Guild Wars 2

Mental Paradox.3845:

No, really. If you get a new machine, wipe W8/W8.1 and install good old 7.

No really, this is the most spectacularly bad advice you can give to anyone. Even Microsoft won’t sell you Windows 7 any more. There is nothing wrong with Windows 8.1 as a gaming platform, it may have it’s design and marketing issues (Yuk! metro on a desktop) but for gaming it has the better performance

Test comparisons:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/11/24/battlefield_4_windows_7_vs_81_performance_review/5

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1460

I have the “every note I play is wrong” bug often but it’s usually when I join a match later than round 1. I even expect it now if I join and the top scope is 200 I expect to be kicked by death, after that I can join the next round and it all works again so it’s pretty reproducible.

And no, it’s not me sucking sometimes, though I don’t often get 600 I usually get at least 580points

Dungeons are designed to hate rangers, Pet death is a big factor but also reflect, it’s hard for a ranger to not hurt their party sometimes.

People say that staying at range is the easy option but there is so much in GW2 that penalises you for range that people just don;t want rangers in their party. It’s nothing to do with player skill, you get noob rangers like any profession and you get expert ranger players; people don’t even let you start a dungeon if you bring ranger.

Until ANet fix some the critical issues with rangers they will always be excluded from dungeons. Tone down the pet death, tone down the range hate and do something about the terrible DPS and utility that rangers have.

In other forms of GW play they are not such a problem but it’s no fun being a ranger wanting to do dungeons. That is ANet’s fault

Yahtzee.7195:

Edited: I live in the US. I have a desktop that is hard wired into my router. I terminated all processes before running the game manually through task manager. My antivirus is extremely light while running in the back ground. My desktop is about 4 years old and the ram is maxed by the system board standards at 4 gigs. I did however see an error message after letting the game initially download all night. I thought I might have to re download but the game still allowed me to play. It has been laggy from the first, even when doing my initial character setup. Any additional thoughts? I have even ran a chkdsk /r through command and I know how to keep my PC running at top performance. I only have a few programs downloaded on my PC.

Unless you provide this information

What hardware do you have? exact CPU, exact Graphics, RAM and windows version

Nobody can help you

Duel core processor – is VERY weak by modern standards and only minimum GW2 specs
Military grade AV – Stupid, windows has AV built in, ditch it, all it will do is make you PC suck
Have you lowered your video settings to match the capabilities of your PC?

What version of windows 8.1 do you have, it’s it’s 64bit you need a minimum of 4GB ram

What hardware do you have? exact CPU, exact Graphics, RAM and windows version. Nobody can help or advise without this basic information. Just stating windows 8.1 is like asking why your car is slow, it’s a red one.

Insufficient data

Yeah, we were really sold a dodo on HoM. I would love obby armour as heratage, be better yet if you can access any armour or weapons (or minis for that matter) that you actually put into your HoM. i.e. it is your hall of monuments.

Won’t happen though, they just don’t have the staff or will to put world polish in. Their team has a full time job just adding all the new account bound junk to the game that we all love so much. All that junk just doesn’t appear you know, it takes a lot of dev effort to cram so much junk into a game.

Gaile even posted about this two days ago

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-Take-Care-with-In-Game-Mails/first#post4654794

ie This is a scam to steal your login details

Why can’t we have duplicate character names? We have unique account names. Maybe limit to a finite number of duplicates as there will always be celebrity name abuse.

Thanks, on further searching and reading it seems that binding double-click to mouse wheel is quite common. Still a bit nervous about it. I would rather ANet improved the game UI to deal with the mass stacks of clicking that you have to do; this must be a major pain (literally) to many who don’t know they can configure their mouse differently.

It’s currently Wintersday, and for some reason ANet has decided to make double-clicking a MAJOR feature of the event, a trend that has been continuing for a long time in Guildwars 1 and 2. The current event sees you doubl-clicking large numbers of presents to open them only to find lots of other things that need to be double-clicked to open, some of which need to be salvaged by double-clicking and lots of other clicking.

I’m not the youngest of players and I now have significant pain in my arm so I have had to stop playing the game, but this is crazy! Why does it have to be this way? So first off I’ll ask ANet again for that much requested feature, the right-click / use all option to consume a whole stack at once.

