Guild Wars 2

sirsquishy.8531:

Rezz.8019:

Tried graphics and resolution to minimum and the performance is exactly the same. Not better and not worse, though I doubt it can be any worse than this.

I got CPU-Z and it says link width is x1 and maximum supporter is x16

Thats the root cause of your issue, just as I thought.

You can try pulling the card out and dusting the Slot and the Pins on the card, then reseating it.

You can try setting your power profile to High
You can uninstall the GPU drivers, boot into safe mode and run a driver cleaner program, then reinstall the drivers in normal mode
You can go into the BIOS settings and disable the PCI-E power saving feature for whatever PCI-E Slot your GPU is in.

My power profile has already been on High.
Is disabling PCI-E power saving feature safe?
What driver cleaner program should I run?

locx.6412:

Did you launch CPU-Z after or before launching GW2? There’s been problems with CPU-Z reporting x1 and staying there if it’s launched first. If it still stays at x1 you could just open up your case, pull the card out for a second or two and put it back to it’s place.

Tried both ways, it still says x1

HDD Benchmark test: mimimum transfer rate = 52.9MB and maximum = 111.5MB, average = 87.8MB, access time = 12.4ms, Burst rate = 138.3MB/sec, CPU usage = 3.6%

My core clock speed while running GW is 2341MHz but every 10-15 seconds it would spike to some really low amount like 3 or 6, but that would be for a second or so only.

Tried graphics and resolution to minimum and the performance is exactly the same. Not better and not worse, though I doubt it can be any worse than this.

I got CPU-Z and it says link width is x1 and maximum supporter is x16

Also please note that this issue only happens with GW2, which is completely unplayable. It happens with YouTube when watching videos, sound keeps stuttering quite a bit. And it happens on Windows startup, one big stutter. Everything else works just fine. I am hopeless, tried everything.

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The problem first happened about 2 months ago. I would log on and the game would be completely unplayable, with constant 2-3 FPS, and if I would turn the sounds on.. it would just be so weird, electronic loud broken and hurtful for ears, like some weird sound glitch.

Of course I tried many things, tried every settings combination downloaded the latest graphics card driver, etc. At that time the problem would be fixed after installing a random graphics card driver and then restarting the PC. However, the problem would come back sometimes after turning the pc off and turning it back on and would be solved again by installing RANDOM graphics card driver. Any would work really.

However, what started happening to me yesterday was the same problem but nothing seems to be fixing it now. Not windows update, not any version of graphics card drivers, not any version of audio drivers, I even re installed the game. Also, I can’t do system restore, I never made a restore point.

But, there was something else that started happening at the same time. I would get random sound stutters when starting up the system or when playing YouTube videos. And since the sound would go all weird on GW I think those 2 are connected and it’s actually the sound issue that makes my GW unplayable. Please note that low FPS issue is only with GW and nothing else. Well, everything else while GW is running but you know what I mean…

Of course then I researched a lot about Windows 7 32-bit (that I have) sound stutter issues, tried all of potential solutions and nothing helped at all. I have no idea what to do now.

Also please note that my GW worked perfectly at the time when that problem wasn’t there. At some point I had random low FPS at zerg fights issue but that got fixed simply by cleaning the PC, it was quite dusty. Other than that it would usually run at solid 40-50 FPS and maybe 15 at the biggest zergs, which was perfectly fine for me.

What should I do?

I tried everything and nothing worked at all. All is vain.

Help please!

Question: What’s up with warriors?

I hope they will not add any new modes. Conquest is the best and should stay. The way they have secondary objectives on each map is good enough.

The way guesting works is just fine. Why would you have a priority just because you were more lucky with your server choice? Those who are willing to invest more time in it should be rewarded. That’s why you should be there earlier instead of thinking you have more rights than someone else on the game.

Deathmatch would never ever work in GW2. It would always be broken. Anet knows this and that’s why we have conquest as main PvP mode. I approve of it.

Sometimes people get disconnected.

I played ranger for many, many hours and I still don’t know any way to apply fear except with the wolf pet and that has a long recharge. What am I missing?

