Guild Wars 2

on my Asura, when the shield supposed to be on my back, it goes through my head…

yep…

get a stability utility for the fight and try to kite him to closest shore and then kill him with normal attacks

- Death From Below
- UnderTheBelt
- Nine inch Nail
- Pinscher

etc

1- scenery
2- the idea of dynamic events
3- secret jumping places
4- character build system (traits, weapons,etc )
5-crafting and exploration

• fix bugs
• fix loot from bosses.
• replace some of the mindless zerg encounters by smart mechanic (hint hint, increase player CC duration in PVE by 3 or even by 4 then develop the content around it…)
• implement grouping tool.

OTGBionicArm.2417:

I feel like they are inherently designed to “live long enough to burst someone with 100B” and nothing more.

this is your problem, despite the fact everybody running around with a GS, it is a very bad weapon overall, it is marginally good only in ZvZvZ .

there are few builds that use GS to the MAX, (SoR+bolas+frenzy +100b kill once then run away for 60 seconds) but it is a bad choice for a weapon.

check the axe/mace build , very solid build, survival, yet has high DPS (axe) and some control (mace)
there is a build somewhere here or in the guru forums.

personally I love the 10/0/30/30/0 shout build where outside dungeons I use axe/mace and longbow.

ty for the answers, I found the reason it was not working.
apparently , you must unlock balanced stance ability.

if you trait last stand while balanced stance is not available, you will not get stability.

it is also written in the WIKI…
and yes the internal CD is too long…

has anybody tested this?
I don’t see any icon on my bar that indicate “balanced stance” after I am knocked
also, can be knocked/stunned twice in a row.

I was expecting 10 seconds stability….

Zietlogik.6208:

Currently I am using Rage on my Axe, Paralyzation on my Shield and Force on my Greatsword

do you feel that paralization sigil helps?
as the longest stun is 2 sec (F1 burst skill) and the regular stun is 1 sec.
so adding 0.15 sec to the stun, is it noticeable?

finish maps.
finish daily (60 kills, 15 mob types, 20 gatherings, 5 events)
gather every node you see. (also help your bank account)
craft only discoveries.
follow your personal story on level, (don’t be too much above the personal story)
even failed events give you XP.

you can pin point the disconnection source by using the free pingplotter version and tracing the connection to GW authentication servers

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/frequent-disconnections-this-might-help/first#post926018

the following have to be added to the current combat log

1) critical indication, both to your damage and to incoming damage.
2) healing, at least the incoming healing, if not outgoing.
3) filters (only outgoing damage, only incoming damage, healing etc)
4) the ability to save the log to file

Teleporting bots are hard to report, when you realize the miner is bot, it is when the ranger and his fellow bear poofed and gone…

regular bots were annoying to report, because they were running in tight stack, so it was hard to click each one to report.

but these new bots are almost impossible to report….

same here, I am not in my guild.
cant talk in guild chat.

rest of the guild still see me in the guild.

very weird, relogging doesnt help.
deleting local.dat and repairing the client, doesnt help

warriors are heavy armor+ utility+large HP pool+ good melee +good ranged all in one class jack of all trades and master of all.

not for nothing the game is named : guildwar(rior)s2

guardians are immortal group saviors clad in steel, with extra coolness factor.

rest of the classes are situational niches (thieves for sPVP, mesmers for WWW, rangers for bots, elementalists for masochists, engineers for furry lovers, necros completely forgot about them etc…, )

highest possible sustainable HP in rares (Knight armor and jewelry)
is 37K HP

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJApejkOJvNPGPMRBA0DAAAg0DAAAAA;TwAA2yoEQJhSFlCKqsMZJyymlLLZWA

doesn’t mean it is a smart move. as this gear lacks toughness.

Barbarka.9362:

I used Wow’s in BC + a little in LK but i really think with the lack of a trinity this shouldn’t be an issue. What was so wrong with Wow’s anywaY?

WOW tool is bad, because it generate the party randomly, with no choice for player to chose the group members or the dungeon.

basically, dungeon finder tools are bad for the community, group finder tools are healthier for the community.

one more drawback is that the tool must be server only. cross server tool is also a community killer.

since there is no “trinity” people will not wait for tanks and healers. no reason to go to cross server tool concept.

I want (one more time), to recommend the concept of the grouping tool DDO have.
it allows for the group initiator to declare what kind of activity he wants, and what players he expect to join.

players who seeking group, have a very easy list of initiated groups, they see the group leader class/level/name and the purpose of the group (specific dungeon, fractals, WWW, Orr event etc)
and they can chose to join the group.

the group initiator see who wants to join (class/level/name), and he accepts or deny the person. when the group is full, it is removed from group list.

no need to spam chat, no need to be in a specific map. you have the control to which group to join, and the group leader has the control of whom to invite.

