Guild Wars 2

This still needs a fix, before 15th it was not a real issue because we always had normal pops of players doing this meta-events, but now it’s a real issue as maps are incredible zerged due the new boss timings.

And simply, PvE can’t handle it well without providing a very poor performance for who is not owning high-end machines.
I feel sad i could play them all with great performance, and now, it’s just … not even skills i’m able to do sometimes.

Lightsbane.9012:

could it be the fact the entire game instead of server is now at this event?

It’s something to do with the massive zergs on this events certainly, but impossible to test as one can’t simply do Karka with a smaller group of people.

But the odd thing is that i can handle when it spawns the other 2 locations, with massive FPS drops but the PC never freezes when she reaches the first regen of HP, i think something to do with those green aoe attacks she does.

One other thing i forgot to mention but i think everybody already know is how people are disconnecting from the game with network errors on World Bosses.

Heya there.

Something is really really odd after 15th Patch at Karka Queen, i am already giving up on try to do Karka just because how likely it is to my PC simply lag the hell out and GW2 process to crash / stop responding. (not to talk about the random disconnects i believe we all noticed at world bosses)

I end up creating this thread as sseveral guildies already did stop doing such event because, they also lag / crash / disconnect.

The thing is: It only happens when it spawns on a very specific area, after it reaches 0% and wins back some hp. The area of spawn where is happens is this http://i.imgur.com/iF5G7Vq.png

On all other 2 locations it can lag like hell, but never freezes the game, what certainly hints for a game-side optimization issue causing this to specific players.

The Frustrating thing: When we asap connect back to the game, no loot for us! Chest is gone, and you will not receive it again no matter if you failed to open!
- When you connect back, you usually don’t enter the same megaserver due massive numbers of people leaving the map after the event ends.

After PvE Bosses started to being hardcore zerged we all saw how badly optimized PvE is dealing with massive Zergs of people.

One of the worst things must be the MegaServer since the 15th, the good side of populate the game maps, it sacrificed the World Bosses, the Hardcore Tequatl and Wurm event Organized Runs, Guild Missions on large guilds, do PvE guild run that got very complicated to get on the same megaserver… It’s one change requiring many changes to actually improve the game. We should not be sacrificing systems to improve one.

Heya there.

One thing that got me wondering about other things, is the thing that Chinese players are way different from Europeans and Americans when it comes to play MMOs.

And when i see that they like hardcore Farm/Grind and specially hardcore content (one thing this game lacks a lot), do you think at this current stage of Guild Wars 2 content, specially the endgame content, is enough to please Chinese Players? Or will they run out of content and rage-quit the game after some months?

GW2 is one… easy MMO, everything can be done without really have knowledge about it, that’s why i wonder if all the hype around there can be in vain.

Lucky is the French and German Community that usually gets more replies from ANet staff than us on the main International community.

//Wonders….

I must agree, specially PvE / Dungeons need desperately new content, things are reaching one brick wall at endgame that can’t be only supported by PvP, PvE needs oxygen again.

We want PvP Matches, ANet vs The People. Let’s get justice in here, if Devs loose, they must provide a free precursor for every member in-game.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

The ArenaNet tag functions the same as a guild tag, because it is one. To fly the tag, we have to rep the ArenaNet guild. So, no, we can’t rep a guild and display the tag at the same time. Anywhere you would normally see somebody’s guild tag, you would see the ArenaNet tag, if an employee is representing the company guild.

Do you always neglect European Servers?
Why don’t you visit us.

Da Sonic.6521:

/rank is just the PvP rank, the finisher is used when stomping an enemy player.

Aw so no way to display our finisher on PvE?
Aw i wanted to lhama finish bosses :P

Heya there.

I Did buy this new finisher on the gem store, and activated it, but when i do /rank it does displays my normal Finisher and not the one i got activated, why?

It forces us to display or main rank only, not the finisher?

One thing i really can’t get it, is why the German/French community teams reply community feedback, and such feedback is never reported on the International community, only way people know ANet said that is re-post translation from French/DE forums into this one.

