Guild Wars 2

Hey,

This latest update gave us the chance to render things differently in WvW.
Why can’t this same way used in PvE but with small differences.

In WvW we had option to only show nameplates of players and render minimum number of people in high definition. As currently, there is no point of needing to even see anyone as people just sit afk and autocast in these zerg events. So why couldn’t this be used on PvE too?

Is there somesort of problem with the engine to make things like ONLY people to render in low quality while still everything else stays the way it is?

DevonCarver.5370:

We are still investigating performance improvements as there are ways in which we think we can get better performance out of the game. I can’t go into specifics because there aren’t really specifics to go into yet, but we are definitely looking at what can be done.

Thx to you!

You are the very first ones I have seen on forums talking about performance issues on game. Those are widely talked on many categories on whole forums but more specifically on technical support forums. I would love to see finaly some improved performance updates on this game.

More these people who dare to speak about things at their right name and not trying to only go around hard subjects.

Big Boss.7902:

There is a name change contract listed in the TP, but it’s not actually ingame yet.

A few weeks ago someone was asking about it, and a dev replied. They didn’t say when it would be out but they hinted strongly that it would be in the next update (the one today).
So yea, hopefully it’ll be in this update, it was only a hint after all though so it may not be.

They said it to be on this update? Never heard about it, but I hope you are right…

Sorry to hear, but there aren’t currently chance to change name. It surely is coming but don’t think it comes in this next patch.

You could just keep playing it and just wait for name change to be possible…

HappyHubris.1096:

GW2LFG.COM is leveraged by a minority of the population, so we have a smaller pool of people looking for groups, longer wait times, etc. It’s also a pain to tab out if you’re on an older computer.

Not having a LFG interface is pretty kitten embarrassing in 2013.

It’s also embarrassing to not have Dx11 in 2013.

But the fact that there is already group finding tool and they won’t that why do one is still true, tho it’s shame. (It surely comes still, but later)

Just like the game is already bought by people they don’t “need to” make the performance of the game any better by adding Dx11. (They won’t get more money by adding support for it)

Brutalistik.6473:

Timze.7980:

By even devs saying this was kind a helpfull, why they can’t do these kind of things too?

I’m quite sure that much more people would take part on these once they would be well advertised and officially announced. These seems atleast for me quite helpfull and this way they would really see what people want.

The questions could be as easy as; what people would like to see in future updates. (new contect, fixes, skill balance, performance increase)

Why not ask the players who actually play this rather than making what is easiest to code/write…

I think that’s done on our part like give the company our feedback customer review reports. They probably could of done it themselves, but not like this so hopefully this helps out

I believe by just adding the option to be able to vote on poll like this at forums front page would gather much more information on one place and if adverticed well enought and kept short enought people would be happy to take part on these.

Just saying to make " Monthly Polls" about thoughts or future plans. Similar to what they just added minutes ago. They added sub-forum called “Living World”. This is exactly what I like to hear from them but just to keep it as easy and least time taking for all they could add just poll…

By even devs saying this was kind a helpfull, why they can’t do these kind of things too?

I’m quite sure that much more people would take part on these once they would be well advertised and officially announced. These seems atleast for me quite helpfull and this way they would really see what people want.

The questions could be as easy as; what people would like to see in future updates. (new contect, fixes, skill balance, performance increase)

Why not ask the players who actually play this rather than making what is easiest to code/write…

Why there should be mounts?

There is already all those waypoints and so it’s not really must to have mounts like in other games, where you are forced to run those long paths.

They would then be there only for visual meanings and… oh, we already got riding broom and that is exactly what I was meaning.

Case closed.

that might just be because of the big zerks just fight there somewhere…
No matter as long as you are in same server :/
I want to see how this will turn even worse after next patch erases culling… but I hope I’m wrong.

Been like that for almost always, atleast in big zerks… No any particular reason, just something on anets side.

I like new ac and hope that the other dungeons get changed just like ac got.
It surely isn’t for 35lvls anymore, but well, it wasn’t really even before patch…

Ari Kagura.9182:

I second this bug.

Had this happen yesterday and reported it in the Game Bugs forum.

Here’s a video of Magg not accepting our bombs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FllpfgVr1vs

That is exactly what happened… and on next try he didn’t even talk anymore, well, good that you made bug report of it already…

Hey,

We actually successed to fail on that part where you are supposed to retrieve the bombs for Magg and so we had to try again. On our next try we started normally and tried to give the bombs to Magg but he didn’t want our bombs. So we waited for 2 mins and tried again. On our second try, Magg didn’t even bother to anymore speak to us, so it seems that magg got enought of us now. I could even bet that on next try he would have left the whole dungeon… No, but seriously, it got bugged.

