Guild Wars 2

jebro.6370:

One thing that is important as we move on into the area of cash tournies and being more visible is respect.

That is to respect opinions of our players and the communities within spvp.

Personally I am not about to stream/cast on a game where I do not have permission from the players to stream it. It isn’t a rule, its a courtesy and isn’t just there to provide the stream but to give us insight for future official streams and tournies.

Sincerely, such answers are a joke.

team q is effectively a “ranked game” and, as such, there’s NO POSSIBLE WAY for a team to decide if it should be streamed or not.

It’s just like a soccer team denying TVs to broadcast their matches, it’s PURE RIDICOLOUSNESS and you’re part of this ridicolousness.

There’s no lack of respect in it, it’s just childish behaviour by people who have no power to decide, and are able to just cuz you shoutcasters are acting spineless.

If they don’t want to get streamed, custom arenas and scrimmes are available, otherwise they can simply not play, other people will take their places cuz sports ( and e-sports too) don’t need this kind of people.

This is definitively another reason to implement permanent decay, so such pitiful human beings can be slowly cut off from the game.

ROFL.

Terrorsquad.2349:

Feirlista Xv.1425:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Skype, for ESL admin stuff. Though, only for chat and no video thingy.
But I had skype on pc quite long.. I did downlaod the desktop version, but the problem was already there ebfore I dl’d desktop version.

Windows 8 btw.

There’s your problem shut down Skype and see if your issues goes away. Skype was never designed for gaming, it sucks, get TeamSpeak3 or Ventrilo if you need in game VoIP.

Skype is always turned off when I play GW2. I onyluse it for ESL Admin meanings, when I don’t rly play the game. And I do use TS3 for tpvp and playing the game

I re-installed the game and the problem is still there.
It’s like every few seconds the screen stutters..

again, they’re aware of the issue, point is they have no idea how to fix it ( since last patch totally broke the game for MANY of us) and are afraid to say it cuz arrogance.

It’s already been almost a month and nothing changed.

If i was more into “seerious e-spathz” and couldn’t train for ToG cuz of their sucky coding i could have pressed charge against aNet.

WHAT ABOUT AN UPDATE ?

at least you have only lags, i’ve also fps dropping to 5-10 and STAYING to 5-10 for hours.

How am i gonna be e- famous if i can’t play ? MOM TELL EM

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

If you’re playing with everything on max, try tuning off vertical sync.

Lower each graphical field and try to isolate which one(s) is causing the lag.

Check any recent driver update.

Already tried, I’ll gain 10 fps at best from max setting to lowest settings, going from 10 to 20.

Drivers are up to date.

It’s not on my end and it’s already been proved by all the tests i’ve done, i just want to know if there’re others experiencing this issue so we can rage altogheter.

Cynz.9437:

do you have sound issue by chance? it happend to me when sound bugs out and have to restart the game

i ’ve sound issues and strange skill lag all togheter whenever the game decides to suck and goes to 10-20 fps.

It doesn’t matter how many time i restart the game/system, it won’t change.

Covis.6037:

its you not the game.

yes it is.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-Issue-with-the-latest-patch-merged/page/4#post4451019

I can’t play anymore, it used to happen at random times now it doesn’t matter what time i log in it will always be 10-20 fps.

i7 2600 sandy bridge, amd 6970 and i’ve always played the game at maxed out settings till september patch, since then there are times when i can barely move.

I already lost and made my mates lose too many games, time to fix your kittening game.

inb4 morons:

No overheating, no throttling, updated bios and gpu drivers.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-Issue-with-the-latest-patch-merged/page/4#post4451019
it’s been almost a month and they have literally no idea what to do.
Anet coding is a joke.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-Issue-with-the-latest-patch-merged/page/4#post4451019

it’s been almost a month and they have literally no idea what to do.

Anet coding is a joke.

This must be a joke.

Will we wait till next feature patch to have the game we PAYED FOR fixed ?

IT’S ALREADY THE END OF THE MONTH.

duckideva.6358:

Ok, so…tech support, bless their overworked hearts, after a series of things, got me to download Speccy from Piriform. While it was running, I launched GW2, and my core CPU temp shot up to 102c. As anyone who knows hardware knows, this temp is well outside the normal range, and well into the Kill Your Hardware range.

So, I disassembled my box, took the heat sink off, blew it out, checked the thermal compound, reseated the cpu and the heatsink, put the system back together, turned it on.

