Guild Wars 2

If it’s anything like the scaling issues with the halo tonics then they’ll just let people wear themselves out till the problem goes away. It’s kinda what they do. I hope I’m wrong though and they fix this stuff for you guys.

They said they would still be obtainable from the mystic forge, but that they would still be account bound.

style.6173:

MiniEquine.6014:

I don’t understand why there is a notion that it is crazy to lock certain rewards behind certain content. I don’t think there has ever been a game that hasn’t done this. It’s not like GW2 doesn’t offer similar rewards.

This isn’t how GW2 works. The whole notion of the game is that you should be able to get the rewards you want by playing the way you want. They actually locked ascended trinkets behind fractals when it first game out and later admitted that was a mistake.

The beauty of GW2 has always been to earn rewards the way you want.

This^
Unique skins are fine rewards for certain content. Equipment types have always available reasonably in various ways. This isn’t WoW. It will never be WoW, and thank gods for that. So a tier of equipment should not be locked to a game type to continue the GW2 tradition.

As someone who doesn’t really like fractals at all I have some concerns.

Will fractals be the only way to obtain a (not necessarily the same one) legendary back piece?

Will doing fractals be the only way to obtain the ascended salvage kit?

If so then does “…the new ball of dark energy salvage item that will be used for crafting new legendary items in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns and beyond” mean that we will be required to do fractals to obtain legendary weapons in the future?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m super happy for fractal players. They’ve been waiting for these changes for a long time. I also believe they do deserve unique items for mastering difficult content. I just don’t believe that specific equipment types (i.e. a legendary back piece in general) or specific stats (Verata’s trinkets anyone?) should only be available based on your skill in a certain game mode. I’m sure there will be a reward track for PvP, but how about reward tracks for WvW? Visual and cosmetic details are fine in my opinion. They are good symbols of status. I would like to see the continued tradition of GW2 making the same level of equipment available to all players regardless of their prefered game modes. I understand that the stats on legendary equipment are the same as ascended, but the ability to swap stats isn’t. I’m not asking for this to be easy to get for anyone, but maybe we could earn it in the game mode we prefer? For instance I play mostly WvW. So perhaps I could follow some sort of WvW reward track that takes advantage of all of the left over rank points or the rank system in total? This is mostly my opinion and some questions and I certainly do not mean to insult any player of any specific content in our diverse community.

They merged some topics! That’s almost like getting noticed. I am glad they removed the buff, even if they continued the silent treatment.

The atmosphere on FA went south fast in my opinion. It often does on bandwagon servers when the PvP try hard elite move in all at once. E.g. TC before T1.

I want to love senpai Anet, but senpai never notices us when there is a major problem like this.

I’m having this problem too. I just finished Victory or Death so I could get rid of the annoying text on the top right of my screen. Then discovered this problem XD

I enjoyed this event a lot until Anet decided to ignore us completely about the game breaking bugs they introduced and allowing rampant cheating. Instead it seems they are opting to just let the week run out, which is very sad to see. In the beginning of the week I was one of those people who were a part of the “At least they noticed us” crowd. Now I think I’d rather them go back to forgetting us WvWers after they half-kittened this event.

I wouldn’t hope for too much. Seems Anet is just sticking their head in the sand till this week is over and ignoring any of the bugs.

I’ve tried hoping for the best, but it seems they are purposely ignoring every thread about this. I hate it when they go silent like this. It’s like the worst response possible. It does seem like they are just going to wait it out. I was actually enjoying the event but getting ganked and zerged down by people exploiting the game has ruined it.

Phew! The rate is just as abysmal as it always was ; )

I too am sorry for your loss. If our friends at Anet did this it would truly be an amazing and inspiring act.

Athera.4506:

Do you guys think maybe you could add +50% WvW Experience to that buff? maybe show WvW’ers a little love now and then.

^^^^^ THIS
Non-PvPers like buffs too.

I would like to see some options as for who can whisper me and who can’t. Our names are visible easily even from the forums. I once received a series of whispers from a very unhappy member of a class I felt needed some fixing and who was banned from the forums anyway. Of course I blocked him, but it does feel like some degree of privacy would be a good thing. perhaps an options to not receive whispers while in WvW with a from friends/ not from friends modifier. Even as far as an option to block whispers from people not on your friends list.

Just throwing my opinion in here. I LOVE the concept. I see this sort of Helsing-like figure thwarting dragons and their minions. It’s very neat. However the name is a bit corny to me as well. Although not the end of the world, it could have been called any number of names from inquisitor, hunter (although would get confusing for WoW players I guess), or any other of the great names listed by folks. To people who say it’s just a name and it doesn’t matter I have to remind them that it does matter to the people that don’t like it even if it doesn’t matter to others. On that note though it’s these discussions that help us grow our game to something even better.

Ralanost.8913:

Sungtaro.6493:

Yeah, my complaint about immobilization is that occasionally even after I have cleansed it, I still have to do an emote to be able to move and when you are melee in a bomb, well, you just don’t have the time for that.