Devs most likely don’t even no about this bug since I haven’t ever before failed on that part and never heard anyone else fail there…

Performance and bug fixes, those are the things this game really needs. We have already got Lost Shores and other great new things and they will surely keep adding those things in future too without the need of expansion.

Great news

I was able to log in about 1 hour ago, now Error: 42:6:3:2158

No one can help you or even try to help you if you don’t tell anything more than just, “cry”

Myth Shaia.4856:

OP is right. What ppl don’t realize is that they may well be able to reset the first dungeon but really you should be hoping you get dredge or shaman or colossus as first, thus limiting the chance of it popping up as second or third fractal, that’s what I do. And colossus cliffside is not long really.

People just like to get this easy and fast. Colossus is just one of the most time taking fractals. Normally people just switch as long they get Swamp,underwater or charr. Those are the easiest and then people just hope for rest to be easy ones too. If there still will be hard one in end they surely will do it.

But why should someone hope for volcanic/dredge? If you think you can’t do those ones and that is why hoping them to be first ones why even trying fractals then?

Hey,

I have noticed this a long time ago, just posting it here for now…

Doing CoF exp, always at start just after opening the door, watching to the far “mountain” like thing in middle of all, my fps drops to about 20-30. Normally running 60 fps on high settings without problems.

This seems to only happen in CoF exp. I did story run earlier today and it seems to be fine…

Drew.1865:

Timze.7980:

AC is great now. People might feel AC is trash now just because they can’t run it now anymore in about 30mins.

The fact is that once they have reworked all the dungeons I can feel they will be quite much more better then. CoF get’s harder and the ones like HotW get’s shorter for sure.

You know they don’t do these dungeons for just money/token farming? They are supposed to be fun right? And AC really is that now…

It’s great if you run it with players that are experienced with the old AC but not fun if you planned on pugging it to meet new players or are going to run it as a level 35

For sure it is at start, and I know it’s easier with 80lvls but they aren’t ment to be like there for just gold/token farmers… I’m only feeling sad about the fact that 35lvls will have bit more harder times…

AC is great now. People might feel AC is trash now just because they can’t run it now anymore in about 30mins.

The fact is that once they have reworked all the dungeons I can feel they will be quite much more better then. CoF get’s harder and the ones like HotW get’s shorter for sure.

You know they don’t do these dungeons for just money/token farming? They are supposed to be fun right? And AC really is that now…

TimeBomb.3427:

Timze.7980:

MikeFerguson.8921:

Culling is absolutely a fixable problem, and as Habib mentioned in his MMORPG interview, we are planning to completely remove it from the game in march.

Why is it taking so long? Well, I think the best way I can describe how we’ve had to approach this problem is that it’s almost like changing a flat tire on a car that’s still moving. That’s a really rough analogy, but hopefully it helps illustrate just how difficult this would be in terms that are easier for everyone to understand.

Something like the way players render is extremely core to the engine and any change to that sort of thing could cause all kinds of other issues throughout the game. There are a lot of really complex technical problems that we needed to solve, then make sure that our changes don’t actually cause any of those odd side effects.

That being said, we’re confident that been able to solve those problems on the technical side. We still have a bit more testing to do, but we’re not expecting any major issues to pop up at this point, so we’re really looking forward to flipping that switch and getting rid of culling for good!

We’ll have a blog post coming up sometime in the next month to go into more details about the culling fixes and what you can expect.

Could we expect to get better fps too?

Based on what I’ve read about how they are planning to fix culling, part of their solution includes heavily optimizing the client’s rendering of characters. If I were to make a rough educated guess, I would say that it’s not impossible that we see a better frame rate or in some way more fluid graphics.

Do you run the game on low graphics settings while in WvW?

I can run game normally on high and quite easily too. No matter if I change it to low/high in WvW. It’s completely CPU problem, and not on my end.
I really hope we get also better fps.

Saulius.8430:

use forum search. find that ac jp is movie tribute/reference. don’t create repetitive threads. why the sad face?

I already know it’s most likely reference to “Indiana Jones” movies but as people just have pointed out there seems to be way up there to somewhere, so not sure about if it’s only tribute to it. Normally there is something like chest that tells us that we have reached the end or something but there’s just nothing.

