Is there any server pride? Should it influence changes to world vs world? No. Server’s need to be merged. If this means some people have to queue, so be it. This happens in other online games. The three colors we see in edge of the mists would work, surely.
Once again people avoid rounds when the matched against much higher ranked sides & it’s understandable.
One thing you can do is get rid of the golems. Cannot believe this has been added to the abilities line. Now sides face ridiculous constant golem rushes. This is especially bad when sides are faced with appalling mismatches. You are not making the game better by introducing the above skills, you’re making it worse.
What is the story with broken events? The toxic offshoot event in Kessex hills has been bugged for at least one month now. This is also impacting on another event; the supply bull run from the earth works to the mine. It cannot be completed because the escorting Seraph keep attacking the toxic creatures, reviving them does not fix this.
Another group event in Gendarran Fields has been bugged for maybe three months or more.
People still do events on these maps & other non level 80 area’s. Some of these area’s are also part of the daily achievements, for players completing dailies.
It would be nice if these events could be fixed. What does it take? Daily spam of the in game support function?
Find it amusing when people find ways to exploit events in level 80 area’s they are nerfed fairly quickly yet other problems are ignored.
More than happy they introduced megaservers. For the first time I was able to do events in Orr. Can run around most pve maps & find other players participating in events. All this without needing to guest.
Participated in the blix event farm for a couple of weeks before the nerf & kind of wonder what all the fuss is about. Sure you got lots of champ boxes. Were they worthwhile? Seems to me most of the loot you obtain from the boxes is worthless.
As for precursors, I read here & there they drop from dungeons, champ boxes, pve mobs of all levels, world vs world, fractals & jumping puzzle chests. This maybe the case for some players, although with all the loot nerfing, I starting to assume those days are long gone. Even getting a yellow item from an event or champ box is a ‘rarity’.
In the September 2014 Feature Pack, we’re rethinking the way you collect and trade items! …… Hope this is going to be a positive change and not another nerf.
Trying to make money in this game is becoming next to impossible with the poor loot drops from different aspects of this game. Which does not aid anyone wanting to put in the time & effort trying to craft a legendary, when the cost is so high due to the large quantities of materials needed.
Precursors in the forge are hit & miss. Obtained 6 from the forge (4 in the space of three hours). Sold them all. Tried my luck at getting the two I wanted & most of my gold went down the toilet without any success (1500 bows without a hint of a precursor as an example). Even more disconcerting is decreasing amount of rare weapons available on the tp. The more we throw in the mystic forge the fewer there are to purchase. I guess because rare item drops are so infrequent now as part of loot drops (at least for me). Even high magic find stats appear to make no difference in quality of items received.
300% magic find. One rare item in 2 hours of game play. Most other items were white or blue with the occasional green thrown in.
Heck, if you could make a living from hoofs & porous skulls in this game we’d all be wealthy.
So Im playing for one month, and for the past week I’m getting 10+ crashes a day. I’ve just given up playing now since I play normally for 15 minutes and then BOOM random crash.
I’m not the only person with this problem by far, when is this going to be solved? This was supposed to be an AAA mmo.
You’re not the only one by any means. Look at other threads.
Been playing this game for 21 months & up until a couple of weeks back crashes were very rare.
When I crash it’ll be 3-4 times back to back, each within minutes of getting a character into the game. No idea why. It started happening within the last month and as far as I know nothing has changed on my computer.
Pretty much what happens with my game too. Only after a certain time of night though.
Experiencing constant crashes too. Only at after 10pm NZ time (6am USA eastern time or thereabout). This happens almost every day.
When I get to play during my daytime hours there is never a problem.
When looking in the roaming file there is a corrupt 956f947a.dat, whatever that is.
750 staff (roughly 700g) into the mystic forge tonight – 46 exotic’s back, with one of them being the legend. Received the legend at about the 600 staff mark (into the forge). 3 precursor weapons out of the mystic forge in 24 hours.
Keep trying & you’ll get one or more.
500 swords & zap on the same night & tooth of frostfang plus the hunter.
300 rare long bows & 12 exotics – leaf of Kudzu
300 rare hammers & 30 exotics – nothing
300 rare short bows & 24 exotics – nothing
230 rare great swords – 2 x dusk, within four minutes of one another (and no, I did not think to take a screenshot).
