Guild Wars 2

You have a 32bit OS, so 4gig “memory” is the most it will recognize, your 9800 has 1gig ram, and other system memory will be subtracted from that…
Your motherboard only has 2 slots, i assume you have 2, 1 gig sticks in it and not 1 2gig stick…. If you have 1 2gig stick, you could get 1 more in prep for OS upgrade.

Personally I would upgrade the following order…
OS to 64 bit
4 or 8 gig of ram (2×4s or 2×2s) DDR2 is not cheap these days unfortunatly…
CPU – That motherboard isnt horrible for what you are doing, after the OS and memory upgrade you should be pretty “Ok”
Video Card – I put this last but its tied w/ CPU in my eyes, some Quad Core chips (your board says it will support) may be cheaper…

shadow.6174:

Pics can say more than words….

Your picture of the “Illusionary Disenchanter” is a totally different bug… but a bug the same in many players eyes…

Disenchanter does almost no real damage, just cures conditions and removes boons, if they have boons… also, if 2 friendlies (including, players, NPCs, pets, minnions, clones) are in range, it will bounce around between them instead of even hitting the enemy…

Copied from the wiki:
Summon an illusion that removes boons from foes and cures conditions on allies.
Attack bounces. Prefers to bounce to allies instead of amongst enemies.
Strikes up to 3 enemies if no allies are in range.

Useless!!!

This will sound like it is coming from left field but please try testing this….

Turn off your Page File entirely in Windows and try running the game…. I did this on my system (16g ram) and saw major game improvements…

Common to servers / systems that are “working harder than windows really wants them too” (SQL Servers and such) the page file actually fights with “real time memory” and if can slow / cause system problems.

I have heard things about outside influences into different games performances.

Some aspects of the game use what can be consitered a “browser / html plugin” such as the BLTP is actually a plugin (awsomium) to the game, as are all the other menues.

I assume your Chrome settings are set to allow better CPU and GPU performance, those settings are carying over into the processing of the game….

Basically, Chrome is inflicting specific computer processing changes that GW2 doesnt…

I am not game developer expert or such things… But i read it on the internet and stayed at a Holiday Inn last night… so I have that going for me…

I too have had this issue at times, If you turn off reflections it seemed to fix it for me in there.

The ground tries to reflect everything, I think even “best performance” leaves the reflections on medium or such (not right in front of me so dont know exactly).

I have opened multiple threads on the “holding world item no spawns of clones” multiple times and I think people don’t understand what I was stating…

If you hold anything, other than the default Mesmer weapons you cannot spawn any clones.

This includes all of the following:
Reflection Crystal in Maw Fractal
Torch in Snow blind Fractal and other locations
Any Ele spawned weapon
Banners from warriors
Equipment (siege) boxes in WvW
Rocks / Boulders in random locations…

The spawn on dodge and utilities that should spawn clones will not, but the utilities sure do go into cool down….

bumping this…

Full reinstallation did nothing as well…

I ended up saying screw it and rebooted my computer, and problem is resolved…

Why 1 character could not access the Hero Panel until I rebooted is beyond anything I can understand… you would have thought it would have been across the board on all characters…

I ran gw2.exe -repair, it verified installation and the problem is still present
I renamed the local.dat and verified it created a new one, no change.

Downloading the whole 18g file, that has not given me a problem since launch, because suddenly, when no update / patch has been released in days, my Mesmer cannot access his hero panel….

Not sure how 1 tiny aspect, the action of opening my Hero Panel on my Mesmer on my computer could be corrupt, and not a simple repair would fix… but tonight we will know…

Still broken…. Just ran a whole fractal set on another char because of this….

Helloooooo…. Anyone out there? I figured 35ish now reports via the automated system, and a posting here may get someone to at least say something…

Can my post be restored from “Trashcan” and placed back here where it belongs, it has to do with forum interaction and player base

I posted a very well written recommendation how to “help us help you” here in the Forums and Website Bugs thread… about how letting us know things are being addressed will lower the “hate”, and how players helping players is great and the number of moderators / support staff for that forum could be utilized elsewhere.

