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So Overwolf is an approved addon now?

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soooooooo ari when can we use this?

Hopefully by today. Working on it right now to upload the apps.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

So Overwolf is an approved addon now?

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I do believe all GW2 Overlays require you to be running in full-screen windowed (or simply windowed) to allow the application to overlay itself properly. If you run in full-screen mode, the application will not be able to display itself on top since GW2 will be on front of everything.

Hey there!

Ari here, Community Manager for Overwolf and the guy who made those videos.

Overwolf runs in fullscreen mode as it works very different to the other overlays out there. We inject into the game without altering the games files or anything (which is why SweetFX sometimes messes Overwolf up).

The way we work complies with the ToS of Guild Wars 2.

The Daily Dolly app works like pen and paper, it does not read anything automatically and requires user input (you have to manually click the paths of the dungeons or crafting and such) to make it do anything.

Every app for Guild Wars 2 uses the official API and does not read any game memory, edit game files or do anything of that sort. Information received from the game isn’t actually receieved from the game, but from clever use of the Guild Wars 2 API.

If the function isn’t in the official API, then there isn’t a way to do it without workarounds. For example, the Daily Dolly. Since the Guild Wars 2 API doesn’t have a function for reading dungeon completion and rewards and things like that, the developer created a pen and paper app that requires a user to input that themselves. The app has in it that Path 1 of AC rewards X gold and X tokens and then crosses it off, then if you click on a second path it adds the 2 and so on, almost like an excel worksheet.

Hope that answers some questions! Feel free to ask me more anytime you want.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

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GW2 WvW App Contest - We're here for you

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That’s exactly the link I used. And I got the problem: I used quotation marks. They were escaped in the JSON-String via \", but the error occured anyway. As soon as I removed the quotation marks, it worked.

Awesome. Glad to see it worked for you.

And yea, of course you can make it Guild Wars 2 themed. It would prob be for the best that way too.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

GW2 WvW App Contest - We're here for you

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I just wanted to sign up for the contest, but I get an error (“something went wrong, please try again”). To be exact, there seems to be a problem with the generated json-string, the server response contains the following text:

“Message”:"Invalid object passed in, \u0027:\u0027 or \u0027}\u0027 expected.

Hmm that’s odd…. Do you get that error from this link as well:

http://www.overwolf.com/teamspeak-developers-contest-2014/

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Overwolf GW2 app contest

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I’m excited to see what comes out of this contest. I personally don’t have the time to create something to submit, but I’m very interested in what other people create.

GW2PAO was good inspiration (that’s actually what prompted me to work on my stuff), too bad I can’t use it, which is why I’m writing three (well, two, the WvW one is already done) Overwolf apps to replace it.

Keep it up!

Three?!?! I love your first, can’t wait for the rest!

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Overwolf GW2 app contest

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Does anyone know whether the Overwolf API does even handle the Mumble Data Link?

It does now.

This is really great work. Thanks a lot!

Since probably some of us are going to use this library, I’d appreciate if you could clarfiy which license you’re going to use for it so none of us gets into trouble

There’s quite a possibility that we might just incorporate that into Overwolf so it will be available to everyone natively through our API.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

GW2 WvW App Contest - We're here for you

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Hey everyone!

This is Raif, the Overwolf Community Manager.

Just wanted to shout out to you all and let everyone know we’re here if you’ve got any questions or comments or just need some help. Feel free to contact us anytime! I’m always available by PM, a thread here or email at Ari.Cashriel@Overwolf.com.

Stop by the Overwolf Developers forum if you have any Overwolf API related questions, need some help or just want someone to bounce some ideas on what’s possible.

Happy coding and looking forward to seeing some awesome Guild Wars 2 apps!

See you in the Mists,
Ari “Raif” Cashriel

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Overwolf GW2 app contest

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As interesting as it sounds I would like to know what they gonna do with the winning apps. Do the creators lose the rights to them? Are they going to distribute them, and IF so, will they be available as freeware, or would they try to charge for them (and in such case, does the creator gets royalties from sales…), or can developer distribute the app for free/fee themselves? Just wondering, is all.

