Guild Wars 2

Its clear that Anet Devs do not read feedback on things, this is one of the worse fractals to come up against, and it was always mostly skipped if it came up first,

That switch room is shocking, we rolled a lvl 30 last night, 3 guards 1 war 1 thief, and this is before they add instabilities good luck trying this room with

Tag team – One player must remain out of combat
Double Tag Team – Two players must remain out of combat
Weak Link – If ONE party member dies, all die
Doctor Death – Skills from the healing slot cause death
Malefactor – Take damage when you apply boons

The list goes on and on, this was not properly thought out, and was poor it was never changed, Id rather see a champ in that room that you must kill in order to get the gate unlocked rather than this current very broken mechanic.

DrPhro.5976:

I don’t know about after the patch, but before it was estimated that you’d need ~980 AR to get past jade maw at 50. I don’t know if that kept increasing at 60-80, but that was the wall we faced. Currently, I heard the new infusions maxed out at +10 meaning the most you can get is 70 AR, so aiming for that high number is irrelevant anyway.

Whoever told you that is wrong, seeing as there are +11infusions on the TP right now, im guessing 15 or 20 is max.

As for the 19 instabilities, check out dulfy’s site, there are way more than 19,

http://dulfy.net/2013/11/26/gw2-mistlock-instabilities/

And some of them are just impossible if you get them.

Yea same issues here.

We got into the weapons test room, completed it, killed the champ, had the chest spawn, but it would not allow us to leave the room, it instantly teleported us back to the enterance to the test chamber, and no pop ups to allow us to continue with fractals etc,

Killed the boss, got dropped infront of a final chest, and all dead, lucky we had a revive orb, bad trollz anet bad trollz, you clearly had god mode on when you tested this.

But its going to look like that either way, with or without the names of the players on the list…

The AP leaderboard has the same problem though, shows your account name, and it even shows your account name on the forums, I think it was done this way for Anet to track you easier on the forums to ingame,

The leaderboard if they want to make it public but private could easily make it that when you look at it its something like this,

xxxxxx fotm lvl 80 ranked 1
xxxxxx fotm lvl 78 ranked 2
yourself form lvl 77 ranked 3^
xxxxxx form lvl 77 ranked 3

So that you only see where your ranked, not who is above or below you thus showing you where you are against everyone else, but doesn’t show everyone else your name to hound you to run them threw fractals.

I recently got the Samsung S27B970D 27" Widescreen Ultra Thin LED Professional PLS Monitor, and GW2 looks amazing, the colour’s are amazing, and it handles the game no problem, i no longer play serious FPS games, so that’s why i went for this monitor, and i love it.

On the 27" screens what is the native res they run, mine was 2560×1440, so depending on your GFX card, it maybe a limiting factor.

Hey from looking at this log your GFX driver is 314.22

Try updating to the new 331.58 drivers from the Nvidia site, I know its a simple thing but it really could be down to the driver issues, when I updated I stopped crashing completely in game, if your still getting the issue after the update, post again,

What version of the Nvidia drivers do you run, what card do you run, me and my friends who run Nvidia are all running the 331.58 series drivers and none of us have experienced any issues before or after the update,

Does the game crash with an error etc etc.

Aitadis.8269:

I’m from CD and have been on the green BL all 3 weeks so far this league and it has seemed like we have been outnumbered at times on defense when we have a que or are unable to get our entire team in because of a que in order to defend a keep. Not saying if this is confirmed or not but might be worth looking into.

Im glad someone else on a NA server posted this, SoR has been Q’d last week for hours to finally get in and there be about 30 people on the map, and we are outnumbered.

Its about time anet post up a statement on this, if this is a confirmed bug then the season needs to be scrapped and the bugs fixed, ( oh wait, they don’t care about WvW, LS takes priority )

100 a day for a champ farmer isn’t even close, you can get about 40-50 an hour depending on the zone/path you take, I read about this nerf, so went and tested it today, I only did a small test 75 champ boxes from a highly farmed level 80 zone, I will openly admit there is no risk in this farm, but it does highlight something.

