Guild Wars 2

Oh I see, thanks.

How do you guys get into raids? Do you have to use a beta character to go into the raid dungeon?

Arenanet’s trademarks; Soon™, When It’s Ready™, Balance™.

I’m having latency problems as well. My average ping is around 250 ms but it is playable and responsive. But lately I’m getting bad connections to the game servers, as in 3,000 ms lag spikes, it’s unplayable.

Ping results:

Ping statistics for 64.25.33.44:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 83, Lost = 17 (17% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 246ms, Maximum = 259ms, Average = 247ms

Trace route results:

Tracing route to 64.25.33-44.ncsoft.com [64.25.33.44]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 20 ms 19 ms 31 ms
3 21 ms 20 ms 21 ms
4 19 ms 20 ms 19 ms
5 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms
6 168 ms 171 ms 163 ms sea-b1-link.telia.net [80.239.135.33]
7 176 ms 176 ms 176 ms sjo-b21-link.telia.net [62.115.135.24]
8 230 ms 229 ms 228 ms las-b21-link.telia.net [213.155.135.186]
9 247 ms 246 ms 247 ms dls-b21-link.telia.net [213.248.80.14]
10 250 ms 250 ms 250 ms 62.115.10.106
11 250 ms 251 ms 249 ms 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]
12 * * 251 ms 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.26]
13 262 ms 261 ms 260 ms 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
14 246 ms 246 ms 247 ms 64.25.33-44.ncsoft.com [64.25.33.44]

Trace complete.

I tested each of the hops. The problem starts with 213.155.135.186:

Ping statistics for 213.155.135.186:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 91, Lost = 9 (9% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 227ms, Maximum = 247ms, Average = 228ms

kittening telia.net. -.- I hope they resolve this problem soon. I’m getting so desperate, I might even try WTFast. Can arenanet contact telia.net on our behalf?

Black Box.9312:

If someone tried to use Signet of Mercy in a raid, I would probably kick them.

Revenant does not need a revive skill.

Also you may want to check up on your definition of “penultimate”.

Thanks for correction.

I would probably kick you if I you didn’t use Signet of Mercy in a raid.

I remember we check each other’s build before starting a Zaishen mission in Guild Wars 1. We plan before doing the hard version of the Zaishen mission, that includes carrying rez signet, and other necessities. Is GW2 any different, just because you can dangerously rez someone by standing next to them?

Make some of gyro AI attack the player character please. That way they keep close to the player all the time, not just follow the player. Ofcourse they would not damage the player, they will just move in melee range all the time, or rather, they get close to the player more often. Does it make sense? For example, the medic gyro will “attack” you, but with a heal burst instead. Another is the sneak gyro, it will have 100 range melee attack so it has to go near you all the time. In Guild Wars 1, you have heroes that can do touch skills, gyro will function like that, ie. go near you before using their skills.

Maybe they misunderstood it when they sent out survey forms to random beta testers. Maybe they kept seeing the word “hard” in the survey and thought maybe we didn’t like the difficulty of the content. While I like the difficulty of the past version of the maps, it got me thinking, what about those who are already level 80 but still has greens and blues. I say this from my own experience, I was so noob back then I still had blues and greens and some rares when I hit level 80 the first and second time. This is compounded by the fact that traits no longer give bonus stat points, so all your stat points are derived from your gear. How about this, put an exotic gear seller near the entrance of the map, so people could do the early missions in the map repeatedly and get starter exotics for their characters.

Lol, I remember I waited for those temples to open to get my traits, when they made the new trait hunt system. I waited for my nine characters kitten it anet. Nine characters on three temples double kitten it anet. But it’s quite interesting the first time, to be fair, and I’m glad they refined it and included it in the precursor hunt quest.

Griffith.7238:

Sure it’s not banner ,but it def the most OP pick up in the game.

Do you even… nvm. What I’m saying is a skill for reviving people, not something that helps while trying to revive someone, let me reiterate it, WHILE YOU REVIVE SOMEONE, YOU KNOW ROOTED AND UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE AND OPEN TO ATTACKS YOURSELF. Oh so you’re just going to pop Infuse Light on your sorry team mate, then leave them there? DOES RADIANT REVIVAL PREVENT STOMPING? Rethorical question, does revive skills prevent stomping?

Still no revive skill on revs, even with the hype of “hard” raids? People are even talking about rune of mercy because of that, and revive skills might even find a use in the raids, but still revs are too high and mighty to have any skill that revives their fellow team mate. Ironic, Rytlock is the penultimate Revenant, yet he won’t leave a man behind. Glint protected humanity and the world, yet she won’t leave a man behind. Ventari is against violence and harbors those who are defeated and helps those in need, yet he won’t leave a man behind. Revs give you 2 seconds facet of light, and that’s it. DON’T CARE ABOUT REZ, REZZING IS FOR THE WEAK! And you hype up about “healing” and “support” in your videos, WHEN REVIVING A TEAM MATE IS A FORM OF HEALING AND SUPPORT.

