I know I remember. I used to just let them run out naturally instead of ending them early and getting the buff, and honestly my build just worked all the time in any situation the only thing I changed was my Elite depending on what I was doing at the time.
People used to ask for my build all the time and I’d tell them no. You can see the skills, you can see the weapons, but that’s the most I let them see. Jade Quarry I had very few that could beat me. Mesmers if I didn’t see them coming or missed my rotation. I want my Dervish back for GW’s 2 =-(
So again I ask Devs. Please consider Dervish for Ranger’s. Or if we go to Elona then straight up Dervish profession.
Lee-way means: If I do a dodge before such and such a event, but the dodge arrives at the server after the event I would be given credit for the dodge. What would be better is if its client side not server side.
This is a bad example of what I would like to see but its probably the easiest example to say.
Just so the people who don’t want to think outside the box for a moment.
I can play every other bit of content in this game successfully including PVP and WvWvW where lag should cause all sorts of issues. For some reason Raids don’t allow me to successfully interact properly.
I am sure that Anet can do something that makes is playable without taking away from the challenge of the raid.
Also Mr Fry I think you missed something in repost of my post. I suggested 2 options. Not 1. And a lee-way system doesn’t mean to make it easier.
I went in with our Oceanic raid group last night/morning and it started off well, but connection and lag issues were constantly plaguing them, I felt so bad for them
But there are no Oceanic servers, they’re just SOL. What are those people supposed to do, Pope? Anet doesn’t support their region.
Thank’s Mega. Makes me feel better.
Some people just don’t get how frustrating it is. I really want to do it but it makes me feel sick cause I don’t want to hold others back or cause a wipe.
I don’t believe in having extra servers around the world. I would just like Anet/NCSoft work on a system that gives lee-way. Or make some small modifications to the current system to make somethings client side instead of server side.
If everyone around you doesn’t experience that lag… then it is you, and it is your fault.
This isn’t Arenanet’s problem. It’s a problem with your IP or connection.
Now, if everyone in your raid group was experiencing constant lag, then that would seem to indicate a problem on arenanet’s end with the server.
However, seeing as it’s just you…
This is probably the wrong forum to be complaining about your lag issues.
You don’t design games for people who can’t meet the minimum hardware and connection requirements. You design the game for a certain standard in terms of hardware and connection speed.
The fact that you do not meet this threshold is your problem, not arenanet’s problem. The other members of your raid that actually meet the system requirements seem to be carrying you just fine.
Of course lag is not conducive to raiding. That’s probably why people with chronic lag problems generally avoid handicapping their groups by selfishly participating in content they know their connection is going to make them bad at
It’s like you’ve bought a new game and attempted to play it on a 486, and then complained to the developer that it runs like crap. The very simple solution to your problem is get a better connection, or a better computer so thatyou aren’t suffering these lag problems
Wow your pretty toxic and don’t read so well huh, also I would have to believe you are lucky and have never experienced real lag. Good for you.
You call me selfish. I stopped raiding so I didn’t hold back others. Yes I seem to be selfish.
You don’t know anything about my PC at all. For all you know I might have a $5000 PC with lots of up to date gear in it.
You don’t know what country I live in either. To get a better connection I may have to move countries… Not gonna happen.
So its all my fault that I have lag. Or its my PC’s Fault. Or its my IP’s Fault. LOL I just can’t comment further to your troll post. Thanks for coming, don’t come again if all you want to do is be mean and troll.
This issue should now be resolved. Please restart your launcher.
Sorry the issue is FAR from resolved…
Why bother making your forums if you guys will post in reddit first and disregard people in here? Should we delete our forum accounts and just go do reddit then? Please tell us if there is a move on communications so we are not kept outside of the loop.
I am not a redditer…
i find the reply
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This…
Close the forums, or close reddit.
ALL communication should start on your own website!
That is in no way my fault and yet I can’t raid because of it.
Raids are broken for people with lag. I want my legendary armor. I am willing to work for it. But I am not willing to get abused by Elitist Toxic Players who cant even spell saying “Get Gud”. The words are Get Good. You should look at the plank in your own eye before attempting to get the speck out of mine.
You can’t expect Anet to make a server just for you. It’s just not feasible to make oceanic servers. Yes it’s an “international game” but that is a terrible argument for saying Anet needs to make servers when their budget wouldn’t be able to do it. If someone can get internet in Antartica does that mean they should put servers there too because it’s an “international” game. So sorry you have lag and you’re so upset. But take a minute and cool off and think this through from Anet’s standpoint.
