Guild Wars 2

cough you know that you can find groups that don’t demand you play in a way you don’t like, right? I’d suggest hunting for them. Sounds like a good deal to me, finding a guild that won’t make you play in a way you don’t want to.

Rumor has it that we get dagger MH for the next xpac, in what will highly likely be a DPS oriented spec, finally freeing us from being “the” healer. (Despite other classes, looking at you ele, having some serious healing chops of their own.)

As a rule of thumb, there are no “tanks” in GW2. It’s not an applicable concept most of the time.

Even in raid encounters, where Xiahou Mao is correct they do exist, it is not the classic “tank” role in other games. It’s entirely reasonable to have a few people fill the role, swapping out, and it’s not about standing still and being hit a lot.

The fact that cloth wearers are the current common “tanks” probably helps cement that.

Don’t forget to check LFG and see if someone advertises an SW event map. Those are usually the best bet for getting lots of players working to get everything going well, which means a greater chance of legendary spawns.

You can also just list in LFG for it, since it requires no real leadership, but might bring other players to the yard.

I don’t know, but I generally get plenty of cloth from salvage in all the zones, including the starter zones. So … I wouldn’t worry so much about exactly what drops the cloth, and instead, just salvage all the things and take it.

If it’s only the cloth armor at the moment, it’s still cloth.

Roald.1260:

Herald isn’t that bad in terms of dps or cc. But it is lower than Temps and thiefs and scepter guards.

Lower theoretical DPS. Higher practical DPS than the person who just grabbed that Scepter Guard who they levelled to 80 last week with tomes, and know very little about to play, so wind up on the floor a lot.

Player skill >>>>>>>>>> class choice for most people. and if you were in the 4-person qtfy team clearing the raid, you wouldn’t be debating this here.

Heather.4823:

Linking servers is stupid. People just bandwagon around after every linking making the linked servers now half empty as half the people leave to bandwagon elsewhere.

Without linking people just bandwagon around to whatever the top servers are.

It is almost as if the moment you make it possible for people to transfer to the “winning” group, they do.

PS: before you say “no transfers”, remember that people will purchase new accounts and/or delete all characters in order to effect this transfer, if necessary.

I’ll bet that this thief dodged in, hit you with a dagger, and bam, you got hit with whatever their dodge procs at the end, some condis from skills and traits, and some other bits and pieces, putting lots of different skill damage records on you, because each one is unique in the combat log.

…or something very similar to that. You definitely don’t need to have more than 1APS to deliver way more than 1 source of damage. Not that, y’know, it hurts (the thief) to hit moar buttonz.

In before anybody notices that it opened up because a bunch of players left the server, opening slots for others to jump in. Was it a WvW guild leaping elsewhere? Who knows…

You skipped what “shouldPopulateRed” does, which is the most important thing to understand here. That is:

def shouldPopulateRed(red, blue, config):
  if red.players >= config.teamSize:
    return False
  if blue.players >= config.teamSize:
    return True
  return red.ratingLow < blue.ratingLow

That actually prefers filling the lower rated first, so depending how it picks the players to place, it’s not even just filling one team or another, it’s filling whatever has the lowest rating first.

For that … it’s detailed, but

scoreRoster

Crinn.7864:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

How big are your MMR changes after a match? If they are still in the 40 to 50 range, the answer to your complaint is likely that the MMR system has not yet figured out your correct MMR.

I am at ~100 matches played this season and I’m still getting 40 point swings…..

That’s uncommonly large, so perhaps something outside your own abilities are causing you to unexpectedly win or lose matches a lot. Playing in low-pop hours, or duo queues with mismatched MMR could do it, because both put extra pressure on the system to find matches quickly rather than well.

It also encourages the most recently found actual bug, which was the substitutions because of people not match-ready could lead to an issue with the team composition, and that is going to be more pronounced during low queue activity times.

Also, class-swapping could be an issue, in the sense that if you regularly play two or three classes for which you have different skill levels, you would have more variance.

Otherwise, that might start to tend toward the point that it’s worth making your own top level post asking about why your MMR is still so volatile after so many matches.

It’s not impossible there is a bug causing that – but it’s also not /that/ many matches past what should be a good estimate (~ 89 calculations) from the MMR system, so it could be that you started out wildly out of place and that has slowed down convergence.

