Guild Wars 2

recently myself and others have found others using WvW to farm items (some using bots and others not) on regular PvE type mobs also players using 3rd party tools so that they can afk in WvW maps so they do not have to wait in queues.

Farmers
It seems that people farm WvW for the item drops and do nothing to contribute to help the server try win the match. i found 2-3 groups of people doing this at random times, mostly with “outmanned” buff on. also when when you see only ~50 people taking part in the battles over the map and there are queues to get into the map its obious there are players PvE farming/Doing jumping puzzles

one way to stop this, after speaking with a guild member, is to stop the random mobs dropping any loot and not giving exp, with exception of sentry/fort guards/supply camp NPCs/invaders/defenders/etc. this should reduce or stop people entering WvW maps just to PvE farm mobs and reducing queues for some servers. if you want to PvE farm then go to the PvE area’s

Botters and AFK’ers
AFK people are really annoying, majority of the time they use 3rd party tools to stay on the map while they attend to real life stuff that will last more than 10 mins or if they go to sleep. majority of the time they are in the starter/citadel areas

there was 1 guild with 20+ members that spent 3 hours in the starter area while organizing and waiting on their guild to enter the map and refusing to partake in WvW. this sort of thing should be stopped.

i am sure that if someone is sitting in the starter area/citadel for over 10 mins, having Determined buff and siege deployment blocked buff they are not taking part in WvW and should be removed. this is 1 way of solving the issue with people AFKing in starter/citadel area’s with bots running.

there are other bots that is a known issue with the player base and probably A.Net such as fly hacking, gravity hacking, speed hacking, etc that does need to be prevented

Orb Stealing via Fly Hacks
this has happened number of times since the recent match reset between Seafarer’s Rest Vs. Kodash Vs. Desolation and the person doing this has been found out, and reported, to be cocobloco.4617/Edwardus Maximus as shown in the following link

http://www.pevepe.net/gw2forum/m/6083582/viewthread/4493938-orb-hack-cocobloco4617-edwardus-maximus/page/2

a simple XYZ coordinate check/comparison could prevent the fly hacking etc and flag suspicious behaviour. However, this may provide some false positives but with some checks in logs i am sure that the appropriate players get banned.

Please A.Net do something as soon as you can to deal with these people. Bot AFK’ers and PvE farmers are one of the causes of long queues in WvW when thier spot can be replaced with people that actually want to take part in the WvW battle.

OK so is is no qq post, but pointing out Kodash knowingly and willingly exploiting in a way i do not know how. Yes i am calling Kodash players cheaters. Actions of a few reflects on their whole server. Each player is a representative of their server in WvWvW, that is how i see it.

so you are probably wondering what i am talking about? well basically last night Seafarer’s Rest took the Kodash Garrison but then we purposely lost it and then retook it and defended.

not long after Kodash placed siege weapons in safe area’s where “Siege Deployment Blocked” buff is applied. this was not just 1 but up to 5 that was counted by myself. on top of this, if we tried to take them out and the players there. We could take out the siege weapons in 1 area but all players remained unkillable and able to kill us.

First here is a map view of where the siege weapons where placed.

http://lightvision.me.uk/files/gw-wvw-1.jpg

So this morning after i had some sleep and calmed down i went to the same spots on Seafarer’s Rest home map to make sure that this should not be allowed before making accusations. and i was right.

http://lightvision.me.uk/files/gw-wvw-2.jpg
http://lightvision.me.uk/files/gw-wvw-3.jpg

These 2 spots show that Siege weapons cannot be built and should not have been built. i am also guessing that they did not report this as a bug as they continued to place siege weapons in the marked areas as shown in the 1st image and use this as a major advantage. This morning i also tried to build an arrow card in these area’s on my home map and was unable to do so.

Myself and a couple other players have reported this last night as an exploit and a bug. the reason for the report as Kodash used this as a major advantage by firing trebuchets at the garrison destroying the walls for over 4 hours and trying to take the garrison at the same time keeping their siege weapons out of range so they cannot be destroyed while remaining invulnerable. i am making you aware of this so you can avoid cheating like this and also that A.net can fix this issue fast.

