Guild Wars 2

Ofc not, why do you even consider this? It is like thinking monopoly money will work at the store.

RKyrk.4761:

Warrior is one of the best classes for WvW and will never go away.
Following video is not perhaps the most instructive nor does it reflect reality as its recorded by one of the best wvw guilds of all time, but it does show how powerful warrior is/has been under the right circumstances.

https://youtu.be/BaRGUCXfqfQ

Dude, the video is 2 years old. Much have happen since then

Most people in this game are swimming in gold and gems are not a issue. If you are new to the game, then earning gold is only hard until you reach lvl 80, after that you can earn the gold you need in just a few days, so i don’t really see a problem.

As for a barbershop, i would not mind having it as a feature were you can also precheck before deciding if you want to get a new look. As it is now i have to have one on my bank and then pick it up with the character i want to check and if i want to check many at the times it is a bit time wasting . This way they will probably sell more changes then they are now.

Play Rift, WoW, LoL or other games the like and you will see that GW2 have a relatively pleasant community.

Not saying it can be better, we for sure have a lot of trolls, but you also need to think about your own appearance. What about the guys who join pvp for doing their best to win. They team play and really put the effort in and then see people who are not really in any way carry their part in that game and they loose the match due to it, or have to work harder to carry the person. Why are their frustration not as real as yours are? I don’t say you don’t carry, and it does not give them the right to be rude, but they have just as much right to be as kittened as you are at them, because from their point of view you are the one ruin it

And next time you run in to those extreme people that are doing racist/sexual or other rude comments or tell you to kill your self or what not, make a screenshot of your chat with timestamp and send that and the account name of the person to exploits@arena.net.
Had a guy raging at me for no reason what so ever over something someone else did and he was really unpleasant. I sent the screenshot to a-net and he was offline for 2 weeks, obviously banned.
Just complaining is not really helpful, do something about the people who argue in ugly ways instead.

As for the events, well when i am i Orr i just turn my mapchat off. All this kids throwing insults have nothing interesting to say, so i just ignore the chat.

Yeah there might be a few skins not being there, but consider about 90% of them are, if not more, my point is still valid

The point is not really any of this, the point is that so many people are lazy waiting for others to finish and then get loot. It is not that i mind ressing people, but when event fails because people are lazy to run back, or were a few people have to struggle a very long time to maybe manage a upscaled event, then this is kitten. And it causes a lot of anger because the people having to struggle whilst others lying on the ground dead gets really upset about it. Not to mention when this people scream for ress and starts to insult the people trying to actually save the situation and especially at events were you simply can not ress with the risk of going down your self.

Imo it should be in pve as it is in wvw and people should be forced to waypoint after a few minutes. This way they will choose to run back faster.
It should also stop the abusing of resses since a kittenload of people goes afk on the map next to a mob and get ressed over and over to avoid being kicked from the game. This in it self makes me not so egar to stay and ress because 95% of the people just lying around are afk.

I don’t mind ress people, but i only ress if there is no risk of me going down whilst doing so, and if you are lying next to a waypoints (yes there is many people doing that) then i will walk over your body. It would be faster for your to use that waypoint then me to ress and seing you lying there screaming for ress mostly makes me laugh. Kindness should not be abused kitten many do today.

All skins from past events are still available at the Black Lion Weapon Specialist and can be bought for Black Lion Claim Tickets. Most of them can also be found on the Trading Company and be bought for gold.

This subject comes up from time to time and one of the reasons this can never happen is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEhqp32XOKQ

Enemie npc are back on EU-servers again. Gandara in particular. Problems is they do not only keep the towers contested, but they kill our npc AND our siege. It really is more of a problem then it might sound like. Also the bug with only 500 suplies in a fully upgraded keep is back. Pretty much as it looked like yesterday.

Michael Henninger.7451:

Match manipulation is a no-no.

Consider you repeated this post you need to be more clear what this means? Because many of us have more then one account on a server. I for my self do not interfere in a matchup if one of those meet my mainaccount server. I have not joined their forums nor their ts, and i never given any sort of info to any of the servers. For me this is about loyalty and honor.
BUT there are many people having several account that are on ts, on forums giving info to their main server. I also seen on the servers that are not my main, that other spies are flaming in chat to lower morale, adding useless siege until cap, repairing walls that are being trebbed until keep is drained and so on.
So were is the line? Is it having accounts on more then one server? Is it spying in forums/ts in which you have no legal right to interfere in since that is outside of a-nets reach, is it trolling in chat, with siege or removing suplies? Give us a clear answer so that we know where the limit is please.

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If you want to play the game the way you wish, then respect that guilds want the same. It do hurt the guild when pugs join them. It might not feel that way for you, because you actually don’t see the consequences, but for the guild it is very noticeable.