So, yeah, top level post it and ask why your MMR variance is still so high. That’s an interesting thing to investigate.

Update forum filter to add “moa” as a “kittening” word, problem solved.

Also “nerf”, “buff”, “OP”, and “MMR is broken”.

Apolo.5942:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

One, assume the developers are not idiots, and are actively working on balance.

Given this games track record, why on earth would i assume that?.

O_o. I’m sorry. I kind of assumed that someone who though the game was bad, and being changed by people who would only make it worse, would be bright enough to maybe … IDK … play something else?

I mean, seriously, if that is your honest opinion of the state of the game, and the likely future changes, why would you stay? Do you like the pain that much?

Anyway, I’d suggest you assume it because it’s both true, and reasonable.

Wolfric.9380:

I had two aweful loss streaks after working myself up. Result is i am at about 200 games and barely moved up. And there is not much learing in steamroll games. It feel like the MM system slows your progress and makes it grinding.

Delivering rewards based on skill (of which MMR is an algorithmically maintained approximation) rather than time spent (which is what the previous seasons gave) …

…well, it leads to exactly what you describe: you reach the MMR that matches your skill level, compared to all the other PvP players, and you more or less stay there.

The only way to change it is to improve your skills, which is hard work, and takes time and practice.

The matchmaking system, and the MMR which drives it, will lead to what feels like a grind to get higher “categories” than the old system, in which you gained them by winning, and never went backwards, so that one lucky win or carry could push you way above your actual skill level.

Mea.5491:

Meh, I will never understand this obsession with black dyes, they are so boring.

Ditto. Guess that this is still true though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kXH6GGtT0

Nigel Tufnel: It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

Soon? Probably not. One day? Almost certainly. What is available is more or less rotated through on a semi-random schedule, so anything you want will come back, but it is hard to predict when.

summer.4530:

At the end, I would say, what kind of content will last forever? – Player generated content. Player will never get bored by the content they generated / changed. – Home instance in this case.

This is observably not true, as can be seen in games like WildStar which do feature a high degree of personal housing customization, and which have steadily lost players over time.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

What you want is to be blocked from the other players. What the Block function does, here and in other programs, is block other players’ chat, etc. from you.

It’s not that uncommon of a way for block functions to work. You want something more like being invisible to others as a block function.

FWIW, bidirectional block is absolutely what people assume the feature does, until taught otherwise, online. This was a painful lesson in user expectations that held as true fifteen years ago as five when I worked places that investigated it.

So, I’d have expected that blocking someone made us both (completely) invisible to the other, and so would most people, if I hadn’t gone through the experience of seeing that learned through investigating what actual users believed block would do…

It’s far from the only software feature that engineers design to do XYZ, but customers expect will do ABC or even XYZ+. We think we speak the same language; sometimes we forget that ‘block’ can mean different things, depending on the context.

Thankfully that single problem is no longer my entire day job, but yeah, it’s for sure a thing!

I have occasionally had this happen when things are not “in range” of melee critters, despite being apparently attackable. Seems correlated to my HM Axe not being able to hit the thing, because “obstructed”.

Not sure if it is the same issue or not, but that’s my observation.

It probably is. I found that I had to wait patiently and not kill the eye so fast for it to work. Seems like getting it down prior to the first “event” where it moves out of the center would lead to audio from that, and the finish, and then bug out.

I just stopped attacking after doing 80 percent damage, waited for the thing, then killed it and was finally able to get past this.

Work-around, not fix, but at least you know how to progress personal story. (Also, good for you, being such high damage at that point.)

I’d guess you have something, such as anti-virus software, getting in the way and blocking access after that amount of data downloaded. Especially since this is repeatable with such a specific number of files…

Try disabling and/or tuning those to see if you can find out what is at the root of it.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sins.4782:

Nice. Does this mean profession specific MMRs will actually be used then? Or are the changes just to class stacking/shuffling?

Nah, we can’t use profession MMR without locking them after queuing. It can better handle mirroring comps across teams.

I really really wish you would! I mean, profession-locking, more than pre-profession MMR, but … avoids the meta-game of chicken where you wait until the last possible moment to swap based on the other team comp, and hope they don’t do the same.

ezd.6359:

But why these people don’t go far? Don’t they realise while they stay close, team lose 4v5? Actually in 90% of games we win from start even 200 points, then enemy thief takes close point and someone decide to stay on it… so i can go afk because i know we will lose. I have these people 90% of matches. I don’t understand why. Is not it obvious? Or they can’t count to 5? Why people think others must carry them? Do they read “special” guide to pvp with advices like “stay close for win”?