How to solve this issue
1) anyone with the buff “Determined” in WvWvW should not be able to do any damage to anyone or anything.

2) anyone with the buff “Siege Deployment Blocked” and they attempt to build a siege weapon in an area that should not be then they should automatically loose the blueprint and unable to build.

Please can Arena.net confirm that this is unacceptable to exploit?

if your having a problem with certain frequency ranges then i’d suggest reconfig’ing you sound system, you prob have something to high or too low or if you use graph eq settings with sound card software/windows then try disabling it. people thing that every thing has to be the same level when thats not the case. standard sorround sound systems are too limited for my liking, thats why i made my own so i can fine tune it even down to the frequency responce of each speaker and manipulate 40 different frequency ranges.

anyways just find the right balance between your sub and the rest of your speakers.

the best thing to use when configuring your speaker system to get the right balance is classical music, as much as you may hate it classical music uses most to all audible frequencies the human can hear, i don’t tho i choose Pink Floyd from a vinyl :P

i would like the further customisation, as in being able to choose what music you want to play in each city, regions out of cities, etc for day time and night time. also please fix the random play, it dont work too good, also battle playlists only ever play’s the first track, even after adding in a muted track its place in sequence and never random

save your self also gives speed boost

i am glad its not just me, well i did submit a ticket about it hopefully this gets fixed

well i just got back online

the the thing i find funny every time i get kicked for incorrect password when currently playing is, i already logged in and playing the game so i already authenticated. imo they authenticate way to much in the game so it does not surprise me that this happens as often as it does

i got kicked off the game for password incorrect

Skyrim
I love the Skyrim OGST and i have the 4 CD OGST so i decided to make playlists with it to play the music in game and would like to share how i have split the music into the different playlists.

also note that the composer for Skyrim is the same composer for Guild Wars 2, Jeremy Soule. Skyrim OGST seems to fit nicely with Guild Wars 2

Final Fantasy XI
I have played FFXI for 7 years and i really loved the music from it so the following 2 links are the tracks i have chosen to be part of this uber playlist, and i mean UBER PLAYLIST

Part 1 – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/Custom-Soundtrack-Playlists/first#post855877
Part 2 – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/Custom-Soundtrack-Playlists/first#post855880

Assassins Creed
Coming Soon

Dragon Age 1/2
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/Custom-Soundtrack-Playlists/first#post854800

Please let me know what you think of the track placements etc.

its not just you, i know about 40 other people that have the same thing with the catapults

ok here is an issue for you, already submitted as a support ticket. and also to m-audio too

when i am taking part in events where there are lots of effects going off (greneth event manly this happens) my game audio randomly stops and i get an oscillating tone play constantly. now i have limited it to Guild Wars 2 and not my sound card or drivers. the reason how i know this is that i am able to converse on TeamSpeak, Ventrilo or Mumble at the same time and others can hear the oscillating tone via my mic.

anyways i do not use a standard sound card per say. the sound card is an M-Audio Delta44 and Delta 1010 they use the same card but different interphace (i ose the 1010 mostly). to save you the research, its a professional audio sound card that allows multitrack recording with 0ms latency.

with this sound card you can change the sample rate and buffer size to basically anything you want from standard to non standard settings. no matter how i configure my sound card i get the same issue, rarely this causes the game to crash my PC.

so you probably wonder how i know this is limited to Guild Wars 2? well when this happens, i finish the event, after turning my speakers off then shut down the game. Guess what? the oscillating tone stops. while this is happens i can still hear and use VoIP software listen to my music/video/etc. i have even loaded up another game while GW2 is running and have no audio issue with that game

currently my audio setup is a complex customized 7.2 surround sound system which is designed by myself. i split the audio in to multiple tracks then to other external hardware hardware such as crossovers, effects processors, expanders, graphic eq’s and power amps then to my speakers, as i said complex. i have gone to the lengths to allow this oscillating tone to play for hours while i diagnose my system from PC to audio hardware and even the speakers themselves.

