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Will the fps be fixed?

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I just had a post moved, it may have been to this forum yet l am not looking through pages to find it at this time of night.
The game on my new Gigabyte ivy bridge board/i7 3.90ghz cpu/nvidia 560ti GTX/16G Ram was running perfectly till last patch.
The 560ti GTX is still a good card and prior to patch was tested with Furmark for hours unable to crash it, went from 60-150fps to 15-70fps.
In previous post issues reported were inability/delays in skill activation.
In FOTM today on Grawl champion l again had a few minutes of skills not activating. So it’s still happening. It was not before.

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Can't send e-mail to Arenanet?

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Click on their characters, right click in name tag picture top centre screen, drop down menu>report-will give a number of options including: botting/selling gold etc.

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oh the lag!!

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Tauril, was this also since the last patch?

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Are fractals the only way

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Also agree, l HATE Fotm yet aside from the now boring grind to get laurels it is still the only way to get ascended items.

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Changes to spy kits

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Last patch introduced 1 min cool downs on Ash legion and Oow spy kits. The Ash legion kit lasts 10s, Oow 3 secs. This is an unreasonable adjustment. Refund thanks!
Oh, and yes, icons did need to be unique, yet with so many other bugs in game it would hardly seem a priority……..

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Terrible FPS issues.

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It’s not just mac, I have a high end PC and posted thread already about severe lag issues and fps drops since last patch. Same with friends in vent and other players in area complaining also.

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Annoying Sound Bug

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This bug has gone on since game release. I just upgraded MB & CPU and sound drivers though still Realteck, thinking that might fix it, but no, again had it numerous times since.
Someone posted pages back a minor fix in sound options that minimises it from deafening to bearable. Not logged in nor going through the 17 pages of posts to find it, but might help minimise it.
It’s not just on dragons, in wvw in large battles, solo in remote areas. There seems no pattern to it and as it is intermittent it is difficult for programmers to track.
It should however be a top priority like so many other bugs before continuing to introduce new content that breaks other fixes ad infinitum.

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TS3 64bit crashes GW2 - TS3 32bit does not

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Just checked, have lately been running TS 64bit here/ Vent/ Gw2 at same time and no crashes as yet. Sorry to hear you had to reformat HD & Gw2..maybe an other issue? >.<

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Dragon Lag

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Already posted a thread about this. Unreasonable delay in skill activation if at all possible. Also experienced it in wvw the same night. There were not more players than usual. Major drops in fps noted too.

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Stuck in EB SM wall

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After EB Sm wall repair players stuck inside wall. Still able to attack outside and be attacked by mesmer clones.

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Krait event in Sparkfly overbuffed!

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It may have been that l missed a patch note about krait being buffed but today after Tequatl, level 80 players in exotics, inc. self, were dropping like flies due to krait AOE. 20-30 people barely able to finish event.
Later, with only 10 or so players, the event was impossible to complete.
The image doesn’t show the full number of players downed.

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oh the lag!!

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Since last patch or previous, the lag in high density areas has become so intense with. unacceptable delays in skill activation is making participation in large event situations unplayable.
At dragon events and in Wvw today there were delays of over a minute. In Wvw this is death and armor repairs! Also in Wvw, sometimes all char graphics are not loading and models appear grey for a few seconds.
In vent with other players at same event and people also in chat complaining about the same issues. Also noticed today 60fps average dropping to 15-20fps.

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Guild Missions [merged]

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It seems the chief concern stems from the answer to this thread:

  • https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Will-Guild-Missions-need-a-levelled-Guild/first
    “Each guild mission type becomes available through an upgrade that is researched in the guild tech tree. The first one is Guild Bounties, which does require Art of War level 5.”
    The concern is that small guilds have not invested any influence into this track because they most likely are not WvW oriented.
  • The current work around is that this small guild spend 78g (assuming NOTHING is placed in AoW) and 16 days while the AoW rank 5 continues to cue.
    I’m assuming that the conflict is this:
  • Is this a reasonable barrier between small guilds doing what larger guilds are inherently able to do.

