Guild Wars 2

Xentosh.7560:

some of my friend here in malaysia not lagging and can play like usual..thats weird..

Which server are they on?

I am in Blackgate and using streamyx…..

Playing from Malaysia here.
I have a thread up regarding this problem. My started since I patched the game for the Wintersday events, and I have been unable to play with 2k+ pings ………

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/High-ping-this-Wintersday

can someone merge my thread to this one?

Ok, since the patch hit, I have been having avg 2k pings every time I am in-game.

And before anyone said this is my connection problem, nope, it is not already checked, already confirmed and already tested it.

Before the patch hit, I was in Fractals T4. my ping was my normal ping of 275 avg. After completing the Fractals, I log out of let it patch. It was late, so I just left it and went to sleep.

Morning I woke up, patch done. I close the client and restarted the client to make sure I didn’t miss anything post patch. Connected and log on.
I have expected some high pings since I have these problem during Halloween patch and the Ember Bay patch. This Wintersday patch is the worst. 2k on avg ping. I can’t do anything and everytime I was on, it kicked me out into the character select screen a few times saying I can’t connect to the server. Everytime after a few tries, I just gave up. Today is just the same, I log in and after like a couple of minutes or so, I got kicked out.

I am on Blackgate server. I get these type of high pings when I go to WvW during peak period to follow on the “bandwagon” to get the Gift of Battle reward track done.

I don’t get that much high ping during PvE. I only get them during events. Halloween, Ember Bay, Aurene events all got high pings but not insane like 2k+ pings.

Additional things to note, before this Wintersday patch, I was doing regular T4 fractals daily. And during those Fractals sessions, I usually have a youtube video (144p, of course) running on my second monitor. Usually it’s music or some youtubers ranting about this video game or WP talking about GW lore and how the writers are forgetting about the lore and just dropping new lore from out of thin air.
And I still get my normal ping of 275 avg. Sometimes 285, because of the youtube videos.

I live in ASEAN, so my ping normally is 275 on avg……. it’s normal i heard from other ASEAN players.

Today I try to get into Divinity’s Reach and the moment it loads in, the ping shot up to 4k. Went down back to 2k after loading everything on screen. Move around a bit, the ping went from 1200 to 2000+ back to 1200+, back up to 2000+ and so on. I just couldn’t do anything, even interacting with the npc took a few seconds to even see the dialogue box to appear. Pressing a skill doesn’t do kitten until after 30 secs or more later. And if I press too much times, it kicks me out to the log in screen.

If this was normal time, pressing skills 1-5 execute almost immediately. Granted my 275 avg ping got like a half a second lag or so…… however, for this patch, pressing any skill, the skill button keeps on flashing, but nothing happened. Pressing 1 to 5, makes the skill bar all flashing. Then later, only the skills executes.

It makes me wonder if ANET is cutting down on bandwidth just to save a buck or two because we aren’t giving them enough Black Lion money?

Support got back to me…… I apparently vendor it without knowing…….. they gave me a courtesy and gave me one this one time…….

Thank you ANET!!!

Note to self……next time don’t simply vendor everything without seeing it first what item it is…..

I just want to know that if I lost the
Spirit of the Perfected Warhorn
Does that mean I have to redo everything from scratch to get the Spirit of the Perfected Warhorn? I have everything to make Howl, except this which was missing for some reason. Either it’s my own mistake that I didn’t noticed (which I guess it is my own mistake or something else happened.)

Is there no way for me to get another without going through the process of redoing everything?

I have no idea what happened to the Spirit that I salvaged.

Celbrise.5863:

got the lag to stop, did the /clientport 80 thing and it works great now

/clientport 80?

What is this?

Amaimon.7823:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

SirDrygan.1823:

Can we have Fractals of the Mists lobby like the one in PvP where Fractals runners can hang out…….

You want ANet to create a massively multiplayer instance for… runners? What’s wrong with using LFG to find clients and using LA to hang out?

I think they mean that the lobby of the fractals becomes a complete instance, that houses 150 people, rather than just the 5 in party.
I don’t know how difficult it would be to change the mechanics to to do that. If its doable, I’m all in favor of it. But I don’t need it very badly. Its just handy. A lobby where everyone is focussed on the fractals. Then you can talk about fractals in the map chat because you know everyone else there has their mind set to fractals as well. You can also ask around for tips and people’s help easier than in Lions Arch since everyone in Lions Arch is doing their own thing

Bingo. Something like that…..