I never asked for a server where I am.
I asked what about lag/ping issues. As in people keeps saying raids are for the elite and the hardcore and the pugs now, I’m asking what can be done to make raids work for people (and there are a lot) who have bad lag and ping.
There are many ways to make content available and not be exclusive to players with great ping. Other portions of this game show that.
That sounds awful, but you’d think there must be some way to make the best of it. If you know you have bad lag, why on earth are you on the circle team? If you are in melee with the boss, you can at least move back a bit when someone calls blue without having to go to a specific spot.
Because I’m a ranger (sigh a totally different conversation of why I was sad when they made us healer as you need to be running on a low ping system) and a ranger must be a druid and must go straight heals or condi in raids. Sigh. As for going a different class and going in close it’s still just as hard. I know that VG can be changing to split and by the time it shows up on my screen I’m out of position and everyone is elsewhere and then it can go totally pear shaped cause no one thinks to say something to the Druid about the split. There are all sorts of problems and yet while Im sure solutions can be worked out by Anet as Mr Fry said they won’t do it. So I and many others miss out on content and armor we desperately want.
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Hehe… im sooooo glad to know someone understand what i say……….. my poor friends tht has to suffer to play with us – we are the “bad players” due to lag. Theys said we dont mind to come and help! They done all 3 bosses after reset on monday.. and spend thr rest of week everyday trying out with us?! But only wipe after wipe with us. I am starting to feel this is too much pressure we put to the team. is there really nothing can be done?
Probably the only option is to get your other players to run you through 1 at a time and carry you. Which doesn’t truly help but might be the only way round what are broken mechanics for people with lag.
So the problem would seem to be you and not Anet? It’s fine if you want to play on EU with your friends, but that doesn’t come without a cost.
Actually Mr Fry. It is Anet’s problem. Making content that excludes people via lag on what they themselves (Anet) term an “international game” is unacceptable and not the players fault as lag is out of the control of players.
I imagine you have never had to play on any ping higher than 100 except when there were problems with GW’s 2 a year or so back.
You should really try it sometime and actually understand the pain players go through when they cost people completing a Raid because of lag.
I live in Australia I play on NA and I have a ping in excess of 300. And raids are unavailalbe to me because of lag.
As for the whole it is anets problem, he seemed to be saying at first that it was because he decided to play on EU which he has since said is not the case. But what do you really expect anet to do? Nerf raids just because of people with ping? I’m not saying it doesn’t suck to have high ping, but Anet won’t balance CGC around people with high ping.
No your right they probably wont. And then when the actual completion rates and metrics are shown to them that they love to read and occasionally show off it will show a lot of the player base doesn’t play it. And then they either will fix it or they will stop making raids. It’s simple as others have said in posts Anet won’t work on or make things people don’t do in game.
I know but the title doesn’t do it for me. Mine points it out for everyone.
lol the the title doesn’t do it for you. Anyhow, I think all that needs to be said has already been said in the other thread. I’ll quote the one comment ( not from me ): Honestly, challenging raid mechanics usually involve some sort of precise timing in order to execute them well. These raids were definitely not designed to be played on high ping. Which means there’s not really a good solution to your problem. It is beyond unlikely we’ll see any changes to the raid at least for the next few months, and especially not to compensate for people playing on high ping. I guess start praying for an Oceanic server?
Anet have been asked for a Oceanic server. They pretty much said no. In the usual PR way of not saying no if you get what I mean.
That is in no way my fault and yet I can’t raid because of it.
Raids are broken for people with lag. I want my legendary armor. I am willing to work for it. But I am not willing to get abused by Elitist Toxic Players who cant even spell saying “Get Gud”. The words are Get Good. You should look at the plank in your own eye before attempting to get the speck out of mine.
So the problem would seem to be you and not Anet? It’s fine if you want to play on EU with your friends, but that doesn’t come without a cost.
Actually Mr Fry. It is Anet’s problem. Making content that excludes people via lag on what they themselves (Anet) term an “international game” is unacceptable and not the players fault as lag is out of the control of players.
I imagine you have never had to play on any ping higher than 100 except when there were problems with GW’s 2 a year or so back.
You should really try it sometime and actually understand the pain players go through when they cost people completing a Raid because of lag.
I live in Australia I play on NA and I have a ping in excess of 300. And raids are unavailalbe to me because of lag.
The toxicity level of all these forums is totally out of control. Anet do something, anything, but STOP not saying anything on the forums.
On topic.
