Guild Wars 2

Ender.3508:

300 for the pants alone and you’re talking 100+ runs for one piece of armor. Might as well do the whole dungeon as it’s not that hard with a half decent group. I ran path 2 and 3 on my mesmer in lvl 80 greens and wiped once. If someone is really willing to grind that much then thats more of an accomplishment than actually completing arah, good for them.

I never said the dungeon was hard, but u must understand the definition of “hard” is relative to the ppl using it, so wat u find not hard might not apply to everyone else. If u ever paid attention to map chat at Cursed Shore, u would find that there are much more ppl lfg for arah farming then actually dungeon, this can only tell u one thing, that alot of ppl cant complete the dungeon.

And I really cant agree with u that grinding alot suppose to equal to some kind of accomplishment, at least that cant b true for dungeons, otherwise Anet wouldnt need to spend time designing all kind of different dungeon plays and jus make it all like event farming. There are things in this game that was meant for mindless grinding such as legendaries, but there suppose to b things that mindless grinding cant get u.

havoc.8569:

I just meant plenty of people have exploited Arah in the past, so seeing people with Arah armor doesn’t mean anything because you dont know how they got it. It’s not some prestige armor so TC should stop complaining as if it were.

I really dono wat kind exploit are there that u keep referring to for Arah? and if there are exploits in the past, can u tell me are these exploits stil in the game? if not then it already indicate Anet’s stand on the matter, in which case there is nothing wrong for me to warn them abt the current exploit.

and Im pretty close to 100% sure that the initial design of Anet is for Arah armor to b prestige or at least harder to get, otherwise why would they put giganticus in every path, which is the only hard thing abt this dungeon if u can even consider it “hard”.

havoc.8569:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

When the game first came out, I remember u could get shards from chest in Arah, obviously alot of ppl started jus farming the chest instead of finishing the full dungeon, and evenutally it was patched.

Somehow when Anet implemented the new dungeon reward system, they failed to realise a simple fact that ppl is gona farm shard the same way again if u allow champ and bosses to drop bags that contains shard.

This is really a bad thing cuz it deminishs the value of Arah armor and weapon value, Arah used to b a dungeon with some challenge and u wil need to work hard in order to get its armor set, but now every avarage joe can get it with ease as long as he or she put in the time for mindless grinding, it is really not fair for ppl who hav put in the efford to learn and beat the dungeon properly.

You mean people who have put in the effort to exploit the dungeon early? People were already decked out in Arah armor from those early shard runs. Sorry but having Arah armor doesn’t mean you’re 1337, it just means you exploited Arah instead of CoF as far as I’m concerned. Arah armor is right behind CoF armor in noob level.

Don know abt others, but I got my full Arah armor set and GS + underwater spear from proper runs, I hav even started to salvage Arah rare armors in order to get ectos since I hav nothing else to buy with extra tokens, and all of which I ran legitimately. I hav done all 4 paths and does not know any exploits for beating giganticus if there is any, I do Arah when I want some fun after mindless event farming.

When the game first came out, I remember u could get shards from chest in Arah, obviously alot of ppl started jus farming the chest instead of finishing the full dungeon, and evenutally it was patched.

Somehow when Anet implemented the new dungeon reward system, they failed to realise a simple fact that ppl is gona farm shard the same way again if u allow champ and bosses to drop bags that contains shard.

This is really a bad thing cuz it deminishs the value of Arah armor and weapon value, Arah used to b a dungeon with some challenge and u wil need to work hard in order to get its armor set, but now every avarage joe can get it with ease as long as he or she put in the time for mindless grinding, it is really not fair for ppl who hav put in the efford to learn and beat the dungeon properly.

Khio.9607:

MibuGenjuro.2365:

I don get it, in theory can the window version hav an affect on the lag?

No. Nor the GPU drivers or any other drivers or hardware.

Lag is network related, 42% TCP packets drop by anet servers is lag related.

Then I say its time Anet fire their current tech support team.