Not even sure if that is being investigated. Seems like it has been that way forever.

Never had that problem. No idea how that happens.

It happens to me all the time, especially if it’s a big enough battle to cause lag. It’s been a known issue and was fixed at one point. Although the fix didn’t work. It did become less common though.

We’ve been begging since the unexpected change happened to make them unsalvageable. They need to be able to go in the mystic forge too. It makes no sense for them not to be able to go into the forge. The weapons cost around a gold plus lots of badges. Now I’m not saying badges are hard to get, but you do have to play to save up a lot to forge four weapons for a set. What’s the difference between this and people doing dungeon speed runs to actually get paid and then forge weapons with tokens? To me it makes me feel, as a WvW player, that my time in game is less valuable. Some great things have come to WvW (ranks, new traps, and well I’m sure there is other stuff) and hopefully this will get changed.

Michael Henninger.7451:

Match manipulation is a no-no.

Someone should tell Dods and TW this. They and their cohorts control who is in T1 and who isn’t by being on two of the servers and fixing the matches. It made me leave T1 because it’s no fun playing in a fixed game.

I agree with OP, but not really sure it matters. This sub-forum looks like a ghost town when it comes to devs. I was just finally getting back into my ele too

I too understand the point of this but it’s buggy as can be. A slight bump in the ground will cause me to get this message. As an ele, flashing at the right time can be the difference in life and death. Like I said I don’t have a problem with the change if it wasn’t broken. This is pretty disappointing and I do hope it gets some attention rather than being left to putter itself out.

Second reset since that horrible patch on the 16th that I cannot play WvW because everyone is lagging horribly.

Gave up playing as rubberbanding and massive skill lag kills any fun. Not my connection either.

Patience is out the window at this point. People have a right to be upset as customers. I’ve found plenty of other things to do, but that doesn’t take away the fact that this situation is bull crap. I mean it’s not like this is the first and only time they’ve pushed a patch out that broke the game. It doesn’t make people bad, bored, or pathetic to be upset about this situation. I mean we’ve not heard a thing in several days except second hand information. To the couple attacking everyone in the thread now for being upset, I know at least one of you was just as upset last week so give it a rest. If you don’t like what people have to say you aren’t required to comment on it telling them how they are wasting everyone’s time and are wrong. Speaking of, it’s obviously a waste of time for me coming back here since those very few toxic people have started attacking people. I love GW2, but this is unacceptable especially when you factor in the complete and usual lack of communication from Anet. Good luck guys I hope you get your game fixed.

Hey guys, it’s our one week anniversary since we could play the game. I feel like we should have a cake or something.

I was lucky enough to get an invite, but cannot play right now due to the continuing FPS/UI issue since patch. I’m really hoping it gets fixed before then

I’m not sure if this is bugged (considering all the other audio bugs now) or intentional. If it’s intentional then they need to start issuing refunds.

Here’s hoping I can participate in the stress test on the 24th, because it’s impossible until this is fixed.

There’s a lot of programmer talk flying around I do not understand..lol I’m glad to see we have some responses even if it’s not really any news. I just wanted to report in that the issue remains unresolved for myself as well. I’m pretty bummed to miss out on WvW reset and wish this hadn’t taken three days to even acknowledge. Regardless what’s done is done. I realized I never shared my specs, but not sure that it matters since it’s obviously no on our side. Still, here they are:
Intel i7 3770 3.4ghz
8gb DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 7500 series

Not the newest tech, but not bad either. I always ran on minimum and had no problem with 60+fps in LA. Now of course 24 give or take with no windows open. 45ish with UI disabled.

Same here with the update. Issue continues. Perhaps in tomorrow’s patch (assuming the trend continues and there is a patch tomorrow).

kindofabuzz.9357:

Could have been lies just to shut us up.

I might feel the same way if it wasn’t Gaile who replied. Knowing it was her I don’t feel half as anxious now.

Admiral Stukov.8791:

LordEnki.9283:

OMG thank you! Okay everyone, lets hide our pitchforks and torches. Whistles innocently

Wh….What am I gonna do with this pent up feeling of rage and destruction?!?!!

Channel it into art?:D

OMG thank you! Okay everyone, lets hide our pitchforks and torches. Whistles innocently

Just stopping in to see that we are still being ignored. I see they are doing their typical “Let’s just ignore them and let them wear themselves out” philosophy. What a disgrace.

alteriel valie.4751:

sirsquishy.8531:

Putting this back here cause I would like someone else to test this as well

If your open to testing, I think I found a logical workaround that we can use.

in your GPU’s Control Panel over ride AA settings and disable the sampling, and set Texture settings to performance. By doing that I got most of my FPS rate back. And my UI/Mouse Lag is gone. You do lose quality in the games graphics, but that is the trade off for this kind of work around. If you dont like it just set it back to defaults, which youll do when Anet fixes the issue anyway.

