Guild Wars 2

The prices you get mostly are just bits and bytes, which don’t cost ANet anything.
The fact that the same kind of tournament will be in several month also doesn’t make this tournament that special.

The occasions where you can use the finishers in PvE are that small, I wouldn’t account them for the consideration.
And for WvW, I don’t care that much, especially, as WvW players don’t have acces to the rank finishers unless they play spvp.

You get a freaking* Legendary out of this tournament, so I’d regard this as special enough.

*the team “freaking” is only related to Legendaries via pvp, since everybody having enough skill to get into the finals of the tournament proably would already have 2+ Legendaries if he would have invested his time into PvE instead of PvP.

@OP
Yes, Mesmer has 4 F-skills, while thief only has1.
But guess, which class is more viable in PvP.
In addition, most Mesmers only condi remove also is Lyssa. But MI has at least twice the CD of Basilisk Venom.
Mesmers access to stability is almost as poor as the thieves.

I don’t play mutch WvW, but maybe an “Assassin” Build is just not appropriate for larger group fights?

Nineaxis.1826:

• For each arena match completed without abandonment, one stack of Dishonorable is removed, if the match lasts longer than seven minutes (the current threshold for full rewards). This would prevent players with Dishonorable from intentionally throwing matches in order to remove stacks faster.

How about “For each arena match won”?
Prevents afking.

But what I also would rly appreciate is, that after a DC, the game doesn’t load anymore the HotM first.
When you have a DC while a game, this is rly annoying, as it costs time.

Viking Jorun.5413:

Er, no. You must have missed the part where I chained Sic ’Em into Point-Blank Shot to get him out of refuge and force him to run. That’s a counter.

Great!
I don’t even have to argue with you!
You rely on the ONLY skill in the game, which counters stealth by applying revealed.
Yup, Sic’Em is a counter to stealth. But it’s the only one in GW2.

With your post, you basicly advertise for more anti stealth skills in the game.
I would rly welcome this.

By the way:
Sic’Em prevented him to stealth via the black powder + HS combo and he also couldn’t enter the Shadow Refuge then due to revealed.
Not to mention, that from your point of view, you couldn’t even see that he used Shadow refuge. When you turned around, it was already there. When the thief used shadow refuge, he wasn’t even on your screen.

Yeay! Shaving!
Lets reduce the CD, powerblock sets skills about 8%!

Viking Jorun.5413:

2m44s. Thieves have counterplay, but it requires well-timed execution of your skills, not simply mashing buttons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmJ_kCNNCOs

Srsly?

This is your example. I wont question the skill of the player.

BUT:

1. The thief might have had ~75% HP and also probalby not full initiative, as well as maybe not all utlities up.
2. The ranger had everything of CD and even used his 120s cd skill
3. The thief decided to come back. He could easily have escaped, without the giving the Ranger a chance of catching him
4. I’m pretty sure, that most of the damage the thief got, was by the ranger pets. The ranger just almost only used his evades (2x Sword 2, Sword 3), while his pet damaged the thief. He played a Power BM Build. His pet was what killed the thief. The player mostly only evaded.

The only “counter” in this is" spam more evades than the thief while your pet kills him.

MarkPhilips.5169:

I think Llama Finisher needs to stay exclusive for this tournament.

What’s the point to partecipite to these tournaments if every single player can buy these rewards on gem store or grinding them.

PvP players deserve more unique rewards, a reward can’t have an high value if everyone can get it.

But pvp is also the only place, where you can use the finisher.
In addition it’s in the gem shop, so ANet won’t cut their eventual earnings.
Also, if I read the announcement right, you only have to win the first round for getting the finisher.
placing #32 doesn’t justify a unique finisher.

Kenshin.6154:

So here is a thought. What if instead of getting a region specific unique skin for completing the region reward track, there would be like a token for that region which could be combined with other region tokens to make one gift of exploration.

I totally support this.
But might be a little to easy.
However, they should be ways to get the gift via pvp.

