Guild Wars 2

Sojourner.4621:

Sartharina.3542:

Sojourner.4621:

The largest MMO releases their expansions at a $30 price point, this is true, but they ALSO require you to pay a monthly fee.

Nope.

World of Warcraft: Legion is at kitten price point, as was Warlords of Draenor before it, and Mists of Pandaria before that, and Cataclysm before that, and Wrath of the Lich King before that, and The Burning Crusade before that.

Holy kitten, legion is $50? I remember BC being lower than that, but then it has been a long time since then, and that was also when I started, and also stopped playing cause I hated WoW but loved GW1.

Edit: But this only makes my point all the more valid… I will not complain if the new xpac is $50, because others expect that plus a sub fee. The amount I have spent on the the base game and then HoT, I feel I have gotten my money from in over 4000 hours of play time.

Count yourself lucky that it was only $50. The cross-ocean tax made it approximately USD $70 in Australia.

Don’t some of the boosters improve PvP reward track gain? I’m sure there was something like that I saw on one of them. (Not that I used it, so I could be misremembering, and it only applies to WvW.)

It was a bug; see the dev tracker for details.

I’d suggest you submit a support ticket about this: it’s possible the GMs can do something to make those useful while the bug is investigated and resolved.

Random Weirdness.6750:

I’m having the same issues. Did an in game report too, but this is super annoying :|

Everyone suffering this thanks you for doing that! Even though in-game /bug reports, and posts to the forums, rarely get a response from anet, they are used to identify and prioritise issues in the game.

So, as you — and everyone else — reports this, they will get an understanding of how often it happens, as well as more evidence about why, and eventually a fix will be possible.

ShroomOneUp.6913:

here is how to fix it without any hassle:
DO NOT USE WIN 10

seriously win 10 was NEVER good for gaming and has never been fixed in that regard. WHY do you even have 10?

While I’m certain this accurately represents your belief, it is not productive, or helpful for the original poster who is extremely unlikely to change to an older Windows version — especially as this may cost them a non-trivial amount of money to purchase an appropriate license, if one is even available.

It is also unhelpful in the sense that Windows 10 does work fine for many people playing GW2, and cannot be attributed as the sole cause of problems — especially as the vast majority of the issues seem to trigger from third party software such as FPS and performance monitoring tools, DPS meters, and screen recording/broadcasting tools.

The meter is arcdps.

Daddicus.6128:

But, one obvious problem is that many of the skills for reaper simply don’t exist in WvW, like all reaper shroud skills.

By “simply don’t exist” I assume you actually mean “are not used”, because otherwise this is … rather wrong.

Also, at least the ice field / whirl combo for throwing around bleeds is definitely used it WvW, verifiable by looking for the complaints about how overpowered it is. Beyond that, I routinely see (and use) reaper shroud skills in WvW.

So … while you might not use them, it is not the case that they “do not exist”, or that they cannot be used effectively.

TL;DR on the other thread is: yes, it’s busy. “did it turn stale” is personal opinion based.

Haleydawn.3764:

Free accounts are able to choose their world when first set up, however they cannot transfer to a different server by any method. After upgrading to a paid account, they receive one free transfer to any non-full world.

This. I’d strongly suggest going down this path, especially if they have earned enough gold to notice.

Also, if you can’t bring them to the world you want, you could put a ticket in with support and ask for help. They may be able to do something about it. (The forums are for player-to-player advice, mostly, and support tickets are what put you in touch with the anet GMs.)

Feanor.2358:

Orangensaft.7139:

DPS is also still so much required because the higher DPS is the more you can ignore the mechanics

This only works if you’re already familiar with the mechanics. You can’t do that with a bunch of players who entered a raid for the first time. And as such, it is irrelevant to the discussion. And it also doesn’t make the dps required. It makes it rewarding.

…it’s also much less frequently the case that it lets you “ignore” the mechanics than Orangensaft suggests, and more that it lets you reduce the number of times you need to do the mechanics correctly, or the degree you can compensate for people who handle them poorly overall.

