Guild Wars 2

Have you gone through their Catalyst Control t-shoot?

I feel for you. I had/have no problems using my old nVidia GTX285 from years ago. Never a hiccup. Then I put in a HD7750 and I keep getting black screen’d. Can’t even alt-tab out. Just crashes. Went back to the gtx and no worries at all.

I’ve decided to try again and I’ve put the 7750 back in, gone through all the Catalyst tips they’ve recommended, installed the App profiles, error checked and ensured HDD error free… now tonight will come the crakittenest.

Lupanic.6502:

but Cleaning Formula 409 does not help you if you have burning, 10 stacks of bleeding and weakness for example, because the auto Elixir S remove weakness

To be fair, if you had all the above, we have an elixir that removes them all, then gives you boons in their stead. Not bad at all really. Why would you use E-S? That’s for “Holy Hells! I need a breather!”, not “I’m melting!”.

:)

In the nerve centre of my evil Empire…

LoL I killed my first Thief who had a Vet Guard as support the other day. I was amazed because apart from support, it’d be my first thief kill as a 1v1.

I think I may have cheated though. After dispatching the Vet I realised I was near the waters edge. I jumped in then pulled the thief in with me with the harpoon.
Engi + Underwater nades = bits of Thief. :P

At this point we may have just lost the walls…. ;-)

I’m still using a GTX285 from 5 years ago. Works absolutely fine. No idea, but it could be that it has a 512bus. Not many cards these days have a wide enough enough highway for their data. THey have awesome clock speeds, but it bottlenecks.

Stats below.
240CUDA Cores1
648MHzGraphics Clock (MHz)
1242MHzMemory Clock
1 GBStandard Memory Config
GDDR3Memory Interface
512-bitMemory Interface Width2

All they have to do now is get rid of toons in WvW entirely!

Instead, you float around as a small sentence. When you run into a wall of other red text, which is obviously the enemy but you wouldn’t know because you have no idea what is under all that crimson grammar, an instance automatically forms and you are all put into a spelling bee.

Same here. As I said elsewhere, I’d probably only pay 1/2 the amount I did for this game if I’d had the benefit of foresight. Maybe. Laggy and unplayable. Skill lag not addressed. I thought ‘maybe it’s my connection’, tested it, fine, played again, skill lag.

I also agree with the OP. It’s a right, ridiculous shamozzle.

I got into WvWvW anout 6 weeks ago. Thought it was ok, nothing grand but ok, then this happened. Everything seems to happen at the pace of a drunk snail on a glue stick.

Skills don’t activate (still), everything feels jerky and it’s like everything take a 1/2 second longer so it feels like swimming in clag. On the whole a bad playing experience and I think I’ll stick with PvE. Except instead of daily it’ll probably just be once a week or whenever I could be bothered to see if anyone is online anymore.

WvW feels like you’re walking through thick goo just going, well, anywhere. Skills don’t activate. On the whole, a rather poor experience and one I wont be repeating anytime again. I don’t think the game was worth the money I paid for it, maybe 1/2.

OP asked for thoughts on GW2 after patch? I used to play daily. Now… I think I’ll just leave it for once or twice on a weekend if their isn’t anything better going anywhere.

Edit: and Anet can forget about the credit card/Paypal coming out for any backpack/style/whatever. They use the money on advertising to promise the moon and deliver a rock.

I just put 110 Mystic Coins into that cursed Toilet and got 20 Clovers in return. What? Grind? GW2? Never…. But still I return. :P

I was very lucky with mine. After BG won last week, it made JQ come out and take over everything and I finished it without even seeing an enemy yesterday.

*note: rams and everything aside – congrats to BG for putting in the hours and skill for the last push over the line. We though we had you, and that complacency led to a right, proper roflstomping.

Server says no….

Got to a point where no-one on the server could activate skills more than 1 out of 4 times they tried.

WvW needs some serious work. How about it A-Net?

Engi might be able to to do it. If you drop an Elixir X followed by U? You could even begin with X, which gives a minimum of 15secs stability then a Spykit for 10 secs

Suddenly FT and EG are back on the menu.

I love the idea of acid bomb being a blast finisher. I mean… it’s a bomb!

Or at least, may as well be…. :P

Prize = improved.

Who needs a re-work when turrets can provide you with a helmet as epic as this?

Leo G.4501:

What if they cut all bleed base duration by 50% and improved the tic speed to compensate =ing the same amount of damage just faster but the difficulty of keeping stacks maxed is multiple times more difficult?

^ This.