Can we have Fractals of the Mists lobby like the one in PvP where Fractals runners can hang out…….

No. Do not remove the cap…..

I just came out from Fractals with 5 necro’s in the party. And apparently it is not acceptable for Necro to be able to faceroll the Anomaly so easily……

Please nerf asap. I would prefer if Horrors last 5 secs.
Reaper shroud should have less Shroud HP like a 50% reduction.
Poison condition only last 0.2 secs per stack.
Epidemic only bounce to 1 target….and last 0.1 sec.
Remove that Elite skill that can summon horrors.

Thank you.

I have not gotten any chest ever at T4……so, stop whining…….I should be the one actually complaining about not getting a chests ever….all my ascended I actually have to craft myself………

I don’t care when LA FALLS.again…….If we have to save it again, I want a title : Legendary Hero of Lion’s Arch

- Name : Kathearina (Sylvari)
- Game mode(s) : PVE always. WvW once in a full moon. PvP DISGUSTED IN THIS STUPID IDIOTIC MODE.
- Role : Tester/Student/Semi-Teacher
- Realm : Blackgate
- Other info:
I specialized in fighting far away from the action. However, I tend to go up close and personal when the situation demands it. I break like glass though. And I would drop everything just to go help someone (Unless I am in Fractals or at Teq). You need a companion? I would run with you all the way to Orr if you don’t have a waypoint open there.
Drop me a line, even if you need any help.

No, I am not exchanging the staff for the dagger.

Thank you Anet, you make me want to stop using my main char…….

It’s already hard as it is to play an Ele with all the BS “we need to balance this and that”.

Seriously, ANET, playing a staff ele is NOT easy compared to other classes. Now you want to FORCE people to go Dagger….

What’s is the point of ranged then? You want everything to go melee, then say so. Drop the staff from Ele, bow for Ranger/Dragonhunter/Warrior, Staff for Mesmer, …etc…….

And give us Sword/Dagger or Sword/Warhorn……..

I tried to do this without a mesmer. After falling (Slipping) for the 1001th time, I gave up and brought on my JP Mesmer. Portal all the way up to get the mastery. Sweared NEVER to go back there every again.

I would take the Silverwaste map wide JP anyday, than this bs JP which purposely make lots of places slippery and if you missed something, you have to start all the way back or just suicide and spawn at the checkpoints. And not everytime you spawn. If you didn’t spawn, you have to start from the start AGAIN……….

Sex…….you know its true…

because most of the cats only said it is not interested. And npc nearby don’t say anything.

Guess work it is…..

Are there hints about what kind of food to feed the cat in-game without going over to Dulfy.com or the Wiki or even reddit?

Are there npc near the cat that gives the hints?

or all are just guess work?

I have 13 alts, and I use them as I see fit. I am mainly on my Elementalist…… but I will sometimes go with Ranger, Chrono or Necro….

Jirayu.5834:

I live in SEA

Got dc’d a lot

I got dc’d a few times when there are lots and lots of people around the area……..
Especially in WvW I get dc’d.

At World Bosses, I lagged and then rubber band back and forth…… and there was once everyone was moving at super speed, like everyone turned into the flash……then i find myself in an empty location. Most of the people already left……..

in WvW, i get delayed damage, even after porting back to safe area. Then dc’d…….for no reason….

Recently I started entering WvW to get some rewards track done. And while at Eternal Battleground, when blogate vs tarning vs some server i cannot remember. have zergs the size of the moon, my connection starts to lag worst than other people having skill lag. Even pressing 1 took about 1minute or more and everyone else is frozen in place. This happens all the time when blobs are blobbing together.

This situation is not isolated to WvW, even in PvE during the anomaly running dude event, running after it with the whole blob will lag my connection.

I live in SEA and last year’s WvW lag during blob battles wasn’t as bad at this time. Even PvE is having the same kind of lag.

If there i only 1 to 10 people around the area, everything is smooth .

My usual ping is 279 avg (PvE, WvW) when there are about 10 people around

Ping would shoot up to 1600 to 2500 (WvW) during a blob.
Ping would shoot up to 1600 to 2000 (PvE) during events like Anomaly running dude and world bosses like Teq………..

It only happens when there are a lot of people around.

Same thing also happened with Modrem Trasher’s insane tendril’s attack. It attack in mid-air……….