Normal operating temps are around 30-35c, which is where they belong for this cpu. (Intel i5 3570k, 3.4g, Ivy Bridge 22nm).

1.) Open GW2 Launcher – raises the temp to 50c.

2.) Click Play, which causes the game to begin load, and spins up two instances of Coherent UI. Temp goes to 65c instantly, well before any graphics have loaded.

3. Temp stabilizes at around 70, even in full wvw zerg.

Thus, my framerate issues were caused by my CPU overheating, and throttling the system. And while some of my problems were caused by dust in my heat sink; the bigger issue here is that the Coherent code they’re using for the Gem Store is a CPU hog, on top of an already cpu intensive game.

This version of the game could kill people’s CPUs. Anyone who is having these framerate issues should download Speccy and look at your CPU temps. If your temps are outside of the range for your CPU, first try blowing out your system, and see if that helps, but if it doesn’t, you may want to sideline this game until they patch again.

For the record, no CPU should be running hotter than 80-85c. Anything over 90 and you are looking at damaging the chip. Just the two weeks of trying to figure out this problem have probably cost me a new chip, because chip failure after running at those temps is almost a guarantee.

I’ve an i7 2600 sandy bridge, normal temp when playing gw2 is around 60 ° ( pretty normal for my cpu) and cpu running at about 3ghz.

No throttling, no overheating, cpu is not even working at full force.

This both with smooth gameplay and fps dropping to 5-15.

I even tried shutting down coherent ui while playing, nothing changed.

It’s something on their end, 100%.

Altough i can agree with you, current patch is way more intensive on cpu side.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Keksmuffin.1450:

Dunno if Khylo would be the only map in this game I would agree but on other maps the mobility is not that big of a factor.

The stealth and the fact that they can 2v1 everything in seconds is annoying but on the other side when you only go for two points they are either forced to teamfight with 2 squishies or to let one of their squishies watch close, which usually isn’t the best idea.

It is by far the worst on khylo, but my point stands for other maps too. Too much mobility/burst. Really hard to play a necro in a bunker comp vs thief/mesmer comp. Just get farmed all game.

It’s obvious you get farmed, teef-mes can outnumber easily and if you play nec on a bunker-cele comp you’ll be the n.1 target.

Call your ele/war ( ele better) to rotate back and play on 2 points, call target on D/P teef ( if D/P) or mes if thief is S/D and rofl at them.

Playing nec is hard against thief-mes but it’s usually downright fault of bad rotations on your team part if u get farmed all match.

Unless you’re always playing on khylo, thief-mes is very easily countered right now.

just so you know, whenever i experience the fps drop issue i also lag a lot while my ping is at 10 ms.

Anet this is not bearable anymore, it’s been almost a month right now and still nothing.

Fix your kitten game dear god.

Ashley Segovia.8276:

Hey everyone,

I appreciate the wealth of info that you’ve all provided and rest assured, we’re still hammering away at this issue though we can’t say for certain when we will have a fix rolled out as these types of issues can often be very difficult to repro in house.

That said, we’re still investigating the issue but in the mean time, if you haven’t already, I’d advise turning on Vertical Sync or setting the Frame Limiter to 60 FPS as this does appear help (at least for some).

I’m sorry I don’t have more news to provide at the moment though I would advise checking back with this thread for more updates on the issue.

How can it be possible that every kitten patch you screw something up ?

The FPS issue is infuriating, not only we have to challenge everyday cardboard servers and disconnects all over, now not even having a good rig will help from your poor coding.

Anet, it’s UNACCEPTABLE that such an urgent and widespread issue is still here after TWO WEEKS from the patch that OBVIOUSLY broke the game.

I’m astounished.

Update:

i checked my cores temp and i got the fps drop is caused by a huge overheating of my cpu ( which is clean and dust-free with a very powerful freezing device).

Since i’ve an intel i7 with 4.5ghz power it’s quite obvious something went wrong with latest patch coding.

Playing the game could cause damage to our rigs, wow.

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sinject.4607:

Arganthium.5638:

Mrbig.8019:

Booms.2594:

And nerfig s/d thieves one of the few classes that could outplay them helped so much with balance

S/D was totally out of control, nerfing it was a good thing.

Point is celestial shouldn’t even exist.