Renny.6571:

lel

If it enables my Mesmer to shoot lightnings out of his fingertips and schock my enemies to death, I totally gonna put all of my hate into this.
Join the dark side -get a viable Mesmer build.

I also rly love how “equal” different professions are handled in this game.

New Warrior Trait “Burst Precision” gives 100% critchance for burstskills.
Quote by the Devs: “We made it 100%. If it turns out to be to strong, we’ll nerf it”.

On the other side, we have Triumphant Distortion, which was said to have no cooldown and what do we end up with?

Being objective. Ever heard of it ANet?

You can.
You just have to use one of the tomes of knowlege to levelup.

But still, it sucks.

Fix all the bugs making mesmer good, but fix none of the bugs which give them a disadvantage.

Yea…

SrebX.6498:

EverythingEnds.4261:

But the other 7 professions usally aren’t the ones which hardcounter mesmers.

When you saw the trait’s description for the first time in it’s reveal a few weeks ago, did you honestly think this was going to put thieves on CD? Did you forget how interrupts work in this game?
I agree it should do something like reducing some of their initiative, but cd isn’t even a part of their mechanics…

Nobody expected Power Block to put thief skills on CD.
But there’s no reason to complain about a counter mechanics, even it wasn’t intended.

But the other 7 professions usally aren’t the ones which hardcounter mesmers.

Just make stuff easier to aquire via PvP also is no proper solution.
Otherwise, PvE players would complain, or start to farm PvP.

A proper solution might be, to make a far bigger progress increase in the reward tracks, if you win.
In addition, it might also depend (for the arenas) to tie the progress with the “MMR” of the Match.
PvE gets easier, the better you get. But given proper Matchmaking, PvP wont. So the winners of the battle between Team Ladder Nr. 1-10 should progress more in the tracks than the winners of 2 teams which players having 30%.

This is so lame.
A already was disappointed when I read the patch notes for Mesmers, which contained ZERO balancing and only bug fixes…from witch at least the half didn’t even work.

How long is it, that Mesmer has seen the last “intentional” buff by ANet?
It seems, the only buffs we get are bugs like Confounding Suggestions + Chaos Storm bug or now Power Block.

Without damaging interrupts, Lockdown Mesmers would be awfull, as they would lacke a lot of damage.
In addition, Interrupting “key skills” is often rly hard in this game (no castbars, effect spam, asuras) and also often impossible (Healing Signet, Withdraw, Shelter, Flanking Strike).

Eve.1580:

EverythingEnds.4261:

Eve.1580:

Although, this way if you don’t want to do said dungeon you don’t have to.. but it wouldn’t make much sense to make PvP a replacement for PvE, and I don’t think that’s their intentions. I hope they make it hard as hell to get PvE armor through PvP. It makes the ride more fun.

1. They made PvP a replacement for PvE within the moment, the unified the skins. If you have to wear “PvE” items in PvP, it there should be similar effective ways to get the stuff via PvP.
2. Wtf is PvE armor for you? The DELETED PvP armors, so basicly every armor is PvE. And why would sth be more fun, just because of you make it more grindy.

I also don’t know how long it took to design those reward tracks, but in my opinion, they aren’t well thought at all.
Arah and CoF show, that it makes no sense to make the progess in all reward tracks similar fast.
Nobody who owns a pve char will probably ever do the CoF track, as the time it consumes is a multiple of the time it takes to get the same stuff via a dungeon.

Dude… Ever played GW1? Its the exact same system (not the tracks the armors for pvp) they give you a VERY SMALL amount of armors.. And if you want to look pretty, pve for a short amount of time. I don’t believe it has ever been expected before GW2 to look prettier by PvPing. They’re going down the normal path. Want to look pretty, go PvE! Want to just PvP? We’re not stopping you! Go for it! Want to look pretty and PvP? Awesome! Use the money you get (which is alot) from PvPing and buy some skins.

I don’t get why the hell all of you guys are complaining about something so trivial?

