Guild Wars 2

Update*

Been having the lag issue since Sunday. I can’t test it in off-peak hours as I’m at work, but I can usually play for 30mins to an hour when I get home at 5 before the lag starts and eventually the DC’s.

Still no issues with any other games. Tried http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php while the lag was happening to supposedly test if I’m being throttled, but it said there were not issues.

It happens on ALL my characters, although I did notice less lag on my asuran engineer. By “less lag” I only mean 20 second or so delay between skills being used after they’re pressed instead of about 5 minutes or so

Tried the Windsock Reset (haha) and ipconfig/release /renew and nothing.

I can’t really test it off peak hours as I’m at work then, but I can usually play for 30 mins to an hour after 5pm before its starts lagging and kicking me off. Still no other issues with other games

Just copy and paste the entire game folder, but rename the game directory’s folder.

@ZhouYu

While this does make sense (and is very possible) it seems like the result is a little extreme for what throttling would do. What happens to me anyways seems similar to when I’m downloading a file at max speeds, cutting off my internet access to pretty much anything else.

Of course, nothing has been downloading, so…

Thank you, I completely agree. We do need a bit more damage output, but I’ve been doing great PvE solo and group play. Here’s something I posted in response to another thread..

While I find that the axe is very weak in terms of pure damage output, it is an amazing kiting weapon.
For example I use an axe+dagger/staff. Depending on the situation I use well of suffering, and… what ever the blinding well is, along with the line that gives protection – or I use the minion that blinds, and the minion that snares.
I can quite easily kite and solo kill mobs of 5 or more at the same time, or a veteran/champion even with a few adds (as long as there are no long ranged enemies). It basically consists of running in, using daggers #4 to aoe blind, axe #3 to snare and running around using 1, 2 and 5 with the axe+dagger until you can do the blind or snare again. Then switch to the staff, use #3 for the snare, some of the others for damage and occasionally #5 for the fear.
If everything is somehow on cooldown, you have a pet who can snare until your cripples are off CD, a pet who can blind to bind you a few seconds, and a well that blinds all enemies in an area for multiple seconds. Top it all off with popping in and out of death shroud when things are on cooldown, and whenever #4 DS comes off cooldown for the aoe damage, increased health and a short fear, AND Plague elite (haven’t unlocked lich form yet) you can dish out some serious aoe while not taking a ton of damage.
So yes, our pure damage output is pathetic, and our condition damage is weak compared to everything else, but we can kite like a sonofa…

While I find that the axe is very weak in terms of pure damage output, it is an amazing kiting weapon.

For example I use an axe+dagger/staff. Depending on the situation I use well of suffering, and… what ever the blinding well is, along with the line that gives protection – or I use the minion that blinds, and the minion that snares.

I can quite easily kite and solo kill mobs of 5 or more at the same time, or a veteran/champion even with a few adds (as long as there are no long ranged enemies). It basically consists of running in, using daggers #4 to aoe blind, axe #3 to snare and running around using 1, 2 and 5 with the axe+dagger until you can do the blind or snare again. Then switch to the staff, use #3 for the snare, some of the others for damage and occasionally #5 for the fear.

If everything is somehow on cooldown, you have a pet who can snare until your cripples are off CD, a pet who can blind to bind you a few seconds, and a well that blinds all enemies in an area for multiple seconds. Top it all off with popping in and out of death shroud when things are on cooldown, and whenever #4 DS comes off cooldown for the aoe damage, increased health and a short fear, AND Plague elite (haven’t unlocked lich form yet) you can dish out some serious aoe while not taking a ton of damage.

So yes, our pure damage output is pathetic, and our condition damage is weak compared to everything else, but we can kite like a sonofa…

Very nice guide, I managed to make it through all of the videos! I have a level 11 mesmer and was having a VERY tough time choosing my weapons, but now I think I’m set.

A couple questions after absorbing all that info.

First: from your experience, and since you run an illusion build, do you find using clones with the on death traits to be more useful than using phantasms with Signet of Illusions for a more tanky/higher dps build?

I understand you would have to go into the Inspiration tree instead of Domination for a phantasm build, but it seems like it may be just as effective at keeping damage off you as all the effects on illusion death, but with a fair bit more damage.

Second: the build you use and suggest is not just an illusion build, but a fairly heavy condition build. Would a sceptre work well in these scenarios, even though confusion isn’t so great PvE? Also, as a cond build, is the Signet of Domination still not strong enough vs some of the other utilities?

Thanks again for the videos, it gave me a lot of insight on what I wanted to do with my mesmer, and answered a LOT of questions I had

Update**

Just tried both WoW and DC universe, neither of which have any lag what so ever. The problem is exclusive to guild wars.

Since launch, guild wars has been running perfectly smoothly. Nice fps, no server lag. Then, as of yesterday I started having crazy lag – things would freeze and resume 2 minutes later, abilities wouldn’t activate after being pressed for 10 secs to a few minutes.
Then when things really start to freeze up, it crashes to character selection with Error Code=7:11:3:189:101. I’ve made sure GW2 has been given permission in my firewall. I’ve made sure nobody in the house was downloading, or even using the internet in any way. While I’m having these lag issues, other games (ps3 games) have no issues with connectivity, and my internet browsers are running full speed as well.
I thought it may have been netflix causing the issues at first, but after closing netflix that was on the wii system, and shutting the system down I am still getting this issue.
Pc specs
i15-2500k 3.3 GHz stock speed
16gb ram
ati 6850
win 7 64 bit
Internet speeds aren’t the issue – I’m not sure of my exact down/up rates but I know I can download torrents at 1.3 MB/s (and still not have this kind of lag while downloading at full speed)
Any ideas? This has prevented me from playing since saturday afternoon, I’ve been in GW2 withdrawal all weekend :P

Since laugh, guild wars has been running perfectly smoothly. Nice fps, no server lag. Then, as of yesterday I started having crazy lag – things would freeze and resume 2 minutes later, abilities wouldn’t activate after being pressed for 10 secs to a few minutes.

Then when things really start to freeze up, it crashes to character selection with Error Code=7:11:3:189:101. I’ve made sure GW2 has been given permission in my firewall. I’ve made sure nobody in the house was downloading, or even using the internet in any way. While I’m having these lag issues, other games (ps3 games) have no issues with connectivity, and my internet browsers are running full speed as well.

I thought it may have been netflix causing the issues at first, but after closing netflix that was on the wii system, and shutting the system down I am still getting this issue.

Pc specs
i15-2500k 3.3 GHz stock speed
16gb ram
ati 6850
win 7 64 bit

Internet speeds aren’t the issue – I’m not sure of my exact down/up rates but I know I can download torrents at 1.3 MB/s (and still not have this kind of lag while downloading at full speed)

Any ideas? This has prevented me from playing since saturday afternoon, I’ve been in GW2 withdrawal all weekend :P

I agree completely. I have 3 sylvari characters and they all have no problem with leveling according to the area.

In the human zone, I completed all the hearts and DE’s and I was still about 3 levels under the next area. I completed my story as well until the difficulty caught up with my character’s level. Then I went to the charr area, and after completing the first 5 or 6 hearts I FINALLY was a high enough level to progress in the human area again.

Again, on all my sylvari characters, not once did I have to go to another starting zone to level. After doing the hearts, DE’s, and story I was on average the same, or one level higher than the next area of the map