Guild Wars 2

Oh for kitten sake. More howler problems?

When I next log in if my howler sounds nearly as bad as it’s made out to be in this thread, someone’s gettin’ a beatin.’

I didn’t make this legendary to sound like a farm animal passing gas.

Good news!

The GW2 Elementalist PvE Guide by Retaliate [rT] is finally complete after all of this time!

For all aspiring elementalist trialees I strongly advise you read this guide in full detail. If you can master all of the contents of what you see in here, you’ll be better prepared than ever!

xD

It was literally my favorite thing to do on gw2 tbh. It made me proud of having my crappy laptop that I could get 15 FPS with by changing render sampling LOL

Btw as someone who’s had Deep Glacial Sky for over a year… it’s one of the best dyes all-around. Get it. I bought it back when it was ~145g and the most expensive of all dyes… no regrets honestly. Such a nice shade.

Btw as for triple jump being fixed, it truly was gamebreaking. You could abuse it in way too many ways like this for example:

Obsidian Sanctum [1:35] https://youtu.be/gm7CfAWncmY
Borderlands [2:13] https://youtu.be/3xyyHG3lxbo

There were so many OP things you could do with it, problem is when people spread it around too much. Can’t say I’m not partly to blame for it, cause y’know… doing it on stream and whatnot.

I will miss it oh so much, but it deserves to be nerfed if every random schmoe knows about it because too much abuse can be caused from it.

Their fix for it was perfect tbh. They just made it so you can’t interrupt dodgerolls anymore by weapon swapping. That’s all that they needed to do… had my hopes up they’d be too dense to figure it out, oh well xD

Sesshi you and Goku are both awesome friends of mine and Ily both but may I ask, of all the things to look for competition in WTF why hotw xD

Hey guys, not like the information will apply to much of you but I thought I’d share it here that I’ve after many many many hours of tons of work I managed to fully update the warrior guide on dulfy and completely redo the elementalist one.

Warrior guide took about 7 hours in total to redo but even so I still didn’t get around to the specific dungeons section that Tom originally did (god it’s so long!)

The elementalist guide… gah, everything about it is different. It took over 30 collective hours to complete.

Anyways, here they are

http://dulfy.net/2014/06/28/gw2-comprehensive-warrior-pve-guide-by-element-and-purple-miku/

http://dulfy.net/2014/07/11/gw2-elementalist-pve-class-guide-by-retaliate-rt/

Sorry if it’s annoying to see me post about it when they were already released over a year ago, I just am proud of how they turned out and wanted to share!

EDIT: At some point I will redo the videos with the stupid Tohka chat cover… good criticism Tom thanks <3

Anybody have any suggestions for it let me know.

If you want to make sure that you’ll always be able to permastealth even if you get stuck in combat from Horrik you can just go shadow arts and slot SR + smokescreen. This way you wouldn’t even need anybody else to blast tbh.

I think it’s important to recognise a hopeless situation. I read about 70% of that post and I’m shocked I lasted that long. Forget that, don’t waste your time replying to somebody who thinks that easy and difficult content should give identical rewards.

My god… the gaming community these days… sigh.

To add to that, please remove the aftercast as well so it’s not such a frustrating skill to use. I’m fine with it having a cast time even if it is a shout, but right now it’s just awful.

“Reroll” or “Reroll swamp” or “Nope” would be the things I most frequently utter.

Haleydawn.3764:

Necro has barely any party support but has pretty high consistent damage. It’s the party support that people don’t want necros. They can inflict aoe weakness but that’s about it I think.
I still love my necro and my thief all the same though, unless an lfg is being too picky I have to choose.

Sorry but you’re a little too optimistic about necro’s damage.

It’s not like, obscenely lower than the other classes’ capabilities damage-wise but it’s certainly lower. Thief is one of the highest damage classes, so yeah…

Not only does thief totally outclass necro for group utility, personal utility, and mobility in general but it outclasses necro in both solo and group settings damage-wise as well. This includes both sustained DPS and burst.