Hey there!

Those are all really good questions which I’ll happily answer.

You as the creator have full rights over your app forever to do with as you wish. We (Overwolf) will distribute your app as a free download to anyone who uses the Overwolf overlay.

Currently, we only offer apps for free. In the future we will implement a system where if the developer of the app wishes they can charge for the app (this is only if the developer wishes, we do not decide this). If the app becomes a paid app, the creator gets percentages of the app sales.

Hopes this answers your questions!

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Overwolf contest app type ?

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Hey GiL,

That is one impressive overlay there.

Unfortunately no, we can’t accept your (awesome) overlay as an entry. However, we’d love to see how we can help you get your program into Overwolf. If you don’t mind hit me up at my email Ari.Cashriel@Overwolf.com, maybe we can discuss what can be done to make this happen.

I’d love to see you enter our competition, this one and any future ones we hold for Guild Wars 2, or even just having your app on our platform. If there’s anything we can do to help you out, we’ll do it.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Overwolf challenge

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Been using Overwolf since it was in late development. Only recommend if you can put up with constant crashes.

As for WvW apps… I need an overlay for timers that works, doesn’t crash and actually shows the right RI timer…

If Overwolf is constantly crashing your game, then something is very wrong with your installation of Overwolf and I’d highly suggest to email me your logs at Ari.Cashriel@Overwolf.com so we can fix that.

We constantly test Overwolf with GW2 and it should not do that at all.

Here’s a link explaining how to find your logs:
http://feedback.overwolf.com/knowledgebase/articles/356475-how-to-sending-logs

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Overwolf GW2 app contest

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The contest only recently (yesterday) had the Guild Wars 2 WvW category added.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Overwolf contest app type ?

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Only an Overwolf app will be accepted to the contest. We are an overlay that is present in your game and the app contest is to create apps for Guild Wars 2 using our overlay to bring said apps INTO the game.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Oh, it's sooo dead... 7th place ain't so bad!

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so that basically means that most people have continued to run the game at least once per month while using an overwold app.
I guess that means i was probably counted even though i havent played more than 3-4 hours in the last 3 to 4 months. (gotta log in to unlock the LS.

I guess it shows people havent really completely quit /total disinterest in GW2.

However, there is a lot that doesnt really tell us. Good to know though

Technically, yes. If you logged into Guild Wars 2 and played once with Overwolf running you were counted.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Oh, it's sooo dead... 7th place ain't so bad!

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Hey there!

Raif the Overwolf Community Manager here, just wanted to weigh in.

The stats are not based off of a poll, but based off of who plays <Insert game name here> game with Overwolf running. Overwolf recognizes games being run on the computer and then takes note of it, whether the game is supported or not. Please take note that this only happens when Overwolf is running, not if it is off. These numbers are unique runs of the game, so that means each number is a singular person running that game once in that month and is not counted more than once.

The base of people being used for the metrics is our complete userbase of people who have Overwolf. The metrics are not edited or changed in any way whatsoever and are just the top 20 games for that month.

The note about accuracy is that this is a representation of game popularity, not an exact replica as that would be impossible.

Hope that clears some stuff up. I’ll be happy to answer any further questions.

~ Raif

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

New Overwolf apps for GW2 - looking for ideas

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New apps would be nice but, I’d rather see a completed TeamSpeak overlay.

Atm, I can only see who is in the channel that I am currently in. As a Guild Officer, I need to be able to see the entire TS Panel just like the old TS overlay showed…
Coming from the TS overlay, I’m so disappointed that you did it this way.
Am I missing something?

Also, why in the world cant I change the font color??? Hard to see against a lot of the GW2 backgrounds.
Oh, and another thing, I shouldn’t have to alt-tab & to see how many ppl are in channel with me…

My apologies for the late reply, but you can bring the whole whole TS into your game without tabbing out. On the TS app you have the option for “Full TS3” which brings the whole TS3 window into your game or the “Channel” button which gives you just your channel.