Veteran Vinetooth jumped into the air and took me down while already gliding a good distant and stood there like there is no gravity……… in mid air….

[img]http://imgur.com/a/ByJ1Y[/img]

Mez Koo.9510:

Update added 11 HoT mastery points, and new mastery only used 1.

Unless there is going to be a way to use extra points, why keep adding more?

11? I only counted 7. Where did the other 4 came from?

Eles,

Just let it go. There is no longer a point in discussing about it. No one in A Net cares.

Just let it.gov.

Seriously, the White Mantle are able to multitask and multi attack.

Here is how they do it.

You are flying above them like 2000 range more or less and they are engaging in a fight with other players below. YET, they still find time to throw attacks at you (who is flying above them supposedly out of range). Then you see them getting murdered by other players while you get hit by their attacks.

Does the White Mantle enemies were set to prioritizes attacking flying players even though they are engaging in fights with ground players?

I have observed this many times where the White Mantles would attack you if you fly over them while engaging ground attacking players.

And their Mesmer’s are too OP. Please nerf. :P

Asrat.2645:

SirDrygan.1823:

My character have 110 AR plus the AR bonus from the Mislock Singularity which would have given be about 140 AR.

I dont get your math.

Sorry about the AR…… I was using Unbound with less AR….. it would give me 115 AR……

I have another ascended backpack that would have given me 140 AR with the Mislock Singularity……..

insanemaniac.2456:

it isnt the agony doing tons of damage.

dredge variant does 3 ticks of high damage + agony when he slams the ground. dodge twice when he does the animation and gets stability.

ele variant slams the ground and leaves a puddle that does high damage with lots of agony when you get in melee. dont get in melee or be aware of his ground slam attack and dodge out of it.

these attacks are highly telegraphed and avoidable. they are not bugged.

It is the agony ….. I was already out of range of it’s attack when agony hits and was down before I could heal…….. happens all the time…….. and I did dodge all it’s attack. I run a “coward” Ele style fighting, means I am always far away from any attacks…..

TheRandomGuy.7246:

It worked fine yesterday. Could be that old bug when game forgets to apply your AR. It is usually fixed by reequipping your gear.

Only happens on this map. The others I have no problem. Even with 96 AR (Due to damage armor) at Level 77 Swamp (Mossman)……

There is something wrong with the Agony Damage for the Undergound Facility Boss
Legendary Dredge Powersuit/Legendary Ice Elemental is insane even at low level fractal or middle level fractals

My character have 110 AR plus the AR bonus from the Mislock Singularity which would have given be about 140 AR. And yet, when this bosses hits my character with agony, it goes down like as if there was no AR.
So, I tried with a character without AR, and it was the same with or without AR……….

Does ANET even know about this? Because this has been happening for a long time already……

Wanna bet he is already been killed millions times over?

I got the fractal spoon after like a few tries….didn’t even noticed it until it was time to sell junk……

Oh, I think she got the memo….she probably use up her gold on booze…….

Update 25/4/2016

• Soothsayer Jacinda ran out of stationery and will no longer send mail to players entering Lion’s Arch.

Ran out of stationery? Jacinda couldn’t buy any more stationery? Did she went broke or something?

It would make more sense if it like this:

• Soothsayer Jacinda will no longer send mail to players entering Lion’s Arch because she got tired to mailing the same thing over and over again.

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

I have the best armour and stats at the moment, and i’m happy with everything. But I just sat back in horror as I watched a level 15 icebrood elemental in a low-level region remove half my health in a few seconds.

If they ever decide to make a gw3 I hope they get rid of that stupid scaling system, because it really makes the game look like child’s play.

Even if my health suddenly drops from 20k to 1.5k, I would expect a low level enemy to struggle against a level 80. My suspicion is that levels are actually meaningless in this game.

I’ve posted on this topic before, and I’m posting again because this is something that is still bugging me.

Get good….. ….. just kidding

ok, seriously.

I main an Elementalist….. and going into low-level region, I usually get one-shotted by some mobs. Not every mob, but most will take 90% of my health in 1 or 2 hits. Some will down me in 1 shot. How I try to overcome this? I use a staff, so i use burning retreat as much as possible. I rarely change attunement, unless it is necessary. So, I customized my build to do burning damage as fast as possible. And I burst them down at range with lava font, fireball and meteor shower and flame burst for burning damage.
So, there you go. I hardly had problems at low level region……….
This is just my experiences……… and I don’t find it hard at all……

Tell your children to do their work first before allowing them to play anything….

