Guild Wars 2

For the past week, particularly during WvWvW sessions when I begin fighting (small scale, large scale, doesn’t matter), I will suddenly get either a huge lag spike where the entire game freezes followed by a 7:11:3:189:101 error back to character select OR I’ll keep moving around but have all of my abilities stall out as the disconnection begins and then eventually dump out to a 7:11:3:189:101.

I can’t determine any pattern of timing or action on my part. It doesn’t seem to happen too often when I’m just walking around but seems to require some combat to have just occurred or be occurring.

Nothing else about my internet connection (Ventrilo, web browser, etc.) will be lagging or disconnecting at the same time, so it is not my network connection. It is about your server maintaining its connection to the client software.

A lot of what I see as complaints are where people feel they are unfairly disadvantaged due to things like “market manipulation” and general monetary flow issues.

What if there was no currency in game for items on the trading post and you simply listed what you had to offer and people took what they needed to accomplish their goals? With the limited banking ability in the game, even someone attempting to horde everything would run out of space to put it (or buy more crystals to use to expand their banking options).

You would certainly get rid of the gold farmers de facto. Crafting would become relevant again as getting what you need to stock the variety of craftable goods would be painless. Certain perks, like titles for most contribution to the TP, could provide incentive to farm for others’ use or to craft for others’ needs.

What would be the necessary protections in the game to prevent griefing from people taking from the surplus simply to destroy it? What would be the next complaint from those who couldn’t get what they needed or wanted? Would an in-game economy freed from a need for cash be viable and be more desirable?

Yeah, I sent an in-game report on this one as well.

If you play for 3 hours, that’s 6 30-minute buffs at about 40-50 silver per feast. Nobody makes 3 gold in 3 hours playing WvWvW. You’d be far better off spending that money on siege or keep upgrades in terms of utility. WvWvW is the only place you’re going to find more than 10 people standing around and paying attention to things like the fact that you placed a feast during the 5 minute window it’s available on the ground.

The only people spending any time or effort on giving their zergs feasts are those able/willing to kitten away their money.

First, I need 17 bottles of Elonian Wine (~4.5 gold), 20 crystals (12 skill points), 50 Mystic Coins (currently ~ 6.5 gold on TP), and a copy of the food. That just gets me the recipe after 12 skill points and 11 gold are burned up.

Then, I need 10 of the food to use the recipe each time I make a feast with the recipe (usually worth 50s on TP).

And if I wanted to sell these feasts to others to turn a profit, I can’t, because for some unknown reason people keep the sell price of the feasts on the TP almost perfectly in line with the cost of 10 of the food anyways (even though it feeds whoever clicks on it for 5 minutes, not just 10 people).

Finally, other than something like Magic Find, everyone optimizes something different (power, condition damage, healing power, etc.) so it’s not often that 10 people want the same buff unless there are 40+ players around.

So, what’s the point in the high cost, low yield, highly situational feast recipe? Why is the cost such an intended barrier? Why does it only remain for FIVE minutes when guild-spawned buff banners last 30 minutes and cost far less in time/effort? Isn’t it time for ANet to revisit this aspect of crafting so it’s useful?

Lavath.8924:

I’ll just ask.. why are you having a problem telling the living from the dead?

Zombies.

I’m finally logging in again since Christmas. You can all go back to dying to me again. Thanks.

EnRohbi.2187:

So, if a screenshot shows BP in someone elses Lord’s room, “It must be a mesmer”.
If a screenshots shows anyone else in BP’s Lord’s room, “There’s no way they had a mesmer, their whole server is full of exploiters”

That’s cute.

So, if I say one thing about one screenshot and someone else says something else about a different screenshot, it’s somehow comparable? And both comments can reasonably be attributed to some single rhetorical source in order to justify a persecution complex?

Now, that’s cute.

Skapocalypse.5236:

Caught them just as they flipped. There was no wall or gates down in that keep and we had it for some time. Clearly exploited.

