Guild Wars 2

Most of the time I’ve done PvE dungeons I’ve been profoundly disappointing by the community:

They stacks in corners, dodge against walls, abuse the poor AI, use cheap tricks, skip dungeon sections, etc.

Then when you talk to them about the benefit of open world PvP they act all shocked, as if it could be worse for the game than what they are doing, probably because after 3 years of dodging against wall they probably forgot how to play their class and are worried everyone will realize how bad at playing their class they are.

My point is: who cares about build diversity in PvE when people stack in corners and dodge against walls? In PvP or WvW build diversity at least means something.

When using an emote and zooming in and out the character view with the camera your character moves around. For example you can rotate while sleeping. Seems like a bug.

The midi protocol is pretty complex. They would have to implement the entire code into guild wars…

It’s either going to be SAB or a complete disappointment.

just run:
6/2/2/2/2
or
6/2/0/4/2
with all the damage modifiers and blasting staff + minimum 2 cantrips. Nobody will care or notice if your meteors do 200 less damage.

SAB is coming back in April right? I mean the game needs some sort of new content.

1- Make way more maps, the game is starving for content
2- Add GvG with larger teams (10v10 ideally)
3- rebalance the ranger pewpew, engi ccs/shield, necro lich form, ele cleanse, bunker’s all around are broken

They improved it for a few weeks when they enabled PPK, then it went to back to the same old system with all the flaws we know.

Tequatl still crash on mac 18 months after it was introduced. Is it ever going to get fixed?

1- So far we’ve only seen one new map and there hasn’t been any word on what else we can expect for pvp. Surely there is more than 1 stronghold map planned?

2- Stronghold seems small for 10v10-15v15 GvG, so why a guild ladder? and why a guild ladder for a single map?

3- Why not add a single large courtyard-style pvp-deathmatch map for 15v15 where we can really observe the strength of a guild working together? Like we are doing right now in Obsidian Sanctum but with a scoreboard. You could even just take OS and make that the gvg map.

4- Also, what about new reward tracks ?

I understand you guys have been working on the new WvW map, and I truly appreciate that, but if PvP is to be an E-sport it needs some serious skills/elites balancing and ideally different group-size maps for variety (10v10 and 15v15 maps).

It went up but it’s still slightly lower than before.

Esmenth.9413:

Are you clicking Create [BETA] ?

Yeah I have a beta character slot, cannot click create when I select it.

Cannot click start or create!!!!

This is not a small bug guys, I don’t know why some of you are expecting a fix soon. If they added new engine components that are causing this they will have to go through all the code and optimize it.

It’s probably a mouse issue. I use a Naga epic and the scroll wheel works fine.

However I cannot recommend buying that mouse, Razor makes terrible drivers and sometimes the presets wont load.

Does that beta test include the new WvW map and PvP map?

Nah wasn’t on my end, I verified. Other people in my guild were experiencing the same issues last night. Usually my ping is 125 in GW.

I have a good internet connection, my ping with my isp is under 50.

How can a competitive mode like GW2 PvP have a 266-300 ping? Nothing else is interfering. You need better servers.

Hybarf Tics.2048:

Xillllix.3485:

If G2 was reality I would be running to the hospital because of poor frame rate performance since the last patch.

You mean the same frame rate that got me from 60 to 63 and the next day I bought an Asus Strix GTX and now I get anywhere from 83 to 117. I think you need a new card.
My old one was an Asus GTX 580.

I was getting 50fps with v-sync and characters to medium, now I get 17 everything to minimum. I won’t get a new card because Anet’s engine performance is terrible.

And I’m far from being the only one: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/FPS-DROP-after-Patch/page/10#post4907686

papaiggy.1345:

They have had over a week to figure out what they broke. the current fps makes the game unplayable, and I have a good system in this regard.

In all probability they knew what would happen with this patch before releasing it. They still have to test these things internally. This means that fixing it would probably require a great deal of effort because they implemented new components into the engine that can no longer be removed. Anyway it is a huge step backward.

If G2 was reality I would be running to the hospital because of poor frame rate performance since the last patch.

killfil.3472:

For me, since I downloaded the patch, I can’t play! Literally!
When I try to log on one of my characters, my screen starts turning on and off rapidly and switchs between the different applications that I have open (like if I was using Alt+Tab) and I loose control! I am forced to shutdown my computer because I’m afraid my graphic card is gonna get an epileptic seizur!

Seems that the last update introduced some bad code into the core interface and|or engine in anticipation of HoT and that we will be stuck with outstandingly poor performance until it get optimized.

Seriously considering the low level of details of this game at the lowest settings it is outrageous that I am getting only 17fps on a 2014 computer with 16 gigs of ram, i7, ssd and 1gb video ram; when I was getting 45fps before the update.

Sounds to me like it’s going to take a very long time to get fixed.

Scott.1653:

anet never fixes performance issues, here’s an interview with one of them on the matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVy-zLUq6g

OMG lol. That was funny. So true about GvG.

Xaevryn.5687:

yeah time to hunt for a new MMO if this keeps up.