My forum was then moved to Guild Wars 2 Discussion….

Then that same forum was move to “Trash Can” which means it was deleted from there for being off topic.

This all happened within 30 minutes of the initial posting….

I am bewildered by the support and methodology in place… please help me understand this….

On my Mesmer, and only my Mesmer I cannot open my Hero Panel…

All other character, (tested on 5) all can open the Hero Panel, all are on same account, and done on same computer.
I have mapped to multiple areas, no change
All other “top left buttons” work fine except for Hero Panel
Does this in PVP zone as well…

Questions that may possibly help trouble shoot, but I cannot fully answer….
Dye colors… current are yellowish and pinkish…
Weapons… Immobius, purple glowy cup focus / wupwup torch
Armor… Heritage (EoTN) and costume mask from there
Backpack… Quaggen
Jeweler… Ascended

I can barely play my Mesmer now, since I cannot change weapons, armor, traits, or anything….

I have submitted about 30 crash reports to ANET via the “automatic system” when the game crashes from my testing……

If they “acknowledge” that there are 20 threads on this, then they “acknowledge” there is an issue…. Good luck with that!

Plausible Deniability…

I think 20 separate threads is also better than 1 long thread, they almost have to see all these threads on the issue, whether they acknowledge the existence of the issue or not, its stares them in the face multiple times…

Sad that no red posts have hit this….

Plausible Deniability…

I have been running wvw lately on my mesmer (since i have to hit lvl 30 wvw suddently to craft another legendary)

OMG can focus 4 PLEASE stack time on speed boost… its freaking killing me… mesmers are always the back of the bus unless we are sporting blink….

May sound dumb, but try reinstalling directx…. it is detecting it as version 8.17 I believe…

With the installation of it, it may redetect the video card and setup.

Also, did you do a clean install of GW2, or copy the .dat from your old computer to new?

Neural.1824:

Zoltan.3015:

They keep their twitter page updated on these issues every few minutes

edit:

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

Really silly that we have to rely on external sources for this stuff. How hard would it be to put the updates in this thread?

The issue / why they cant update this thread, is in they have a huge flaw in their design…
They put all their eggs in 1 basket…

I cannot explain why, but the logon servers for the game, are the same as the logon servers for the forums…

I expect the forum web servers reside behind the same network gear as the game servers….

Why they would not have a small web farm somewhere, with logon servers that replicated the database every so often is beyond me. It is not like the forums are tied to the game at all, not that I can perform any type of single sign on or such….

My best guess…. laaazzzzyyyynnnneeeesssss…..

Just throwing it out there…

By the way, I refuse to “check twitter” or “check facebook” or “oh use Google to search the forums”

I would rather (finally) log onto here and speak my peice, sure as heck their development / public relations / custer service department doesn’t care to share anything with us…

This has been highly reported…. not your fault for reposting…. It really needs addressed, nothing is worse then getting to the end of the 3rd to realize you have to start all over again…

Do the forums developers realize how many repetitive posts are created due to their lack of ability at fixing the search function…..

For the love of all that is Holy… Please fix the search function!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shadow.6174:

O.o blank thread?

Edit: no, just page messing with me :P

You were trolled by the malfunctioning Forums…
I think the 2 dev teams have a bet going… to see which of them can fail worse and have players keep using them….

Mesmers or Forums…

Which will everyone stop using first?!?!

I think 5k AP should be a requirement for equipting a legendary….
A lot more than needing lvl 30 WvW to buy some of the materials…..

I am tired of seeing ebayers with 1k AP and legendrys thinking they are gods gift to the game!!!

That would be a real show of “playing the game” a lot more than lvl 30 WvW…

The issue with Phase Retreat has been ingame since launch…. (not sure on ele, I dont have one)

There have been more posts about it than I can count… it is even listed in the wiki for the skill in the, buttom Bug area, as it seems most mesmer skills have that same area at the bottom of each of their skills…

Psylem.1529:

Just wanted to say thank you for checking into this promptly Anet as this bug really does hurt a lot of our builds. Also, there sure are a lot of whiners around here…we are better than this fellow mesmers!

