Guild Wars 2

I don’t know about other servers, but SFR have 120+ quee on EB and 50+ kittenor each borderland.
Haven’t seen that for some time, and I’m glad WvW is that active again.

I feel kinda bad for Desolation being linked with t9 server. From what I hear, a lot of players are already transfering to Piken and SFR.

RudyTjhia.7250:

I play in SEA with 245 ping and 30FPS on big fight but i still fine m8

It might be fine for you, but it’s dissapointing for me.
If ping is higher than 100, it’s bad.
And if FPS drop below 50, I also can’t accept that.

My CPU is running on 40-50% usage.
GPU on around 50% ussage, but at core frequency of 650Mhz (max is 1040), so it’s acctually more like 20-30% GPU total usage.
And those are numbers from fights when FPS is droping. I mean really? I don’t know how, just make that game to acctually use CPU and GPU ressources insetad of FPS drop.
I know this game might always be CPU heavy because for some reason you can’t put that work on GPU, but at least make it use whole CPU power from those chips with multithreading.

I love this game and all content, but the only thing that’s bothering me, is that FPS drop. Fix that, update your DX and do some optimisation that will keep our FPS intact, and I can say with all my heart that this is the best game I have ever seen.

I won’t move on server with low population. I moved to SFr just because they have active TS leaders for EB.
WvW isn’t about solo roaming around and killing 1 by 1. That’s for PvP.
At WvW I expect to have massive fights with 300+ players at the same time.

And yeah changing settings doesn’t help at all.

I know story line and other updates have higher priority, but what will you do with perfect story and events, when you get 10 fps.

They added tons of game updates, story lines etc. I think it’s time for some performance upgrades and updates. You can’t just keep adding new content and stay at DX9c for ever. That technology will be soon 10 years old and i’s realy time to upgrade it.
DX11 is out for like 5 years at least so there is huge knowdlage database about upgrading from 9c to 11 and realy shouldn’t be so kitten hard.

So I’m playing WvW today and I notice that on SFR EU server we had quee on all borderlands and EB, meaning there are 600 players active at all time playing WvW.
And problem that everyone have is horrible lagg.
We have connection lag that’s causing lagg and delay on skill use, or you can’t even use skills at all because of it.

And another lagg we have is ofcourse graphic lagg and fps drop. Everyone is complaining about that on TS and WvW chat.

I don’t know if it’s your priority to deliver us good performance, but just from one server you have 600 players with horrible laggs. Imagine how many players are having the same strugle across all servers.
Sure DX11/12 update would take some time and money, but it’s worth it. Much more players would come to WvW and acively play it, so something must be done about that.

As I also said in some older thread, problem is with server and lack of optimisation.
I tested playing GW2 on EB with monster PC, OCed to the limits and 1Gbps dedicated link. So when you have FPS drop from 60 to 20, and ping jump from 30 to 900 on that kind of PC, you can simply know something must be done with it.

And don’t give me that answer that servers can’t handle it and nothing can be done about it. In 2016 everything can be done. With proper servers and optimisation we could easily play on 60FPS at all times and max 40 ping.

So this was posted many times before, but I don’t intend to stop asking untill I get decent answer from admins.
This game really lacks DX11 update and overall performance optimisation. Something must be done about that CPU heavy game.
Users keep saying that DX11 wouldn’t help anything, but I deny to belive that. DX11 support multithreading, which would allow game to use 100% of CPU, rather than only 50%. I’m talking about i7 and Xeon CPUs in this case.
It’s just annoying that my CPU usage will never go above 50%, and same for GPU. Acctually my GPU isn’t even using highest frequency because game is just not depending on GPU as much as it should.
So I realy hope that we get some performance improvements about that. Also hoping on any reply from admin/developer for this case.

Also I would like to report that I’m getting some random graphic spikes while playing WvW. Not lagg like connection lagg, but acctuall graphic freeze for few secounds. Picture will just freeze for some time, and before you say it’s because of my PC … well that’s not the case. I’m running all other games without a single problem, and I think that over 1000$ PC should be able to handle GW2 just fine. But it doesn’t because of lack of optimisation.
All other programs are running fine, nothing else is lagging on my PC, except GW2.

I am monitoring GPU, CPU, SSD and RAM usage all the time … they are never even near to 100% to cause any kind of those problems.