One thing that thief is pretty awful at is ranged damage, but as we all know ranged combat is hardly ever a necessity anyways… and necro doesn’t have high DPS there either.

So what am I going to do about it?

Well, I called my ISP obviously and they are going to do what they can do and submit a ticket to Level3 showing them that there is a problem with their routing and whatnot. Hopefully they will do something about it.

In the meantime I’m going to get my modem swapped for a higher-end one that has multiple ethernet ports, and I’m going to order a better and longer ethernet cable so that I can keep my wireless network with the Netgear R6250 router while having an ethernet connection between the modem and my laptop instead of the router and the laptop.

Hopefully this post is of some help to some of you that are also wondering if there’s anything that you can do to resolve packet loss and horrible lag.

An alternative solution would be to use a VPN but I’ve had awful experiences with them and don’t want to pay a monthly fee for it. They’re generally not reliable and a lot of them are scams anyways.

So I’ve been experiencing absolutely dreadful and unplayable lag for a while now and it’s gotten significantly worse throughout the summer.

I’ve found out the problem to my lag and I’m posting it here because it might help some of you out there who are also at a loss of what to do and are looking for information:

http://www.level3.com/en/

These guys are what causes the problems for me. For whatever reason, I am routed through them as I’m an American and I play on EU servers, so to do so I have to get routed through a certain backbone ISP to hit the servers in Frankfurt, Germany and along the way I’m suffering from anywhere between 70-100% packet loss, resulting in lag like this:

https://youtu.be/40aVLZ0rBwc

It’s unpredictable but at this point expected, and impossible to enjoy myself. Any of you guys get lag like this? Random ping spikes ranging from 200-300 up to 2k or more, lasting anywhere between a second or two to a lot?

Chances are you might have the same problem that I have, even more likely depending on what your ISP is and what location you’re in because it will affect the way that you are routed.

I have a modem that I get my connection from my ISP with, via F-connector and it’s kind of a cheap-end modem that they provided us with. It has only 1 ethernet port, which I use to connect to a Netgear R6250 router which has the ability to provide my home with a wireless signal which this modem is unable to do.

See, here’s the weird part.

If I unplug my router from the modem and plug my laptop directly into the modem itself, I will be routed completely differently to the ncsoft servers. Instead of going through Level3’s terrible node in chicago where I lose 80% of the packets, I am routed through Telia instead and have absolutely no lag at all!

However…

If I re-connect my router to the modem and plug my ethernet cable connected from my laptop right into the router instead of the modem… I’m routed through Level3 again:

http://i.imgur.com/ZVGyjMk.png

It’s strange, but for some reason this makes the difference for me and changes the way that I’m routed. This is out of the control of my ISP, because once it leaves Time Warner’s equipment (my ISP), which ends at hop 6, it is no longer something they control directly.

It’s not an exploit/bug/glitch.

It doesn’t infinitely spawn wolves because it would be stupid for groups that fail on him, as the wolves would stay every time that a group would wipe and for inexperienced players they would not only probably lag from having dozens and dozens of wolves eventually but it would be nearly impossible to clear them at a certain point.

Therefore, there is a max limit of wolves. Pretty sure it’s 10 veterans.

You wanna spawn em on the opposite side you fight so that they won’t aggro when you fight on the other end, cause like all mobs on this game they have a max aggro range and don’t indefinitely chase you.

The only thing that can “glitch” with them is something that is not exclusive to pre-spawning wolves; they sometimes will spawn under the map, in the ceilings, on trees, on the roof of the hut, etc. This can happen to regular groups just fighting him out in the open so if it happens to you then you’ll likely be able to figure out when he’s done spawning wolves once he’s gone into stealth at least 3+ times without having seen any new veterans spawning.

Takes ~5 mins in total of running in circles, really simple.

As far as DPS in a solo setting is concerned, there are 3 main classes that are all candidates for being the best depending on the circumstance:

-Elementalist
-Warrior
-Engineer

1. If the target in question has a large hitbox, for example Giganticus Lupicus, then elementalist is the absolute highest DPS by a clear mile.