Anyway, someone did the math, and ~ 8k to 10k DPS accounting for 50 percent undamagable was what they came away with, so … I think that Feanor is exactly on point here.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

New Legendary weapons are fairly easy to make content that has the interest of a lot of people so very likely.

Yeah, this. It’s also the pinnacle of fashion wars, one of the horizontal progression paths available at end-game.

Everything the developers have said suggests that while developing the weapon isn’t exactly free, the collections and so forth were the really costly part of building them.

Stitch.1794:

Use Heart of the Mists to get to Lion’s Arch, then complete one of the jumping puzzles there.

This. Also, I’m pretty sure that being dead broke doesn’t prevent you from coming back to life at a waypoint, though it will consume every penny you have on you.

GreyWolf.8670:

Swagger.1459:

Some of you need to stop begging for more freebies and discounts on a game that has $0 in monthly access fees.

If some of you want some super deal then wait a year after the next xpac launches.

It’s like nobody buys anything on the gem store to support the game, right?

The expansion should not cost the same for existing players as it does for new players if the new players get everything existing players paid for. There’s not really any ethical way around that. And yes, new customers should get LS unlocked. It’s a big part of the content.

I agree with you on the living story unlocks, for what it is worth. It would open up the field to, eg, have daily event completer run in the LS3 zones, which I think would be a good thing.

I think you are mistaken about what you bought, though. You don’t pay $X and get “guild wars 2”, you pay $X and get “guild wars 2 at this point in time.”

Is it an ethical issue that someone paid $60 at launch for HoT, but today I could purchase it for $30? After all, I’d be paying less than you did, for the same content, right?

The same is true of the next xpac: if they price it at $60 for everyone, and bundle HoT, all that means is someone could have waited until that point in time and gotten HoT for, effectively, $0.

On the other hand, they had to give something up for that, right? Like, not being able to play HoT for all the time from the launch of HoT to the launch of xpac2.

You are, in essence, arguing that discounting older products over time is an ethical failure. It’s … probably not an easy position to support.

That sort of visual problem is often client-side only; try using the `-repair` option on your client.

If it does repeat, using `/bug` in-game to report it is the best bet: it includes details like your exact location and facing for the anet QA team, which can help reproduce issues with geometry, etc.

Equinox.9815:

yes im on mac client please find a fix soon it is so anoying

It’s not a short term solution, but anet are actively working on a new macOS client that should significantly improve this situation for y’all.

It’s pretty unlikely that anything the ArenaNET team behind GW2 did deliberately causes this, but it’s possible that something with your router or ISP is triggering it.

I’d suggest trying the `-clientport 80` or `-clientport 443` arguments, or seeing if both of you connecting the same way (eg: both wired) helps things out, just to start eliminating possibilities.

The most common cause of this is a GPU that has only achieved a 1x PCIe connection, rather than the usual 16x; since you mention a new card, grab gpu-z and check that it’s getting the right connection.

I’d also check and make sure that the correct graphics drivers were being used — it could be that for some reason the integrated graphics are still being partly used or something?

Kitty.6219:

I’m disconnecting, guild chat is offline, I’m getting that 40something error without disconnection a lot, tons of lag, seems that the Miami seabone croaked or something, here are my diag results

Unfortunately the trace you posted cuts off at that host — but it’s certainly possibly it’s the issue. Without the next hops we can’t tell. (or is it just “nothing at all shows beyond that”? If that’s the case, then yes, that’s the place that broke.

Incidentally, that would be the Maimi landing/transit point of this backbone network — in case you were curious about what level of the internet this was at.

Yeah, all in all I like the trade-off with less aftercast and more efficiency in what is actually collected.

Big Tower.5423:

Here are my results, looks insane. Can’t really interpret it, though. my internet isn’t too bad, but why do i have such a horrible connection to the servers if not a issue at their end?

O_o that says you are less than 10ms away from the servers. I’m jealous!

Anyway, nothing there suggests a problem, but it’s not as comprehensive as pingplotter or winmtr statistics; could you use one of those to reproduce that? Specifically, it’s the packet loss percentage I’m looking for.