Okay I get it.. They’re not awarding you infinite lives, a magic flute that’ll get you to zhitan, or a tank when you press certain buttons .. But a game is about the journey, if you don’t want to work for accomplishments, MMORPGs are not for you. Getting rewarded for PvPing, is an extra thing to reward the PvPers for doing what they were going to do anyways, kill people.. Virtually speaking.

Dude… No, I didn’t play GW1.
But have you ever played GW2 PvP before April 15th?
Before the patch, the amount of skins you could get from PvP was probably 2-3 times as much, as it is now with the dungeon tracks.

And you definitifly don’t get “A LOT” of money out of PvP.

Also don’t keep talking crap about “the journey” or “working for accomplishments”. Even in PvE you don’t get dungeon stuff via “the journey”. You have to farm the dungeon until you have your stuff. And do you rly think PvP is easier than PvE? Dungeons usually don’t change. CoF p1 etc. will always be the same, no matter how often you do it. But in PvP, the teams you fight changes. Bosses don’t adapt your playstyle or try to counter it, the enemies in PvP do.
If you rly think, farming dungeons is harder work than playing pvp, then you do sth. wrong. Or maybe, the only image of PvP you have is WvW Karma train or playing 10 vs. 10 Hot Join Zerg.

Your last argument also doesn’t make sense. PvPers are killing ppl anyways, so they don’t need rewards? What about the PvE side? Those wouldn’t do dungeons, bosses and events anyways?

a t s e.9614:

Asomal.6453:

Ele if you want to improve or are good
Mesmer if you want to be carried by easy mode AI

Pretty much this, mesmer is faceroll class, ele is not.

Says the main warrior

As PW got nerfed, it seems like a lot of thieves switched back to S/D.
Thank god for that. Such a difference.

The last time I did PvE, I got 1 gold out of 1 run of CoF. This took me ~10 minutes.
So how is this equal to PvP?
You probably wont will all 4 matches and 30 minutes for 4 matches seems very optimistic.

About Zaithan Shards, I’d like to quote my guild mate from today?
Him: “Do you get Zaithan shards out of the tracks?”
Me: “Yes, I got 240 out of the full track”
Him: “Nah, I get them faster via arah”

I think, a hard problem is the skill factor.
PvE gets easier, the more “skilled” you become.
But given proper Matchmaking, PvP won’t become easier, even if you get better and the rewards will stay the same. I don’t play much PvE but my guild seems to have some rly crazy PvE players, who are able to do dungeons, inclusivly arah rly fast. I did CoF together with them some times. The speed was insane.

In addition, the reward tracks all are similar “difficult”. But the dungeons are not.

I still get thrown into stuff like 10 vs. 10 custom arenas when I klick “play now”.
But i wanna play 5 vs. 5 …but all servers are full

Eviscera.9703:

I don’t understand why you guys don’t have a ladder system similar to WoW? Also we need ladders INGAME!

Every look at the wall of champions, listing the PAX winners?

SO epic…NOT

viralthefrog.6130:

The problem with telling people what to do is that you are telling them what to do.
There’s a saying I picked up as my last job as a QA.
“A manager tells people what to do. A leader tells them how to do it.”
Instead of saying, “do this.”
Try, “this is the goal, and this is how you obtain it.”

No.
The problem is WHEN to tell them.
The time before a match in team and soloQ isn’t long enough to give new players (which shouldn’t be in the arenas) a complete PvP crash course.
In Hot Join there is even less time.

Talking about “toxic” (hate dat word…). What is REALLY toxic are the 8vs8 and 10vs.10 (custom) arenas you get thrown into via “join now” these days, as all 5 vs. 5 arenas are full.
Especially in 10 vs. 10 you wont learn anything about splits, tactics in general or even fighting. It’s mostyl zerging so you also won’t learn much about proper groupfights. If some players want to do 10 vs. 10 or 8 vs. 8, because it is so much fun, I’m fine with it. But don’t let all those new, “innocent” pvp players which might also try out the arenas some day, get corrupted via those Zerg matches.