Bump

Did you say promptly… and whiners….

It is nearly 18 hours after first post, and they say “we will look into it”…
It isn’t whining… if we do not show full support of each other in forcing them to address the issue….

If anything you are right, we shouldnt need to have 1389 view and 97 posts to get the attention of the staff for a severely broken mechanic in the game… The should have found this during their testing…

bumping because yet another large patch and no addressing this at all!!!!

You know… now thinking about it…
I ran Dredge Fractal yesterday…. and the bombs at the door….
Placed Bomb, stealthed, and the bomb went away almost instantly as in the dredge all immediatly retargeted the bomb because I was stealthed and grabbed it instantly….

I wonder if this is some unintended “fix” to thieves running bombs to the door???
They did “fix” the shortcuts into the stage 1 of Dredge with the patches yesterday…
I am still waiting on the video of the Dev team running Dredge Fractal with a ballanced team over lvl 19, especially since they love to “fix” it…

Anyone know what happens to clones on Mossman? I am at work now or I would test it myself…

Ballance idea built around this new “feature”

1. Instant reset of all clones, phantasms, and instant reset of all shatters when target stealths…
2. Clones and phantasms do not require an active target to be spawned….
3. Oh and they could still fix the fact that if holding a world object (reflection crystal / banner / or such) no clones are possible to spawn… thats only been broken since launch….

Wonder how fast the forums would light up from that….

Them being “closed” is no excuse…

The game is up 24/7, why on earth would the not have atleast 1 support staff available 24/7?

They have commented on problems with the gem store at any hour of day or night…

An issue as detrimental to an entire class as this should have gotten phones ringing right after it was reported.

Why do people make excuses and work arounds for the incompitence of the ANET staff?
What would it take for everyone to realize if it isnt affecting the Gem Store they just dont care!!!!

Why must I use one currency to purchase another currency? If they wanted it to be laurels, they would have made it laurels.

That is like every other thing in GW2… a workaround….

Every time they come out with what they consider “great new content” (Edge of the Mists) they either break other zones (Fractured update WvW was down for like 12 hrs I believe) or they add some new requirement that forces players to participate in such areas….

How about they remove the stupid requirement…

How are we over 11 hours since reporting this, and not even a red post from ANET on a class breaking issue for WvW / PVP?

This is absolute garbage….. Every patch brings me closer and closer to finding a new game, mainly due to total lack of communication from the staff team.

If this was great sword human warriors (weapon, race, and class specific) this would have been resolved 10 hours ago…. but this is a whole class of characters and we cant even get a “We understand the problem and are addressing it”

I think they should make a requirement of 50 pristine fractal relics to every legendary now as well….

That may balance things out a bit….

Between this… and breaking mesmers yet again with a patch that was not to touch mesmers… I really am not sure why I bother logging in anymore…

I love how they wont fix mesmers…. but they sure as heck can keep breaking us!!!!!

How could they go and make it rank 30+

It is required for a legendary… you know how long it will take to reach 30….

They added this why? to force players into WvW…. I am a hard core PVE player, I have no desire to PVP or WVW…. why am I being forced to?

You say "oh I want a legendary and all I do is WvW…. well I have to run a dungeon… you can get your dungeon reward in 2 days…….

This is yet another thing pulling dedicated players like me away from the game!!!!

This is a “feature” many others have commented on as well…

I too have the same type of bag setup (Starter, Uncommon, Uncommon, Rare, Invisible), and think it would be best if when compressed the loot knew where it belonged.. as in the following:

1. Commons all went to the starter bag
2. Uncommon filled in from the top most uncommon bag downward (since multiple are equipped)
3. Rares then reorganized themselves in the Rare Bag (my 4th bag)

Or similar… and if you have more common loot than just the 1st bag, it fills in after the uncommon, or rare, depending on the room in such bags…

But, with all the other flaws in the game, I am just glad the “compress” doesn’t pull everything from my invisible bag… I would expect that type of issue if they attempted to fix it, so I avoid conversations on this topic…

I assume the “mercy they shall grant us” will be 20 gems off on a character slot or something hahahahah…. did anyone else find it odd first birthday gift was up to lvl 20 for free?…. kinda like, how could I be a year old and not lvl 20?