It can be the card memory overheating.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Has-anybody-solved-crashing-ATI-7850-issue

happens mostly on ATI cards in this game.

try to get a 3rd party utility that can downclock the card memory speed, and reduce it by ~20-25%

don’t go for Ele or thief, they are all the glass without the cannon.

run warrior, plate armor , passive healing and GS with 100%+ crit… (under fury)

or indeed grenadier engi as you can swap kits on the fly.
glue bomb+ all the granades you can toss in 4 seconds = win

Hi, all

I had frequent disconnections from the game from 3.12
with problems to login…

I was mad at A-net, I posted some frustrated posts in the forums, it didn’t help…
so I contacted A-net support, and they were very helpful with understanding where the problem is…

if you have disconnection or login issues lately, try to do the following:

1) start GW2, when you manage to login, type in chat ‘/ip’ it will return you the login server IP adress you use. write it down. close the game.
2) open browser, go to any site that detects your real IP. like whatISmyIP.com and write it down.
3) install ping plotter from http://www.pingplotter.com/download.html
the standard free version.
4) run it , submit the login server IP you got from #1 and start the trace.
5) start GW2 and play the game until you disconnect.
6) look at the trace, see where you have packet loss

for example please see the attached picture.

7) if you see that the packet loss is on NCsoft network, open a support ticket or post it in the forums
8) if you see packet loss at your ISP network, you can do the following:

if you have dynamic IP, power off your modem/access point (not the router!) wait 30 seconds and power it again.
get new IP adress
check your real IP adress, if it is different, run the pingplotter again and see if you still have packet loss, if you dont have any packet loss: —> profit
if you still have packet loss or you have static IP adress, contact your ISP and shout at them that they do crappy job until you get different IP with better routes.

it solved the issue for me, got new IP from the ISP and better route with no packet loss.

P.S.
that doesn’t mean me and Anet are friends, they still have to
1- nuke Orr
2- allow disconnected people to get back to their fractal party
3- include a group finding tool
4- fix bugs

second the OP.

especially the insane re-spawn speed of the mobs

Dolan.3071:

I use rune of the dolyak on my warrior. Mainly because I only use two shouts, one being shrug it off…. And the other For Great Justice. Most conditions IMO are short and not really that harmful anyway, doesn’t seem worth it to give up some extra passive health regen.

how much HP is the rune regeneration per tick?
also do you know if it is modified by healing power or it is a flat number?

ty

the issue is back

see this thread..

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Healing-Power

to summ it up, healing power not really worth it.
the coefficients are very low, some healing mechanics don’t scale with healing power at all.
toughness or vitality scale better and have better gains per point.

as a support elementalist with full healing gear (~1800 healing total) in dungeons and fractals I feel much less contributing to the effort than if I wear my condition gear.
I don’t see a real impact of a full healing gear, as I cant “save” anybody from spike, all I can do is to top off the party, and this can be done with little healing gear. 30 points in water and few accessories bring me to nice 600 healing which is fine.

I agree with the OP.

the priority should go to bug fixes and missing features rather to adding more broken content…

agree with points 1 and 2

a plea to arenanet…

the game bugs should be fixed before new content released:
1- all the skills and the class mechanics must be fixed!
2- tooltips and descriptions.
3- invulnerable and evading monsters, especially underwater.
4- infrastructure: disconnections, lag, invisible zerg , easy overflow travel, party control tab.
5- decent “looking for group” tool (hint hint DDO- yes, WOW -NO!)

then the game content:
all the low level maps have good design, they are fun , versatile and have nice ratio of scenery, mobs, events etc
all high level maps are horrible. (seriously if you don’t know what horrible is , just play your own maps…)

FrostGorge sound is actually semi decent map. it just forgotten because after you finished it once, you don’t return there, almost no high level gathering nodes, one dungeon nobody runs, and one nice event that needs twenty or more people to participate in order to succeed… for no reward at all…

The lost shores: another desolated map, nice terrain, the right amount of mobs, small packs around veterans and single roamers, not too hard to be a pain, and not too little to be able to AFK run in the map.
but , again, nothing to do there, not even a chest and achievement for the map completion, and since the champion nerf, nothing to do in the map. the new crafting materials are worthless for most of the people since the inscriptions are redundant, and to collect 1000 karka shells for a “ancient karka shell” is… big fluffy pile of kittens
through the whole event weekend, i managed to get two shells, thats one shell in a day, means I will have to grind three years to get this item…. seriously?