I was amazed to see that 15 of the boxes gave me less than 1 silver, and a few give none at all, with the highest I seen was 8 silver, still not bad for a no risk farm, what got me was the removal of nearly all T6 mats, out of the 75 boxes I got 2 x T6 fangs, that was it, looking at the price of T6 mats on the TP its going to be bad for anyone needing these mats,

When anet nerf something they really go overboard, which highlights the other part, its ok to get a small reward for no risk, but anything that is high risk or time consuming, ( FotM lvl 40+ ) your getting even less rewards!!!!!

Get your act together anet, this motion of telling people how to play and where to play in the game doesn’t work, and if you try carry that practice over into your Asian market that your trying to break into, you might aswell stop now.

LOL of course your not 2v1, you cant have much gold left to buy out guilds/commanders/servers, as you already bought the league, will be funny when you come 2nd to JQ, all that wasted gold, LOL

Big congrats to this weeks winners ZD guild and TC server, I wonder which one of you got paid more gold for the move/ throwing the match LOL,

Alas its good to see a guild on BehindaGate that like to battle open field.

BG the pay to win server LOL.

Hopefully JQ’s easy matchup will allow them to win the Season 1, then all that buying out guilds etc that BG did will be in vain gg, gg.

My dat file is 19.7Gb

For all those BG and TC players who where in EBG today, good battles throughout the day, spent a good 6-8 hours in EBG fighting you all, hopefully the rest of the week is just as good.

You can move the game folder over onto an external drive and move it onto the new system yes, or you can do as the OP did and copy only the gw2.dat file over ( this is basically the entire game ) then on the new system, go to gw2.com download the client, allow it to start, then cancel the downloader, go to the guild wars 2 folder and copy the gw2.dat file into it, when it askes you to replace say yes,

I would recommend only doing the gw2.dat file, as if its on a new system, when you start the game your unlikely to corrupt anything with settings changes etc.

Now, last week WvW had all sorts of lag issues and server syncing issues, so you cannot really use anything that happened last week as a great example, as there where way worse than this happening,

The lag issues seem to some what subsided, are you talking about they where downed state where they could rally, or downed as in DEAD, if it was the first one, a warrior banner can res, or if they tagged an enemy who died will rally them also from downed state, I ask because im in WvW daily for several hours and ive not seen anyone instant res from a dead state.

You may want to head over to the Nvidia forums and post this there also, incase its more a driver related issue than a GW2 issue, I use the 331.58 drivers and the game is solid for me, granted I don’t run 3 monitors, and im only gaming at 2560×1440, there is a big post on there forums dedicated to this release of drivers.

What NVidia drivers are you running, what version?

Okies, I had this OOM error several times a day in WvW, i changed the frames to 1 the same as you, the local.dat file is no longer in the GW2 folder like it used to be, its been moved to another folder, did you get the right one,

Anyway, you run the same GFX card as me, i run my game at 2560×1440 but your driver version is 331.40, do and download the new 331.58 drivers, when you install them it will ask you the option for clean install, let it do this, but if you are not using a monitor that can run 3D, do not install the 3D drivers that come with the installer, last year it was reported the 3D drivers where prone to memory leaks, and you have the choice to not install them with these drivers,

Long story short, I

Installed new drivers
Deleted the local.dat file
incase you didn’t get the new location of that file it can be found

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2\local.dat

Ran the game, reset all my settings, and i haven’t crashed once, not even the corrupt archive, no OOM errors, and that’s with 3 days of full WvW zerg battles.