S/D was out of control but I felt they mishandled nerfing it, a nerf to PoInertia and/or a nerf to Larcenous Strike’s damage coefficient would have handled the situation better IMO.

if s/d was “out of control” most top tier builds for other professions are also “out of control”. it was fine how it was: it competed, s/d didn’t dominate or come anything close to it.

S/D totally removed from play any other zerker build.

Mes is now a lot more viable than before, and probably the best zerker prof right now, still it can lose to a lot of other zerker builds without totally countering them.

Zerkers are kinda balanced right now, point is cele proffs are not.

Ashley Segovia.8276:

Submitting a ticket is the best way for us to collect this information from players, but on top of the information requested by Gaile, it would be incredibly helpful to get system information as well: OS, CPU, GPU, RAM, Mobo, and whatever else you feel like sharing. It would also be helpful to know what your FPS was originally, and what you’re seeing now, or if there is anything in particular that causes these FPS drops or if they’re consistently low.

Remember, the more information that you’re able to provide the more helpful this will be to us in investigating this issue.

After 2 weeks you’re still “investigating” while the game is unplayable for us.

Wow..

Chaith.8256:

My point is that if you’re in tears about how hard the game is for you now that there are Cele builds that you can’t beat, just remember, you weren’t beating these players when they were on Soldiers, or Rabid either. Sorry mate, but it’s the truth.

ROFL that’s absolutely not true.

First of all

- rabid engi is a way easier target in team fights

- cele war is MASSIVELY stronger than soldier one, especially A/S war, i have no idea what you’re talking about.

Celestial amulet needs to go, period.

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Frenk.5917:

Well, I think it’s not that bad: finally, after 2 years, EVERY class has a potential in SPVP.

what ? i see only engies-eles-wars and a necro here and there.

3 meta proffs and 1 semi viable.

the rest sucks and even if you play teef-mes ( kinda like the only way to beat cele comps without running a better cele comp) 1 single mistake and you get snowballed.

Are we playing the same game or not ?

Chaith.8256:

If a Warrior traded his Cele amulet in for a Soldier’s Amulet.. I’m not exactly sure what you expect would change.

If an Engineer traded his Cele amulet in for a Rabid Amulet.. they still kick kitten . Lots of people still prefer Rabid to Cele.

If an Elementalist traded his Cele amulet in for ….. any other amulet, the Ele would be quite nerfed, yes.

(Drake’s Breath is the problem)

Engi on rabid loses survivability, A LOT.

And CCs.

An engi on P/S is a totally different beast than a rifle one: no decaps, no blowout on dead bodies, less condi resistance cuz forced to take condi dmg runes etc…

Saying it won’t matter is silly and u know it.

War on soldier will deal way less damage with burning and bleeds and torment just dodge eartshacker/eviscerate and they go back sucking like they should.

Currently if you die against a war 80% of damage log is burning, then torment, then bleeds then whatever else.

Totally fine, don’t u think ?

The game sux balls right now and it’s all thx to celestial, both on high end and low end ( where there’re also turret engies, totlly gamebreaking).

Wow, what a nice game we have.

xehn.3420:

I thought you were done with this game. How many of these threads are you going to create.

Nobody asked for your opinion if you’re not interested.

Game sux, can’t go nor in team q neither in solo q without facing engies-wars-eles on celestial.

Do something

in my opinion my kitten , this is a fact not an opinion

Levis.6137:

Geiir.7603:

Celestial is not the problem, strength runes and might in general are.

Strengh rune is really good but not overpowered i think (anyway the +7% dps got nerved), in EU most warriors are now playing ‘hoelbrak’ instead and staff eles ‘pirate rune’.

The real problem is Celestial Amulet on warriors, engis and eles, combined with weaponswap-signets. /doom, geomancy, intelligence
Way to much condition damage if you combine all these things with burning.

greets,

kayun

Edit: the +condi dmg stat from celestial amulet should be removed

this

might stacking is a legit tactic but thx to celestial condi damage skyrockets and basically all profession with strong power+condi damage benefit the most.

removing condi damage would be a choice but wouldn’t fix the “boringness” due to sustain being too high.

But that would be a start.

Booms.2594:

And nerfig s/d thieves one of the few classes that could outplay them helped so much with balance

S/D was totally out of control, nerfing it was a good thing.

Point is celestial shouldn’t even exist.

are you joking ?

new patch and nothing has been fixed ?

no anet this is not funny and we ain’t laughing at all.

i updated amd drivers and catalyst, now i’ve 5 fps.