Avigrus.2871:

I want to make an Asura Necro also… somehow i have 5 Necros and none are Asura. Not sure how that happened.

The over-the-shoulder carry for 2H weapons is so cute on them! It’s half the reason to have one, right there.

gw2timer.com offers a tool to alert you when items return to the gem store.

For the future, gw2timer.com offers alerts when items return to the gem store.

FWIW, gw2timer.com has a tool to alert you when things return to the gem store. Since that is driven off the API, I’m sure other things out there offer the same facility by now, too, if you dislike that website.

Astralporing.1957:

UnitedChaos.8364:

It fills player space for people actually playing.

It doesn’t, really. There’s not enough players interested in “actually playing” there for it to matter.

…even if there were enough players, a new map instance would spawn. It’s not like there is some cap on the number of those out there.

Ashantara.8731:

I just edited my original post to show what I mean.

I don’t want a 1:1 human male body. I like the extra muscle, that’s a typical Norn trait.

I just want a nicer overall shape (see screenshot comments for details) and a better body-head-ratio.

This is what super-strong guys tend to really look like: http://nightflight.com/wp-content/uploads/CHICAGO-WRESTLING-2a.jpg

It’s a world different from what you are asking for, and much closer to … yup, the model that is in use today for male norn.

Duzze.4068:

So… why aren’t these advance little guys ruling the world? I mean jeezus they are so advance I would not be surprise that their pyramid was actually as spaceship…

So, here is something to consider: the asura decided the outcome of the charr siege on ebonhawke, by allowing humans to ship supplies through the gates, but refusing to allow the charr to ship soldiers through.

If they are already deciding the shape of wars between other races — and it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say, partly responsible for shaping the peace between them — are you sure they /don’t/ already rule the world?

Since the change to prevent in-game healing from keeping necromancer minions alive for much longer than intended — which I understand is a legit issue — they never heal at all.

For random running around in PvE this is quite an annoyance, because it means your minions are gradually whittled down, and eventually die, triggering the cooldown on your skill.

Since almost all of them can’t be dismissed manually, it’s impossible to pop a low health, eg, flesh golem, or bone crawler, and replace it while out of combat. Instead, you go into combat knowing that it’s going to die pretty quickly, and then be 30 to 60 seconds before you can bring it back.

Would it be possible to enable healing for minions only when out of combat, so that they regain full health the same way your character does? That would make them much more predictable, but doesn’t seem likely to cause in-combat problems…

It would probably be extremely useful if you could post screenshots showing the difference — that is going to help the anet team understand what you are seeing.

PSA: you can hit the enter key when the dialog is huge, and it will accept it and salvage all the things. I use that, because it’s much easier than trying to find the accept button and click it.

If you press the keyboard key associated with the slot, does it work normally for ground targetting?

It’s worth noting that whatever is causing this, it’s not “universal” to gw2 — I have never hit the problem, or anything like it.

I’d strongly encourage you to try and figure out the exact sequence of operations that trigger the minimize, and tell us what it is — maybe someone can guess what is causing it from that?

I know that’s not encouraging, and I don’t disbelieve you that it’s a problem, we (and anet) just need more information on how to make it happen to be able to figure out how to fix it!

If you are having trouble, https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network will walk you through figuring out where on the network it happens. If that is the anet side, then a support ticket will help. If not, it might guide you to where you want to go to get it fixed.

It’s also the first thing support will ask you to do (though a friendlier guide and tool) if you get in touch, so why not save the time and do it first?

Joopy.6547:

Please submit a ticket. I’ve been back and forth with their team for a week now as I have had login server disconnects, massive spikes and drops.
I still get spikes but the disconnects to login screen have stopped (for now).

They’ll make you download Game Advisor and WinMTR to determine if there’s packet loss and such.

Yes. The reason that I recommend following the guide at https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network is that it does the same diagnostics that anet support are asking for, and has useful advice on figuring out how to resolve them.