Example: https://youtu.be/WXl_i3RY2rQ

2. Does the fight involve small hitboxes? Are there more than 1 enemy? Is the boss lightly armored? If any combination of the above is true, then chances are warrior will be the best DPS but sometimes an elementalist can match warrior as well… just less consistently.

Example: https://youtu.be/B78o5uBUZG4

3. If the boss encounter has mechanics that generally are too much for most other classes to handle, and if the encounter requires a ton of kiting and the boss(es) in question have heavy armor, engineer is extremely powerful using their condition builds, sometimes berserker builds for when an encounter involves heavy reflect damage.

Example: https://youtu.be/cybaFHX9mCQ

Generally speaking you won’t find many (if at all) encounters where these 3 aren’t the best solo DPS. There are some situations like for example condi ranger being the fastest to solo berserker abomination in Arah p2, but I can’t think of many bosses to kill that it wouldn’t be fastest with one of these 3 classes.

dlonie.6547:

Those clips…arrrrg. I’m just watching a video, but nothing fills me with rage like seeing a Lupi kick hit halfway through a dodge roll….

TWC is horrible. Comcast is horrible. I’ve just generalized it to “all cable companies are horrible” at this point of my life. Never had a good experience with any of them, they just want your money and don’t really care about service :P

Amen to that.

However, the technician that came today actually seemed to understand what the problem(s) were!

Now I just have to hope that things actually start to get better. Time to test.

Fallen.4960:

Ok well this is related to the same issues that I have been having.

The problem is crappy. Like really crappy. Like totally pathetic by ArenaNet programming. In fact for some areas I can not run other than low quality graphics. Else Insta Crash. And even with Low Quality Graphics it is a bit hit and miss. Now this is mostly the case in High Population Areas like Lions Arch.

IF ArenaNet had a half pie smart Development Environment Control this would not be an issue.

BUT and it is a killer for them. Until they sort it out. Pay for an expansion when I can not reliably play what I have paid for. What a bunch of deluded people. How about you sort out your version control and your DEV issues. Provide a stable platform for a start?

Just a suggestion because it is not being run on a minimal environment. But the only program that causes a problem is GW2. That says to me that the problem is GW2 and crap developers.

I’m not saying your problems aren’t something to be upset about, because I’d definitely be pretty upset if I was crashing all the time…

But I never get client crashes unless I press F12 and spam the space button or something like that (force-closes client).

I have a 4.5 year old laptop too. Don’t be too quick to blame anet.

Actually the “big damage” class got a terrible damage elite specialization. Tempest is pretty awful for damage.

dboylolz.3916:

I live in Norway, and the fact that you experience emoticons in a complete other way does make sense to me. I’ve heard from several Americans living in Norway how unwelcoming and unsocial we can seem. Prime example is people sitting on the bus, people will go out of their way to not have to sit with a complete stranger and having to engage in a conversation.

I honestly think it might derive from the law of jante which is still situated in Norway after quite a long time.

The law of jante for those unaware.

I don’t speak on behalf of all of america but I can say without a doubt it is not a social norm to sit directly next to any strangers here as long as there is other space available.

Btw if you don’t like emoticons then I can imagine you sitting there staring at your phone with a fist full of rage whenever you read the whatsapp chat we have with Goku in it xD he loves them so much

I’ve noticed it can occasionally get worse in places like LA and whatnot, but I don’t get consistent results. There is basically no map in the game that I can enter and have the comfort of knowing all of my skills will activate in a reasonable amount of time after I press the key or if it will be a 2 second delay or a 4 second or whatever.

Running a pingplotter test with basically any of the map IP addresses will show the same thing always — packet loss with most of it happening between hops 7-9. Sometimes they will happen at my router, sometimes at one of the later hops, but never as frequently.

In the end I lost the instance about 10 minutes after the third video in my post on the previous page, so I just gave up and ragelogged for the night. You are right, it’s really frustrating indeed… especially since it’s been going on for ages.