and the top of the tops, the orr maps with cursed shore as a pinnacle of bad map design…
ugly terrain, broken personal story quests, annoying mobs with bad mechanics for trash mobs: pulls, pushes, immobilizations, suns, daze, confusion, you loose control of your character and die faster than in WWW zerg , insane respawn rate (you kill one mob, two respawn in its place!) , ok, so you say sure , the map are not designed for soloing, but the game is not designed for grouping!!! as there is no grouping tool and the group control is lacking…. so if the game is group unfriendly, why do you create so much group dependent content?

oh, and the broken key events…

almost forgot, the disconnections today…
I really want to like this game, but in its current state, I would not recommend this game to anybody.

until all this is fixed, DO NOT RELEASE NEW CONTENT!!

something is very wrong on the arena net

yep, same thing, disconnection, but not crash.
I can get to my desktop and close GW2 from task manager

also generating GW2 log

"
Debug: Disconnected from server 206.127.146.61:6112
Debug: Disconnected from server 206.127.159.107:6112
Debug: Drop auth connection
Perf: Counter; 30d.1m.socket inet msgs processed; 87
Perf: Counter; 30d.1m.socket inet process time ms; 12
Perf: Counter; 30d.1m.transactions (peak); 4
Perf: Counter; 30d.1m.transactions (total); 19
Perf: Counter; 30d.1m.unsent msgs (peak); 1
Perf: Counter; 30d.1m.unsent msgs (total); 1
"

happen only today….

I have them also (HD7850) with 12.11 beta drivers. also with SSD drive.
but not in every dungeon.

it is not a gamebreaking issue to me…

DragonSoul.3208:

Hey Lalangamena,

First of all, I think you should have a look at this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/371181-33-crashing-temperature

Do not really have a solution but wanted to share a couple of things that might help. I have the exact same symptoms/crashes. I.e:

Here is my spec in case you need it:
Intel Q9650 (@stock)
Gigabyte GA-P45-UD3LR
Gigabyte GTX 550 Ti GV-N550OC-1GI
6 GB Kingston DDR2 667MHz (2GBx2, 1GBx2)
Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 7200 Rpm
Zalman 750 PSU
Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit

Needless to say, all drivers, etc, are up to date.

Good luck,
DS

DragonSoul hi,

ty for the reply.

It kinda make sense to me, because if I downclock the memory speed rather than GPU speed , I can play several hours without crash.
I downclock the memory speed from 1200 to 1000 (or how the HIS tool shows from 4800 to 4000)
but still it doesn’t solve the issue completely… maybe I should try to downclock it even lower.

my PC case is open and I have put two extra fans just below the graphic card, to keep it cooled constantly.. the idle GPU temperature is 38 degrees, and gaming GPU tempertaure dont pass even 65 degrees.

from my experience capping the FPS only increase the crashes…
I will try to look for an external thermal pad for the memory chips if i can find them…

I agree, its kind of confusing…. same description different effect…

for more control (read: tanking)
what Mainhand? sword/shield or mace shield?
please help me decide….

pros and cons
auto attack: bleeds vs weakness
bleeds allow you to keep damage and aggro on the mob even on ‘out of reach’ phases of the fight
weakness keeps you alive longer, 50% of time for 50% damage statistically you get 75% damage, almost like having a perma prot boon.

skill2: mobility (leap) vs block

leap is a gap closer to a mob with blast finisher, good to start fights, swich mobs and peel.
block is block, traited also a missile reflect.

skill3: long cripple vs daze

long cripple is a good control for kiting, 7 sec cripple on 15 sec CD, 50% kiting duration.
daze is insta interrupt, good to interrupt special attacks and heals.

F1: immobilize vs stun

immobilize is a good control, keep the mobs at bay also with bleed.
stun is also a good crowd control and an interrupt.

so which is better from your experience? sword or mace?

also, for F1 mace is it better to use interrupt every cooldown for one second stun, or wait for the adrenalin to fill up?

runes:
rune of the soldier? gives nice amounts of vitality and toughness also removing conditions from all your party, designed for warriors.

rune of the earth? gives only toughness (no vitality) but can proc 4 second protection (25% proc)

which is better? is the 25% proc chance enough? is it affected by boon duration?

ty

warrior is a very balanced class overall,
I partially agree with point-1 regarding the lack of “protection” boon.

banners shine (as in OP ) in groups , they are not that good nor intended for solo.

combo fields, indeed we lack those, but we really can’t expect being elementalists in full plate arent we? I can live with that if we can get some source of protection.
as other people said, we are probably the only class who can have all the finishers (projectile, burst, leap, blast, whirl…) at the same time.

related to #1
what indeed is a problem is banner of defense.
i.e:
banner of tactics #2 is regen boon
banner of discipline #2 is fury boon
banner of strength #2 invulnerability debuff
battle #2 standard is stability boon

while banner of defense #2 is yet another knockback… it should be 5sec protection…
it is logical and requested.

we (as warriors) have
three knockbacks- two weapons and one utility, three knockdowns- two weapons and one utility and zero protection boon sources..

