Guild Wars 2

Boo, I wait all month for temple, and it was unfortunately cut out of the pax rotation, for shame, Personally I’d like to play it, despite that it’s not going to be at the pax tourny and the request is reasonable.

Most Adorable Guardian NA.
#HumanThesaurus
Straight Up Gentleman

Vozzy Poo, You get my vote. Solid Engi, Even Sexier Manlover.

I lol’d. Hard. Please YouTube that clip.

Bump.

Bump, still actively seeking a team.

We disbanded.

Looking for a team once again.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

I hear this guy loves death blossom.

Death Blossom my love, Run little rabbit run, but someday soon our two paths will be one.

Thanks for the endorsements guys <3’s.

Hi there, I’m Steb. I’m looking for a dedicated team to play with, with exceptional players, and a large amount of top tier Spvp experience, with good, positive attitudes, in an environment that provides, and receives constructive criticism very well.

A little about myself. I’m a highly experienced thief, and I’ve played with, and against with the best teams in the game, wins and losses alike, I have over 3,000 hours played in Spvp. I’m rank 45, have access to my own custom arena, I also play Necromancer, ankitten ot opposed to learning additional classes for flexibility.

My approach to SPvp, builds, strategy, and teamwork is very analytical, I love trying new things and expect my team to be open minded. I consider communication to be of the highest importance in good team play. I’m always looking to learn new things and improve my play, as well as work with and teach the players on my team things, I believe other players are some of the best resources we have.

I do not get offended easily, and I call my own mistakes constantly to strive for improvement, I have a dark sense of humor, I like puppies and I hate walks on the beach, and I hate cats, filthy smug little kitten creatures.

My available play times are currently M-F 7:00 PM EST to 1:00 AM Sat and Sun are open anytime. I don’t like a super demanding play schedule, but I do play an obscene amount as is, I just don’t want it to feel like an extra job. I play on North America and at this time unfortunately not interested in playing on EU due to latency.

You can contact me in game @ Steb.2571 I may or may not try to seduce you, so please be 18+.

Muppet.6485:

Steb.2571:

RTL’s nerf was a fair and balanced change. You can’t have everything and have it at the same opportunity cost as everyone else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

Ele’s are just going to have to learn to play in a game that’s actually balanced fairly, and not in their favor.

You’re actually hilarious. You talk about opportunity cost but obviously have no idea about balance since you claim opportunity cost should differ between two skills that are exactly the same, and that that means balance is fair.

Rush. War GS 5. 1200 range, movement can be broken at any point. 20s cd. Affected by soft cc.

Great, so, make chill and cripple affect RtL. Fix the range bug. 20s cd all around. Fixed.

This cripples every build. Not just this bunker they’ve been trying to fix for the past couple months. Now the glassy builds have suddenly lost all their mobility.

Adorable, here I thought elementalists had two times the abilities to pull from, thus increasing the opportunity cost of each to balance them equally. Silly me, I must be playing a different game than you where warriors carry 4 weapon sets.

RTL’s nerf was a fair and balanced change. You can’t have everything and have it at the same opportunity cost as everyone else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

Ele’s are just going to have to learn to play in a game that’s actually balanced fairly, and not in their favor.

Nord.5360:

EoNxBoNx.9213:

Nord.5360:

Hey folks,

Quick update.

As you know we’ll be joined by JSharp and Karl on the next SOTG. However, they won’t be sticking around for the entire show. They’ll mostly be popping in to give us some updates on balance that are coming in the April patch and then some possible design goals for the coming months. At some point they’ll take their leave and we’ll have a focused roundtable discussion with our player guests.

Best of both worlds, right?

Anyhow, thanks for the ongoing feedback. I do take a lot of the suggestions into consideration, even from you grumpy buggers.

Is it too late to ask for Steb for the next SOTG?

I’m playing with him right now. I don’t know if my eardrums (or your eardrums, for that matter) could handle State of the Steb for an hour and a half.

<3 you Steb.

I want my promise ring back you kitten.

I conducted my own poll as the numbers provided looked a bit fishy. My poll was taken from 26217 community members within the mists.

26210 Participants said “50% is still too much, please nerf it further”

5 Participants said “50% Killed my class, please change to 150%”

2 Participants said “50% is perfect”

This concludes my survey findings report, please use the collected data to determine future balance on the topic of quickness.

Caedmon.6798:

I think nvidia can release some better performance drivers for gw2 though,i mean how many times did they do this ? Once perhaps ? How many times do they keep releasing drivers for other games stating it will give you XX% more fps yadayadayada,ive only seen this on one of their drivers for gw2,they havent even tried optimizing it for gw2 any further at all.SLI works fine most of the cases,but still not optimal for one..

Exactly my point. Trust me, we all are just foaming at the mouth to get better performance in Batman Arkham Asylum, I mean, if we didn’t get our bi-weekly 8% boost to this fantastic title, we’d all just lose our kitten. Better not try to pry them away from REAL projects like that for our no name game Guild Wars 2.

Hence what this is all about, It may not be directly Nvidia’s fault, but they’ve done nothing to help the problem.