Without reading through pages of this thread this post initially caught my eye as
we are a small Guild that had Art of War lvl 4 o SBI some time ago, prior to transferring to Kainang due to Sbi population issues and lack of interest in WvW. We were not able to transfer our influence with us which seemed crazy. Also more than half our guild is either split across servers due to long standing Gw1 friendships or don’t play anymore due to dissatisfaction. So we now only have a handful of active players on the same server and at varying times given some of us are internationals. It’s hard to have enough in guild on at the same time. Some of us have to work.
So suggestions would be:
*Allow Guilds to transfer their accomplishments retrospectively since charging now for server transfers.

  • Bring back Gw1 Guild Alliances. There are so many small guilds out there.
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Personal Story Rewards

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Finishing my last profession atm, guess what, a wammo. Why did l leave it till last!
Thought that during this time there might have been some adjustment to the atrocious personal storty rewards.
Last night, just finished level 70 Fort Trinity. Reward: A blue set of shoes.
Lmao guys, seriously?
I start wearing greens at level 20, by 60 when third stat kicks in, mostly l will get golds to carrry through till 80. At that level they are cheap enough or easy enough to craft and the extra armor/damage bonuses help speed leveling. BUT BLUES at 70!!! Give us a break!

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Update 15th Nov - Increased drop rate? Where?

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I had to re-read this after seeing a post apparently about Feb 28th patch update fixing ‘champions not dropping loot’ fix from Jan 28th update.
I could have sworn it was last year and so it was.
Anet you are writing misleading articles and here is the proof.
Also Colin J ‘promises’ champions will ‘most likely’ drop loot and some mention of blues. OH seriously, you’re pulling my leg. Spend half an hour killing some champion in Orr to get a blue. May as well throw us, the dogs, another porous bone! So LMAO when l read that! Good Joke!

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Post Jan 28th graphical glitches

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Update: Don’t trust the Nvidia option to ‘remove old drivers’. It does not work and after supposed rollback to 310.70, was still running 310.90.
Did a manual uninstall of drivers, rebooted.
Installed 314.07 drivers. No glitches noticed as yet.
Instructions to manually uninstall Nvidia drivers
Or, like me, if you don’t trust windows uninstall, use CCleaner

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Jan 28th update - Broken events again?

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So many events on so many maps still bugged and now Gw2 announces ‘SALE PRICE’ Gw editions. Game is still in beta. lol guys….

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Jan 28th update bug with HP

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Ooops, reads downed skill ‘vengeance’. *facepalm….
At least some of the time that must have been a cause :P

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Jan 28th update bug with HP

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This is an old bug too. I’m only experiencing it on my warrior, even when doing nothing but standing round. Full HP then dead.
It even occurred once in an uncontested outpost. I was logged out of character, logged back in dead.
Spoken to others who are also experiencing the same bug…again.

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Jan 28th update - Broken events again?

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Since the 28th update the amount of broken events everywhere which are too numerous to begin mentioning are reminiscent of game release. At this point months after release its difficult to believe.
That’s aside from the events that have never been fixed since release.
Standing at one now.
Server doesn’t matter, was broken on Sbi and broken on Kaineng.
Bloodtide coast – ‘Save merchants from Bloody Buccaneer kidnappers’
Unless l’m possibly missing something like a tool to break open cages, there seems to be no way to free them. This is applicable to Heart also. With this being my last profession to be levelled, it hasn’t changed.

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The Commander - New System

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I ignore any blue dot I see unless it’s a commander I’ve seen produce results in the past.

Basically the same. Too many kids out there with no idea what they’re doing and arguing amongst each other. Too many bought Commander titles.

The system definitely needs changes though far beyond changing commander titles.
What l see in Gw2 is that aside from one guild l can think of on Kaineng, it is chaos. Although l quit Aion for other reasons it did have a good system in this regard.
There were 4 groups of 6 in Alliances which then joined Leagues.
Each Alliance had its leader and sub leader.
They would all be in a cmd vent/ts as well as their alliance vent/ts.
This way attacks and skirmish, recon groups could be actually co-ordinated.
Wvw in Gw2 is a shambles most of the time compared to a system like this.