Maybe the reset occurs 7 days from the day you retrieve the gold? Which means that above reset doesn’t apply any more….

Tahlie.4259:

So, I played GW2 when it first came out, and had a lot of fun with it — at first. Fractals rolled around, and they were fun, but you can only do the same thing so many times before it gets boring. So, I quit at about the beginning of Living Story season 1.

Flash forward a few years, and here I started playing again ~3 weeks ago. When I heard about new fractals, a raid, and all kinds of challenging content, I just had to come back! So, now I have an 80 Engineer and Elementalist (both fully geared out), I’ve been raiding in MMOs for upwards of 12 years, and all that — yet, to date, I’ve not even set foot inside the raid.

I’ve been listing myself in LFG for a week and a half or so, I’ve been asking around in chat, and so on. But, there’s just no one pugging a raid, or filling a spot, or any of that. And no guilds are recruiting that actually go into the raid.

So, what exactly is the issue? Is the raid in GW2 just one of the hardest in the genre or something, or are people just being silly?

Raiding was the main reason I came back to the game. : / And it doesn’t seem like I’ll even set foot in the raid any time soon.

I have no problems with raids. Problem is only people who have done the raids from day 1 will be experienced enough to do it later on. New people coming in will get kicked, waste people’s time due to how long a raid ran and due to new people can’t get the BiS equipment requirements for raiding that people wants. And raiders wants a certain build type when raiding (PS War, Eternal Tempest, Chronotank…etc)….

Shouldn’t the restriction already been reset for this week?
Why my account it still restricted?
Or did Day Light Saving time delayed the reset?

Azure.8670:

…..snipped…..

Some of us here still love GW2. It is the most flawless game in the world at the moment. PvE is great. Raids is great. PvP is eSport material or even better. WvW is fun to play with hundreds of players bashing each other up….

So, no. GW2 with HoT is great. 10/10

Chaba.5410:

New Game Director is Our Best Hope Or Our Worst Nightmare

He/she may make the game great or make it even worst. Just have to wait and see.

I also got a few times rezzing and losing part of the event too……

And I didn’t care……rub, rub and rub…..

Rather than hope for another expansion, asked for one thing → Fixed lots of bugs that should have been fix.

All storyline in GW2 will get a cliffhanger in order to make people come back into the game. It’s not about should season 3 get a cliffhanger, it’s that season 3 MUST have a cliffhanger…..
For ANET to maintain a decent playerbase…….

Paulytnz.7619:

Ok so I think I am pretty observant sometimes and as such I have noticed something with Destiney’s Edge and then with Destiney’s Edge 2 (your group in the PS and LS). That being for your group they simply just swapped around the genders for the races with the exception of Taimi. Let’s see what I mean:

Destiney’s Edge

Human – Logan – Male
Norn – Eir – Female
Charr – Rytlock – Male
Sylvari – Caith – Female
Asura – Zojia – Female (yes there was also Zaff or what his name was, but he’s dead we never got to see him in game, he might have been in the books but for the majority of us all we know is Zojia).

Destiney’s Edge 2

Human – Kasmeer – Female (and an extra bonus female – Marjory!)
Norn – Braham – Male
Charr – Roxx – Female
Asura – Taimi – Female
Sylvari – Trahearne (he sort of fits in as the replacement being he was a big part of our PS, but moving forwards for reasons I wont go into here we can replace him with Canach since he seems to have taken his spot).

As you can see they have gone the politicaly correct path and covered every gender and race. You can also see for Destiney’s Edge 2 the exception is Taimi. She should have been male? Why is this an issue for me lol? It’s not really but I did notice one day that there are too many females in our group and there was only ever one male (Braham) for the most part as Trahearne was off doing his thing and Canach is only really making his appearance now.

I think our group (Destiney’s Edge 2 as some people call it) needs another male char just to offset all those females. I would propose a playmate for Taimi and bring in a boy to not only fix the mistake that was made but it would also make some sense if we are to copy Destiney’s Edge too as there was both a male and female there if you count Zaff.

Thoughts lol?

If anything its something new to discuss if not important or whatever. :P

Seriously? You want to comment/debate about the composition of male vs female for Destiny Edge 2?

