Guild Wars 2

Heya, firstly, thank you Ashley Segovia, for your time and efforts.

Here are my results taken today at 12:50 BST (GMT+1)
I ran a ping plotter at the same time and have also attached that.

Server; Aurora Glade
Location: Lincolnshire UK
ISP: SKY Broadband

Details: issues started Saturday 27th april at around 18:00 BST and have reoccured each day since at around the same time.
The ping plotter shows packet loss throughout the day, but it doesnt really effect gameplay until peak times 18:00 onwards.

Hope this helps!

I have both those installed, KB2840149 on the 24th april, I didn’t start having problems until the 27th April.
I’ll delete them during the lag I get tonight and see if it makes a difference, but I cant see how its affecting a hop in london between me and Anet

Unfortunately the patch hasnt affected mine at all.

Heres tonights pingplotter, that hop is varying between 22ms and ERR with up to 60% packet loss again.

Here’s my ping plotter for tonights session, games unplayable at this time. Any advice gratefully recieved.

Necroshen, judging by your pingplotter, and mine, the problem isnt anet, its one of the exchanges in london.

Indeed, if you google the errant exchange “ae-0-11.edge4.london2.level3.net” you get a return of multiple pages of people complaining of lag and disconnects, not just in GW2, but also WoW, SW:TOR and diablo3.

My issues also started 3 days ago, saturday night, I’m on sky Broadband as well

just tried the pingplotter tool listed here: https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9245/kw/Lag

And get the results as shown in the attachment.

I’m no expert, does this indicate a problem of some sort at edge4.london?

infact, if you google “ae-0-11.edge4.london2.level3.net” the hop where i seem to get 60% packet loss, a whole bunch of results show for regular disconnects in other games such as swtor, WoW and diabloIII

I’m getting the same, for the last 3 nights only though (sat, sun, mon) and start at 19:00 regular as clockwork, accompanied by extreme lag.

Never had this issue before in over 2000 hours of GW2, i have no idea why its started now.

I have started getting this exact same message for the last two days (saturday the 27th and sunday 28th) now, in the evenings (UK Time 18:00 GMT onwards)

Please note I have never had a problem such as this in over 2000 hours of GW2

Running a tracert to the ip addresses Netstat show im connected to, i get the following

Tracing route to 206-127-146-93.plaync.com [206.127.146.93]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms SkyRouter.Home [192.168.0.1]
2 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms 5ad9e8fe.bb.sky.com [90.217.232.254]
3 23 ms 23 ms 22 ms 10.245.205.129
4 32 ms 31 ms 32 ms ip-84-38-37-92.easynet.co.uk [84.38.37.92]
5 26 ms 26 ms 27 ms ae99.edge3.London2.Level3.net [212.187.201.57]
6 27 ms 30 ms 44 ms ae-0-11.edge4.London2.Level3.net [4.69.200.126]

7 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms ae-3-3.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.141.189]
8 38 ms 38 ms 40 ms vlan102.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.143.90]
9 38 ms 39 ms 39 ms ae-24-24.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.148.19
8]
10 39 ms 44 ms 50 ms ae-62-62.csw1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.18
]
11 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms ae-1-60.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.10
]
12 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 195.16.161.58
13 40 ms 48 ms 39 ms 206-127-157-86.plaync.com [206.127.157.86]
14 40 ms 41 ms 41 ms 206-127-157-102.plaync.com [206.127.157.102]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
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ok, can log in now, and luckily my daily event bonus chest for killing dwayna was there, though 3 in the party also got kicked from the server and couldnt login for 3 mins, the other 2 were logged in the entire time

Im on Aurora Glade, and the exact moment we killed Dwayna’s statue (about 3 mins ago), the game lost connection to the login servers and now I can’t login

That area is not on my map and I have been there done that.

I would try the “sea of Elon” in the very south east of straits, I know several people that missed that one completely

D/D ele with incinerator and Hom dagger (want fractal)

same here for me

I hit max level 80 in real life and now my endame is urinating into a bag attached to my thigh

Pls Press tab Again – Mesmer

each borderlands has its own puzzle, emerald on the green homeworld, sapphire on the blue and ruby on the red, the one on eternal battlegrounds is called obsidian sanctuary

dmytrodanylyk.5104:

Algorithm of PVP: kill other players -> get points -> buy more powerful items
Algorithm of GW2 PVP: kill other players -> get points -> buy item to looks different???

Am I missing something?

You are.

GW2’s PvP system, where everyone starts with the same access to stats actually makes PvP Playervsplayer where as adding better gear for points would make PvP more Gearvsgear making it less about individual skill and more about who had grinded pvp/pve for the better stats.