As for example, you are no on our teamspeak. You can not hear what our raidleader tells us. You have no clue when he calls for fields to blast, and the chance that you screw that up for us by placing your own and overwrite is huge, happens mostly every fight there is a pug in it. If you can’t follow our movements you will be killed, this in it self can determine if we win or loose the fight, because every person that tagged you and are them self in downstate, will rally on you when you die.
So we might just have manage to down many of them and are about to finish them off, and you go down and BAM all of them are now up again, and we might end up loose that fight. This might not feel important for you, but for us as a focused wvw guild, those fights are important and why each and everyone of us put down time to it.

With above said, i do want to add that being rude when asking you to leave is not ok. I always politely ask people to respect our wish for a private raid and to join the pug commander instead. Most of the time i get a respectful answer back and they leave.
I also don’t ask such thing when we are inside of keeps and towers. Because then it is not about our fight but about defending what the server own.

A game might be open for all but this do not mean that you have to choose to join a group of people who do not want you there at all. The mentality i can do what i want feels somewhat childish. Because in the end it is about respect for other peoples way of playing. If you need a guild group to be happy, then find a guild and raid with them or join the blue tag which is mostly the pug-comander.

In real life on open situations, like say on a club, or in a store or anything the like, you are allowed to go were ever you want, but this does not mean that you can jump in to any group you want. Social skills and respect apply in games as well.

About tags, this depends on the server, but most servers have requests about guilds tagging up so that people know were they are. And other guilds don’t run across the map to find the guild they want to fight if they see another guild close to them already.

If you come from a mmo like WoW, then you will most probably have a few difficulties in the beginning. Because GW2 is not built up as WoW and the like is. There are no healers nor tanks in this game, each person is responsible for their own health and to manage it through the skills you have.
With that said, each class, except the necro have stuff to share to make things easier. There are buffs to give out, there are fields to place and for you to step in too or blast to get the buffs/health out of it. Important is that you learn your skills and understand that when you get damage, you use your dodges or step out of the damage range or kite until you are ok to go again. Noone will toss you a burst heal, it is up to you to deal with it , so if you run in to a dungeon pull everything you are going to die no matter what level you are. Being aware of what happens and how things works will help you a lot.

So advice to you is to get to know your class and other classes. Watch and learn and also ask. The community in this game is very helpful so use the chat, it is very low risk of you getting trolled.

About classes, don’t pick what others tell you to pick, think through what you like the most and go from there. Elementalist, necro, messmers, ranger are ranged class. Warrior and guardian are melee and thiefs are kind of melee, and engys are just very special with a kitten nal of everything ;D
Each class do have ranged and melee weapons though.

Also if you are not in a hurry, try the classes. You have 5 slots, make a few and get the feeling of each class. You can delete those you don’t want or get more slots. In the end you will like most of us at least have one of each class

Well your first character takes longer due to process of learning the game and the skills of the character. But you can speed level really fast in this game if this is what you wish.

Dungeons give a lot of xp, story give a bit less, but is easier to find groups, explorer give a lot more, but hard to find groups that will carry you if your not level 80. Not impossible though and if you have friends or guild, use them and ask them to bring you to explorer mode.

Heartquest combined with the events around, all whilst finish a region will give you loads of xp. Whilst you do a region you will run in to events that are more productive and give a lot of xp due to a lot of mobs to farm, pinpoint them in your mind and come back here and make them again.

Personal story. This is one of the things you should do, it rewards you with pretty much everything you need whilst leveling. Lots of xp and loot, even keys for the chests.

Worldevents/Bossevent There is a gazillion of events going on all over the GW2 world. In both low and high level areas. Most of them have several so called pre-events, were they can actually give you loads of xp (like for example the full Modniir Ulgoth event in Harathi Hinterlands can give you almost a level if you do it all, and there is similar evens doing the same). In the end there will also be a chest with loots. The event can be done many times a day and give you karma/xp, but you only get the chest one time each day.
http://dulfy.net/2014/04/23/event-timer/ <— This is a bosstimer, there is many of them to use, some have more events added some less, this one i find easy.

EotM. Brainless leveling. I can’t stand it, but many people do, jump on the karma/xp-train and get several levels an hour.

PvP. Whilst pvp in it self do not give any sort of xp, they reward you with level scrolls every now and then. It also teach you have to use your skills properly.

WvW. You can earn a lot of xp and karma here. Capping stuff, tagging stuff all this will give xp. How ever you alone can destroy a fight just by being there, since anyone that tagged you and goes down will rally up if you die, so make sure you are in the background tagging stuff and don’t die. Bring a ranged weapon. When you grow up to lvl 80 and get good gear, you can be in the front with the big guys

Crafting give you xp as well and a lot of it. Add crafting professions to you character and start craft. If you are unsure how to do it or if you want to be more effective, there is many crafting guides on the net.