It looks like the one on the left is a Mesmer. Next time, clear the keep.

DtC.4806:

ok guys, speaking for many ppl in BP, and i can get 80%+ of BP to follow this if we go through with it,
lets face it this week will be horrible in terms of wvw numbers, i would like to try organizing a ceasefire for the next week so people can enjoy christmas in real life, as well as the pve stuff in gw2, the big commanders and guild leaders in DB/DH what do u think? if we all agree upon it, it would be succesful

LOL.

Why do all the players who don’t celebrate Christmas have to stop playing just because you do? How self-centered is that?

Another problem with random grouping?

You can easily get the “Not Toying Around” achievement. But in order to get “Toypocalypse Canceled”, you need all 5 dolyaks alive. As soon as one dies, people leave. If you join late into one that people left and the dolyaks are nearly dead, people leave. Just to get the other achievement, you are encouraged to leave and try again over and over again. Since there’s no grand reward just for finishing the game even with only 1 dolyak alive, there’s no reason to stay to the end of an instance.

Um, they know their own game is called “Guild” Wars, right? Why is it that pretty much every mini-game ignores guild/group preferences?

Also, most of the people are PvErs who have no runes or anything setup on their sPvP gear…so they’re going into this thing completely blank and sucking at DPS because of it. The whole thing is a DPS race (the hay heals…but if nothing attacks them, you don’t need it) and I’m being forced to play with 4 others who have no damage build because they never went to the mists.

Habib Loew.6239:

The penalty shouldn’t apply when a queue pops – that’s a bug and we’ll get a fix into an upcoming build. Thanks for reporting it!

You’re welcome and thanks.

Walabone.6713:

Just wanted to post a quick video that a guildie made of a fight we had in EB a couple days ago: http://youtu.be/CX5GSak8ixY

We BARELY managed to wipe a large DH force that had been battling us back and forth for a while.

Good fights Keep it up!

We have gotta work on his spelling though.

Can you also look into a similar problem when queuing for another battleground but fighting in one already?

There is no warning that you will die if you take a queue pop but are already flagged as being in combat (even if you simply took fall damage).

Charismatic Harm.9683:

Fikfain.5849:

BuddhaWrath.5073:

Black Lion Trading Post >> all your tax money belongs to them.

But really, trade post allows for easier trading and offers a much wider audience.

The TP is useless for me to agree to craft an item with specific skills and signets for someone for a price. Without COD, there is no secure way for me to be a crafter for hire. Instead I’m forced to list a random assortment of goods on the TP hoping they eventually sell. Meanwhile, a buyer has to browse for what they want hoping it is listed for a price they are willing to pay.

Crafting is pretty much useless if I can’t ply my trade for cash…and instead I’m at the mercy of the TP, so rather than selling my skills I am limited to only selling my goods.

You could always agree to craft a specific item for a specific price with another player, then through instant messaging let them know when you’ve posted it on the TP for them to buy. If someone beats them to it, you can just craft another one. In the end, you’ve sold 2…..just be sure to account for the 15% fees when agreeing on a price.

And if I’m undercut in the meantime and they get their item at a lesser price but I get nothing but still lose 15% at least until another buyer comes along who just happens to want my crafted item?

In fact, if I were the buyer in that situation, I’d almost be certain to wait long enough to see if some random market mover wanted to undercut the one that the crafter just listed.

I don’t mind 1v1. I mind players who get into a 1v1 with my engineer but when it’s clear that they can’t win, they run away. I’m heavily defense specced so I have no burst to finish them but they can sprint away while I have no equivalent warping ability like thieves, mesmers, etc. do.

I also mind 1v1 where if the player can’t land his only competent combo because I stun break or block their opener that lets them beat on me without me moving, they just run away before the fight has even really begun. Bonus points for coming back to try it again after cool downs are up…just to run away again.

As an engineer, I can’t choose my fights so I fight them all win or lose. I’ve noticed a lot of other people have no qualms with being chicken crap. This is why I think enemy names should be visible. You should be able to call out the lame run-aways for what they are.