I realy hope developers will find some way to force game client to use 100% of PC ressources (CPU & GPU).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4fibav/patch_bug_thread_19th_of_april_2016/

Developer responded that fix for that is queed up, so it should be avaliable soon. Lets just hope it will be today so we can still play WvW a bit

Crashes all the time on all populated maps and events

Crashes all the time on all populated maps and events

Crashes all the time on all populated maps and events

Looking at EB quee … jumping from 70 to 20 all the time xD
poof! just like that 50 players dissapear lol

I bet DX 11/12 would fix it :P

crashing all the time

Server: SFR – EU
Location: Slovenia
WvW battles
64 bit and 32bit client are both crashing

There was 80 man quee and I was in like 1min later because everyone got dc at WvW.

phokus.8934:

It’d be great if you could level up the mastery points anywhere in the world by just activating what you want to level.

Locking them behind Tyria and HoT and leaving PvP out of it is a turn off to me.

well to be fair, this is MMORPG not MOBA

Those new legendary weapons … that’s just tons of griding.
But old legendary weapons aren’t that hard to craft, except that map completion.

Yeah it happens, but after a while you hear pretty much everything and you just ignore it.
It’s not bothering me anymore … acctually it didn’t bother me at beggining.

So just ignore or block them

Well sure those levels take some time.
I came to 101 already, but my problem isn’t gaining experience, but geting more mastery points.
In my opinion, leveling for those masteries is the least of your problems. At least that’s how I feel about it. You have to do it only one time, and it will be avaliable on all accounts.
I went to Dragon Stand event map to get experience for it, and I get around 2-3M expeirnece from single map that takes like 60-90min to complete. That seems kinda fast for me. But it’s true that I used experience boosters that I farmed from WvW daily events etc. Still like 100 of those 20min boosters left, and it give 50% + 100% for kill streak which is pretty easy to keep at Dragon stand.

So in my opinion, leveling those masteries is even too easy.

But getting those mastery points on another hand … that is chalange for me. First 70 were kinda easy and was getting them from just playing around. Now that I’m at 101, I have to acctually look at my achivements and strugle with obtaining them.

And if you need experience for Tyria masteries … just go to SW and do events.

Shylock.4653:

http://dulfy.net/2015/01/14/gw2-point-of-no-return-living-story-achievements-guide/
http://dulfy.net/2014/12/03/gw2-seeds-of-truth-living-world-story-achievements-guide/
http://dulfy.net/2014/11/18/gw2-tangled-paths-story-achievements-guide/
http://dulfy.net/2014/11/05/gw2-echoes-of-the-past-story-achievements-guide/

Exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks a lot mate, I will try to do those achivements solo first

And another question regarding this.
Each of those mastery achivements, have few minor achivements that need to be complete.
Do I get them during stroy, or after I come to the end of the story?
For example: “Recon Demolitionis” achivement. Do I get it while doing story quest, or I would get it after I come to the end of the story?

So I got pretty much everything ready for my Luminescent armor skin, except for those ascend rings that I can get after completing stroy masterys.
So I would like to ask if anyone has done following achivements:
Tangled Paths mastery
Seed of Truth Mastery
Point of no return Mastery
Echoes of the Past Mastery

Just curious if that can be done alone without any other players, or I need group for all those achivements?
How long does it take to get all those achivements done? I know I tried some of those before, but I spent few hours without getting any closer to it.

Any kind of guidelins would be appreciated.

I would also like to ask if there is any EU guild that is active in that manner and I could join to get some help from experienced players and do those achivements.

So any kind of help/answer/guides are welcome

I’m not that experienced player, so please don’t hate me for noob questions.

So I noticed that cultural armor is restricted by race, so I would like to ask something about it.
I curently have 2 races only, and only 1 free character slot.
Can I make new character with differend race and buy that cultural armor set at level 1, delete character and make another race.
Is progress removed if I delete character?

Well I’m confused now … on gw2 wiki it says there isn’t any cap for reward track, but I got daily cap already.
I’m playing PvP Skyhame map unranked all the time because it seems kinda okay for me, considering that my PvP rank is only 7.

Sarrs.4831:

First, make sure you’ve completed Arah Story. It’s soloable nowadays as part of the Victory or Death! personal story mission.

Then you’ll want to go to your PvP panel. On the left pane of that window, you’ll see 5 options. You want to click on the chest- these are the reward tracks. You then want to activate the Ruined City of Arah reward track.