Have you tried … saying something? cough and because some people are precious, something that isn’t insulting. cough

I’d guess that, in fact, what they have done is read absolutely no guides, just come in and tried to figure out how to win while playing PvP.

“I’m going to stand on this point-earning spot and prevent the enemy from taking it away from us” seems like a reasonable position to take, in fact, as does “I’ll die to prevent the enemy capturing this point-earning spot”, on the face of them.

So, yeah, if you think (or know) it’s the wrong strategy, say something nice, and tell them /why/ they should do something else. Then see if you still have the same problem.

Djinn.9245:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Again, I’m gonna add to this by reminding y’all that other games cough WoW cough BDO cough StarWars MMO cough just discard XP at max level, more or less, and they didn’t die of it.

They discard it for everyone. They don’t only give it to some players.

Either XP / Spirit shards is a reward or it isn’t. If it is useless, remove it for everyone like other MMOs do at cap. If it is not useless, don’t gate it behind Masteries. Masteries should be their own reward.

Not to be objectionable, but I don’t see why they should be?

I mean, I understand and accept that you don’t think they should be something you need to complete before getting the reward. I just have no idea why these are special.

It’s not like other things (elite spec, and masteries) are not gated behind other things (level 80, hero points) already, so it’s hardly new that the second levelling chain needs to be finished before you get more rewards…

How big are your MMR changes after a match? If they are still in the 40 to 50 range, the answer to your complaint is likely that the MMR system has not yet figured out your correct MMR.

If it is in the 10 to 15 range, then that might be something else, like one of the fixed bugs with the substitutions or something, or it could just be luck of the draw.

Let us eliminate the obvious first, though…

The best way to report a suspected exploit is to email exploits@arena.net with the details, privately.

NekoNoKoi.9137:

but I’m too much of a scrub to figure out how to make OBS record without lagging out for 2s at a time.

Three things are likely key here:

One, use a GPU-based encoder, such as NVENC. Using a software encoder is less dire for GW2 than many games, because GW2 uses just over one core, but it is still far from optimal in terms of cache busting, etc.

Two, make sure you have enough memory that you are not swapping during the recording process.

Three, make sure that the recording is output to a different drive to what GW2 resides on – a separate physical spindle – even for an SSD. It’s more pronounced on spinning rust, but even on an SSD a “heavy” write load (like, say, a video stream) can lead to delays for various reasons on input, which can lead to lag like that.

(heavy in scare-quotes because it’s really not that big, but some SSDs still have nasty log collection latency internally that can lead to .5 second or longer delays at times, etc, under write load. fun times.)

Your question is kind of foolish, because you already know the answer is “no”, that isn’t acceptable. You still asked in an effort to make some sort of point, though, which is gonna fail because it’s not a good way to achieve whatever your goal is here.

Maybe try just saying “I think X is a problem, because Y and Z” instead?

Cynz.9437:

I agree however it also really bothers me how crappy the rating gains are. I have won matches vs top rank 1 before, but even if you win vs duoqs that are so much higher rated than you are, you still gain almost nothing in comparison. The rating gap is so huge yet it is absolutely unrewarding to win vs such teams and extremely punishing to lose vs them. For some reason the system assumes 1700 equals 2200 when it calculates rating gains/losses – wth?

Your mistake is that you believe – incorrectly – that rating loss or gain is related to the MMR of your team vs the other time.

MMR changes are based on two things:

The first is the “win or lose” prediction from the respective MMRs vs the actual win or lose, which determines if you gain or lose MMR from this fight.

The second is how confident the MMR system is of your ranking, which determines how big the change is. So, a large MMR change means the system thinks you are far from your correct MMR, and a small change means it thinks you are close to your correct MMR.

Which is to say: your result was close to the expected result, like most of them have been recently, leading to high confidence your MMR is correct, leading to small changes as a result of the outcome of the fight.

Apolo.5942:

they are essentially unplayeable

“when are you going to buff rock, it loses to paper all the time, it’s unplayable” — rock

…but, seriously, if you actually want even the remotest chance of action on this, try two things:

One, assume the developers are not idiots, and are actively working on balance. Make concrete observations with some degree of data about what is falling short, and concrete suggestions about how to improve it.