And a reminder overall that is see so many forgetting about. Food. All give at least +10% xp, some 15%. You will also receive buff of all kinds through the personal story, if they are not the buff you want, convert them at the npc that sells the converting stuff and make sure to run xp-boosters when ever you know you going to do a lot of kills.
Also there is buffbanners and bonfire hangingaround every were that people drops, make sure to add them too and all this will add up with a lot of extra xp and karma.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Vech.7396:

I know its a topic that keeps coming up, but there is no reason double daily fractal should be coded anymore. I don’t mind doing a fractal for my daily, but for Kitten sake we don’t need to be required to do both a fractal and level based fractal for a daily
(Especially a high level one) cut specific levels fractal and just leave the daily fractal please.

Because you have other dailies you can complete. You arent forced to do dailies, and you certainly arent forced to do fractals which you may or may not even be properly geared for.

It’s a non-issue for the majority, so it aint being changed. If you dont like it, just search custom arenas for open arenas advertising slackerpvp to finish your daily. Others do.

First to make things clear, i do my dailys in all groups, so i never have a problem with them, with that said, i can still understand that there is people in this game not wanting to do any sort of pvp/wvw because it simply is not their thing. Do i think they miss out on the game? Totally, but i can still respect the fact that they only want to do pve. And adding 2 fractals daily in to the pve dailys is actually pretty mean, and reduces the possibility to finish them for a big amount of people, such as people who level, people who don’t have gear enough, people who don’t manage fractal (regardless of how easy the rest of is think they are). There is only 5 to pick from and if two are fractals and one is completing 3, then that day is a no daily for many players.

What i don’t get here, is why they don’t add a dungeon group daily instead. Like do a story/explorer of your like so that a lot more people will get the chance to get their daily done. Still a-net get people to explore the game outside of the open world, and people from lvl 30 and higher regardless of gear are able to do that instead of a second fractal daily.
Why favor the fractals and forget about dungeons. So many people are scared to do them because they come from other mmos’ and think they will get their head ripped off if they are not gods inside. The dungeons are so easy that you get them done in 10 min with a decent group, and i laugh at the people demanding gear check since my group will be done before they even find the people wanting the gear check that is not needed. (and yeah i do run zerker in dungeons, but i don’t demand others to do so)

So remove the double fractals and add a story/explorer-dungeon daily instead. This way people can choose either fractals or dungeon and most will get the daily done.

Then why are you running upgrades and buying siege? There is so many players inside of wvw that played the game for a long while, swimming in gold and badges that you should not have to use your gold/badges/mats/skillpoints. Just call out in the chat that a upgrade is needed and usually at least 10 people will run there and make it.
If anyone ask why you don’t do it your self, then just tell them why and they will understand

When i have dc the last weeks i do not get a error message, i get a freezescreen together with a message saying something like a very serious error have happen and your game is closing, do you wish to send a report to a-net (sorry can’t remember the exact words) so i send the report, game is closing and i have to restart.

Also something i notice is that not all maps have trouble. For example. If we are on one border and people are calling out skillag and rubberbanding and dc, and we change border, even though there are just as heavy fights on that border, the lag is not as bad. This makes me wonder if they are placed on different servers? And if the servers have any differences between them?

Ok guys i know you are upset over this, and noone is saying you don’t have the right to be upset, but instead of dwelling in it, in this thread, snap out of it and work with the guy. He is trying now, so let him. Feed with info you have but make sure you understand what he is talking about and stop read in other things in what he say.
This is not a one button problem, he is looking in to specific problems, so stick to them. and stop rambling about what have been and work with him!

If you work with him it might be easier to find out what is going on, and when he have, he can move on to next and next and in the end we might have a more lag free wvw as a result of this, and that is what we want, so please work with this.
He is trying AND he is talking about it here, i am happy that he is.

So i had a short chat with you yesterday when playing on my us-account about lag verses US/EU. I play from Sweden and my ping are roughly around 190-220 but still playable, it is actually the way EU was before we got this horrible lags that we have now, so i am used to play in this sort of environment, my skills are working, just feeling a tad of lag. On EU-server my ping mostly are around 60-90 in wvw, but the lag problems are far worse.

A few things i want to add. I understand what you try to say, that your server is not the problem, but i would say the traffic coming in to it is. Of all the tracerts i done my self and about hundreds i seen here and from other sources (forums, friends and the like) on the EU-server there is always the last link, the jump over to NCSoft that seem to be a big problem. Package loss is huge there and keep on going inside of NCSoft.
I do also believe that NCSoft have the biggest possibility to do something about this, since it is the last jump to them that causing the issues.