As for some reason they would prefer to have their player base crippled rather than do this I started wondering if there is a another way.

My first thought is to use a simple macro (there are many programs and features built in to moder gaming mice etc) that will take the pain out of this. I tried this, pretty soon I was able to bind a single key press to open up a whole stack. Great I thought, problem solved. Hoever, I know ANet is touchy about third party programs and botting etc so I looked at various posts concerning such things. It’s never quite black and white with ANet and nobody wants to fall under the ban hammer, especially when you are just trying to avoid crippling pain during normal game-play.

Gaile Gray has stated that:

“Anything that automates the game or gives another player an advantage is disallowed.”

But also at http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/255457-policy-3rd-party-programs-multi-boxing-macros/

“This means that if you program a macro, it must require one keystroke per action. You may not program a single key to perform multiple functions.”

So macros are not banned and single key – single action is okay; the macro I had, although performing a single-action (double-click), it does so multiple times so looks like it won’t be acceptable. And to be honest, when I tried it, it did feel a bit too good, I pressed the button and a few seconds later it was all done, maybe I was just enjoying not feeling pain but it felt like an advantage.

So a macro mapping a single key-press to a single double-click would be okay. A slight improvement but not much, we are still firmly in RSI territory. BTW, Anyone can use Microsoft Mouse Centre, (or presumably many other mouse drivers) to map middle mouse button to double click for the same effect, no 3rd party program (other than the mouse driver) needed.

So next I tried mapping a key press + mousewheel combination. Each wheel click being an action but now you have the advantage of performing several while scrolling the wheel. I would argue that this still honours the single-press to single action principle as you have to be there playing the game and you have to keep scrolling the wheel, but this is significantly better on the RSI stakes.

The only problem is that this is just my opinion doesn’t matter, what matters is if ANet would agree or ban me for it.

So I thought I would share this and maybe get some better guidance from ANet, I know they don’t like to comment on specific macros but RSI is a serious problem for many and the current content style aggravates this. The intention here is not to cheat and gain an advantage, it’s to play the game as ANet have given it to us but without suffering from repetitive strain.

Of course what would solve 95% of the problem is a right-click use all option (there would still be the salvaging issue). In the mean-time I can’t engage much in the double-click content as my arm hurts too much (and I wonder how much life is left in my mouse!). Presumably there are people with accessibility issues over this type of content.

And Merry Christmas

I like the new dailies. It’s just odd when you do some PvP and there are only 2 professions in a game with 20 people.

They are much easier and quicker to do than before, even if you have to pop into PvP, or WvW to bag a caravan.

Charr, I can’t live with that silly bounding run and I’m sick of pressing 1 repeatedly just to get them to run properly.

Yup, this game is so washed out with junk, mostly account bound junk, anyone would thing ANet were selling storage to put it all in!

Having to double-click large stacks of junk, clicking on boxes that open up to yield other boxes is just stupid. Recipes that require bits made with other recipes with require bits from other recipes and so on.

It’s REALLY bad user experience. Where did it say in the guild wars manifesto that they want to make a game where everyone stands around for hours sorting out the junk in their inventory?

O have the same problem with demolisher and I have been camped at indigo for weeks. Never seen him, once I heard in chat he was there but died in about 20 seconds before I could get from south of indigo to north.

Recently, as player population in the zone is much lower I don’t see any legends so I guess that’s it unless ANet rebalances the spawn rates because currently they just NEVER spawn and it’s not possible to complete these achievements.

“Bug” was being “investigated” 3 months ago. I guess they don;t care much about world polish. Still, Blizzard will be happy that GW players are finding it increasingly easier to stay in WoW.

Well it’s definitely a bug, if only in the text they speak.

Baldrick.8967:

Here’s how you fix the problem- design it so the cutscene can be skipped and everything moves into place whether or not someone is watching it.

This already happens in many instances. I for one am not buying the story. Not saying they necessarily want it that way, more likely covering up an oops or at least a shortcut on implementation.

I get annoyed being told how to dodge

Hopefully some mod will come and clean up this thread of all the idiots.