500 rare staffs & approximately 28 exotics – nothing.
Precursors are available, even if very random. To throw all the above in the mystic forge cost me around $1800 gold (approx). Only had the money to do so because I sold all three precursors. Although I should have kept one of the dusks.
Most people I know in-game, when I talk to them about this, they say they never had a problem with Guild Wars 2, only like 2 people I met yesterday, said their game crashed everytime they closed it, but it never asked for them to repair.
And then there are people likeus, that the game becomes unplayable at some point, with constant crashes and repairs that don’t repair a thing.
I’m updating to windows 8.1, will try out in that version.
Only been a problem for me over the last 7 days or thereabouts – out of 21 months game play.
Went & had a look in the appdata file/roaming/gw2. There is a corrupt file sitting inside.
Found my crash report & there is a lot of info in it about:
Error Logs <—*
AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Texture missing mip chain: 0×071b59
Texture missing mip chain: 0×071b58
Texture missing mip chain: 0×06703d
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘loAhc.dMYcv’
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf
Texture missing mip chain: 0×071b59
Texture missing mip chain: 0×071b59
Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘aura’ not found on model ‘0×014cd5’
Texture missing mip chain: 0×067038
Texture missing mip chain: 0×067039
Texture missing mip chain: 0×071b58
Texture missing mip chain: 0×071b59
Texture missing mip chain: 0×071b59
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘+zMN7.Yy6BD’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘+zMN7.Yy6BD’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘+zMN7.Yy6BD’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘+zMN7.Yy6BD’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘+zMN7.Yy6BD’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘+zMN7.Yy6BD’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘+zMN7.Yy6BD’
sphereRadius = -1.#IND00, boxExtent = (-1.#IND00, -1.#IND00, -1.#IND00)
—> Error Logs <—*
l ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘+zMN7.Yy6BD’
Texture missing mip chain: 0×011f2e
Texture missing mip chain: 0×011f30
Model ‘0×006e1b’: Bad Matrix in GetWorldBoneMatrix – Bone bone:root
Invalid dynaset (of type 6) bounds (world space=true)
Model ‘0×006eda’: Bad Matrix in GetWorldBoneMatrix – Bone bone:root
Invalid dynaset (of type 2) bounds (world space=true)
Invalid frustum length 51515233612595200.000000
Model ‘0×006eda’: Bad Matrix in GetWorldBoneMatrix – Bone bone:root
Texture ‘0×0994b0’ dimensions too small
Loading ‘0’ texture failed
Texture ‘0×0994b1’ dimensions too small
Texture ‘0×03539b’ dimensions too small
Loading ‘0’ texture failed
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1321069917147038748’
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf
Texture missing mip chain: 0×01523d
Texture missing mip chain: 0×01523f
Texture ‘0×03539b’ dimensions too small
Loading ‘0’ texture failed
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘loAhc.dMYcv’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘loAhc.dMYcv’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘loAhc.dMYcv’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘loAhc.dMYcv’
Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘aura’ not found on model ‘0×00d35f’
Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘aura’ not found on model ‘0×00d35f’
Texture missing mip chain: 0×01523d
Texture missing mip chain: 0×01523f
Couldn’t find missile launch point for gadget ‘0×1a094’.
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘Aw3PF.xcnwE’
Texture ‘0×03539b’ dimensions too small
Loading ‘0’ texture failed
Texture ‘0×071bdf’ dimensions too small
Loading ‘0’ texture failed
Texture ‘0×071be0’ dimensions too small
sphereRadius = -1.#IND00, boxExtent = (-1.#IND00, -1.#IND00, -1.#IND00)
As I posted in another thread this has been happening with me too (over the last week). Game is installed on two drives. One is windows 7 and the other is windows 8.1. The game started crashing on windows 7 constantly. Now the same problem is happening on windows 8.1.
Prior to the last week crashes were very rare.
Ran the repair function for windows 7 which appeared to fix the problem. Just did the same for windows 8.1 after 5 crashes tonight.
update
Repairing the windows 8.1 game install did not fix the crashing, nor did an update of graphic drivers.
common problems.