What is wrong with having all female heroes? Or what is wrong with having 5 male heroes? or what will it be wrong to have 2 males and 3 females or vice versa or any other combination?

Is it even important that we need to have more males or females in a team?

If the team member can do his/her job, I don’t mind having an all female or all male or 3 male 2 female, 3 female 2 male, 4 males 1 female….etc team…..

Qugi.2653:

SirDrygan.1823:

But most importantly, gliding. It’s the best feature that came out of the expansion so far. You can fly anywhere.

No you can not fly any where. If offer advice to some person do not make a lie or make exaggeration. Player can glide from some high place but can not fly any where. Also some place like some jump puzzle, fractal, dungeon, PvP, WvW can not glide. Say so is false. Person might buy expansion and think can fly all over map from what you say. This is not true.

Fixed. Sorry.

UnderworldSkull.1863:

It’s been 2 years since I last played Guild Wars 2 and I remember next to nothing on how to play and have no clue where to start. On top of that, so many things have changed, it feels like a completely new game to me now. I have a level 50 guardian but have no clue how to jump back into the game. I’m thinking of just starting a new character and playing slowly from the beginning again. Then when I understand things again, I’ll go back to my guardian. Does that sound like a good plan?

Any recommendations?

Get the Expansion or just step away from the game.
Without the Expansion, you will be left out.
Just to tell you about the expansion. There will be 4 PvE maps. some pvp and WvW maps. And there is some not so important improvements. But most importantly, gliding. It’s the best feature that came out of the expansion so far. You can fly glide anywhere.
As for the storyline in the expansion, it is too short and too predictable. But killing Mordremoth was ever so satisfying at the end.

And be ready for the grind. They may say it is optional, they may tell you it is optional, but you will find out soon enough if you play the expansion that you will need to grind.

Nate.3927:

SirDrygan.1823:

I was in a Successful Battle for Tarir meta and while we are looting the Exalted chests, half way through, many were at the 4th room when the map suddenly CLOSED and kicked all of us into a failed map. Seriously, it was a FULL MAP. Octovine was murdered with lots of time to spare…… And everyone was happy with a successful meta win until the map closed during the looting phase.

Seriously, why is the map still in close mode where there is 80+ players on the map? ANET, you had ONE JOB. ONE JOB.

I want my last Grand Exalted Chest back from that run!!!!!

I spent about 6 hours straight in a single VB map a few days ago. Got the map closing notification multiple times but map never actually closed because at points we got influxes of players (who then left again triggering the map closing notification again).

So they must’ve fixed it in VB at least. My guess is that the AB one is not quite fixed or possibly everybody rushed through the chest run faster than you and then left map.

I don’t think so. And even if they were leaving, it was so sudden without notification, lots people weren’t even done looting with map chat screaming murder and qqing the devs.

I was in a Successful Battle for Tarir meta and while we are looting the Exalted chests, half way through, many were at the 4th room when the map suddenly CLOSED and kicked all of us into a failed map. Seriously, it was a FULL MAP. Octovine was murdered with lots of time to spare…… And everyone was happy with a successful meta win until the map closed during the looting phase.

Seriously, why is the map still in close mode where there is 80+ players on the map? ANET, you had ONE JOB. ONE JOB.

I want my last Grand Exalted Chest back from that run!!!!!

CptTrips.6512:

SirDrygan.1823:

John Smith.4610:

snip…….

do you realize that all your chars are on 1 Account?

John Smith.4610:

Every account has the exact same chance on RNG.

Yup. Sorry, I seem to be talking about char luck rather than account luck.

Anyway, I think accounts have nothing to do with luck, it’s the char that has the luck. I believe according to what I have observe, the “luck” is dependent on the char. You may get a char that will drop pre-cursors or get chars that will drop more whites than blues/greens or even yellow. Something like that..

Milkshake.4038:

SirDrygan.1823:

John Smith.4610:

Every account has the exact same chance on RNG.

…… [snip]..

It is hard to get a precursor with 3 or 5 rares

Btw do you want to tell us that you threw a total of 8 rares into MF and you got 2 precursors? You have to include ALL of your attempts if you want to prove something.

I rarely use my ranger, so when I get 4 rare weapons, I will drop them into the forge. and that is how much I drop into the mystic toilet when I am on my ranger. Believe it or not. I don’t care.

The majority of the drops are on my Ele…