I always figure you may as well do that first, then file a support ticket if it is an anet issue, and include the answers ahead of time.

This is most likely a hardware problem. Check you GPU is seated correctly, the fans are operating, that the power connections are good, etc.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

There’s several articles on fixing this error found here: https://www.google.com/search?q=+DPC+Watchdog+Violation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Good luck.

To second this: a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION bluescreen is absolutely a driver issue of some sort. It could be that gw2 uses a feature of a driver that happens to trigger the error, but that is simply that gw2 happens to be the one thing you run that triggers it — not a gw2 fault.

Good luck tracking down and fixing the relevant driver.

Tongku.5326:

I love the scepter GM, admitedly, to make it more optimal it’d be nice if that duration was scaled back a bit to maybe 25-30% range and something else was added to it for that trade off.

50% is quite too much and makes it too impractical to run builds that do not exceed condi duration caps on bleeds.

I have some great news: “Only the base durations are increased, thus not counting towards the maximum condition duration.”

That is, you can’t overcap duration due to that GM, it applies to the base duration which is then extended by the condition duration.

That is, not only do you not overcap, this is a separate multiplier, so it effectively double-dips on duration, meaning that you get 3x the (original) base duration with 100 percent condition duration, rather than 2×.

You still get the same sort of rewards you got before the new stuff was added; isn’t that sufficient, given you were playing for only those in the past?

Mojaroni.3018:

I have a gtx 1080 and i7-6700k and no matter what put my graphics settings at, my fps is locked at 60 for some reason, even though i have v-sync off and frame rate limiter set to unlimited.

I’d suggest checking the “NVIDIA Control Panel” and making sure that you don’t have something set in there to override the vsync, etc, settings requested by the games.

It’s also possible the OP has simply completed more mastery points than they can possibly spend: I’m in that position. It comes from anet providing more than one way to obtain the mastery points, so players are not forced to do things they don’t want to.

That means for players who do most everything, you end up with more of them than you need. (Not that I mind that much. Meant I could buy all the LS3 masteries as soon as I gathered the XP, and then refill my mastery point count from the new ones on those maps at leisure…)

Michael.9403:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

You don’t quite understand how the game works: there is not one bit of software involved in a map, there is one ANet server, and up to 150 different clients, all working on the same simulation at the same time, with latencies between them of up to 500ms on a good day.

Your client has the map data, yes, but the server is authoritative about everything, even if it happens to trust the client with some details such as what was being aimed at when the skill triggered. (Sometimes. This is, incidentally, true of every multi-player game out there.)

So … you don’t just have to have your client read the next bit of the map, you need the server to handle that. Right now that’s one process per map instance, with a bounded amount of space because of the zone boundaries, and with a bounded amount of actor involvement, because of the per-map player count limit.

TL:DR version:

I certainly understand the server’s role in computing results and handing them back.

You have missed the OP’s issue, which is "why can’t we have seamless zoning. "

If you make the zones smaller, the zoning will happen faster, until it appears seamless. No software changes needed, just map organization changes that need not be visible to the players. Arbitrarily choosing to make a huge area load at once gives us what we have now.

So close, but… nope. Riddle me this: when you say “seamless zoning”, do you imagine standing in one spot and looking out over an empty field, then walking ten feet and seeing a half dozen players right next to you — suddenly appearing from nowhere?

I can’t speak for you, obviously, but I’m willing to put money on the fact that isn’t what you expect: you think of a single, continuous world that looks like a current zone: you can see things to the limit of vision, and don’t usually get things randomly popping into existance you didn’t see before.

Unfortunately, while simply making zones smaller might help address the issue of a “continuous” world for static objects — mountains and houses — it wouldn’t address the need to have vision across the “zones”, for dynamic objects like players, NPCs, monsters, etc.

So, you wouldn’t just make the zones smaller, you would also need to ensure that the servers hosting the maps communicated appropriately across those zone boundaries for those dynamic things, which is a huge increase in complexity. (Also, has a performance cost, and requires additional memory and network bandwidth, and introduces a whole new category of synchronization issues and unpredictability in debugging.)