Im on a T1 server, and the Q times have dropped down now its not the weekend, maybe at night there is a Q times from 5-30 mins but nothing OTT, the weekend it was hours,

I think some people seem to forget or have overlooked that the massive lag was a problem before the apparent server stacking, and your claim that just move to a lower server does not work either, because it just takes 1 big WvW guild to move from a higher Tier to the lower one, and that server because super stacked and will role anyone they come across, and it will generate lag, then you will be back on here crying about how your WvW lags when it didn’t before yadda yadda,

Point is, they new before they started the season 1, the servers could not handle the clashes on the map, but they went ahead anyway knowing that people would move up, and the dev’s claim of if you move up expect lag/delays is a BS way out, its like there way of saying, its not our fault our servers cannot handle the battles its the players fault.

If they cannot fix it, id rather they just came out and said it, that way everyone would know nothing will get better, and move on, be it they leave the game, or be it they put up with the lag, rumor has it they are trying to launch this game in Asia, can you imagine what there WvW battles will be like……

I would welcome any of the ANET dev team who work on server side to come to any of the top 6-9 servers for a day of WvW to experience just how game destroying this is.

Cannot see it happening as I get the feeling that the dev who told us that we where the minority on here doesn’t really understand how it works, the WvW clashes before caused lag, so instead of fixing it, they decieded to add a bunch of AP’s for PvEr’s to get, made Zerg Vs Zerg battles 50% larger.

Me and a few friends logged off WvW 30 mins ago, as soon as 2 opposing teams could be seen on the map it was instant lag fest, and this is before they clashed, couldn’t cast, couldn’t change weapons, and bascailly it came down to who had the biggest numbers, not who had the skill, it even made 2 v 2 on the ruins lag out because of the map clashes,

All this does really is pushes those who enjoyed WvW from launch and where not AP hunters out of the game format they enjoyed, and allow the PvE AP hunters to PvD for points, looks like if you want any sort of PvP you have to go sPvP.

Reading this DEVS, your LAG IS KILLING YOUR GAME.

I understand that with the new leagues in WvW its brought more people to WvW, and with that an increased Q times ( even bar the bugged ones )

Last night when I was caught in a Q for about 45 mins, not a big deal as I just played the game, but when the Q finally opened up and I entered EB, there was about 15-20 people standing AFK at the spawn point, I figured I would wait there for a few mins to check it out, and alas none of them moving, when I WP’d back about 10 mins later they where still standing there,

Its not exactly a reportable issue, but its something that needs look into, espically if this is how WvW is going to progress.

Like its been said, the drivers aren’t likely to help, but it wont hurt to upgrade them, the new 331.58 drivers are stable in game, I run them on a 680GTX, game is fine.

Authir.7431:

Ok, I recently updated to the newest graphic-driver (331.58), joined a PvP match and the game instantly crashed, blackscreen but pc still responding also no sound loop. Windows Eventviewer says that the display-driver “nvlddmkm” crashed. This is also my first crash on maximum settings… guess the settings don’t matter.

Just on that nvlddmkm error, I came across this last night when looking for fix to another issue, maybe it can help you.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/413110/geforce-drivers/the-nvlddmkm-error-what-is-it-an-fyi-for-those-seeing-this-issue/

On another note, I downloaded and installed the 331.58 drivers today and the game was rock solid all day, it didn’t crash once, and that’s unusual for me.

Confirmed on SoR, incase its a server thing.

If you want them ingame can you not just have an Asuran Story Teller in LA that takes you to a small cut screen and reads the story too you.

OOM: arena=Default

Out Of Memory error, search the forums for Out Of Memory error, and see how many results come back.

Doesn’t help that the Q’s seem to be bugged

Thought there had to be something wrong, was stuck in a Q tonight for over 2 hours while I played, still never got into WvW, this morning was bad also, its not even primetime yet.

I honestly don’t know, its random for me too, sometimes I can play all day and not get this error, and days I can get it 3 or 4 times, it only seems to happen in WvW for me, in large scale battles, but it seems to be some sort of memory leak issue, ive seen systems with better specs than mine get it, and systems with lower specs,

Sadly Anet has not replied to a single 1 of the topics on this issue, so we do not know what the cause is, or how to start trouble shooting to fix it,

I lowered my culling settings a little bit and it did help some, but I still get the crash on average once a day if I play a lot of WvW.