BuddhaWrath.5073:

Black Lion Trading Post >> all your tax money belongs to them.

But really, trade post allows for easier trading and offers a much wider audience.

The TP is useless for me to agree to craft an item with specific skills and signets for someone for a price. Without COD, there is no secure way for me to be a crafter for hire. Instead I’m forced to list a random assortment of goods on the TP hoping they eventually sell. Meanwhile, a buyer has to browse for what they want hoping it is listed for a price they are willing to pay.

Crafting is pretty much useless if I can’t ply my trade for cash…and instead I’m at the mercy of the TP, so rather than selling my skills I am limited to only selling my goods.

We’ll keep buying gems and playing your game if you would STOP patching the game on Friday after you do the WvWvW game reset.

Seriously, it’s okay that the patch was late today, but then hold off until Saturday morning or something. Friday night is the night for big-time fighting as everyone charges out to start upgrading everything. This also isn’t the first time you’ve done this (Halloween \ahem\).

PLEASE if you are going to patch on Friday, do it before the reset or the next day. Thanks.

The Charr /threaten emote has to be the must underrated and coolest emote in the whole game. The audio plus the motion is perfect.

I play a bunker engineer in sPVP and I always have it queued up for the next enemy that I target who tries to take my point. I think it really sets the mood right.

I was just playing sPvP earlier today and noticed when I was underwater that the #2 grenade kit ability was just the same basic grenade shot as #1 instead of shrapnel grenades which apply bleeds.

Did I miss a nerf? Has it always been like this?

I can find no mention of this in old patch notes or on the wiki or a few google searches.

I once felt really bad for this opponent from another server that was stumbling his way through the dark room. I told all of my guildies to leave him alone and went back into the puzzle where he was. I jumped each jump that he had to take to show him where to go next and where to aim for on the other sides of the gaps. After about 20 minutes, I had led him one jump at a time all the way from the dark room, through the animal pit, and up to the chest tower ledges…

Then as he turned the final corner at the top of the stairs and faced the chest, I used Temporal Curtain/Into the Void and tossed him backwards off the top onto the floor below to die from the fall.

So, no. No, I don’t think I’ll be abiding a ceasefire anytime soon.

DKz Lux.4125:

Major mistake people make and that hurt their servers.

• Run a camp capping group for xp when there’s a queue on that map.

Most of what you said was obvious, but this was just wrong.

Supply camps (and more importantly dolyaks) are the bread and butter of WvW. The more supplies a keep has, the faster it upgrades and the harder it will be to siege. Especially so if the map is in constant turmoil, like reset day, because everything always needs an upgrade…plus siege can be built much faster to allow an army to just arrive and defend rather than arrive, setup, then finally defend.

Also, taking a camp at the time you need more supplies for your next assault is riskier than having a camp you can rely on since the other server can empty the camp of supplies before you flip it as opposed to having it sitting there potentially untouched and stocking up for 3-5 minutes (supervisor buff) for you to arrive and raid for 70-100 supplies.

The one big zerg approach has a huge inherent limitation: you MUST capture things faster than the other server(s) to stay ahead of the game. If you are delayed at all, they have the chance to outpace you and if it’s not your own borderland, you are at a positional disadvantage when wiped/spawning. Plus while you are focused on your one thing to take, their other things are gaining strength/supply making it an upward gradient to have to fight against.

Having a supply camp group, particularly one big enough/organized enough to also take unoccupied towers, or even begin an assault on a keep, or defend/defeat the opposing zerglings, immediately improves the chances that the other side must also split up to defend itself and also keeps all of the zerg’s singular targets downgraded and ripe for the taking.

