Guild Wars 2

I simply don’t understand why third party hack programs can’t be blocked by the client. I’m no programmer but why can’t a simple detector be put into the client that would prevent log in when such programs are present. Can’t Anet programmers reverse engineer the most common ones used to date . They’re easy to find by just Googleing GW2 hacks cheats and exploits .Isn’t it in Anets best interest on a financial level to protect their customers from cheaters.

A lot of server imbalance happened after the introduction to transfers. Don’t get me wrong transfers can be a good thing . But I think the one week cool down is to short. I would suggest at least a 30 day cool down or even a exponential cool down based on the number of transfers. Just a thought.

It’s especially frustrating for rangers because the pet is constantly being aggro-ed by NPC’s and because it tends to lag behind so much becomes an easy target by opponents again causing a disadvantage to escape.

I want a teragriff…..TERAGRIFF!!!

Entangle is block-able "Despite the tooltip, the initial attack of skill can be blocked, and if it is blocked, the vines won’t be spawned on the blocking foe " Wiki

Fury is almost useless unless your crit chance is over 40 – 50 % which makes rangers to glassy .So having all those fury boosts makes no sense unless you like running back to your team all day.

Ranger worked well needing only a few tweaks with the pet before he trait line change.
Spirits need mobility to make them viable.Reduced the recharge on spike trap by 10 seconds.Fix barrage so it has an equivalent radius as meteor storm has Fix Entangle so it entangles right like all the other immobilize skills other classes have. Fix the sword so you can withdraw when you need to .Fix Heal as one so it doesn’t keep failing in a fight.
Finally, DITCH the druid and give the ranger a specialization as aggressive as the other classes.

I find the biggest problem with Stability is it doesn’t work with immobilize which is clearly by definition a control effect.Its set as a condition but should be a control effect.
It’s way over used in WvW to the point that a person can be locked down indefinitely. Even though it says only 3 seconds it gets re stacked every 3 seconds because of the massive immobilize bombs.No body can carry that amount of stability or condition removal to counter it.

This doesn’t occur during high latency events ..It just happens at random.
I’m not a programmer but it seems to be a conflict occurring with ntdll.dll
I used the System File Checker tool (SFC.exe) and found no corrupted files in Windows 10.

Not sure if this is the right place.I have been getting crashes often with the 64 bit client but no bug report gets sent back to ANET.So here,s what I get in the windows logs.Not really sure if will help figure the problem out.

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 1/14/2016 3:00:46 AM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Hal9000V2
Description:
Faulting application name: Gw2-64.exe, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0×5696ccbb
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.10586.20, time stamp: 0×56540c3b
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0×00000000000ee00c
Faulting process id: 0×1b04
Faulting application start time: 0×01d14e93e8c4fefa
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 716e6174-aacc-4f6d-b594-1706903264bd
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event”>
<System>
<Provider Name=“Application Error” />
<EventID Qualifiers=“0”>1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0×80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime=“2016-01-14T10:00:46.093773800Z” />
<EventRecordID>1403</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Hal9000V2</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Gw2-64.exe</Data>
<Data>1.0.0.1</Data>
<Data>5696ccbb</Data>
<Data>ntdll.dll</Data>
<Data>10.0.10586.20</Data>
<Data>56540c3b</Data>
<Data>c0000374</Data>
<Data>00000000000ee00c</Data>
<Data>1b04</Data>
<Data>01d14e93e8c4fefa</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll</Data>
<Data>716e6174-aacc-4f6d-b594-1706903264bd</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Faulting application name: Gw2-64.exe, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0×569827ea
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.10586.20, time stamp: 0×56540c3b
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0×00000000000ee00c
Faulting process id: 0×94c
Faulting application start time: 0×01d151a65e1b40c9
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 24fb91ce-a9e8-4ecd-af58-f9f527023a31
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

I have no idea what all this means

The ranger has never been addressed properly. Aside from a few damage boosts A year ago really nothing has been done to balance the ranger with other classes. One of the arguments Ive heard from time to time is "Oh but you have a pet that doubles your abilities "Which is a Crok! The pet is unpredictable and virtually uncontrollable..It lags behind so far that anyone can hold you in combat indefinitely just by targeting the pet.Also as mentioned before slow to react when downed . Unlike Mesmer clones or necro minions ,pets can’t climb walls (used to in the first year)one would think that at the very least spiders could climb walls.
Aside from lick wounds being a joke thunder clap ,A one second daze,isn’t nearly balanced with the other classes considering the 5-6 seconds it takes to find,chase after,or run back to those downed player classes that use the #2 or 3 downed skills.
Personally if Anet believed that people a wanted support class then they should have brought back the monk.Considering the other specializations brought in heavier damage than the core classes the druid turned out to be a joke and an insult .Argue all you wish the druid is a joke and an insult to the ranger class.