Imagine if you will, someone, such as yourself, joining the game 5 months after everyone else, where in PvP everyone else had 2 or 3 tiers of gear higher than you with superior stats…….you’d have no chance.

A level playing field, such as it is now, is the best way imo to make PvP about the players, not their gear.

heres the pres from october, sorry i dont have the item thing in chat, i didnt know there would be a need

cesmode.4257:

I must call BS on this. Noone is this lucky Unless you can show a screen shot of some sort.
Even if you did receive all of this, how many tries for each until you received what you wanted? Or did you get them all within a few tries too? ;p

Back in october:
Dawn was from 100 random rares (about 30 or so tries after reforging the rare results)
Leaf was from 300 random rares the next day, bard came from 700 random rares thrown in.
I started with 70g, ended up with 0. Sold bard and Dawn, used the money for t3 armor, icy runestones and the powerful blood and intricate totems i needed to craft Kudzu.

Last week, I threw in 60g worth of exotic greatswords, with some dungeon and wvw token bought exotics too, after 16 tries I had 2 Dusks.
Sold 1 dusk, used the money to buy the ecto, lodestones and runestones, made twilight, sold on tp to the highest order for 2300g.

Wanted spark on my ele, played around with exotic daggers, wasted 500g, no luck (I refuse to buy one) tried 64 exotic staffs instead, got legend. sold for 580g to highest offer, used the money for more exotic daggers, no luck. tried exotic shortbows, got lover after 32 tries, sold for 460ish gold. bought 100 random cheapest exotic weapons, got chosen on 21st try, sold for 299g.

Carried on then with daggers, ended up with spark and a gold balance of 800g (after buying destroyer lodestones and t6 mats, i had none left after making twilight, also I bought the three exotic karka minis and an endless toy tonic).

Have spent 200g since and not got any though

The screenshots I have, I’ve attached, the two dusks

There is nothing wrong with the forge.
Personally I’ve received Dawn, Leaf of kudzu and bard from random rares, 2 dusks from exotic greatswords, legend from exotic staffs, lover from exotic shortbows and chosen from random exotics. Finally I got spark, from exotic daggers, that one was the hardest and most expensive to “forge”

Ignore the tradepost, looking at those prices just depresses you and stops you enjoying the game.

Emosewa.9731:

In the literature for the game, one of the more exciting points mentioned was that people would be rewarded for exploring and going off the beaten path.

What this was refering to was the exploration bonus xp attached to enemies, when you kill an enemy, you see 2 xp numbers flash up on the screen, the first is the enemy’s base xp reward, the second is the “exploration bonus”.

The longer an enemy is alive in the world, the more the bonus xp is, so by going off the beaten path and exploring, where few players go, enemy kills net you more xp rewards.

Immortality.5093:

I speak for everybody that we want some kitten change!

you dont speak for me, I got 2 Dusks in 16 tries with level 80 exotic greatswords on tuesday

Got kicked from the game on area transition about 2 mins ago and cant login with the following error:
42:6:3:2158

“The game client is unable to gain access to the log-in server at this time……etc….etc..”

Precursors are not ridiculous.

I wish people that comment in threads like this would be a bit more honest.

Its not precursors you’re all complaining about, its the greatswords.

I have Rage and Rodgort on my main character for when I have the materials, didnt cost me 500 gold.

The popular ones are more expensive because everyone wants them.

We found the best way was to build siege everywhere, spread it all around and about the entire map, upgrading it all while you can, the toys went to attack the siege rather than the dolyaks. We started off with walls around the inner circle and some ballistas and snowmen on the outer ring, but then just built everywhere.

Not one dolyak lost health

Seriously.

Anet does not make any money from charging us monthly to play this great game, like so many other AAA MMO’s out there, so yes they need to use the gemstore to generate income.

Adding festive minis to the gemstore is a great idea, they’re purely cosmetic, do not count towards the community mini collector title (I’ve bought 3 and i’m still at 43/50) and if people want them, they can have them (at a price).

Unlike halloween, this time we have the option to craft any 2 of those 5 minis without spending ingame gold or any actual cash at all!
In my opinion, this is extremely generous. What other store gives you opportunity to get 2/5ths of their product for free?

Every single cool idea that makes it to the gemstore will end up with a complaint thread because everyone wants something for nothing, and thats a ridiculous attitude to have.

Anet exists to make money. You can’t have everything for no cost and have the servers keep running and devs carrying on working on the game. If you want all the purely cosmetic minis, craft 2 and buy the remaining 3, you already have the option of using earned Gold rather than actual currency to buy the required gems.