via software and hardware analysis the oscillating tone is coming from the Guild Wars 2 application and not from my sound card or my hardware. do not try this at home, but i wired up a USB oscilloscope (Picoscope) to my sound card while this tone was playing. the signal was getting to the card pre-process so basically the the sound card is not producing the tone.

as i said, this is a slightly unique issue as i do not think many player will be using the same sound card as i do. i also have no other sound cards, not even an on-board one.

this issue could just be happening to me, if not then please let me know, if it is then i can live with that

the issue i have with sound is my character is male and i say stuff with a female voice sometimes or as a race that is not human.

also i had the impression that your character’s personality will be reflected on this stuff to, sadly it does not

tbh i think quite a few things should have you confirm what your purchacing. i have made a similar mistake before, not as drastic as the OP’s situation but when it comes to purchacing something that is/has cost alot of time to get, as in karma then confirming that you want to purchace the item with name/states etc should solve this type of issue in the future.

something like “are you sure you want to purchace [insert item name] or [insert price]?” with list of stats etc and yave 2 buttons, yes and no

he all,

TBH i want Arena Net to remove the ability to craft using supplies in your bank. i didn’t notice it till yesterday and now crafting discovery is all messed up and looks like a disorginised mess. i put supplies in my bank to be safe and so i dont use via crafting, these supplies are for making a legendary.

anyways i was crafting thinking i was good on supplies and then i noticed all my Orichalcum Ingots i stored away are gone, after i crafted stuff for somone using my own supply. i am just glad they helped mine up some more for me. now i put them in my bank so i cannot use. if this does not change then Arena Net need to give us something that cannot be accessed by the crafting station.

i would like to keep crafting using supplies from collectables since that is understandable, but from your bank’s inventory, to me it is not. stuff there i want safe and not able to be used in crafting

/rant over

farm your materials > Craft items > sell items

i have done the math on this and if you buy all the mats of the TP then craft the item then sell, your gonna be loosing coin than making it.

i did test with fresh installs of windows 7 and windows 8 and the results of the fps difference is what i posted in my original post.

also i did nothing wrong to the system, i built it completely by myself, and in windows 7 the GPU and CPU usage is very low, ~40% max but in windows 8 the GPU hits 90% and CPU is ~74% max

Idolicious.6091

If this is true…I sure hope A.Net can sort out the W7 performance because that is ridiculous. And I really, REALLY do NOT want to use Win8. Ever.

You should try to get this info to A.Net by any means if this is really the case.

i dont see why you dislike W8, is it coz of the metro thing, well they changed the name of metro start? if it is you know you can disable this and have it set up to look exactly like W7 all with changing 1 thing from a 1 to a 0

Hey all,

to start with, i upgraded my operating system to Windows 8 Enterprise Edition (well i am now in the process of doing). anyways i have noticed better performance for GW2 running on windows 8

Just so you know i tested this on my old PC as doing a full re-install on my main PC is alot more hastle.

Specs
CPU – Intel i7 Overclocked to 4.5GHz
Memory – 32Gb Memory
Graphics – 2x AMD Radeon 6990
Hard Drive – 2xOCZ SSD Raid0 (where OS and game is installed)
Audio – M-Audio Delta 44 soundcard

now the only difference to the setups is the operating system, i didnt install the drivers for the additional hardware. Both Windows 7 and Windows 8 have been tested with 32-Bit and 64-bit.

i split the FPS types into 2 categories, PvE and WvW since WvW you are more likely to be in heavy crowded area’s

Windows 7
PvE FPS = avg. 24fps
WvW FPS = 2fps (in crowded area’s)

Windows 8
PvE FPS = avg. 122fps
WvW FPS = 89fps

now what i want to know is why is the game running alot better on Windows 8 than Windows 7. Windows 8 has just been released not long ago where as windows 7 has been out for years

All other games i play run exactly the same between Windows 7 and Windows 8 except Guild Wars 2.