Zerker = high risk and high reward (timewise)
Defensive stuff = low risk and low reward (timewise)

Working as intended.

Rangers are good if you spec them and play them properly.

LelouchViBritannia.3607:

Yeah AOE cap + invulnerable/blocking/dodging counting towards that cap makes meleeing pet classes extremely frustrating. I can be clearly in front of that MM necro and cast my melee aoe at him yet not hit him because his 5 minions soak up the attack although they weren’t even targeted.

If you have him selected you will always hit him with aoe. The selected target always had the priority.

When I see an ele or mesmer I know it will most likely be an easy win.

I don’t think it’s that bad as you describe it. Every 2-3 matches I see a mm necro or spirit ranger. I think that’s nothing compared to seeing bunker guardian or whatever op warrior build every match. Also there is nothing wrong with AI. It makes the game more interesting, more diverse. I like it.

Ok I will explain what happens:
There is a thing called “decay”. The way it works is that it temporarily decreases your rating after each hour you don’t play. The amount of rating temporarily decreased increases exponentially for each extra consecutive hour you don’t play.

However, as soon as you come back and play a game, you will get ALL the rating back increased or decreased by the rating you got from the game that you layed when you just got back, depending on whether you won or lost.

It’s great system. This way everyone has to be active if they want to keep their high rank, but also they are not punished in any way if they don’t get to play.

Dustin.2793:

Sorry for the matchups like this, believe me when I say its not fun even the slightest bit. We just waited in queue for a while and after so long like ken said it just puts us against somebody.

Why don’t you split your team and play against each other? It’s interesting how top 25 on the ladderboard never play against each other. No competition at all. How can you ever have fun games if you don’t even try having them?

It’s team arena. Those guys farm random teams like that every day to boost their ego and leaderboard rating. Nothing new here. You should just wait until they get a match and then enter.

I’m an EU player playing on NA server and I have no lag at all.

They need to sticky it because it’s a really good thread, probably the best of all. It is very creative and funny and it has brought smiles to many people’s faces. It is unique and popular and Anet should ignore their dull rules for once and just sticky it.

I thought everyone knows this by now.

Never push far like that when you already hold 2 points.

hooma.9642:

Jumper.9482:

…Other classes are not relevant for this discussion ..

the best joke ever. alone that statement shows that you have no idea what balancing means. i hope its just a joke. or do we really need 8 suggestions from biased “pros” like u to balance the game? must be a really enjoyable game u try to create.. so why not call in your friends for other “pro” suggestions?

i start to wonder if other classes are not relevant, why u need them to justify some suggestions?

I completely agree with this. It is 100% true and whoever says otherwise is wrong.

You win some and you lose some. That’s normal. I didn’t get this problem yet, but I do have some bad days when I only win 50% of the matches. No big deal, come back next day and get the rating back up.

Belgarion.1975:

Hey Jumper,
First of all : thanks for your job, and sry for my poor english its rly not my mother langage.

I think many change are legit but some of them are a little over buff no ?

A Backstab is 403 based dommage (when it’s front-hit).
Scorpion Wire, and traps will do near equals damage. Its rly strong no ?

With classic trickery build this skills can hit over 2500 each.

With that change D/D BS build will come back and will do so much dommage !
Something like 25/30/0/0/15 in D/D with your change will give like this dmg on 3k Armor target :
(i assume we crit on CnD, on back stab is obvious with 100 % CC)
- CnD : 5066
- Steal : 1097
- BS : 6092
Total : Litlle more than 11 k dmg without buff ! on a bounker like guardian its more than half of his life.

With some buff i think we can go one shoot Build with defensive utilities.

You said D/P Trickery was nerf with 10 th dec patch, can you explain this ?

I agree with this. And after all that damage he will still have full initiative to finish off anyone easily. Just like in old times when this guy was winning because d/d thief was overpowered and he simply learned the right combo before others.

Looks like you have been having trouble winning with the thief lately and now you really want it buffed. And everyone knows that d/d thief used to be stronger than meta thief is now. No need to buff it.