Something you could try is a repair on your data file.Works for me when resetting routers and modems doesn’t seem to help.
In your hard drive Example “Local Disk (C:)” find the file “Program Files (X86)” Find the file “Guild Wars 2”in their create a sort cut of GW2 and/or GW2-64.Right click short cut and chose properties. In the Target Box at the end of line (do not delete line) add
[space] then -repair .Apply and run short cut.This may take a few minutes so don’t be alarmed is it seems that nothing is happening just let it run.
Sometimes this works for me.

Oh ok thanks .I’m still trying to get a grasp on most of the new guild content.

Have Guild Promoters been removed from game?I’m not sure if I’m looking in the right places but they aren’t where they should be according to the wiki.

Just an idea I had that may fix the problems with population balances ,massive karma trains ,lack of value to server home lands ,latency issues associated with massive zergs,and the disinterest in WvW points (PPT).

Population of any one server in EBG or opposing Border lands is calculated by how much of your own borderland is secure. I would like to use hypothetical numbers for the sake of simplification of percentages.
Lets say each server is allotted 100 people in their own border land,100 people in EBG and 100 in each opposing border land making a total of 400 people from each sever.
Again these are hypothetical numbers.If your sever holds 100 % of your own home border land then your server can have 100 % your allotted population in EBG and opposing border lands.If your server only holds say 50 % of your own border land then the allotted population from your server drops to 50 % in EBG and opposing border lands.Your server is always allowed the maximum number of your own people in your home border land at all times. This would make holding home borderlands vital to your servers success. Each server would try to gain an advantage by trying to limit the other servers population in their own border land and EBG.
Ok now how do you get people out of EBG or opposing border lands when they’ve managed to get max population but their home land is not 100 % secure.Simple if you die or waypoint you are transferred to your home border land if your servers is over populated in EBG or opposing lands base on holdings calculated in your own homeland.For example Server X has 100 people in ebg but only hold 50 % of their homeland as players die or waypoint in other areas they are transferred automatically to home land until their population matches their calculated holdings at home.
What if the massive zerg wont die?Server that has an imbalance base on home security takes an penalty on PPT, WE,EXP,gold drop,and karma that is equal to the percentage of over population.For example Server X holds only 50% of their homeland but has 100% population in EBG.Any players from sever X in EGB takes a penalty of Minus 50% for PPT ,WE,EXP,Gold drop and karma for as long as the imbalance exists.This would force people to move back to homeland to secure their own holdings.
I believe this would spread out the massive zerging which would fix latency issues and make homelands very valuable.
Like in all battles you can’t win a war if your homeland isn’t secure.

Tell me what you think.

Three years building a character with fully ascended gear. All the Real money spent on gems because I loved the Ranger so much.Three years trying and experimenting with a vast quantity of builds for maximum damage and survival.Three years putting up with the constant ranger hate from guilds and parties.
Three years only to have my main character neutered , Railroading it into a full support druid. Handed builds by guilds where the only thing I can do is wipe other peoples back sides healing ,buffing,and clearing conditions. OH-BOY!!
No benefits in running a full support druid because drops are based on the kills of opponents.Normally with my ranger I would have to empty inventory of 100 slots 2,3 even 4 times a night during WvW raids.Not anymore!! WvW experience drops off to just the captures.
Apparently I’m supposed to have fun with that?
Such a waste of a class.