Started lagging since abt 2 hours ago, this time on a sunday at where I live is defintiely not internet peak hour, but it is GW2 peak hour, so this lag hav to b on server side, but why no response all these weeks?

We all paid for this game and it did not say only playable during certain hours of the day, so we are all entitled to play it whenever we feel like, sure if the server is down or maintance etc we all understand, but this constant lag during peak hour is jus unacceptable!!!

Khio.9607:

Pingplotter Default settings use standart ping request that are not always returned by all routers.

GW2 Map servers does not answer to ping request at all. I tried to run Pingplotter using TCP request the result is totaly different :

http://i50.tinypic.com/bff5ti.png

42% packet loss on the map server ( Southsun Cove Map, Fort Ranik Server )

When i sent that to them they told me ( really ) to install Windows 7 in dual boot with Windows 8 that is not officially supported, yes they did.

I don get it, in theory can the window version hav an affect on the lag?

Thx for all ur postive feedbacks, I really appreciate them, glad ur guys likes it. I’m no professional but do hope to become one someday, maybe even work at Anet if Im lucky enough, since I love their artworks better than any other gaming company atm.

Although these 2 characters does not come directly from the game, but I took alot of influence from GW2 in terms of look and feel, espeically from my favourite artist Kekai Kotaki’s work, hope ur guys wil like it

What really amazes me is the lack of response from Anet, I don expect the problem to b fixed over night, although it has been around for at least a week or 2, but how hard is it to jus let us know ur guys are either looking into it or working on it? I wouldve expected this kind of behaviour from Blizzard, but never from ur guys, seriously wat is going on?

this is really getting annoying, every evening it lags like hell, I did not pay for this game to get myself frustrated, anet plz fix ur prob asap.

Let me go into a bit more detail on wat Im experiencing.

Sometimes while in dungeon or in PvE, everyone would jus suddenly keep repeating their last action, for example ppl would keep running in one direction until hitting a wall, or keep swinging weapon at one place etc, few secs later everything teleports to where they actually are at.

I press the skill keys and only see the attack after 2 or 3 secs.

Sometime when Im running, I wil move forward then get teleported back then move forward again.

soistheman.7208:

I haven’t experienced any performance issue. I’m not a support guy, but maybe you can check following:

• Have you installed any application lately which may taking up causing taking up your PC’s resource such as CPU or memory? Check task manager —> Processes tab to see if any of application is taking too much resource.
• Maybe some application is scheduled to run at certain time such as anti-virus software. Check task scheduler to see what is and when they are scheduled to run.
• Maybe you got virus or some sort. Try to run full scan of your PC. These sometimes chock PC’s performance.
• I don’t know how you checked your internet speed, but depending on which tool you used to check internet connection, it maybe have not showed true connectivity. If you use tool like window’s Resource Monitor it shows connection with a graph, so that you can be certain you are getting connection constantly.
• How about other games? Just to make sure it’s not your video card going bad.

Thx for ur reply

I did not install any applications since launch, GW2 was the last software installed.

I don hav any schedule program running on the back, and this lag Im experiencing does not happen percisely to the clock, its more or less at prime time but sometimes I get lag at 11 pm too.

Virus wise my antivirus did not pick up anything, and it is up to date. And more importantly it does not lag all the time, only at certain periods, I would imagine if its caused by virus the effect should b quite constant.

I checked my internet by google “DSL speed test”, done it on 2 different sites where they send u a package and track the time, I also tested by physically downloading a huge file which I get 350 -450 kb/s, this speed should b more than enough to play GW2.

Other offline games are running fine, I don hav any other MMO to test, and like I said if it was my PC, it should lag all the time instead of only at certain periods.

Another thing, I can tell the difference between a performance lag and a connection lag, in WvW when there is a lot of ppl then I lag, but that lag is constant, while this lag im experiencing is not constant at all, it wil b fine for a few sec, then suddenly everything pauses for 3 – 4 secs, after which everything start fast forwarding and teleporting in front me, that definitely is not the result of dropping frame rate.