As far as I remember, the TS overlay made by the TS guys only showed the current channel not the whole TS (remember please we are 2 different companies).

As for seeing how many people are in your channel do you mean a number? Or a list of people as that can be shown by the “Channel” button. If you are looking for a number then that is something different.

The font color is something I can pass on to the devs and see if we can implement something like that, but the main reason it is white is due to the black background of the overlay itself as a lot of other colors are very difficult to see on that color background.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

[Video] WvW D/D Ele thoughts/build

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Very nice!

I bought runes of strength a while back since I felt that would be my go to runes with the changes to boon duration.

I use a 0/30/0/20/20 build (I love fresh air) and was thinking of switching my sigil of energy/hydromancy to air. I use battle with either one of those.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Switching Map - Stuck on loading screen

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So I ran into an interesting bug, when I swap maps I sometimes get stuck on a loading screen. Weird thing is, I can hear the ambient noise from the map I swapped into, I can use a skill and hear it being used as if my character loaded into the game but the splash screen is stuck.

Any ideas?

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

New Overwolf apps for GW2 - looking for ideas

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This may be far-fetched, but I often find myself using third-party websites to check when world bosses will spawn.

See Dragon Timer

Is this something that can be turned into an overlay somehow?

Most certainly! But we already have that XD

Look here. Brings up a window with the dragon, temples and popular events like the Frozen Maw, Shadow Behemoth and Fire Elemental. Configurable to your server of choice and shows you the history of the event (when it was attempted/completed).

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

New Overwolf apps for GW2 - looking for ideas

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Getting Overwolf on Mac is a difficult one. We’re discussing this, but it isn’t something we’re planning for a long while.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

New Overwolf apps for GW2 - looking for ideas

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I have an Overwolf-App in development which combines our location tracker and my wvw stats/maps app. I didn’t plan to release it yet because i’m still waiting on a response by the Overwolf team about the possibilities to receive the mumble link data via Overwolf. Currently you’d need a 3rd-party app to send location data which is what i want to avoid (begging users to install a software for use with a game… no way.).

Yea I get that. I know your in contact with our devs already trying to get that up and running, can’t wait!

Anyone else have something they think would be cool to use?

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

New Overwolf apps for GW2 - looking for ideas

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There is a WvW timer made by 2 different guys already in our app store! You should check it out see if that’s what you mean.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

New Overwolf apps for GW2 - looking for ideas

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Hey all!

My name is Raif, I’m the Community Manager over at Overwolf.

Just some info on Overwolf: We’re a software platform that overlays into your game (just graphically, doesn’t violate GW2 TOS) and gives you some cool apps in game like a video recorder, Teamspeak overlay, music player, Facebook chat, direct uploads to YouTube or Facebook, a Twitch streaming app and some GW2 apps like WvW timers and guides. You can check us out at www.Overwolf.com

We’re looking for some new ideas as far as apps for GW2 for people to develop (even you guys, we have an open SDK so anyone can make an app using the GW2 API and use our SDK to make an app for the platform) and there is no one better to ask then you all here. We want to get ideas for things that you guys would use and like to see so that people who want to develop apps can make them.

What kind of apps do you wish you had in game for GW2? Let us know!

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Can I be banned for this?!

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I highly doubt that you were banned for using Overwolf. The game does nothing to the game files, or interferes with the game itself but solely relies on the API that Arenanet themselves released. It doesn’t violate the Terms of Service in that respect or give you an “Unfair advantage”.

It’s quite possible that there was something else on your computer that you aren’t aware of.

We’ve never heard of someone being banned for using Overwolf (with concrete evidence to back it up), but we definitely keep an eye out for these things. Is there any info from Anet as to that being the certain thing that got you banned?