I too have the bugged scenario of being in stealth with no ability to interact with anything in the room and the really helpful instruction of “Eliminate attackers to regain stealth”

+1 to needing an adjustment on the glow, they went stupid bonkers on the intensity. VERY pleased that the option is there to turn it off. A potentially useful addition made useless by stupidity.

Come on ANet, tone it down 90% so we can use it.

At least implement shift-click to buy/use/destroy 10 at a time. This is REALLY bad UI design.

An if you want REALLY REALLY bad, go for the drinking achievement. It will probably cost you two new mice and a finger by the time you have done that monumental grind chore. Proof that GW2 really IS the grindiest game every made.

I recall reading somewhere that ANet regarded destroying Ascalon (pre-searing) as one of their biggest mistakes and went on to explain why, about players “home” etc. Well it didn’t take long for them to make the same mistake again. And no, I don’t care about the “home” zones; they are just peripherally annoying instances that cease to be home very early in a character’s personal story and certainly not “home” to a player.

When I look at the map of Tyria I see lots of unexplored areas, places I can’t go to because the devs haven’t made that place yet. I wanted to visit these places in GW1 also, still waiting. So I’m very much in agreement with OP; stop destroying good stuff and make new stuff.

While we are at it, isn’t it time that Orr started to recover? I cleaned up that mess 2 years ago and it’s still an ugly mess. How about getting rid of the toxic/krait/scarlet junk out of Queensdale? It should never have been in that starting zone anyhow and now it has no place there, it’s just some forgotten junk in a once better world that is looking very neglected.

The game has scaling, why can’t it scale suitably for lower party numbers?

The irony is that if you go into a dungeon like catacombs under strength it very thoughtfully scales you level 80 down to level 35 and your done. gj ANet

Problem I have is there are either fewer than 4 friends on line or more than 4 friends on line, either way dungeons are bad for people with friends.

ANet have been ignoring ranger forums for a very long time. Still seeing “no ranger” parties for dungeons, and still get asked to bring alts if I join as ranger.

Auto-play works, it’s auto login that’s stopped working, kitten ed annoying

Hands up who wants to fight more krait?

Nobody?

+1 from me too, annoying that I have to scroll to get to the 8th character, seems like a pretty odd design choice to fit 7.

It’s a pointless restriction, I would have no objection to enabling it

The problem with stealth is that it impacts the other player directly, not just the other player’s character. This is the equivalent of having blindness completely black out the player’s monitor, how would you feel about that? Maybe poison should actually make the player sick? Stealth doesn’t just effect the game, it effect’s the players playing against it.

A solution would be to have stealth ‘visible’ to enemy the same as it is to allies, that way stealth’s effects would be restricted mainly to the “character’s” abilities and not the players.

Says the zerker!

Difference doesn’t mean diversity, it just means that one works out better than rest and that’s the one that everyone uses in the meta.

If they put 33% on pets that’s job done for me.

If 1 to X key bindings are not allowed then ANet really needs to allow us to consume a stack of items. 250 double-clicks on multiple stacks means RSI by design and breaking mouse buttons by design. (That could be an interesting legal case)

Anyone for the drinking achievement? I’d autohotkey that one!

The wait is there for a reason, the stones are timed so if you had less of a wait then you also have less time to do the jumps. Saving 3 seconds would make the puzzle incredibly hard, any more and it would be impossible. Plus, you just missing is because you fall off at the end, anyone falling off near the start gets to go strait back on.

GW2 went the same way GW1 did, only 3-4 years earlier. With GW1 it started when they cancelled expansions and instead released living world (while making GW2), with GW2 the decay started pretty much by design after release.

GW2 NEEDS content expansion, it does not need, or want, any more of this LS junk.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Because the list is going to inflate instantly. For example, if the gold site was Gold.com (it’s not, it’s a redirect to Kay’s Jewelers store site), you’d need to include:

• gold.com
• gold.c0m
• g0ld.com
• g0ld.c0m
• go1d.com
• go1d.c0m
• g01d.com
• g01d.c0m
• go|d.com
• golddotcom
• gold dot com
• gold dot c0m
• and then stuff as stupid as gee oh el dee, dee oh tee, see oh em.

And this is for_just_ one site.