I actually can’t even find the icons in the 3 pictures in the OP.

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to change the icons from their previous noticeable blue arrow icon to this where it’s barely visible at all?

What I believe is one of the main culprits:

http://www.level3.com/en/

These monsters… dropping all of my packets. My precious packets. They must all be drunk or something, who knows.

But just in general, american ISP supergiants like Comcast & Time Warner are satanic. I have had to go through 4 different modems in the past year with Time Warner because they always give you “refurbished” equipment and basically never anything new… actually the last one we had from them had the power supply completely die out within 4 months. xD

Having a technician come “take a look” tomorrow afternoon again

-rolls eyes-

Can’t wait to be told “everything looks good here” and that “unless there’s something visibly wrong there isn’t a whole lot on our end that we can do, but we’ll keep monitoring the information on our end so that we’re able to let you know if something comes up.”

Sanderinoa.8065:

Please help us in our collective prayers to Time Warner Cable to improve mikus internet.

FTFY.

Regardless of what VPN server I try, I still get stuff like this happening >.<

https://youtu.be/sKFub3x_M6c
https://youtu.be/4yld15jwbSY
https://youtu.be/40aVLZ0rBwc

The transformation itself is supposed to have increased attack speed iirc from a datamined post on reddit, which would be a DPS increase for both power and condi builds.

Right now there is no circumstance in which condi builds are higher DPS than power builds for warrior in PvE so don’t freak out about it.

Skady.5916:

I never claimed that healing guard + DPS is faster. I have absolutely no doubts that there are people out there who are really good at this game and play with other really good players for 5 years together and they can do fractal trios faster and maybe even post a video of it some day.

Sadly I have no saved recordings of anything trio fotm related on my laptop other than a ~2:31 mossman from 4-5 months ago. It was possible to get sub-2:00 back then so it wasn’t really that good, but I will send you it privately instead of posting it on this thread.

No clue on how fast it can be done now, maybe around 1:15?

As for a full run recording I will see what I can do.

The last thread it was basically agreed upon that as far as efficiency and speed was concerned, it was not better to use a healing guard + 2 people running damage oriented builds but it was just what worked for them in particular.

Since the specializations update it only amplifies how much more efficient 3 people running DPS builds over a healer + 2 DPS players is.

I personally have no issue whatsoever with you Skady and all the power to you for finding something that you enjoy playing with and glad it works out for you.

As long as you don’t claim it as a general statement for it to be better or to use a healing guard + 2 DPS players over 3 people using DPS builds, then it’s fine. The distinction between declaring it as a general statement and claiming it’s something that works best for you and your friends in particular is kind of important if you want to make sure that you aren’t interpreted incorrectly.

As for the side discussion about cliffside trio being difficult… I suggest anyone struggling with it to try with two eles next time and trait for Inscriptions for reduced recharge on Sandstorm. It will be very very easy to maintain enough blinds for the trash mobs, regardless of what class the third player is using.

I have the exact same problems, pandaexpress.

I’ve contacted my ISP about it many times to see if there’s anything that can be done from their end and they’ve told me no every single time.

:(

I don’t know why if your path was stolen before, that you’d enable it to happen again the exact same way the next time you decide to sell it. When it happened to me the first time in 2013 I learned from it and just invited placeholders so there’s no reason for you not to do so as well.

dulfy.1493:

Purple Miku has updated this guide for the latest balance patch on August 11, 2015

Indeed.

Elementalist one is next!

I talked to Sesshi about it a long time ago and he said he never gets buggy aoes like he sees in my highlights/unlisted recordings.

He has pretty much the most overpowered setup I’ve seen out of anybody playing GW2 (kittening ridiculous, even the internet connection) and I think it actually might be true that it’s related to hardware.

Here’s a solid example of it happening to me at Mai Trin and Molten Duo ages ago:

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/6245205

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/v/5834828

It’s either hardware or latency related for sure. I actually would not be surprised if it could be a combination of both.