After that, just play as much PvP as you can. As you finish matches, the track will progress and you’ll get rewards along it.

I did complete arah story … I think I did.
Enabled that reward track for it and will have to play some PvP now for the first time xD
Tried few times to get arah doungeon done today and never successfully came to the end. Usually stuck at some spiders and other player don’t know how to do it etc.
I just hope to get those 500 tokens soon

I didn’t know you could get Shard of Zhaitan from PvP … didn’t even play PvP like ever xD
Can I get more infos about playing PvP and how to obtain Shard of Zhaitan from it?

Solo that doungeon … well that sounds like suicide to me lol. So yeah I had in mind 4 other players, but they would be random from LFG.

Well today I was looking on TP for prices of legendary wepons and cost to craft them … by mistake I double clicked on The Legend so I bought it by mistake xD
Now I have to craft the bifrost, and I’m wondering about The Ruined City of Arah doungeon. It seems that’s the hardest of them all, so I’m wondering if anyone can please help me select char and build for that doungeon.
I prefer to play necromancer as reaper, but I do have all characters except mesmer and engineer.
What stats and build should I use for that doungeon?

I have never done it before and at this hour there aren’t any active players at LFG for The Ruined City of Arah.

Any advice on this doungeon?
I just need to complete it few times to get my 500 tokens for legendary crafting.

Reading more and more of those articles about GW2 and it’s engine.
Seems like we will just have to wait for GW3 and hope for better engine there. They better use Unreal Engine 3 or 4 this time.
It took 7 years to go from GW1 to GW2, so I’m guessing that we can expect GW3 to be released around 2018 or 2019?

In open world when I’m grinding alone, there isn’t any fps drop.
But as soon as there are more than 30-50 players figthing together, I start to get fps drop.
WvW is one of the most interesting thing for me and it performs the worst of all.

I just hope they will find some solution to fix that FPS drop.

Well another way to solve FPS drop would be to depend more on GPU than CPU. But that would also take a lot of optimisation just like for DX11.
1200$ worth PC and I get 15-30 fps at WvW battles. And I don’t even have everything on high settings -.-
They keep saying it’s impossible to improve FPS at WvW battles. But DX11 would surely fix that problem. Multithreading to use all threads and general optimisation for better performance.

Asking for DX12 is pointless.
But at least get us DX 11 to support multithreading of CPU.
It’s CPU heavy game and my i7 4790 won’t ever go above 50% load, but fps keeps dropping in massive events. You might say that DX11 won’t help me with that, but it will. Right now game can only use 50% of my CPU power because it doesn’t support multithreading. If there would be DX11 for this game, it would be able to use 100% of my CPU power, and that would mean less FPS drop in WvW and other huge events.

There were other threads about that, but I just want to remind Anet that players still didin’t forget about that.

DX9 was released in 2002, but I think GW2 is using DX 9c which was released in 2004. I know it takes some time to implement new DX version, but it just makes me sad to see game popular like this still using 12 years old DX version.
As I said, I know that expecting DX12 for GW2 is pointless, since this is pretty new. But at least provide us DX11 for multithreading. It’s 4-6 years old version, so by now it shouldn’t be that hard to use it.

If Anet use that “spy” software hiden inside game to detect system hardware you will see that pretty decent amount of players are using CPU with multithreading (Intel i7 and Xeon), and they would all benefit from DX11 upgrade.

I’m having problems with high ping over here also.
Usually my ping is around 30-60, but I get random spikes to 1500 and even more. It’s so annoying to get disconected when I’m waiting for WvW queue.
Was monitoring my internet connection usage during those spikes, and both download and upload were on few kbps (I have 20/10 Mbps connection). So it’s not problem on my side for sure.

Oh well in that case I can only hope that GW3 or whatever they will call next version, will be able to perform at 60fps all the time regardelss of sicuation.
I don’t know anything about game optimisation, just wish I could run WvW with at least 50 fps

Ansau.7326:

13 pages and people still think the api is the issue…

It is … DX9 doesn’t support hyperthreading and that’s why GW2 won’t ever use more than 50% of my CPU. with DX11, client would be able to use 100% of CPU and GPU, so that would increase FPS.
I get it that this game is CPU hungry, but it’s dumb that it can only use 50% of my CPU.

For i7/xenon CPU users that would bring nice amount of performance.

