The community’s voice is just as unanimous as it can be on the Internet: we hate the Megaserver fiasco.
Yes we do, but like I said in a previous topic, it just takes 1 person in 20 pages of complaints to say they like it and they will run with that post and declare it a success, they don’t allow for the destroyed communities, broken world events, broken local events, ( new language settings ) guild missions broken because of mega server, guesting broken, it goes on and on, sadly we are testing these updates for the China client, don’t forget, if they can make China work, they don’t need NA/EU,
Ive never played a game before there the developer tired to fix something, and ruined the game for so many, but sticks with it, ( ref the world event times for EU players ) its actually making me want to log in less and less now, friends etc are all now looking for a new game.
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I understand everyone farms/plays in different parts of the game, but there are some events that have been broken since this patch, and even though are reported don’t seem to be getting fixed, even with several hot patches since update,
•Svanir Shaman Chief – Since the update I have not seen this spawn once, everyone escorts the NPC, and as soon as that totem spawns, BAM its down, an uplevel could take it down solo in under a minute, and as soon as its destroyed the event succeeds and no one fights the boss ( result NO LOOT )
Gates of Arah Pre event – on the pre event for the gates of arah where you had to escort the NPC’s to just north and south of the steps to Arah, there was a 5 or 6 minute defense wave, where mobs would run at you, ( this was 1 of the last remaining places in Orr where you could farm ) since the patch, this event spawns NO enemies at all you stand there for 5-6 mins for the event to fail then continue to Gates of Arah ( result NO LOOT )
I posted this in general so that more people who cover more zones of the game can post the current broken events since update, as if it goes into the bugs section it will be never seen again.
I do understand this game is no longer play how you want to play, its more play how we want you to play, and its aimed at those who play for like an hour a day, but what about us who play more than an hour a day, and like to farm in the game??? yet surely removing all the loot, and having events succeed without doing anything, and getting no loot either way, has got to be the wrong way to go, the Orr events put a lot of T6 mats into the game and now there are no enemies to kill.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the Megaserver tech currently only activated for Heart of the Mists?
Patch notes seems to suggest as such, with them planning on rolling it out to lower areas once they’ve collected enough data.
You are wrong, the decided to jump straight into the deep end and started to drown, most zones are now mega servers, any zone that has a world event will auto convert to mega server for said event, so if there is 1 you need get to that map early or face the overflow until its completed, there are several topics on this already on the forums, you gotta know how Anet do things by now, they say 1 thing and then do what they want.
And the players don’t even read or see things yet they complain without understanding the real issue. Anet announcned the areas included in the Megaserver, if you can’t read, I doubt it is their problem.
Oh I cant read huh, FUNNY I don’t see Mount Maelstrom on that list, yet its on the mega server rotation, dun dun dun, so it is their problem when its not working, megaserver on paper probably looks great, but when you throw every server in NA or EU into 1 map and the event is BUGGED and NO ONE can get the reward they cant even guest to a working server, so yes its 100% their problem.
and you suggest to remove it…because a new feature isn’t working well in an MMO?
Where did I suggest remove it, they should have made sure that these events worked before hand, some of them are known to glitch out and have been reported 100’s of times, but they still do not work, so now everyone is being forced into a MAP they didn’t ask for, for an event that is bugged and can no longer get a reward, where as before they could guest to a server where the event may have worked…..it just highlights what people have been stating for 18 months, and that nothing is tested, there more interested in the gem store than fixing game breaking bugs,
Its ok I get it your a fanboi and we will not agree.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the Megaserver tech currently only activated for Heart of the Mists?
Patch notes seems to suggest as such, with them planning on rolling it out to lower areas once they’ve collected enough data.
You are wrong, the decided to jump straight into the deep end and started to drown, most zones are now mega servers, any zone that has a world event will auto convert to mega server for said event, so if there is 1 you need get to that map early or face the overflow until its completed, there are several topics on this already on the forums, you gotta know how Anet do things by now, they say 1 thing and then do what they want.
And the players don’t even read or see things yet they complain without understanding the real issue. Anet announcned the areas included in the Megaserver, if you can’t read, I doubt it is their problem.
Oh I cant read huh, FUNNY I don’t see Mount Maelstrom on that list, yet its on the mega server rotation, dun dun dun, so it is their problem when its not working, megaserver on paper probably looks great, but when you throw every server in NA or EU into 1 map and the event is BUGGED and NO ONE can get the reward they cant even guest to a working server, so yes its 100% their problem.