You can get a ping to the specific area server your on by typing /ip in the chat you get an ip number for example I get 64.25.33.63:0 for lions arch>It may or may not be the same.Just omit the colon and last digit in your ping or tracert command line test.
Sometimes doing a repair on the GW2 dat file helps.You can do that by creating a short cut in the GW2 folder of the GW2 application.Open properties of shortcut and in target box add a space then -repair.so it looks like “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair .Run that.It may take around 10-20 minutes to complete.

good luck

Like any game of war if your going to stick to one common Meta people will find its weakness and your going to get wreaked .Change your game ,evolve your tactics.I ‘m a ranger mostly and found zerker ran its course.Now I run sword torch trapper.Its hilarious watching meta players dissolve with burn damage . Next week or maybe next month I’ll try something else.Remember PvP and WvW are team orientated so try some of the condi removal from allies ,theirs lots of them.

Wished their was a DVD.
I’m looking forward to the expansion.But not looking forward to the download.Looking back to the start of GW2 it took me 3 days to download the remaining dat file after install.I have a very limited bandwidth.Just hope I don’t develop an anxiety attack during download.

OMG! You take one aspect of the game (PvP) and generalize that the whole game is tiring and boring .Theirs more to the game than just PvP .

I don’t believe the ranger requires a lot of rework.
But the biggest problem is healing in combat,always has.The pet skills are near useless because the range is way to low to have an effect .F2 on fern hound is alright as long as you can keep the thing near you on avoid combat . Unfortunately the pet will run off to attack something if you not holding it back.Harmonic cry won’t work in avoid combat and is always to far out of range in guard mode .Unless you run a healing build. Signet of the Wild is pointless to waste a utility slot on since the stability changes. You can run a healing build if you like to run around tickling people with a feather.There are no traits for direct healing on a ranger.The only class without.Call of the wild blast finisher doesn’t heal you only allies.Rejuvenation and Windborne notes gives minimal health renewal unless again you run a healing build.I wont waste any time talking about Spirit of Nature or any spirits for that matter.
The down skill Thunder Clap needs a longer duration of daze to be effective.Since other classes can stealth or move giving time to regen while people chase you around.
Theirs no trait for retaliation on a ranger.One would think that at least signet of stone would have that.Whirling defense is hopeless because you cant move while using it.
Mobility and stability has been greatly effected since the nerfing of Rampage as One.In my opinion I think the whole stability change is greatly unbalanced.
Lastly being a very minor issue I’d like to see the sword skills changed around so pounce is first.I mean really who pounces on something your already in slashing range of.

Does this mean I can get back to Tarnished Coast?

Your right I never noticed that before .For example my Ice drake has 39385 health in Silverwastes but drops to 22975 in WvW. Also noticed a slight difference in character health (maybe a hundred points) but not that extreme.If (as I understand ) the pet is an extension to the ranger then that is yet another disadvantage to chalk up. Nice call on that. But I’m curious to know if that also applies to clones and minions.Just a thought.

WvW as I see it is getting boring .And its not that their isn’t lots to do and fights aren’t fun. What I find is your hard pressed to find a guild that does WvW and not make it a freaking job to be there.They want this build over that build.They want 100 % rep when its quite obvious that a person can belong 5 guilds.They want you to be on the spot at a specific time most of the week.They do it for the bags that drop when you can do better in PvE.Seems most of the time I’m just there to stroke someones ego looking for GvG fights non stop.They don’t want to do any PvE ,dungeons,world bosses as a guild.WvW is tiring with the massive blogs and ganking.
Admittedly I not a great player and I don’t do well on my own in WvW.But why not try mixing it up a bit.I have a job already and don’t need one here.I play this for the fun of it despite my short comings as a player.

I want a pet Teragriff!!!

I apologize for the error in wording.I was never any good at composition.I am from Ehmry bay I had observed another server guild.I didn’t want to single out any one group of people because upon reading other complaints this an isn’t isolated case.

Ran into a guild in Ehmry Bay where every player was exploiting this bug. It was quite obvious that they knew what they were doing .They were trampling everyone in their path and couldn’t be defeated . Now according to the rules this sort of behavior (" intentional exploitation of a bug for personal gain") is unacceptable .What is Anet planning on doing about this.

And it seems that some people are knowingly using those bugs to exploit.

Golem Rush!! He He He ..this is going to be fun and hilarious.

I’ll give that a try.Maybe the lag and disconnects are coincidental.