Still no revive skill on revs, even with the hype of “hard” raids? People are even talking about rune of mercy because of that, and revive skills might even find a use in the raids, but still revs are too high and mighty to have any skill that revives their fellow team mate. Ironic, Rytlock is the penultimate quintessential Revenant, yet he won’t leave a man behind. Glint protected humanity and the world, yet she won’t leave a man behind. Ventari is against violence and harbors those who are defeated and helps those in need, yet he won’t leave a man behind. Revs give you 2 seconds facet of light, and that’s it. DON’T CARE ABOUT REZ, REZZING IS FOR THE WEAK! And you hype up about “healing” and “support” in your videos, WHEN REVIVING A TEAM MATE IS A FORM OF HEALING AND SUPPORT.

I didn’t know you could cancel targeting by just clicking on an empty space. Before, I cancelled targeting by pressing escape key, but sometimes you have to press escape thrice, not just twice, to cancel targeting. So I find myself overpressing the escape key often, and this cancels my autorun, and it was getting annoying that I posted about it here. One forum member told me about the clicking empty space method, I still couldn’t believe I overlooked it, it was so simple, probably because I was so used to pressing keys in GW1 to choose targets and pressing escape key to cancel target.

Good to hear this dev news. I know you guys stated before you don’t like client side “saving and loading” of any sort, but why not? You guys did it with Guild Wars 1, why not just reuse what you have learned with GW1 templates? League of Legends has a template system of sorts, but you’ve already made one yourselves years before they did it. Sometimes I wonder what’s going on in your head lol, such wasted resources. If you are worried about “game versions” and that templates of one version might not work in another version, then include a version ID in the template code. TBH, I don’t care much about sharing my templates to others, so it’s fine for me if there’s no chat code component of the template system. But if you would like players to be able to share templates, then maybe try a “preview” window, a compact version of the trait UI (with the ability to change traits disabled ofcourse). You might even include a save system in this trait template preview window.

No love for toughness? They can actually spearhead attacks and draw enemy fire away from you and your allies with high toughness. They are the proverbial ‘cavalry chargers’, aimed to cause shock amongst the enemy and break apart their formation (what we commonly have as “zerg ball”, with the help of some CC and other skills). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_tactics

I did a tracert to one of the EotM IPs (64.25.33.81), and then ping tested each of the hops.

Tracing route to 64.25.33-81.ncsoft.com [64.25.33.81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms 
  2    19 ms    19 ms    19 ms  
  3    20 ms    19 ms    19 ms  
  4    20 ms    19 ms    21 ms  
  5    19 ms    19 ms    19 ms  
  6   229 ms   230 ms   229 ms  las-b3-link.telia.net [80.239.161.97]
  7     *        *      230 ms  las-b21-link.telia.net [213.155.137.58]
  8   261 ms   262 ms   262 ms  dls-b21-link.telia.net [62.115.139.4]
  9   264 ms   265 ms   265 ms  ncsoft-ic-307708-dls-b21.c.telia.net.10.115.62.i
n-addr.arpa [62.115.10.106]
 10   265 ms   264 ms   264 ms  64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]
 11   266 ms   267 ms   265 ms  64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.26]
 12   276 ms   275 ms   276 ms  64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
 13     *      262 ms   261 ms  64.25.33-81.ncsoft.com [64.25.33.81]

Trace complete.

I found out the packet loss starts at the point las-b3-link.telia.net [80.239.161.97]. Here are the ping test results of 80.239.161.97 (telia.net):

Ping statistics for 80.239.161.97:
    Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 86, Lost = 14 (14% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 229ms, Maximum = 236ms, Average = 230ms

My question is, I am in S.E. Asia and connected to the US servers, yet why am I being routed to Europe first, then to the US?

I’ve seen the new Fallout 4 videos showcasing the new stat and trait system, highlighting each of the “specialties”. I’ve thought, why not make showcase videos as well of the new GW2 specializations. Not just trailer-like videos that we already have, I’m thinking in the form similar to the Fallout 4 showcase videos, one with a narrator. I’m thinking something similar to the videos made by Eexa, but focusing on detailing the specializations. Actually I want it to be voiced by the male asuran voice actor, because the asuran male’s voice and tone reminds me of Stewie Griffin from The Family Guy series haha.

Here is an example of Eexa’s experience with Chronomancer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwOyHiRJdEw

Here are the Fallout 4 videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuo7AuDGNN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw21X2jKwCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paYU1neP3xM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95lZ56ddj4

I got DC’ed in Silverwastes twice lol. I’m getting lots of packet loss with the game servers (around 15-18%), although I’m not sure if it’s the servers of arenanet (overloaded perhaps? dropping requests?), or if it’s an ISP problem.