I hope there will be no level cap increase, 80 levels is enough…

increasing level cap is what make me leave the games…

the problem of the elementalist is that all skills s.u.c.k. big time until you trait for them,

all signets suck, unless you invest heavily into earth for written in stone, 20% CD reduction and in all auramancer traits.

all cantrips suck, unless you invest heavily into cantrips, and soothing wave,
the same with glyphs…

which is silly, as Elementalist is the only class that have to trait themselves to use their only elite skill… (in order for the glyph of elementals not being a kittycat you must trait in air-10 to have glyph CD reduction)

all the base damage is so low compare to other classes… you have to trait on trait (5% to burning, 5% to bleeding, 10% when full endurance, 5% when you above 90%, 20% when enemy below 25% etc, etc) in order to have decent damage…

EDIT:

oh, yes conjure skills…
if the devs expect us to use these, they have to change them similar to engi kit mechanics, or nobody serious will use them…

same thing here….

World of Warcraft: best Boss mechanics and smoothness of play. the most correct pace of combat, very polished.
[ the bad: stat inflation, huge power creep, mechanic dumbing, character homogenization]

LOTRO: the best leveling, the zones are true to the lore and the fellowship quests make you feel like you’re participating the story.
[the bad: endgame, raids]

DDO:
- best grouping tool ever.
- the dungeon system is quite ingenious, also traps, rogues who can disable traps, “super mario” jumps… to advance places
- best character building and customization system. you can build your character just like you want it to be. (multiclassing, stat points, etc) various unorthodox builds rule the game…
[the bad: no real open zones, everything instanced. the forgotten realms expansion broke the game as it introduced epic levels and power creep pay2win…]

Age of Conan: best hype ever for an MMO ….

[the bad: the game haven’t decided if it is PVP or PVE oriented, and implemented the worse of the two for each other]

A) I see what you did there…

B) this statement:

GW2: 1. Adding a gear treadmill.
2. No open world PvP and it’s very gear dependent. I hate getting steamrolled just cause x players got better gear.

is simply not true.

1- this “gear treadmill” doesn’t affect anybody except people who are in fractals level 15 and deeper.
2- its called WvWvW four huge maps full of world PVP.
do you want “world PVP” so you can gank lowbies in starter areas? very brave, WOW is that way |——→
3- if you are steamrolled in WWW, it is not because of the gear…
the difference between rare armor and exotic armor is negligible in WWW terms
and exotic weapons are cheap (2.5 to 5 gold for exotic pearl weapon… ) to buy.

you should re-think again, why are you “steamrolled” in WWW…

basically you are saying that you don’t like to play the game, except an occasional dungeon here and there, and yet want to get full exotic gear? …

dungeon gear is for looks, that’s why it is expensive. dungeon gear stats are quite horrible,
you can get exotic gear from various sources…
1) via crafting
2) via completing maps (when you finish maps level 70 to 80 you get one or two exotic pieces of gear)
3) eating MF food and waiting for it to drop from mobs during event
4) eating MF food and waiting for it to drop from enemy players during WWW
5) buying for dirty cheap from the action house (except berserker, cause all the noobs buy berserker… )

ascended items is a totally different game….

robinsiebler.3801:

DDO has an excellent LFG feature. I have posted about it before and included a screen shot, but I am too lazy to search for the link.

This message was brought to you by a Kitten who can see the Search Button

this.

one of the best LFG tools around.

simple and effective.

1) frustration from bugs
2) lack of a decent grouping tool.
3) ridiculous imbalance between classes (pvp and pve wise…)

update:
installed the latest firmware for the SSD drive and configured BIOS accordingly.
from here: http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110257

also removed two RAM stick and tried to go with 8GB but on full 1600mhz.

still crashed. doesn’t help.