Cobrakon.3108:

Windows 10 is a pos spyware. Stop asking for DX 12 , as that will be exclusive to Win 10. Im not upgrading to win 10 and a lot of people feel the same way. Its time to go with the multiple platform api. Vulcan.

About Windows 10 spying … what kind of kinky illegal stuff do you have on your PC that you are scared for them to find out?
Linus tech also reviewed what was being sent from your PC to microsoft and it was only normal data for discovering and fixing bugs and not spying, but you can have your opinion.

About DX12, I know it’s unrealistic to hope for that in this game, but DX11 shouldn’t be that hard to implement into system. It’s not like they have to rewrite code from entire game.
Vulcan API … well that was released like 2 weeks ago. Probbably we can’t expect that in guild wars 2 any time in next 5 years. Would be cool for my R9 390 GPU, but lets be realistic here.

I don’t realy care what API they would use in future, as long as it would bring at least some improvement + multithreading.

Was playing WvW today with MSI afterburner in background to monitor hardware usage and performance.
Just look at that GPU usage droping from 0% to 100% all the time.
Not to mention frame times spikes from 14ms to like 70 or more … ofc that’s causing FPS drop.
my CPU usage never went above 50% (I’m using i7 4790). That game is CPU hungry and that’s why we get FPS drop in huge events … just because game is running on directx 9 that doesn’t support multithrading. In my case DirectX 11 would improve FPS rate a lot because game would be finally able to use 100% CPU.

I just wanna play this game at normal FPS.

I get it that at huge events there will always be FPS drop. From 60 to 55 or 50 … but not from 60 FPS to 20 or even lower.

I just hope we can expect DirectX 11 update sometime soon. Don’t tell me that Anet can’t afford that kind of update. They earned a lot of money from HoT few months ago, players are still buying codes and gems in game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_11_support

if all those game developers managed to get directx 11 for their games, I bet Anet can also do that.
We are not asking for DX12, since only few games have it and also GPUs older than 1 year won’t support it. But DX 11 is so common this days, so that Dx9 on GW2 is realy disgusting.

Please just get that DX11 already.

DX12 for this game … probbably never.
If you check list of games that use DirectX 12 version, you will notice that there are less than 10 games on that list.
But DirectX 11 … they could make some effort to bring it to Guild wars 2. We need that hyperthreading.
At every event we get that stupid FPS drop no matter what GPU & CPU you have.

Anet bring us dx11 and you will get 1$ from each player!

Well that’s just too bad for us.
I was realy hoping we could some day play at WvW events at 60 FPS. Seems like that will never happen here :\

I’m not sure which version of DirectX support that multithreading, but we should get that soon … also I don’t know if they can jump from 9 to 12, or they have to make for 10 first, then 11 and 12.
Anyhow, directx9 is 12 years old so any upgrade regarding that would be nice

So I’m playing this game for like a year now and I’m enjoying it very much. The only thing that gets on my nerves is lack of optimisation. There is always huge FPS drop at WvW, PvP, meta events and any other events where there are more than 20 players around.
It was realy bothering me, so I asked friend of mine to test it on his PC with same resolution and same settings that I had.
He have i7-3970X overclocked to 4,6GHz and 3x GTX Titan Z. Guess what … he also had that same FPS drop.
So it doesn’t matter how much I upgrade my PC, this game will be always lagging at events and that’s realy the only thing that I don’t like about this game.
So I’m wondering if we can expect DirectX 12 anywhere soon, or some other optimisations?

My bad, I meant QHD, like I mentioned it before.
No idea why I wrote 2K instead xD
And I would suggest that man to buy GPU first, and after that if he have some money left, he can just buy new MB and CPU.
But right now if he wants to increase FPS, he should just buy new GPU.

You can have i3/5/7 but it still won’t help you if you have R7 GPU.

Also you said that he probbably have 270X or below, but that’s not true. best R7 is 260X, after that it’s R9. Difference between R9 270X and his R7 260X is 50% at least.

I’m sorry, but in my opinion that’s not good idea. Players would stop playing GW2 and move to GW3 … I don’t think they can top of new GW3 and I guess it would dissapoint players, so many of them would quit playing.
I hope they won’t make GW3 any time soon xD

It doesn’t matter which R7 200 GPU he have. It should be R9 290X or better if he wants to run QHD on max settings.
When you are playing in crowded areas like boss fights etc, your FPS will drop below 30 even if you have 4x Titan X … game is just porely optimised for that.