I try to understand the problem and not going mad over it, but here is my thought. You are right about that it is not your players problem, our connection in most cases are working as intended, just as your server most probably work as intended, and the problem is some where inbetween. BUT if nearly all your players in EU/US experience lags in some way, then it really must be you guys that fix it and adjust to it, because your game is not working for the players.
I realize the reasons and i understand the problem and how hard it can be to fix it, but not fix it is not a option, because we as players can’t at all, so it really is up to you.
As it is now people are quitting over it, guilds are breaking you are leaking players and it is so close to expansion and if the expansion meet this kind of lag, the new players we could get in to wvw will not stay for long.

Ok as for DC problems. I have two of them. One is a bug, were the game simply freezes and i get a message saying that a very serious problem happen and game is shutting down please send report to Arena. What that problem is i have not clue because it does not say, and i have sent the report many times now. I notice this happens when i make a fast turn with the camera. Might be a coincidence but that is when it have mostly happen.

The other DC problem seem to be due to lag. It starts with skillag and this feeling that you are walking in glue, like there is a 50 man blob around the corner. Then people start to rubberband around me and a few min later they run in to walls all whilst i walk around in my own world not being able to use anything just jump around and move over the map. Sometimes i die when this happen, but i don’t see that, i just move around until BAM DC and 50 man queue to wait through. The other day a commander told us to get our butts down to the bridge at Hills and stack on him. Problem was that we all were stacking at him at the gate of Hills.
This is pretty much what all people say when they dc, and pretty much all experience the same thing. Sometimes whole groups dc or enemie groups vanish in front of us, because they dc.

Well here is my scenario. Put a pile revenants in a raid in wvw, using the stability “road” whilst having their shields up infront (who moves with you when you walk) and using their tripple blast on waterfields. And if god forbid there will still come some condis our way, he can also cleanse that.

Yes revenant is a tad op

Yes lets first make stab so easy to strip off that it is gone in a milli second whilst being spammed with cc from a huge blob. Now when this is done lets also make condi more powerful by removing reduction of it so that when stripped from stab and all cd’s are gone your nailed in to the ground and huge blob can now drown the group in condis. Awesome idea really nods (unless it is not obvious, this text is dripping with sarcasm)

As long as A-net favors blobs and makes changes that makes them even more powerful, then changes for smaller game play can not be done, because it will have a HUGE impact on blobs.
Priority at this point should be on stopping blobs, if not for the impact of the game, so for the lag it causes.

Ok you need to stop mixing the two things together, they have nothing to do with anything.

Orders are a path you choose for your story line. Along the way you will get a drop from them around lvl 30 something were you will pick one weapon that you can use at that very level you are at IF you want. After an hour or two you have lvl passed it and you will get new weapon drops through the game.

The weapon you choose, can be used as skin on other weapon of the same sort, IF you want that. Three is a million other skins you might want more when you are in end game and have the weapons you will actually keep.
Whilst leveling you change weapon and gear several times a day through drops from mobs, bosses, events, karma vendors, wvw, pvp, stories, Trading Company and what not.

Stats is important, and it all goes down to what class and what build you have. When leveling it is really a easy choice. To avoid struggling you pick dps-stats power/percision/ferocity to compensate for no traits and stats that you have when you are lvl 80. At endgame you decide what build you want and then add stats that support the build.

Gear/weapon/trinkets with stats drop through the game as pointed out above, pick the one you want, salvage or sell the rest. When reaching endgame there is numerous ways of getting gear. You have Karma temple, buy for gold on Trading Company, Dungeons marks, Marks from wvw, there is just a endless way of getting the gear and you should not worry about this now, because there really is no gear progression in the end game like in other mmo’s. GW2 is easy to gear up in so just enjoy the game. First character is always special

Same here, also waypointing clears guildchat, changing chatwindow clears guildchat and if i waypoint i can not longer see what other people write in guild chat unless i set my self on invisible and then online again. This could be ok if it was not for the fact that it happen every time i waypoint, join or leave instans, so please fix this so i can again communicate with my guildies

So last night in wvw i was hiting my garri gate from the inside to hurt the people on the outside. This is something that i done a milion times before, but after patch is not possible anymore. If i stand at the floor next too it, the balls will go down in to the floor and not hitting the gate. I had a necro next to me experienced the same issue with his necrotic graps. The gate indicator, as in the health bar of the gate is also down at the floor.

I first thought that this issue was due to that the health bar of the gate was down at the bottom of the gate, but today i run in to it in Diessa as well. Was hitting the champion worm with fireballs. One of the stags or the elks or what ever that was got aggroed, but i did not bother with st him, i kept on hitting the worm whilst the stag was hitting me waiting for him to die out of the aoe around. How ever as soon as the stag hits me, my fireballs that are suppose to still hit the worm, now goes down in the ground and this goes on until the stagg is dead.

