 50% of the packets. That needs to be looked at first.
A.Net has done a lot to lower lag in the game. BUT, they could do better.
Also this game is not multithreaded as it uses one core on a CPU and will hog that, so if that CPU core is at 100% usage, that will also cause lag.
Well, just depends on the server. IF FA starts losing, they stop playing (as does TC and BG – been on all 3). Also with the new scoring system the 2 -1 – 1 point system, which is the stupidest thing A.NET has done, if you are not 1st in the match the other 2 spots don’t matter because you get the same amount of points.
Mesmers are the actors and rulers of Tyria. The Queen Jennah is a Mesmer. So, yes they are the fancy ones
Even in GW1, they had the fanciest looking armor and Male Mesmer’s looked like Dandys. Here is a GW1 – in GH getting ready for some ORIGINAL DRAGON BALL (well called Lightning Ball) it was a one hit game.
So, yes, mesmers are fancy due to the lore and history of the game.
The server I am on has TS3 spies and tag watchers from the other servers we hve been playing against. They already have more people than the server I am on, so they end up blobbing us down right outside of our spawn. It is ridiculous.
Mag is overpopulated, when you can run 70 man blob 24/7 that is overpopulated. That and Mag is known to have spies on the other servers against them and in their TS. Kind of sad, they blob and use spies?
Why should A.Net care? Bandwagoning pays their bills, the more bandwagoning, the more money they get. After all, most use RL money to buy gems for the transfer.
Just lower damage for condi’s or let toughness also lower condi damage as well as power damage. Lower the max amount that can be applied and do not let AoE fields be overlapped or placed on top of one another. If they do, then they cancel each other out. That would fix everything.
Memsers are fine where they are. No need to buff something that could be overly used. That is why Boons were nerfed on mesmers. I mean groups having 2 minutes of resistance, etc.? that was ridiculous.
I like the desert BL – nothing wrong with it at all. It is a great place to fight with many chokes to use, do it is easier to string out blobs and kill them with a smaller force. It is also easier to get around Sentries, etc. as it is not as linear and boring as ABL or EBG.
Learn to play the BL before complaining about it.
Yes, they need to fix some of the flaws but there are flaws in every BL
I just wish they would delete or fix the OP AC’s shooting through walls, etc. first.
All siege needs a nerf and arrow carts should just be removed from the game. I mean last night my guild was trying to take the JQ SMC and at the gate, I counted 10 arrow carts on one inner gate and this didn’t include the arrow carts on the 3rd floor of SMC raining down on us. It makes it impossible for smaller groups to actually do anything.
A.Net take out, all siege but flame rams and catapults and the game will get back to being fun again because there won’t be siege humping.
I guess all A.net wants is blob on blob, well that leaves out ALL of the lower tier servers.
No the game mode was ruined with Tactivators (banners, Air attack, emergency WP – which can be put in low end towers?), hardened gates, siege and Lords, and of course shield gens. Now they want to add siege repair kits? This type of garbage only helps the servers who blob and hump siege and don’t really know how to fight.
A.Net has killed WvW and many of the good players will be leaving shortly. It doesn’t even take any skill to play any more. Just blob and win. This is what A.Net thinks will work, well, they killed this game mode hard.
Well, A.Net really knows how to kill their own game. If you want only 2 game play modes in a game, maybe you should have actually designed it with 2 not 3.
With all the junk you have put into WvW, the blob mentality servers win and ever other server dies. By the time you realize what is going on you will only have 3 server left playing WvW and none of them, fight. They just sit on siege.
GET RID OF ALL the garbage – tactivators, shield gens, trebs, arrow carts (which you haven’t fixed BTW and can still fire through walls, etc.) and, this siege repair kit.
Now you want the blob servers to have open field cannons too? Do you even play the game? Try a server that doesn’t blob and see how it is on the other foot.
Get rid of arrow carts, trebs, shield gens, and all the tactivators.
For example, my server is currently fighting JQ, which has a blobs and k-trains 24/7. They even have one Commander account that is shared between 6 people so theis account is on 20 hrs a day – they brag about this on other forums. Why even play when they put so much siege up you can’t even fight. Now they are going to be able to fix that siege also?
A.NET – you are killing WvW for the players that like to fight and giving it to the blob mentality servers. If you want WvW to die, you are doing a fantastic job of killing it.
One word YES. All the current crap going on in WvW is because larger servers are pushing what they want. Soon it will only be them in WvW with no one to fight against.
Just remove Arrow carts, banners, and shield generators and the game will be fine. Right now it is ludicrous to try to cap anything so sieges up – so things are left alone and blobs hide behind siege.
I really wish people would stop whining. We wanted the old bl’s back and we got them. We wanted stability changes and we got them. We wanted something to be done about the lack of players in wvw and we got it. We’re going to get a change to how scoring is done because we want it.
People whine about leaked patch notes like it’s some kind of insider trading that needs the SEC to investigate. No, it’s not. Everyone saw the leaked notes. Everyone had the same chance to take advantage of that information. If your server didn’t that’s your problem, not Anet’s and most certainly not the players on other servers.
I’m really not sure what people expect at this point?
I agree. This is beta people. A.Net is using us to figure out what to do by looking at reams of data.
Round 3.5 years late though……
At least they are trying. What other company would actually try to fix things this late in the game?
This lack of credit for loot is apparently true for all condition damage in WvW, of which necro marks appear to be 100% condi damage with bleeds, horrors, poison, etc.
BULL. I run a condi-reaper and have no issues getting bags. I think you are not targeting the right people.
I also ran a condi Mesmer and got more bags than I could hold.