I am neither a bad player or a great player. I can do content and I have a fairly good Achievement Point score over 22000. But I struggle to do raids because of lag.
On a few raids that I have done, (gave up because it just annoyed me) on Teamspeak, someone would call the Green Circle and 5 seconds later it would show up on my screen. I cost the raids because of my lag. This is not my fault and yet I am punished and told to get good. I know I’m capable of doing the raids if lag wasn’t there.
I want my legendary armor. I want a challenge. Changes to raids NEED to happen. And all the toxic elitists need to get over it.
Dev’s of Anet. Get on these forums and actually talk to us. You don’t need to explain every detail of what you’re going to do or what is technically unachievable. You don’t need to argue with the player base. But you need to tell us that you are trying to work out our issues.
dervish is kind of what revnet is right now sort of, ihope for ashape shifter and then change the elite spec between the druid to the next one witch make shape shiffting druid =)
I think Dervish would be better with Elementalists, if you think about the different attunements. Fire Magic would be for Balthazar; Water for Lyssa/Grenth; Air for Dwayna; and Earth for Melandru. Remember, in the original Guild Wars, there were only 5 Gods, up until the mortal Kormir became a Goddess. So, Kormir would play no role in the GW2 Dervish specialization, if there ever was one.
Racially Norn would match up with Dervish the most. Professionally I think Elementalist is the furtherest from Dervish because they are kind of anti-magic in that no magic comes out from them instead buffs and boons are mostly applied to themselves. Also they block magic “Vow of Silence”.
Besides, a Dervish wears light armor, much like an Elementalist.
Actually the armor rating in Guild Wars 1 for Dervish is 70, The armor rating for Monk is 60 same for Elementalist, Ranger is also 70. So no they don’t wear light armor. For perspective Warriors armor is 80.
Lorewise, a Dervish is the Elonian version of a Monk, so it makes sense for them to wear light armor.
“Dervishes are scythe-wielding holy warriors who can attack multiple enemies at once.”
This quote is taken from the description from the Guild Wars 1 Wiki. So no not a monk.
Can I please ask that for the next Ranger Specialization be a Modified Dervish that is similar to what the original GW’s 1 with the usual GW’s 2 flair.
Not gonna say it needs this or that because I believe you can make it fine without that.
Please let Rangers have a different type of Melee to others. Dervish would be that!
Raid only takes time when you are learning it, after you can handle it consistently you can:
Knowing that Vale Guardian fight last for 7 mins, Gorseval also last 7 mins, and Sabetha is 10 mins?
Raid state only resets once a week, so you can enter Monday and kill VG, lets say it takes 30 mins for about 3 tries, next day you try Gorseval since VG will be dead, and you try for 30~40 mins, and the next day you kill Sabetha and done, you finished the weekly raid playing around 30 mins a day and only 3 days in the week.
What about the time taken in between each boss? The three before VG, The Capture points followed by the run to Gor, Followed by whatever you need to get to Sab.
What are the times on each of those?
I do think your off the mark time wise by quite a bit.
The thing I LOVE about dungeons is that most times at the most even in a bad group it would take you 40 mins. I have a life outside of GW’s 2 and yet I want to do the stuff inside of GW’s 2 because I’m not locked into it for HOURS on end. And yes I understand what your saying about 1 at a time per day. HOWEVER what happens when you have someone new in the group who needs to get VG done before Gor.
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This is why I am, 90% of the time, unable to kill VG in Raids. Hence Raids are unplayable for me. When over TS someone says Green Circle and like 5 seconds later it turns up on my screen. Same for Blue Teleports.
Raids aren’t meant to be pugged in the first place.
Can someone please point me to a post or blog that has a Dev saying this? I’ve never found it. Also you all should be scared if this is truely the case.
Raids are accessible to everyone, I don’t have full ascended on my engineers yet I’ve cleared Vale and not been kicked in pugs nor in guild groups.
And I have only beaten VG 1 time because my ping/lag was not bad but at other times my ping/lag was bad and so I have been removed or kicked. Is ping/lag my fault? If so then I guess I can’t do the content so its not available to me. If not then Anet need to find a workable solution to a very real problem.
As for the OP, I seriously expect that raids will be nothing but positive for the game. It’s just new content, so people who really aren’t suited for raids are trying them and worrying about them when they shouldn’t.
Rising I am sorry but this is a TERRIBLE statement.
Content should be suitable for everyone. That’s what games are about paying for the right to play everything in the game.