Two, don’t use clickbait titles for your post, because it makes it hard to take your suggestions seriously, when you include some.

ezd.6359:

… and stay afk on it. Should i report him for:

1) Idle player
2) Match Manipulation
3) Botting

Any of them will work, but I’d suggest that “idle player” for an idle player is the best choice. It’s not like ANet will discard the wrong category entirely, but the odds that they look at it and discard a “botting” report because they don’t match some automated “are they botting” criteria like “uncommonly good accuracy or timing”, etc, are non-zero.

Navajas.3147:

Noone looks into the reports so don’t bother.

You … should probably not play GW2 any longer, if you actually believe this. If the company don’t care, like you say, then things are just about to go directly to un-fun-ville in a kitten-cart, fast.

Because people respond mostly to the expectation of being caught when it comes to deciding to cheat, or not to cheat, and if nobody acts on reports then it will become super-common, super-fast.

ezd.6359:

But how to punish players who do it in every match?

ANet will take away their account if they persist. Report them. You can’t punish them, and you can’t know what their punishment – if anything – was, or when it will be delivered, but you can report them, and trust that ANet will do something.

(If, in fact, they are doing something wrong. Your description certainly sounds clear, but without being there we can’t be certain. Other people likely make the same claims when a player is actually, y’know, trying to help or whatever. Just poorly.)

Faux Play.6104:

To me the biggest thing is still matchmaking. I think the system is way better than it was in S1-S5. Grind based rewards are separated from skill based ratings and you can see your MMR now. However, there are still issues (maybe just perceived) that need to be addressed: both match manipulation and the decisions behind the system that actually make the matches. To me the most important things to focus on for matchmaking are more transparency on skill ratings for who we are playing with/against, knowing what we want the match maker to do, and to eliminate in game tools that can be used for match manipulation.

1. Show all individual’s stats and MMR + gain/loss at the end of the match.
   —This will allow people to give fact based feedback, and see for themselves if the match making is working as intended.

…but it won’t, my friend, it won’t. We already have the pseudocode and constants used by PvP stuff, and the MMR display, and people still complain that it’s broken, they don’t understand it.

They also demonstrate that, eg, they firmly believe that the change in MMR is related to the MMR of the other team, not the expected win/loss and their own volatility, with comments such as “we shouldn’t lose 45 MMR for a loss against a higher MMR team”, etc.

Your suggestion is an “economist” suggestion: it would be absolutely correct, if only we were not all fluffy, kitten-headed kittens who made decisions, and hold beliefs, for all sorts of irrational reasons.

Setis.2863:

Is it realy a hack?

That game is bugged as kitten. Every patch put some new bugs to it. The mayority remain undiscovered and some can only be used in special situations.

Answer unclear, in part because the OP simply posted here on the forums — the second least effective place, just above posting on reddit — to whine about it, instead of sending the details to exploits@arena.net in order to get it effectively looked at.

“nerf paper, it’s OP, scissors is fine” — rock.

Seriously, though, if your theory was true then the top 250 would be nothing but mesmer vs mesmer. Which it observably isn’t, so we can say that the best players in sPvP do not agree with your assessment here.

(Not that a good pvp mesmer isn’t a pain in the neck with their condition bursts and stuff. Just ask my guild officer who plays one and rocks.)

…aaand, over in the reddit GW2 forum they have discovered yellow text showing up with this string, on the far side of a portal. I’d suggest that if you care you head over there and find out.

Shivan.9438:

Tarasicodissa.7084:

The way I understand ToS and RoC, if you report an afk farmer for botting, you’re putting your account in risk of suspension or termination, not theirs.

What they’re referring to are instances of people submitting false reports for the sake of trying to get someone banned for personal reasons. For example, if I make up a vague, sketchy report in hopes of getting someone banned out of revenge, then yeah, my account would be at risk. The main problem with all of this is that Anet is really big on not wanting to be held accountable for mistakes, being way to vague when it comes to what’s legit and what isn’t and being liberal when it comes to putting the hammer down.

They are vague because the more clear your rules are, the more people abuse that by pointing out that their abuse was not technically a violation. Which is why, you will find, every single MMO has a clause that is basically “…and if we say you suck for doing it, it’s an bannable offense, no matter anything else.”