JPSnow.8296:

After reading a couple of threads and have it happen to me personally figure I would post this. Just cause you have a high rank means nothing. Its not hard to understand how spvp works hold more points then other team = win. I’m only level 14 and can usually go thru a match and next to never die and probably get most points for the team. I’ve solo/small group roam in wvw since beta I get how PvP works. Lol. I actually had a guy try to blame our loss on me because I was lowest rank when I challenged him to come to a empty Map and fight me he had every excuse in the book why not to. Just like in another thread some guy crying because he was with someone lower rank them him. Unless you followed him the whole time how do you even know how good/ bad they are? In fact if they are bad just give them tips and move on is it really that bad to lose every now then? Pvp needs more people to get good. More people equals more Dev focus. Please stop with these elitest attitude s and just play the game. Rant over

Awful text layout. You say rank doesn’t equal skill. But you think, getting a lot of points in a match means having skill. In addition, you seem to think, the ability to win a duel matters most. You don’t have to follow the players, as the minimap shows where they are going. Knowing where & when to go and how to split is very important in pvp. Not to mention, if 2 players are capping a save node together, it is obvious they have no clue. Today, I tried to give some advices in Hot Join, like “don’t cap a save node with 5 ppl, it wont cap faster” or “personal score doesn’t mean anything”. Nobody reacted. In addition, you are right, that having a high rank doesn’t make you autmatically good. However, the probablity of a player to be a good player usally increases with its rank. Take 100 R40 players. Not everyone of them will be “good”. However, take 100 R10 players and I would bet that within the second group, there are far less “good” players.

OneManArmy.9732:

But I really like Balthy track. I hope they continue to release things only available through pvp. (But why so many ascended mats across the game?? I’ve been deleting them for months now because I have far too many! Can I have a real reward please? A bucket of linen scraps maybe??)

They think you want to craft ascended gear while can’t balance recipes between craft profs. how much you need to craft medium armor? 100? 150g max

Raaaaaaight, i dont have 400 gold for light armor set. If I’m pvper how can I gain so much gold if you giving me 30s for team arena win and useless ascended mats?

Yup
The ascended mats suck.

1. They flood your inventory
2. You cant make money out of them
3. Ok, we get ascended ats. But how are pvp players supposed to get to crafting lvl 450? The mats you get are far to less to properly level up a crafting profession. And NO I’m not promoting more mats
4. WTF do I want with ascended armor is pvp where stats are made by amuletts?

Sylanna.1947:

I have screenshots of both times my match ended in a tie. Both times I was on red and we “won”!

You know, statisticlly (at least in soccer) the team with red trickots wins more often.

I’m also for removing all of those personal scores.

Eve.1580:

Although, this way if you don’t want to do said dungeon you don’t have to.. but it wouldn’t make much sense to make PvP a replacement for PvE, and I don’t think that’s their intentions. I hope they make it hard as hell to get PvE armor through PvP. It makes the ride more fun.

1. They made PvP a replacement for PvE within the moment, the unified the skins. If you have to wear “PvE” items in PvP, it there should be similar effective ways to get the stuff via PvP.
2. Wtf is PvE armor for you? The DELETED PvP armors, so basicly every armor is PvE. And why would sth be more fun, just because of you make it more grindy.

I also don’t know how long it took to design those reward tracks, but in my opinion, they aren’t well thought at all.
Arah and CoF show, that it makes no sense to make the progess in all reward tracks similar fast.
Nobody who owns a pve char will probably ever do the CoF track, as the time it consumes is a multiple of the time it takes to get the same stuff via a dungeon.

Adastra.9821:

Don’t know if it’s just me, but for one, don’t call it “Arena” if you don’t want to confuse new players. When I see that word in the context of an MMO, I think of a closed off area where competitors fight to the death, i.e. TDM.

In my opinions, this is rly a big thing.
“Arena” is sth everyobody understands, that it means pvp.

But if you are totally unexperienced, wtf is a “pvp-browser”?

Not to mention, that the Arenas only have one single button (for each arena) to klick on, while the pvp browser might seem a little bit confusion.
Do you rly think, some new amulets & traits might overwhelm new players, but on the other side you regard the PvP browser as appropriate?

