Guild Wars 2

I spent about 15 minutes on it before realizing that with all the other players I was pretty much screwed. And don’t even get me started on the camera problems, especially with an Asura.

Bad change. Bring back the old interface.

I just moved on and started to play my guardian instead. Now I feel overpowered.

Hopefully they get banned. I’m happy people are actively reporting cheats and bots in this game.

The problem is ANET does their bans in waves (which is typical for an MMO) and I’m pretty sure it takes a lot of evidence and reporting for them to ban anyone, so if they get missed in the ban wave they might be around for a while.

It would be great if they just had a team that went around and banned people in real time that were reported by say 5+ people within a certain timeframe, but I guess that might be expensive and difficult to do…

Yeah, culling not fixed. Please stop making stuff up.

I’ve been having problems. It’s pretty random, but more often in WvW and personal story instances. Sometimes I get disconnected immediately. Other times the client appears to just stop receiving data completely and I run around an empty world for as long as I like without a disconnect. Every once and a while the game “catches up”, like a giant burst of data has just arrived all at once and I don’t get disconnected.

I play on SoR. I’m excited to play this week, but I have a feeling that the current mechanics (orbs + transfers + insurmountable leads + …) aren’t working super great. If all the victories in the top half of the table are ~300k points, something isn’t right.

I will concede that necro is not as bad as people make it out to be. But it’s a pain in the butt to play with all the bugs and you do you have to try a lot harder than with other classes.

I’m pretty sure necro is the buggiest class (that I’ve played so far anyways). My guardian has few problems so far and pet AI on the hunter is a breath of fresh air after dealing with my inactive Flesh Golem that refuses to hit anything. A lot of things just don’t work as advertised, or maybe the tooltips are just that misleading. Maybe the write-up for Flesh Golem was meant to say “Acts as a cool looking statue”. But I have to laugh when people say things like “only the minion AI needs work”. If you think re-writing AI is simple and will happen soon good on you, I’m a little more pessimistic because it really isn’t as easy as one might think.

I’ve been on the winning and losing end of a bad week. I call it bad because the last few matches we (SoR) were involved in turned out so competitive. Any time there is a 100k+ gap, someone is going to give up.

My wish is that ANet comes up with some solutions to add incentives or ways to get back into the game for servers that are behind by a huge amount. And the current outnumbered buff is just not enough to even bother when noone else is logging in. I completely understand why people give up by mid-week when down 100k. I think that’s part of the problem with a points-based system when it is run an entire week.

Anyways, hopefully next matchup is more competitive.

As one of the nameless peons on SoR, we do have some very good commanders who are clear about objectives and work together. This was true even before our influx of players. I’m basically as casual as it gets in this game, but the leaders on SoR do a good job of organizing even those like myself that would normally be considered cannon fodder.

I gotta be completely honest. I decided to go this build last night in very subpar gear and fully expected to get stomped in WvW and in PvE for a while until I amassed better equipment. I was pleasantly surprised that while clearly not as effective as a fully geared out player, it is still very playable (and most importantly, fun)!!!

There are some maps with basically 0 defenders depending on the time of day and server matchups. When there are no players, NPCs should be a little more resistant. If everyone is okay with people PvEing the map to completion, at least make the PvE somewhat of a challenge?

merch.1026:

i’ve not tried spectral grasp in WvW, but it is the longest pull in the game at 1200 range, in theory if you can hit them with the staff you can pull them down.

Spectral Grasp is great… when it works. The problem is that even though something looks like 10 feet in front of you, you can use spectral grasp and it fails because the target is too far away. Trying to account for latency is tough, especially in WvW with hundreds of players in a single area. And with the long cooldown it is only really useful in certain circumstances. A good example is if you try to do some elaborate jumping puzzle and someone is chasing you, Spectral Grasp them off the edge! Lots of times its an insta kill if you are high enough.

This has been happening to me as well. Too bad for me.

Thanks Myth, that did the trick… I’ll have to remember that one.

Thanks for the replies. The only reason you haven’t seen a reply from me in this thread is because there was an almost identically named one at launch where I had the same problem with corrupt files. Sorry!

I’ve done memtest twice and all came back clear. I don’t want to install on another hard drive unless it is the last option since I want to take advantage of my SSD if possible. Anywho… Here’s my corrupt analysis.

I’ll try doing what some of the others have suggested. It’s not a huge deal, but it is a pain in the butt when it does happen.