You’re right I could have posted on those already ones being there, but I just made this now.

So is your post here for just trolling since it has nothing to do with topic?

Hey,

As many people know, there is jumping puzzle in Ascalonian Catacombs. It’s been there always I believe and it’s unfinished. Or maybe it’s already finished but in that case I have no idea how to finish that one. I love these kind of things, they make the game feel unique.

Thought we could have seen this on getting done on this latest patch since they reworked Ascalonian Catacombs completely but no.

So, when?

imalog.7689:

MikeFerguson.8921:

Culling is absolutely a fixable problem, and as Habib mentioned in his MMORPG interview, we are planning to completely remove it from the game in march.

Why is it taking so long? Well, I think the best way I can describe how we’ve had to approach this problem is that it’s almost like changing a flat tire on a car that’s still moving. That’s a really rough analogy, but hopefully it helps illustrate just how difficult this would be in terms that are easier for everyone to understand.

Something like the way players render is extremely core to the engine and any change to that sort of thing could cause all kinds of other issues throughout the game. There are a lot of really complex technical problems that we needed to solve, then make sure that our changes don’t actually cause any of those odd side effects.

That being said, we’re confident that been able to solve those problems on the technical side. We still have a bit more testing to do, but we’re not expecting any major issues to pop up at this point, so we’re really looking forward to flipping that switch and getting rid of culling for good!

We’ll have a blog post coming up sometime in the next month to go into more details about the culling fixes and what you can expect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSDeMN5_Guw

i think you guys can do it.

That made my day.

I feel we get now easy fix for this.

Fuzzion.2504:

Timze.7980:

MikeFerguson.8921:

Culling is absolutely a fixable problem, and as Habib mentioned in his MMORPG interview, we are planning to completely remove it from the game in march.

Why is it taking so long? Well, I think the best way I can describe how we’ve had to approach this problem is that it’s almost like changing a flat tire on a car that’s still moving. That’s a really rough analogy, but hopefully it helps illustrate just how difficult this would be in terms that are easier for everyone to understand.

Something like the way players render is extremely core to the engine and any change to that sort of thing could cause all kinds of other issues throughout the game. There are a lot of really complex technical problems that we needed to solve, then make sure that our changes don’t actually cause any of those odd side effects.

That being said, we’re confident that been able to solve those problems on the technical side. We still have a bit more testing to do, but we’re not expecting any major issues to pop up at this point, so we’re really looking forward to flipping that switch and getting rid of culling for good!

We’ll have a blog post coming up sometime in the next month to go into more details about the culling fixes and what you can expect.

Could we expect to get better fps too?

No you cant have the whole pie and eat it. FPS is not just the issue here. Latency is the other. If everything is shifted to client side, the problem may be much worse for some.
ALso what about window dragging exploits? If everything is client, expect them.

Could it really get any worse now?

Also, i thought I just asked for “Could we expect to get better fps too?” not “making everything clint side”

I, along most, (maybe all) can’t get acceptable fps during zerking in WvW and I have quite high end computer, so can’t even think how low end computers work here.
I just asked now, if we finaly could get improved fps too once they now start to make engine rework. The current CPU domination is just unacceptable…

MikeFerguson.8921:

Culling is absolutely a fixable problem, and as Habib mentioned in his MMORPG interview, we are planning to completely remove it from the game in march.

Why is it taking so long? Well, I think the best way I can describe how we’ve had to approach this problem is that it’s almost like changing a flat tire on a car that’s still moving. That’s a really rough analogy, but hopefully it helps illustrate just how difficult this would be in terms that are easier for everyone to understand.

Something like the way players render is extremely core to the engine and any change to that sort of thing could cause all kinds of other issues throughout the game. There are a lot of really complex technical problems that we needed to solve, then make sure that our changes don’t actually cause any of those odd side effects.

That being said, we’re confident that been able to solve those problems on the technical side. We still have a bit more testing to do, but we’re not expecting any major issues to pop up at this point, so we’re really looking forward to flipping that switch and getting rid of culling for good!

We’ll have a blog post coming up sometime in the next month to go into more details about the culling fixes and what you can expect.

Could we expect to get better fps too?

On our p2 run it went afk too, but them about 3mins later it started to act normally… no idea what happened.

Yes, sure, let’s add more things to the game, and then fix things. -.-’’
Anet actually finaly now started doing what they should have done from the start, get the game working…

Hey,

Just completed my personal story for a second time and I just love the ending when the “Fear Not this Nigh” plays. It just fits so well in there. Well, this time the song just didn’t play, it was all just quiet.
So what a great ending it was for my story, thx Anet! -.-’

Stormcrow.7513:

Go do a dragon event.