My own UK ISP experience has only been with two companys so far:

Virgin Cable:
Excellent. No problems what so ever, I had 20mb/s solidly (4 years ago, it goes to 50 and 100 mb flavours now). Doesnt use phone line, rather it uses Virgins fibre optic cable lines used for their tv service. If you live in a cable area, I reccommend them.

Virgin Media
Unfortunately I moved away from a cable area, and out into “the sticks” of Lincolnshire, though I chose to stick with Virgin as I’d had good experience with their cable side of the company.
Atrocious customer support, 2mb/s speeds and a ping regularly over 140ms (as opposed to the 10-20 I was used to) as well as regular faults, jittery ping at certain times of night making streaming anything impossible and just all round lousyness.

Recently however, things have improved, they (or rather BT, as virgin and most isp companys like them use BTs existing copper phoneline network) did some work and I now get 12mb/s and 25-35 ping.

As Valmarius says, they all use the same network, so they’re very much the same, the difference being how they “traffic shape” the load on their infrastructure during peak times. I hear SKY claim for a price they wont “shape” the traffic at all (shaping is like throttling, choking your connection speeds at peak times to relieve the load they have to handle).

You can check the “samknows” website http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search and search your postcode.
In Granthams example http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/EMGRHAM
the LLU operator presence section on the right shows you which companys have their own equiptment at the exchange, which may mean better quality from those operators. (for an explaination of LLU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling )

They give you three hours in instances, giving you enough time to finish them, whereas everyone else in the game gets 3 mins.

You finished the dungeon, picked up the reward, so you’d have had to patch before rejoining pve to put you on the same build as everyone else.

You got to finish the dungeon and pick up your reward, whats the problem?

You could buy them of the tradepost, or buy rares and masterworks and try to upgrade them via the mystic forge. Other than that, they are just a random rare drop.

“I’ll just run in, hopefully I’ll get a few before I load on their screens”

Commanders in pve, I’m in two minds.

The commanders that put their icon on to say “rally on me, grenth starting” and generally help out with events, I’m cool with.

Commanders in LA just hanging about banking, tping while waiting to get into wvw, I’m also fine with.

Commanders stood in queensdale in front of the DR entrance in their townclothes when theres no queues, and you have to ask yourself: “why?”

No title for completing the story that I noticed.

In one story step before the end a character gives you the title “saviour of orr” or “champion of orr” or something like that, but the title never appeared in the drop down list

I crafted the corrupted shortbow in the games first week, I bought a level 78 shamans etched bow at first, by accident, but it wouldn’t slot into the recipe, I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what was going wrong!

So yeah, definately only level 80 Shamans weapons

from the ashes…..

This is the 4th person I’ve seen post with exactly 3 POI and 2 Vistas missing. Maybe it has bugged recently…………

During the lyssa event in Malchors Leap I was calling out which of the three seals were being attacked.

Over a period of 11 minutes, I communicated 3 times in map chat, two of which were POI links to the relevent seals, the third was a link and the message “need more at [link]”. There was at least 2 mins between each message.

When the seals came down, I tried to link the central waypoint and got message suppressed. It had been 3 minutes since my last message.

Can’t remember the exact timings, but I sent a bug report with a screeny attached. 3 messages within 11 minutes (with nothing for 30 minutes beforehand) shouldn’t trigger it, thats just frustrating.

Ualtar.5047:

British people do American badly. :P

Hugh laurie (House), Andrew Lincoln (Walking dead), Christian Bale (Batman/American Pyscho), Andrew Garfield (Spiderman) and Henry Caville (Superman).

o’rly.

Don’t blame support, they did try to message you.

have you tried inviting others or just that one guy?

I ask, because, last I heard there was a cap of 4 guilds that someone could join, maybe that guy is already in 4?

After reading the patchnotes of the 15th:

“The drop rarity of Rare and Exotic weapons from certain places in the world (champions, veterans, and players in WvW) has been increased. Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot. This was to ensure that world loot drops were not a significantly worse way of acquiring rare and exotic items than crafting and running dungeons.”

I was epecting the price of ecto to drop, and the prices of rares with them.

Of course then ascended gear was found to require ecto to craft in the forge, so there was a fresh demand for it.

Has the new demand for ecto outstripped the new higher supply from the increased drops?

Also worth considering: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/page/2#post838169
I as well have noticed that rares drop a lot less frequently, especially in cursed shore, and champions are not all dropping loot as stated, so the increase in rares hasn’t happened.