I blacked out names

See it from time to time around around peoples characters but not around other in same area. An opaque cube around the character yet the toon is not showing a buff ,boon or condition .Seems to be a lot in WvW.Call me paranoid but I’d like to know what it is because sometimes when theirs a lot them around I lag out really bad and even lose connection .Not posting attachments at this time because I don’t want to raise a big issue about nothing.

This has probably be asked before but I was wondering if theirs any plans to open the ploymock arena.

This type of upgrading is very similar to what happens in SilverWastes. Based on that ,it seems that Anet wants to spit up the massive zergs into smaller groups that have to defend supply lines,camps and towers.It works in Silverwastes quite well .If ths is the case I welcome the change.I personally have gotten bored of the zerging that goes on in WvW now. But I guess we’ll see.

The spying isn’t going away any time soon.Plain and simple it’s a fact of war.What does bother me with multi-server guilds is the dueling performed on the map instead of where they should be ,Obsidian sanctum.The worst part is when these guilds use cheap tactics to gank unawares players just trying to get back to their team.Experienced this first hand where they would be dueling and suddenly the opposing servers with the same guild tags would gank me while the one’s in the friend server (with the same tags as the others) would stand their watching.That’s as cheap as it gets.And as far as I’m concerned worse than spying .This is why I don’t WvW much anymore ,Hacking ,Exploits,and Cheap tactics have ruined the game and the fun.

Appeal, Better looking armor, maybe the X gene ,latent homophobia/or homosexuality ,I get off on it,I get along better with the gals,could be I just like seeing a female beat the crap out some dude that deserves it.Really makes no difference because I was under the impression that this wasn’t the place to pick up people.I do that the old fashion way..in bars.

4273 hours over 981 days and no precursor ,let alone a chance at the beta test.
Frustrated ? Of course I am.But its just a game not the end of the world.If theirs a “conspiracy” who cares ,It’s just a game.
Take a break,grow a beard,draw flies.Come back in a week.because its not worth anyones mental health to worry or care about.It’s just a game.

From what I understand this error is a packet loss error.If you know what packets are, the lagg is caused by the send and resend of missing or erroneous packets between your computer and NCsoft servers.This can also cause rubber banding because your computer and the server become out of sync. If things get to far out of sync then you’ll be disconnected.This is to prevent hacking.Not of course saying that your hacking ,its just that the servers don’t know the difference.
I believe according to other references to the lagg issue Anet is addressing this issue.As for me I’m just going wait and see how things progress.

I’ve been wrecking PC components for some time.If anyone is a disaster around technology that would be me.But over the years I found that its best to stick to reputable manufacturers. I found some of the cheaper brands tend to overclock lower end cards and call them something better.As for PSU’s you can’t have to much overhead on watts.Just enough ,I find ,is not good enough because the equipment draws as much power as it needs and if the watts aren’t their, things will overheat..As for cooling your system you need to remember Heat Rises. Unfortunately most cases have front to back air flow which I never understood.So I like to have a much top exit as I can for airflow even if I have to make it myself.Plus larger fans <bigger the better because you don’t need as many to move air and they’re not as noisy.
So now as long as I don’t mess around to much My builds are lasting years instead of months. Knock on wood.

Know one is pointing a gun to your head telling you to put skins on your Armour or weapons .If you don’t like them then don’t wear them. But what would be cool is maybe a competition for game players to submit skin designs.I’m not much of a creative artist but would think it might be fun to see what people come up with.

I had problems with skill lagg ,disconnects ,and login issues.This is what I did. If you cant login at all you can use a program called Pingplotter or (I prefer) the Command line to find where your issue may be . First you need to know something about packet loss.Think of your connection like ships carrying containers.You send ships with so many containers and they send back ships with so many containers.Sometimes containers get lost and you need to resend ships to correct the error.If to many errors occur it takes longer to send and resend over and over you get lag or it just disconnects.
Now here’s the fun part.In your Guild wars 2 chat box type /ip a number will come up configured like ...:* that is the IP number of the server your in now.You only need the first 4 numbers ignore the colon and last number.Bring up command line in administrator mod.Right click on icon and click Run as administrator.In the command console type pathping (a space)the the 4 digit IP (For example pathping 64.25.38.138) press enter.Give it some time until it finishes.You get something that looks like this.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
© 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>pathping 64.25.38.138

