Guild Wars 2

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I wonder if OP could post the source of his claim that the current active Chinese players is less than 50k. That’s quite a drop from a year ago of 3.8 million.

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=851365

I have to query where the 3.8million came from, anyone who read a recent news article that mentioned GW2 would have seen where they said that GW2 has sold around 4million copies total.

In running with that another massive MMO since xmas has had 2.9million ppl stop playing, so 1 game has lost nearly as much as the total game count of GW2, reason cited was that there was no end game,

Hold on a minute there is no end game in GW2 either, I would say that the playerbase for GW2 globally has to be under 500k, this game is dying at an alarming rate, and the OP has stated it is dying in China also, and Anet banked a lot on that China release, at this moment in time with people getting bored and not logging in no more, combined with other great games coming out, it may not be worth Anet’s time or money to release an expansion.

Nearly all the things the OP mentioned have been posted on this forum a dozen times, and everytime it goes ignored for weeks, usually followed by an invisible mod closing and removing the topic, if they will not listen to the playerbase, they have no chance, I would love a dev to come on here and tell us what there is to do ingame, there are only so many broken fractals/dungeons you can run, only so many times you can be bothered to run Silverwastes for no drops, it will end badly at some point if these issues are not addressed.

According to this its October for Global release.

http://games.gamepressure.com/game_info.asp?ID=26036

Wouldn’t count on it though.

Not always, everyones system is different, ive seen people they have OC’d and had a great boost in performance, such as the person above me, but if you head over to the bugs section of the forums, some people who OC get some strange bugs and errors occurring which causes the game to crash.

You/we are not the target audience anymore, new players is where the money is, and in 2 years new players today will be saying the same thing, as you/we are today.

Sadly for us long term players its either suck it up or move on. (luckily for me there are some great games out for the PC over the last few weeks and coming months, so moving on wont be an issue)

There are 2 groups of players in this game, those who love the game and only play a few hours a day/week, and those who play a lot and are bored.

ZidZabre.7256:

Let me re explain this.
Kill 0 Mobs = No chance.
Kill 1 Mob = 1 Chance.
Kill 500 mobs = 500 chances.

So yes, basic RNG applies. But the more you do, the more dices you roll, and the more you increase your chances.

And as for people getting bummed not getting a portal, yes not a fun thing, but they should know that there is a chance of not getting anything.

And as Argon pointed out, he got a good drop, and i’m pretty sure anyone farming for this has gotten enough Materials to be filling up bank tabs for awhile.

Ummm only your wrong, in Silverwastes its more like

Kill 1,000 you have 100 chance, giving that 90% of enemies in there don’t drop any loot at all, on top of that take into count the MASSIVE magic find boosts you can get in there, I was up over 600% MF and the best I could get from an enemy was a level 76 rare,

Not getting the beta key doesn’t bother me, people getting 5 or 6 is what bothers me, if this event doesn’t show anet how horrendously broken the RnG actually is, then this game has no chance going forward,

I hope further more that Anet made as much money as possible from this market stunt as when its over the drop off in players is going to be high, at this point im not even sure HoT is worth getting, there are just to many things broken with this game, and Anets reply is heres a $10 item in the gemstore, eventually the HYPE train is going to derail and crash and burn.

You can locate your GW2 folder, and copy the entire thing to an external drive, when you get your new computer just copy it back over, and re-create the shortcut to the GW2.exe and then run the game as normal,

All your account info is stored on the Anet servers, the copying of the folder just means you wont need to download the near 20gb dat file again.

Its long been thought that when you create your account that it is tagged for better loot or not, it just cannot be random that some people get amazing drops all the time in this game and others will play for years and not get squat,

Its this extremely broken RnG that has pushed a lot of my friends out of the game, you are just not rewarded for the time you play.

MF is broken also, I have 300 base, 13 from AP and boosts take of over 500% and I get very little in the way of good drops, if its supposed to roll a loot table it doesn’t, I cannot remember the last time I have an Exotic drop from an enemy for me, I do get the occasional rare, yet friends of mine who think MF is a myth and don’t use it, get 2 or 3 exotics a week from normal enemies, and they play a lot less than me.

RnG is broken
Loot is broken
MF is broken

And the only people who don’t agree are the ones who get the drops.

Chest farming is fine, this is the same argument as people who play WvW crying about EotM K-trains.