And a very simple algorithm can relate these all as the same string. Just the same way as dictionary attacks on passwords don’t really care if your password is ‘password’ or ‘P455W0rD’ or any other combination.

Much easier than maintaining a team of report investigators!

It’s not really much different to the in-game profanity filters

Keep the chat options open, the game NEEDS this so -1 to OP idea.

The sellers always tell you the site address, so why doesn’t ANet maintain a filter list for those? Additionally, if you message the site to anyone you automatically get banned (maybe temp 72hr first, perma second). That list would be a lot easier for ANet to maintain than investigating gold-seller reports.

Currently 10g gets you 100 gems. ANet doesn’t want you to have a lot of gold because that means you don’t buy gems with cash.

As the game matures, people have bought all the legendaries and ascended gear they really want so the spare gold goes to gems and the viability of ANet’s business model goes down. If it goes down enough then no more ANet. It’s a tough balancing act they have to make.

Prysin.8542:

Because the post CDI thread has run its course. Like any other discussion pertaining ranger balance improvements. It is futile to discuss it as the ONLY thing they bother to take notice of is abusable bugs (only stuff that is “fixed” shortly after being reported).

You can discuss, suggest and otherwise try to come up with a solution, at the end of the day, you will be forced to work with what is available to you, not what you “should have had from the start”.

Either you learn how to perform as a ranger, or you suck. There is no inbetween.
You succeed, or you fail.
You master, or you don’t.
If you fail to master, if you fail to succeed, the class will underperform every time without exception.

Now tell me, how many people on this forum, or even in this game, can you say have mastered the ranger class to the point where they are no longer hindered by the class mechanics and quirky functions.

Pretty much this. ANet still (despite the massive CDI) have not addressed the profession problems. All we can do is keep stating the same arguments but nothing is going to change because ANet isn’t doing anything significant with the profession.

Basic problem is ANet doesn’t play ranger, doesn’t care about ranger and doesn’t read ranger forums. Expect no change in the state of the ranger.

“Grab a power keg, and get blasting”
“Grab a power keg, and get blasting”
“Grab a power keg, and get blasting”

I don’t even know that those toxic spores are still doing there but to have all 3 NPCs say the same line in the same voice right after each other and an annoying bug.

Fluffball.8307:

Sandpit.3467:

Bows are bad
Pets are really, really bad
Trait synergy is a complete mess
Sword 1 is broken

These are your opinions, and I completely, vehemently disagree with every one of them.

Indeed opinions vary, but really the traits? you sure you want to go with that one too?

Yes, ranger is in a terrible place now and always has been. They are competitive in some of the game forms and suck in others, but the main problem is that most of their game mechanics just don’t work.

Bows are bad
Pets are really, really bad
Trait synergy is a complete mess
Sword 1 is broken

and a whole host of minor annoyances (that many other professions have) on top. The ranger CDI was massive and heated. Rangers are still waiting for some dev love but the devs are perm on their warrior/theif love trip so don;t hold your breath.

I wish the train would die, or at least move to a non-starter area. And while we are at it ANet, can we get rid of the toxic spore stuff from QD now?

Yup Delux is about 100g at the moment

Try getting the drinking title. Thousands of clicks to buy and twice that to consume.

It’s not just luck, there are many things that you want to be able to right-click on a stack and “Use All”

But it’s not unimportant, it’s kind of a quality issue. If they can’t get such a bog-standard easy peasy trivial feature like this right (something every other game on the planet manages) then what does that say about the quality of the game and how much they really care about rangers and their pets (you know, that non-optional, profession defining game mechanic).

The main problem is pet is still way too slow to move, when you press F2 the pet can;t use it until it is in range and it is so slow it rarely gets used. Add kiting targets and we are back where we always have been, PET=Useless

To be fair, ANet have worked really hard to make the Shortbow even worse.

The worrying thing is that no matter how OP a profession is, ANet always listen to those wanting more OP if it’s one of their favoured professions. Thieves are very favoured so expect more buffs incoming.

I have always hated waypoint costs, it’s game mechanic that discourages people getting together to respond to events, discourages cooperative play and is counter the game. It’s just a lazy dumb gold sink, a damaging tax purely for the sake of having a tax.