Tracing route to 64.25.38-138.ncsoft.com [64.25.38.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 your computer [an IP #]
1 an IP #
2 an IP #
I’m not showing you my IP addresses for obvious reasons
13 ncsoft-ic-307708-dls-b21.c.telia.net.10.115.62.in-addr.arpa [62.115.10.106]

14 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]
15 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.26]
16 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
17 64.25.38-138.ncsoft.com [64.25.38.138]

Computing statistics for 425 seconds…

Pinging is not hacking it just gives you information on you connection.
I gave you the NCsoft address’s .If some hacker messes with those its their funeral.

after a few minutes you should get something that looks like this:

Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 your computer[an IP #]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 5ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% [an IP #]
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 15ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% [an IP #]
0/ 100 = 0% |
3 15ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1%
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 14ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1%
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 17ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1%
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 26ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0%
0/ 100 = 0% |
7 31ms 2/ 100 = 2% 2/ 100 = 2%
0/ 100 = 0% |
8 26ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1%
0/ 100 = 0% |
9 38ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0%
0/ 100 = 0% |
10 56ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0%
0/ 100 = 0% |
11 55ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1%
0/ 100 = 0% |
12 78ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1%
0/ 100 = 0% |
13 —- 0/ 100 =0% 0/ 100 =0% ncsoft-ic-307708-dls-b21.c.telia.n
et.10.115.62.in-addr.arpa [62.115.10.106]
0/ 100 = 0% |
14 78ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]

0/ 100 = 0% |
15 —- 0/ 100 =0% 0/ 100 =0% 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.2
6]
0/ 100 = 0% |
16 —- 0/ 100 =0% 0/ 100 =0% 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.8
2]
0/ 100 = 0% |
17 78ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.25.38-138.ncsoft.com [64.25.38.
138]

Trace complete.
You may have more or less hops,mine is 17 hops normally
This is an awesome connection some packet loss is normal.If you get more than 10 % packet loss you might experience connection problems.
Now the boring part.What I did was pathping each individual hop this might take a while.Where you start getting a high packet loss is generally where the problem is.
Supply any info you’ve acquired to your provider and/or Guilds Wars 2 support.Remember NCsoft can only deal with NCsoft servers.Your Provider can inquire about the others.

I hope this helps

Just thought it might be easier ,especially for accounts that have more than the usual number of characters,to have the crafting disciplines listed for each character on log in screen.Sometimes I can’t remember who can do what and find myself going from character to character to find the discipline I need.

Has this new build have anything to do with the download client flashing or flickering really fast"connection error retrying " ?

I think many just need to change they’er gameplay and stop whinning about one class or another.I’ve been playing ranger for quite some time and its allways the same when teams are made in WvW.“We Don’t want rangers in our group” or the ranger is allways the last one picked up for teams.Even as far as not wanting rangers in guilds.Well their you go, no rangers to take care of the rangers on the other team, life sucks get a helmet.As for me I’m going to continue picking of other people at long range because your group hasn’t adopted a balanced aproach to counter with say…Another Ranger.

I find it unfortunate that people beleive their is an unecessary amout of time to be devoted to finding materials an crafting .I spent 6 years playing GW1 and still haven’t totally “finished”.But thats what I like about this game is its not something you can do in a weekend.This is a game you need to spend months or even years playing to get your characters where you want then.I’ve played GW2 from the begining and still haven’t had a precursor drop but I keep trying .For the folks that find it to dificult or boring because of the lack of instant gratification, you can allways play Tic-Ta-Toe.

I think what I’m seeing here Is people feel theirs no personal benefit to playing WvW because they’ve missed one of the basic points.Having a high score in WvW has an effect to your whole sever which includes crafting,gathering,gold drop.exp,heath,ect.
and really when it comes to fighting blobs its best to fight a blob with a blob.If you want changes to your WvW server you and everyone playing needs to get involved and play.

MMO’s are meant to be enjoyed over very long periods of time.For instance I played Guild wars for 5 years perfecting just one toon .Based on what I’ve encountered in GW2 this might take a bit longer . Never expect instant gratification you’ll be disappointed.