I’m stuck in a repair loop… again. The only way I was able to fix this before was to reinstall completely. I had no issues prior to the lastest patch, so I’m going to go and chalk this problem up to the patching process.

Necro is like a guilty pleasure to me. You play it because you can. That’s about all it has to offer at the moment lol.

I have no problem with grouping, but it isn’t really a personal story when you need other players all of a sudden, basically out of the blue. In the future, either require grouping throughout the personal story to build some consistency with that mechanic or just don’t do it at all.

My server steamrolled 2 other servers this week. They basically gave by Tuesday so I didn’t even bother to go play WvW the rest of this week. What’s the point of going to a battleground and fighting against nobody? The game should be better balanced to give servers falling way behind a fighting chance. It ruins the competition for everyone if there is nobody to fight against.

Comparing skills to some other classes is mind boggling at times. We have skills that are “weaken your target, but become vulnerable”. This is only useful if you play to transfer conditions, which isn’t worth it when a lot of those abilities have long cooldowns. The opportunity cost just makes it not worth it. Playing my guardian? I’m pretty sure everything is a bonus. My only guess is that they intended necro to be the official class of masochists.

Yeah… this is annoying. I would like to see this fixed. Honestly, it is the only thing in WvW that has really been a letdown for me.

It would be nice if points were weighted in a way that the more competition there is in a zone based on zone population, the more points are worth in that particular zone. That way servers that can’t field a strong presence in all zones at all times of day aren’t penalized as badly.

Alternatively, make the outnumbered buff into something much more powerful or create a hero NPCs that will try to at least help your team get a foothold on the closest tower if your team is greatly outnumbered. As much as I dislike the idea of NPCs doing the work, it would really help the players who are constantly outnumbered in a zone and actually provide some opposition.

A hunter’s pet will follow me in PvP for 50 yards, chomping me in the butt the whole time, but my minions won’t attack something 5 feet away sometimes. Ah well, grumble grumble and all that.

Lurko.7185:

And SoR and SF don’t zerg during the day when our night crew goes to bed and retake everything? riiiight.

I’m at work during the day. The only thing I’m zerging are 0’s and 1’s.

I try to pretend they aren’t there because it is so disappointing when I see one die in 5 seconds.

Personally, I would rather see points scale based on the level of competition. If all servers are full, lots of points should be up for grabs. If only 1 server is full, there should be less points up for grabs.

The is way people still earn points no matter what the scenario, but more points are rewarded based on the level of competition instead of a flat number like it is now.

This happens in large-scale battles for me. There is usually no lag present, no graphical anomalies, temps are good, etc. I can’t quite put my finger on it.

I have been freezing today as well. It has been happening usually when I have the UI open and I’m clicking on something. Better than the crashing I had from yesterday, but still annoying!

The game is still running for me when it freezes as the sounds are still playing, but the screen is locked up. If I Ctrl + Alt + Delete I can log off/log back onto Windows, which is smoother than a hard boot if that makes your life any easier. Task Manager stays hidden though if I try to use that, so nothing I can do but log off.

I’ve had crashes ranging from 1 minute into the game up until 2 hours. No rhyme or reason to when they happen either.

Windowed and Framerate Limiting, along with disabling a lot of other settings has let me play longer than I have before. I still crash occasionally but it is definitely a lot less.

I can run the game with my old video card at work with 11.12 catalyst drivers without crashing, so I’m going to try to rollback to earlier drivers at home and see if that helps.

Reinstalling seemed to fix my corruption issue from what I can tell. I’m still crashing, but different errors now at least.

Out of curiosity, if you run with -repair, what results do you get in your VerifyResults.log file found in /Documents/Guild Wars 2? All of my repairs seem to fail, so I’m going to try to reinstall later when I have time.

As many others have mentioned, this is not restricted to 64-bit or NVidia cards. I’ve been having this same problem on my Win7 64-bit OS since launch and using two different video cards and I’ve done memtest with 100% success.

The only thing I can think of is one or more corrupt files since running with -repair results in failure messages in /Documents/Guild Wars 2/VerifyResults.log.

Womp.8752:

Is that like a external HD or something?

Solid State Drive.

I’m going to try to reinstall tomorrow. My repair didn’t even verify properly and came with the message: CRC failed. Also running it on an SSD, which is the only thing I haven’t changed yet hah.