And as per that list a few posts up, your friends cannot join you until they reload the map, so basically they are destroying the parties/communities for something they didn’t need to do, its all good we get it, those who love anet and this broken update will stay, everyone else is getting the finger and basically told to find a new game, we get it we really do.
In one fell swoop Arenanet trivialized open world PvE content even more, destroyed the community, and tripled map load times for NO REASON AT ALL.
I like pretty much every other part of the new patch but the megaserver needs to be cancelled and sent back to the drawing board.
Technically they did have reason, the bottom 10-15 servers on NA where dead servers, but by doing the mega server they never had to admit it, because now they can say each map is full, the serious lack of reply from Anet on this topic is disturbing, its like they see 100 negative comments about it, and see 1 positive comment and run with the positive one and declare the new idea a success, they ignore its completely destroyed communities, some guilds, world events, the list goes on and on, will we getr a reply, I wouldn’t count on it to be honest, will they fix it, HELL NO because then they have to admit fault, remember folks you are testing these updates for the China release, as if its successful out there they don’t need us.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the Megaserver tech currently only activated for Heart of the Mists?
Patch notes seems to suggest as such, with them planning on rolling it out to lower areas once they’ve collected enough data.
You are wrong, the decided to jump straight into the deep end and started to drown, most zones are now mega servers, any zone that has a world event will auto convert to mega server for said event, so if there is 1 you need get to that map early or face the overflow until its completed, there are several topics on this already on the forums, you gotta know how Anet do things by now, they say 1 thing and then do what they want.
The Gates or Arah pre event isn’t spawning any enemies at all, we stand there for 6-7 minutes and then the event fails its like this on Tarnished Coast and Jade Quarry.
Im posting it has a bug, as I didn’t see it as a nerf in the patch notes.
So the MAW will not spawn if the totem which can be killed by an uplevel in under 30 seconds, dies in the 5 minute spawn window, so no more MAW, great job on that,
For world events you now have to show up an hour before the event, else your pushed into an overflow which is likely never see the event spawn,
I get it Anet you don’t want most of us doing your world events, its clear you haven’t taken any feedback reguards these world events from massive guilds/communities that do them daily, its not like the loot was out of this world from them anyway,
So im back to now doing no world events, as I cant get into my own dam server anymore its always overflow where no events are taking place, or they have bugged out and no one can do them, guess im back to telling my friends NOT to pick this game up as Anet is determined to ruin the game for EU/NA players.
Overflows do not work, the megaserver is an overflow server setup, it will not work for anyone who doesn’t camp a boss for an hour before hand, sometimes longer if its a bigger battle ( Teq for example )
Im guessing next week we will see a new gem store item that allows you to bypass the server is full message and teleport straight into a world boss, 500gems each.
This update is a disaster for world events, lets look at it shall we Anet
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-megaserver-system-world-bosses-and-events/
Karka Queen for EU players, (ill use EU, GMT and Central ) and these times don’t matter whether your on a EU server or a EU player on an NA server
2am GMT – 3am Central
11:30am GMT – 12:30pm Central
5pm GMT – 6pm Central
So yes Anet thank you very much, because anyone in the UK/EU that has a job and or school can pretty much no longer take part in these events, 2/3am sleeping, 11:30am/12:30pm working/school, 5pm/6pm coming from work /school etc etc,
Teq and the Jungle wurm are not much better to be honest.
So big old thanks to Anet for this update, there are somethings that you should not have messed with, as there was nothing wrong with the way it was before, you are pretty much saying that if you are not in a massive guild that can spawn this event ( if you can get enough guild members online at the same time to do it) you pretty much have no chance.
Are ANET even reading this topic or is here for show?
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Not only that, but you can’t combine armor with weapons anymore…
“allowing for more variation in output” my kitten …
Are you sure about that, I was able to throw in Rare lvl 80 armor and weapons together earlier today, patched maybe unless you meant exotic armor and weapons, in which case you could never mix them.
As for the 4 x lvl 80 exo’s giving a lvl 76 back, that has to be a bug.
If Anet are determined to push this megaserver out then you need to get your act together, you should have stuck to low level zones first to make sure it works instead of low pop maps,
Today Straights became a megaserver, not so bad brought a lot of people together to do balth temple, oh wait it didn’t because the north invasion was bugged so we couldn’t actually start the temple, so now instead of 1 server not getting it, the entire NA population cannot get it……
I would have thought with the masses of bugs that affect Orr in general espically around events getting bugged out/stuck you would have fixed this before you forced the currently broken mega server on us,
Why don’t you actually go back and take 1 of the best parts of GW1 and put it into GW2 where the player can select a district to play in from the drop down menu, instead of having to exploit the party system hoping that you can join your friends in the map, because you logged on 30 seconds after them at the world event.