I was in PvP Yesterday, OMG 10 bots, 10!!!! I reported, came back 3hours later, they are still there!

There was people mad at the bots because we were being flooded with spam, dear lord.

They’re good being fun Developers, they’re bad listening to community feedback lol. :p

When we list the Cons we notice they’re not at all major things, but they cause major problems.
Sad thing if ANet is aware of the problems, we hear nothing from them but silence about.

There is serious Cons on the MegaServers that need to be addressed, from Guilds to Major Events Organization and how it’s still breaking parties and guildies apart on several megaservers….. Not to talk about the massive Zergs at World Bosses that in my case and some of my friends i play with, it’s way to laggy to be playable, specially at Karka Queen.

MegaServers for me are nothing more than one Mega Overflow with a different name, when for the 3rd day i try to enter our TS Community organized Wurm run and i’m always put in a different megaserver and the right one gets full in Seconds (40min before the event iself starts), one does not simply DARES to say something positive about MegaServers!!!

(not that there is positive sides, but the negative one impacts much more)

Ticket: 555983
It’s one simple refund, sadly i forgot to send the 2 outfit requests at the same time, first got asap, but second it’s already almost 10 days without one reply.

Not sure if my ticked was lost, 10 days without reply?
About the same refund btw.

Tman.6349:

Not being able to salvage karma and BoH gear does not constitute P2W by any means. In fact it’s a stupid argument tbh. There is no ‘Win’ involved. As far as the OP, you’re a ways off too, as the upgrade extractor costs more than any upgrade in the game (with the exception of infusions) making this a rediculous claim. Anyone that is buying upgrade extractors in order to ‘Win’ is, in fact, only losing.

The problems with the new transmutation system has been discussed in multiple threads already ie. upgraded karma armor etc. ‘P2W’ was never brought up b/c it’s a silly.

I have actually edited the thread, on the most correct way it’s a loss of functionality we had before to do not loose upgrades on items we can’t salvage or use on other chars.

Jrunyon.3012:

Lmfao at p2w. Annoying? Sure, But to say this is pw2 is laughable. Next time don’t use misleading titles for your posts.

lordkrall.7241:

P2W would require it to actually give you an actual advantage over people that don’t buy them though. Which is not the case.
Everyone can just buy the exact same things in-game (the runes).

Oh, Do you want one actual advantage over the people that don’t buy them?
The people that buy them can get their runes back and re-sell/use them.

AntiSaneity.3628:

You can buy Gems with in-game earned gold, Transmutation Stones are for cosmetic changes only which are not pay to win and you still earn them from map completion and PvP Reward Tracks, and you can get runes back with any salvage kit.

Any of those three points negates the pay to win argument, but the fact that nothing in the gem store gives you a single advantage of anyone else (which is the single criteria for a game to be pay to win anyway) also does a pretty good job of proving that you’re wrong.

The gear i own isn’t salvageable, right now it’s at the bank with the only utility to be the DELETE button, no salvage, no sell and soulbound, something we could before transmute (and it wasn’t only for the looks!), so we created a new item from 2. That is one functionality we lost that is only possible again via Gem Store. As the Upgrade Extraction, that one is not awarded anywhere else on the game.

This is the first time i’m forced to go to the gemstore to be able to do something i did before without depend of gem items. Not to talk about such item on gold conversion costs more than any rune in-game, so for us that can’t salvage it’s a loss-loss situation.

Kypriathe.4183:

I don’t see what the difference is. Can’t you just apply a new skin to the armor piece that had the stats and rune you wanted?

It’s not about that, it’s about you have one Set of Armor with that X Runes and stats. Before you wanted to change to a new set you did just buy, with the runes of the old one, if you can’t salvage them, you simply can’t get your upgrades back like before, just merging the stats/upgrades on transmute, something that is not possible anymore.
This was the only way the Karma and some other gear, had the chance to not loose all upgrades we did to them.

That’s why i said, you’re forced to buy gems to get Upgrade Extractor on such items.

Hello there.