:(

ty for replies

I indeed have the latest CAP 12.10 and the latest mainboard BIOS.
when i re-install driver I use “driver fusion” to clean all the files and registry entries.

to Myth:
my RAM indeed runs for 1333 instead of 1600, but it is because I use all the slots. (4×4)
when you use all the RAM slots, your system works on lower RAM speed.
I will remove two slots and try to play with 8 giga ram to test.

SSD is a “black box” for me, I looked for any driver or firmware update on corsair webpage but didn’t find anything, and Intel software don’t recognize my SSD, so I am not sure how to update the firmware…
I use corsair force series 3 SSD 120MB.
http://www.corsair.com/en/ssd/force-series-3-ssd/force-series-3-120gb-a-sata-3-6gbps-solid-state-hard-drive.html

GW2 crash even when I disable all the on board sound from BIOS (yes I played gw2 with no sound at all…), so i doubt its the sound settings but i will give it another try.

I see in this forum and in any other gaming forum and technical video card forums that there is a spread issue with ATI 7xxx cards crashing in games.

Has anybody solved crashing ATI HD7850 during the game?
I have crashes all the time.

what system I have:
Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Gigabyte ATI radeon 7850 GV-R785OC-2GD
Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H
16 GB corsair value RAM
SSD drive 128G corsair
seasonic bronze 650W powersource
windows7 64 bit SP1

The symptoms of how it is crashing for me- randomly inside the game:
a) I get black screen with the latest sound bit looping
or
b)orange screen with vertical lines with buzz sound.

when the crash occurs I cannot alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del or alt-F4 out of it, I have to shut down the PC with on/off button.

I don’t have any crashes in the benchmarks: Heaven DX11 Benchmark 3.0 and Future mark 3DMark 11 on max settings

I don’t play other games, so cant really test.
I don’t overclock the card!

there is no relevant error (or any except the force boot) in the windows event log
there is no guildwars2 dump file.
if I run the gw2.exe with the log parameter I get the usual missing skins and objects. nothing that can indicate a serious error in the log.

this is not overheating issue as the game crash at GPU temperature of 70c and 60c and even on 50c .
70c still considered normal gaming temperature of the GPU.

but it is related, because if I artificially keep high temperature (with no air circulation and disconnecting case fans) I crash more often than when I keep the GPU on low temp of 46c-50c.
When on high temperature the game crashed every 5 and 15 minutes.
On low temperature I could crash after 30 min to 1 hour
(degrees in Celsius)

what I have done:
1) I contacted Gigabyte support

they gave me the latest BIOS for the card: F5_A which increased the voltage for the memory.
they asked me to try the second (slower) PCI-E in the mainboard
both of their solutions didn’t help, they suggested to return the card to the place I bought it.

2) contacted ATI (AMD) support, I got no response.

3) searched the web and tried the following solutions:
a) disabled anti aliasing in GW2
b) disabled shaders in GW2
c) disabled HD sound in OS.
d) disabled completely the sound in BIOS
e) tried ATI drivers 12.8 -12.9 -12.10 and now I use the beta 12.11 from last week.
f) in BIOS changed the PCI-E (PEG) generation to 1
g) under clocked the GPU to up to 850mhz (default = 975)
h) disabled desktop background and screensaver.
nothing helped, nothing at all…

4) I read this in one of the related posts in guru3D forums and it partially helped.
the post said that there is a problem with the power saving mechanism of the cards that decide how fast the GPU should work and how much power it should be gaining, so sometimes when the load is high, the system thinks the card is idle and reduce the power gain so the card crash.
this mechanism should be disabled.

I installed third party overclock tool (from HIS)
and in this tool I disabled the 2D clocks and ULPS- as it was said in the post
from here:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4426512&postcount=323

when i do this, the crashes are much less frequent, I can play up to 2-3 hours with no crash, ( I can almost complete two sets of fractals! I start level 1 and can sometimes reach the second or third fractal of level 2, then I crash… )

but this solution doesn’t solve the problem for me completely
I couldn’t find the 12.6 driver for HD7xxx cards in AMD website, so i havent done this part.

So, my question remains, does anybody here had this problem and managed to solve it?

thanx

attached Guild Wars 2 Test for the support team.

bump.

we must be able to return to our groups after disconnection….

lots of puzzled folks on ruins of surmia….

what about the ability to re-enter dungeon with your group after you kicked out or the game crash?

this is number 1 issue….

bumping all these posts hoping Anet will notice the kitty cat kitty bugs in their brand new event….
one more kitten for the road =^.^= MEOW….

bump +151515151515

yep same like in mad king again, disconnected, found myself in lions arch, go back to fractals all new instance for myself and the party of other four people struggling in different instance….