Someone said it in another topic, but I kinda agree now, I think NA/EU are being use as system testers for the China game.
Also has it been considered for those who may not get to play at these peak times that if an event gets completed on the main server, it will stay completed until its natural reset timer which is ok, but if your stuck in an Overflow who cannot complete it, then you get moved to the main server because everyone bails out you still get no reward, your megaserver is basically 1 massive overflow server, and players have in the past made there voices heard on the hate for overflows……
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Last night we where doing the CoE dungeon, we did the pre event to unlock the dungeon, while we where running path 2, ( only took about 10 mins ) the megadestroyer event started, and MM became a megaserver map, and it automatically reset the dungeon WP so it was contested again, meaning we could not re-enter, whereas we normally would have had plently of time to do so,
If you are determined to push ahead with this megaserver, you should consider removing the events for opening of dungeons.
Currently, when you make a new character it instantly levels its WvW rank to your account-wide rank, giving you bonus chests to be received upon next rank up. Also, they stack if you delete and remake a character.
So basically its a bug is what your saying, in which case anet will most likely roll that back, because you know some people will abuse that fast,
For the OP, I didn’t get any bonus chests at all.
Ah okies fair enough then, maybe they should make it known to the map so that people don’t post bug reports :-p
So im not sure if this was meant or not, but Mount Maelstrom is part of the mega server, but its glitching the parties out, some of my party is on the same server as me and the others are in MM but not on the map…
I thought only starter zones where part of the mega server update for this update, as if its not you may want to reconsider how dungeons become contested.
Id much rather see a new Unreal Tournament on the UE4 than GW3,4,5,6,7
Just curious, ( and we did think about RnG but so many of us ) but has anyone noticed that massive reduction in drops in CS, we did Grenth and everyone knows the defense phase is a loot haven, well after 6 mins I had a staggering 9 drops…, Pent/Shelt/Jofast events where not much better…
I understand they would love people to use gems for gold etc, but come on, if it was me alone getting these results id say ok RnG but I have several friends all reporting the same thing. So yes has anyone else getting these sort of results?
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Hi,
Ummm, I don’t know if this is a bug or a silent update, a friend said they where on the steps to Arah near Anchorage WP and there was no enemies, so I went and checked and sure enough, I ran from Anchorage to Meddlers and there are no enemies,
Is this intended, or is Cursed Shore in is super easy mode.
I am on Tarnished Coast.
Are they talking about the end boss per path, or bosses you meet on every path,
TA wurm boss ( first one encountered )
CoE several bosses encountered on paths,
If its per path that fine, if its 1 boss per every path, then why the hell would anyone run the dungeon more than once, if your not getting loot, need clarification on this.
More desirable, and with anet stating pre cursor crafting was being put on hold until they can work out how to ( if they even cab ) make it work now, it means the demand and supply game is in full swing, and its pretty clear some guilds/people are controlling the entire pre cursor market.
I don’t know, I have over 100% more raw MF than 2 of my friends, yet they are rolling exotics daily to my 1 a month maybe from enemy kills, something be broken, why invest in MF if those who don’t invest in it are still rolling better drops????
Oh I know there not scamming, but it used to work fluid without hassle for 18months, its only in the last few months it seems to pop up this error has occurred, and people are trying again thinking they did something wrong, when they haven’kittens a clear link issue between paypal and anet,
The point of my post is it was reported a month ago and nothing has changed, and if it wasn’t for the fact that it happened to me before it probably would have caught me out, but I bet it is catching others out that are not aware its a bug on PP/Anets side.
EDIT: ok so the post above me got moved/deleted.
If you use paypal go buy gems, you may get an error popping up stating ( An error as occurred, please contact support ) DO NOT try and buy them again, the gems will show up on your account after about 15 mins, and you will be charged as normal,
About a month ago I posted this about players trying again and being charged twice, I know several people in game that have been caught out by this bug, when I reported it last night it didn’t even get a reply from a DEV,
So be warned, if you use Paypal to by gems, and it tells you its hasn’t worked/an error as occurred, wait about 15-30mins, and check your account, do not try again.
This needs fixed on your end Anet, there is clearly an issue between Paypal and Anet, that is causing the issue, seeing as its an official Anet page that pops up stating there was an error and directs us to support, im guessing its on your end, some people cannot afford to be charged twice for something they think is a bug, or does support really want thousands of requests a day???
Its not an exploit, its the invun zone from the spawn location just happens to overlap it, there is one at the main spawn on each boarderland also, its been there since launch.