That or WvW Stonemist castle zerging. No way anyone could honestly say to be enjoying it…

Sithaco.4673:

Oh really? That sucks -.-…….. Would say an Intel 3570k cpu 3.4ghz processor be better?

http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=72&bid=5&sid=104942

That’s great, but you would want to OC that still to get even decent fps on WvW. It’s not so much about what CPU you get, the problem is on the whole Gw2 engine

Espionage.3685:

IvanHoe.3468:

Espionage.3685:

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

… in-comparison to GW2 (Unreal Engine 3).

GW2’s engine is a proprietary in-house modification of GW’s engine, which was developed by Anet. GW2 does not use the Unreal Engine 3 game engine, LOL, we wish buddy !! that would solve a big chunk of our problems.

Regardless, it is pretty clear that ANet can do some optimizations to make GW2 perform better

Can they ? Perhaps. But they choose not to, so whether they can or not is irrelevant.

I myself have no problem with performance

Even if you play at the lowest settings I doubt that’s true. Go play in any event with more than 30 players on your screen and comeback and say that again.

I know GW2’s engine is in-house. I was saying that TERA uses Unreal Engine 3, which is totally different than GW2’s in-house engine.

Edit: Personal opinion, but I’m glad GW2 doesn’t use Unreal Engine 3. I hate that engine.

As for performance, at lowest settings, I “did” in fact notice something pretty strange, my FPS in high-population areas did drop (20 FPS is the lowest I’ve seen though), with GPU usage being around like 25% most of the time, even had my GPU downclock a few times due to the little usage lol.

In any case, it’s not a significant issue for me. I do agree that some optimizations need to be done still, but really I’m still enjoying GW2 as-is currently. If I’m not staring at my FPS, I could care less, unless it gets to the point of slideshowing, which GW2 has “never” done for me (I consider slideshowing anything below 5 FPS practically).

Have you tried WvW and can you enjoy of it on big zergs?

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

as my sig says, 4.6ghz 24/7, i rarely see anything but spikes for an instant below 30fps, but, I dont do WvWvW because, honestly, it runs like crap so I just forget about even bothering with it.

WvWvW dosnt run well for anybody really, its playable but, I get tired of invisible attackers and other bs that comes with WvWvW in its current state Honestly, if you want PvP pick another game that performs better and wait to see if anet fix gw2 when the xbox720 comes out.

every other game i have runs better then gw2, gw2 infact is the only game i ever see spikes below 30in even at 2560×1440.....that includes planetside2 a game that even sony, the creator admits needs alot of work to get its perf up(among other problems the game has)

I have exactly the same problem with WvW. I do like it, but it’s completely unplayable or well, atleast it’s not enjoyable. I sometimes run it with my guildies for even bit better fps but I won’t really play WvW before this all get’s fixed…

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

BadHabitZz.1856:

invizo.5408:

You think that’s BS?
Look at these and try calling it BS one more time.

Tera:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i4ptheabt22ebls/TERA_ScreenShot_20120512_170453.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g6qy2p4tawnknyo/TERA_ScreenShot_20120509_085447.png

Blow up the images, notice the distant textures, resolution, PROPER AA, draw distnace, shadow detailsk, and much much more, as you can see lol.

edit: Also, my computer never even saw what 30FPS looked like in Tera because it barely ever dipped below 60.

You mean how with maxed out settings in TERA i cant see mobs which are more then 20m from me or the ground made from plain texture with no fauna…..imo some things making TERA look like beta version…Iam not saying GW2 is perfect but characters, armor and weapons looks waaaaay better in GW2 in tera the character creation is horrible everbody from same race looks like clones. But i really like trees and some other things in TERA so its hard to tell which one looks better. Also i never seen areas so big and detail like Lions Arch for example in Tera, if there are some areas like that i would like to see how they look…

the problem is the LOD settings in tera are bugged, you actually need to change the LOD setting to 1 below max (i think that was it) to get proper distance detail, its a known issue and you can fix it by editing a config file (i google it and re-do it after each major patch, I also add a 100fov hotkey because, honestly, the game looks alot better with 100fov…..to bad i cant do that with GW2…..)

gw2’s issues run very deep, and no, I dont agree gw2 looks better then tera, I think they both have good and bad points in their gfx, I think tera despite its issues is currently the better choice if you want decent FPS for casule gaming.

even rift runs better for me then gw2…….