I would suggest you to buy R9 390 GPU. it cost around 300€ and it’s safe to say that it will be 300% better than your current one.
Similar to R9 390 is GTX 970. Each of those GPUs have ups and down when comparing them, but at game performance they aren’t 10% apart.
Next step would be R9 Nano or R9 Fury (maybe X version) or GTX 980 Ti. Needless to say, those GPUs are priced at around 600-700€. Depends where are you from.
But if you ask me, R9 390 or GTX 970 will be more than enough for you.

About your CPU … 63°C isn’t that high temperature for CPU at full load. But just to be safe, you could maybe upgrade it with Kraken X31 or X41 to cool it down? I’m suing i7 4790 at 4,0Ghz all the time with X31 kraken on low noise … never goes beyond 60°C while playing. And that’s 100% normal temperature.

But to answer your question … right now you should focus on GPU upgrade because you are GPU bottlenecked by a lot. After that you might want to concider increasing CPU cooler.

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With those settings you can run on 60 FPS with R9 270X on 2K resolution that you have.
I’m running it on 1920×1080 because when I go on 2K, GPU usage will go to 90% or even more. It will still work on 60FPS but I don’t wanna stress my GPU too much :P

So you can even buy that R9 270X for around 180-200€ and it will work on 60 FPS with those settings, but if I were you I would just go with R9 390.

I bought 2K monitor 1 week ago, and saving money for R9 390 now ^^

http://www.hwcompare.com/20183/radeon-r7-260x-vs-radeon-r9-390-8g/
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-390-vs-Radeon-R7-260X

On link above you can see comparison between R9 390 and GPU that you have now (assuming that you have best R7 200 GPU avaliable).

getting that error all the time
wait few secs and try again and it’s working
weird xD

Having same problem here

I don’t know what happened over night, but someone bought 6 legendary greatswords Eternity over night xD
Was there update about that weapon or anything? Just trying to uderstand why all od the suden price bumped from 4500 to 5500 and 6 of them were bought over night. Usually only 1 or 2 were sold in 1 day lol

Too bad they don’t do anything about graphic optimisation. You move your camera to group of players and FPS will drop no matter what hardware you have.
It’s a shame that FPS will go below 30, even if your GPU load is on 40%, CPU load on 30%, VRAM 50%, RAM 20%
Everyone keeps saying to set on low settings.
Or excuse that with so many details/characters there will always be lagg.

I would say it’s just game/graphic performance problem. Game could easily use more hardware ressourcess to increase FPS etc.

Nice video mate

I wouldn’t bother with thos skins if I were you. I don’t mind if they add new skins and how they look like. If there is some skin that I like, I will simply buy it. If not, I will just ignore it and let someone else spend his money on it.
We all have differend taste in fashion, so what might seems ugly to you, might seems like amaing to others.

I like to complain about graphic optimisation and dirextx update
Simply because it would improve game performance.

I know that might not be related to your post directly, but I do complain xD

name one MMORPG game that is not grindy
In games like that, there will always be some way to grind for gold.
If you don’t like gridnding, just go and play pvp, events, meta events, event maps etc.
You will get gold from it … no much, but any gold you get from not grinding is nice. But if you need gold for something, SW CF is probbably good way to get gold.

yeah I’m interested in making Sunrise/Twilight only … materials cost about 900g + 700 for dawn, and I can easily sell Sunrise for 3100g on TP -15% fee = around 1000g profit

Are players able to craft more than one legendary of the same type?
For example, can I craft 10x Sunrise with my account?

Unendig ocean
Ring of Fire
Woodland Cascades
Far Shiverpeaks
Blood Legion Homelands
Blazeridge Mountains
Deldrimor Front
Crystal Desert
Elon River
Scavanger’s Causeway
Isles of Jathir
Janthir Bay

I’m just wondering if in future we can expect those maps to ever be released in gw2?
I know that HOT is still kinda new and most of players still doesn’t have 100% completion from HOT, but I’m just curious about those maps.
Needless tosay, that wouldn’t happen in near future, but at some point I would be glad to see whole map playable/explorable.
HOT is out about 3 months now and I’m probbably not the only one a little borred by those maps now.
I don’t know how long does it take for developers to make new map update etc. , ut there are like 12 (correct me if I’m wrong) maps that could be added. But would be nice if every 6 months or so, new map would be added.
Just a suggestion, and don’t blame me because I like PVE and exploring new zones/maps :P