It is only 1 week after the release… they need more time to get it all worked out…. they couldn’t possibly be expected to have the content all functioning when they released it live to the players…

Oh, and ya, I had the same problem…. its RNG….

I am confused on the “focus on new content over anything” situation…. here is why I am confused on it all….

Dedicated long term players
1. Want the game to play as “designed / described” – focused on enjoying the game when it works correctly, new content is good, but rather be able to press “C” and actually be the closest hostile enemy…
2. AP farmers – deal with randomness as long as new content = new AP = who cares about old content not working as designed I have to keep up with everyone else…

Casual Players
1. Don’t really know what are flaws and what is broken… You see a lot of these players in Lions Arch asking why they cant complete their story mission, or if everyone else just got disconnected…
2. Gave up on AP earnings some time ago because the gap is so huge and just want something to do with 30 mins or so of their evening…

New Players:
1. Got the game on sale, and wanted to try it out… like the idea of new content every 2 weeks, but once the honey moon is over will they stay around?
2. Friends told them about the game and thought they would give it a go.

I see the following has been happening and will continue to happen…
1. Dedicated players leaving the game or venting on the forums because they want to love GW2 and want it to work as “designed”
2. AP Farmers praying to keep up with the new content, but are going crazy because the only way it seems to keep up is to find the latest exploit / glitch… because so much of the new content is falling into the broken content category..
3. Casual Players – will notice that the teams they use to run with are dying out… there are whole map areas in game that are already empty, if there isn’t some event up, good luck finding others to join you on some things.
4. New players will become less because less friends of theirs playing, and the game has been out for a year and a half already. Or, when they attempt to make a party to do stuff they will find no one in the zone, and shift back to whatever they were doing…

I think ANet better start acting quick or they will soon find they have lost the player base that is still dealing with the punches…
There will always be other games out there, and the next fresh one (which is sure to have problems too) may just grab the eye of some of the dedicated players who really wanted to see Guild Wars 2 succeed.

Few Suggestions:
1. More rewards for helping others with their hearts and missions…. This could be “you are in party with a player who just completed this Heart or Personal Story, you receive X amount of Karma and or coin”
2. Fix the content so that you don’t have everyone finding work arounds and or glitches to actually allow them to complete tasks. “Work Arounds and tricks are not the answer, especially when it comes to wanting to patch the work around instead of making the game playable”
3. Adequate rewards – this is a very wide open topic… one thing that is bothersome is how can a lvl 35 fractal land you only 1.3 gold (can expect this to take 2 hrs or so) Yet a dungeon you can non speed run under 30 minutes due to ease of it lands you 1 gold. Both are only 1 time per day.

Maybe to get some dev attention we need to shift the conversation a little…

I heard a few guilds are running contests.
You keep track of how many times you target as intended, or shift targets as intended.
You also keep track of how many times you fail to target something correctly, or maintain a stationary enemy that is targeted correctly.
At the end of each week you do the math, subtracting fails from correct targeting and purchase that number of gems.

I ran Jormag and the Golem 2 times this week so far…. I think the game owes me around 15 gems….

Oh look, its affecting Gem Sales!!! What on earth should we ever do?!?!

Speaking of random deaths… This happened to me yesterday as my party loaded into Cliff Side Fractal… You can see from the combat log that we just finished Harpies Fractal… which I was using regular skills, then with the map change I load into Cliff Side Defeated….