Now before you say its down to the drivers etc, well its not as i used the exact same drivers for W7 as i did for W8. I did experience the same issue on my main PC as well. and before people start posting that they dont have a problem with Windows 7 running GW2 then congrats, have a cookie.

i was just posting this to let you know my experience with Windows 8 comparing to Windows 7, also all tests where done on a fresh install of the operating system.

Process went like this:-

• Install OS
• Install Drivers
• Install game
• Restart PC
• Play Game

make a rare item, that’s all i needed to do for jeweler

himmelweiss.1469:

Thought i should add a few screenies for you guys to see CPU and GPU usage while ingame, not sure if it helps.
As you can see, currently running the game with max settings having 44FPS with both GTX 680s in SLI.
It’s like that in pretty much all areas. In WvW it can drop below 30s, about 26 – 30FPS.

That perfomance would be really okay for me if i wouldn’t have such an high-end PC Setup. In other games i have zero issues.

Cards, the entire PC are correctly setup. Yes the cards are in the right slow, yes the PCIE 3.0 slots give what they can just give.
Yes the ram is correctly Setup to use the QUAD-Channel technology.

Oh and turning V-Sync on or off makes no difference.
Playing in full-screen and changing the default refresh stuff thingies doesn’t make any difference.

To avoid confusion i added the dxdiag again in this post.

you are running windowed fullscreen you are loosing about 15% perfomance because of that alone, change to fullscreen and you should get a boost to your fps

3800 series is classed as a legacy graphics card, in most cases you will have to turn down the graphic a bit, however, try turning the anti-aliasing to application specific in Catalyst. also the CAP does help on any crossfire enabled cards even though they state 5000 series.

i have FPS issues with my 6990 cards. i installed the CAPs and i seen an improvement and thats with crossfire enabled. may not work for legacy cards but it dont hurt to try.

this seems to be an issue with AMD and nVidea chipsets so its not your card, just have to give them time to make some optimaizations

Zociali.5240:

i have the same issue but if i remember right its a lvl 30 skill so i assume your character must be lvl 30 to use it tho i could be wrong but i would like an answer from a developer to clear this up if its a bug or intended

i am level 80, also the description in the text states that you will receive the elite skill, if its intentional then i want a refund!!!!!!

i am always sitting at 20fps but drops to 2 in WvW when more than 30 players is in the area. tbh i have better performance in games that is more graphically intence.

My System
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise Edition 64-Bit
Memory: 32GB G.Skill Ripjaw Z DDR3 2133 (Quad Channel)
CPU: AMD A8 3870K Black Edition – Quad Core (OC 4.2GHz)
HDD: 2xOCZ VERTEX 3 SATA III 3.5" SSD (Raid0, game located here)
GFX: 2x AMD Radeon HD 6990 (using CrossFire and AMD Eye-Infinity running 6 screens
GFX Drivers: 11.11c

I have tried latest AMD drivers and also rolled back to 11.11c Performance driver and with and without crossfire and eye-infinity.
Lastest Drivers: 16fps average 1fps WvW
11.11c Drivers: 20fps average 2 in WvW

tbh i run 60+ in every other MMO/FPS i just do not know what they have done to make the game so graphically laggy.

i find it funny that my laptop, Razer Blade runs better
Laptop Spec
OS: Windows 7 Home Edition 64-Bit
Memory: 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz
CPU: Intel® HM77 Express Chipset
HDD: 500GB 7200RPM HDD (Primary Storage), 64GB SATA III SSD (Cache Acceleration)
GFX: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660M 2GB GDDR5
GFX Drivers: Latest Beta Drivers

Result: 46fps average 15 in WvW

Observations: CPU averages 57% usage and GPU averages 46%

I purchased the digital deluxe upgrade via Black Lion Trading Company. I received all items except the Elite skill, i have logged off and back in meny times after the purchase, however i am still unable to to use the skill as its not selectable in the skills menu and cannot set it in my skills bar.

i did however receive everything else. if you can fix this then it would be very appreciated