LOL God JQ and TC are a kittening joke what worthless servers
You must be on BG then yea LOL
It’s nothing like GW1, at all.
They didn’t mean in game, they meant the backend of the client is not the same, in GW1 they could push small updates while you played because zones etc where instanced, GW2 its not possible as you can jump from 1 place to another instantly.
Precursor prices will drop after feature patch, I believe they are making a precursor tracking system and champ bags can now drop them because it’s effected by magic find
Source??
The only comment ive seen on MF affecting bags was for the new sPvP reward system, because players who only play it where getting little to no rewards, so the loot bags in there now are affected to allow them to get similar rewards to PvE,
Furthermore, they have all but shelved pre cursor crafting/hunt for the short term, so it will not affect them in this patch, this is why I think you are seeing them go up and up in price, because as soon as they mentioned it wont be coming out, big guilds/$$ sellers are buying them all up to control the market.
Also anyone who actually believes they will see a pre cursor out of a champ bag is dreaming, they also drop from reg mobs in cursed shore, and I can bet you have killed 1000x as many enemies in there as you have opened champ bags………
Long story short they are going up and up in price because they are not dropping ingame, therefore demand is massively outstripping supply.
In the options tab, select graphics settings, and under game interface, set it to normal, and it should go away, I got this error when I moved to a bigger monitor, I remember seeing it on the forums about a year ago posted by someone else, and that’s what they said to do.
In a game designed for no grinding, its bad that someone who maybe limited to the time they play may spend half that time doing a silly meta event just to unlock the dungeon they want to do,
The meta’s should only be needed for Story Mode, to make new players engage in the game, after that they should be open all the time etc, they should also make dungeons account bound so that you don’t have to do story mode on every char you ever make.
No. You forget the difference between the gear you have now (3 uber high stats) compared to the gear typically available at those levels (1 single, MAYBE two, digit stat). The scaling also does not take into account reducing your trait bonuses, nor does it correctly scale high level armor.
From what I remember, you could be using the very highest lvl gear in GW1 and the “Hard Mode” in the low level areas would eat you alive and spit out your remains if you were careless.
Difference is, in GW2 when your geared out and go to low level zones only your stats/health etc are lowered,
In GW1 when you went into HM everything was pushed up to level 80 etc, then attacked 50% faster and moved faster also.
I suggested this idea about a year ago now, maybe a little more, and I got shot down in flames, people crying about how it would ruin the game yadda yadda etc,
I 100% agree that vanquishing should be introduced, it could easily be made into an instanced event, go to an NPC, select zone to vanquish, and tada you are teleported to said zone in your own personal instanced event, where you kill all enemies that would be on said map, ( do not include meta events, or local events that spawn more enemies ) all other enemies, vet’s, champs etc are on the map as normal.
Yea you don’t think it has anything to do with the fact that Anet said precursor crafting was not coming, and they have no ETA on it due to they don’t know how to introduce it, because apparently the reward system is so fantastic in game, it may actually drop a precursor.
- AOE cap of 5
- small range of most buffs
These directly cause the stacked blobs.
If they increase the AoE from 5 to say 10-20 can you imagine how fast Retal would kill you when you drop that AoE bomb into it, I remember the day they changed the Retal in WvW my Mesmer exploded when I dropped staff skill 5 into the enemy zerg.
I don’t know why they didn’t use the same chest system as eye of the north, it was a massive gold sink from buying the lock picks, and in higher areas you could get some decent stuff, if anet truly wanted to remove gold from the game, this would have been a good way to start.
Submitting Ticket after 12+ mths of Crashing
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First up, never post your serial key to your game on these forums,
Make sure that your Nivdia card is running and its not detecting the Intel one,
From your test report it shows both cards, your crash report says its the Nvidia card that’s running,
Version = 8.17.0012.9601
You are actually running 296.01 drivers
I would recommend the 331.58 drivers,
They aren’t the most up to date but I found they are the most stable ive come across for GW2, of course everyones setup etc is different so some may or may not agree with this.
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If they make WvW like EotM it will completely destroy communities, and will probably lead to the mass exodus of several big WvW guilds, with as Anet will soon be competing with other MMO’s coming out this year, it would not make sense to do this.
WvW should be left tied to a server, leave the mega server to PvE/sPvP ( if its needed )
Im curious to see how this will affect World Bosses etc, it seems like its going to be the same system as GW1, but what if you end up in a World that is low on pop and you want to do a world boss, etc, this seems like it could be great for those who play at peak times, and its going to ruin the game for those who don’t, because as it stands all someone has to do is run up to a wall press R and it will never kick them from the server, so they can camp a world all day long…….