I know it’s really tempting to see this as a simple problem, but it’s absolutely not. Companies that build correct and functional seamless worlds have my admiration, because while it’s not an MMO, I work on distributed systems of comparable scale and it’s some of the hardest and most annoying problems out there.

sorudo.9054:

that looks better?

It’s almost as if what “looks good” is a matter of personal taste, not a single fixed universal value! Shocker!

Dogbody.9638:

INTENSELY FRUSTRATING!!!

I don’t know if it’s the patch or what, but it’s happened to me three different times now and I’ve been unable to beat HoT. It’s completely awful. :-(

How is such an important quest still SO buggy?!

Simple: it isn’t broken for everybody, and it’s not possible for the anet QA team to reproduce the issue internally.

So, something is wrong, clearly, because it’s broken for you. Nobody questions that. It’s just … pretty much impossible to understand what if the QA team can’t reproduce it, and if you can’t understand it, you can’t fix it.

I’d encourage you to check for network issues following the https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network guide — while it’s not certain, for some people this has fixed the problem.

FWIW, I had problems purchasing gems via credit card. I googled and found the most amazingly stupid sounding suggestion for fixing it….

when you put in your card details (like, name on it, etc), use ONLY LOWER CASE LETTERS.

I tried that, and it worked. I then sat there for five minutes and wondered how amazingly bad something at Digital River — who do the credit card processing — was broken that it couldn’t cope if I used uppercase.

Anyway, try that: put in all the details for the card and everything in lower case. If it works … laugh bitterly about how bad programmers are, I guess?

(Note: that’s definitely not an arenanet issue, but Digital River, so I didn’t bother to ticket it to anet. You can if you want, though. They might yell at DR for being dumb.)

This is almost certainly a windows related issue, not a gw2 issue. Recent Windows updates made some changes to how they detect “windowed fullscreen” applications, and those caused the taskbar to show above the gw2 app — and a bunch of other games too.

The most common cause seems to be running any sort of addon, overlay, etc, that draws additional windows on top of the game.

Lidia.9681:

Was having a similar issue, removing the dps meter worked. Has anyone submitted a ticket to let gw2 know this is a thing?

DPS meters are not supported by anet — they are very much hacks, but currently being tolerated by the gw2 security team, despite being a technical violation of the terms of service.

If they break, or break your game, you get to keep both pieces. ANet will simply tell you to remove the software and then report the problem if it happens without it.

If you do intend to run one, you should ensure that you are always keeping up with the latest update to it, and if you ever hit a crash, report it only to the DPS meter author rather than anet — or reproduce the crash without the meter installed.

(The same goes for anyone using GemFX, reshade, or other things that inject in the rendering path, too.)

As I understand it, something is blocking HTTPS access to the login server. You should check local firewalling rules, etc, to try and eliminate that problem.

Beyond that, if it continues to occur, I’d suggest a support ticket.

Kitty.6219:

Same issue here, it was fine until yesterday that with the new feature wvw update my ping went from normal (200) to not normal (700-1500). I’m in Sanctum of Rall paired with Henge of Denravi; also I live in Argentina, South America, and WvW is totally unplayable, my powers won’t work (until I’m either useless late or dead).

So my guess is something happened in server side.

It’s possible, but that sounds like it could be caused by intermittent network issues. https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network is a good guide to tracking down where those originate from, and I’d encourage you to run through that process.

If it is in the anet network, or server side, filing a support ticket might be worthwhile — though they will first ask you do do exactly that sort of network diagnostic, so I’d suggest doing it first, and including the results in the initial ticket. Saves a round trip.

Screen freezes like that are not really a common symptom of DPS meter related issues — though it’s not impossible that they could cause it, since they usually inject themselves in the rendering path, so a bug could break that.

Anyway, I’d encourage y’all to investigate driver and/or hardware issues for this. It’s the most likely cause. The event logs might shed some light on the issue, too, if you have not yet checked those.

For others, reseating the video card, reducing overclocking, or improving power supply have helped.