I tried to report this with the ingame tool for bug reports, but well it is bugged too.

Have the exact same problem, my asuran female ele scream FOR GREAT JUSTICE! with a charr male voice. About every 5-10 sec i get random call outs from human, charrs and asuran. And the most anoying one are those calling for help as if they are downed, i don’t know how many times i tried to find the downed and realize it is this bug. For now i will just stop helping, if people go down they have to manage.
It is also very tiring to always have something shouted in my ear, so a fix would be nice.

someone in your team was probably low on health so he stole it from a ranger, and if you have a blast finisher you can actually blast the tree for more heal

So i finally got rid of the problem were i dc and could not log back in (20 pages thread around here about it) and i am happy again that i can play without the huge problems so many of us had for months.
That happiness did not reach very far though. About a week back, could be a few days more, my game either crash with a note saying a super serious error have just happen do you wish to send a report to a-net bla bla bla and then the game close by it self and i restart and must repair the game. OR i play the game for many hours and log out, and then when i come back, i get the note saying last time you turned your game off a super serious error happen, you must repair bla bla bla

So each day i repair my game 1-3 times. And this repair takes long when you sit and wait. So anyone have a clue exactly what that super bad problem would be, because the notification i get is really nice telling me there is such thing, but not a single word about exactly what that error is.
By now i have submitted that report probably 50 times and repaired just as many, and it still happens, so it does not seem to be on the list of fixes yet anyway and having to repair like this is somewhat super frustrating.

So anyone with a clue, feel free to let me know

And yes i could add a ticket, but that is even more frustrating, since last time i made a ticket it took me over a month to reach the person that actually could help me with those connection problems that was then. So before i do, i would rather ask here and see if there is a fast and easy fix

I joined the arena and played 6 games. My team won 4 matches, i was number 1 player 3 times out of the 4 won matches. I got no rewards at all at any point, except from the daily chest. Playing a game that i do find funny, but get absolutely nothing for it even though my team is winning and i am having first place for most kills, well i don’t see the point. I assume this is a bug, and hopefully will be fixed, i of course submitted a bugreport, but i wont really be playing it until it is fixed, except for the matches for the daily achivement. Is not worth the effort to play, and gain nothing, no ranks, no rewards, no nothing. On wintersday i had lots of chests on the side here nothing except for the daily.

Did you guys even listen to what he said? He made it very clear that rewards will be more based on keeping towers and keeps, so how is this in any way the same as EotM? In EotM it is fast cap and karma train, needing to keep towers and keeps is not karma train friendly there for they prevent the map to become karma train.

Well it is very easy. Towers flipping to paper, why should i use gold to upgrade it when it will be gone soon. Papertower, why scout that or defend, when you can just backcap.

Why defend camp when you don’t need them for upgrade, they can be backcapped. So most borders have Garrison, everything else is paper and is being flipped more often then rabbits makes babies.

There is already karma train in EotM, why turn wvw in to it?

I don’t want to sound like a kitten here, but the thing is that most wvw guilds do not form and then check if the members are actually on the same server. A wvw guild recruit inside of their world and don’t have to pay anything unless the guild decide to move to another server. If they decide to move then yes all pay for that. It is a part of the game. I might agree with you that 1800 gems is way to much, but consider we don’t pay a monthly fee or anything else, then i can understand that a-net need to get money elsewhere.

So my point is that you actually did not do the research you should have done before you made a choice, and you can’t really blame a-net for that

Also very few wvw players want mega servers in wvw. The day they add this, they will probably loose half of the population.

Healix.5819:

Leaa.2943:

If it was Telia that was causing this issues, then it would not be possible to play any other game without those lags, this is not the case at all, i have no issue with any other game, or any other internet related situation and i am connected to the net pretty much always.

Different games are hosted on different networks. When joined together, these networks form the internet. If Telia has an issue in one of their joints, you will experience issues when trying to access anything that goes through that specific joint. Everything else would work fine of course. If everything was lagging however, that would mean the issue was between you and your ISP. In this case however, the issue is between your ISP and NCSoft’s EU datacenter. Considering not everyone is experience lag, that rules out a problem with the GW2 servers, or at least some of them.

Throttling is another issue that can cause lag, but at a more specific level, can be very hard to prove and is considered illegal. Throttling basically works like a virus scanner scanning your internet traffic. Once a “virus” is detected, it throttles that specific connection, causing it to become unstable. This when you must use a VPN to hide your traffic.

defi.4127:

Another thing I noticed when performing nslookup on the gw2 servers I’m connecting to, all 3 TCP connections are shown in google search with the location of Austin, Texas. Am I really connecting to US even though I live in Northern Europe?

Real world locations are registered by the owner of the IP. They’re not actually based on where they’re really located. If you bother to trace the EU IPs, they’re located in Frankfurt, Germany.