I have absolutely no idea what he just said. But… This. ;-)

Speaking of drops, can someone answer this: Does the chance of better drops increase from Dragon chests the more damage you do during the event? Or, is it more a case of time spent on it? Asking because currently running a condition/support build.

Cheers in advance.

Guard should not be necessary. Yesterday, cleared FotM22 with 3 Engi’s, one Mes and one Necro. It was a breeze. It’s how you play the class, not how you outfit the class.

Kinda felt like this after reading yet another anti-pug post… :P

SynfulChaot.3169:

And while I have seen a single player peak stacks at 25, I have never seen a single player maintain the stacks at 25. Two condition stackers, and the stack at 25 can be easily maintained without both players needing to do nothing but the condition skills.

An Engi nader can very easily maintain a 25 stack of Vulnerability on a foe by themselves. Who does this ultimately benefit? The warrior who’s smashing the bejeesus outta the creature. :P

Instead of stacking to 100, might it be better to see a rewarding extra stack after 25?

For example, if your group gets 25stack bleed, if you continue to pile on stacks of it a new stack opens. Maybe in this example you can call it ‘Haemorrhage’. Then after 25 stacks of that it can move onto to ‘Open Vein’ or something.

A system that rewards teams that help each other to pursue a damage course.

Just a thought.

After a hard weeks Harpy slaying, a well earned campsite rest is required.

Post pics of your favourite campsite.

I think I saw this somewhere before, although I don’t normally play PvP, I think it’s because it counts your PvE set and PvP set together. You still only get the benefit of 6 though in each mode you play in.

leman.7682:

On a side note, when I see a ranger in my party, I usually quit and look for another one. Chances are, that player is a girl or just a terribad wanting a WoW hunter experience with no basic knowledge of his class. Ranger in your party in PvE? Save your time and leave.

Sooo many things wrong with this…. So you don’t play with girls, eh? They’re worse than you at, say, everything? Maybe you meant something else, but it sounds like you’re a kittening moron.

No, I have a serious misunderstanding about your ‘end game’ moment is.

Obviously it isn’t that point when the game no longer is fun and you feel like you’re plugging away for absolutely nothing. I can only surmise that must be an integral part of the game for you.

There is an ‘end game’ moment. Except in an MMO it’s when you no longer have fun playing it.

In other games you finish the story, kill the boss, save the world, etc and that’s it. You shelve it. Some provide DLC or unlock harder difficulties so, if you still enjoy playing it after knowing the ending, you can have something a little different.

GW2, as an MMO, has tonnes of content. When you no longer load it and say “This is gonna be great…”, I’d say you’ve hit ‘end game’ and should buy a new game. Maybe come back after a month or so to see if you just needed a breather.

Evening!
My account states ‘Pumpkin Carver 0/1’, although I completed it. Is there any way of adjusting this to reflect the achievement gained in the Halloween event as i did actually do it?

Hey, just a spelling mistake. :P
Static Shot has a ‘maxium’ of 4 targets, instead of a maximum, when you mouse over it in game.

Kumakichi.2583:

I dont know why but I always get a bit of a laugh when I watch people killing themselves in TA when Vevina puts confusion on them. I always warn groups but I still see 2 or 3 people going down right away. My last TA run 4 people in the group died so quickly I had to run out and reset the boss. That was just after I mentioned “watch out for confusion on this boss”.

^ +1 =D

Just curious how many other people chuckle on the inside when they realise a Flamethrower is hurting a Lava Elemental?

Any other glaring chuckle points like this you’ve experienced?

note: this is not a ‘I HATE THE PATCH’ thread, put those elsewhere

I remember getting sent to the sin bin. I put down a heal turret to get my health back up, but exploding it blew me out of the cage without having to destroy it :P

The Gates Assassin.9827:

holloweaver.7460:

The Gates Assassin.9827:

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks challenge is a good thing in a game.

Fast-clicking on a mouse is not exactly what I can a challenge.

Thanks Anet to remind me that there are better games around.

…What does that even mean? Is that a serious post? That’s such a hyperbole that I can’t believe I’m responding to it.

Scoundrel.2139:

I think the only real problem is that Devs here have decided everyone is a patient and understanding adult. They forget a lot of people who play are childish (not young, just childish) idiots who are happy to say: LoL! the nub died!

… just before kicking the person who died. Not everyone is happy to take on new players for dungeon run. I was lucky when I was learning as it wasn’t as it now is. New players will find it rather difficult.