This is also sth. which can be fixed very easy, as you only have to rename “pvp-browser” and “arens”.

Maybe you could also rework the PvP Browser. Call it “Hot Join” and make it’S design similar to the arenas, with one big, fat Button for “Join Now”
Than, on this window, you add a button for “open pvp browser” which will show the current PvP browser. There you go.

I think, It rly depends.
Of course, being impolite to new players isn’t good thing, however, new players also have to realize some things.

First of all, if you are new, it might not be a good idea to directly jump into competitive game modes like teamQ.

In addition, you should use your common sense.
Even if it’s pvp, the game mode is called “Conquest”. So capturing points might actually be usefull. That multiple players of one team on a node, without eny enmies might not be the best for the team is also common sense.

But hey! It s the only place they are garanteed ;D

…of skins which could be obtained via PvP BEFORE the patch and can’t be obtained now.

I’m pretty sure, there are even many more skins, so feel free to add some. However, I think, this is already somehow impressive.

Every time, ANet mentioned a rework of the pvp reward system, I was hoping they would implement ways to get all those skins which were still missing in pvp and only available in pve.
But instead, they drastically cut down to total amount of what is obtainable via pvp.
This is just ridiculous.

Please Anet add A LOT more reward tracks, or give us ways to get all of those, as well of ways to get those skins which never had a pvp version.

An example:
On of the few skins I would like to have is the GS “essence of the foefire”. In pvp, I never could get it, as it didn’t have any pvp version.
So now, that we don’t have “pvp”- and “pve”-rewards, but only “rewards” in general.
How can I get this weapon via pvp?
It costs ~500 gold in the TP. So am I supposed to win 1666 TeamQ matches so that I can afford it? Wasn’t even said, that you only need now ~800 TeamQ wins for Dragon rank? So I have to get Dragon TWICE, in order to buy ONE skin?
Seems very well thought.

Maybe, the only reason why you get 3 weapons is, because you can throw them into the mystical forge.
You usally only need the armor set once. Or the 3 times for all armor types.
But if you basicly “always” profit from the weapons, as you can throw them into the forge and pray for a precurser.
However, at least they should give us a choice if we want weapons or an armor piece.

Oh, I forgot to mention, somehow I also got an ascendend ring out of a chest.
I’m not 100% sure if it was a chest from the kryta track, or a rank up chest.

However, the ring was total crap and I probably even had a lot of luck to even get an ascended ring…which is crap.

Edit:
I also just got an Ascendend armor chest out of one of the reward chests from the Arah track. So there is a way to get ascendend stats from pvp.

For me, it is exactly the other way round.
I just would want the skins, not the stats.
But I would undesrtand, that fractal skins would be pve exclusve if:
1. We get some pvp exclusive skins (not some ugly backpiece) and
2. There are pvp tracks for all skins (except fractals) in PvP. With the patch, total amount of obtainable skins was reduced to armors skins & weapons and 5 different weapons from the region tracks. This is nothing.

Justin ODell.9517:

May I suggest taking a patient, mentoring approach?

May I suggest either not letting them into e.g. team Q or at least to implement a working MM system, so more experienced players don’t get paired up with them.

I don’t have sth against new players, but it is just annoying if there are too big gaps in between the experience of the players.

Why can’t this also work in pvp? T_T

Would be awesome.

I wished, ANet would reintroduce tab targeting only for players.
It sucks, that it targets also this whole NPC crap

I just watched the corresponding Ready Up (Episode 9,~ Minute 25:00 / 26:00).
And now I have bad news, but I’m also rly confused.

When Hugh explains it, he sais, that you will get ONE armor piece.
What seems rly awkward, however, is that when description of the box in the ready up episode says “dungeon armor choice boxes contain a unique dungeon armor and stat combo”.

