Guild Wars 2

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I hear a lot of qq about transfers affecting Wv3, and have to agree.
1st theres the bandwaggoners increasing queue times and upsetting the servers organization.
Then theres the dirty tricks brigade, sometimes even using 2nd accounts for espionage and disruption.

! easy solution would be to have a minimum 2 week lockout on Wv3 upon transfer.

Old English sheepdog
could round up enemies and F2 skill could paint stealthed targets so you can see them

Transfers in general cause issues for Wv3 people with bandwaggoning and spies.

urdriel.8496:

W3 tiers are about QUANTITY, NOT QUALITY.

You can win battles with quality, but you will never win the war.

SFR do! 2:1 in 3 weeks T1

Kasama.8941:

I won’t get into the whole realism behind it,

Figure it’s a fantasy MMO and in that they got the physics of bows back to front.
In RL longbow does max damage at <= 100 yards. As range increases damage decreases

Meet us half way= Crossbows
Higher Damage slower RoF

Logically ,bird pets ought to be able to attack ground from walls or attack defenders on same.

RE Quick shot and Lightning reflexes.
Pls fix these so that they do what description says , or change description to reflect fact that you will “evade”? in a random direction (usually towards the enemy)

Thanks for the update Habib.
I guess GW2 has become a victim of it’s own success.. GW2 is not Aion (thank god), but at least that has options to show tags only,reduced LOD and failing all else the big red blob in the mini map.
Other titles I play use a cache for skins etc.that save the graphics details client side when a new player logs in. That could at least solve some of the network issues .
GW2 is the first mmo I’ve played that doesn’t suffer from “enemy lag”; though I think that would be preferable to the current culling situation.

This is ruining WvWvW. I don’t PvE and running into the middle of an invisible 60 man zerg is getting expensive.
Anet should at least scrap repair costs untill a viable fix is found.
Other games I play use a cache for player textures and there no such issues exist.

Digitus.8971:

I thought that was a problem made by my old headset Tritton Ax180 ( worst headset ever) but it is still present now with my brand new logitech g35 but i have found a temporally solution you have to switch, in audio options of course, from default device (or whatever you use) to digital device.

ye , that works if you want to continue without (analog) sound.
I moved my mixing buffer to max (fully right) instead of Low latency(left). and so far so good. We shall see if the bug occurs again

Jason King.2647:

Thanks for the reports, everyone! This is an issue we’ve been tracking for a while now, and I’ve heard we may have a fix for it in the next few days. If you continue seeing it, please let us know.

I see this was posted 3 months ago; though I never had this issue then on my old rig using a M-Audio 10-10LT sound card.
I do get the wooo wooo wooo sine wave since using new gaming rig using onboard realtekHD sound.

majestic.8129:

Since it’s a new build I really would have tried to stretch for a sandy/ivy i5 because the difference for ~£60-100 is drastic:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=701

As kirito notes above, you are cpu bound in those scenarios.

But for my GF visiting Turkey with no medical insurance ; it would have been an i7.
I had to replace crashed Phenomx4 980 system with only a marginal upgrade.
Of course there was wintersday patch during my downtime; so can’t make an accurate comparison between the old and new rigs.

@Kiroto .TY for the links Catalyst settings seemto be worth +5 more FPS in zerg and a steady 60 elsewhere. But for culling, thats at least a bit more playable.

Running a new build from Overclockers
APU AMD10-5800K : 4.40Ghz
8 Gb DDR3 PC3-1 @2133 Mhz
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7870 OC Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics
Windows 7 Pro sp1
connected on 10 Mbps Talk Talk or Virgin fibre (ping is better with Talk Talk)

max CPU usage in Wv3 = 70%
memory = 40%
GPU max 40%
max temp 55c

so why 40 to 10 FPS in wv3?
(culling aside – which is nearly always fatal, but that’s another topic)

CHIPS.6018:

Assuming that Anet would introduce another playable race, what would you like it to be?

1) Harpies – Who wouldn’t want to fly?

2) Centaurs – Because 4 legged is awesome!

3) Skritt – Always works in teams of 3 (when you make 1 character, you get 3!). Strength and intelligent in numbers!

1) Tired of flapping around like a bird with Aion! Would rather have a Me262 or B25
2) Win win choice. no more qq about adding mounts.
3) Strength and intelligent in numbers? sounds like Vizuna Square.

1) Something new – maybe reptilian?

2) Largos

3) Tengu

Karolis.4261:

Read skill description first, then post

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Groovy.6749:

Before anything else, it is “quit” not “quited”. I’m not normally a grammar nazi (at all!!!), but this one was just too much.