In the AMA Chris answered this question:

Q: Magic find and just drops in general (with or without MF gear) seems to have been greatly altered
to a minimum. Also, in the most recent patch it was noted that Veterans/Champions should always drop
something at least, irregardless of what quality. Is the system working as you intended since the update or are
there most definitely problems with it as it stands? Also, if it is ‘working as planned’ why the huge change in
drops? Coupled with diminishing rewards it is hard to farm legitly and almost points the player to the Cash
Shop instead of relying on self-reliance. Thanks in advance!

A: So yep you are right this is the question i have been likely dodging the most? The reason being is that it requires
investigation. Vet and Champs should give good loot and there are a number of reports on perceived decrease in the
frequency of drops. I will be discussing this in depth with the Production and Design team tomorrow and we will
hopefully have more info soon.

So in fact, had the rare drop increase happened, would we be seeing a lot more supply and lower prices even with the new demand ascended has caused?

Right, before ascended gear, the maximun magic find you could get in PVE was:

235% extra mf:

6 pieces exotic explorers 6×3% =18%
5x Pirate runes 50%
1x Travellers rune 10%
5x exotic opal orichalcum accessories = 5×7% =35%
1x exquisite opal gem in back slot = 4%
travellers weapon 3%
25x stack of superior sigil of luck 15%
guild boost 10%
omnom/lotus fries 30%
mf booster 50%
Guild banner 10%

Add your wvw stuff onto it for wvw magic find, also swap the 2 rings and back piece for ascended.

2x ascended rings (yakks and snaffs) have 10% each, which is +6% (combined) over the two exotic explorers, whereas the backpiece is 5%, an increase of 1% over a guild backpack with an exquisite opal gem in it.

so 235% + 7% + 30% wvw stuff

272% while in wvw.
242% in PVE

The thing im not sure on in your list, is whether the travellers weapon bonuses only apply if you use that weapons skills, say you had axe and warhorn, you’ll only get 3% from the axe if you use skills #1 to #3 and from the warhorn if you use skills #4 and #5 ( I think). Double handed weapons (staves, greatswords) only carry 3% mf, so im not sure if the two 1 handers combined = 6%

You’d have to build up the luck on an alternate weapon as well before switching to the set with the crests in, which is a cumbersome way of doing it, especially if you’e downed at any point.

I wouldnt rate the boon food either, unless you could guarentee 100% uptime of a boon when you kill.

I know you’ve said you got chantry, but definately double check order of whispers, from the bloodtide entrance, AND more importantly, through the asura gate in fort trinity. the second method got me my final POI that i hadnt got by going in through bloodtide.

I crafted my legendary a month ago, after 750 hours, and a lot of cursed shore event farming for karma, I found all I needed to buy were bloods and scales. Everything else I’d got from drops or moldy bags.

Zaxares is wrong.

Legendary weapons are “Soulbound on use”

My Kudzu was when I crafted it.
see for yourself, enter this:
[&AgHddwAA]
Into chat and hover your mouse over the [] that appears.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Ye, i know. I just found funny that thread and the answer as official correct answer, that’s why i was wondering if someone else have a perfect answer for staff too

Thats not the “official” correct answer, thats just what the OP has selected as the correct answer.

Theres no set mob it drops off, it drops from any (really small chance) some ppl got them from champ broodmother, another guy I know got a bow from a risen knight outside grenths. They also have a chance to drop from large chests (temple, jormag)

Mainly, 300,000 people suddenly had “legend” drop from the karka chest and now need dyes for gift of colour to make bifrost, hence price rising as they all got bought up.

“More……come”

obviously comparing cursed shores to the seaside resort of Morecambe http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Morecambe,+Lancashire,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=54.071376,-2.859192&spn=0.087733,0.174923&sll=53.712965,-2.642212&sspn=0.707907,1.399384&geocode=FTYbOQMduEjU_w&hnear=Morecambe,+Lancashire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=13

I first heard it during the story step “retribution” where you take back claw island.
It also played during the final few events of lost shores.

Its not on the soundtrack, and this makes me sad

The new additional music at the end of the snow storm fractal is also excellent and very fitting to the encounter

As soon as I saw all the destroyer eggs the skrit had stored up, ready to trade to me for food, I knew, I just knew, that for Gods sake, I’d chosen the wrong race to help me save the world

The game was designed without traditional “end game” in mind.

Q: Why rush through content to get to max level in other games?
A: because thats where the fun starts (if you think raiding is fun)

Guild wars 2 wanted to step away from this type of structure, the fun starts at level 0, everything you associate with mmo end game, big boss battles, dungeons, exploration, pvp they’re all available in gw2 right from the start.

In my opinion, stop worrying about max level, and what there is there, and enjoy the content thats around you right now.