If you want to compare I run

i7 3770K
16Gb Ram
680 GTX

My overall system is way above the specs needed for this game.

1 rank per day for 49 days, and the extra rank spread out over the 49 days, you can rank up in less than 1 hour, its hardly grindy, if they had said 250 ranks then its grindy.

The crash log shows you have hit the dreaded Out of Memory error, you will not get a reply from any anet dev on the crash, just search the forums for out of memory error, its been reported multiple times and it goes unanswered, it has plagued the game since beta last year, and still no fix in sight, its affecting machines from bear min specs needed to run the game to high end gaming systems, sorry this isn’t the answer you wanted to see, but might aswell let you know before you keep checking back for an answer.

Game in General

1. lag issues around world events/wvw
2. RnG based loot, rewards for time invested are shocking
3. FIX THE BUGS / GAME BREAKING GLITCHES

^^^
On the bugs problem, your tech support/bugs section of this forum have some very serious game breaking issues being reported, and yet they are not acknowledged, you say you read them but really who knows, if someone posts that the TP is broken your all over that like a rash because its $$ but when someone links something in chat and crashes an entire boarderland in WvW its a yea we will look into it at some point, the out of memory error is another game breaking bug, I don’t believe that if this game was tested right that not 1 single person from your entire test team didn’t get this bug.

Honestly if I was looking at this game forum before buying it, and came across that bug section/ tech support and see that no dev’s etc where replying to most topics, I would avoid the game like the plague……..If people cannot play your game, why would they buy it, and or introduce friends to it….think about it.

No its not, but if the update is coming from the same servers the game is hosted on, then it could just be bad timing, as this week you had the Halloween update, and the WvW league 1 season start, and its the weekend, so there are probably way more people than normal online, normally you should beable to download the game as fast as your net connection will allow, have you checked everything on your end is ok ( only asking as its what anet will tell you )

I can verify this, on SoR about 30 mins ago the buff on one of the lords was at 45 seconds, it finished, and he was still invun for a good 30 seconds after, this is the difference between capping a point or not.

Be warned, the Mac client for GW2 is still technically in Beta, I have a friend who runs GW2 on a Mac, and he gets some serious errors in game, from things disappearing, to GFX screwing up, his trading post also doesn’t load 8 outta 10 times.

As for the cooling etc, the game will run, but if your moving from a desktop to this imac don’t expect the same performance, all laptops will be restricted in terms of power for gaming, also to be safe, you should prob pick up an after market, laptop cooler.

Its been that way for weeks, im guessing the recent surge in people complaining about the event being a ghost town, that anet figured lets try force people to go to the event for that 1 AP yaya, no, its still a ghost town, no one has any interest in this event, so really they took an event that was farmed daily into an event that was farmed for a week then abandoned, and im sure Jorlag, Shatterer will soon follow.

Mel.8769:

Mystic.5934:

good thing you can’t talk to the enemy in WvW.
“/allies Everyone! cover your ears!”
“/enemies [ITEM]”
“/allies ok, let’s go capture everything”

I was thinking the same thing!

There is nothing to stop someone going to another server with an alt account, and linking the bugged link into a chat to crash an entire boarderland, thus giving a massive boost to there own server…

The fact that this bug was reported weeks ago says it all, Anet should have disabled the ability to link any item in chat until the devs could find what is causing this bug and perm remove it from the game, as it stands, this is a game breaking bug that is still in the game since the teq update.

What is your full system specs, everything right down to the size of the PSU, without that info no one on here can even begin to try and figure out or help you.

Also what settings are you using ingame.

Interesting topic, they read constructive feedback, and yet when an update goes live its with changes that no one askes for, your community on here really isn’t that important to you, you will develop this game how you see fit, ( WvW Bloodlust ) hell, the dev for WvW even posted himself that the WvW community on these forums where the minority, then he made a hasty retreat into the depths and hasn’t been seen posting on here since.