Just got a new laptop that I need to get around to setting up and transferring all my stuff to, but my internet is still Ebolaids, so yeah we’ll see. If it keeps happening still then that would mean it’s not hardware related.

This is… awkward.

Whirlwind hits a maximum of 4 times. It cannot hit more than 4 times in one attack on one target.

It’s just speculation.

I’m pretty confident it’ll be torch as well but there’s no confirmation of it anywhere. The next elite spec that will be revealed is I’m pretty sure gonna be thief, but could be wrong about that obv.

Either way there’s been a trend with the current elite specs and all of them besides chronomancer look like they’re going to be awful for PvE. I wonder if warrior’s elite spec will have good damange and/or offensive support? Time will tell :P

http://www.tickcounter.com/countup/20131001120000am/w422/Time_Since_Previous_Dungeon_In_GW2

Anyday now…

Ardenwolfe.8590:

I always laugh when I hear people say, “No rangers!” in any group. It’s part of the reason I tend to solo everything instead. But, ironically, I tend to be the last person standing in any group I join and rezzing everyone afterwards.

But, all that said, I’d never let the whims or dislikes of other people dictate what class I play.

I suggest you do the same.

Yeah and that tends to be because rangers most of the time are people who are actually ranging bosses. If this happens to be you then duh you’re the last one to go down. Proximity is a huge factor in the way mobs aggro on this game.

If this isn’t you then that’s another story but this is the #1 reason for rangers getting as much hate as they do, not because of lack of DPS or utility.

The class itself just attracts bad players most of the time. It makes me feel sorry for the people playing ranger that are actually good players tbh.

The fact of the matter is you will be taking tons of deaths on all classes unless you’re experienced with both the encounters that you’re in and the class that you play.

In other words, elementalist is not much different than other classes in the sense that if you don’t know what you’re doing you’ll go down easily. The difference between elementalist and warrior, for example, is that you don’t have innately high health and armor so it’s less forgiving when you’re trying to learn.

Nokaru.7831:

I don’t know if you have tried this yet, but have you tried a routing service? Try WTFast for one month, and see if this resolves the issue. It does cost a little bit of money, but you will be all to figure out if this is the problem. If it does, it means that the problem is communication between your ISP and the servers for Guild Wars 2. If this is the case, this is a very frustrating problem because neither your ISP or ArenaNet will assume responsibility for it, because they can’t do anything about it. The problem is the data centers in between the two. I had this problem a few years ago when I played World of Warcraft; it was usually due to poor maintenance during intense heat or summer. There is no way to contact the companies that are charged with maintaining these data centers. I eventually just got a new ISP.

If everything else with your Internet works fine, this is probably what’s going on.

Oh trust me I’ve tried dozens of WTFast servers. The truth is sometimes it helps but it’s not consistent at all. I lag both with and without it, sometimes I lag even more with it than without.

This indicates to me that the problem is both a combination of my terrible internet and the communication between my ISP and the ncsoft servers.

Unfortunately, a new ISP is out of the question as Time Warner has a monopoly on my area.

Btw I greatly appreciate the attempt to help me!

fracture.9754:

Purple Miku.7032:

I’m getting really desperate at this point and I’m gonna just post my thread here, in hopes that maybe somebody here would have a suggestion for me.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Internet-related-advice-I-m-out-of-ideas/first

I just can’t stand it anymore. Tell me, have any of you guys had problems similar to this before and if you did, did you contact your ISP about and actually have them do something about it before? Every single person at Time Warner insists that there is nothing they can do about it.

I had same problems, but DCs due to packet loss, so it was worse. You have probably tried this, but just in case: do you have GW2 ports forwarded? They’re 80, 443 and 6112 TDP/UDP. There’s also a command line designed for specifically such problems, with which you can bypass rerouting and connect directly. I can’t get the exact info because I’m not home this weekend and am restricted to a cell phone.

Have you tried contacting support? They have some software you have to install (plotter something), which enables them to see how you’re being rerouted. They will also have the command line info.