I also have some issues with the “balance” of the reward tracks.
On the Dungeon tracks, I believe every 2nd tier box contains an exotic weapon.
The Equivalent rewards of the Balthazar track on those tiers are 5 crafting shards.
I’m not that into crafting / pve, but since when are 5 crafting shards equivalent to an exotic weapon?

Also this whole ascendend materials starts kittening me off a little. I don’t care about crafting or ascendend items. But the reward tracks give me this stuff I can’t even sell. So how are pvp players supposed to get gold out of those?

@OneManArmy: I got 2 clovers out of it. :/

Why is this stuff even bound at all?

I thought, the reward tracks would give pvp players a way to earn some gold.
But what do we get? A bunch of Ascenden crafting mats which are souldbound, aswell as Souldbound items.

3 weapons and 1 armor piece per track make absolutly no sense.

The kryta track isn’t any better. At the end, you get one ceremonial SKIN. It’S not even an exo, it’s just a kittenin skin, which isn’t “rare” at all.

@ Ocosh.
I’d also like a serious argument why this was implemented, but I suppose:

1. Money
2. The new wardrobe system doesn’t bother pve players in any way. They always had to store skins in the bank / inventory, or to “overwrite” their current skin.
However, thank’s to the wardrobe, even if you never have played pvp, you will also be able to wear your fancy PvE armor in PvP.
They probably hope, that will bring more PvE players into PvP, as they don’t have to earn cool skins via pvp.
Same for the reward tracks.
Getting green loot and dragonite ore was probably not desired by any pvp player.

I think, those small maybe 3 vs 3 matches were, what it was designed for.

But I agree, I also find it much to small.
The place between the spawnpoints in Niflhel probably might still be a better place for matches.

blackjack & hookers?

But srsly, a bank, tp and a mystical forge should be there.

I knew the problem and I actually am not 100% sure, if my calculation is right, but yours is defenitily wrong.

The reason for this is, that the Proc chance of Generosity is already the Conditional Probability (P (A if B )) = 0.6 (or in words: 60% chance to trigger if a critical hit occurs)
What we are actually looking for, is P(A and B ) (in words: the probabilty that a crit occurs and Generosity triggers). Thus, we have to convert the formula from

_ P(A if B ) = P(A and B ) / P(B )_

into

P(A and B ) = P(A if B ) * P (B )

Given that P(A if B ) is the 60% chance of Generosity to Proc on crit and P(B) your Critchance, this results into my calculation of:
0.6 * 0.5 = 0.3

To proof that your calculation must be wrong, just think about what you actually were calculating. You calculated:
P(A if B ) = (P(A) * P(B ) / P(B ) this would always lead to the answer P(A if B ) = P(A), implying that P(A) would be independant from P(B ).

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059DFE68 059dfe65 25f1112c 040d8e8d 00000000 e…,..%……..
059DFE78 059dfeec 00b91dab 040d8e50 040d8e94 ……..P…….
059DFE88 25f11120 00000008 059dfec0 040d91a0 ..%…………
059DFE98 00000001 014e52b3 036860a8 753d3bc8 …..RN..`h..;=u
059DFEA8 00000000 753d3bf4 9c618361 eed2c6a4 …..;=ua.a…..
059DFEB8 0000000a 00000000 0000001e 00000000 …………….
059DFEC8 00000000 00000001 036860a8 014e52b3 ………`h..RN.
059DFED8 00000001 739a270c 6f6dea44 00000000 …..’.sD.mo….
059DFEE8 9c65ed53 059dff24 00b92149 9c65ec9b S.e.$…I!….e.
059DFEF8 00000001 014e52b3 036860a8 00000001 …..RN..`h…..
059DFF08 80000003 059dfef4 059df4d8 059dff6c …………l…
059DFF18 009902d0 9897222f 00000000 059dff44 …./“……D…
059DFF28 00b9221f 00000000 041a9790 007323ef .”………..#s.
059DFF38 00000000 036860a8 00000000 059dff7c …..`h…..|…
059DFF48 0099016d 041a9790 9c65ecc3 00000000 m………e…..
059DFF58 036860a8 036860a8 059dff50 059dff50 .`h..`h.P…P…
059DFF68 059dffc4 059dffc4 009902d0 98970857 …………W…
059DFF78 00000000 059dff88 00990215 00000000 …………….
059DFF88 059dff94 7711338a 036860a8 059dffd4 …..3.w.`h…..
059DFF98 77649f72 036860a8 73a7a70d 00000000 r.dw.`h….s….
059DFFA8 00000000 036860a8 00000000 00000000 …..`h………
059DFFB8 00000000 059dffa0 00000000 ffffffff …………….
059DFFC8 776871f5 01599d89 00000000 059dffec .qhw..Y………
059DFFD8 77649f45 00990193 036860a8 00000000 E.dw…..`h…..
059DFFE8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00990193 …………….
059DFFF8 036860a8 00000000 08240000 05750000 .`h…….$…u.
059E0008 00000000 00000000 00601000 00601000 ……….`…`.
059E0018 f3d1d1d4 04000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0028 00600000 059e0020 00000000 00000000 ..`. ………..
059E0038 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0048 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0058 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0068 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0078 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0088 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0098 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E00A8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E00B8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E00C8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E00D8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E00E8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E00F8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0108 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
059E0118 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….