Anet need to get this 1 right, and get it right first time.
Well on NA T1, we just finished a massive battle in SMC where TC zerg against BG zerg, and the lag wasn’t to bad, nothing more than the GFX lag which is expected when 100+ ppl collide in a small room.
First of all, if the person that reported him wasn’t in your guild, then what he was reported for was not said in guild chat,
Second, I find it difficult to believe that he would be told why exactly he was banned, as that would mean someone from Anet support telling him it was for guild chat, and that’s unlikely they would give that info out,
So, im guessing that either, he was being abusive to someone in PM/Say chat and the got reported for that, or he was being abusive etc in guild chat and someone from your guild reported it.
Ok we need an everlasting bobble head tonic
I used to run 49 daily, the last 6 runs the final chest hasn’t even given me a ring let alone anything else, I no longer run fractals at all, the time for reward is pathetic.
Actually, its not to bad, I left it from when it came out until like 3 days ago, when me and a few guild mates ran it, yes mesmers do help, but are not required, a friend or 2 can be helpful to res if you miss though.
Champ farming was a TERRIBLE way to try and make gold. It was mainly for XP, crafting materials, karma, and luck, none of which are impacted by this change.
If you were farming champs for the gold drops… I mean… I don’t even know what to say…. maybe “don’t”?
It’s true that champ farming is by a wide margin not the best way to make gold (not counting TP either)
If there was any shred of truth in that comment, then you wouldn’t have nerfed it, the dev team are going out of the way to nerf loot everywhere in the game, what exactly are people supposed to do, just log in and play on the TP for an hour then log off, why not add that to daily rotation, Flip 5 items on the Trading Post.
Wow I get that with the gold sellers too, but only if im logged into game while posting, its clear that bots are scanning the forums, because someone at anet thought that having account names on a public forum would lead to no issues,
Anyway back at the OP, after the massive security issue that GW1 had, im fairly certain that these forums are secure enough, granted if some nasty person or persons wanted the info im sure they could get it, as well higher profile targets have been hit more recently.
Im actually surprised this hasn’t been addressed as the bug is still there, a friend the other day ended up being charged $150 for gems as the transactions all went threw, even though it says they have failed and to contact support,
Anet this needs to be acknowledged and addressed, else people will end up spending way more than they might have/need to.
With Max MF, you need to hit up the Melandru ( when its fixed ) and Grenth Temples in Cursed Shore, also if it doesn’t bug out the Arah event in Cursed Shore, these events have so much loot drop its stupid, for farming you should avoid dwayna and lyssa, they don’t spawn as many mobs, and if your server is doing it, grab Balth also.
Im kind of surprised you got so little in Fractals though, usually I get a lot of greens etc in there, its normally the end chests which are so disappointing.
If anyone on these forums could give you feedback on farming esp in Orr with high MF it would be Vol
Small vocal minority.
If you’re gonna get angry and quit over something like this, then by all means.
Was it not a smaller Minority that wanted the AP’s capped though, the climb in AP’s didn’t mean anything to Anet, some groups in game used them as a competition, me and a few friends did, but effectively now, after getting all ingame AP’s ( minus the huge grind ones WvW for example ) we will start capping out and everyone will catch up,
So much for playing the game how you want, I wanted to farm AP’s with friends for our in game fun, Anet have all but said to bad that’s coming to an end, because it seemed that a small group of people didn’t want to farm AP’s thus wanted the cap.
Anet would have been better just saying, we are capping AP’s at 20k, if you are higher than that, we will downgrade you to 20k, then everyone can be equal, the way they want it.
Actually do you run any sort of anti malware software, as if you look up EasyHook32.dll some say it seems to get detected as malware by some software, as this is the file that is causing your crash, its possible that anti virus/malware software is stopping this driving automatically, leading to the crash.
Sadly it does seem that the only way to fix this problem is to remove the Razer software, until razer patch it, I cannot see it working.
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reducing gold income from events and champion loots will not stop the farming.
Trains don’t exist for raw gold income, they exist to find that sweet loot that sells high on the TP.
So what you are really doing is hurting players who do events and explore.
You basically just increased the grind factor. Players do not change unless you completely remove the reward or gate it. Why not only allow one champ loot box per day per account per champion???? That would definitely spread the player base…
It wouldn’t, as some people already only log in to do dailies and maybe some champ farming, if they gated that, people would log in do dailies, kill 1 round of champs and log out, or hell they may just not log in at all, they haven’t gotten the rewards right since launch of this game, and im willing to bet that gold wont be the only thing removed from champ chests, watch the T6 mats disappear too.