One big zerg works well against servers who can field fewer and less organized zergs and maybe not even cover all of their maps at any given time. But if BP is going to play competitively at anything above the tier it’s at now (no offense to current and previous opponents), the mentality of “only one big zerg” really has to be left in the minor league.

testpig.5018:

Regarding to many commanders… yes the zerg does run with to many commanders, i have seen like 5 commander dots in 1 spot many many times with many of the “alliance” zergs.. i often ask myself why? just to really show the purgers, this is where the zerg is at?

when i use my command dot, is for my guild members to have a much easier time knowing exactly where we are when then join the fight.. and for players that don’t wish to run with the massive zerg.

To reinforce the last point, if a server has enough people to take two objectives at once, then as Testpig says, two commanders should be running their icons and moving in opposite directions around the map or to differing objectives (one commander deals with quick tactical supply camp/dolyak strikes while the other knocks down supply starved doors). It would be absurdly easy to defend a map by keeping spies reporting the maneuvers of a single massive Zerg following a single commander around the map. That is a horrible strategy.

Lalnuir.4957:

No, just no.
Before the mist form change ele down state was horrible, until a downed state is that bad it is not terrible.

We have an interrupt on 2 and our 1 skill does decent damage and has a nice chance to chill.
As for hardly ever getting to use explosion? Well guess what other classes hardly ever get to use their 3 skill either.

You know how most 1v1 fights against downed people go?

Warrior, dodge hammer then finish them. No vengeance, hell even if you get hit with the hammer you have enough time to stand back up and finish them.

Thief, start finisher and when they teleport away you just cancel walk up to them and finish them anyway.

Mesmer, stop attacking wait for the real one to appear(hint: the one with the big red dot above their head) then finish them.

Ele, start finisher so they pop mist form then cancel it and follow them. Finish them as soon as mist form ends.

They don’t seem so different to;
Engineer, start finisher then cancel it and dodge the pull then finish them.

TL:DR Engineer down state skills are on the same level as every other class.

Except nearly every other #2 downed state ability has a lengthy stall tactic to it. The entire mist form period is invulnerable, the Mesmer can stay stealthed for a period after creating a clone, so can the thief after teleporting, etc. But the scorpion wire for engineers has about a half-second knock-down to it…IF it connects. There is no stalling other than the initial hit AND using #2 does zilch to prevent any other incoming damage unlike all those other classes. Furthermore, it is entirely useless against quickness finishers and stealth finishers whereas Ele, Mesmer, and Thiefs all negate those finishers if they fire #2 (and aren’t unlucky about how close they end up to the initial finishing attempt).

Meanwhile, nearly every other class can fire a timely #2 to hold out until their #3 timer is ready and then they have yet another move to use. Engineers only ever fire off #3 in PvE or if their opponent is comatose.

Warlord Lu Bu.7905:

Niim.9260:

I haven’t run into anyone hard to kill from your entire guild. I just assumed you guys were PvEers.

Don’t mistake us for another guild on BP server with nearly the same tag: [WAR] Ascension

Trust us. Nobody has ever made that mistake.

Between the “password incorrect” bug, occasional system crashes, and random network losses, if you are in a dungeon or WvWvW, when you return you are tossed back to your PvE spot in the game. In the case of dungeons, that means you can’t rejoin your group half the time as you are given a new instance instead. If you were the group leader, now it’s even worse because you have hacked a way to keep people from being kicked out before the final boss. Now, if your the group leader and DC, the WHOLE group is kicked out! In WvWvW on popular servers/times, it means you can’t get back into your map because someone else on your server was INSTANTLY given your slot.

This is just a game design flaw that nobody else on the market has a problem with because there’s a window for you to rejoin, even instances, to exactly where you were.

Please put in such a window. Soon.

Same here. Their particle effects will crash my system if they happen too close to my camera. Took too many dredge near my dead body and I had to reboot. Now, I’m stuck outside the dungeon and can’t rejoin them because it just keeps making a new instance for me instead. Dropped group, joined group, invited to group…doesn’t matter, can’t get into their instance any more.

Same on Borlis Pass too. Nice event guys. Did you bug test anything?

I know you are “discussing a few ideas by e-mail” or something about this error many people are having.