Hi, I’m was just going to install Overwolf which is an optional add-on with Teamspeak. I don’t want to get banned for Overwolf.

It seems to have some neat features, is this okay to install Yes or No?

Question is for GW2 official reps. Thanks.

Yes, it’s safe to use and install. You have nothing to worry about.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Overwolf's In-Game GW2 Apps and App Contest

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Hey all, just as an update, I’m the Overwolf Community manager so if you have q’s or want some help just shout out.

Hope to see some new GW2 apps for Overwolf as GW2 is my main game and I would love to see something like an Intothemists app :p

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Is overwolf legal.....

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No there should be no reason that you would get banned from GW2 over this.

The way our program works is that we sit on the game, reading info only. We don’t change or alter any game files whatsoever and any app we offer for GW2 is something you can do using a stopwatch or reading the forums (talking about our GW2 WvW timers and GW2 guides).

As devs have stated, it enhances the content, but doesn’t give you an unfair edge in the game.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

''Overwolf''

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Your FPS wouldn’t or shouldn’t drop more than a few (1-5) something that isn’t noticeable, but yes.

ArenaNet doesn’t officially support it mind you, but you wont get banned either.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

''Overwolf''

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As was mentioned, Overwolf is an overlay. The main TOS rules against applications is that it can’t change any of the game data or change something in game. There is also something about giving an “unfair” advantage. Overwolf does neither as the timer app is the same as if you just kept a stopwatch and the Overlay doesn’t change anything in game, but monitors using the API’s that Anet has released and sometimes user input for the timer itself.

Your FPS drop is pretty much directly correlated to your hardware, you have decent hardware you wont notice it.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Getting frustrated with never ending crashes

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Ok so, I have now:

1. Re-installed windows twice.
2. Turned on and off my overclock and tried multiple variations of clocks.
3. Re-installed GW2 3 times, run repairs 4 times.
4. Removed and replaced RAM to 2 different kinds of RAM (that was expensive).

Still crashing and now it happens in PvE with the Karka Queen last night. This seems to happen whenever there is a large amount of people. Who/where can I turn to to get some help as this is starting to take too much of my personal time changing multiple things on my computer to try to find this issue to enjoy this game.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

502 Forum Errors?

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Been getting a lot of 502 errors from the forum in the last 12 or so hours, this is the first I’ve been able to access the forums. Kind of strange, anything up?

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

elemental skills taking too long to impact

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Switch to fire, cast fire ring and arcane wave utility. You will still get your reward even in a large zerg. This come from a burst non-glass build s/d ele from Blackgate. One of the tier 1 servers that what know best is zerg in massive amounts each tower and keeps.

Same, I’m on SoR, running a similar build to LightningBlaze here and all I need is a Air #2 and an Arcane Blast.

The way tagging works is damage % of a mobs health. The more people in your group, the less damage you need to do as that % is then shared by your group. The threshold for credit becomes lower. Even still one Air AA + Air#2 + Arcane Blast should normally be enough to get credit.

As for running one less survivability utility… I roam around in WvW using S/D with Arcane Blast/Lightning Flash/Arcane Shield or Mist Form depending on what I’m doing. And I do fine, unless I run into LightningBlaze. We duel, and it’s a close fight (the amount of times I’ve had you lower than 20% -_-)

Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhEmIbzxzwjDIEFmAKIeYBNAHWUMD5AA-jUzAY/gg/BJRJkIAk8UWzeCiVNwqb0KvBpNgqtxUuCyq4kKFguKjA-w

I always build stacks first so attack is higher, don’t have Guard Killer or Defense Against Guards yet so Lightning has that on me :p

I’ll switch around rings for a cavalier ring or 2 if I feel I’m playing badly that night or something. Sometimes I’ll even go 10 in Arcana and go full 30 in water (something after this patch I might do more).

You don’t need to run 3 cantrips to be viable. Or all clerics either.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

elemental skills taking too long to impact

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Use an arcane skill like arcane blast with that scepter #2, that should get you a tag if you are in a group.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Country Flag Finishers?