Well i did bother with tracert, i actually made several and that is why i can tell you that the problem is not me, nor telia. The problem becomes a problem when it reaches ncsoft, were there are huge package loss for each jump starting on 93-97% and after that each jump have a 100% package loss.

If it was Telia that was causing this issues, then it would not be possible to play any other game without those lags, this is not the case at all, i have no issue with any other game, or any other internet related situation and i am connected to the net pretty much always.

Today it was my third reset where i get rubberbanding in eb, then dc and then impossible to log back in and i just can not be kitten d to sit here on my friday evening hitting log in 400 times hoping to finally manage to long in to wvw again.
I decided tonight after 4200 hours of playing gw2 that i will add a new game that i will log in to each time i can not play gw2.
Eventually i will probably switch to the new game unless A-net or rather NC-SOFT fix this, because i actually don’t think it is so much of a problem for a-net but more at ncsoft, or a-net would have said something about this issue long time ago like they have earlier. Not saying anything really indicate that the problem is with the third party and that they can not seem to find a solution that don’t cost to much or what ever other reason they have between eachother. A-net knows that things like this will cause them to bleed players, so i see no reason to why they would just sit back not caring.

Anyway, i am tired and sad, i loved this game so much, but the frustration it brings right now is not worth it, my time is more valuable then that.

Screenshot conversation with timestamps, block person, problem solved. If you done nothing wrong and can show what happen, you have nothing to worry about and no need to let that person keep on ranting in you chatbox

Behellagh.1468:

People complain but if they don’t open tickets and provide the info requested by support then nothing is going to happen for a very long period of time. Since this isn’t universal, no matter how many dozen of players show up to complain because if it was universal this forum would be on fire.

So simply kittening about it will accomplish nothing. Just as objecting to any request to test your rig or your internet connection to their server cluster. It’s not their problem if your ISP gets clogged during NetFlix time or some router 500 miles away doesn’t like the game’s packets. But unless it’s identified what the cause may be, including NCSOFT’s own servers and internal routers at the data center, nothing will happen.

So help out and not simply shout about it.

So why do you assume that we have not already sent those tickets with the info?
I know i have, and many of them. Only got one response back with support suggesting me to change my password, which just made it more ridiculous since my pw is just about the only thing that actually IS working. I can log in to my account, but not to the server. At points i can log in to the server, but the lag on the server is insane and my bar is blinking like a christmas tree and i can walk around in my world, but i can not interact with anything, including the gemstore, and this if anything should catch their attention, because i can simply not use the gemstore because in that bad lag i can not open it.
In the end the game will dc and tell me i have router problem, which i don’t, nor do i have problems with my firewall or anything else. And if anything is clogging up anything, then how come i can play other games without this issue, online game with just as high performance needs, if not more then gw2.
How come netflix; that i don’t have by the way nor does anyone else here, but anyway, how come they are only clogging up gw2 and started to do so after the last patch? It is not that Netflix was invented the 18 of october, it was there long before.

Nothing of this is holding up, and there is hundreds and hundreds of players if not thousens that have the same issue, and from countries that do not even have access to netflix, and yet they still lag.

So please don’t clogg up the threads with suggestions, noone here is actually interested in a answer from anyone else but someone from a-net. The rest of you are only guessing, and it is nice of you to guess and come up with ideas and would have been appreciated if this was just a small problem for a handful of people, but you have no answers to this, a-net do. So please let them answer.

Location: Sweden
Time and date of incident
Been happening several times now, but time of appearance is around 19.00 server time and forward.

Brief description:
It starts with that i dc from game world due to firewall/router/blabla problem. I have of course not changed anything since the minute before this happen. I try to log back in and i can log in to the account but not to a server. It will not take me several tries to get in to the server. When this happen, i will have huge lag spikes. I can not use gemstore, i can not poke npc, i can not waypoint, if i do i dc. More log in tries, reset of router, restarts and now i might reach a point were i can join wvw. But in wvw i can not use any skills, write in chat, nor can i interact with siege or move out from keeps through portals. People are rubberbanding all over the place and so am i. It just is not playable.

This happens not only to me, but to my guildies just as much. The other day we lost the whole ele party in a raid not being able to log back in. Imagine how happy that made the rest of the raid. Yesterday in a gvg one of our guardians was fighting the stairs in os, because that is were she saw the people be, they were on the other side though, she had to leave, was not playable for her.

Mostly it stopped after around and hour and then working fine, but today it is still going on since 19.00 and it is 23.20 now and i can still not log in to wvw without this issues.

Talk to us A-net, it is not acceptable that you are ignoring us. We are the one that need to deal with this over and over and the frustration we feel about it is huge, and no info about whats going on or some estimated time on when it can be fixed or if you are even looking at it. It just is not ok to not respond back.