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Horrible skill lag tonight?

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On Kaineng with last round, big battle in EB over SM control in central room. So much lag many people inc. self complaining of server lag. Unable to activate skills too.
Too many people with too many animations in a small area.
Even when l rezzed, turned all graphics settings to performance made no difference, just too much traffic on server.

Suggestion to Anet: Implement a graphics option as in Aion to adjust visibility of the animations.
It’s crazy in big battles to even see what’s going on through them. They are overkill and killing servers. lol

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Then & Now

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Main – Sylvari necro from beta to now

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Post Jan 28th graphical glitches

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Ok Ekkue, thanks for your reply, good to know that someone else is experiencing the same problem. My friends I’ve discussed it with have Radeon cards and seem unaffected by this issue. The 310.90 driver was the latest version which seems to have bugs when first released. It was causing occasional blackouts on both my dual monitors which is why l rolled back to 310.70 however I didn’t clean install just ticked the Nvidia exe option to do so. The issue as it only appeared after installing the 310.90 driver. While the Nvidia executable provides an option for ‘clean install’ I will manually uninstall and reinstall the 310.70 drivers to see if that fixes the issue.
It may be that Nvidia have provided a patch or new driver version also. If not it may be worthwhile to post on the GeForce forums especially if you are having problems with the 6 series cards.

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Sending Alts items in emails

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In short you want more space buy it.

Think that sums it up. Even Aion aren’t that stingy though. Mail items back and forth to alts there and the cap is around 100 mail.
FYI ANET, that reply indicates a very narrow minded mentality.
In Aion, although l did use mail as storage when all FREE bank slots were used was often to send another character a drop item that it could use. Ever think of that?

Why I stopped playing Aion though was P2P, RNG and gear progression with the promised hopes that those aspects would not be part of Gw2, as in Gw1.
Seems all those early statements before release have been cast aside though.
Really, I play a game for fun, for a sense of satisfaction, not constant frustration.
With Aion, one day l sat down and made a list of Pros and Cons. Guess which won.
It’s very close to that now with Gw2 and l’m very sad about the small mindedness that seems to have permeated the Dev team (imo they need more women there, not just in Art Dept!).

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UI enhancements

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1. Customisable UI as in GW1 – Can’t be so hard to integrate into game engine.
2. Panels for:
a] consumables
b] on the fly trait swapping

Otherwise stuck with:
Open massive H window, tab to traits to swap during runs…..

This also applies to weapon swapping. Removing the UI window just means one has to fumble around while running opening Inventory/ Hero panel to weapon swap while running……..hardly an answer.

Or, swapping utility skills during runs…oh….except something hits you..now you’re stuck with wrong utilities to kill champion…. -.-

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Fix the camera

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Second that! Seems crazy such simple features have still not been applied.
Also ability to scroll into first person view.

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Post Jan 28th graphical glitches

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9/02/13 -Gyre Rapids – Timberline Falls:

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Post Jan 28th graphical glitches

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Since the update I’ve noticed models in various regions flickering white while character is moving since update.
Tried to fraps hangings on buildings flickering at Krongar Pass, Timberline Falls tonight yet when fraps is recording snow hanging off buildings vanishes altogether.
Also noticed today on one model at Sati Pass in Fireheart Rise.

Have been off game for last week so didn’t bother mentioning it after reading patch notes about graphics optimisation. Something is amiss with it.

Had no issues before other than low fps in certain regions possibly due to excessive use of shaders. Seems there have been some issues again since Ambient Occlusion was reintroduced that have still not been adequately addressed.

Graphics settings auto detect on High.
GPU: Nvidia 560ti GTX
Was on 24G Ram, but currently on 16G due to upgraded MB not running triple channel Ram
Recently rolled back to 570 drivers as latest, 590, l think, had many bug reports from users. Not sure if Nvidia have applied fixes as yet.

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/pose emote

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Oh just at least give us back the emotes that are still missing from Gw1…l mean REALLY???