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I doubt this is something Anet would ever implement. This would easily enable unnecessary harassment towards people using certain flags. Instead of being called a noob and to go back to PvE you would have people bashing others based on nationality.

While yes , not everyone is like that, there are enough people who are that this is a risk that no company would take. This can easily introduce things like Antisemitism, Anti-Religion (insert religion of choice here) or even how it is showcased in this very thread little comments against certain countries.

Not only that, how does the company decide which country flags get made into the game. There is literally hundreds of flags all over the world and making all of them would require hundreds of man hours to create, animate and implement. The last thing Anet needs or wants is to be branded against certain countries where they might be selling their game and lead to a boycott. I’d rather they focus on improving sPvP and giving better rewards/game balance than have them internally worried they forgot to create an Israeli/Iranian/Croatian/Whatever flag and what kind of comments people will receive for using said flags. Or what would happen if they didn’t include flags from those countries. Or even worse, what activists would say if Anet did include some flag of some country that they are against. Too complicated, too full of dangerous potholes that a game company should not and does not want to be involved in.

Guild flags on the other hand are a good idea, and wouldn’t be surprised if that wasn’t in development or on the “To Do” list.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Getting frustrated with never ending crashes

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TURN OFF YOUR OVERCLOCK!

If you aren’t willing to do that to troubleshoot this problem…then good luck solving the crash problem.

Already tried that, didn’t affect it one bit. Just to make sure, I tried it recently too, had no effect either. The computer itself is not crashing, just the Guild Wars 2 client.

Only sharing my experience:
Guild Wars 2 is fantastic at crashing my cpu if the OC is not stable; chiefly raising vcore.
Any chance you can slam some more vcore on ur 4.7 to see if that helps or even lowering either?
I use i7 3770k 4.5ghz vcore approx 1.35 with LLC Very High

I just tried that yesterday (only upping it as I can’t lower it without having an unstable overclock), but can’t WvW for a little while to see if this might be the culprit. However, I don’t know if this will solve my issue as my CPU or computer is not crashing. Only the Guild Wars 2 client. Thanks for the tip though, I’ll certainly give it a try.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Getting frustrated with never ending crashes

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I love wvw and wouldn’t want a fellow raller to be denied his wvw fix.
please try my suggestions.
you said Windows 7 is in a separate ssd by itself. is it a clean install when you put the system togther? or was it leftover from another system/processor?
download/install process lasso and have it automatically force gw2 into high/realtime priority whenever it loads.
primo cache can improve your ssd performance but you should use crystal disk to find out how your ssd is performing. sometimes ssd can lose performance from to many formats. you may want to look into a.secure erase program for your ssd.

Yea this is a clean install, nothing left over from a different build or anything. I’ll give that Lasso a try, see if that can help.

I’ll re-run Crystal Disk too, though last time I ran it was working fine.

It’s on auto-detect. And that graphics card should have no trouble with the settings in this game.

For those specific things you listed, the settings are All and High

Its not an issue with the card, but with the processes. It is a 32-bit processes and is hitting a cap. Lowering some of the settings will use less memory.

Thats odd…. My system is using a 64 bit windows, that seems a little out of place.

And as for memory, both my video card (1.5GB) and system memory (8GB at 1600MHz using a 7-8-7-24 T2 command rate) are more than enough for any game out there at this time. What you’re suggesting seems to be a memory leak in the game, which would match up with what I read every time I go into the crash log of what it’s supposedly sending to Anet and with what I’m monitoring at the same time. Memory usage is all normal and then at one point during the game play, huge memory spike, crash.

Also, to point out, I’ve tried the game out in best performance settings and still have crashed due to the same OOM line.

Edit – I’ll try for the last time to delete the local.dat file and then run a repair but this is getting annoying.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

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Getting frustrated with never ending crashes

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It’s on auto-detect. And that graphics card should have no trouble with the settings in this game.