I’m trying Tamiriel Unlimited in the meanwhile, it has improved a lot. At least now there is a choice to play something else without a monthly fee.

They should have rolled back the patch immediately and fixed the issues. It is a shame for a MMO to introduce so many bugs almost 3 years after the release.

From meteornado, nerfed to almost always useless tornado, now nerfed to totally useless tornado.

Good balancing there, once all the skills are useless the game will be balanced.

I have the same issue, it’s game breaking. I wont bother playing until it’s fixed.

Not surprising, balance “team” changes stability, dozens of skills and traits become worthless.

Didn’t they say before that they wanted to help the elementalist in other lines than water? Why are they doing the opposite then.

Aomine.5012:

Mishi.7058:

Aomine.5012:

Mishi.7058:

Sorel.4870:

Impossible. The coverage issues would be unbearable, especially since (almost) every one will be willing to play on the new BL.

Sadly I know many who want to avoid the new map as if its the plague.

I think that’d be minority in fact.
WvW is getting stall and old and people will try new ones.
I can imagine t1 server having 500 ques on each map…

Since you are stating facts could you please provide links to the data?
I said I know many, not that those I know made up a majority or minority.

Though I am interested in seeing factual data on how the WvW based population of GW2 views the new map. ^.^

I really don’t need statistic to prove this… It’s quite obvious since there’s nothing new for WvW in 3 years. It’s natural people want to try new stuffs.

You don’t have to believe me, but I’m still speculating at least 500 ques on each map..

This is why they need to merge all the servers into alliances and open up “campaign” you can guest on according to the amount of players, like in ESO.

Ballads.2509:

I sure am glad the waited a week to test this patch before pushing it live…..

Someone must have cracked under pressure:

Anet: “Are you ready with the kitten patch, we’ve been promising it for Tuesday”

Programmer: “We need more programmers, I can’t do all of this myself, fix all the bugs at the same time as programming HoT and the only new PvP map, while all your artists are smoking cigars designing costumes and hats for the Gem Store… And I don’t care about first person view anyway, it’s a gimmick, unless we did it properly with first person view weapons”

Anet: “We need the patch, now!!!!”

Programmer: “ok, ok, whatever it would require months anyway to fix the issues, here you go” (goes to look for a new job)

Gamers: “Yo your new patch has like a million bugs, can’t play, fps drop, won’t install, etc…”

Anet: “Can you fixed all the issues you didn’t have time to fix before the release, take your time.”

Programmer: Epic facepalm

Please fix the FPS issues, we can’t WvW or GvG like this.

Same here on Mac, went from 45fps to 17.

I think we should make support tickets, since Anet isn’t acknowledging this game-breaking bug.

Me too, can’t play since the patch., my framerate went from 35-45 to 17-20.

Anet: Just roll back.

Half a year later: Nothing has been done and the last update destroyed my framerate.

Do you guys have a mac team?

Last patch cut about 50% of everyone’s frame rate.

Make a support ticket if you want support. Since they merged the forums there is really close to no support for mac here.

No it’s a bug. The last patch added a few feature for the price of a few dozen bugs.

For me the game is just unplayable now, framerate went way down.

Seems that they could have waited a few more days before releasing a patch that would eat half your fps.

Same problem on mac. Insane fps drop, about 50-60%

Same issue, but the framerate drop is the real problem, its about 60% what it was before the patch

Much higher cooldown on the squishiest class… Stop nerfing ele.

SRG.3607:

Bad point is that the old “Abyss” color has been lighten in this patch.

So “Abyss” is now just another “deep gray” and “Shadow Abyss” is exactly like the previous Abyss color was previously.

That sounds like a really cheap way to make cash with dye packs if true.

Well at least I’m not the only one…

I’m getting a massive frame rate drop after this patch. My average fps went from around 30-45 to 17-22.

So many nerfs to keep track off for ele… maybe their excel sheet is full.

I’m talking going from 45fps to 17fps in the borderland maps.

What the hell happened?

I don,t get why they want to go do the rotation idea. 3 identical versions of a single map, then 1 month later 3 identical versions of another map, then back to the other one…. WHy not have 3 different maps all the time by adding EOTM to the PPT rotation?

Nobody goes to EOTM for 5 minutes when they are in queue anyway, it takes 10 minutes just to get to the zerg anyway since there are no waypoints on that map.

They need to add EOTM to the WvW rotation so we get 4 different map all adding to the PPT war. 3 Identical versions of the same map, even if it’s a new one, is/was a ridiculous idea.

EOTM as an overflow just turned out to be a karma farming mess anyway so why not take this opportunity to implement it properly in the PPT rotation?

The new keeps are really cool, I actually like the bonus and “PvE” elements, like the stealth area around earth keep and the no falling damage around air keep.
It makes the game more interesting for roaming groups.

And the capture the flag type of event in the middle of the map sounds great.

I think it looks amazing, but wished they would add EOTM to the ppt rotation as well with the older map. I’m not too worried about the PvE elements we’ll still have plenty of fights.