Also, if you haven’t tried yet, try running the game on modem only (without router).

Edit:found it, add -clientport 80 or -clientport 443 after start line in gw2 launch file shortcut

I’ve tried adding the clientport switch numerous times over the past 2 years, no noticeable difference. Additionally I haven’t recently contacted anet support but that’s because when my friend was having routing issues the exact same kind as mine they told him there was nothing they could do and that he had to get it sorted with his ISP. The last time I tried contacting anet was months ago so that’s something I suppose I could try.

As for pingplotter you can see in the thread that I posted that I provide a link showing one of the many screenshots of my pingplotter results, so yeah already have that.

The sad part is the only time in which my lag is tolerable enough to actively play atm is at night when everybody is sleeping. Then for some reason this level 3 communication doesn’t give me 70-100% packet loss

Warrior is much more active and fun in combat and requires significantly more micromanagement than elementalist. I agree with Tarasicodissa.7084 in that regard because that specializations patch changed warrior from having one of the most basic rotations out of all classes to suddenly having no genuinely optimal and repeatable rotation due to the fact that every next skill to use is dependent on multiple factors.

This includes endurance level, adrenaline level, which weapon is currently equipped, which attack the boss will use next, the health of the boss, etc. Elementalist rotations have barely changed since the update and as a result seem a lot less fun to me than warriors do, as their build diversity was shot along with there being basically nothing new added to the class.

However, out of combat it’s another story of course.

Elementalist has more traits to swap between fights and has might prestacking rotations and swiftness to blast. This is true, but now that staff builds are basically the only things elementalists use there isn’t a ton of attunement dancing mid-fights. Most things tend to die pretty fast anyways if we’re talking group play.

I think we all truthfully know in one word what we’re getting but afraid to get our hopes up. :P

The only non-bugged solo of Simin that I remember ever seeing was Austin’s old fgs solo from a year ago, unless you count the perma-stun ranger solo with the Korga staff.

The problem with doing a legit solo of Simin is that she can bug when trying to go into hiding and interrupt her own spin but I still am not really sure what causes it.

It might legitimately be possible to do on warrior without guild banner tonic exploiting though, might need to give it a try. You can spam signet of might + healing signet when luring the sparks for enough precision to not have to worry about the DPS loss from taking a stability util now and the damage might be good enough to actually pull it off.

Just too bad that stupid AI glitch from the ferocity patch still hasn’t been noticed/fixed yet and you can’t lure more than 2 mobs without actually damaging them without the first one resetting.

Healix.5819:

The problem with looking at packet loss from pings is that it’s not all real. Pings are not important, so they may be dropped, delayed or entirely ignored on purpose. Hop 8 and 9 for example are just ignoring them and 7 is probably limiting them, since an actual ~73% loss would be killing your connection and affecting all future hops.

Another problem affecting the EU servers specifically is the bad network in Frankfurt. If you happen to be going through it, it will cause major packet loss during certain hours. For now (until that network upgrades), this problem can only be avoid by routing around it.

As for getting banned using WTFast, any VPN can potentially get you banned. The problem is that anyone could be using it. What happened with WTFast was that it was being used by malicious accounts, so ArenaNet simply banned them based on the IP. Everyone else that was caught in the net was unbanned shortly after.

Your trace is NA fyi.

Yeah Frankfurt seems to be the biggest problem.

So based off of what you say there seems to be nothing that I can do other than keep trying VPNs. Do you have any suggestions on those? Like I’ve said already, tried Cyberghost and WTFast and they ended up failing to help in the end.

Orbs solo post specializations for ele:

You do need clerics, but by no means is executioner axe necessary.

Thanks for the feedback and glad the guide(s) have helped!

Warrior is capable of soloing AC story + path 2 for certain, but I’m pretty sure it’s impossible for warrior to solo the burrows in path 1. It might still be possible to solo the timegated event in path 3 + the last boss, but it might require some sketchy tactics because of the NPC at the end being bugged.