How about instead of developing more and more in such a short space of time, they take the entire dev team up to the bug section/ tech support and fix or try to fix some of the game breaking bugs that have been there since beta last year………..no point in having a game if your players cannot play it because of bugs / glitches that are out of there control.

Else you should just remove the bugs/tech section of the forum and put a single post in there that reads, contact support direct to get told an answer from a book.

Actually this bug apparently was introduced with the Teq update, and has still not been addressed, we where doing Arah last night and 1 of my friends from another guild, suddenly got booted out, because a guild member in there guild, link in chat and it crashed there entire guild,

This is a game breaking bug, further more it can be totally exploited, as if said link is posted to world/map chat it will crash everyone who has that map chat up, ive seen this happen twice in WvW,

I don’t know how its done, or why anyone would choose to do it, the fact that it has not been fixed it beyond shocking.

Now, ive beaten this boss 4 times before with no issues, same team setup and all, but today we had to leave, we could not beat it at all,

We wiped 4 times, twice we had no choice, as it stopped spawning the holograms needed to remove his buffs once he got below 50% health, 3rd wipe he did one of his massive attacks without having the 30 stacks, then last time he was down to about 5% health and his stacks suddenly went into overdrive, like 30 stacks in less than 10 seconds, and no holograms,

During the battle also, we could not res 1 person for most of the battle, as the clockwork just spawned never ending cogs of death on top of the dead player, ANTI res much……

It could be down to complete bad luck/ server lag etc, but the fact we’ve beaten it several times before with same team setup etc, and this was just bizarre.

My Intel 335 and 520 series SSD’s have been rock solid, my load times in game are all under 5 seconds, bar LA during busy times.

What make is your SSD.

Talyn.3295:

I see no problem with this. The points are there for the players who want to work at them. As they are not a requirement there is no problem. If your not wanting to put the effort into the required task its no fault of anets.

I love the way you assume that I do not put the effort into the game, seeing as a cleared 10k AP’s over a month ago, id say I put a good bit of effort into the game,

Had you BOTH actually read what I wrote, instead of what you wanted to read you would see that I suggested removing the AP from perm content, because when new perm content that is challenging is completed people do not go back to it, could you imagine being new to the game now and trying to get the reward to kill TEQ, LMFAO good luck.

Most people who even only play an hour a day can get the AP’s linked to the LS content in the 2-4week period that the are available, in 2 weeks from now there will be very few people running that new TA path, ( me personally I have it complete, but as its not all about me ) that’s why I suggested that above approach.

Anet you need to get away from linking achievement points to permanent events etc to the game,

You made the new Teq part of living story, and gave it its own achievement points rewards for the event, now that people have them, the event is dead, there is no incentive to go there at all, the drops are bad, the event is poorly thought out, and no matter how much you talk it up about increasing drops its still not worth it,

You have also linked the new TA path to achievement points, again once people get these points they will stop doing this path, because lets face it when you get the full AP available this path is to long, you could run the 2 other paths of TA/HotW/CoF in the same time it takes to get past this one, and probably walk away with the same rewards,

I know that from the day the game was released you have never gotten the rewards Vs time invested right, you always fall back on this game destroying RnG system,

If you want to make AP’s available for new things in the game via LS that’s fine, as most LS is tempory, but do not link them to permanent addon’s to the game, as they end up being game destroying.

Went there again about an hour ago and no one there at all, bone wall up, all turrets gone, 100% health, I am on T1, SoR NA server, so its not like its a small server in regards to numbers,

This is what happens when Anet only listen to a small number of people in regards to an event.

Teq spawned a little while ago on my server, i figured id go down as im still to beat it, and there was NO ONE there at all, i couldn’t believe it, is Anet monitoring this “world” event at all, as no one in the world was at it.