Maybe instead of flat out destroying minions, it will deal some damage instead? Then afterwards, we spam the kitten out of staff 2 to try to heal our minions lol. ^^;;

Roamers cut off supply, capture objectives, and ambush enemy reinforcements (and can even do covert sieges). I don’t know what you are saying about ‘WvW not designed for roamers’. Roamers, defenders, and scouts are an integral part of the army, and they use up their own time and money just to do those jobs. There should be a guild reward/payment system such that there is a gold reward pool, and a guild leader could assign objectives in the map and set rewards for doing those tasks by the guild members. Not just the rewards you normally get. For example, if a guild owns a keep or tower, there is a reward system for defending it, or even the guild leader could assign tasks to their members or members could volunteer for these tasks. That goes for roamers as well, for example when volunteers cap a certain amount of camps or kill a certain amount of enemies, they get gold and loot rewards. The gold reward pool will come from donations from the guild members, and can even reward non-guild members.

I’ve been getting lots of packet loss as well.

Ping statistics for 64.25.38.135:
    Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 82, Lost = 18 (18% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 273ms, Maximum = 276ms, Average = 274ms

Ping statistics for 64.25.40.116:
    Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 83, Lost = 17 (17% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 264ms, Maximum = 266ms, Average = 264ms

In comparison, here’s the ping tests for www.guildwars2.com and www.google.com, which is pretty stable:

Ping statistics for 64.25.40.16:
    Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 99, Lost = 1 (1% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 276ms, Maximum = 279ms, Average = 277ms

Ping statistics for 74.125.203.106:
    Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 207ms, Maximum = 227ms, Average = 208ms

Choxie discovered an exploit with tonics. Maybe he and the viewers reported it en masse, that’s probably why arenanet fixed it quickly/included in this patch.

Is GW2 development budget getting overblown by voice actors? I don’t mind voiceless dialogue, I can still read and I’ve played alot of old school RPGs. I’d rather have then hire more programmers than spending too much money on something passing, something we will only use for a few seconds. I don’t think so though, but it’s something to be reconsidered if they are hiring “top voice actors”.

Ranks need to be per class in my opinion, similar to Starcraft 2 were you have separate levels for Zerg, Terran, and Protoss. I play Random, so my levels are around 30 to all races, but overall I’m level 90+. Why play random you ask. Because it’s kittening fun, and you get to see the game as a whole and know what tactics your enemies could use. The same way I don’t play only one job class in GW2, although I have more experience with necros than the other classes.

Thanks for the input, now I know it’s not just necros having this problem. It happened to me alot, by alot I mean probably 20 to 30 times already or even more. It’s already been several months since I last reported this, and it’s getting so frustrating. Can you make the change to downed state an interrupt, so whatever you were pressing at the time gets canceled, and we don’t trigger downed state skill 2 because of that?

Does anyone know arenanet’s stance on third party apps? I’m planning on making several apps, one of which is a chat macro program. I just want to be sure once and for all it won’t get me banned. Another one is a screen analyzer.

When you are pushed back when you are just about to cast a ground targeted skill, it will interrupt you, but it doesn’t cancel your ground targeting, and the moment you get out of stun, you will instead cast it where you last clicked it on the ground. You might say, oh that’s great, that’s actually good…. You were pushed back.. bear that in mind. So where you inadvertently clicked on the ground when you were pushed back is farther away than where your intended to cast it. The problem here is the knockback interrupts your skill activation but doesn’t cancel your command input, and you end up casting it on the wrong place. I understand command queuing. But imagine, just imagine this, you are being pushed around all over the place and your camera is going left and right as well, would you still command queue and risk targeting the wrong place because of position displacement, and therefore, camera displacement? This problem is compounded further if you have fast casting enabled.

When you are a necromancer and using a skill bound to weapon skill 2 when you’re just about to go to downed state, your downed state skill 2 will go on cooldown even though in didn’t trigger the effect (fear).

When you are a necromancer and using a skill bound to weapon skill 2, when you’re just about to go to downed state, your downed state skill 2 will go on cooldown even though in didn’t trigger the effect (fear).

^ Maybe we can have two versions of dodge. One is for physical attacks, and the other for mental attacks. Mental attack dodges will have an animation where the character covers his ears for a while.

Dodges and skill activation are not in sync. It seems dodges use the same channel as movement (ie. there some lag with what you see on screen and what’s happen resulting to some weird effect).

Todd.6573:

Also, i cant remember ever being stunned by anything while dodging other than statics and the bloody guardian ring that i cant remember the name of.