So, this isn’t only since the new patch, but now it starts to annoy me, as I want to play again.

My game constantly crashes.
With constantly I mean, somtimes I can play for a while but mostly it crashes almost every minute.
There are times, it crashes, I log in again and it immediatly crashes again.
Sometimes I don’t even manage to get in the game, as the crash report already occurs on the loading screen.

I didn’t read the whole report every time, but I’m pretty sure, at least the fatt line always appears.

Help would be very appreciated.

I tried running GW2 in admin mode, but this didn’t solve the problem.

—> Crash <—
Assertion: hdr->signature == PACKFILE_SIGNATURE
File: ..\..\..\Services\Packfile\Packfile.cpp(1929)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 3688
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 32592
When: 2014-04-16T23:58:21Z 2014-04-17T01:58:21+02:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:03:07
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: censored
IpAddr: censored
Processors: 2 [GenuineIntel:6:7:10]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit) (um, lol? O.o I use Win 7 64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 1943MB/ 4090MB 47%
Paged: 5834MB/ 8180MB 71%
Virtual: 3015MB/ 4095MB 73%
Load: 52%
CommitTotal: 2345MB
CommitLimit: 8180MB
CommitPeak: 3310MB
SystemCache: 1978MB
HandleCount: 26918
ProcessCount: 68
ThreadCount: 845

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 749MB
WorkingSet: 699MB
PeakWorkingSet: 803MB
PageFaults: 739021

—> Game Context <—
MapId: 554
Flags: 0×241
ElapsedTime: 00:02:11

—> World State <—
<WorldState BufferCapacity=“41238528” BufferUsed=“18907146” DrawCalls=“592” Fps=“30” EffectLights=“0” Lights=“36” Materials=“308” Particles=“1755” Submodels=“592” TextureLoadsPending=“0” TextureMemory=“156686759” Triangles=“197315” VerticesSoftwareTransformed=“0” VideoMemoryTotal=“69087294” CameraPos=“-570.868, 4878.16, -1163.09” CameraFwd=“-0.64389, -0.448928, 0.619572” MapName=“wZY+N.V5SA7” MapNamespace=“RNb68” MapSector=“IJwR+.hHfkz” MapType=“CompetitivePvp” MapFloor=“5” MapId=“554” MapTimeOfDay=“0.000000” PlayerFacing=“-0.643887, -0.448933, 0.619572” PlayerPos=“-851.504, 4682.55, -863.955” PlayerVelocity=“-173.37, -118.469, -173.576” />

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> ClientContextThreadProc Thread 0×13e0 <—