I am starting to think that the game is calling for a higher AA value then before due to the newer UI textures (as even with the changes i propose if you disable the UI you still get 30-50 MORE FPS then when the UI is enabled), as ‘application defaults’ in the CCC for me makes the game run at 18-25 FPS and the mouse movement is crazy laggy.

just something to try to make the game playable on machines that are getting 20-25FPS right now (I am getting 46 after the CCC Change, 35 FPS in Lions Arch/City areas now. up from 18FPS-25FPS)

Thanks for posting this. I did these things in CCC. There was improvement, but only by 5 fps for me. Unfortunately it leaves the game unplayable for me. Of course I also (with the new settings) tried hiding the UI and would you believe it still fixed the problem for me. Obviously it’s my fault the UI is breaking the game. Well, that and it’s nothing more than swamp gas trapped in a weather balloon reflecting light from Mercury that is causing the problem as well. That seemed appropriate as we are down to little more than conspiracy theories at this point thanks to Anet’s decision to use plausible deniability.

twisted fate.7251:

There has been a Dev response to most of the bugs, and topics, accept any to do with the fps drops, its like there not even acknowledging it as a bug, that’s how it feels anyway, I’m now hoping they just don’t want to admit they kittened up but know they did and are working on a fix. If not, then i guess it’s time to find a new mmo as this one is simply unplayable now, so, any idea if there’s another with the same kind of active combat system gw2 has?

At this point after all the blame put on us and no response going into the third day I just can’t see me looking at them quite the same. You don’t reward bad service, and that’s a shame given the number of gems I’ve purchased is pretty shameful XD I’ve looked for the same type of combat myself, but either couldn’t find it or I found it in a game that was super P2W. Guess I’ll hold out hope a while longer or EQ Next will eventually come out and be good.

Yep, another patch comes and goes with no help…

Thanks guys for getting back about the re-install. I won’t bother wasting any of my download cap for it. I don’t think ignoring the problem will make it go away this time since it’s more than just a bad change or a clipping/ improperly scaled item. It’s a bit bigger than that. Keep hope alive I guess. Personally this experience will make me think deeply about future purchases.

That’s a huge download process to go through on it “should” be fixed when it’s obviously not. If anybody has done this and it has actually fixed the problem then I supposed I’d have no choice. At least we have plenty of other players sharing information. It at least allows us to form a partial picture of what is happening.

Yeah, not my connection. That’s always the first thing I check so I can yell at the cable company, but my connection has been amazing. If they assure us they are reading our posts then that really doesn’t help the feeling of being ignored when they don’t respond. It happened directly after the patch and is resolved for many by removing the UI so yeah… Also the representative kittenponded in the aforementioned post had way more attitude than was necessary in denying fault. That’s really poor customer service.

This is starting to exceed being patient. They have acknowledged or replied to almost ever other bug from this patch. I understand they are busy, but there are those of us here who cannot play the game (I’m not talented enough to play without the UI). This somehow seems more important than some of the things that have been fixed already. The withdrawals are setting in guys so can we get some sort of word on this please, please, please before I resort to doing something more productive with my life

I wouldn’t mind waiting for a fix if it were acknowledged one was coming. Although I’m sure there good reasons, but when they go silent it makes people nervous. Especially if it’s something that makes the game unplayable like this.

I never play with camera shake on so that really doesn’t seem to be the issue for me. Guess I’ll have to play with the HUD off.

Yeah, I’m afraid it’ll be the same for me. Not that I want to quit, but I physically cannot play the game in the state that it is without making myself sick. Hopefully it will all be for naught and they will fix it quickly. It just makes me slightly nervous that so far all threads on this subject have not yet had an official reply. I do imagine though they are really busy at the moment. In the meantime I’m going to panic.

Edit: I too have an AMD graphics card. HD 7500 2gb

Same issue here, but mainly for me it’s the reduced FPS after patch in combo. I have no idea how to fix it since it’s obviously not on my end if it happened right after the update.

Same issue here. 60+ in most places and now down to 20-30fps. It’s so choppy it makes me sick to my stomach to play now.

Same here. Playing makes me sick to my stomach it’s so bad. Before the patch 60fps easy in LA. Now 20-30 anywhere if I’m lucky.

I don’t even play my Guard anymore, but these changes did surprise me. Well what actually surprised me is meanwhile they still ignore nike warriors ridiculous mobility.

Gaile Gray.6029:

If it would apply, you might report them for offensive chat using the in-game report system. The team will look into what they’re doing and may be able to verify enough to take action. (It’s admittedly not always possible to do that, but they will try.)

This is one of the biggest reasons I love this game is that if someone is obviously out of control and trolling Anet will at least try to do something if they possibly can. Other games never bothered and some even took pride in their trolls.

As was said already it has nothing to do with Cantha. It’s that Chinese client content that we were promised wouldn’t interfere or determine our content.