That’s what I’m talking about. How the kitten did that mesmer interrupt my dodge midway through? I know he was going to stun me the moment he reappeared, that’s the kittening reason why I dodged in the first place.

So Daredevil’s dodges are useless then? Rename it to DOWNDEVIL because their dodges are unreliable and will only get them downed, or CLOWNDEVIL since their dodges are something to be laughed at.

I know some skills are undodgeable btw. -.-

Yeah, warhorn skill 4 (Wail of Doom) is unblockable, but it’s undodgeable as well?!?

OK thank you. I’m not the speediest typer around and like I said, sometimes I hit the wrong keys when I’m frantically trying to type something, specifically instead of pressing the enter key, I press the shift or the backslash keys, followed by the message I was going to send, only to activate skills bound to those keys. This helps in ensuring it won’t happen again.

Is it possible to interrupt dodges? More specifically, interrupting a dodge midway.

I know there’s a rule that states that you can only have 1 skill activation per key press. But since chat ain’t skill activation, is it allowed to macro chat and chat commands (such as /salute @)? For example, when multiple enemies suddenly reveal themselves from stealth coming to the point where I am at, I hastily type in “2 home”, or “3 inc home”, etc. Sometimes in my panic I mispress the wrong buttons and instead activate random skills while typing what I needed to relay in team chat. I’ve been thinking about using a macro program to automatically type in chat for several months now, but didn’t because I’m not sure if it’s allowed. So my question is, is using macro programs to type in chat allowed?

Can we have a utility version of the amulet please? I’m not even sure if an offensive version of the nomad’s amulet is viable, considering it’s stats.

Why did you make the mouse pointer disappear when you pan the camera with the right mouse button? Don’t you even read the forums, don’t you know how many people are frustrated by this “artistic” decision of yours? (MORE LIKE FARTISTIC!) People have resorted to using third party programs just to keep track of the mouse button. It wasn’t a big problem back in Guild Wars 1, you have to have a target to use most of the skills. But not in Guild Wars 2 when you have skills that require ground targeting. Can we have the option to change the cursor as well, since it’s colored light gold/yellowish brown, LIKE IT’S CAMOUFLAGED WITH THE COLOR OF THE GROUND AND BRICKS. Bright explosions plus light colored mouse pointer = FARTISTIC EXPRESSION. Bravo!

How do we add new recipes? Make longer versions of existing ones? Make new more powerful versions? How about food that give effects such as those in runes or sigils?

I earn my plats/gold in GW1 through PvP (via selling Balthazar keys). It’s not the optimal way of earning gold, but I love PvP, so it’s a job I love so to speak.

abc.5790:

My last name Goldman and I like gold

Ban this guy. Clearly he bought from gold sellers. He might actually be a gold seller himself.

They’ve actually made improvements. I hope they fine tune it more. I am playing at an average of 240-250+ ms ping.

When you are a necromancer and using staff, when you go down midway through casting staff skill 2, your downed state skill will go on cooldown without triggering the effect (fear).

When you are a necromancer and using staff, when you go down midway through casting staff skill 2, your downed state skill will go on cooldown without triggering the effect (fear).

When you are a necromancer and using staff, when you go down midway through casting staff skill 2, your downed state skill will go on cooldown without triggering the effect (fear).

I had an FPS drop problem as well a few weeks ago, but it’s back to normal again, I think they fixed it. But lately however I’ve been having FPS drop “hiccups” from time to time. Just a while ago my client was stuttering so bad in the HotM lobby, now it’s back to 30+ FPS again. It’s not the best FPS around, but it does the job and the graphics is smooth enough, I mean when I swing the camera or when I move, it doesn’t stutter at all.

I was tempted to buy a Twilight myself through gold sellers. ^^;; I can’t blame you if you gave in to RMT. Atleast now they give you another chance, I think before it was permaban, I’m not so sure though.

Take it easy Mike, you know what they don’t understand and what you do know. Keep up the great work.

@Akhet, can you do a tracert please and post the results here?

Could you please change the rarity of the Pirate Sword costume brawl toy into Exotic, so that I won’t accidentally destroy it when I see I couldn’t salvage it? I know, I know, it will prompt you first if you really want to destroy it, but I am thinking others might immediately destroy it reactively, and realizing their mistake moments later. Actually, not just Pirate Sword, maybe change all toys and other infinite items to exotic (or rare) rarity.

No, please don’t roll back. These people don’t know what they are talking about and have no evidence to back them up aside from subjective conclusions based on emotions. These people don’t want to lose their unfair advantage over those with high latency. IT’S NOT THE FAULT OF THE NET CODE IF YOU HAVE 123781265112312857162831282312 MS PING DOG kitten IT! BLAME SOMETHING ELSE, BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE INSTEAD!

Tests I made showing improvement with melee attacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpU8nzJGmhw