This on a 4.5 ghz cpu and an AMD 6970 gpu.

Wow anet, just wow.

still nothing ? NOTHING AT ALL ?

The game is boring.

Celestial totally killed the game.

i see no reason to log anymore.

Never had any problem playing the game at 60+ fps with max settings, now suddenly i’m experiencing fps drops down to 15 in Hotm and all pvp maps.

Amd radeon hd 6970 if it’s of any interest.

Any tip is welcome.

Me too

In a single (today so that u know it REALLY was a bad one Q_Q) went from something like 100ish to percentage.

Thx god i went up again a lil, matches there are really like hell itself.

Don’t do it guise, really, don’t do it.

THE TRUTH HAS BEEN SPOKEN.

Seriously, wtf.

Ok i think most people here don’t really understand the reasoning behind OP.

In the past if you wanted good duelist professions able to keep the point you were forced to pick certain professions (engi, ranger, ele) that sucked on other aspects (teamfight presence for engi and ranger, weakness to focus fire for ele).

And that’s why you needed the guard and fast dps dealing proffs to support them.

Right now you don’t have to make choices, even those classes ( aside ranger) can build so defensively while dishing WAY MORE DAMAGE THAN BEFORE that not only you don’t need dps or guard anymore, but you have even another profession (warrior) NOT ONLY able to do all of this at once but EVEN WITH MORE POINT PRESENCE.

Long story short, the game is so full of gamebreaking stuff that coordination is no longer needed, you just need to rotate to everypoint and keep opponents busy in neverending 1vs1s that the squishiest will lose.

This makes no sense.

And no , mesmer/thief is not the solution since mes will get rekt as soon as any of these professions look grimly at him in any teamfight, and at the first mismovement you’ll get 2-3 capped and snowballed, reason why even misha had to drop mesmer for the tournament.

This may not be the most boring meta ever, but it’s indeed the most broken one and the fact that guard is no longer needed it’s the clear example.

Chicago Jack.5647:

Someone runs a comp moderately different and succeeds with it, and immediately the gw2 community says, “It’s unbeatable. Plz Nerf.”

I’m not saying it’s unbeatable, neither i’m asking to nerf their comp.

What i’m saying is that we ‘re at the point we don’t even need boons, peel or anything.

All we need are healbots and panzer professions dealing tons of damage thx to sigils and runes and mightstacking.

Certain professions have so much self sustain that you can just throw some heal here and there and you really don’t need anything else.

This is silly, the power creep is so ridicolous.

BlackBeard.2873:

Cheesemode comp is just a slight upgrade over Apex’s comp (replace guardian with d/d ele, replace ranger with celes. engie). We have already seen how to beat it when a PUG version of Drenched in Baby Oil stomped them: Bring the burst and focus fire. All of the comps that CM brings are great in sustained fights and have good support (especially the eles). They are all very susceptible to focus fire:

http://www.twitch.tv/digitalprosports/c/4644946

CM new comp has NEVER lost till they tried and trained it.

Not even against burst teams run in EU.

And pls don’t let me start again the non elegant “EU>NA” argument that everyone hates to hear over and over again.

I mean, we don’t even need guard anymore.

From a “proffs representation” point this should be good, point is we needed guard for a reason: SUPPORT

Now some professions are so broken you don’t even need that support.

Self sustain-sustain-sustain-sustain and even more sustain, just put X eles and you won’t kill anything anymore.

How could u do this to your own game, NERF EVERYTHING PLS.

Did 3 matches, 2 on nifhel, i crashed there for like 3 times in a row.

What about fixing your game ?

Wow i go on a vacation for a month and JUST LOOK AT THE DRAMA.

ESPAHTZ IS REAL MA FRANDS.

They’re basically making thief an evade tank.

Evade with no aftercast, the only thing that will change is that now good thieves will bind stow weapon to larcenous when they want to fake it ( OMG SO PROOOO).

This change is imo kinda silly since it will force dodges on low damage skills ( flanking strike) so you’ll have less endurance when the attack connects, and they’ll just reduce a bit the burst since most thief damage comes from sigils.

On the other part, this change will make thief totally broken 1vs1, now you will never be able to count dodges on thief since he’ll be able to SPAM NO STOP WITH NO AFTERCAST flanking strike.