But as a primarily only WvWvW player, being kicked out of the game for no good reason in the middle of gameplay is even more frustrating than PvE. You don’t allow for a disconnection buffer so that a player can return to their slot in the zone. So, when I log back into the game even though I don’t have an “incorrect password”, I have to end up back in a queue for my map that I was already playing in with guildies.

This also isn’t a problem that will go away once you solve whatever problem you’re having with keeping me logged in. People will lose their connection for any number of reasons but you have no mechanism in place to let them quickly rejoin the dungeon, WvWvW zone, or any other in-motion activity they may have already been doing.

Same here. Started around 11 PM EST for me. Horrendous lag spikes where nothing reacts to what I’m telling it to do in the interface. Players look like they’re running into walls. Immediately jump to real time again and then right back to lagging out. It’s definitely not my network connection because ventrilo was running with zero lag/ping at the same time.

One of the problems I have with sPvP right now as a defensive/healing engineer is that I get half the glory or less compared to the members of my team that roam and kill, however we will nearly always win the match thanks to my ability to stay on a point and defend it well.

Killing people clearly yields more glory. In fact, it actually yields double glory if you aren’t at one of the objectives (10 per skirmish kill versus 5 per kill).

I know this isn’t the first time it’s been mentioned here, but I feel something should be done to retie glory to winning the matches. The easiest of which would be to increase the glory win bonus. I wouldn’t mind that nobody from the other team is willing to try to take me off my point (thus I don’t even get the chance for a defender or kill score) if I knew that in the end I helped my team win and was compensated better for it. Something more difficult would be to include defensive glory ticks (staying at the same objective your team owns yields 5 points per every 30s or something like that).

Basically, I am contributing to winning, but that effort is not being rewarded in any significant way right now and the end result is discouraging, since the objective appears to be to get to 500 points first, but the rewards are entirely for simply killing indiscriminately.

I see this as similar to my problem as a defensive/support/healing engineer in WvWvW who keeps his whole team alive until they win the tower/objective, but receives little if any bags of loot/badges for his effort.

Parisalchuk.9230:

They go to a place that requires jumping to get, or better yet stand on the Cauldron and set up their table so that the pumpkins will drop down on players. There is no way to retaliate as the only way to reach them without dying is to leave costume (which causes you to lose points) and go to where they are and fear them (assuming you have the costume). That is what is wrong, you answered it yourself.

Jumping?? In THIS game?? Dear lord! I bet you don’t like trebs on vistas too. Welcome to Guild Wars 2.

There are plenty of ways to retaliate. Try using the pirate cannon for starters. Knocks them into the cauldron and causes them to have to reset their costume to boot. Witches can block for 2 straight minutes and their melt move is serious damage. Ghosts, too. They are vulnerable from behind, so go to the other side of the cauldron and just lob shots at them. It’s not like they’re going to speed around that razor’s edge to stop you. Again, just because the position is difficult doesn’t make it impossible and doesn’t qualify it as griefing…however, you wouldn’t want permanent invulnerability in WvWvW while simultaneously blunting a fourth of someone’s offensive capability but that’s what you argue for here.

Vick.6805:

I got so tired of the tables being set up on the jumping platforms that I exited the Costume Brawl and planted my character in front of the table, so the griefer would only hit me and get nothing out of it. Then, when they moved to another platform, I moved with them until they left entirely.

Why? What were they doing that was so wrong? If they want to setup in a place that’s difficult to attack and easy to defend, that’s strategy even in something as simple as costume brawl. What you did was grief the mechanics though. Knowing that you can nullify one of their 4 moves with no way for them to retaliate is the very definition of griefing. If you don’t want to play costume brawl, then don’t play and move on with your game, but don’t ruin the fun others are having.

Gaile Gray.6028:

I can’t think of any way that our transactions are getting flagged as being more risky than others. I’m sorry for the inconvenience — I wonder if there’s a way for BofA to “white list” your purchases through the Gem Store.