Ever since the new content patch, I hav been lagging like crazy, both in PvE and in dungeons at certain hours, this has not happened before the patch. During the new one time events, I thought the lag was jus caused by too many players at one place, but this lag is stil around after that event.

In the morning my games are jus fine, but come evenings and its close to unplayble, I get constant spikes of lag that cause things to stop moving for 3 or 4 secs then suddenly things fast forword and teleport around.

I know its not my PC or graphic setting since I don lag all the time, and Im almost certain its not my ISP since I did do DSL speed check many times during lag, and it has always been at around 5mb, I hav even tried to download things during lagging session, and can get constant speed of 350-450 kb/s, so if the prob is not on my end, would Anet plz hurry up and fix it, I do not want to buy a game that is unplayble half the times.

Nobody.4395:

I don’t know anything about pc stuff, but I must agree, when my party start qq about fps and lag I didn’t have any lag and my pfs stand still at 40fps in the worst parts of the event

The strange thing is that not everyone lags, I hav a friend who hav the exact same PC and same ISP and he doesnt lag while I do, and some players couldnt even log on during final event while others played jus fine, this also remind me that during the first week or 2 after launch, alot of ppl cant log in at all while others are playing jus fine, so to me it seems Anet server issue always jus affect a selective number of ppl, so while u don lag at all does not mean the server was functioning properly.

I think the OP should jus realise that not only kids play this game, and many of the players are actually working in IT or know a fair amount abt computers, the assumption that ppl who lag jus didnt configure their PC properly is a bit insulting, its like when calling IT department and they ask did u switch ur machine on?

Not only did I lag in main event, I lagged in Arah dungeon during the whole weekend, and on sunday I even lag in PvE on cursed shore which had like 4 ppl doing plinx, and come monday everything went back to normal, so tell me this is evidence that my PC couldnt handle it.

Or at least they never wil admit to it

Soja.5918:

If everyone could afford a better PC, then this problem wouldn’t exit.

But it does. It’s a little arrogant to respond to the problem with, “lol maybe you should have a better computer.”

FYI, I purpose built this computer to far exceed the minimum specs of modern games (indeed, that of GW2) and it STILL has issues in some cases. Slow/nonrendering dangers, lag spikes, what have you. Some things happen regardless of how beastly your rig is.

I really don think a better PC is gona fix the lag issue, as I stated above, Ive done the same dungeon countless times, and it only lagged last weekend, that should totally rule out PC’s role in all of this, it can only by internet, but after lagging really badly and cant play, I went out and tried to download some big files, got a speed of 250 kb/s, which kind of indicate that its not my internet either, can also watch youtube on 750 dpi without any lag, so there can only b one cause to this issue…

Jus explain this to me, how come Im lagging super badly even when doing Arah dungeon last weekend, with like only 5 ppl in the entire instance? I hav gotten more than 2500 tokens from that dungeon and never lagged like this before, and last night it didnt lag either, if the cause of lag is truly my PC, the lag should b constant no matter when I ran the dungeon.

Now nothing lags at all, both PvE and dungeon is perfectly fine, even further confirm the lag last weekend was due to server overload.

Well this kind of behavior is not unusal for GW2, dono if u remember, during the first week of launch, some ppl could not connect to server or log in, while others were able to play the game jus fine, so it kind of shows that the server has always only giv trouble to certain players and not others, exactly wat is the condition that caused these issues I do not know, obviously since I don work in Anet, but its appearnt to me that they hav not fixed the core issue of their server since launch, I heard there was also ppl last night that couldnt even log into the server, so yeah the treatment everyone get is not the same at all.

Also, I hav a friend who hav the exact same PC and use the same ISP, he was not lagging the way I do, it lags for him but playable.