Today our full ele party dc nearly all at the same time whilst raiding. When we log back in there is que, so we que up. I join our homeborder whilst waiting for que top pop and realized i am still lagging, i can not get out of hills inner portal on keep and not use any skills, and i dc again shortly after. I restart all and reset router, but due to que our raid were without eles for a long period of time and we lost a raidnight.
It all was fine again though as soon as we join Obsidian Sanctum for a scrim.

Could a-net please respond to this in some sort of way and at least acknowledge that you got a hickup in to the system and give us some estimated info about were you are going with this and if we can help in any way with info to sort it.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Chaba.5410:

The GM guy is just trying to do his job.

No. You see, they aren’t doing their job and that’s why a thread like this exists in the first place.

As upset as you are about that, this guys IS doing the job he was put to do with the policy/rules that he got from his company. No employed can make up their own rules as they go and ban people over it as they choose, like anyone at any working situation you have rules to follow so yes he is doing his job.

If you don’t like the rules or want it to change, then bring that up, but don’t hunt the person who is trying to do his job at the best way he can and still staying within the policy/rules that is set.

Same thing today again. I am inside of wvw raiding with my guild. My game crash telling me i can not reach a server. I restart game and i can log in to my account but not my server. I get message saying router/firewall/bla bla again, which i find funny consider it worked 1 min ago just fine and are still working just fine with any other situation.

BUT ok i restart pc on numerous ocations, and the router ofcourse and i end up in character selction, but i can not hit the play button, i switch between chars and in the end i log in but instantly i hit the wvw button my game crash again telling me i can not reach server. I also notice that this is actually some sort of weird lag issue, and not from my side, because my fps is just fine, everything else is working just fine (pc/tv/phone) is running through internet and none of it is having any lag issue what so ever. But i notice in game that it takes forever to load in, to load the area. I can walk in the area, but i can not use any skills and it takes forever before this goes off. So obviously this is some sort of lag issues that added with last patch.

So far the help i got from a-net is to reset my password, which i can not for the love of god understand why, i can clearly log in to my account and in to the game so my password is not issue. Could you guys look in to this because same thing also happens to others, and i don’t see any response from a-net confirming the issue.

Thanks for answer i will check the thread

After about an hour i could log back in again but i got dc from wvw 3 times for no reason what so ever.

Consider this person have a insulting nick towards another person i would throw a report for that. I believe that A-net don’t accept such personal attacks on other people.

Hello

I been playing the game for over 2 years and never had any issues to log in. I logged out last night and today when i try to log in i am denied access. Reason from you is that my router/security/something something have changed. This is not the case at all. Nothing have changed since i logged in to this account everything is the same. My pc is personal and none have or can gain access to it here at my home so if anything have changed i would know.

There was an issue for me yesterday though. I logged on after the patch to my maincharacter and started the LS, i enter the first quest and decide to change character to a more dps-friendly character. I relog and go to the tab to start the LS and eachtime i hit the tab i get freeze screen, i try this in 10 different variations and then try and relog other characters and the others works, but the second one that got freeze screen still get it so i picked yet another character and made the quest.
Other then this absolutely nothing have changed or been treated differently.

I have a very high playtime and are very active in all paths of the game and need to get access to it again since people are waiting for me, so please check in to this.

Regards

//Lovaa

Had the exact same problem i tested to relog and restart pc but it still freeze. I tried about 10 times relog on my necro, nothing worked. I could enter it from any other character i had except my necro. Instant freeze screen. Another person in guild had same issue.

Sekkerhund.3790:

Having a level restriction implemented, because vet players abused something, is rather pointless if the same vet players have a work-around and all it does is cause confusion and inconvenience to a new player.

Key word there is NEW player… which is what this thread is about. Experienced players knowing of a “workaround” is moot to the discussion.

So let’s explore that:

How would a new player know about the LA Portals or using Mists? “Ask in chat”, you say? Then consider what would give them the idea that there were any ways to bypass the UI restriction? Is a new player thinking: “Oh, it says I can’t WvW until I’m level 18, kitten that, there’s got to be a way around that, so I’ll just ask in chat!”

Yea… no. They’ll believe what their UI tells them, because there is no reason to question it.

You have to put yourself in the shoes of a new player, which is exactly what we’re asking the Developers to do. Its a bad design, it only punishes those that they’re trying to attract. Best is to get rid of it, if not then at least plug the workarounds if they’re that unintended.

So one more time: Whether I, or any of you, know that there’s a workaround to the UI restriction, does not matter. Its the new player that we are concerned about, especially those of us on the lower tiered WvW servers that want to attract new blood.