I’m feeling that since the 15th patch, there’s something on specific that i believe that turned “Pay-To-Win”, or simply the loss of one functionality we had before easily without buy gem store items.

Such is about specially Runes and the Transmutation stones.

Before we could transmute items to form a new one with the stats, rune and visual we wanted to, without need to loose our runes or get expensive useless items on the bank just because we can’t salvage, can’t sell and they’re soulbound (Karma/WvW and Ascended Gear).

After the patch, we’re forced to buy one expensive item on the Gem Store that isn’t awarded on anywhere else on this game to be able to get runes back, the Upgrade Extractor.

This change is forcing people to buy gems to get this item and be able to get their upgrades back, with the loss of the old functionality that easy fixed that problem i can’t stop feeling this is “buy this gem store item or you get nothing”.

(i’m aware this item was there before the patch, i’m discussion how it’s now the only option with non-salvageable gear after the patch)_

I 100% Agree. We need the old transmutation powers back, it’s not only about visual, it’s also stats and runes that are now impossible to recover without spend gems.

The problem is we can’t transmute anymore the stats and runes like we did before, this is one nerf forcing people to buy one gem store item to recover upgrades that costs more than any rune in-game.

Yes, transmutation was the big help for such limitations. I Lost 100g after the patch due that because i can’t transmute the 2 armors to save the runes, yet i have useless items doing nothing in the bank because they’re soulbound to mine.

Go Figure why they implement more and more restrictions on a feature patch with a blog post named “removing restrictions”.

Wait then, i am pretty sure i could salvage Dungeon Armor Sets. O_o
Wasn’t even aware about karma because i transmuted before with a non-karma armor for the visual.

Randulf.7614:

I believe it depends where the armour came from. I think Karma bought gear can’t be salvaged. Happily stand corrected though.

Some it’s karma, other it’s dungeon pieces, but both are not salvageable. I feel outraged, can i send ticket about it?

Randulf.7614:

This has been discussed at length in the main wardrobe thread. Not sure why a new thread was needed, but if you are concerned, I’d post there since that is the feedback thread that matter.

For the record, whilst I understand the frustration, I personally still prefer the wardrobe as it is than what we had before.

I had no idea this was going to happen, that transmuted things would loose any change of salvage, that’s why i wasn’t scared when i knew i could not transmute like before.

So the only option is to accept this lost and the functionality we had with the old transmute on this aspect?

Heya there.

Well, we usually notice this “stealth” changes that come on patch that actually limits what we can do, when we loose money due them.

I have spent 70g in 6 runes to my Armor Set time ago, before the patch, but already decided that i would get armor with new stats and transmute them.

After this patch i wasn’t scared at all, i just said “Well i will just use Black Lion to salvage and get the rune”. God i was wrong, we can’t recover any rune from any armor piece were you already used Wardrobe in.

Because the transmuted status, the only thing you can do with Armor and the runes, is to Delete them, as exotic is soulbound, you can’t salvage, you can’t sell and the upgrade extractor is more expensive than any rune on this game. I had not only to buy the new Armors again, buy 70g of runes again and put my armor pieces at the bank watching how useless they have turned.

So Beware, do not use wardrobe at your armor, unless you’re 100% Certain those are the ones you want, you will also loose the runes once you upgrade to ascended anyway…

I said “Nerf” at title because, before the patch, you could transmute not only the skin but the stats and the runes, so we have lost functionality.
How fantastic is the wardrobe now?

That is a simple No, they posted the blog post, did not reply ANY of the reports, problems, discussions and the many people asking for the maps as the Wurm / Tequatl to be not put on the new system yet.

This was a complete forced upon players change, i was able to do Tequatl / Wurm today, but from 20 members of my guild trying to play with me, only 2 got able to enter the organized run.
If this is the so great MegaServer, it’s nothing different than Overflows when it comes to break parties and guildies apart.

I can’t give enough +1 to OP.
Massive Zergs of Lag and Auto-Attackers, events are ruined to a point the biggest challenge is deal with FPS Drops, specially at Karka Queen.

I wish so much World Bosses to go back what they were before this patch.