I like conquest. It should stay. Foefire map promotes heavy bunkering and that’s why it is not good. The best map is probably temple.

Overpowered: heal sig, hambow wars, bunker guardian
Very strong: meta thief, grenade engi, decap engi
Strong: spirit ranger, mm necro, condition necro

Everything else: not good enough for serious play

There are some good ele and mesmer builds that would be very strong if meta was changed. They are not viable right now but if warriors get nerfed they might be. Have to be aware of that.

There is no match without a guardian either. Let’s nerf them too?

Rym.1469:

11. If you stream or post YT videos, it means that your skill is equal to your ego and everyone should listen to your “balance improvements”. Sadly, you’re still being solo’ed by weak Ranger’s pet by ignoring him and then asking for nerf (lol).
12. Forum Community is not entire GW2 Community

I agree with this.

I would never ever play unranked match. I like solo and team arena just the way they are. I can choose to enter any way I want, and there is ranking to keep me motivated. However, quality of games would improve a lot if hotjoin was removed and those players would enter arenas. There would be more people therefore matchmaking owuld work better.

New builds could be tried out in Custom Arenas. Anet could host few just for that.
Point of removing Hotjoin would be to have more enjoyable and more fairly matched Solo and Team arena games.

I think it would be way better. Hotjoin is completely unnecessary. Anet should host few custom arenas and name it: “for beginners”. That way Team Arena and Solo Arena would have higher populations and matches would be more “fair”. More players = mmr works better. And if you’re good enough you won’t be matched with those beginners anyway, so there is no need to cry about that.
I think this is a great idea.

This is good to know. I will start using the warrior for spirit watch instead of my runner ele. Thanks op for expanding my pvp gaming horizons.

My only reason for disliking it is that the rating is hidden. It’s just annoying not to know how much exactly do you need to get to certain rank you want.

1. Never blame your team for losses. Always question yourself and see what you could have done better. In at least 80% of the games you should be able to make the difference and carry the team. Unless you really belong in the rating pool that you are in right now.

2. Never die. If you want to win you have to stay alive and never die really. If you manage to do this right you will notice the huge improvement in your win percentage.

3. Do not play mesmer, ever (in solo arena). From what I’ve read, you can’t take out treb, you are running a non-zerker build. Fact is, that build does not contribute the TEAM enough. Killing someone 1v1 some times doesn’t mean much. You have to make a difference, you have to help the TEAM. I would suggest playing something tanky. Warrior, guardian, spirit ranger, mm necro, etc.

4. Do not expect the team to adapt to you. You have to adapt to them.

5. At the beginning of the match type the tactic in team. Keep it simple though. For example: “1 home 4 mid” “who wants home?”. If you type too much people will think you are a bad player (you will understand when you get to high rating pool).

6. Remember that in most matches it all depends on you and your personal skill, not the team. However, sometimes all is vain.

Valentin.2073:

spirits need larger HP pools to survive those aoe’s spammed by staff eles in tourneys.

I agree with this. Spirits die way too easily. It’s not just staff eles but also necro overpowered aoe and lagnade spam engineers.

“warriors are balanced”

I like Skyhammer. I want it to stay.

Will you add a reference to “All is vain” in the game. And have most of the staff members seen that post?

Drinking is bad for you. It is a waste of time, waste of money and waste of liver. You should not do it.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

I wonder at the rankings too. I just lost 3 tpvp matches and went up 100 ranks. I was wondering if there are very few people playing tpvp so almost everyone is top 1000…..

That is because of the way decay works. If you don’t play for a while your rating will drop. However, as soon as you play one game you will gain all that rating back. So someone who has been gone for a month or whatever will gain 1000 ranks even if they lose.

Yellow Robot.7234:

Getting 8 wins a day is like doing the pvp monthly every 2.5 days
Why did they do this?

I agree, monthly should require way more wins.

Have Edge of the Mist be special 3-way PvP format. Have winners name announced on the screen. Problem solved.

Else, all is vain.