Thanks, I’ll look online for a white list option and give them an opportunity to explain why they are being overly sensitive on this one vendor. I would have thought after manually okaying my previous gem purchases they would have learned that it is fine, but I guess not as well.

Every time I have bought gems in the past month, Bank of America has temporarily frozen my credit card and called me to determine if my card is being used fradulently. I can use my card online at many other stores/websites and this is not a problem.

Is there something about the way NCSoft is charging my card which is freaking out Bank of America in particular? Is this your fault or theirs? Since they don’t flag my account for any of my other online purchases, I have to wonder if it isn’t some way that the game or NCSoft’s back end software is screwing up the purchase attempt which is setting off an automatic flag with BoA.

I enabled authenticator this morning and have had this same disconnect issue (same error as everyone above). I’ll try disabling it and seeing if it works.

PS – the QR code didn’t scan correctly by the Google Authenticator app in my iPhone either, I had to enter everything manually in the app.

Oh come on….this is the third week in a row that Sanctum of Rall is blue again!

Look, I get it. You wanted to make a place where people can grief others. Great. I know there’s no reason I have to go there and I don’t mind dealing with griefers. However, there are definitely limits to fairness. The zone should be siege-free. If 6 people want to set up a ballista above the animal pit, there’s no equivalent response from someone approaching the area. They are too high to retaliate against from below (while they also then open animal cages at you). They control the entire 2nd third of the path with their seige. Oh…and it’s not like the other 5 of them left so even if you get close, it’s you and whoever else they have pinned down versus 6 of them.

It’s entirely too defensible a position to allow someone to setup siege. It’s a rocky razor’s edge from being the same as setting up siege from within the center points of the server’s battlegrounds…which is a no-siege zone for good reason.

The only answer would be a zerg able and willing to flawlessly do 2/3 of the entire jumping puzzle just to clear out 6 guys.

Griefing is fine…there are even people who setup in places that they know they can’t kill you but have pulls/pushes/etc. to knock you down just to watch you run in circles. I can tolerate that. But being 3-shot in a completely indefensible position is simply game-breaking. Turn off siege in there, force people to use the traps you’ve provided and their own two hands. Thanks.

—Fik

I’ve begun to have issues with the game randomly freezing due to a faulty connection to the server (people running in straight lines, actions not firing, mobs not responding). This is a first and is not related to my internet connection. I can hear and speak in Ventrilo with zero ping while the game is acting up. I can also switch out and use a browser as it’s happening.

Sometimes, the game returns to normal by playing out all of the animations I tried to do. Sometimes, I get the network disconnection error and get booted out to the character select screen. I’ve died because mobs aggroed me while I was frozen. I’ve lost rewards for dynamic events because they finished while I was frozen.

This didn’t start until this morning which is when I downloaded the latest patch if that might have anything to do with it.

I’m having the same problem. All the dogs are tamed, but the alpha dog, Sourfang, did not spawn.

I have soloed Champion mobs using just the bomb kit. I have soloed ten mobs at once with it too.

If that’s not useful for you, I can’t help you understand the utility of kiting. You absolutely do not need to be in melee range for a kited mob to take damage from the basic bomb, let alone any of the bombs with a radius effect.

I swap between grenades and bombs depending on the situation and to maximize timers to keep all of my conditions up. I also have swift kits so the mobs better be faster than my permanent swiftness. If anything does start to get too close, I can drop the glue bomb, ice grenades, hit elixir B, BOB, or shield knockdown and we are off to the races again.

Ranged are their only weakness, but most ranged have no armor and die fast if you take away one shot with a smoke bomb, one shot with the pistol blindness, and one shot with the smoke grenades, as well as two quick stuns from a shield toss, and reflection from elixir B and the shield knockdown. Of course, while they are down, you surround them with bombs.

Bombs are central to my repertoire and are also the most effective siege equipment mop-up besides other siege. You can’t figure out how to use them? Try harder.

—Fikbomber of Sanctum of Rall