The truth is, though, as you say: good faith reports are not going to be a problem for the person doing the reporting. It’s only when they are not in good faith and/or in such a volume that they seem abusive, that it’s gonna be an issue.

Which, in my own experience where running around actively gathering stuff can lead to whispers of “kitten you you kitten kitten kitten afk farmer!!!1!” from people, could actually happen to some of the “everyone bots and afk farms except me” folks.

PS: Yes, I don’t know why it was AFK farmer instead of bot, but hey, I guess they don’t pay them enough to correct the whisper they sent to the last person when they move on to abusing the next target.

The did kindly inform me that being unhappy about what they called me was stupid, and I should be /grateful/ they are doing the service of insulting people via whispers in order to drive away robots though.

Again, I’m gonna add to this by reminding y’all that other games cough WoW cough BDO cough StarWars MMO cough just discard XP at max level, more or less, and they didn’t die of it.

(Yes, I know that BDO doesn’t technically discard it, it just hits the diminishing returns curve so hard that nobody is past 68 to 69 or whatever, and the next step will be exponentially longer than that. No rewards exist for grinding toward it though.)

So claiming that GW2 is unique in all the world, and here but only here, will players quit because they don’t get rewarded for their XP, is a hard sell and requires some convincing proof about why it’s different…

Ronin.5038:

Speaking from a PvE standpoint outside of raids and high end fractals.
Revenant doesn’t lose that much with a sword/shield instead of the usual sword/axe build.

This ^^^^ – outside of the very pinnacle of things, everything is viable. I’m one hundred percent confident that you could complete everything up to and including raids using a shield on any of the classes that use them.

In some cases it is even highly desirable (mesmers, looking at you) for some mechanics, though not mandatory.

The biggest problem you would face is that people will whine about the build not being listed on metabattle in pugs, really. That’s kinda about it.

So, yeah, they are absolutely viable. Also, useful, and also effective.

(When I say “pinnacle of things” I mean things like 4-person raid completions, or the top end of the top ladder in rated pvp, where skill on both sides has pretty much approached infinity, so tiny numbers differences between specs and weapons actually make enough of a difference to matter.)

Djinn.9245:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Just as a side note, today I ran through two complete DS meta cycles, and left while a third was running. All with good leadership, etc. So, uh, the US is doing the meta routinely…

Are you calling 2 times “routinely” or did you leave out information that you have run it on a regular basis with the same success?

I am, in fact, omitting the times that I ran through a successful DS meta recently on the path to obtaining the plated (and, thus, machined) weapons, and the from-noxious-pod collection items, used to unlock elite spec ascended weapons on my various alts.

I would, however, call “three meta cycles in a row, no gaps, on a single day” also compelling evidence that this is being done successfully on a routine basis – even if it is only on Saturday.

Captain Dark One.8690:

Well dont forget that arenanet update always remove things from the game.

…this isn’t even remotely true, but I do wonder: if you really believe that, why on earth would you continue to play the game? It seems like that would just be inflicting disappointment after crushing blow after pain in the neck on yourself, which doesn’t really seem like a good idea.

There are plenty of other fish in the MMO seas, and some of them might have update policies other than “remove things”, no? You might well enjoy one or more of them better!

Valento.9852:

You can’t use two identical items which are unique. The idea behind this is to spread people across the maps, and it is working as intended.

It predates the LS3 maps, and I suspect it is to prevent people simply obtaining infinity copies of the “easiest to obtain” ascended item, but shrug. That would just be the same thing, from the days of yore.

Behellagh.1468:

If you open black lion chests for any reason other than a lark “lets see what I get” then you only have yourself to blame by being disappointed. Not everything is a measure of gold.

<3

DGraves.3720:

And you actually bring up another “silent” issue. The armor classes themselves. Soloing an enemy on a Warrior isn’t just easier because it’s a Warrior but because Warriors naturally have the most defense. Since defense is a divider every point of it counts so the 304 point difference in ascended armor is huge. That’s literally 24% 15% of the heavy armor. So just choosing an elementalist opens you to 24% 15% more damage.

That’s insane.

No, that’s a design decision, compensated for by way of the design team making deliberate choices elsewhere to balance that increased risk of damage by way of something else.