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Remove waypoint cost and why it is a problem

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FYI those that did not play Gw1, it never had waypoint costs or armor repairs. It survives to this day. In fact many of us from Gw1 have gone back there after realising Gw2 was just an emulation of every other grindfest, money grabbing Mmo out there. Thing is, people who played those Mmo’s think is normal. It’s very difficult for those players to understand how an Mmo could survive without the obsolete grindfest, gear progression and in the last couple of years, P2P models out there.
Of course, like any company Arenanet has to survive and show some profit, yet I’d really hoped for more creative ways of doing so. It’s why I quit Aion, and it’s close to being why l quit Gw2.

Footnote: Btw l have six 80’s to port around, gear out etc, another getting close. However that said, my tips for cheap WP’ing is, if no one has already said are:
WP costs are ‘as the crow flies’ so check the nearest cultural region and closest WP to where you want to go.
If going to Orr, use your Order Asura Gate to get to Fort Trinity, The Grove to Cursed Shores. Sootberne in Mt Maelstrom has bank and TP. Though why why there is not one at FT is beyond me.
Or to get back to LA, simply go to WvW and run thru Lion’s Arch gate. Unless Wvw servers have just reset in which case there could be long queues to get into maps.

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Change race/order facility [merged]

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On many of my six 80’s l realised too late that preferences for:
- armor was with another order.
- elites were on a different race
Even though there may be some potential problems with personal storylines, a kit such as the ‘hair change’ or ‘total makeover’ could be worth considering at some point.

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Making the case for guild alliances and capes [merged]

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Ok, so this is not Gw1 thats an established fact, yet Guild Alliances provided a great way for smaller guilds such as ours to find groups amongst Alliance members.

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Please Reconsider Legendary Weapons

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So agree, it’s either grind your kitten off or spend a fortune to buy the mats for one. Hence the price of ectos have skyrocketed making crafting exotics redundant especially if they are going to introduce more ridiculously increased stats for ascended gear.

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So Evolved Destroyer is a joke boss now

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Oh darn, six level 80’s, one at lvl60. No wammo! In Gw1 wammo mostly had advantage, is it time to roll one again before l quit?

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Dungeon Patch Jan 28th Update.

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Dungeons

  • Polished dungeons and removed the ability to use waypoints while any player is in combat. *
    As an old Gw1 player of many years, Interest is quickly waning in the supposed ‘dynamic’ nature of Gw2.
    Begins to sound too much like P2P. Is it a revenue raising attempt?
    Only way to rez without party wipe = sell more Resurrection Orbs
    All members receive guaranteed armor damage = sell more instant repair canisters.

Very disappointed. All l can say is please revise this decision

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Caudecus Manor Ridiculous for lvl 45 dungeon?

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Haven’t done it for awhile, yet imo all the supposed low level dungeons are way too hard for their appropriate levels given characters who are not 80 in full exotics.
All dungeons should be achievable given their level and characters level of gear and knowledge.

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Annoying Sound Bug

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If you go to your sound options and put Sound Quality, Music Interval, and Mixing Buffer Size on the lowest setting it should fix the issue. It drove me crazy a few months back, but this seems to have completely fixed it….too bad the sound has to suffer.

Thank you for your suggestion Neevil! I shall try this today and see if it resolves or minimises the issue. Your post is a wonderful example of players helping players.

Arenanet long ago surely could have provided some such helpful suggestions.
If a fix cannot be found (and yes friends and myself are still experiencing the problem since last patch), perhaps, given the difficult nature of reproducing the bug and thus testing, perhaps Areanet could provide players with a ‘guideline’ or poll form to complete to better troubleshoot rather than the current 17 pages of random posts. Thanks.

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Blackberry Mobile Authentification

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Since recently having problems with email authentication I was wondering if there were plans to implement support for blackberry phones.

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Annoying Sound Bug

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FYI – Submitted a ‘technical support ticket’
It seems Arenanet does not have any support customer service.
All customer support tickets are submitted to NcSoft as publishers of Gw2.

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Ah yes, attaching a file never connected in my mind to attaching an image. Thanks!