Warrior can solo all CM paths no problem.

Warrior can solo all TA paths no problem aside from Aetherpath, which is impossible to complete with less than 4 players.

Warrior can solo all SE paths.

Warrior can solo CoF story, but cannot solo CoF paths 1 and 3. Path 2 might be possible, but I’m uncertain if the bombs event can be done fast enough with warrior and uncertain if the defend magg event is doable alone. I personlly never cared enough to try it.

Warrior can solo all HotW paths.

Warrior can probably solo CoE story, but cannot solo the explorable paths specifically because of the laser deactivation part before the golem boss that’s in all 3 paths and would not be able to solo the consoles in path 1 or the destroyer boss in path 3. If it weren’t for the lasers, it would be possible for warrior to solo path 2.

Warrior can solo Arah paths 2, 3 and 4, but path 1 is not possible to complete with less than 4 players due to the tar boss.

Hope this helps.

I don’t understand what the problem is. Why not just accept the record as a [geek] one and not the [rP] one if you find the name offensive?

As for the downscaling nerfs, it’s really noticeable on eles.

However, something many people fail to understand since the specialisations update is that warrior’s banners and EA don’t get downscaled. You get the actual values from the offensive buffs, so the damage increase from a warrior in AC and CM is huge.

Personally I don’t care about CM story but I suggest trying it with 2 eles and 1 warrior to see the difference for yourself.

Yeah sorry but that’s just not going to cut it for this game (or most of any games).

frifox.5283:

I’m on NA and my EU ping is usually around 200ms, very much playable. But for you here’s a suggestion. Amazon’s services have amazing connectivity between their own services. You can try to take advantage of that.

Make an account on AWS, fire up an EC2 box nearest to you. Test connectivity. If there is no packet loss, this might actually work. Create a 2nd AWS account and fire up a similar box somewhere on EU’s datacenters. Then, using OpenVPN, route all your traffic to the NA box, then to EU box, and then to GW2 servers.

This might take quite some time and effort to set up but I believe it will help you. A private VPN directly to EU. Best of all, it’s free for 1 year…

Yes 200 ms is definitely playable, I normally average around 180. Anything that’s higher than what you’re used to will feel like garbage. I actually used to average between 250-350 for over a year on EU but it was when I updated my equipment that I started to average a bit lower.

Anyways, thank you! Going to look into this tomorrow. Hope you don’t mind but if I want more specific information about this I’ll probably send you a pm on the forums, as setting this up is currently out of the scope of my knowledge.

He’s not trying to cause problems for me Ellieanna.5027, no need to get defensive on my behalf/target him. I appreciate literally anyone trying to help me out here, doesn’t matter whether or not the advice is perfect or useless to me as long as they’re genuinely trying to help out.

@bladex
Despite them being really blunt (and arguably way too rude) about it they were correct in asserting that if the problem was actually GW2 itself, then you would see problems around hops 11, 12 and 13 but the issue is the “everything in between” from where my connection leaves my ISP’s services up to when it reaches the ncsoft servers.

I’ve tried VPNs before and have experienced some relief for these problems, but they were inconsistent and sometimes made things even worse so I’m not sure if it’s just WTFast and Cyberghost being terrible quality VPNs or if there’s something more that I can do or maybe more that my ISP can do to help.

I’ve talked to a friend that has Verizon who says similar things to me when he asked his ISP if there was a way he could avoid being routed through telia and they supposedly gave similar kind of answers that Time Warner gives me.

I don’t know what to do about it but there must be something that I can do besides giving up and not playing on EU.

Sadly I’ve tried exactly what you’ve suggested with about 5 different servers and the problem persisted on all, but not consistently. It would sometimes work for up to an hour or so, then suddenly get really awful.

The worst part was that every single time I needed to change servers, I’d need to close out of everything and reopen it every single time. The inconvenience aspect of it was very extreme.

Additionally, my free trial expired for it. I could probably mess around with registry values to try to reset the trial (think I’ve done that with something else long ago), but yeah.