For example, necro has a larger effective health pool, mesmer has clones that taunt and distract enemies, ele has significant defensive and healing tools available on zero notice, etc.

It’s entirely reasonable to argue that those are not sufficient, but it’s not enough to look at a single aspect of the game, see a difference, and then declare the whole thing broken.

I’d argue, in fact, that if you put heavy armor on a necro without any other changes, you would find the overall effect to be a little … unbalancing.

I’d also suggest that crediting “the Guild Wars 2 development and design team” is a good way to do this – it’s reasonable to say that the team, working together, rather than an individual artist from it, inspired you.

(Generally. I’m making the assumption that the people reviewing this are using good judgment to read what you say and kitten it from a sensible, neutral-ish point of view. If they have a checklist of names and you have to list the correct ones, all bets are off.

Gryphon.2875:

If each color is just a code ID, then doesn’t take up that much room.

The most common challenge is that there are in-memory structures that expand because of this, causing unexpected memory pressure when you multiply this sort of thing by 150 players or more in a single instance – or that there is some sort of hard-coded limitation somewhere that makes it difficult to add arbitrary data to your backend storage.

Which are both annoying, and mostly “it’s hard to fix after the fact” problems, but sometimes that is life.

So, just because the raw data is small, it’s a mistake to assume that it is an equally small effort to store it for an MMO. Which can really suck.

Well, the understanding I took away from Gayle’s comment was that they disabled it temporarily until they can fix it, and once fixed they will enable it again. So your investment simply results in a delayed ascended ring.

You could try contacting support, explaining the situation, and asking if they would give you the ring in exchange for the destruction of the rock. That would give you the result, but not the experience of completion, if they are agreeable.

Amadan.9451:

i think gravedigger doesn’t go on cool down if you hit enemies with less than 50% health or something. i have no idea about longbow 2 on ranger, that sound like a bug

This ^^^^ – it’s a feature, not a bug.

Stormdancer.5089:

I love GW and have played it since GW1 first came out, I’m not sure if this is the place to ask this, as I don’t normally join in on discussions, but I think GW2 is missing some content that would help bring guilds together, and make thing’s a lot more fun and guild based.

1. You can’t have very many people from the guild in the guildhall at once, I think the maximum is 5 ppl and then it will ask you to change maps, I mean seriously, I run a small guild and yet we can’t meet up in the guildhall! That is just beyond daft.

We routinely have well more than five people together in the guild hall, with no prompt to change maps, during guild missions. I’m not sure why this happens for you, but it’s not a normal thing. Try contacting support directly to see if they can help figure out what is wrong.

Stormdancer.5089:

3. With all the work that’s gone into building up a guildhall, I would love to have people in the guild have a reason to use it! At the moment there really isn’t much reason for people to go there. Having crafting, bank, black lion traders that can be placed would give people a reason to visit and use the hall.

This is frequently suggested, and unlikely to happen as the developers feel that it would stop people visiting cities – likely, correctly. You might want to consider other content that could be in-guild-hall for this, such as missions or activities located in the zone.

That said, I think in general it’s highly likely that pushing people to cities is the better, overall, for the game. Common spaces are pretty uniformly better than private spaces for anything except content completion.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

What you want is to be blocked from the other players. What the Block function does, here and in other programs, is block other players’ chat, etc. from you.

It’s not that uncommon of a way for block functions to work. You want something more like being invisible to others as a block function.

FWIW, bidirectional block is absolutely what people assume the feature does, until taught otherwise, online. This was a painful lesson in user expectations that held as true fifteen years ago as five when I worked places that investigated it.

So, I’d have expected that blocking someone made us both (completely) invisible to the other, and so would most people, if I hadn’t gone through the experience of seeing that learned through investigating what actual users believed block would do…

I mean the “Snap Ground Target to Current Target”, and “Allow Skill Retargeting” options, mostly, from here

If they are reproduced on the golem, though, that’s useful information not present in the initial post, and does suggest my guess was inapplicable.

(Also, I’ll note that despite using several of the named skills, I don’t observe these symptoms, leading me to suspect some local setting triggering them. Which may not be right, but it’s my first port of call when I don’t see something, but you do – I believe you see it, and try to theorise what might be different in our environments to explain the different behaviour.)

Disable ShadowPlay, it seems, is the typical answer to this sort of question. Try it?