Now when i play World Bosses and temple events, randomly my skills stop working, i can still use some Fs, and Heal myself, but only way to do skills again it’s to Restart the game.

Also the normal skill delays are something we notice daily, sadly. As this is not one issue of “me and that guy”, also my guildies on our voice-chat sometimes point that they can’t do skills at all same time i cant…

I must get to the conclusion there is more problems on the game side than my side, that or game optimizations are yet to be developed about this.

My issue with Meta Events directly it’s the huge FPS Drops.

Okay WvW may be optimized for Zergs, but PvE simply isn’t, doing world bosses since this game started i’m very disappointed i started having unplayable experiences, specially at Karka Queen.

Suddenflame.2601:

eisberg.2379:

Kallandra.2610:

Behellagh.1468:

What do you want, a broadcast in game of the patch notes?

Actually, that’s not a bad idea. A small pop up box when zoning in to the game with just a brief list of fixes (or a link to the relevant web page), or major things like “New language filter in Chat Options” or something like that, would actually work. A lot of MMORPG’s use that kind of thing to notify players of important things.

How about a frame that appears when first logging in, but before pressing the Play button that gives news about the game including the patch notes?

Its not Anets fault if the players do not check the forums for the patch updates. They knew there was a patch (hence the download) so while they are waiting for it to download they could you know actually read the patch notes? Players are humans therefor they are more than capable of going to the forums and reading the patch notes where they always been. No point in wasting resources for putting an ingame patch notes that the same people who couldnt waste the time to come to the forums will just ignore the patch notes already.

When the language block was implemented, people kept chatting on map chats, even on English, but as their clients are non-english they were instant hidden from all others, i already whispered several people asking “Is anybody there?” on map chats when there is lots of people because they are being ignored by the system itself.

It’s sad because one thing like this should be have one those “Hint popups” when game starts that points to the little settings button saying that they added new option now enabled by default.

You must try Fire Elemental then, dies in 20 seconds, really really O__o.

Celestina.2894:

Max Lexandre.6279:

TheDaiBish.9735:

If they did say ‘we are aware of the issues and are looking into it’, do you honestly believe that people would stop posting / whining about the same thing on a daily basis?

Give people one confirmation the team is aware and working to solve the problem is a step, will not fix the rage we see, but they can’t say we’re being simply ignored by the development team on our feedback. It can calm nerves down, something that is recently “up-scaling” on the forums.

No it does not, in fact it then adds to the ammo people will use, citing “broken promises”.

Even if Anet had the most amazing, borderline godly dev team they would never win.

It’s not a question of “win”, it’s just get involved with your community, there will always be rage and whining, but as said one Healthy community takes years to create, and both sides must take steps into that approach.
As we don’t want certainly to use the word “ANet” for the sake of cursing, but yes to refer to the amazing studio that delivered us this MMO.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Players complain when Anet says nothing.
Players complain when Anet says something.
Players complain when Anet does anything.

There’s an easy to see pattern.

Heya Aidan, one thing we must be aware is when it comes to separate bad feedback from good feedback, Developer > Community interaction was never bad, but they can’t listen to rage with no arguments. This forum do include and after the patch really constructive threads with their feedback that got merged with mega-threads of rage.

TheDaiBish.9735:

If they did say ‘we are aware of the issues and are looking into it’, do you honestly believe that people would stop posting / whining about the same thing on a daily basis?

Give people one confirmation the team is aware and working to solve the problem is a step, will not fix the rage we see, but they can’t say we’re being simply ignored by the development team on our feedback. It can calm nerves down, something that is recently “up-scaling” on the forums.

Hello there.

One thing that is certainly causing many discussions about “how awful our community is” is when people give “tsunamis” of feedback, questions and reports about several things and since the patch, one incredible silence involved all ArenaNet team, if they reply threads is to warn the thread may be blocked or actually block/merge the thread.

Why so much silence? Why don’t make community know you are aware of certain issues and working on them? Or discuss alternatives with the community of points you’re open to make changes?