Before becoming a grammar nazi; you need to become a pedant.

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Perfect
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OK , I’m seeing thieves hit my alts for 3k+with heartseeker, but only getting 600 dmg from it on my lv80 thief. That’s a BIG difference!
Q . How much is down to traits and how much to gear?

CBA to Pve for random gear . waiting 3 hours for a group just don’t appeal to me.
WvWvW and some PvP are all I play now (with ranger), so improving on mostly rare 80 gear will take time.

Centrix.4065:

T1 has pretty much always been about 1 server dominating the other 2. Sometimes it’s 2 servers dominating 1, but usually 1>2.

Doesn’t this give at least a hint of what the 2 should have been doing over Xmas?

Enough of the bullkitten about timezones. Anet should just make T1 & T2 international for the top 12 servers and give us more varied matchups.

As for VS (aka le troupeau) , they just crack me up

IMO a Staff would be more fitting to Ranger than GS, but yes , a few trick moves and poor damage.

nldixon.8514:

Nautika.5376:

Just hit 80 with my Ranger and I have no clue what I should be doing next. Any suggestions would be awesome.

Start by ignoring the Ranger forums trolls.

If you haven’t collected exotic gear yet, start by running dungeons or spending karma for the armor in Orr. Get weapons from dungeons or the BLTC.

If you prefer PvP you can start farming tokens in W3 and get your gear that way.

I personally prefer W3, but running dungeons is a much easier way to get the gear, IMO.

Running dungeons is a good way to get Cloth and heavy armor for your Ranger. NPC vend it and get what you need from BLT

Quarktastic.1027:

I think that all “balance suggestions” made by players are terrible. Most players aren’t game designers, and don’t know the first thing about properly balancing a class.

As for your suggestions, they would make the ranger abhorrently overpowered. This is usually what happens when people try to offer suggestions on how to fix or balance their favorite class.

Edit: I see you only mentioned bringing bow damage up to par with warrior weapon damage. This would completely invalidate the ranger’s other weapons.

The fact that balance suggestions have to be made at all suggests that game designers don’t know the first thing about balancing a class either, and this applies across the board to just about every MMO out there. Often a game will start off well and deteriorate with nerfs and buffs as the devs try to cater to a fickle fanbase.

Dante Dragonhand.2538:

Honestly with all the bugged traits, weak weapons, bugged projectiles, squishy pets, Ive kinda lost count. But I do know that animations are a huge downfall of ranger, I do love animations so dont get me wrong but when my bird swoops for 2-3 seconds instead of dpsing I lose alot of damage, when I go to use long ranged shot and it takes longer than needed and I have to roll, its a huge dps loss. Now if they made it so long ranged shot did the same damage 1-1000 range as the current max range damage, and then from 1001-1500 range it did 30% more then Id be happy with the cast speed of longbow.

They seem to have the physics back to front on this

One story told in medieval times was that an arrow fired from a long bow could penetrate four inches into oak. Recent tests have shown that this anecdote is true when the arrow is fired close up. From 200 metres, a longbow arrow penetrated over one inch of solid oak – more than sufficient power to penetrate the armour worn by soldiers. Plate armour gave more protection but could still be penetrated from 100 metres. The maximum range of a long bow was 400 metres but at this distance, it was far less effective.(from http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/longbow.htm)

Attack a zerg and there will always be at least 10 lame players who chase you.Sadly we dont have the speed of a thief or a 1000mph Elementalist, but disrupting and delaying the enemy in skirmish benefits the team as a whole.

Sounds good on paper, but can still be blocked.
I went 20,20,10,10,10 for a long while due to the mediocrity of the grandmaster traits.

giving this a run now http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmoc0m0zMowhgMMrhgMxGaa0oaRoamc8070z7kiQ7070M7kIV707kIV

Jay.3284:

Probably right. The programmers/devs have constantly shown huge faults and mistakes (Of course they are only human). But the disheartening part is they’ll know it’s a bug and just call it “Working as intended”.

INB4 fraction

Really?
!http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f18/Don_X/wai.png!

Nyx.8193:

Nope, but they are useless if ur computer is good enough, they are quite useful on much older rigs.

True , I have the original iobit version and it makes little if no difference

You could try running memtest (does Home Premium include it in F8 options? If not – http://www.memtest.org/ )

I had many crashes during Beta, and all repots suggested GPU issues. In fact it was a failing South Bridge on MB. Not saying that this is your problem, just that dumps BSOD codes (http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/tp/stop_error_list.htm) and crash reports dont always tell the whole truth.