This is far from the first time these types of things happening, i took the screenshot because I am tired of…. 1 silver a pop adds up in repair bills for no reason… are gem sales that low…

Oidmetala is very correct on the spirit problems…

Many times I have seen the spirits not use their skills, even when traited for them to use skill on death, I have seen them just fall over dead. I actually don’t use this trait anymore because of the fact it triggers 50% of the time or less on death in “regular combat” If it just times out and dies it uses the skill rather normally.

I also get very frustrated with the rez spirit… which I have realized if tried to use right after spawning it… which is normally when i need it most, it will nearly always fail… I have gotten custom to spawning the spirit, counting to 5, then using the skill, it works a lot more constant with this practice.

I am tired of players having no idea that 10 = 1 at difficulty of 29 when it comes to “general changes”….

please fix this anet.. i am begging you!!!!

This is not a “game bug” in the sense that “rangers suck” the mentality is “warriors with swords using 100 blades are god”…. this is “user ignorance”…..

I joined a lvl 49 fractal the other day and a warrior in the party was asking me up and down, as a ranger about my build… he left party when it told him I was not sword / warhorn…

Many warrior players thing “auto attack and 100 blades” are the only skills needed…

I too suffer this pain, and it is not because rangers suck, it is because ignorant players suck… I recommend, if you find a party that kicks you because you are a ranger, you are better off for it…

Side note: Rangers who spam Long Bow 4 are a big part of this problem… I, on my ranger, have yelled at many other rangers who do this…
I hate to say it, but if the recharge of Long Bow 4 was longer, we would have a better reputation….

I just tested leveling on a lower character… she went from 65 to 66… skill bar for her is showing correctly for experience earned and when skill point was earned.

This seems to be a lvl 80 issue now, and only graphical…

I did note yesterday, after the 2nd patch, that I received the skill point when 254k of 254k was reached.

Prior to the 2nd patch yesterday another player informed me they “leveled” based on the xp reached and did not receive a skill point.

My bar is still “doing as it wishes” and I have not lvled again to see if I receive another point or not.

Priority seems the following for interaction targeting… even if you have a target selected that you want to interact with, the game does not care….

Banner Pickup
Resurrection
Interaction with world item.

Prime example is Cliff Side Fractal…
Warrior puts banners where we stand, hammer runner goes down where we are… you can target the hammer (if your are lucky) but you, and everyone else who follows target will not pickup the hammer until all the banners are moved, and the guy is resurrected….

I too have had this major issue… Nothing is more annoying then a situation where you are rezing someone, and time the dodge “just right” to avoid getting hit by a monster just for you to stand there and continue rezzing…
Prime example is Champ Ettin in Harpy Fractal…. He has a HUGE tell before his attack… and it would be very easy to dodge to avoid, provided the game allowed such an action…

It also seems very odd the “selective interaction” that the game uses….

Priority seems the following… even if you have a target selected that you want to interact with, the game does not care….

Banner Pickup
Resurrection
Interaction with world item.

Prime example is Cliff Side Fractal…
Warrior puts banners where we stand, hammer runner goes down where we are… you can target the hammer (if your are lucky) but you, and everyone else who follows target will not pickup the hammer until all the banners are moved, and the guy is resurrected….

I think the 2nd part of this more targeting related, and I will post it with the targeting forums as well, I just thought I would mention it since the topic is resurrection issues…

I was trying to play Taps for those who fell to their death… and I agree it sounds way different… I play

If the ranger was using GS3, the jump / rush / flying attack, and during that skill cast they change weapons, they will keep the wings on until they map or waypoint.

This is a long time bug that is cool and annoying at same time…

I just lvled up, for reals, and I did get the skill point, my bar keeps going full, half, full, half still, but it did give me the lvl and skill point.

We killed Xutt, and revived him, and he went right back to his spot…
He actually goes into the water after so long if u keep pulling stuff to him

Same here in overflows… we had a Dev here for a few, he didn’t say anything to us all in map or say…. Expected with all the information they love to provide us with…

Working As Designed and Tested…

Seems one of my sigils may have shifted to “chance of XP on kill” I get xp w/ scepter torch, but not with scepter focus…..