Anet want to keep people ingame, they wont remove the chest farm,

I personally don’t do it as I find it boring but to each there own, there are plenty of SW maps out there,

On the note about no one seems to do events but all show up at 90% this comes down to time vs loot really like any event ingame, most of the events to get to breach are shocking with loot, a few crests, a shovel, the wades and wades of enemies you must slaughter to get to the breach and 98% of them drop NO LOOT at all,

If you want more people to do events to move maps faster, Anet needs to add the other 98% of enemies to the loot table.

Yes it is the RnG hammer not falling in your favour, BUT

I do play the forge a lot, and ive went threw a dry spell now for probably well over 6-8weeks, I have noticed that even when using only lvl 80 exo’s it seems to throw back a lot more lvl 76-78 weapons, I know this can happen but the last 2 months it seems more than ever before,

Ive stopped playing the forge for now so yea,

Also all those people that shout just buy the pre, where do you think them pre’s come from, you have a way higher chance from the forge than dropping in game, if people didn’t play the forge for pre’s you wouldn’t have them on the TP to buy in the first place.

Anyway advice going forward for anyone wanting to play the forge for a pre they want, DONT, Anet has told us that precursor crafting is coming to the game with the HoT expansion, just save your mats and gold and wait for it, then you will be ready to go.

lordkrall.7241:

TurtleofPower.5641:

Tried it for an hour. Nobody got one. Looks like they expect you to grind all week for the “chance” which is fairly lame, especially with the zerg around and everyone competing over targets.

And yet there are multiple reports on reddit already about people getting it. Less than two hours after release.

You are also assuming that every single user in the map would post in map chat if they got one.

Unless there are screenshots to back up the reports.

The mailing list was also RnG, but so is someone who hasn’t logged in for months logging in going to SW and getting a key, its almost like they did it this way to try and pull people back into the game…

Its not really a difficult answer for them, they will already know the ball park figure they want for a closed beta test, 2,000 , 5,000 , 20,000, don’t waste peoples time, I was farming SW before the announcement of beta access, and I don’t care either way, but im guessing people will feel cheated if Anet only want a small number of people and people waste a week chasing something that never existed,

This just screams Pre Cursor drop rate all over again, why can they not be straight up with us.

So the new Beta keys are purely down to RnG, given the way RnG has worked over the last 2 1/2 years it might be better if Anet just tell us how many people they want for the Beta Test, as if they only want say 2000 people….yea you get where this is going.

Its not just dye’s, I tried to link the Madrey II and Star of Gratitude tonight the same thing happened, it just showed blank lines.

If you have an external HDD ( a big one ) you can just locate your GW2 folder and copy the entire thing to the HDD when the new system arrives, copy it back into the new system, go into the folder, recreate the shortcut from the .exe and enter login info and go, this will save you downloading all 20gb of the game again, unless you have superfast internet and don’t mind the download.

That’s right out of the 150 skills some where duplicates from the other expansions, but the fact remains, they where adding skills etc, GW2 is very restrictive in this case, for over 2 1/2 years they have gotten away without adding a new skill and or weapons skills, this has to be unheard of, but they have managed to do it,

Your point on the identical skills is a mute point, some of the skills where the same depending on what expansion you played, as GW1 had 3 expansions that where stand alone games in there own right, they just gave people the same options that others had.

I REALLY wish they would allow us to drop the elite skill in GW2 and just give us 5 util skills, being forced to play how Anet wants us to play is getting boring, I could think of a few cases where id love another util skill over an elite that may or may not make a difference to a fight…..

They seem to be having a really hard time with balancing there own game, they reworked a trait system that didn’t need it, forced the NPE that wasn’t needed, and now they are doing the traits again in the sake of balance…

The would be better just saying ok you play a warrior here are the builds available to you

Sword build
Great Sword build
Longbow build

you get the idea, as this is where it is heading, everyone can see it, the less builds we have the ability to make the less balance they have to worry about, win win for them…..

I personally would rather they just did that actually, be like you play x class, heres the build you must play, that way if I don’t like it I can just leave the game, instead of being continuously beat down patch after patch to the point where I absolutely hate the game and leave and never want to return, so many of my friends have already hit this point, its just sad.

You can hardly call the last one a season either, log in do 5 events and log off, that’s a PVE tournament, not a WvW one.

The first one was a tournament where you actually had to play WvW to get it, the last one was a disgrace.