If nothing else, this can draw more attention to the problem, whatever it may be. Neither my Processor, nor my Video card, ever run even close to full load, and I still get drops to 30 FPS or lower from time to time, place to place, meanwhile my chips are doing nothing about it. That’s a problem, weather it be poor optimization, poor performance on the driver end, or poor usage on either or both parts, their is clearly an issue.

Crapgame, I did know about those, but as said, they were basically failed updates, so I feel those don’t really count, though they do warrant mention I guess if we must. I’m specifically speaking raw performance enhancements however.

Pentium III’s are like ancient history, and terrible in terms of performance, Dell has a terrible tendency to put old parts in new computers. The 7570 is carrying that computer. If your running something older, that’s why your performance is so low, on top of the older graphics card.

My laptop and PC are leagues apart in both CPU and GPU, as it uses mobile versions, and they still get near the same performance. Which leads me to believe it may be a bit of both, I’ve been tracking my usage pretty much all day today on my cards during guild wars 2. They love to hover around the 50% usage zone, and sometimes climb up to the 70-90% mark, but only for a few second and start dropping back down to 50 again. Even while getting some pretty hefty performance hits, I don’t really seem to get anything higher than 50% usage. In heart of the mists for example, it’s pretty bad because of all of the holiday stuff. I sit at about 35-40 FPS there without shadows, and it still is only hanging out at about 50% usage.

I’m fairly confident, if week after week, they can find ways to make performance improve in games like Batman Arkham Asylum, they can find ways to improve performance in guild wars 2 on their end. I’m not saying it’s all their fault, I’m saying their doing nothing to help the problem, or even look into it.

As the community is painfully aware, the preformance of this game is far below expectations, and many of us get far less FPS than we should in pretty much every scenario.

That in mind, I took to the Nvidia forums to ask for some offical answers on why they have never released specific updates or enhancements to Guild Wars 2. (I check the notes every week for the new drivers to see if they gave any improvement to guild wars 2)

Shamelessly hoping that if they are giving updates every other week to “Batman Arkham Asylum” That one of these times, they’d give some love to a New AAA MMORPG like Guild Wars 2. As there has not yet been a single Nvidia update that specifically had performance hikes for Guild Wars 2, and this was disappointing to me, especially considering how it’s well known that the performance of this game is lacking severely.

After about a week I did get an official response from Nvidia, but in a private message by Josh@Nvidia.

It reads as follows:

Josh@Nvidia
Not really much to add on the thread, since it is mostly just your views on performance in the game. I have not seen any similar reports or complaints in regards to GW2. If the thread blows up though with other people reporting the same it might be something to look into.

You heard him, Blow it up.

There you have it, Nvidia is oblivious to the performance problems this game has, and needs to hear it first hand from our players before they’re going to even look at the game.

With that, I ask for your help, to post on the Nvidia forums about the games performance, and urge them to give Guild Wars 2 some love. Pass the word, tell your friends, tell your guild, tell reddit, if we want Nvidia to care, we need to post about it.

The thread on the Nvidia forums is here: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/525297/pc-games/lackluster-no-guild-wars-2-support-/

I feel this is really important for the health of the game, the beta forums and post launch forums were riddled with FPS and performance complaints, many people went out of their way to buy new PC’s or graphics cards, just for this games launch.

Now, I’m not saying it’s unplayable, or the FPS is horrible. What I am saying, is that the requirements to play this game on max settings for example, vastly exceed what they should, and that my laptop, runs this game on max settings (minus shadows) almost as well as my Dual GTX 460’s in SLI overclocked by 30%, and that’s a problem.

Thanks for your time everyone, and I hope to see a lot of posts for the cause.

Take Care,

-Steb

I’ve been having the same issue, some pretty nasty 1 – 2 second delays, and it only seems to be on guild wars 2. I’ve also even had it out in the open world.

I’ve heard reports of other teams saying before a match start that they’re lag is just out of control, but yes, it comes and goes the same as with us.

Anyone else experiencing this lately? As of the past week, Myself and a few others as well as some other teams we’ve faced have been noticing some really, really nasty lag hits, and latency spiking all over the place.

Just trying to see how far spread this is, or how common it is, anyone else having this issue? Please post it here so we can get the dev’s attention if it is.

Lmfao, I love it, Oh Danto, your tears, give me your tears, they’re so salty and sweet, so delicious, I just want to eat them all up.

What this change does, is forces you to choose a balanced, and more reasonable build and forces you to cover your weaknesses from the start, and adapting to change, and overcoming adversity.

It forces players to learn to negate their weaknesses using each-other, or themselves, and play intelligently, instead of just hot-swapping weapons / skills to counter whatever is going on in the fight.

It’s now more about your actual play, instead of your skills and weapons, you have to be better, deal with it.

<3’s “top players” that part made me lol, thanks for the laugh. If you can’t counter a cheese, especially after they’re now stuck with those ability’s, your kittening bad. Not just bad, kittening bad. Period, end of story. And clearly have no place talking about balance, or demanding changes you clearly don’t understand.

I’ve been receiving random lag during 8’s and tournaments, it seems to happen at random intervals, and some of my team also gets lag, but not to the extent I do. It has only started happening within the last 48 hours, prior to that I’ve never had this issue, and in every area in the game, I do not have any lag.

Got near the end, had to put another orb on the alter, and while fighting with it, the NPC did a pull on me, and it disappeared in the process.