So don’t game with them. If I don’t know a run, I always say “This is my first time on this one, is that alright with everyone?” If I get any pushback, I just leave. Why game with people who suck?

I don’t anymore. As I was saying, I’m more experienced now so I generally don’t run into that. But I see it still happen. Doesn’t matter if I tell the offender off, the idiot has still made some poor sod feel like dirt. Perhaps they’ve done the run 4 times, feel they know it? Then something happens they haven’t seen before and BAM. The above happens. I think this will make these events happen more frequently is all.

I think the only real problem is that Devs here have decided everyone is a patient and understanding adult. They forget a lot of people who play are childish (not young, just childish) idiots who are happy to say: LoL! the nub died!

… just before kicking the person who died. Not everyone is happy to take on new players for dungeon run. I was lucky when I was learning as it wasn’t as it now is. New players will find it rather difficult.

If you die, what happens if you logout? Say, close the whole game then reload it and log in? Will it stop you entering the dungeon? Does it bypass the no-res whilst in combat?

Perhaps, it might be better to have a 30silver entry fee, but have the in-dungeon armour repair be free? It would allow people who are having trouble to be not be penalised and they can address the challenge anew. The entry fee is to stop people just zoning for repairs.

Edit: This would also allow the players to continue (time allowing) to play against a particular boss/event and find a winning strategy or learn to work together.

Wreckdum.8367:

Basically they just built you a car chassis first. They’ll get you the engine and wheels later. Just chill on those bricks until it’s ready.

Although I believe that something I hand over hard earned for and comes in a sealed packet should be ready from the get-go, I do agree with the above sentiment. MMOs always need tweaking.

That said: if I walked into a car dealer and they took $15k off me and gave me a chassis and a promise, I’d thump him.

And when you get downed, you get pack-stomped by the Vet Elementals. :P
I just tried it too. Absolute rubbish. Also, it appears some people have already found new and inventive ways to skip content… I was hoping that would more or less stop.

Also, can I ask if the drop rate in Fractals was fiddled with?

I just went on a level 20 run (I’m 34 level) but from the start, through the Snow fractal, and up to the Ie Elemental end boss on Dredge (who is now OP in my opinion) and I got one rare from teh bosses, chest and mobs. And it was a Glacial Lodestone.

corpsekin.4601:

fractuals don’t have silver mobs, the combat there is alot less harsh

Try the new and improved Ice Elemental on Dredge. Someone went to the Freeze and Breeze Gym over the holidays.

Question: what would people think about having the WP mechanic where you can’t res whilst party is in combat scale in difficulty?

Allow modes of difficulty, and appropriate achievements, that mean you can turn the feature on or off according to how your group wants to play?

As it is, I think it favors those who have already kitted out from previous runs above those just starting.

So, if you’re engaged in a massive fight with a boss and say (hypothetically) this fight takes 30 mins. Then, the unthinkable (apparently), a player goes down.

What wondrous fun to play a game where you get to sit in a dead state and watch others play for 1/2 hour. :P

There are obviously a lot of pros and cons to the WP issue.

Question though: what would people think about having the WP mechanic where you can’t res whilst party is in combat scale in difficulty?

Allow modes of difficulty, and appropriate achievements, that mean you can turn the feature on or off according to how your group wants to play?

I got through the Ice and Dredge levels of a level 20 Fractal without getting a single rare and only 3 Masterworks. This includes Chests/Boss/Mob drops.

Hi,

In the screenshot attached, you can see I have 25 AR, but the AR in the stat box says 5. Had to re-equip everything ( no biggie ) to fix it. But if people don’t realise, they’re in for a world of Agony pain.

LoL So, first Fractal run after the patch. Got through the Ice one… took ages. Not so bad. Got to the Dredge. Not so bad again. Until you get to the Ice Man Cometh at the end. It’s ridiculously hard now. Not only that, for the unwary, there’s a bug with the AR.

Edit: Also, I notice, not one rare from any chest or drop the whole time.

I have 2 infused rings and a backpack. 25AR. Notice in the area behind the ring stats though. The AR says 5, even though I’m wearing them all. Have to re-equip them.

One thing I still don’t like is account-bound relics/ascended gear.

Maybe, they could make them tradeable, but only among the players that were in the group when you got them? Otherwise, if you bought them, keep them account bound.

OT, I think they are doing this yes. But not til later.

I have completed over 250 Fractals at the 10+ level (currently 31). I have never had a Fractal weapon drop. I have 10 Rings sitting in my bank that I can do nothing with. All I want is the Fractal weapon.