Mortifer.2946:

We have nothing to do in the game and yet now is not a good time to play at least the old levels of SAB. … … …

This, people are leaving, people are bored, people have nothing to do, SAB is made they could put it back so that people can try to finish it etc, but they don’t, is there really a feasible reason for it, other than we don’t want too,

I think since the launch of GW2 ( I personally feel ) it was the most underhanded shady business move they have done by offering the infinite coin ( WHICH a lot of people bought, how many would have bought it if they new SAB wasn’t coming back ) then decided to remove SAB and then state we might bring it back in the future when we are ready, ( Its never coming back people ) but by saying it might be back, they can get around the entire refunding of them infinite coins, completely shady.

As its not coming back, they should offer on the TP the exchange for the infinite coin for gems, so that people can get the gems back for something they bought in game that will never beable to use again, then ANET can finally bury the SAB into the past, and forget about it.

When I use the LFG tool and try to join a party the LFG disappears but it doesn’t let me join the party, it proceeds to tell me that I cannot join another party in LFG because im already in a party ( if that makes sense ) if I log out and back in it seems to fix it,

but

If im in a party with 1 or 2 people, and I hit merge the parties, it puts my 1 or 2 other party members into the merged party but auto removes me from it,

I had this issue a couple of months back when a lot of others where having the same issue, but has been fine since then, just today it started again, everything else in game is fine.

There is no WP at the enterance of Barradins Vault.

Have you got the new one they put in at the guild jumping puzzle?

I think the game still auto kicks you if you try to salvage to fast, ive had this happen a few times when I used to salvage Ecto.

Xillllix.3485:

Overall it seems interesting.

However, concerning the elementalist:
When is the last time you guys saw someone used lightning hammer or ice bow in PvP and have great success? Why nerf it? Are you nerfing it just for PvE?

All the conjure weapons needs buffs not nerfed… Specially the useless Fire Axe and Magnetic shield.

Funny, I just had this very convo, since the nerf to FSG, I very rarely see it get used now, unless its for mobility, im not saying its not used, but its should def not be an elite skill, they will completely destroy ice bow and hammer so that no one uses it anymore ( and I don’t even run an ele ) they should just remove skills like this from the game and replace them with new skills that are viable.

I hope anet does take the feedback they get from this before pushing the update, because if enough people get burned from this update, they may not have many people left to buy HoT.

Yes, like Lordkrall said,

They said that last night they would be pushing the new trait system before HoT which works out great, as if the classes I play the most are completely destroyed, I wil not be buying HoT and I will move onto a new game, it looks really restrictive and set up in such a way that if a build becomes to powerful the can hammer it instantly.

But I will wait until the traits update ingame before deciding my future in Guild Wars 2.

Sadly I know several people whom have already stated they are done now and have quit the game, and with some newer MMO’s etc coming out this year, its make or break time for Anet.

I was STUNNED you have to run YET again threw old content to get mastery points ( old skill challenges ) 2 1/2 years and they still want us to recycle old content, this is not the same team whom made GW1.

Where the forums are GW2, the support staff can still help with GW1 issues, im guessing if its 84 days like you said, it has slipped threw the system somehow, anyway you should post in here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/GW2-Tickets-for-Review-7-days-older

Gaile moderates that topic herself.

At Geneaux.9547, your error is completely different, yours is actually more commonly linked to a system that is overclocked, do you overclock your system at all.

What MelGT said is correct,

When Anet updated to the New Player Experience(NPE), the personal story got locked to levels, where as before it, it was recommended level, so its entirely possible that you did do the personal story under the old system, stopped playing and now its locked into the new NPE system,

As for items you claim/seem to have lost, could someone else have had access to your account?

It has to be related to the patch earlier this week, me and a few guildies also got this bug, its like the person is standing with there weapon but not rendered in, it does seem completely random though as to where this occurs.

It will likely be fixed on the next patch.

This really sounds like a random error that not a lot of people if anyone will have encountered, you may actually be best contacting support directly with this problem and have them run threw all the tests they wish etc, to try and pin point it.

Id say that on the forums people would be hazarding a guess as to what the problem might be.

It does sound like a PSU issue to be honest, its almost like it cant produce the power needed, ( could be faulty ) and your signal loss is coming before the system is doing a memory dump before the cycle. ( which seems strange as I know that Crysis 3 is a beast for most computers, way more so than GW2 )

I also got this crash, I got it after installing the latest patch to the game, I only got it though on the first exit of the game after patching, and I haven’t had it since,

Are you getting this more than once?

As for the SW issue, I haven’t noticed that, but I will look out for it next time im in game, im guessing its something they broke when patching, and it will be fixed on the next patch.

atiumdag.dll

It does look like a GFX Driver crash, its actually on the AMD support forums about this driver also, they recommend uninstalled the drivers and upgrading to the newest set,

I personally don’t run AMD/ATI cards so im not sure what the most uptodate ones are.