Question is- what can your MB handle?
My rig evolved from a sempron x2 @2.4Ghz + gt 8800
upgraded CPU first , then MSI twin frozr GT450Hawk (OC edition as good as stock 540)
South bridge issue onAsus M4n78SE MB fooled me into returning GPU, so replaced with M5A97PRO and fitted 7870 GPU (that MB is Crossfire only, though I still prefer Nvidia for Open GL games)
Only original items are case and OS.

I’d say 3.0Ghz is at the lower end of spec requirements, but in making upgrades try to choose as future proof as possible components eg USB3 SATA 2 and a CPU with 4 core around 3.6GHz stock or better. 1 top end GPU will be better , and probably cheaper than 2 mid range SLI/Crossfire

Phenom ll x4 980 @4.1GHz only uses 70% max in GW2. 7870 GPU sees little change in FPS between min and max settings.
I’m sure the delayed renders in Wv3 are network/engine related.

undouble.1472:

It’s the “invulnerable” aspect of underwater combat that’s worst—————-That’s NOT something you find on land and it’s VERY difficult to deal with————-especially since THEY (the foes) can “Swim away faster than you” so THEY can be invulnerable, but YOU can’t!! (That’s NOT a game——-that’s only a question of “how fast can you die??”)

I’ve had Elementalists fleeing from my ranger underwater at about 75 knots. Explain that please.

Mouse targeting takes time (to find your cursor on screen) and probably gets confused with:-
1) Tab targeting (select 3rd nearest enemy)
2)Auto targeting (select some innocent creature at your flank)

What we need is an option to mark targets when not in group, and like in Aion a select targets target command.
Perhaps a yellow cross hair to distinguish from group leaders marks

PvP wise Longbow /Axe+torch will own just about everything combined with intelligent use of pet.

Wv3 Longbow for siege and shortbow in open battles

Khalous.7430:

Change eagle eye from increased longbow range and 5% dmg. to +15-17% damage, and bam, rangers would be in the same position as warriors.

…. but would then be overrun 12ms sooner because Rangers speed is simply too slow compared to all other classes.

Khalous.7430:

If you reduced the range of longbows, made melee weapons do fewer evades, I am sure that the devs would give you some love.

Spoken like a Mesmer sir!

Just need speed and damage on a par with that other scout class

……so thats the trade for all the aquatic buffs we got?

Well with Signet of the hunt +10% speed and +30% from trait it is still impossible to catch some classes in WvWvW. Insane imbalance or hacks I don’t know.
PvE wise anything is good, though my preference is Porcine (Knock down) and bird (conditions-)

I think it may be more appropriate to post here , so please excuse the double post from-https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/SFR-player-under-AB/first#post847640

This is an old issue on Mesmer I reported more than 2 months ago when I glitched below the surface on a PvE map (Bloodtide Coast IIRC). It was possible ther to swim below the land across the entire map and to target and hit mobs above, whilst remaining immune to damage from the legit surface. I assume that it is also possible to plant portals in this state.
A Nets failure to fix this leaves a serious exploitable bug still open in WvWvW.
(I play Wv3 on Ranger BTW)

This is an old issue on Mesmer I reported more than 2 months ago when I glitched below the surface on a PvE map (Bloodtide Coast IIRC). Testing the extent of the bug for the report I found it was possible to swim below the land across the entire map and to target and hit mobs above, whilst remaining immune to damage from the legit surface. I assume that it is also possible to plant portals in this state.

A Nets failure to fix this leaves a serious exploitable bug still open in WvWvW.
(I play Wv3 on Ranger BTW)

majoho.1089:

I’m seriously getting miffed at this point, the previous story for me was super bugged as well and now this one as well.
…..

I’m very underwhelmed with the testing on this storyline (and now I can’t even afford to repair my armor).

lol yeah after 2 attempts I did 3 more tries naked just to save on repairs.

In the briefing cutscene it says the Norn and Sylvari will guard the entrance, but nonetheless you get the cutscene about the ritual at the entrance.
The Agents despawn on death.

They follow if you go back to Trahearn…BUT you can clear the zerg at the narrow pass and your NPcs kamikaze on the abomination and adds!! then you get a cutscene about the ritual (which has not yet taken place since Trahearn gets KIA at entrance) .After cutscene your thrown back into the impossible to solo fight at entrance (since mobs respawn ).

Atre we doing something wrong here or is it indeed bugged?