For those specific things you listed, the settings are All and High

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Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Getting frustrated with never ending crashes

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So, I am getting very tired of making these threads, but I will continue in hope that SOMETHING will be done, or that I can finally get some sort of an answer.

I am constantly crashing in WvW. To the point of just being happy to just run around in the spawn area. Any time I get near a group of people, somewhere above the 10 people, I crash. This is getting to be ridiculous and just maddening.

I get the “Send a report to Arenanet about your crash” have sent it over 100 times, and nothing.

My system specs:
Intel i5 2500k @ 4.7GHz
Asus GTX 580
RipjawsX 8GB 1600 MHz
Windows 7 on an Intel 510 120GB SSD (only Windows is on it)
GuildWars 2 on a Crucial M4 256GB SSD

I’ve attached the ArenaNet.log in the post as well. Please, any kind of feedback would be great. This has been happening for weeks and is making me very frustrated with the game.

Also, as an aside, I have severely long loading times. I mean 30 – 1 minute loading times which with a Sata III SSD should not be happening. What is going on?

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Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Constant crashing

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Ok so I keep on crashing in both WvW and in LA, and this is starting to be VERY aggravating. The message I’m getting is:

—> Crash <—
OOM: arena=Default, cat=Gr Img, allocBytes=8389088, arenaBytes=292358424, fallbackBytes=109828186, align=0 ,
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 208
Cmdline: -multi
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 24979
When: 2013-10-21T20:13:56Z 2013-10-21T23:13:56+03:00
Uptime: 0 days 3:04:24
Flags: 0

ANyone know wtf is going on?

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Long Loading screen times

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Raif.9507

Anyone? The loading screen times are really starting to get long, 30-40 seconds per screen.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Long Loading screen times

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Raif.9507

Hey there, I was wondering if there was anything I can do about having absurdly long loading screen times when using a crucial M4 SSD.

I heard something along the lines of deleting the .dat file or something like that?

Thanks for any help!

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Moving from staff to D/D

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Raif.9507

D/D requires most of the time faster attunement swapping than staff. Requires faster gameplay and better reactions due to being melee (IMO)

My main tip would be gear. Swap some PVT gear in for WvW so you are more survivable. PvE makes no difference if you know how to dodge well.

The other thing is know the basic combos of:
Earthquake + Lightning Flash
Burning Speed + Lightning Flash
Updraft + Lightning Flash
Firegrab + Lightning Flash
Updraft + Burning Speed

And so on.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Elementalist damage way too low?

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Raif.9507

Ele’s have damage, it just takes a little more effort to survive in offensive gear than say, warriors and thieves.

Whaaaaat is going on in that screenshot?

I was taking a camp and got a nice string of crits. My point is that ele’s have the capability to deal massive damage, it’s just more people are comfortable playing a more bunker type build because it is far easier to survive in.

Lucky string of crits? Thats nuts. What are your stats and did you have full bloodlust/25 stacks of might and vuln on target because thats insane…

I’ve got 92% crit damage/3400 attack and I know it can go higher to 110% crit damage, but wtf…

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

How to catch ele?

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Chill/Immobilize. Dead ele incoming.

For a longre read – Elementalists have 3 abilities that move you.
Ride the Lightning
Burning Speed
Lightning Flash

Out of 3 of those, 2 are negated with Immobilize (Ride the Lightning, Burning Speed) but only 1 is affected by Chill (Burning Speed).

Ride the lightning and Lightning Flash can be used by any elementalist that has a dagger offhand and slots Lightning Flash as a utility, Burning Speed is by dagger mainhand. Both Ride the Lightning and Lightning Flash have a cooldown of 40 seconds (if the elementalist uses Ride the Lightning to escape).

Otherwise there are no more movement skills. Learn to recognize when an elementalist will use Ride the Lightning (most often when he is around 50% health or has a lot of conditions on him) and will switch to air. Use an immobilize then and then he will not move anywhere and also be stuck for 3 seconds.