The only content in Guild Wars 2 I can think of that’s not readily available to me at my whim are the specific home instances of other players and other guilds’ guild halls.
What content isn’t available to you? Because if your answer is “raids” then, that’s not correct. Walk into VB, tag up, “LFM VG raid – all welcome” and you can be fighting Vale Guardian inside of 15 minutes.
As for the OP, I seriously expect that raids will be nothing but positive for the game. It’s just new content, so people who really aren’t suited for raids are trying them and worrying about them when they shouldn’t.
Rising I am sorry but this is a TERRIBLE statement.
Content should be available for everyone. That’s what games are about paying for the right to play everything in the game.
Raids aren’t meant to be pugged in the first place.
Can someone please point me to a post or blog that has a Dev saying this? I’ve never found it. Also you all should be scared if this is truely the case.
Hours Played:
If a person is playing 30 hours of Guild Wars 2 a night they are averaging 4.285 hours a day on this game.
Evidence Raids May be Toxic-Gaming-Changing Content as They Are Currently:
Point 1: If someone is playing 30 hours a night on a planet that only has 24 hours in a day that means some one is a Timelord and as a huge Doctor Who fan I want to meet them.
A final question. What of that list is the most effective Bar Breakers? What does the most damage to them? Or what Combo’s of Skill’s/Weapons/Pets/Traits are the most effective in Breaking Bars.
Asking is important from our side! I belive that if they hear that even more players are interested more in this function than in some other stuff they could think about focusing their efforts on the build saving system.
Also waiting a few months doesn’t make sense since even if a skill gets nerfed it’s still there and has a code related to it.
The thing that is taking time could be that they want to have all the armor weapons and so on integrated into the system, but we started to request this from the release of the game… Now is the right time for them to implement it in the game.
People have been asking for a long time. The Dev’s even went Reddit and had a vote for what people wanted the most and nearly everyone asked for the ability to save builds. The Dev’s I believe were surprised at the response. And they still haven’t done anything about it.
I don’t think he’s saying that people don’t want to do the events because it’s contested, just that it is more often a chain reaction of contested waypoints. If theres events on the west side of the map but the only ones uncontested are on the east side, it makes me not want to do the west side event if I can’t even get a middle ground location for a waypoint.
Couple that into the mob density and overall difficulty change (I’m not saying it’s too hard), it makes running past a lot of enemies or other things to get to said event much more tedious. I understand wp contesting, but the current situation in the new maps with wp contesting is out of control.
Yep thats a pretty good sum up of what I meant. Why bother trying to get to them if the closest WP is to far from the actual event.
I have no problem with how few WP’s there are. I have no problem with where they are.
I have a major issue with how whenever there is an event you can’t get to it with out running most of the map because it’s contested and most of the other ones are as well. It’s very frustrating and a bad design that promotes NOT doing events, and needs to be changed please.
I have no problem with anything else. Just the nearly always contested WP’s
Hmmm Depends on if they want to move the figure up or down.
I guess that if they don’t want to punish smaller 10 man guilds then I would say it would either be the same amount or it would drop to probably around 100 favor.
I doubt they would use a scaling affect on it tho that would be the more likely idea with a lockout so if post HoT launch everyone suddenly discovered a 10 man guild needed 100 favor while a 100 man guild needed 400 and a 500 man guild needed 900 (RGN’s from my brain lol). The lockout would be if everyone left the guild to get it down to 10 people the favor requirements wouldn’t reset for 1 month. And not many guild would like people to leave for that long.
Any chance we can get a general idea of the conversion rates for influence into the 3 other currencies post HOT? Anything ballpark would be great. I’m advocating purging our influence down to under 500k but some in our guild are concerned that’s too low.
Guild chat video showed 10k influence for 1 favor. Is that fixed? and how many per day can you purchase? Any hints on the favor costs for buildings / upgrades?
Thanks!
Yeah I would like to know this too please.
I’d also like to know how much favor we need to be able to start our Guild Hall Quest?
Better to do a timer up and scale difficulty up as time goes on. And by harder I do mean harder. And it could be said to make it even harder start with more health.
Lets groups that aren’t fully Zerk still have a chance and possibly forces Zerkers no not go in with Zerk gear. Doesn’t mean groups won’t but the possibility is there to happen.
Better to do a timer up and scale difficulty up as time goes on.
Lets groups that aren’t fully Zerk still have a chance and possibly forces Zerkers no not go in with Zerk gear. Doesn’t mean groups won’t but the possibility is there to happen.
is there really nothing can be done?