So were you see this huge plot against new players i see something else, because the truth is, before they changed this, we had MANY new players who only knew how to press number one following the champtrain in queensdale not knowing how to combine rotation or understand the meaning of cc, or how they stay alive. And when they reached higher ranks and suddenly had to actually play the game they were wrecked.

Now for the people who are experienced already or who tell friends to join the game they still have a option to join wvw, and at lvl 18 which takes a few hours to reach due to the easy way of leveling, you will as new player be introduced to the ui.

Again you see a huge plot, i see a-net at least trying to help the inexpereinced players to find their way through the game and there is many of them. Experienced players will find their way anyway and can join wvw through the portals, and their friends that they bring will be helped by them if they want a faster way.
There is no problem, you just want it your way, but this leaves out all those that actually have no friends to turn too and ask, and they need a slower way to get in to this game and get introduces to things as they come a long. After spending many hours in ascalon farming chilipepper, seeing all this lvl 5 riflewarriors, staff messmers and staffwater eles lying around dead everywere due to not understanding their skills and they would get wrecked if they enter wvw at that point and will never enter again. I feel this was a better way of doing it for the people who need the rest will manage anyway since they can still use it.

Why is people ignoring the answers that is telling you there is NO problem to get in to wvw regardless of level. Go to LA take the portal and join. I am fairly sure you can live with that you can not use the UI until lvl 18 so stop blowing this out of proportion. There is no problem use portal, solved!

No it does not encourage more exploring, because when you played the game for more then 2 years and have over 20 characters on two accounts then there is simply not a single rock in any region or map that you missed turning.
There is nothing i have not seen, no event i have not done and this even though there is wp on those maps.

When i play in a area i do not want to walk over and over to the other side of the map. That cost me time, i don’t have unlimited time, i am a mum so when a big part of my game time is about walking a path from point a to b with no other intentions then to reach point b, then it is not effective.

If people want to explore they can still do so. I done it with my characters and i believe that people will continue to do so even if there is more waypoints on the new map. And IF you are one of them that like to walk, then simply don’t use the waypoints.

I don’t go to EotM very often, but the very few times i been there the chat is full of trashtalk and i mean really horribly bad trashtalk. Racist talk, pedophile talk, people using language i would not repeat in a dark closet, people raging at other people in a way that is totally ridiculous. There simply is nothing good with this map just endless killing of pve champs whilst people get heavy insulted in the chat.
I don’t get why A-net let it go on like that without doing anything about it and just let this area throw a really dark shadow over the sk friendly community. EoTm is anything but friendly, it is brainless farming whilst being heavy insulted.

Last night my raidleader wanted to try something but our borders was empty of enemies, so we move to EotM. Did not take long until we got badly insulted and we did not in any way interfere with them, we rather wanted to be as far away from the champ train as possible. It’s sad really.

If you stand still in a tower in SW your bag is not really going to fill up either, you have to perform like you have in to perform in wvw to get loot.
Tbh i am a bit surprised over your complaint because one evening of raid in wvw is for sure filling my bags up, and we mostly have to empty them 2-3 times each evening and i have 154 bagslots, were at least 100 is empty. So if your not getting enough loot in wvw then your probably doing it wrong and need to kill more, or use the lootbutton more

As for them getting more event loot, well it is a special event that is going so you get event marks, which is kind of fair, since you get marks in wvw also that you don’t get in pve world. Might be less, but then again wvw is rather old, SW is not even a week.

What i could possibly feel would be a good idea to have in wvw, is to give reward to walking dollies, this way people might walk them more often.

I completely hate it and was the reason i logged in to forum to see if i was the only one. I played a game before for 3 years that only had one teleport in each region and it was terrible. Only thing that made up for it was that we had mounts and could move were we wanted.

I play the game a lot like more then 6 hours a day and i don’t want my game time to be about walking the map. I want easy access to the part of the map were i need to go to events/quests or what ever it is that i need or want to do.
Having to run back if you die and it takes you 5 min to get back to a event that most likely have failed when your back is just not effective game play. In this area it is also easy to get stuck with mob groups that slows you even more, so more waypoints is something i hope they will add to the region or i think i will stay out of it and only visit if i have too.

Well i have nearly 5000 hours of playtime since the game started and yet not one single pre-cursor have dropped for me. No skins at all in any event or any situation in game have ever dropped. The only thing i got dropped like that in game in the min teq. But it took me probably 200 times before it dropped.

Scrap tickets from BL-chests which i probably have open several hundreds by now if not more, have all together dropped 17 tickets, so i have bought 1 skin from all the events over the year. The 7 scraps i have is on the bank and been the same number for months. RNG simply hates me, i have accepted it and after over 2 years i have no legendary and i guess i never will get one.
I probably should admit that i feel a bit sad over it though, i think i earned one consider how much time i put in to the game, but oh well… some people just don’t have luck