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This is not actually a bug, l just didn’t know where else to post it.
I am no internet noob, have set up forums, done html, some JS, posted many images on forums before as well as create banners etc, yet for the life of me cannot get an image from imageshack to display using either code from textile info page, or any number of bbcode variations gained directly from http://www.bbcode.org.
What am l missing? I see plenty of others posting thumbnail images.
Can someone please post a working bbcode?
Thanks!

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Annoying Sound Bug

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I’ve gotten this four or five times in dungeons and during heavy fights in WvW. Seems to be harmless in dungeons but it crashed me out of Eternal Battlegrounds twice amidst heavy fighting during the SoR surge on the 23rd.

I’m curious whether it has anything to do with VoIP ducking or overclocking.

Does anyone getting the bug have a non-overclocked (ie stock speed) AMD?

Does anyone getting the bug get it while NOT using any voice software (ie no Ventrilo or Team Speak etc)

Although had intermittent audio bug for months, last night in Wvw was ‘woor woor’ in left channel of headset. Unplugged headset and through speakers also. Worst ever. Then game crashed.
Had vent on at the time, was logged in yet not using it. It’s happened many times when l havn’t been in vent yet not to this extent nor just through one channel.
Submitted report as is deafening, potentially damaging to hearing and time and well overdue for a fix. This thread is months old.

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Reintroduction of ambient occlusion errors

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Reintroduction of ambient occlusion causing graphical glitches.
Just putting this out there after a discussion with friend who is a 3D programmer and plays very occasionally. I also 3D model albeit occasionally lately.
The past few weeks, l’ve randomly noticed ’stretched’ textures. At first it was on terrain so l just thought badly stretched mapping though only on a few terrain cells.
Since then l’ve noticed it elsewhere on model polygons.
I haven’t yet taken any SS though will do so next time an example appears. It seems to be very random so difficult to classify as a ’Bug’ at present.

Another glitch that may be related. This glitch was common for me in Black Citadel.
Lately it happens there again sometimes, sometimes not yet porting into Plains of Ashford can cause it.
Problem: When changing instances graphics ’overload’. Can hardly move camera.
It is completely random, can be any zone.
What can fix it:
Zoning back to another zone and in again
Going to character selection screen and reloading

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Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
Intel i7 960 3.2
24G Ram
Nvidia 5600 Gtx ti
Nvidia driver: [was 310.33/updated yesterday 310.90]
C: 7200 HDD - game is on F: backup drive which is mostly empty.
Win7 Pro 64bit

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How can this be fun? Legendary grind

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It isn’t fun at all. It’s a terrible failure at content creation… there’s no context for the legendaries, there’s no story. Just grind — grind of Asian proportions, 10x worse than anything World of Warcraft ever had.

Ditto. I quit Aion after two years while waiting for Gw2 release. The endless gear grind and broken RNG for some players (inc me) was causing more frustration and anguish than joy.
Some enjoy the grind, have more luck with RNG, don’t work or have other commitments in real life and can play 24/7.
That game companies promote this kind of play is cause for deep concern with the ensuing possibilities for serious psychological and physical outcomes.
As for buying precursors, the Korean market expects to buy everything, hence the massive rise of RMT companies. This is big business in Asia for a reason and every Mmo that copies the same game model will have the same problems in controlling them.
Where did game designers forget that games are supposed to be fun for all, not endless grinds for something always out of reach. There’s other ways to provide incentives, it just takes a little more thought than following the same worn out formulas.

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Guesting is Coming

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ArenaNet say they listen to their player base. Here it is. Listen and at least delay and reassess these changes for now.
I’ve yet to speak to one person in game who agrees with it. Reading this thread there are multiple issues that need careful consideration.
Server populations need to be adjusted properly to reflect active players not just registered players. SBI is still showing as ‘High’ yet it most certainly is not. The same would consequently apply across all servers.

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Guesting is Coming

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Good morning.

It looks like I had the wrong information about how guild influence works with guesting.

The correct answer is: You still get influence for your home world guild when you are guesting.

Sorry for the wrong information yesterday.