Hope this helps.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Regarding Ele's Performance at MLG

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I think we’re just playing it wrong. I’d like to watch the devs play eles so I can learn from them, and so i might be “ok” too.

No, no you don’t.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

[video] This is how we get the fix

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Raif.9507

Hi,

The first video wasn’t even funny. My advice? Don’t play ele, it’s not your cup of tea. Some people just don’t have skills to handle the class.

Watch how this guy beat a thief with his ele and learn a thing or two. The video’s not mine. It’s a guy from NA server.

Another guy that missed the point, watch both videos.

Also, keep in mind that guy has a very specific build that’s basically half tank half dmg build, AND he has to use the hp buffs gained in WvW just to have 14-15k health to even survive.

And he goes toe to toe with glass cannon thieves who can survive w/o the need of all of that.

Not to mention how the poorly designed attunements force him to just rotate cooldowns instead of having the freedom to use them when needed, this forces Ele’s to build bunker builds and always have 30 in Arcana. Are people seeing the problem yet?

Another whiner.

I didn’t miss the point Knote. The fact that other classes are played by mindlessly smashing buttons speaks only to the lack of skills of those who play those classes, nothing more, nothing less.

And in this video he doesn’t have any of the WvW buffs, he fights thiefs with 14 k HP, which is his base HP, now what does it mean I wonder?

The only one who’s missing the point is you Knote.

10,805. Base Elementalist HP. Not 14k. Shared with Guardian and Thief.

And the class does have issues. Many in fact. One of them is the high skill needed to do things which on other classes require half the effort. Some people like it, others don’t. Another is the need to go 20-30 points into Arcana, just to feel fluid (I do not, I only take 10, but I still feel that it lacks certain fluidity).

Edit – Oh, and how can you tell he has no WvW buffs? You don’t see the added buffs for Power of the Mists on the screen unless you go into the WvW panel….

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

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Solution to Power ranger.

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Raif.9507

Summon Rita Repulsa?

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Incinerator - no changes?

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So I was watching the preview and noticed that there was no real changes mentioned towards the incinerator? how come? This legendary shares its footprints with Rodgort basically and has nothing really going for it either.

While it is cool that when you equip it on the ele and use it in mainhand some of the abilities change, I’d like to see more. As well as better footprints, as in ones that don’t disappear in 2 seconds and are actually noticeable.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Some thief help

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Raif.9507

Yep, I was roaming around with D/D and a pistol in my offhand set so when I switched it would be D/P.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Custom Arena q's

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Bumping this cause I still don’t know what to do lol.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Some thief help

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Raif.9507

So, I think its time I finally learn how to better use my thief, was hoping for some help. This is both for WvW and PvE.

At this time I’m running:
30 Critical Strikes – I,II,Xi
30 Acrobatics – III,IX,XII
10 Trickery – VI

Stats are at:
Attack – 3144
Crit Chance – 46%
Armor – 2821
Vitality – 16725
Crit Damage – 103%

My gear is as follows:
Soldiers – Head, Legs, Dagger
Knights – Chest
Berserker – Sword, Amulet, Accessories, Pistols
Berserker/Valkyrie – Rings
Cavalier – Backpiece

I was mainly running either D/D in mainhand with a single pistol in offhand and started using S/P in PvE. I was looking to see what a build would be like for WvW using S/D would be like, or a S/P (if thats possible in WvW). I’m a little tired of the D/D playstyle and was looking for something a little better.

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net

Custom Arena q's

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Raif.9507

Ok so I’m trying to set up my custom arena and for some reason it’s not working. I set the number of starting players to 1 and it wont start when each team has 1 player. Also I enabled the ready button but it wont show up either. I pressed the save, got the message “the custom arena’s settings have been changed” I leave the server, but no changes were enacted.

Am I doing something wrong?

Asharìa March – 80 Elementalist
Co-Guild Leader of Prime Defense on Sanctum of Rall – www.Primedefense.net