Another reason along with ( WvW ) they should make it when you get below the map, intended or not you take 50,000/damage a tick ( IE instant death )

You cant,

You can only link one GW1 account to one GW2 account, your friend is mistaken, and support will tell you the same thing,

So unless support can manually override it for you, which im doubting as im nearly sure ive seen it before on here.

They can help you, but they will need a lot of information from you that you should not post on the forums, you should contact support direct using the support option at the top of the page and tell them what happened via that.

Good luck getting your old account back.

I know several people whom suffer randomly from this bug, but its completely random, ive seen times where ive helped a zerg take down outta and inner SMC, kill lord, stand in the circle and BAM no WxP, its also common in EotM.

This is not a display issue, as the WxP bar does not move at all,

But I have never been able to replicate this problem, I would say that a lot more people do suffer from this bug, but just don’t even realise it, as hey who looks at the top of the screen to see if they got the WxP.

Its usually the main merchants that you sell items too, normally they can be found near the trading posts/crafting stations etc

OOM: Heap, bytes=8388728,

OOM = Out of Memory

I know your GFX card is more than capable of running this game, but sadly with restrictions to the client etc the only way you will combat this problem is by slightly lowering your setttings, this issue has been in game since the early beta’s unless they upgrade the client for 64bit it will continue to happen.

You have a corrupted texture file, you should run the -repair command,

I used to get this bug after most patches where rolled out, but I haven’t seen it in along time now,

Anyhow, repairing the client should fix this problem.

I don’t see what the problem with the screenshot is to be honest, anyone who has a teleport skill can get caught in the stairs, as it glitches out ( we call that a bug ) weapon skills that throw you forward such as some of the GS skills can also cause this,

The easiest place in WvW to replicate this bug ( which has been reported several times ) is in Veloka Tower in EBG, i tried to use blink up the stairs and it put me into the stairs, there was no way out other than to WP out, this also happened when i used the Guard GS skill Leap of Faith, with the same results, both times this was reported ( probably 3-4 months ago now ) and the bug is still there.

Yes but if they activated Walk after jumping off they would die aswell, as in EotM you fall to your death not to the level below, so they where

Casting, Spectral Walk>jumping off map>casting Grasp>pulling people to them>Activating Walk to return to location.

Like I said AFAIK you cannot activate skills as you are falling in EotM, else mesmers could easily use there pull skill while falling which they cannot.

So I was randomly running around EOTM, and I came across this necros who cast Spectral Walk they then proceeded to jump off the edge of the map, while they where falling they cast, Spectral Grasp to pull me off the edge, they then cancelled Spectral Walk to return to the location,

At first I thought I was lag and the server had caught up and that’s what killed me, but it happened to several people whom I was running around with also.

Afaik, you could not continue to cast skills after falling/jumping off the edge of the map in EotM.

If I have missed an update that has changed this, feel free to ignore this,

From what im reading about SLI and GW2, where the game can run with it turned on, it does not apparently use the cards to the max potential, given that the game is a DX9 game im not so sure its using the full VRAM the way you think it is, I think this is why people want a DX12 version of the game, to finally fix a lot of these old errors that are caused by old outdated software.

On the 970’s themselves there are a lot of reported problems across multiple games when running SLI, the most common one seems to be the EVGA cards, which themselves are faulty according to most reports and seem to need RMA’d.

Ive seen several times where the newer drivers are the problem and the older ones can be more stable, as I don’t run 970’s im not sure on what the most stable driver is,

You stated you run a heavy overclock, from previous posts from devs etc on here they will ask you to lower your overclock and see if you can get a stable system.

Kupper.8074:

Only 2 runs? Heck, I had a streak of 93 runs(franc lv 30+) without seeing anything more than a ring. Forced me to quit fractals for a good 6 months.

This,

The rewards in fractals are so badly broken its not funny, I haven’t ran a fractal in probably 10 months now, I gave up on them completely, like another person posted its a sad state of the game when you can open 1 chest in silverwastes and get more loot from it than the end chest of a lvl 50 fractal,

Sadly I don’t see this ever changing, Anet have had months to fix this and they have ignored it, there seems to be little to no interest in dungeons/fractals from the devs.

The only thing you can do is register for another server to get into the game you can play all parts bar World Vs World with your friend,

Or

You can try and wait for the servers quiet time, giving its an EU server im guessing that will be very very early in the morning probably 2am-5am and see if it temporally opens for new / transferring players.