Game stutters
Game Freezes
Game crashes
Sound pops in & out.
Experiencing the crashes too. The game is installed on windows 7 & windows 8.1. Both installations are crashing. Updated graphic drivers. Currently doing a repair for windows 8.1 game client.
This had started about 7 days ago. Prior to this, crashes were very rare (21 months of play). An option to report the crash comes up every time it happens. Although with the windows 8.1 crashes I cannot even send the crash report.
It counts toward world completion (for those not aware). As my completion went from 100% back to 99% until entering the dry top region.
There is a new poi that counts now towards world completion. It’s in the area in Brisbane before the portal to dry top though, the Tangle Root outpost. That might have been what registered.
Was not until I killed the vines & entered into dry top’s first poi that my world achievement went back to 100%.
After you kill the vines you are still in Brisbane wildlands. It’s a new area they added to Brisbane called Tangled Root, and it has a new poi that belongs to that area. Dry Top doesn’t start till you go through the portal that is in Tangled Root. I suspect you were in this new area and thought that last, new poi in Brisbane was the first poi in Dry Top.
This I think is fairly easily checked. Run a different char there and bypass the new poi so it doesn’t register. Check the map completion level, go through the portal and see if map completion increases. My Ranger had 100% and I’m pretty sure he hasn’t been there. I can run him there and check later on today.
Thanks for the correction. You are 100% right. My mistake.
Look for crafting guides too as they can be good for letting you know which materials you need, plus quantities. Basically help to level crafting fast. Make no mistake though, certain crafting disciplines can be expensive.
Yes the prices are high. An example: Leaf of Kudzu listed for 1045 gold. Pulled Leaf of Kudzu out of the mystic forge last week & sold it for 711 gold before the selling fee.
Place a custom order & you might pick up a precursor for far less than the listed price you see on the tp.
One of the odd things I hear a lot is that the NA Pug scene has more of this than the EU servers. You could probably put this down to the higher multiculturalism. The sheer number of threads about pug toxicity in NA is quite telling. Replies almost always boil down to “form your own party” or “join a guild that suits your play style”. This isn’t a criticism btw as it’s generally good advice.
Even though, I’m a good enough player to do so, I invariably avoid LFG’s that require
1. AP limit
2. AP limit AND zerker
Fractals tends to be more of a lottery but on the whole, high level fractals have largely run smoothly for me. I don’t do 50 very much mainly because the loot is about the same in 49 and although it’s challenging, reward vs. risk ratio is so low there’s no real point to it
Coming from EU to NA I would say EU is far worse. For dungeons & world vs world. My time on NA has been a far more relaxed experience.
This game is almost two years old & someone wants subscriptions introduced? New content is released on a semi-regular basis now. Can only assume the developers would not be providing content if they did not have the money to do so. Which to me means, a steady income is provided through the gem store etc.
Try updating your graphic card. Or uninstall your graphic card drive/software and reinstall back (make sure its up to date). I have the same issue and i solved the problem by reinstalling back. But the only issue i had now is its loading pretty slow.
I’ll update my drivers & see if it makes a difference. Not sure if my card would be an issue. Radeon 7850 2gb should be more than capable for running this game.
Update.
Installed new drivers, no more blank box. Hopefully this issue is now fixed.
It counts toward world completion (for those not aware). As my completion went from 100% back to 99% until entering the dry top region.
There is a new poi that counts now towards world completion. It’s in the area in Brisbane before the portal to dry top though, the Tangle Root outpost. That might have been what registered.
Was not until I killed the vines & entered into dry top’s first poi that my world achievement went back to 100%.
Is there a chance reward were ‘dumbed’ down? Not played much world vs world since the first two weeks of the last tournament. Reason i ask is because the loot/rewards in pve in fairly abysmal these days too.
For at least the last 5 days I have encountered an issue with the black lion trading company. After pressing ‘O’ to bring up Black Lion, the majority of the box remains blank. Quitting & restarting the game does not solve this.
Although I did play world vs world, which of course enabled me to get map completion – I agree that people with no interest in world vs world should be able to access the maps, without being annihilated. Even when actively playing world vs world, an element of frustration can arise when trying to get to the poi’s vista’s etc on the maps. Can take a long time.