Tera uses UE3
Rift uses GameBryo

both run better then gw2’s engine,

WoW uses an updated version of the warcraft3 engine, and it runs better then gw2…

the engine used in WoW came out in 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_III:_Reign_of_Chaos

its been updated to use multi cores, its been updated to dx11(showing a NICE perf boost, and dx11 mode even works with dx10 cards up to the level of their feature-set(my 8800gtx512 saw a perf boost)

guild wars came out in 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildwars

the guild wars engine is far newer then the starting point for WoWs engine….yet……blizzard has managed to make the engine modern and keep it running well on low end to high end systems….

GameBryo the engine used in morrowind/oblivion/skyrim/rift and lots of other games was orignally designed in 1997…..yet its been updated to run dx11 as well as run better then gw2’s engine

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

people need to stop giving anet excuses about their engine being based on gw1’s engine…..the fact is they did a hack job when they “updated” the engine for use in gw2…..

worse being that its designed for a 6-8ghz tricore…..

please, stop excusing anets kitten up’s, they need to fix this.

note: this isnt about nVidia, or AMD or Intel, the game works fine for many SLI users, I mean as fine as it can compared to other games, it still runs like warmed over donkey poo but…….sli does work for many people…..(i have seen it scale to both cards using 70%, and thats pretty good considering how cpu bound the game is)

Great post. I just believe that the only way for us the get any information about this would be to just keep these kind of topics alive and post on them continuously, maybe then devs will actually answer these…

I believe also that the part reason for the devs not answering could be that there just isn’t anyone who really knows about these like things, but why couldn’t they then come here and say that “they pass this on to the people with more knowledge about these sort of things”. That’s what they do normally but here it looks like they are ignoring the topics about CPU/GPU.

Keep these up!

Caedmon.6798:

BadHabitZz.1856:

invizo.5408:

You think that’s BS?
Look at these and try calling it BS one more time.

Tera:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i4ptheabt22ebls/TERA_ScreenShot_20120512_170453.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g6qy2p4tawnknyo/TERA_ScreenShot_20120509_085447.png

Blow up the images, notice the distant textures, resolution, PROPER AA, draw distnace, shadow detailsk, and much much more, as you can see lol.

edit: Also, my computer never even saw what 30FPS looked like in Tera because it barely ever dipped below 60.

You mean how with maxed out settings in TERA i cant see mobs which are more then 20m from me or the ground made from plain texture with no fauna…..imo some things making TERA look like beta version…Iam not saying GW2 is perfect but characters, armor and weapons looks waaaaay better in GW2 in tera the character creation is horrible everbody from same race looks like clones. But i really like trees and some other things in TERA so its hard to tell which one looks better. Also i never seen areas so big and detail like Lions Arch for example in Tera, if there are some areas like that i would like to see how they look…

he’s comparing an engine from 2004 from wich dozens and dozens of games have been created to the gw2 engine…that alone,should be enough to shut him.And no,Tera does Not Look better then gw2,the atmosphere in tera is seriously lacking,its all to bland and empty.You go from high res textures to low res textures in the same area,things like that put me off.The only thing i liked is,its the u3 engine,you can tweak it like a madmen.

Well, I disagree that gw2 would have better graphics than tera. For sure those engines are far from each other, other being new and other being years old. For sure gw2 has a lot better ATMOSPHERE than tera but the graphics are just so great in tera that I can’t see how gw2 would have any chance on that. As a game gw2 wins so easily, tera even went just f2p so I think that tells something about the game too…

To stay on topic, I really hope we get the dx11 supports at least this year. I for one don’t really just play WvW just because there is no way I could enjoy of it. Playing other games on high/ultra but gw2 just lacks on optimization. This topic has now been on for 4months and I believe we have to wait at least same time before answer for this question or even devs saying anything.

declan.3968:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

I found Elixer B to be quite helpful

woutterr.5974:

My personal story quest on my thief

I can’t find Elixir B on my Thief either. Can anyone kind enough to help me point it out?

Elixir B is engineer skill or something…

I can’t understand how someone could feel these are hard. Most of them are way too easy, most just easy but of course there must be couple jumping puzzles that makes people to really do their best. Breached Wall might be one of those harder ones along with WvW jumping puzzles and couple others.