So they’ll nerf it like disabling shot and will break another set, just to go back to S/P again.

Anet way of balancing makes no sense whatsoever.

Just played 3-4 matches, 3/4 got people double capping on a point HJ style.

Delete solo q, i’m tired of carrying scrubs, i want good matches and i want to enjoy the game.

You’re really tryharding to make people uninstall.

JinDaVikk.7291:

If you have a razor naga do what I did. Bind mouse wheel to esc, bind scroll upwards to stow weapons. I can cancel ANY skill with ease and no worries of menus etc etc. Irritating that it requires 2 separate buttons + knowledge of which skill uses which one but whatever.

I’ve got no naga, i’ve a simple “low budget” gaming mouse with all keys already keybinded.

i’ve stow weapon on L ( cuz i’m set with TFGH for movements) and it really sucks.

I’ve tried to code it so that L= esc when running GW2 and i just end up with it popping the menu too often like marvin said.

I can’t code macros without screwing up my whole keayboard.

basically i’m stuck with it when playing with engi cuz we can’t have a proper cast canceling option.

Stow weapon improvements, pls.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

ridiculous comparison.

endure pain does not stop conditions from being applied.
poison, bleeding, burning will melt a warrior with endure pain activated.

berserker stance does not remove existing conditions, only stops new conditions from being applied.

both endure pain and berserker stance does not stop control effects from being applied.

stability boon is easily removed.

…

this horse has been beaten to death.
stop whining already please.

They’re invulns, and the main reason why warrior is so braindead AND effective.

Warriors are making the game extremely boring, along with thieves.

Sometime it works, sometime it doesn’t.

Since there are tons of players using it, why can’t we have a proper keybind with it working with ALL skills?

Kit engi disagrees with game design it seems, but it’s just an example.

I would advice you to stop playing solo q.

It literally worses players, just yesterday in team q i did terrible mistakes i would never do if i didn’t play solo q ( rushing to a point while chased just to get the decap THEN fighting a nec ON POINT trying to not lose it AS A THIEF).

After the “PvP” patch i went down from 60%+ winrate to 54% in solo q just because i play everyday without smurfs.

But now i understand players in top 100 don’t afk cuz kitten, they afk cuz solo q sucks balls.

Romek.4201:

silly thread

mrbig and uberwahtever – why you tha not just join teamQ and ignore soloQ? and let the people have fun who like soloQ?

rly – noone need you both there and noone force you both to play it

If my thread is silly then your answer is utterly ignorant.

I’m complaining about a system that is OBVIOUSLY not working.

If you take a look at these forums you’ll see even top players arguing about the uselessness of solo q leaderboard due to how broken some things are ( matchmaking, skyhammer, 4vs5 etc. etc.).

If these things are broken it means the system is not working like it should, in fact it isn’t.

Things won’t even out in the long run: the equation is so full of variables ( like team comp, DCs and afkers/leechers, or even simple bad matchmaking due to the system favouring fast match ups over balanced ones) that make solo q pure randomness and nothing more.

If u succeed you’re not more skilled, you’re just luckier, and it’s been like this for a while now to the point that solo q at time of “sync q” was a better representation of your skill, since you couldn’t break top 100 due to “sync queuers” and the most skilled players were all around there.

Point is, just because u like to eat kitten it doesn’t mean kitten is gud for your health.

uberkingkong.8041:

Also with solo que everyone is just more kitteny than before.

Cuz 90% of solo q players suck.

Pre “PvP patch” i was top 100 with 60%+ win rate, playing everyday.

Now i’ve 54% win rate, struggling in everymatch.

The more i play, the more i go down.

And before people says " it will even out in the long run", all i can say is that you have literally no understanding of math and statistics.

It’s becoming the worse kitten ever.

Remove it, nobody gunna cry.

I hope this time it’s fine mod.

Lopez.7369:

Zord.6130:

DP(trickery) thief vs Condi Necro should be a 50%/50%.

No. Any condition necromancer that loses to a thief is an embarrassment.

Without reaper protection and nightmare runes, necros are nothing more than food for thieves, especially in teamfights.

If thief doesn’t suck THAT bad and doesn’t get insta shotted by the condi burst, a thief will always free kill a nec as long as spite in on CD.

If he has both nightmare and reaper prot, than nec will basically always win, but nobody run such set up in team q.

Tbh no one runs nec in team q, or at least it’s not the best choice available.