I think things several times scale to the points moderators need to step in due abuses, people feel they are not heard, that specific groups of players are with problems with the patch and they try to report or ask to something to be done about it and it’s just… silence, like they are not even reading.

Why don’t ANet does a simply reply on a thread just saying something like: “We know there is some issues with guild missions after the patch and we’re are working to fix them.”? (just one example)
Not only that, try to ask for constructive feedback about the things that need changes, the mega-threads can’t address specific issues.

I honestly believe when it comes to create one Healthy Community, that is a process that takes several years, the team that is behind interact with the community on this forums is not taking steps to make that happen.

Sorry my English.

There should be Regions like GW1, for Roleplay and Different Languages.

ANet didn’t give us the choice, now if you RP people tell you to “kitten”.

I agree with Volt, the Tequatl comparative to Wurm is not correct.

Wurm requires really hardcore organization,. special teams, special builds, special TS Coordination. With Mega Servers now, i have no idea how that will still be possible.

One really mad thing about Mega Servers is that they just implemented them on the HardCore Bosses Maps BEFORE fix any of their flaws!

Because for ANet is better to get the flaws to every map, before fix them and spread to this kind of maps. I don’t get it.

Reporting a major bug with the 15th April update:
It’s been identified and called MegaServer. It breaks the game as we knew it. Please fix/remove it. Thanks.

Immensus.9732:

I dont see why megaservers are bad tbh, the new world boss schedule is. ah and the new triple headed wurm, is just awful how easy they made it

How is Wurm easy? I did yesterday and it’s the same, it actually failed on TS Organized run btw, something is up on Cobalt head that fails when it reaches 50%.

Wurm Map is now in OverFlow if i am now mistaken on recent build.
You can say goodbye to TS Organization, the real challenge will be put your own TS community on the same Mega Server as you, as we can’t anymore find low-pop maps to let everyone in.

Well, you don’t want to hear that Wurm Map got today on Mega Server.

What simply means the organization of this event is very, very damaged starting the point we needed one empty/low pop overflow to do it, and right now people will need to “fit” inside one already populated Mega Server.
It’s guaranteed many that are on such organized TS will simply not get in, and commanders will have trouble when it comes to put everybody on their MegaServer instance on their TS (what is really necessary as greatly improves the chances of success).

Dezaq.1203:

Bloodtide Coast/Sparkfly Fen has been added to megaserver already.
So I guess yesterday was the last time I did Triple Wurm and Teq.

Please tell me that is a joke?
ArenaNet can’t be serious about this, it’s not eve 1st April!

Organized Wurm tries need the Organized TS and one EMPTY Map to travel to, so everybody on TS can get in that greatly improves the chances of succeed at it.
With MegaServers all maps will be populated, it will simply not be possible to gather everyone there.

I really can’t understand, is ANet trolling us or something? They simply are not seeing/reading about what is happening in-game, the end of organized runs at Wurm it’s a foreseeable problem they ignore.

You’re certainly not the only one who is having trouble adapting to the game since the 15h, on my case it’s because the World Bosses (i will not even talk about RP) and their timings that only caused massive zergs of lag (even worse than WvW fps drops) on meta-events that pretty much destroyed how challenging events could be.

And on our guild the impact it had on Guild Missions, starting from it was impossible to put all our guild together on the mission map (70 members) that led to people not able to get their commendations, to the fact when we reach there, another guild had started the Missions, end up failing ours and need to start it again.

The not so bad is thatTequatl and Wurm are not MegaServers yet (oups, they just got mega), this will be a complete nightmare to organize, as the dedicated guilds that do this events are already under pressure to handle Teq/Wurm and only have 1 try at it, with minutes between them to organize the wurm.

I wish ArenaNet at once listens to the community about this and does not go ignore mode, if they are listening then there’s way too much silence about what’s going on. This are actually minor foreseeable things that are causing major problems to specific groups of players.

Okay if you’re looking for good and content updates you’re on the wrong place, seriously, that’s what we have been missing more. New Content, it’s really a must, this new feature patch shiny things can’t fix the lack of new content the game is getting.