Assume map completion is included in WvW to generate player interest in the format.
In saying this. I rarely participate in WvW now & have two alts stuck at around 96% because of this.
Introducing a system allowing players to roam WvW maps for map completion without being killed and preventing them from killing any active players would be a nice edition. Obviously this would be a of great benefit to anyone only involved in pve.
Just want to chip in that the lasting effects I see of the current implementation of megaservers is that while servers are generally well populated, Anet are basically killing/neglecting the most important aspect of a thriving MMORPG; the community is at a severe disadvantage to getting relevant players together, whether that comes from friends at a micro-level to groups/guilds at the macro level and players from your own homeworld at the biggest level. Before you’d see the same names over and over and develop a sense of community and belonging, now even guilds and small groups are facing too many barriers just getting to play together, and as such megaservers in their current implementation are just killing off GW2’s most important factor.
Anet – you seriously need to revise your algorithms/implementations of megaservers and how you put players together in shards; come up with a way of handling “districts” like in GW1 and rather than having people spam “join in <zone>” to get in over and over when a shard is full, queue people up just like you do for WvW entry so that people can rather focus on playing the game in the meantime while still moving forward in queue to get in to the same shard as their friends/guilds/etc.
yeah i have said it before, ill say it again, in order for megaservers to work well, they have to come up with new means of identifying, encouraging and developing communities, and megaserver has to be able to accomodate people who specifically want to go out of their way to play together.
so allow players to create/develop/manage communities based on shared interests, and then allow them to travel together
Since the megaservers went live, the community I was part of has died. My friends list now has hardly anyone online anymore, and my guild use to have consistently during the evening, 90-100 people online. That’s now dropped to 20-30 people.
I’ve just lost the will to log in these days, the final nail in the coffin is the strict world boss times. The loss of the dynamic nature of the world boss popping up randomly killed the game for me, that was the one thing I really loved doing in this game.
Right there with you Xaal. +1
Battles among servers without strong guilds/communities means nothing.
So, eliminating WxWxW there is no more need to megaservers. Guilds can grow wealthy and healthy. This way GW2 is back to be a MMORPG and no more a “trimmed” version of League of Legends.
Megaservers were a very welcomed introduction for those of us not in NA or EU time zone. For pve aspects of the game at least. Actually means we can find players to run dungeons with, do temple runs in Orr etc.
Turning world vs world into guild vs guild could deplete numbers even more depending on which tier you are based in.
No Pvd. Want to capture any of the towers, keeps, SM, you must employ siege.
As mentioned on another thread by a poster. No ppt for capturing any undefended structure.
Undefended keeps & garrisons should be unobtainable by attacking sides or at least flipped back to the control of the home server after a period of time; allowing servers to gain a foot hold back on their home bl map & eternal battlegrounds. This could go some way in preventing the dominating server in one sided matches from negative game play, when you see them camped in every structure & outside the main spawn zones. Those tactics are a pointless round killer when opposing servers are never a threat on the score board.
For sure there is a large drop in numbers across a range of servers. My server which got up to 12th is now struggling against the 16th ranked side and will continue to drop down the ranks. My old server slid from 18th to 24th.
To put another perspective on all this. The game is close to two years old. All online games suffer the same; people get tired of a game, lose interest & move on to other games.
More or less stopped playing after the third week of the latest season. My interest in world vs world died a natural death after 17 months of play. Same can be said for the pve side too.
Encountered two bosses in the Cursed Shore map that never seem to drop any loot. One is a solo boss (near statue of Balthazar) & another boss in either Cathedral of Verdance or Arah.
Stealth trapping a thief that spent all their playing time tagging our keep on EB. Worked out their attack time sequence, swapped my player to thief, dropped down a stealth trap & waited by the door in stealth.
From my experiences in this game; one servers advantage numbers wise can be so immense the two other servers cannot combat them combined. This happens when you get say 10 vs 14 vs 15.
Also in Eotm. Attacked by a random player (cannot remember class) from behind, three quarters of my health gone before reacting. My main at the time was a ranger. Knocked the player off the ice bridge with one hit, the point blank shot which saved my life.