—> Trace <—
Pc:0094b699 Fr:059dfd54 Rt:0094b885 Arg:00000002 25c496a8 25c40200 00000000
Pc:0094b885 Fr:059dfd7c Rt:0094c5a4 Arg:25c40200 00000000 00000000 00000004
Pc:0094c5a4 Fr:059dfd98 Rt:008e9781 Arg:25c40200 15adbe70 008ea4a7 040d8470
Pc:008e9781 Fr:059dfdbc Rt:008c5fc5 Arg:3cf5c28f bf24d5fc bee5d9eb 3f1e9c3f
Pc:008c5fc5 Fr:059dfe08 Rt:00413a5b Arg:3cf5c28f 3ceac61a 25f1112c 059dfe6c
Pc:00413a5b Fr:059dfe30 Rt:0041729f Arg:3ceac61a 00b959cf 040d8e50 040d91a0
Pc:0041729f Fr:059dfe78 Rt:00b91dab Arg:040d8e50 040d8e94 25f11120 00000008
Pc:00b91dab Fr:059dfeec Rt:00b92149 Arg:9c65ec9b 00000001 014e52b3 036860a8
Pc:00b92149 Fr:059dff24 Rt:00b9221f Arg:00000000 041a9790 007323ef 00000000
Pc:00b9221f Fr:059dff44 Rt:0099016d Arg:041a9790 9c65ecc3 00000000 036860a8
Pc:0099016d Fr:059dff7c Rt:00990215 Arg:00000000 059dff94 7711338a 036860a8
Pc:00990215 Fr:059dff88 Rt:7711338a Arg:036860a8 059dffd4 77649f72 036860a8
Pc:7711338a Fr:059dff94 Rt:77649f72 Arg:036860a8 73a7a70d 00000000 00000000
Pc:77649f72 Fr:059dffd4 Rt:77649f45 Arg:00990193 036860a8 00000000 00000000
Pc:77649f45 Fr:059dffec Rt:00000000 Arg:00990193 036860a8 00000000 08240000

—> Thread registers <—
eax=059df914 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000048 esi=00000000 edi=00000000
eip=0094b699 esp=059dfd28 ebp=059dfd54
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00200246

eax-32 059DF8F4 00000000 fffffd34 000002e4 fffffd34
eax-16 059DF904 000002cc 00000019 00000000 059df914
eax 0 059DF914 80000003 00000000 00000000 753cc41f
eax16 059DF924 00000002 00000002 192d87d0 0003ffff
eax+32 059DF934 007d1a33 059df94c 00000080 3176f364
eax+48 059DF944 00000000 059df968 00993e7c 059dfa10

—> Code <—
0094B679 5701e8f0 c8deffb9 50460000 66390e74 W…….PF..f9.t
0094B689 14688907 0000bad4 b35701b9 c0b85701 .h…….W….W.
0094B699 e8d2c8de ff8b5608 8343100c b8010000 ……V..C……
0094B6A9 00895318 84460274 07814b14 00000080 ..S..F.t..K…..
0094B6B9 f6460204 0fb74e06 8d7c0ff4 c7450800 .F….N..|…E..
0094B6C9 00000074 03894508 8d57083b 550c0f87 …t..E..W.;U…

My Feedback:

For PvP, the locker simply is awful.
You took away one of the best parts of pvp (and those aren’t very much in GW2) and replaced it with a worse new system, which forces players to pay for stuff they have already unlocked.

In addition, the only skins which can be unlocked via pvp are even more standard than it was before the patch. Dungeon armor and probably T1 cultural weapons.
That’s less variety than before. Every other skin only roots in RNG with champion loot bags.

Question in the title.

I started the Kryta track, but I’m rly scared that this “unique” skin I’ll get are just those kittenty “valley” / krytan" skins everybody who managed to get dolyak rank has.

I asked in the mists today.
One guy said, they are called “legendary XY” and look like kitten.

The fact that in the locker are no “new” skins or other stuff, makes me also doubt, that the reward might be cool.

Here’s my thought:
There are 5 region tracks and 5 races in this game.
As the valley/krytan are, as i suppose, T1 cultural weapons of the humans, the reward tracks might “reward” us with absolutly lame T1 cultural weapons, almost everybody who onc accidently stumbled into the mists already has.