Here is my previous post on lagging since sat https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dungeons-are-lagging-very-badly/first#post784601

Ofc I checked internet first, DSL speed test shows download speed of 5mb and upload of 500kb, tried downloading stuff and was getting speed of 250kb/s, so its definitely not my internet, as to computer, I can tell the difference between graphic lag and server lag, graphic lag don freeze screen for 4 sec then suddenly fast forward,

and the lag don jus accure on lost shore, it was the same for Aarah when there was jus 5 of us, and Ive had over 2500 arah tokens altogther, meaning I hav done it more times than i care to count, never ever lag like this, same apply to when I was doing PvE on cursed shore which had almsot no players at all, only 4 ppl at plinx, so its definitely not my PC or graphic setting either, the only thing I can think of is server side issue.

Its all cool and all that anet is looking into rewarding players that got dc before final boss died, but wat abt players that could not do the event due to massive lags that makes the game impossible to play?

I hav been reporting super lags since 2 days ago both on forum and twitter, my screen would freeze for 4 secs then everything fast forwards and repeat every few secs, I cant see wat Im hitting or where am going, happens both in dungeons and PvE, and I got no response from Anet as of yet, so the logical solution is to not play GW2 until the issue is fixed, which is already quite a frustration, but nothing when comparing to the disappointment when knowing what kind of loot I missed out.

I wouldve definitely played if the game was actually playable, sadly it wasnt, so wat abt ppl like us?

Jus came back and guess wat, everything stil lags, and there aint even any response to our issue, I don expect to get a fix now but at least let us know u looking into it, is it jus becuz only a small number of ppl are lagging, therefore its not gona b in ur top to-do list? As far as Im concerned everyone who paid should hav equal right to play this game.

What really upsets me is that not everyone is lagging, I hav a friend who use the same ISP and he does not lag at all, does that mean certain accounts are choosen to be lagged while others are more fortunate? Why must I lag when we all bought the game equally? and there aint even any official response so far, this is really disappointing.

Yeah this morning PvE was fine, logged in now and PvE is almost unplayable, would anet at least comment on this issue? I mean there has been server issues since launch, I thought anet should hav fixed the issue by now, but it seem to not b the case.

Seriously, Lost shore massive new contents plus free trial all in the same weekend? what are ur guys thinking? I care little abt the new content atm, I jus want the game to b playable first.

When I read in the patch note that the hit box bug is finally fixed, I was very excited, however when running AC today, I discovered that not only did the burrow hit box not get fixed, there is now a new bug that prevent war from meleeing the 2 fire spiting traps behind the spider boss, it is quite disappointing to say the least.

the funny thing is that 3 other members did not lag at all, so I kind of wonder does the server lag only affect certain accounts and not others?

Since this afternoon I’ve been getting terrible lags in dungeon, I wil move forward then suddenly Im back to the same spot then suddenly Im somewhere else, it also often freeze frame for 4 secs before everything is fast forwarded again, bascially its almost impossible to play porplerly, I had this experience in AC all 3 paths and Arah path 3, PvE seem to b playable, although sudden lag spike also happens.

I do not hav firewall, and my antivirus is the same one i hav been using since release, so I don think those are the causes, I also tested my DSL speed, which is at abt 5mb download and 500-1mb upload, tried to download a movie after dungeon, and was able to get 150kb/s, so I don think my internet is the issue here either, which gona lead me to believe its a problem at the server, if it is plz can u fix this soon?

jus updating on the issue, I am recieving some of the gold back now, and getting alot of items that I did not order, Im pretty sure the lost gold is gona all b returned evenutally, but Im not sure wat to do with the extra stacks of items, as the system is gona charge 15% fee for reselling it, so might b making losses here.

actuallly down to 94 silver atm and maybe stil counting

well few mins ago I was trying to place a buy order, the button didnt respond, so I pressed it a few times, then suddenly I start to loose gold, then i realised that each time i pressed the buy order button an order went through, so I immediately started to cancel all those orders, however no gold returned, Im down from 42 gold to 4 gold now, seriously plz fix this soon.

Apperantly the skill point challenge in the frog village near Stychs in Mount Maelstrom was working yesterday morning, but when I got there in the event, it dissappeared.

I hope this get fixed soon as it is very annoying to not be able to complete the map becuz of a bugged out skill point, revisiting the area is also kind of inconvient since traveling do cost quite a bit too.