So what are the crashes you are getting what is the codes etc, what resolution are you running.

Like loseridoit said 1 970GTX will max this game out without any issues at all,

On a side note GW1 hated SLI also, I could never get it to run, granted SLI was newer back then.

Does Nvidia have a profile for GW2 under the GFX card settings.

At what point did it fail, and what was the exact error message,

There was an issue with paypal and Anets payment system awhile ago, basically Paypal would say the payment had failed and an error occurred and to contact Anet support, but then ( in this case ) the GEMS would show up on your account at a random time within the next hour.

I would wait an hour to see if whatever you have tried to buy has been successful first.

If buying the game, im guessing it would be an email you would receive.

Malediktus.9250:

Making them easier to get would reduce the value of the treasure hunter achievements. The droprates would have to be adjusted to keep the amount of items coming into the economy low.

These items had NO value until the collections where added, now its to easy for a very very very small group of people who are trying to sell them for 100g each on the TP to stop anyone else getting them by defending the temples’s ( which is very easy to do )

I said it along time ago when megaserver went live, ORR needs a reset time, say every 3 hours, and when it happens all of the temples become contested and must be recaptured, as the current system is Broken.

I agree that every game does have a burn out level, but I sometimes find it hard to believe that this is the same company that brought us GW1, I played that game everyday for 7 years, GW2 I understand is a completely different game, but 2 1/2 years in and im nearly all done,

I used play for several hours a day, now I play for less than 10 minutes ( I log in for daily login and run the dailies as fast as possible ) there is nothing else in the game that keeps me wanting to play, farming is terrible, loot is non existent, ( unless you want to run around mindlessly opening chests in SW )

All of the people i used to play with have all left the game, they moved onto other games, so much so that the new expansion wont bring them back, that says a lot.

I sometimes feel the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing at Anet, they know what they want to do, or at least what they want to try and do, the new expansion may bring people back it may bring new people into the game, but how many people will abandon the game before then?

With Season 2 ending until new expansion there is a what 5-8 month wait time, people have been crying out for SAB for over a year and got totally fobbed off by Anet on this matter, something that will keep these people PLAYING the very game that brings the $$$ in for Anet, yet they ignore it, and say, heres another outfit in the gem store buy it today cha ching, that’s what causes people to start hating this game.

Oxidia.8103:

Ok I Did It.2854:

I thought the rewards where based on your level not the fractal level????

That would mean people with personal lvl 50 doing lvl 10 would get lvl 50 loot. Lol. No.

Ok sorry let me rephrase that, I thought you couldn’t get loot based on a level higher than your own, meaning someone who is level 1 cannot join a group at level 50 and get the level 50 rewards.

I thought the rewards where based on your level not the fractal level????

Would removing zerker gear from the game work though,

If ANET changed it that rabid gear was the most powerful all you would see in the LFG is,

FULL RABID GEAR only ping gear or go home

Aslong as 1 type stat type offers any advantage over another be it 1% to 100% people will use it,

I don’t run dungeons anymore due to the complete boredom of it, but I did find when I did people ran zerker so they could get threw it as fast as possible because its boring.

Will Lucky.8703:

My will to play the game has slowly dropped the last month or so, I’m just hungry for more info and more importantly when I can play the Expansion its been a long time coming.

Same here, I used to play so much but now if it takes longer than 10 mins to do dailies I don’t even bother now, the game has nothing to do, farming locations that kept ppl in game have been nerfed to dirt,

Sadly at this rate even with all the hype im not sure ill even bother with the expansion, I know a few friends who are thinking the same way also.

Gaile Gray.6029:

. It is designed to prevent rapid and abusive transfers of gold that may be part of account takeovers, fraud, and RMT (gold selling).

The only thing that will happen now is that gold sellers will now only sell a max of 500G, thus bypassing the system, or they will link gold to the value of an item on the TP worth thousands, buy it, mail the item and buyer sells the item for instant gold.

As for account takeovers/hacked accounts, you already said that the accounts are rolled back so why is this needed exactly, granted if you can only send out 500G at a time you maybe only have to track 1 person who received it, but if someones account who has say 3000 gold on it gets taken over, whats to stop the person doing it, buying a legendary outright, mailing it off, then the person receiving it selling it, BAM instant 2000+ gold.

The idea on paper works, but in reality it does not, and its going to really be detrimental to a lot of big big guilds and people who do massive community driven events.