Hi Martin, if this is a reply to my question, then there is a misunderstanding. My question related to Guild transfer not Guild guesting.
The question was ‘Should our Guild transfer to another server will our Guild WvW Rank also transfer’.
Just clarifying in case.
Thanks.

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Guesting is Coming

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1. Guesting across EU/NA servers. As many Gw1 players have already
expressed, we have made long standing friendships with many players
across NA/EU. One of my RL EU friends of 7 years has transferred to my server
some time ago, however that was not intended to be permanent yet his EU server is dead. At that time the Stormbluff population was much higher. It has since dropped radically.

2. Rich node farming may well encourage exploitation particularly from bots

3. While Arenanet needs to cover costs and maintain a viable business I do hope the cost of server transfers will be kept to a minimum.
In Aion server transfers are US $50. This is an unreasonable fee due to the changes in server populations from which Aion has never recovered. It is not viable that players should wear the cost. It was caused by expected drop offs and fluctuations in player base. Some of which could be attributed to bad game design. Pitting race against race was never in my mind a wise design choice for many reasons. Already Aion has been forced to merge servers since release in failed attempts to resolve the imbalance and it is an issue that Arenanet would want to likewise consider before implementing a gem cost for transfer.

4. Last yet not least, I would like to relate discussions held with many of my Oceanic friends. These are serious concerns I would appreciate developers considering before implementing charges on server transfers, as being in the US it seems they may have overlooked the issues below.

On Stormbluff Isle we have seen a massive drop in server numbers in our evenings AEST.

a) In PVE it is not possible to complete world events. Low level areas
are near empty, Orr is near always contested and not enough people to complete world events.
Two nights ago we failed Arah last event on risen wizard with at most 10 of us. At launch there would be 20-30+ people for that event. Friends have expressed that they cannot gain access to armor npcs, get event karma or rewards nor complete mapping without difficulty. It seems we are at a serious disadvantage to US players. This also applies to getting groups for dungeons.

b) In WvW we have seen our best guilds already transfer to other servers with higher populations and we have dropped from R1 to R3 in a couple of months because of lack of numbers and direction.

c) Our R4 WvW legion which is a mix of US and oceanic players has talked for some time, as well as some of my Australian friends from Gw1, about transferring to a more
balanced server yet nothing has been decided as should we transfer we will lose our Guild ranking I believe?
In this regard my question is, would developers consider allowing Guilds to retain WvW ranking on transfer?

Making server transfers cheaper to servers such as ours will not remedy the problem. It’s to be expected that after initial release many will lose interest however populations at least on Stormbluff seem to be steadily decreasing and so it seems are other servers.

At very least please allow more time for people to attempt to make informed decisions. The majority of feedback on 8 pages of this thread submitted seems mostly negative so far. Much better to delay this decision and reconsider options of server merges before complicating matters by applying charges for transfers and potentially losing more customers.
At least half of the players on two legions l am in and 3/4 of my friends lists do not play anymore or if so then very rarely. This is not a good sign of things to come at this early stage of the game and as a faithful Gw1 player for many years l want this game to succeed and am still holding hope that more suitable solutions can be found. As it is however, l am playing much less too and reading the blog post today sadly seemed like another nail in the coffin.

My main concern is the last question and I will set my alarm to be awake at 5am AEST in the hope that it will be addressed. I would also have hoped that the interview could have been a recorded broadcast so that players could review at a more suitable time.
-5.20am, just read on FB broadcast will be recorded. Back to sleep!!

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Make Dyes account bound.

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Siliconmana.3816

Gw1 dyes were account bound. People would still buy them. The game still made money.

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Necro: Spectral Grasp

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Siliconmana.3816

Diessa Plateau- Yellow lvl 16 Doe / Lvl 15 Dredge -100% working
Fireheart Rise – Lvl 64 Flame Legion Axe Fiend – slight incline – not working
Yellow Lvl 64 Moa – flat terrain – not working
Yellow Lvl 63 Moa – flat terrain – worked
Lvl 64 warg – worked
Lvl 64 Harpy Hunter – Failed
Lvl 63 Canyon Spiders, two- worked

Seems level increase creates a difference.

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