For older people I can still understand when they really need to struggle past some of the jumping puzzles…

It’s shame this game lacks so badly on optimized gameplay…
Some of the settings included in the game are not even working, or atleast not well…

For instance, why there is no view radius included in settings? And while there surely is LoD setting, it is still not woking so no help from that either…

Seriously, when can we expect some optimization for this game? Half month gone and still WvW being unplayable in big fights.

Thx for great PvE tho, that is were this game shines

DaedalusDragon.3754:

Pre-patch you had to kite because dpsing the enemies down before more spawned was a bit of a problem. Now you can kill all of the mobs as they spawn before more spawn…. you end up sitting there waiting for new mobs to show up. This is much easier.

This is what it was before patch. As I had no problem on killing them all before new ones spawned.

Can you link me video or screenshot where you can just sit and wait now… Yes, I thought you couldn’t too.

Isslair.4908:

The amount of mobs doesn’t matter if their health is low. Aoe counters this pretty good.

Well, you can’t say completely that the amount wouldn’t matter, since the AoE has limit of 5 targets max. If amount wouldn’t matter I could expect that you could then easily kill all of them with just AoE.

Isslair.4908:

Before those mobs were silver ones. Now they’re just regular mobs who die in two hits.

New version is really easy. And I’m yet to fail there, though I only do it with guild parties.

Stablity+AOE+awareness = win.

There were also much less mobs before patch. And I believe they don’t die just in 2 hits. And assassins still are silver mobs. As Anet mentioned; they made all mobs easier but countered it with the amount of mobs there.

But with your point saying easy, I agree with you. But while couple people before you saying “easier”, just can’t agree that…

AoE + kiting -> pretty much that… and taking assassins fast

Bukkebruse.2810:

also make the bags of wondrous goods loot from the chest instead of the actual boss. If someone dies during a boss fight they will not get any loot (including the bag) from the bosses corpse.

Is that true? The thing about not getting loot if killed during boss?

I believe I have always got loot no matter if I died during it or when it ended.
Correct me if I’m still wrong…

Quam.7218:

Timze.7980:

Sigmatics.7056:

CoF p2 is easier than before, and costs less silver for repairs TBH.

Thinking this is troll. I can’t see how it would be easier.

I don’t see any trolling here I agree. Before they changed it I failed with pugs much more than now – tbh i like the change it’s easyier and more fun than waypoint running.

As said, I think he is troll because before patch you could have done it just normal way, meaning just kill all mobs that spawn. It’s like now but there just are those assassins now too. So that is why I can’t believe anyone could say “This is now easier”.

- If you can now kill all those mobs during the modified part and make video then of it, then I can actually believe when people say “This is now easier”. That was what people were supposed to do before patch. I’m just telling the facts how it worked before…

Also before patch, if done with “die->run back” tactic, it surely did cost lots of money but it took no skill or what so ever so how can people honestly say it’s now easier.

Sigmatics.7056:

CoF p2 is easier than before, and costs less silver for repairs TBH.

Thinking this is troll. I can’t see how it would be easier.

Since before patch there just wasn’t assassins and you could even kill them easily. Other than that, it’s mostly same.

But it is still quite easy yes. If you just have good group and take the assassins down fast you will do it easily. I think this is what most of dungeons should be, hard but do-able.

It might be better in suggestions sub-forums.

But since it’s here, I totally agree. Those items that bosses drop are just worthless, even for most players playing the dungeon at the level it is supposed to be played as stats often just suck.

Yes you can if you use enought healing and invulnerable skills. Elementalists for one can do this easily…

Saulius.8430:

no you will not.

curious if Bacon.2360 didn’t know that, or was just trolling

I just think he read it just fast and didn’t really think about the OP being lvl 12 only.
So no, I don’t think he’s trolling ;D

But as your lvl is only 12 you can do lvl 20 run but you won’t get pristine relics…

This is why I always try to enter in instances as first person as I can trust only myself in these cases.

I have been hoping to get this kitten fixed the whole time I have been playing but for now I just believe that we won’t get the fix for this issue atleast before we get the group finder tool, which might take months still.

Must say I’m pretty happy with things Anet has done with PvE as a whole but with dungeons I just feel sad and have lost hope for them to get better.

Michael.4791:

Maintenance is no patch.

Thx for your support in this problem, really helped us all.

I now have this very same problem and this happened to me after this maintenance we had today.

When we can expect the fix to be online? In the big february patch perhaps?

UPDATE: This seems to have fixed by itself. Logged in 2 hours later and now I can see my display name as it should be. Not sure what fixed it…